Award shows, award shows, award. Shows. Once did meet a perfectly nice creature who clearly had inherited dog wealth and promulgated very own ‘Blue Cheow’ art award show. Always remember it’s only a spotlight in the darkness of life. [Guess nobody ever said that ‘cause never could catch on].
Like me needs global social media. Then what:! A new brand of paint! A new brand of me? Like one could do better than Farrow & Ball or Little Greene National Trust colors?! Hint- mix your own, wallow in the inner artist cesspit you never knew existed. Knowledge is palette power! Ney…What’s the worse could happen? Sculpt your ear? Paint your cat? [no, please don’t do that]. Felines were a Covid cleanliness inspiration. Unsung heroes. Song please, Diane Warren!! You might win this time:))
I'm David Scott, maker of silly things. [Thanks to Alec Baldwin’s IG]
He may well save the world through silliness!.
Tár. I believe. But I don't want to believe. Therein lies the problem. Great films allow an audience non-belief. Thence a weird Greek catharsis. Upside down, in reverse, insidious, in-side out, whatever.
There is nothing to fault in Tár, though many thus far have. What it lacks ironically is Gustav Mahler. Tár’s conducting isn’t revelatory but there’s not enough saying it is. Though it says it. Thus much. What’s lacking isn’t belief. It is doubt. Todd Field riddles his film thus. Maybe? Never consummating. Yet nothing stumbles in Tár.
Hello. A world I knows well. Everyone stumbles. Rarely screws up. Tár. Marketing itself to a global audience that knows nothing. They do, however, feel. Deeply. Will this work? Let’s see.
Forget the movie;) The conundrum for me is Mahler’s Symphony 6- the Tragic. Ironically when Gustav was so much in love not despair. Irony the Fifth Adagietto isn’t botched in Tár. But almost.
Now: Tár confronting the 6th.
Alma Mahler said of the 6th: "Not one of his works came as directly from his innermost heart as this. We both wept that day. The music and what it foretold touched us deeply. ..."
The symphony’s final hammer "blows of fate" portend not only the World War to come but his tragic family life. Tár is a cold, strange film whose greatest achievement, perhaps, and unwillfully, is stirring the pot of current explosive topics.
Like Mahler’s "blows of fate" [spoiler alert] director Todd Field makes us feel Tár somehow will be doomed in the end. Do we doubt or believe? But again: where is the Mahler? The happiness. The hope. Dare I say: the love. Tár is caught in her own web. Is that as interesting as it sounds? Todd Field made his movie, now go envision your own.
alle Betonungen consequent durchführen?
Curious, what Maestro Daniel Barenboim thought of this movie. Perhaps, akin A Chorus Line: …I felt nothing.
Making a point. Not showing off. Maestro Giuseppi Sinopoli I knew a bit. Interviewed. Controversial. Charlatan, mystique, genius? His label Deutsche Grammophon aren't/weren't idiots! He passed. A relatively young Daniel Harding conducted Mahler's unfinished 10th in Berlin soon after Sinopoli's passing. [even paid for the ticket;)]
So don't ever 'feckin' 'feckin' tell me about Mahler! Or Yeats! Or movies! Or cats!!
Something for everyone in The Outsider Art Fair this week. OAF Curated Space this year. Clawed creatures in attendance may be asked to wear gloves. Your patronage is appreciated.
Or if you are more inclined to being a ‘couch creature’ online viewing rooms are available.
Past fairs…. 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
American Folk Art Museum free virtual lecture on self-taught art this Sunday March 5.
Life affirming no matter your purrrrr?!
Thought great one-liners. Suddenly evaporated. The Coolidge effect. Guess the jacuzzi is full of comics. Meow-oh!
ANDREW’s award-winning Covid Geese adaptation of Beckett’s What Where. [Available exclusively on The Creature Channel.]
[The really now free and really fun] Independent Spirit Awards 2023
Laura Poitras cited artist/writer David Wojnarowicz and his concept of the pre-invented existence, the world we are born into...artists reject that pre-invented existence and make a different world. Philip K. Dick's The Adjustment Bureau.
Haven’t mentioned thus far The Rehearsal (only caught two eps) that was breathtakingly original. Feels so disturbingly weirdly British in the Steve Coogan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ricky Gervais, Armando Iannucci vein. Come back Pirandello.
Rarely watch new movies twice but Everything Everywhere All at Once! Again, breathtaking. A 38 day shoot! What were those storyboards like? Sure, a still camera capturing actors' performances is equally valid and fascinating. But man, you do start devouring munchies then eating your own fingers with your grievances and dreams finally shared by the end of that movie!
The crane which refuses to leave its human saviour
Wish these posts could be a bit shorter. Don’t know how. Like asking James Joyce reduce Ulysses to Tiktok fragments. [No comparison-really, OK!]
Easy to see why Waco didn’t get much traction isn’t it Michael Shannon? Not exactly Fixer Upper and the American dream! How times have changed…eh George Clooney! Take Shelter. How come streaming murders do so well in America and moreover Britain? Me thinks there’s another cat cadaver in the Arconia….
Jessica Chastain is : CSI: Norway. Whose tweeting Ivo van Hove! Feathers galore in my garden…Was Nora murdered? Can’t remember the plot of anything anymore, my dear.
Making a little world you can be safe and happy in.
What we learn’t from The Fabelmans? Stirling Silver flatware and designer dinner plates no match for plastic/paper and simple disposable tablecloth wrap! Not to mention ecologically…We all miss you Nellie LaRoy. Many’s the time…..
Film criticism is perhaps one of the few realms where no previous experience is required in job ad. In a way, that’s greatly liberating criteria. But could you be a music critic of any genre if…a sports commentator if… a dance critic if…etc etc. What The Fabelmans also extolls is the joy and fascination of editing images. If you’ve never done that then really you should. So sad old Steenbecks in dumpsters outside a film school with mine own eyes. Life moves on. Or does it? People nowadays see even less not more. Though all watch more. And more. If you’ve never thought about the light on an object and how as the day moves through it everything changes. How you change.
There’ve been many a fine film critic not endowed with an encyclopedic knowledge of film. Simply reason and curiosity. Perhaps not even passion. Of course, good writing helps. Pauline Kael disliked Chaplin’s Limelight for all the reasons I loved it. And still it’s hard to disagree with her. Talk about learning on the job! When Jean-Luc Godard [we miss you too;( reviewed J. Lee Thompson's Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) he apparently dismissed it feeling that it should be a comedy rather than another serious Brit film.
John Williams’ theme for The Fabelmans seems as simple as if a famous composer. Irony. Just when you thought notes would run out of memorable melody…
You do what your heart says you have to. ‘Cause you don’t owe anyone your life. Not even me.
Champagne carpet?! OSCARS! You makin’ fun of creatures with special needs?! Sometimes we just show LOVE. LOVE LOVE.
O Courage, could you not as well
Select a second place to dwell,
Not only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me?”
