Jake Gittes

It had two full weeks to dominate the market and establish word-of-mouth. Maybe it would have made 5-10m more if a smaller tentpole than CF was on that weekend. But not more.

It will when it's directed by Taika.

Gave in and googled it. Turns out it's a German movie originally called Fuck You Goethe, which is not really what I was expecting (why is the title misspelled like that in English?) Anyway, sadly, its only point of interest appears to be that Sandra Huller aka the best actress of 2016 is in it.

You guys I think we might have been focusing on the wrong movie all along.

Except for the 69.

The entire premise is that No connection? It happens right in front of your eyes.

It's not an anthology jesus. It's a single narrative.

Goffe got Lynched.

hahaha oh wow

I'm off to sleep, Coolio take care of this if needed

A Streetcar Named Desire is still the only Kazan I've seen but it's long been one of my favorites. Han you gotta get yourself to that pronto.

That strikes me as very Ethan somehow actually.

Catching up with Guadagnino's earlier stuff. It'd be incredibly easy to tell that the same person directed I Am Love, A Bigger Splash and CMBYN but the first two don't have the emotional foundation and the focus of the third, and so end up feeling a lot more disposable. Hope he's actually found his groove and CMBYN isn't just gonna be a happy accident. Although I have to admit Ralph Fiennes dancing to Emotional Rescue for two minutes does justify an entire movie no matter what else happens in it.

CJohn here reminds me of the times my middle school teachers got pissed off.

I didn't much like it but I'd recommend it anyway. It's that kind of movie.

CMBYN is a movie I expect to inspire a lot of passion, there won't be any accusations of it being cold/academic/self-conscious (like there were with Carol), which is why I see it getting a nod here over something stodgy like Darkest Hour or a well-made indie like Lady Bird. PTA would really need to deliver There Will Be Blood 2.0 to get in. Right now I think the 5th spot is between Peele and Baker (who I can totally see pulling a Benh Zeitlin), with Bigelow also being a distant but real possibility.

embraced I guess.

He had to go back to his home planet.

Is Lady Bird supposed to be any kind of a directorial showcase? It feels like a writing/acting-driven movie. I think Guadagnino is in, or at least he should be (if he missed it would be a Haynes for Carol-level snub, if not worse), and I can see the directors' branch go for Peele, PTA, Baker or even Bigelow before they go for Gerwig.

May 2007.

The Big Sick? At this point it's hard to say just how high it will go but it should be good for at least 20m, maybe 30+.

I like that it had them interacting with other people for a change. Delpy's "dumb horny fangirl" bit killed me. I also think you can ultimately take it as hopeful, fights like this are brutal but you don't know if they'll end or strengthen the relationship until the air is clear. Maybe we'll see in 2022. Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown are all about the oppression women experience in a male-dominated world, with rape as a significant element in all three (only implied in Repulsion, but pretty heavily), and all of them are very sympathetic to their female characters. Might be the the primary argument in favor of not "separating the art from the artist" but accepting that artists can be wildly messy and irrational people just like everyone else, which I guess is a more challenging idea but ultimately a more useful one.

But overall having slept on it for close to a week now I honestly feel it might be top 5 of the decade material. There's a couple of things I can imagine facing skepticism from those who aren't fully on its wavelength, and I'll need to take a second look myself to be completely sure, but for now I'm inclined to give myself over to it. Dramas this exceptionally well-balanced appear once every few years at best.

If there's one thing in this movie I could live without it's actually his songs.