Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:Volver (dir. Pedro Almodovar)

This was highly refreshing. "Spanish surrealist mystery" is the best description I can come up with.

Visually beautiful. It's so fun to watch the way he plays with colors. I also love how the film's narrative doesn't follow conventional structure; it just flies all over the place. I've just read that the narrative style is inspired by a whole bunch of Italian cinema about which I know next-to-nothing; and that this film in particular was first used as a plot device in one of the director's own earlier films.

The only other Almodovar film I've seen is Talk To Her, and I don't know that I could appreciate that in 2002 the same way I could get into this. But I loved this. It was colorful and challenging and passionate and heady and weird. A couple parts fell flat, but I suspect that has more to do with my lack of contextual understanding for Almodovar's work than it does his technique, as the man clearly knows what he's doing.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:What other works by him are must-see?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:Nice! Thanks for the tips, durds, will definitely look for Broken Embraces and All About My Mother at the library next time I'm there.
They won't run Julieta within 300 miles of here, so I'll have to wait to stream that one.

Orpheus wrote:I've only seen Bad Education, but I really enjoyed it. He uses color better than almost anyone.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the best Christian movie you've ever seen, Rangi?