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Emma (dot) 2020. Great costuming. Seriously.
The vibes are immaculate. Interesting shots. They understand the source material, not dissimilar to P&P '95. There's some "Darcy jumps in a lake scene", erhm, scenes.
Yeah, it's quality.
Emma (dot) 2020. Great costuming. Seriously.
The vibes are immaculate. Interesting shots. They understand the source material, not dissimilar to P&P '95. There's some "Darcy jumps in a lake scene", erhm, scenes.
Yeah, it's quality.
Gotten around to it, finally. The 1940 film with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier.
It's very different from the back (based on play apparently, maybe that's where all the changes are from), everyone is dressed in Gone With the Wind's hand-me-downs and there's copious amounts of exposition (which is normal). But it's a charming little thing.
I really liked the super-epic carriage race at the beginning, the archery scene (wut; also, isn't there an Emma adaptation with archery? If so, did they get it from here?), and my favourite scene: Elizabeth playing at Lady Catherine de Bourgh (esteemed patroness) and Darcy is all heart eyes (he's quite affectionate towards her after the "she's torable" bit), and their exchange is GOLD! His face!
(Noticed that on all P&P adaptations I've seen, my favourite scenes all take place at Rosings. Hmm...)
It's very different from the back (based on play apparently, maybe that's where all the changes are from), everyone is dressed in Gone With the Wind's hand-me-downs and there's copious amounts of exposition (which is normal). But it's a charming little thing.
I really liked the super-epic carriage race at the beginning, the archery scene (wut; also, isn't there an Emma adaptation with archery? If so, did they get it from here?), and my favourite scene: Elizabeth playing at Lady Catherine de Bourgh (esteemed patroness) and Darcy is all heart eyes (he's quite affectionate towards her after the "she's torable" bit), and their exchange is GOLD! His face!
(Noticed that on all P&P adaptations I've seen, my favourite scenes all take place at Rosings. Hmm...)
At the recommendation of a friend (who knows I like Jane Austen), I watched the Bridget Jones Trilogy. Apparently there's a fourth one, but I didn't know that then.
It's Pride and Prejudice modern AU in film format, to the point they got Colin Firth to play, wait for it, Mark Darcy. Subtle lol.
It reminds me of Clueless (the Emma modern AU film). It's very of its time. Very 2000s. The first film especially (but the second one features more material THAT WOULD NOT fly well today. At least, I hope it wouldn't. "These are old, outworn prejudices, they do not belong in Today." as my darling once said.)
They're fine. The third one is trash though. But damn, does Colin Firth age like fine wine.
It's Pride and Prejudice modern AU in film format, to the point they got Colin Firth to play, wait for it, Mark Darcy. Subtle lol.
It reminds me of Clueless (the Emma modern AU film). It's very of its time. Very 2000s. The first film especially (but the second one features more material THAT WOULD NOT fly well today. At least, I hope it wouldn't. "These are old, outworn prejudices, they do not belong in Today." as my darling once said.)
They're fine. The third one is trash though. But damn, does Colin Firth age like fine wine.
Moana was enough. I liked it.
Moana 2 was bleh.
I'm tired of Disney sequels. Have been for years. (Cinderella 3 my beloved, though.)
The whole thing just felt pointless. The new characters are pointless. The villain wasn't, surprise, the villain, but a pawn in the big bad villain's plan. There's a pointless little kid. The songs feel the same (they even reuse one of them from the first film!). The animation is standard modern Disney fare.
Just, sigh. Eisner did say all they needed to do was just make money. They had no obligation to make art. And even when he was at the helm, they made art. I love Beauty and the Beast, it's one of my favourite films, point. But they are living that quote to the max now.
Bonus: The Miracle of Sound is a short produced by MGM about sound technology. For 5 minutes. (Extra bonus: Technicolour with Greer Garson. No explanations about the technology. They were just showing off). The rest is ads for upcoming films. There's classic like The Philadelphia Story and *shudders* Escape. That one is great, Conrad Veidt looks like he really needs to take a dump, but he can only do it at home, so he's just eagerly waiting for the filming to stop for the day.
Hey, he would find it funny.
And we didn't even get to see a picture of his voice! Shameful, MGM. Shameful! No pride on having THE German Cinema (as Michael Powell put it) at your disposal.
Anyway, my fav ad has to be the one for A Woman's Face. It's just a picture of Joan Crawford. "Happily starring in A Woman's Face". She's very happy alright. Until MGM tossed the film under the bus.
Moana 2 was bleh.
I'm tired of Disney sequels. Have been for years. (Cinderella 3 my beloved, though.)
The whole thing just felt pointless. The new characters are pointless. The villain wasn't, surprise, the villain, but a pawn in the big bad villain's plan. There's a pointless little kid. The songs feel the same (they even reuse one of them from the first film!). The animation is standard modern Disney fare.
