laudi

6y

TimeWarner thinks more people signing up for HBOMax will recoup theatre losses

Fella

6y

Listening to New Adventures in Hi-Fi and I get the impression the track New Test Leper was inspired by them becoming friends with Radiohead. Where they touring together around that time?

Edit: actually a good chunk of the album is like this lol

Fella

6y

Never responded to my comment about R.E.M. and Radiohead : (

rise zero

6y

Godzilla and Them! playing on TCM :datass:

Atlienz

6y

first off that clip is incredible and just makes me like him more lol. the dude was passionate and confident about his work gotta give him that.

and honestly you hit on the nail on the head with your points. One of the interesting parts I found about the ending too was the reaction's (or lack thereof) from the producer/writer and Manny. You would assume they'd be upset right? I got the feeling that they might've been "relieved" so to say that opening night was finally over and that they didn't have to deal with the crisis Rowlands was going through (or at the least that the play went well enough)
Also Maurice initially tells Myrtle that he won't botch the play, but obviously that changed...but why? maybe he realized that Myrtle needed this and that going along with her improv would be the best decision (which it turned out to be).

the final improv could be a kind of way of saying "fuck the script", not because they don't believe in the play (as you mentioned), but rather to finally succumb to Myrtle's crisis and let her act (she mentions many times that she's just an actor). Like you said Rowlands seems to have the most natural reactions to events out of anyone in the film, which goes back to the original script (he natural reaction that she doesnt want to play someone old, of course she wouldn't). In the end I think Maurice's decision to go along with Myrtle was the final act of empathy that she needed.

Apparently Cassavetes mentioned that he never told the live audience how to react to the play so he's in fact challenging an audience while he's challenging the viewer which kind of wowed me. This is honestly one of the most ambitious films I've seen in terms of evoking the audience with empathy, which is in part due to Rowland's performance, but Myrtle being afraid of losing her youth is just the tip of the iceberg with this film.

There's a lot to think about with this one

Very Based

6y

@fuk_an_ad_lib @Lawdie @Aruji

so...love streams next?

laudi

6y

I see it more as Stipe learning from Yorke how he exactly influenced him, as well as being influenced separately from how good Radiohead was even then. Similar to Bowie with Reznor or Iggy with Bowie.

Fella

6y

Oh yeah this makes sense. It’s actually pretty great album on that level.

Elric

6y

Nice

My landlord shut down his pub right next door and turned it into a drive thru corona test site which hired my gf to do just about the same thing the same week she graduated from nurse school

laudi

6y

Yes it has a certain mood to it that mixes AFTP with Monster

rise zero

6y

Forgot about this scene

Atlienz

6y

@RASIE yo i havent seen any films from this year. I know Nomadland is coming out tomorrow. You have any recs or reference for films worth watching from this year? also trying to see that new tsai

laudi

6y

You want this done before this month is over?

laudi

6y

Put this on lb
@Very_Based and @Aruji you too

Aruji

6y

but that's atl's review

Elric

6y

never seen such good footage of Etta she was really ridin that aretha wave

laudi

6y

yup the label was following the crowd heavy

laudi

6y

I meant write your own

Koala

6y

@drjdeponytail

Paul Giamatti as Santa is just.. Weird