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Picking up from under the long white beard of this thread. We should be able to get a few years out of this one before it gets unwieldy.

Kicking off, here's my July 15th to 31st:

* The Thomas Crown Affair (Jewison, 1968) 📽️
* Bullitt (first three or four reels until the second projector broke: one had already died during Thomas Crown) (Yates, 1968) 📽️
Blade II (del Toro, 2002)
Ibiza (Richanbach, 2018) 📺
Hands Across The Table (Leisen, 1935) 📽️
* Bullitt (went back to see the latter reels) (Yates, 1968) 📽️
Leave No Trace (Granik, 2018)
Adult Beginners (Katz, 2014) 📺
The Apple (Golan, 1980)
* My Man Godfrey (La Cava,1936) 📽️
Blindspotting (Lopez Estrada, 2018)
Eighth Grade (Burnham,2018)
* Ronin (Frankenheimer, 1998) 📽️
To Live & Die In LA (Friedkin, 1985) 📽️
Across The Universe (Taymor, 2007)

The film ones were all on 35mm. The TV (streaming) ones were both bad.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 10 August 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link

what did you think of Eighth Grade & Blindspotting?

flappy bird, Friday, 10 August 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link

Deadpool 2 (4/10)
Comanche Station (7/10)
L'Amore Molesto (8/10)

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 August 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link

The Counselor (Ridley Scott/Cormac McCarthy, 2013). I saw this in a theater and didn't like it much, but recently learned that the Blu-Ray included a director's cut that was 20 minutes longer. I bought it on eBay for $5 and miraculously, the long version is a really good movie! Recommended.

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link

Eighth Grade I've said a little about in EIGHTH GRADE (2018, written & directed by Bo Burnham, starring Elsie Fisher) , but its most remarkable achievement is the way the audience get situated right with Kayla, both through Elsie Fisher's heart-open performance and the script. Everything feels as traumatic and monumental as stresses and anxieties do at that age, there's absolutely no adult tone present framing it as "one day she'll realise how minor all this was" or "oof, remember how that used to feel"." We're totally present in the milieu, despite so many elements deliberately excluding adult perspectives.

Blindspotting has a little first-film-iness to the script, but is totally carried by the onscreen charisma and chemistry of the writers. If civilisation lasts another ten years, it'll be interesting to see how much the tech-bro-gentrification themes feel like a period piece vs a valuable snapshot of a tipping point. Right now I imagine it'd be largely baffling to non-city-dwelling audiences.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link

xp wait, WHAT?

mh, Friday, 10 August 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link

Yeah wow, I actually have that blu ray, maybe I’ll watch it tonight

flappy bird, Friday, 10 August 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link

Secret of the Blue Room (Neumann, 1933)
*Lost Horizon (Capra, 1937)
#A Kiss in the Dark (surviving reels) (Tuttle, 1925)
#Too Many Kisses (Sloane, 1925) (personal festival highlight)
#Your Technocracy and Mine (Benchley, 1933)
#The Mad Game (Cummings, 1933)
#We Faw Down (McCarey, 1928)
#The House That Shadows Built (unidentified Paramount drudges, 1931)
#On the Brink (Porter & Weber, 1911)
#Romola (King, 1924)
*#The Cocoanuts (Florey & Santley, 1929)
#Mamba (Rogell, 1930)
#The Circus of Life (Julian, 1917)
#The Stolen Ranch (Wyler, 1926)
#Princess Lady Bug (Barker, 1930)
#The Storm (Wyler, 1930)
*#Brats (Parrott, 1930)
#Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (Del Ruth, 1934)
#A Daughter of the Law (Cunard, 1921)
#The Night of Love (Fitzmaurice, 1927)
#Television Highlights (Schwarzwald, 1936)
#School for Swing (Schwarzwald, 1937)
#It's Great To Be Alive (Werker, 1932)
*#The Coming of Sunbeam (Guy, 1913)
#Twenty Dollars a Week (Weight, 1924)
#Ed Sullivan's Headliners (Schwarzwald, 1934)
#Her First Mate (Wyler, 1933)
#Call of the Cumberlands (Lloyd, 1916)
#The Rescue (Brenon, 1929)

#Capitolfest 16, or J.Lu Yet Again Is Reminded that Not All Silent and Pre-Code Films Are Classics.

Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 13 August 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link

celebrating the new thread with some all timers (uk folks nuts in may is back on the iplayer!)

Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960) 9/10
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951) 10/10
Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959) 9/10
* Nuts in May (Leigh, 1976) 8/10
* Love and Friendship (Stillman, 2016) 7/10
Hereditary (Aster, 2018) 5/10
Ordet (Dreyer, 1955) 10/10

devvvine, Monday, 13 August 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link

I don't log short films like j.lu does, but I saw about 8 Sadie Benning videos (made in Pixelvision) that I last watched about 25 years ago; most of those would be 8-10/10.

Three Faces West (1940, Vorhaus) 6/10
*My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, Frears) 8/10
Flat Is Beautiful (1998, S Benning) (50min) 5/10
Swallow (1995, Subrin) (28min) 7/10
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958, Becker) 9/10
The Young Savages (1961, Frankenheimer) 5/10
Another Girl, Another Planet (1992, Almereyda) (56min) 6/10
Wake of the Red Witch (1948, Ludwig) 7/10
A Girl’s Folly (1917, M Tourneur) 7/10
Gavagai (2016, Tregenza) 4/10
Les Amis (1971, Blain) 5/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link

I'd suggest you watch more Davies as prep than Frears, but don't want to prescribe any other TV while yr still not moving forward on Twin Peaks

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link

Russell T. Davies, the writer of A Very British Scandal. Roughly every second of his works deals with different facets of men-attracted-to-men negotiating a homosociality within heteronormative culture - Very British Scandal is the first that is a period piece, rather than directly contemporary.

Cucumber, his previous main project (eight episodes, twinned with another series called Banana, and a docoseries called Tofu, all named for the hardness of erections), was the best thing he's done ime.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link

Laundrette's focus on gay stuff is at most 33%.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link

I just figured Frears was on yr slate because you'd said you were planning to watch Brit Scandal; to me he's a director who is efficient in service of a script's tone and agenda, rather than having an authorial throughline or preoccupations that can be tracked through his work.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link

if you watch the Laundrette Criterion supplements, he denies being an auteur while his producer insists that he is. Frears does say he considers his string from The Hit thru The Grifters to be a reaction to Thatcherism.

I'm not actually likely to watch that scandal show anytime soon... always drowning in things to watch.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link

Frears otm! The Grifters as the end of Thatcher reactions, vs the good first step into a bad period of Americana, is interesting, would be curious to rewatch with that in mind.

("gay stuff" is only 7% of AVBS at most, except for how the closet is the driver for every bad action across the fifteen years or so it covers. fascinatingly handled, re. it being a period piece, is how no "character" in it identifies as gay, it's not even an option to consider: those who come out to each other instead compare to what point their bedroom preference is for which gender, how much marriage is a thing they genuinely value vs are having to take on for optics, etc.)

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link

Mississippi (2015), streaming on Netflix - 36/42

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 13 August 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link

*Mississippi Grind

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 13 August 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link

xp I’m not sure what I think of A Very English Scandal. It had a breezy quality, but it was in a very different key than I was expecting.

I loved how lizard-like Hugh Grant was, though. Was he wearing contacts? because there was something very creepy about his black irises

Dan S, Monday, 13 August 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link

OK, I had no idea Frears directed A Very English Scandal (u have to spell things out, sic) -- because why would I? I haven't seen anything of his since Dirty Pretty Things in 2002. Then he started doing all that Peter Morgan royal shite.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link

Dream Tower (7.0)
Our Nixon (7.5)
20th Century Women (9.0)
Eighth Grade (6.5)
Demon Seed (5.5)
Quadrophenia (7.5)
McQueen (6.0)
Ocean’s Eight (4.0)
BlacKkKlansman (7.0)
A Stranger Among Us (6.5)

The last one is a late Lumet I saw at the time and completely forgot about. Relatively low key for him. Explicitly quotes from Hud when Melanie Griffith says "I already put in time with one cold-hearted bastard, I'm not looking to find another one." Good one for that last-line-should-have-been-the-title thread: Ask Your Rabbi.

clemenza, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link

Mission Impossible (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018) - yup, that's how badly my year is going.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link

It was fun etc.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link

I forgot to note earlier how amused I was that it was j.lu who pitched for an Electric Boogaloo subtitle on the new thread.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link

/The Counselor/ (Ridley Scott/Cormac McCarthy, 2013). I saw this in a theater and didn't like it much, but recently learned that the Blu-Ray included a director's cut that was 20 minutes longer. I bought it on eBay for $5 and miraculously, the long version is a really good movie! Recommended.


I think I’ve only seen the director’s cut and I don’t think I’d ever quite call it “really good” but it’s certainly one of the darkest, weirdest movies I’ve seen involving ppl of that high profile.

Would watch again to be sure.

circa1916, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link

last batch for a while

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992) - 10/10
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) - 9/10
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) - 8/10
This Happy Breed (David Lean, 1944) - 8/10
Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980) - 7/10
Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973) - 3/10

flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link

China Gate (Fuller)
The Search (Zinnemann)
From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann)
A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann)
The Longest Day (Annakin, Marton & Wicki)
The Army of Crime (Guédiguian)
La Vie en Rose (Dahan)
Grace of Monaco (Dahan)
Cop (A. Refn)
Once a Cop... (A. Refn)
R (Noer & Lindholm)
Key House Mirror (Noer)*
A Hijacking (Lindholm)*
A War (Lindholm)*
A Second Chance (Bier)
Summer With Monika (Bergman)
Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)
The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
Morvern Callar (Ramsay)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Ramsay)
Katalin Varga (Strickland)
For Those in Peril (Wright)*
Hyena (Johnson)
Ex Machina (Garland)
Beast (Pearce)
Under the Skin (Glazer)
Her (Jonze)
Lucy (Besson)
Ghost in the Shell (Sanders)

Frederik B, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 08:19 (six years ago) link

All 3.5/5:
True Stories (1986)
Blackkklansman
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
The Lost City of Z

Chris L, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link

Mission Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 8/10
the Happy Prince (Everett, 2018) 7/10
Yellow Submarine ( Dunning, 1968) 8/10
Unseeworld U.S.A (Fuller, 1960) 7/10
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987) 6/10
Paddington 2 (King, 2017) 9/10
Hostiles (Cooper, 2017) 7/10

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link

Um, Underworld U.S.A. that should be.

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link

Gone With the Wind (1939) 7.5/10
Iron Man (2008) 7/10
Tangerine (2015) 8/10

Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link

bunch of airplane streaming on the way to and from berlin, the only one i'd seen before is philadelphia story:

all about eve (mankiewicz, 1951) 10/10
paddington 2 (king, 2017) 8/10
rocky (avildsen, 1976) 8/10
the philadelphia story (cukor, 1940) 9/10
happy death day (landon, 2017) 6/10
inside out (docter, 2015) 8/10

princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link

honestly happy death day was surprisingly enjoyable for what it was

princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link

the gospel of the bear film has reached the troposphere

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link

lol

princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link

The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011) 6
Mission: Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 7
Disney Christopher Robin (Marc Forster, 2018) 4
Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010) 8
Icarus (Bryan Fogel, 2017) 8

adam the (abanana), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link

read that marwencol has been adapted & now will have steve carell in it

johnny crunch, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link

yeah I watched it because i saw the trailer for the zemeckis movie. The trailer makes it out to be an "inspirational" true story but it's not really, not exactly.

adam the (abanana), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link

baby driver (2017 edgar wright) 6.5/10
mollys game (2017 sorkin) 2/10
suburbicon (2017 clooney) 2/10
the killing of a sacred deer (2017 lanthimos) 6/10
angelo my love (1983 duvall) 3/10
eighth grade (2018 burnham) 8/10
thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10

johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link

thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10

I don't do the out of 10 thing but I'd give this at least a 6. It made me laugh a lot.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link

lil too try hard idk

johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:38 (six years ago) link

*The Naked Spur : 7/10
Vampire's Kiss : 6/10
Dying Of the Light (Paul Schrader Edit): 7/10 -- only 7/10 because Nic Cage is in full on weirdo mode and Schrader's noodling around on Final Cut. The doctor accent is...wow...almost as great as the accent in "Vampire's Kiss"
*The Young One: 7/10 - minor Buñuel for me but still great

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link

Crazy Rich Asians – kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people. Lots of film history embedded in it.

remy bean, Saturday, 18 August 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link

What Price Jazz (Baerwitz, 1934)
Felix Gets Broadcasted (Messmer, 1923)
High Flyers (Cline, 1937)
Inflation (Myers, 1933)
Felix in Fairyland (Messmer, 1923)
*Roast-Beef and Movies (Baerwitz, 1934)
*Big City Fantasy (Henabery, 1934)
The Magician (Bergman, 1958)
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955)

Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link

Re-watching Whit Stillman's Barcelona tonight.

grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link

I was hoping for good things from Crazy Rich Asians, but found it fairly bland. I may have had the wrong expectations for a mainstream PG rom-com, but I felt like it needed sharper jokes.

jmm, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link

kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people

!!! I'm sure this cast looks fine, but you are aware that Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn were considered pretty attractive, right?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link

in theaters July 26 - August 22

Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) - 6/10
Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) - 9/10
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018) - 8/10
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018) - 6/10
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - 7/10
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Peter Rida Michail, Aaron Horvath, 2018) - 3/10
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) - 9/10

flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link

! at low rating for Three Identical Strangers

I knew nothing about the backstory before seeing it at SIFF but on a str8 narrative level it’s my favourite doco of the year

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:18 (six years ago) link

it is an incredible story. a documentary that makes itself, really. what bothered me was how much they reused the same footage from the same Donahue, NBC, + other TV appearances. the same lines. it kinda falls apart at the end, and felt padded even at ~95 minutes. that has nothing to do with the actual story being unresolved, i just thought with so much material to go through (and so many years passed over) the reuse of footage was bizarre.

flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:52 (six years ago) link

and fwiw I knew not only the backstory but most of the twists before I saw it. I would've rated it higher if I had gone in completely cold, I wish I could've.

flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:54 (six years ago) link

yeah fair enough! the repeated lines are very few & read in SUPER different context the second times around, but if you’re not seeing it / that footage cold, those won’t have the same kick

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:22 (six years ago) link

a documentary that makes itself, really.

this undermines the work they do in visuals and research and in editing the story though — I felt v impressed by how manipulative it was without cheats in the first half-hour, and how well the makers shift to mostly-archival telling thereafter.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:26 (six years ago) link

i've seen much worse evaluations of 3IS

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link

Apostasy (Dan Kokotajlo, 2017) - fairly ho hum drama around Jehovah's witnesses.
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link

Missed a trick by not taglining this thread "Oh yes... There will be blood"

koogs, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link

Electric Bloodaloo

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link

Kagemusha (1980)
RoboCop (2014)
The Endless (2017)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
*The Social Network (2010)
Super Troopers 2 (2018)
A Ciambra (2017)
Frenzy (1972)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
*The Cabin In The Woods (2012)
A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
*Nightcrawler (2014)
First Reformed (2017)
*Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Super 8 (2011)
30 Days of Night (2007)
One Sings, The Other Doesnt (1977)

. (Michael B), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link

Re-watched Miami Vice tonight (the director’s cut). It’s kind of maddening how 90% of the shots are fantastically beautiful, and then the other 10% look like they were shot on somebody’s flip phone.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link

I've gotta get on that, watched Heat a few weeks ago for the first time and loved it. Haven't seen Collateral since it opened in 2004 but remember loving it, too.

flappy bird, Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:26 (six years ago) link

Forgetting Sarah Marshall, good movie

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:20 (six years ago) link

The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.

― xyzzzz__, 23. august 2018 15:15 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, for one reason or another Latin American cinema works a lot with de-focus these days, I find. Sergio Armstrong, most famous for shooting most films of Pablo Larrain, is masterful at it. Apart from Larrains films he does it greatly in From Afar and The Desert Bride. It's one of the most innovative little things happening in World Cinema at the moment, but I'll admit I have no idea what to make of it.

Frederik B, Saturday, 25 August 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link

August 1st to 16th:

* The Brothers Bloom (Johnson 2008) 📺
Teen Titans GO! To The Movies (Michail, Horvath, Jelenic 2018)
True Confession (Ruggles, Binyon 1937) 📽️
* Sneakers (Robinson 1992) 📺
The Spy Who Dumped Me (Fogel, Iverson 2018)
Nothing Sacred [Kino restoration] (Wellman, Hecht, Schulberg, Lardner Jr., Parker, Howard, Hart, Kaufman, Carson 1937)
BlacKkKLansman (Lee, Wachtel, Rabinowitz, Willmott 2018)
Madonna: Truth Or Dare (Keshishian 1991)
To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch, Mayer 1942) 📽️

▫◌▫ (sic), Sunday, 26 August 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link

Re-watched Miami Vice tonight (the director’s cut). It’s kind of maddening how 90% of the shots are fantastically beautiful, and then the other 10% look like they were shot on somebody’s flip phone.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, August 24, 2018 8:01 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've gotta get on that, watched Heat a few weeks ago for the first time and loved it. Haven't seen Collateral since it opened in 2004 but remember loving it, too.

― flappy bird, Friday, August 24, 2018 8:26 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MV is the purest distillation of the Mann aesthetic. I actually recommend the theatrical cut over the director’s cut, though I’m not sure if one is easier to track down over the other. If you’re onboard with his “thing” it’s one of the greatest action films in recent years.

omar little, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link

You can rent the theatrical cut on Amazon but the director's cut is the only one available on DVD/Blu-Ray.

Has the director's cut of Blackhat ever been released anywhere? I never saw the first version but the re-edit is supposed to be a substantially better movie, so I'm intrigued.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link

Apparently MV (theatrical cut, probably) will be free via Amazon Prime starting September 1.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link

*Out West (Arbuckle, 1918)
Charley on the Farm (Sullivan, 1919)
The Dippy Dentist (Goulding, 1920)
Standing Pat (Montgomery, 1928)
Campus Romeos (Pratt, 1927)
A Broadway Romeo (Blumenstock, 1931)
All the King's Horses (Tuttle, 1935)
*The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934)
Re-Animator (Gordon, 1985)
Good References (Neill, 1920)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 26 August 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link

Primary (6.5)
A Bronx Tale (7.0)
Promised Land (7.5)
Shock and Awe (5.5)
Nico, 1988 (6.0)
Nico Icon (7.0)
Singer Presents...Elvis (6.5)
Twister (6.5)
Class Action (7.5)
Sorry to Bother You (6.0)

I was going to leave Sorry to Bother You unrated because a) I drifted a bit early on, and b) as it got weirder and weirder, I just didn't know what to make of it. So take the rating as more of a question mark than any kind of comment on how good it is.

clemenza, Monday, 27 August 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link

lots of Hong Sang-soo, just hook it to my veins

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 9/10
Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes, 1971) 7/10
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi, 2015) 9/10
La Collectionneuse (Rohmer, 1967) 6/10
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong, 2015) 8/10
Three Colours: Blue (Kieślowski, 1993) 7/10
Three Colours: White (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10
Three Colours: Red (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10
In Another Country (Hong, 2012) 8/10
On The Beach at Night Alone (Hong, 2017) 8/10
Blackkklansman (Lee, 2018) 7/10
The Aviators Wife (Rohmer, 1981) 9/10
Woman on the Beach (Hong, 2006) 9/10
The Day After (Hong, 2017) 7/10

devvvine, Monday, 27 August 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link

Crazy Rich Asians: 7.5

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 August 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link

*Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971, Van Peebles) 8/10
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928, Dulac) (41m) 8/10
La folie des vaillants (1926, Dulac) (46m) 6/10
La Belle dame sans merci (1920, Dulac) 7/10
Princesse Mandane (1928, Dulac) 6/10
Freaky Friday (1976, Nelson) 7/10
Surrender (1950, Dwan) 5/10
Dutchman (1967, Harvey) (55m) 7/10
Rendezvous in July (1949, Becker) 6/10
Nico, 1988 (2017, Nicchiarelli) 5/10
*The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961, Guest) 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link

On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) - 10/10
A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) - 5/10
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) - 10/10
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) - 10/10
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002) - 7/10
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) - 10/10
Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) - 6/10
Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930) - 7/10

flappy bird, Friday, 31 August 2018 05:01 (six years ago) link

A Ciambra, a story about a Romani family of low-level criminals in Italy, and a young boy's coming-of-age/becoming-a-scumbag.

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 31 August 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link

Alex Strangelove (Johnson, 2018) 6/10
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone, 1946) 8/10
Vision Quest (Becker, 1985) 5/10
*Mean Girls (Waters, 2004) 6/10
*Heathers (Lehmann, 1989) 9/10
A Man There Was (Sjöström, 1917) 7/10
Heartaches (Shebib, 1981) 6/10
The Story of Temple Drake (Roberts, 1933) 7/10

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 September 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link

Nearest and Dearest (Robins, 1972) 4/10
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955) 8/10
The Boys From Fengkuei (Hou, 1983) 8/10
Cabaret (Fosse, 1972) 7/10
The Big Combo (Lewis, 1955) 7/10
The Final Programme (Fuest, 1973) 6/10
The Devil's Rain (Fuest, 1975) 7/10
Rawhide (Hathaway, 1951) 8/10
Further up the Creek (Guest, 1958) 6/10
The Women (Cukor, 1939) 8/10
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Reed, 2018) 6/10

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 September 2018 06:53 (six years ago) link

The Finsl Programme is one of the rare movies that I watched, thoroughly entertained the whole way through, with absolutely no clue as to what was happening.

JoeStork, Saturday, 1 September 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link

I'd read the book many years ago, so that maybe helped - I'm not sure it was intended to be entirely coherent, in the manner of New Wave SF. Moorcock-loving fans of my acquaintance (and Moorcock himself) detest it, but as you say it's pretty pleasurable to watch. The director, Robert Fuest, had come from TV and things like the (Steed-Peel) Avengers, and he was a great set dresser and stylist - this set is the standout in FP:

https://thegameofnerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-final-programme-02.jpg

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 September 2018 07:03 (six years ago) link

The Good Marriage (Rohmer, 1982) - early to mid-80s Rohmer is really his best period. Also have an impression he is an interesting dabbler in these electronic music soundtracks - might be an idea to see them collected.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 September 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link

Heavy Love (Pembroke, 1926)
The Operation (Roth, 1930)
*That's the Spirit (Mack, 1933)
*Bubbles (Mack, 1930)
The Grab-Bag Bride (Hartman, 1917)
Guests Wanted (Ceder, 1932)
The Balloonatic (Keaton & Cline, 1923)
Take Next Car (Howe, 1922)
Pie-Eyed (Pembroke & Rock, 1925)
The Dummy Owner (Yarbrough, 1938)
The Door Knocker (Cline, 1931)
The Notorious Sophie Lang (Murphy & Menzies, 1934)
The Girl Ranchers (Christie, 1913)
Horseshoes (Davis & Semon, 1923)
This Can't Happen Here (Bergman, 1950)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 2 September 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link

in theaters August 25 - September 3

Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018) - 3/10
Never Goin’ Back (Augustine Frizzell, 2018) - 3/10
Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018) - 5/10
Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953) - 9/10
Juliet, Naked (Jesse Peretz, 2018) - 6/10
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) - 10/10
The Bookshop (Isabel Coixet, 2018) - 6/10
The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971) - 2/10

flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 05:17 (six years ago) link

have been off work following an operation and attacking the dvd pile (which started at about 30 unwatched films)

Shin Godzilla (2016)
The Mysterians (Honda 1957)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
L'Atalante (Vigo 1934)
Stroszek (Herzog 1977)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Herzog 1975)
The Soft Skin (Godard 1964)
Lady Snowblood 2 (1974)
Satantango (Tarr 1994)

(3 hours of satantango left to go, 5 days before work)

koogs, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link

The Good Marriage (Rohmer, 1982) - early to mid-80s Rohmer is really his best period. Also have an impression he is an interesting dabbler in these electronic music soundtracks - might be an idea to see them collected.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, September 1, 2018 8:11 AM

I like Full Moon in Paris, which I don't see mentioned enough.

The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Herzog 1975)

― koogs, 4. september 2018 22:40 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This might be my favorite Herzog. Though I should definitely watch it again soon. I love that he basically already has achieved what every Herzog-hero wants, he has transcended his field and learned to fly, basically, and it's only brought him trouble and he's just trying to be able to compete properly.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link

i didn't really know what to expect. but 50,000 people at a ski jump competition? 70m jumps without helmets?

koogs, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link

yeah, everything about that film is crazy. but the flying passages with popol vuh are amazing.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link

North Korea Exposes The Western propaganda cos it was being circulated on Pirate Bay.
Weird take on American advertising etc . I think it has some clips borrowed from Adam curtis. odd taht it was saying that Americans were a people being brainwashed by their leaders but I guiess the idea is that the public who get to see the filma re brainwashed enough not to think that they are too.
Semi had it on in the background.

Active Measures new documenatry on the Russian influence on the 2016 election, lead up to and aftermath. Quite enjoyed it.

Boss baby, watched a few computer animation type things last week. Also saw The Secret Life of Pets, Captain Underpants and half watched Despicable Me 3. & had seen Incredibles 2 at the start of the week.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link

I like Full Moon in Paris, which I don't see mentioned enough.

― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. I strongly suspect The Aviator's Wife and Pauline at the Beach are great. The Green Ray is my favourite.

Although looking at the filmography he didn't get going till the 80s. One film a year almost every year whereas before there are gaps with nothing.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link

Crazy Rich Asians (Chu, 2018) 6
Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945) 8
The Bat (Wilbur, 1959) 3
Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2016) 5
Alpha (Albert Hughes, 2018) 5

adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link

August 24th to September 1st: not gonna lie, Moviepass nigh-collapsing is having an impact. But the elliptical at the Y now has Netflix, so I'm going to be watching more films in 45-minute chunks under fluorescent lights, the way the makers intended.

Green Room (Saulnier, 2015) 📺
The Happytime Murders (Henson, Berger , 2018)
* There Will Be Blood (PTA, 2007)
* No Country For Old Men (Coen x Coen, 2007)
The VVitch (Eggers , 2015) 📺
* Still Crazy (Clement, LaFrenais, Gibson, 1998) 📺
Landline (Robespierre, Holm, 2017) 📺
Mindhorn (Foley, Farnaby, Barratt, 2016) 🏋️
* Stop Making Sense (Demme , 1984)
Open Windows (Vigalondo, 2014) 📺
* Attack The Block (Cornish, 2011) 📺
Mission: Impossible - Rogue; Nation (McQuarrie, 2015) 📺
The Last Movie Star (Rifkin, 2018) 📺

Happytime was mulitplex DCP, the other cinema screenings were laser-projected at Cinerama.

▫◌▫ (sic), Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link

Woman Walks Ahead. Free on Amazon Prime. Pretty good. Extra points for Jessica Chastain's character not sleeping with anyone.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 9 September 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link

I saw Nico 1988 in the theater it was good

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link

Wonderstruck (Haynes)*
Chloe (Egoyan)
Fruitvale Station (Coogler)
Se7en (Fincher)*
Zodiac (Fincher)*
Great Expectations (Lean)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
A Passage to India (Lean)
Bad Timing (Roeg)
The Mission (Joffé)*
The Queen (Frears)*
The Browning Version (Figgis)
Control (Corbijn)
The Trip (Winterbottom)*
The Trip to Italy (Winterbottom)*
The Trip to Spain (Winterbottom)
The Deep Blue Sea (Davies)*
Les Miserables (Hooper)
Patience (After Sebald) (Gee)
The Third Murder (Koreeda)
The Fourth Direction (Singh)
Court (Tamhane)
Thithi (Reddy)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
News From Home (Akerman)
D’Est (Akerman)
Bad Circumstances (Kestner)
1989 (Østergaard)*
Truly Human (Sandgren)
The Sunfish (Balle)
Terribly Happy (Genz)
Satisfaction 1720 (Genz)

Frederik B, Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link

Akerman classics are as good as they say.

Frederik B, Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link

I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo (1970, Smith) (28m) 6/10
No President (1967, Smith) (50m) 7/10
*Grandma’s Boy (1922, Newmeyer/Lloyd) (48m) 8/10
Any Number Can Win (1963, Verneuil) 7/10
Carefree (1938, Sandrich) 6/10
*The Driver (1978, Hill) 8/10
*Dead End (1937, Wyler) 7/10
*Humoresque (1920, Borzage) 7/10
PROTOTYPE (2017, Williams) 6/10
*The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968, Van Peebles) 7/10
L'invitation au voyage (1927, Dulac) (36m) 6/10
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923, Dulac) (38m) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 September 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link

Fred I just watched News from Home with some friends that had never seen it last night. I was nervous but they all loved it and we talked for an hour afterwards about and for once a post-film group discussion actually had some insight and substance for me. it's my favorite film of hers and was very happy to see half a dozen of my friends hypnotized by it.

flappy bird, Sunday, 9 September 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link

Recently watched that too and it was beautiful. Though my roommate and their significant other walked through and seemed rather perplexed, not sure my half-assed explanation while still locked in really helped.

circa1916, Sunday, 9 September 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link

damn that sucks. yeah, that was my main fear in showing it. luckily only like 6-7 people showed up, and I'm glad our plans to do it outside got rained out, the thought of people coming and going or talking during NFH makes my skin crawl... though I completely understand... "locked in" is it exactly. I was worried I wouldn't be able to focus after a long day at work and little sleep the night before, but 20 minutes in I was completely hypnotized.

her mother can be so funny. "you haven't written in 10 days, it's getting a little annoying!" and her encouraging comments about the screenplay Chantal sent her: "it seems good, but you know my tastes: it's very sad and depressing." those letters are from 1972-73, so she must be referring to the script for Jeanne Dielman right? her mother says "it's important to show these people and their struggle and how they're suffering," which could apply to JD.

flappy bird, Sunday, 9 September 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link

Going Spanish (Christie, 1934)
Good Morning, Nurse (Bacon, 1925)
A Sleepless Night (Bowers, 1940)
The Telephone Girl and the Lady (Griffith, 1913)
Helter Skelter (Lamont, 1929)
Office Blues (Blumenstock, 1930)
The Antique Shop (Cozine, 1931)
A Panic in the Parlor (Roberts, 1941)
His New Mamma (Del Ruth, 1924)
Felix All Balled Up (Messmer, 1924)
Falbalas (Becker, 1945)
The Biffle Murder Case (Parrott, 1935 Schlesinger, 2015)
Imitation of Wife (McCarey, 1935 Schlesinger, 2015)
Antoine et Antoinette (Becker, 1947)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 9 September 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link

I know I've seen a lot of the shorts you list, j.lu, but what's with the crossouts? And is that Paul Parrott or Charley (Chase) Parrott?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 September 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link

From The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, a fake 1930s comedy duo. The shorts are supposed to be in the style of Paul Parrott and Ray McCarey. A lot of love and knowledge of early sound comedy clearly went into these shorts.

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Monday, 10 September 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) - 9/10
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010) - 9/10
Heavyweights (Steven Brill, 1995) - 4/10
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) - 8/10
No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa, 1946) - 6/10
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) - 10/10
EuroTrip (Jeff Schaffer, 2004) - 3/10
25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002) - 8/10

flappy bird, Monday, 10 September 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link

F for Fake (Welles, 1973) 8/10
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies, 1988) 9/10
Purple Butterfly (Lou, 2003) 5/10
Cocote (De Los Santos Arias, 2017) 8/10
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966) 9/10
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) 6/10
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Hara, 1987) 9/10
Sennan Asbestos Disaster (Hara, 2017) 7/10

devvvine, Monday, 10 September 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link

Active Measures.
Think I knew most of this, though it goes back further into 80s trump than I was familiar with.
Has a load of people in as talking heads. Quite enjoyed it and my girlfriend did too when i rewatched it with her.
Oh yeah, had missed the story aboutPutin's mother the first time around because i'd been doing something else at the same time.
Also not that familiar with Ukraine situation which is covered here.

Death of Stalin
very dark, funny in places. Not really sure what girlfriend made of this.
Glad I finally watched it.

American Animals
THought i was going to see Blackkklansman but time I saw online a few days earlier wasn't showing it. Early afternoon showing is cheaper so went to see this cos had come across some of the promos tuff for it when I'd been in cinema a few weeks earlier.
Anyway interesting film about ineptitude in ambitious post-adolescents.
Quite enjoyed it though it has some pretty slow bits.
Funny and dark in places. It was odd seeing a number of people I thought i recognised from elsewhere.
Thought that the real Warren looked like Mark Kozeleik or someone so thought that reality might be another layer away from what was shown.

Blackkklansman
enjoyed this though it is a little cartoonish so makes me want to read the memoir it's based on to see how fictionalised it is.
Looks like they changed the time it was set in since black style is very much early 70s. Seas of massive afros etc. Events appear to have been in 78 in real life.
Have just seen taht book is only 2014 so not sure how long the story was around. Was it even much of a rumour before that came out.

Stevolende, Friday, 14 September 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link

Ocean’s 8 was smarter and funnier than 12 or 13.

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 14 September 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link

The last six weeks:

Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018) 6/10
The Wife (Runge, 2018) 3/10
Nico, 1988 (Nicchiarelli, 2018) 7/10
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 5/10
The Third Murder (Kore-eda, 2018) 6/10
Love, Cecil (Vreeland, 2018) 7/10
Eighth Grade(Burnham, 2018) 7/10
Lean On Pete (Haigh, 2018) 6/10
Tully (Reitman, 2018) 7/10
After the Storm (Kore-eda, 2017) 8/10
Our Little Sister (Kore-eda, 2016) 7/10
* Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017) 8/10
Chi-Raq (Lee, 2015) 6/10
4 Little Girls (Lee, 1997) 8/10
* Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 7/10
* The Glass Shield (Burnett, 1994) 7/10
Sharkey's Machine (Reynolds, 1981) 6/10
* Two English Girls (Truffaut, 1974) 6/10
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Bresson, 1962) 7/10
* Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958) 9/10
The Song of Bernadette (King, 1944) 4/10
Toni (Renoir, 1935) 8/10

The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 September 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link

* Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 7/10

Too low!

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 15 September 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link

When I first saw it an easy 8

The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 September 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link

After the Storm (Kore-eda, 2017) 8/10

loved this, didn't seem to get the attention it deserved

devvvine, Saturday, 15 September 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link

If Close-Up isn't a 10, nothing is a 10

I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Saturday, 15 September 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link

Mandy (2018) 4/5
Othello (1952) 4.5/5
Sun Ra: a Joyful Noise (1980) 3/5
King Cohen: the Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017) 2.5/5
* Hana-Bi (1997) 4/5
* The Guest (2014) 4/5
Mission Impossible: Fallout 4/5
Long Strange Trip (2017) 3.5/5
The Summer of Flying Fish (2013) 3/5
Un Flic (1972) 3/5
Pauline at the Beach (1983) 4/5

Chris L, Sunday, 16 September 2018 02:59 (six years ago) link

The Prisoner of Zenda (Ingram, 1922)
*Thrills of Yesterday (1931)
Roundhay Garden Scene (Le Prince, 1888)
*The Water Nymph (Sennett, 1912)
Hot Pepper (Blystone, 1933)
Edouard et Caroline (Becker, 1951)
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Becker, 1954)
Rendezvous in July (Becker, 1949)
Limite (Peixoto, 1931)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link

Really annoyed with myself for not seeing Mandy for its one-night showing last week as it turned out "opens September 14th" meant precisely dick- it's not playing anywhere in or near Philadelphia.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 17 September 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link

Elle
In a Lonely Place
Los Angeles Plays Itself

omar little, Monday, 17 September 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link

I couldn't make it to Mandy on Thursday either - it's running for a week (once a day, at 9pm) here, but the premiere was a double-feature with Mom & Dad, which was only projected about 4/5 on screen when I saw it in January.

▫◌▫ (sic), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link

very suspicious of all the local Mandy hype here. sounds like Stranger Things for people who are too cool to watch or admit they watch Stranger Things. I think I'll see it this week. but if it's mostly just Nic Cage being extra, why? Herzog already did that with a movie that can't be topped.

flappy bird, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link

and I got that impression from two people I trust who saw the movie separately in packed theaters full of knowing chuckles

flappy bird, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link

love to divine the quality of a movie from secondhand reports of how people reacted to it in a theater

princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link

but then i haven't seen it either. i like and support cosmatos though

princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link

like I said I trust their opinions, and they're very different people. and yes, they described the movie too and their issues with the thing itself. crazy OTT throw everything at the wall genre movies are not my thing but I will see it with an open mind.

flappy bird, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link

very suspicious of all the local Mandy hype here. sounds like Stranger Things for people who are too cool to watch or admit they watch Stranger Things. I think I'll see it this week. but if it's mostly just Nic Cage being extra, why? Herzog already did that with a movie that can't be topped.

I assume a lot of the people who wanted to see this initially are going in with similar expectations: for an 80s retro, wacky Nic Cage flick they can laugh at. It's nearly 45 minutes into the film before Cage is even much of a factor though, and by then it was already one of the most sensory immersive films I've seen in a while. No one will accuse the script of being particularly brainy, but the film doesn't collect cultural references so much as transmute them into a spiky, snarling beast. Johann Johannson's score is great and will remind you all over again what a loss his death was. And it does top the Herzog movie.

Chris L, Monday, 17 September 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link

now that is some encouraging word of mouth. i'll definitely see it on wednesday. one of my friends said she liked the first half a lot more. can't name a movie with a Johannson score off the top of my head but surely I've seen one.

flappy bird, Monday, 17 September 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link

OK, last thing before I actually see Mandy:

I assume a lot of the people who wanted to see this initially are going in with similar expectations: for an 80s retro, wacky Nic Cage flick they can laugh at.

the made-to-order B movie / movie you can laugh at, I don't fuck with that at all. especially when The Wicker Man remake exists. even Bad Lieutenant veers a bit too much.

flappy bird, Monday, 17 September 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link

All the President’s Men (Robert Redford, 1976) - 10/10
The Capture (John Sturges, 1950) - 3/10
The Restless Years (Helmut Käutner, 1958) - 6/10
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931) - 9/10
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) - 8/10
Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder, 1963) - 8/10
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936) - 10/10
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984) - 10/10
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) - 8/10

flappy bird, Saturday, 22 September 2018 05:04 (six years ago) link

xp yea mandy trascends its genre trappings imo, reminded me of mad max fury road in that sense

johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link

The Last Boy Scout. In terms of "who's made more movies I would willingly re-watch," Tony Scott > Ridley Scott, though it's close.

Tony: The Last Boy Scout*, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire, Domino*, Unstoppable*
Ridley: The Duellists, Alien*, Blade Runner*, The Counselor*

*movies I own

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link

marie antoinette (coppola, 2006) 9/10
the long day closes (davies, 1992) 10/10
a.i.: artificial intelligence (spielberg, 2001) 10/10
perfect blue (kon, 1997) 8/10
paprika (kon, 2006) 9/10
ms. 45 (ferrara, 1981) 9/10
the craft (fleming, 1996) 7/10

princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link

Close Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 8/10
Rope (Hitchcock, 1948) 6/10
Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, 1997) 9/10
35 Shots of Rum (Denis, 2008) 9/10
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder, 1972) 9/10
Chocolat (Denis, 1988) 8/10
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1948) 6/10
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul, 2010) 8/10
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) 8/10
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941) 9/10
The Great McGinty (Sturges, 1940) 6/10
Hill of Freedom (Hong, 2014) 8/10
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973) 8/10
The World (Jia, 2004) 9/10
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir, 1936) 9/10
Metropolitan (Stillman, 1990) 9/10
Outrage (Kitano, 2010) 7/10
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder, 1975) 8/10
A New Leaf (May, 1971) 7/10

devvvine, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link

mandy (cosmatos 2018) 7/10
greater southbridge (rod murphy 2003) 7/10
ex libris: the new york public library (wiseman 2017) 7/10
birds of passage (gallego/guerra 2018) 7.5/10
high life (denis 2018) 7/10
life itself (fogelman 2018) 7/10
greta (neil jordan 2018) 3/10
everybody knows (farhadi 2018) 6.5/10
support the girls (bujalski 2018) 2/10
vox lux (corbet 2018) 6/10
the hummingbird project (kim nguyen 2018) 5.5/10

johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link

I was expecting Upgrade to be a half-decent SF spin on Death Wish; it turned out to be a smart and beautifully shot thriller with an SF angle. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36PDeN9NRZ0

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link

The Tin Drum (Schlöndorff, 1979) 6/10
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Bird, 2011) 7/10
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation(McQuarrie, 2015) 7/10
Criminal (Vromen, 2016) 4/10
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Russell, 1987) 7/10
Joe (Green, 2013) 8/10
*Local Hero (Forsythe, 1983)

. (Michael B), Sunday, 23 September 2018 07:17 (six years ago) link

Uncle Tom's Crabbin' (Messmer, 1927)
Felix in the Swim (Messmer, 1922)
Dangerous Corner (Rosen, 1934)
Fluttering Hearts (Parrott, 1927)
Sneak Easily (Meins, 1932)
Tomatos Another Day (Watson, 1930)
Bridge Wives (Arbuckle, 1932)
Kissing Time (Mack, 1933)
Careless Lady (MacKenna, 1932)
*Lazy River (Seitz, 1934)
Le Trou (Becker, 1960)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 23 September 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link

Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa, 1963)
Charlotte Gray (Armstrong, 2001)
Bob le Flambeur (Melville, 1955)
Cul-de-sac (Polanski, 1966)
Night Mayor (short - Maddin, 2009)
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (Macdougall, 1959)
*Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
Blithe Spirit (Lean, 1945)
The Pianist (Polanski, 2002)
The Late Show (Benton, 1977)

WmC, Monday, 24 September 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link

I was expecting Upgrade to be a half-decent SF spin on Death Wish; it turned out to be a smart and beautifully shot thriller with an SF angle.

Considerably less smart on second viewing, but yes, this movie is a gem.

oder doch?, Monday, 24 September 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link

La Roue (1923, Gance) 8/10
Love and Anger (1969, Bellochio, Bertolucci, Godard, Lizzani, Pasolini) 6/10
*The Other Side of Hope (2017, Kaurismaki) 9/10
We the Animals (2018, Zagar) 7/10
The Sandpiper (1965, Minnelli) 4/10
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, Ritt) 9/10
The Rider (2017, Zhao) 6/10
This Can't Happen Here aka High Tension (1950, Bergman) 5/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 September 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link

Burton is brilliant in Spy.

clemenza, Monday, 24 September 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link

and not so in The Sandpiper

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 September 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link

The Rider (2017, Zhao) 6/10

Saw a trailer for this yesterday - looked p Malick-like, or Malick-lite, or Malick-light.

