Last (x) movies you saw

Carol (Haynes, 2015) - 8/10
Steve Jobs (Boyle, 2015) - 4/10
While We're Young (Baumbach, 2015) - 5/10
The Man Who Wasn't There (Coens, 2001) - 7/10
Hard to be a God (German, 2015) - 6/10
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) - 8/10
Inside Out (Doctor, 2015) - 6/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) - 9/10

rewatches:
Slow West (Maclean, 2015) - 7/10
American Gangster (Scott, 2007) - 6/10
Pinocchio (Luske, Sharpsteen, 1940) - 7/10
Barton Fink (Coens, 1991) - 9/10

Die Hard (1988)
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Speed (1994)
Kingpin (1996)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The Straight Story (1999)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

oh, and Bridge of Spies - 7/10

Heart of a Dog (Anderson, 2015) 8/10
Creed(Coogler, 2015) 7/10
The Martian (Scott, 2015) 5/10
Listen To Me Marlon (Riley, 2015) 8/10
Steve Jobs (Boyle, 2015) 6/10
The Danish Girl (Hooper, 2015)
Youth (Sorrentino, 2015) 3/10
The Chase (Penn, 1966) 6/10
The Unfaithful Wife (Chabrol, 1968) 6/10
The First Legion (Sirk, 1951) 7/10

and Carol (Haynes, 2015) 6/10

story of women (88 chabrol) 8/10
the company you keep (2012 redford) 3/10
bergman island (2004 marie nyrerod) 9/10
enemy (2013 villeneuve) 6/10
daft punk unchained (2015 Hervé Martin-Delpierre) 8/10
no end (85 kieslowski) 6/10
victory (95 mark peploe) 6/10
the madwoman of chaillot (69 forbes) 6/10
slipstream (2007 hopkins) 3/10
polyester (81 waters) 7/10
hitchcock truffaut (2015 kent jones) 6/10
the seven five (2014 tiller russell) 1/10
the kidnapping of michel houellebecq (2014 Guillaume Nicloux) 6/10

Listen To Me Marlon 7/10
Star Wars TFA 8/10
The Revenant 7/10
Hateful Eight 3/10
Le Salamandre 8/10
Brooklyn 6/10

Don Verdean 7/10
The Lobster 7/10
Crimson Peak 7/10
Room 7/10
Parasyte part 2 7/10
Assassination Classroom 7/10
The Peanuts Movie 7/10
The Hateful Eight 7/10
The Revenant 7/10
Sicario 7/10
Joy 2/10

really nice creed piece, alfred

The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942) 5/10

― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Saturday, November 28, 2015 9:14 PM (3 weeks ago)

What happened here?

really nice creed piece, alfred

― bloat laureate (schlump),

thanks!

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Aside from the manic opening and closing scenes (the latter beautifully described by Bill Hader in the Criterion supplements: "fuck you, they're twins"), and a delightful Claudette Colbert, I didn't laugh all that much. And yeah, I'll say it: the scairt negro on the train made me squirm; without getting into the whole thing about whether or not to overlook a certain degree of unavoidable racism in a lot of classics, this character was less an unfortunate prop than a punchline--we are clearly being prompted to laugh at his distress.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Third Man
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Renoir)
French Cancan
Inside Out

I loved French Cancan.

sorry crypto, my Christmas is already fulla crazy

yeah there's racism in 40s movies thx for the education

The Big Short. Shockingly bad. Like, "I can't believe this was made by professionals" bad.

the scairt negro on the train made me squirm

i was thinking "isn't that from sullivan's travels?" but no that guy was in a coach

I'm going to stick with ranking each batch from favorite to least-favorite for the time being, instead of listing them in the order I saw them.

* Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
* Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)
Apur Sansar (Ray, 1959)
Aparajito (Ray, 1956)
Big Hero 6 (Hall/Williams, 2014)
*John Wick (Stahelski/Leitch, 2014)
Man Hunt (Lang, 1941)
Star Wars: TFA (Abrams, 2015)
What We Do in the Shadows (Clement/Waititi, 2014)
Lady Snowblood (Fujita, 1973)
Satyajit Ray (Benegal, 1982)

The Martian 7/10
Thou Wast Mild And Lovely 7/10
Carol 7/10
Spotlight 7/10
Bridge Of Spies 4/10
*Scrooged (1988) 8/10
The Red Spectacles (1987) 7/10
*The Boston Strangler (1968) 7/10
Man In The Wilderness (1971) 6/10

*Ball of Fire (1941, Hawks) 9/10
45 Years (2015, Haigh) 8/10
The Assassin (2015, Hou) 7/10
Interlude (1957, Sirk) 6/10
*The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah) 9/10
Pal Joey (1957, Sidney) 6/10
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013, Silva) 5/10
The Savage Eye (1960, Maddow, Meyers, Strick) 7/10
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015, Gomes) 7/10
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015, Gomes) 6/10
*Lost Highway (1997, Lynch) 5/10
Run for Cover (1955, N. Ray) 6/10
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940, Arzner) 6/10

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, the (2014) 2
World's End, the (2013) 7
Short Circuit 2 (1988) 4
Life of Emile Zola, the (1937) 5
A Christmas Story (1983) 8 -- first time i've seen all of it at once
Hot Fuzz (2007) 8
Frank (2014) 7
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) 5
I Am Here.... Now (2009) 1?

