Last (x) movies you saw

Rushmore (5/5--first time in a theatre since it came out)
Murder in the First (3/5)
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (3.5/5)
A Civil Action (3.5/5)
Good 'Ol Freda (4/5)
Tiny Furniture (4/5--still mulling this over; maybe a notch higher or lower)
Frances Ha (4/5)
Trick Baby (3.5/5)
Terms and Conditions May Apply (3.5/5)
A Brighter Summer Day (3.5/5--like Yi Yi better)

* = rewatches

this is 40 8/10
berberian sound studio 6/10
the worlds end 8/10
the hunt 9/10
*forrest gump 6/10
*super 8/10
black god white devil 9/10
the tourist 5/10
evan almighty 4/10
*planes trains and automobiles 10/10
*this sporting life 10/10
the break up 6/10
orphan 5/10
sightseers 8/10

Europa Report: 4/10
Elysium: 5/10
Repo Men: 3/10
Dreyer's Ordet, but with the subtitles turned off and very high: 10/10

day for night (truffaut 73) 4/5
the wild child (truffaut 70) 3/5
the l-shaped room (forbes 62) 4/5
the swimming pool (jacques deray 68) 4/5
l'avventura (antonioni 60) 3.5/5
falling angels (scott smith 2003) 4/5
the hunger (tony scott 83) 2/5
little white lies (canet 2010) 2.5/5
after life (koreeda 98) 3/5

Someone was watching TCMs Truffaut Fridays last month, I take it. I PVRd quite a few of the ones I haven't seen (DfN included) but haven't watched any yet.

sure was; avoid 'the woman next door' imo

Haven't seen that one but didn't PVR it cause a) I'd never heard of it and b) my queue is getting insanely bloated.

the l-shaped room (forbes 62) 4/5

thats a very under-rated movie. TCM in the US seems to be of a much higher standard than in the UK/Ireland. We seem to get nothing but B-grade Westerns on TCM here.

someone needs to write a defense of those late Truffauts -- ugh

Only late Truffaut I've seen is The Last Metro, which ain't bad, but which I have a hard time remembering now only five or six years after seeing it.

alfred, i know you're a jamesian - have you seen The Green Room (I haven't)? i've read 'the altar of the dead', which in memory seems to be one of those late, inner-directed james short stories like 'the beast in the jungle' - ie p unfilmable

j crunch, 3/5 out of 5 is p. harsh on wild child, imho (it wld make a gd dbl w/ herzog's kaspar hauser). truffaut is such a gd actor - he brings the real to close encounters :-)

Love in the Afternoon (1971, Rohmer) 4/5
Black Christmas (1974, Clark) 3/5
Paris Nous Appartient (1961, Rivette) 5/5
Man of Steel (1973, Snyder) 2/5
You, the Living (2007, Andersson) 3/5
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973, Yates) 4/5
Scarlet Street ((1945, Lang) 4/5
World War Z (who cares) 1/5
The London Nobody Knows (1969, Cohen) 3/5
Histoires Du Cinema 1-4 (1988-98, Godard) 5/5
The Silent Partner (1978, Duke) 4/5
Heaven Can Wait (1943, Lubitsch) 3/5
Now You See Me (2013, Leterrier) 1/5
Pacific Rim (2013, Del Toro) 2/5
Ten (2002, Kiarostami) 5/5
M*A*S*H (1970, Altman) 2/5
Umberto D (1952, De Sica) 4/5
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999, Jarmusch) 4/5
The World's End (2013, Wright) 2/5
La Collectionneuse (1967, Rohmer) 4/5
Frances Ha (2013, Baumbach) 4/5
The Conjuring (2013, Wan) 1/5
The Wolverine (2013, Mangold) 2/5
Only God Forgives (2013, Winding Refn) 3/5
Le Beau Mariage (1982, Rohmer) 4/5
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013, Lowney) 3/5
The Devils (1971, Russell) 4/5

Man of Steel (1973, Snyder) 2/5

waitaminnit now

lol!

j crunch, 3/5 out of 5 is p. harsh on wild child, imho (it wld make a gd dbl w/ herzog's kaspar hauser). truffaut is such a gd actor - he brings the real to close encounters :-)

im positive on it, skews too near like a science documentary 2 me, but the end is affecting; agree w/ u on truffaut as an actor

Get Carter (3/5--don’t understand why it’s so highly regarded)
Out of the Past (4/5--first time in many years; looks as good as any noir I can think of, find some of the last half-hour confusing)
The Devil Wears Prada (3.5/5--I wish Streep had more shading; she only gets to break character twice)
Peacock (2.5/5)
Urban Cowboy (3.5/5--didn’t expect Travolta and Winger to spend more of the film apart than together)
High Crimes (3/5)
In the Cut (3.5/5--weird; I swear that Meg Ryan is actually playing Nicole Kidman here)
Executive Decision (3.5/5--Kurt Russell as Kramer: “Now I’m driving the plane!”)
Love & Other Drugs (3.5/5--more movie stars)
Hereafter (3.5/5)

the thing 4/5
modern romance 4/5
the avengers 3/5
death by hanging 3/5
to the wonder 4.5/5
persona 5/5

glad you liked to the wonder, clouds, what did you make of it?

