"[Verhoeven]’s always risking being misconstrued. He has this really impish, ironic sensibility where he genuinely loves the genres that he’s working in. So he’s making these films that function absolutely as just straight genre films, and then at the same time they’re incredibly politically subversive. Satire is harder and harder to come by because people don’t really have the nerve for it. They end up wanting to just explain themselves to make sure that they’re understood, which is not how satire should work. It should risk being misunderstood. There have been a lot of films of his that were not understood upon release, and that must have been painful for him. But he never learned the wrong lesson from that. If anything, he doubled down."
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Jerskin It
I'm at work so I haven't been able to watch this yet myself but I figure maybe some of you freaks will be as excited about this as I am -- Yorgos Lanthimos has directed a music video starring Emma Stone for a song called "Beth's Farm" off the upcoming album of Jerskin Fendrix, the dude who's composed music for Yorgos' last couple of movies. And that's the exact same music video I posted above! What a coincidence. Fendrix was a musician before he made the music for Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and Yorgos' upcoming movie Bugonia -- this song's off his second record, which is called Once Upon A Time. . . In Shropshire and out in October. You can pre-order it right here if you like what you hear above. All of this is well and good but will somebody tell me is "Jerskin Fendrix" is a real name or he made that thing up, because I definitely suspect the latter. I wanna be called Jerskin dammit.