Tonight's double feature presentation
LIONS, LOVE .... AND LIES
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AIR DOLL
Started them earlier this afternoon, both 2nd watches, Lions made a huge impact on me first viewing, even though i was distracted throughout, which is the same tale for Air Doll. Lions is a hippie film, with the Hair musical guys and Viva i think her name is a Warhol Superstar, and Shirley Clarke joins in the fun, hippies in LA, around the time Bobby Kennedy was assasinated, which they watch on the tv in this film. At parts it's very flamboyant and silly. Oh my gosh i so love it, in those silly moments where they just blurt out free association stuff, is like straight from my adolescence. Thus i treasure it in the upper eschelon of films. Early on it it is a shared theme or thing with the other film, one of the guys has a plastic doll woman and sings about a plastic woman .... well Air Doll is about a pleasure doll that comes to life, sounds silly coming from such a serious director as Hirokazu Kore-eda, and indeed it is judging from some online rankings his least well respected film. But i love it in the same way as Agnès Varda's Lions, which also is kinda different from her other films and not as well revered. Air Doll stars Doona Bae, and she is such a darling, she gives a superb performance, which turns up the pathos to 11 i think with a ominous downbeat conclusion, ... hope that wasn't a spoiler.
I think Air Doll would be more appealing to SW folk than Lions, Love ...and Lies, because Air Doll has a narrative structure that evolves and moves steadily to a conclusion, whereas Lions is a pure period piece of weird and wonderful people mostly just sitting or lying around talking silly to each other. These 2 films have some things in common, a query on what is real, what it means to be real, and so on, Air Doll more clear cut and engaging, Lions for hippie fanatics, lovers of Warhol, the Hair musical, Shirley Clarke, and Agnès.
&
AIR DOLL
Started them earlier this afternoon, both 2nd watches, Lions made a huge impact on me first viewing, even though i was distracted throughout, which is the same tale for Air Doll. Lions is a hippie film, with the Hair musical guys and Viva i think her name is a Warhol Superstar, and Shirley Clarke joins in the fun, hippies in LA, around the time Bobby Kennedy was assasinated, which they watch on the tv in this film. At parts it's very flamboyant and silly. Oh my gosh i so love it, in those silly moments where they just blurt out free association stuff, is like straight from my adolescence. Thus i treasure it in the upper eschelon of films. Early on it it is a shared theme or thing with the other film, one of the guys has a plastic doll woman and sings about a plastic woman .... well Air Doll is about a pleasure doll that comes to life, sounds silly coming from such a serious director as Hirokazu Kore-eda, and indeed it is judging from some online rankings his least well respected film. But i love it in the same way as Agnès Varda's Lions, which also is kinda different from her other films and not as well revered. Air Doll stars Doona Bae, and she is such a darling, she gives a superb performance, which turns up the pathos to 11 i think with a ominous downbeat conclusion, ... hope that wasn't a spoiler.
I think Air Doll would be more appealing to SW folk than Lions, Love ...and Lies, because Air Doll has a narrative structure that evolves and moves steadily to a conclusion, whereas Lions is a pure period piece of weird and wonderful people mostly just sitting or lying around talking silly to each other. These 2 films have some things in common, a query on what is real, what it means to be real, and so on, Air Doll more clear cut and engaging, Lions for hippie fanatics, lovers of Warhol, the Hair musical, Shirley Clarke, and Agnès.
