Last (x) movies you saw

Know what you mean but in a few eps you get that moment where the narrative (interesting for TV but utterly conservative by the standards of much European and even US film of certain eras) is broken up by pretty shots of speeded up clouds, sunrises and sets, and everytime I bury my face in my hands.

I'd probably say 8/10 for Earrings, but I wouldn't begin to know how to rate WR. I don't think I got into the headspace that Makavejev wanted me in -- but who knows? I did laugh a couple of times, and the film held my attention to the end, but a rating? Uhhh...

yeah how can you rate "sweet movie"

since the new year:

in the loop
les amants du pont-neuf
two days in paris
certified copy

8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963) Didn't finish. I started watching it late and got through an hour. The next day I couldn't face watching the rest. One day, one day.
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983) Lovely stuff. The pool scene is as good as everyone says.

try satyricon or juliet of the spirits

clouds, etc - pl don't deprive us of yr ratings!!

― Ward Fowler, Friday, January 4, 2013 12:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol.

Yesterday I saw Madagascar 3 in the morning with my daughter and Melancholia in the evening. Both contained horses and sunsets and were much better than I expected.

should i watch sweet movie?

Sure, bro.

Its sweet.

FACTS, claire denis was an assistant director or something like that

Enjoyed Jack Reacher last night, much better than I'd expected. Pretty atmospheric, visceral, even violent for a 12A cert.
Cruise just about pulled it off but I did wonder who else would have made a better Reacher. Might just prompt me to reading some of the books if I didn't already have a major stack of stuff to read.
Well if anything turns up cheap somewhere I probably will but do have quite a backlog.

& I think I'll go & see the 3D Hobbit on Wednesday, enjoyed the 2D one.

kinda excited on seeing 56 up

i like the ratings because when i see someone give la belle noiseuse 2 out of 5 i know we prob don't have v much in common as cineastes

I like other people's ratings b/c mine are never as interesting as theirs.

DVD Screener Season so caught up on a bunch of things the past few days:

Lincoln : excellent
The Hobbit : Manic, colorful. Like a Richard Dadd fantasia on speed. Amazed how fake some of the CG looked compared to the previous "LOTR" films but
it wasn't too distracting. Also loved when it shot off into past battles/history.
Berberian Sound Studio: Very good and strange.

lol.

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, January 4, 2013 12:39 PM (4 hours ago)

what? you don't like my ratings? u_u

Safety Not Guaranteed: Really liked it

i thought he was being sarcastic. i dunno man, numbers next to words, i dont get it i guess! i mean i have a Criticker but i just use it to remind myself what ive seen...

that's mostly why i post here too; also maybe someone will comment and we can talk abt rad movies

schwecater (kubelka, 1958)

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bourne legacy (?, 2012)

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analyze this (ramis, 1999)

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berberian sound studio (strickland, 1999)

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holy motors (carax, 2011)

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now thats what im talkin about

best rating system ever

I noticed Shane Carruth gets a 'special thanks' credit on Looper. I thought his 2004 film Primer was far superior tbh. Not that I am dissing Looper, it was a decent movie.

Not exactly from reading reviews, more like gliding across them, I've got an overwhelming sense that Holy Motors is not for me.

prob not

Night Shift - yay, but the Henry Winkler character was a lot more boring than i remember. Edible garbage tho
Beetlejuice - double yay. never gets old for me
Mr Mom - yay. not as funny as i remembered. but mk v handsome
Pitch Perfect - kinda yay? i thought i could cope with the Glee-e-ness but it did wig me out quite a bit. I like Anna Kendrick tho.

The Bourne Identity (Liman, 2002) - finally caught this on TV a few nights ago. "Oh yeah that guy from Oz is in it?" was about all I could manage.

On TV just now: All that Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955) - nice angles, colour, and oh look the TV IS A MIRROR aside the chemistry between the leads is great, all those gestures are made to count, and you can see what Fassbinder saw in the viciousness of the people around Cary (except here there is unexpected turn of kindness as the daughter somehow understands and the doctor turns psychologist -- and how funny is the daughter's psychobabble?) Incredible re-working of the last shot in Fear Eats the Soul, OR IS IT NOW? Maybe life won't be happy after all...

Above all though, and its interesting after-life, and despite the non-dilemma (laughable now) its the two leads that would make you go back to it.

Also amazed that this film has class out there in the open...was trying to think of more US films that had that in there. Guess that must every Britisher's reaction to this film.

