Last (x) movies you saw

Il Sorpasso (4/5)
Van Gogh* (4/5)
Inside LLewyn Davis (3/5)

*rewatch

Watched Blue is the Warmest Colour again. Really brilliant at times, peeled a further layer or two.

Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955). Can't believe its taken me this long to watch it.

Bad Day at Black Rock (J. Sturges, 1955)
The Collector (Wyler, 1965)
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013)
Babette's Feast (Axel, 1987)
Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Lenny (Fosse, 1974)
Elmer Gantry (Brooks, 1960)
Safety Last! (Newmeyer/Taylor, 1923; w/Harold Lloyd)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese, 2013)
Margaret (Lonergan, 2011; extended cut)

alan partridge: alpha papa 5/10
*barry lyndon 9/10
the bling ring 8/10
the three caballeros 6/10
world war z 6/10
*do the right thing 10/10
no 8/10

* rewatch

what did u think of The Collector, WmC? a former ILXor tot trashed it on Letterboxd, i remember thinking it was ok

I liked it quite a bit! I was glad Wyler didn't give in to happy-ending pressure, and thought Eggar and Stamp were both very good. I'm sure there are articles to be written, or which have been written, about where Miranda is willing to do what it takes to escape vs. where she loses her nerve.

Saw it ages ago, don't remember it that well. What I do remember is that it was possibly the only Wyler film Andrew Sarris ranked very high in The American Cinema's yearly lists at the back of the book--maybe second or third for 1965.

City on Fire (Lam, 1987)
You, the Living (Andersson, 2007)
The Prodigal Son (Hung, 1981)
The White Diamond (Herzog, 2004)
Computer Chess (Bujalski, 2013)
Beyond the Hills (Mungiu, 2012)
The Song of the Styrene (Resnais, 1958)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)*

I really love those early Resnais shorts.

whats the asterisk for

rescreens

Street Angel (Borzage, 1928) 8/10 quality romance. I watched this a couple of weeks ago and its stayed with me, a slow burner if you will.
Sir Arne's Treasure (Stiller, 1919) 9/10
Destiny (Lang, 1921) 7/10 I love how imaginative some of the early European films were. Cursed treasure! Deals with death! fun.
Rushmore (Anderson, 1999) 9/10 rewatch
Phantom of the Opera (Julian, 1925) 8/10
Blind Husbands (Stroheim, 1919) 9/10
Lady Windermere's Fan (Lubitsch, 1925) 6/10 this had some nice, subtle touches. it dragged a bit though.
Tol'able David (King, 1925) 8/10 decent modern day telling of David and Goliath
Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922) 7/10
The Lodger (Hitchcock, 1926) 8/10

Jane B. par Agnes V. (7/10)
Twixt (6/10)
La Bandera (9/10)
Panique (8/10)
Chaplin (5/10)

Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013) 4.5/5
I Could Never Be Your Woman (Heckerling, 2007) 3/5
*Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010) 2/5
Room 237 (Ascher, 2012) 4/5
The Verdict (Lumet, 1982) 3/5
My Favorite Year (Benjamin, 1982) 2/5
Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013) 1/5
Carrie (Peirce, 2013) 2.5/5
*Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979) 5/5
Life Itself (James, 2014) 3.5/5

*rewatches

Cinema:
American Hustle (Russell, 2013) 5/10
12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013) 7/10
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorcese, 2013) 8/10
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros, 2013) 8/10

Home:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949) 8/10
Night Moves (Penn, 1975) 7/10
Import/Export (Seidl, 2007) 7/10
Los Olvidados (Bunuel, 1950) 8/10
The Devil, Probably (Bresson, 1977) 8/10
The House is Black (Farrokhzad, 1962) 8/10
Wavelength (Snow, 1967) 10/10
A Tale of Tales (Norshteyn, 1979) 6/10
Listen to Britain (Jennings & McAllister, 1942) 7/10
Schalcken the Painter (Megahey, 1979) 7/10

what's wavelength

why it is the primary document of the structural experimental film genre, Hungry4Ass

it's on youtube, give it a go

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

centurion - 7/10

man that was a fun movie. so much head-chopping!

xp The rare short I can't seem to finish because the soundtrack always starts to give me a headache.

sounds p. chill, i'll watch it after i'm done with this video game

Yeah, it annoyed me as well. But I liked the film anyway. What else should one see of Snow? I've heard La Region Centrale is a must.

You should probably see <----> too.

please dont troll me with fake avantg arde movie names

xpost

the soundtrack was what pushed wavelength in to 10/10 territory for me! i experienced it the same way as tony conrad's the flicker

Snow is... playing music in Brooklyn on Tuesday with Alan Licht?

yeah, Snow also makes avant-gardey drone music (think his main instrument is piano). licht once picked a dbl alb of snow's music as one of his all-time favourite minimalist recs.

here we are, no 17 here:

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=135

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (Sato, 1968)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
Confidential Report (Welles, 1955)
Zero no shôten (Nomura, 1961)
Rocky VI (Kaurismaki, 1986)
Winter Light (Bergman, 1962)
Beginners (Mills, 2010)
The Junk Shop (Herz, 1965)
Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2011)
Flunky, Work Hard (Naruse, 1931)

just the best, again

*Sunrise (1927, Murnau) 9/10
*Gigi (1958, Minnelli) 9/10
*Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Andersen) 8/10
Marianne and Julianne aka The German Sisters (1981, von Trotta) 8/10
That Old Dream That Moves (2001, Guiraudie) 7/10
Berberian Sound Studio (2012, Strickland) 7/10
Visitors (2014, Reggio) 7/10

Thor The Dark Elves or whatever (3/10)
The Counsellor (7/10)
Rembrandt (Laughton version) (9/10)
La Petite Lise (9/10)

Snow is... playing music in Brooklyn on Tuesday with Alan Licht?

