Last (x) movies you saw

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.

i'm not sure if you would like prospero's books more but it is my favorite of his; sensory overload

a friend pointed out that his films are kind of inhuman which is probably one reason i like them

greenaway is like sci-fi for art history majors

Might give Prospero's Books a go.

They are uninterested in character or motivation, which is ok depending on what you replace them with. The sexual encounters were filmed with a relish at Mrs. Herbert's distress, which I don't think Resnais (whom Greenaway liked) would've indulged in for a sec.

man I haaaaated Prospero's Books

greenaway liked resnais so much he stole his dp!

drowning by numbers
masque of the red death

scarecrow

The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)

shouldve watched andrei rublev too so i couldve got the big 3 from '66.

Die Hard, second time watching -- an action classic
Die Hard 2 -- what a travesty. airplane disaster movie with john mcclane pasted in. some decent set pieces (lol @ ejection seat) but that's it. hideo kojima must love this movie because i was spotting metal gear shit everywhere.
Die Hard With a Vengeance -- that's more like it! they revved up the pace to modern action trash levels -- was this the first major movie at this pace?

Vengeance is my fave in the series and possibly my fave action movie ever after Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Die Hard 2: my dad took me to see it when I was 11 on account of us having watched the original on cable so many times. Already afraid of flying from a childhood non-incident (some time following my first plane ride, I was watching tv when the news of a plane crash came on, to which my seven-year-old's response was "They can crash?!"; that my parents would willingly take me on something that could kill me severed a lot of trust right then and there) this film just made it stick. The plane crash in the film remains one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen in a movie. It's a pretty hostile and threatening film overall, what with the killing of the old man in the church and the revelation of James from Good Times as a villain all on addition to THAT CRASH. I guess I get why lotsa ppl hate it, but it remains a key viewing experience in my life, for better or worse.