The Bloody Act of Creation, Pt. 2 - Velvet Buzzsaw
The Next Picture Show
Filmspotting
4.6 • 858 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:17.1 | It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. |
| 0:20.8 | You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being? |
| 0:27.5 | We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us. |
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| 0:51.4 | During our last episode, we discussed Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood, a satirical horror film set in the Beatnik infested coffee shops of late 50s, California. This time we'll be discussing the latest film from Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy, the Netflix released Velvet Buzzsaw. That title's worth unpacking a bit. It's the name of the punk band that once counted Rodora Hayes, played by Renee Rousseau, as a member. That was decades ago, however. Now she works as a successful dealer in high art, with the Buzz Saw Tattoo in her neck, the only reminder of those days, and her DIY, screw the world, approach to art. But the thing about tattoos as they stick around, and the thing about art, |
| 1:27.9 | the film argues, is that it's always dangerous, no matter how much it gets wrapped up in the |
| 1:32.4 | mercurial movements of the marketplace. No matter how much you dress it up in velvet, art can still |
| 1:37.4 | cut. That's the controlling idea at the center of a sprawling movie that only reveals itself |
| 1:42.0 | as a horror film pretty deep into its running time, after introducing characters like a fussy but principal critic played by Jake |
| 1:48.2 | Geelenhall, an artist struggling to create while sober, played by John Malkovich, and a curator |
| 1:53.2 | trying to make a professional transition played by Tony Colette. Also in the mix, Rador's assistant |
| 1:58.3 | Josephina, played by Zawai Ashton, who discovers both the corpse of her neighbor and a cache of disturbing paintings in his apartment. |
| 2:05.2 | Ignoring his wishes, they be destroyed, she uses them to advance professionally. |
| 2:09.3 | But when they become an art world sensation, those who require and appreciate them start turning up dead. |
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