#monday philm

[philhoffman]

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dean Trumbell, the Mattress Man, in PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[blogannaaaworld]

New #shoes means no more #monday #blues. ✨ #rubi #rubishoes #cotton_on #worklife #casual #earthcolors #philm ❤ (at Optum Global Solutions - Filinvest Cebu)

[donaldkingsbury]

Girl,

11,

brings AR-15

to Idaho hearing on gun legislation

ya. Just need to get

the NRA outta the way

& the gun industrial complex as well,

& everyone make their own guns.

We need to neuter the military,

Turn all foreign military bases into

Punk/improv/hip hop/goth

Bars and libraries,

Dismantle the alphabet gangs

Government needs to be volunteer

& EVERYONE involved,

Schools need to be open 24/7

Gardens need to be grown on roofs,

Vegetable & Fruit garden

In the back & front yeards

Schools need to be open 24/7

Geared around the individual students needs

Based in STEM,Feminism,Philosphy,Art

Improv,comedy,theater, theatre, cinema,philm & movies...

Everyone should create their own RELIGION

At 5 years old

Ten years old,

30 years old,

59,

81,

99 years old,

There needs to be free access to seeds

Access & control over the individual body

& all the choices that cum & come with it,

Girl, 11, brings AR-15 to Idaho hearing on gun legislation

Which is cool,

Hopefully she made the gun herself

#boredbytheyoungdulledbytheold #truthbomb #bebest #maga

#kingsburywine

[another-chorus-girl]

MOVIE MONDAY'S STREAM

Time again friends for another Philm! This Monday we watch the 2004 PotO film. Roasting is permitted but please be mindful and respectful to those who enjoy the movie.

Stream begins Monday night December 3 at 8:30 PM EST

[bvax]

Happy Monday! Playing with the #philm app. #bvax #chicago #monday #sweater #smile (at Chicago, Illinois)

[philhoffman]

This week's Monday Philm is The Boat That Rocked (2009), a perfect mid-summer movie and a perfect performance. If I was forced to choose, I might say the Count is my favorite PSH character of all time. He's very special, very warm, very true. I've written enough about Phil already this week, so I won't say much tonight—just that his laugh echoes through so much of this film.

“The only sadness tonight is that in future years there’ll be so many fantastic songs that it’ll not be our privilege to play. But, believe you me, they will still be written, they will still be sung, and they will be the wonder of the world.” Love you. Miss the privilege of watching you play in your way. Happy birthday, babe.

[philhoffman]

This week’s Monday Philm is The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), which I watched with the director’s commentary by the late Anthony Minghella. He is so brilliant and insightful, getting into some technical details about making this film, but he goes even deeper into the story and characters. Pretty eye-opening for me despite having seen Ripley several times before and also makes me want to check out the book even more!

Minghella spoke more on the narrative than on specific actors and performances, but he did have this to say about PSH: “And the wonderful Philip Seymour Hoffman, who I think has demonstrated the kind of versatility and range of his performances here, is in his element. [Phil] couldn’t be further from [Freddie] in his own life, but his ability to conjure this drawling, gross, and yet nevertheless human person Freddie Miles, who’s [also] fun, who feels what I think all the people in this movie feel—which is that if Dickie is estranged from them, it’s a terrible thing and there’s an enormous amount of jealousy on show in the film.”

Fave scene on this rewatch was the boat, Fred teasing Ripley— “How’s the peeping, Tommy? Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy...” Freddie’s amusement and disgust and shrewdness when it comes to Tom Ripley is on full display in his voice, his face, his body.

Tom Ripley you are my enemy for making jokes about Freddie Miles’ body (and also the multiple counts of murder). Frederico don’t listen to him I love your broad chest you are the only man in the world to me <3

Lately I feel like I’ve been absorbing an influx of absolutely incredible artistic minds and performances—studying some of Phil’s lesser-known theater pieces, Jeremy Strong’s work as Kendall Roy in last night’s Succession finale, hearing Minghella talk so sagely about Ripley and his influences and ideas. I haven’t synthesized it all yet and I don’t have anything to say about it, just reflecting that it’s been a very fulfilling and artistically rich time recently! 

[philhoffman]

Tonight's Monday Philm is The Party's Over/Last Party 2000, Phil's political documentary on the 2000 U.S. presidential election. Mostly just wanted to hang out with him tonight, and I'll definitely be writing more in the coming days, so here are some stills that jumped out to me during this watch. An essential film that understands how important close-ups of Phil's freckled hands and beard are.

[philhoffman]

This week's Monday Philm is A Most Wanted Man (2014), dir. Anton Corbijn. I've been wanting to rewatch this one recently. It's a very January film to me, both in style and in memory—it premiered 10 years ago in January at the Sundance film festival; I watched it for the first time almost exactly two years ago in January; it's of course one of Phil's final films.

I wrote a true review of tonight's viewing on letterboxd (in typical rambling, personal essay fashion), but I can always find more to say. There are moments I love just as much as the first time I saw them, like Günther drinking out of a Moomin mug, and things I feel like I've only noticed on this fourth(?) viewing—one very Philish expression Bachmann makes, his terrible parking job, the way he rubs a hand along his thigh as he interrogates Annabel.

Phil and his work have been part of my life long enough now that I can look back, which is a funny feeling—sometimes a complicated one, but mostly a comfort. I remember how much it hurt watching A Most Wanted Man for the first time, knowing it was one of the last PSH films I hadn't seen yet. I've shared it with people I love, including a friend who is no longer with us. I read the book, diving further into this le Carré world. I know there are good memories and painful memories wrapped up in this film for Phil's family and friends.

This is, unbelievably!, the fourth year I've spent watching at least one PSH film a week, but they're still fresh to me. I'm different, so they're different. I realize more and more what a privilege it is to grow and change alongside them, to learn new lessons, to appreciate Phil as an actor, an artist, a man, a person in deeper ways. I'm just trying to slow down and remember that the next few weeks.

[philhoffman]

Slightly belated Monday Philm this week is State and Main (2000), which I always like to revisit at this time of year as fall starts and the High Holidays begin. Cozy quirky New England town + ambiguously Jewish PSH = the perfect Rosh Hashanah movie ("Gut yontif.")

If this movie was nothing more than Joseph Turner White walking forlornly around a small Vermont town, it would still be one of my favorites. In fact, it would probably be better because it wouldn't have Alec Baldwin and his plot line! But despite its flaws, it's still a very funny satire on the film industry. I think William H. Macy wins for most lines that make me laugh out loud: "So why don't you sue me in the World Court?" "Get outta here or we're gonna have you killed."

Joe White 🥰 Glasses that sit too high on the bridge of his nose and a little ducktail tuft of hair that sticks up over the back collar of his jacket and bandaids on his fingers. A fan favorite PSH performance for good reason!! This wasn't a part written specifically for Phil, but he's perfect for it—the right kind of bumbling sweetness and awkward insecurity and outstanding comedic timing. It's fun to see him play "normal" but also such a stylized character (how normal can a Mamet character can be, after all).

I love the scene in the hotel room when Joe is wearing that gray quarter-zip. He looks so huggable. His gestures—restless hands, every tic of his head, elastic expressions—are like exaggerated versions of Phil's own. Phil even said Mamet had to keep telling him to keep his mouth closed because he kept doing that absentminded open mouth thing lmao

ALSO my most extremely shocking discovery on this viewing was that Joseph Turner White smokes??? For about five seconds, when Ann returns to his hotel room to give him the fishing lure, he's in the background holding then stubbing out a smoking cigarette, next to a pack and a lighter? Had to rewind and watch that half a dozen times bc it surprised me so much!

[philhoffman]

This week's Monday Philm is Magnolia (1999), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, which has been on my mind for a while. I haven't watched it in over a year but small things keep reminding me of it—songs, actors I see in other projects, lines and ideas.

It turned out to be a perfect film for Yom Kippur, too. YK is the holiest day of the year and it's all about teshuvah—repentance and atonement, reflecting on the year and seeking forgiveness. That matches up well with the themes in Magnolia: "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." Every character is so lonely, everyone has done wrong or been wronged or both, everyone is dealing with the past that ties them together and won't let them go.

We fast for 25 hours to reach a higher level of spirituality—to put aside human needs like food and sex, to be more like angels—which reminds me of what PSH said about his angelic nurse: "[Phil Parma] probably has problems, but Phil’s not gonna be worrying about his skeleton in his closet because he’s got someone dying in front of him… He might’ve gotten in a fight with some girl a week ago, he said the wrong thing, it bothers him, but the next day he’s showing up at work at Earl Partridge’s house… It’s very selfless. He’s really putting himself aside for other people and therefore pretty much enriching himself."

Magnolia always makes me emotional, apparently even more so when I'm tired and hungry and otherwise afflicted. Burst into tears when Linda comes home and yells at Phil Parma for being on the phone, not because she hits him or because it's so intense or because they're both crying—but because the scene is filmed entirely over his shoulder and I was sad we couldn't see his face. PTA put so much of Phil Hoffman into Phil Parma, it's even easier to miss him when you watch it. I just wanted to see more of his sad, beautiful face.

[philhoffman]

Gave into the hype and decided to rewatch Mission: Impossible III (2006) for this week's Monday Philm. Listened to the commentary track by director JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise for fun. A lot of technical stuff ("This was L.A., this was Rome, this was L.A., this was Rome!") but they're both—Tom especially—soooo excited about the movie magic that it's contagious.

