The Unloved, Part 148: High-Rise An ode to a lost friend, and to Ben Wheatley's ambitious social satire.

This one goes out to @jimgabrielmemorial.bsky.social love you buddy. Miss you terribly.
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You can only choose ONE... who has your favorite acting performance in a Quentin Tarantino movie? Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Apr 13 I can't pick, too many (probably Waltz as Landa, or maybe Carradine, though one of my outlier faves is Fassbender), but I'm happy so many are going for Uma in Kill Bill, very fond of that film (those, whatever) and of her in it

@itsnotjess123.9/11/22 is there a single show that lasted more than 6 season that doesn't have a single bad season? be so serious rn Jim Gabriel @flipyourface There are tons, especially if you go back, Mary Tyler Moore and I Love Lucy, for example, I know I know, the world for most people on this website didn't exist before the year 2000, my bad

I Have No Mouth And I Must... 7/9/22 Replying to @flipyourface Salvador was instrumental in getting me to love the Stoneisms I thought I disliked. The Woods performance, the first great use of Jim Belushi that people forget. The raw blistery anger. More people need to get o... Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 7/9/22 Couldn't have said this better myself, Stone's made some great films, but the simplicity and intensity of Salvador is special, I wish it were more widely seen

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface My God, I can't believe Jackie Brown is 25 years old, watched it last night and it plays as fresh as if it were made last night Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 7/10/22 Made a pact with myself that every time I want to nitpick QT to remember what he did for Robert Forster, who had a "very nice back nine to his career due to Jackie Brown, he deserved that hard and it was so gratifying to watch (even his gig on Last Man Standing, ha) Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 7/10/22 Speaking of which, maybe I'm wrong but I get the vibe a lot of you have never caught up with Medium Cool, which is certainly a huge early New American Cinema text, right up there with Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch, an insanely alive film, go for it

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 3/15/22 Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer Who Fucks Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 3/15/22 How YOU doin (Photo: cillian murphy as Oppenheimer extreme closeup)

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 3/15/22 This is the funniest thing I've ever read, I can't take much more like it for my adult undergarment budget will skyrocket HEADLINE TEXT: project to the tune of $100 million, described the story as an "epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it." Jim Gabriel @flipyourface-3/15/22 I hate reading stuff like this, devising 100 million dollar Sudokus doesn't make you an intellectual, they're parlor tricks, what can I say, I'd rather rather have dinner with Cillian Murphy any day of the week

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 3/15/22 I mean, if you have any reaction to Tenet other than A) enjoying its pomposity because you're in hospital with a headful of morphine, as I was, or B) *michael keaton j/o gif*, I just don't know what to say to you Jim Gabriel @flipyourface. 3/15/22 Kubrick is miles better than Nolan, not because of his films, but because he said All That Jazz is the best film ever made, whereas Nolan's list of favorites includes stuff like Baby Driver and Chariots of Fire Jim Gabriel @flipyourface (To be fair, Bad Timing is also on Nolan's picks, but even that isn't enough to recover from Chariots of Fire, is it)

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface- 4/2/22 My little hummingbird mind now thinking of how Cimino took it upon himself to outdo Coppola in his opening sequences to The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, and goddamned if he didn't do it, just fantastic stuff Jim Gabriel @flipyourface. 4/2/22 Still sticking to the Harvard sequence in Heaven's Gate as one of the top five stretches in American film, and probably the best, simply tremendous Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Btw, the reclamation of Heaven's Gate didn't begin with Criterion, 40 years ago the great LA Z Channel aired the NYFF cut that was such a disaster to great acclaim, Zoe Cassavetes made a lovely doc about Z Channel I'm always pressing on people, seek it out

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 7/9/22 One of the best closeups ever or what (Photo of katana closeup with Bill’s hand in Kill Bill)

(Photo of Helena bonham carter in fight club) Jim: One of the great introductory character shots or what I Have No Mouth And I Must T... 9/14/22 Some people will kick you for hyperbole, but those people need to liven up Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 9/14/22 What gives it the jam is not just the shot's beauty, but that most people's experience of her before Fight Club was from period pieces, don't get me wrong, most of those were terrific, but this was such a sharp turn, so potent, still one of the best supporting perfs of the 90s

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Is there a German word for the state of laughing while being pissed off, that's the way I feel about how the trades have treated Coppola for 45 years, to them you're only allowed to make art if it costs 5 bucks and grosses 50 million, what a despicable line of work Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 1/10/23 Honk if you're old enough to remember how the trades savaged FFC throughout the Apocalypse Now shoot and ill-fated DGA screening and never really forgave him when they shoved it up their asses by making a profitable movie

