Last (x) movies you saw

worst Anne Hathaway though?

Wow, we strongly disagree on beyond the hills. I love that last scene, it is the first moment that i saw the director drive the camera and force a perspective and the instant he does, it is cramped, urban and promptly muddied. Its a sorta indictment on the modern method of presumption of guilt; i was touched by how patient and inclusive he is with all the characters.

wish the nurse were in every scene

I think making the audience suffer is sometimes a good thing, as it was here.

Armond thought it was an anti-religion diatribe.

I'm only imagining how Armond is going to try to tie Oblivion into the media silence on Kermit Gosnell.

Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) - Blu-ray transfer is exceptional 5/5

Blade Runner: Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982) - I don't like the Matrix-y slight greenish tint they've added to this version. 5/5

Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958) - Stoker's novel boiled down to its essential core, and then made sexy. The quintessential Hammer; wonderfully colourful with incredibly lavish set and costume design. 4/5

Ghostbusters II (Ivan Reitman, 1989) - I've somehow never seen this until now. Lacks the humour and energy of the first movie, leaving it to Bill Murray to provide the majority of the fun, only he's not firing on all cylinders here. Messy plot, and sloppy editing which keeps draining scenes of their liveliness, but still a fun watch. 2/5

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (John Madden, 2012) - Overlong and predictable holiday brochure movie packed with National Treasure thesps. The scene where Dame Judi lectures Indian call centre workers on how to be nicer to their British customers is the absolute worst. 1/5

Side Effects (Soderbergh, 2013) - A film about the risks of antidepressants that morphs into a pulpy twisty thriller is a bit of an odd note to bow out on. Soderbergh is more fascinated with Rooney Mara's face than anything else. 3/5

Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski, 2013) - Better than Tron: Legacy, but is similarly great to look at, but really unengaging. Cruise is crap. 2/5

To the Wonder (Malick, 2013) - It has a nice dreamlike sensuality, but it's a drag. Ben Affleck looks lost, and someone needs to have a word with Malick regarding his depiction of women. Where's the director of Badlands? I want him back. 2/5

The Trouble with Money (1936, Ophuls) 7/10
Design for Living (1933, Lubitsch) 8/10
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957, Tashlin) 9/10
Spring Breakers (2012, Korine) 6/10
The Last Detail (1973, Ashby) 8/10
The Five-Year Engagement (2012, Stoller) 6/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, Hitchcock) 8/10
Beyond the Hills(2012, Mungiu) 8/10
Leviathan (2012, Castaing-Taylor and Paravel) 5/10
Bachelor Flat (1962, Tashlin) 7/10
Artists and Models (1955, Tashlin) 6/10
L'Atalante (1934, Vigo) 10/10
AKA Doc Pomus (2012, Miller and Hechter) 6/10

all the old movies are rewatches except for Ophuls and Bachelor Flat

anyone seen Ginger & Rosa?

"the nurse were in every scene" --> that's a misunderstanding of what Mungiu does. She takes the role of the abortionist in 4 months...

I never felt that it was that much of a torture at all. So much is screams and it was about 30 mins of a 2.5 hour movie. Its really more of a gradual thing...

Wasn't the brother incapable of making any decisions? Didn't seem like he could take care of anyone, and as for the hospital its quite clear that care is v erratic, depends on who is on that day.

I'd say it was supposed to be clear he wasn't gonna make any decisions. Ha sthere been anything written about the case this was based on?

The Upsetter: The Life And Music Of Lee Scratch Perry
a great bio of the Jamaican artist and producer including some footag ein and around the Black Ark and from several other points in his history. I'd reccomend this to anyone interested in the guy though it does show him being pretty eccentric in places, which I guess is part of the picture but not sure if certain bits actuallly needed inclusion, the scene in the shop towards the end included.

Room 237
an investigation into some of the possible interpretations of Stanley kubrick's The Shining based on mise en scene etc. & the idea that Kubrick had admittedly placed objects in frame on other pictures to indicate background stories etc. Pretty well made and seems to trigger further investigation. Funny watching this the same week taht I see Robert webb on a BBC 3 Great Movie mistakes talking about how geeky the process of meticulously checking over each frame of a film for mistakes is. Though it does look like the mistakes, incidental details that Kubrick left in were intentional to some degree.