I was mostly interested in what they had to say about PSH, who of course they discussed at length during his couple of scenes. Mostly just both of them saying "oh my Gd, he's good" in various ways. They both fawned over the way Phil embodied Tom Cruise-as-Ethan Hunt when he's disguised as Davian—his mannerisms talking to Luther, the way he moves his body in the rafters (Cruise goes "He was a wrestler in high school. A very good athlete." lmao :')).

Phil did many (most?) of his own stunts—there are a few rougher moves where his stunt double took the brunt, but he was really hanging out of the plane upside down, several meters above the ground with just the camera below him, getting tossed into the desks and shoved up against the cabinets. Tom sounded very impressed with his willingness and commitment to doing so much practical stuff, it was very cute! At one point he and JJ both said "I love Phil!" at the same time 🥰

JJ mentioned at least three scenes which were cut or trimmed in the film's final version—an alternate, longer introduction of Davian arriving at the Vatican party, a version of Davian being moved from the plane to the truck with dialogue, and an extended final fight between Ethan and Davian. I think it's cruel and unusual punishment for JJ to even mention those scenes and put their existence into my head if I will never see them!!!

Really did not get much more about the film/story itself this time because they talked nonstop, but obviously Owen Davian still hot and evil. One thing I did realize is that I have probably been overlooking just how strange it was for Owen to suddenly find himself on the floor of a Vatican bathroom being straddled and held at gunpoint by his doppelganger. Like that's such a great bit but imagine how confusing that would be! He handled it relatively well, considering.

It's funny—I'm not sure Phil played two characters more different than Davian and Truman Capote, but there are two very specific moves he makes in MI3 that are soooo reminiscent of Truman. They're just the slightest movements—a lean, a wave of his hand—but it's like he hasn't completely worked Capote out of his system yet lol.

Watched in 4K which is sooooo gorgeous. I'm gonna have to remake my whole MI3 scene pack because the quality of this version is stunning. The sweat pouring down Davian's neck, the spilled wine dripping from his chin, the spit flying out of his mouth when he's screaming at Ethan... Many people hate JJ's visual style but I don't mind all the movement too much, and it looked incredible in such high definition. Plus, as I said, hot and evil PSH—of course he will look so sexy in 4K as he does in any resolution.

[philhoffman]

The first Monday Philm of 2024! The Savages (2007) is one of my favorite PSH performances and a favorite film in general.

I was always planning on starting the year with this movie, but some recent family issues over the last few weeks/days have made it more relevant than ever. End-of-life care for people you love but have complicated relationships with is hard! It actually hits so close to home it’s hard for me to write about it at the moment, but the comfort I get from revisiting this story and these characters is immeasurable.

The scene in these stills is always intense, but it really, really got me on this watch. The guilt, the inevitability, the frustration. And Phil. Once again, it’s not lost on me that the 10th anniversary of his death is in one month. I wrote a little more on letterboxd, but mostly I just really really really miss his presence in this world, the space he took up—with his body and mind and booming laugh and big hands and beautiful, loving soul—that is now so sadly empty.

I love you Jon Savage I want to cook you eggs for breakfast 🍳

[philhoffman]

Feelin’ the spooky season with tonight’s Monday Philm—My Boyfriend’s Back (1993), Bob Balaban’s teen zomcom which recently turned 30 years old!

I actually watched the Blu-Ray twice tonight—once with my mom then again with the commentary track by director Bob Balaban and actors Austin Pendleton and Mary Beth Hurt. The commentary (recorded around 2019) is really a hilarious good time. The trio obviously hadn’t seen the film since it came out 25 years earlier (or even thought about it, evidently) and spend the entire time guessing what’s going to happen and laughing heartily at every joke and memory.

When they start talking about Phil Hoffman as Chuck Bronski, you get the feeling that’s all they want to do. As soon as he appears, Austin Pendleton—who PSH credited as “discovering” him and was a very close friend and mentor—goes, “Oh, Phil. That’s Phil.” And in his next scene, in the same gentle, awed tone, Bob Balaban goes, “Oh, look at Phil. Phil.” Very evident and touching how much they loved him, how special it is to see him so young in this film ❤️❤️

[philhoffman]

For tonight's Monday Philm, I'm rewatching Along Came Polly—which I've seen a dozen times by now—but it wasn't until today I noticed the Sandy Lyle headshot on the wall at the Jesus Christ Superstar show is one of Phil's actual headshots from very very early in his career :')

[philhoffman]

This week's Monday Philm is, truthfully, one of my least favorites—but! we press on, with Strangers With Candy (2006). How much can I write about this movie? Not much. My favorite thing on this rewatch, though, was the sight gag between PSH (5'10" on a good day) and Allison Janney and Greg Hollimon (both over 6'0"). Phil-as-Henry looks so short!!!! Look at him!!!