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link

there is lots of fantastic grimy 60's real englandness in the first act of Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The scene where he decks the shopkeeper seemed absolutely brutal when I was a kid.

calzino, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link

since shopkeeper is played by Bernard "M" Lee, i assumed he was undercover.

The Rider rather more docu-realist than Malick, sometimes mundanely so.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link

Women Make Film (Mark Cousins)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Maya (Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Innocent (Simon Jaquemet)
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
High Life (Claire Denis)
The Trial (Sergei Loznitsa)
Dead Souls (Wang Bing)

traurig, Friday, 28 September 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link

thoughts on maya? skeptical about the concept but bought a ticket on the strength of things to come

devvvine, Friday, 28 September 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link

Black 47
bloody, violent Irish Western (both thematically and set in the West of ireland)about a deserting Irish soldier taking revenge on the people who have directly and indirectly lead to the death of his family.
Stars 2 Australian actors who do pretty good at irish and English accents & also the son of Edward Fox as a British officer.
Also has that young Bobby Gillespie looking guy from Dunkirk and American Animals as a private soldier attached to the British officer.

very dark and really effective.
Think it's going out on general release elsewhere around the globe over the next couple of weeks. Saw it had a Guardian review today.

Stevolende, Friday, 28 September 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link

I've no idea where else to put this but I watched Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and was surprisingly moved and impressed by it. That is one ridiculously charismatic performance by Annette Benning. I actually cried at the end.

FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Friday, 28 September 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link

The Blackcoat's Daughter is an atmospheric story about two girls left alone in an otherwise abandoned boarding school and the Bad Things that happen. The main girl is played by Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper from Mad Men) and she's very good. There are some plot holes, but the lighting, photography, music and sound design are all excellent.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 29 September 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link

Maya is not among her best, it plays like a travelogue but is still worth a look.

traurig, Saturday, 29 September 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link

You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2017) 3/10
Ready Player One (Spielberg, 2018) 2/10
Private Benjamin (Zieff, 1980) 7/10
The Poor Little Rich Girl (Tourneur, 1917) 8/10
First Reformed (Schrader, 2017) 8/10
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, 1946) 7/10
Sharky’s Machine (Reynolds, 1981) 6/10
Star Trek: Insurrection (Frakes, 1998) 5/10
Limelight (Chaplin, 1952) 8/10
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Johnson, 2018) 6/10

Engles in the Outfield (cryptosicko), Sunday, 30 September 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link

September 3rd- 29th:

The Last Kiss Goodnight (Harlin, Black 1996) 35mm 📽️
Live. Die. Repeat. (Liman, McQuarrie, Butterworth & Butterworth 2014) 📺
Goon (Dowse, Baruchel, Goldberg 2011) 🏋️
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Kramer, Rose & Rose 1963) 70mm 📽️
Smokey and the Bandit (Needham, Levy, Barrett, Shyer, Mandel 1977) DCP
Everybody Wants Some!! (Linklater 2016) 📺
Raiders!: The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (Skousen, Coon 2016) 🏋️
* Vertigo (Hitchcock, Coppel, Taylor 1958) 70mm 📽️
Mandy (Cosmatos, Stewart-Ahn 2018) 📺
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (McQuarrie 2018) DCP
White Heat (Walsh, Goff, Roberts, Kellogg 1949) 35mm 📽️
Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) (Vigalondo 2007) 📺
Laissez bronzer les cadavres (Let The Corpses Tan) (Cattet, Forzani 2017 [2018 USA]) DCP
Blood Salvage (Johnston, Sanders 1990) 📼

Ah, the minty egg bits (sic), Sunday, 30 September 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link

*A Story of Floating Reeds (Ozu, 1934)
Floating Weeds (Ozu, 1959)
The President Vanishes (Wellman, 1934)
The Professor (Chaplin, 1919)
Punch Drunks (Breslow, 1934)
Men in Black (McCarey, 1934)
Is My Palm Read (Fleischer, 1933)
Sucker Money (Davenport & Shyer, 1933)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link

American Animals - a heist movie about four idiot college students who decide to steal some extremely rare books from a Kentucky university. The fictional version is interspersed with interviews with the real thieves in a very interesting way.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link

bummed I miss that one when it was in town

flappy bird, Monday, 1 October 2018 05:42 (six years ago) link

Death on the Nile (Guillermin, 1978) 5/10
Milford Graves Full Mantis (Meginsky & Young, 2018) 8/10
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) 7/10
BlacKKKlansman (Lee, 2018) 8/10
The Magician aka The Face (Bergman, 1958) 8/10
American Animals (Layton, 2018) 6/10
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947) 7/10
Nostalgia for the Light (Guzman, 2010) 6/10
Man Hunt (Lang, 1941) 8/10
Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin (Curry, 2018) 6/10
Faces Places (Varda & JR, 2017) 5/10
Raw Deal (Irvin, 1986) 6/10
The Trial (Welles, 1962) 8/10
Hell up in Harlem (Cohen, 1973) 6/10

Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 October 2018 06:02 (six years ago) link

Damn missed that Milford Graves doc!!

xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 October 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link

I think it had a little mini-tour of UK arthouses - one (packed) screening in Glasgow w/ Meginsky doing a Q&A after (couldn't stay for that). Hope you get to see it xyzzzz, think you will dig it - no stupid talking heads or extravagant art/historical claims, great footage and just the pleasure of Graves himself, definitely full mantis.

Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 October 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link

That's a relief on the content, ward! Yeah there were a couple of showings at the ICA, def try and pick up a screening or the DVD soon.

Faces Places (Varda & JR, 2017) - this was sweet (in the sense that I like Varda as a companion, as a voice and presence) but I couldn't stomach JR and their project was only interesting because of what (the little) Varda laid on it. JLG was right not to meet them! (and surely Varda played it up?)
Climax (Noe, 2017) - I like that this 50 year old guy just wants to be around young dancers. Why not? (and as for the interview scenes I didn't know La Mama et La Putain had been issued on VHS, nice touch)

xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 October 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link

The Emigrants (Troell, 1971) - 10/10
He Got Game (Lee, 1998) - 9/10
Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997) - 9/10
Love in the Afternoon (Wilder, 1957) - 9/10
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) - 10/10
La Strada (Fellini, 1954) - 7/10
The New Land (Troell, 1972) - 10/10
Under Capricorn (Hitchcock, 1949) - 4/10
Sweet Charity (Fosse, 1969) - 8/10

I watched The Emigrants and The New Land a week apart and couldn't believe at first that Troell shot & edited The Emigrants, too. The New Land is so much riskier & more stylized than The Emigrants, which is harrowing but played relatively straight. Both fantastic obviously... I think it does show something fundamental about America and the people that came here.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 03:34 (six years ago) link

I'm currently reading philosopher David Benatar's Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, which argues that being born at all is always a serious harm, procreation is always wrong, it is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestation, and it would be better if humanity became extinct. He's really relentless about presenting his case, and as a result I'm finding lines like "In the coming chapter, I show that (with the exception of real pessimists, who may have an accurate view of how bad their lives are) people's lives are much worse than they think" surprisingly funny in context.

Anyway, I say that to say this: Destination Wedding, a movie starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder as two horrible people invited to the titular occasion (he's the groom's half-brother, she's the groom's ex-fiancée), made me laugh really, really hard. At one point, Reeves and Ryder's characters have a long discussion that covers all the major themes of the book: there's no such thing as love, existence is pointless and they both would have been better off having never been born, and on and on. I really started to wonder if it was a remake of a French movie at one point. Anyway, if that sounds like your idea of fun, it's free on Amazon Prime.

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 5 October 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link

Star Trek: Generations (1994) 2.5/5
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) 2/5
The Sisters Brothers (2018) 3/5
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) 3.5/5
* No Country for Old Men 5/5
* The Age of Innocence 4.5/5
Boxing Gym (2010) 4/5
The Breaking Point (1950) 4/5
Uncle Yanco (1967) 3.5/5
Taipei Story (1985) 4/5

Chris L, Friday, 5 October 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link

*The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi, 2016) - 8/10
Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks, 1939) - 10/10
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966) - 10/10
Game Night (Daley & Goldstein, 2018) - 4/10
500 Days of Summer (Webb, 2009) - 3/10
Tully (Reitman, 2018) - 5/10
20th Century Women (Mills, 2016) - 6/10
*American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973) - 5/10
A Wrinkle in Time (DuVernay, 2018) - 1/10
The Stranger (Welles, 1946) - 8/10

rob, Friday, 5 October 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link

The Magic Christian (1969, McGrath) 4/10
Hotel by the River (2018, Hong) 7/10
*The Odd Couple (1968, Saks) 8/10
Diamantino (2018, Abrantes, Schmidt) 7/10
High Life (2018, Denis) 5/10
Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia) 8/10
Sorry Angel (2018, Honore) 7/10
Her Smell (2018, Perry) 4/10
The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Welles) 6/10
*F for Fake (1973, Welles) 7/10
BlacKkKlansman (2018, Lee) 5/10
*Smithereens (1982, Seidelman) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

Tell me more about Hotel by the River.

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link

no soju until the last 10 minutes

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link

more concerned with death and family than sex

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 October 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link

Speaking of sex, you thought the Denis just okay too.

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link

xp I see that it stars Kim Min-hee. I'm in!

Dan S, Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link

at least 3 actors are onscreen more than she; it's an ensemble piece

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link

Jeff, Who Lives At Home. A whole movie about Susan Sarandon's character would have been better than following her two asshole sons around all day.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link

Madam Satan (de Mille, 1930)
Maniac (Esper, (1934)
Swing You Sinners (Fleischer, 1930)
The Seven Castles of the Devil (Zecca, 1904)
The Great Toe Mystery (Avery, 1914)
The Haunted House (Disney, 1929)
Adam's Apple (Whelan, 1928)
Bacon Grabbers (Foster, 1929)
The Spider (MacKenna & Menzies, 1931)
Enchanted Glasses (de Chomon, 1907)
The Haunted House (Keaton & Cline, 1921)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 7 October 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link

Did I ever mention 1987: When The Day Comes? It's really good.

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link

you thought the Denis just okay too.

I wouldn't go that far. Maybe "disappointing" and "nuts."

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link

Festival haul:

Florianopolis Dream (Katz)
The Rider (Zhao)
Diamantinos (Abrantes & Schmidt)
Sympathy for the Devil (Godard)
Girl (Dhont)
Madeline’s Madeline (Decker)
And Breathe Normally (Uggadóttir)
Holiday (Eklöf)
Dear Son (Ben Attia)
Those Who Work (Russbach)
Blind Spot (Novotny)
I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians (Jude)
Grass (Hong)
Our Time (Reygadas)
Lifeboat (Kirkeskov)
The Image Book (Godard)
Zama (Martel)
Too Late to Die Young (Sotomayor)
Puzzle (Turtletaub)
Amateurs (Pichler)
Asako I & II (Hamaguchi)
One Day (Szilagyi)
In My Room (Köhler)
Mirai (Hosada)
Boys Cry (D’Innocenzo & D’Innocenzo)
Ash is the Purest White (Jia)
When the Trees Fall (Nikitiuk)
Long Days Journey Into Night (Bi)
Donbass (Loznitsa)
Rojo (Naishtat)
Nervous Translation (Seno)
First Reformed (Schrader)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (Krstic)
Ága (Lazarov)
Khook (Haghighi)*
We the Animals (Zagar)

Keep an eye out for Nervous Translation and When the Trees Fall, those were the two biggest surprises. Many others are predictably great. Some slight disappointments.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link

update before lff starts, seeing asako I & II this evening!

Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter, 1976) 7/10
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938) 6/10
39 Steps (Hitchcock, 1935) 7/10
The Mask of Dimitros (Negulesco, 1944) 8/10
Faces Places (Varda, JR, 2017) 7/10
The Saddest Music in the World (Maddin, 2004) 7/10
My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936) 8/10
Faust (Murnau, 1926) 9/10
Maison du Bonheur (Bohdanowicz, 2017) 6/10
Where is the Friends Home? (Kiarostami, 1987) 8/10
The Stranger (Welles, 1946) 8/10
His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) 9/10
Sunrise: a Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) 10/10
Othello (Welles, 1951) 7/10
A City of Sadness (Hou, 1989) 9/10
The Mission (To, 1999) 7/10
The Small World of Sammy Lee (Hughes, 1963) 8/10
Late Spring (Ozu, 1949) 10/10

devvvine, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link

i think there maaay be a few more 10s in that list

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link

you might be right, i'm fairly certain a laptop screen is not the best way to experience Faust.

curious what you thought of the Bi Gan, Frederik?

devvvine, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link

Teen Titans Go To The Movies

turned up on a torrent site yesterday. I used to watch the tv series about 10 years ago.
I think this wanted to be a Lego Movie type deal not quite taht good but some of it was quite amusing.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link

^ the series started five years ago and is still running

My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link

curious what you thought of the Bi Gan, Frederik?

― devvvine, 10. oktober 2018 17:44 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's... definitely a trip, that final hour is pretty incredible. But I don't get why Bi Gan all of a sudden wanted to make such a noir-pastiche, and what the point of that is supposed to be. I watched Kaili Blues as preparation, and it's a much more humble film, but it honestly gave me much more to think about.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link

Sic could you possibly go and get a fixation on somebody else ?

TV series I was watching started in 2003.
So as i said I was watching it about 10 years ago

Stevolende, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link

The Killing of Sister George (Aldrich, 1968) 7/10
The Post (Spielberg, 2017) 6/10
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 8/10
Deadpool 2 (Leitch, 2018) 5/10
Somewhere in the Night (Mankiewicz, 1946) 7/10
*Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers, 2013) 10/10
The Golden Coach (Renoir, 1952) 8/10
Cry-Baby (Waters, 1990) 9/10
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (Cameron-Mitchell, 2017) 3/10
Avengers Infinity War (Russo Brothers, 2018) 4/10
Enter the Void (Noe, 2009) 5/10
General della Rovere (Rosellini, 1959) 9/10
Hysteria (Wexler, 2011) 7/10

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 14 October 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link

Inside Llewyn Davis is the best Coen Bros. film, change my mind

flappy bird, Sunday, 14 October 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Hidden Fortress
Lucy

omar little, Sunday, 14 October 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link

the strange depiction of american communists in Hail Caesar soured me on those moments in ILD.

adam the (abanana), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link

The Sisters Brothers (Audiard, 2018)
Menace (Murphy, 1934)
The Infernal Cauldron (Melies, 1903)
Felix the Cat Switches Witches (Messmer, 1927)
Felix the Ghost Breaker (Messmer, 1923)
The Non-Stop Fright (Messmer, 1927)
Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018)
Sculls and Skulls (Messmer, 1930)
Legend of a Ghost (de Chomon, 1908)
The Atomic Soldiers (Knibbe, 2018)
The Atomic Cafe (Rafferty, Loader, & Rafferty, 1982)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link

Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018) 6
Chopping Mall (Wynorski, 1986) 6
Demolition Man (Brambilla, 1993) 5; good jokes, boring action. the character with 90s nostalgia has a Red Hot Chili Peppers poster lol.

watching too much TV to watch movies

adam the (abanana), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link

Frederik, was the hour-long shot of Long Day's Journey in 3D when you saw it? If so, what was that like?

if this Bi Gan is anything like Kaili Blues then I think I will love it. The blurring of boundaries between past, present and future in that film was incredible, as was the concept of a 40 minute take that included the protagonist traveling on the back of the motorbike. The only director whose sensibility comes close to his I think is Weerasethakul Apitchatpong

Dan S, Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link

or rather Apitchatpong Weerasethakul

Dan S, Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link

Y’all we need to talk about Venom. Despite a generic plot and some truly abysmal CGI, I...kinda loved it? Tom Hardy almost singlehandedly pulls the movie out of mediocrity and makes it a blast to watch. He’s channeling some vintage Nic Cage gonzo energy and it rules so hard. It’s like he’s beamed in from another universe while everyone else is acting as if they’re in a regular comic book movie. And bizarrely, it works for the character. I did not expect this outcome at all!

latebloomer, Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link

Also saw Bad Times at the Tarantino Inn or whatever it’s called. It was pretty good, though maybe a smidge too long and it kinda stumbles a bit in the last act. Slickly directed, though. Worth seeing!

latebloomer, Monday, 15 October 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link

Re-watching my Japanese Blu-Ray of Charley Varrick tonight (the only way to see it in its original aspect ratio on a US machine; the domestic DVD is 1.33:1 for some goddamn reason). One of the best movies of the Seventies. Walter Matthau's whole mini-career as an action hero was so weird and awesome.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 15 October 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link

Rodin
'R Xmas
Police Judiciare
Between Worlds
Mom And Dad
Faust (Sokurov)
Blue Collar
Le Concierge

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 15 October 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link

I Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953) - 8/10
Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958) - 9/10
Reality Bites (Stiller, 1994) - 5/10
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007) - 8/10
Collateral (Mann, 2004) - 9/10
Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990) - 7/10
La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960) - 9/10
The Love Parade (Lubitsch, 1929) - 8/10
Boyhood (Linklater, 2014) - 9/10
The Departed (Scorsese, 2006) - 8/10
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966) - 8/10
Road Trip (Philips, 2000) - 2/10
8½ (Fellini, 1963) - 10/10

flappy bird, Monday, 15 October 2018 05:07 (six years ago) link

Frederik, was the hour-long shot of Long Day's Journey in 3D when you saw it? If so, what was that like?

if this Bi Gan is anything like Kaili Blues then I think I will love it. The blurring of boundaries between past, present and future in that film was incredible, as was the concept of a 40 minute take that included the protagonist traveling on the back of the motorbike. The only director whose sensibility comes close to his I think is Weerasethakul Apitchatpong

― Dan S, 15. oktober 2018 01:40 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it was in 3D and it was used very well. I don't think anything was coming out of the screen, it's just used to make this dark, dreamy world appear even more different. I'm very happy to have seen that part.

Frederik B, Monday, 15 October 2018 07:55 (six years ago) link

Solo: A Star Wars Story 1.5/5
Leave No Trace (2018) 4/5
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) 1/5
Game Night 3/5
* Gun Crazy (1950) 4/5
Italianamerican (1974) 3.5/5

Chris L, Monday, 15 October 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link

in theaters September & October so far:

Puzzle (Turtletaub, 2018) - 4/10
California Split (Altman, 1974 / 35mm) - 10/10
A Simple Favor (Feig, 2018) - 5/10
Life Itself (Fogelman, 2018) - 0/10 <----- this is a bizarre and unintentionally hilarious/horrifying failure, honestly worth checking out
Love, Gilda (Dapolito, 2018) - 6/10
Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman, 1953) - 9/10
Blaze (Hawke, 2018) - 2/10
Lolita (Kubrick, 1962 / 35mm) - 7/10
A Star is Born (Cooper, 2018) - 5/10
First Man (Chazelle, 2018) - 6/10
22 July (Greengrass, 2018) - 1/10
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) - 10/10

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link

I watched California Split over the weekend (2nd time seeing it). Probably my fave Altman. The tinge of desperation despite all the camaraderie and hi-jinks. 10/10 for sure

. (Michael B), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 08:55 (six years ago) link

a single shot makes the whole movie: after they've won at the end, and elliott gould is collecting the money all excited, and then it cuts to that wide shot of the empty bar slowly zooming into george segal sitting in the other room, morning light pouring in, completely dejected.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link

22 July (Greengrass, 2018) - 1/10

i feel like this is the exact type of film i hate to see, just basically a faithful recreation of the mass murders of a bunch of kids. I liked Bloody Sunday and Paul G's Bourne flicks but I ain't gonna see this one.

omar little, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link

I was relieved that, while the attack is dramatized in full, it's only the first 25 minutes of the movie. most of it is about the aftermath & trial. still, exploitative and horrible, yes. it's also 143 minutes (!!)

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (2014, Keach) 6/10
*Hard Times (1975, Hill) 8/10
The Stork Club (1945, Walker) 5/10
Transit (2018, Petzold) 4/10
*O Fantasma (2000, Rodrigues) 8/10
Golden Exits (2017, Perry) 6/10
The Image Book (2018, Godard) 8/10
Sharky’s Machine (1981, Reynolds) 6/10
Your Face (2018, Tsai) 7/10
Come Back Little Shiksa (1953, Lewis) (39m) 6/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link

well, I made a mistake here, shd be

Transit (2018, Petzold) 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link

what did you think of Golden Exits?

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link

Better than Her Smell! It seemed like Perry's Interiors for millennials. Enjoyed Mary-Louise Parker's performance, but was impatient with/hated all the characters.

(also it's set about 2 miles from where I live, so it seems I haven't been missing anything)

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link

yeah, it was really light imo & I agree he either hates his characters or doesn't realize how boring and casually cruel they are. his cinematographer Sean Price Williams is great though, that movie looked fantastic.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link

was impressed by south korean debut feature last child, recommend if people get the opportunity to see it

devvvine, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link

Sic could you possibly go and get a fixation on somebody else ?

TV series I was watching started in 2003.
So as i said I was watching it about 10 years ago

...I had looked up the Teen Titans Go! series when I saw the movie, as listed upthread(s), so remembered when it started. Mentioned it thinking you might be amused in a "how time flies," "wow the world is turning to a hellscape even faster than it feels" way to find out it was only five years ago. From you saying you'd watched the series and thus were curious to see the film, there was no way of knowing that you were talking about a completely different TV series, with (it says here) a serious-not-parodic approach, adapting the Wolfman/Perez material, a Timm/Murakami design style, different episode lengths, different writers and different title.

My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link

anyway, September 30 to October 14th, on track to get 31 scary films into a, let's say, six-week Halloween period

Fear City (Ferrara, St. John 1984) 📺
A Bucket Of Blood (Corman, B. Griffith 1959) 📺
Portal To Hell!!! * (Caldinelli, Watts 2015) 📺
Strange Invaders * (Barker 2002) 📺
The Phone Call * (Kirkby 2013) 📺
* Mandy (Cosmatos, Stewart-Ahn 2018) [DCP]
Dirty Work (Saget 1998) 📺
Halloween (Carpenter, Hill 1978) 📺
Night Of The Living Dead (Romero 'n' Russo 1968) 📺
Leave Her To Heaven (Stahl, Swerling, Williams 1945) 35mm 📽️
Carrie ( DePalma and D. Cohen 1976) 📺
*Dressed To Kill (DePalma 1980) 📺
House On Haunted Hill (White & Castle 1959) 📺
Splatter ** (Dante, Matheson 2009) 📺
The 'Burbs (Dante, Olsen 1989) 📺
Wacko (Clark, Olsen & al. 1982) 35mm 📽️
*Blow Out (DePalma 1981) 📺
Shimmer Lake (Uziel 2017) 📺
Dawn Of The Dead (Romero 1978) 📺
Little Evil (Craig 2017) 📺

* these are shorts: I signed up for Kanopy on the 30th, only to find that the Seattle Public Library limits users to five films pcm, so squeezed in ever-shorter horror/spook flicks as midnight approached
** this was on Netflix as a Corman/Dante film; turned out to be three episodes of a ten-episode choose your own adventure series stuck together.

My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link

My Talk with Florence (Paul Poet)
Xiao Mei (Maren Hwang)
Interchange (Brian M. Cassidy, Melissa Shatzky)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Anthropocene (Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)

traurig, Saturday, 20 October 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link

Is Anthropocene worth a look?

jmm, Saturday, 20 October 2018 11:26 (six years ago) link

Yes, especially if you like their earlier work. I found it just as compelling as the previous films, with great visuals of course.

traurig, Sunday, 21 October 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link

lff:

Asako I & II (Hamaguchi, 2018) 9/10
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Wheatley, 2018) 5/10
Ash is Purest White (Jia, 2018) 8/10
Last Child (Shin, 2017) 7/10
Non-fiction (Assayas, 2018) 6/10
The Image Book (Goddard, 2018) 7/10
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018) 7/10
The Green Fog (Maddin, Johnson, Johnson, 2017) 6/10
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Bi, 2018) 8/10
Maya (Hansen-Love, 2018) 4/10

other viewings:

*Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960) 10/10 - perhaps the most perfect film
The Day He Arrives (Hong, 2011) 8/10
Eros + Massacre (Yoshida,1969) 6/10
*Hill of Freedom (Hong, 2014) 9/10

devvvine, Sunday, 21 October 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link

The Wizard's Apprentice (Levee, 1930)
Frankenstein (Dawley, 1910)
Fast Life (Pollard, 1932)
The Frog (de Chomon, 1908)
Hallucinations pharmaceutiques ou Le truc de potard (Melies, 1908)
Bluebeard (Melies, 1901)
The Killers (Siodmak, 1946)
The Killers (Siegal, 1964)
The Headless Horseman (Iwerks, 1934)
The Mad Doctor (Hand, 1933)
Strange Justice (Schertzinger, 1932)
Son of the Border (Nosler, 1933)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 21 October 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link

xp is Late Autumn in the Late Ozu Eclipse box? been eyeing that one for a while

flappy bird, Sunday, 21 October 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link

idk, this was a theatre screening but there's a bfi blu ray out there

devvvine, Sunday, 21 October 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link

A Life in Waves (6.0)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (8.0)
Deterrence (5.0)
Bravetown (5.5)
My Generation (6.0)
Buffalo ’66 (5.5)
The World of Henry Orient (7.0)
Cold Water (8.0)
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (7.0)
Studio 54 (7.0)

One of the friends I saw Studio 54 with tonight was in there around '81 or '82, after Rubell and Schrager sold the club. I figure they would have asked me to vacate the line in 1977. Pretty conventional, but lots of great footage, including Rubell's 1976 club in Queens, and Michael Jackson dropping in on Rubell.

clemenza, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:25 (six years ago) link

Really enjoyed that Studio 54 doc

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link

Yayoi Kusama - Inifinity (Heather Lenz, 2018) - this was ok. Struck by the relation between someone asexual like Kusuma ending up on the end of transgressive art in the mid-60s. An under-explored facet.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, 1982)
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link

Small Foot.
musical animation about the tribe of the yeti's encounter with a Western film maker.
Quite fun. Noticed it had a G certificate which I don't remember having seen on a cinema screen before.
& for the lowest certificate there seemed to be a lot of what would be violence if it was real or is the idea that what would be physically or life threatening behaviour actually needing to be shown to have consequences before it makes the certificate go up.
Also questions of blasphemy and challenging received religious wisdom being a central theme of a lot of the film.

JUst hope 5 year old kids don't start dropping off the side of Himalayan mountains cos they've seen it's quite fun.
& there's easier ways of waking villages than displayed here.

I think i was just assuming that a worthwhile film couldn't be rated as low as G but may have been watching things rated as that without seeing the certificate.

Or taht since I'm so far above any certi8ficate age exclusion it becomes nominal but not really getting what allows anything to be a certain certificate. Presume for a lot of things the lower the certificate the better because the higher the potential audience. THough there is still the attraction/prestige of seeing a higher certificate or knowing that things may be more authentic and less bowdlerised if they're thought of as adult/mature.

Enjoyed most of this though.

Stevolende, Friday, 26 October 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link

The Merry Skeleton (Lumiere, 1898)
A Terrible Night (Melies, 1896)
The Bewitched Inn (Melies, 1897)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Henderson, 1912)
*Frankenstein (Whale, 1931)
Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party (Fleischer, 1933)
The Shriek (Lantz & Nolan, 1933)
The Monster Walks (Strayer, 1932)
The Smoke Scream (Messmer, 1928)
*Salome (Bryant & Nazimova, 1922) (Who would have thought half-naked men and an atmosphere of sacrilege and sex would be just what I DON'T need right now?)
*Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Monday, 29 October 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link

Being There (Ashby, 1979)
Hold the Dark (Saulnier, 2018)
The Gates (Maysles et al, 2007)
*Bulldog Drummond (Jones, 1929)
*King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)
Neighbours (short - McLaren, 1952)
My Josephine (short - Jenkins, 2003)
The Voice Thief (Adan Jodorowsky, 2013)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
*Y Tu Mamá También (Cuarón, 2001)

WmC, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link

Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) - 10/10
Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995) - 7/10
Schizopolis (Soderbergh, 1996) - 9/10
In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) - 10/10
Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999) - 9/10
Rome: Open City (Rossellini, 1945) - 8/10
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967) - 9/10
Basic Instinct (Verhoeven, 1992) - 8/10
Risky Business (Brickman, 1983) - 7/10
Before Sunrise (Linklater, 1995) - 9/10
Dekalog I (Kieślowski, 1988) - 9/10
Avanti! (Wilder, 1972) - 9/10
Uncle Yanco (Varda, 1967) - 9/10
Thief (Mann, 1981) - 9/10
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004) - 9/10
Dekalog II (Kieślowski, 1988) - 9/10
Dekalog III (Kieślowski, 1988) - 9/10
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1978) - 8/10
Black Panthers (Varda, 1968) - 10/10
Dekalog IV (Kieślowski, 1988) - 10/10
Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013) - 9/10

flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 04:46 (six years ago) link

The Eye (Pang Bros, 2002) 3/10
The Deadly Trap (Clément,1971) 6/10
The Comedy of Terrors (Tourneur, 1963) 7/10
The Mind of Mr. Soames (Cooke, 1970) 6/10
The Ugly Ducking (Comfort, 1959) 5/10
The World of Henry Orient (Hill, 1964) 7/10 (because of the ILX revive - slightly surprising credit for Boris Kaufman, but no wonder all the New York locations look so good)
Road to Utopia (Walker, 1946)
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wenders, 1972) 7/10 (this was the recent restoration supervised by Wenders, with some new 'cover version' soundtrack substitutions for the now prohibitively expensive rock and pop hits heard throughout the film on jukeboxes, radios etc. Film looks stunning, Robby Müller already fully formed)
Halloween (Green, 2018) 6/10 - Haluk Bilginer making for a great, tiny degree of separation between this film and the work of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose latest film opens in the UK next month

Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 09:10 (six years ago) link

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (Joseph Green, 1959) 2
Night of the Ghouls (Wood, 1952) 2
Doctor X (Curtiz (!), 1932) 4
Dead of Night (Cavalcanti, 1945) 6
*Gremlins 2 (Dante, 1990) 8
First Man (Chazelle, 2018) 7; shame about the suffering wife trope
Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018) 8

adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link

Mandy (2018) 7/10
*Casino Royale (2006) 8/10
Sorry To Bother You (2018) 7/10
*Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) 4/10
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) 7/10
Nerve (2016) 4/10
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 5/10
*California Split (1974) 10/10
*Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 8/10
Straight Time (1978) 7/10
*Bone Tomahawk (2015) 8/10
The Negotiator (1998) 5/10

. (Michael B), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link

The Uninvited (1944)
Cat People (1942)

Went with a couple of spooky classics. Simone Simon is astonishing in Cat People, she's so adept at playing fearful and coy and sweet and kind and terrifying in equal measure, in subtle and smart ways. The two separate scenes where Jane Randolph is stalked are scary precisely bc you know the reason she's being stalked is something very personal, very primal, and she's being specifically targeted. Simon simply talking to her at the pool in the second scene is chilling.

Ant-Man 8/10

One of the better Marvel flicks out of the dozen I've seen thus far. It was funny to read the thread for this one, everyone groaning over production issues and trailers and what not, and it winds up being a really good breezy film, a good 30-40 min shorter than the other Marvels and less weighted down by Avengers business. Paul Rudd was *delightful*. Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas make for a great daughter/father pair, some proper tension in those scenes. I enjoyed Corey Stoll's villain, even though he ticked off a lot of the boxes that a few villains who have gone before him have also ticked off.

omar little, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link

Cat People is great, I haven't seen any of the remakes, are they worth checking out?

also what should I watch tonite for hAlLoWeEn???

flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link

i'm watching Ringu. i already feel that this is a mistake.

koogs, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link

Damn, probably, yeah.

I have The Thing and I've never seen it... should I?

flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link

yes!

Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link

the 1951 version first

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link

def watch the carpenter thing tonight

princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link

I think you should work backward from the 2011 thing

coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link

Watching Ringu alone at night is one of the scariest thing to do, lol. Would not do it again, not even on Halloween.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link

i thought it was pretty tame (but ask me again in a couple of hours). i remember it being worse, and more jump-scary than it was. maybe i'm confusing it with part 2, or the remake.

it also seemed quite quaint - vhs cassettes and landlines and all.

koogs, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link

ok im gonna watch the carpenter thing rn!!!!!!!!

flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link

October is the only month of the year where my viewing is genre-specific (thought not any good, even the cartoon I watched while babysitting my nieces fit the theme).

Psycho II (Franklin, 1983) 5/10
Suspiria (Argento, 1977) 7/10
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (Tartakovsky, 2018) 4/10
The 7th Victim (Robson, 1943) 7/10
The Dead Zone (Cronenberg, 1983) 8/10
Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960) 7/10
The Phantom of the Opera (Julian, 1925) 8/10
The Stuff (Cohen, 1985) 5/10
The Fly (Neumann, 1960) 6/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link

er, The Fly is 1958.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link

Hereditary 2.5/5
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) 3.5/5
* The Wicker Man (1973) 4/5
* Suspiria (1977) 4/5
* Cure (1997) 4/5
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) 3/5
Spotlight (2015) 3.5/5
Venom 2/5

Chris L, Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link

I Am Not a Witch(Nyoni, 2018), 7/10
Sorry to Bother You (Riley, 2018) 7/10
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) 5/10
Mandy(Cosmatos, 2018)
Wildlife (Dano, 2018) 7/10
A Star is Born (Cooper, 2018) 5/10
The Guardians (Beauvois, 20218) 7/10
Burning(Lee, 2018) 8/10
Leave No Trace (Granik, 2018) 7/10
Museo (Ruizpalacios, 2018) 7/10
Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018) 6/10
Love Songs (Honoré, 2007) 7/10
La Vie de Bohème (Kaurismaki, 1992) 8/10
High School (Wiseman, 1969) 8/10
* Richard III (Olivier, 1956) 7/10
* The Little Foxes (Wyler, 1941) 5/10
* Stage Door (La Cava, 1937) 9/10

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 November 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link

film fest

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Gilliam)
The Raft (Lindeen)
Fortuna (Roaux)
The Waldheim Waltz (Beckermann)
Jean-François and the Meaning of Life (Portabella)
Mug (Szumowska)
You Go To My Head (de Clerq)
Studio Bankside (Jarman)
Journey to Avebury (Jarman)
Tarot (Jarman)
Sulphur (Jarman)
Sloane Square (Jarman)
Sebastian Wrap (Jarman)
Waiting for Waiting for Godot (Jarman)
Electric Fairy (Jarman)
Departure (Wüst)
The Blot (Weber)
The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić (Hernaiz Pidal)
*The Ornithologist (Rodrigues)
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (von Trotta)
Shoplifters (Kore-ada)
Birds of Passage (Guerra & Gallego)
Marquis de Wavrin: From the Manor to the Jungle (Winter & Plantier)
A Woman Captured (Tuza-Ritter)
Roobha (Sivam)
Burning (Lee)
Isabelle (Heydon)
Touch Me Not (Pintilie)
*Le Mepris (Godard)
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher)
The Silence of Others (Carracedo & Bahar)
Is That You? (Riverón Sánchez)
Trees Down Here (Rivers)
Snow (Jones)
A Year Along the Abandoned Road (Skallerud)
3 Days in Quiberon (Atef)
Eastern Memories (Kullström & Kaartinen)
The Skier (Najafi)
The Image Book (Godard)
The Image You Missed (Foreman)
Monsters and Men (Green)
Roma (Cuarón)

coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 3 November 2018 11:06 (six years ago) link

How is Birds of Passage? Been offered an interview with one of the directors, still wondering if I want to work on it.

Thoughts on Mug? I liked it quite a lot. Quite surprised by it.

Frederik B, Saturday, 3 November 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link

and Gilliam's Quixote? it of the 25-year wait?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 November 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link

Birds of passage was cool tho I think I preferred guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent - this may have been the film I was most tired during* so I think I was a little impatient with some of the more inevitable genre story turns. There are certainly enough things that make it atypical, and it’s well done.

Mug was a highlight for sure, loved the grim humour, the stylistic gimmick, the way they shot the construction site

The Gilliam - well bearing in mind I’ve been assuming for years that this would be a shitshow if it ever got made, I ended up surprised at how successfully they pulled it off. Obv not worth 25 years, or 2.5 hours for that matter. It’s definitely better than the Johnny Depp version would have been, not just because of driver vs depp - I didn’t know this going in but they’ve made a couple of major changes to the original premise that not only make it less awful and misconceived but bring it closer to the spirit of Cervantes’s novel. So props I guess for credibly updating Quixote, which is kinda miraculous in itself, there’s just the slight problem that the film is nothing special

coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 3 November 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link

Oh yeah the asterisk: I was just proud to get through a festival without once nodding off tbh

Btw I should say Gilliam was a surprise guest at the screening and seemed quite aware of the film’s flaws (in particular its length) and was imploring people not to watch it as a 25-years-in-the-making culmination of a life’s work, but just as another movie

coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 3 November 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link

Rosa Luxemburg (1986, von Trotta) 6/10
Wildlife (2018, Dano) 7/10
*After Hours (1985, Scorsese) 8/10
Kuroneko (1968, Shindo) 9/10
The Dam Busters (1955, Anderson) 7/10
*Prime Cut (1972, Ritchie) 7/10
I, Jane Doe (1948, Auer) 5/10
The Oblong Box (1969, Hessler) 6/10
Exit Smiling (1926, Taylor) 7/10
*Silent Movie (1976, Brooks) 6/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link

*The Ornithologist
*Le Mepris

-imo the last films in that list you should be nodding off to!

Dan S, Monday, 5 November 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link

that's not what the asterisks mean, i don't think

i've always intensely disliked Le Mepris; had contempt for it, you could say.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link

really? I haven't seen every Godard film, but so far it's my favorite

Dan S, Monday, 5 November 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link

hetero lovers fighting constantly -- blechhh

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link

Yeah I guess but I was just turned off by the casual, romantic depiction of crime in Breathless and overall thought Contempt was a much better film

Godard is the ultimate *straight* director though

Dan S, Monday, 5 November 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link

second rental from the brand new video store (!!!):

Pierrot le Fou
La Captive
Beau Travail
Hush.... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

got the Godard because Akerman said that seeing it as a child made her want to be a filmmaker. very excited for La Captive, most recent non-doc Akerman I've tracked down. only Denis I've seen are White Material (eh) and Let the Sunshine In (fantastic). consensus is Beau Travail is her best, yes? and the Aldrich I've wanted to see for a while and seen referenced often (most recently in a book about Nashville session musicians).

flappy bird, Monday, 5 November 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link

The Captive is the best Proust adaptation I've seen after Ruiz's.

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 November 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link

Beau Travail not in my top 5 Denis

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link

The Curse of the Cat People (von Fritsch & Wise, 1944)
The Haunted Castle (Smith, 1897)
Mr. W's Little Game (Shores, 1934)
Bimbo's Initiation (Fleischer & Natwick, 1931)
*Under a Spell (Smith, 1925)
Her Defiance (King & Madison, 1916)
The Cardboard Lover (Leonard, 1928)
*The Navigator (Crisp & Keaton, 1924)
Beauty's Worth (Vignola, 1922)
*Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Reisner & Keaton, 1928)
L'Inferno (de Liguoro & Bertolini, 1911)
*Safety Last (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1923)
*Show People (Vidor, 1928)
When Knighthood Was in Flower (Vignola, 1922)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Monday, 5 November 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link

xp morbs what are your top 5 Denis

flappy bird, Monday, 5 November 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link

lady gaga bradley cooper movie - it was ok..? i can already barely remember it. i guess on second thought, it sucked
basic instinct (verhoeven) - this was maybe the most enjoyment i've had watching a movie in a year
deep red (argento) - good, yet often boring when not slashy. sickchops prog soundtrack
andrei rublev (tarkovsky) - v good, didn't actually feel long at 3h perhaps because every terrible hollywood action movie is 2.5h?

flopson, Monday, 5 November 2018 06:40 (six years ago) link

flappy, w/out rewatching or thinking too hard

35 Rhums
Chocolat
Let the Sunshine In
Nenette et Boni
Friday Night

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link

well, bless your heart, we finally agree *reaches for smoothie*

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 November 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link

thou dost exaggerate, honeybunch

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link

The Bench (Fly)*
The Inheritance (Fly)*
Manslaughter (Fly)*
Forestillinger (Fly)
The Woman Who Dreamt of a Man (Fly)
Monica Z (Fly)
Aftermath (Steen)
That Time of Year (Steen)
Art History (Swanberg)
Drinking Buddies (Swanberg)
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (Decker)*
The White Reindeer (Blomberg)
The Harvest Month (Kassila)
Inspector Palmu’s Error (Kassila)
1. April 2000 (Liebeneiner)
Flamenco (Neville)
Main Street (Bardem)
Pickpocket (Jia)
Still Life (Jia)
Kaili Blues (Bi)
Wolf Children (Hosada)*
The Boy and the Beast (Hosada)*
A Page of Madness (Kinugasa)
Blue (Jarman)
El Movimiento (Naishtat)
The Dead Nation (Jude)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Le Plaisir (Ophüls)
Christopher Robin (Forster)

Frederik B, Thursday, 8 November 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link

Tale of Cinema (Hong, 2005) 8/10
Cat People (Tourneur, 1942) 7/10
In The Mood for Love (Wong, 2000) 9/10
The Childhood of a Leader (Corbet 2015) 7/10
*A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991) 10/10
The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 2018) 6/10 - the unrestored version the great minds at netflix put up on the first day
The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973) 9/10
Love's Crucible (Sjöström, 1922) 9/10
Freaks (Browning, 1932) 6/10
Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987) 7/10
Winchester 73' (Mann, 1950) 8/10
The Woman in the Window (Lang, 1944) 7/10
Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018) 5/10
Emitai (Sembene, 1971) 8/10
*The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 2018) 8/10
The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong, 1998) 9/10
Hotel by the River (Hong, 2018) 7/10

devvvine, Friday, 9 November 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link

Fred what did you think of Drinking Buddies? I saw that at a fest 5+ years ago and it remains one of the worst movies I've seen this decade.

dev thank you for the Spirit of the Beehive reminder, I haven't watched that in 10 years and just found my copy buried in my basement last night.

flappy bird, Friday, 9 November 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link

oh yeah - has anyone seen the new Suspiria? I'm not a fan of the original, but I'm intrigued by the new one being described as more of a "cover version" than a remake - I'm getting heavy Blade Runner 2049 vibes from everything I've heard.

flappy bird, Friday, 9 November 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link

Drinking Buddies is... kinda okay? Utterly uninteresting and a really boring way for Swanberg to develop. But what did you so dislike about it?

