If you want a real contrast shock, you should check out Benidorm. Siobhan Finneran's character is completely different to O'Brien. Funny how different her character is, as any other of the actors I've seen have a somewhat similar role
Title says it all really. Which person in film's (could be actors/directors/composers/cinematographers whatever) filmography have you 100% completed? Only one of substance I have is Paul Thomas Anderson's.
PSH is my favorite actor and I was look at his filmography and wondering which of his films that I havent seen should be added to my watchlist
I have seen the following:
Hard Eight
Twister
Boogie Nights
The Big Lebowski
Magnolia
The Talented Mr Ripley
Almost Famous
Punch Drunk Love
Capote
MI3
Charlie Wilson's War
Synecdoche New York
Doubt
Moneyball
The Ides of March
The Master
A Late Quartet
Catching Fire
A Most Wanted Man
Mockingjay Pt 1
Mockingjay Pt 2
Any suggestions?
Bob Clark: Started his career making serious horror movies like Black Christmas and Deathdream, ended up making bottom of the barrel children's trash like Baby Geniuses and Karate Dog.
Peter Jackson: Apparently the best candidate to direct a huge and risky fantasy epic trilogy is the guy who directed Meet the Feebles and Braindead.
Is it just me, or is Siobhan's accent more pronounced in this series? Is she affecting a more pronounced accent as part of her character or did she spend more time in the UK/Ireland and it just strengthened or was the isolation and solitude of the past couple of years enough to allow her accent to just grow back?
To be clear, there's nothing wrong with it. I like it just fine, I'm just curious.
Besides Charles Laughton (Night of the Hunter), of course.
Like the title says I’ve really been digging Cronenbergs flicks lately. I’m currently watching Shivers now and I’m really liking it. I’ve only seen Videodrome otherwise. For a newbie getting into him what would you recommend I start and end with? I know I need to see Crash and The Fly. That’s definitely coming up! Thank you!
I watched Fallen Angels before I watched Chungking Express and I didn't realise how many similarities there were between the two. Regardless, it didn't hurt the cinematic experience (or at least that's what I like to believe.) "We rub elbows with a lot of people everyday. You may not know everything about them, but they might become your friends or even confidants one day." This line is said by Takeshi Kaneshiro in both Chungking Express and Fallen Angels and it is a metaphor for both these films. In Chungking Express it's a metaphor about how people are connected to others. Like how cop 223 and cop 663 rub elbows with each other through their job and through Faye; the cops however are neither friends not confidants of each other but cop 663 shares something of a close relationship with the shop and with Faye.
I've already written about how Wong Kar Wai writes his characters to make them come to life. Seeing Faye's character in this film made me feel like I'm seeing myself. Yes, I know she is an archetype for the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but I am willing to argue that she is a well written character who doesn't just serve the purpose of telling the narrative of the male character but has a personality of her own. The way she looks with her perky little eyes from behind the counter, her innocence to help others by doing things that others might not approve of, feels like me. This of course is a subjective perspective, and I am being biased towards her character because I felt a personal connection. But that she is a character crucial to the film is testified by the fact that the narrative is almost entirely shifted from cop 663 to Faye's perspective.
Cop 663 and Cop 223 both play lonely characters and the parallels between their characters are driven home by the cinematography and metaphors. In a moment of desperation, cop 223 calls a "friend" he knows from 4th grade. When she says he doesn't remember him, his loneliness is amplified by his leaning against the wall in hopelessness. The camera also tilts to be parallel to him and at an angle to the ground. Crying is a metaphor deeply focused on in this film. Cop 223 says he jogs everyday because jogging helps lose water so that he has none left for tears. Cop 663 is not shown to be crying, instead, he looks at a wet cloth that is dripping water.
Wong Kar Wai is a quintessentially Asian director; no one captures the essence of 1980s, 1990s Asian societies better than he does. I'm talking about how cop 663's
... keep reading on reddit ➡This is jumping off the post asking if it makes sense covering Denis but is a question I’ve had for a while because of the often repeated ‘too early to cover’ talk. And it makes sense. Perspective definitely helps the premise of the show and often my favourite part of a miniseries is the summary when we finally put the filmmakers in context after all our time with them.
In a few cases like Carpenter & Demme you do get a full career retrospective. Which is the obvious way to handle it. But that’s also not the only way to do it.
So my question is... when do we feel like we’ve got enough of a perspective to warrant covering somebody?
PS: I think Denis is too early in my opinion but I’m not sure why I think that.
Some fun brainstorming for March Madness 2022. Loved the Demme, Zemeckis, and Carpenter minis but I do understand that they are quite long.
Here are some fun choices:
Sergio Leone - 7 or 8 films that helped solidify Clint Eastwood as a movie star. Would also be the easiest director from Italy to cover with his shorter filmography. Also the process of how they made Spaghetti Westerns is super interesting. I am going to keep pushing Leone, I think he'd be a great fit.
