Showing posts with label Gaspar Noé. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaspar Noé. Show all posts
Friday, January 03, 2025
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Friday, February 02, 2024
I Double Dario You
The documentary Dario Argento Panico is out on Shudder today -- it is, in case the title didn't give it away, about the director Dario Argento. He's the maestro behind such movies as Suspiria, Inferno, Deep Red, and Thomas Kretschmann turning into a gigantic grasshopper. Bravo, Signore Argento. Bravo. Anyway here is the trailer for the doc if you missed it -- I watched the doc last night and if you're a fan it's pretty much indispensable. The best stuff in it is all the stuff about his relationship with his daughter Asia -- their working relationship and their personal relationship and how the former benefitted the latter. It's surprisingly lovely? I had an inkling that Dario might actually be an alright dude (and not the perverted lunatic his movies imply) after watching his deeply empathetic performance in Gaspar Noé's movie Vortex a couple of years ago (and if you've never seen Vortex I highly recommend it) but this doc kind of solidifies that impression. He seems in the school of Wes Craven -- a solid guy who got all his freaky shit out on the screen, the way art was intended. How sweet!
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Two Trailers of Sheer Terror!
My head's been all over the place today -- blame those Jeremy Allen White underwear pictures that exploded off my screen like fireworks when I first turned on my computer this morning -- and so I haven't gotten to a couple of important things worth sharing yet. So let's do it rat-a-tat style, a fast drop of too much information and then whoosh I'm gone again like I was never here. First up! There is a docuemtnary about horror master Dario Argento hitting Shudder on February 2nd! (It's coinciding with a screening series here in NYC at the IFC Center.) Titled Dario Argento Panico and from filmmaker Simone Scafidi the doc features interviews with people like Gaspar Noé, Guillermo Del Toro, and Nicolas Winding Refn, aka the hottest nerd-fest in town. Also a bunch of his actors and Mr. Argento himself. Here's the trailer!
Next up we got the full trailer for Diablo Cody's next horror film called Lisa Frankenstein -- I shared the teaser all the way back in October; watch that here if you're like me and don't want too much given away. Which means that no, I haven't watched this full trailer myself. But I have heard good stuff about this movie from people who've already seen it, and I love love loved that teaser, so I don't need to. Maybe you're not me, who knows! Anyway Lisa Frankenstein hits theaters on February 9th, and here's that trailer:
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
13 Toilets of Halloween #8
I very well couldn't do a series called "The 13 Toilets of Halloween" and not talk about The Toilet To End All Toilets (or rather The Toilet To Begin All Toilets) -- the scene of Marion Crane flushing ripped up pieces of paper down the Bates Motel commode in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. Long heralded as The First Film To Show A Toilet On-Screen, although the internet has apparently shattered that myth -- Reddit is telling me that we see a toilet in King Vidor's 1928 silent masterpiece The Crowd, and that we see and hear a toilet flushing in the 1930 comedy Going Wild. Take that, Hitchcock! Toss Psycho in the garbage can, I guess! Or rather...
Anyway to make this post slightly more interesting (since what else is there to say about the goddamned toilet in Psycho) I re-watched Gus Van Sant's 1998 color pseudo-shot-for-shot remake of Psycho last night just to see if he did anything interesting with The Toilet in it and -- he does not! Lucky us. I got excited for a second because it looked like there were a couple drops of blood (I was praying it was blood anyway) on the toilet seat, but my boyfriend insists they are simply marks from those little protective nubs that keep the lid from slamming down too hard? You can make up you own minds on that. In summation...
... here is a gif of Vince Vaughn's Norman Bates jerking off at the peephole while watching Marion change in her room. That was always my favorite update from Hitch's film to Van Sant's -- just the blunt crudeness of it makes me laugh, and I think it would make Hitch laugh too. Would he have done that if he could've gotten away with it, you think? I can't decide. So much of what makes Hitch's films last was the restrictions he was forced to work around -- the sleaze is there, but you have to lean in to get it. Now if somebody remakes Psycho again they'll probably have Norman shoot ejaculate right through the peephole the next time. In 3D! Gaspar Noé's Psycho, lol. Dare to dream. Actually Karl Glusman (who did indeed shoot ejaculate for Noé already in his 3D porn film Love) would totally make a good Norman, now that I think about it?
Friday, April 29, 2022
It's a Good Feel-Bad Weekend at the Movies!
