Last (x) movies you saw

Biutiful - Bardem the only upside, as expected

Atlantic City = great movie
The Road = not so great

Play Time (1967, Tati)
The Illusionist (2010, Chomet)
Les Enfants Terribles (1950, Melville)

jaws
the iron giant
devils on the doorstep
the runaways
kung fu hustle
animal kingdom
wolf creek
reprise
little big man

Ondine (2009, Neil Jordan)
Bombshell (1933, Victor Fleming)
Limitless (2011, Neil Burger)
Impostors (1979, Mark Rappaport)
Lord Love a Duck (1966, George Axelrod)
Red-Headed Woman (1932, Jack Conway)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Asphalt (1929, Joe May)
Jane Eyre (2011, Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Public Enemies. Liked the actress in it and some of the grainy video stuff (only saw the DVD, its probably more impressive in the big screen). Other than that I just couldn't care less.

Watching 'Les Diaboliques' tomorrow.

How is Asphalt? xp

so far this year, rev. chron. order:

The White Ribbon (Haneke)
Rango (Verbinski)
For a Few Dollars More (Leone)
A Fistful of Dollars (Leone)
The Parallax View (Pakula)
Gandhi (Attenborough)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
True Grit (Coen bros)
Bonnie & Clyde (Penn)
Black Swan (Aronofsky)
Late Spring (Ozu)

Interiors (Allen, 1978)*
Short Cuts (Altman, 1993)
The Good Shephered (De Niro, 2006)
Mephisto (Szabo, 1981)
True Grit (Coen Bros, 2010)
I Love You Philip Morris (Ficarra/Requa, 2009)
Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, 1947)
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Cameron Mitchell, 2001)

* Only got 45 minutes through this before giving up.

Had hoped to see 'Submarine' this weekend but nearest showing is 30 miles away, so that will have to wait a while I think.

corey, Asphalt has some amazing shots, esp closeups of the badgirl vamp.

Never Let Me Go
An Unmarried Woman
Love & Other Drugs
Fantastic Mr Fox
Nowhere Boy
Red-Headed Woman
Dinner At Eight
Red
Silkwood
Tequila Sunrise

Our Hospitality (1923, Buster Keaton, Jack Blystone)
Curling (2010, Denis Cote)
The Driver (1978, Walter Hill)
Sailor's Luck (1933, Raoul Walsh)
Miral (2010, Julian Schnabel)
Cold Weather (2010, Aaron Katz)
Red Dust (1932, Victor Fleming)
Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
Agitator (2001, Takashi Miike)

Last House on the Left, The (1972, Craven)
Dune (1984, Lynch)
Missing (1982, Costa-Gavras)
Incendies (2010) [missing the last minute]
Ghost Writer, the (2010, Polanski)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964, Haskin)
Date Night (2010, Levy)
Joan of Arc (1948, Fleming)
China Syndrome, the (1979, Bridges)
Going My Way (1944, McCarey)

how is cold weather? i liked Dance Party USA

ive recently watched:

santa sangre
rubber
sorority row
monsters
the naked kiss
a wedding
distant voices, still lives
a new leaf

I was amused by Cold Weather in part bcz the plot features a mystery code that's based a certain branch of ephemera that I'm well-acquainted with. And the video lensing of Portland looks real nice. However, it's slighter than its champions seem to think.

abanana, who cut off the last minute of Incendies on you? sounds like Peter Cook in Bedazzled.

cold weather is a lot of fun, tho first 20 minutes are kind of insufferable bec of the dude's irritating fake naturalistic acting

Harry Potter/Prisoner of Azkaban
Going the Distance
Macgruber
Paul
Rango
Due Date
Up
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Fighter

lol I am lame

according to Netflix:
Casino Royale (1967)
Robocop 2
The Stendhal Syndrome
The Hudsucker Proxy
Battlefield Earth
Shadows & Fog

Mah taste, she eez exquisite

in abt the order i liked them

youth in revolt
twisted nerve
time indefinite
bonjour tristesse
poltergeist
the small back room
the gambler
bugsy

Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)
Micmacs (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009)
Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott, 2010)
Radio On (Christopher Petit, 1979)
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1975)
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest, 2003)
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)
A Serious Man (Coen brothers, 2009)
Date Night (Shawn Levy, 2010)
Ondine (Neil Jordan, 2009)

The Conspirator
Scream 4 (FUCKING AWFUL)
Oldboy (omg loved this)

Into the Fire (doc on Toronto's G20 summit...illuminating, but I could do without idiots yelling "fascist!" at the screen)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78 version)
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Barry Lyndon
Heart Like a Wheel
Il Posto
Night Moves (Penn series at the Cinematheque)
The Missouri Breaks
Mickey One
The Sugarland Express
The Heartbreak Kid ('72 version, of course)

That's 11, covering about a month. I probably missed something.

