Indie Film Release Guide: September 27th [An ONTD Original]

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[bellwetherr]

the day shall come actually looks.. interesting to me?

[teenageriot16]

Yeah, I'm so intrigued by it too.

[therearewords]

After the Wedding was americanised and could have been cut sharper. I watched Proud Mary last night (more plot than expected?), and will be watching Downton Abbey tomorrow night.

[la_petite_singe]

Seeing Judy on Saturday, though I'm strangely worried about the secondhand embarrassment factor?? I've heard she's great, so I hope it doesn't come off as an SNL impression or something. D:

I saw The Death of Dick Long the other day, and (a) A24 sprung for free popcorn AND an open bar for all of us, so hell yes queens, and (b) it's super weird and dark and...weirdly compassionate? And it's the best use of Nickelback and Creed I've ever heard. Yes, I said that.

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Uhhh why is A24 disrepecting Los Angeles like this!?! Where are our screenings with free popcorn and open bars?! Anyway, that's awesome. I hadn't heard anything about that movie til I made the post!

[la_petite_singe]

'CUZ WE'RE COOLER THAT'S WHY (jk sorry)

what's really embarrassing is that no one sat on my left, so I just ate two boxes of popcorn. And a glass of free wine. For dinner. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[devoida_taste]

Judy is my everything, and I want to see it... but... I read a review that prob nails how I will feel (and most everyone else will feel)... They should have dubbed Judy's singing on Renee. Renee can sing, sure... she sounds nice. But you are making a movie about Judy fucking Garland. The whole reason for Judy's fame was her voice. And if you want people to be MOVED, you gotta have a voice like Judy.

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Just watched Network for the first time a couple nights ago on Netflix. We actually saw a live read of it a few years ago, with Minnie Driver and Tony Goldwyn reading for Diana and Max, and Aaron Sorkin reading for Howard Beale, but we'd never seen the movie. I didn't realize the giant age gap between Max and Diana in the film because it wasn't reflected in the live read casting, and that kind of soured me on that whole aspect of the plot. But the rest of the film? Fantastic. They really predicted the batshit nature of cable news in a depressingly realistic way.

Afterward, I was reading that William Holden, who plays Max in the film, died a few years later after he accidentally cut his head while he was drinking and didn't get help, so he bled to death. And that Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" references this:

"I open
Up the paper
There's a story
Of an actor
Who had died
While he was drinking
It was no one
I had heard of"

which, damn. What a shit way to go.

Mentioned in roundup that we're three episodes into Fleabag and I love it

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In a fun turn of events, I just discovered they ARE showing Fleabag at a regular theater on Nov 18th, and tickets go on sale tomorrow. So if you are interested in this, check out Fathom events or NT Live and see if it will be near you!

[la_petite_singe]

lol oh man, Sorkin is the biggest Network stan who's ever lived. I absolutely love that he basically borrowed the main plot of that movie for the pilot of Studio 60, and when that failed, he just did it again for The Newsroom. We love a fanboy.

I didn't know that song was about him! Yikes, sad. :\

[mayjailer]

i'm planning to see 'judy' tomorrow after work. going in with below ground expectations.