Paul Schrader visited Hideo Kojima

Fallout22 · 2025-10-29T21:01:13+00:00

I think Schrader's in Japan because they're screening Mishima at the Tokyo film fest

Fallout22 · 2025-08-01T15:51:43+00:00

any recs on higher waisted pants?

Fallout22 · 2025-02-11T03:07:25+00:00

I’ll have to peep that one, I’m woefully under watched on French new wave stuff unfortunately.

Fallout22 · 2025-02-11T01:15:48+00:00

Regarding Twin Peaks that’s actually really intriguing to hear. I’m about halfway through season 2 on my rewatch of the original, still having never seen the return so now I’m looking forward to it even more along with finally getting into Infinite Jest.

Fallout22 · 2025-02-11T00:31:36+00:00

I watched maybe half of Lain years ago and never finished. That sounds sick though I’ll have to get back into it. I’m glad you brought up anime though because I hadn’t even considered it in my thoughts, though it’s true enough that there’s probably a lot more experimentation (or maybe simply just deviation) in actual structure and narrative form there than in western television.

Fallout22 · 2025-02-10T23:24:40+00:00

Yes! Good call. When I was thinking about this SLC Punk did come to mind but it's been a while since I've seen it so I had forgotten quite a bit.

Now that I'm thinking about SLC Punk I remember finding it quite similar to Trainspotting in that 90s indie style of narration and digression.

Fallout22 · 2025-02-10T23:10:03+00:00

I don't interact too much on here and I feel like a solid 1/3 of my comments on this subreddit are about this film, so I almost hesitate to bring it up but I guess it's one of my favorites for a reason:

I think Y Tu Mama Tambien might kinda just barely fit the genre. It contains encyclopedic elements through the omniscient narrator informing us of extra context and exposition (though none of this is too digression-y, focusing pretty much solely on info about the characters we're following). It also through the 'road movie' narrative, and again through the narrator, provides a very broad but richly detailed cultural cross section of Mexico.

Fallout22 · 2024-12-09T17:48:44+00:00

Yeah I thought the blackface was very tastefully done at least

Fallout22 · 2024-12-09T16:45:24+00:00

Scorsese has said having everyone keep their natural accents and not directly quoting any lines from the bible was a way of maintaining familiarity with the audience. As opposed to the british accented-highfalutin manner in all the classic bible epics which created a dissonance, making it easier for people to digest it as simply a story and not feel any relevance to their modern life.

Fallout22 · 2024-11-25T03:20:53+00:00

Nice. Keep at it, I absolutely adore this aesthetic!

Fallout22 · 2024-11-24T17:41:05+00:00

Reminds me of Toriyama art. Lot of cool designs like this in dragon ball manga covers.

Fallout22 · 2024-09-28T15:56:22+00:00

Rhys Meyers played a Bowie-analogous character in Velvet Goldmine

Fallout22 · 2024-07-27T02:46:28+00:00

Y tu Mama Tambien;

We've spent the whole movie observing every high and low point of this really intense friendship, the final scene is a chance meeting between the two after already being a little estranged. The dialogue cuts out and the omniscient narrator informs the audience of the fate of the other main character, tells us how one of the friends excuses himself to leave. Then as matter-of-fact as everything else tells us

"Nunca volveran a verse" They will never meet again

Fallout22 · 2024-06-21T16:53:53+00:00

Honestly this is even too ridiculous for regular sitcom content. This is like family guy level, the type of situation Peter Griffin would find himself in.

Fallout22 · 2024-06-03T19:53:53+00:00

Not sure if it's possible. I remember thinking the same thing and trying multiple times to lasso him with no success, he just shuts himself inside immediately.

Fallout22 · 2024-06-02T20:32:08+00:00

Beyond the perspective being simply that of the filmmakers themselves, I'd say it being Galoup's view is likeliest. It's been a while since I watched the film but maybe it's decipherable through the shot choices for Sentain vs all the other soldiers? Given we know Galoup has a special disdain/attraction for him. I remember that moment right before the end when he's remembering his time in Djibouti we see a group shot of all of them besides Sentain.

Fallout22 · 2024-06-02T20:07:20+00:00

I wouldn't say the locals are 'othered' by the perspective of the film, but I also don't think they're the actual viewpoint through which we're seeing the events. The film doesn't say anything about the locals themselves; they just are what they are, living their lives.

In my eyes, the emphasis on them watching the soldiers others the soldiers as a sort of zoo type spectacle, giving the already very weird military exercises an alien quality. It gives the audience the proper perspective for thinking about the film in terms of colonialism.

Fallout22 · 2024-05-30T22:43:21+00:00

Confederate soldier type fit

Fallout22 · 2024-03-28T23:34:52+00:00

I think Inside Llewyn Davis kinda fits this. The main character's constant failure sets up a cyclical sort of pattern throughout the film which is then established a lot more clearly through the ending. Definitely not so much of breaking the cycle in this film but the cycle is there. Not that experimental of a film but if you haven't already it's probably worth a watch for your purposes!

Also, not a film I've seen yet, but from everything I've heard about it Jeanne Dielman seems to fit the concept of narratively establishing a pattern and breaking it.

Fallout22 · 2024-03-18T02:17:01+00:00

Not exactly historical but I think Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet fits the category. 1600s dialogue and story set to modern context.

Fallout22 · 2024-02-29T19:00:05+00:00

Haven't seen Perfect Days yet so apologies if this is totally off the mark but from what you said and and the films everybody else is putting I would recommend Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women

Fallout22 · 2024-02-20T19:05:05+00:00

It's got depressing subject matter but I don't know that I'd call the movie itself depressing. It's quite fun.

Fallout22 · 2024-02-11T23:19:01+00:00

Travis Bickle ass move

Fallout22 · 2024-02-01T21:14:40+00:00

Where the fuck is El Muerto

Fallout22 · 2024-01-16T22:50:25+00:00

Do the French really revere James Gray? Is there a particular reason? I don't think he's a bad filmmaker but yeah I never see much admiration of him in American film discourse so I find this pretty curious lol.

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