happy birthday! (and welcome to bluesky!)
January 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
happy birthday! (and welcome to bluesky!)
Now I'm nitpicking, but I really hope we don't go into 2025 honoring a clearly libertarian film that diminishes women, disparages brutalism as an art form, and inspires young people to believe they can achieve greatness without the help and support of others.
January 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Now I'm nitpicking, but I really hope we don't go into 2025 honoring a clearly libertarian film that diminishes women, disparages brutalism as an art form, and inspires young people to believe they can achieve greatness without the help and support of others.
Many other logical impossibilities: the client in The Brutalist who hires the architect for the redesign of his private library, fires him because he hates it, and has to eat crow when his library is profiled in Life magazine as a great technical achievement. Um, how did Life magazine know about it?
January 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Many other logical impossibilities: the client in The Brutalist who hires the architect for the redesign of his private library, fires him because he hates it, and has to eat crow when his library is profiled in Life magazine as a great technical achievement. Um, how did Life magazine know about it?
I went to see The Brutalist in 70mm so I could really appreciate the technical achievement of filming in VistaVision and I can only say - don't bother. The cinematography is nice, technically proficient, but there's nothing jaw-dropping here.
January 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I went to see The Brutalist in 70mm so I could really appreciate the technical achievement of filming in VistaVision and I can only say - don't bother. The cinematography is nice, technically proficient, but there's nothing jaw-dropping here.
There's very little about architecture in both The Brutalist and Megalopolis. The directors didn't seem to understand or really be interested in architecture other than as a metaphor.
January 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
There's very little about architecture in both The Brutalist and Megalopolis. The directors didn't seem to understand or really be interested in architecture other than as a metaphor.
I went into The Brutalist thinking it was a biopic, so I gave the flaws in the story a lot of leeway. Once I realized it was fictional, it all came crumbling down. This great architect invents modernism in Hungary, and introduces it to the US, whereas modernism was huge in the US for a decade.
January 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I went into The Brutalist thinking it was a biopic, so I gave the flaws in the story a lot of leeway. Once I realized it was fictional, it all came crumbling down. This great architect invents modernism in Hungary, and introduces it to the US, whereas modernism was huge in the US for a decade.
But this libertarian ethos is like, no, if I could just magically be funded for my great visions (which, hello, wasn't even his idea in the Brutalist) then I would create amazing things and be recognized the world over for my brilliance.
January 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
But this libertarian ethos is like, no, if I could just magically be funded for my great visions (which, hello, wasn't even his idea in the Brutalist) then I would create amazing things and be recognized the world over for my brilliance.
An architect is like a director, so I can see the appeal of the story for a filmmaker. But in the same way that a director can't make a film without a writer, an editor (unless you're Coppola, lol), actors, etc., the job of both is actually orchestrating the works of others.
January 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
An architect is like a director, so I can see the appeal of the story for a filmmaker. But in the same way that a director can't make a film without a writer, an editor (unless you're Coppola, lol), actors, etc., the job of both is actually orchestrating the works of others.
A lot has been written about how Felicity Jones was miscast in the Brutalist. How would you know? It was an extremely underwritten role. She wasn't built out as a character and you never understand her motivations. She is ancillary to the greatness of a man.
January 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A lot has been written about how Felicity Jones was miscast in the Brutalist. How would you know? It was an extremely underwritten role. She wasn't built out as a character and you never understand her motivations. She is ancillary to the greatness of a man.
There is a portion of the American electorate that believes something isn't useful if it won't directly get you a job or profession. My dad was one of those people.
December 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
There is a portion of the American electorate that believes something isn't useful if it won't directly get you a job or profession. My dad was one of those people.