Frederik B, Friday, 9 November 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link

his loose/improv dialogue style didn't work at all with those actors. I don't like mumblecore in the first place and that one felt like a gigantic waste of time and money - it felt like watching an awkward rehearsal.

flappy bird, Friday, 9 November 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link

The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West (Wong, 1917)
Mabel's Blunder (Normand, 1914)
Caught in a Cabaret (Normand, 1914)
Cendrillon (Melies, 1899)
The Ancient Law (Dupont, 1923)
*Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
*Mare Nostrum (Ingram, 1926)
*Corporal Kate (Sloane, 1926)
Barbed Wire (Lee, 1927)
Lilac Time (Fitzmaurice, 1928)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Monday, 12 November 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link

I thought "Neon Demon" was a fantastic "Suspiria" cover version.

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 12 November 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link

Good point - and I liked Neon Demon a lot and don't like Suspiria at all.

flappy bird, Monday, 12 November 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link

The Thing (Carpenter, 1982) - 9/10
Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982) - 8/10
Lola (Fassbinder, 1981) - 8/10
Ten (Kiarostami, 2002) - 10/10
Wings (Shepitko, 1966) - 5/10
10 on Ten (Kiarostami, 2004) - 10/10
The Fortune Cookie (Wilder, 1966) - 7/10
Dekalog V (Kieslowski, 1988) - 8/10
Fellini Satyricon (Fellini, 1969) - 7/10
Dekalog VI (Kieslowski, 1988) - 9/10
Man is Not a Bird (Makavejev, 1965) - 8/10
Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965) - 6/10
Dekalog VII (Kieslowski, 1988) - 10/10
Dick (Fleming, 1999) - 6/10
Topsy-Turvy (Leigh, 1999) - 9/10

flappy bird, Monday, 12 November 2018 04:32 (six years ago) link

* The Devils (censored version; 1971)
Burning (2018) 3.5/5
Vampire’s Kiss (1988) 3/5
* I Waked with a Zombie (1943) 4/5
* Mikey and Nicky (1976) 4/5
Cluny Brown (1946) 4/5
* Theatre of Blood (1973) 3.5/5
Derek (2008) 3/5
Belfast, Maine (1999) 4.5/5

Chris L, Monday, 12 November 2018 09:52 (six years ago) link

on track to get 31 scary films into a, let's say, six-week Halloween period

made it to 30 in six weeks. here's October 19th to November 10th:

* Nightmare On Elm Street (Craven 1984) 📺
Entertainment (Alverson, Turkington, Heidecker 2015) 🏋️
Life After Beth (Baena 2014) 📺
I Am Road Comic (Brady 2014) 📺
The Happy House (Young 2013) 📺
The Cat And The Canary (Reni, Cohn, Anthony, Hill, after Willard 1927) [Photoplay restoration projected with live organist. Organ also recently restored. Organist original.]
Slice (Vesely 2018) 📺
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick, Elfman, Thompson, McDowell & Burton 1993) 4DX 😞
Summer Of '84 (Simard, Whissell, Whissell, Leslie, Smith 2018) 📺
Hearts Beat Loud (Haley, Basch, DeWitt 2018) 📺
Society (Yuzna, Keith, Fry 1989) 📽️ 35mm
Piranha (Dante, Sayles, Robinson 1978) 📺
The Stranger (Welles, Trivas, Veiller, Huston, Dunning 1946) 📺
Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko (Shindo 1968) 📽️ 35mm

Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link

I guess you could count Entertainment as a horror film tbh. 31!

Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link

What does the weight lifter emoji mean?

adam the (abanana), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link

watched it in chunks at the YMCA while climbing non-existent hills

Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 12 November 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link

Anything Goes (1936, Milestone) 6/10
Artists & Models (1937, Walsh) 5/10
Burning (2018, Lee) 7/10
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (2018, Neville) 7/10
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951, Lupino) 6/10
Monrovia, Indiana (2018, Wiseman) 8/10
*Ossessione (1943, Visconti) 9/10
*Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995, Silovic) 6/10
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979, von Trotta) 7/10
*Family Plot (1976, Hitchcock) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link

The Blob (1958)

Completely classic monster-from-space movie, with the perfectly odd titular blob oozing around killing people, and a nice setup for the killings at the beginning. It feels like a template for various other viral outbreak horror stories that followed in its wake, and it's a very swift 82 minutes slowed only by a couple of conversation scenes in the first act. It's fairly suspenseful in place, though obviously not grisly. However, the unstated fact that the blob has turned red because it's been consuming and dissolving humans is a nice touch.

McQueen is great, he doesn't look anymore like a teenager than he did when he played the Cooler King or Frank Bullitt but he's fully committed to the role and he delivers some great ridiculous dialogue as if it means something.

Best throwaway line (spoken by one police officer about another who's tired of these troublemaking teens): "Just because some kid smacks into your wife on the turnpike doesn't make it a crime to be 17 years old!"

omar little, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link

I like how dark the backgrounds of the outside scenes are, like it was made for drive-ins.

adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link

is there a "Good books about movies" thread? not fiction, not biographies, I'm looking for anything on the beginning of cinema, early cinema, history of cinema as a sociological phenomenon, & the history of movie theaters. Grazi

flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 05:42 (five years ago) link

The Blob has a great theme song too

koogs, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link

...composed by Burt Bacharach

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link

The Great Beauty - (Sorrentino, 2013) - 7/10 - empty
Anomalisa - (Kaufman/Johnson, 2016) - 5/10 - annoying
Sherlock Jr - (Keaton, 1924) - 10/10 - lol
Mandy - (Cosmatos, 2018) - 9/10 - swirly
Moonlight - (Jenkins, 2017) - 6/10 - oscar-bait

closed beta (NotEnough), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link

Linda (Davenport, 1929)
Bridal Bail (Stevens, 1934)
The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)
Carmen (Lubitsch, 1918)
*Flesh and the Devil (Brown 1926)
*The General (Keaton and Bruckman, 1926)
Salt Water Daffy (McCarey, 1933)
*A Woman of the World (St. Clair, 1925)
Heart to Heart (Beaudine, 1928)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 19 November 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link

Moi, un Noir (1958) 3/5
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) 2.5/5
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2/5
Paris Was a Woman (1996) 2.5/5
I Called Him Morgan (2016) 3.5/5
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) 3/5
Mad Love (1935) 4/5
A Page of Madness (1926) 3.5/5

Chris L, Monday, 19 November 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link

I just saw Upgrade. It was pretty good! Clever b-movie premise, great execution for what must have been a low budget. Reminded me a bit of the original Terminator, or maybe Robocop, if it was directed by David Cronenberg.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 November 2018 05:45 (five years ago) link

the best film of the year only better on rewatch

Burning (Lee, 2018) 7/10
The Curse of the Cat People (von Fritsch, Wise, 1944) 7/10
Terminator (Cameron, 1984) 6/10
Terminator 2 (Cameron, 1991) 4/10
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Neville, 2018) 4/10
Bigger than Life (Ray, 1956) 8/10
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen, Coen, 2018) 6/10
*Claire's Camera (Hong, 2017) 9/10
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969) 10/10

devvvine, Monday, 19 November 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link

Klute is free on Amazon Prime, so I watched that last night. The extremely giallo-esque score in the Jane Fonda-is-stalked-by-the-killer scenes was what stuck out to me the most. That, and the scenes between Fonda and Roy Scheider.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 November 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link

Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978) - I don't why it took me so long to get around to watching this but its one of his best. It was screening on a double bill with Haneke's Piano Teacher which is quite a good choice. It was nice to see what Ingrid Bergman could do with such a challenging script. Bergman (the other one) really goes places and provokes, and the scene where the daughter is playing chopin to her mother is a real high.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 November 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link

Eighth Grade (Burnham, 2018) 6/10
Panic in the Streets (Kazan, 1950) 8/10
Can’t Stop the Music (Walker, 1980) 4/10
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942) 9/10
Pinkus’s Shoe Palace (Lubitsch, 1916) 5/10
Sorry to Bother You (Riley, 2018) 8/10
Mavis! (Edwards, 2015) 6/10
The Late Show (Benton, 1977) 5/10
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Akhavan, 2018) 5/10
The Man with Two Brains (Reiner, 1983) 7/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link

I\m pretty sure The Late Show is a lot better than that

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link

Yeah, I really expected to like it better, but I found it kind of aimiable to a fault. It doesn’t help that Altman (who also produced this) already made the much better version of this movie a few years earlier with The Long Goodbye. Tomlin has a few good moments, and I liked the scene where she keeps failing to notice a dead body in the refrigerator, but I mostly felt like I was watching one of those “cute old people” movies that George Burns and Walter Matthau fell back on in the later stages of their careers.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link

Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1952)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1978)
Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Akerman, 1978)
Kaiju Bunraku (short - Levya/Mayer, 2017)
* 3 Colors: Blue (Kieślowski, 1993)
* 3 Colors: White (Kieślowski, 1994)
* 3 Colors: Red (Kieślowski, 1994)
Widows (McQueen, 2018)
The Mackintosh Man (Huston, 1973)
*Close-up (Kiarostami, 1990)
Close-up Long Shot (short - Mansouri, Chokrollahi, 1996)

WmC, Thursday, 22 November 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link

The Long Goodbye is not an antic noir comedy. Also, Tomlin was like 38 when that film was made. I thought her chemistry with Carney was good.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 November 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link

Sorry to Bother You is streaming free on Hulu (it's a paid rental on Amazon). It's mostly pretty funny with some good running gags, Armie Hammer is great in it, the turn into SF body horror is well handled, but the ending is weak. Still, worth watching.

grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 22 November 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link

The Long Goodbye is not an antic noir comedy.

It isn't?

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 November 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link

while there are funny scenes, it has some serious things on its mind (while also being a genre travesty)

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 November 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link

Both films are essentially about the classic noir detective navigating the weirdness of the 1970s. Altman's film just feels like the far more vivid, resonant take on this idea, to me.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 November 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link

The new Wreck-It Ralph was the rare movie the whole family agreed on. We all thought it was boring and lazy and ugly, and reminded us of something they would show before a ride at Epcot, but 10 times as long.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 November 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link

Saw Widows today; it's about a 2.5 out of 5. It's a half hour too long, with a lot of pointless digressions (Lukas Haas's character should not have gotten a second scene, and Viola Davis and Liam Neeson didn't need a dead son, never mind Carrie Coon's "role"). And how do you make a heist movie without one montage? Davis is good, but Elizabeth Debicki gets most of the best scenes.

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 23 November 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link

College Humor (Ruggles, 1933)
Motherhood: Life's Greatest Miracle (Lawrence, 1925)
Something New (Shipman & van Tuyle, 1920)
Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti, 1960)
Cold Turkey (Lord, 1940)
*The Opry House (Roth, 1929)
The Dream Lady (Wilson, 1918)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen & Coen, 2018)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Sunday, 25 November 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Aldrich, 1964) - 4/10
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) - 9/10
One-Eyed Jacks (Brando, 1961) - 6/10
Dekalog VIII (Kieślowski, 1988) - 8/10
La Captive (Akerman, 2000) - 7/10
Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990) - 8/10
Dekalog IX (Kieślowski, 1988) - 8/10
Dekalog X (Kieślowski, 1988) - 7/10
Daisies (Chytilová, 1966) - 8/10
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953) - 8/10
Gaslight (Cukor, 1944) - 5/10
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Makavejev, 1967) - 9/10
Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980) - 6/10
Paper Moon (Bogdanovich, 1973) - 10/10
Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi, 1936) - 8/10
Miami Vice (Mann, 2006) - 6/10
Track 29 (Roeg, 1988) - 7/10
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951) - 9/10
Track of the Cat (Wellman, 1954) - 5/10

flappy bird, Monday, 26 November 2018 05:42 (five years ago) link

First Man (2018, Chazelle) 8/10
Wait and See (1928, Forde) 6/10
Pinkus's Shoe Palace (1916, Lubitsch) 5/10
*The Clock (1945, Minnelli) 9/10
*The Sunshine Boys (1975, Ross) 7/10
Abel Raises Cain (2005, Abel, Hockett) 5/10
Eighth Grade (2018, Burnham) 7/10
Mrs. Fang (2017, Wang) 8/10
The Best of Everything (1959, Negulesco) 6/10
The Return of the Living Dead (1985, O'Bannon) 6/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link

xpost "Raging Bull' and "One Eyed jacks" rating the same as "Miami Vice" O0 ?

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link

Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978) - I don't why it took me so long to get around to watching this but its one of his best. It was screening on a double bill with Haneke's Piano Teacher which is quite a good choice. It was nice to see what Ingrid Bergman could do with such a challenging script. Bergman (the other one) really goes places and provokes, and the scene where the daughter is playing chopin to her mother is a real high.

I've seen it a few times because Ingrid is fun, but the way the movie keeps clobbering her for being awful makes me sympathetic toward her while forcing me to consider choking Liv.

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link

Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) 8/10
The Guilty (Möller, 2018) 6/10
*Burning (Lee, 2018) 7/10
Boy Erased (Egerton, 2018) 5/10
Monrovia, Indiana (Wiseman, 2018) 8/10
Wildlife (Dano, 2018) 7/10
An Actor's Revenge (Ishikawa, 1963) 7/10

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link

Ingrid is fun, but the way the movie keeps clobbering her for being awful makes me sympathetic toward her

what keeps me feeling sympathetic towards Ingrid (who is good and fun I agree) is that scene at the piano - she really puts Liv through the grinder when she makes her play Chopin. I think her coldness toward her disabled daughter is possibly over the top but certainly adds to it. Doesn't spare you but maybe asks too much of the viewer.

I quite like to read any biog of Ingrid just to read an account of her time when making this film.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link

I like the movie because it explores the psychological warfare inherent in the parent-child relationship. We want more praise than they give, and parents don't realize when they're condescending to or undermining their children.

It's second tier Bergman because it's too damn didactic in the last third.

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link

I quite like to read any biog of Ingrid just to read an account of her time when making this film.

― xyzzzz__,

Ingmar said he had to cure Ingrid of a lifetime of mannered Hollywood acting choice; she looked forward to speaking in her native language. You can see some of those bad choices when she reverts to English for that conversation with her agent.

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link

xpost "Raging Bull' and "One Eyed jacks" rating the same as "Miami Vice" O0 ?

― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee)

hmm yea One-Eyed Jacks is more of a 7/10. wonderfully weird, gay movie

flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link

And you don't need to change a word for the gay pr0n parody's title.

I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link

didnt get a real gay reading of OEJ when i rewatched last year

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link

Alfred OTM re Autumn Sonata. I'd also say the business with the mute, disabled sister goes a bit OTT and ends up in camp territory.

Josefa, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link

and parents don't realize when they're condescending to or undermining their children.

But I think in this particular r/ship the mother very much knew she was condescending and severe to her child - she didn't perhaps know to what extent it had 'damaged' her, but Ingrid knew what she was doing - she was aware that she never had love to give.

It very much shares (with the Piano Teacher) and expands on how demanding it is to make any kind of art for a long time, and who is left behind, or the damage it leaves by its demands on the mind and body (the pianist's back, or the great performance that cannot be conjured up anymore - lost to time) for those that 'make it'.

idk, to me its top 5 - so much that I love about Bergman with some of the uglier aspects made relatively palatable. wrt the disabled sister it could be camp or OTT but I felt he was pushing the audience into uncomfortable territory - seeing disability on the screen (and never mind in this way) is always a challenge because we don't encounter it. I liked that the sister wasn't relegated to the background, and how she became something to be used in that battle between mother and daughter. Cruel, sure - but that's Bergman.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link

Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) - this was quite good again - I just like what Kore-eda does. There was a lot more around sex and intimacy than usual for him with all the elements in previous films (getting by in an affluent society, or the unusual arrangements of family) in a light touch manner that brings people over.
Touch Me Not (Pintile, 2018) - there must be some hilarious reviews of this out there on the internet and I am not searching for them. I did like the documentary snapshot at the range of sexuality and desire on display. I saw it on MUBI so need to watch this in the cinema for a more concentrated view. Seemed one of a kind.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link

the sex scene was particularly, gratifyingly erotic for being unexpected

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link

Yeah I didn't get the gay subtext ( or overt nature ) of OEJ. Why a 6/10 for Raging Bull?

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link

The Bradshaw review of Touch Me Not was quite hilarious, especially because it was pretty clear he had skipped the press screening and was a bit annoyed that it won. The room was basically half full at that press screening in Berlin, it was a pretty fun experience.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 08:46 (five years ago) link

xp Kinda the same feeling I got from The Master. I know Karl Malden is supposed to be a father figure but, like with Joaquin and PSH, it read to me as some impossible/doomed romance. and besides that, I always get a vibe from Brando. the jeans, too

flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link

oh and I never understood the acclaim for Raging Bull. this was the third time I'd seen it, first in at least 8-9 years, and yeah, still feel the same. I love the famous opening credit sequence in theory - classical music over a slow-mo wide shot of LaMotta warming up - but I don't dig the shot, I don't dig that particular piece of music, it doesn't move me, at all. But its fatal flaw is LaMotta, such an uninteresting and boring character. Movie feels so slow and only picks up, "gets good" with the subsequent fights, which are really well done (especially the photo montage ones). Final scene between DeNiro and Pesci is great. Otherwise, beyond Scorsese's superb direction (which alone rates the movie as a 6/10 for me), there's nothing there. for me

flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link

The B&W photography doesn't help.

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link

crazee talk

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link

oh the cinematography is the best thing about it

flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link

and hard not to compare to Travis Bickle and Rupert Pupkin, two of the most beguiling performances/characters ever

flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link

i admire it more than *love* it but it's great, i think the unrepentant ugliness of LaMotta as a human being vs the beauty of the film itself is pretty compelling. though i put it below a number of other Scorsese pics.

omar little, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link

night and the city ('92 winkler) 7/10
the ballad of buster scruggs (2018 coens) 3/10
barfly ('87 schroeder) 7/10
the house that jack built (2018 lvt) 2/10
stepmom ('98 columbus) 7/10
hot summer nights (2017 elijah bynum) 7/10
wildlife (2018 dano) 6/10
american animals (2018 bart layton) 4/10
the price of everything (2018 nathaniel kahn) 8/10
kill me again ('89 dahl) 4/10
man up (2015 ben palmer) 9/10
crooked hearts ('91 michael bortman) 6/10

johnny crunch, Thursday, 29 November 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link

The Magnificent Seven (Sturges, 1960)
Quick Change (Franklin/Murray, 1990)
*Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996)
Dheepan (Audiard, 2015)
Performance (Cammell/Roeg, 1970)
Glastonbury Fayre (Neal/Roeg, 1972)
*No Regrets for Our Youth (Kurosawa, 1946)
Mr. Freedom (Klein, 1969)
Tess (Polanski, 1978)
and about 15 minutes of The Awful Truth before Filmstruck went black this morning

some shorts:
Hunger (Foldes, 1974)
Sea Devil (Marcial/Potter, 2014)
Alice's Mysterious Mystery (Disney/Iwerks, 1926)
The Fresh Lobster (unknown, 1948)
Ko-Ko Sees Spooks (Fleischer, 1925)

WmC, Friday, 30 November 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link

Kind of guesswork as to where I left off last time, but anyway:

The Czech Year (Trnka, 1947)
The Devil's Mill (Trnka, 1949)
The Emperor's Nightingale (Trnka, 1949)
The Asphyx (Newbrook, 1972)
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (Lynch, 1992/2014)
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (West, 2010)
Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (a committee of assholes, 1989)- this was the feature (all three goddamn parts) screened at my first Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society meeting, and I experienced it as both a personal affront (it fucking sucks) and a test of endurance (it was something like three hours long)
Why UNESCO? (Trnka, 1958)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Trnka, 1959)
And Then There Were None (Viveiros, 2015)
Resolution (Moorhead & Benson, 2012)
Hereditary (Aster, 2018)
*Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997)
WNUF Halloween Special (LaMartina, 2013)
Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018)
V/H/S (various, 2012)- I don't know why I keep thinking modern anthology horror films will be any good, or that Ti West will ever impress me again
Heavy Metal Parking Lot (Krulik & Heyn, 1986)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller, 2008)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen, 2018)
Forbidden Zone (Elfman, 1980)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link

The Night Walker (Castle, 1964) 7
Bohemian Rhapsody (Singer and Sigel, 2018) 6
Murder by Contract (Lerner, 1958) 9
The Thing From Another World (Nyby, 1951) 3; has a few scary moments
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Lanfield, 1939) 6
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes, 1964) 8

adam the (abanana), Saturday, 1 December 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link

* The Marriage of Maria Braun 4/5
Theodora Goes Wild (1936) 3/5
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) 4.5/5
The Silver Cord (1933) 3/5
The Merry Widow (1934) 3.5/5
* Awesome! I Fuckin' Shot That (2006) 3/5
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) 3.5/5
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) 4/5
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) 4/5
Heaven Can Wait (1943) 3.5/5

Chris L, Saturday, 1 December 2018 07:59 (five years ago) link

only one this week:

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

The first film had a very sinister lure to it and its thin story was elevated to something more foreboding by both its direction and its screenplay POV from an out-of-the-loop protagonist, and the mysteries only somewhat answered really helped as well. Plus the astonishing score. The sequel is a lesser film which gets by on some great action scenes and a very good core cast (Del Toro, Brolin, Donovan, Isabela Moner.)

It definitely suffers from having somewhat more anonymous skilled craftsman direction -- Sollima seems to come more from the Philip Noyce school of Jack Ryan movies type action as opposed to what Villaneuve brings to the table. That's not an insult, more an observation!

The terrorism/government side of things is really uninteresting; Modine and Keener don't do anything story or character-wise. I wish they'd found another way in to the story, but whatever.

It's decent enough, better than a lot of action flicks but it's missing the original's singular spooky quality. ymmv on this one.

omar little, Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link

13th to the 30th:

120 battements par minute (Campillo, Mangeot 2017) 📺
* Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, Neumeier 1997)
Night Of The Hunter (Laughton, Agee, Grubb 1955) 📽️ 35mm
* Thor: Ragnarok (Waititi, Pearson & al. 2017) 🏋️
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (Coen & Coen 2018)
* The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (Coen & Coen 2018) 📺
Three Days Of The Condor (Pollack, Semple Jr., Rayfiel, Grady 1975) 📺
Addams Family Values (Sonnenfeld, Rudnick 1993)
Slap Shot (Hill, Dowd 1977) 📽️ 35mm
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (Bernstein and Edelstein 2012) 📺
The Nice Guys (Black, Bagarozzi 2016) 📺
* Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright, O'Malley, Bacall 2010) 🏋️

sans lep (sic), Saturday, 1 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link

To Have and Have Not (Hawks, 1944) 8/10
The One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh, 1967) 8/10
Suspiria (Guadagnino, 2018) 5/10
Burnt Offerings (Curtis, 1976) 7/10
Shoplifters (Koreeda, 2018) 8/10

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 December 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link

Reading about this re-make of Suspiria and it just sounds awful.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 December 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link

Not reading about it cos I have tickets for it on my birthday

Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 December 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link

I went into it so determined NOT to be an Argento purist that it took me a while to realise how bad it mostly was. Happy birthday NV!

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 December 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link

Not till a week on Tuesday. My son really liked it but I know our tastes don't always coincide. Still better than going out for a hangover tho :)

Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 December 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link

after reading our messageboard tonight I think watching anything but MOTD sounds like a plan.

calzino, Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link

lol wrong thread again, I'm losing it today.

calzino, Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link

but to keep it on topic I'm watching Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood tonight!

calzino, Saturday, 1 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link

A Simple Favor (6.0)
White Boy Rick (5.0)
Mid90s (7.0)
Broadcast News (9.0)
The Passion of Anna (8.0)
Persona (8.0)
How to Steal a Million (6.0)*
Fahrenheit 11/9 (5.0)
Fanny & Alexander (8.5)
The Last Pogo Jumps Again (7.0)

Not sure if I drifted off for 10 minutes during How to Steal a Million or if it was longer. So the rating is somewhat provisional--there really isn't much there besides Audrey Hepburn anyway.

Persona is obviously a 10, maybe Fanny & Alexander too. If I rated films solely on how much their place in film history engaged me, the excitement of watching something masterful and unique, that's what I'd give it. But I rate almost solely on emotional engagement, and it is rather hermetic. (Both Kauffmann and Kael basically wrote that it was like eavesdropping on Bergman's innermost thoughts--praise for him, a limitation for her.) Broadcast News I'd give a, I don't know, 3.0 for its place in film history--it's of zero consequence. But it does, for whatever reason, move me.

clemenza, Sunday, 2 December 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link

Dead Souls (Wang Bing, 2018) - this has been compared to Shoah and while both centre around testimonies of camp survivors (in this case of the Jiabiangou and Mingshui re-education camps) its a completely different approach, to its credit. Bing seldom resorts to a cinematic approach, he allows the survivors the time and space they need to tell and share what they can (Lanzmann would cajole them to get what he wanted) and doesn't push them if they aren't able to (as in a couple of cases). In a couple of examples we hear from the wives of the men who either survived the camps or died (as in the last case - where the link to the events of the Cultural Revolution taking place a few years later is made in the most harrowing of ways). Wang Bing, unlike Lanzmann, doesn't appear to have as much of an ego - you only see him twice and in the most discreet of ways. All in all its quite an achievement.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link

On a plane to and from Oslo:

Kingsman: The Secret Service (.000001/10)
Avengers: Infinity War (.00001/10)
The Predator (.5/10)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2/10)
The Meg (3/10)

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link

sorry for your flight looks like it was a drag

flappy bird, Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link

I would never have watched any of these movies had I not been on a plane. The Meg had some decent jump scares, and, you know, Jason Statham fighting a giant shark. And with the Mission: Impossible movie, at least you knew Tom Cruise actually fucked himself up doing his own stunts. But that Avengers thing, holy fuck.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link

xxxp otm, also saw it this week. thought it was interesting that Wang only becomes a visual presence when he interviews the cadre.

devvvine, Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link

*A Story of Water (Truffaut et Godard, 1961)
Les Mistons (Truffaut, 1957)
Broadway Love (Park, 1918)
Off the Record (Henabery, 1934)
*Leap Year (Cruze & Arbuckle, 1921)
Old Czech Legends (Trnka, 1953)
My Grandfather's Clock (Feist, 1934)
There Ain't No Santa Claus (Parrott, 1926)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link

thought it was interesting that Wang only becomes a visual presence when he interviews the cadre.

yes, and shot at this angle where Wang was looking at him at all times.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link

will have to catch Wang's Dead Souls at some point. I love Lanzmann and lots of the important work he did, but he could be a ruthless interviewer, and I think it's fair to say that you shouldn't do that any more. Not meant as a criticism of Lanzmann because it was a different era, a different scale of atrocity he was chronicling, a different generation etc...

calzino, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link

in theaters past month & a half

A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971) - 9/10
The Old Man & the Gun (Lowery, 2018) - 7/10
Mid90s (Hill, 2018) - 5/10
Beautiful Boy (Van Groeningen, 2018) - 3/10
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955) - 10/10
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Heller, 2018) - 7/10
Wanda (Loden, 1970) - 10/10
Wildlife (Dano, 2018) - 4/10
Boy Erased (Edgerton, 2018) - 2/10
Widows (McQueen, 2018) - 4/10
Instant Family (Anders, 2018) - 6/10
The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957) - 10/10
Nobody’s Fool (Perry, 2018) - 4/10
Green Book (Farrelly, 2018) - 4/10
Playtime (Tati, 1967) - 10/10
Mirai (Hosoda, 2018) - 6/10
Baby Doll (Kazan, 1956 / 35mm) - 5/10
Casque d’Or (Becker, 1952 / 35mm) - 9/10

flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link

flappy bird your passion for Bergman has convinced me to explore his films

Dan S, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link

Aniki Bóbó (de Oliveira)
No, or the Vainglory of Command (de Oliveira)
Voyage to the Beginning of the World (de Oliveira)
Mandala (Im Kwon-taek)
Sopyonje (Im Kwon-taek)
The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo)
The Net (Kim)
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong)
Yourself & Yours (Hong)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong)
Claire’s Camera (Hong)
Five Boys from Barska Street (A. Ford)
Knights of the Teutonic Order (A. Ford)
The First Day of Freedom (A. Ford)
Dear Wendy (Vinterberg, script by von Trier)
The House That Jack Built (von Trier)
Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
Ex Libris (Wiseman)
A Bomb Was Stolen (Popescu-Gopo)
Opera Jawa (Nugroho)
Gosford Park (Altman)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen & Coen)
The Other Side of the Wind (Welles)

Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948) 9/10
Three (To, 2016) 6/10
No Home Movie (Akerman, 2010) 9/10
Predators (Antal, 2010) - a spanish dub, seemed ok?
Suspiria (Argento, 1977) 7/10
Dead Souls (Wang, 2018) 8/10
Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) 7/10
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Coppola, 1992) 7/10
* The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger, 1948) 8/10

devvvine, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link

what's the streaming service to watch like bergman and ozu again? that exists right

no art house w/in 300 miles of me and i want to check some of these out. have no idea who kore-eda even is.

macropuente (map), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link

Kanopy.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:38 (five years ago) link

Korla (Turner, 2015): Documentary about the musician and personality Korla Pandit. He had a pretty interesting story, and the doc was low-key enough to not get in the way. Interviews with Santana, Harry Edwards, Ben Fong-Torres, the Muffs, etc. Really changed the way I think about Liberace.

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coens, 2018) 9/10
*Gilda Live (Nichols, 1980) 8/10
The Great McGinty (Sturges, 1940) 7/10
*The Fog (Carpenter, 1980) 7/10
The Mortal Storm (Borzage, 1940) 6/10
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 7/10
*The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) 10/10
The Incredibles 2 (Bird, 2018) 7/10
The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 2018) 5/10
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Neville, 2018) 6/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link

flappy bird your passion for Bergman has convinced me to explore his films

― Dan S, Monday, December 3, 2018 11:58 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get the box 😈

flappy bird, Sunday, 9 December 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link

The Secret Bride (Dieterle, 1934)
Next Aisle Over (1919)
Triumph of the Heart (Molander, 1929)
A Little Hero (Sennett, 1913)
Woman Haters (Gottler, 1934)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Yates, 2018)
The Night Before Christmas (Jackson, 1933)
The Emperor's Nightingale (Trnka, 1949)
Smash Your Baggage (Mack, 1932)
The Ascent (Shepitko, 1977)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 10 December 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link

how did you like The Ascent? I saw Wings and wasn't really into it

flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link

Terribly grueling, although certainly true to the subject and period. I saw Wings so long ago I don't trust my memories of it. (It does end with the teacher taking a plane for a joyride?)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 10 December 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link

Re-watching Carpenter's The Thing tonight.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 10 December 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link

xp yes, and that's pretty much exactly what I thought of Wings (although I do love that ending, but more in concept than execution)

flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link

* Pickup on South Street (1953) 4/5
Roma 3.5/5
Gotti (2018) 0/5
Shirkers (2018) 4.5/5
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012) 4/5
The Favourite 3.5/5

Chris L, Monday, 10 December 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link

saw the Roger Ailes doc DIVIDE AND CONQUER, v good, catch it in theaters if you can bc it's doing terrible business. likability of subject never occurred to me as a factor but runaway success of Mr. Rogers, Gila Radner, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg docs this year gives me pause (and depresses me - Ailes is inarguably one of the most important and influential people of the last 50 years).

flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link

College Swing (1938, Walsh) 6/10
Filmworker (2017, Zierra) 6/10
For Heaven’s Sake (1926, Taylor / Lloyd) 9/10
*Love Songs (2007, Honore) 7/10
White Lightning (1973, Sargent) 4/10
*Porcile aka Pigsty (1969, Pasolini) 6/10
Wolfsburg (2003, Petzold) 7/10
Yella (2007, Petzold) 7/10
Vester-Vov-Vov aka People of the North Sea (1927, Lauritzen) 6/10
Bisbee ’17 (2018, Greene) 8/10
Son premier film (1926, Kemm) 5/10
The Hitch-Hiker (1953, Lupino) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link

Tried watching Eastwood's Hoover movie on a plane. Holy shit, what a smoking trash pile.

grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link

First Reformed (Schrader, 2018)
Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018)
Sorry to Bother You (Riley, 2018)
Deep Red (Argento, 1975)
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen/Coen, 2018)
Zama (Martel, 2018)
Let the Sunshine In (Denis, 2017)
Revenge (Fargeat, 2017)
The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 2018)
The Polymath (Taylor, 2009)
Theory of Obscurity (Hardy, 2016)
The Night Comes for Us (Tjahjanto, 2018)

WmC, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link

The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942) - 9/10
M (Lang, 1931) - 10/10
Topaz (Hitchcock, 1969) - 3/10
Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi, 1936) - 9/10
Career Girls (Leigh, 1997) - 8/10
Trafic (Tati, 1971) - 9/10
The Thing Called Love (Bogdanovich, 1993) - 5/10
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Němec, 1966) - 8/10
Intimidation (Kurahara, 1960) - 9/10
Blue is the Warmest Color (Keciche, 2013) - 7/10
American Honey (Arnold, 2016) - 10/10
Brewster McCloud (Altman, 1970) - 9/10
Mouchette (Bresson, 1967) - 9/10
Roma (Fellini, 1972) - 6/10
Claire’s Knee (Rohmer, 1970) - 4/10
Parade (Tati, 1974) - 6/10
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson, 1945) - 4/10
El Norte (Nava, 1983) - 8/10

flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link

Making Christmas Crackers (1910)
Santa Claus (Smith, 1898)
The Masquerader (Wallace, 1933)
Bubbling Over (Jason, 1934)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018)
The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018)
L'Innocente (Visconti, 1976)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 17 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link

(xpost) Ratings are ratings, everyone has different taste, and I hate having a solitary rating of my own cherry-picked and held up ridicule here, so I'm not trying to doing that. But I'd be interested in hearing some elaboration on the 4/10 for Claire's Knee.

clemenza, Monday, 17 December 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link

not only boring but contemptible, a film revolving around an absurd conceit and a 'moral tale' that gives too much (any) credit to the protagonist's dilemma. it's the first Rohmer I've seen and I will continue to plug away, but wow, after trying to see Claire's Knee for the better part of a year, it was a real letdown.

flappy bird, Monday, 17 December 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link

Loving You (To, 1995) 6/10
Miami Vice (Mann, 2006) 9/10
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (To, 2011) 6/10
*Breathless (Godard, 1960) 7/10
The 15:17 to Paris (Eastwood, 2018) 7/10
Cosmopolis (Cronenberg, 2012) 6/10
*His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) 9/10
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu, 2018) 8/10
Shirkers (Tan, 2018) 7/10
xXx: State of the Union (Tamahori, 2005) 5/10
Patience (After Sebald) (Gee, 2011) 7/10

devvvine, Monday, 17 December 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link

MUBI run:

Lovers of the Artic Circle (Medem, 1998)
Room in Rome (Medem, 2010)
Chaudhvin Ka Chand (Sadiq, 1960) - this was really great: utterly farcical plot pushed to the limit.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link

not only boring but contemptible, a film revolving around an absurd conceit and a 'moral tale' that gives too much (any) credit to the protagonist's dilemma. it's the first Rohmer I've seen and I will continue to plug away, but wow, after trying to see Claire's Knee for the better part of a year, it was a real letdown.

― flappy bird,

lol I understand. My favorite Rohmers aren't even CK or My Night at Maud's. His writing and filmmaking got better in the eighties.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link

Yeah, I saw Love in the Afternoon and Claire's Knee first, probably due to the Criterion stamp. It was years before I tried again and realized the actual breadth of his work.

jmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link

yeah i just find men intellectualizing their horniness to be really tedious. I'll see if the video store has The Green Ray this weekend

flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link

Its probably his best film - there was a switch in his writing and he focused on women a lot more, and his films are perhaps better for it.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link

I like Claire's Knee a lot. But I'm like the Don, may he rest peace--my way of doing things is over.

clemenza, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link

the film he made before it, Full Moon in Paris, is almost as good as a record of the young chattering classes.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link

I like Claire's Knee now. I was just under a misconception that this was his whole shtick. It's more palatable knowing that he can also write amazingly sympathetic and natural female-centered stories.

jmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link

are all of the moral tales m/l similar to Claire's Knee in approach?

flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link

I guess my favourite is Maud's, though. I've six or seven in all, some of them later.

clemenza, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

"seen"

clemenza, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

are all of the moral tales m/l similar to Claire's Knee in approach?

― flappy bird,

It's hard to say. Love in the Afternoon is my favorite of the batch in part because the male protagonist's confusion about Zouzou's character was honestly rendered; also, she makes it clear she doesn't need him.

It's been many years, though.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link

i own the moral tales box but i've only seen la collectionneuse and love in the afternoon, both of which are tremendous though i prefer love. every rohmer short i've seen is also excellent. boring but contemptible is my thing i guess

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link

I like when his characters go to the beach. Rohmer's good at beach sequences.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link

That's the side of Rohmer that really won me over.

jmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link

yeah i just find men intellectualizing their horniness to be really tedious.

Maybe that's why I like Triple Agent best of the Rohmer's I've seen?

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link

Body Melt (Brophy 1993) [TV]
Batman Returns (Burton, Waters 1992) [TV]
Ralph Breaks The Internet (Moore, Johnston, Ribon, Reardon, Trinidad, Younger, Reilly 2018) [3D DCP]
Computer Chess (Bujalski 2013) [TV]
Results (Bujalski 2015) [TV]
Gräns [Border] (Abbasi, Eklöf, Lindqvist 2018) [DCP]
Gremlins (Dante, Columbus 1984) [DCP]
Never Goin' Back (Frizzell 2018) [TV]
* Role Models (Wain, Dowling, Herron, Rudd, Marino 2008) [gym]
Faces Places [Visages, Villages] (Varda et R 2017) [gym]
Nancy (Choe 2018) [TV]
Heat (Mann 1995) [DCP]
The Favourite (Lanthimos, Davis, McNamara 2018) [DCP]
* The Informant! (Soderbergh, Burns 2009) [TV]
Roma (Cuarón 2018) [Laser]
Burning [버닝] (Lee, Oh 2018) [DCP]

sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link

Vox Lux (Corbet, 2018) 6/10
Green Book(Farrelly, 2018) 2/10
The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) 7/10
Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) 9/10
Hereditary (Aster, 2018) 7/10
Widows (McQueen, 2018) 6/10
Mirai (Hosoda, 2018) 8/10
Beautiful Boy (Van Groeningen, 2018) 3/10
Roma (Cuaron, 2018) 5/10
* A Day in the Country (Renoir, 1936) 9/10
* Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir, 1932) 9/10

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link

Ex Machina (Garland, 2014) 4/5
*Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018) 4/5
*Opera (Argento, 1987) 4/5 (I like these films ok)

*A Blade in the Dark (Bava the lesser, 1983) 1.5/5. The ending is- rot13 to blank out spoilers for this insanely mediocre giallo- genafcubovp nf fuvg; seeing it in Italian (with the surrounding films, as part of Philly's Exhumed Films birthday screening) also made it obvious that what little enjoyment could be found came almost entirely from the infamously shitty dubbing ("Is it possible you're such a vacant nerd that your pleasure is to bake like a frog in the sun?!") Just a dreary film- boring locations (shot in a producer's villa on the cheap and it shows), a sub-Friday the 13th score that Bava thinks is compelling enough to put front and center (remember the amazing crane shot in Tenebrae where the music is suddenly revealed as diegetic? now imagine that it's almost two hours long and it fucking sucks) and no visible care or passion put into anything but the kills, which- with the twist mentioned earlier- make it feel even more misogynist than your average giallo. Garbage. Avoid.

Formula for a Murder (de Martino, 1985) 2.5/5. this, on the other hand! Also a minor giallo from the tail end of the genre, also cops some moves from American slasher movies, but it's so fucking coocoo bananas that it's kind of fun. Also much more pleasant to listen to because instead of beating us over the head with a single uninspiring cue for nearly two (!) hour (!!) it just recycles the score from The New York Ripper instead.

*Inferno (Argento, 1980)- 4/5. I'm back at the point in my cycle where I think this movie is brilliant again? I'm definitely past the point of wishing there was any strong central presence like Jessica Harper and embracing the confusion of viewpoints as the point of the thing. Emerson's score (with the one awesome exception still hasn't grown on me, which is a shame.

The Muppet Christmas Carol (Henson the lesser, 1992)- 4/5. OH MY GOD THIS WAS A PURE DELIGHT. I grew up in kind of a non-Muppet household so this was, believe it or not, the first mainline Muppet movie I've ever seen. And it's so good! Caine commits entirely to the part without a single wink to camera (not even at "Why, it's Mr. Fozziwig's rubber chicken factory!") and it's a surprisingly faithful adaptation, retaining most of Dickens' chewiest dialogue. The only complaint I could possibly have is the songs aren't up to the standard of like, "Rainbow Connection" or the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack, but come on, it has the greatest kiss in screen history.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link

The Marleys were dead: to begin with...

koogs, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link

Continuing my past year media dump; here's my 2018 seen and wanna see; would welcome any that I missed on the list:

Best Movies 2018:
Monrovia, Indiana
Hereditary
Zama
The Guilty
The Death of Stalin
Kusama: Infinity
Private Life
Life and Nothing More
Mama Africa

No:
Sorry To Bother You
Damsel

To See:
Free Solo* - Will likely see in theaters shortly
Shoplifters* - Will likely see in theaters shortly
The Favourite* - Will likely see in theaters shortly
Unsane (Amazon)
First Reformed (Amazon/Kanopy)
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Kanopy)
Let the Corpses Tan (Kanopy)
The Other Side of the Wind (Netflix)
Roma (Netflix)
Black Panther (Netflix)
Shirkers (Netflix)
Filmworker (Netflix)
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Eighth Grade
Burning
Mirai
We the Animals
Have a Nice Day
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Isle of Dogs
Three Identical Strangers
A Quiet Place
I Am Not a Witch
Incredibles 2
Leave No Trace
Won’t You Be My Neighbor
Vice
The Sisters Brothers
Paddington 2
Love, Gilda
Loveless
Annihilation
BlacKkKlansman
Amazing Grace

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link

i'm not so full of myself to suggest this was a bad year in film but i did a bad job seeing good films apparently.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link

all great / very good:

Unsane
Burning
Paddington 2
First Reformed
Eighth Grade
BlackKklansman
Annihilation
Three Identical Strangers
Mirai
The Favourite

flappy bird, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link

Can You Ever Forgive Me? was good too

flappy bird, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link

you know if anything i didn't note with a streaming service is currently streaming somewhere on amazon/hulu/kanopy/netflix/hbo?

