Last (x) movies you saw

jeanne moreau is amazing

especially in diary of a chambermaid

not a fan of Chambermaid but can appreciate what Bunuel saw in her stride.

the best post-1950s bunuel

whoa whoa -- better than El, Robinson Crusoe, Nazarin, Viridiana, The Exterminating Angel, Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm --

my fingers hurt

anyway Jean Renoir made a proto-Bunuelian Diary of a Chambermaid in the forties

just uncontaminated social violence and trashing of la france profonde ruritanian pieties

nazarin was 50s iirc? viridiana.....maybe, i love viridiana though i think he was better with something more conventional and a little less archetypal to work against

his colour films are all overlit and slightly shonky, chamberbaid is tenebrist ether, lizardy camerawork, the spectre of poujadism lurking like nothing before seul contre tous

I guess this is the point where I shamefully admit that I have never seen a full length Bunuel film.

I mean, read enough to know that his films are something that I could either very easily love or very easily hate, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I will cut anyone who doesn't love Bunuel.

the last movie i saw that was really worth shit was EL SUR (erice, 1983)

otherwise some passable stuff, carax, james benning, kurt kren, ali which i preferred first time, con air, inside man was on tv the other day

I will cut anyone who doesn't love Bunuel.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:45 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also Simon > Chambermaid

also lately i have rewatched the Problem Child trilogy. 3 doesn't stand up as well as i remembered.

where do yis get the fuckin time

Saturday afternoon/evening with Hannah

she's not bringing you shopping yet then?

done that in the morning god help me

if it was over by the afternoon you don;t know nothin yet

i was sick yesterday so i watch some movies.

The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (I enjoyed the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford)
Days of Heaven x2 (didnt really have high expectations(although who doesnt love a romance starring richard gere right) but wow this is truly an all time great. i watched it twice.)

Turn Me On Dammit (i liked the dog. Norway's always nice to look at as well.
Videodrome (as crazy as ever. Seriously fucked and prob. my fave Cronenberg)

So far this week, in descending order of goodness (hint, only one of them was really all that good):

Amour
The Impossible
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
ParaNorman
Les Miserables

the 4th man (verhoeven)

^ love that movie

(re)watched melancholia last night

young Belmondo was beautiful-ugly, btw, like Laurence Fishburne. Woulda done both of em unhesitatingly.

The Turin Horse 3.5/4
Middle of Nowhere 2.5/4
Death Watch (1980, Tavernier) 2/4
Lincoln 3.5/4
Skyfall 3/4
Flight 1.5/4
Goon 2.5/4
This Must Be the Place 2.5/4
Charlie Is My Darling -- Ireland 1965 (1966/2012, Whitehead, Gochanour) 2.5/4
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP 3/4
How to Survive a Plague 3.5/4

Skyfall is beter than Death Watch?!?!

the little foxes
big bang love

Death Watch disappointed me greatly, like Tavernier's eqiv of Truffaut's F451, only worse.

yup

the hobbit
before sunset
touch of evil

totoro (again, current us translation)
rabbi's cat (better than i had hoped!)
wheel of time (again)

going out to see it's a wonderful life. no, i've never seen it.

Well it sure is a thing

It's a Wonderful Life is fine, underapprec'd for its darkness. It just has become a monument for mostly wrong reasons.

Haven't seen since I was a kid, when I liked it but was really like WTF for this very reason.

the preview makes a case for it as being a sexytime movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfZaT8ncYk

It's a Wonderful Life is fine, underapprec'd for its darkness.

Can't argue with this, but can't stand the sight of it anymore due to overexposure.

well yeah, I don't play Beatles records anymore either.

I've only seen it a couple of times myself, I quite like it. But I luckily escaped all the overexposure

also've never seen it; i know it's showing @ a college near me soon, might go but idk

thirst
ravenous

The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Rohmer, 1963)
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Bulldog Drummond's Bride

Rushmore. Pretty cool

turkish delight
black book
the draughtsman's contract
the innocents

Catching up on a few rec films:

The Draughtsman's Contract (Greenaway, 1982) - his trademark to care more about framed shots that are never all that than any actual narrative that was only there so people could give him money in the first instance. w/Michael Nyman's so-so soundtrack (which people can make more claims for because it was 'pop', yes seriously).

Le Quatro Volte (Frammartino, 2010) - seeing these next to one another I think if Greenaway wasn't so boring that's what he might've done. Terrific on fast forward.

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010) - r/gd. There is a Haneke-like bourgeois nightmare to this except the people don't appear as cultured in a western European way. Has a last 5 mins that owed a debt to Antonioni in a superficial way that paid off.

Cinema: Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987)

love LQV

Totally. Wish I'd seen it at the cinema.

i liked the draughtsman's contract

i wanted to poll these but i didn't have the energy to untangle the formatting into a list:

http://www.curzoncinemas.com/news/all/scott_walker_curzon_on_demand.aspx

clouds - I wish I did, quite liked Pillow Book when I caught it on TV about 10 years ago.