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The 'depraved' 'Neon Demon' got booed at Cannes and now I want to see it more
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"Totally off the boil"? "Completely cuckoo"? "Slick with blood and glitter paint"? "Descent into supermodel hell"? Count me in! The few formal reviews published so far have been similarly enticing, with Variety's Owen Gleiberman stating in his altogether mixed assessment: "Beauty mingles with mangled flesh, and each fastidiously slick image seems to have come out of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me or The Shining or a very sick version of a Calvin Klein commercial." Telegraph critic Robbie Collin, meanwhile, called it "depraved" (and not necessarily in a bad way).

For all I know, The Neon Demon will enrage me just as much as it did that Spanish heckler, but I'm all right with that. As much as Refn's last film Only God Forgives confounded me and occasionally tested my patience, there are moments and scenes (particularly one scene) that have burrowed themselves deeply into my psyche. Refn imbued that film with a dreamlike, often nightmarish, quality that I haven't managed to completely shake, and I'll take that feeling over the dispensable buzz of a serviceable-but-unimaginative crowd-pleaser like The Conjuring any day of the week. The horror genre is supposed to be transgressive, and we need more movies like The Neon Demon -- hecklers be damned.

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2006 300
2004 Dawn of the Dead
2011 Sucker Punch
2009 Watchmen
2013 Man of Steel
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Have not seen:
2010 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
 
jerseydevil said:
Kevin Smith Wants to Direct Episodes of ‘Daredevil’ and ‘The Defenders’
http://collider.com/kevin-smith-daredevil-season-3-defenders/
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If he can get Rosario Dawson to dance again in Daredevil, well, I am all for it. ;)

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The Neon Demon sorta looks like a David Lynch movie too me. And since it doesn't seem like we're getting any new films from him anytime soon...
 
Considering directors to put in the quiz thread started me wondering who are the notable auteurs of today? When considering an impressive directorial oeuvre, the same names from 20, 30, 40 or more years ago are still the ones that come first to mind. Maybe Fincher is the newest that comes to my mind, but there have to be also some even newer directors starting to put together an important body of work, yes?

Here's a brief article with an interesting perspective that eschews such a search…

Death of the auteur

The "auteurs" are still out there, but most of them bore me. Don't get me wrong: directors all have their moments here and there. It's just that I can't be bothered to wait around for them any more.

Instead, I've been seeking out other ways to discern great bodies of work united by a single, non-directorial figure, but not necessarily dominated by them. I think of someone like Charlie Kaufman, who is far more the auteur than the relatively characterless directors who have so far brought his scripts to life on screen. Or the German cinematographer Robby M?ller, whose silvery palette unites films as diverse as Kings of the Road, Repo Man and Dead Man. Right now I'm keeping a weather eye out for anything shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, who lensed Ali, The New World and Children of Men, more than enough evidence of quasi-authorship for me.
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I'll tell you...saw Neon Demon tonight, and you have to put NWR on that list. Not sure what I saw or whether I liked it...but that movie gave zero ****s.
 
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