Notes Towards an African Orestes/Notes on India (Pasolini, 1975/1969). Gives an insight on Pasolini, who is in shit-head mode when asking a group of African students, after screening his essay on applying Oresteia to the anti-colonial struggle, what they think of this, or when it should be set 1960 or 1970? (Answer: who cares). I'm harshing on it but there were other good things: free jazz performance (audience reaction as that went on was a memory), and Pasolini's readings of the play.

Notes on India was flat-out great: poverty, the caste system, hardly much movement on that..

A Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse, 1960)

Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton, 1928) 5/5
A Monster in Paris (Bergeron, 2011) 2.5/5
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984) 5/5

Portrait of Jason was great and i saw it with the perfect, astonishingly old school ny audience: 10pm show in the west village with a pair of screaming, very drunk queens seated stage right, vociferous lesbians making one row in front of me and dude on the front row getting head from his date for half the film and then them ducking out twice, presumably to fuck in the bathroom.
film itself is just a knockout.

the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - directed by paul newman; this was v good, darkly comic but highly relatable, great dialogue (play won the pulitzer); joanne woodward is a tragic matriarch her heart is full, it all sorta made me think of grey gardens

An Innocent Man (Peter Yates + Tom Selleck) -- 3/5: Better than that in some ways, but some of the writing is terrible.
Koch -- 4/5
Joe Papp in Five Acts -- 4/5
The Friends of Eddie Coyle -- 4/5
Boogie Nights -- 5/5
Nixon -- 5/5
Bert Stern: Original Madman -- 3.5/5: Thought I'd like this more than I did. Stern is a little tiresome after a while; great photos, of course.
Taxi Driver -- 5/5
Light Sleeper -- 3.5/5: Some good things in there, but what an awful, oppressive score.

Badlands (1973; 3rd viewing) 5/5
Sound City (2012) 3/5
Tabu (2012) 3.5/5
Devi (1960) 4/5
A Well-Spent Life (1971) 4/5
Primer (2004) So damn confusing I have no idea what to rate it.

John Carter (2012, Stanton)
Hellboy (2004, del Toro)
New York, New York (1977, Scorsese)
Dark Shadows (2012, Burton)
Argo (2012, Affleck) that's it?
Broadway Melody, the (1929, Beaumont) very weak
Superman 2 (1980, Donner/Lester) [Donner cut]
Wings (1927, Wellman) had to fast forward through some parts

The End of Summer (Ozu, 1961)
Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi, 1936)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)

These last few weeks at Copenhagen film festival:

Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi)
War Witch (Kim Nguyen)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
After the Battle (Yousry Nasrallah)
The We and the I (Michel Gondry)
Smoking (Alain Resnais)
Pieta (Kim Ki-duk)
Inland Empire - More Things That Happened (David Lynch)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Science of Sleep - Version B (Michel Gondry)
Shanghai (Dibakar Banerjee)
Outrage Beyond (Takeshi Kitano)
Gold (Thomas Arslan)
90 Minutes (Eva Sørhaug)
The Land of Hope (Sion Sono)
In Another Country (Hong San-soo)
Night (Leonardo Brzezicki)
Harmony Lessons (Emir Baigazin)
No (Pablo Larrain)
The Plague (Neus Ballus)
Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
Paradise: Faith (Seidl)
Paradise: Hope (Yup, Seidl)
Night Across the Street (Raul Ruiz)
La Belle Noiseuse - Divertimento (Jaques Rivette)
Penance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Benur (Massimo Andrei)
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)

Some of them were very good.

haha, that does sound ideal, forks.

Some folks find Jason probematic in terms of black/queer rpresentation by white filmmakers. I haven't seen it yet.

Inland Empire - More Things That Happened

That's pretty much the greatest title ever, at least until There Will Be Blood - Some Parts We Left Out comes along.

i can see the issues with Jason morbs but it's a film that felt really honest in its dishonesty if that makes sense

secret ceremony
privilege

A Married Couple (1969)

Wings (1927, Wellman) had to fast forward through some parts

blauuuughhhhh

Iron MAn 3 really enjoyed it. Pretty destructive, hadn't realised who Shane Black was until I looked him up.
Noticing people noting that it's become more of an action movie tahn a superhero one but noty sure taht exactly follows.
Anyway found it a lot of fun and it has a post credits scene if you haven't seen it yet. Plus some really great ending credits which reminded me of something out of Gerry Anderson especially the Captain Scarlett ones. Or some kind of 60s tv detective/crimefighter group credits.

