Last (x) movies you saw

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...

Oh, and after poring through the ILX thread yesterday, I'm determined to see a matinee of The Tree of Life tomorrow afternoon.

I wasn't manic for Nostalgia for the Light, but it's undeniably worthwhile, and perpetrates some visual coups that will be diminished on a home screen, alas.

I saw the Hangover 2 :(

The Last Man on Earth
Nowhere Boy
Red White & Blue
Theater of Blood
Bridesmaids
The Other Guys
Vampire Circus
Witchfinder General
Wet Hot American Summer
Marwencol

blank city
altman's popeye
the original arthur
the heartbreak kid remake
please give

haven't seen much in theaters lately, but tree of life will prob be my next one.

badlands
midnight in paris
date night
despicable me

Saw The Tree of Life, gushed excessively about it in its own thread.

Also somehow forgot to include The Cannonball Run in my list above. And Flight of the Navigator. No, I couldn't really tell you why.

mixture of cinema, blu-ray and dvd:

the town
monsters
x-men: first class
a swedish love story
blue valentine
laputa - castle in the sky
of gods and men
pina
13 assassins
departures

a swedish love story

is that the first, sorta-conventional-looking roy andersson? how is it, if so?

I wasn't manic for Nostalgia for the Light, but it's undeniably worthwhile, and perpetrates some visual coups that will be diminished on a home screen, alas.

ah, such a shame as i'll never get to a screening, here. i'll report back on the other guzmans when i'm an expert on chilean history.

>is that the first, sorta-conventional-looking roy andersson?

yeah - it got a recent DVD release (in the UK at least). I *loved* it. Not many hints of the visual style that he'd develop as he went on, but there's lots of dialogue which is uncannily like stuff from ...Second Floor etc ie. monologuing, despairing. It's shot almost documentary fashion, so there's a very appealing rawness and it does look beautiful - a glorious Swedish summer captured on film.

oh that's great. i'd wondered if it was a minor, hired-gun sorta studio thing, but reading up it sounds really interesting. i'll check it out.

just to continue to turn this thread into a personal q-&-a, how was Nowhere Boy, darin? it looked impossibly bad and yet i kept hearing good things about it.

The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
Rejoice & Shout
Tales from the Crypt (Amicus)
X Men First Class
Been Rich All My Life
Hiruko the Goblin

I failed to keep track for a couple of months, damn it. But the most recent batch includes
Night of the Hunter
Wise Blood
Night Train to Munich

Blue Valentine
Hobo with a Shotgun
X-Men: First Class
They Live
Thor
Fair Game
Bridesmaids
The Conspirator
Of Gods and Men
Slapshot

oh yeah, that reminds me, I saw Thor as well.

Was scrolling upthread and got a small lol from this:

Blow Out (De Capra, 1981)

duh, wishful thinking on my part, either that or a brainfart. He's not as good as Hitchberg.

Spielcock

my recent 'love film' rentals:

Minne & Moskowitz
The Queen of Spades
Tiger of Bengal/The Tomb of Love
Two in the Wave
Certified Copy

Last film I saw at the cinema - Renaldo and Clara!

going to Incendies later....

I saw "Went the Day Well" at Film Forum a couple weeks ago. A solid B sleeper. It starts out in light comedy/social satire mode, but then takes a hard dive into gritty thriller territory. Well-paced and entertaining throughout.

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The New World
Midnight in Paris
The Wild and Wonderful World of the Whites
Shock 'Em Dead
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
My Dinner with Andre
Step Up 3
Elizabethtown
Birdemic

Shoeshine (1946, Vittorio De Sica)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010, Werner Herzog)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Went the Day Well? (1942, Cavalcanti)
Le Rayon Vert (1986, Eric Rohmer)
Tuesday, After Christmas (2010, Radu Muntean)
Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen)

three docs from the Human Rights Watch film fest:

Better This World (airs on PBS in Sept)
Love Crimes of Kabul (HBO in July)
You Don't Like the Truth -- 4 Days Inside Guantanamo

Minne & Moskowitz

i watched this at home, recently, too, and it blew my mind. mainly because of the contrast between hearing, almost incessantly, & practically knowing, that it was cassavetes' 'lightest', 'funniest' film, his romantic comedy, and then seeing the first forty five minutes.

and after the fact it turns out to be something not unlike that, but just after a circuitous journey.

it looks beautiful too.

renaldo & clara wasn't at the GFT, was it?

going to Incendies later....

tentatively psyched for this.

