Indie Film Release Guide: September 11th [An ONTD Original]

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[daijouboo]

Season 6 of The Great British Sewing Bee.

[therearewords]

There's already a season six? Woah!

[la_petite_singe]

Oh wow, I saw Sybil at NYFF 100 years ago, it feels like.

Really not sure what to think of Cuties -- it sounds like the director was trying to make a good point, but the promotion was just terrible? Or is that giving the director too much credit?

[zeysech]

I think that's exactly what happened, the director gave an interview where she said she didn't even know about the poster until after it was posted online. And she's given multiple interviews where she's talked about how the film is in part about how young girls mimic what they see on social media without fully understanding it.

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Was Sybil any good?

[la_petite_singe]

I gotta say I barely remember a thing, but I gave it 3.5 stars on Letterboxd and said it reminded me of Toni Erdmann somewhat, so that's good!

[yuzuruhanyu]

just finished mignonnes (cuties) and honestly fuck netflix for botching the marketing so badly and leaving the director and her work to the qanon-adjacent sharks

this movie is an incredibly specific experience and i desperately wish the director had more time in fleshing out the story a bit more, especially at the end, but i honestly loved it as a glimpse into the life and contradictions that i know so well (at least as much as someone who grew up as a somali muslim girl who couldn't dance for shit can know lol)

young girls coming from poor and working class backgrounds are so goddamn vulnerable and we are exposed to so many things too fast and too early, especially sex and sexual things, and i'm happy that someone, coming from this background, told this story and it's infuriating how much her work is being twisted and shat on because of netflix's stupidity.

[eldvno]

Those are some valid points, but at the end of the day clips of the movie are already circulating on pedo sites. Could the movie have been made to not cater to pedos with specific images? Probably, it might have been more of a challenge but it could be done.

There really is no need to have any child imitating licking their fingers are stroking their genitals and I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TYPE THAT!!

This story needs to be told because you are right, young girls from vulnerable populations are targets for exploration. But this movie missed the mark.

[yuzuruhanyu]

tbh that's why i feel like that is an issue of realism/showing a raw story that is deeply personal and true to the director and her life and having a clear narrative, that creates a moral judgement against reality. there is good discussion if having a substitute for the audience/outside looking in within the story openly questioning and judging what is going on in this world would have benefit or detracted from the story.(especially when these things usually don't exist in real life)

i don't really want to speak to how this movie is being spread and used because that is an awful burden to put on any director, [Link to spoiler](unless their intentions of being a vehicle for that is clear) especially one who is showing what has gone on in her life (and continues to go on). from my perspective, the story clearly shows their dancing/sexualization in a jarring way that any rational person who feel discomfort, which feels intentional. all the moments of their childishness/naivete in their mimicry of what they are watching and seeing is distinct and makes

[donaestrangera]

I haven't seen it yet but from what I've heard from people who've seen it I agree with you, the intentions were good but the execution was not good, and I can't believe any of the adults involved with this film, at any point of the filming or editing process, didn't say "hmmm maybe this isn't a good idea."

[jontargaryen]

The last movie I watched was After 2: Harry Styles Boogaloo (illegally, don't @ me). It opens with a scene that reveals that the ending of the last movie was a dream. The pacing is awful. There is a montage that (re-)shows things that happened a couple of scenes earlier. There is an extended shot of a white man angrily glaring at happy photos of a Black family. The designated mean girl introduces herself by saying, "I love to fuck." Regrettably, it does not have the books' most important plot twist: Zayn Malik being a plant scientist.

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My most recent first watch was Nine to Five, which I loved and would highly recommend! Sadly, still incredibly relevant 40 years after release.

I'd also highly recommend Speed Cubers, a 40 minute doc on Netflix about Rubik's cubers that had me happy crying at the end.

We also watched Venom, which was... not for me.

Rewatched a few things lately, too - Pleasantville and Charlie's Angels. I got a free trial of Starz so I was blowing through movies on that before the trial expired, but I think I'll keep it for a month or two and watch everything I'm interested in seeing before I cancel.

We've been continuing The Americans - halfway through S4 and [Spoiler (click to open)]the FBI is onto Martha and I am so worried about her!! :/ Of course I've been predicting her death for like three seasons now, and Nina bit it first, so maybe she'll escape unscathed, but I doubt it. :/

Finished S3 of Insecure - [Spoiler (click to open)]so happy Lawrence came back, I missed him and he and Issa have such good chemistry. I really have loved every season more than the last, and am excited to

[pinkkchocolate]

omg ty for talking about speed cubers! The podcast I was listening to just mentioned it but called it speed cubes and I couldn't find it when I googled!

[izzzzy23]

I saw Venom recently too and it was so strange

I thought Tom Hardy was a great Venom but a terrible Eddie, he was not at all believable as an investigative journalist.

And I like Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate and Michelle Williams but they were all so flat in the film, nothing clicked.