Day: December 19, 2023

Time To Clean House

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All of HE’s woke racist shriekers are getting the bounce today…Seasonal Aflac Disord, OneLastTime, Glenn Runciter…all the toxic ayeholes with their little sharp sticks.

Clemenza: “Gotta get rid of the bad blood, the uglies…this needs to happen every five years…ten years.”

Sapphic “Emmanuelle” From Brilliant French Director

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Audrey Diwan‘s Happening (’21) is the second best film I’ve ever seen about the trauma of an unwanted pregnancy and an abortion. (The best is Cristian Mungiu‘s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, released 16 years ago.) Diwan and cowriter Rebecca Zlotowski has been lensing a lesbian Emmanuelle, which may turn up in Cannes next May.

Emmanuelle was a steamy hetero franchise in the ’70s and early ’80s with Sylvia Kristel in the lead role.

French actress Naomie Merlant, who has played heavy-breathing gay characters in Portrait Of A Woman on Fire and TAR, is the titular character in Diwan’s newbie. Naomi Watts,,Will Sharpe and Anthony Wong costar.

Jimi Hendrix: “There ain’t no straight stuff nowhere except for that Glenn Powell-Sydney Sweeney romcom, and Sweeney is kinda funny lookin’.”

Standard Beardo Stuff

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It’s called a slow “zoom-in + track back” shot. Or, if you will, a slow “track forward + zoom reverse” shot….not sure which one was utilized. Does anyone?

Either way Brendan Hodges is a blathering bullshitter as it’s hardly a “difficult” shot. Steven Spielberg used an urgent zoom-in + track back in Jaws, seven years before he shot E.T.

If We’re Talking Outliers

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I don’t agree with any of these “best” calls. What these films are is “not half bad in an interesting, arresting way.“

I finally half-liked Munich when I re-watched it a year ago.

Pale Rider is basically Shane as a ghost.

Magnolia is essentially a morose middle-class thing enlivened by Tom Cruise, the third-act musical sequence and the frog finale.

Casino is watchable, but is gradually asphyxiated by Sharon Stone’s noxious self-destruction and Robert DeNiro’s nonsensical attraction to her. And then Joe Pesci and his brother are beaten to death and buried alive in a cornfield.

For me Kathryn Bigelow caught glorious fire as a director when she made The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. Then she got tangled up in the mania of exposing horrible historical truths (i.e., evil white cops murdering victims of color) in Detroit, and the air just whooshed out of the balloon.

Valerie Campbell Isn’t Truthful

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She’s flat-out lied, in fact, about what it’s like to be swamped and smothered by hordes of American tourists in Tuscany’s San Gimignano, which Jett and I visited 14 or 15 years ago.

Campbell, a tour guide, has almost certainly decided that failing to mention how never-ending busloads of Aunt Biddies routinely suffocate the medieval vibe…she’s figuring that omitting this horrid fact is necessary to sell the city itself. Plus she misspells it.

From HE’s 5.17.10 Cannes review of Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy (“Dweebie Conforme”):