There are two movies out in theaters today that I want to real quick recommend you seek out if possible, while also side-stepping writing proper reviews of them because in both instances I saw these movies months upon months ago, didn't write about them at the time, and then forgot to revisit them here in time for their theatrical releases. I suck, et cetera. Anyway I'm doing my least due diligence right now, and that's something! The first movie is Gaspar Noé's devastating and harsh small-scale flick Vortex, which stars the director Dario Argento and the actress Françoise Lebrun as an old married couple dealing with dementia while cooped up in a jam-packed-with-memories (and books!) Parisian apartment. And honestly this apartment, as claustrophobic as it might seem to most, looks like a dream to me. I aspire to their hoarder lifestyle. Anyway both actors are terrific and the film is deeply distressing, but in low-key and naturalistic ways that Noé's not really known for -- yes he uses a two-camera split-screen technique for the entire movie, but it's not a film that actively assaults you; it more just slowly leads you down a path to no return and it's so beautiful and so awful all at once. So yeah a real fun time! Highly recommended! Here's the trailer:
The second film I not reviewing but I am recommending is the Finnish nightmare fuel Hatching, a miniature fable equipped with talons that I saw during Sundance and very nearly wrote about but eventually didn't get to, under the massive crush of other stuff. Film festivals are tough in this way! But Hatching has been sneaking around the back of my brain ever since -- for one it's got some fantastic monster practical-effects that made my Inner 80s Child very very very happy. For another it tells its simple story wonderfully simple, with great economy, so it sticks in your brain in ways movies that try too hard don't. It feels like something your incredibly mean-spirited grandmother might have told you before bed one night when you were small and too impressionable. See it when you can see it!
Friday, March 25, 2022
Pics of the Day
I am shocked to discover that the movie I am about to talk about I have only brought up on Twitter, apparently -- if ever there was a movie that deserved my yammering to makes its way back here to the site for a proper post then this was the movie! The photo above is of the French actor Félix Mairtaud -- best known for the 2018 film Sauvage / Wild (reviewed here) but he was also in BPM and Knife+Heart and Gaspar Noé's Lux Æterna, and these are all movies you ought to see if you have not yet seen them) -- and the Quebecois actor Théodore Pellerin, best known for the Kristen Dunst series On Becoming a God in Central Florida, or his small roles in Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Boy Erased, or maybe from my ongoing Twitter thread about how he is probably dating also-Quebeqois actor François Arnaud.
Here's a photo of Théodore Pellerin & Félix Maritaud sharing a bath on the set of their upcoming movie DRAG via director Sophie Dupuis' Insta https://t.co/COt1s2yVqK (thx to reader Marc-Antoine for heads-up) - film described to me as "a toxic love story between two drag queens" pic.twitter.com/C3J7Rz798f
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 18, 2022
Separate from the Theo-Fran thread though I tweeted the above back in February and that really should have made its way here to MNPP proper as a news-item, but did not -- Pellerin and Maritaud are co-starring in a movie called Drag from director Sophie Dupui, about two drag queens who fall in love. This movie doesn't even seem to have an IMDb page yet so I don't have much info to share, but the director has been sharing content from the shoot on her Instagram ...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Happy John Waters List Day!
Tis the happiest time of the year, when our dad John Waters releases his Top 10 Movies list for Art Forum! You can see the list right here -- as per usual it's a mix of high and low low low brow, with perfectly Waters-ian compatriots like Leos Carax, Bruno Dumont, Gaspar Noé, and Bruce La Bruce all making appearances. And as per usual there are titles included that I've never even heard of (I think that final entry on his list he probably got sent a personalized screener from the director) and ones that I hate -- I just couldn't with Annette (here's my review) but it doesn't surprise me at all that John liked it. It seems his taste...
Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Monsters Are All Moving To Brooklyn
Hello to my fellow New Yorkers! Or "People who might be in the New York Metropolitan Area between October 14th and 21st"-ers! Tickets have gone on sale today for the 2021 version of the Brooklyn Horror Fest, which is always a solid little blast of oogies-boogies and gore-soaked entertainment. It will be virtual and not-virtual this year, meaning people will actually be able to go to a movie theater to see a bunch of its titles -- as always, we implore you to be a vaccinated person if you're going to leave your damn house. If not, stay home and rot. That said there are a ton of titles that BHF has in their clutches this year that are worth leaving the house for, several of which I've already reviewed:
Here is my review of After Blue!
Here is my review of The Feast!
Here is my review of The Sadness!
I've also seen but not reviewed Earwig, The Last Thing That Mary Saw, When I Consume You, and of course the classic Trouble Every Day from Claire Denis which is screening for its 20th anniversary. All of these things have their moments! Oh and they're also screening Session 9 for its 20th, and that has more than "moments" -- that movie is a straight up masterpiece.
