NP - The Congress (2013)

Perry Noid coolwithdoc at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 08:46:45 CST 2015 

I thought the Congress was fantastic. I'm a borderline robot when it comes
to emotions but I can't count how many times I was on the verge of tears
watching this, and feeling like fool the next instant. Hard for me to say
what exactly it was that gripped me. Shades of Perky Pat and other recent
p-list mentionings (Grace Kelly even makes an appearance).

I can certainly see why some folks, like Bailey, not folks *like* Bailey,
wouldn't like, like the flick but I think it is at least worth seeing for
Robin Wright's performance. It does feel like a good choice for the p-list
to see. It's a better movie than "Cool World" at any rate, though I like
that one too.

The premise of the technology did not feel that far-fetched coming from
someone who plays a healthy amount of video games, which are increasingly
using full-body scans of actors to do pretty much whatever the designers
want them to do in the fictional world. Or even to do whatever the player
wants them to do. I wonder what kind of things they have done with Ms.
Joosten's character model that they haven't told her about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbPxvBbZAhs

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sightseers FTW!
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ben Wheatley and Ti West give me hope that the horror genre still
> breathes.
> > A field in England is wonderful.  He also directed a quirky serial
> killers on the loose on the road. Also worth seeing. BW is directing
> Ballards High Rise which I can't wait to see.
> > Ti Wests shorts on the VHS anthologies are good too
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Dec 14, 2015, at 3:43 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> One of the same friends who loves The Congress recommended Kill List!
> >> Which I didn't love at first but it's definitely stayed with me. Very
> >> Wicker Man (the original). As is House of the Devil, one of the best
> >> horror films in recent years.
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Me too, and thanks.
> >>>
> >>> (Waltz with Bashir was great.)
> >>>
> >>> 2015-12-14 7:11 GMT+01:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm in.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Sunday, December 13, 2015, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do a group watch! I'd be interested in the commentary on this film.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Mark Thibodeau <
> jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> Anyone out there with a Gmail account (which means you automatically
> >>>>>> have a Google Drive) who would like to see this, please let  me know
> >>>>>> and I'll "share" it with you on my Google Drive so you can watch my
> >>>>>> Cloud copy without having to download it or anything. Give me a
> couple
> >>>>>> hours to check the file for viruses and upload it to my Google
> Drive.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> J / MT
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:47 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> "the Congress" isn't on Nrtflix now.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Sunday, December 13, 2015, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I saw this on Netflix after two friends (both very smart, both
> work
> >>>>>>>> in
> >>>>>>>> the film industry) absolutely RAVED about it. But I found it so
> >>>>>>>> frickin' infuriating! Although the ending was good. I'm sure some
> >>>>>>>> P-listers will LOVE IT but it's almost the definition of a cult
> film
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> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Just saw The Congress(2013), a fantastic animated/live-action
> >>>>>>>>> sci-fi/fantasy
> >>>>>>>>> film written and directed by Ari Folman (Waltz With Bashir), very
> >>>>>>>>> loosely
> >>>>>>>>> based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, The Futurological Congress.
> >>>>>>>>> Basically,
> >>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> animated section of the film is a loose, backward rendering of
> the
> >>>>>>>>> novel's
> >>>>>>>>> concept. It also contains a couple-three Kubrick references -
> what
> >>>>>>>>> more
> >>>>>>>>> could you ask for! It doesn't seem to have gotten a theatrical
> >>>>>>>>> release
> >>>>>>>>> in
> >>>>>>>>> America. Just curious - has anyone seen it in a theater here
> >>>>>>>>> (clearly,
> >>>>>>>>> Dave
> >>>>>>>>> Monroe would have been most likely to answer that in the
> >>>>>>>>> affirmative).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkDyKWKNeaE
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Laura
> >>>>>>>>> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>>>>>>> -
> >>>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> >>>
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