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link

The Grace Jones doc is also on Hulu, that's all I got.

WmC, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link

Three identical strangers is an incredible story, def worth seeing on Netflix or wherever but no need to see at the cinema - the presentation is very boilerplate Insane True Story Documentary, like it has pretty much the exact same structure of something like the impostor from a few years ago, with the obligatory landfill doc music

I wanted to see more of the amoral eugenicist lady.

Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link

I saw Three Identical Strangers in a big, full theatre at a film festival, not knowing the story already, and being in a gasping audience was great

forks! the following comic book movies are all better than Black Panther:
Teen Titans GO! To The Movies
Ant-Man & The Wasp
Mutafukaz
Bernard & Huey

these non-fiction films would probably be of interest to you:
The Road Movie
The Green Fog
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
Hal

and these might also work for you:
Blindspotting
Mandy (on Shudder)
Nancy (on Kanopy)
Border [Gräns]
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (on Netflix)

sans lep (sic), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link

Great Day in the Morning (1956, Tourneur) 6/10
*Stars in My Crown (1950, Tourneur) 10/10
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Coen, Coen) 7/10
Circle of Danger (1951, Tourneur) 6/10
*The Fortune Cookie (1966, Wilder) 8/10
The Fascist (1961, Salce) 7/10
*Nightfall (1957, Tourneur) 8/10
Humoresque (1946, Negulesco) 7/10
La Commare Secca (1962, Bertolucci) 7/10
Bitter Money (2016, Wang) 6/10
Ten Days Wonder (1971, Chabrol) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link

thanks sic; i'll add most if not all of those to the pile!

after deadpool and antman and as much of batman v superman as i could stomach, I honestly am done with DC/Marvel superhero movies (though MAYBE shazam will overcome as i am a huge cc beck nerd); the main attraction of black panther is solely for the cultural import and the ever necessary RIGHT TO HAVE AN OPINION

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link

... though i _did_ just reread the Jungle Action books that the movie is at least partially based on so i'm curious to see the fidelity to McGregor's source material. Coates' writing with the character is just not good; would love someone to convince me otherwise though.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link

Is black panther from 2018?! Jesus fucking Christ

Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link

February!

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link

Wow

Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link

seems like only 2 weeks ago i was chuckling at thinkpieces about its importance

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link

some streaming additions to my "to watch" list if anyone else wants to play along:

Bird Box (Netflix)
Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Netflix)
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Netflix)
What Still Remains (Netflix)
Nancy (Kanopy)
Bernard and Huey (Amazon)
The Road Movie (Amazon)
Paddington 2 (HBO)
Loveless (Starz)

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link

seems like only 2 weeks ago i was chuckling at thinkpieces about its importance


2 years ago here

Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Friday, 21 December 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link

Border might still be in cinemas in NYC, was here two weeks ago

Ant-Man 2 is only moderately good, but charming ppl + lots of jokes + Michael Peña on 70+% sets and locations absolutely beats Black Panther’s scowl-faced srsness on, under, & surrounded by a shimmering haze of pixels

there’s one okayish heist scene in BP though, shrug emoji

sans lep (sic), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link

yeah, border really should've already been on that list as it's been something I've wanted to see for a minute. May try to catch it at IFC.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link

Mutafukaz- I missed my chance to see this in Philly and it’s doing hat standard Funimation thing of no streaming (except maybe on their own service) and MAYBE a disc release in the distant future, but I’m curious about anything Studio 4C. But I’ve been concerned...how minstrel-y is it? Because it seems like it’s walking a real tightrope with that kind of imagery

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Saturday, 22 December 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link

if you're hyper-sensitive to that, it could be a cringe, yeah. But the two-elements-inspired levels of magpieing in the film are leavened by magpieing loads and loads of other snippets of US culture that have come, fragmented, to the author through relentless corporate exports. For mine, the aspects of the story that are about the characters feeling lost and overwhelmed by a city that seems built out of things that are alien to them, and the author's obvious passion for hip-hop, outweigh the perception of appropriation.

(I haven't read the books, though.)

sans lep (sic), Saturday, 22 December 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link

Santa's Workshop (Jackson, 1932)
Jack Frost (Iwerks, 1934)
*Hogfather (Jean, 2006)
Prince Bayaya (Trnka, 1950)
Hello Sailor (Sandrich, 1927)
Passion (Trnka, 1962)
Cybernetic Grandma (Trnka, 1962)
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose (Trnka, 1964)
The Hand (Trnka, 1965)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 24 December 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link

j.lu, what are the must-watch Trnka's?

Frederik B, Monday, 24 December 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link

The only one I've liked so far was The Emperor's Nightingale. Old Czech Legends and Prince Bayaya struck me as rather too twee. The Hand is as powerfully allegorical as it is polemical.

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 24 December 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link

Yesterday: A Simple Favor, which was better than I expected. Blake Lively is very good at playing white trash grifters.
Today: Nico, 1988, which made me want to investigate her 80s albums (like most people, I stopped paying attention after The End). The lead actress is great.

grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link

Couldn't do anything with Shirkers, which seemed endlessly referential, self-mythologizing and the equivalent of a filmed zine, which sounded good to me in theory but not so much in practice.

Isle of Dogs was a Wes Anderson film through and through: visually interesting, technically impressive, mannered to the point of absurdity, outrageous cast generally thrown away, script better served to a picturebook. I will say that the animation was maybe a bit cutrate by the standards of Laika.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link

Isle of Dogs is the third Anderson film in a row that I just can't bring myself to care about enough to watch.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link

Mary and the Witch's Flower was (at least for the half hour I got through before i gave up) paint-by-numbers Miyazaki, right down to the character animations and poses. Felt weirdly manipulative.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link

Shirkers...sounded good to me in theory but not so much in practice.

otm. I was a little uncomfortable with how the director hung his friend and his own mother out to dry in service to his film.

Juul Haalmeyer Dancers washout (WmC), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link

wasn't into the last three Wes Anderson movies either, but his new one sounds like it could be good... 'The French Dispatch' starring Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet and a bunch of others of course... about journalists apparently

flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link

Moonrise Kingdom is one of his best imo

sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link

It seems like the greatest distillation of what he has to offer, yes. If you're not into his vision, it's not gonna win you over tho'.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link

It absolutely won me over. I love Benjamin Britten, though...

Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link

Royal Tenenbaums is the only one I have any time for

flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse 4/5
* Christmas in July (1940) 4/5
Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 4/5
Ronin (1998) 3.5/5
Invention for Destruction (1958) 4.5/5
Paddington 2 4/5
Support the Girls 3.5/5
* My Fair Lady 3/5

Chris L, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link

Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (Perischetti, Ramsey, Rothman, 2018)
Meek's Cutoff (Reichardt, 2011)
Shirkers (Tan, 2018)
Phantom Thunderbolt (James, 1933)
Minding the Gap (Liu, 2018)
Morvern Callar (Ramsay, 2002)
Red River (Hawks, 1948)
Private Life (Jenkins, 2018)
Split (Shyamalan, 2017)
Trespassing Bergman (Magnusson, Pallas, 2015)
* Tombstone (Cosmatos, 1993)

Juul Haalmeyer Dancers washout (WmC), Thursday, 27 December 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (5.5)
Joe (6.0)
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (6.0)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (6.5)
Battle of the Sexes (7.0)
The Front Runner (6.0)
The Babadook (7.0)
Munich (7.0)
Vice (7.0)
If Beale Street Could Talk (7.0)

I think Robert De Niro refers to himself as the "babadook of the year" somewhere in Raging Bull.

clemenza, Sunday, 30 December 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link

Wild Pear Tree (Ceylan, 2018) - too many of the same things that are so prevalent in Euro film without adding that much to it, although I liked how the father and mother's roles were developed a bit more as the film went on, moving at times away from the main character.

Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo, 2018) - Everything has a baby-shot-at-birth feel, all possibilities closed off with only one way out. One of this year's best.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 30 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link

The Mule, the new Clint Eastwood, was surprisingly good after the dementia disaster of Sully. Similar to The Old Man and the Gun, and while that is definitely the better film, The Mule isn't bad - for what it is.

flappy bird, Sunday, 30 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link

Buzzin' Around (Goulding, 1933)
The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934)
The Star Wars Holiday Special (Binder & Acomba, 1978)
The Hitchhiker (Gillstrom, 1933)
The Czech Year (Trnka, 1947)
She Wronged Him Right (Fleischer, 1934)
A Reckless Romeo (Arbuckle, 1917)
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (Freyer, 2018)
The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 31 December 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link

Food (Svankmajer, 1993) (short) 7
Idiocracy (Judge, 2006) 4
The Grinch (2018) 6
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Howard, 2000) 3
*Elf (Favreau, 2003) 7
The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) 4

adam the (abanana), Monday, 31 December 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link

Young Winston which I'm not sure I've seen through before. Had a launch near where I lived as a kid since it was his electoral ward. I live near a statue of him.
Quite enjoyable with a cast that seems to be filled with familiar faces. Notably Anne Bancroft as his mother & I just read the original book of The Graduate which makes her stick in the.mind even more

The Hobbit the first of the sequence, didn't really mean to sit through the whole film but wound up dojng so anyway.

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Wuthering Heights
2008 tv version I think, shown as a continuous whole. I missed the first half.
Been meaning to get around to reading the book cos I think I only know part of the story. I think one better known film version concentrates on the middle section doesn't it.

Stevolende, Monday, 31 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link

kellys heroes (missed first 40 mins)

it was about some heroes owned by a man named kelly it was good

topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 31 December 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link

The Wild Pear Tree (Ceylan, 2018) 8/10
The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952) 6/10
The Wrong Box (Forbes, 1966) 7/10
Nostalgia (Tarkovsky, 1983) 8/10
One-Eyed Jacks (Brando, 1961) 8/10
Roma (Cuarón, 2018) 8/10
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen Bros, 2018) 5/10
The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 2018) 7/10
Contraband (Fulci, 1980) 7/10
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (Baker, 1971) 7/10

Ward Fowler, Monday, 31 December 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link

xxp
Young Winston is not great at all, but Robert Shaw is a ledge!

calzino, Monday, 31 December 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link

Ward, what's yr beef w/ Ford's Ireland?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 December 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link

Irish ham sliced too thicky; a stout that soured over 129 long minutes. There's more twinkling and twirling than in a late Malick film, and Wayne seems hefty and charmless.

Ward Fowler, Monday, 31 December 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link

To Sir With Love.
Don't remember seeing this since my teens. Sidney Poitier as Guyanese teacher trying to tame an unruly mob.
Emotive I guess. Do like the music.
Title track played here by Lulu fronting the Mindbenders at the school prom thingy.

Stevolende, Monday, 31 December 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link

all your Tourneur questions amswered before I forget these films

Easy Living (1949, Tourneur) 7/10
The Fearmakers (1958, Tourneur) 4/10
Timbuktu (1958, Tourneur) 5/10
Stranger on Horseback (1955. Tourneur) 7/10
Wichita (1955, Tourneur) 8/10
Appointment in Honduras (1953, Tourneur) 6/10
Anna Boleyn (1920, Lubitsch) 6/10
*Canyon Passage (1946, Tourneur) 9/10
Libel (1959. Asquith) 7/10
Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Rohrwacher) 8/10
*A Star Is Born (1937, Wellman) 7/10
No No: A Dockumentary (2014, Radice) 7/10
Way of a Gaucho (1952, Tourneur) 7/10
Anne of the Indies (1951, Tourneur) 6/10
*The Young Lions (1958, Dmytryk) 7/10
The Favourite (2018, Lanthimos) 5/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 December 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link

Irish ham sliced too thicky; a stout that soured over 129 long minutes. There's more twinkling and twirling than in a late Malick film, and Wayne seems hefty and charmless.

― Ward Fowler, Monday, December 31, 2018 9:23 AM

more like Spam. I like many Ford films; this one is blarney.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link

Hokey and Oirish as it is, I still love The Quiet Man

. (Michael B), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link

Impetuous! Homeric! Love it very much as well. There's always corn with Ford.

So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 31 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link

quiet man is great

topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 31 December 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link

the rest of 2018

in theaters:

The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) 9/10
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (Bloom, 2018) - 8/10
Burning (Lee, 2018) - 9/10
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975 / 35mm) - 10/10
Vox Lux (Corbet, 2018) - 3/10
The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino, 1953) - 8/10
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999) - 10/10
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955) - 9/10
Second Act (Segal, 2018) - 4/10
Roma (Cuarón, 2018) - 3/10
Vice (McKay, 2018) - 2/10
Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) - 9/10
If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins, 2018) - 5/10
The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) - 4/10
The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934 / 35mm) - 9/10

at home:

Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) - ∞
Brink of Life (Bergman, 1958) - 9/10
One Day Pina Asked… (Akerman, 1983) - 8/10
F for Fake (Welles, 1973) - 5/10
The Firemen’s Ball (Forman, 1967) - 8/10
A Wedding (Altman, 1978) - 9/10
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008) - 9/10
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (Akerman, 1997) - 8/10
Greaser’s Palace (Downey Sr., 1972) - 6/10
The Misfits (Huston, 1961) - 8/10
Miami Blues (Armitage, 1990) - 9/10
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz, 1995) - 8/10
Love Exposure (Sono, 2008) - 10/10
Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999) - 7/10
My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946) - 10/10
From the Other Side (Akerman, 2002) - 9/10

flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link

Disobedience (Leilo, 2018) - I liked Leilo's Gloria (about a disco loving woman in her 50s on the look out for a partner). The script in this English language film is not as good: Rachel Weisz is often the woman someone falls in love with, except this time its forbidden - although the reveal had the Terminator II novelty value! Its very hard to get anything out of films set in closed-off communities. At this point I kinda want to see one where everything is just fine and dandy.
Image Book (Godard, 2018) - its on MUBI for a few more hours and in line with much of his essay film work in the last 30 years. The range of images, colour, subject (questionable or otherwise), sound - no one does fragmentation quite like him.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link

Other People (Kelly, 2016) 8/10
Black Christmas (Clark, 1974) 8/10
Roma (Cuarón, 2018) 5/10
Meet Me in St. Louis (Minelli, 1944) 7/10
The Informer (Ford, 1935) 8/10
*Love, Simon (Berlanti, 2018) 7/10
Remember the Night (Leisen, 1940) 7/10
Backfire (Sherman, 1950) 6/10
Paddington (King, 2014) 7/10
*Ordinary People (Redford, 1980) 7/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link

end of December: all but 3 on a TV screen

Black Christmas (Clark, Moore 1974) 🎅
Night Moves (Penn, Sharp 1975)
What's Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich, Henry, Newman, Benton 1972)
36.15 code Père Noël [Dial Code Santa] (Manzor 1989) [DCP] 🎅
* The Apartment (Wilder, Diamond 1960) 🎅
Girlfriend's Day (Stephenson, Odenkirk, Zlotorynski, Hoffman 2017)
Dracula AD 1972 (Gibson, Houghton 1972)
* The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (Coen x Coen 2018)
* It's A Wonderful Life (Capra, Goodrich, Hackett, Swerling, Van Doren Stern 1946) [📽️ 35mm] 🎅
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Lanthimos, Filippou 2017)
Diner (Levinson 1982)
Bandersnatch (Brooker, Slade 2018)
Madeline's Madeline (Decker 2018)
Behind The Candelabra (Soderbergh, LaGravenese 2013)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Lord, Rothman, Persichetti, Ramsey 2018) [DCP]
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black 2005) 🎅

sans lep (sic), Thursday, 3 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link

Videodrome (re-watch; I own the Criterion edition)

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 4 January 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link

a lot of inspirational posts

Dan S, Friday, 4 January 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link

*Love, Simon (Berlanti, 2018) 7/10

crypto, it's rare you like a movie more than I did, and you re-watched it!

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 January 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link

Love, Simon was a 6/10 when I saw it in theatres, but I kept thinking back fondly on it throughout the year, so when I saw it on cable during the holidays I decided to give it another go. I still don't like the climactic scene at all; the novel handled the same revelation in a less cringe-y way. The young cast is likeable, the plot contrivances are effectively handled, and the scene between Simon and his mom is genuinely poignant (I prefer it to the similar, overrated scene in Call Me By Your Name).

On the whole, I tend to be harder on newer movies than classics, and while I rarely end up re-watching things, if I do, they're score is likely to go up. The only time I ever tend to give something a lower score upon re-watch is when I'm taking a fresh look at something that I saw when I was younger and was curious about revisiting.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 January 2019 04:26 (five years ago) link

agree the scene between Simon and his mom in Love, Simon was the highlight of the film, but thought the scene between Elio and his dad in Call Me By Your Name was heart-stopping

Dan S, Friday, 4 January 2019 08:07 (five years ago) link

I agreed with my mate when he said that the dad’s speech felt like it was meant to be performed by robin Williams (not a compliment). But that film is not for me in general.

Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Friday, 4 January 2019 10:28 (five years ago) link

Meet Me in St. Louis (Minelli, 1944) 7/10

Can I ask what you didn't like about this one, because to me it's about as perfect as American movies get (opinion bolstered by a recent big screen viewing).

Josefa, Friday, 4 January 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link

I liked it! Another illustration of the arbitrariness of ratings, I suppose--my 7/10 is more an indication of my level of enthusiasm rather than objective quality. The best answer I can give you is that I'm new to the film; I totally get how it is a film that people love and watch every Christmas, but I'm not there yet. The second best answer I can give you is that, when it comes to classic Hollywood, I tend to lean more favourably toward noirs and westerns than musicals (again, arbitrary). It's certainly something I can see growing on me with repeat viewings, and I envy your big screen viewing (the movie is gorgeous, and feels like it is most ideally seen on a big screen with a crowd during the holiday season).

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 January 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link

I always think of 7/10 as a good rating too. I save 9s and the occasional 10 for anything I've seen numerous times and I consider one of my favourite films ever. (I gave 20th Century Women a 9 on second viewing--I rarely do that.) An 8 means I really liked it and, if it's new, will be high on my year-end list, probably #1 or #2. A 7 means I liked it and I think it's worth your time.

clemenza, Friday, 4 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link

Tree of Knowledge (Malmros)
Sorrow and Joy (Malmros)
The Guilty (Möller)
The Distant Barking of Dogs (Wilmont)
Skjold & Isabel (Hansen)
Bird Box (Bier)
Papillon (Noer)
Before the Frost (Noer)
Report From the Aleutians (Huston)
The Battle of San Pietro (Huston)
Let There Be Light (Huston)
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (Cimino)
White Hunter, Black Heart (Eastwood)*
Unforgiven (Eastwood)*
The Bridges of Madison County (Eastwood)
Gran Torino (Eastwood)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
All Is Lost (Chandor)
Oasis (Lee)
Burning (Lee)
Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)
Death in Venice (Visconti)
The Innocent (Visconti)
Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini)*
Django (Corbucci)
Burn! (Pontecorvo)*
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
Rock ’n’ Roll Wolf (Bostan)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)*

Frederik B, Sunday, 6 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link

Wonder Bar (Bacon, 1934)
Ship Cafe (Florey, 1935)
King Kelly of the USA (Fields, 1934)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Persichetti et al, 2018)
Strangers of the Evening (Humberstone, 1932)
The Ragtime Band (Sennett, 1913)
*Dickson Experimental Sound Film (Dickson, 1894)
Never Kick a Woman (Fleischer, 1936)
Plane Nuts (Cummings, 1933)
The Women in His Life (Seitz, 1933)
Beauty for Sale (Boleslawski, 1933)

I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 7 January 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link

If Beale Street Could Talk 4/5
Class of 1984 (1982) 0/5
The Lighthouse (2006) 3.5/5
Western (2017) 4/5
To Sleep with Anger (1990) 4/5
Brewster McCloud (1970) 3.5/5
The Czech Year (1947) 3/5
Shoplifters (2018) 4.5/5
Bros: After the Screaming Stops (2018) 3/5
Paddington 3.5/5

Chris L, Monday, 7 January 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link

Avengers: Infinity War, 16/21

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 7 January 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018, Ross) 7/10
Leave No Trace (2018, Granik) 7/10
Support the Girls (2018, Bujalski) 7/10
Days of Glory (1944, Tourneur) 6/10
*Night of the Demon (1957, Tourneur) 8/10
Experiment Perilous (1944, Tourneur) 8/10
^Maîtresse (1975, Schroeder) 7/10
The Flame and the Arrow (1950, Tourneur) 8/10
The Comedy of Terrors (1963, Tourneur) 6/10
They All Come Out (1939, Tourneur) 6/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link

His Day Out (Gillstrom, 1918)
Roma (Cuaron, 2018)
Pack Up Your Troubles (Marshall & McCarey, 1932)
I'll Tell the World (Sedgwick, 1934)
College (Horse & Keaton, 1927)
Busy Bodies (French, 1933)
Cash (Korda, 1933)
El Orador (Vitores, 1928)
Flirting in the Park (Stevens, 1933)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins, 2018)
A Fool There Was (Powell, 1915)
A Film Johnnie (Nichols, 1914)
Mabel's New Hero (Sennett, 1913)
Are Crooks Dishonest? (Pratt, 1918)
Should Sailors Marry? (?, 1925)
*I Was Born, But (Ozu, 1932)

Tha Threadkilla Strikes Again (j.lu), Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link

Nothing Sacred (Wellman, 1937) - 9/10
You Never Know Women (Wellman, 1926) - 8/10
School Daze (Lee, 1988) - 5/10
Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001) - 7/10
Shoeshine (De Sica, 1946) - 8/10
Secret Honor (Altman, 1984) - 7/10
Gentleman’s Agreement (Kazan, 1947) - 9/10
Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman, 1961) - 10/10
Thieves Like Us (Altman, 1974) - 6/10
Winter Light (Bergman, 1963) - 9/10
Friday Night (Denis, 2002) - 10/10
Night on Earth (Jarmusch, 1991) - 7/10
The Silence (Bergman, 1963) - 10/10

flappy bird, Monday, 14 January 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link

L'Innocente ( Visconti ) 8/10
Suspiria (Guadagnino) 7/10
Cold War 8/10
Twentieth Century (Hawks ) 8/10
Bad Timing (Roeg) 9/10
La Perla (Fernandez) 9/10

So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 14 January 2019 05:44 (five years ago) link

*Woman Is the Future of Man (2004, Hong) 6/10
Fragment of an Empire (1929, Ermler) 7/10
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978, Kershner) 6/10
Surreal Estate (1976, de Gregorio) 5/10
The Chaser (1928. Langdon) 7/10
Three’s a Crowd (1927, Langdon) 8/10
Forbidden Paradise (1924, Lubitsch) 7/10
The Wildcat (1921, Lubitsch) 8/10
Blindspotting (2018, Estrada) 6/10
Inserts (1975, Byrum) 6/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link

If Beale Street Could Talk was a tragic melodrama with little interest or time in characterization or character development. i got the sense that there was overdevotion to Baldwin's text but regardless, the script is floral and turns a good phrase without giving any insight to any characters. Everybody is stuck in a one-dimensional slot, generally with only the barest of explanation or presentation: vulpine white cop is evil, young hipster jew is cool, long-suffering black magic mom is a tormented angel. Jenkins direction gives some of his actors room to indulge in their worst tendencies and others (bt henry among them) to shine but it's pretty tenuous. Mostly he's fascinated by these amazingly beautiful people and their faces and their bodies and their clothes. The DP did an amazing job though; the color scheme is really gorgeous and super saturated... scarlets and greens and tans and mahogany everywhere. It gets to where you can play a game where you try to see how all the colors onscreen fit the theme at any given moment. That's helpful because the film is boring and manipulative enough that you'll lose interest in the story pretty quickly. Great score by Britell though; recalled Michael Nyman. This track in particular has followed me out of the theater:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MOgE892j4E

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link

lizzie (2018 craig william macneill) 6.5/10
never goin' back (2018 augustine frizzell) 9/10
charade (1963 donen) 6.5/10
a simple favor (2018 feig) 2/10
mcqueen (2018 bonhote/ettedgui) 7.5/10
call me by your name (2017 guadagnino) 8/10
galveston (2018 laurent) 6/10
papillion (1973 franklin j shaffner) 8.5/10
*melancholia (2011 lvt) 5/10
on the basis of sex (2018 mimi leder) 8/10
vice (2018 mckay) 2/10
fear (1954 rossellini) 7/10
the mule (2018 eastwood) 5/10
trumbo (2014 roach) 7.5/10
ah, wilderness (1935 clarence brown) 6/10
the kindergarten teacher (2018 sara colangelo) 5/10
the unspeakable act (2012 dan salitt) 9/10
bandolero! (1968 andrew v mclaglen) 5/10

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link

Ex Libris - The New York Public Library (Wiseman, 2017)
Happy As Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018)
Bird Box (Bier, 2018)
*sex, lies and videotape (Soderbergh, 1989)
Disobedience (Lelio, 2018)
Western (Grisebach, 2017)
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018)
Roma (Cuarón, 2018)
Eighth Grade (Burnham, 2018)
The Touch (Bergman, 1971)
Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018)

The Non-Verbal Signs Your Mod Is Giving You (WmC), Thursday, 17 January 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link

The Polka King (Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky 2018)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay 2018)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan 2018)
Murder Party (Saulnier 2007)
Cargo (Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling 2018 )
The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele 2018)
Bros: After the Screaming Stops (Joe Pearlman and David Soutar 2018)
Dude (Olivia Milch, Kendall McKinnon 2018)
Catfight (Onur Tukel 2017)
* Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, Haas 1990)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Lord, Rothman, Persichetti, Ramsey 2018) [DCP]
Happy As Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher 2018)
* Children Of Men (Cuarón, Sexton, Arata & al. 2006) [Laser]
Ghost Stories (Dyson & Nyman 2017 )
The Fate Of The Furious (Gray, Morgan & al. 2017)
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston and Gladys Hill after Rudyard Kipling 1975) [DCP]
Support The Girls (Bujalski 2018)
Duck Butter (Miguel Arteta, Alia Shawkat 2018)
Phantasm [4K restoration] (Coscarelli 1979) [DCP]

sans lep (sic), Friday, 18 January 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link

there's a point in Phantasm where a kid uses a hammer and a shotgun shell to blow open a door lock; at this exact moment, something fell from the rafters above the screen onto the wooden stage below, crashing loudly. For a few minutes, I thought this was a William Castle-esque trick designed to enhance the screening, which had also included free "embalming fluid" shots, a pre-show presentation and a burlesque performance. Once the next spoken line was mouthed, it turned out that the speaker which carried the dialogue had straight-up crashed out of the ceiling.

sans lep (sic), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link

lol

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link

Stan & ollie
2001 A Space Oddyssey

Stevolende, Friday, 18 January 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link

xp nice

flappy bird, Saturday, 19 January 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link

Finally started Les Diaboliques. God I love Simone Signoret.

Watched Fantastic Beasts w the kids. Meh

nathom, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link

The General (Keaton, 1926) 8/10
Sorry to Bother You (Riley, 2018) 5/10
*Metropolitan (Stillman, 1990) 9/10
Dogville (Von Trier, 2003) 5/10
*My Night at Mauds (Rohmer, 1969) 10/10
*The Muppet Christmas Carol (Henson, 1992) 7/10
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson, 2014) 7/10
Good Morning (Ozu, 1959) 7/10
The Farmer’s Daughter (Potter, 1947) 6/10
Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962) 9/10
*Taipei Story (Yang, 1985) 10/10
Carol (Haynes, 2015) 6/10
Ludwig (Visconti, 1973) 7/10
Hale County, This Morning This Evening (Ross, 2018) 7/10
The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) 6/10
*Miami Vice (Mann, 2006) 9/10

devvvine, Sunday, 20 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link

I watched a couple of ghost stories that have been on my watch list forever; The Innocents, and the Changeling.

The Innocents was great - really strong performances, especially the creepy kids; great cinematography etc.

The Changeling was...meh. It had that clumsy, 70s, made-for-TV feel, though it had a couple of great scenes. I appreciated it's critique of inherited power, the right etc., but it was just so sloppy most of the time.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 20 January 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link

I also finally caught up with The Changeling a while back and had a similar pleasantly meh reaction.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 January 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link

Leave No Trace (Granik, 2018)

I got around to watching this on dvd last night. Morbs gave it 7/10, which feels about right. It has a nice pace, subtle but clear exposition, understated and effective camera work, good acting. The script has some weaknesses, but nowhere near fatal. Just a very nice film all the way around.

A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 20 January 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link

I saw a Changeling restoration at SIFF last year, and the main audience reaction was for the office building with the narrow bottom (which is still downtown), rather than any scares or reveals or confrontations

sans lep (sic), Sunday, 20 January 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link

Hollywood Steps Out (Avery, 1941)
The Fall Guy (Pearce, 1930)
The Canary Murder Case (St. Clair & Tuttle, 1929)
Advice to the Lovelorn (Werker, 1933)
Aquaman (Wan, 2018)
Border River (Jones, 1919)
All Night Long (Dearden, 1962)
Stan & Ollie (Baird, 2018)
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018)
Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (Arbuckle, 1915)
The Gold Ghost (Lamont, 1934)
*The Paleface (Cline & Keaton, 1922)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link

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Yeah, there were some interesting bits - I like the automatic writing, and some of the architectural shots. But so much of it was ugly.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link

It’s overlong, too - the audience catch on to the situation an hour before Scott does, but the protracted pace of the film never picks up its heels to increase from the initial “mild dread” to “tension”

sans lep (sic), Monday, 21 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

Watched in January so far

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) 5/10
Mom and Dad (2017) 6/10
Birdbox (2018) 6/10
The Favourite (2018) 7/10
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) 6/10
The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018) 7/10
The Deep Blue Sea (2011) 8/10
Killer Joe (2011) 7/10
Three Identical Strangers (2018) 7/10
*True Grit (2010) 8/10
Eighth Grade (2018) 8/10

. (Michael B), Monday, 21 January 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link

lol sic my gf was at that Phantasm screening (and wrote about the series), I also saw The Man Who Would Be King at Central Cinema.

JoeStork, Monday, 21 January 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link

ha ha, hi!

sans lep (sic), Monday, 21 January 2019 06:46 (five years ago) link

lol sic my gf was at that Phantasm screening (and wrote about the series)

am curious to read this

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link

Joe may mean the screening series, not the Phantasm series

(gf=LP?)

sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link

ahhh lol oh well

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link

I am only guessing!

pal I saw it with rented the blu of Phantasm II three days later and I have FOMO

sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link

Anyone else on Letterboxd? mine is https://letterboxd.com/souleraser/

flappy bird, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 01:59 (five years ago) link

gf=JZ @ the Katie Herzog Hot Take Dispenser. She wrote about the screening series, not Phantasm.

JoeStork, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link

My Letterboxd = https://letterboxd.com/jer_fairall/

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link

Me on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/PollyPrecoder/

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link

also, me: https://letterboxd.com/jamesdevine/

devvvine, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 09:10 (five years ago) link

49-17 (Baldwin, 1917) 6/10
Skate Kitchen (Moselle, 2018) 6/10
*Husbands (Cassavetes, 1970) 8/10
The Letter (Wyler, 1940) 7/10
The Merry World of Leopold Z (Carle, 1965) 6/10
Private Life (Jenkins, 2018) 8/10
The Only Game in Town (Stevens, 1970) 4/10
The Public Enemy (Wellman, 1931) 7/10
*The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940) 7/10
Rembrandt (Korda, 1936) 6/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link

https://letterboxd.com/carrotbourke/

. (Michael B), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link

I just watched Coherence, which was fine, fairly impressive it's budget, I guess.

Then I watched Jarman's Wittgenstein, which I bought years ago and never got around to watching. It was much better than I expected, actually, but what an odd production. Co-written by Terry Eagleton, produced by Tariq Ali (I'm assuming it's the same Tariq Ali, anyway).

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link

you can find me on L'boxd if yer clever

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link

Leave No Trace was excellent; the subtle recurrence of the seahorse - an animal where the male carries the young - was a lovely touch. Great, honest understated performances and script.
Feel like you can give it a feminist reading as "we have to learn to let go of our toxic, self-destructive men" if you'd care to. Or not. Either way, totally worth a watch.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link

Eagleton and Ali’s involvement in Wittgenstein might account for why it depicts him as much more pro soviet than I recall him being (though it’s been ages since I read Monk’s bio).

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 24 January 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link

Wasn't expecting much from "The Hate U Give," but it was really intense and pretty righteous, not even just for a YA movie.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 January 2019 03:19 (five years ago) link

I really liked the novel and heard the movie made some convervative changes, so I’m worried, but I’ll still give it a watch as soon as I can.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 26 January 2019 04:49 (five years ago) link

From Ozon and down it's seen to prepare for the Berlin Film Festival, but then I found out I screwed up the application, so I¨m probably not going anyway, lol.

Small Town Killers (Bornedal)
Checkered Ninja (Matthesen)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Persichetti, Ramsay & Rothman)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos)*
Heli (Escalante)*
The Untamed (Escalante)*
Post Tenebras Lux (Reygadas)*
Belleville Baby (Engberg)
Tulpan (Dvortsevoy)
Frantz (Ozon)
Double Lover (Ozon)
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Côté)
Boris Without Béatrice (Côté)
Beyond the Hill (Alper)
Frenzy (Alper)
The Dreamed Path (Schanelec)
Faces Places (Varda & JR)
Tuya’s Marriage (Wang Quan’an)

Frederik B, Saturday, 26 January 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link

The Longest day
Heaven knows, Mr Allison
couple of Robert Mitchum films that were on Film 4 a couple of days ago when i was working on a shirt.

Stevolende, Saturday, 26 January 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link

I really liked the novel and heard the movie made some convervative changes, so I’m worried, but I’ll still give it a watch as soon as I can.

I didn't read the book, but my wife and older daughter did, and they said it was mostly pretty faithful. It gave my younger daughter (11) nightmares last night. Does not sidestep or downplay some pretty serious stuff.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 January 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link

Shiraz (1928, Osten) 8/10
*Unbreakable (2000, Shyamalan) 5/10
I Met Him in Paris (1937, Ruggles) 7/10
One Way Passage (1932, Garnett) 6/10
Enter Laughing (1967, Reiner) 5/10
The Good Bad Man (1916, Dwan) 6/10
Tomorrow’s Promise (1967, Owens) 6/10
Night Tide (1961, Harrington) 8/10
The Half-Breed (1916, Dwan) 7/10
Bronco Billy (1980, Eastwood) 7/10
Faust (1926, Murnau) 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link

'49-'17 (Baldwin, 1917)
Day Dreams (Cline & Keaton, 1922)
Kiki (Taylor, 1931)
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (Sutherland, 1932)
So This Is Africa (Cline, 1933)
The World Moves On (Ford, 1934)
Husbands and Lovers (Stahl, 1924)
Girls About Town (Cukor, 1931)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link

wow, u r very kind to Wheeler & Woolsey.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link

I like them (definitely a minority opinion) and I liked the gender role reversal.

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link

oh I like them too, but feel guilty about it.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link

Fantastic Beasts 2 : 4/10
Forest Of Bliss : 8/10
*Women Of The Night : 9/10
Aquamaing : 6/10
S'en Fout La Mort : 8/10
*There Was A Father : 10/10
The Image Book : 9/10
The Shop Around The Corner : 10/10

So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 28 January 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link

I tried to avoid superhero movies in 2018, so I played a bit of catch-up this month.

*rewatch of Ernest Saves Christmas (Cherry, 1988) 6/10
Coco (Disney, Unkrich and Molina, 2017) 6/10
Black Panther (Disney, Coogler, 2018) 7
Thor Ragnarok (Disney, Waititi, 2017) 7
Mary Poppins Returns (Disney, Marshall, 2018) 6
Avengers: Infinity War (Disney, Russos, 2018) 4
Bird Box (Netflix, Bier, 2018) 5
Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955) 6
Reel Bad Arabs (2006) 6; recommended by neil cicierega on ernest roulette
Roma (Netflix, Cuaron, 2018) 6

adam the (abanana), Monday, 28 January 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link

Black Panther Panchali

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link

last 3 was a trio of Marvel flicks, I'm playing catch-up:

Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
Guardians of the Galaxy 2

CA: CW was a perfectly decent flick, suffering from the issue a lot of films have and one which always bothers me, which is that a bunch of people decided to end some conversations a couple minutes too early or not say something they should have said, and it led to conflict and misunderstanding. But it's entertaining enough and decent overall, the cast is good as usual. It's just nowhere near Winter Soldier. 6/10

Doctor Strange was alright. A 6.5/10 movie, with a good cast and visuals and storytelling and so on.

GOTG2 was a surprise, since I'd heard the sequel wasn't as good, but I really enjoyed it: the color scheme, the cast, the humor, it was long but not too, too long (ok just maybe a bit too long). The Marvel machine taking on a straight science fiction story is more up my alley (which is maybe why the craft being applied to the fantasy genre is a the reason why I enjoy the first couple Thor movies more than other people seem to). Maybe this was an 8/10? Whatever.

omar little, Monday, 28 January 2019 04:07 (five years ago) link

I don't put much effort in it these days, but: https://letterboxd.com/ephender/

forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link

just saw Three Identical Strangers, what a bonkers story. couldn't stop thinking about the 3rd guy picking up the paper and seeing the "twins, separated at birth!" headline. the fact that they all had the same mannerisms and resting poses and everything else was really interesting to me

frogbs, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link

Manhattan Baby (Fulci, 1982)- 2.5/5 - Didn't really feel this one. Unusually limp score from Fabio Frizzi, surprisingly setbound for something that starts with gorgeous location shoots and seemingly really did shoot exteriors in NYC. The stuffed bird attack that feels like it's finally going to finally ramp this movie up into proper batshit Fulci territory is basically the end of anything interesting
A Serious Man (Coens, 2009)- 4.5/5- FUCKING LOVED IT. The mostly unknown cast (Fred Melamed GOAT though), the cinematography (color grading especially), the fucking showstopper "Goy's Teeth" story...all of it
The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018)- 4/5- Shockingly funny, the period detail scratches my ever present Draughtsman's Contract itch (I have seen none of the other nominees but if this doesn't win the Oscar for Best Costume Design...I will be unsurprised because the Oscars are more meaningless each year, but whatever), I want Olivia Colman to get more high profile roles outside of the UK bubble
*Phantasm (Coscarelli, 1979)- 3.5/5- Have loved this since I was a teenager and still holds up
Phantasm II (Coscarelli, 1988)- 3/5- Does not hold up as much; haven't watched any extras yet but obvious *massive* studio interference (I have major problems with 3 but even with that as evidence I don't think Coscarelli would have intentionally scrambled the timeline with a weird mess of epistolary voiceover, or a major character dying a gruesome, climactic, expensive sfx death weirdly early only to be immediately handwaved away as a hallucination)
The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015)- 4/5- I had only seen Dogtooth before starting in on Lanthimos this month and I firmly intend to see everything else as soon as I possibly can
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (Coscarelli, 1994)- 2.5/5- A fucking mess; all the sidekicks introduced to disguise the fact that the returning/original Mike can't act suck (the kid is a serial killer, Rocky is a cringeworthy portrayal of a lesbian-coded character and Reggie constantly trying to get in her pants doesn't make him relatable, it makes him a fucking creep); Coscarelli's Sam Raimi envy (after the little shoutout in the previous movie) would be fine if he understood what made Sam Raimi's films work
*Goto, Isle of Love (Borowczyk, 1969)- 4/5- taking my time and really digging through Arrow's Borowczyk discs. I enjoyed this the first time I saw it but a rewatch convinced me it's absolutely brilliant. The color film inserts, the Handel piece, Borowczyk's perspective-free framing and shadowless lighting, etc
*Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal (Borowczyk, 1967)- 4/5- Still really fucking funny
Living to Die (Hauser, 1990)- 1.5/5- a selection for Philly's Psychotronic Film Society; things Wings Hauser, director, does not understand: film noir, the 180-degree rule, breasts, why mickey-mousing fell out of favor in film scores, what makes jazz music cool, the fact that it's not a great idea to actually name a character "Jazz"
Blanche (Borowczyk, 1971)- 4/5- Monty Python and the Holy Grail probably lessened the impact of its grimy, lived-in medieval setting but there's still the portrayal of medieval society as utterly psychologically alien that I found so compelling in (the half of) Hard to Be a God (that I managed to stay awake through) and that reminded me Marketa Lazarova has been on my to-watch list for ages. I also love the period music (naturally, since this is a Borowczyk joint, the first line of dialogue is a castrato joke)
Gunpoint (Graham, 1972)- 3.5/5- a documentary short on pheasant rearing and hunting, edited and partially shot in guerrilla style by Borowczyk for the translator & critic Peter Graham. There's a particularly striking shot of the hunting party marching through the shade cast by perfectly orderly rows of trees in a game hunting park that's going to stick with me for a while

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link

obvious *massive* studio interference

never got this vibe from ii, just seemed to be on its own wavelength, especially since coscarelli extended (and complicated) the vibe for iii

a weird mess of epistolary voiceover, or a major character dying a gruesome, climactic, expensive sfx death weirdly early only to be immediately handwaved away as a hallucination

unfortunately phantasm iv is like 100 percent epistolary voiceovers so i also don't think this was the studio's request. also i can't figure out what what gruesome expensive sfx death you're talking about. the liz doppelganger that reggie cooks with the flamethrower? it's a little clumsily handled yeah (and the tall man never makes evil doppelgangers again unless you count the mercurial jodysphere)

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link

have you seen iv before and if not are you planning to????

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link

Marketa Lazarova has been on my to-watch list for ages.

By all means do see it. And then if you can, watch The Devil's Trap (1962) and Valley of the Bees (1968).

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link

Yeah, I was thinking of the Liz doppelganger. Maybe it's the mindset I was in watching the film, but it (and the question of when Liz's voiceover even *happens*) seemed massively overcomplicated, like it was papering over a last-minute edit. Speaking of grue, it's also super weird to me that the major studio-backed film in the series has possibly the nastiest death yet (the gold sphere burrowing through one of the mortuary attendant goons) while III has a weirdly bright and cheerful visual style and deaths that are played more for splatter comedy, though again, that could be the developing Raimi envy.