Monday, August 02, 2021
5 Off My Head: Cinematic Spooge
Inspired by the medieval money shot that graces a more poetical (not to mention horny) moment in David Lowery's gorgeous new Arthurian epic The Green Knight, now in theaters (I reviewed it here) -- a scene which has already spurred on some superior semen contemplation around ye internet across the course the past week (see here for my favorite example) -- well I gots cum on my mind! And you know what happens when that happens...
It does indeed burn, Miss Coco Peru. And so it's best to do something about it fast, before the burning becomes an itching and the itching becomes a rash and the rash needs a cream and isn't that what got us into this sticky situation in the first place? And so I decided to do what I do best, which is slap together a list of the first five cum scenes from mainstream movies that popped (off) into my head.
5 Fave Slick Flick Spunk Shots
Call Me By Your Name -- The Peach Scene
Oh you knew I'd have to include this one. And oh you knew it was the first one I thought of. And no, this is not me giving y'all an opportunity to screech about how the peach should have been completely eaten like it was in the book, I so do not care.
The Silence of the Lambs -- Multiple Miggs
Listen I didn't say they would all be sexy-time fun and games. The name of the game is I name the first five that I think of, not my favorites, and it's hard -- excuse me, difficult -- to block this horrific moment from this scary movie from one's mind once it's wedged its way in there. The thing is I don't think I even knew what happened the first time I saw this movie? In related news I was definitely too young to see this movie the first time I saw this movie. It was some time later when I was in film school and we were studying Demme's perfect construction of this scene -- of Clarice Starling's descent into this basement hell -- that I got what we were seeing happen to her.
There's Something About Mary -- Hair Gel
Even here almost 25 years on this still remains probably the most famous jizz moment in the movies, right? I know at the least that it's got to be the first time that man-spunk registered onscreen for me as what it was, and as a thing I had most certainly never seen represented on-screen before. (When I was a kid we didn't have porn access, kiddos! Imagine that!)
But this definitely raises the question -- what was the first time that semen was sprayed across the screen in a mainstream non-pornographic piece of entertainment? Or just shown? What's the earliest example of spermatozoid representation y'all can think of?
The Square -- Claes' Condom Caper
I was surprised that this scene popped up in my brain so quickly, as I haven't seen Ruben Östlund's terrific arthouse smash The Square since it came out in 2017 -- and holy shit is it possible that movie's very nearly five already? Anyway I probably just wanted to think about Claes Bang's bang-bag a bit, knowing me. But this scene really is so wildly well-played and funny -- as much praise as she gets for suffering well on The Handmaids Tale Elisabeth Moss always delivers a full comedy load too. You can watch the entire scene here.
And finally.......
Look Who's Talking -- The Opening Credits
Classic cum comedy for the whole family!
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So what are some of your favorite big screen load blows?
Wednesday, January 06, 2021
Your Lunch Break Entertainment
I haven't even watched this myself yet, even though I have been aware of its existence for a couple of days now, so what better way to swallow my lunch food this afternoon than doing so alongside a video from French provocateur director Gaspar Noé, starring British provocatrix Charlotte Rampling, for the clothing brand Saint Laurent? I can think of no better way personally. At least not with my pants on.
Thursday, September 03, 2020
You Know Who He Is!
The 2020 edition of the New York Film Festival has just revealed their poster for this year's fest and HOLY BALLS it was designed by my patron saint John Waters and it's the greatest thing I have ever in my entire long long too long life ever seen. (click the image above to embiggen) The "Fewer Films Than Toronto!" is cracking me the hell up, as is every corner and line. "Wait in line with intellectuals!" LOL. You can buy the poster right here. Here's Waters talking about the design:
"Since none of my films were ever chosen to be in the New York Film Festival, I was thrilled to be asked to design this year’s poster. I always knew I’d get my ass in there somehow! What better way to show my respect and irreverence for this prestigious event than to bring along Globe Poster, Baltimore’s famous press that promoted the best rock-and-roll shows all over America for decades? Trashy? Classic? Maybe it’s all the same in 2020 when we have to reinvent moviegoing itself.”
The NYFF also has JW program a double-feature for their Drive-In screening series, and sure enough it's a fuckin' wonder to behold:
We also asked John Waters to program his dream drive-in double feature, and he did not disappoint.
