Watched the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford last night, a truly underrated gem of a film. It’s so well made, you can feel the paranoia just seeping out of the scenes.
I haven’t seen Casey Affleck in much recently but he’s outstanding in this. Brad Pitt is great as well, he’s got this nervous energy like you don’t know if he’ll cry then hug you or laugh and stab you. And Sam Rockwell is in it. And it’s Roger Deakins smashing the cinematography.
Fuck, the whole thing is great. Apparently there’s an unreleased 4 hour version.
“The Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the Gun shoots Death and purifies the Earth of the filth of Brutals. Go forth, and kill! Zardoz has spoken.”
Love Zardoz. I really like Boorman’s Excalibur too. Another really strange, trippy film.
The BFI Future Film Festival shorts went up yesterday, and there’s a nice little skateboard one. @Londonskater in the Thank Yous at the end, amongst other good people.
I think that (and Magees one) is because originally the creator wanted old 90s SB footage. I had a bit. Dan had way more and better. We sent a lot her way and that was it, really.
And then she realised how bad old video looked compared to Winstans lovely HD stuff. ha ha.
Ahh mate that was fucking rad and an important piece I feel.
My girl watched the Warble World vid from last year earlier this evening (Manramp? Yeah, hes a man AND hes a ramp! Yeah, you can skate a full pipe in a bikini if you want!) and has watched this Skatebook vid twice this evening. Shes been going through some anxiety again recently which has made it a bit of a struggle for her coming skating with me and even to the girls night.
She seemed gel with this video because this is now the same info but from a different source with many voices expressing the same internal worries, not her (likely really fucking embarrassing to her!) skateboarding dad, expressing the same internal worries
Watched the iron claw, heard it was pretty sad but that’s not a concern as I’m dead inside.
Nope, haven’t cried like that in a long time.
Dislodged some stuff in there I reckon.
Home alone tonight so I got to choose a film all by myself…
I went for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Nicolas Cage playing Nick Cage… a fictionalised version of himself “channeling his iconic characters as he’s caught between a superfan and a CIA agent”.
It’s bad / good / stupid / funny, but I think it’s on purpose.
Loved that film. It’s just so stupid it’s great. Cage just being himself and Pedro Pascal (as always) being brilliant
Unrelated, I’m re-reading lots of Stephen King St the moment and didn’t realise the Shining had a sequel called Doctor Sleep. Haven’t read it yet but apparently it also has a movie, does anyone know if the sequel movie is any good?
