Last (x) movies you saw

snowed in & watched for the 1st time -

tiptoes - 3/5 - wish i could see the 2.5 hr directors cut; feel like, among other things, mcconaghey leaving his wife/kid is really chopped 2 shit; oldman is really good in this, too bad ppl think its a joke, it is not really a comedy @ all

lawrence of arabia - 4.5/5 - is really dope, love the arc of the character & how dark and drained out it is @ the end; otoole is amazing

teeth (mitchell lichtenstein, 2007)
gozu (takashi miike, 2003)
memories of murder (bong joon-ho, 2003)
the fearless vampire killers (polanski, 1967)
the neverending story (petersen, 1984)

Making my way through these Varda docs (linked on the Marker thread). Around for one more week.

RÉPONSE DE FEMMES (Orig.) / 1975 / France / 8 min
ELSA LA ROSE (Orig.) / 1965 / France / 20 min
LES DITES CARIATIDES (Orig.) / 1984 / France / 13 min
MUR MURS (Orig.) / 81 / France / 80 min
DOCUMENTEUR (Orig.) / 1981 / France / 63 min
UNCLE YANCO (Orig.) / 1967 / France / 22 min

Paranorman
quarter through lawless

both great looking but dumb/lazy

xp wow, thanks! have only seen cleo... & beaches of agnes but <3 both.

Bullhead (Michaël R. Roskam, 2011) - michael mann's film of the year according to the poster! I thought it was decent. It was late and I was drunk but although they were on some DO YOU SEE shit with the cattle hormones/testosterone plot the performances were good.

McBain (James Glickenhaus, 1991) - this is fucking nonsense and not even fun with it, bar the odd walken moment.

The Invisible War - 4/5: Most of the people who were involved in the interviews were part of the legal case, and so it didn't feel as objective as I'd prefer for such an important issue, but I was very moved by it nonetheless. I was happy to learn that Panetta had made the most crucial, basic change of taking decision-making away from the unit commanders, but clearly there's a long way to go.

Searching for Sugarman - 4/5: I adore the sort of music that Sixto Rodriguez made, and yet somehow had never heard him before. Reading up about Rodriguez after the movie, there are some inconsistencies. They sweetened the story a bit to make it more fun. But Rodriguez seems like a wonderful guy, and I loved his daughters. The difference between the idyllic beauty of Cape Town and the wintry city streets of Detroit was great. Could have done without some of the animation.

Certified Copy - awaiting the "alternate ending" in the deleted scene involving the boy in the intro at a mental asylum, holding a snowglobe...

McBain (James Glickenhaus, 1991) - this is fucking nonsense and not even fun with it, bar the odd walken moment.

Woah, McBain is a real movie?! Does he get Mendoza in the end?

Godspell (Greene, 1973) 3/5 Can't decide if my favourite bit was when Jesus and the disciples are partying in the fountain or the bit when the pharisees are a robotic monster.
The Red Shoes (Archers, 1948) 4.5/5 such a colourful and fun movie. I love how long and fantastical the ballet section is. I saw Play Time last week and it strikes me how both are one-of-a-kind type movies.
The Killing (Kubrick, 1956) 3.5/5 quality noir.
Cruel Intentions (Kumble, 1999) 2.5/5 stop judging me!

I tried to watch Pickpocket (sat night) and Close-Up (sun night) but was too tired to give either the attention they deserved.

An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962)
I Was Born, But... (Ozu, 1932)

oh, an alternate ending for certified copy ..

les glaneurs et la glaneuse (varda). graceful and seems so effortless, 10/10.
la mala educacion (almodovar), good as usual.

Slither (1973, Zieff) 6/10
Hearts of the West (1975, Zieff) 7/10
Footnote (2011, Cedar) 6/10
Perret in France and Algeria (2012, Emigholz) 8/10
Five Broken Cameras 7/10
Troublemakers (1966, Macover, Fruchter) 7/10
The Contract (1977, Kiarostami) 7/10
Sitting Pretty (1933, Brown) 6/10
Silver Linings Playbook 5/10
Moonrise Kingdom 9/10
Killer Joe 5/10

I.D. (Phil Davis, 1995) 3/5
7 Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, 2012) 1/5
Jamon Jamon (Bigas Luna, 1992) 4/5
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981) 4/5

argo yeah ok
flight yeah ok, to a point
lawless never ok
network better than ok but got a bit much
manhattan great
nashville didnt get this but enjoyed it anyway

Beauty is Embarrassing (2012; 3/5)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012; 4/5)
The Long Day Closes (1992; 5/5)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948; 5/5)
The Imposter (2012; 3.5/5)
In a Lonely Place (1950; 2nd viewing; 5/5)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970; 3/5)
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012; 2/5)

Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959) 4/5 To me this wasn't quite up there with the other two bressons i've seen. good tho nonetheless.
Close-up (Kiarostami, 1990) 4.5/5 awesome
Berberian Sound Studio (Strickland, 2012) 4/5 I liked this a lot
Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997) 3.5/5 good
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972) 3.5/5 fun but unsettling (lol satire)

Inescapable: cut rate South African/Canadian remake of Taken without any pacing that thinks it's far more clever than it is. not a good film

Amour: 5/5

"Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997)"

"Jaws (Stephen, 1975)"

i just stopped halfway through code unknown so i can finish it fully awake; holy shit this is good.

sweet dreams

The Bitter Buddha, q+a with filmmaker and Eddie Pepitone followed, of course I had to ask a babbling non-question like every q+a of any kind

L’UNIVERS DE JACQUES DEMY (Orig.) (Varda, 1993) - always good to see film footage but yu can't help feeling she is guarded abut Demy in a way Varda might not be about herself in her other films. Makes the silence on his death strange.

nashville didnt get this but enjoyed it anyway

― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac)

Just noticed this, would like to hear more. If you enjoyed it, I think you did get it.

