Episode 148: THE SOCIAL NETWORK / ENTER THE VOID / David Nadelberg Interviewed on MORTIFIED
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On this week’s podcast Gareth and Jett discuss in-depth the film THE SOCIAL NETWORK and the extraordinary new work ENTER THE VOID as well as interview David Nadelberg of MORTIFIED
Running time: 55 minutes – 26.5mb mp3
THE SOCIAL NETWORK / ENTER THE VOID / David Nadelberg Interviewed on MORTIFIED / MORTFIED on Kickstarter / MORTIFIED previously on TFT: Get Mortified – Or How You Too Can Tell People You’re a Film Producer
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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 21st, 2010 at 7:08 pm. It is filed under Blog, Cult, Death, Documentaries, Drama, Experimental, Fantasy, Gareth Higgins, Gareth Higgins Reviews, Interviews, Jett Harvests the Webinets, Jett Loe, Jett Loe Reviews, Los Angeles, Podcast, Sex and tagged with david nadelberg, enter the void, film review, gaspar noe, Jesse Eisenberg, mortified, movie podcast, paz de la huerta, podcast, The Social Network.
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http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/enter-the-void
Go to: ‘GET THE RELEASE SCHEDULE’
That’s how you’ll find it. Opening here tomorrow!
am happy you’ll get to see it on the big screen. :)
Wow. Need I say more?
wow is right – am thinking of seeing it again tomorrow
+ the star of the film, nathaniel brown is a fan of tft – you can check out him on twitter here: http://twitter.com/mr_nbrown
I’m a big fan of the back of his head! I guess we saw his face in the La Haine-esque mirror scene, as well. I had watched a video interview with Noé before seeing the film and, while he was a bit more forthcoming than in other interviews, he definitely does not sell the film as anything other than an extended ode to 2001 and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (which I haven’t seen). The film will sell itself, if it could be seen, but unfortunately The Social Network is hogging all the screens. We need a distribution revolution in this country, badly.
For Nashville folk, this seems like a good deal:
http://www.groupon.com/nashville/?post_subscribe=true
$35 for a 1 year membership to the Nashville Film Festival! Wife won’t let me get, but maybe someone here will be able to take advantage.
By the way, I really enjoyed the Social Network. I realize it was all bunk, and there were plenty of things I found wrong with the movie, but it was entertaining overall.
I must say I still have no idea what exactly Gareth is referring to with the ‘sex as war, violence, and usurpation’ in the podcast with reference to the love hotel sequence. I did not see anyone ascending a throne and tithing those that were defeated during the scene, I saw both taxation and representation, as it were, and I saw the egalitarian representation of both young and old, small and large, male and female, oriental and occidental alike, almost to an absurd degree that suggested an intentional attempt to avoid being pigeonholed and to encompass the gamut of human diversity – including one room where a guy is completely oblivious to the intercourse next to him due to his smoking something, I’m guessing DMT – and if there was a criminal aspect, that harkens back to the film’s earlier content (a harkening back that the film is wont to do) as well. I do recall there being some aspect of willfulness implied in the exposition of the Book of the Dead in the beginning, and given the clear depiction of sex as necessary, human, and, eventually, potentially familial (perhaps the only thing of any concrete value depicted in the film) the final sequence acts as a ‘sex-potentially-positive’ coda to the love hotel sequence. This is not to say that Noé depicts sex as having the human, all too human potential for a negative result which we see clearly, but he certainly shows the good with the bad, another instance of perhaps unnecessarily explicit ‘exposition of opposing realities’, as this sort of duality is implied repeatedly throughout the film, but I guess such an inclusion helps to support a more ambivalent as opposed to negative reading of each and every part of the film – and still we see the negative one. You can’t win ‘em all, I guess.
am not sure about why the Love Hotel is a vision of hell for Gareth – something i’d like to discuss with him more in the future + we’re having Nathaniel Brown on the show – perhaps he’ll have something more to add
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I’m pretty sure that Enter the Void used some tilt-shift photography in a scene or two (in the cab on the way to the love hotel). Just saying…
yes you’re probably right Jared. sigh.
i’ve got to come to accept that i’m not the most consistent film reviewer out there ;)
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
thank you for your generosity of spirit – and i’ll leave you with this great whitman quote: “To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. “
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I saw The Social Network for the second time, this time on Blu Ray. The digital breath and digital snowflakes were obvious and extremely distracting. I don’t know how I didn’t see them the first time! (Perhaps I was too wrapped up in the story.)
I also noticed how economical and innovative the story structure is. Breaths notwithstanding, it’s still my favorite film of the year.
Ich möchte Ihnen für diese Hinweise danken. Sie sind sehr nützlich.