I haven't had a lot to post this week, obvs. JayBiz and Knock Knock have a show tomorrow at a place called Midtown Village Cafe at 18th and I? What the heck?
Also, Verge rummage sale all day today and all weekend. With ice cream!
The Master opens at Tower today! They better make it look good, and not super dark. Maybe I'll watch it at the Varsity in Davis. Killer Joe opens today at the Crest, which doesn't look that good, but I want to see it because I saw the crazy nasty play. P.S.-go see the Enron play at Cap Stage!
I profiled the guy from Wonderbread 5 for 15 minutes because I saw them and their rabid fans at the State Fair. Laugh if you want but this guy is cool and he's turned his cover band into his only job and he owns a house in Sausalito! And other members of the band own homes in Napa.
p.s.-I've been trying to watch boardwalk empire, and you know one of the many problems with it? steve buscemi does not give off enough of a sexual vibe to seem like a horn dog who would date an idiot for how she looks. he's no tony soprano.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be Butch and Nellies. 19th and I.
ReplyDeleteI have heard that The Master is far better in 70mm.
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PTA is so fucking pretentious.
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Here are 70mm capable theaters in US:
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Wasn't it called Mondo Bizarro Café for about ten minutes after Butch & Nellie's?
ReplyDeleteSNR reader picks are so much better than 10 years ago, but they're still mucking up the best sandwich category pretty badly.
no shit! my thoughts exactly! i wish masullo was in the top three for pizza but I can't hate on any of the three picks (zelda's, hot italian, roma's). what's mexican? they're crappy right?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think PTA is pretentious? Like, examples? Not saying he's not, but I don't think of his movies in that light.
Speaking of pretentious, have you ever tried to read Art Forum? Wow, it's insane. The convolution of the sentences makes it clear that "Elements of Style" is not taught in art school.
I fell off the PTA wagon with MAGNOLIA. BOOGIE NIGHTS was fun, funny with a good sense of tragedy. But MAGNOLIA was so showy and self-important. Left me sour. So much so that I never saw THERE WILL BE BLOOD, even.
ReplyDeleteThat said, was reading this Vice interview last night on Scientology (http://www.vice.com/read/new-york-paulette-cooper-exposes-for-the-world-the-darkest-secrets-of-scientology-and-cats?utm_source=vicefbus) and it got me pumped for MASTER--although I'm reading that it's not the "Scientology flick" I was hoping for ...
Probably better to see it at Varsity, no? Better projection, cheaper good beer afterward? Has Tower big screen got its shit together? ...
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he hasn't made that many movies, so if you have only seen two out of four (well, there was that dumb early poker movie) then you cain't talk. magnolia was a grand experiment, but I was with him most of the way, with a bit of cringing. there will be blood is like no movie I've ever seen, which in itself is hard in this film making environment. I haven't rewatched it so I really don't know what I think, but it was pretty thrilling to watch.
ReplyDeleteMost prolific great directors have made lots of bad movies amongst the masterpieces, but now that directors are supposed to put together all the financing for their movies, being prolific is a thing of the past (unless you're woody allen and just set your movies in europe and get european financing - and even he can barely get his movies financed sometimes). I think PTA couldn't get financing for TWBB for years, which is really sad. Who knows what he could do with a movie a year, or one every two years? Although he may be super slow, I'm just talking out my ass.
I've seen HARD EIGHT and that Adam Sandler flick, too. Basically, I was mostly just trying to incite Barnesyard's ire ...
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oh I forgot about the adam sandler one. loved it!!!!
ReplyDeleteMagnolia was 90% great -like "GREAT" great, but that idiotic music video for his girlfriend that he crammed in the middle was the single biggest filmmaking fuck up I've ever encountered. I've never run into anything that so instantly took me out of a film.
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