I mean, there aren’t many characters in the movie that had a very detailed conventional characterization.

I can totally see that. So many little moments in the movie made me gasp, or brought me on the verge of tears.

Blatantly emotional as it was, I really loved that final “afterlife” scene. Really tied everything together, what with the timelines colliding and unspoken repressed emotions brought out in the open.

Not film, though. It’s shot on a digital camera that...claims to be like 65mm film?

Haven’t seen their earlier films, but this one basically had the problem you mentioned. The first half perfectly works as an abstract showcase of crazypants montage, imagery, and sound design. But the second half is one massive shootout where you’re probably supposed to somewhat care about who’s trying to kill who…

I’m always astonished, I’m sure you are too, you can go on Apple TV now and see that Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow made a movie together that I never heard of.

Sure, it’s a consensus choice., but I think “consensus” in this case just means “a superposition of a bunch of people’s tastes.” For example, I know that at least one of the writers who contributed to this list doesn’t think The Big Lebowski is all that great (it’s just like, his opinion, man) and I kind of feel the…

Most of them are freelancers though...

That said, I can’t imagine Lebowski not being number one. I don’t like it as much as Out of Sight, but it’s had a much bigger impact on cinema and culture than the latter.

Kinjamprove has a block feature. I know, it sucks that you need a third party add-on for that, but still...

Were you disappointed by the film as a whole, or mostly by its second half? In the former case, Lanthimos probably isn’t for you, but in the latter, you might try Dogtooth, which is basically The Lobster’s first half confined to one family, with a clever narrative.

It’s terrific. Like The Lobster, characters are living lives based on insane rules but, like The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the story is mostly confined to a single family. I think it has the best premise of any of Lanthimos’ films, and the best execution of it (that I have seen). Of course, it’s just as cruel and darkl…

Have you seen Dogtooth? That’s my favorite of his.

It’s March (Cap Marvel) en May (Avengers), so the former will still be in theaters when the latter hits (like this year with Black Panther and Avengers 3).

Given the fairly poor reception in Cannes, they probably want to re-edit first, or something along those lines. That, or an awards campaign, but that doesn’t seem as likely.

(...) and too under-conceived to hold anyone’s interest, including the camera’s.

That wouldn’t be a bad idea (it’s not like Waltz was well-used anyway).

James Schamus’ recent adaptation of Indignation turned out really well, for those interested in a good page to screen translation of Roth’s work.

For reference, this is the Climax poster Dowd is talking about:

Actually, by that metric not even House of Cards is a global Netflix Original. At some point, before Netflix was launched in France, a French network had the rights to the show. I think Netflix bought them back, but it shows these kind of rights issues are weird.