Fletcher Munson

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@PAPPADEMAS Hadn't heard. Terrible news. His photos were some of the brightest spots in my feed, and his 2023 appearance on @baddantakes, talking about how he found & curated them, put a wry and amiable voice to the images.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@RedHautePoker I'm as big a fan as anyone of Altman's roving microphones, and I really liked Gosford Park when I saw it in the theater, but this movie got a lot better for me when I had the ability to turn on some captions. It was like suddenly being able to focus the microscope.

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@matthewspecktor @chrisseventeen Maybe I'm projecting, but it seems like an echo.

https://t.co/JKgELQpzko

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@matthewspecktor Thanks for the rec. I'm assuming the album title is a reference to Lennon's response to the "bigger than Jesus" quote — "I just said what I said and it was wrong, or was taken wrong, and now it's all this."

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@BigPimpinGuvie That bio is pretty good, but I felt it ran out of gas after Apocalypse Now, heading into One from the Heart. Wasson's previous book on Chinatown is much, much better.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@seanhowe Featuring: "He'd Kill Us (If He Got the Chance)," "Tearing the Place Apart," "He Was Once Somebody's Baby Boy," "No Ordinary Pen" and Martin Stett's big ballad "Some Nice Christmas Cookies I Made."

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@seanhowe Like this?

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@MarkHarrisNYC It's like the test movie in THE PARALLAX VIEW if it was made by a knucklehead. I also don't think his peppering his half of the clip with images of manly men and body builders and Brad Pitt, all against a techno beat, has the effect he intends.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@Glenn__Kenny @decider "The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Disney, Friedkin, Criterion? Keeps em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents em from asking the most important question: why? Why was [French Connection changed]? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?"

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@BeeBalthazar @robocop__lol @jerebo3 @JShooke @richesofchaos Snooze you loose, Robo! 😉 I appreciate everybody's help in dislodging the distorted cinematic popcorn kernel that was stuck in my brain for six months. Peace.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

Popping back in briefly, simply to point out that Hal Hartley's not-easy-to-see comic thriller "Amateur" is dropping on Criterion Channel tomorrow (3.1) and features Isabelle Huppert plus lead turns from two members of Pete & Pete's public sector.

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@seanhowe

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

Instead of hanging around here, you could be watching a movie. Almost certainly a better use of your time.

Even if you don't have a subscription service, there's tons of good, high-quality stuff to be found on YT. Like this doc about NYC in 77.

https://t.co/8H9LAQlm0D

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

Ah, well, if this is going to be the mode going forward (and, of course, why would it develop any other way?) I'll definitely be doing a better job of reading more and internetting less.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@Tulipterrier They used to terrify me.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@SPowersMurphy He was like: "His accent seemed too big and his lip synching seemed comically fake and he kept bugging his eyes out and tossing his hair, and he kept doing everything wrong and I was like, 'Did Jerry Lee Lewis have brain damage? Or is this all just my messed up perception?'"

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@SPowersMurphy

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@stankbrakhage Google synopsis of this sounds promising!

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@bram_kawa Found her main complaint: "This is a psychological thriller with no psychological content, so there's no suspense and the climax has no power."

And I agree with her on the first half, but even as it depicts her issues without explaining them, it's pretty tense. A haunted house.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

Wanted to see what Pauline Kael thought of Robert Altman's "Images" and, checking my nearby copy of the "For Keeps" anthology, found just the lede of the review. Seems pretty clear, though.

[Fletcher Munson @RealBeano]

@jamesewand Yeah, I think it's a fascinating, occasionally jolting film, especially as it falls between McCabe and Long Goodbye but doesn't feel remotely like either. If I watched it without credits and tried to guess the director, I'd have run through a lot of names before Altman.