Ha that's fair, having read the threads on it.

enjoyed it but thought it was pretentious overrated rubbish

If you mean the film itself, as opposed to all that's been written about it, I don't totally understand the charge of pretentiousness. To me that always goes hand in hand with excessive solemnity, which is not Nashville. I can certainly understand where someone might find it unfunny or glib.

Nakhville

Naffville?

M*A*S*H*

should have called it M*E*S*S*

The Too Long Goodbye

xpost whaaat

Ashes of Time Redux (Stephen, 1975. Haha, happy now Albert?) 3.5/5 There were some beautiful bits (all the birdcage stuff) and then "you gained an egg but lost a finger. was it worth it?" was a good line but ultimately it was too hard to follow.
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999) 5/5 my second watch. loved it.
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980) 5/5 great
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987) 4/5 the first half is perfect but the second half is a mess imo.
Iron Giant (Bird, 1999) 3/5 ok.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen, 2010) 2.5/5 whatev.

wong is the surname

antares (gotz spiegelmann '04) 3.5/5
bellflower (evan glodell '11) 3/5
walking and talking (holofcener '96) 3/5
drive, he said (nicholson '71) 1.5/5
reds (beatty, '81) 3/5
eyes of laura mars (irvin kershner, '78) 1.5/5
seance on a wet afternoon (forbes, '64) 4/5 - anyone see the nu-kurosawa version? any good?
rapture (john guillermin, '65) 3.5/5
invisible waves (pen-ek ratanaruang, '06) 3/5

what'd u think of reds johny

reasonably into it, felt a bit too academic but the witnesses are great; beatty is p blank, honestly dont feel like i learned much abt reed; liked keaton; needed more nicholson as oneill

leviathan is a dream of hell and drowning and should be seen in theaters for sure.

Premium Rush (Koepp, 2012) B
End of Watch (Ayer,2012) B+
Your Sister's Sister (Shelton, 2011) B-
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968) A
Charade (Kellino, 1953) C+
Dreams of a Life (Morley, 2012) B
The Sweeney (Love, 2012) C
Intouchables (Toledano, 2011) B+
Frankenweenie (Burton, 2012) C. I kind of wish Burton would stretch himself and make a movie about some 'normal' people as his gothic schtick feels well played out now.
His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) B
McCullin (Morris, 2012) A
Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012) B
Gambit (Hoffman, 2012) C. Not the car crash I was expecting but given the talent involved should have been so much better.

leviathan is like live-action brakhage

brakhage's The Jungle maybe yeah

Tempest, the (2010, Taymor) ***
Mona Lisa (1986, Jordan) C+
Crash (2004, Haggis) http://www.robertchristgau.com/icon/x2.gif
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima) has redeeming facet
Kes (1970, Loach) +++++
Senso (1954, Visconti) SSS
Taken (2009, Morel) 4 jox
Threepenny Opera, the (1931, Pabst) PG
Observe and Report (2009, Hill) 9/4/8/7

Funny you should ref christgau, as that is the first rating system I've seen that's more convoluted than his.

seul contre tous (noe)
noriko's dinner table (sono)

The Master (PTA, 2012) - 3/5
Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012) - 3/5
Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012) - 3.5/5
High Noon (Fred Zinneman, 1952) - 3/5
A Good Day to Die Hard - 0/5
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011) - 2.5/5

Lore (Cate Shortland, 2013) - Germany's post WWII fallout as Bavarian folk tale. Haunting, and pretty. Saskia Rosendahl is perfect as the sullen, stubborn, conflicted Aryan teen leading her siblings through the Black Forest in occupied Germany. 4/5
Absentia (Mike Flanagan, 2012) - Spookily effective and creepy slow-burn indie horror on a Kickstarter budget. 3.5/5
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) - Anti-Western in which the genre's familiar landscape of Monument Valley and dusty border towns is replaced with the bone-chilling, snowy wastes of Utah, and the trope of the taciturn, lone wolf hero single-handedly saving a town from outlaws is mockingly skewered. 3.5/5
Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) - Incredible art design and costumes etc, and Tilda Swinton - who is hilarious - has exactly the type of face you would expect to see gazing out from an Elizabethan portrait. 4/5

Feeling those DavidM. Thought Lore was brilliant.

Saw die hard another day, twas cack.

Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano, 2005) - while I enjoyed Fellini's 8½ immensely, it's a shame that every director seems to feel they have to do their own version of it when they run out of ideas. (2/5)
Le Quai des Brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938) - doom-laden from the first scene onwards, it can only end one way - badly! Extremely French. Michel Simon is great in this one. (5/5)
Sanshiro Sugata Pt.1 (Akira Kurosawa, 1943) - very good debut, now I have the rest of the Early Kurosawa box set to trawl through, hope it's all as good as this. (4/5)

Couldn't find Kôhei Oguri's name in a search, so I'm not sure if Muddy River (1981) has ever been mentioned on the board. I saw it this afternoon for the first time. A couple of minor quibbles with the last 15 minutes--which is pretty great regardless--but I think I'd put it just a notch below The 400 Blows, Pather Panchali, and L'enfance nue as the best films ever made about kids.

Man the we and the i sucked

le quattro volte (michelangelo frammartino, 2010): 4.5/5
bronson (nicholas wending refn, 2008): 3.5/5
gigante (adrian biniez, 2009): 3.5/5
the man from nowhere (jeong-beom lee, 2010): 3.5/5
that evening sun (scott teems, 2009): 3.5/5
the woman in the window (fritz lang, 1944): 4/5
what happened was ... (tom noonan, 1994): 3.5/5