Last (x) movies you saw

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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

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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?

ICA.

An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai, 2006)
A Geisha (Mizoguchi, 1953)
The Red and the White (Jancso, 1967)*
The Red Psalm (Jancso, 1972)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1961-64)
Stilleben (Farocki, 1997)
Our African Journey (Kubelka, 1966)
Rose Hobart (Cornell, 1936)

There is a small Farocki retrospective at the cinemateque this month. Hope to see a few more.

that kubelka is one of fred camper's favourite films

i have only ever watched kubelka in terrible vhs rips on youtubes

Yup, me as well. They work great as vhs-art, but yeah, it's a question whether or not it should count as having 'seen' the film. But I have to screen and check out a lot of stuff at the moment for work, just wrote it all up.

Nikita (Besson, 1990)
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock, 1940)
Antonio Gaudi (Teshigahara, 1984)
Richard III (Loncraine, 1995)
Captain Phillips (Greengrass, 2013)
* Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Mendes/Korda, 1936)
Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir, 1932)
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (DeNicola/Mori, 2012)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956)

Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
L'Histoire d'Adele H. (Truffaut, 1974) - Adjani effortlessly carrying this flat-toned movie through. There is something here about writing and madness that wasn't made as much out of as I thought it would be.

That's still the only late Truffaut I love. Adjani gives the best perf in a Truffaut movie since Leaud, and if it feels claustrophobic credit the choice of framing.

Almost all of this movie was about her face. And can you blame him etc.?

Bet Two English Girls is a laugh.

IN:
Meet me in St Louis (Minnelli, 1944) 8/10
Kings of the Road (Wenders, 1976) 8/10
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino, 2013) 7/10
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964) 8/10
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 1962) 8/10
Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil, 1967) 8/10
La Strada (Fellini, 1954) 8/10
Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933) 4/10
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-really-wants-to-like-the-marx-brothers,1482/
The Piano (Campion, 1993) 6/10
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932) 8/10
Daisies (Chytilova, 1966) 7/10

OUT:
Her (Jonze, 2013) 4/10
Touch of Sin (Jia, 2013) 7/10
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, 2013) 7/10
Norte, the End of History (Diaz, 2013) 9/10

wow, must see Norte, the End of History

Yeah, I really want to see that one as well!

revisited a few favs on the big screen this last month or two:

rebecca (hitch, 1940) 10/10
rear window (hitch, 1954) 9/10
the punk singer (sini anderson, 2013) 8/10
indiana jones/temple of doom (spielberg, 1984) 7/10
daisies (vera chytilova, 1966) 10/10

*Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993) 4/5
The Mighty (Chelsom, 1998) 2/5
Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945) 3.5/5
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Branagh, 2014) 3/5
Lady for a Day (Capra, 1933) 4/5
*Cat's Eye (Teague, 1985) 4/5
Frances Ha (Baumbach, 2013) 2.5/5

(*rewatches, of course)