Last (x) movies you saw

^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?

you gotta see the Source Family

Interestingly, of my list; the first two are fictional, and the rest are documentary of the so-strange-it's-true variety. They all fit nicely into a family of movies. Probably other titles too, any additions?

bad grandpa . i want more of that kind of ingeniosity in storytelling. lol/10

crystal fairy. the director said his movie is "about the birth of compassion in someone's life" and yes there is this moment in there but it was not clear if that realization will have a staying power, imo it was more interesting to see the annoying end of 2 random type of "new citizen of the world" who travel as a rite of passage/to find or escape themselves , the insecure lil shit talker "into the drug culture" and the sanctimonious new age hippy who got it all figured out, end of the world prophecy included. another lol/10 plus a big bag of unsalted peanuts.

Joshua. newborn crying / 10
the end was meh but as far as psychological horror goes they really touch a nerve with many ppl : will one's kids will be normal? made me think of a news item i read some months ago about a schizophrenic little girl that was hearing voices telling her to do violent/gory things. as far as mental illness exploitation goes it was pretty cool.

gravity. could have done without the praying thing.

the best offer. a bit of a mess , wanting to bite more than it can chew (the interrelations between Art! /Truth!/ Authenticity! /Love! /Value!/ etc!) and i knew where it was going rather early on but it did made me think bout things, the effects of our fears on life choices and time doesn't stop for anybody and stuff.
pensive thirtysomething/10

The Visitor (Giulio Paradisi, 1979): Italy's attempt to cash in on The Exorcist, I guess? A very fun midnight movie. John Huston slowly walks through many scenes and sometimes raises his arms.

Saw A field In England last night, bit weird and possibly self-consciously so. WAs it trying to ape 60s cinema?

& prior to that The Eagle about a Roman officer going North of Hadrian's wall to reclaim the standard of his father's legion. Couldn't place where I knew the British slave actor from and it was haunting me.

Chocolat (1988, Denis) 9/10
The Dawn Patrol (1930, Hawks) 7/10
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012, Resnais) 7/10
News from Home (1977, Akerman) 7/10
This Is Martin Bonner (2013, Hartigan) 7/10
Stark Love (1927, Brown) 7/10
Land of the Pharaohs (1955, Hawks) 6/10
The Counselor (2013, Scott) 6/10
Go for Sisters (2013, Sayles) 5/10
In the Name of... (2013, Szumowska) 4/10

Fleshpot on 42nd Street (5/10)
Mystery Date (3/10)
Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli (should never have gone—too tired)
Dead Ringers (8/10)
The Juror (6/10)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (7/10)
Jazz on a Summer’s Day (8/10)
Rising Sun (4/10)
The Player (8/10)
The Dead Zone (9/10)

Rikyu (Teshigara, 1989) - Looks great (those bamboos as Rikyu goes away to pass), bit long, with a terrific Takemitsu theme tune
Come and See (Klimov, 1985) - there are false notes in that collage towards the end (shall we kill baby hitler?) otherwise easily the best film about WWII in Europe I've seen.

On plane flights:

Skyfall (Mendes, 2012) - just bankrupt in every which way you can conceive of. At least the baddies win.
The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann, 2013) - so this gives up on being an adaptation and goes straight to a book reading for the final third or so, by which the time the pretty scenary loses impact and I don't think Luhrmann even bothers with his soundtrack choices, and I lost interest, too. Actually put me off reading the book, but I'm sure its far better...
Shield of Straw (Mike, 2013) - lacks the energy after the set-up (cops protecting awful child serial killer from a bounty on his life). Never watch enough from him to know where I'm at but on its own there wasn't much there.

a band called death 3/5
tootsie 3/5
all is lost 3.5/5
breaking the waves 3/5
ali 3/5

long nights journey into day (2000) 8/10
sankofa (1993) 7/10
the sapphires (2012) 2/10
the hunter (2011) 5/10

come and see is a tough watch! good though.

I've watched a few lately after watching virtually nothing between july and sept.

Glengarry Glen Ross 9/10
Shutter Island 4/10
Paris, Texas 10/10 rewatch
The Men Who Stare At Goats 6/10
Superbad 4/10
West World 6/10
Killer of Sheep 8/10 this was a strange one, reminded me how few art films ive seen lately.
Repo Man 7/10
Heathers 9/10 this is one dark mofo.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 7/10

The Act of Killing 10/10 (go see this now)
Prozac Nation 6/10 (weird seeing 1985 via 2001, but I love me some Christina Ricci)
A Bag of Hammers 2/10
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 5/10
The People Under The Stairs 6/10 (but good for a Halloween flick I guess)
Upstream Color 7/10
Antiviral 6/10

Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971) 5/5
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968) 3/5
Riddles of the Sphink (Mulvey/Wollen, 1977) 4/5 - I watched the wonderful new BFI edition of this - there's a distinctly unremastered copy on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9u5md4QjF0

Macbeth (Polanski, 1971) 3/5
Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955) 4/5
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962) 4/5
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974) 4/5
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) 4/5
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Fiennes, 2012) 4/5
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor, 2013) 2/5
Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948) 4/5
The River (Renoir, 1951) 4/5
Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) 3/5

Vertigo (Hitchcock 1958)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford 1940)
The Sicilian Clan (Verneuil 1969)
Marathon Man (Schlesinger 1976)
A TCM program of short films, including Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1944) and a few others.

Is it safe?

NYC in 1976? Definitely not.

Eyes Without a Face (1960; 2nd viewing; 5/5)
The Eye (2003; 3/5)
The Haunting (1963; 3/5)
Blood and Black Lace (1963; 3/5)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974; 3.5/5)
Only God Forgives (2013; 3/5)
The Devil, Probably (1977; 5/5)

i've been putting off watching devil, probably for a while! i should get round to it soon.

Riddles of the Sphinx is pretty neat, thanks for posting.