aububs wrote:i was super hyped for this because strickland has hit 3 for 3 so far but have to admit when i first saw the trailer, while excited, i thought it looked possibly hokey and potentially a mis-step, but NOPE, he's now 4 for 4. this was so good! nobody else is making movies like him, i feel like he's making them especially for me, and i bet others feel that way too. his vibe is just so perfect. admittedly it loses steam a little towards the end when it doesn't know exactly where to go with the central conceit of a killer dress, but really there's only one place it can go and it does go there and it was alll good. gwendoline christie is great, she is so good with comedy, barry adamson (!) is great, fairly sure i saw adam bohman of bohman bros. fame briefly (he was in berberian too...i guess a friend from strickland's sonic catering band days)...all of the staff in the dress shop are fantastic. there's a duke of burgundy call-back. the soundtrack by cavern of antimatter is really good...and when the main character first goes back to her apartment she's listening to the last track on the skaters wind draping incense ep which is an all-time favourite, i mean from there on, the deal was sealed. imo he's one of the most interesting and exciting auteurs working. i hope he makes a hundred more movies.
mellowgold wrote:Plainsong, i recently watched A Man Escaped and i keep thinking about it!
HotFingersClub wrote:aububs wrote:i was super hyped for this because strickland has hit 3 for 3 so far but have to admit when i first saw the trailer, while excited, i thought it looked possibly hokey and potentially a mis-step, but NOPE, he's now 4 for 4. this was so good! nobody else is making movies like him, i feel like he's making them especially for me, and i bet others feel that way too. his vibe is just so perfect. admittedly it loses steam a little towards the end when it doesn't know exactly where to go with the central conceit of a killer dress, but really there's only one place it can go and it does go there and it was alll good. gwendoline christie is great, she is so good with comedy, barry adamson (!) is great, fairly sure i saw adam bohman of bohman bros. fame briefly (he was in berberian too...i guess a friend from strickland's sonic catering band days)...all of the staff in the dress shop are fantastic. there's a duke of burgundy call-back. the soundtrack by cavern of antimatter is really good...and when the main character first goes back to her apartment she's listening to the last track on the skaters wind draping incense ep which is an all-time favourite, i mean from there on, the deal was sealed. imo he's one of the most interesting and exciting auteurs working. i hope he makes a hundred more movies.
Saw this last night and just wanted to strongly agree with all the above. Strickland's best film yet by some distance imo, and I liked his last two a lot. This really nailed both the giallo and comedy aspects for me in a perfect balance. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fatma Mohamed and Barry Adamson are all fantastic. Really loved the segments with Julian Barratt and Steve Oram as well. Killer soundtrack too. Pretty much a lock for my end year list
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hector doepos wrote:it has recently don' don'd me that i love brian de palma films (after seeing carrie and body double).... what are some of his best, most visually pleasing films?
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Communion Los Angeles (2018)
experimental portrait of LA's oldest freeway. mesmerizing, very alienating exploration of the urban landscape- abandoned streets, empty fields, traffic-clogged roadways, sad cryptic buildings. each visual sequence contains its own unique frame rate - not the usually smooth 24fps - so that it resembles a photo-book or time-lapse, stuttering in time. RIYL Koyaanisqatsi
mystery meat wrote:Snake Eyes is extremely underrated in the De Palma canon
mystery meat wrote:Snake Eyes is extremely underrated in the De Palma canon
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