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Lou (2022), dir. by Anna Foerster

I'm Allison Janney and I play Lou in "Lou." This movie is a thriller with action, some people might call it a thraction movie. (…) I've always secretly wanted to be an action hero.

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#157: Lou (2022, dir. by Anna Foerster)

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Lou (2022) Anna Foerster

January 21st 2023

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Lou (2022) Anna Foerster

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Lou (2022)

My rating: 5/10

Typical Netflix movie: It's fine, and I watched it all the way through, but it's way too unremarkable to make me ever want to watch it again.

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LOU (2022) ★★★★☆

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UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS, 2016

Anna Foerster

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Lou (2022) dir Anna Foerster

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Logan Marshall-Green as Philip ⤷ Lou | dir. Anna Foerster

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I found OL on Netflix in the summer of 2021 by pure coincidence

And you're right, nothing compares to the magic of the first season

That female gaze is clearly evident in Anna Foerster’s direction of the wedding episode

And You're always welcome to come to Saudi Arabia

Dear (returning) Saudi Arabian Anon,

Thank you so, so much for coming back with more, so I hope you won't mind if I'd gladly like to continue our dialogue of sorts.

Yes, Anna Foerster did wonders for OL and singlehandedly elevated what could very well be pathetic porn to flawless Art, which is spectacular and responsible for at least half of the immediate sympathy (and more...) tsunami, on behalf of These Two and of the whole project. I personally did find Gabaldon's gaze a bit wanting when it comes to intimacy, but cannot really blame or fault her: I think it might be a generational thing, rather. What the series brought to this was novelty and magic and (well, yes...) truth. When you add these three elements, the result is dynamite.

Take this particular (very loaded) moment, for example:

This is a woman's gaze on an intimate scene totally (shamelessly?) owned by another woman. He is under her spell and happy to remain there (for the rest of his life, as we know from the books) and this is Moment Number Two - not yet love (that would be Tartan Moment Number Three, in my book), but raw (and yes, very modern), devastating physical attraction. The genius is to put that very cerebral, almost subdued filter on the circumstance and let the tiny gestures (his hand throwing the shirt in concession) speak for themselves.

What episode of Season One did you like the most? And what do you think about the IC's work in the last seasons, ignoring for a moment the fact that, according to the last SAG-AFTRA agreement with TPTB, their presence on set is now almost mandatory when nudity scenes are scripted?

And yes. I shall definitely come visit. Now yes. More than ever :) I raise you a coffee in Athens or wherever I might be posted next on this planet. Deal, Anon?

Thank you!

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Dune: The Sisterhood still has some legs:

Denis Villeneuve still on as Executive Director

New Director in Anna Foerster

Great new casting news in Olivia Williams and Johdi May are joining Emily Watson, Mark Strong and Travis Finnell

Diane Ademu-John stays in as creator, writer and Executive Producer.

Based in the novel Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert.

Uncertainties abound due to the ongoing US writer’s strike, but UK casting seems to be moving things along.

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“I’m more interested in looking for something transitory than in producing a conclusion.”

Pierre Huyghe

“I’m interested in contingency,” the French artist Pierre Huyghe has said. “Of what is not predictable. Of what is unknown. I think that has somehow been a core of my work.”1 Pursuing interests in contingency and unpredictability, Huyghe creates art forms that incorporate living organisms, such as dogs, turtles, spiders, peacocks, ants, and bees. Over the course of an exhibition, his living works of art grow, decay, and die. Huyghe said, “They are not made for us. They are not made to be looked at. They exist in themselves.”2

Throughout his career, Huyghe has experimented with many mediums and technologies, including film, sculpture, photography, music, and living ecosystems. At the outset of his career, Huyghe collaborated with artists whose work explored human relations and their social context; to describe their interests, the curator and art critic Nicolas Bourriaud coined the term Relational Aesthetics. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Huyghe’s works often reenacted notable artworks or popular footage from mass media. In Silence Score (English Version), a musical notation of John Cage’s pivotal composition 4'33", he created a readable score for the silent piece using a computer algorithm.

In 1997, with artists Charles de Meaux, Philippe Parreno, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and curators Xavier Douroux and Franck Gautherot, Huyghe cofounded a film production company called Anna Sanders Films. They named the company after a fictional character first developed in a magazine released in 1997. Blanche-Neige Lucie, the company’s first film, stars Lucie Doléne, the voice actor who dubbed the Disney character Snow White in French, and who won a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Corporation for the rights to the reproduction of her voice. The film features Doléne humming the melody of “Someday My Prince Will Come” in an empty film studio, facing the camera, while her story is told through the subtitles. The work explores how a voice can be used to create a character, and who then owns that product.

The Host and The Cloud fuses scripted action and improvised narratives generated by the actors. The yearlong project records theatrical events that took place in an abandoned museum in Paris on three holidays: the Day of the Dead, Valentine’s Day, and May Day. In a variety of fictional settings, 15 actors clad in LED masks perform alongside puppets and animation. These spontaneous elements reflect Huyghe’s interest in contingency and adding dynamic layers to his storylines.

Originally created for Documenta 13 in 2012, Huyghe’s Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) is a reclining female nude whose head is covered by a live beehive. The work was part of an entire ecological system the artist created in a composting area in Karlsaue Park in Kassel, Germany. In a video Huyghe filmed during the exhibition, his camera captured a wide range of beings at different scales, including minute species that are barely visible to the naked eye. Huyghe aims to “intensify the presence of things, to find its own particular presentation, its own appearance and its own life, rather than subjecting it to pre-established models.”3 With interest in “the transitory state, in the in-between,” his complex worlds blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, the physical and the virtual, and the real and the fictional.4 In 2015 and again in 2023, the statue found itself in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden, placed in a new context and in conversation with other works of art. During the summer, the bees travel in and out of the garden to pollinate and build their hive.

Huyghe’s artistic practice reflects his belief that life is in constant flux, and that all beings exist beyond the perceivable realm of human senses and knowledge. By engaging with unconventional materials and technologies, he provides us with a way to see, feel, and experience the wild, untilled world we are living in.

Source: MoMA / Pic: YBCA

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There isn’t anything new here. Only it’s gender-swapped and more contrived than those that came before.

Lou is a 2022 American action thriller film directed by Anna Foerster. The film stars Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Logan Marshall-Green, Ridley Bateman, and Matt Craven. 

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Underworld Blood Wars

2016

Directed by Anna Foerster

5.5/10

Watched 10 August

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Underworld 6: Rise of the Vampire (2025)

"Underworld 6: Rise of the Vampire," the latest installment in the iconic vampire franchise, promises to deliver even more dark fantasy and intense action. Directed by Anna Foerster, this film continues the saga of Selene (Kate Beckinsale) as she battles to protect her kind from new threats. With stunning visuals and a gripping storyline, fans of the series can expect an epic continuation of the vampire-werewolf war

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Dune: The Sisterhood Creative Shakeup Causes Re-Casts

Anna Foerster, Olivia Williams, and Emily Watson now star in the upcoming series, set in the 'Dune' universe, which centers on the lives of the fabled religious sect trained to resist the Voice. from AWN Headline News https://ift.tt/rgLEUxf