Last (x) movies you saw

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

Anybody here on http://letterboxd.com/ ? Social network thing for films, where you can do what we basically do here: list watched films, give ratings, reviews. Also you can make lists, follow friends, etc.
It's still in beta testing, and you'll need an invite to join - I have an invite going spare if anyone's interested in checking it out (that person will then receive 3 invites of their own to send out). It's much, much better than Flixster of what-have-you. It's a nicely designed, easy to use site, imo. Anyway, holla if you want the invite.

I'm : http://letterboxd.com/davidm2000ad/ btw

― DavidM, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968) 5/5

Really want to see this - not a failure at all then?

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

I thought it was slightly short of being sublime — amazing photography, hysterical and surreal dialogue (and costumes), and an absolutely stunning setting. The stars are the only thing that keep it from being more widely recognized as a masterpiece, imo — but they are a huge part of the reason it is so great.

― tanuki, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

great, thx for saying a bit more.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha, I saw Boom! in a beautiful print at Lincoln Center about 5 years ago. It's dreadful, but not boring.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

xyzzzz, i agree w/ you about the eel - i remember it being a bit baggy and all over the place - but really enjoyed a recentish home viewing of his vengeance is mine, which is a lot more 'together', even p exciting in places, and yet still has a 'sociological' emphasis on poverty, prostitution etc. i saw imamura's remake of the ballad of narayama many years ago, and the only thing i can recall now is a scene where an old woman smashes her own teeth out, deliberately (for reasons i can't recall!)

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 24 March 2012 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah think I saw that years ago, totally forgot about it till now and it was p solid iirc.

On the theme of poverty/prostitution I'd like to see The Pornographers, looks promising.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's not great

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Distant Voice, Still Lives (1988, Terence Davies) 4/5
trilogy (1976-83, Terence Davies) 2/5
Keyhole (2011, Guy Maddin) 3/5 (tentative)
The Deep Blue Sea (2011, Terence Davies) 3/5
Queen of Diamonds (1991, Nina Menkes) 3/5
Attenberg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari) 4/5
La Terra Trema (1948, Luchino Visconti) 4/5
Reenactment (1968, Lucian Pintilie) 4/5
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975, Andrzej Zulawski) 2/5
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011, Lasse Hallstrom) 1/5
The Oak (1991, Lucian Pintile) 4/5
Detachment (2011, Tony Kaye) 1/5

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Henry Poole was Here
Muppets Take Manhattan
Doctor Zhivago
Fools Rush In

― *tera, Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

Adam Bruneau: When I saw Paper Moon as a kid on VHS I kept rewinding to the part where they make change for $10. I wanted to learn how to do that swindle and make so much money, ha!

― *tera, Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kuroneko
Apollonides (sp?)
Un Ete Brulant

― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

Have been watching a lot of pulpy things recently.

The Oregonian 3.5/5
Possession 5/5
Dale & Tucker vs Evil 3/5
Don't Torture A Duckling 3/5
Lizard In A Woman's Skin 4/5
Night Of The Hunted 4.5/5
To Live & Die In LA 5/5
Miami Vice 4/5
S. Darko 4/5
Paris Is Burning 5/5
The Shrine 2.5/5

― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

How was Kuroneko?

― tanuki, Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Night of the Hunter
Brute Force

― *tera, Thursday, 29 March 2012 05:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011)
The Awakening (Nick Murphy, 2011)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2011)
The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986)

http://letterboxd.com/davidm2000ad/

― DavidM, Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)-really enjoyed this film!

― *tera, Sunday, 1 April 2012 05:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

Mexico: the Frozen Revolution (Raymundo Gleyzer, 1973) - doc detailing the history from the Mexican revolution and how that ws suppressed by the emergent middle class culminating in the '68 student murders. Its a familiar story, leaves wanting more details and questions...

Salaam Dunk (David Fine, 2011) - as part of the Human Rights fest at the ICA. A heartwarming story around the university's Iraqui Women's basketball players and their American coach - can't doubt the personal good intentions, unfortunately had to ask myself if this wasn't using culture to build bridges and 'civilise'.

Enchanted Earth (Glauber Roach, 1967) - drama of another revolution betrayed. Its told with a really unique style -- wilful obsfucation of plot satifyingly replaced with powerful allegory matched by pristine cinematography. A film where risks are truly being taken.

High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968) - fine and watchable but I'm hardly going to get behind someone that accepts the manipulative nature of docs by piling more of it. Easy answers.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

@tanuki "Kuroneko" is a beauty.

Ronin - Finally saw this. Was fun. Blu-ray looks amazing.

The Prowler

Rockers

― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Great Expectations (David Lean, 1946) 3.5/5
Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987) 5/5
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011) 4/5
Butterflys Tongue (Jose Luis Cuerda, 1999) 4/5
Parked (Darragh Byrne, 2011) 1/5
The Firm (Alan Clarke, 1989) 4/5
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) 3/5
The Sleeping Voice (Benito Zambrano, 2011) 3/5

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Sunday, 1 April 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Long, Long Trailer

― *tera, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 05:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

I liked Wiseman's High School and Hospital.

