{"id":16243,"date":"2024-02-20T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:49:28","slug":"madame-x-1978-ottinger-blumenschein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16243","title":{"rendered":"Madame X (1978, Ottinger &#038; Blumenschein)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess after luring women onto her pirate ship, X kills them one by one with her artificial hand-knife.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/madamex1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Notes I sent to TB:<br \/>\n&#8211; Call chinese orlando, stop.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Ottinger&#8221; must mean &#8220;one-take&#8221; in German<br \/>\n&#8211; I feel like Bertrand Mandico has watched this movie more than once.<br \/>\n&#8211; This fits in nicely with the avant-garde traditions, in that some things (color, music, costumes, visual concept, counterculture vibes) are really good, and others (pacing, sound sync, pacing, mst3k-ass acting, pacing) are unbearable.<br \/>\n&#8211; But is the pacing unbearable because we are brainwashed by commercial cinema&#8230; would I rather be watching <em>Mission: Impossible 5<\/em> because that&#8217;s the style of movie the capitalist system taught me to enjoy&#8230; I dunno, it&#8217;s worth questioning, but when I break free from hollywood pacing I like to break really decisively free (ahem <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10686\">Stray Dogs<\/a><\/em>), while this feels more like a really slow John Waters movie.  Fails to cast a spell, and if you only pay half attention it dissipates entirely.<br \/>\n&#8211; Feminism, tho.  I guess.<br \/>\n&#8211; And a macaw if you make it to the end<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/madamex2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/madamex3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/madamex4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess after luring women onto her pirate ship, X kills them one by one with her artificial hand-knife. Notes I sent to TB: &#8211; Call chinese orlando, stop. &#8211; &#8220;Ottinger&#8221; must mean &#8220;one-take&#8221; in German &#8211; I feel like Bertrand Mandico has watched this movie more than once. &#8211; This fits in nicely with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,239,666,232,3208],"class_list":["post-16243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-birds","tag-feminism","tag-pirates","tag-ulrike-ottinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16258,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}