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Just finished Dogman (2018)
Io Capitano (2024) is next....I recently discovered Matteo Garrone and now am hooked...
Io Capitano (2024) is next....I recently discovered Matteo Garrone and now am hooked...
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Been meaning to see this for ages. I loved it, such a classic nineties/noughties vibe and of course a great lake house. Pretty great stuff.
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Strange film. I really like the opening section. Overall, pretty impressive.
‘A former American’ is a strange phrase, though. I am very confused. They keep saying ‘A former American and Israeli citizen’, but I haven’t found any information that David Berger gave up his US citizenship.
In fact, this officially lists him as ‘American’:
https://www.nps.gov/people/david-berger.htm
This is bizarre. A horrifying films and given the, ahem, political context nowadays, this feels even more surreal. Hits especially close to home as I work in a news business-adjacent job.
Last edited by AgrippinaX; 4 weeks ago at 08:50 AM.
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Trying this again.
Loving the Lucy vibes. Sophie Thatcher’s teeth are awful, but at least it makes sense that the eye makeup didn’t wash off in the shower.
Loving the Lucy vibes. Sophie Thatcher’s teeth are awful, but at least it makes sense that the eye makeup didn’t wash off in the shower.
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Not sure I will like this, but it is a member preview screening, and I’m travelling. The cinema here is really lovely and old-school, different from the ones I usually go to, so why not.
Never seen Baywatch, so Pamela’s voice seemed a bit disorienting. So high and childish.
As expected, this isn’t my type of film, but it’s well-made. Gotta give it to Pamela, she’s a hell of an actress when she wants to be. As someone who knows many professional pole dancers and does pole fitness semi-professionally, it’s an interesting subject. I think it’s almost limiting that it only explores women making choices others don’t understand/giving their life up for an ‘inappropriate’/‘shallow’ sex-adjacent form of art, rather than art more broadly. If the protagonist was more of a rockstar, like Julianne Moore in What Maisie Knew, she’d be far less judged and the narrative wouldn’t hold.
But yes, this is a much, much better film than I expected. Some bits of it are heartbreaking. Yeah, that’s kind of how I’d describe the whole thing: it’s heartbreaking and depressing, which I suppose is the point, but I’m so tired of it. I’m so tired of this depressing ****ing negativity which we call ‘nostalgia’/profoundness/whatever it might be.
I do see the appeal of really, really acrobatic pole dancing-type dance, so I guess it’s even more depressing that technique-wise, I’m not on Shelley’s side. Having seen tgat insanely acrobatic ballet-like erotic dance/extreme gymnastics that is en vogue nowadays first-hand, it’s really hard to feel appreciation for the ‘soft’ kind. But then J-Lo did some alright pole in Hustlers, so I guess it depends on the person/the dancer. The latter had a very positive take though on a woman exactly the same age as Pam being phenomenal at erotic dance, and I guess I prefer that way of approaching the topic. Age- and flexibility-wise, I think with Hustlers in mind, Shelley could have done the sexy acrobatics that the market requires if she wanted to, but she doesn’t want to. Which is valid, but the film’s hellbent determination to show that this isn’t option seems odd.
Finally, I didn’t recognise Jamie Lee Curtis. This isn’t a figure of speech; I wasn’t aware until the credits that she was in it.
Never seen Baywatch, so Pamela’s voice seemed a bit disorienting. So high and childish.
As expected, this isn’t my type of film, but it’s well-made. Gotta give it to Pamela, she’s a hell of an actress when she wants to be. As someone who knows many professional pole dancers and does pole fitness semi-professionally, it’s an interesting subject. I think it’s almost limiting that it only explores women making choices others don’t understand/giving their life up for an ‘inappropriate’/‘shallow’ sex-adjacent form of art, rather than art more broadly. If the protagonist was more of a rockstar, like Julianne Moore in What Maisie Knew, she’d be far less judged and the narrative wouldn’t hold.
But yes, this is a much, much better film than I expected. Some bits of it are heartbreaking. Yeah, that’s kind of how I’d describe the whole thing: it’s heartbreaking and depressing, which I suppose is the point, but I’m so tired of it. I’m so tired of this depressing ****ing negativity which we call ‘nostalgia’/profoundness/whatever it might be.
I do see the appeal of really, really acrobatic pole dancing-type dance, so I guess it’s even more depressing that technique-wise, I’m not on Shelley’s side. Having seen tgat insanely acrobatic ballet-like erotic dance/extreme gymnastics that is en vogue nowadays first-hand, it’s really hard to feel appreciation for the ‘soft’ kind. But then J-Lo did some alright pole in Hustlers, so I guess it depends on the person/the dancer. The latter had a very positive take though on a woman exactly the same age as Pam being phenomenal at erotic dance, and I guess I prefer that way of approaching the topic. Age- and flexibility-wise, I think with Hustlers in mind, Shelley could have done the sexy acrobatics that the market requires if she wanted to, but she doesn’t want to. Which is valid, but the film’s hellbent determination to show that this isn’t option seems odd.
Finally, I didn’t recognise Jamie Lee Curtis. This isn’t a figure of speech; I wasn’t aware until the credits that she was in it.
Last edited by AgrippinaX; 4 weeks ago at 06:43 PM.
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Not sure I will like this, but it is a member preview screening, and I’m travelling. The cinema here is really lovely and old-school, different from the ones I usually go to, so why not.
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I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.
I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.
Dying to see this, but it’s not available to stream yet.
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Today is the first day it’s appeared anywhere in the U.K.
It’s not even in a theater near me apparently.
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