mother! | 09.15.17 | Paramount | Darren Aronofsky, Jennifer Lawrence | Razzie Awards frontrunner

[RichWS]

To my great surprise, I absolutely loved this.

[XO21]

23 minutes ago, AJG said:

Emma Watson performance in BATB >>>>>>>>> JLaw in Mother

JLaw > Emma's autotune > Emma

 

[AJG]

10 minutes ago, XO21 said:

JLaw > Emma's autotune > Emma

 

 

Hey, if you enjoy the unending mediocrity of Jennifer Swift that’s your business.

Edited September 28, 2017 by AJG

[AJG]

Harvey Weinstein wrote a review of the film. My favourite excerpt:

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And I know I’m prejudiced about Jennifer Lawrence, because I always have and always will think she’s great. But with each performance, it becomes clear to me that she is one of the Greats, alongside my girl Judi Dench and the indomitable Meryl Streep.

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my girl Judi Dench

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my girl Judi Dench

http://deadline.com/2017/09/mother-harvey-weinstein-darren-aronofsky-horror-masterpiece-jennifer-lawrence-javier-bardem-commentary-1202178641/

[trifle]

7 minutes ago, AJG said:

Harvey Weinstein wrote a review of the film. My favourite excerpt:

http://deadline.com/2017/09/mother-harvey-weinstein-darren-aronofsky-horror-masterpiece-jennifer-lawrence-javier-bardem-commentary-1202178641/

I just googled him and Dench and came up with this:

 

Harvey Weinstein explains why Judi Dench has his name tattooed on her butt

 

so I guess they are old friends and she wouldn't be upset at the reference.

 

I do have to say that from reading that article, HW seems a bit of a jerk. I liked him a lot better in the deadline article.

Edited September 28, 2017 by trifle

[TalismanRing]

2 minutes ago, trifle said:

I just googled him and Dench and came up with this:

 

Harvey Weinstein explains why Judi Dench has his name tattooed on her butt

 

so I guess they are old friends and she wouldn't be upset at the reference.

 

I do have to say that from reading that article, HW seems a bit of a jerk. I liked him a lot better in the deadline article.

 

Don't undersell Harvey, he's a world class jerk with rumors of far worse than jerkdom..

[AJG]

10 minutes ago, trifle said:

I just googled him and Dench and came up with this:

 

Harvey Weinstein explains why Judi Dench has his name tattooed on her butt

 

so I guess they are old friends and she wouldn't be upset at the reference.

 

I do have to say that from reading that article, HW seems a bit of a jerk. I liked him a lot better in the deadline article.

 

You simply must read his Tulip Fever article. He argues how we should go and see Tulip Fever based on its glowing reception from Alicia Vikanders mums friend. The desperation is incredible.

[WrathOfHan]

Deadline Harvey is da bess Harvey

[ddddeeee]

This movie just gets better.

[trifle]

8 minutes ago, AJG said:

 

You simply must read his Tulip Fever article. He argues how we should go and see Tulip Fever based on its glowing reception from Alicia Vikanders mums friend. The desperation is incredible.

Now I get why someone was saying 'but what does Jen's mom's friend say?' when the deadline article came out...

 

[trifle]

Aronofsky on the difficulty of working with 16mm film.  Apparently the old skilled film gurus are mostly retired so post production becomes complicated.  Also apparently, Nolan had similar issues on Dunkirk with IMAX film.

 

http://collider.com/darren-aronofsky-mother-16mm-film-challenges/#christopher-nolan

 

By the way, @Barnack   I think you mentioned sound stages - I don't think this was filmed in a soundstage except maybe some of the final day when they shot for VFX effects.  They rehearsed for 3 months how to keep the story inside the house, and filmed it there, from what I understand.

[Barnack]

20 minutes ago, trifle said:

By the way, @Barnack   I think you mentioned sound stages - I don't think this was filmed in a soundstage except maybe some of the final day when they shot for VFX effects.  They rehearsed for 3 months how to keep the story inside the house, and filmed it there, from what I understand.

From what I understand they made at least one copy of the house, one outside for natural daylight, and other one on a sound stage for every sequence at night time.

Edited September 28, 2017 by Barnack

[trifle]

10 minutes ago, Barnack said:

From what I understand they made at least one copy of the house, one outside for natural daylight, and other one on a sound stage for every sequence at night time.

Well, I'm going to bet on your sources over mine!  What I read went more to the dynamics of staying within a small space, than to construction.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 28, 2017 by trifle

[trifle]

 

 

 

[Viceversa]

Very good

[Ezen Baklattan]

The more I think about this movie, the more I love it. There's so many different themes and explorations at play, so much material to chew on.

[trifle]

 

 

 

[Cochofles]

1 hour ago, trifle said:

 

 

 

La dos es mother!   

[trifle]

 

 

Interestingly, (to me) he says (around 9 min in) that the most 'notorious' scene came to him when, while he was writing this,

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a baby dolphin washed up on the beach in South America and tourists were petting it and taking pictures of it and ultimately killed it.

That makes a lot of sense, given the primary message to him of mankind destroying 'mother nature'.

 

 

Edited September 30, 2017 by trifle

[trifle]

I've never really followed festivals, particularly the ones outside the top few, but is it unusual mother! keeps adding more of them at this point? or is this just how these things go?

 

 

http://www.haifaff.co.il/eng/Films/3326/Mother!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 30, 2017 by trifle