Anna Biller

That was all I saw on Wednesday, but what did you see after?

Yes, I then saw Anna Biller's The Face of Horror.

This is her decade-in-the-making follow-up to The Love Witch, which I think is okay.

It has a really beautiful technicolor aesthetic that she very much helped cultivate.

It wears that artifice right on its sleeve, but it is just captivating.

I think the only issue I had with it is that it's two hours long and it kind of treads over the same confrontations and conversations and beats over and over again, especially, um, between Edward and Eleanor.

I feel like you watch the same argument, um, few times and i think if a more judicious editor had gone in and said like cut these scenes out like you have to pick between a couple scenes and they've gotten this down to like 100 minutes this would be an all-timer kind of vibes stoner comedy um i think it just misses that mark but it comes really close and it made me very excited to see what anna biller is going to do next

Yeah, that's great to hear.

So, yes, I have for number four...

I have The Love Witch from 2016, directed by Anna Biller.

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her with deadly consequences.

We watched The Love Witch for one of our Valentine's Day episodes, and it was a film that always circulated my, you know, general orbit, I would say, on social media.

I've heard about it.

I feel like, you know, I guess this is not a great person, but like Anna Biller is supposed to be making a blue beard movie.

That's the last time I've heard anybody like engage with it like that in the, in cinema.

But so it is a story about a wealthy man who basically, kills his wives and then um there's one that tries to avoid fate the fate of her like you know the previous wives i guess there's like a fate thing with this movie as well this is always going to happen to you that happens like towards the end uh so how do you feel about that because i i wasn't feeling like it was fate at first but maybe because i'm trying to figure out like Like, why are we hypnotizing people and making them kill their, like, you know, friends, relatives and other people? Like, what's going on? Like, is this fate? Like, everybody's fucking crazy.

Yeah.

yeah so this is a the thai horror director which you may know i know shutter and i think i like that movie a lot he's done the medium which i'm not familiar with um but yeah those those two definitely are on my radar so um other movies that they are the last day to hold the mountain mask again uh baz book A Mighty Adventure, The Match, Imperium, Dependence, Anna en Passant, I Plant My Hand in the Garden, Gentle Monster, Queer Edward II, Iron Boy, which is from a French animation director, maybe you know him, Louis Clichy.

Oh, he's done Asterix.

He's done a few Asterix movies, which I really liked the cartoon growing up.

Bin La Mana, The Idiots, which rings a bell.

Dependence, The Face of Horror.

Oh, that's the director, Anna Biller, who'd done The Love Witch, which I'd be meaning to see.

Hold the fucking... phone um the whisper of sunlight right oh which is directed by sue pong wong right name mightn't mean much to us offhand but that's the director of fish story man we love fish story i know it isn't actually hold on is that not right it says the previous works is fish story maybe that's a mistake Oh, I was about to get really excited a minute.

This is actually where it gets crazy.

Uh, directed by Anna Biller.

She directed The Hypnotist, Viva and the Face of Horror.

Written by Anne Biller, Anna Biller, who also wrote Viva and the Face of Horror.

Composed by Anna Biller-

Nice

... who also composed Viva.

The Umbrella copy that I got w- of The Love Witch actually came with Viva, which is another one of her films.

Yeah.

So it's, uh, Anna Biller, who, uh, did The Love Witch.

Um-

Mm-hmm

I don't wanna give it away, but I had a great time with that.

Also horror was, um, The Face of Horror from, uh, director, uh, Anna Biller, who directed The Love Witch.

What I loved about The Face of Horror was, uh, she always captures a vintage dynamic in her films, where The Love Witch was capturing '70s cinema.

The Face of Horror is a Technicolor.

Yeah.

Um, that being said, Anna Biller-

Look, watch the trailer.

You don't need to watch the movie.

The Love Witch was one I watched after that.

So we go back to the USA, 2018, directed and written by Anna Biller.

So this one is interesting.

I put it off for ages because I can see why the modern setting, but 1960s aesthetic doesn't work for people.