Last (x) movies you saw

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.

L'Enfance Nue (Pialat 1968) 4/5
The Look of Love (Winterbottom 2013) 2/5
Greenberg (Baumbach 2010) 3/5
Bernie (Linklater 2012) 3/5
Cold Fish (Sono 2010) 3/5
The Wrong Man (Hitchcock 1956) 3/5
Killer of Sheep (Burnett 1979) 3/5
The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach 2005) 3/5
Viridiana (Bunuel 1961) 4/5
Tropical Malady ( Weerasethakul 2004) 3/5
Melancholia (Von Trier 2012) 3/5
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda 1962) 3/5
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard 1967) 3/5
Little Murders (Arkin 1971) 5/5
Woman of Tokyo (Ozu 1933) 4/5
Blue Jasmine (Allen 2013) 3/5
Prisoners (Villeneuve 2013) 3/5

The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012, Rodrigues, Guerra da Mata) 8/10
The Act of Killing (2012, Oppenheimer) 7/10
Antoine et Antoinette (1947, Becker) 7/10
*Medium Cool (1969, Wexler) 7/10
Dark City (1998, Proyas) 7/10
The Hanging Tree (1959, Daves) 6/10
Il Futuro (2013, Scherson) 5/10
The Prodigal Son (1981, Hung) 5/10
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012, Thornton) 5/10
Hotel Normandy (2012, Nemes) 3/10

*rewatch

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (Scardino, 2013) 5/10
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959) 9/10
Fallen (Hoblit, 1998) 4/10
Shut Up and Play The Hits (Lovelace/Southern, 2012) 8/10
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog, 1974) 8/10
*Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Clarke, 1987) 9/10
*The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) 10/10
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson, 2011) 7/10

*rewatch

Dinosaur (2000, various)
Quartet (2012, Hoffman)
Wreck-it Ralph (2012, Moore)
Intouchables (2011, Nakache & Toledano)
Man with the Iron Fists, the (2012, RZA)
Santa Sangre (1989, Jodorowsky) <-- best of the month
Lincoln (2012, Spielberg)
Tom Jones (1963, Richardson)
Romeo + Juliet (1996, Luhrmann)
Gertrud (1964, Dreyer)
Keyhole (2011, Maddin)
Ordinary People (1980, Redford)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wenders)
Terms of Endearment (1983, Brooks)
Chicago 10 (2007, Morgen)
Brothers Bloom, the (2009, Rian Johnson)

3 more minor Best Picture winners down, 12 to go.

To The Wonder (2013; 4/5)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001; 3.5/5)
Manhattan (1979; repeat viewing; 4.5/5)
Mud (2012; 3.5/5)
Ulzana’s Raid (1972; 4/5)
This Must Be the Place (2011; 3/5)
The Big City (1963; 4/5)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929; 5/5)
Stories We Tell (2012; 4/5)
Medium Cool (1969; 4/5)

id hate to count yr standard 'majors' xp

Enough Said 4/5
House of Cards 3/5

Grad school starts so movie watching time has temporarily dwindled down to almost nothing. Still, two absolute classics which I'd somehow never managed to see until now and one piece of crap that I could have happily gone without ever having seen:

The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) 10/10
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940) 10/10
Smokey and the Bandit (Needham, 1977) 2/10

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda 1962) 3/5

Come the fuck on, you monster.

^docked a point for unbearable silent movie pastiche

...that's like two minutes long.

Finally got to see Let's Get Lost the Chet Baker bio that was filmed just before his death. Had been told about it by a girlfriend in late 89 & turned onto the vocal side of his music at the same time. I saw the boxing film that was soundtracked with his material.
Very touching film I thought. Not sure exactly what the objective story is with the various families' in-fighting and I did miss the beginning. But yeah thought it pretty evocative.
Just wondering if Ruth Young was supposed to be a sympathetic character or not. Since some other people were rather scathing about her and i thought she seemed interesting. Wondered if I'd missed a reason not to sympathise with her by missing the beginning. But also sounds like she suffered from the relationship.
Wonder if the Italian film he was in in the late 60s is worth checking out?

Meant to add that I hadn't realised that Fine Young Cannibals presumably took their name from a film that was based on a fictionalisation of his life. All The Fine YOung Cannibals which was made starring Robert Wagner in a role that Baker was intended to play but couldn't because he was getting busted or at least had been.

love that chet baker bio. it's really touching just to see him being driven around l.a.

Also saw black book the 2006 Paul Verhoeven film about the Jewish singer with some weird form of Stockholm syndrome, working for the Dutch resistance and falling for a German Officer. Was pretty good in places at least. But I wasn't fully convinced by that central romance and missed a couple of bits while having moved away from the tv area during ad breaks and not being back to read the subtitles or see the screen.
Maybe it hinges too much on coincidences and things. Seems that people shouldn't be able to remain living at certain points during the film

The President's Analyst (Flicker, 1967): A

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda 1962) 3/5

Come the fuck on, you monster.

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Monday, 30 September 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^docked a point for unbearable silent movie pastiche

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 30 September 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...that's like two minutes long.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 September 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Laughed for a good half min solid, thanks all.

I can't recall that silent film pastiche, due a rewatch.

Watched Blue Jasmine. Don't follow Woody Allen much, is it his first film in SF? Anyway, liked this: both Blanchett and Sally Hawkins were terrific in it.

