My day 5&6 May 1&2 2019
Wild rose. By British director Tom harper
U.S. release date June 14.
A stylized version of what the success story of a musician from Glasgow could be. I liked it, but also have some reservations about all the omissions either in the script or cutting room. For example, you don’t really feel that Rose is a musician for the first 20 mins of the film. She never touches a guitar or hums along with the radio. Then al off a sudden gets drunk and breaks out in song while vacuuming at her cleaning job. The reason is that a lot has to be established in the first 20 mins and choices where made. But to me it glorifies getting drunk ignoring substance problems of real life. In another scene she parties late and then gets up before dawn and cleans her whole apartment impressing her mom.
Talking about the mom, actress Julie Walters is amazing as the mom.
Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project.
A fantastic doc about Philadelphia librarian and local access TV host Marion Stokes. Mostly told in interviews with her son Michael.
She recorded 71,000 VHS tapes from the outset of the Iran Hostage Crisis on November 4, 1979, “she hit record and she never stopped.” Michael said. First recorded in her home in the Barclay Condominiums in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, the tapes had been distributed among nine additional apartments she purchased solely for storage purposes during her life. All financed because she was an early adopter of technology and bought Apple stock in 1984. The tapes are being digitized by the Internet Archive and can be screened here.
Italian director Michela Occhipinti Narrative feature debut Takes place on Mauritius. About the beginning of gavage—the ritual of over-eating in order to attain a fuller figure more desirable to her future husband. Very closely follows Verida the main charter as she endures this torture that everyone in her circle calls tradition. Makes you as audience member not want to eat for weeks. Very well done.