And yeah, I plan to run the series- I picked up Arrow's excellent (if cumbersome; I have to wrestle a replica sphere out of the case and tip the individual digipacks out) box set during a sale.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link

Thank you so much for the additional Vlacil reccomendations! I'm trying to make more time for eastern European cinema this year (and read the Peter Hames book on the Czech new wave) and Vlacil's filmography is pretty intimidating

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link

iv is my favorite of the whole series. actually deepens the mystery of the original, deeply melancholy and dreamy, no budget whatsoever. i mean the first is a very special movie and a fourth sequel from 1994 can't quite sustain that atmosphere but it makes a lot of cool decisions and looks great

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link

I'm really looking forward to it! I know it sounds like I'm ragging on Coscarelli a lot here but I *love* the original Phantasm (I never saw the sequels because they were quite hard to get on disc for a while) and have a real soft spot for his later films like Bubba Ho-Tep and John Dies at the End.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link

La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1936) - 9/10
Kes (Loach, 1969) - 8/10
Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) - 7/10
Le Dernier Combat (Besson, 1983) - 6/10
Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980) - 10/10
They All Laughed (Bogdanovich, 1981) - 10/10
Amarcord (Fellini, 1973) - 7/10
Star 80 (Fosse, 1983) - 4/10
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong, 2015) - 9/10
All the King’s Men (Rossen, 1949) - 5/10
Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968) - 10/10
Lions Love (… and Lies) (Varda, 1969) - 7/10
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong, 2017) - 8/10
Chocolat (Denis, 1988) - 9/10
Images (Altman, 1972) - 2/10
Carol (Haynes, 2015) - 10/10
Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) - 9/10
Lonesome (Fejos, 1928) - 10/10
Alphaville (Godard, 1965) - 9/10
Shame (Bergman, 1968) - 7/10
Shampoo (Ashby, 1975) - 9/10

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link

*1937

flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link

Fuckin wowsers Phantasm IV is good

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link

Roma (6.0)
The Great Buster (6.0)
Turn Me On, Dammit! (7.5)
Napoleon Dynamite (5.0)
Boy Erased (7.0)
Hal (7.0)
The Bedroom Window (6.0)
The Whole Truth (4.5)
The Summer of All My Parents (6.5)
Shampoo (7.5)

clemenza, Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link

Colette (Westmoreland, 2019)
Nina (Chajdas, 2019)
Nobody Daughter Haewon (Sang-Soo, 2013)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Sang-Soo, 2016)

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 31 January 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link

January:

Yesterday's Enemy (Guest, 1959) 8/10
The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) 8/10
Putney Swope (Downey, 1969) 8/10
Electra Glide in Blue (Guercio, 1973) 6/10
Longing (Grisebach, 2006) 6/10
She (Day, 1965) 5/10
Split (Shyamalan, 2016) 4/10
The Hired Hand (Fonda, 1971) 8/10
The Terror of the Tongs (Bushell, 1961) 6/10
That Sinking Feeling (Forsyth, 1979) 7/10
Enter the Dragon (Clouse, 1973) 8/10
Carriage to Vienna (Kachyňa, 1966) 8/10
Too Early/Too Late (Straub-Huillet, 1982) 9/10
Stan & Ollie (Baird, 2018) 5/10
Curse of the Crimson Altar (Sewell, 1968) 6/10
At Five in the Afternoon (S. Makhmalbaf, 2003) 8/10
The Murder of Mr. Devil (Krumbachová, 1970) 5/10
Murder on the Orient Express (Branagh, 2017) 4/10
Vampire Circus (Young, 1972) 7/10

Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 February 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link

Vice
quite interesting to see 2 of the leads play against body type. Wondered why they picked Christian Bale to play somebody so much bulkier than him but it's a good performance. Also Sam Rockwell seems a bit skinny or wiry for George W but againhe';s quit e good.
Some Post modernist touches etc and quite amusing film.
NOt sure how sympathetic the leads are. But they do seem to be pretty evil people don't they?

Stevolende, Friday, 1 February 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link

Vice is a loathsome film.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 February 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link

haven't seen it yet, explain why?

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 1 February 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link

Adam McKay's winks and nudges threw me out of the movie, and the straightforward chronology normalizes Cheney.

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 February 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link

i don't get stunt casting stars who look nothing like their real life counterparts then applying makeup until you can't tell who it is. last year it was the darkest hour. a few years ago it was depp in black mass.

adam the (abanana), Friday, 1 February 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link

interesting take alfred

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 1 February 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link

At Eternity's Gate : 4/10 (and this is cause Dafoe basically plays his Jesus again but wow what a dog)
Field Niggas : 8/10
Le Plein de Super : 8/10
Rampant : 6/10
Climax : 7/10

So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 1 February 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link

i don't get stunt casting stars who look nothing like their real life counterparts then applying makeup until you can't tell who it is.

The transformation narrative is part of the marketing buzz around the movie. Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder is supposed to be parodying such stunts.

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 1 February 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link

Fyre Fraud (Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason 2019)
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Smith 2019)
Sudden Fear (David Miller, Lenore J. Coffee, Robert Smith after Edna Sherry 1952) [public screening on DVD]
That Touch of Mink (Mann, Shapiro, Monaster 1962)
Caught ("Opuls," Laurent 1949)
Mute (Jones 2018)
The Warriors (Hill, Shaber after Yurick 1979) [DCP]
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty 2018) [DCP]
The Kid Who Would Be King (Cornish 2019) [DCP]
Cold War (Pawlikowski, Głowacki, Borkowski 2018) [DCP]
Don's Party (Williamson, Beresford 1976)
Marwencol (Malmberg 2010 )
Six L.A. Love Stories (Dunaway 2018)
Black Dynamite (White, Sanders, Minns 2009)

sans lep (sic), Friday, 1 February 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link

Fyre docs: 5/10 each, 6/10 collectively

Sudden Fear: never seen a young Palance before iirc. his skeleton is a marvel, at least 40% of the menace just comes from the cut of his suit. 7/10

That Touch of Mink: you can feel Cary Grant falling asleep behind his eyes as the movie goes on, and he brings less and less every minute to justify Day's heterosexual-panic. 4/10

Caught: put Karina Longworth's Seduction hardcover down a sentence or two into her description of this Howard Hughes takedown, and watched the whole thing on youtube before finishing the paragraph. possibly the greatest indicator of Hughes' mental damage, above watching movies naked 28 hours a day for years and shitting in the corner, was him insisting they change the Hughes character's shoes, but nothing about his misogynistic control issues, so ppl wouldn't get that it was about him. I feel bad enough for Barbara bel Geddes getting hyperfriendzoned every time I watch Vertigo; here I had to watch out of the corner of my eye half the time. 7/10

Mute: duplo Blade Runner. 1/10

The Warriors: watched six days before the 30th anniversary of this. was not prepared for a young, hot, hairy Jerry Horne. second-best NYC subway movie? 7/10

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: decent performances in service of a pretty rote script. I avoid 99.9999999% of trailers if I think I'll ever watch the film, but hadn't heard of this when it rolled in front of something eight months ago or w/e, and at the time it felt most of the plot was probably in the trailer. Nope: all of it. Winced in advance when a silence=death window sticker appeared 8 seconds before REG turns up all full-blownsies at the end. 3/10, saw it at the $4 theatre just bcz Reg was so excited about his Oscar nom.

The Kid Who Would Be King: god imagine spending 8 years in director jail after your excellent great-acting-kids-fight-monsters practical effects debut then only coming back with this thin gruel pretty-embarrassing-kids-fight-CGI-on-a-background-of-CGI blah. a perfectly okay kids entertainment tbh but 2/10 for me.

Cold War: I hate to rep a film just bcz it's 88 minutes, but by fuck it was nice to see something slow and bleak and dense with ennui that actually cracks the fuck along. pulls off the "shot on digital and converted to B&W" better than Roma, too. 6/10

Don's Party: this was filmed in a suburban house ten minutes walk from where I grew up. the only time I ever trick-or-treated in my life was in the same cul-de-sac. had never watched this: once I was old enough, in my teens, I vaguely figured I'd get to see a production or two of the play first. bad move! dunno if the outfits and decor were matched for the 1969 setting, or just undressed as they were found in 1976, but a) between the look, and the longys of DA, and all the adultery, it feels like The Most 1970s Film Ever, and b) tbh all local parents still looked exactly like this in the 80s anyway. 10/10

Marwencol: for the last 25 years, Zemeckis' commitment to pushing new technology has generally seemed a reasonable thing for him to do as long as he no longer has any story ideas, or real care for other scripts, and I don't have to watch them. but him seeing this sweet, contained, careful documentary about a damaged man protecting his brain through art and deciding that what it needs is a plastic Steve Carell to mocap cartoon war scenes is really ill-advised. 8/10

Six L.A. Love Stories: the absolute pure example of someone in Hollywood with just enough friends to make a film on favours, despite not having any money or anything to say. still, nice to see Alicia Witt a little more than in Twin Peaks S3. 2/10

Black Dynamite: had never heard of this until it ran at a revival theatre near me last year. didn't know it was on Netflix until a "here's what's leaving Netflix" article gave me two days notice. furious that I didn't see it in an audience now: it's impossibly dead on as both parody of bad blaxploitation and pastiche of good blaxpoloitation, and the Super 16 colour is so lush it's worth watching for that alone. 9/10

sans lep (sic), Friday, 1 February 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link

Gothenburg Festival Haul:

Aniara (Lilja & Kågerman)
Aurora (Tervo)
Extinction (Lamas)*
Woman at War (Erlingsson)
Monrovia, Indiana (Wiseman)
Obscuro Barroco (Kranioti)
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (Khavn)
Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
Harajuku (Svensson)
Loro (Sorrentino)
Rafiki (Kahiu)
Angelo (Schleinzer)
The River (Baigazin)
Sons of Denmark (Salim)
Song Lang (Le)
Lucky One (Engberg)
Cutterhead (Bro)
What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire (Minervini)
Säsong (Skoog)
Divine Wind (Allouache)
My Favorite Fabric (Jiji)
Transnistra (Eborn)
Nona. If You Soak Me I Will Burn You (Donoso)
Koko-di, Koko-da (Nyholm)
Aquarela (Kossakovsky)
Aren’t You Happy? (Heinrich)
Queen of Hearts (el-Toukhy)
Ayka (Dvortsevoy)
Azougue Nazareth (Melo)
Sonia - The White Swan (Sewitsky)

Frederik B, Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link

Orchids and Ermine (Santell, 1927)
Fast and Furious (Taurog, 1924)
Two-Gun Man From Harlem (Kahn, 1938)
Hell's House (Higgin, 1932)
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, 1938)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 4 February 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link

I saw What Men Want and What Women Want today. Submit post

flappy bird, Sunday, 10 February 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link

lol

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 February 2019 06:56 (five years ago) link

Girl on a train. As shit as the book

nathom, Sunday, 10 February 2019 08:55 (five years ago) link

Lizzie. Two thirds of a good movie with a terrible last act

Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 February 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link

Honeysuckle Rose (1980, Schatzberg) 7/10
The Lincoln Cycle (1917, Stahl/Chapin) 7/10
Jewel Robbery (1932, Dieterle) 9/10
High Flying Bird (2019, Soderbergh) 8/10
Insignificance (1985, Roeg) 5/10
*The Longest Yard (1974, Aldrich) 7/10
Kinetta (2005, Lanthimos) 6/10
*Peppermint Candy (1999, Lee) 7/10
The Son of Joseph (2016, Green) 6/10
The Iron Mask (1929, Dwan) 7/10
Never Fear (1949, Lupino) 6/10
*Cat People (1942, Tourneur) 9/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link

Free Solo can be read as an exploration of a remarkably difficult relationship if yo uwant

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 February 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link

Step Forward (Beaudine & Jones, 1922)
Brilliantino the Bullfighter (Wilson, 1922)
Hooked (Hibbard, 1925)
Oil's Well (Wilson, 1923)
Felix Lends a Hand (Messmer, 1922)
Felix Turns the Tide (Messmer, 1922)
*Up the River (Ford, 1930)
Felix Goes a-Hunting (Messmer, 1923)
#Animal Behaviour (Snowden & Fine, 2018)
#Bao (Shi, 2018)
#Late Afternoon (Bagnall, 2017)
#One Small Step (Chesworth & Pontillas, 2018)
#Weekends (Jimenez, 2017)
Tweet-Tweet (Bekmambetova, 2018)
Wishing Box (Zhang & Li, 2017)
#Detainment (Lambe, 2018)
#Fauve (Comte, 2018)
#Marguerite (Farley, 2018)
#Madre (Sorogoyen, 2017)
#Skin (Nattiv, 2018)
West of Hot Dog (Rock & Pembroke, 1924)

#Academy Award-nominated short

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 10 February 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link

Updated "things i missed in 2018 and still need to see that are streaming" list:

In Progress/Next:
Roma (Netflix)
You Were Never Really Here (Amazon)
First Reformed (Amazon)
Incredibles 2 (Netflix)
Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)

Still To See:
Unsane (Amazon)
The Great Buddha+ (Amazon)
Generation Wealth (Amazon)
Loveless (Amazon/Starz)
Western (Amazon)
John McEnroe: in the Realm of Perfection (Amazon)
Minding the Gap (Hulu)
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Kanopy/Hulu)
Nancy (Kanopy)
Let the Corpses Tan (Kanopy)
The Other Side of the Wind (Netflix)
Black Panther (Netflix)
Avengers Infinity War (Netflix)
Happy as Lazzarro (Netfix)
Bird Box (Netflix)
Filmworker (Netflix)
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Netflix)
Solo (Netflix)
What Still Remains (Netflix)
Tully (HBO)
The Tale (HBO)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (HBO)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor (HBO)

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 February 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link

The friday the 13th remake. I really wanted to finish it cause of supernatural's jared. But god damn it was horrendous. Also I was so stoned. Fell asleep.

nathom, Monday, 11 February 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link

xp the mcenroe doc is a curious one, i watched it yesterday; even coming to it as a huge tennis fan as i am, its prob a bit too niche/odd for me & id be surprised if it has/had much broad appeal

johnny crunch, Monday, 11 February 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link

i'm afraid it may be unwatchable if not on the big screen, but let's see

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 February 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link

Minding the Gap was really painful, really beautiful; perfect companion piece for Monrovia, Indiana.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link

I love 'In the Realm of Perfection' but lol at them adding 'John McEnroe' to the title. It's an experimental doc, but I just love the footage. That one clip with Sonic Youth under it is breathtaking.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link

should I watch Kansas City or Johnny Guitar tonight

flappy bird, Thursday, 14 February 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link

Johnny Guitar

Dan S, Thursday, 14 February 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link

Festival haul Berlin:

The Kindness of Strangers (Scherfig)
Gully Boy (Akhtar)
Heimat ist ein Raum auf Zeit (Heise)
System Crasher (Fingscheidt)
By the Grace of God (Ozon)
Öndög (Wang Quan’an)
The Ground Beneath My Feet (Kreutzer)
Out Stealing Horses (Molland)
African Mirror (Hedinger)
The Golden Glove (Akin)
God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya (Mitevska)
Breathless Animals (Lei)
Mr Jones (Holland)
From Tomorrow On, I Will (Markovic & Wu)
Ghost Town Anthology (Coté)
The Stone Speakers (Drljaca)
A Tale of Three Sisters (Alper)
Vanishing Days (Zhu)
The Garden (Jarman)
I Was at Home, But (Schanelec)
Piranhas (Giovannesi)
Farewell to the Night (Téchiné)
Years of Construction (Emigholz)
Varda by Agnés (Varda)
Elisa y Marcela (Coixet)
Synonymes (Lapid)
So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai)
About Some Meaningless Events (Derkaoui)
Eleven Miles (Joshi)
Variety (Gordon)

Frederik B, Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link

that's a lot sans commentary. what do you recommend?

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link

flappy what did you think of johnny guitar

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link

I'm about to watch it! I ran out of time last night and watched a really great, very short (55 min) Godard film/video essay (Ici et Ailleurs / Here and Elsewhere).

flappy bird, Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link

i hope you enjoy it, it blew my mind a few years ago when they screened it at the momi

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link

that's a lot sans commentary. what do you recommend?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), 15. februar 2019 00:29 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think only Gully Boy is available right now, as it's on Amazon Prime, and that's a pretty funny if very sentimentalized hip-hop rise-to-fame story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmbUdf6lEM

Elisa y Marcela should be on Netflix soon, but I can't really recommend it. It's supposed to be a story about Spains first same-sex marriage (one of the women claimed to be a man, and they were later sent to jail for, among other things, blasphemy) and it's supposed to show how ordinary same sex relationships are, but the first half is so awfully sentimental that it undercuts the message. Second half gets better.

But mostly I loved the German documentary/Berlin school stuff (Heise, Emigholz, Schanelec) as well as all the chinese stuff. Oh, and 'Stone Speakers' will absolutely define how you look at Bosnia going forward, if you like me don't really know anything about the country.

Frederik B, Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link

i think only Gully Boy is available right now, as it's on Amazon Prime

not on Prime in the US, but it is in cinemas this week

steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 15 February 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link

i hope you enjoy it, it blew my mind a few years ago when they screened it at the momi

― jolene club remix (BradNelson)

Loved it. Such a weird, enjoyable, inscrutable movie. Poor Turkey :(

flappy bird, Friday, 15 February 2019 05:01 (five years ago) link

Wind River (Sheridan, 2017) 4/10
Crisis (Bergman, 1946) 6/10
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton, 1928) 8/10
*Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017) 9/10
The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) 7/10
Poison (Haynes, 1991) 6/10
Shadows (Cassavetes, 1959) 8/10
Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001) 5/10
Fifty Shades Darker (Foley, 2017) 3/10
God's Little Acre (Mann, 1958) 9/10
Occidental (Beloufa, 2017) 5/10
*A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger, 1946) 10/10
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong, 2013) 6/10
Angels on the Street (Choi, 1941)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) 8/10
*Burning (Lee, 2018) 7/10

as part of overnight film festival

River of Grass (Reichardt, 1994) 6/10
Still Walking (Kore-eda, 2008) 9/10
Orlando (Potter, 1992) 10/10
El Salvavidas (Alberdi, 2011) 7/10
All these Sleepless Nights (Marczak, 2016) 7/10
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Mack, 2013) 7/10
Green Days (Ahn, Han, 2011) 4/10
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974) 8/10
A Girl's Own Story (Campion, 1984) 8/10
A Bagful of Fleas (Chytilova, 1962) 7/10

devvvine, Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link

OG Darko or director’s?

steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 16 February 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link

og, also a rewatch

devvvine, Saturday, 16 February 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link

ah

steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 16 February 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link

Aria (various, 1987) - 7/10
Casino (Scorsese, 1995) - 9/10
Daisies (Chytilová, 1966) - 6/10
Contempt (Godard, 1963) - 5/10
Elephant (Van Sant, 2003) - 9/10
Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1966) - 6/10
Keep Your Right Up (Godard, 1987) - 4/10
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (Altman, 1976) - 3/10
California Split (Altman, 1974) - 10/10
A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961) - 9/10
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard, 1967) - 9/10
What Women Want (Meyers, 2000) - 4/10
Tiny Furniture (Dunham, 2010) - 8/10
Comment ça va? (Godard, 1976) - 4/10
The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973) - 9/10
Wrong Move (Wenders, 1975) - 10/10
Ici et Ailleurs (Godard, 1976) - 9/10
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954) - 9/10
Kansas City (Altman, 1996) - 3/10
Sympathy for the Devil (Godard, 1968) - 6/10
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974) - 8/10
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Rohmer, 1963) - 9/10

flappy bird, Sunday, 17 February 2019 06:06 (five years ago) link

love california split

flopson, Sunday, 17 February 2019 07:00 (five years ago) link

Soldiers of the King (Elvey, 1933)
*A Propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930)
*Taris (Vigo, 1931)
*Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933)
*L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
What Price Innocence (Mack, 1933)
When You Read This Letter (Melville, 1953)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 18 February 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link

Love Story (6.0)
The Straight Story (9.0)
Unforgettable (5.5)
The Image Book (--)
Fuzz (6.0)
Eyes Wide Shut (7.5)
Burroughs: The Movie (6.0)
15 Minutes (5.5)
The American President (6.0)
Disobedience (6.5)

clemenza, Monday, 18 February 2019 04:47 (five years ago) link

Forever 'B' / Abducted In Plain Sight (Skye Borgman 2017)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Lord, Rothman, Persichetti, Ramsey 2018) [Laser]
Happy Death Day (Landon after Lobdell 2017)
Coherence (Byrkit, Manugian 2013)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (Gregory 2014)
Gumshoe (Frears, Smith 1971)
High Flying Bird (Soderbergh, McCraney 2019)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Lord, Miller, Mitchell 2019) [Laser]
Murder On The Orient Express (Lumet, Dehn, allegedly Shaffer, after Christie 1974)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda 2018) [DCP]
* Miller's Crossing (Coen & Coen 1990)

steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 18 February 2019 04:52 (five years ago) link

love california split

― flopson

one of the best movies about addiction I've ever seen

flappy bird, Monday, 18 February 2019 05:31 (five years ago) link

* Hour of the Wolf (1968) 4/5
* Miller's Crossing 5/5
High Flying Bird 4/5
Velvet Buzzsaw 2/5
Querelle (1982) 3.5/5
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) 4/5
The Aviator's Wife (1981) 3.5/5
Fyre Fraud (2019) 2.5/5
Fyre (2019) 3/5
The Tarnished Angels (1957) 4/5
Columbus (2017) 3.5/5

Chris L, Monday, 18 February 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was on TV last night so I watched it. There sure was a lot of "Hey! Here's a thing you liked the last time we did it!"

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 18 February 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link

Support the Girls was a great little movie that no one saw. Well worth it.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link

Regina Hall made a few critics award runners-up lists.

a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 February 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link

i loved it; it's on hulu and anyone who has that should see it

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 04:02 (five years ago) link

Speaking of Hulu, no one was lying about Minding the Gap.

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link

"Thunder Road" was really good, too. Reminded me of a more tragicomic"Bottle Rocket," in some ways. Impressive that the guy wrote, acted in and directed it. I kind of want to find some interviews with him now.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 February 2019 05:28 (five years ago) link

I just got back from seeing a 1958 film where the guy wrote, acted in & directed it, followed half an hour’s walk away by a 1971 film where the guy wrote, scored, produced, acted in, directed & edited it

steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 21 February 2019 08:34 (five years ago) link

is that a puzzle? van peebles?

adam the (abanana), Thursday, 21 February 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link

Uh, Regina Hall WON best actress from the NY film critics (also Vancouver). Disappointed in Sotosyn's failure in remembering the prizes and nods.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 February 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link

it wasn’t a puzzle, but Josh’s mind is gonna be blown when he sees his first ten or twenty Woody Allen flicks

steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

(yes, Van Peebles, plus Welles)

steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link

Woody who?

I'm not a fan of Woody Allen films, really. I don't think he's that great of an actor. Or even director, for that matter, though he has made a couple of movies I've liked. Cassavetes is kind of a more impressive writer/actor/director. Citizen Kane is pretty good, too. But it's been a while since I've seen a movie written, directed by and starring the same person, which is why it struck me.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link

Though I appreciate the pedantic sarcasm.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link

Oh yeah, speaking of Shane Carruth, he's a more recent triple-threat, too. And Sling Blade? Seemed to happen more during the indie boom of the '90s.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link

Kane was 1941 btw

steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 21 February 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link

The Kindergarten Teacher (Colangelo, 2018) 7/10
Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936) 8/10
Broken Arrow (Daves, 1950) 7/10
*Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, 1990) 8/10
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018) 8/10
Querelle (Fassbinder, 1982) 6/10
The Rachel Divide (Brownson, 2018) 7/10
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Lubitsch, 1927) 7/10
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976) 7/10
*Annie (Huston, 1982) 6/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link

Birds of Passage was outrageously good and Shakespearean in scope; highest recommendation to anyone near where it's screening

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 22 February 2019 05:02 (five years ago) link

The Artits, which I hadn't seen before last night's BBC4 showing. Quite effective largely silent film or at least the sound consists of soundtrack music apart from a couple of crucial points. Hope taht isn't too much spoiler.
French/US film with 2 French leads and several internationally known ones. I didn't recognise the actress who played Peppy so has she made much of a move intop International film, or is she well known in france?
Quite fun.

Stevolende, Friday, 22 February 2019 09:42 (five years ago) link

fwiw Woody Allen has always said he's not an actor

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 February 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link

Enoch Arden (1911, Griffith) (33m) 7/10
Shoplifters (2018, Kore-eda) 7/10
*Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007, Jones) (TV) 8/10
Stan & Ollie (2018, Baird) 7/10
*The Crying Game (1992, Jordan) 8/10
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969, Matsumoto) 6/10
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991, Callow) 5/10
*Mikey and Nicky (1976, May) 10/10
Warlock (1959, Dmytryk) 8/10
*Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (1993, Riggs) (38m) 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 February 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link

Morbius what is it about Mikey and Nicky? I haven't seen it & you're pretty parsimonious with 10/10's so my interest is piqued.

flappy bird, Friday, 22 February 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link

I read Frank Bill’s DONNYBROOK last year and really didn’t like it much at all. It felt like a try-hard cross between Harry Crews and Jim Thompson, lapped up by soft-handed, voyeuristic critics. The movie, which I just watched tonight via Amazon, is much better. It’s beautifully shot, and minimalist in a good way, and although there’s a lot of violence it’s handled…tastefully, sort of. Recommended, if you’re a fan of movies about hillbilly bare-knuckle boxing tournaments.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 24 February 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link

fb, it's Elaine May's masterpiece -- the two actors' too. Not a wasted frame.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link

Cold War (2018) 7/10
Fyre (2019) 6/10
Burning (2018) 7/10
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) 3/10
The Handmaiden (2016) 7/10
Tarnation (2003) 7/10
Every Man For Himself (1980) 6/10
The Big Chill (1983) 5/10
The Cat Returns (2002) 7/10
Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse (2018) 7/10

. (Michael B), Sunday, 24 February 2019 09:54 (five years ago) link

Iron Man (Browning, 1931)
The Lemon Drop Kid (Neilan, 1934)
Below Zero (Parrott, 1930)
You're Darn Tootin' (Kennedy, 1928)
Too Busy to Work (Blystone, 1932)
Douro, Faina Fluvial (de Oliveira, 1931)
Aniki-Bóbó (de Oliveira, 1942)
The Green Years (Rocha, 1963)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 25 February 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link

Self/less (Tarsem, 2015) abandoned
Trolls (Dreamworks, Mike Mitchell, 2016) 3/10
Green Book (Farrelly, 2018) 3/10
*rewatch of A Star is Born (WB, Cukor, 1954) 9/10
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 8/10

slow month.

adam the (abanana), Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:31 (five years ago) link

Apollo 11 is an amazing achievement, genuinely awe inspiring and beautiful. I'm sure it'll be on CNN before end of the year but do yourself a favor and see it in theaters or, better yet, IMAX.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/25/apollo-11-review-eye-opening-documentary-is-a-five-star-triumph
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/27/we-felt-a-huge-responsibility-behind-the-landmark-apollo-11-documentary
Director said they went through over 11k hours of footage and 18k hours of unsynched audio; took years to shake out. The effort and the love of production really shows.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 28 February 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link

Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964) 9/10
High Flying Bird (Soderbergh, 2019) 7/10
The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986) 10/10
Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972) 8/10
Daisies (Chytilova, 1966) 8/10
This Land is Mine (Renoir, 1943) 6/10
Hanagatami (Obayashi, 2017) 5/10
Let The Summer Never Come Again (Koberidze, 2017) 8/10
Yourself and Yours (Hong, 2016) 7/10
The American Friend (Wenders, 1977) 8/10

devvvine, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link

Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Yourself Yours (Hong Sang-soo, 2016)

xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link

does burning live up to the hype?
seeing woman at war tonight; will report back

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 1 March 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link

I liked it. There is a thread here with a variety of takes:

BURNING (dir. Lee Chang-dong, 2018) - Murakami adaptation feat. Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo

xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link

Burning was great

flappy bird, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link

You should definitely see Burning. In all honesty I probably prefer Woman at War, but both films good.

Frederik B, Friday, 1 March 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link

February:

Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018) 8/10
Fire (Smith, 2019) 6/10
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004) 7/10
Casque d'Or (Becker, 1952) 8/10
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Heller, 2018) 6/10 - might have rated this higher if the trailer hadn't given away the entire plot of the movie
Five Element Ninjas (Chang Cheh, 1982) 8/10
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Aldrich, 1964) 7/10
The Creeping Flesh (Francis, 1973) 7/10
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Curtis, 1974) 6/10
CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans (Dumont, 2018) 8/10
Machorka-Muff (Straub-Huillet, 1963) 7/10

Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 March 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link

Will wait on that thread till i view... bit looking forward to it!

i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 March 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link

might have rated this higher if the trailer hadn't given away the entire plot of the movie

snap

steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link

January & February in theaters:

Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) - 9/10
On the Basis of Sex (Leder, 2018) - 4/10
Destroyer (Kusama, 2018) - 2/10
Glass (Shyamalan, 2019) - 1/10
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) - 8/10
Stan & Ollie (Baird, 2018) - 1/10
When You Read This Letter (Melville, 1953) - 8/10
Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987) - 9/10
Clara’s Ghost (Elliott, 2018) - 2/10
They Shall Not Grow Old (Jackson, 2018) - 2/10
Secrets of Women / Waiting Women (Bergman, 1952) - 4/10
What Men Want (Shankman, 2019) - 8/10
2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action (various, 2018) - 0/10
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954) - 7/10
Cold Pursuit (Moland, 2019) - 6/10
2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary (various, 2018) - 3/10
The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10

flappy bird, Saturday, 2 March 2019 05:19 (five years ago) link

Free Solo. Amazing feat, but Meru was the much better man-vs-mountain face movie, imo.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 March 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link

Lost In The White City - 8/10
Peterloo - 5/10 ( broadest acting of any Mike Leigh film I've seen. Nearly Pythons-level broad. Extra point for the beautiful period look.)
All Is Lost - 7/10

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 2 March 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link

flappy, why so down on Stan & Ollie? just the bio genre in general? this one was about as good as those get.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 March 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link

Funny aside re: that one. A friend of mine was telling me the other day that she had some time to kill a while back, and Stan & Ollie was literally the only thing playing in the time slot she had free. So she went to see it, more or less blind, and really enjoyed it. Which is typically a sign of a good (or at least successful) movie.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 March 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link

Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954) - 7/10

Tough audience.

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link

Yes, if any films demands a 10/10 rating it's Sansho - though it obv has to be seen in as pristine a print as possible for maximum perfection. Never sure if I favour Sansho over Ugetsu Monogatari, another 10 out of 10er.

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link

Ugetsu is such a great looking movie. I haven't seen it for a long while but I remember it being as visually arresting as Sunrise.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link

idk, i much prefer a geisha and sisters of the gion to ugetsu or sansho but the problem might be i haven't seen any of them in the cinema

devvvine, Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link

Stan & Ollie left me totally cold and bored. I don't seek out biopics but I don't have anything against them. I thought the production value was suited for Netflix or something even less ubiquitous, just no artistry or anything interesting going on aesthetically, such a bland looking movie. Also, this could've been an issue with the theater I went to, but it sounded like elements of the soundtrack were missing or muted. Almost as if watching a sitcom without a laugh track, it felt technically incomplete. I would've been more forgiving and more engaged if I were a fan or even familiar with Laurel & Hardy's work. But I couldn't even get into it as an old Hollywood period piece, especially since it's them later in life and in theater. I was eager for a movie to lose myself in because right before it started, the woman sitting in front of me started screaming at me for talking with my friend about how much I disliked Roma - steam was practically coming out of her ears when the lights went down.

Sansho I will give another chance another day. I love Mizoguchi but I prefer him in contemporary settings, like Sisters of the Gion and Osaka Elegy. Sansho was confusing, but I was tired, and couldn't keep up with the particulars of whatever era of feudal Japan it's set in. The ending is brilliant and the "Isn't life a torture?" song is haunting, but my friend and I were flagging for most of it. A few days later I watched A Story from Chikamatsu and liked it a lot more, but I have a soft spot for star-crossed lovers damned by society. I liked Ugetsu and will watch The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums... tonight maybe!

I saw The Image Book for the third time today and might go back tomorrow for a fourth.

Don't see Greta, it really sucks.

flappy bird, Sunday, 3 March 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link

Yeah, that Greta trailer makes me think Huppert did this on a whim. Looks awful and CGM always seems like she'd rather be doing something other than acting.

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 3 March 2019 00:59 (five years ago) link

well, she's doing a play in New York right now.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link

sorry, CGM isn't! Huppert is.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:04 (five years ago) link

saw Cold War in one of my favorite theaters. It was really beautiful to look at (pretty much enough for me), although I had a hard time staying interested in its single-minded focus on the disordered central relationship

Dan S, Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link

I feel bad for missing image book. Is it at Lincoln center?

i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 March 2019 04:50 (five years ago) link

gone; gotta pounce on JLG, not a crowd pleaser

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 05:11 (five years ago) link

take the train down to Baltimore and we'll see it together

flappy bird, Sunday, 3 March 2019 05:22 (five years ago) link

the trailer for was sorta bad but I thought how could you possibly screw up Isabelle Huppert + CGM?

watch Greta to find out

flappy bird, Sunday, 3 March 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link

Wrong Again (McCarey, 1929)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Birds of Passage (Guerra & Gallego, 2018)
Elmer's Pet Rabbit (Jones, 1941)
In the Money (Strayer, 1933)
Zama (Martel, 2017)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 4 March 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link

Greta wasn't even good camp.

Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 March 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link

trying Transit tonight and Anthropocene on Thursday; Burtynsky has a killer eye but i wouldn't be half as interested to see it on television. Scope!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBrXykjecx8

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link

xp Zama and Birds of Passage are among the best films of the past five years, great doubleheader!

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link

I'm still trying to process both films (plus Burning that same weekend).

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 4 March 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link

i would imagine!

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 March 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link

Greta wasn't even good camp.

― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, March 3, 2019 8:01 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can't wait to love this movie

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link

its problems are structural & technical... I'd be really surprised if you like it even with reservations

flappy bird, Monday, 4 March 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link

Zama was the most memorable film from the last couple of years for me

looking forward to seeing Birds of Passage, really liked Embrace of the Serpent

still haven’t seen Burning, Shoplifters, Lazzaro Felice

Dan S, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link

...or Claire's Camera, Girl, Transit, or Border

plan to see most of them in the next few weeks

Dan S, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 07:03 (five years ago) link

Transit was quietly, confidently remarkable; the conceit of setting it in a contemporary world (sans cell phones and social media) gave it an immediacy that lent itself nicely to increased empathy.
lots of Kafkaesque dread and a great plot twist (and closing credits music) at the end. Not much in the way of sex or violence that wasn't only keenly implied. Surprisingly engaging every step of the way.
Pretty sure Franz Rogowski is gonna be a Hollywood star in three years or less.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link

Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (6.5)
The Stranger Beside Me (5.5)
Wind River (7.0)
A Woman, a Part (6.0)
Rabbit Hole (8.0)
The Lovely Bones (6.0)
Moonrise (6.5)
The Snowman (6.0)
Double Jeopardy (5.5)
Bleeding Heart (6.0)
The Conversation (10.0)

clemenza, Saturday, 9 March 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link

Pretty sure Franz Rogowski is gonna be a Hollywood star in three years or less.

as New Joaquin Phoenix? He's a dead ringer.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link

Tension (1950, dir. John Berry), TCM: "Brief Synopsis
A man who had planned to murder his wife's lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it." Narrated by wry homicide cop Barry Sullivan, a fedora hipster in the historical, trickster sense ("the Madison Avenue hipster" was a type, long before Normam Mailer arrived at the 1964 Republican Convention and immediately spotted the young operatives sporting wrap-around shades, skinny ties, skinny suits). practically bopping in the room at one point: he lovvves his job, ditto his partner, graceful fatman Willian Conrad. Won't tell you how it "ends," but like to think Sullivan ooutsmarted hinself, and nicer guy Basehart outlucked himself, when perp spills beans on stand. Audrey Totter nails her noirness, young Cyd Charisse is innocently glamorous good neighbor in nebbish druggist Basehart's other life.

Rabid(1977, written & directed by Cronenberg), TCM: "Brief Synopsis
When Rose is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, an experimental surgery is performed on her that saves her life. But after the operation, she finds that she craves blood, and as she seeks out victims to satisfy her craving, the city is sent into hysteria." Well not exactly hysteria: the good Canadian health system deals with the epidemic of not-exactly-rabies by sending out garbage trucks with sharpshooters. That Cronenberg twinkle, yet concern for characters (back and forth; twisted yet tasteful considering, without pulling punches). It's not Rose's fault, and she seems ont that far from young Cyd above, except for being maybe even more delusional. Wasn't Marilyn Chambers originally known as a porn actress? Never heard of rest of cast, but they're all good (starts in a plastic surgery spa, with some well-heeled addicts etc.)

dow, Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link

Marilyn Chambers isn't in this, where did I get her name? Sorry, movie came on really late here, TCM Underground prob.

dow, Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link

Marilyn Chambers is definitely the lead actress in Rabid! And yeah, she was in Behind the Green Door and lots of other porno pre and post Rabid (which was definitely her most notable 'legit' movie credit).

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link

Lost in the Stratosphere (Brown, 1934)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (Krstić, 2018)
Cocktail Hour (Schertzinger, 1933)
*Jack Frost (Iwerks, 1934)
*The Vampire Bat (Strayer, 1933)
Balloon Land (Iwerks, 1935)
The Sin of Nora Moran (Goldstone, 1933)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 11 March 2019 00:32 (five years ago) link

Polar (Akerlund, 2019)
Leave No Trace (Granik, 2018)
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976)
*The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
The Death of Stalin (Iannucci, 2018)
The Foreigner (Campbell, 2017)
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
Milford Graves Full Mantis (Meginsky, Young, 2018)
Enemy (Villeneuve, 2013)
Captain Marvel (Boden, Fleck, 2019)
Drunken Master II (Lau, Chan, 1994)

27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC), Monday, 11 March 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link

Tragedy Girls (MacIntyre, 2017) - 5/10
Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996) - 8/10
A Story from Chikamatsu (Mizoguchi, 1954) - 8/10
Suzanne’s Career (Rohmer, 1963) - 8/10
Kings of the Road (Wenders, 1976) - 6/10
The Searchers (Ford, 1956) - 8/10
My Night at Maud’s (Rohmer, 1969) - 10/10
Shoot the Moon (Parker, 1982) - 9/10
The Passion of Anna (Bergman, 1969) - 6/10
La Collectionneuse (Rohmer, 1967) - 8/10
Tout Va Bien (Godard, 1972) - 6/10
Dry Summer (Erksan, 1963) - 9/10
Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972) - 7/10
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves, 1968) - 10/10
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take Two ½ (Greaves, 2005) - 7/10
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957) - 9/10
I, Daniel Blake (Loach, 2016) - 9/10
The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962) - 10/10
De L’origine du XXIe siècle (Godard, 2000) - 9/10
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (Godard, 1993) - 9/10
Meek’s Cutoff (Reichardt, 2010) - 5/10
Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961) - 5/10
The Old Place (Godard & Miéville, 2000) - 9/10
Liberté et Patrie (Godard & Miéville, 2002) - 9/10
The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947) - 6/10
Á propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930) - 10/10
Taris (Vigo, 1931) - 9/10
What’s Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972) - 9/10
Zéro de conduite (Vigo, 1933) - 7/10
Notre Musique (Godard, 2004) - 6/10
Bob le Flambeur (Melville, 1956) - 8/10
L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934) - 10/10

flappy bird, Monday, 11 March 2019 04:59 (five years ago) link

Saw "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with the kids, who liked it a lot. I hadn't seen it in close to 20 years. It held up well, but I remembered there being more to the story than what was there. I think I might have been conflating it with "House of Flying Daggers."

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2019 11:51 (five years ago) link

And boy, First Reformed was really something.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link

so I finally watched Stuart Little 2 in full with the kids (only 80 minutes!) and I'm left with a lot of questions. so the mice & birds can talk to humans *and* animals, but the cats can only talk to other animals? why is Stuart so horny for the bird? what kind of fucked up offspring would they produce? has Geena Davis ever acted before?

frogbs, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link

Á propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930) - 10/10

This is a gem.

jmm, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link

Climax - 8/10
Katie Tippel - 6/10
La Salamandre -9/10
Charles, mort ou vif - 8/10
)h! Soo-jung -7/10
Night And Day - 9/10
Castaway - 8/10
L'Alliance - 8/10
The Shop Around The Corner - 9/10

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link

Climax has been getting panned; I take it you think unjustly?

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:53 (five years ago) link

Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955) 10/10
Aparajito (Rqy, 1956) 10/10
The Music Room (Ray, 1958) 10/10

Dan S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 04:41 (five years ago) link

Knife + Heart (Gonzalez, 2019) 7/10
Ash is Purest White (Jia, 2019) 7/10
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (Garver, 2019) 6/10
The Nightingale (Kent, 2019) 6/10
Greta (Jordan, 2019) 5/10
Leaving Neverland (Ross, 2019) 6/10
* Six Degrees of Separation (Schepisi, 1993) 8/10
* Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (Fassbinder, 1976) 8/10

Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 12:01 (five years ago) link

xpost Climax hasn't been getting panned, has it? it's actually getting some of his better reviews, iirc. It's definitely more of the same, but miles better than Love and better than Into the Void (as much as I can remember it), where the opening credits were the highlight.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link

As far as Noe goes it's an 8/10. I think the contained space in which the film takes place suited him, helped concentrate the direction - if that makes sense. I liked it much more than any of his previous films. Also: the soundtrack was absolute fire.

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link

Yeah, even during the extended freakout section the non-stop music only adds to the manic hallucinogenic horror.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link

Brody for the New Yorker and Scott for NYT not positive:

https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/climax
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/movies/climax-review.html

i think the "as far as Noe goes" covers a lot of my question there; i think he's a fun time but he's sure not for everyone!