MIght have to see it again and probably still need to see #2 propeerly. Caught the end of it a couple of weeks back and hadn't realised the Black Widow was in it.

abt to watch peter watkins's edvard munch

Looks like a good idea.

Fireworks (1947, Anger) 10/10
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Deren, Hammid) 9/10
A Movie (1958, Conner) 9/10
Harakiri (1919, Lang) 7/10
Trance (2013, Boyle) 4/10
Pushover (1954, Quine) 6/10
Human Desire (1954, Lang) 7/10
Side Effects (2013, Soderbergh) 5/10
Un Flic (1972, Melville) 7/10
The Brothers Rico (1957, Karlson) 7/10
To the Wonder (2012, Malick) 6/10
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011, Freidrichs) 7/10
The Wandering Shadow (1920, Lang) 6/10
Upstream Color (2013, Carruth) 7/10

Early Summer (Ozu, 1951) 4/5
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925) 4/5
The Trial (Welles, 1962) 4.5/5
Daisies (Chytilova, 1966) 3/5

love love love 'meshes of the afternoon.' (and 'daisies')

The Sure Thing (3.3174/5)

Daphne Zuniga is fetching; the rest is from some world I missed by about seven years, though I will add it to my list of road movies. Doesn't anyone else on this thread ever watch stupid movies?

yes. I watched Trance.

Subway (1985, Besson) 2/5
The Wages of Fear (1953, Clouzot) 5/5
Italian for Beginners (2000, Scherfig) 3/5
Stroszek (1977, Herzog) 5/5
The Queen of Versailles (2012, Greenfield) 4/5
What Richard Did (Abrahamson, 2012) 4/5

A couple from the SFIFF:

The Act of Killing (2012): I found this incredibly disturbing and a bit morally questionable, but it was fascinating nonetheless. Also it made me painfully aware of how little I know about Indonesia and its history. 4/5

After Tiller (2103): Very good documentary about the four US doctors who provide late-term abortions, in the years after the murder of their mentor Dr. George Tiller. Surprisingly moving and well-made. 4.5/5

2013, not 2103!

saw the russian movie in the fog at the cinema tonight, anyone seen it? Wartime thriller about collaboration/resistance with like philosophy & that, pretty #slowcinema, started off with an incredible long-take scene at a hanging. I knew just from that that it was my kinda movie, drifted off for a bit but it was really good I reckon

Le Rapace
Colors
Gangs Of Wasseypur 1

Post Tenebras Lux 7/10
*This Is Not a Film 8/10
Something in the Air {Apres Mai] 7/10
In the House 6/10
*The Kid with a Bike 8/10
Four Around the Woman (1921, Lang) 7/10
Sorcerer (1977, Friedkin) 7/10
No 7/10
*Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock) 9/10
Portrait of Jason (1967, Clarke) 8/10

*rewatches

is Sorcerer worth tracking down? always been curious about it.

A Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
48 Hours (1982)
Who'll Stop The Rain (1978)
The Lords of Salem (2012)

All great films save 'Salem' which is Rob Zombie's newie. Bailed an hour in, though.

Also, xpost, yes, Sorcerer well worth watching. Among Friedkin's best.

Cracks (2009)

Oblivion
Withnail & I
Groundhog Day
City Lights
Crumb
Chungking Express
Ordet
The Last Laugh

Sorcerer DVD due at year end

Saw "Fire Over England" (1937) on TCM the other day, great film about the Spanish Armada with Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Excellent period sets and costumes. Doesn't seem to be well loved or talked about much.

Lady and the Tramp (1955) first viewing since childhood -- i like the beginning where the dogs act like dogs. the 50s social mores are pretty WTF, like Lady's platonic friends almost proposing marriage after she leaves the tramp.
Killer Joe (2012, Friedman)
Alien 3 (1992, Fincher) ["Assembly Cut"]
Friday the 13th (1980, Cunningham)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Bigelow)
Django Unchained (2012, Tarantino)
Get Crazy (1983, Arkush) on youtube while distracted
Great Ziegfeld, the (1936, Robert Z. Leonard)
All the King's Men (1949, Rossen)
Around the World in 80 Days (1949, Rossen) rewatch -- at least i think i saw this before. early todd-ao photography is interesting. not much else is.

oops on 80 Days, that's '56, can't remember who the director is