― *tera, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Song of Summer (Ken Russell, 1968) 4.5/5
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1994) 3/5
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986) 3/5
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) 5/5
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992) 4/5
The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977) 3/5
The Debussy Film (Ken Russell, 1965) 4/5
Always on Sunday (Ken Russell, 1965) 3.5/5

― tanuki, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

eating raoul ('82 bartel)
lips of blood ('75 rollin)
the nude vampire ('69 rollin)
killing car ('89 rollin)
13 going on 30 ('04 winick)
your highness ('11 gordon green) (-3/5 btw)
the piano teacher ('02 haneke)
no strings attached ('11 reitman)
two girls and a guy ('97 toback)
the end of violence ('97 wenders)
new york stories ('89 allen/coppola/scorsese)

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors

Oh my lord what a film. Was a bit tired when I started watching but the whole thing jolted me awake, such a weird film, really doesn't seem like it's nearly 50 years old.

― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 6 April 2012 10:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh yeah that's great. was this the hawk & a hacksaw remix thing?

― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 6 April 2012 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

No, just got the straight DVD. Can see how AHAAH would be perfect to do stuff for that. The OST is amazing.

― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 6 April 2012 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

they sorta skimmed in & out of suiting the film. but the film was beautiful, yeah, the light and the colour's gorgeous, he really knew how to spin a camera around for the sheer messy optics of film grain, i feels so delirious sometimes

― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 6 April 2012 10:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

British Sounds (JLG, 1969)
Climates (Nuri Ceylan, 2006)
Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010)

Re-watched:
Karate Kid and about half of Lawrence of Arabia - knew the boy's own bullshit would put me to sleep (really in need due to flu recovery) and right enough it did.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

Times Square (1980, Allan Moyle) 3/5
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976, John Cassavetes) 4/5
It's Only Money (1962, Frank Tashlin) 3/5
The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies) 4/5
The Big Lebowski(1998, Joel Coen) 3/5
Hard Times (1975, Walter Hill) 4/5
Sleepwalk (1986, Sara Driver) 2/5
Four Lovers (2010, Antony Cordier) 2/5
Las Acacias (2011, Pablo Giorgelli) 3/5
Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo) 5/5

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 April 2012 11:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

nuri ceylan is good, he is an exemplar of the current sort of /international style/ of ~serious cinema~ that might be transposed from one continent to another, while allowing a sensitivity to local climate, myths, decor etc

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kind of, see it as a continuation-furthering of a style that began in parts of SE Asia in the 80s.

Haven't seen his new one..

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Divide (2011)-yuk!
Our Idiot Brother (2011)

― *tera, Monday, 9 April 2012 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Times Square and Eating Raoul were two films I watched pretty close together when I was in this 80's film phase for a month. Foxes(1980) was what I watched right after Times Square as a double feature.

― *tera, Monday, 9 April 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

requiem for a vampire (rollin '71)
late marriage (kosashvili '01)
30 minutes or less (fleischer '11)
same time, next year (mulligan '78)
friends with benefits (gluck '11)
the crazy family (ishii '84)
nights of cabiria (fellini '57)
la ronde (ophuls '50)

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

<3 la ronde

― tanuki, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Old School (Todd Philips, 2002) 2/5
The Shootist (Monte Hellman, 1966) 3/5
The Awakening (Nick Murphy, 2011) 3.5/5
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011) 3.5/5
Best Laid Plans (David Blair, 2012) 4/5
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) 4.5/5
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011) 3.5/5
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) 4.5/5
Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, 2007) 3.5/5
They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey, 1971) 4/5

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not Reconciled (Straub-Huillet, 1965) - hilariously imcomprehensible.
Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006) - best film about football - hardly much competition on that front tho'.
This is not a Film (Jafar Panahi, 2011) - much funnier than I thought it was going to be. And goes w/out saying, its a superlative film.
Fire in Babylon (Stevan Riley, 2010) - doc about the 15 year period of West Indian dominance. Not sure about some of the claims of the team's significance outside the cricket - wanted more on that, and maybe a chunk of an update post-dominance too and for the claims to be examined in relation to that.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

As a Windies fan, i enjoyed Fire In Babylon but it didn't really do enough to convey their sporting brilliance or provide much meat on the broader political significance.

Rather glad they didn't provide a post-dominance update though :(

― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Bored at home with the kids this week and we have watched

Matilda (1996) - funny & cute & weird Dahl adaptation with a truly unnerving scary woman.
Catwoman (2004) - I think we're the only people in the world who quite liked this.
The Dark Knight (2008) - Awesome fun but over-long imo.
Stuart Little 2 (2002) - meh, but my daughter liked it.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) - entertaining and quirky Vampire/freak thing based on books my son loved.

― we are not bemused (onimo), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

then 'Enter The Dragon' tonight <3

― we are not bemused (onimo), Thursday, 12 April 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

john carter 1/5
beyond atlantis 2/5
the kid with a bike 4/5
four flies on grey velvet 4/5 (lovely new blu-ray, watched on a massive screen mmm)
the house of laughing windows 3/5
scream 4 3/5
cold prey 2: resurrection 3/5

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 April 2012 08:06 (1 year ago) Permalink