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it’s john boorman!

it must mean something ha ha ha ha ha ha

LOVE ON THE RUN (original title “l’amour en fuite”, françois truffaut, 1979)



this was not as hilarious as its predecessors mainly because it quotes heavily and i mean heavily from them. so if you just saw the previous movies a day or a week ago, like i just did, about maybe a quarter of the length was cut from them and spliced into this, ha ha ha, ha ha haha. “flashbacks”.

but hey, it was the last of the adventures of antoine doinel, and it adds a bit to the legend. the end was satisfying.

truffaut died too soon, just 5 years later, and funny that “l’homme qui aimait les femmes” (“the man who loved women”), which was his last i think? was, oh, @bout a dead man who also had a bit of a fetish for ladies’ calves. which could have been a continuation of this i guess. was it? i cant recall.

but anyway now i wanna go back and watch the 400 blows again...

it has been fun

but he died too soon


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waaaaaaait no no no. i got thrown off the dates by a 1983 blake edwards movie that ripped off the title lolol. truffaut’s man who loved women was from 77. but was it doinelesque or what. i say yes a bit. yes.

peter weir’s THE PLUMBER (1979)



it’s billed as a horror movie, but while it has its creepy and scary moments, i ended up feeling it more as a dark comedy, which was fine! yes, highly entertaining.

production wise it reminds me a lot of cronenberg movies from the 70s, without the special effects. no monsters or paranormals here, just people.

the story—the story is great!

without giving away too much SPOILERS SPOILERS...

i think that movie the cable guy with jim carrey i think it was, was ripped from this.

END SPOILERS

anyway, good stuff, a lot of ambiguous conversations a great plus in a genre often characterized by obvious shit.highly watchable! do not be mislead by the schlocky poster.

lno horror season is complete without cronenberg!



THE BROOD (1979) is fucking great, of course. this is not the first time ive seen it and it wont be the last either (unless i die first, lol).

just so good.... what can i say? i dont know. dreams and the body... scanners, videodrome, naked lunch, existenz... it’s always the intersection of dreams and the body. even the fly while not being exactly that is that after all.

dammit i need to rewatch “crash” soon. dont know that theres a hornier movie than crash.

All this Schrader talk and it turns out that he had a new movie come out this year starring Ethan Hawke Film called First Reformed. it actually sounds like it's a decent film. Anyone seen it?

no

just wanted to say i had a megalol the other day at your recounting of the queen movoe where the non-freddies are trying to make themselves look like saints ha ha ha ah aha ha ha ha

dat bottomed gorls wast written by freddie wassit.

man i am a terrible speller when drinking

I thought it was a bad attempt at a German accent!

haha no

had friends over, and now a hangover

^^ and yeah thats what i watched



david cronenberg’s SCANNERS (1981)

brilliant, and cheaply done, foreshadows a lot of what we’d see later on VIDEODROME, thematically and plot wise

bicarbon amalgamate —> spectacular optical

DEAD RINGERS (Cronenberg, 1988)



medical horror is definitely cronenberg’s specialty. this one rates not as horrible or terrifying as one would expect, it’s more creepy and depressing than anything. jeremy irons is amazing in this, playing identical twins, and the story and visuals are excellent. great effects. plus a couple of moments right out of “the brood”. so much fun to watch these movies together. goodbye, filmstruck!

Cronenberg is not my kind of beast anymore. I can’t handle that body horror stuff when it’s so dated looking. I respect him as a filmmaker for sure, but too bleak for me anymore.

(Also lost a ton of respect for him when he railed against a certain Christopher Nolan film from 2008, calling it a “tent pole” project —think he even coined the term—which it 100% absolutely was not, and he can eat it.)

I'm not a huge fan of Cronenberg's more recent stuff but I LOVE what he was doing in the 70s-80s. The more I think about it, his 5 movie run from Shivers through to Videodrome might be the most impressive in all horror films. Even compared with other genre heavyweights like Argento, Carpenter and Romero (even if they occasionally made better individual films). But Shivers-Rabid-Brood-Scanners-Videodrome is a ridiculously good run. Dead Zone wasn't bad but you could see he was starting to lose his footing a bit and his output from then became a bit more patchy.

(I'm conveniently ignoring Fast Company, which was pretty crap and not a horror film)

conenberg >>> nolin ;)

I liked this. The movie is violent but the violence is not done in a way to feel exploitive. Also Johnny Greenwood does the score.

Dead Man's Shoes

Still in a league of its own. A perfect 10.

I didn’t even know/remember that Cronenberg did Dead Zone.

Totally different kind of horror movie from the ones you mentioned though. Less dysmorphic insanity and more ... uh... flashbacks of rape and Chris Walken getting migraines. Not up his alley. Don’t blame him for not nailing that.

Anywho, that movie ANNIHILATION had some shit in it that makes Cronenberg’s body horror seem almost obsolete to me.

#thatbearthing #ohmahgod

woke up with wife at 4 AM, cooked two perfect ribeyes, and mushroms, feasted, and then sat to watch this....




what a fucking piece of shit. GODDAMN I hate shit like this. Stupiud, stupid, navel gazing nonsense, just showing visually allegorical scenes and images to try and be deep about how fukcing horrible writers/artists/creatives are with the people around them. what a fucking wankathon. so stupid. so obvious. Pointless, even to anyoen who had never seen trhe various films and horror tropes this stupid movie ripped off. what a fucking pathetic piece iof shit. I could spend all week ranting about every specific detail of this stupid stupid stupid movie./ Like an even more pointless David Lynch self-flagellation....

like being bludgeouned with the most inartful, naive, stupid concepts by a mouthbreathing troglodyte.

haaaa haaaaa haaaaaaaa

i’ve only seen the beginning

started and then i don’t know what happened

i wouldnt let ed harris come into my house lololol