Last (x) movies you saw

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

Grizzly Man, or does that count as something he didn't actually direct?

I love The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner. Haven't seen The White Diamond, will do.

happy 71st birthday werner

Grizzly Man, or does that count as something he didn't actually direct?

uh he totally directed that

Wasn't sure if it was gonna be argued that he more "assembled" it or not.

truly the bear is the auteur

Beautiful Kate (7/10)
Your Friends & Neighbors (7/10)
Auggie Rose (Beyond Suspicion) (6/10)
Extract (7/10)
Lucky You (6/10)
City of Industry (6/10)
The TV Set (7/10)
Mystic River (7/10)
Conspiracy Theory (6/10)
True Crime (5/10)

I've been plowing through stuff at home all summer. By the time I finish the 10th, the first four or five have blurred together.

Period of Adjustment (1962) Jane Fonda and Jim Hutton are sexy gorgeous in this...
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) The NYC I wanted to see that was featured in this film, I feel I found in Baltimore, MD last year. Loved seeing this again.
A Life of Her Own (1950) Loved the dialogue
PeeWee's Big Adventure (1985) Truly love this movie the older I get

The Great Beauty (Sorrentino, 2012) - i get why it gets compared to La Dolce Vita but its a much, much better film, although I am sure it will strike a few bum notes with many (the first affair was *the one*/the ennui only well paid hacks seem to feel/the journo who could've made immortal art and instead settles to scribble ephemeral thrash) but you know this starts with a quote by Celine - can't even remember the line, but that's perfect in intention. And Celine was a writer who feels throaway a lot of the time.

Onto the party and its magnificent series of shots, movement and moves, an ott intro to the main cast of character that almost (the transition from the Japansese tourist visiting to the party doesn't quite do it) but somehow doesn't fall on its arse.

Never thought he'd make a good film after Il Divo. Pulls it off with room to spare, although I wouldn't say its any comment on Berlusconi's Italy. Nothing like that, more a bunch of people having a good and getting tired of it. You'd say bullshit but try it after 40 years.

rewatched a.i. (spielberg) — 's been probably about 10 yrs since i last saw it. i remember liking it, but now i just feel angered and repulsed by it.

The mark of a vital film.

nb: "alternative" music 300 years in the future will still sound like shitty ministry ripoffs from 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcByE-q9Al8

sounds like 80s tangerine dream!

the only thing i remember about AI is that near the last fifth of the film, there's a pause and a narrator intones "and so, a million years passed" and I believe i started laughing in the theater
that's always going to be my gold standard for poor plotting, when you need to jump forward a million years to get to the next scene

It was 2,000 years. Your laughter was for nothing, loser.

2000, 1mil, whatever's clever

It's a fine line between 2,000 and 1,000,000.

what's a millennia between friends
so my silver standard for poor plotting is when you need to jump forward two thousand years to get to the next scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI3s5fA7Zhk

^^^

ruined cinema forever

THANK YOU

really forks & clouds, tsk tsk tsk

admittedly today's "geniuses" can't even do "no plotting" properly

I loved AI the second time around

I'm still trying to work up the mental energy to give it a second look.

I'm with numbers one and two on this.

I don't usually list shorts, but have seen programs 1 and 3, 4 and 5 this weekend.

http://www.cruelandunusualcomedy.com/2013/09/program-3-food-fights-chaos-la-carte.html

(alas print mixup for Feed 'Em and Weep was a sound Our Gang film w/ same title -- it was funny tho)

comparing 2001 and AI is like comparing The Killers and Jurassic Park II

except that in the first case, the same guy was the primary scenario author.

great Kubrick film : great Spielberg film :: lesser Kubrick film : lesser Spielberg film

The math checks out.

there are two movies called the killers and neither are by kubrick

The Killing?

or Killer's Kiss

Which one has Yvonne De Carlo?

killers is siodmak right?

The House of the Devil 2.5/5
Upstream Color 3.5/5
Holy Motors 3.5/5
The Grandmaster 3/5
Margaret 4/5

(All of those are better on form than content except Margaret, which reverses that.)

Along Came a Spider (6/10)
Even Money (5/10)
Borderline (4/10)
Please Give (8/10)
Fracture (7/10)
At Berkeley (8/10)
Little Rock (6/10)
John Q (5/10)
Kill Me Again (5/10)
Fruitvale Station (7/10)
Walking and Talking (7/10)
The Accidental Tourist (6/10)
Ask the Dust (5/10)
Extreme Measures (5/10)

I'm probably underrating Fruitvale Station a notch. It did have some beautiful sequences (the father running with his daughter springs to mind). Michael Apted has made some good mainstream films besides the Up series--Coal Miner's Daughter, Class Action--but Extreme Measures is quite silly. Amusing to catch a moment in time where Hugh Grant was billed ahead of Gene Hackman, though.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Sargent 1974)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Blank 1980)
Behind the Candelabra (Soderbergh 2013)
The Descendants (Payne 2011)

i would be interested in anyone's les blank recommendations if anyone's enthusiastic, there's a retro here soon & he's kinda off my map

Criterion has added several of his to their Hulu+ list. Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers was entertaining enough, but I haven't found anything of his that was really beyond ok yet.