“Bye, and happy war!” Hilarious film and fitting to watch a few hours after reading that Christoph Heusgen was brought to tears by the breakdown of Atlanticism at the Munich Security Conference.
(Favorite person was the little old German man in the forest who stood Tiananmen-style in front of an entire US infantry tank company and refused to let them pass because they were going to fuck up the hole he was digging. An allegory here!)
Ron Kirby = INFJ excellence
Also have great affection for Sirk’s comment on the title: “The studio loved it; they thought it meant you could have everything you wanted. I meant it exactly the other way round. As far as I am concerned, heaven is stingy.”
It has really been a while since I was last at an AMC! Some upcoming films I learned about during the thirty minutes of trailers are: a GHOSTBUSTERS sequel; a QUIET PLACE prequel; a MAD MAX: FURY ROAD prequel qua spinoff; a DEADPOOL sequel that is also an entry into the Wolverine substratum of the X-MEN franchise; GODZILLA x KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, a dual crossover sequel to both KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) and GODZILLA: KING OF MONSTERS (2019); TWISTERS,…
I was beaming throughout! To me, the Platonic ideal* of a Rohmer film.
*In its leveraging of Rohmerian conversation sequences—everyone confidently presenting their ideas of love in the first act—to expose the chasm between theory / practice & ideal / pragmatically-resolved truth; in other words, to interrogate an archetypically Rohmerian way of being. I loved watching everything dramatically unspool and these sweet, deluded characters try to render their desires judicious and legible to themselves and others. An amazing depiction of the dialectic…
