I don't know if it is worse for a disgraced director to be unable to find work at all or to be reduced to making movies like this. It is very much a Lydia Tar being forced to compose for video games moment.
One of my old co-workers argued that American Hustle was better than The Wolf of Wall Street. We don't talk anymore.
I need some recommendations for great Twitter/IG accounts that cover older movies (preferably 1970s-2000s) with cool stories/anectdotes/behind the scenes footage of beloved and classic movies. Browsing Twitter is too depressing but I need something better to keep my mind off real world problems. Posts like this I love to learn new things about older movies.
I am debating on whether or not to wait until I can see Resurrection on January 2nd. My original plan was my film awards on Tuesday, worst of the year on Wednesday, and best of the year on Thursday. The problem of waiting for Resurrection is then I would want to wait for Peter Hujar's Day on the 6th and then there is Father Mother Sister Brother on the 9th. I usually release my best of the year on January 1st and my "final" list whenever I see everything I need to see, which can take months after with some of the hard-to-find movies.
Also, I often hate a lot of the movies that @SpyKi loves, but this time he absolutely hated the movie that might be my number one of the year.
Could also be house of dynamite based on recent letterbox activity Edit: going with Afternoons of Solitude
Yeah, I'm guessing it's Afternoons of Solitude. It's easily my least favourite film of the year and up there as one of the worst viewing experiences I've ever had. I don't think I got anything worthwhile from it. It's just two hours of obnoxious, pompous pricks tormenting and killing animals, with short interludes of them congratulating each other on how great and brave they are for it. Tedious and infuriating. I look forward to seeing @Morrissey's list and reading what he appreciated about the film at least, but it reminded me of the post he made a few weeks ago about filmmakers like Gaspar Noe or Lars Von Trier's work trying to punish the audience. I felt more punishment watching this one film than the entire combination of their filmographies. It's like if Irreversible was just the rape scene five times in a row, broken up with footage of the rapist's buddies shit talking the women and complementing his giant balls.
Splitsville is great, and I definitely liked it more than that post made it seem haha. I think I was just disappointed that the rest of the film didn't live up to how great the first section was for me. There's a lot of stuff I liked less than that this year but only a few I would say I actively disliked.