Wild Horse Nine

[MikoTython]

Ok, this doesn't come out until next fall, but given the assets, I'm developing great expectations - Filmed on Easter Island, fergawdsakes & Monument Valley

A coupla spooks getting ready to mess up Chili in the 70s. I'm waiting.

Director - McDonagh
Cast - Malkovich, Rockwell, Buscemi, Posey, Waits...

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st ... horse-nine

[3dender]

The last time McDonagh worked with Sam Rockwell, Rockwell got an Oscar nom... and the time before that was Seven Pychopaths, a criminally underrated movie.

So yeah I'm in.

[MikoTython]

The last time McDonagh worked with Sam Rockwell, Rockwell got an Oscar nom... and the time before that was Seven Pychopaths, a criminally underrated movie.

So yeah I'm in.

Noted. I'll be interested in your take on Sentimental Values when youse get around to seeing it.

[3dender]

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I know it may be too "political" to say on this forum, but I find it distasteful to set a black comedy against the backdrop of a serious national (continental?) tragedy like the Pinochet coup in Chile... with the protagonists being the guys who did the coup. I might have to sit this one out, despite this looking otherwise entertaining/quality.

[MikoTython]

Disclaimer: The video above is hosted on Youtube, and has not be reviewed by the staff of the Post-Dispatch.

I know it may be too "political" to say on this forum, but I find it distasteful to set a black comedy against the backdrop of a serious national (continental?) tragedy like the Pinochet coup in Chile... with the protagonists being the guys who did the coup. I might have to sit this one out, despite this looking otherwise entertaining/quality.

Fair enough, but my at least general attitude is that black comedy/farce can be artful forms to get the medicine down, as opposed to stern lectures that most everyone ignores. Otoh, to the extent this, or any vehicle can be seen to trivialize the atrocities (to come, as we know, in this case), that wouldn't be cool either. We'll see. But rather than boycott, I'm fairly certain to pay my money, view and assess fairly & as critically as poss.

On the larger question, I 'spec a black comedy of the 2002-2003 run-up to our great nation-building project(s), focusing upon the vast arrogance & ignorance of 'the architects' is a project waiting for the hand of a master. I've read or heard that, at the time, the State Dept had under a score of Arabic speakers, if you can imagine such a deficit of even first-order understanding of a domain under consideration for deconstruction/'re'construction. What fertile ground for (noirish) comedy. And, of course, how timely.

[BarkCampbell]

Disclaimer: The video above is hosted on Youtube, and has not be reviewed by the staff of the Post-Dispatch.

I know it may be too "political" to say on this forum, but I find it distasteful to set a black comedy against the backdrop of a serious national (continental?) tragedy like the Pinochet coup in Chile... with the protagonists being the guys who did the coup. I might have to sit this one out, despite this looking otherwise entertaining/quality.

the tragedy would be if the audience is deprived of seeing the fruit of the protagonists' hard work. If we don't get to see a montage or epilogue of commies enjoying their free chopper rides, I might have to sit this one out as well.

[MikoTython]

People get all shook up about being throwd off of buildings, planes, whirlybirds, down stairs & ropes, or these days, out of windows (defenestrations). But what they should really focus on is the landing. THAT's what hurts.

I do haf to admit, per 3dender, that this looks a bit overly goofy/slapstick for the historical occasion. But we'll see.

If youse want to get a taste of cinematic South American political terror handled masterfully, sans clowning, view Azor. Largely unheralded small masterpiece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azor_(film)