Bruno Wilde https://brunowilde.com The Magazine Sun, 05 May 2024 02:48:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://brunowilde.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-G-Avatar-1-32x32.jpg Bruno Wilde https://brunowilde.com 32 32 Soho https://brunowilde.com/soho/ https://brunowilde.com/soho/#respond Sun, 05 May 2024 02:44:10 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=6612

It’s cumbersome, but important to remember that WordPress remains the posting entity (Divi being only a formatter and does not have posting capability). So, posting should be done in WP, and Divi will style it, which is done either through (1) the Divi Template, or bringing in content elements through (2) the Divi Layout import (which can be edited). But Cloning it would completely clone the post (including Title and Featured Image), so don’t do thatFrom the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. 

 

 

 

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The Swimming Pool https://brunowilde.com/the-swimming-pool/ https://brunowilde.com/the-swimming-pool/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 03:50:00 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=5611

It’s cumbersome, but important to remember that WordPress remains the posting entity (Divi being only a formatter and does not have posting capability). So, posting should be done in WP, and Divi will style it, which is done either through (1) the Divi Template, or bringing in content elements through (2) the Divi Layout import (which can be edited). But Cloning it would completely clone the post (including Title and Featured Image), so don’t do thatFrom the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. 

 

 

 

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Privates on Parade https://brunowilde.com/privates-on-parade/ https://brunowilde.com/privates-on-parade/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 03:45:12 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=6569

It’s cumbersome, but important to remember that WordPress remains the posting entity (Divi being only a formatter and does not have posting capability). So, posting should be done in WP, and Divi will style it, which is done either through (1) the Divi Template, or bringing in content elements through (2) the Divi Layout import (which can be edited). But Cloning it would completely clone the post (including Title and Featured Image), so don’t do thatFrom the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. 

 

 

 

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L’Avventura https://brunowilde.com/lavventura/ https://brunowilde.com/lavventura/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 03:27:03 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=6560

It’s cumbersome, but important to remember that WordPress remains the posting entity (Divi being only a formatter and does not have posting capability). So, posting should be done in WP, and Divi will style it, which is done either through (1) the Divi Template, or bringing in content elements through (2) the Divi Layout import (which can be edited). But Cloning it would completely clone the post (including Title and Featured Image), so don’t do thatFrom the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. 

 

 

 

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Redneck Mountain https://brunowilde.com/redneck-mountain/ https://brunowilde.com/redneck-mountain/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 06:23:24 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=5378

A RASCALLY LOOK AT MODERN COWBOYS. Starring Joey Davenport and Al Brown, this is an instant cult favorite. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Broderick Jones https://brunowilde.com/broderick-jones/ https://brunowilde.com/broderick-jones/#respond Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:36:00 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=5596

From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. From the Museum Collection comed “Redneck Mountain,” a rascally look at modern cowboys. Starring Joe Firth and Johnny Phelps, this is an instant cult favorite. 

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‘Titane’ is a blast. https://brunowilde.com/titane-is-a-blast/ https://brunowilde.com/titane-is-a-blast/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:27:39 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=3966

TITANE is a blast. From the opening scene it just says: here’s what I think of your sentimentality. Euro-cinema doing what it has always done best: being high fashion, provocative, and wildly innovative — The Neon Demon, Irreversible, Enter the Void. A genre mash-up, kind of a Rosemary’s Baby (defiant homage to Polanski?) involving (uh) intimacy with a car. The script might have used a little work, but you’re continually intrigued: stunningly beautiful, ludicrously violent, unpredictable set-pieces – choreographed almost like a musical. Awarded this year’s top prize in Cannes, it puts a dagger in the sand between two filmmaking worlds: could anyone even imagine this getting financed in the U.S., or by some corporate streamer? In this correct and mediocre age, apparently there is still a Europe.

Awarded this year’s top prize in Cannes, it puts a dagger in the sand between two filmmaking worlds: could anyone even imagine this getting financed in the U.S., or by some corporate streamer? In this correct and mediocre age, apparently there is still a Europe.

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‘Leviathan,’ big-canvas Russian epic. https://brunowilde.com/leviathan-big-canvas-russian-epic/ https://brunowilde.com/leviathan-big-canvas-russian-epic/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:26:12 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=3964

If “Russian masterpiece” were a style, LEVIATHAN was filmed in it. Karamazov-like bravado and religious parables plus a nonstop flow of vodka. Unsubtle visual political symbolism (the Putin state as rotting Hobbsian whale’s carcass), this one has racked up more 10 Best Lists than anything in 2014 (despite not coming out until 2015). Definitely unafraid of the “pretentious” label – solemnly paced, big canvas compositions, detailed and novelistically epic, it’s an enthralling watch. Could have done without the dated Philip Glass music, however.

 

Unsubtle visual political symbolism (the Putin state as rotting Hobbsian whale’s carcass), this one has racked up more 10 Best Lists than anything in 2014 (despite not coming out until 2015). Definitely unafraid of the “pretentious” label – solemnly paced, big canvas compositions, detailed and novelistically epic, it’s an enthralling watch. Could have done without the dated Philip Glass music, however.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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‘Dunkirk’: WWII fought by male models? https://brunowilde.com/dunkirk-wwii-fought-by-male-models/ https://brunowilde.com/dunkirk-wwii-fought-by-male-models/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:25:18 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=3962

I did not realize until seeing DUNKIRK that WWII was fought entirely by male models from the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. Nor that its commanders (like Kenneth Branagh) mostly stood around posing with binoculars, mouthing pieties through clenched jaws. Nor that this event, which in real life was about the boredom of 300,000 soldiers waiting nine days for evacuation, was instead a nonstop series of cliffhangers each a variation on the just-in-time-reprieve-from-a-rising-water-level-in-a-confined-space cliché. And that none of these squeakers contained even one ounce of drama (except stiff-upper-lip platitudes from Mark Rylance’s English everyman, and Churchill’s oddly out-of-place “we will fight them on the beaches” voice-over at the end).

Much of this film, with its mosquito-bomber action, resembles Wings minus that film’s human component. No doubt a milestone of digital spectacle (even though shot, for no reason, in 70mm), it is nevertheless a bore in less than two hours. The most unforgivable feature is a truly obnoxious wall-to-wall “sound-design” score by Hans Zimmer, basically one long factory drone gradually rising in pitch as the film wears on, making even this film’s few lines unintelligible. This recent innovation in film-music (now also de rigeur for straight dramas on cable TV) is meant to add a minimalist veneer of modern “irony,” so pervasive today that it will soon render these films as dated as Philip Glass muzak.

Good luck with that 96 Metacritic score. I’ll bet this “important” film is forgotten by Oscar time.

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Another look at ‘Cecil B. Demented’ https://brunowilde.com/another-look-at-cecil-b-demented/ https://brunowilde.com/another-look-at-cecil-b-demented/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:24:12 +0000 https://brunowilde.com/?p=3959

A film ahead of its time: I took another look at CECIL B. DEMENTED last night, a misunderstood film when it was released, still tragically neglected today. John Waters saw where movies were heading, and this futile rebellion is oddly heartbreaking in its portrayal of a gang of “cinema terrorists” who kidnap a movie star and force her to headline their radical agitprop manifesto. As they burn down a theater playing “Patch Adams (‘The Directors Cut’)” and disrupt a studio-shoot for “Forrest Gump, Part II,” their rallying cry (“Destroy Mainstream Cinema!”) could not be more resonant this summer. In its underground anger there has never been a more passionate cri de coeur of the cineaste (only Truffaut’s Day for Night compares). As we see everywhere the very real death of cinema, this film lifts the spirits.

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