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link

this was a good way to kill an hour last night; not much new to be learned but great archival footage of Ruth Brown (who has a lot of the performance tics and look of Cardi B, btw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOp3usR7sI

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link

The Eyes Of Orson Welles - 7/10
Tokyo! - 7/10 (8/10 for Carax's segment)
Boy Meets Girl - 9/10

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link

*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Siegel) 10/10
*A Shot in the Dark (1964, Edwards) 8/10
Too Beautiful for You (1989, Blier) 6/10
*The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles) 9/10
Hello, Sister! (1933, Stroheim, Crosland, Werker) 6/10
mother! (2017, Aronofsky) 6/10
Quick Millions (1931, Brown) 7/10
24 Frames (2017, Kiarostami) 5/10
Sweet Charity (1969, Fosse) 6/10
*Our Man in Havana (1959, Reed) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 March 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link

Thunder Road lived up to the hype; really well acted. On Amazon Prime now btw.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link

The Towering Inferno (Irwin Allen, 1974) 4/10
Airport (Seaton and Hathaway, 1970) 3/10; square and wooden; even the younger actors look old
Airport 1975 (Smight, 1974) 3/10; corn instead of wood; starring everyone alive in the 1970s
Earthquake (Robson, 1974) 4/10
Juggernaut (Lester, 1974) 6/10

I suspect that The Poseidon Adventure, which I watched last year, is the best of the 70s disaster movies.

adam the (abanana), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link

Juggernaut!

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link

Dan S: Have you seen The World of Apu, the third part of the trilogy? I give the whole trilogy a 10, especially if you're lucky enough to see all three films in one sitting; if I break it down by film, it's probably the weakest of the three, but only slightly--and it has Sharmila Tagore.

clemenza, Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link

the wife (2017 bjorn runge) 7.5/10
three identical strangers (2018 tim wardle) 7.5/10
in a relationship (2018 sam boyd) 7/10
*michael clayton (2007 tony gilroy) 8/10
transit (2019 petzold) 6/10
struggle: the life and lost art of szukalski (2018 irek dobrowolski) 10/10
papillion (2017 michael noer) 5/10
dawson city: frozen time (2016 bill morrison) 10/10
leave no trace (2018 granik) 5.5/10

johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link

Xp No I’ve been so wanting to see it but haven’t been able to yet

Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link

dawson city: frozen time (2016 bill morrison) 10/10

I guess I gotta see this. was going to last summer but multiple friends told me (independently of each other) that the footage was cool, but the score drove them bananas and basically ruined it. but the other day a couple other people I know were raving about it, said it was amazing esp. if you're interested in archiving & film history.

flappy bird, Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link

yea def, its just a really cool story & terribly well assembled imo; i enjoyed the score, thought it was fitting, nothing abt it occurs to me that would possibly "ruin" the doc

johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link

*Les Amants du Pont Neuf : 8/10
*Mauvais Sang : 9/10
Puffball : 7/10
Seance On A Wet Afternoon : 7/10

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 16 March 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link

dawson is on kanopy btw

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link

La Salamandre -9/10

I was obsessed with this for a while 15 or 20 years ago. I even made a homemade soundtrack by recording all the music cues from a VHS rental. Listening to it right now in fact. Music was by "Patrick Moraz et le Main Horse Airline". Checking now, - two tracks from the soundtrack are on Spotify/iTunes/Youtube/etc. Must see it again some day. Don't recall much about it other than Bulle Ogier acting aloof and two journalists(?) trying to get her to act less aloof. I think maybe she was a murderer? Back then I also saw "Messidor" by the same director (Alain Tanner) and meant to explore his work more but his films just weren't that easy to see. A couple of years after I saw this I found a poster for it in Paris but I passed it up because it was a bit expensive and I doubted I could get it home without squishing it.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzY5OGYxYjYtMTUyNi00M2MxLWFhMDctNjAxNmI4Yjc4YzAwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjUyMTgxNjA@._V1_.jpg

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 16 March 2019 06:26 (five years ago) link

P.S. I guess I should ask - - how did you see it? If it's available somewhere I should get it

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 16 March 2019 06:30 (five years ago) link

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

Everything was nailed from what is one of my newly favorited books, but the additions of emotional range really screwballed it for me. I've never been an elitist type to call for incessant comparisons b/w superior/inferiority of source material versus adaptation, but --- to depict Leamas as a hopeless romantic was such a downfall. He was a man who denied being in love, who adapted his same cynicisms of the ideological war to his newfound relationship. That it was pointless. It wasn't until his cynicism backfired in the end that he realized what he had lost. I don't accept this as an embrace ideology, but rather an acceptance that his life in England was so devoid of meaning that Ann was all he had. Anyways, the film forwent with all that and chose to depict Leamas as in love with her from time of meeting to the very end. Maybe that still works. I don't think so.

Thank you.

57mg/20floz, Saturday, 16 March 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link

Watched The Fugitive with the kids. Very '90s, but held up pretty well thanks to some good performances, and just a complete happy coincidence we happened to watch the Chicago-set movie on the very calendar weekend in which it was taking place!

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 March 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link

Triangle (Smith 2009)
The Talk Of The Town (Stevens, Van Every, Shaw, Buchman, after Harmon 1942)
Touch Of Evil (Welles after Masterson 1958) [DCP]
* Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Van Peebles 1971) [DCP]
Funny Face (Donen, Gershe, Gershwin & Gershwin 1957)
The Breaker Upperers (Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek 2018)
* Sorry To Bother You (Riley 2018) [DCP]
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (Coppola 2012)
Private Property (Stevens 1959)
* Wild Things (McNaughton, Peters 1998)
Scorchy (Avedis 1976)
Mississipi Grind (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck 2015)
Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys (Stewart, Young 1987) [cinema projection of an NTSC VHS of a PAL telemovie]
The Fortune Cookie (Wilder, Diamond 1966)
They Live (Carpenter & fake Carpenter, after Wray-after-Nelson 1988) [DCP]

steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 16 March 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link

It's a been a while since a movie knocked me out like Birds of Passage did.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link

yea i saw that @ tiff, good stuff

johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link

So far it’s the best film I have seen this year and there’s been some good competition!

i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link

The Fatal Mallet (Sennett, 1914)
The Rounders (Chaplin, 1914)
Flirtation (Birinsky, 1934)
Newark Athlete (Dickson, 1891)
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (Dickson, 1894)
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (Rector, 1894)
President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol (1901)
Berth Quakes (Yarbrough, 1938)
Snow-White (Fleischer, 1933)
False Faces (Sherman, 1932)
Dancing on the Moon (Fleischer, 1935)
Damaged Lives (Ulmer, 1933)
Captain Marvel (Fleck & Boden, 2019)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link

Dumplin' (Fletcher, 2018) 7/10
Boy Erased (Edgerton, 2018) 4/10
The Hate U Give (Tillman Jr., 2018) 6/10
*Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) 8/10
Caged (Cromwell, 1950) 6/10
Giant Little Ones (Behrman, 2018) 8/10
Upgrade (Whannell, 2018) 8/10
Never Steady, Never Still (Hepburn, 2017) 5/10
Paddington 2 (King, 2017) 7/10
*Atlantic City (Malle, 1980) 8/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 18 March 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link

SuperClásico (Madsen)
Tarok (Riis)
The Ambassador (Brügger)
Cold Case Hammerskjöld (Brügger)
The Deposit (Kjartansdóttir)
Harajuku (Svensson)*
The Kindergarden Teacher (Lapid)
Michael (Schleinzer)
Ramen Teh (Eric Khoo)
The Living Desert (Algar)
Goodfellas (Scorsese)*
Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
Ahi Esta el Detalle (Bustillo Oro)
Los Tres Mosqueteros (Delgado)
Maria Candelaria (Fernandez)
Tizoc (Rodriguez)
Hellboy (del Toro)*
Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)*
Amores Perros (Iñárritu)
The Revenant (Iñárritu)

Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 08:37 (five years ago) link

On the Basis of Sex
enjoyable emotive drama about Ruth Bader Ginsburg establishing herself. An RGB origin story.
I would like to see the film RGB now I've seen this since I think that was more of a documentary. Not sure if it passed through here yet.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link

Immoral Tales (if you can point me toward a print of the "X-rated Picasso" US poster for this film I will be eternally grateful)
*Zero for Conduct (supposedly a different restoration/cut than the Criterion disc I'm familiar with; I couldn't tell, honestly, and it's impossible for me to nitpick cuts while watching this movie)
The Flower Thief (I'm afraid I don't get Ron Rice, at least not yet)
*L'Atalante (see Zero for Conduct; I'm a latecomer to Vigo but I will never turn down the opportunity to see these films again)
The Beast (dryer than I was expecting, which is a good thing; reminds me I still need to see Juan Bunuel's Leonor)
The Third Part of the Night (holy shit, Zulawski really did arrive fully formed; devastating)
Man Is Not a Bird (finally starting in on Dusan Makavejev; this was absolutely charming)
The Legend of Hell House (INJECT THAT DEEP FOCUS RIGHT INTO MY VEINS)
The Entity (see above re: split diopter shots; also way more harrowing and affecting than I was expecting)
Death Walks on High Heels (it's okay, I guess? It's workmanlike in every sense of the word)
Death Walks at Midnight (it's better, but eh. Am I losing my love for gialli?)
Riki-Oh (somehow I hadn't seen this yet?)
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (OH WAIT NO GIALLI CAN BE FUCKING AMAZING)
The Case of the Scorpion's Tale (not as revelatory as Wardh but still solid)
Premutos: Lord of the Living Dead (West German early Peter Jackson, kind of, only more mean-spirited and grubby and self-impressed)
*Mr. X (the Leos Carax documentary)
Black Christmas (LOVED THIS, holy shit. The best executed twist ending I've seen in ages, all before the rules of its genre were even close to codified)
*The Night Stalker
*The Night Strangler (both of these were to watch with Tim Lucas's predictably dry commentaries; there's valuable stuff, like learning just how extensive and acknowledged Dan Curtis's debt to Bava was, or the possible plagiarism of the original Jeff Rice novel, and it's not like I can pay much attention to anything new when I'm sick as hell and sneezing every 2-3 seconds)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link

Always enjoy your listings here telephone thing - the nice Shameless blu I have of Mrs Wadh now bumped to the top of my viewing pile.

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 21 March 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link

Thanks! Also just want to pop in here and dump in the last couple films I watched (late last night and this morning) right away because hoooly shit:

Alice Sweet Alice (insanely grim even by the standards of, say, Black Christmas- I'm using podcast episodes to kind of motivate me through my backlog of classics, which is why these two are clustered together- but also has some really fascinating intertextual stuff; Psycho is thuddingly obvious- the score quotes Herrmann in places, there's a visible poster at a train station, who gives a shit- but Don't Look Now is *all over* this grubby New Jersey-set film and it's fucking wild)

Deadly Sweet (my first Tinto Brass; went into it misled into expecting a giallo, but it's far closer to early Godard, with Guido Crepax storyboards that really shine through in the finished film. And it predates Argento really permanently marrying the ideas of perception in the earliest gialli like Bava's Girl Who Knew too Much with the complementary aspects of Blow Up- the Blow Up homage is right on the surface, including Trintignant reading a direct quote from Antonioni on the soundtrack.)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 21 March 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link

The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Huillet, Straub, 1968) 4/10
Othon (Huillet, Straub, 1970) 7/10
The Bridegroom the Actress and the Pimp (Huillet, Straub, 1968) 4/10
News From Home (Akerman, 1977) 10/10
If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins, 2018) 6/10
The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960) 6/10
The Lusty Men (Ray, 1952) 9/10
The Raid (Evans, 2011) 5/10
The Raid 2 (Evans, 2014) 3/10
Tokyo-Ga (Wenders, 1985) 6/10
Too Early/Too Late (Huillet, Straub, 1982) 7/10
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, Pressburger, 1943) 8/10
The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino, 1953) 7/10
Babylon (Rosso, 1980) 8/10

devvvine, Thursday, 21 March 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link

Oof. Thanks for taking that Huillet/Straub bullet for the rest of us. Like they say in the current vernacular: "I can't even..."

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 22 March 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link

The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960) 6/10

I have seen literally nothing else among your recent watches, so I have no way of gauging how this film coincides (or doesn't) with your tastes, but I am curious about this rating.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 March 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link

same rating on The Bridegroom the Actress and the Pimp for me, but 7/10 for Anna Magdalena

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 March 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link

loved News From Home, 10/10 for me too, but of the Eclipse Series 19 Hotel Monterey made even more of an impression

Dan S, Friday, 22 March 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link

the virgin spring is top five imo

flappy bird, Friday, 22 March 2019 03:32 (five years ago) link

will definitely try anna magdalena again at some point but my complete ignorance of bach/classical music made it one of the most alienating and tedious cinema experiences i've had. (the applause at the end confirmed that the proms crowd had turned out)

re the virgin spring, will concede 6 is a little harsh but this is a way off from his best; being shame and smiles of a summer night.

devvvine, Friday, 22 March 2019 10:13 (five years ago) link

loved News From Home, 10/10 for me too, but of the Eclipse Series 19 Hotel Monterey made even more of an impression

will seek it out! fyi other london folks, there's a barbican showing of je tu il elle in june

devvvine, Friday, 22 March 2019 10:16 (five years ago) link

1) It's amazing how many threads there are apparently on Men In Black 3.

2) Rewatching the first one, I think it may be a perfect script, which helps it hold up. Though honestly the casting and direction and even FX are pretty good, too. I remember reading at the time that it cost $90 mil, so at 90 minutes runs an impressive $1 million a minute.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 March 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link

Streamers (Altman, 1983) - 7/10
Querelle (Fassbinder, 1982) - 6/10
Cruising (Friedkin, 1980) - 7/10
*ODDSAC (Perez, 2010) - 6/10
*Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970) - 10/10
Fort Apache (Ford, 1948) - 9/10
All These Women (Bergman, 1964) - 4/10
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford, 1949) - 8/10
Tomorrow We Move (Akerman, 2004) - 6/10
A Married Woman (Godard, 1965) - 7/10
Compulsion (Fleischer, 1959) - 9/10
Despair (Fassbinder, 1978) - 4/10
Volver (Almodóvar, 2006) - 7/10
*Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946) - 9/10
Shirin (Kiarostami, 2008) - 4/10
Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955) - 10/10
Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966) - 7/10

flappy bird, Sunday, 24 March 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link

The Ramen Girl (5.5)
Mississippi Burning (6.0)
Snow Angels (6.5)
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (7.5)
Malcolm X (10.0)
Jungle Fever (9.0)
American Beauty (8.5)
Welfare (10.0)
The Last Picture Show (7.0)
Us (6.0)
Down the Shore (5.5)
The September Issue (6.5)

clemenza, Sunday, 24 March 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link

Rampling is really incredible in Hannah imo, and I found the film overall impressive. Maybe it’s because it has barely any dialogue tho but the sound mix was kinda lol, it reminded me of the on the hour skit of the radio play that won an award for best sound design and it’s like “more tea?” *INSANELY LOUD FOLEY OF WATER POURING*

ftr I am entirely pro this

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 24 March 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link

Also: dead whales kinda becoming an arthouse cliché at this point

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 24 March 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link

Yeah, Hannah is absolutely incredible. The extreme closeups of the food, and all the weird daily details. It's an almost documentary film, and then there's just one of the best actors in the world creating an incredible character.

Frederik B, Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link

As soon as we went from the acting class (iirc) to that first scene with her husband at dinner I was like “oh boy, we’re in for something here”. An uncompromising 95 minutes

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link

Street Angel (1928, Borzage) 8/10
Sollers Point (2017, Porterfield) 6/10
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu) 4/10
*I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Tourneur) 8/10
*Bedazzled (1967, Donen) 9/10
Apollo 11 (2019, Miller) 8/10
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967, Hill) 5/10
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970, Hickox) 6/10
Winter Kept Us Warm (1965, Secter) 7/10
Zoo in Budapest (1933, Lee) 6/10
The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913, Griffith) 6/10
The Massacre (1912, Griffith) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link

Winter Kept Us Warm (1965, Secter) 7/10

Famous Canadian film--might even have been the first Canadian feature of any consequence. I saw it at the University of Toronto about 15 years ago, along with one of Cronenberg's early ones (Stereo or Crimes of the Future, can't remember which). Thought it was almost impossible to see...so of course it's on YouTube.

clemenza, Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link

That's where I saw it, tho a NYC rep house recently showed a 16mm print.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 March 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link

Hypocrites (Weber, 1915)
Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
On With the Show (Crosland, 1929)
Bum Voyage (Grinde, 1934)
*The Wedding March (von Stroheim, 1928)
Blind Husbands (von Stroheim, 1919)
The Paneless Window Washer (Fleischer, 1937)
While the City Sleeps (Conway, 1928)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 25 March 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link

Just to correct myself a couple of posts above, Don Owens' Nobody Waved Goodbye predates Winter Kept Us Warm by a year.

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link

American Beauty (8.5)

This film seems to have taken a fairly big hit in reputation, tho i disliked it in '99, and Alan Ball's subsequent shtick seemed milked from the same cow. What do you like about it?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link

Great cinematography, iirc.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link

well yeah, Conrad Hall. but kind of unnecessary for a windblown plastic bag.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link

In terms of its point of view, it strongly resembles a film from the '70s New Hollywood, is my guess?

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link

I don't usually do this, but rather than just repeat myself, here's some stuff I wrote about it about 10 years ago. I'm basically in the same place today. (Scroll down to #32.)

http://phildellio.tripod.com/movies1.html

I think I understand some of the main reasons people hate it, above and beyond standard backlash against films that win a lot of awards.

1) It's a couple of British guys commenting on American life.
2) It's written by and stars two guys who could be interpreted as being self-hating gay men--I think that's a complaint, I'm not sure.
3) It's the nine-millionth film to say there's this dark side to suburbia, and the makers seem to think they're the first people to hit upon this.

And there are no doubt other things people hate about it. I'm not oblivious to the counter-arguments.

In addition to what I wrote then, Eric's right, I probably do get the mood of a mid-'70s film.

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link

After this last rewatch, I went back and read some of the original reviews in Salon, Slate, the Times, Slant, and a few others. Most were really positive; one or two weren't. Also looked at some ILX reaction, and found two or three people who said they liked/loved it initially, then hated it second time around. It was already doomed to vanish--in a way, Spacey's troubles may be the one thing that keeps it around.

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link

I shouldn't let this fall under the umbrella of "other things":

4) In its treatment of Thora Birch and Mena Suvari, it's male-gazey or creepy or worse. I get that too.

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link

5) bag headed straight for the ocean

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link

I tried my best to shield that poor plastic bag from further vilification, but was not to be.

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link

who is British besides Sam Mendes?

I blame Alan Ball (from Atlanta) first.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link

You're right--a British guy, not guys. That's a common thing, though: Zabriskie Point, Lost in Translation, etc. The tourist charge.

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link

But it's clearly Ball's -- and I hate to use the word -- vision.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link

Maybe that reason doesn't apply then. I'm trying to understand why people loathe the film--not just a poor pick for Best Picture but possibly the worst pick ever--and maybe it's as simple as glib and facile most of the time, occasionally (plastic-bag monologue) wildly pretentious. I go back to it every few years, and I've just never felt that way.

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link

If it hadn't won, by the way, I'm guessing The Sixth Sense would have (which I never watched a second time); people here would have gone for The Insider (which I find very slow).

clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link

Loathing toward American Beauty is probably the potent combo of treacly, precious, dumber than it thinks it is, and arrogant. It goes beyond pretension, there's something mean and dumb in that movie. Nothing to do with Spacey, I think his performance is the best thing in it.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link

Sorry to Bother You (man WHAT; I have some problems with the big twist, and much as I admire its politics, for some reason even magical realism didn't help with my suspension of disbelief re: the world being breathlessly attentive to a strike at a call center;loved it nonetheless)

*L'Important c'est d'aimer (loved it more on this latest rewatch where I'd previously found it somewhat cold; Fabio Testi is ok I guess but Romy Schneider deserves all the accolades, and Kinski is spellbinding, pulling off the greatest acting challenge of his career in portraying a fundamentally decent human being [fuck him for real though] and a sympathetic gay character in a movie that unfortunately leans on homophobia for some cheap shock value)

Death Laid an Egg (started with the drastically shortened original "giallo cut," will return to the Touch of Evil-esque restoration on the blu-ray in a few days; absolutely fucking bughouse, reminds me of a more flamboyant Elio Petri, with a score by composer Bruno Maderna that bounces between Stockhausen-esque electroacoustics, melancholy guitar that reminds me of Lech Jankowski's work for the Quay brothers, and manic scat-heavy nonsense)

Please Kill Mr. Kinski (still on my mind a few days later)

*The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (rewatched with Ernesto Gastaldi's commentary; as ever, the man misses no opportunity to shit-talk Argento or any thriller where the villain's motivation is pathological, which is an entertaining listen at the very least- especially since my introduction to the giallo, as with so many other non-Italians, is very much one that started with psychos and supernatural horror thanks to Argento, Fulci, etc)

L'Assassino (first film in as exhaustive a Petri rewatch as I can manage with what's available on disc in the US & UK)

The Killer Is On the Phone (middling 1972 giallo with Telly Savalas as the heavy; decent Stelvio Cipriani soundtrack heavy on the fuzz guitar; unusual Bruges setting; very little else to recommend it beyond those three factors- Luigi Bazzoni's Footprints on the Moon does the amnesia plot a thousand times better, plus gorgeous Vittorio Storaro cinematography and an actual sense of dread, minus this film's gratuitous homophobia)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link

I say Petri "rewatch," all I've seen until now is Investigation... and read some of his writing, so this is mostly uncharted territory for me.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link

Enemy (2014) - 6/10
Mojave (2016) - 7/10

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link

CPH:DOX festival haul. Last festival in six months, thank God. No grades, but ama.

A Cherry Tale (Mulvad)
Winter’s Yearning (Larsen & Pilskog)
Chinese Portrait (Wang Xiaoshuai)
The Reformist (Skovgaard)
Los Reyes (Perut & Osnovikoff)
La Flor (Llinás)
The Border Fence (Geyrhalter)
Your Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
A Moon for My Father (Akbari & White)
The Rest (Ai Weiwei)
I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead (Gibson)
The Grand Bizarre (Mack)
Graves Without a Name (Panh)
Dark Suns (Elie)
House of Furies (Matzen & Rebekka)
The Dream of Lady Hamilton (Cheval)
You See the Moon (Nunes)
Nakorn-Sawan (Aksornsawang)
Faust (Bussman)
The Edge of Democracy (Costa)
The Last Male on Earth (van der Meulen)
The Disapearance of My Mother (Barrese)
Ceremony (Collins)
Everybody in the Place (Deller)
Searching Eva (Hellenthal)
Kabul, City in the Wind (Amini)
Inland (Palacios)
American Dharma (Morris)
Evelyn (von Einsiedel)
Divine Love (Mascaro)

Frederik B, Sunday, 31 March 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link

Thirst (1917)
Madcap Ambrose (Hibbard, 1916)
The Affairs of Cellini (la Cava, 1934)
*The Countess of Monte Cristo (Freund, 1934)
Eleanor's Catch (Madison, 1916)
The Hole in the Wall (Florey, 1929)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 1 April 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link

* Hudson Hawk (Lehmann, Waters, DeSouza, Willis, Kraft 1991)
* The Player (Altman, Tolkin 1992)
Todos lo saben [Everybody Knows] (Farhadi 2018) [DCP]
Climax (Noé 2018) [DCP]
Izzy Gets The Fuck Across Town (Papierniak 2018)
* Mission: Impossible (DePalma, Towne, Koepp, Zaillan, Pollack, Cruise, Wagner, Huyck and Katz 1996)
Us (Peele 2019) [DCP]
Dottie Gets Spanked (Haynes 1994)
Fear And Desire (Kubrick, Sackler 1953)

steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 1 April 2019 07:34 (five years ago) link

Finally caught LET THE SUNSHINE IN and the end credits placement was the highlight.

Simon H., Monday, 1 April 2019 07:37 (five years ago) link

March:

The Heartbreak Kid (May, 1972) 8/10
The Sect (Soavi, 1991) 7/10
Black God, White Devil (Rocha, 1964) 7/10
Caught (Ophuls, 1949) 7/10
The Snorkel (Green, 1958) 6/10
Jeremiah Johnson (Pollack, 1972) 8/10
It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) 8/10
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) 9/10
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1979) 9/10
Captain Marvel (Fleck & Boden, 2019) 6/10
Night of the Big Heat (Fisher, 1967) 5/10
The Swimmer (Perry, 1968) 8/10
The Roaring Twenties (Walsh, 1938) 8/10
Cape Fear (Thompson, 1962) 8/10
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Mann, 1964) 7/10
Arsenic and Old Lace (Capra, 1944) 7/10
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, 1946) 7/10
City of the Living Dead (Fulci, 1980) 7/10
Real Life (Brooks, 1979) 9/10
No Blade of Grass (Wilde, 1970) 7/10
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (Martino, 1971) 8/10
The Mephisto Waltz (Wendkos, 1971) 7/10

Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 April 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link

The Right Stuff (1983) 4/5
The Beaches of Agnes (2008) 5/5
Trouble Every Day (2001) 3/5
9 to 5 (1980) more like 3/5
Us (2019) 3.5/5
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) 3/5
Shampoo (1975) 3/5
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) 3/5
Full Contact (1992) 3.5/5
The Loved One (1965) 2/5
The Magician (1958) 3.5/5
* Inherent Vice (2014) 4/5
Let the Sunshine In (2017) 3/5

Chris L, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link

Diane is highly, highly recommended; found it really honest and deeply moving. Place deserves an Oscar nomination.
Saw it in preview, followed by an hourlong conversation with the director and Scorcese about movies in general and was reminded that New Yorkers will literally walk out on ANYTHING

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 1 April 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link

xxxxpost wait WHAT Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz were involved in Mission Impossible???

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 1 April 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link

March:

Leaving Neverland (2019) 6/10
Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates (2016) 5/10
Danger: Diabolik (1968) 8/10
Filmworker (2017) 6/10
Shoplifters (2018) 7/10
The Gospel according to Matthew (1964) 7/10
*Darkman (1990) 5/10
Dragged Across Concrete (2019) 8/10
The Dirt (2019) 4/10
The Intern (2016) 6/10
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) 6/10
Umberto D (1952) 8/10
Poitin (1978) 7/10
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) 7/10
The Other Side of The Underneath (1972) 6/10
My Scientology Movie (2015) 5/10

. (Michael B), Monday, 1 April 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link

probably the least involved in anything that made it to screen. DePalma basically ended up inventing the way McQuarrie makes them now: “I have three setpieces in different global locations figured out, Tom just had a new idea for one scene, nobody likes any of the scripts but I know Robert Towne’s phone number and we have a release date so let’s start shooting”

steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 1 April 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link

MUBI:

Portrait of a Lady (Campion, 1996) - Really good adaptation. Like it does things -- with Nicole Kidman's face, with the cast and locations -- and it possibly gets at the narrative difficulty present in James' novels (lol I just couldn't quite follow beyond surface detail...brain undergoing a meltdown, I just can't watch demanding fare on TV anymore). I think there is a correspondence with Dangeours Liaisons (in a very light way, mainly because Malkovich is in this).
Detour (Ulmer, 1945) - hilarious noir. Ann Savage is...savage as the fatale and the monologue on this is totally fucked up.

Cinema:
Us (Peele, 2018)
There's Always Tomorrow (Sirk, 1956) - loved the script and Stanwyck turning around on the adulterous husband's children was A+. With the final -- totally artificial -- line, and you can see what Fassbinder saw in him.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 April 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link

Heddy Honigmann's "Buddy" was honest, sweet, insightful and occasionally jaw dropping in terms of how outrageously capable the profiled animals are. Probably worth a watch on the big screen if you can, if only for the extreme cuteness. My friend and I were literally the only people in the theater tonight; first time that's ever happened to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQjL-hmPiA

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 06:22 (five years ago) link

Hudson Hawk - still feels like it could have been something delightful if Willis hadn't caught lead singer disease, and Danny Aiello knew he was in the same movie most of the cast and crew were making, and Andie McDowell was an actress (nb: she's great in MMXXL), etc etc. 3/10 as a coherent film, 6/10 for the ambulance chase and the singing heist gag and Sandra Bernhard attempting t carry the entire flick on her shoulder pads

The Player - holds up, failed to resurrect Young MC's career after "Keep It In Your Pants." 8/10

Todos lo saben - a thriller with no twists that might have held up at 90 minutes, but takes two and a half. a film starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, set in wine country, that chooses to contain only 0.01% horniness is squandering its resources. 3/10

Climax - my first Noé, watched for the soundtrack, and was totally worth it. takes those moments in a night, especially on a come-up, that feel like everything might turn disturbing, and makes a horror movie out of them -- with, just like IRL, enough flickers of fun and dance that you keep riding through it. 8/10 for the ride, 9.2/10 for the choreo bits.

Izzy Gets The Fuck Across Town - amiable One Bad Work Day caper that makes the most of getting a bunch of character stars for a day's shoot each. 6/10

Mission: Impossible - coming back to this after one TV viewing 21 years ago, and watching/rescreening some BDP horrors last Halloween, it's a ride to see just how DePalma-y he made a slick blockbuster action film (and Snake Eyes totally plays as a B-side to it). 7/10

Us - lol at the opening being a stack of clue-giving VHSes around a 4:3 TV playing exposition, just like Climax. production design seems packed with references designed for VHS, too, where you'd rewatch before returning to maximise your rental, or get it out again periodically with the same group. 8/10

Dottie Gets Spanked - half-hour TV film about TV, and mediating one's identity through culture in lieu of IRL referents to your internal life. 7/10

(also started watching this on Kanopy: THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF MARCHELLO THE CAT is the first-ever live feature with a cast of real cats and was heartwarmingly filmed over six years, from the cats' point of view--eight inches from the ground. Turned out to literally be cat videos shot on VHS and edited together with very bad dialogue dubbed over the top, by real Hollywood actors, shouting. Finished it off later with the sound off and a podcast on bcz once you watch 2 seconds of a Kanopy stream, you've used one of your 5 for the month. At 67 minutes, it's a cut-down version of a 76-minute 2008 DTV called A Cat's Tale. 0/10)

blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link

Us - lol at the opening being a stack of clue-giving VHSes around a 4:3 TV playing exposition, just like Climax. production design seems packed with references designed for VHS, too, where you'd rewatch before returning to maximise your rental, or get it out again periodically with the same group. 8/10

I remember C.H.U.D. was one, what were the others?

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link

Huh, I was really up for climax but found it quite disappointing iirc, loved the soundtrack and dancing and the slow shift into wrongness but found the last half hour, 45 mins, whatever of arseholes writhing around while the camera goes wOoOoOooOoo really dull

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link

a lot of people told me to see Climax, one said "it's not so much a film as it is a ride" - pass

flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link

I remember C.H.U.D. was one, what were the others?

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, April 2, 2019 11:04 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the man with two brains, goonies, the right stuff, nightmare on elm street

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link

Todos lo saben - a thriller with no twists that might have held up at 90 minutes, but takes two and a half. a film starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, set in wine country, that chooses to contain only 0.01% horniness is squandering its resources. 3/10

I've been waiting for this to show up for rent on Amazon. Now that I know it's that long I'm substantially less interested. Did you see the movie with Bardem as Pablo Escobar and Cruz as the Colombian TV journalist he had a years-long affair with? It's not bad. His accent is way better than hers - she doesn't even try.

grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link

I didn't.

found the last half hour, 45 mins, whatever of arseholes writhing around while the camera goes wOoOoOooOoo

fair! for me it goes from the first half of dancers bonding & interacting as people, and the camera staying almost still to capture moments of their incredible control of their bodies, into a second half of the people losing control of everything, and the camera in constant questing motion w/ them only existing relative to it. flip of a coin, dark side of the moon.

I would have enjoyed 90 minutes of dance and a proper club soundsystem better, for sure, but that's probably the case for any film.

blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link

Well as ever when my reaction to a film is out of step with ilx’s, I doubt myself and want to see it again. I did give it props for capturing the essence of a bad trip, which ime = nightmarish + boring

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (Vibenius) 8/10
Der Todesking (Buttgereit) 7/10
Gummo (Korine) 7/10
The Terrorizers (Yang) 8/10
Certified Copy (Kiarostami) 9/10
Drug War (To) 7/10
Running in Madness, Dying in Love (Wakamatsu) 7/10
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai) 6/10
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1978 cut) 8/10
Le vent de la nuit (Garrel) 9/10

groovemaaan, Saturday, 6 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006, Kijak) 6/10
God Told Me To (1976, Cohen) 6/10
The Mechanic (1972, Winner) 4/10
*The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Schoedsack, Pichel) 7/10
Genesis (2018, Lesage) 7/10
Projections of America (2014, Miller) 7/10
The Wild Horse Stampede (1926, Rogell) 6/10
*Shampoo (1975, Ashby) 9/10
Indiscreet (1958, Donen) 6/10
Birds of Passage (2018, Guerra, Gallego) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 April 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link

Re-watched Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers again last night. Now that's what I call a PG-rated movie!

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 6 April 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link

The 10th Victim (1965, Petri)- didn't like this as much as I was expecting to, to be honest. The production design and costumes are incredible (in particular Mastroianni's bleach job and use of sunglasses to cover incredibly exhausted-looking eyes, and his wife's creepy lack of eyebrows), it incorporates Rome as a setting remarkably well, but it also feels weirdly static and stagey and Petri's recurring themes feel blunted by some retrograde gender politics. Still liked it, and I'll rewatch it at some point (it's becoming obvious that I need to do a Mastroianni-focused deep dive; besides, it's a gorgeous film to look at)

Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear (2017, a certifiable fucking lunatic)- I'd read a Vice article about this but I was totally unprepared to see it as a screening choice at Philly's Psychotronic Film Society. I haven't seen any of them- no, not even The Room; I keep meaning to make it to a midnight show but not really caring enough- but it feels of a piece with the Neil Breen/Wiseau kind of B-movie where it's an ego-stroking star vehicle for one man's very dubious talents. Here it's nominally to show off writer/director/goddamn maniac Greg Burke's son Sage and his surfing skills (approximately 40% of the movie is GoPro footage of Sage surfing) but Sage either cannot or does not care to act- fair- and Greg just eats the scenery, just shoveling handfuls of it into his mouth and flailing and shouting and making a goddamn fool of himself, including a TWELVE

MINUTE

MONOLOGUE conducted in a single take with no cuts or camera movement, with several obviously flubbed lines left in (I listened to as much as I could take of the Projection Booth episode on this thing and Burke revealed that he regularly used cue cards, asking someone to move them around in his and Sage's line of sight to make their performances seem more natural; it works about as well as you'd think). Full of bizarre violations of film language throughout, ranging from the static no-cuts approach to a totally unmotivated flurry of cuts in a totally unnecessary scene featuring a character who has no lines and no import; a badly green-screened background that includes the same loop of footage with the same seagull swooping towards the camera three times; the most egregious continuity error I have *ever* seen in a film...it's a treat if you can see it with an audience, but sitting through it solo would be absolute hell

*A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964)- I haven't watched this in years but it's still shockingly great. It's definitely the first time I've watched it knowing who Gian Maria Volonte is; having a better idea of his persona made the antagonist that much easier to care about, though the other crime family remains weirdly underdeveloped. I hadn't seen this on anything but the ancient, kind of shitty MGM dvd, and this is the first time I've really seriously tried to get into spaghetti westerns, so I didn't know about Monte Hellman's bizarre prologue for network TV, starring Harry Dean Stanton and the back of someone who's about six inches shorter than Clint Eastwood, and saved from oblivion by one very dedicated fan who took out a bank loan to buy a Betamax recorder for $1500 in 1977 for the express purpose of recording Fistful.

Knife in the Water (Polanski, 1962)- Criterion's (assuming that's the version Kanopy uses) subtitles for this are absolute dogshit, fwiw; the general ethos seems to be if lines are short enough or their content can be reasonably guessed at from context, there's no need to bother, which makes tracking conversations understandably difficult. Anyway: ground zero for Skolimowski as well as for Polanski the feature director, some great deep focus cinematography, Krzysztof Komeda rules (and is dearly missed in the next Polanski film on my list), Polanski is fucking scum but at least his films aren't banal pastiche like Woody Allen's

A Quiet Place in the Country (Petri, 1968)- This is brilliant and shockingly underappreciated. I knew virtually nothing going in- just the cast, principal crew (Petri, Morricone and Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller, who also shot Deep Red) and very misleading poster and tagline, which led me to expect some kind of revenge/captivity thriller- but its closest relatives are things like The House With Laughing Windows (Quiet Place's tenuously "giallo" elements are closer to Avati's film, where the trauma isn't so much Freudian as it is that left by fascism), as well as Petri's own Investigation of a Citizen etc (with its unhinged male lead and hallucinatory/delusional elements). Highest possible recommendation, and it doesn't hurt that Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave are one of the most attractive screen couples I've ever seen.

M*A*S*H (Altman, 1970)- I had never seen this! Altman is something of a blind spot for me still; The Long Goodbye and Brewster McCloud are some of my favorite films of all time, and I have a little mini-festival lined up at home based on an article by Samm Deighan for Diabolique lining up his gothic/"women's pictures" influenced films (That Cold Day in the Park, Images and 3 Women) but my first was Gosford Park, which would've been a poor point of entry even if it hadn't been during one of the deepest depressions I've ever experienced. MASH, though: problematic, sure, also super fucking funny and an interesting test of the Truffaut chestnut about war films. And again, just really, really goddamn funny; Sutherland or Gould are usually enough for me to check out a film on their own but they're unstoppable as a comedy duo.

Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)- On my to-watch list for over a decade and finally done; left me surprisingly cold compared to, say, The Tenant (which remains my favorite Polanski film). Remarkably empathetic toward its protagonist coming from a rapist. To be totally honest this was watched more for context for other films (the Altman trio mentioned above, Jose Larraz's Whirlpool and Symptoms) than on its own terms, which is probably a factor in how cold it left me. It's still an achievement and a landmark and etc, just not doing it for me this morning.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Saturday, 6 April 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link

Polanski is fucking scum but at least his films aren't banal pastiche like Woody Allen's

Username officially up for grabs.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 6 April 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link

Remarkably empathetic toward its protagonist coming from a rapist

expecting (or ruling out) this kind of correspondence in art is childish

Annie Hall is not a banal pastiche

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 April 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link

Baby Driver. Loved it.

nathom, Sunday, 7 April 2019 07:53 (five years ago) link

Watched that last night too. It took me a while to get to it because I expected the focus on the soundtrack to be way too cutesy, but it actually wasn't, and as a crime movie and a car chase movie it was better than I expected.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 7 April 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link

Guilty as charged. It's been a rough few viewing weeks trying to reconcile my ability to enjoy work by Klaus Kinski and Polanski; I'll absolutely concede that Annie Hall is a good (or even great) film and I'm taking that unease out on the easiest/most socially acceptable target. I'd still rather watch video of my own upcoming sinus surgery than ever see Shadows and Fog again.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link

The Working Man (Adolfi, 1933)
I'll Be Suing You (Meins, 1934)
Time on My Hands (Fleischer, 1932)
Open All Night (Bern, 1924)
The Delicious Little Devil (Leonard, 1919)
The Blacksmith (Keaton & St. Clair)
*The Black Pirate (Parker, 1926)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 8 April 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link

Limelight (Chaplin, 1952) - 7/10
*Melancholia (Von Trier, 2011) - 8/10
*Le Gai Savoir (Godard, 1969) - 6/10
Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967) - 9/10
*The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971) - 10/10
Saute ma ville (Akerman, 1968) - 9/10
Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks, 1939) - 8/10
The Music Room (Ray, 1958) - 8/10
Trances (Maanouni, 1981) - 7/10
La Pointe Courte (Varda, 1955) - 7/10
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962) - 9/10
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976) - 9/10
*Ici et Ailleurs (Godard, 1976) - 9/10
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936) - 10/10
Red River (Hawks, 1948) - 9/10
High School (Wiseman, 1968) - 10/10
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (Klein, 1967) - 7/10
Tokyo Chorus (Ozu, 1931) - 5/10
Mr. Freedom (Klein, 1968) - 8/10
Kamikaze 1989 (Gremm, 1982) - 7/10
Dial H for Hitchcock (Haimes, 1999) - 9/10
Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Godard, 1988-1998) - 10/10
Ministry of Fear (Lang, 1944) - 8/10
Rio Grande (Ford, 1950) - 7/10
Law and Order (Wiseman, 1969) - 10/10
*Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966) - 10/10

flappy bird, Monday, 8 April 2019 05:48 (five years ago) link

Unperson, completely agree!

nathom, Monday, 8 April 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link

Synecdoche, N.Y. (Kaufman, 2008)
The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018)
The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000)
Manuelle Labor (Losier, Maddin, 2007)
Windows (Greenaway, 1974)
The Raid (Evans, 2011)
Us (Peele, 2019)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Zeman, 1962)
The Highwaymen (Hancock, 2019)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018)
Lick the Star (Coppola, 1998)
*L'opéra-mouffe (Varda, 1958)
24 Frames (Kiarostami, 2017)

ILX Halftime Shows Ranked — Which Was the Best? (WmC), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link

continuing to watch some 70s disaster movies:
The Hindenburg (Wise, 1975) 6/10
The Big Bus (Frawley, 1976) 4/10
The Swarm (Irwin Allen, 1978) extended version, 3/10, entertainingly bad
Meteor (Neame, 1979) 3/10 just a terrible idea

misc:
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011) 7/10
ARQ (Tony Elliott, 2016) 7/10, can't get enough of these time loop stories recently
Cold Pursuit (Moland, 2019) 7/10, much better than I expected
Free Solo (Chin, 2018) 8/10
Meru (Chin 2015) 7/10

adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link

*Get Out (Peele, 2017) 6/10
Bright Future (Kurosawa, 2002) 6/10
Us (Peele, 2019) 4/10
No Man of Her Own (Leisen, 1950) 6/10
Black Panthers (Varda, 1968) 8/10
*Orlando (Potter, 1992) 9/10
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954) 10/10
Inland Sea (Soda, 2018) 7/10
*The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986) 10/10
Light (Tsai, 2018) 6/10
Your Face (Tsai, 2018) 8/10
The Skywalk Is Gone (Tsai, 2002) 7/10
No No Sleep (Tsai, 2015) 8/10
Autumn Days (Tsai, 2016) 5/10
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai, 2003) 9/10
Afternoon (Tsai, 2015) 7/10
Detour (Ulmer, 1945) 8/10
The Deserted (Tsai, 2017) 7/10

devvvine, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 10:43 (five years ago) link

Bel Ami
2012 version of a 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant which I picked up and started reading a couple of weeks ago. Have been enjoying the book, film diverges quite a bit at points I've read. Was wondering if i would want to be continuing to read the book after having seen the film, assume it is quite different though.
Film looks good anyway.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:14 (five years ago) link

Light (Tsai, 2018) 6/10
Autumn Days (Tsai, 2016) 5/10
Afternoon (Tsai, 2015) 7/10
The Deserted (Tsai, 2017) 7/10

― devvvine, 9. april 2019 12:43 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I need a lot more info on these. Pleasepleaseplease... Saw You Face a couple of weeks ago, found it quite good but I can't stop wishing Tsai would make something as big as Stray Dogs again. Film of the decade, quite often.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link

will caveat this and say i've not seen any other tsai, so can't really speak to proper narrative features beyond dragon inn

Light (Tsai, 2018) 6/10 - the compostition of this is beautiful and tsai's reverence for the hall shines through, but think it works best as context / a companion to 'your face'.