Watching a lot of old movies with my son, recently - stuff like North by Northwest, Man from Laramie or Quatermass and the Pit. It's a fantastic experience, his reactions made the films brand new to me too.

Casino
I Clowns
YMO:Propaganda
Horror Express

cave of forgotten dreams
dark habits
in the realm of the senses
hideaway
ishtar
penn & teller get killed
wild grass
nine

The Makioka Sisters
The Straight Story
Crossfire
On Dangerous Ground
Vampyr
Midnight in Paris
Meek's Cutoff
Thor
My Man Godfrey
From Here to Eternity

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Massacre at Central High
Isle of the Dead
Midnight Movies
Human Desire
From Beyond the Grave
The Education of Shelby Knox

bigger than life
to be and to have
enemies: a love story
wax, or the discovery of television among the bees
max mon amour
water drops on burning rocks
threads
a generation
let's make love

last summer - this was incredible btw - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Summer)

wild at heart
the fighter
kanal
rolling thunder
high art
the yards
tie me up! tie me down!

I Clowns : Wow. Had never seen this one. Loved it.
Inception (2nd time. Hated it first time around in theatre.. Liked it much better this time)
The Brasher Doubloon: Cool slept-on old noir
The Tree Of Life: <3 x 1000
Syndromes And A Century
The Aviator (stopped about 90 mins in. Still awful.)
Werner Herzog 2010 UCSB Interview : (Cool 2 hour long intvw with WH found on the interwebs)

been wanting to see last summer for a while, seems like something criterion should tackle

lol @ the last movies I've seen in the theaters

x-men first class
green lantern
harry potter & dh pt 2
tree of life

Enter the Void - avoid.

Cross of Iron - on blu-ray. Haven't watched this since I was a kid, but a lot of it had stayed with me, and it was good to revisit after all this time. Many terrific scenes, but doesn't quite add up to a wholly satisfactory whole for some reason. Coburn - an actor who it feels has been overlooked somewhat - is solid, but the best scene is between James Mason and David Warner as demoralised German officers:
Mason: "What will we do when we lose this war?"
Warner: "Prepare for the next"

Burke & Hare - Landis, Pegg, Serkis. Mildly entertaining rubbish.

Winter's Bone - Not quite the misery porn I was dreading. Pretty decent.

Howl - Boring.

Inferno - Argento's messy headscratcher on blu. It's pretty bad, but a few brilliant and bizarre moments redeem it. The tales from behind the scenes are revealing (Argento didn't shoot the memorable flooded cellar scene - he was ill in hospital. And when the actress in that scene became ill herself, he hastily had her character killed off. Such anecdotes go towards explaining the disjointedness of the film).

Morning Glory - Quite enjoyed this. Rachel McAdams is ridic cute, Ford is ridic growly. It's fun.

Stanley Kubrick collection on blu-ray: 2001 and Barry Lyndon look so, so good. Blew me away. The only issue I have with Lyndon is the central performance. Ryan O'Neil just isn't believable, sympathetic or very interesting, imo (also see Tom Cruise in EWS). I didn't enjoy Full Metal Jacket all that much. The first half is really repetitive, the second half kinda empty.

skipping the real stinkers:

Billy Budd (1962, Peter Ustinov)
Born to Be Bad (1950, Nicholas Ray)
The Interrupters (2011, Steve James)
19 Buster Keaton shorts (1920-23)
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010, Joann Sfar)
Girls About Town (1931, George Cukor)
Union Depot (1932, Alfred E. Green)
Littlerock (2010, Mike Ott)
Waterloo Bridge (1931, James Whale)
The Optimists (2006, Goran Paskaljevic)
Four Adventures of Reinette & Mirabelle (1987, Eric Rohmer)
Weekend (2011, Andrew Haigh)
Happy (2011, Roko Belic)
Leap Year (2010, Michael Rowe)
Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin Schaffner)
Terri (2011, Azazel Jacobs)
Momma's Man (2008, Azazel Jacobs)
The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)

Azazel Jacobs!

Littlerock!

what'd you think of Leap Year, morbius

pervy, good