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Ericj32 said:
Uhhhh - so, I took too long apparently in deciding which films to buy tickets for, and New Order is already sold out for CIFF. And it looks like it's sold out at AFI fest, too.

Do you know of any other festivals offering streams of Nuevo Orden/New Order?

Also - I bought some tickets for Milwaukee Int'l Film festival, and they allow you to buy a ticket to use anytime within the date range of the festival (Oct 15-29) - you just buy the ticket and then you can stream the film for 48 hours from the time that you first start playing that film. I assumed Chicago was the same way, but it's apparently not, haha - so now I have 5 films I just paid for (I was worried about them selling out, too!) that I need to watch in the next 48 hours.

I suck at film festival-ing.
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Those are the only two that I knew of with New Order, but no worries...I wouldn't call it essential viewing and it'll get a regular release eventually. What 5 films did you end up with?

CIFF is actually the same way for most of the films. Once you buy a ticket, you have til the 25th to watch it, but I think you only have 48 hours after you *start* watching it to finish it.

Edit: if you really had your heart set on seeing New Order, Phildelphia Film Festival has it, but it's two showtimes with a 4 hour viewing window, and it's $15

NEW ORDER at the 29th Philadelphia Film Festival!

Mexican provocateur Michel Franco’s startling, conversation-starting thriller imagines a society left hemorrhaging after a bloody class warfare and coup d’etat.
filmadelphia.org filmadelphia.org

Also, there's a chance AFI could add passes for it later...they've done that already for a few sold out films.
 
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I watched Train To Busan again last night and have the new one, Peninsula, lined up ready to watch.

Im not convinced its going to be as good as Train To Busan, in fact, the trailer looks way over the top. Kind of like how the first fast and the furious was about car racing and by the latest one they're racing tanks and submarines across ice and jumping cars from one sky scraper to the other.
 
siremobunny said:
Those are the only two that I knew of with New Order, but no worries...I wouldn't call it essential viewing and it'll get a regular release eventually. What 5 films did you end up with?

CIFF is actually the same way for most of the films. Once you buy a ticket, you have til the 25th to watch it, but I think you only have 48 hours after you *start* watching it to finish it.
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You know what, you're right haha about CIFF. I'm just dumb and got my dates confused. PHEW!

Was New Order at least fun to watch? Or does it seem like a ripoff of Parasite?

I ended up getting And Tomorrow the Entire World, Apples, The Comeback, Gaza Mon Amor, and Summer of '85. I wanted to do The Woman Who Ran, too, but it looks like it's restricted to just midwest states for streaming.

I also did Black Bear (Aubrey Plaza acted/produced), Martin Eden, and some shorts from the Milwaukee film fest.
 
Ericj32 said:
You know what, you're right haha about CIFF. I'm just dumb and got my dates confused. PHEW!

Was New Order at least fun to watch? Or does it seem like a ripoff of Parasite?

I ended up getting And Tomorrow the Entire World, Apples, The Comeback, Gaza Mon Amor, and Summer of '85. I wanted to do The Woman Who Ran, too, but it looks like it's restricted to just midwest states for streaming.

I also did Black Bear (Aubrey Plaza acted/produced), Martin Eden, and some shorts from the Milwaukee film fest.
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Solid selection. New Order was pretty humorless overall, and nowhere near as fun as Parasite. There was a bit where it seemed like it going to be a rich people getting their asses handed to them fantasy, but then it kind of turned into a brutal all sides are terrible cautionary tale. It was good and interesting, but I dunno if I'd recommend getting a $15 ticket for it.
 
kvetcha said:
Exclamation point makes me think Aronofsky.

The Bong-Joon Ho one is a masterpiece though.
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I thought so, too, and wrote a response about how mother! took me by surprise even though I’d heard it was polarizing and was bracing myself. But then I thought maybe he was just excited about the Joon-Ho one so I deleted that part of my comment haha.

seriously though - does anyone have a solid grasp on what is going on in mother! and what that ending is about? I felt like I was into it and just impressed with the audacity of making something that felt both confrontational and deeply personal, but certain things threw me off toward the end. It just felt like it was the most important thing in the world while I was watching it, but also kind of hurt my brain.
 
My local theater usually does an all-night, three-movie horror marathon in October, where you go in not knowing what movies they'll show; I haven't been but a friend has, and they usually thread the needle of showing something downright gross, something campy, and something creepy. They're partnered with one of the last video stores in town, and since they can't do the marathon, you can rent a grab bag of three horror movies, curated by the same guy who programs the marathon.

My bag consisted of The Initiation, Twins of Evil, and Demons 2. The Initiation is a generic 80s slasher that has a couple of creepy moments but gets hung up on cheesy characters and weird college-party gags. Twins of Evil is a 70s Hammer film with Peter Cushing; it was a little creepy in a gothic way, but mostly boring and nonsensical. I've been holding off on Demons 2 because I've seen a couple clips from Demons 1 and I know Italian horror's reputation for creepy gross-outs.
 