Autumn Days (Tsai, 2016) 5/10 - i liked this but it didn't leave much of an impact, mostly a black screen with a recording of a casual conversation in a cafe with nogami teruyo - about translation/adaptation/what she likes about tsai's work, broken up some with a couple pieces of footage; the first: portraiture, a la your face, the second: alongside lee kang-sheng.

Afternoon (Tsai, 2015) 7/10 - this is really good, sweet and fascinating dive into tsai and lee's relationship. little disconcerting how close to death he thinks he is (he was around most of the weekend and seemed like the most content, healthy man alive)

The Deserted (Tsai, 2017) 7/10 - not sure this has as much depth as some of the stuff i saw at the weekend but this still kinda blew me away; the novelty of vr probably a factor. he does make use of the 360 degrees in a couple of breathtaking ways while retaining a sort of central framing for the most part. there's a central scene as a typhoon comes in, as other stuff happens in the room in front of you. that is astonishing.

wrote a little about the weekend/masterclass on the tsai thread

Recommend some Tsai Ming-Liang

devvvine, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link

Oh, right, The Deserted is the VR thing? He is making so much stuff, it seems. Is the hall in Light the same one as in Your Face?

Frederik B, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link

deserted is very much vr and yes, same hall! about the same age as the elderly interviewees in 'your face', used to be common for people to go watch films there and also tsai ran a cafe there

devvvine, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link

I can't stop wishing Tsai would make something as big as Stray Dogs again

this seems unlikely in the near future, given how enthused he is about making works primarily for galleries atm. but said nothing that would explicitly rule a large project out; talked a great deal about the stray dogs exhibition he put on in taipei.

devvvine, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link

Starting to come around to the idea that Straw Dogs is his greatest work.

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link

lol, Stray Dogs...

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link

(Before I forget: re shit subtitles for Knife In The Water busted upthread, I saw it with good subs in a 70s theater; maybe that edition is still around somewhere)(no clue how true those 70s subtitles were to the spoken, but the whole thing was effective.)
Red Dust (Fleming, 1932): Harlow is a harlot on the lam but she ain't no sheep; Gable is useful to in several ways, while operating a rubber plantation way up the river from "Say-gon," as all the white people call it, with Gable and his fellow Men agreeing that you gotta watch the "coolies." Then Gene Raymond, an old friend of Gabe's, a little eager beaver who's talked his way into a job on Gabe's old home place and can't shut up, shows up with his blushing bride, omg Mary Astor, a classical poster child (Harlow calls her "the Duchess"), horny and picky and understandably flustered by this place and the whole situation---Hubby promptly catches jungle fever and there's no doctor and he won't stay the fuck in bed, he's gotta go work and prove himself.
All of these people have been programmed to prove themselves, and are becoming aware of it---except Jean Ho apparently found it a given long ago; in any case, she's practical about living each moment as enjoyably as possible, incl. call other people on BS when it gets too tiresome (although delivering sermons would be at least as tiresome).
Implications of the ending are satisfying enough to spin your own sequel.
6/10, docked a couple of points for pro forma racism, speaking of whoring.
Jean Harlow's husband, MGM executive Paul Bern, committed suicide midway through filming (some biographies suggest he was murdered and the studio covered it up) and MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, fearing a scandal, appealed to Tallulah Bankhead to step into Harlow's role. She refused out of respect for Harlow and the blonde bombshell was soon back on the set, though considerably subdued. During her first day back at work, Fleming reportedly said to Mary Astor, "how are we going to get a sexy performance with that look in her eyes?" But Harlow proved herself the ultimate trooper...
Co-star Gene Raymond agreed it was a difficult picture to shoot and said, "...the whole thing was done at MGM. Stage 6 was now a jungle with a hut in it, and it stank to high heaven. The rain would seep in and all of a sudden you had mud. Then they put the hot lights on and it steamed up. So it was not a pleasant picture; it was hard for everybody, especially the crew." Regardless of the hardships, Red Dust was a hit and would later inspire a remake - Mogambo (1954) - directed by John Ford and with Gable repeating his original role opposite Ava Gardner (in the Harlow part) and Grace Kelly (in the Astor role).

A final bit of trivia: Jean Harlow would later marry Harold "Hal" Rosson, the cinematographer on Red Dust. Thanks, TCM!

dow, Friday, 12 April 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link

her monologue on cheese makes it at least 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 April 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link

don't know which subtitles I saw it with, but I loved Knife in the Water

Dan S, Friday, 12 April 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link

xpost She's great---also from TCM: When Time Magazine covered the film, the reviewer wrote: "The best lines go to Harlow. She bathes hilariously in a rain barrel and reads Gable a bedtime story about a chipmunk and a rabbit. ("Say I wonder how this comes out?" her character wisecracks). Her effortless vulgarity, humor, and slovenliness make a noteworthy characterization, as good in the genre as the late Jeanne Eagels' Sadie Thompson." Gable: "People have to drink that!"

dow, Friday, 12 April 2019 01:59 (five years ago) link

he's her straight man, and perfectly so (he's Astor's too, in a weirder, Astory-as-hell way).

dow, Friday, 12 April 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link

I don't normally like or endorse movies about children, but COP CAR is a fun way to spend 85 minutes.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link

The Birthday Party (Friedkin, 1968)- baby's first Pinter; I've been wanting to dive in for like...Jesus, 20 years at this point, but never got around to picking up any of the readily available complete works, or tracking down any of the Losey movies, or etc. That's going to change; I've started tracking down anything else I can because this just ruined me for a day.

Lost in La Mancha (Fulton & Pepe, 2002)- another one from the "too depressed to watch for 10+ years" pile. Makes the business of 1st AD gripping and terrifying and for all its flaws (see below) at least makes me glad Adam Driver stepped in to fill the Johnny Depp part

*Towers Open Fire / The Cut Ups (Balch, 1963, 1966)- I'd seen these years ago at the Whitney's Brion Gysin exhibit; the former is a loose sort of Burroughs sci-fi routine in film form, and the latter a demonstration of the titular technique with Gysin, dreamachines, Ian Somerville, etc.

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Gilliam, 2018)- wanted to love it, I think I at least liked it; it's the best film he's made since Fear & Loathing, which is not a particularly impressive claim. Still has no idea what to do with women; kind of tiresomely self-aware re: Gilliam's own enfant terrible schtick without necessarily any real reflection on the subject; but at least it's often successfully funny

Secrets of Sex/Bizarre (Balch, 1970)- absolutely bugshit anthology film of shaggy dog stories loosely tied together by sex; weirdly prim, very British, shades of early Scientology in places, a Burroughsian twist in the last story, and one segment that will stick with me long after I've forgotten the rest of it (with the unforgettable line "Oh! My contact lens has dropped amongst your charms")

*The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)- perfect film will not be taking arguments at this time

Horror Hospital (Balch, 1973)- Michael Gough; weirdly anticipates the Rocky Horror Picture Show but drawing more on Hammer/Amicus productions of the very recent past for camp value instead of classic Hollywood. Fun, stupid.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Sunday, 14 April 2019 05:41 (five years ago) link

The Octopus (Painlevé, 1927)
Hyas and Stenorhynchus (Painlevé, 1927)
Wise Girls (Hopper, 1929)
*Bright Eyes (Del Ruth & St. Clair, 1921)
*Thundering Fleas (McGowan, 1926)
The Best Man (Edwards, 1928)
Stickleback Eggs (Painlevé, 1925)
The Clairvoyant (Elvey, 1935)
Feel My Pulse (La Cava, 1928)
Bare Knees (Kenton, 1928)
The Texan (Cromwell, 1930)
The Border Legion (Brower & Knopf, 1930)
Us (Peele, 2019)
Shazam! (Sandberg, 2019)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 14 April 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link

*The Beaches of Agnès (2008, Varda) 9/10
Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements (1931, Rodakiewicz) 6/10
Road to Life (1931, Ekk) 7/10
Panelstory or Birth of a Community (1981, Chytilova) 7/10
The Ghost Ship (1943, Robson) 7/10
*The Leopard Man (1943, Tourneur) 8/10
Juha (1999, Kaurismaki) 8/10
Something Different (1963, Chytilova) 8/10
*Nenette and Boni (1996, 7/10)
No Fear, No Die (1990, Denis) 9/10
Drifting Clouds (1996, Kaurismaki) 8/10
Tea and Sympathy (1956, Minnelli) 7/10
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994, Kaurismaki) 7/10
Claire Denis, The Vagabond (1996, Lifshitz) 8/10
U.S. Go Home (1994, Denis) 9/10
*Manila in the Claws of Light (1975, Brocka) 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 April 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link

Spotlight (7.0)
Leaving Neverland (7.5)
The Grey Fox (8.0)
The Mean Season (5.5)
Greta (5.0)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (7.0)
Catwalk (7.5)
The X Files (6.5)
On the Waterfront (10.0)
The Hummingbird Project (6.5)

clemenza, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link

Them Thar Hills (Rogers, 1934)
On Demande une Brute (Barrois, 1934)
The Masquerader (Chaplin, 1914)
Two-Gun Gussie (Goulding, 1918)
Along the Coast (Varda, 1958)
The Woman Disputed (King & Taylor, 1928)
The Garden of Eden (Milestone, 1928)
Ramona (Carewe, 1928)
Felix Wins Out (Messmer, 1923)
The Passing of the Third Floor Back (Viertel, 1935)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 21 April 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link

i lasted fifteen minutes of Her Smell, jesus fuck that's a dumb film
theater hopped to Red Joan and managed ten minutes of sexy communists then gave up
re-watched Hail Satan? and can confirm it's an A+ documentary.

Also jumped into the Criterion film class and watched Foreign Correspondent and Lydia; both superb.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 April 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link

Hook - **
Treasure Island (1934) - ****
Midnight Cowboy - ***
Star 80 - ****

o. nate, Monday, 22 April 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link

The Big Heat (Lang, 1953)
N.U. (short - Antonioni, 1948)
The Short & Curlies (short - Leigh, 1987)
*Mishimi: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader, 1985)
Yearbook (short - Britto, 2014)
Bugsy Malone (Parker, 1976)
Destroyer (Kusama, 2018)
The Silence (short - Asgari, Samadi, 2016)
Smithereens (Seidelman, 1982)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, 2015)
So Dark the Night (Lewis, 1946)
Pearls of the Deep (Menzel, Chytilová, Jireś, Němec, Schorm, 1966)

The Mod Who Banned Liberty Valance (WmC), Monday, 22 April 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link

MUBI:

LA Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2004)
Alps (Lanthimos, 2011)
Microhabitat (Jeon Go-woon, 2018)

LA Plays Itself is kinda amazing - an essay film that sees into all that afflicts us - battles over urban space and transportation, de-industrialisation, climate crisis, Black Lives Matter (his discussion of Gerima's Bush Mama) with an added dose of the crankiness of a local, LA native. This is what Mark Cousins' Story of Film lacked: thee it was just film, the world in it was often missing. Microhabitat was a great little millenial film, a bunch of friends drifting apart from one another and what became of them. Was only half-watching the Lanthimos, just not much to grab me...

xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 April 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link

Recovering from surgery and not watching nearly as many movies as I had intended:

True Stories (Byrne, 1986)- loved it. I think it falls just barely on the side of genuine affection for its subject matter; not that cynicism about middle America is bad or something, just that it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. Especially loved the cast recordings of stuff like "Radio Head," "People Like Us" and "Papa Legba"- they're so perfectly suited to the performers I can't imagine being upset that they're not Talking Heads tracks.

Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958/1976)- to my eternal shame I still hadn't seen this. After some thought I decided to go with the '76 rediscovered "preview" cut on my first watch; after seeing it, I think I understand why some purists have problems with the Murch cut. I'm looking forward to diving into the different versions for a closer comparison soon, and because I make poor life decisions, sprang for a copy of the Masters of Cinema R2 disc, which is mostly identical to the US blu-ray (which I now need to sell...) with the exception of actually including the original 1.33:1 aspect ratio. (If anyone else has a multi-region player and is curious it's quite cheap on Amazon; I got mine for about $12).

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki, 1979)- Monkey Punch died this past week, and I was reminded that despite loving both Miyazaki and every other incarnation of Lupin I've seen I never got around to watching this. It's a sweet little caper movie that suffers a little from competing impulses (there are some surprisingly grisly deaths for a Miyazaki film, and conversely this is the cuddliest Lupin I've ever seen) but has some A+ slapstick and Miyazaki's trademark European settings, flying machines, etc.

*Duffy (Parrish, 1968)- Hardly a great film but some of Donald Cammell's nastiness survives; it looks great, Jameses Coburn, Fox and Mason are all in fine hammy form (Mason is obviously phoning it in but even then he's still fucking James Mason). Some great sets and wonderfully overbaked dialogue ("So long, you groovy old hooker"). Definitely not the worst thing Robert Parrish directed in the late 60s, at least

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 22 April 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link

Mystery Street (Sturges, 1950) 7/10
1985 (Tan, 2018) 8/10
The Narrow Margin (Fleischer, 1952) 7/10
Let the Sunshine In (Denis, 2017) 5/10
Simon (Brickman, 1980) 6/10
Singin' in the Rain (Donen and Kelly, 1952) 9/10
Night Train to Munich (Reed, 1940) 8/10
Kubo and the Two Strings (Knight, 2016) 7/10
*Seems Like Old Times (Sandwich, 1980) 7/10
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Heller, 2018) 7/10

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link

i saw Seems Like Old Times in '80, didnt realize it was helmed by a sandwich. rye?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link

oh, legendary MTM/sitcom director Jay Sandrich, forgot that truly

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link

old Cosby Show hand too

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link

xp

Nah, its actually pretty broad.

But seriously--Sandrich. I hate autocorrect.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link

Especially loved the cast recordings of stuff like "Radio Head," "People Like Us" and "Papa Legba"- they're so perfectly suited to the performers I can't imagine being upset that they're not Talking Heads tracks.

they're in fact way better than the actual talking heads recordings!

american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link

oh, legendary MTM/sitcom director Jay Sandrich, forgot that truly

Didn't know that! Seems Like Old Times was apparently his only theatrical feature, which is kind of a shame--its one of the few post-Golden Age attempts at screwball that gets the genre mostly right.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link

High Life (Denis, 2019) 7/10
Sunset (Nemes, 2019) 5/10
Ash is Purest White (Jia, 2019) 6/10
The Package (Davis, 1989) 4/10
* Shampoo (Ashby, 1975) 7/10
* Laura (Preminger, 1944) 9/10

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link

Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984) - 3/10
The Model Couple (Klein, 1977) - 7/10
Permanent Vacation (Jarmusch, 1980) - 9/10
No Home Movie (Akerman, 2015) - 10/10
Goodbye to Language (Godard, 2014) - 6/10
Hospital (Wiseman, 1970) - 9/10
*Persona (Bergman, 1966) - 10/10
Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) - 6/10
Primate (Wiseman, 1974) - 6/10
Sanjuro (Kurosawa, 1962) - 8/10
The Cranes Are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957) - 9/10
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947) - 7/10
British Sounds / See You at Mao (Godard & Roger, 1970) - 8/10
Le Samouraï (Melville, 1967) - 9/10
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938) - 9/10
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger, 1946) - 10/10
Lotte in Italia (Godard & Roger, 1971) - 4/10
Le Beau Serge (Chabrol, 1958) - 9/10
Crooklyn (Lee, 1994) - 9/10
Morocco (Von Sternberg, 1930) - 10/10

flappy bird, Thursday, 25 April 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link

Crooklyn is an 8/10... the first hour is fantastic, a mosaic, but once Troy goes south it gets derailed and like so many Spike Lee movies ends up so frustratingly uneven and lopsided. the anamorphic distortion is a great idea - genuinely disorienting - but improperly applied & for too long. his best moments are always the pure cinema/magical realist bits at the end, and most of Crooklyn is just these bits strung together. hypnotic but he breaks the spell in the south. still often great despite itself and so much more fluid than any other movie of his I've seen.

flappy bird, Thursday, 25 April 2019 06:08 (five years ago) link

Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984) - 3/10

why?

. (Michael B), Thursday, 25 April 2019 10:02 (five years ago) link

Recollections of the Yellow House (Monteiro)
The Pelvis of J.W. (Monteiro)
Come and Go (Monteiro)
Dans Paris (Honoré)
Love Songs (Honoré)
Sorry Angel (Honoré)
The Price of Fame (Beauvois)
Slack Bay (Dumont)
Far From Men (Oelhoffen)
Things To Come (Hansen-Løve)
Monsieur Hire (Leconte)
Intimate Strangers (Leconte)
Three Seats for the 26th (Demy)
Uranus (Berri)
Bungalow (Köhler)
In My Room (Köhler)*
Transit (Petzold)*
Wakolda (Puenzo)
The Clan (Trapero)*
El Angel (Ortega)
The Rose Seller (Gaviria)
Sumas y Restas (Gaviria)
The Hidden One (Gavaldón)
Raíces (Alazraki)
La Cucaracha (Rodriguez)
Roma (Cuarón)
Dumbo (Sharpsteen)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Watts)
High Flying Bird (Soderbergh)
A Land Imagined (Hua)
The Asthenic Syndrome (Muratova)
The Return (Choi)*
Madalena (Dimopoulos)

Frederik B, Thursday, 25 April 2019 10:06 (five years ago) link

Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984) - 3/10

why?

― . (Michael B)

two of the most uncool and annoying guys on earth hang out with a relatively boring woman. Permanent Vacation is better in every way: a compelling lead, better music, 'doing nothing' and making it interesting.

flappy bird, Thursday, 25 April 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link

that is a helluva challop you got there

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 25 April 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link

i aint even trying!

flappy bird, Thursday, 25 April 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link

i did find it a snooze personally although i like the cast.

i don't think i like jarmusch v much in general tho

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 25 April 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link

Young Mr. Jazz (Roach, 1919)
Dirty Work (French, 1933)
Another Wild Idea (Chase & Dunn, 1934)
Fresh Paint (Chase & Goulding, 1920)
Caught Plastered (Seiter, 1931)
Scram! (McCarey & French, 1932)
Should Married Men Go Home? (McCarey & Parrott, 1928)
Fatty's Reckless Flight (Arbuckle, 1915)
He Did and He Didn't (Arbuckle, 1916)
Avengers: Endgame (The Russo Brothers, 2019)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link

march + april in theaters

Greta (Jordan, 2018) - 3/10
The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10 -------- I saw this three times and would've gone again and again if it hadn't left after two weeks
Triple Frontier (Chandor, 2019) - 5/10
*Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957) - 9/10
Five Feet Apart (Baldoni, 2019) - 0/10
The Wedding Guest (Winterbottom, 2019) - 2/10
Us (Peele, 2019) - 6/10
Detour (Ulmer, 1945) - 6/10
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) - 9/10
The Aftermath (Kent, 2019) - 2/10
*Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984) - 4/10
High Life (Denis, 2018) - 7/10
*Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939) - 10/10
Her Smell (Perry, 2018) - 2/10
Ash is Purest White (Jia, 2018) - 5/10
*The Magician (Bergman, 1958) - 9/10
Family (Steinel, 2018) - 9/10
Gilda (Vidor, 1952) - 7/10

flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link

*Daisies (1966, Chytilová) 8/10
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018, Bi) 5/10
A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966, Nemec) 8/10
*Vagabond (1985, Varda) 9/10
*Lovers and Other Strangers (1970, Howard) 6/10
Blood Is Dry (1960, Yoshida) 7/10
Amazing Grace (1972/2018, Pollack, Elliott) 8/10
Isadora (1968, Reisz) 6/10
*35 Shots of Rum (2008, Denis) 9/10
*The Late Show (1977, Benton) 7/10
*Friday Night (2002, Denis) 8/10
A Bagful of Fleas (1962, Chytilová) 8/10
Ceiling (1961, Chytilová) 9/10
*Erin Brockovich (2000, Soderbergh) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link

really want to see a Chytilová film

Dan S, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link

Good luck if it's not Daisies! but I have no idea what could be on the web.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:47 (five years ago) link

Criterion Channel has Daisies, Something Different (1963) and Pearls of the Deep (1966 anthology film, she directed one of the segments, "Automat Svět").

WmC, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link

Daisies, Something Different/A Bagful of Fleas, Traps and Fruit of Paradise all available from Second Run DVD:

http://www.secondrundvd.com/index.html

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 08:15 (five years ago) link

The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10 -------- I saw this three times and would've gone again and again if it hadn't left after two weeks

I love this :) Really want to see it again.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 10:42 (five years ago) link

Guillermin - Skyjacked - 1972 - 5/10
JH Lewis - My Name is Julia Ross - 1945 - 6/10
JH Lewis - So Dark the Night - 1946 - 6/10 -- amazingly shot for the time, but that script, oof
Quine - Pushover - 1954 - 8/10
Quine - Drive a Crooked Road - 1954 - 6/10
Hilton Edwards - Return to Glennascaul - 1953 - 3/10
Cohen - God Told Me To - 1976 - 4/10 -- my first cohen and i can't get past the b-movie aspects, e.g. the main character saying his internal narration out loud
Castle - 13 Ghosts - 1960 - 3/10

adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link

April:

The Earth Dies Screaming (Fisher, 1964) 7/10
The Panic in Needle Park (Schatzberg, 1971) 8/10
Lords of Chaos (Åkerlund, 2018) 5/10
Us (Peele, 2019) 8/10
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018) 8/10
Un Chant d'Amour (Genet, 1950) 8/10
The Revenge of Frankenstein (Fisher, 1958) 7/10
The Sisters Brothers (Audiard, 2018) 7/10
The Evil of Frankenstein (Francis, 1964) 6/10
Born Yesterday (Cukor, 1950) 7/10
Decision at Sundown (Boetticher, 1957)
Frankenstein Must be Destroyed (Fisher, 1969) 7/10
Crime and Punishment (Kaurismäki, 1983) 7/10
Trilogy of Terror (Curtis, 1975) 5/10
3:10 to Yuma (Dawes, 1957) 7/10
Greta (Jordan, 2018) 5/10
Pet Sematary (Kölsch and Widymer, 2019) 6/10
A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964) 8/10
Calamari Union (Kaurismäki, 1985) 6/10
The Phantom of the Opera (Fisher, 1962) 6/10
Shazam! (Sandberg, 2019) 4/10
Avengers: Endgame (Russo Bros, 2019) 7/10

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link

The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10 -------- I saw this three times and would've gone again and again if it hadn't left after two weeks

I love this :) Really want to see it again.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, April 30, 2019 6:42 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

After I saw it I got Histoire(s) du Cinema and this shorts collection (including Origins of the 21st Century) and realized how much of The Image Book is made up of material cherrypicked from both. HDC is so, so amazing.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link

Le Bonheur (Varda, 1965) 8/10
Private Life (Jenkins, 2018) 6/10
Juliet, Naked (Peretz, 2018) 7/10
So Dark The Night (Lewis, 1946) 5/10
Isn't It Romantic (Strauss-Schulson, 2019) 7/10
Dark Waters (De Toth, 1944) 8/10
An Evening With Beverley Luff Lin (Hosking, 2018) 3/10
Big Lebowski (Coen Bros, 1998) 9/10
The Wife (Runge, 2017) 6/10
Ralph Breaks the Internet (Johnston & Moor, 2018) 8/10
The Ghost & Mrs Muir (Mankiewicz, 1947) 9/10
Dogman (Garrone, 2018) 6/10
Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell, 2018) 7/10
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Anderson, 2003) 9/10
The Rider (Zhao, 2017) 7/10
Love, Simon (Berlanti, 2017) 7/10
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Audiard, 2005) 8/10
Visages, Villages (Varda & JR, 2018) 8/10

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link

Sinner's Holiday (Adophi, 1930) 7/10
Based on the 1929 production of a play, Penny Arcade: Jolson bought the rights and insisted that kiddos James Cagney and Joan Blondell, though complete unknowns in Hwood, be the leads. She's out of his league, but further inspires what one Cag biographer called "an immaculate vision of overgrown juvenile delinquency", albeit one who correctly perceives the limitations of carnival life in the Depression (his mother, played as immaculate battleaxe by Lucille La Verne, runs the concessions like nobody's business, but is the only one who doesn't know about her favorite kid's shady ways).
Yadda yadda, little popinjay C. suddenly collapses, blubbering into her apron. "Then you really was mixed up in that liquor racket," cpncludes Ma Einstein. "YES! YES!"
Now, there is an uppity ex-convict carnie, Angel, who's often like, "Hey---Handsone." And "Don't sweat it---Good Lookin'," to guys he really shouldn't messin' with--but his likely fate is further complicated by his relationship with Cagney's kid sister: "Aw I'm nerts about ya kid." It's even declared out loud that someday, some way, true love may hit the big time: a house on Coney Island! Way up from this burg.

dow, Friday, 3 May 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link

That SUSPIRIA remake is on Amazon Prime now. It's 2 1/2 hours long; I lasted 45 minutes. There's nothing there.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 4 May 2019 01:08 (five years ago) link

I wish I saw that when it came out, I'm not into the original but this one looked interesting.... like I don't fuck with Blade Runner but 2049 was amazing imo

flappy bird, Saturday, 4 May 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link

don’t know if I can recommend it to anyone, it was very strange (and long), but I really loved it

Dan S, Saturday, 4 May 2019 05:03 (five years ago) link

I loved it as well.

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 4 May 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link

The Lost City of Z (Gray, 2016) 7/10
Diary of a Chambermaid (Bunuel, 1964) 6/10
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982) 6/10
Belle du Jour (Bunuel, 1967) 8/10
Sicilia (Straub, Huillet, 1999) 8/10
The Milky Way (Bunuel, 1969) 7/10
Le Bonheur (Varda, 1965) 7/10
Maborosi (Kore-eda, 1995) 8/10
Vagabond (Varda, 1985) 8/10
Tristana (Bunuel, 1970) 6/10
Diamantino (Abrantes, Schmidt, 2018) 7/10
*Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson, 2011) 8/10
Hue and Cry (Crichton, 1947) 7/10
Like Father, Like Son (Kore-eda, 2013) 6/10

devvvine, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link

Wot a Night (Foster & Stallings, 1931)
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! (Ising, 1931)
A Cat's Life (1920)
Alias French Gertie (Archainbaud, 1930)
Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life (Arbuckle, 1915)
The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (Varda, 1961)
Daphnia (Painlevé, 1928)
High Life (Denis, 2018)
Cœur Fidèle (Epstein, 1923)
Passing Fancy (Ozu, 1933)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 6 May 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link

those are some underwhelmed Bunuel ratings, devvvine

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 May 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link

Nightmare Alley (Goulding, 1947): no rating since I haven't seen the whole thing in years, though the last 30 minutes surfaced last night, and a chunk from the midsection (or anyway where he discovers that the soon-to-be-shady lady shrink records all of her sessions) of this morning's latest rerun. Did finally occur to me that the psych witch goes with NA creator-novelist William Linsday Gresham;s involvement in what may have still been Dianetics---yadda yadda also the tacked-on hopeful ending also made the whole thing more of a noir loop, suggesting affinities-to=come with an earlier relationship. Oh yeah, and the way Stan---the dangerously prodigious prodigal orphan and child of the system and the Depression and then some, way back in there---struggles to deal with all these weird normies, suggests something on the run beyond and behind contemporary pop-media formulations of the psychopath and bad seed etc.

dow, Monday, 6 May 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link

The Lineup (Siegel, 1956)
*Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
Detour (Ulmer, 1945)
*Avengers - Infinity War (Russo Bros., 2018)
Avengers - Endgame (Russo Bros., 2019)
The Virgin Suicides (Coppola, 1999)
My Name Is Julia Ross (Lewis, 1945)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Murder by Contract (Lerner, 1958)
The Burglar (Wendkos, 1957)
Dinner at Eight (Cukor, 1933)
Take a Chance (Harold Lloyd short - Goulding, 1918)

WmC, Monday, 6 May 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link

3 Faces (Panahi, 2018)
Ash is the Purest White (Zhang-Ke, 2019)

xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 May 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link

Loved the panahi

milkshake chuk (wins), Monday, 6 May 2019 11:25 (five years ago) link

damn! I just got 5 minutes into Ash is the Purest White last night and my router that was streaming it to the tv went down and I was too tired to sort it out.

calzino, Monday, 6 May 2019 11:27 (five years ago) link

All the Colors of the Dark (Martino, 1972)- surprisingly, not my favorite of the two Polanski-esque cult-centered gialli I watched recently (neither beat out Perfume of the Lady in Black, my favorite, but I will always at least check out this kind of thing). It's beautiful, has an amazing Bruno Nicolai score, but screenwriter (of this and about 40% of all giallo movies ever) Ernesto Gastaldi with his disinterest in psychology and simultaneous obsession with rational plotting is exactly the wrong match for this kind of material.

Short Night of Glass Dolls (Lado, 1971)- this, though! It's unrelentingly fucking grim and, Rosemary's Baby stuff aside, is more in line with American paranoia thrillers of the 70s than gialli (the Prague setting is a big part of this).

*Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)- it halloween
OK fine; it's instructive to watch this again after seeing Black Christmas for the first time, a comparison that doesn't do Halloween too many favors, especially with Black Christmas's relatively naturalistic teen/young adult dialogue. But it's also easier to see how new and exciting and disturbing Michael Myers' onscreen presence is, especially in scenes early on where he's hiding behind shrubs or lurking in clotheslines; there's a reason he's credited as The Shape. Too bad the franchise completely shit the bed almost immediately!

The Butterfly Murders (Hark, 1979)- Tsui Hark's first film; it's a wuxia murder mystery with some really marvelous horror elements. This is an area I'm almost totally unfamiliar with, so it's a shame to see how little care has been taken in English-speaking territories with this film; the copy on Prime is cropped at the wrong aspect ratio, going green and has awful subtitles. On the plus side, at least it's on Prime...

*Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Petri, 1970)- Part of my Petri thing, which is now also turning into a Gian Maria Volonte thing. I would give a finger for a restored copy of Todo Modo right now. One of my favorite films.

Halloween II (Rosenthal/Carpenter, 1981)- Dogshit. Dean Cundey means it looks all right, Donald Pleasance (already in demented camp mode) and Jamie Lee Curtis (given nothing whatsoever to do) ensure some sense of continuity with the original; it does its best to try and retroactively make the original worse with its pointless twist, characters present for no reason other than to get got in inventive and stupid ways (and made unbearable so we don't have any reaction to their deaths) and Donald Pleasance's total inability to pronounce the word "Samhain"

*Theorem (Pasolini, 1968)- The Morricone score, Terence Stamp's extremely tight pants, Pasolini's total command of tone and pacing, it's grown on me a lot since the last time I saw this. Even kind of liked Ninetto Davoli this time, which is usually a hard sell for me.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Wallace, 1982)- Points for trying, unlike the last one. It's still bad but it's bad in interesting ways; Dan O'Herlihy is fun (and can pronounce "Samhain") and the credits sequence is glorious. Kind of interesting how plot elements show up in later Carpenter films (thinking specifically of They Live and In the Mouth of Madness here). The lead, whose name I do not care enough to look up, is a total charisma vacuum and has the heaviest Rowsdower vibe I have ever seen. I can't even make a "divorced dad energy" joke here because that is literally his entire deal. He's just the worst, though.

For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965)- First time for this one. Not as elegantly plotted as Fistful, but it didn't have Hammett and/or Kurosawa as a template. More/better Volonte, ludicrous grand guignol violence, and the most hilariously stacked lineup of villains (Klaus Kinski! Luigi Pistilli! Mario Brega, again!), but what mostly stuck with me was this jaw-dropping Morricone cue. It's still based on the same kind of fusion of folk melodies/instrumentation and electric distortion as Fistful (and most of his other Western scores) but with scoring techniques I would have associated more with horror movies of the time (not just that blaring church organ, either; there are some creepy glissandi I would have never expected from Morricone).

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 6 May 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link

Just realized that makes me sound lukewarm on Theorem, which I absolutely am not, I think it's a masterpiece

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 6 May 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link

April, all but one on a television

Please, Kill Mr. Kinski (Schmoeller 1999) [short, tipped off from this thread]
Cellular (Ellis, Cohen, Morgan 2004)
Logan's Run (Anderson, Goodman after Nolan and Johnson 1976 ) [DCP]
* Heathers (Lehmann, Waters 1989)
The Ten Commandments (DeMille, MacKenzie, Lasky Jr, Gariss, Frank 1956)
Sadie (Megan Griffiths 2018)
* Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh, Rebecca Blunt 2017)
Gilbert (Berkeley 2018)
Like Me (Mockler 2018)

blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link

*Circle of Deceit (1981, Schlondorff) 9/10
*Spite Marriage (1929, Sedgwick/Keaton) 8/10
Full of Life (1956, Quine) 8/10
The Mule (2018, Eastwood) 7/10
Fear City (1984, Ferrara) 4/10
*Macario (1960, Gavaldón) 8/10
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, Jenkins) 6/10
*Pasolini (2014, Ferrara) 8/10
Cœur fidèle aka The Unfaithful Heart (1923, Epstein) 8/10
*The Addiction (1995, Ferrara) 7/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link

Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) - 6/10
She Hate Me (Lee, 2004) - 6/10
Dressed to Kill (De Palma, 1980) - 9/10
Germany: Year Zero (Rossellini, 1948) - 6/10
Innocence Unprotected (Makavejev, 1968) - 5/10
Almayer’s Folly (Akerman, 2011) - 4/10
Capricious Summer (Menzel, 1968) - 7/10
Dishonored (Sternberg, 1931) - 10/10
A Film Like Any Other (Godard, 1968) - 5/10
Vladimir and Rosa (Godard & Gorin, 1971) - 5/10
Sweetie (Campion, 1989) - 4/10
In Which We Serve (Lean, 1942) - 7/10
The Mothman Prophecies (Pellington, 2002) - 6/10
Shanghai Express (Sternberg, 1932) - 10/10
Se7en (Fincher, 1995) - 7/10
Magnolia (Anderson, 1999) - 3/10
Underworld (Sternberg, 1927) - 8/10
Le Bonheur (Varda, 1965) - 10/10
Blonde Venus (Sternberg, 1932) - 9/10
The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946) - 9/10
The Scarlet Empress (Sternberg, 1934) - 8/10
The Overnight (Brice, 2015) - 8/10
The Devil is a Woman (Sternberg, 1935) - 8/10
The Player (Altman, 1992) - 10/10
The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937) - 10/10
The Joke (Jireš, 1969) - 7/10
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940) - 6/10
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986) - 7/10
The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952) - 8/10

flappy bird, Thursday, 16 May 2019 04:43 (five years ago) link

The 51st State (2003) 4/10
The Love Witch (2016) 6/10
*Hot Fuzz (2007) 6/10
A Film With Me In It (2008) 6/10
*The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) 8/10
Avengers: Endgame (2019) 5/10
*Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 9/10
John Wick (2014) 7/10
Shampoo (1975) 7/10
Loveless (2017) 8/10

Documentaries

Prohibition (2011) 7/10
Rush : Beyond The Lighted Stage (2010) 6/10
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013) 7/10

. (Michael B), Thursday, 16 May 2019 08:23 (five years ago) link

TV:

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)

MUBI:

The Patriot Game (Arthur Maccaig, 1979)

Cinema:

Diamantno (Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, 2018)

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link

Loved the panahi

― milkshake chuk (wins), Monday, 6 May 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agree, at first I thought that it went off the boil once the quest finds its resolution but actually a wonderful thing about it is how it feels like the camera hangs out with these people they went to visit, and how we listened to them and looked at them for no particular reason or benefit other than to be with them.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link

Ah fuck I missed the patriot game. I watched the image you missed at the film fest last year, did you catch that one?

milkshake chuk (wins), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:25 (five years ago) link

Sadly I wasn't able to catch it at the cinema or MUBI. The Maccraig was really good, lots of footage that speaks for itself - and I loved the soundtrack as well.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link

The clips in the later film looked good

I need to sit myself in front of mubi more often, cinema has been a bit shit for me this year and all this good stuff just slowly drops off their now showing page unseen because it’s too easy for me just to illegally watch old twilight zone eps on cyb3rfl1x on my bezos stick

milkshake chuk (wins), Saturday, 18 May 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link

Lot in Sodom (Watson & Webber, 1933)
The Frozen North (Cline & Keaton, 1922)
A Modern Cinderella (Mack, 1932)
Gai Dimanche (Berr et Tati, 1935)
*Burning (Lee, 2018)
Sensation Hunters (Vidor, 1933)
Red-Haired Alibi (Cabanne, 1932)
The Image Book (Godard, 2018)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 19 May 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link

Aniara, the sci-fi existential crisis film, is worth missing.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 20 May 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link

Speaking of Mubi, I don't know if it's there in every country, but if people can see Madeline's Madeline, they really need to do so. One of my top three films from last year.

And yeah, Aniara isn't that good. The book is cool, though

Frederik B, Monday, 20 May 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link

Glad I skipped out on that for an open bar Fifth Element screening, then (yeah, ok, lateral move, but I love that dumbass movie and the venue)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 20 May 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link

The Last of Sheila (Ross, 1973)- a nasty, black-hearted treat. Highest recommendation

*John Wick (Stahelski & Leitch, 2014)- Liked this much more on second viewing (and I was already positively disposed); the soundtrack has not grown on me with the sole exception of the Kaleida song used to soundtrack the Red Circle setpiece, and I'm really hoping the subsequent films are a little less buttrock

*The Fifth Element (Besson, 1997)- JEAN-BAPTISTE

EMANUEL

ZORG

5/5 I will be taking no questions at this time

*The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Fuest, 1971)- the announcement of a Witchfinder General remake produced by Nicolas Winding Refn (please no) had me thinking about Vincent Price and camp this week; Phibes is almost deliriously camp (or kitsch, ok) film, especially its use of period music and Price's incredible throat acting skills, all that stone-faced jaw-gurning and gesticulating while his prerecorded voice drones on about NINE ETERNITIES IN DOOM, but it's also the first time I really paid attention to Basil Kirchin's score. I'm mostly familiar with his home electronic recordings thanks to Trunk's reissues; here he's doing fairly conventional film scoring but it's lush and sad and weirdly affecting.

*Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Martino, 1972)- maybe Martino's nastiest giallo? Though I haven't seen his poliziotteschi hybrid The Suspicious Death of a Minor yet. Also the first one I saw, and it's been interesting to return to it knowing it's basically cast with a Martino brothers repertory company (that, and seeing Luigi Pistilli in other roles since, like his breakthrough in For a Few Dollars More). Thick gothic atmosphere you don't really get from other Martinos, even All the Colors of the Dark, aided by atmospheric locations (the same villa as Elio Petri's A Quiet Place in the Country, if I recall correctly) and Bruno Nicolai's Dies Irae-referencing score. Which is a bit Goblin in places as well; it's Martino's most Argentoesque work, and a better film than Argento's own adaptation of "The Black Cat."

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 20 May 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link

The Last of Sheila = murder mystery penned by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins (secretly an item around that time)

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link

Yeah, I wasn't sure how familiar people would be with it (I have a sense of it as a cult movie but I don't really know anyone offline who cares so I'm often worried I'm overexplaining common knowledge). It's really bracingly amoral for a murder mystery, too- I texted my parents (big Agatha Christie fans) about halfway through to say "you might like this" and some 45 minutes later to say "WAIT NO DISREGARD"

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link

apparently it grew out of a parlor game AP & SS participated in with their friends

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wiene, 1920) 8/10
Bitter Victory (Ray, 1957) 9/10
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972) 7/10
High Life (Denis, 2018) 9/10
*In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950) 10/10
*The Aviator's Wife (Rohmer, 1981) 9/10
The Student of Prague (Galeen, 1926) 7/10
Passport to Pimlico (Cornelius, 1949) 6/10
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Stahelski, 2017) 4/10
That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel, 1977) 7/10

devvvine, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link

Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma, 1974) - 8/10
No Sad Songs for Me (Maté, 1950) - 5/10
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (Fassbinder, 1972-73) - 10/10
Le Vent d’Est (Godard, Gorin, Martin; 1970) - 5/10
Poto and Cabengo (Gorin, 1980) - 9/10
Basic Training (Wiseman, 1971) - 9/10
Routine Pleasures (Gorin, 1986) - 8/10
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Altman, 1982) - 6/10
My Crasy Life (Gorin, 1992) - 9/10
*The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10

flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link

Bisbee '17 is a singular work of brilliance; highly highly recommended.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 May 2019 12:10 (five years ago) link

Conversely, I kinda thought it was mostly a pale copy of The Act of Killing and that kind of documentary

Frederik B, Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link

Act of Killing didn't resonate the same way with me. Go figure.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link

Shrugs all around then.

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link

The Act of Killing is great on its own but is significantly bolstered by the existence of The Look of Silence

Simon H., Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link

Definitely. And there's no such thing for Bisbee' 17, or most of the other documentaries based on people doing reconstructions.

Frederik B, Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link

Would be curious to hear of more “that kind of documentaries” ie films in which participants in/adjacent to an event recreate the moment

i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 May 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link

I'll get back to you on that, forksclovetofu, I have the book on 'Interventionist' documentary at home. Small book, written by a Danish guy, has the whole list.

