NP - The Congress (2013)

Mon Dec 14 16:51:58 CST 2015

Oh my god Perry, the Metal Gear series is Gravity's Rainbow the Video
Game. It's namechecked twice in Bleeding Edge (with creator Hideo
Kojima given a slightly positive reference).

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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