Ericj32 said:
I thought so, too, and wrote a response about how mother! took me by surprise even though I’d heard it was polarizing and was bracing myself. But then I thought maybe he was just excited about the Joon-Ho one so I deleted that part of my comment haha.

seriously though - does anyone have a solid grasp on what is going on in mother! and what that ending is about? I felt like I was into it and just impressed with the audacity of making something that felt both confrontational and deeply personal, but certain things threw me off toward the end. It just felt like it was the most important thing in the world while I was watching it, but also kind of hurt my brain.
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Yep it was the Aronfrosky movie ... apparently it’s analogies to the bible ..no characters are given names ..man is god ..mother is the earth ..Ed Harris was Adams rib..his sons Cane and Abel ...first half Old Testament..... second half new
 
Gavaxeman said:
Yep it was the Aronfrosky movie ... apparently it’s analogies to the bible ..no characters are given names ..man is god ..mother is the earth ..Ed Harris was Adams rib..his sons Cane and Abel ...first half Old Testament..... second half new
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I thought it was allegory to humanity destroying the earth/environment. Regardless I kinda hated it and 20 years ago I saw Requium For A Dream 3 Times in the theater. TBH nowadays I don’t think I would really much enjoy that either.
 
Bull Shannon said:
My local theater usually does an all-night, three-movie horror marathon in October, where you go in not knowing what movies they'll show; I haven't been but a friend has, and they usually thread the needle of showing something downright gross, something campy, and something creepy. They're partnered with one of the last video stores in town, and since they can't do the marathon, you can rent a grab bag of three horror movies, curated by the same guy who programs the marathon.

My bag consisted of The Initiation, Twins of Evil, and Demons 2. The Initiation is a generic 80s slasher that has a couple of creepy moments but gets hung up on cheesy characters and weird college-party gags. Twins of Evil is a 70s Hammer film with Peter Cushing; it was a little creepy in a gothic way, but mostly boring and nonsensical. I've been holding off on Demons 2 because I've seen a couple clips from Demons 1 and I know Italian horror's reputation for creepy gross-outs.
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Is that the same theater in Portland that does B-movie bingo? I went there with a friend a couple years ago and ended up winning a poster of the movie haha. It was pretty ridiculous but the scorekeepers did a running commentary of the film during the screening and called out the bingo squares for things as they happened in the movie. My winning squares were: “interrogated or ambushed,” “car roof smash or warehouse fight,” “x-ray glasses,” “love scene,” and “inside information from prostitute or bum.”

The horror movies thing sounds fun, too, but I would be to scaredy-pants to watch them all on my own.
 
siremobunny said:
Edit: if you really had your heart set on seeing New Order, Phildelphia Film Festival has it, but it's two showtimes with a 4 hour viewing window, and it's $15

NEW ORDER at the 29th Philadelphia Film Festival!

Mexican provocateur Michel Franco’s startling, conversation-starting thriller imagines a society left hemorrhaging after a bloody class warfare and coup d’etat.
filmadelphia.org filmadelphia.org

Also, there's a chance AFI could add passes for it later...they've done that already for a few sold out films.
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Thanks for the update! I got a ticket for New Order on Friday. I know it would bug me to miss it after I got all excited about it this weekend haha.
 
Gavaxeman said:
Yep it was the Aronfrosky movie ... apparently it’s analogies to the bible ..no characters are given names ..man is god ..mother is the earth ..Ed Harris was Adams rib..his sons Cane and Abel ...first half Old Testament..... second half new
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Yeah this is kind of similar to what I was thinking but I couldn’t really figure out who the “mother” character was. I remember being kind of thrown by Kristen Wiig’s character, too.

TenderLovingKiller® said:
I thought it was allegory to humanity destroying the earth/environment. Regardless I kinda hated it and 20 years ago I saw Requium For A Dream 3 Times in the theater. TBH nowadays I don’t think I would really much enjoy that either.
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I think this is kind of similar to how I ended up interpreting it, but it worked for me for some reason - maybe it’s just the mood I was in that particular day haha. Similar to Requiem for a Dream, something about it just felt cathartic (at least for me), like he’s trying to exorcise his own demons without pulling any punches. But yeah it’s also rough and if there’s any part of it that rings false for you, it would be hard to enjoy any of it.
 
Ericj32 said:
Yeah this is kind of similar to what I was thinking but I couldn’t really figure out who the “mother” character was. I remember being kind of thrown by Kristen Wiig’s character, too.


I think this is kind of similar to how I ended up interpreting it, but it worked for me for some reason - maybe it’s just the mood I was in that particular day haha. Similar to Requiem for a Dream, something about it just felt cathartic (at least for me), like he’s trying to exorcise his own demons without pulling any punches. But yeah it’s also rough and if there’s any part of it that rings false for you, it would be hard to enjoy any of it.
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I think my biggest issue with Requiem now is the same as I have with a few movies that I saw when I was starting to take movies more “seriously”. My initial reaction was that is was innovative and insightful but 20 years on watching it (or Donny Darko is another one) now they feel like they are trying too hard... I don’t know maybe I’ve grow more cynical.
 
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