i loved the setting of rural/exurban homes as that is basically were i grew up, and i felt like malick understood both the beauty (and "wonder") of those places, but was also appropriately sensitive of the evil (the perfect subdivision homes existing in some karmic way due to the suffering of the poor people living on toxic land) and crushing isolation contained therein.

yeah that's nicely put. there was a ryan post in the thread about the poverty of the critiques of this movie, & it was frustrating to hear people beat the twinkling sunlight thing to death when those sequences were so dedicated to location - to living next to a cornfield one could feasibly go walk in, & to be divided from it in a boxy new home. i liked this film so much. would love to see again, particularly the roaming bardem scenes.

The Green Room is v good, Truffaut's best work as an actor too

Damm, for some reason there's no Region 2 DVD of Green Room

alfred, i know you're a jamesian - have you seen The Green Room (I haven't)? i've read 'the altar of the dead', which in memory seems to be one of those late, inner-directed james short stories like 'the beast in the jungle' - ie p unfilmable

Yes, in the late nineties. I wasn't too impressed with Truffaut the actor: so damn soft. But I remember watching the movie alongside the other late seventies fluff. I'd give it another shot.

Elysium: 2/5
Amer: 4.5/5
The Act of Killing: 4/5
Pain & Gain: 4/5

Born to Win (1971, Passer) 6/10
Taking Off (1971, Forman) 7/10
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955, Preminger) 7/10
Ice (1970, Kramer) 7/10
The Last Christeros (2011, Meyer) 6/10
Le Train (1973, Granier-Deferre) 7/10
The Gardener (2012, M. Makhmalbaf) 8/10
Drug War (2012, To) 7/10
*Seconds (1966, Frankenheimer) 8/10
The Happy Sad (2013, Evans) 3/10
Le Beaute du Diable (1950, Clair) 7/10
Off Label (2012, Palmieri, Mosher) 5/10
*L'avventura (1960, Antonioni) 9/10
*Stars in My Crown (1950, Tourneur) 10/10
Alexander the Last (2009, Swanberg) 6/10
*True Confessions (1981, Grosbard) 7/10
Lovelace (2013, Epstein, Friedman) 4/10
Kill Your Darlings (2013, Krokidas) 5/10

*rewatches

Agree with Morbs re: Truffaut as actor in TGR. He was very good as a subdued obsessive type - or at least a "highly dedicated" type - when he took on those sort of roles.

Una Noche - Great for a first film but weirdly rushed. That lady is a helluva filmmaker but I'm looking forward to the next film more than celebrating the first
The Big City (Satyajit Ray) - Interesting! Mostly about how society changes in the hothouse of urban settings. Gorgeous lead actress don't hurt.

had a double feature w a friend where we went to see frances ha & then came home & watched showgirls

i like the former far more than the latter.

Ain't Them Bodies Saints is pretty by the numbers.

er, sorry: latter more than former.

Was gonna say, "Are you NUTS?!"

Showgirls is sad garbage for the post-everything age. what a "rediscovery."

I already knew you're nuts.

happy people (herzog)
amour (haneke)

How is the former? Big Herzog fan but he's got way more out there than I'll ever have time to watch.

i loved it. probably on par with "wheel of time" for me as far as his docs go. oddly, or perhaps not oddly, similar in spirit to that film as well.

Nice! I'll keep an eye out for it.

Haven't done a roundup in a while (but haven't been watching as many movies lately as prep for the fall semester becomes a priority), so:

*The Player (Altman, 1992) 10/10
Day for Night (Truffaut, 1973) 5/10
*Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993) 8/10
Stories We Tell (Polley, 2012) 7/10
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (Trachtenberg, 2013) 8/10

*rewatches

i liked wheel of time A LOT more than happy people. worth bearing in mind that he didn't do any of the filming, just the narration and editing.
i'm not repping for showgirls, last saw it in college. but ANYTHING is better than francis fucking ha.

Calvaire (The Ordeal) (Du Walz, 2004) 8/10
Gozu (Miike, 2003) 8/10
The Imposter (Layton, 2012) 6/10
Magic Mike (Sodergergh, 2012) 8/10
Restrepo (Hetherington, Junger, 2010) 7/10

gozu is fuuuuucked

it sure is! i love miike

gozu is fuuuuucked

watched this last night.

damn i did not expect that.

still dont really know if i enjoyed it.

Some reviews compare it to the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth.

Gozu IS fucked but you should try Visitor Q sometime

yeah no, my bf has told me enough abt it

that's the breast milk one, yeah

Herzog's best nonfic film (keeping it to, y'know, ones he actually directed) is The White Diamond

i saw that recently, & strongly disagree

given that it's about 40 mins long I spose the one w/ the burning oil fields is a contender.

i prefer little dieter personally

Walking and Talking (Holofcener, 1996): 4/5
The Wolverine (Mangold, 2013): 3/5