London Film Festival #2!: 2 World 2 Premiere
I think technically I was one of the first people in the world to see this which is awesome, and I even snuck in a cheeky red carpet walk. Jeymes Samuel (who is a thoroughly nice man and signed my copy of Kafka on The Shore) follows up his debut feature with an absolute banger, and you can see how his personality seeps into the film and surely made the actors feel…
London Film Festival #1!
I missed the first 15 minutes because our transport infrastructure is borderline unusable. Made it in in the end and picked up pretty quickly what was going on. Mescal, Ronan and Aaron Pierre put in strong performances and the film leans on this pretty heavily. The dialogue can tend to be a tad janky, but - and this might just be because I was excited about being there - I thought the runtime flew. Felt like…
A nice Sunday afternoon watch ahead of a big presentation tomorrow. Obviously never gonna be as good as the first but it hits similar notes at times. Early teens really are the most unique years of your life.
Really fun! The satire is not exactly subtle but I don't mind that. It's really well crafted, really tight and everything else you'd expect from a Bong Joon-Ho picture.
RoPat is kind of the male Julianne Moore of you think about it (they never do their own voice in a movie) and once again proves that he may be the most fascinating actor of his generation. Steven Yeun is expectedly great and Ruffalo and Collette are having a blast hamming…
Round 3 in as many days. Gets better and better everytime. This time, Bautista's take on Rabban stood out to me as his yells go from trying to exert power to trying to cover up insecurity and fear.
The scene and sequence after Paul gets his Fremen names is scored and shot beautifully and I found it genuinely quite moving.
I really don't know how people are still deluding themselves into thinking Villeneuve isn't an auteur. I saw one review…
Obviously I'm gonna start (like everyone else) by saying that the technical aspect is superb, especially the sound design. Jumped out of my seat even when I knew gunshots were coming.
I did enjoy this, it was pretty coherent if politically non-comittal, much more focused on the 'journalist' part of war journalists. I just thought it was missing that little undefinable something to push it over the edge from good to great.
The performances are all very much the latter…
