Was this the film thst he experimented with lived editing, like a performance, played at comicon that time?

Bit of a matter of taste there. He built his brand essentially in one kind of mode and set a certain standard. The films that make up what could be described as "Cronenbergian" are essential.

But he did shift gears and I find his 2000s films are quite excellent, though give or take eXistenZ he had moved away from the goop quite a bit for most of the 90s already.

Crimes of the Future is very interesting as it exists now, made so late in life but it's even more interesting when you consider it was actually written and almost got made right about the time of eXistenZ.

Crimes of the Future really feels like Cronenberg looking back at what he had done at that point. Artists telling stories about artists always brings some assumption of self commentary or insert and in the case of Saul Tenser, there is some self criticism. Through Saul Tenser, the artist making an art of cutting out his New Flesh, and actually being cop suppressing others, the film reflects that Cronenberg's approach to 'body horror' and changing technologies was more than a bit reactionary. As much as it defined his brand, that kind of transformation and change, and the real life anxieties they reflected were a source of horror. In Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg imagines an oncoming generation that truly embraces those changes and celebrates the beauty in it. Saul Tenser is a bit self conscious when others say they're following his example as he recognizes that they are at root really doing something different and moving beyond him. Locating that writing and self reflection at the end of the 90s and right before he started that run of films with Mortenson that followed it really does seem like he was consciously not just setting his earlier work aside but coming to terms with it before moving on. Fascinating to finally see it made 20 years later with a whole other phase of his career between.

So no, I don't think Cronenberg peaked creatively in the later career, but I do think he gained some perspective. Also, not sure the younger Cronenberg ever made anything quite as funny as Crimes.

Brannagh's Frankensteing isn't particulary well respected.

Recently, Get Out made the Sight and Sound list, no to mention it's screenplay Oscar. Titane won the Palm D'or at Cannes.

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Today I learned, what the hell?

Wow I have never encountered this.

It's barely half an hour, some fun behind the scenes details though.

Had the problem a lot of thr live action Disney remakes have where it doesn't really commit to being a musical so the songs it does have just feel out of place.

Definitely would have given this a best pic nom over Avatar.

I'd heard similar but was wondering jownrjst wasn't he case. Apparently the last 4 Barsoom novels are from after 1928 buth the majority of the series should be in thr public domain now. I wonder if it's similar to thr Conan Doyalw estate being litigious over random elements like Sherlock "having emotions" diento the last few Sherlock stories still being outside thr Publix domain until this year

"Heaven Is Place On Earth" will always just always be the San Junipero song for me.

Hurdy Gurdy Man in Zodiac.

They're basically giving it the same kind of slot that Dunkirk had. While a historical film, when setting up thr project, Nolan made a series of demands requiring the project to be treated as a major event film by whichever studio wanted to pick it up (this included some pretty goddamn wild requirements. Not only a guaranteed theatrical window but also a window in which the studioncouldnt release anything else either. Universal agreed to the terms)

Also unironically I think Nolan enjoys releasing movies on his birthday.

Wouldn't John Carter be public domain?

I don't know man, I dont really expect any given western to be a grand statement on 19th Century America either, but I have a cultural understanding what a western town was like. Are either version of True Grit a lesser film for not reflecting yhe concerns of modern day Oklahoma?

The type of pastoral setting Banshees is set in similarly has a long literary tradition and a short handed understanding. The figure ofnthr pub dwelling sheep farmer tracks as aboutnas well as a cattle rancher Ina saloon.

Given those preunderstood elements and trappings, you can understand just how small the world is for the characters in Banhsees, and how the set thr conventionalized routines. Much of the drama is at root between someone who was happy living eseentisllyneithon thst cliche, and others frustrated by it or making choice to move beyond them.

There's one at Jack White Third Man Records in Nashville. You can make a record for like 20 bucks. I went there last summer. Great fun.

Even wildly inaccurate period pieces are in fsgt period pieces by virtue of being set in the past. Not thst complicated.

I do think k attempt to read much about thr civil war are over stated. It's not really metaphorical in any way.

Also complaining his work doesn't reflect the modern country...when talking about period pieces.

Those lists are not in anyway complete or representative and just include films famous enough thst people notice they're gone and discuss them. Say, noticeably missing films from famous actors or movies famous for being lost in studio fires.

It's not a myth at all that only a minority ofnthrnfilms produced on the silent wra have come down to us.

Early films were rapidly produced and wernt necessarily taken very seriously as a an art form. It's maybe easier to think of lot of early film as the equivalent of youtube or tik tok. Film is difficult and expensive to maintaining some forms are super flamable and unstable. Imagine a random tiktokthst cost monet to stop it from combusting or rotting.

There alao matter that of that minority that survived, an even smaller minority are viewable in any way, especially online. There are more films in archives or that survive as fragments, but most aren't around, and there are many that no one alive today knew existed at all.

Think of thr thousands of movies made that get submitted to film festivals today and don't get picked up for distribution. Or all the random terrible horror films that went straight to vhs or dumped on prine video now. If the last copy of them goes missing or gets burned or gets destroyed in a world war, a 100 years from now who would know that Zombie Strippers 4: Blood Tease ever existed?

We remain a settler state but int the way it iwas used "Colonial America" has a pretty commonly understood time frame that it encompasses and its less useful to try to be pedantic about it.

Several British colonies declared themselves as states independent from Britain and formed a new country. Fought a whole war about it.

NIN made a trilogy of EPs from 2016- 2018

Not the Actual Events, Add Violence, and Bad Witch

I'm less into Add Violence overall myself but Bad Witch and NtAE rule.

If you weren't just being snarky in saying they didn't release anything after Hesitattion Marks, you might be quite pleased with these 3 releases. Some real strong material accompanied by some of their best touring performances.

Also hell, they released more Ghosts volumes at the start of the pandemic, though I suspect they might be connected to some film score gigs they bailed on.

Bottom line, there's been a shitton of NIN after Hesitation Marks.

https://youtu.be/tsnAueVnkI0

A few tracks for the Gaspar Noe film Climax. I believe he also produced the soundtrack album.

He's done some film work on his own as well.

Are you being sarcastic about the EPs or what?