drjdeponytail

2y

That one was a video store clossic I remember my dad and I rented it when my mom and sister were away on a Girl Scouts trip

Elric

2y

I feel like it's the opposite for me. mainly because the production values for cinema hit staggering levels of quality and tapped into levels of high art in the 20's whereas any music from before the mid 50s sounds incredibly dusty and archaic to me.

Took non-classical music like 30-40 years to catch up with the production values and artfulness of peak cinema.

drjdeponytail

2y

That one was a video store clossic I remember my dad and I rented it when my mom and sister were away on a Girl Scouts trip

Koala

2y

Man I been on a huge Peewee binge the last couple weeks, dude was really doing laps around these trap rappers with charisma, wordplay and that bounce flow. I guess still being in the streets was why he didn’t blow up more.

Amazing album covers too

drjdeponytail

2y

Blue M&M II is

rvi

2y

well maybe youd feel differently upon fully taking that pre-50s jazz pill

but yeah recording quality is the biggest hurdle in general even for the most sophisticated masters like Ellington

drjdeponytail

2y

The Sunset Violent is prob the album that grew on me the most throughout the year. I enjoyed it first listen but now it’s top 20.

Koala

2y

Talkin bout that End of Days when Gabriel Byrne blows his cigarette smoke into that old man’s oxygen tent

drjdeponytail

2y

That one was a video store clossic I remember my dad and I rented it when my mom and sister were away on a Girl Scouts trip

Eric C

2y

I remember catching it randomly on hbo I think back in 2000 and assumed it was some scary ass movie with Arnold in it haha

Koala

2y

favs of 2024

Sophia Burns
Katrina Colt
Harley King
Khloe Kingsley
Willow Ryder

Galaxy de list mon

2y

Classic koala post

Galaxy de list mon

2y

have you ever had issue with playback? From my research, that seems to be the biggest quarrel people have

Elric

2y

no they're more like The Quietus or something. they been doing poll that the industry votes on for "Top 100 films of all time" list once per decade since 1952... Citizen Kane was at the top every year for like 50 years... then Vertigo for a few decades.... and now its Jeanne Dielman which is a great film but its also the slowest 200 minute French film you could possibly imagine. probably inaccessibly slow to about 98 percent of filmgoers.. but hey its a woman at the top finally

say what you will about Chinatown but Portrait is not better then every film made by;

Brian De Palma, Michael Mann, Werner Herzog, John Huston, Wim Wenders, Howard Hawks, Robert Altman etc....

I get the film industry was extremely geared toward male filmmakers which was unfair but still feel like they overcompensated to a crazy degree.

none of this really matters but it did skew my expectations for Portrait. I expected a life changing masterpiece but was mostly bored.

rvi

2y

it was a very compelling romance

maybe straightoids wouldnt get it

Very Based

2y

I love that film and I'm a straightoid not a gaylord

Elric

2y

Ill admit i went into it with a bad attitude after Sight & Sound bounced a bunch of all time masterpieces off the list to jack Portrait up to the 30th best film of all time

I feel like it takes years for a film to settle into its place in the cannon and it feels very ridiculous to slap a 2019 movie over all of these;

definitely just felt like it got there because its queer coded and directed by a woman and they didnt want to look so old, male and white (which I get but where's Elaine May who is actually great).

my gf was accusing me of being a chauvinist for thinking this before we hit play and went it was over she was like

"yeah that was good but definitely not touching all those classics that got bounced off the list"

Koala

2y

Do you remember Blue is the Warmest Color ? Did you like that one more ?

Galaxy de list mon

2y

Perfect From Now On has been my favorite album ever for probably 8-9 years straight... but I think an old favorite is re-taking the #1 spot, and the only record I could conceivably give a personal 10/10 after realizing how every song is pretty much an all time great

Aruji

2y

what is it?