Nothng but a Man at the BFI.

Also the trailer for Gone with the Wind was the most memorable in an age (BFI showing this around Xmas). Almost think I should watch it...but I won't. Oh no.

Dredd (2012) 1/5
Room 237 (2012) 2.5/5
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2012) 2.5/5
Gravity (2013) 4/5
This is the End (2013) 2/5
Stromboli (1950) 3/5
Journey to Italy (1954) 4/5

parallax view ('74 pakula) - 3.5/5
lincoln (12 spielberg) 3/5
afterschool (rewatch) (08 campos) 5/5
pusher 3: im the angel of death (05 refn) 4/5
gravity (13 cuaron) 3/5
the silence (10, baran bo odar) 4/5
don's party (76 beresford) 2.5/5
ward 6 (78 pintilie) 3/5
dead man (95 jarmusch) 4.5/5
post tenebras lux (12 reygadas) 2.5/5
side effects (13 soderbergh) 4/5
heaven's gate (80 cimino) 2/5

side effects (13 soderbergh) 4/5

waht this movie is so bad

kewl we have diff opinions

deus ex lesbiana

seriously though, that film is the worst

I went in wanting to like it on at least a breezy-thriller level as Soderbergh is usually a reliable stylist. and I was into it for maybe the first 40-minutes, but then it *really* went off the rails and just dragged through multiple false endings. and the way it inverted the setup so that by the end you're supposed to be rooting for that poor doctor, who just wanted to prescribe something to help his patients was just ugh, yes you know who's really the victim in this society those pharmaceutical-happy therapists they just can't catch a break from all the evil scheming lesbians out there

agree its not like air tight believable but idk i thought it was fun, almost camp; also liked style of first half where rooney mara is shot & behaves as if shes almost literally in diff drug commericals

i wasnt ever really rooting for jude law or w/e

I just didn't like how it first pretends that it's going to be some sort of commentary on our medicated society and the lol side effects thereof but then just devolves into sub-Basic Instinct nonsense, the back half feels like a betrayal of the first

tbh I was rooting for everyone other than Channing Tatum

Side Effects was not camp.

it was damp

The Glass Shield (7/10)
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (6/10)
A New Leaf (6/10)
Infamous (7/10)
Deception (4/10)
The Trials of Muhammad Ali (7/10)
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (7/10)
Raw Deal (8/10--10 for the cinematography, but I didn’t care for Dennis O’Keefe much)
Gothika (5/10)

*Lola (1961, Demy) 10/10
*The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Demy) 10/10
Stranger by the Lake (2013, Guiraudie) 8/10
Let the Fire Burn (2013, Osder) 8/10
Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai) 7/10
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Coen, Coen) 7/10
*Donkey Skin (1970, Demy) 7/10
Model Shop (1969, Demy) 6/10
Mother of George (2013, Dosunmu) 6/10
The Immigrant (2013, Gray) 6/10
Parkland (2013, Landesman) 5/10
Zero Charisma (2013, Graham, Matthews) 4/10

*rewatches

Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)
*Freaks (Browning, 1932)
The Walking Dead (Curtiz, 1936)
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)

*rewatch

You Can Count on Me (2000, Lonergan)
Good, the Bad, the Weird, the (2008, Kim Jee-Woon)
Life of Pi [2D] (2012, Ang Lee)
Gravity [3D] (2013, Cuaron)
RAD (1986, Needham) bmx dancing!
Mummy, the (1932, Freund) *
Mummy's Hand, the (1940, Cabanne)
Mummy's Tomb, the (1942, Harold Young)
Mummy's Ghost, the (1944, Le Borg) <-- worst of the month
Mummy's Curse, the (1944, Goodwins)
New Nightmare (1994, Wes Craven) *

*seen previously

before the rain (mancevski, 94) 7/10
* modern times (chaplin, 36) 9/10
* the impossible (bayona, 12) 6/10
bridge to terabithia (csupo, 07) 7/10

moonrise kingdom - thanks
prometheus - 2nd time. awesome fanfic
le diable, probablement - thought we had invented the grunge thing 10/10
immortals - super stupid but I really enjoyed it, hats
some french doc about cioran - cool guy
sebastiane - want a time machine
uncle bonmee who can recall past lives - boring
carnage - overrated

My Halloween double feature:

The Blob (original) 4/10
The Masque of the Red Death 6/10

Mine was:

The Howling (1981) 6/10 for enjoyment (worthy of a Rifftrax-ing if they haven't already), 8/10 for effects (Rick Baker + Rob Bottin did cool stuff with not a ton of money, lol @ all inflatable bladders all the time) -- my first time seeing it

Dead Snow (2011) 6/10
Some funny moments and it build some good tension early on but I found myself getting a bit bored with it by the end. Mr Veg and I joked that the director must have been friends with a sausage-maker, LOTS of intestine scenes. Fishing line/fish hook self-surgery was the highlight. Oh and maybe first ever outhouse sex scene? O_o

I'm on the recent cult theme (not cult movies, but movies on cults)

The Master
The Sound of Her Voice
Kumare
Bill W.
Crazy Wisdom
The Source Family
The Institute

The last of which, just released on the eyetoons, is mind-bending spectacular fun.

Nice! I've only seen the first two. Recommendations for what I see next?