#andrew marcus

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The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993).

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lockdown film no. 30 - Begin Again (2013) dir. John Carney

01/05/2020

- I have absolutely no recollection of how I happened upon this film, maybe I was researching John Carney for some reason? Who knows

- overall this is pretty good! Its quite cheesy etc. but very wholesome and it really made me want to make music.

- the mother from get out is in this ??

- I don’t know quite how I feel about mark Ruffalo’s character, and I can’t figure out if its overly simplistic to say he’s quite messed up, he doesn’t treat people or himself well, he definitely needs to go to therapy and just because you’re talented at your job it doesn’t make you a good person; or if its overly simplistic to say that he’s a complicated soul. I think its probably both but that’s way too vague

- the scene where he hallucinates the instruments while greta’s playing is fantastic. Really liked that one

- Mark Ruffalo sounds a bit too much like Donald trump for my taste, Keira Knightley is well cast and I can’t think of someone else playing this role (apparently Adele was considered??), she’s basically playing herself and I don’t have a problem with that. Adam Levine isn’t bad especially since it was his first acting role, and James Corden is good as well! Again he’s basically playing himself but you know what it works so its all good

- their back and forth is good especially with the cardigan

- I don’t quite get how greta concluded that Dave was cheating on her from the song he played ? They weren’t very specific, and probably could have been about her, if it had been me I would have been completely oblivious

- why did they call him Dave grohl with a k

- it was really sweet when Steve was making her tea and he looks at her and you think he’s gonna say something sweet and then he goes I dont remember if you take sugar and she’s trying not to cry and he’s like I’m just gonna wing it, its dead cute

- it felt like things were getting really exciting when they were planning how they were gonna record stuff and they got the musicians and Steve made the car into a recording studio like that was absolutely immense and all the musicians were so fucking good and the music slaps so that felt like it was really kicking off. Only complaint is that we took almost half the film to get to this point

- ohhhh the coming up roses scene my life. I was kind of disappointed to find that they pre recorded all the songs before shooting and then mimed to them, but because they’re all obviously professional musicians apart from Knightley it absolutely works unlike most of the other scenes in films where they mime

- I loved the theme of the headphone splitter. It was a really good device for the film and the scene after it was properly introduced was immense, like them just walking through the city looking at stuff and listening to their own soundtrack. There was a moment when they were listening to Stevie wonder in a club and greta looked at dan and I was extremely worried that they were going to end up together but thank fuck that didn’t happen or I would have absolutely raged. Also all the songs were bops but they were also very relevant to the story. And dan’s spiel about music changing boring scenes into something special was really nice and v moving

- the kazoo solo! All too brief but still beautiful 

- I swear to god every time I hear the opening piano riff for tell me if you wanna go home I go absolutely feral

- I would sell a lung for the tell me if you wanna go home scene. This is not an exaggeration. I love it

- the band! They’re so cute! And its such a good mix of people from different backgrounds like you’ve got the string kids and they’re so white and then you’ve got bass and drums from ceelo greens band and they all get on and banter and play the same music and I just love it

- fuck. the guitar solo in that song

- my favourite trope in media where there’s a character who we’re not meant to like who does music is that they ruin a personal song to the main character by over producing it

- “you know I wasn’t trying to win you over, I was trying to tell you to fuck off”

- I want to hear the albums they would have made in the European sessions. Fuck it I want this album not just the soundtrack

- I preferred the concert version of lost stars to acoustic, it had more life and it built etc. the album version was dire though

- also I didn’t get what we were meant to take from the shots of the women in the audience and greta looking sad? Is she jealous of them that they see him differently to her? Feels sorry for them because of how they see him?

- I like this film. I don’t like the way John Carney talked about Keira Knightley saying she was just a model and not a real actress, but I did like this film

[genevieveetguy]

They'll never make a movie about girls like us, and you know why? Because it would be so sad that they'd have to sprinkle Prozac on the popcorn or people would kill themselves.

Isn't It Romantic, Todd Strauss-Schulson (2019)

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Sing Street (2016)

Country: Ireland / United Kingdom / United States

Written & Directed by: John Carney Story by: Simon Carmody

Cinematography by: Yaron Orbach

Edited by: Andrew Marcus & Julian Ulrichs

Produced by: Carney, Anthony Bregman & Martina Niland

Production Design by: Alan MacDonald

Art Direction by: Tamara Conboy

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The Moth Diaries (Mary Harron, 2011).

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The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993).

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The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993).

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Surviving Picasso (James Ivory, 1996).