Plato Shrimp / Coming Soon

**Posted by Jinnistan** 5/14/2024 5:30 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 5/15/2024 8:49 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 5/18/2024 11:01 pm

Have I not posted a Kinds of Kindness trailer yet?

The new Quentin Dupieux, also debuting at Cannes right now

**Posted by Jinnistan** 5/21/2024 8:24 pm

New Paolo Sorrentino

New Longlegs trailer

**Posted by Jinnistan** 6/25/2024 2:03 am

**Posted by Rock** 6/25/2024 5:57 pm

Figured this was the right thread for this.

**Posted by crumbsroom** 6/25/2024 9:44 pm

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.

**Posted by Rock** 6/25/2024 11:11 pm

That was kinda my takeaway too, but I’m open to giving it another chance.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 6/26/2024 12:45 am

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.

**Posted by Rock** 6/26/2024 7:19 am

I know the production was famously compromised, so I’m not sure how easily Guccione’s influence can be excised beyond removing the hardcore scenes. (Although I remember those being shot/lit noticeably differently from the rest of the movie.)

I suppose some the ugliness is intentional, but Salon Kitty was quite stylish from what I remember. So not sure who to blame.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 7/17/2024 5:47 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 8/21/2024 12:37 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 8/27/2024 7:02 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 9/21/2024 5:44 pm

Putting the debacle of the last Megalopolis trailer behind us, here's a more interesting promotional item, Coppola in Kobini, surrounded in films and telling tales.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 9/27/2024 3:43 pm

One trailer that I saw that has some promise.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 10/16/2024 9:03 pm

(Someone at Netflix should get shot - hopefully by Feathers McGraw - for not releasing the latter before Christmas. The fuck, assholes?)

**Posted by Jinnistan** 10/17/2024 12:54 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 11/10/2024 4:45 pm

This Bob Dylan biopic sure looks like some warm vomit.

**Posted by Rampop II** 11/26/2024 11:12 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 12/03/2024 6:41 pm

Goddamn all of these Nosferatu reviews, and the film doesn't even release for three weeks!!!

Leak, you drafty old bastard, leak!!!!!