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Me in the Criterion closet *takes ten copies of the Eclipse Norman Mailer set* Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 12/8/22 Say what you will about Norman Mailer, but that dude steadfastly, to his *bones* did not like cops, Beyond the Law is the most ACAB American movie this side of The Grapes of Wrath, it is not fucking around

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Sometimes I think Ben Johnson tearassing across the landscape in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen Jim Gabriel @flipyourface. 12/26/22 Or was it Yakima Canutt

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Ooh, don't know if I'll be up, but The Tamarind Seed is on deep in the night, I try to watch it whenever it's on, beautifully staged by Blake Edwards, an underrated visual stylist when he was so moved, the last 20-30 minutes rocks Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 2/11/23 Photographed by the great Freddie Young, he of a slew of tremendous Lean films, as well as a particular favorite Powell-Pressburger, 49th Parallel, a grand talent Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 2/11/23 The Tamarind Seed is one of those films I didn't seek out for a long time because Kael trashed it when I was a kid in her thrall, crazy, terrific movie, she also had a hard-on for Omar Sharif in general, a wonderful actor, no accounting for taste, I guess

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Worst Bong Joon-ho film Daryl "Ridged Chips" Bartley @h.... 10/14/22 Makes me think of one of the best I Can't Believe It's Not Butter knockoffs MEMORIES OF BUTTER NON-HYDROGENATED MARGARINE 0 TRANS FAT

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface Not sure we as a society have properly internalized what a great fucking title Face/Off is Jim Gabriel @flipyourface. 7/22/22 Shakespeare could never Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 7/22/22 Beckett? Yeah, Beckett.

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 10/29/22 I just ate a fortune cookie with the fortune still in it Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 10/29/22 I wonder what the fortune said Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 10/29/22 "You will eat a fortune cookie with the fortune still in it"

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface They look like restauranteurs whose joint got sold off by the Feds for tax evasion AV The A.V. Club @TheAVClub 4/24/23 Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo expects a fully Al movie within two years (Photo of the Russo brothers that matches Jim’s description)

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 3/26/21 In other news, Drugstore Cowboy is low key a masterpiece of late 20th century movies, and I fear its become somewhat of a lost object of desire to the last generation or two of cinemaphiles For real, Van Sant's career opening salvo of Mala Noche/Drugstore Cowboy/My Own Private Idaho was seismic, and I thank my lucky stars I was alive for it

Gentleman Doofus @Gentle.... 8/30/22 Now rewatching DOWNSIZING, a movie I remember disliking but have been weirdly compelled to revisit. Jim Gabriel @flipyourface The two movies of semi-recent vintage that didn't get nearly enough love are Downsizing and Never Let Me Go, they're both great

Jim: speaking of which, check this out sometime, really good stuff (Sherman’s March by Ross McElwee)

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 2/10/23 I've probably mentioned this on here too many times, but I saw All That Jazz at the opening day matinee and was so taken with it I sat there and watched it three more times, it remains my favorite film to this day © Dan Slott @DanSlott. 2/9/23 Have you ever been so instantly in love with a movie that you saw it in the theaters twice in one day? Like going on a great theme park ride, loving it, and then getting right back in the line to go on it again. If s... Show this thread

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 7/7/22 If James Caan were coming up today and Kevin Feige said he needed to shave his chest gif of James Caan in Thief: I am, Joe, the boss of my own body, so what the fuck do I have to work for you for?

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface All this breathless talk about Danny Boyle, and for me it comes down to this, even if you have max problems with him, he made one of the ultimate killer zeitgeist movies, few people can claim that, and for that I'll love him forever, Trainspotting is the absolute SHIT

Jim Gabriel @flipyourface To Die For is on, such sharp filmmaking, some of Buck Henry's best work, and that Godhead 90s cast (also the first film my daughter saw in a theater, she was a month old lol) Jim Gabriel @flipyourface 3/21/23 Can a one-month-old really be said to have *seen* a film, you may ask, to which I'd respond, have you spent much time on twitter lately

Julia Marchese: what film has the best tagline Jim: Now and forever (poster for Heaven’s Gate with tagline “what one loves about life are the things that fade”)

De Niro in Heat saying “cause there is a dead man on the other end of this line” juxtaposed with Gumby holding a telephone receiver and looking afraid

Two pictures, juxtaposing Charles ponzi and Lyle Lanley from the simpsons , in essentially the same outfit

Anonymous Account: if you knew how hard most filmmakers worked at their jobs you'd be a little kinder with your criticisms. you just would. Jim Gabriel @flipyourface. 8/6/22 Kinda bullshit. With rare exceptions, the only thing I care about is that which is happening in front of me. Hot tip: *everybody* works hard. Engineer spends years on a bridge, later big chunks fall off it, do you say, "But he worked so *hard*, dogs like him," come on. The only person I care about how hard they worked is the DP of Russian Ark, my back hurts just watching it