Just, sigh. Eisner did say all they needed to do was just make money. They had no obligation to make art. And even when he was at the helm, they made art. I love Beauty and the Beast, it's one of my favourite films, point. But they are living that quote to the max now.
Bonus: The Miracle of Sound is a short produced by MGM about sound technology. For 5 minutes. (Extra bonus: Technicolour with Greer Garson. No explanations about the technology. They were just showing off). The rest is ads for upcoming films. There's classic like The Philadelphia Story and *shudders* Escape. That one is great, Conrad Veidt looks like he really needs to take a dump, but he can only do it at home, so he's just eagerly waiting for the filming to stop for the day.
Hey, he would find it funny.
And we didn't even get to see a picture of his voice! Shameful, MGM. Shameful! No pride on having THE German Cinema (as Michael Powell put it) at your disposal.
Anyway, my fav ad has to be the one for A Woman's Face. It's just a picture of Joan Crawford. "Happily starring in A Woman's Face". She's very happy alright. Until MGM tossed the film under the bus.
I, um, fricked up. So let me make up for posting that fic elsewhere.
Nayola is based on a play by José Eduardo Agualusa and Mia Couto. About three women: the grandmother who encourages (and regrets it) her son-in-law to join the civil war, the mother who spends years and years away, searching for her seemingly dead husband, and the daughter who was left behind and becomes an activist and musician (and his targeted by the police).
It jumps back and forth from the 90s to the present day, and to help illustrate that, the film is both 2d-animated (for the past) and 3d-computer-animated (for the present-day). There are sequences that employ some sort of mixed media (Nayola briefly becomes a live-action/animation hybrid in actual historical footage for a scene). The 2d animation is beautiful, the backgrounds especially. With just a few strokes, they paint a complete, textured, vibrant and yet muted environmemt. Cities are destroyed and dull, but in nature, the colours are saturated, even when there's characters dying. The 3d animation is (and I'm saying this with much love in my heart) similar to early 2000s point 'n' click games.
And it works! The character designs, which don't change across the entire film, are highly stylised (I was going to say they had a French quality to them, and yep, film was co-produced with France).
And the "camera" work is so dynamic. There's this sweeping, low shot as Nayola and (oh damn, I forgot his name, but he knew Nayola's husband), along with the rest of the crew, are being gunned down by a plane, and person after person are dropping like flies and it's gut-wrenching.
There's this exchange between an uncle and nephew fighting for opposite sides that's so simple. Or that, despite Yara's (Nayola's daughter) seeming disconnected from her mother, she still clings to her diary. And she's fighting for a freerer country, in her own way. She raps. She may also be queer (I saw the pin on her rucksack).
The voice cast was solid, but the sound mixing on the copy I watched was a bit odd in the beginning (still love you RTP).
Yet, there's something esoteric about it. It's hinted throughout the film, and then it goes all out in the ending. I'm not quite sure what happened. I'm not familiar with the OG play. I don't think that's a bad thing.
2022 was they year of the full-length animated Portuguese film. This, alongside Os Demónios do Meu Avô were both great! And it pains me to know barely anyone has seen them.
Unless it's a crass comedy, Portuguese films (point) get limited releases in very specific theatres that not everyone has access to. And don't get me started on home media releases! Demónios still hasn't had any sort of release (had to watch it through the film renting thing built in on cable), and Nayola just so happened to be screened on my lovely RTP (our state-owned TV channel chain).
What I'm saying is, more money needs to be invested in culture here.
Nayola is based on a play by José Eduardo Agualusa and Mia Couto. About three women: the grandmother who encourages (and regrets it) her son-in-law to join the civil war, the mother who spends years and years away, searching for her seemingly dead husband, and the daughter who was left behind and becomes an activist and musician (and his targeted by the police).
It jumps back and forth from the 90s to the present day, and to help illustrate that, the film is both 2d-animated (for the past) and 3d-computer-animated (for the present-day). There are sequences that employ some sort of mixed media (Nayola briefly becomes a live-action/animation hybrid in actual historical footage for a scene). The 2d animation is beautiful, the backgrounds especially. With just a few strokes, they paint a complete, textured, vibrant and yet muted environmemt. Cities are destroyed and dull, but in nature, the colours are saturated, even when there's characters dying. The 3d animation is (and I'm saying this with much love in my heart) similar to early 2000s point 'n' click games.
And it works! The character designs, which don't change across the entire film, are highly stylised (I was going to say they had a French quality to them, and yep, film was co-produced with France).
And the "camera" work is so dynamic. There's this sweeping, low shot as Nayola and (oh damn, I forgot his name, but he knew Nayola's husband), along with the rest of the crew, are being gunned down by a plane, and person after person are dropping like flies and it's gut-wrenching.
There's this exchange between an uncle and nephew fighting for opposite sides that's so simple. Or that, despite Yara's (Nayola's daughter) seeming disconnected from her mother, she still clings to her diary. And she's fighting for a freerer country, in her own way. She raps. She may also be queer (I saw the pin on her rucksack).
