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https://deadline.com/video/maniac-review-cary-fukunaga-emma-stone-jonah-hill-netflix-video/
Getting ready to binge watch in t-minus 12 hours.
Hear, hear. Truth!
That's a seriously impressive review. I'm going to give it my full attention, once I finish series 6 of the Americans.
The first series of True Detective is a fantastic and Jane Eyre was wonderfully shot. I’m not sure about Maniac from the trailers, it has a slightly flat ‘workman’ quality to it, but I think they may be deliberate considering the retro-future take on the material.
But these screencaps from True Detective are beautiful
Much more to my liking than Dany Boyle, I was never a fan of anything of his, really, not even the Trainspotting flicks, which are groundbreaking and innovative, sure, but not my cup of tea. Being a hardcore Kubrick fan, Fukunaga suits my cinematic tastes on all accounts.
And now I guess I can say it, that olympics gig with the Queen and Daniel was cringeworthy, those shots of the Corgis going down the stairs in slow motion, and the colours, ... I know the mood was solemn because of the Queen, but I found it dreadful.
So glad Fukunaga is on the director's chair. Let's just hope he takes seat in some other chairs during the production (writer, cinematographer, ...)
It's terrific. It's a fairly routine detective/thriller but with a fascinating philosophical bent. It may be a bit ponderous and undergraduate-y at times, but it's execution is haunting and poetic. Matthew McConaughey's character, Rust Cohle, has become an instant iconic character.
The show was one of the first to cement the notion that the director could have a large influence on television (wildly considering a writer's medium). You can feel Fukunaga's bravura filmmaking spirit in that series. It's his best work by a long shot and put him on the A-list.
I think it's the main reason he fell out with the writer, who started to see that Fukunaga's influence was too heavily incorporated into the programme. It's the main reason that Fukunaga didn't return for season 2 and why there was such a gaping gap in quality (season 2 is a taste of time). Also, there have been reports that the writer got the director of the upcoming season 3 of True Detective fired. I think he may just be trouble.
Apparently, the writer wanted Fukunaga to cut the tracking shot. What utter madness!
https://www.gq.com/story/cary-fukunaga-netflix-maniac
There’s no pleasing some people.
With the departure of Boyle we got complaints that there was no news. Then with the announcement of director and revised release date, the complaints continue.
I don’t know a lot about Mr.Fukunaga, but EON and the studio wouldn’t settle for him on a whim.
I’m quite impressed we got a new director and confirmation of a new schedule release so soon after Boyle.
EON have obviously been busy getting things back on track.
Indeed..they deserve credit for that,shows things are going well.
Nah, it's his own Sony/Ericsson ;) with a built in slide camera he uses at the opera later on. I had that phone, made me feel like I had a Minox Riga from the 30's, and I don't even like handhelds, but I do like my cameras ;)
I hated the Mi6 HQ in QOS, you're right, too much Stark Industries apparel. Give me a fountain pen and a knife hidden in a attaché case instead of holographic projections any day of the week. I like mechanical gadgets more. And they should really go for it again, since the other kind of tech is overly abundant in every teen's pocket.
You have a point, and one day the MI6 HQ in QoS will look as dated as the mobile phones look now. I have to say that I loved seeing the old office at the end of SF, but now looking back on it the QoS HQ modernity looks more realistic for a Bond style universe than the Q lab in SP for instance, which seems almost quaint in comparison (I realize they got round that by suggesting that MI6 was still rebuilding itself, but still). It's a fine line, and perhaps the best route forward would be to have Bond get his briefing in M's old style office and then head off to a really high tech contemporary or advanced looking Q lab.
The trouble also is that tech is advancing so rapidly these days that it's difficult to stay ahead of the curve. Moore's Law at work. What could be advanced now will date in just a few years, whereas from the 60s to the 80s (or even arguably the early 90s) there was perhaps less speed in progression.
I prefer old mechanical gadgets too. Analogue automatic watch user and classic car driver here.
“There are more than a few moments in Netflix’s 10-episode Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed Maniac that are so aesthetically precise you might forget to breathe for a beat or two.”
I think the Bourne films did a good job of this - when he arrives in Italy from Tangiers and has some fake number plates, a SIM card cloner, and a few bits like that.
Similarly, I think improvisation is good workaround for this. Rather than 'tech gadgets' that are dated quickly, there's something to being clever about re-working the things around you to help in a particular situation.
The Bourne films dealt with it well. The stuff itself was not supposed to be cool- it's what Bourne does with it that is nifty. And Bourne is a different more claustrophobic world, deliberately and brilliantly playing on fears of surveillance and the almost impossibility of going off the grid.
I read a review of Jane Eyre (2011) that the story is told by Flashbacks and audio can give you claustrofobisch feeling. And he is fan of natural light. Possible mean filming on film i hope.
And tv series he direct use difrent order of story telling and flashbacks and flashbacks in flashbacks. And jump from time to time. What i found intresting to read is that there are no quistions any more at the end, if you not lose focus. Of course i hope this mean at the end of Bond 26 everthing is fixed. With Feb 2020 release date i think it is 100% sjure Daniel Craig wil return 2 years and 9 months later or there must have found new Bond already.
I think we should expect return of Vesper is growing again.
That's awesome. I hardly have the opportunity to do much writing anymore, but always ensure I print and edit any review documents by hand. I learned a while ago that it's much easier to catch errors that way rather than doing it online (apparently it's something to do with the way the light reflects back to you off the printed page).
Yes, those examples from The Bourne Supremacy are good. I liked the way they handled it there. Good point about improvisation showing the cleverness of an agent too. They did that very well (without gadgets) during that parkour chase in CR, where Bond was up against a faster and more nimble opponent but found ways to keep up with him. Somehow they completely lost that touch in SP.
Oh dear, I sincerely hope not!
If that happens then I aint going to watch it.
I find that comment quite 'titillating', Univex.
Obviously this improve was shown in the finale of SF which I loved but some did not.
I absolutely agree. If Bond uses anything it should be grounded and real, not an exploding watch, or whatever. It’s just not necessary. There’s no “wow” factor in outlandish gadgets. We live in a tech world, so watching Bond use his wits would be more original than him getting out of sticky situation by pulling out a convenient tool from Q branch.
In a movie conceived as a celebration of "all things Bond" is pretty acceptable, imo.
Indeed. Bond using his human wits to circumvent challenges in spite of technology has become the more interesting of the two angles.
Although I have to admit, I loved the exploding watch. A simple, subtle gadget that comes off as a nice callback the way the film plays it. And, frankly, seemed like a definitely 007-ish thing that I can't believe we hadn't already seen.