Frederik B, Friday, 24 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link

Meanwhile:

Fog of War (Morris)
The Unknown Known (Morris)
Man on Wire (Marsh)
Hoop Dreams (James)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (Gelb)
Knock Down the House (Lears)
Padre Padrone (Taviani & Taviani)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani & Taviani)
Kaos (Taviani & Taviani)
Caesar Must Die (Taviani & Taviani)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Olmi)
Carmen (Rosi)
The Night Porter (Cavani)*
Suspiria (Argento)
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher)
Prototype (Williams)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)*
Spring Fever (Lou Ye)
The Assassin (Hou)*
Kasaba (Ceylan)
Clouds of May (Ceylan)
Winter Sleep (Ceylan)*
The Wild Pear Tree (Ceylan)
The One and Only (Bier)
Love Is All You Need (Bier)
Crimson Peak (del Toro)
Babel (Iñárritu)*
Biutiful (Iñárritu)*
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Lee Jones)*
You and the Night (Gonzales)
Knife + Heart (Gonzales)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Sunset (Nemes)
The Mill of Good Luck (Iliu)
Burning (Lee)*
Pokémon Detective Picachu (Letterman)

Frederik B, Friday, 24 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link

Hua Yang De Nian Hua (short - Wong, 2000)
The Burden (short - von Bahr, 2017)
The Fourth Dimension (short - Painlevé, 1936)
Human Desire (Lang, 1954)
Nightfall (Tourneur, 1957)
Come On Children (King, 1972)
An Act of Love (short - Knox, 2018)
Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald (short - Varda, 1961)
I Knew Her Well (Pietrangeli, 1965)
The Fallen Idol (Reed, 1948)
Dying at Grace (King, 2003)
Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits (Badgley, 2018) - h/t VegemiteGrrl, found out from her this was on Amazon Prime

WmC, Sunday, 26 May 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

The American Friend (Wenders, 1977) - one of those European homages to noir and gangster movies that forgets to actually be a gangster movie. It looks beautiful, though, and Sam Fuller treats it like he's in one of his own movies for two scenes.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 26 May 2019 01:17 (five years ago) link

The Stuff (1985) 2/5
John Wick 3 - 3.5/5
* The Addiction (1995) 4/5
Carlito's Way (1993) 4/5
* Murder by Contract (1958) 3.5/5
Knock Down the House (2019) 3/5
My Name is Julia Ross (1945) 3.5/5
* King of New York (1990) 4/5
* California Split (1974) 4/5
* Ikarie XB-1 (1963) 3.5/5
The Seven-Ups (1973) 3/5
Jubal (1956) 2.5/5
Free Solo (2018) 3/5
Homecoming: a Film by Beyonce (2019) 4/5
* Life is Sweet (1990) 4/5
High Life (2018) 3.5/5
24 Frames (2017) 3.5/5
Guava Island (2019) 2.5/5
Black Panthers (1968) 4/5
* The Lineup (1958) 3.5/5
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) 3/5

Chris L, Sunday, 26 May 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link

Various Bobby Bumps animated shorts (Hurd, 1916-21)
The King (Horne & Rogers, 1930)
*The Red Spectre (de Chomon, 1907)
La Chienne (Renoir, 1931)
The Big Chance (Herman, 1933)
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2019)
The Cameraman's Revenge (Starewicz, 1912)
The Baker's Wife (Pagnol. 1938)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 26 May 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link

criterion channel watches:
Nightfall (Tourneur, 1956) 7/10
The Burglar (Wendkos, 1957) 8/10
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Mendes, 1936) 7/10
Three Cases of Murder (Eady, 1955) 5/10; chop out the second case and it would get a 7/10
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945) 8/10
Mysterious Object at Noon (Weerasethakul, 2000) 7/10, unique and wonderful, but amateurishly filmed

*rewatch of Mr. Death (Morris, 1999) 9/10, rating unchanged, instigated by the I Don't Speak German podcast episode on it. It was interesting to learn that Leuchter is lying in the movie about how he got his execution machine jobs.

adam the (abanana), Monday, 27 May 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017, Dean) 6/10
Fruit of Paradise (1970, Chytilova) 5/10
The Thief of Paris (1967, Malle) 7/10
Calamity Jane (1953, Butler) 7/10
*The Funeral (1996, Ferrara) 9/10
*Going Places (1974, Blier) 6/10
Welcome to New York (2014, Ferrara) (European cut) 6/10
*The Wrong Box (1966, Forbes) 7/10
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002, Varda) 6/10
*The Gleaners & I (2000, Varda) 8/10
*The Blackout (1997, Ferrara) 7/10
Poetic Justice (1993, Singleton) 6/10
*Ladybird Ladybird (1994, Loach) 9/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 May 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link

American Gigolo finally clicked on my third viewing (1994 and 2005 were my first two). I can imagine John Travolta bringing pathos to the role, and it might've worked, but Gere's lacquered shallowness is just right -- boy, does he know how to move in those clothes and thus in character. A scene I'd forgotten about set in a leather bar has less leering from the director than Cruising.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 May 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link

Schrader never leers, Friedkin can't stop himself.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 27 May 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link

Schrader used to tourist in such places, he's said

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 May 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link

*Little Shop of Horrors- sadly not the restored original ending, which I still haven't seen. I'm absolutely not an expert on movie musicals (I want to get there), but I'd love to know how much the claustrophobic stageyness of the exteriors was a conscious choice ("Somewhere That's Green," etc) vs the product of shooting at Pinewood for control over the visuals/budgetary reasons/etc. Always linked with the Burton Batmans in my mind for that reason; that and first seeing them around the same time.

The Death of Stalin- doesn't really have an ending or even a particularly thematically resonant not-an-ending, but up until then it's incredible. The accents are the showy thing (that immediately feels totally natural and obvious after about five minutes) but I'm more impressed by how much Iannucci et al get out of the actual conflicts of the period- the troika, the coup against Beria, etc- instead of relying solely on comic business (which is there, and extremely good; there's an extended bit with people kneeling at Stalin's side not realizing he's lying in a puddle of piss that's one of the funniest lowbrow gags I've ever seen).

The Raid- it's not the perfect action movie its reputation has been built up to in the years since its release but it's a really, really fucking good action movie. Makes me want to track down Merantau and even more so the documentary on pencak silat that kicked off Evans' whole project in the first place; I can't really find evidence of whether it was completed or not (sources say it was work for hire, so he may not be credited) but I've at least found *a* silat documentary on Youtube, so into the queue it goes.

Emanuelle in America- holy christ this movie is bonkers
The first Emanuelle/Emmanuelle film I've seen, directed and shot by Joe d'Amato/Aristide Massaccessi. Episodic softcore shenanigans (d'Amato loves bush)- with, except for the amazing pop art kitsch in Emanuelle (this is one of the knockoff films with Laura Gemser)'s apartment and studio, some of the worst, tackiest, most drab 70s interiors I've ever seen- until it gets to Venice and some hardcore inserts. There's a weird thriller sideline into snuff movies that have been faked with considerably/disturbingly more talent and enthusiasm than any of the non-hardcore sex scenes and a weirdly (not all that weirdly for 70s Italy) racist denouement. Oh, and a lady jacks off a horse, which is less shocking after going on a Borowczyk deep dive earlier this year but still leaves me wondering what the fuck was up with 70s porn audiences. Killer soundtrack though

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link

the claustrophobic stageyness of the exteriors

Shot entirely on the soundstage... The early '80s stage version was of course among the unlikeliest of runaway off-Broadway hits, so Oz wanted to honor the artifice of that stagey look. It was an expensive film, budget around $25 million (when that was real money).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(film)#Filming

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link

Saw booksmart the other day, it’s fine. Didn’t laugh much. Baffled it didn’t make a zillion space dollars obv

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link

xpost Oh definitely! And I didn't finish or even really start that parenthetical aside about "Somewhere That's Green"; I meant as opposed to that sequence (and the theatrical ending), where the flatness of the suburb backdrop functions along with the catalog of sad, shitty consumer products and etc.

I'll read up on it more- I'm low key obsessed with 80s movies that tried to convey the sense of a city entirely or mostly on sound stages (the Super Mario Bros. movie is another key title here)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link

well of course nearly all studio films did that in the '30s and '40s, til location shoots became the thing

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link

Tolkien seemed to be lacking something.
Also seemed heavily cliched in some places
Had initially hoped for more from it.

Live & let Die
Bond in Harlem, New Orleans and Jamaica in the early 70s.
A tad racist, odd that the one new supporting cast member to return is the redneck sheriff. Also wondering why they cut the death of the CIA agent for whatever broadcast that was I watched
A bit cliched
& I prefer Connery to Moore.

Destroyer
quite harrowing and Nicole Kidman has looked healthier. She does in this film too I guess.
Quite good really.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link

From the trailer, Booksmart looked like Superbad with a dollop of Yas Queen feminism

. (Michael B), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link

re Booksmart: i would imagine so but the reviews suggested something more? May watch tonight.

the Dardenne Brothers' "The Kid With the Bike" is simultaneously on Hulu and Mubi and, like everything else I've ever seen by them, is a great opportunity for painful slice of life underacting and intense shifts in perspective and sympathies; totally worth a watch even if you know nothing about the director

i got as far as the annoyed handjob in Destroyer and found it too ludicrous to continue. I get that this is a role a thousand men have sleepwalked through too but those films were also stupid.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link

Trailer is misleading. it's closer to Blockers, Flower, Bridesmaids, Neighbors... I don't think it's similar to Superbad but I understand why they went with that in the marketing. it's very good.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link

See Booksmart in a theater if you can. Shot anamorphic widescreen, looked beautiful, CINEMATIC unlike other similar comedies.

flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link

The Interpreter (6.5)
The Beach Bum (6.0)
The Real Mad Men of Advertising (7.0)
The El Duce Tapes (6.0)
Native Son (6.5)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (8.0)
Hail Satan? (6.0)
Apollo 11 (7.0)
Black Girl (1966--7.5)
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (7.0)

Took me a month to log 10 films.

clemenza, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link

Superbad > Flower > Blockers > Bridesmaids > Neighbors imo

guessing that Booksmart ranks second, but turned up five minutes late for a preview screening and wasn't let in

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link

White feminism: the teen years is a very minor element of booksmart tbh. I did have to check it wasn’t produced by apatow with his weird fetish for women throwing up during sex, ppl saying “vagina” a lot being the height of humour &c

I did get emotional at the end despite not really caring (or laughing much) throughout. The two leads are great, talented young cast in general - you do feel you’re watching 50 theatre kids even though only two of them are playing “theatre kids”

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:25 (five years ago) link

I think it's even aware of the absurd wealth of the kids & their parents, cf. the stoner dude being like "oh yea I got a job coding at Google"

flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link

Oh yeah all the kids are going “lol we’re gonna be the elites when we grow up” that’s the heartwarming message so if that turns you off stay away

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:29 (five years ago) link

Live & let Die
Bond in Harlem, New Orleans and Jamaica in the early 70s.
A tad racist, odd that the one new supporting cast member to return is the redneck sheriff

live and let die is the first appearance of the sheriff (who is played as a white racist caricature who all the other characters laugh at). his second appearance is in the man with the golden gun, where he is allowed to be wildly racist without any disapproving undercurrent. this is why i don't think live and let die is very racist and the man with the golden gun is very very very racist

american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link

The only thing I can say in Live and Let Die's favor re: racism is that it's way, way, way less racist than the source novel.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link

lol yeah fleming's always reliable for that. color me surprised when i learned all the outrageously racist elements of you only live twice were taken straight from the novel

american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link

It was a real shock reading the source novels as a kid and seeing that the patronizing "all in good fun" racism of the movies was usually just straight-up unvarnished hate from Fleming.

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link

Just got round to John wick parabellum. Laughed a lot, utterly at a loss as to how it outperformed booksmart obv

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link

Live And Let Die is idiotic on race from a 2019 perspective but not hateful

by 1973 context it p much reads as celebratory as blaxploitation pics, just with the ham in the other fist

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link

I just saw Booksmart and laughed literally all the way through. The characters are completely hyper-realised, but that just throws you into their headspace more. The closest analogue for me is 21 Jump Street, but this is much more charming.

alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link

From the trailer, Booksmart looked like Superbad with a dollop of Yas Queen feminism

You're not wrong, but by the end of the movie our "woke" Cinderellas have not only gone to the ball, but learned to recognize that their peers are more than just the stereotypes out of the past three or four decades of teen movies. Of course, the whole thing is a blue-state fantasy (and probably a red-state nightmare).

Before the movie I saw a red-band trailer for what appeared to be be Superbad in a middle school (possibly elementary school?), starting with three boys who have found a parent's sex toys (of course, not recognizing them as such). THAT was disturbing.

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Saturday, 1 June 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link

Anemic Cinema (Duchamp, 1926)
A Corner in Wheat (Griffith, 1909)
The Night Club Lady (Cummings, 1932)
Jeffries Jr. (McCarey, 1924)
The Messenger Boy (Ludwig, 1931)
Booksmart (Wilde, 2019)
Mabel at the Wheel (Normand & Sennett, 1914)
Mabel's Busy Day (Normand, 1914)
The Girl in the Arm-Chair (Guy-Blache, 1912)
One Step Behind the Seraphim (Sandu, 2017)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 3 June 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link

good couple of weeks

Machorka-Muff (Straub, Huillet, 1963) 6/10
Thief (Mann, 1981) 7/10
New Rose Hotel (Ferrara, 1998) 8/10
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991) 7/10
The Nun (Rivette, 1966) 8/10
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou, 1983) 8/10
That Day, on the Beach (Yang, 1983) 9/10
*A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991) 10/10
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai, 1992) 7/10

devvvine, Monday, 3 June 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link

A Brighter Summer Day was amazing I thought

Dan S, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link

also really liked Rebels of the Neon God, although on first viewing not as much as Goodbye, Dragon Inn or Stray Dogs

Dan S, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link

totally, nothing really comes close to a brighter summer day for me; and only getting richer as i find myself following the plot mechanics less.

feel the same about rebels (tho yet to see stray dogs!), very charming to see something that feels like such a debut. tsai and lee really were born to make films together

devvvine, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 09:32 (five years ago) link

LOcal African film festival. So Ko Knanga the south African film set in the francophone Congolese ex-pat community showing a naive girl arriving from Congo and getting messed around by trhe partner of her aunt. Could have done with some script editing.

Finding Fela the film based around teh Fela on Broadway show. I think I saw thsi around teh time i saw the production of the stage show in London but can't think when i saw that. I'm seeing 2011 as when it was first on in London but i didn't think it was then, can't tie it in mentally with any significant point in my life to the time. & i thought 2011 would have done.
Combines footage from the show and its rehearsals with a biography of Fela which is quite good. & has me reassessing his later work which I hadn't payed much attention to previously. Worths eeing anyway. As was the stage show, quite amazing stamina on the performer's part 3 hours of major energetic dancing from a lot of them.

Anbessa
a film about a 10 year old boy living in a shack he's been moved to since a condominium has been set up on the land his farm used to sit on. Nice little film.

Queen of Katwe a film about a chess playing girl from Uganda which I'd already seen last year. Was put on because they couldn't get Finding fela to play. So that got put off til the day after.
It was made by a division of Disney which means it is a bit glossier tahn it might have been, possibly not as glossy as it could have been though. Quite nice, not sure how well it repays multiple screenings though.

The Fisherman
short with an ageing fisherman meeting a talking Fish.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 09:49 (five years ago) link

Rebels of the Neon God is not as great as what comes later, but already Vive l'Amour is probably a masterpiece. For some reason I've never watched The River, should fix that as soon as possible.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 11:21 (five years ago) link

The River is a big uncomfortable bummer, iirc.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link

The Man From Hong Kong (Trenchard-Smith 1975) 📺
Hard Ticket To Hawaii [4K restoration] (Andy Sidaris, Arlene Sidaris 1987)
Origin Story (Kulap Vilaysack 2019) 📺
Teacher's Pet (George Seaton, Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin 1957) 📺
* John Wick (Stahelski, Leitch, Kolstad 2014) 📺
* John Wick: Chapter 2 (Stahelski, Kolstad 2017) 📺
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Stahelski, Kolstad, Hatten, Collins, Abrams 2019)
Captain Marvel (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Nicole Perlman, Meg LeFauve, Geneva Robertson-Dworet 2019) 🚗
Avengers: Endgame (Russo, Russo, Markus, McFeely 2019) 🚗
The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, Collier Young 1953)
In Fabric (Strickland 2019)
Crystal Swan (Darya Zhuk, Helga Landauer 2018)
Deadwood (Minahan, Milch, Pizzolato 2019) 📺

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Hitchcock, 1941) - 8/10
Letter Never Sent (Kalatozov, 1960) - 9/10
The Blue Angel (Sternberg, 1930) - 9/10
The Pride of the Yankees (Wood, 1942) - 7/10
The Warped Ones (Kurahara, 1960) - 6/10
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969) - 5/10
To Sleep with Anger (Burnett, 1990) - 6/10

Three Days of the Condor (Pollack, 1975) - 10/10
Little Women (Cukor, 1933) - 7/10
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Varda, 1977) - 9/10
Roseland (Ivory, 1977) - 6/10
Women of the Night (Mizoguchi, 1948) - 8/10
Pearls of the Deep (various, 1966) - 5/10
*Let the Sunshine In (Denis, 2017) - 10/10
Mur Murs (Varda, 1981) - 8/10
Sudden Fear (Miller, 1952) - 8/10

flappy bird, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link

John Wick 3 (Stahelski, 2019)
Claire's Camera (Hong, 2018)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder, 1975)
The Ear (Kachyna, 1970)
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, 1938)
Moonrise (Borzage, 1948)
Deadwood (Minahan, 2019)
Our Man in Havana (Reed, 1959)
Isle of Dogs (Anderson, 2018)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Dougherty, 2019)
Frankenstein (short - Dawley, 1910)
The Tram (short 0 Kieślowski, 1966)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007)

The Bite Game with Jim Lamprey (WmC), Friday, 7 June 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link

MUBI:

The Fire (Schnitman, 2015)
Machorka-Muff (Straub/Huillet, 1963)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991)
Not Reconciled (Straub/Huillet, 1965)

Cinema:
Maborosi (Kore-eda, 1995)
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991)

The MUBI season of the Straub/Huillet is a really interesting experiment by itself. Especially if you are (as I was) watching Not Reconciled after a night drinking! Gotta say I am really looking forward to mangled soundtracks, lack of subs, Marxism and history lessons over the next little while.

Catching Maborosi at the cinema was wonderful, had only seen it as a shagged out torrent where the use of natural light turned pitch black. One of the great films around grief, and how sometimes there just are no answers. Finally A Brighter Summer Day was an exhausting (at four hours with a short break) Sunday evening screening, the kind of experience I always found the most rewarding when actually going out to the cinema.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 June 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link

Ha, I came back from a friend’s degree show last night and decided not to watch not reconciled precisely because I thought I was too drunk for it

I also saw maborosi at the cinema, and still walking which I loved

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 7 June 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link

I watched it once sober and I can tell you now it didn't make much of a difference.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 June 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link

not reconciled my fav shraub/huillet i've seen so far, though immediately felt like i needed to rewatch it. should say if yr at any more of close up/taiwanese season xyzzzz, feel free to say hi (i'm usually reading a book)

devvvine, Friday, 7 June 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link

I am also reading a book if I go on my own. But yes will let you know, intend to be at a couple more.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:31 (five years ago) link

I loved The Souvenir even though it alienated most of my set. At my showing yesterday I counted three walkouts and a pair of old ladies whom I had to shush because the film bored them enough to inspire them to jabber.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:35 (five years ago) link

*Service With a Smile (Mack, 1934)
*Good Morning, Eve! (Mack, 1934)
*What, No Men? (Staub, 1935)
Gypsy Sweetheart (Staub, 1935)
*Okay, Jose (Staub, 1935)
Carnival Day (Staub, 1936)
La Cigarette (Dulac, 1919)
The Smiling Madame Beudet (Dulac, 1923)
The Running Actress (Moon, 2017)
*Bone Crushers (Wing, 1933)
Der Raub der Mona Lisa (von Bolvary, 1931)
Madame Racketeer (Gribble & Hall, 1932)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link

The Principal Enemy (1974, Sanjinés) 6/10
Madeline’s Madeline (2018, Decker) 3/10
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Hara) 9/10
Becket (1964, Glenville) 5/10
City of Lost Souls (1983, von Praunheim) 6/10
Soleil O (1967, Hondo) 9/10
Lover Come Back (1961, Mann) 7/10
*King of New York (1990, Ferrara) 7/10
The Dupes (1973, Saleh) 8/10
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017, Wilkerson) 7/10
*Micki & Maude (1984, Edwards) 6/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link

The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Hara) 9/10

astonishing film

devvvine, Monday, 10 June 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link

you all have access to such obscure films

Dan S, Monday, 10 June 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link

I'm envious

Dan S, Monday, 10 June 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link

ok, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On appears to be available on netflix dvd, so I will watch it

Dan S, Monday, 10 June 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link

Gonna see it tomorrow at the MoMA

Morbius, why didn't you like Becket?

Josefa, Monday, 10 June 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link

Gassy talk and risible gayness.

MoMA is having a Kazuo Hara retro, and he was there for the Emperor's Naked Army Marches On post-screening discussion the other night with... Michael Moore (long a champion of the film). In the Q&A, a gent got up and offered that the protagonist of the doc, having shot and nearly killed the son of one of the former army officers, was not a crusader. "This guy is a NUT!"

The speaker was the avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs. Only in New York.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2019 06:08 (five years ago) link

Gassy talk and risible gayness.

New board description.

Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 10 June 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link

For the Birds was a devastating portrait of mental illness and end of empire america; bummed me out for days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfUY9lraOKU

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 10 June 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link

*Quiet Please! (Stevens, 1933)
Tango Tangles (Sennett, 1914)
Microhabitat (Jeon, 2017)
Men in Black: International (Gray, 2019)
45 Minutes From Hollywood (Guiol, 1926)
The Matrimaniac (Powell, 1916)
The Dead Don't Die (Jarmusch, 2019)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 16 June 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link

MUBI:

Madeleine's Madeline (Decker, 2019)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (Straub/Huillet, 1970)

Cinema:

Terrorizers (Yang, 1986)

xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 June 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link

Funeral Parade of Roses(Matsumoto, 1969) 8/10
Madeline’s Madeline (Decker, 2018) 5/10
Not Reconciled... (Huillet, Straub, 1965) 9/10
Nervous Translation (Seno, 2017) 8/10
Birds of Passage (Guerra, 2018) 7/10
L’Intrus (Denis, 2004) 9/10
Flores (Jacome, 2017) 5/10
*The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939) 10/10
North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959) 9/10
Dust in the Wind (Hou, 1986) 8/10
Norte: The End of History (Diaz, 2014) 8/10
Stray Dogs (Tsai, 2013) 10/10

devvvine, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 07:42 (five years ago) link

The Beach Bum 4/5
Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan Story 4/5
Avengers: Endgame 3.5/5
Smithereens (1982) 4/5
They Were Expendable (1945) 3.5/5
Our Man in Havana (1959) 3.5/5
The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019) 3.5/5
Captain Marvel 3/5
Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2/5
Cat People (1982) 2.5/5
Deadwood: The Movie 4.5/5

Chris L, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link

Oops, Our Man in Havana should be 3/5. Very important.

Chris L, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link

The Raft is worth a gander; great post-script from the perspective of women in their 70s to a floating skinner box gone right somehow... notably the story mentioned in this article never comes up!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-i-plotted-a-murder-on-the-infamous-sex-raft

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link

relaxer (2019 potrykus) 4/10
burning (2018 lee chang-dong) 7/10
basquiat (1996 schnabel) 8/10
fool's mate (1956 rivette) 5/10
camille claudel (1989 bruno nyutten) 7.5/10
baby boy (2001 singleton) 8/10
*suspiria (1977 argento) 6/10
at the heart of gold: inside the usa gymnastics scandal (2019 carr) 8/10
white boy rick (2018 yann demange) 3/10

johnny crunch, Friday, 21 June 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link

Deadwood (Minahan, 2019) 7/10
Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018) 7/10
*BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 8/10
The Time of Their Lives (Goldby, 2017) 3/10
Mid90s (Hill, 2018) 6/10
Burning (Lee, 2018) 8/10
Halloween (Green, 2018) 4/10
Ava (Foroughi, 2017) 5/10
Wildlife (Dano, 2018) 7/10
The Chocolate War (Gordon, 1988) 6/10

Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link

His First Flame (Edwards, 1927)
Pure Feud (Henabery, 1934)
Flirting With Fate (Cabanne, 1916)
The Furs (Sennett, 1912)
Uncle (Jires, 1959)
Framing Father (Roberts, 1942)
Mail Trouble (French, 1942)
Reaching for the Moon (Emerson, 1917)
1900 (Bertolucci, 1976)
*Take a Chance (Goulding, 1918)
Entr'acte (Clair, 1924)
Feeling Good (Etaix, 1966)
As Long as You've Got Your Health (Etaix, 1966)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 24 June 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link

*Wanda (Loden, 1970) - 10/10
The Star (Heisler, 1952) - 7/10
*The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Mizoguchi, 1939) - 8/10
The Thin Man Goes Home (Thorpe, 1945) - 7/10
A Perfect Couple (Altman, 1979) - 6/10
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi, 1956) - 8/10
Documenteur (Varda, 1981) - 7/10
Quintet (Altman, 1979) - 5/10
ABC Africa (Kiarostami, 2001) - 9/10
I Am Wanda (Raganelli, 1991) - 8/10
*American Psycho (Harron, 2000) - 9/10
The Gay Bride (Conway, 1934) 6/10
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007) - 9/10
*Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975) - 10/10
La Ciénaga (Martel, 2001) - 4/10
I Hate But Love (Kurahara, 1962) - 7/10
Le Plaisir (Ophüls, 1952) - 8/10
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Cimino, 1974) - 7/10
The Beaches of Agnès (Varda, 2008) - 8/10

flappy bird, Monday, 24 June 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link

Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Point Break (1991)
Papillon (1973)
Tangerine (2015)
Hail Caesar (2016)
The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941)
John Wick 3 (2019)
Mystery Train (1989)
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
Where Danger Lives (1950)

Hail Caesar quickly climbing up my favorite Coens list. Point Break still sucks but I'll never not enjoy watching Anthony Kiedis get smacked around. Where Danger Lives a serviceable but fun noir with Robert Mitchum and a surreal interlude involving some kind of rural moustache festival(?). Tangerine and Nights of Cabiria both much funnier than I was expecting, Giulietta Masina was outrageously fun to watch. Anyone have any recs on what of hers to see next? I guess La Strada?

One Eye Open, Monday, 24 June 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link

yes, followed by Variety Lights, then I guess Il Bidone, Juliet of the Spirits, Ginger & Fred. She did a prison film (non-Fellini) w/ Anna Magnani, Hell in the City, if you can find it.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link

She's in Europa '51 as well.

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link

so I saw, but I don't remember her!

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link

*The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Hitchcock) 8/10
A Bigger Splash (1973, Hazan) 8/10
*Conversation Piece (1974, Visconti) 8/10
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928,Epstein) 8/10
Time Stood Still (1959, Olmi) 6/10
The Nun (1966, Rivette) 7/10
FM (1978, Alonzo) 3/10
The Sundowners (1960, Zinnemann) 6/10
The Dancing Masters (1943, St. Clair) 6/10
The Souvenir (2019, Hogg) 9/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link

Toy Story 4 (Cooley, 6/10)
Giant Little Ones (Behrman, 2019) 6/10
Ward 5B (2019) 7/10
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2019) 8/10
Dark Money (Reed, 2018) 8/10
* Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder, 1975) 8/10
Medea (Pasolini, 1970) 5/10
* Playtime (Tati, 1967) 9/10
* Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) 9/10
The Prisoner (1955, Glenville) 4/10

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link

*Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam and Jones - 1975) 7/10
*Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Roach - 1997) 7
What Price Hollywood (Cukor, 1932) 8
The Lineup (Don Siegel, 1958) 7; terrible police sections based on a forgotten tv show
Rocketman (Fletcher, 2019) 7; better as jukebox musical than biopic
Teen Titans Go To the Movies (Michail and Horvath, 2018) 6
The Decline of Western Civilization (Spheeris, 1981) 8
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Spheeris, 1988) 8

adam the (abanana), Friday, 28 June 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link

I expected Den of Thieves to suck - it's 2 hours 20, it stars Gerard Butler and 50 Cent, and it seems like a made-for-basic-cable Heat knockoff. But it's actually a lot smarter and better written than that; as heist movies go, you could do a lot worse.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link

Medea (Pasolini, 1970) 5/10

I thought this film was fascinating and it was so visually beautiful

Pasolini is a recent discovery for me. I've seen 4 of his films now and they've all been fantastic

Dan S, Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link

Heh -- I've had the opposite impression. I got Teorema and can't understand why he chose such portentous framing.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link

Medea (Pasolini, 1970) 5/10

I thought this film was fascinating and it was so visually beautiful

Wait- so 5/10 is a good rating??

o. nate, Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link

Oh, wait never mind. Now I see that was a quote.

o. nate, Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link

My favorite Pasolini is "Hawks and Sparrows" fwiw.

o. nate, Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link

I loved The Hawks and the Sparrows. Medea has a quality similar to Oedipus Rex for me, but I think I like it more. I haven't seen Teorema yet

Dan S, Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link

also loved Accattone and Mama Roma, I guess I've seen 5 of his films

Dan S, Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link

may + june in theaters

Long Shot (Levine, 2019) - 8/10
Holiday (Cukor, 1938) - 7/10
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (Wolf, 2019) - 10/10
Other Music (Basu, Hatch-Miller; 2019) - 8/10
The Mountain (Alverson, 2018) - 4/10
Poms (Hayes, 2019) - 3/10
Amazing Grace (Pollack, Elliott; 2018) - 7/10
Rafiki (Kahiu, 2018) - 7/10
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (Letterman, 2019) - 8/10
Booksmart (Wilde, 2019) - 8/10
Non-Fiction (Assayas, 2018) - 6/10
I Am Cuba (Kalatozov, 1964) - 7/10
Rocketman (Fletcher, 2019) - 3/10
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2019) - 1/10
*The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960) - 10/10
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Ozu, 1952) - 8/10
Late Night (Ganatra, 2019) - 2/10
The Dead Don’t Die (Jarmusch, 2019) 6/10
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Talbot, 2019) - 6/10
Yesterday (Boyle, 2019) - 8/10

flappy bird, Sunday, 30 June 2019 05:40 (five years ago) link

Flappy where'd you see the Other Music doc? Made by two good friends of mine. Really proud of them.

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link

The Stage Hand (Langdon, 1933)
I'll Take Milk (Yates, 1946)
Tramway (Kieślowski, 1966)
Bought! (Mayo, 1931)
The Seahorse (Painleve, 1934)
The Marriage Circle (Lubitsch, 1924)
Over The Fence (Lloyd & MacDonald, 1917)
The Bluffer (Sennett, 1930)
American Aristocracy (Ingraham, 1916)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 1 July 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link

xp
Maryland Film Festival! as of a month and a half ago they were still looking for a distributor unfortunately, I wish them all the best.

flappy bird, Monday, 1 July 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link

I haven't seen the former but I refuse to believe anyone could enjoy Yesterday more than Holiday.

JoeStork, Monday, 1 July 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link

Cukor confounds me... every movie I've seen of his I've felt could've been better executed by another director, like McCarey, Hawks, Capra... most of his contemporaries... they are all so stiff and and distant, I always feel like he's out of step. tons of stuff I haven't seen but I'm talking about Little Women, Gaslight, The Actress, The Philadelphia Story, and Holiday.

flappy bird, Monday, 1 July 2019 04:12 (five years ago) link

xxpost I have a feeling they'll find one. Fingers crossed.

Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 1 July 2019 05:06 (five years ago) link

May/June:

Birds of Passage (Guerra/Gallego, 2018) 7/10
Lucky Jim (Boulting, 1957) 5/10
Brigadoon (Minnelli, 1954) 7/10
Dracula Prince of Darkness (Fisher, 1966) 7/10
Ash is Purest White (Jia, 2018) 8/10

The Stranglers of Bombay (Fisher, 1959) 6/10
The Velvet Vampire (Rothman, 1971) 7/10
Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (Speech, 1973) 7/10
Not Reconciled (Straub-Huillet, 1965) 8/10
Legend of the Werewolf (Francis, 1975) 6/10
The Andromeda Strain (Wise, 1971) 6/10
Terror by Night (Neill, 1946) 6/10
The Lovers! (Wise, 1973) 5/10
Joy Division (Gee, 2007) 7/10
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (Straub-Huillet, 1970) 7/10
The Mummy's Hand (Cabanne, 1940) 6/10
Teresa Venerdì (De Sica, 1941) 6/10
Fear in the Night (Sangster, 1972) 6/10
Apollo 11 (Miller, 2019) 7/10

Ward Fowler, Monday, 1 July 2019 07:55 (five years ago) link

In Fabric (2019) 5/10 - this was disappointing and easily the least of Strickland's films so far. Looks and feels great but the story is too flimsy, the comedy too broad. The portmanteau structure doesn't work with only two stories, makes it feel cobbled together after they ran out of money or whatever

or something, Monday, 1 July 2019 08:27 (five years ago) link

Birds of passage (Gallego and Guerra 2018) 8/10
La collectionneuse (Rohmer 1967) 5/10
Through a glass darkly (Bergman 1961) 9/10
Hana-bi (Takeshi 1997) 8/10
A tale of winter (Rohmer 1992) 8/10
The straight story (Lynch 1999) 7/10
Love streams (Cassavetes 1984) 7/10
The territory (Ruiz 1981) 5/10
First man (Chazelle 2018) 6/10
X: the man with x-ray eyes (Corman 1963) 7/10
Journey to italy (Rossellini 1954) 9/10
Silent light (Reygadas 2007) 7/10
Blissfully yours (2002 Weerasethakul) 8/10
McCabe & mrs miller (Altman 1971) 9/10
*Amour fou (Hausner 2014) 8/10
The other side (Minervini 2015) 7/10
*Carrie (Depalma 1976) 8/10
Next of kin (Williams 1982) 7/10
Tropical malady (Weerasethakul 2004) 9/10
13 Tzameti (Babluani 2005) 3/10
Stray dogs (Tsai 2013) 8/10
Shadow of a doubt (Hitchcock 1943) 9/10
Paris is burning (Livingston 1990) 8/10
The koumiko mystery (Marker 1965) 7/10
Minding the gap (Bing 2018) 8/10
The decameron (Pasolini 1971) 7/10
Tag (Sion 2015) 6/10
The double life of veronique (Kieslowski 1991) 7/10
In fabric (Strickland 2019) 5/10

or something, Monday, 1 July 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link

Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964) 10/10 - the most perfect bonding of image and music in all cinema (imo)
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957) 9/10
The Decameron (Pasolini, 1971) 6/10 - probably had my fill of Pasolini bawdiness now
Paisa (Rossellini, 1946) 6/10 - 9/10 for the rooftop chase segment
Election (Payne, 1999) 7/10
Sunset (Nemes, 2018) 7/10 - do all his films end up with everything outside of close-up faces reduced to a de-focused blob?
Dirty Hearts (Amorim, 2011) 5/10 - overly-melodramatic telling of an interesting story I didn't know about (murderous tensions in post-war Brazil among the large Japanese ex-pat community)
High Life (Denis, 2018) 5/10 and that's generous

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 1 July 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link

A Star is Born (Cooper, 2018) 5/10
The River (Tsai, 1997) 9/10
Keep it for Yourself (Denis, 1991) 7/10
Vive L'Amour (Tsai, 1994) 10/10
A Tiny Place that is Hard to Touch (Silver, 2019) 6/10
Shin Godzilla (Anno, 2016) 8/10
Three Times (Hou, 2005) 8/10
Minding The Gap (Liu, 2018) 8/10

devvvine, Monday, 1 July 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link

The Queen (1967) - Now in re-release; totally worth a watch and fascinating. Camera is occasionally lascivious and it can be uncomfortable watching some of the participants panic when they're being filmed in straight guy drag but a vital document made all the better by it's lack of explicit message and narration.

Little - I feel like I thought I would watch anything with Issa Rae in it, but not this.

Mission Impossible: Fallout - I think they thought I was meant to care about this or have any memory of prior episodes and, as neither applied, I mostly found this to be slapstick and more than occasionally stupid. When does Tom Cruise get to start doing old guy movies? Soon?

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 1 July 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link

Too long a list, covering a too long period, but I waited until I'm going on vacation. No film for me for several weeks now :)

Kino-Pravda 1-23 (Vertov)
Mother (Pudovkin)
The End of St Petersburg (Pudovkin)
Little Vera (Pichul)
The Needle (Nugmanov)
Assa (Solovyov)
Boris Godunov (Zulawski)
Francofonia (Sokurov)
A Gentle Creature (Loznitsa)
The Major (Bykov)
The Fool (Bykov)
Yuri’s Day (Serebrennikov)
Betrayal (Serebrennikov)
The Student (Serebrennikov)
Leto (Serebrennikov)
See How They Fall (Audiard)
A Self Made Hero (Audiard)*
A Prophet (Audiard)*
Rust & Bone (Audiard)*
Dheepan (Audiard)
The Sisters Brothers (Audiard)
A Woman’s Life (Brizé)
At War (Brizé)
The Mischief Makers (Truffaut)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)
Day for Night (Truffaut)
Round Midnight (Tavernier)
Trans-Europ-Express (Robbe-Grillet)
The Ceremony (Mannheimer)
The Raft (Lindeen)
Together (Moodysson)
Lilja 4-ever (Moodysson)
The Guitar Mongoloid (Östlund)
Involuntary (Östlund)
The Square (Östlund)*
Bombay Talkies (Kashyap, Akhtar, Banerjee & Johar)
Lust Stories (Kashyap, Akhtar, Banerjee & Johar)
The Human Condition: No Greater Love (Kobayashi)
The Human Condition: Road to Eternity (Kobayashi)
The Human Condition: A Soldier’s Prayer (Kobayashi)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger)
A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell & Pressburger)
Booksmart (Wilde)
Pripyat (Geyrhalter)
Abendland (Geyrhalter)*

The Human Condition was a 35mm marathon screening. That was a good saturday. Though it's really a stone cold bummer, and the first part is by far the best.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 08:46 (five years ago) link

Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder, 1957) - 7/10
Our Little Sister (Kore-eda, 2015) - 8/10
*The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10
Hereditary (Aster, 2018) - 8/10
First Name: Carmen (Godard, 1983) - 5/10
Changer d’Image (Godard, 1982) - 9/10
The Flame of New Orleans (Clair, 1941) - 8/10
Détective (Godard, 1985) - 4/10
Golden Earrings (Leisen, 1947) - 6/10
Zama (Martel, 2017) - 5/10
Mogambo (Ford, 1953) - 8/10
Cold Water (Assayas, 1994) - 7/10

flappy bird, Thursday, 4 July 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who was unimpressed by Zama

. (Michael B), Thursday, 4 July 2019 06:21 (five years ago) link

Jubal (Daves, 1956)
*Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Scorsese 2019)
*Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
Craig's Wife (Arzner, 1936)
Experiment in Terror (Edwards, 1962)
Drive a Crooked Road (Quine, 1954)
Swing Time (Stevens, 1936)
La vie de Jésus (Dumont, 1997)
*Time Bandits (Gilliam, 1981)
Cold Water (Assayas, 1994)
Dreams (Kurosawa, 1990)

Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Sunday, 7 July 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link

The Smoking Out of Bella Butts (Baker, 1915)
Little Geezer (Huff, 1932)
Fandango (Lane, 1928)
The Light in the Dark (Brown, 1922)
The Giant Gila Monster (Kellogg, 1959)
Midsommar (Aster (2019)

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 7 July 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link

Swinging Safari (Elliott 2018)
The Infinite Man (Sullivan 2014) 📺
Doubles vies [Non-Fiction] (Assayas 2019)
One, Two, Three (Wilder, Diamond 1961)
Memory: The Origins of Alien (Philippe 2019)
Terror Nullius (Soda_Jerk 2018)
* BMX Bandits (Trenchard-Smith, Hagg, Edgeworth 1983) 📺
Complex a/k/a Nightmare At Shadow Woods a/k/a Blood Rage a/k/a Slasher (Grissmer, Rubin 1983) 📺
Always Be My Maybe (Nahnatchka Khan, Ali Wong, Randall Park, Michelle Buteau, Keanu Reeves 2019) 📺
Un couteau dans le cœur [Knife+Heart] (Gonzalez, Mangione, 83 2018) 📽️ 35mm
mid90s (Hill 2018) 📺
* Hunt For The Wilderpeople (Waititi, Crump 2016) 📺
* The Big Lebowski (Coen & Coen 1998 )
Relaxer (Potrykus 2019)
Suddenly (Allen, Sale 1954) 📺
The Hateful 8 (12" disco funk get up get down go to the lavatory mix) (Tarantino 2015) 📺
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Burton, Hartman, Reubens, Varhol 1985)
The Sapphires (Blair, Thompson, Briggs 2012) 📺

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 7 July 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link

the bulb died at the last reel of Knife + Heart, so after five minutes they finished it off from a digital copy. this was either the only print in the US, or possibly in the world?

also I'd seen the 70mm version of Hateful 8 on release, so 5/7ths of an asterisk

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 7 July 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link

Lol I remember going to the cinema to watch BMX Bandits. Nicole Kidman!

. (Michael B), Sunday, 7 July 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link

This was my first viewing since the cinema, too. At the time I was terrified when they went down the slides at WaterWorks bcz of neighbourhood mum claims that bad kids wedged razorblades into the joins.

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 7 July 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link

The Plagiarists (2019, Parlow) 7/10
*Teorema (1968, Pasolini) 6/10
The Chambermaid (2018, Aviles) 8/10
Bonnie Scotland (1935, Horne) 7/10
*Do the Right Thing (1989, Lee) 10/10
*The Devil’s Brother aka Fra Diavolo (1933, Roach, Rogers) 7/10
American Gigolo (1980, Schrader) 5/10
*Cold Water (1994, Assayas) 8/10
True Heart Susie (1919, Griffith) 8/10
Desert Fury (1947, Allen) 8/10
A Virus Knows No Morals (1986, von Praunheim) 7/10
*Funny Face (1957, Donen) 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 July 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link

Too bad about the end of Knife + Heart, would have loved to see that on celluloid. One of the more beautiful and melancholic endings I remember seeing recently.

Frederik B, Monday, 8 July 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link

The Winning Season (5.5)
Booksmart (6.0)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (5.0)
Entre la mer et l'eau douce (6.0)
Geneviève (7.0)
Insomnia (7.5)
True Confessions (7.0)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (7.0)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (6.0)
Amélie (5.0)

Not that I was exactly with it beforehand, but the last half-hour of Amélie felt especially interminable.

clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link

halfway through the year, I can honestly volunteer three bird movies for my top fifteen films: Birds of Passage, For the Birds and Bird of Prey

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link

The Angry Birds Movie 2 out next month so you’re pretty much guaranteed a fourth

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link

no emoji, no credibility