that was visual

[tsuki_no_bara]

tonight i left work early so i could see only lovers left alive, which is a weird, weird movie. but i liked it a lot. it looked fabulous, all dark and cluttered and old and frayed and falling apart. the audience laughed at some things that weren't really funny - altho some of them were kind of darkly funny or kind of ironic - and i wanted

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[fannishliss]

"this naked firehose situation is happening for a reason" !! i may not stop laughing all day :D

I freaking love Jim Jarmusch movies. I sat at Only Lovers with this huge smile across my face from the minute that spinning record morphed with the stars... so visually beautiful throughout. So glad you got to see it in the theater! Films that are tonally dark like that are harder to watch on the small screen.

... John Hurt is getting a lot of work these days!!! who's his agent???

[tsuki_no_bara]

i know! man, hot naked dudes with a sense of humor, what more could you want?

the opening scenes with the spinning made me kind of nauseous, and i was SO GLAD they were short. it really was a stunning looking movie - it looked as if someone put a lot of thought into the set design and the costumes and the photography and everything. (and the hair! adam and eve and ava all had the same kind of hair, that kind of longish thickish unkemptish mop. and i loved the contrast between ava's super contemporary wheelie suitcase and her vintage clothes, and adam's obsolete tech that he'd managed to hook up so he could basically skype on his ancient crt tv, while eve used her iphone. and their drives through detroit! that poor city, it's like the poster child for urban abandonment and decay. but it fit the story beautifully.)

i didn't even know john hurt was in it! i was so surprised and pleased! god bless his agent, whoever they are.

(i think but am not sure that the only other jim jarmusch movie i've seen is mystery train, which i

[apiphile]

Oh god the tech was like pornography, especially the recording equipment. *slinks away*

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm so glad i'm not the only one who felt that way. knobs! dials! switches! tiny blinking lightbulbs! and when the power goes out so they go outside so he can fix the dynamo generator thing in the ground? hnngh.

[apiphile]

Honestly it made me a little sad that I gave up on the sound recording because those machines - the analogue ones, especially the valve ones - are a special kind of joy to fiddle with. Both aesthetically and in terms of practical outcome. Even beside his obvious anachronism as a DUH VAMPIRE, for sound recording the purists & perfectionists & especially traditionalists like that kind of equipment, so he doesn't seem as eccentric as all that. It would produce a beautiful warm sound.

[tsuki_no_bara]

>>for sound recording the purists & perfectionists & especially traditionalists like that kind of equipment, so he doesn't seem as eccentric as all that. It would produce a beautiful warm sound.<<

that's what i thought too, that he probably had all this old equipment because it genuinely sounded better. i mean, he hooked up his ancient tv and ancient cordless phone to his laptop so he could skype with eve, and it looked like he'd fixed up his car to run off a battery or something, not gas, so he's clearly technologically ept and it's not that he's recording music on this vintage stuff because he's just that much of a musical anachronism. altho everything else he owned was old, and i can't imagine a 1980s jaguar (or however old that car was) ran that much better than a 2010 jag, altho it certainly has a more distinctive shape. i think "temporal anachronism" does figure in somewhere, but obviously that's not the only reason.

[fannishliss]

Favorite Jim Jarmusch films:

Dead Man (1995)-- starring Johnny Depp. It is a kind of Western, but only as JJ could imagine it. Johnny Depp plays "William Blake" and the other main character is a Native American named "Nobody." It is an amazing movie.

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999) starring Forest Whitaker as a hitman following the Way of the Samurai, who has sworn fealty to a loser small time mobster. If only I still had my icon of Troy doing the Forest Whitaker Eye.

Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) -- a compilation of clever vignettes where celebrities enjoy coffee and cigarettes. I think the tour de force is Cate Blanchette playing a character and her cousin.