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, February 1, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do the decent thing and do plz. I would but I am no NY-er.

Journey to Italy (Rossellini, 1954) - I struggled with the way they rekindled their love for one another at the end, and I was saddened by how annoyingly unbelievable I found that.
Inside Llweyn Davis (Coen Brother, 2013)

Carrie (de Palma, 1976)
Kramer vs Kramer (Benton, 1979)
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013)
Ne Me Quitte Pas (Lubbe Bakker & van Koevorden, 2013)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai, 1992)
Takeshis' (Kitano, 2005)
D'Annonzio's Cave (Emigholz, 2005)
Drug War (To, 2013)
A Letter to Freddy Buache (Godard, 1982)
Twentynine Palms (Dumont, 2003)

Nebraska (2013) 3.5/5
Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013) 3.5/5
Enough Said (2013) 3/5
Shadows (1959) 3.5/5
Her (2013) 4/5
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) 3/5
Lola Montes (1955) 3/5
The Long Day Closes (1992; rewatch) 5/5
Dirty Wars (2013) 3.5/5

Oh, and Museum Hours 3.5/5

Stagecoach (1939) 8/10
*The Searchers (1956) 9/10
Sound City (2013) 6/10
I Am Love (2009) 6/10

Frederik, how did you get on w/ Twentynine Palms - it's the one Dumont I haven't seen (iirc, nakh once gave it a lukewarm appraisal somewhere on ILX)?

Burst City (Ishii, 1982) - this was ridiculous and made me want to fight a lot of cops
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter, 1994) - pretty fun but wow Julie Carmen cannot act
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (Ormond, 1971) - nutty evangelical sermon about the coming Communist takeover of America made by a converted exploitation filmmaker. Lots of bloody executions, torture, stabbing children through the ears with bamboo spears, etc. Also warns of the evils of dancing.
A Field in England (Wheatley, 2013) - greatly enjoyed this, pretty much defines "my sort of movie"

Frederik, how did you get on w/ Twentynine Palms - it's the one Dumont I haven't seen (iirc, nakh once gave it a lukewarm appraisal somewhere on ILX)?

― Ward Fowler, 14. februar 2014 10:40 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Watched it for work, first Dumont I've seen, couldn't really keep the interest with it all. Not particularly impressed, but I'm still searching for L'Humanité and Hadewijch. Would like to see more Dumont before I say anything.

L'Humanité and Hadewijch are both available as region 2 dvds here in the UK

A Report on the Party and the Guests (Němec 1966)
Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman 1961)
Dressed To Kill (DePalma 1980)
Vive Le Tour (Malle 1962)
Never Weaken (Newmeyer 1921)
Autumn Sonata (Bergman 1978)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee 1994)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Miller 1968)
The Silence (Bergman 1963) omg, 11/10

My Brother and Me – 5.5/10
Shutter Island – 5/10
Desperate Characters – 7.5/10
Contempt – 7/10
The Dark Knight Rises – 6/10
Pierrot le Fou – 6/10
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – 6/10
Masculin Féminin – 8.5/10
The Late Show – 7/10
The Panic in Needle Park – 7/10
Doubt – 6.5/10

Underworld (Von Sternberg, 1927) 9/10
A Girl In Every Port (Hawks, 1928) 7/10
The Crowd (Vidor, 1928) 10/10
Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, 1924) 10/10 rewatch
Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2004) 6/10
Grandma's Boy (Lloyd, 1922) 7/10
The Last Command (Von Sternberg, 1928) 9/10
True Grit (Coen, 2010) 7/10 rewatch
Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972) 9/10

*Cabaret (1972, Fosse) 10/10
Much Ado about Nothing (2013, Whedon) 6/10
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011, G. Miyazaki) 6/10
I Married a Witch (1942, Clair) 7/10
Camouflage (1977, Zanussi) 8/10
*Safety Last! (1923, Newmeyer, Taylor / Lloyd) 9/10
Alphaville (1965, Godard) 7/10
*It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, Kramer) 6/10
Don Jon (2013, Gordon-Levitt) 4/10
This Is the End (2013, Rogen, Goldberg) 5/10
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975, Brocka) 7/10
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013, Cote) 8/10
Possession (1981, Zulawski) 6/10
*Museum Hours (2012, Cohen) 8/10

*rewatches

Too low for Possession, Dr M!

It's pretty compelling bullshit.

I was kind of draggy and exhausted this past weekend, possibly due to the combined hysteria factor of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Possession.

oh, Alphaville should be marked as a rewatch (tho it mighta been about 30 years)

Smile ( 1975, Ritchie)
All Is Lost ( 2013, Chandor)
Chronicle of a Summer (Morin & Rouch, 1961)
Only The Young (Mims, Tippet, 2012)

Breaking the Frame (Marielle Nitoslawska, 2014) - Portrait of Carolee Schneemann. This settles into (once Nitoslawska allows Carolee complete space) film of the year by some distance. Her films were great (and what i know), but so are her paintings, writings, happenings and conceptions. Music set by James Tenney, that's also great too.

I need a closer watch because I found nothing to really quibble with.

commando (1985) 6/10 although maybe an 8, this movie is great fun
doubt (2008) 7/10
diary of the dead (2007) 5/10
this is the end (2013) 4/10
*silver linings playbook (2012) 8/10
ten canoes (2006) 7/10

Where did you see that, julio?