Last (x) movies you saw

Tried to watch A Place in the Sun but too disturbing to finish. Haven't watched it in years and was really wanting too. Now I can't finish it.

Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009) - this ws ok, when the story is set-up in such a way its hard to find a way to argue against, so I don't argue for. Anyone know the Italian neo-realist film she was watching?

Beast of the Southern Wild was.... okay? I expected less but wanted more.

this seems to be the beasts of the southern wild thread: felt like a 2h arcade fire video (although it was actually only 90 minutes)

From Russia With Love last night at IFC. Bond films are pretty stupid, at least from the Connery era. Dude seems borderline mentally disabled.

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t1_usmB30s

Why do Chinese girls taste different from all other girls?

i hardly ever have time for movies anymore but i watched fellini's satyricon and enjoyed it quite a bit

i think i read somewhere that it is basically a scifi movie abt romans and that is pretty otm

this seems to be the beasts of the southern wild thread: felt like a 2h arcade fire video (although it was actually only 90 minutes)

― caek, Sunday, September 2, 2012 3:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

hah

I watched these this weekend:

Chungking Express
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams
Moon
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

The Dark Knight Rises
A Dangerous Method
Bartok (Ken Russell)
The Student From Prague

Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Jules and Jim
Juliet of the Spirits
The Home and the World

didja like jiro? did you see it on the big screen?

Me And Orson Welles
The Phantom Carriage
Saboteur

Penumbra (2011)

this seems to be the beasts of the southern wild thread: felt like a 2h arcade fire video (although it was actually only 90 minutes)

― caek, Sunday, September 2, 2012 3:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

hah

― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, September 2, 2012 10:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw this last night (& liked it okay, the set-pieces start less than the scenes-in-hospitals middle), i do wish all movies didn't sound like a sufjan stevens record now, it's oppressive.

Zero for Conduct (1933, Vigo) A-
Campaign, the (2012, Roach) C : leave the improv to the rehearsals next time please
Hereafter (2010, Eastwood) D- : a slow nothing of a film
Muppets, the (2011, Bobin) B
Tron: Legacy [2D] (2010, Kosinski) B : love the future fantasy look, killer ziggy was fun, shame about the plot, dialogue, pace, etc.

Ornette was hella dated but interesting. dude is a genius. and crazy. the castration story!

is that when ornette contemplated cutting his balls off to avoid lustful urges?

yep. went for a circumcision instead.
spoke with someone who went to a party at his house and said he was running body mod videos around the house. apparently it's a thing.
anyways, i'm going to see wayne white's beauty is embarrassing doc soon after hanging out at a pr/art weirdo event last night with him and like fifty other nudniks in bushwick. good times.

I watched Serial the other night, the Martin Mull film from 1980. Pretty bad, but in an interesting way. I have a really vague memory that when it came out, someone provided a blurb that gushed it was the first great film of the '80s. Seems to be what they were aspiring to make--or the last great film of the '70s--and they only missed by several light years. Strains for an Altman feel, but the director was a TV guy, and it really shows. (Lots of TV stalwarts in the cast.) One fascinating performer: Stacey Nelkin, who was supposedly the basis for the Tracy character in Manhattan.

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsN/12723-7921.jpg

lol clemenza giving Knuckleball! the same rating as La Jetee and better than Hearts and Minds. (I saw it and it's a good sports doc, but come onnnn.)

the Italian clip in Precious is of de Sica's Two Women.

Expressing my own personal reaction. Like George Costanza says: what am I, trying to win an Academy Award here? I wrote a bit about why I liked Knuckleball so much on the baseball movies thread.

Girl Model is fucking brutal.
http://www.girlmodelthemovie.com/trailer.html
the fibroid scene is some serious madness. the lead character is somewhere between insane and evil.
will be on POV eventually but be warned, it's a tough watch.

Citizen Kane
Zodiac
Fallen Angels
Shallow Grave

Red Dog (2011) Now I want my very own Kelpie!