And one more thing I thought of was terence Davies, esp. Deep Blue Sea, the need for passion, perhaps...

the hobbit: way too long, actually had to hold myself back from booing at the end
happy accidents: rewatched, still awesome, def top 5 of last year
the campaign: decent mainstream commedy, i laughed several times, 7/10
ted: v funny mainstream comedy, 8/10
seeking a friend for the end of the world: not non-stop hilarious but occasional blasts of truly fucked up black humor. worth a watch on date night if your date gets the warm cuddlies from laughing at everyone dying and stuff

Charade

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham)

Arsenic and Old Lace

― Sarah McLusky (coco)

to catch a thief! it was a few months back but i was pleasantly surprised how well it stands up still, 10/10

Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959) funny/5
As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai, 1988) violent/5 (surprisingly enjoyable if lesser wkw)
Dancer In The Dark (Von Trier, 2000) sad/5

True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2010)
The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Huw Evans, 2012)
Girl Walk // All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2012)
Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark, 2010)

Border Radio (Anders, Lent, Voss, 1987) - 1/10. What an utter waste of film stock. Gets one point for managing to catch a few decent California desert still-lifes.

Django Unchained : Liked this. Very creepy turn by DiCaprio i thought. Bloody fun. I had read the leaked script a couple of years ago and never thought
it had a chance in hell of being filmed; but he did it.

I watched The Impossible in the cinema last night. Much much better than I expected.

56 up was lovely, totally humanistic and entrancing.
Left the theater and the jockey was outside shaking hands, clearly loving the attention.
Def worth seeing regardless how familiar you are with the series

Finally saw Moonrise Kingdom. It seems like Wes Anderson is kind of turning into Tim Burton.

variety (1983, bette gordon) 3/5
alphabet city (1984, amos poe) 1/5
dont come knocking (2005, wenders) 2/5
dark horse (2012, solondz) 2.5/5
shame (2012, mcqueen) 2/5
the kid w/ a bike (2011, dardennes) 4/5
not fade away (2012, chase) 4/5
the new world (2005, malick) 3/5

how was dark horse, i thought about seein that

it's pretty slight, not nearly as funny as it ought to be, idk it's not bad u might dig it

I wanna see it cause I like Solondz, but I have yet to hear a single good thing about it.

Watched something tonight that I've wanted to see since it was in theatres in 1978: Claudia Weill's Girlfriends. (Ordered it online a few weeks ago.) Don't know why I didn't see at the time--it wasn't that difficult to get into an R-rated film at 17 then. Anyway, excellent. Melanie Mayron, who never really had a film career to speak of afterwards (seems to do well in television), is very fetching. Maybe the only subdued performance I've ever seen from Eli Wallach, and Christopher Guest is really good too. I can't remember if I saw Weill's It's My Turn, which got the cover of Rolling Stone a couple of years later.

Komal Gandhar aka A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale (Ghatak, 1961) - the version here has some nasty subs: some dialogue is missing and some of what remains is awkwardly rendered too. The theme of a divided creative unit(s) (two theatre groups that come together that fails) and a divided nation is quite clear but any nuance in plot and the relationships between the members of the group is missing due to the current condition of the subs.

Still though happy to have watched is if you've as I know the themes hes explored: there are glimpses of the visual flair to come, it has a mix of these erratically edited images coupled w/an overloaded music. Incredible, beautiful music and I don't mean just the soundtrack - the way he uses music and diegetic sounds must've been utterly unique for its time. Its a feature that has been observed across his oeuvre, but a peak is reached here. There is a marvellous scene of the soundtrack tape going wrong in one the part of the shambolic performance of the play, recalling Jacques Rivette (of all people) in that regard. I doubt he watched any French new Wave, he was already using sound like that in 1959 (there is a film of his about a runaway boy that I think was released a year before 400 Blows and yet he is interested in politics in a way that the catholics of the French New Wave wouldn't be.

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Oshima, 1969)
The Master (Thomas Anderson, 2012) - saw it as a sequel of sorts to A Dangerous Method. Now I'm going to hunt for a thread on this film.
The Hunt (Vinterberg, 2012)
Hors Satan (Dumon, 2012) - FILM OF THE YEAR, and only 2nd week of 2013 too.

Zero Dark Thirty: 4
Sleepwalk With Me: 2

Saw the 3D version of The Hobbit, cos it was my Birthday . Looks quite impressive in 3D too. 2D was pretty good too, wish it wasn't a full year before the next one.

Well got Django next week and probably a few other things about to happen.

The Cat Returns is not ghibli's strongest. good fun for, i imagine, the 8 to 12 year old crowd.

the cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover - found this amazing, really one of my favourite things i've ever seen, just such a lurid intensity about it.

insignificance - quite enjoyed this but it was a bit insubstantial in parts.

berberian sound studio - faded away a bit into vagueness near the end, but it had a really gripping mood nonetheless.