Burlesque
Black Swan (twice)
Double Indemnity

wait I rewatched Nightmare on Elm St 2 btwn BS and DI

Do you like NOES2 or am I the only one

Street Fight
Easy A
The Adjustment Bureau
The Expendables
The Runaways
I'm Still Here
Source Code
Cyrus
Chinatown
The Kid Stays in the Picture

Meek's Cutoff
The Night of the Hunter
Lost Bohemia
Source Code
Of Gods and Men
Showgirl in Hollywood
Exraordinary Stories
City of Life and Death
If I Had a Million
Tillie and Gus
The Beaver
The Arbor
Dog Day Afternoon
Hesher
True Grit (1969, Henry Hathaway)
His Kind of Woman
The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
There Be Dragons
Nostalgia for the Light

how was Hesher, Morbs?

blech

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/hesher/5500

le plaisir
pretty maids all in a row
bridesmaids
an education
savage messiah
desperately seeking susan
kick-ass
the reflecting skin

Went the Day Well?
Vault of Horror
Jazz on a Summer's Day

I just saw "The Book of Eli". Surprisingly good for a hackneyed apocalyptic movie.

until the ending, right?

I have seen much worse (hi dere "Ultraviolet")

the ending of ultraviolet, i'm assuming, was the cast turning around to camera and en masse chanting 'lol u watched this far'

basically!

yeah, by the time i turned it off at 15 mins in i figured it would be something like that.

Harakiri
Le Beau Serge
Mysteries Of Lisbon
The Grey Man
The Mother And The Whore
The Song Remains The Same

fanny and alexander (after talking to alfred about it)
marwencol
the hangover (first time. it was okay...)
kung fu panda 2
still walking
summer war

The Runaways
Salt
MST3K: The Movie
Black Swan
Thor

I also saw The Hangover 2, which was exactly like The Hangover

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Wages of Fear
Hesher
The Troll Hunter
Fish Tank
Lupid the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
The Conformist
Mind Game
The Illusionist
Come and See
M
Mind Game

Speed Racer
Psycho
Spiderhole
Gainsbourg
Chico & Rita
Attack the Block
Peeping Tom
Morning Glory

Nostalgia for the Light

how was this, morbs? i have the battle of chile set ready to plough through but think this might be a gentler intro to guzman. it sounds great.

some recent things:
shara
le quattro volte (great!)
isle of flowers
animal crackers (which i forgot i'd seen, & can't imagine remembering well enough to negate the pleasure of rescreening)
correspondences (eugene green)
puppetmaster (don't want to start a revolt but actually sorta kinda underwhelmed?, i felt like it demanded a cinema viewing, & was sorta too much to take in at home; i'm still drawn to his more recent 'urban female' films, & will probably veer that way when catching up on his '80s stuff)

The Secrets in Their Eyes (Campanella, 2009)
Boogie Nights (Anderson, 1996)
Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010)
A Single Man (Ford, 2009)
Festen (Vinterberg, 1998)
Blow Out (De Capra, 1981)
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
The New World (Malick, 2005)
Thumbsucker (Mills, 2005)
Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932)

Messiah Of Evil (dir W Huych & G Katz, 1973)
The Room (dir T Wiseau, 2003)
The Cremator (dir J Herz, 1969)
The Happiness Of The Katakuris (dir T Miike, 2001)
Wizard of Gore (dir Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1970)
The War Game (dir P Watkins, 1965)
Threads (dir M Jackson, 1984)
Rare Exports (dir J Helander, 2010)
Morgiana (dir J Herz, 1972)
Amer (dir H Cattet & B Forzani , 2009)
Thundercrack! (dir C McDowell, 1975)
Cult Of The Damned aka Angel Angel Down We Go (dir R Thom, 1969)
Penda's Fen (dir A Clarke, 1973)
Possession (dir A Żuławski, 1981)
The Stone Tape (dir P Sasdy, 1972)
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (dir F Francis, 1970)
Teorema (dir P P Pasolini, 1968)

Most of these have been film club type nights at ours, it's alarmingly rare we just stick on a DVD on a whim. Only a couple of those at the cinema too ('The Room' and 'Rare Exports').

Most of these have been film club type nights at ours, it's alarmingly rare we just stick on a DVD on a whim.

yeah i am this way all the time now. i find it harder & harder to watch films, i think because of the quicker-hit of episodic stuff, and the weird intimidation of knowing that if you start watching something at ten, when it's over it won't be long before you have to go to sleep. making it film night makes it formal & makes me get around to watching stuff that would be easier to postpone. we're watching perfumed nightmare, next, i think.

Funeral Parade Of Roses is next for us I think. Possession and The Other Side Of Underneath likely soon.

The Other Guys
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Hollywood Ending
Anything Else
Melinda & Melinda
Thor
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
The Incredible Hulk
Bridesmaids

It seems clear in hindsight that I'm trying to come back from a month of films like the just-mentioned Possession (seriously one of the best and most nightmarishly-overwhelming movies I've ever seen), Enter The Void, and multiple viewings of Eraserhead. I've maybe not been in the best place lately...