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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 12, 2017 1:41:30 GMT
Cannes is in love with Michel Franco right now. A few years ago it was Carlos Reygadas and gay filmmaker Julian Hernández. Those are the names I remember right now.
The problem with Cuaron and DelToro was that they were seen as influenced by American or middle classes tastes and not interested in the themes of realistic for not saying sordid working class problems that were common in art cinema, financed by the government. It was in a moment that local movies weren't very popular between the general audiences so the success of Cuaron's Solo con tu Pareja was resented by the art house crowd. I remember people saying it was a very American movie but at the same time it was sure it wouldn't had an USA release because the theme (a comedy about AIDS when it was still a very serious threat and a politically hot theme). Anyway Hollywood people watched it and he was immediately hired by producers. He also had a few problems with Y tu Mamá También. The Mexican Film Academy decided it and Del Toro's El Espinazo el Diablo weren't good enough to compete for the Oscars in their year!
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Post by coolclearwaters on Jul 12, 2017 2:38:46 GMT
Thanks. My best chance for seeing work by any of these directors is at a film festival. Fortunately, the Austin Film Festival and, especially, the Cine Las Americas festival show a lot of foreign films. I wanted to go to CLA this year but had some scheduling conflicts. I'll keep an eye out for them next time. I've already registered for this Fall's Austin Film Festival.
I loved El Espinazo el Diablo, but Del Toro's more recent films haven't really appealed to me - not for any political reasons.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 12, 2017 2:43:32 GMT
I think Del Toro was better when he had Pedro Almodóvar producing him! He is superb with the visuals but he clearly need help with plot and dialogue.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 29, 2017 15:34:46 GMT
It seems he mentioned this movie when, I presume, he was asked about future projects at the LFCC. Something along the lines of "we are working on a script called Rio". He also said the same that Luca Guadagnino said about it won't be filmed in Rio itself. I think it's great he is recognizing it because even when it was reported by serious outlets like Variety and Deadline, the articles weren't re tweeted or posted on Facebook by SunnyMarch which supposedly it's involved. They always do it when it's something officially announced but I guess in this case it was a leak which wasn't ready to be announced. Anyway it seems he, his company and the others parties involve are working on the script and they know where they will and won't be film it so it seeems it's a go. EDITED: sleepingexplorer.tumblr.com/post/163562930858/benedicts-lfcc-talk/ampSo it won't be filmed in Rio because it won't be called Rio! They are changing the location to Sri Lanka (based in what Guadagnino said)
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 2, 2017 11:17:56 GMT
Who said that Dolan was a diva?
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Post by igs on Aug 2, 2017 14:49:28 GMT
It basically contradicted Godard’s lesson that such an orgy of images is the end of language and then was rewarded for being an orgy of images. It's funny cause Dolan certainly has not very high regard for Godard. When he won that prize they're talking about jointly with Godard ( Adieu au langage) he was asked how it felt like and he said Godard's films don't interest him so he didn't see it lol. So I doubt Dolan would give a crap about this particular assessment by Guadagnino, he'd probably be flattered. I really want to see Call Me by Your Name though. I'll maybe go if it's at HIFF (I don't live in Helsinki anymore but it's not awfully far either.)
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 2, 2017 20:49:04 GMT
TBF Godard is hateful. He was a great although very cold filmmaker in the 60s until he become a left wing fanatical. Have you watch the Godard/Truffaut documentary? He was very nasty against friends like Truffaut and Jean Pierre Leud after he decided they weren't enough politically pure. He publicly denounced them as sellouts and after that he asked them for money! I think it's very telling that he born in a rich privileged family meanwhile much more moderate Truffaut had an impoverished and sad childhood.
Apparently in the new Agnes Varda's movie there is a scene in which she went to visit him to talk about old times but he didn't even received her. She is shown crying on screen!
He is/was great but he is also very easy to dislike.
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Post by coolclearwaters on Aug 2, 2017 21:24:47 GMT
I'm going to respond to this as a proud, unapologetic member of the far left. It's easy to point out the qualities of individuals we dislike and assign them to an entire group that we disagree with. The truth is very little, if any progress has been fought for or won by anyone in the middle. There are people with various personality flaws in any movement - in any group of people, for that matter.
Godard was always a jerk. have always been controversial. I think it probably had more to do with his personality than with his politics. His relationships with and depictions of women have always been controversial. His early films were much better - thrilling in some cases. It's hard to realize how revolutionary he was. His later films? Meh. I had never seen Weekend and tried to watch it on TCM a few weeks ago. It was awful I couldn't finish it. The attempts at humor couldn't have fallen flatter. He was always an intellectual filmmaker, never passionate or sensual, like Fellini, for instance.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 2, 2017 22:51:23 GMT
I am also left wing but I don't consider myself an extremist. I sincerely believe that all extremists are actually very similar and extreme right and left tend to actually have similar ideas even when they don't admit it. I don't agree that extremists win causes but they are good causing a lot of pain when are successful: Hitler and Stalin. And I doubt Godard admired Maoism achieved something really revolutionary except if you consider savage capitalism in China revolutionary!
Godard's politics affected his work in the sense that as a lot of political artists he completely lost his sense of humor and become preachy and insufferable!
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 3, 2017 11:21:16 GMT
It basically contradicted Godard’s lesson that such an orgy of images is the end of language and then was rewarded for being an orgy of images. It's funny cause Dolan certainly has not very high regard for Godard. When he won that prize they're talking about jointly with Godard ( Adieu au langage) he was asked how it felt like and he said Godard's films don't interest him so he didn't see it lol. So I doubt Dolan would give a crap about this particular assessment by Guadagnino, he'd probably be flattered. I really want to see Call Me by Your Name though. I'll maybe go if it's at HIFF (I don't live in Helsinki anymore but it's not awfully far either.) I rewatched Les Amours imaginaires yesterday and TBF to Guadagnino (and to hateful Godard), Dolan and his characters are very frivolous. I mean that's also the case with Guadagnino's but there is a sense of disgust against them in his movies. He was criticized for including refugees wandering around in A Bigger Splash (because nowadays even to mention a politically charged theme without approved lines and ways is a big offense) but they gave the movie a political dimension even when they were silent. They weren't there in a casual way but as a reminding that the world is much bigger than what those self-centered people believed and that there are people with real difficult problems. It was awkward to watch them between the partying of the main characters but I think that was the intention. Again I think it's about extremes. It's not good to marry to a political idea in a way that it irreparably influence your work (and affect your life/relationships) or to be too frivolous to actually have sensibility for what it's happening beyond you. That doesn't mean there are good elements in their movies, of course. The images in Les Amours imaginaires are beautiful to watch and yes, it's a good movie.
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