"he'd rather roll than walk"

What are your top 5 episodes of this show? @RASIE @rise_zero

this dude's videos are gold

Ooof that's a tough one but I'll go with

The Test Dream
Pine Barrens
Whoever Did This
Made in America
Funhouse

damn Opening Night and 3 Women both came out in 77

best decade for American film, headlined by altmon and cassavetes

ktt is just one giant chat

i think im good on that one

u watched?

yea i loved it, we can talk about it in beatsense tonight but i dont know if elric has watched it yet

I appreciate that you keep tagging me but given the different time zones, I fear it will never work out.

same bruv. really loved it as well. and that old man has had plenty of time to watch it tbh

wrote down a bunch of notes that I was gonna post on LB but might just post here instead

Cassavetes pulled out all the stops on this man, so many layers, and unique ideas implemented into it i really need to watch it again sooner than later.

i would just post them at this point lol elric wont read it if he still hasnt seen it anyway

You aren’t American?

you kiddin right??? been known he euro fam

@Elric don't read this or anyone who hasn't seen the film and doesn't want it spoiled.

here are some thoughts after my second viewing:

-adulthood looks exhausting
-Rowlands is electric, as always
-Cassavetes handling existential mid-life dread very well, as always
-Cassavetes seems to be overflowing with ideas, both thematically and formally, the performances are complex and the subtext is never singular. Very fun stuff.
-With the characters in his universe there seems to always be a severe failure of communication (or is it understanding? or is it empathy?) that only exacerbates the situation they are in.
-Surprised by the clash between realism and surrealism, was not expecting this. Folm really turned into fight club 2/3s of the way in.
-Just like in Woman Under, Rowlands character's reaction to the events around her often seem to be the most genuine, despite her being perceived as the "crazy" one.
-The film, although perhaps not as daring as Faces, is still quite inventive, love how he's not afraid to get really close and personal with the camera...
-Birdman vibes, although I liked it better than birdman.
-Really loved the ending. Cassavetes endings always reach a level of pathos and empathy for the characters he creates despite the hell that they go through.

I saw a lot of people frustrated with the ambiguity of the ending, but for me it was pretty clear (I could be wrong though). Myrtle is invested in the play in the same way she is invested in her life (which is breaking down completely in front of us.) She criticizes the play for lacking hope - "there has to be more when two people have cared for each other for a long time besides agony"
Her decision to go against the scripted ending (an ending that she finds humiliating) and improvise a happy ending seemed to me to be her way of rebelling against the tragedy of her life.

It's unfortunate that the film didn't get a lot of recognition in its day, here's a great clip of Cassavetes defending the film as a masterpiece for 8 minutes

(vid gets real juicy 5 minutes in)

u just have to adjust to it..

it’s funny bc i grew up on boards where the rules of posting were extremely strict, for example if you posted a thread dedicated for an artist with just a youtube link embedded or wtv it would get deleted asap

your replies would be ignored at best if not made fun of if it had no substance or relevant input to it

Sorry watched half and couldn't find time to finish it

sounds like some lame forums

it was pretty lame in retrospective lol but ive learned lot of knowledge from it, they were old ppl who took it seriously and posted long insider stuff, some s*** i didn’t find anywhere else so am grateful

one of them was an engineer who participated in a beatles late session

another wrote a book about every bob dylan songs, sounded nice but even for me who got into his full catalogue that was too much

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i thought arel lived with kyary in arizona