Last (x) movies you saw

I finally saw Control. It was pretty good.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 11 March 2012 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Footprints On The Moon (dir L Bazzoni, 1975) got watched at film club last night. Was considering a double-bill with Bazzoni's 'The Fifth Cord' but didn't quite manage it.

Footprints is a hell of a visually striking film, amazing architecture and interior design all through, and Florinda Bolkan is perfect for those surrounds. The ending is so brilliantly done.

― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 11 March 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

dont avntgrd film bros generally poop on decasia

yes!

and they are in turn pooped on by me

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 March 2012 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Laura - this ws awesome, v funny. Tierney is gorgeous, found myself wanting imperfections tho'.
Renoir - La Chienne. Really good, didn't think the tracking shot up and down the building worked, or what that was for. The thing itself ws good.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2012 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

the makioka sisters
die hard 1-3
la pianiste
carnage
marcy mae bla

cbfed finishing blank city & a dangerous method which means both of those films are empirically worse than die hard 2

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 01:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

how was The Makioka Sisters?

― tanuki, Monday, 12 March 2012 01:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's sweet, very well observed and mostly quite subdued

the tanizaki novel is v canonical in japan & it's maybe a bit 'dutiful literary adaptation'

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 01:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

That novel and Some Prefer Nettles have been on my list for a while. Starting Sōseki's Kokoro next so I can get up on my Japanese literature.

― tanuki, Monday, 12 March 2012 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

I had trouble finishing Carnage and it's only 80 mins long

― Number None, Monday, 12 March 2012 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

surely u didnt find it boring? it is pretty trying tho, certainly, and a minor film but even minor polanski is worth seeing

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

It wasn't funny basically, which i thought was the point. And obviously you're meant to find the characters annoying but in that sense i thought it worked a bit too well

― Number None, Monday, 12 March 2012 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

they were supposed to prettty unbearable and they were, it had a cumulative effect of utter acrimonious hatefulness that put me in mind of haneke, or some of that new french extremity stuff like seul contre tous

which is quite impressive given he is just filming some 'controversial' 'thinkpiece' theatre rather than a screenplay full of stabbings and dead foetuses and the like

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Woman In Black- really nice gothic horror which suffered from showing the woman in black up close, otherwise good.
The Grey - maybe the best horror film I've recently seen, cause I'm terrified of wild dogs, wolves, nature in general.
Babydoll - kind of a sexy movie in a uncomfortable way
Borderland - why are so many movie about mexico shot in that color?

― JacobSanders, Monday, 12 March 2012 04:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lars and the Real Girl - loved this
A Separation
Agora - unwittingly channels Life of Brian early on with the crowd scenes and stonings, but the final act redeemed it.
The Woman in Black
You, the Living - seen this many times, but watched via a UK HD channel and it looks so beautiful in hi-def. Wish Andersson's stuff would come out on blu.
Cold Fish - pretty nuts, certainly not what I expected.
The Guard - tone a bit sketchy, but some good stuff. Gleeson awesome as ever.

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 12 March 2012 07:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

I loved Decasia. Boo all the rest of you.

― emil.y, Monday, 12 March 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

</i>The Grey - maybe the best horror film I've recently seen, cause I'm terrified of wild dogs, wolves, nature in general.</i>

i loved this too. its refreshing to see a horror/action movie with a bit of heart for a change.

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 12 March 2012 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

Project X lol

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2012 17:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

I caught the last part of The L Shaped Room, wishing I watched it from the beginning.

― *tera, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's a good movie. i always remember the club scenes, like i wish i could go to somewhere like that, on the end of my block, working musicians working.

― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lars and the Real Girl - loved this

gah. saw this a couple days ago. horrid! nothing credible about anything anyone in the movie said or did. perhaps that's okay as it's a fantasy of sorts in that it's set in a world devoid of conflict, difference and ill will. everyone in the film loves everyone else unconditionally, they all share the same basic point of view, and they all work hard to guarantee the best outcome for everyone. this is a potentially wonderful idea, but it's played out in such a simpering, witless, cutie-pie fashion that it killed any interest i had in the concept. and ryan gosling kind of freaks me out. i've seen him in three films now, and he's played the same bizarre, quasi-autistic cipher in each of them. soulful, romantic vacancy in lars and the real girl, pick-up-artist with a heart of gold vacancy in crazy stupid love, and homicidal, romantic vacancy in drive. it's fucking bizarre.

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

also:

i know who killed me - dumb, incoherent and relentlessly ugly, but strangely fascinating, especially as a portrait of its star

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

i mean, i know that's the CW on the film, but it's true, especially in the here and now

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

>i've seen him in three films now, and he's played the same bizarre, quasi-autistic cipher in each of them. soulful, romantic vacancy in lars and the real girl, pick-up-artist with a heart of gold vacancy in crazy stupid love, and homicidal, romantic vacancy in drive. it's fucking bizarre.

I'm not getting a buy in for the (almost) universal bromantic feelings for Ryan G from this post :D

I rly enjoyed Lars and it just felt like a sweet little film to me, didn't get a witless cutie-pie vibe at all but our mileage clearly varies.

Ryan departs from the template in Blue Valentine a bit, but not enormously. When I saw that I clocked his receding hairline in the first reel and figured that the T-1000's weakspot had been identified, but in fact he'd just had it cut to look like he's losing his hair, the bastard.

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

is carnage the one about parents?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah

― Number None, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

I really loved Blue Valentine, the space love hotel scene was great, and the ending was sort of devastating, it left me in tears.

― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Feel like I should watch it again - I might not have been in the right frame of mind for it, but didn't *quite* connect with it emotionally. The love hotel scene does stand out, and it was gorgeously shot throughout - remember the ending being almost excessively pretty to look at, and then the ace credit sequence.

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

saw blue valentine, completing my journey into the heart of gosling. liked it, though with reservations. took me nearly an hour to get on board, as the opening act felt a bit too "on the nose", as the brits say (overstated prettiness of the cinematography, all that blue, mom arriving just as the daughter's performance ends, gosling's dwell-perfect decoration of the old man's room), but the first date sequence sold me completely. LOVED the song & dance number, the dirty joke, the chemistry. and yeah, the final moments were quite moving - after the disappointingly overstated workplace dustup, anyway.

also, agree w bill that gosling's (finally) playing a more fully-rounded, credibly human character here. nice to see. shades of david arquette or jason lee, but without the jokes. a good performance if not a great one.

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

the brits don't say "on the nose".

― Number None, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

there you go. a number of ILXors seem to use the phrase to mean "too predictably *significant* in construction". being unfamiliar with that usage, i assumed it was a UK thing. if not, then not.

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

huh: according to the internet, it's an americanism. well i never.

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

contenderizer otn

― tanuki, Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, 1955) 4/5
Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998) 3/5
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) 4/5
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991) 4/5
Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira, 1956) 3.5/5
Gypsy (Mervyn LeRoy, 1962) 3/5
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976) 4/5
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) 4/5
Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009) 5/5
Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968) 5/5
Savage Messiah (Ken Russell, 1972) 5/5
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) 5/5

― tanuki, Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Saw the 1963 film of Lord Of The Flies last night. Hadn't thought I'd seen it before but I knew the ending. Of course we did it at school 30+ years ago but I thought I'd only seen clips in something else.
Was surprised on looking the film up on IMDB that it seems most of the actors only made that film since I thought I recognised a couple of faces. Though the change from prepubescent to adolescent to adult often winnows people out of singing/acting since voices change somewhat unpredictably & people get spotty.
I think it was pretty well done.
Director did the Marat/Sade in '67 and Mahabarata in the late 80s. I hadn't previously known those 2 were linked at all. Had thought that was an Indian series the BBC bought in. But didn't watch it so can't tell. Think the version I'm thinking of ties in with other things I was doing at the time so should be the right one though.
Looks like he, Peter Brook did a lot of work in France too.

Then semi watched the '67 Franco Zeffirelli version of The Taming Of The shrew this afternoon. Hadn't been aware of it before. Stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Michael York, Michael Horden etc.
Looks pretty lavish but I'm not completely sold on the ending. Ultraconservative gender politics, presumably has been usurped in various productions in various ways. Not going to please the feminists.
Methinks Will should rewrite. hoho.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

How was In the Realm of the Senses?

― JacobSanders, Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

I thought highly of it, though it does take a bit of endurance to get through. It is one of the most well-photographed films ever, imo.

― tanuki, Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

tristana (bunuel 70)
the isle (kim ki-duk 2000)
attack the block (cornish 2011)
we need to talk abt kevin (ramsay 2011)
glen and randa (mcbride 71)
the devil, probably (bresson 77)
natural enemies (kanew 79)
letter from an unknown woman (ophuls 48)

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

what can you tell me about "the isle"?

― tanuki, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's not too far from your above comment re: 'in the realm..'
didnt 100% work for me but it's p admirable & interesting

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

what can you tell me about how you got through we need to talk abt kevin?

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

i guess stubbornness?
i agree, it's p dire, tho tildas good

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

I loved Decasia. Boo all the rest of you.

― emil.y, Monday, March 12, 2012 9:47 AM (1 week ago)

I'll rep for decasia, I guess I can see ppl taking issue with it being schematic or a one trick pony or not very subtle in its message, but there are still sequences that are flattening with hallucinogenic power

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm a big fan of korean movies, which are often not for the squeamish, but I've never been able to dig those early kim ki-duk films. similar to gregg araki, it felt like the guy was trying too hard for some shock cinema brass ring. his later, quieter stuff like 3-iron was an improvement, but he's still in a like-not-love category.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

They Drive By Night (Walsh, 1940)
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Park and Box, 2005)
Easy A (Gluck, 2010)
Animal Crackers (Heerman, 1930)
Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1941)
Adam's Rib (Cuckor, 1949)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930)
Midnight in Paris (Allen, 2011)

All Quiet... was my clear favourite of that lot, with Adam's Rib and Midnight in Paris close behind. Liked/would recommend all of them though, with the exceptions of They Drive By Night and Easy A.

― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg, 2011) - comments on thread
Teorema (Pasolini, 1968) - v funny and awesome, had a coke afterwards.
Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1971) - in the Japanese films thread.
Pastoral Hide-and-seek (Terayama, 1974) - also on that thread.
The Eel (Shohei Imamura, 1997) - this ws ok (my library had it for some reason), can't really muster enthusiasm for his films for the most part - although I'd like to re-watch Profound Desire of the Gods again. I guess its the lack of new-waveness that grates, and when its famed like that I can't see the fuss. Its just some crime non-thriller, so what?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

framed, I mean.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

love The Eel's old-waveness

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol guess the lack of 'action' and its quirks are 'new wave' ingredients. Overall tho' I kept thinking Imamura = Chabrol.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Towelhead
Hook, Line and Sinker

― *tera, Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Watched Paper Moon last night, what an awesome movie.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink