Just started watching the first season of Doctor Who with Ncuti Gatwa… the X-mas episode where they introduce Ruby Sunday… WTF is up with the singing Goblins…… like… WHY?!? Was this for Disney? Did they think it would play well on Disney+? 
And who is Mrs. Flood?
I am loving Gatwa’s doctor so far, though. He’s so much fun and very queer. I mean, dancing around in that club with the kilt on…
Excellent. No notes. He’s certainly the most fashion forward Doctor!
And must be the most athletic!
The thing you spoilered was HEAVILY raved about but I also didn’t like it. I haven’t watched more because of it, honestly. And I also really enjoyed Ncuti’s look. It’s truly a shame he didn’t get along with the team and decided to leave - every clip I see, seems good.
I hear you, but counter with: The Blues Brothers.
Fun fact: I was in the Disability Pride Parade on Saturday, and when we marched by Federal Plaza the person next to me said “I recognize this from a movie, right?”, so Ferris Bueller has come up twice this weekend for me.
Here’s the Calder sculpture – “Flamigo” – seen in the opening frames of the parade scene below:
SWOON I love those movies!
that will get explained in the season finale, if i recall.
I love that take on it!
On a totally unrelated note, but kinda, I really like the idea of the twist that no one noticed in Fight Club. Which if you haven’t seen it yet, you should go watch it right now before continuing to read this post, because SPOILERS AHEAD.
By the end of the movie, we know that Tyler and the narrator are the same person. Tyler is an alternate personality. It’s all spelled out pretty well and clearly at the end as a twist which makes so much that came before make sense.
But they’re not the only people in the movie. Fight Club? Project Mayhem? An all male organization. But sometimes Marla is there and yet no one ever speaks to her, acknowledges her, or interacts with her except for the narrator and Tyler. She also goes to a testicle cancer support group, and no one notices or says anything about that. She steps out into the street, and cars don’t honk at her, slam on the brakes, or swerve around her. They just go by. Not even noticing her. No one in the movie ever does, except for the narrator and his Tyler personality.
Unlike the Tyler twist, the movie never explains Marla. Was she another of the narrator’s personalities? Or was she never there at all? Was she only there in the narrator’s imagination, or ours?
And for that matter, did Fight Club and Project Mayhem actually exist? Or were all those guys also just hallucinations? Maybe you could get that many guys together going around and wreaking havoc without being noticed by anyone, but…
He’s had a bit of a revival recently (with LaLa Land being heavily indebted to Umbrellas and Greta Gerwig namechecking it often for Barbie but in recent decades Agnes Varda has been much more feted. They were married.
You no doubt have les Demoiselles de Rochefort lined up to watch, the follow on from Umbrellas. It has Deneuve and her sister Francois Dorléac (who tragically died soon after in a car crash) as twin sister.
I’m most familiar with Varda’s documentaries, and in particular her late ones such as The Gleaners and I but going back I loved Daguerrotypes about the people who lived on her street. The harsh and very modern in many ways Vagabond (it could be a gritty realist film from the Dardennes brothers) is recommended. I only recently got around to watching her nouvelle vague masterpiece Cleo from 5 to 7 which I absolutely loved. It is, in a very different way, as swooningly romantic as Umbrellas. Only set in almost real time (cuts out a bit of getting to places) while a singer waits to find out a diagnosis from her doctor while meeting people including her not that available boyfriend, shopping, rehearsing (not) and having a romantic brief encounter in the park with a soldier heading off that day (in my mind the male lead in Umbrellas was French Algerian sent off to fight in Algeria - I watched it decades ago and it just became head canon undeterred by the fact there is no hint of that in the film).
Last of her films i watched was le Bonheur about a married couple where the husband is blissfully happily in love and decides he can be blissfully happily in love with another woman too. He has too much love for just one woman. The best thing about it, for me, was the gorgeous hand painted advertisements and colour matched exteriors. Beautiful. We should ban all advertisements that aren’t hand painted in future. It echoed Demy in that and also things like Subway (film) - Wikipedia
Which had a set built around a Gauloise packet (I know, so French it parodies itself!).
I haven’t seen Donkey Skin but I’ll try to check it out.
I remember it…
From IMDb trivia:
“5 à 7” is a French expression covering activities carried out after work and before returning home for dinner but it was originally and more specifically a colloquial term for an extramarital affair and for the woman involved (on the basis that the liaisons tended to take place between these hours).
These days one shouldn’t automatically trust the IMDb, they don’t seem to curate at all, but I had heard before, in a French film class perhaps?, that “5 to 7” was a common expression that didn’t refer to an exact two hour period. So Cléo could still be real time.
I’ve often thought that Les Fiancés du Pont MacDonald, the short silent film within Cléo, must connect to the Algerian war somehow, but I’ve never encountered anything/anyone to back me up on that.
I recommend her last feature Faces Places, if you haven’t caught it yet.
She is on our ever-growing watchlist. One guy in our little “film club” is a huge fan of her. Well, “film club” is a grandiose term for 2-4 guys on a couch with a few cans of cheap beer.
It’s all that but pretty much real time. It is broken up into chapters going through the two hours but it’s edited to not be boring.
I had seen the short film before (in my memory it was a slightly longer version) but I can’t think of any Algerian connection. But then I suppose we all now look at that time and assume everything must have been about the collapsing empire and massacres. How could they not have been?
ETA
The short film in the film cuts when they stop watching it and talk to each other so it’s in real time in the film too.
I forgot to mention earlier that the Wikipedia article you linked is the most copied and pasted from some random fansite I think I’ve ever seen, at least in the modern era. That speaks to the obscurity of this show, for sure.
Also Eddie Constantine looking darker than usual made me wonder if he’s supposed to be an immigrant. Although, since this effect seems to have been created purely through under-lighting him, maybe it was just chance.
I thought there were lots of jokes about early short visuals/lighting like how Godard was in a clown mask (or Pierrot I suppose) so it could just be that.
Head-scratching twist, reason not to watch… let’s call the whole thing of.
Yeah, this is gunna be a no from me dawg
No mention of Batmanuel in that whole article?
