{"id":13627,"date":"2020-08-10T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2020-08-09T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T23:00:40","slug":"television-and-fashion-ads-and-company-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13627","title":{"rendered":"Television and Fashion Ads and Company, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Staggering Girl<\/em> (2019, Luca Guadagnino)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luca’s follow-up to Suspiria Remake<\/a><\/em> is… a fashion ad, and from the writer of The Current War<\/em>, weirdly. I’ve watched other attempts at taking the fashion money and making a short film. This one lacks the nudity of the Carax<\/a> and the creepy coolness of the Martel<\/a>, and is overall not very interesting – but at least in this one I really noticed the clothes, so it arguably does its job better than the others. The Tsangari museum ad<\/a> still beats ’em all.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I barely remember this, but took some notes at least:<\/p>\n

Julianne comes home with flowers to an empty apt, talks with Kyle on phone <\/p>\n

The woman in yellow disappears<\/p>\n

Nice whispery horror soundtrack<\/p>\n

I think Kyle is Julianne’s painter mom’s assistant.<\/p>\n

Now the woman who disappears is in pink.<\/p>\n

Mia Goth with whoever plays Young Julianne:<\/em>
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Proper Julianne:<\/em>
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\nOriginal Cast Album: Company<\/em> (1970, DA Pennebaker)<\/strong><\/p>\n

We watched this doc on Criterion because it’s newly available after being hard to see for years, and it’s talked-about online… but mostly because I wanted to do my homework for the next season of Documentary Now!<\/em> Stephen Sondheim wrote some overcomplicated songs, he and the recording engineers fret over the performances, especially Elaine Stritch, who is saved till late night, then convinced to come back the next day and re-record.<\/p>\n

We also watched a couple of shorts on Criterion… I think Michigan Avenue<\/em>, and a jazz short, possibly A Rhapsody in Black and Blue<\/em>, but I’d better not count those, since I can’t even recall for sure which ones they were.<\/p>\n

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\nHamilton<\/em> (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It would’ve been cool to see this live, but our $480 tickets to see the touring company from the Fox balcony were refunded, and instead we watched the original cast up close in HD for free, and I’m not complaining. After all the Clipping I’ve been listening to, I’d hoped Daveed Diggs would be cooler as Lafayette… but then in the second half he’s super cool as Jefferson.<\/p>\n

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\nCowboy Bebop<\/em> (1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firefly<\/em> ripped this off quite a bit, eh? When it originally aired I thought this show wasn’t for me… in my defense, that might’ve been a knee-jerk stance from being surrounded by anime kids in college. Pretty excellent, our two main dudes accumulating shipmates, each with their own skills, competing for bounties, then finally the gang breaks up.<\/p>\n

I’ve gotta see Cowboy Bebop: The Movie<\/em>, which I’m just now learning about. The same team worked on Macross Plus<\/em>, Samurai Champloo<\/em>, Wolf’s Rain<\/em>, and Space Dandy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nFleabag<\/em> season 1 (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Really good, short series, based on a stand-up show that I tried to watch afterwards but it’s the same stories told in the same way, so I bailed after a half hour. Phoebe Waller-Bridge runs the guinea pig-themed cafe she co-owned with her late friend Boo, steals from her stepmother Olivia Colman, and torments her dad (Bill Paterson, who I just saw in Colin Burstead<\/a><\/em>) and sister (Sian Clifford).<\/p>\n

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\nSuperjail!<\/em> season 3 (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opens in Ultrajail with the Warden as inmate, so I thought this season might end up having some kind of stakes, but nope, that was a one-off, then we’re back to the usual ultraviolence. This show is a LOT – I can’t even look directly at the screen the whole time or else my brain and eyes get overloaded, but it’s a good thing to half-watch while reading the news.<\/p>\n

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\nRick & Morty<\/em> season 4 (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

401: Akira<\/a><\/em>, fascism, holograms, crystals that show you how you’ll die
\n402: Rick defends his private toilet from intruders, Jerry develops matchmaking app with an alien
\n403: R&M visit a heist convention, put a crew together, and pit Heistotron vs. Randotron
\n404: R gets M a dragon, Jerry has a talking cat
\n405: Morty interrupts a society of racist snakes causing time-travel chaos, Jerry floats
\n406: Narrative train!
\n407: Alien<\/a><\/em> facehugger mind control
\n408: Vat of acid, Morty gets ability to save his place, vat of acid
\n409: “I fucked a planet”
\n410: star wars episode with an unexpected Don’t Look Now<\/a><\/em> reference<\/p>\n

