Have I not posted a Kinds of Kindness trailer yet?





The new Quentin Dupieux, also debuting at Cannes right now




 

I've only seen Caligula once, early in the morning at a friends place after we woke up hung over.
I remember being vaguely fascinated by it, but mostly because of how unengaging so much fucking and violence could be. It was also astonishingly boring at the same time. So many dull cocks and anal fucking.
It's a lot to deal with when your head is blistered from four quarts of gin. Or maybe not enough.
 

I don't think an alternate cut will fix what was for me the prevailing problem which is that it's morbidly ugly.  This isn't just an issue of the transfer I watched (the initial DVD run), but with the original production values, poor lighting and generally just an unaesthetic visual palette.  One example that springs to mind is a nude Helen Mirren - definitely a case of "how can you muck this up?" - shot in a moldy dark blue.  I don't know how much of this is the fault of Tinto Brass (I've only seen a couple other of his films) or Bob Guccione's cheapness.  Maybe a combination of the two.

One trailer that I saw that has some promise.