craner
Beast of Burden
It's because they've all grown up in front of screens rather than out building dams in streams and playing football in the street like we were.
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It's because they've all grown up in front of screens rather than out building dams in streams and playing football in the street like we were.
craner
Beast of Burden
20 Years Ago, the Most Over the Top Sci-Fi Disaster Movie Redefined the Genre
Roland Emmerich’s 2004 film is ridiculous, but the infamous disaster master offers simple thrills and real spectacle. With 'Twisters' bringing the disaster movie back to theaters, it's worth looking back on what Emmerich accomplished.
william_kent
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Anyone mentioned the neon thing yet? That's become a big part of film since the 2010s. Refn, Cosmatos, Gaspar Noe, Harmony Korine, the John Wick series and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. There's even a recent distribution company called NEON.
integral part of THE NEON DEMON by Nicholas Winding Refn, one the directors I listed as one of my TOP 5 auteurs of the 21st century ( so far )
a hangover from the dreams of the future 'cyberpunk" "Bladerunner" aesthetic?
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william_kent
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and the original PDK inspired 1980s Bladerunner ( not a good movie by any means, it's a bit shit tbh, totally overrated, but still, some sort of inspiration for 'cyberpunk' )
version
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Not that into him, but was excited at the thought of this:
On August 14, 2016, Refn announced via his Twitter page that his next project would be titled The Avenging Silence, calling it "Ian Fleming + William Burroughs + NWR = The Avenging Silence" and posted images for Fleming's novel, Dr. No and for Burroughs's novel The Soft Machine. Variety reported that producer Lene Borglum described the purported plot as following: "[A] former European spy [accepts] a mission from a Japanese businessman to take down the head of a Yakuza boss in Japan".
william_kent
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I'd invest to the tune of a pound, for sure
william_kent
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I sat behind a yakuza on a "bullet" train for 3 hours and fuck all happened
william_kent
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pissed off, first class on a Shinkansen and you don't even get a free cup of tea
the Yakuza guy brought his own cans, he got wasted, I just sort of watched waiting for an opportunity to take a candid shot of his tats, but I chickened out
the Yakuza guy brought his own cans, he got wasted, I just sort of watched waiting for an opportunity to take a candid shot of his tats, but I chickened out
version
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The Vice City influence looms large, at least with younger people, but you can pull on threads from all over. Some are possibly coming at it from older directors like Sirk and Anger, others from Argento. Perhaps there are people taking cues from Mann and Blade Runner and that particular flavour of neo-noir. You've got the Wim Wenders stuff with Robby Muller; Kurosawa's Kagemusha; Hong Kong; Tokyo. And enough time's passed there'll be people taking cues from Refn, Noe, etc. themselves.
william_kent
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the Enter The Void opening credits may rate in my top 10 "opening credits" EVER list
I've a feeling at least one member of this board can contribute a Gasper Noe anecdote, may be mistaken
I've a feeling at least one member of this board can contribute a Gasper Noe anecdote, may be mistaken
version
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Best bit of the film, unfortunately.
william_kent
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when the guy huffs on the glass pipe he gets DMT visuals hopelessly wrong, can't recommend
version
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Sean Baker ventures into the neon thing now and then. He did a short film for some clothing brand based on The Warriors.
And he just won the Palme d'Or for his new one about a New York sex worker marrying the son of a Russian oligarch.
And he just won the Palme d'Or for his new one about a New York sex worker marrying the son of a Russian oligarch.
william_kent
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even Walter Hill got Warriors wrong on the "directors cut" so what the fuck is this shit?
luka
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and the things which feed into vice vity. scarface and the pink and purple neon niteclub for instance.
william_kent
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only Warriors cut that counts is the one with the proper "nowhere to run nowhere to hide" OST