Bonus: Samurai & Shogun<\/em> anime short mashing up R&M with Lone Wolf & Cub<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nA Touch of Cloth<\/em> (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for something lightweight to watch, I found this TV movie cowritten by Charlie Brooker, and it was just the trick. All visual puns and word games delivered straight-faced, a la Police Squad<\/em> or Airplane<\/em>. It’s a cop mystery, and I think their boss (guy from The Hour<\/em>) ends up being the culprit. Director Jim O’Hanlon did the Romola Garai\/Jonny Lee Miller Emma<\/em>. A few weeks later I made it a half hour into the second of three Cloth<\/em> movies, but pulled the plug, only writing “oh noooo it’s all the same jokes.”<\/p>\n

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\nLodge 49<\/em> season 1 (2018)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ex-pool-guy Dud (Wyatt Russell from the fear-VR Black Mirror<\/a><\/em>) and restaurant worker Liz (Sonya Cassidy of a bunch of UK miniseries) are in the dumps after their deeply-in-debt father apparently killed himself, until Dud finds a new sense of purpose at the local (also doomed by debt) Lynx lodge. I picked up this show after reading Vikram in Vulture<\/a>, and loved about every minute of it. Dud sees signs everywhere, thinks everything is fate, and it’s never clear whether he’s delusional or on to something big – shades of Inherent Vice<\/a><\/em> and Under the Silver Lake<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Lynxes:
\nSovereign Protector Larry: Kenneth Welsh, a boss in Survival of the Dead<\/a><\/em>, Windom Earle in Twin Peaks<\/a><\/em>
\nFuture S.P. and Dud’s reluctant mentor Ernie: Brent Jennings (Moneyball<\/a><\/em>, The Serpent and the Rainbow<\/em>)
\nErnie’s secret squeeze Connie: professional mom Linda Emond (Ryan Gosling’s mom in Song to Song<\/a><\/em>, Evan Rachel Wood’s mom in Across the Universe<\/a><\/em>, Logan Lerman’s mom in Indignation<\/a><\/em>)
\nConnie’s husband Scott: Eric Kramer, Little John in the Mel Brooks Robin Hood<\/em>
\nNew Age Blaise: David Pasquesi, Veep’s ex-husband<\/p>\n

Notable non-Lynxes: Pawnbroker Burt… Brian Doyle-Murray as Ernie’s Boss… Bruce Campbell as Captain… Ernie’s coworker Beautiful Jeff… Dud’s depressed temp boss Gloria… Hot Librarian Emily… Liz’s fling “Corporate”… Surfer Alice… Fake Lodge agent Avery (lead singer of All-American Rejects)… and Real Lodge agent Jocelyn.<\/p>\n

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\nTim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories<\/em> season 2 (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piano salesman Eric’s boss Tim is obsessed with baklava.<\/p>\n

Scratchoff gambler\/mesmer Ray Wise steals Jorge Garcia’s wife Rhea Pearlman<\/p>\n

The return of angelboy Scotty, featuring Bubbles<\/p>\n

Very bad air traffic controller Will Forte takes a break, feat. Veep’s daughter and aww, Fred Willard<\/p>\n

Gross dude gets a free trial workout at an auto-gym.<\/p>\n

And T&E play lesbians Belle & Bonnie, whose adopted son is sold to a rich guy.<\/p>\n

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\nAlan Partridge’s Scissored Isle<\/em> (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan goes to different parts of Britain to try to bring harmony to the people… something like that, anyway. I forget how he gets locked into a warehouse over a weekend, but I recall that the whole adventure was started after someone filmed him attempting an insult joke. “The footage went viral,” he tells us, while the screen says 150 views. This was after the great Partridge movie<\/a>, between Mid Morning Matters<\/em> and This Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nAlso watched an episode each of Sherman’s Showcase<\/em>, Final Space<\/em>,
\nAvenue 5<\/em>, and The Last O.G.<\/em>, none of which seems essential.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed the quarantine reunion special of Parks & Rec.<\/p>\n

Katy and I checked out each other’s shows in which characters burst into song, but I didn’t love Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist<\/em> and she couldn’t stand Lipstick On Your Collar<\/em>. We settled on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em>, but now it’s been three months since episode one…<\/p>\n

After reading reviews I decided to watch half of The Twilight Zone 2019<\/em> season 1. Nightmare at 30,000 Feet<\/em> confirmed my worst fears: instead of a goblin on the flight, it’s a podcast. Fun to watch Adam Scott anyway, so I made it through, but then the next two episodes I tried opened with cops, and that’s not the kind of story I was looking for that particular week.<\/p>\n

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