Beauty is Embarrassing is cool, a little too feel good for my taste but fun. Wayne White is an awesome dude.

Girl in Progress (2012)

The Stranglers Of Bombay
Amarcord (Blu)
Stardust Memories
Two English Girls
The Avengers

Carnival Of Souls (Henk Harvey, 1962)
Eyes Without A Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984)

^comments on the Horror movie poll thread.

Total Recall (Len Wiseman, 2012). So Beckinsdale has a great arse. Must we do this again?
Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012) - comments on the thread.

Lawless
Dredd

what was Dredd like?

I posted about it after I goit home, I thought it was great. Look up my entry under Best Dredd (I think). i have to head out for a bus or I'd look up the URL.

Best Dredd

Dredd has a leanness to it that is missing from many current action movies. Loved it.

Yeah a lot of my FB friends are giving it kudos. I thought the trailer looked good but I was skeptical that it might be all action and no plot though.

watched 'arbitrage' - is bad, & teal 'n orange

best line is by gere - "what's an applebees?"

Before Sunrise (lots of talking)
In The Loop (funny)
Tintin (disappointing)

Summer Wars is nutjob crazy; major climax is a virtual hanafuda card game... with THE HUMAN RACE AT STAKE
great animation, solid voice acting and a fun film overall tho

watched Marley last night - lots of good footage

Crank
not seen it before but one of first things that occured to me was 'did somebody see Speed and think they could use the same idea' but instead of using a bus we'll use a person and instead of him taking speed we'll use another drug.
Very B but pretty watchable I guess, I don't think the sequel or 2 was as watchable if I remember it right.
But watching the guy chasing half way across LA or wherever that was with his ass hanging out of a hospital gown without him being stopped by the law seemed dubious. As did him being able to get across town still wearing the hospital robe but now riding a stolen police motorcycle. Even after he's crashed it into a restaurant table.
I do expect some concession to reality from my B movies, I mean.

Detropia is well worth seeing; nicely balanced look at a city on the brink. Would've liked another two hours of it for greater depth and exploration but excellent for what it was.

Crash (3/5)
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (4/5)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (3.5/5)
Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners (4/5)
Alex in Wonderland (2.5/5)
Manhunter (3/5)
Fallen Angel: Gram Parsons (4/5)
The Color of Money (4/5)
From the Other Side (3/5)
Playtime (#43 on the Sight & Sound list)

Crash was as cumbersome as I'd remembered, especially the last 15 minutes, but I still found the scene where Matt Dillon rescues Thandie Newton very moving, and there are other good moments here and there.

A New Leaf (1971, 3.5/5)
Sleepwalk with Me (2012; 3/5)
Real Life (1979; 3rd viewing; 4/5)
The Descendants (2011; 2.5/5)
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009; 3.5/5)
Seven Men From Now (1956; 4/5)
La Promesse (1996; 4/5)
Man on Fire (2004; 2/5)
The Master (2012; 3.5/5)

xp, Clemenza yr spot on about the rescue scene in Crash; I'm not much bothered by the rest of it but that bit is terrific.

Killing Them Softly - I'd give this a solid 8/9 out of 10. The plot's pretty threadbare and seems to only really exist as something to hang the characters and setpieces from, but some great dialogue and surprisingly funny throughout. As a whole it's more of a return to Dominik's style in Chopper than ...Jesse James, and it looks fantastic esp. in a series of choreographed sequences that pepper the film. Prob worth noting that it's *very* violent in parts.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Hallstrom, 2011) C-
The Cold Light of Day (El Mechri, 2011) C
Ted (MacFarlane, 2012) C+
Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis, 1995) B
Kafka (Soderbergh, 1991) B
Mirror, Mirror (Singh, 2011) C+
Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944) A-
Avengers Assemble (Whedon, 2012) C

Intolerable Cruelty (title sums it up)
Life Aquatic (average)
Stalker (best film ever)
Spirited Away (crazy)

Intolerable Cruelty is hilarious and underrated.