The voice cast was solid, but the sound mixing on the copy I watched was a bit odd in the beginning (still love you RTP).
Yet, there's something esoteric about it. It's hinted throughout the film, and then it goes all out in the ending. I'm not quite sure what happened. I'm not familiar with the OG play. I don't think that's a bad thing.
2022 was they year of the full-length animated Portuguese film. This, alongside Os Demónios do Meu Avô were both great! And it pains me to know barely anyone has seen them.
Unless it's a crass comedy, Portuguese films (point) get limited releases in very specific theatres that not everyone has access to. And don't get me started on home media releases! Demónios still hasn't had any sort of release (had to watch it through the film renting thing built in on cable), and Nayola just so happened to be screened on my lovely RTP (our state-owned TV channel chain).
What I'm saying is, more money needs to be invested in culture here.
And the Pope died two days later after I watched it.
Anyway, I get the hype. It's beautifully shot and suspenseful. My dad and my mother, who thought it was going to be a boring dud, were glued to the screen.
Possibly the nicest time we've spent together in these past few years.
(Carlos Diehz, who played Benitez, was great and everyone praising his performance is right!)
Anyway, I get the hype. It's beautifully shot and suspenseful. My dad and my mother, who thought it was going to be a boring dud, were glued to the screen.
Possibly the nicest time we've spent together in these past few years.
(Carlos Diehz, who played Benitez, was great and everyone praising his performance is right!)
Because I loved her in Now Voyager. Heck, I'm a Davis convert now! (Still haven't seen her in Of Human Bondage; a crime, it seems.)
A surprisingly modern film about a woman who's psychologically abused by her controlling mother healing and coming to terms with herself.
Finally decided to watch it, prompted by, funnily enough, this wonderful review of A Woman's Face. I agree, Charlotte's ending is better.
I dunno, I suck at writing. Can't quite express how it made me feel. And I know it's "bad" to talk about art in a personal, "navel-gazing" way, but what is art if not feeling? I laughed and cried and awed at how great the performances are.
Oh, and Nancy Drew is there. If I had a nickel for everytime she showed up unannounced in some I watched film to be bitchy (and be really good at it) I would have to nickels, yada yada...
A surprisingly modern film about a woman who's psychologically abused by her controlling mother healing and coming to terms with herself.
Finally decided to watch it, prompted by, funnily enough, this wonderful review of A Woman's Face. I agree, Charlotte's ending is better.
I dunno, I suck at writing. Can't quite express how it made me feel. And I know it's "bad" to talk about art in a personal, "navel-gazing" way, but what is art if not feeling? I laughed and cried and awed at how great the performances are.
Oh, and Nancy Drew is there. If I had a nickel for everytime she showed up unannounced in some I watched film to be bitchy (and be really good at it) I would have to nickels, yada yada...
I was recommended The Women because I liked A Woman's Face (with it being directed by George Cukor and having Joan Crawford in the cast).
Like A Woman's Face, the film doesn't get to be the best it can be because of the Hays Code. Unlike A Woman's Face, the heteronormativity seeps throughout the film, instead of being concentrated in the ending. Mary dear, I know you still love him and you have a child together and she hates her new stepmother, but your ex-man sucks.
But wow, the performances are top-notch. Seriously. And the dialogue is cracking. "But Sci, it's all women being horrible to eachother!" But I love it. "She did NOT just say THAT!", I kept shouting to the TV. Hollering. Guess I'm a closeted drama fan lol.
I was not expecting a colour sequence! There's a bit in which the friend group goes to a fashion show and it's exploding in colour! It was lovely!
Like A Woman's Face, the film doesn't get to be the best it can be because of the Hays Code. Unlike A Woman's Face, the heteronormativity seeps throughout the film, instead of being concentrated in the ending. Mary dear, I know you still love him and you have a child together and she hates her new stepmother, but your ex-man sucks.
But wow, the performances are top-notch. Seriously. And the dialogue is cracking. "But Sci, it's all women being horrible to eachother!" But I love it. "She did NOT just say THAT!", I kept shouting to the TV. Hollering. Guess I'm a closeted drama fan lol.
I was not expecting a colour sequence! There's a bit in which the friend group goes to a fashion show and it's exploding in colour! It was lovely!
It's Puss in Boots: The Last Wish time! It only took 5 years or smth...
Dreamworks really is upping their game. The stylised animation they have going on as of late is great! Varying framerates and action sequences are neat too.
It isn't just style, the story certainly packs a punch. A huge punch. No, I wasn't crying, no.
Dreamworks really is upping their game. The stylised animation they have going on as of late is great! Varying framerates and action sequences are neat too.
It isn't just style, the story certainly packs a punch. A huge punch. No, I wasn't crying, no.