— New York Film Festival (@TheNYFF) September 3, 2020
Get ready for Art Movie Hell at the Drive-In, featuring Gaspar Noé’s CLIMAX and Pier Paolo Pasolini's SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM. Screening details coming soon. #NYFF pic.twitter.com/SnyAWIL0Vk
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Karl Glusman Thirteen Times
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Well this is a nice treat! Mr Porter has just gifted us with a new photoshoot of Devs actor Karl Glusman right after I tweeted about him last night. How kind of them! There's also a poll at that link if you're so inclined -- I'm just a-okay with pictures for the moment. For one thing they help me set up the poll I tweeted about...
I should do a poll on this (perhaps tomorrow) but the cute boys of #Devs are the only thing giving me good feelings tonight pic.twitter.com/2e68L4zMpJ— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 28, 2020
Not that I'm exactly making the contest fair, given all the photos of Glusman I'm surrounding it with. Well you can click here for a nice extra picture of Jin Ha to somewhat level the playing field. That said I've been Team Karl ever since his 3D spooge hit me in the eye during Gaspar Noé's art-porn Love. Call me a serial monogamist all you want but I'm committed once that happens. Hit the jump for the rest of this shoot...
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
Pantys 19: The Horror Movies
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Put on your ball-guards, everybody -- the time has come here in our 2019 Golden Trousers Awards to count down my favorite genre, the genre of scares, and these suckers are all a real kick in the nards. As you maybe noticed we're in a good time for the Horror Genre these days -- this is often the case when the world's an anxious place, but in 2019 it's even more than that.
It's that lots of people who have been anxious all along but haven't previously been given a platform to voice said anxieties have been given, look at that, a little bit of a platform. But even the movies made by straight dudes on here seem to be obsessed with what that means -- there seems to be an inward battle with toxic masculinity happening in this, the spears-tip of the movie genres... Horror always sees where we're going, what the conversations are, before any other. There's a lot of smarts happening amid the stabbings, the goo, the scares; you just gotta face down the barrel of the gun and you'll see.
Anyway you'll see this list below cruelly cuts itself off at the knees after Number Five -- the remainder of the movies will be showing themselves on my "Top 10 of 2019" list that I'll be posting soon. I just didn't want to spoil the big ones (I mean I'm sure you probably know what they are, if you've spent any time at MNPP, but still.) But for now here are...
My 15 Favorite Horror Movies of 2019
15. Tigers Are Not Afraid
(dir. Issa López)
-- read my review here --
14. Little Joe
(dir. Jessica Hausner)
13. Luz
(dir. Tilman Singer)
-- read my review here --
12. The Dead Don't Die
(dir. Jim Jarmusch)
-- read my review here --
11. Satanic Panic
(dir. Chelsea Stardust)
-- read my review here --
10. Climax
(dir. Gaspar Noé)
-- read my review here --
9. The Golden Glove
(dir. Fatih Akin)
8. Girl on the Third Floor
(dir. Travis Stevens)
-- read my review here --
7. One Cut of the Dead
(dir. Shin'ichirô Ueda)
-- read my review here --
6. Koko-di koko-da
(dir. Johannes Nyholm)
-- read my review here --
5. Us
(dir. Jordan Peele)
-- read my review here --
4 - 1: TBA!!!
(ETA you can find the movies that
made my Top 4 right here mixed
in with out Fave Films of 2019)
(ETA you can find the movies that
made my Top 4 right here mixed
in with out Fave Films of 2019)
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Sauvage / Wild (2018)
Doctor: Shall we try something to get you
off the drugs for a while?
Léo: But... Why?
Doctor: What do you mean, why?
Léo: To do what?
Doctor: Hold on a second.
It's not either crack or nothing.
Léo: It is.
Doctor: You don't want to change?
Léo: Why would I?
A happy 27 to the French actor Félix Maritaud today! After starring in the three-punch of this movie and the gay giallo Knife + Heart and the AIDS drama B.P.M. all within just a twelve month period he certainly caught our attention.
You can see why. And you can see a lot more of why here. (Most especially here.) Up next for Félix is a role in Gaspar Noé's Lux Æterna, which is incredibly, amazingly, described thus:
"Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches - but that's not all. Lux Æterna is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics."
Tell me that doesn't whet yer whistle. The movie -- which appears to only be fifty minutes long, so perhaps "movie" doesn't exactly apply to whatever this is -- also co-stars Karl Glusman from Gaspar's 3D pornstravaganza Love and Felix and Karl actually posed together looking all hot n' fancy in tuxes when it screened at Cannes earlier this year...
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