Sofia Coppola - 8 Films that are all pretty distinct from one another. 'Marie Antoinette' is one hell of a blank check. 'The Bling Ring' is an absolute disaster and is one of the worst films A24 ever distributed and one that the A24 bros don't acknowledge.
Satoshi Kon - A return to anime with four feature films that would inspire filmmakers such as Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky - Seven films that are all pretty unique and whatever you may think of 'mother!', its undeniably a blank check
Paul Thomas Anderson - Probably the most obvious choice but his filmography is short and I think he'd be interesting especially since the boys have covered Demme who was PTA's hero and inspiration for him as a filmmaker.
Danny Devito - We stan a short king with short filmography. 'Death to Smoochy' is a deranged movie that was made with $50 million. Its perfect.
I like to watch entire filmographies from different people and I am running out of options. I like all types of movies and show including comedy, horror, action. Think of people who have many good movies. Not just one thing they are known for (unless the rest of their work is still really good just not popular). Examples I have done are Leo Dicaprio, Will Ferrell, Tarantino, Meryl Streep, John Hughes, Chevy Chase, Scorsese, etc. What actors do you think are worth while to watch every move and show they have ever released?
2 only sisters of a 4 sibling family trying to win daddy’s respect and title. Which one do you like more? Which is more competent? Which is the better written character. Who would win in a battle? Just 2 characters with very similar roles in very similarly structured shows who are very comparable. Personally I think Shiv Roy is the better character cause while she can be ruthless and manipulative, she still has an obvious care and love for her siblings. Beth on the other hand would demolish shiv in any sort of battle, but I hate watching her on screen with her showing absolutely zero support to any of her sibling. Any more thoughts?
Ever since the Two Friends mentioned the possibility of covering the Addams Family movies on Patreon as a way to talk Barry Sonnenfeld without doing a full Sonnenfeld mini at some point, I've been mildly obsessed with the broad idea even though it never seemed to really gain much traction (unless this never really happened at all and I dreamed it, which is disturbingly pathetic but possible).
It's been on my mind recently as I've been thinking about Richard Linklater a lot after seeing Licorice Pizza (specifically Dazed & Confused, one of my favorite movies). Linklater is someone that I think absolutely qualifies as a blank check director and I love the idea of a series on him, but at the same time he's already made more movies than Carpenter and that was a REALLY long series. So I'd be very happy with a Before Trilogy Patreon as a way to "cover" Linklater without going through every single movie he's directed. While it's very different from and much more limited than a full series, I think it's arguably the best compromise between slogging through too many months of one director in the main feed vs ignoring that director completely.
This could also be a way to get talk about some classic/international filmmakers, since some of their filmographies are borderline impossible for a full series. I'm thinking the Apu Trilogy for Satyajit Ray and Yojimbo/Sanjuro for Akira Kurosawa as examples, though I'm sure there are plenty of others.
So I guess I'm just curious where the Blankies stand: is this an approach you're interested in them exploring occasionally, or would you prefer they continue to stick to blockbuster/genre franchises on Patreon and keep the auteurs on main unless it's a situation where they overlap and they really want to go all out, like the Matrix and Alien franchises?
I have personal favorites, but his best performances (in my opinion) were -The Party -Sunshine -28 Days Later -Sunburn All worth watching, with 'The Party' only being an hour long. What are some of your favorites?
Now that Licorice Pizza is out how would you rank PTA’s filmography? He’s certainly one of the most popular directors on Letterboxd so I’ll be interested to see your responses. Here is my list for reference: My Updated PTA Rankings
I just watched Sweetie (which was definitely NOT the film I was expecting as Jane Campion's first film) on Netflix UK. But there's also An Angel at the Table, The Piano, Bright Star & of course The Power of the Dog.
Leaving only Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke & In the Cut to find on your own.
I'm rewatching the latest episode (again), and each time it seemed obvious that Siobhan was being honest when she said she was too good for Tom, and that she didn't love him, etc.
Then I remembered the finale of the last season and it occurred to me you can actually interpret that scene in a way that Siobhan doesn't mean any of what she says, and she obliviously thinks it's really great foreplay? There's a moment when Tom starts kissing her and she smiles in a way that makes it seem like "Well, this worked."
All of which is to say, I used to think she really didn't love him, and was just narcissistic and didn't care for him, but now I'm starting to think she's often been oblivious to how her actions and words are perceived, and it made me think that what if she's just got a very fucked up way of expressing love? While loving Tom?
Regardless if it plays overall, the interpretations both definitely seem to work in the scene and I thought that was pretty cool.
EDIT: A damn I rewatched the next morning scene where she explicitly tells him, smiling that she loves him, but doesn't love him. I think she's just sociopathic?