I Am Here.... Now (2009) 1?

lol i tried to watch a bit of 'double down' last week. i think i made it about 10 minutes in. unwatchable. most of it is just him listing off stuff hes really awesome at while he walks around the desert. his old laptops and crappy mobiles were pretty funny tho

The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015) 6/10
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (Temple, 2015) 7/10
*The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1982) 10/10
Notes On A Scandal (Eyre, 2006) 7/10

Radiator 7.5
By Our Selves 7

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (this was amazing, 10/10)
The Red Shoes
Lola Montès
Ministry of Fear
Mata Hari
Ninotchka
Gremlins

Fat Man on a Beach (Michael Bakewell/ B.S. Johnson, 1973) 10/10
Screener Season:
Bridge of Spies 8.5/10
Trumbo 6/10
Brooklyn 6/10
The Big Short 3/10
The Hateful Eight 3/10
Steve Jobs 5/10
Creed 5/10
Spotlight 7.5/10

Aside from that barfy Lynne Ramsay thing, which I watched in a class, December was entirely a month of re-watches for me (which it typically tends to be):

We Need To Talk About Kevin (Ramsay, 2011) 2/10
After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) 10/10
Adventures in Babysitting (Columbus, 1987) 5/10
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) 8/10
Mon oncle Antoine (Jutra, 1971) 9/10
Home For the Holidays (Foster, 1995) 5/10
Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954) 7/10

Trumbo 6/10
The Martian 5/10
The Assassin 9/10

Oh yeah...

James Bond: SPECTRE 6/10

The Good Dinosaur 7/10
Just Jim 8/10
Tangerine 8/10
A Christmas Horror Story 5/10
Irrational Man 3/10
In The heart Of The Sea 7/10
The Wolfpack (doc) 7/10
The Punk Singer (doc) 8/10
The Seven Five (doc) 7.5/10
The Walk 3/10
Creed 8/10
Burnt 4/10
Pawn Sacrifice 7/10
Anomalisa 8/10

...and I'm going out shortly, so that'll be all til next year.

new Star Wars 8.5/10
Breathless 10/10
Spectre 6/10
Spotlight 7.5//10
Wild Tales 9/10
It Follows 8.5/10
Inherent Vice 9.5/10
Mockingjay 7/10
Milo and Otis 10/10
Concussion 4/10
Sicario 7/10
Midnight Diner 7.5/10
Neko Samurai 3/10
Hello Junichi 7.5/10
Lady Snowblood 7/10

forgot one: I saw Tangerine on Netflix it's rlly rlly good

American Ninja (1984) - Totally awesome 80s Peak Ninja. I love the scene where the bad guy is giving some other bad guys a tour of his base, declaring "This is my private army" as dozens of ninjas dressed in black, red, yellow, and blue, run through a collection of deadly obstacle courses. So cheesy and so great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9tkntwNSGM

Just watch that scene: it is perfect. "Ah....very impressive".

saw howl's moving castle, the forbidden room, anatomy of a murder, beetlejuice, scrooged, about 30min of it's a wonderful life, wild at heart, lost highway, mulholland dr, some terrible brett ratner thing and jurassic world. Wish I'd seen home alone. Next xmas, maybe.

American Ninja (1984)

saw this in the theater with Dad that year.

Here's what I watched during Christmas

Star Wars 7
Kill Bill (rewatch)
The Wizard of Oz (rewatch)
The Wild Bunch
The Imomortal Story
Hugo
Children of Paradise
The Leopard
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The 400 Blows (rewatch)
Wreck-It Ralph (rewatch)

Doctor Zhivago (Lean, 1965) 8/10
Sunset Song (Davies, 2015) 7/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) 6/10

Frankenstein Created Woman (Fisher 1967) 6/10
Best of Enemies (Gordon & Neville, 2015) 5/10
A Most Violent Year (Chandor, 2014) 5/10
Predestination (Spierig Bros, 2014) 5/10
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour, 2014) 6/10
We are the Best! (Moodysson, 2013) 7/10
Comanche Station (Boetticher, 1960) 7/10
Caliber 9 (Di Leo, 1972) 7/10

Carol 7/10
Szamanka 7/10
Boris Goudonov (sp?) 8/10

Those last two part of my determined effort to watch any and all Zulawski.
"Carol" had some beautiful stuff going on, including the score, but I dunno ... There were moments where I thought anyone in Therese's shoes would've beat a hasty retreat. Especially after that first visit chez Carol.

Speaking of Zulawski...

Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
Tangerine (Baker, 2015)
Polyester (Waters, 1981)
M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1953)
* Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955)
Jupiter Ascending (Wachowskis, 2015)
* The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise, 1951)
Ex Machina (Garland, 2015)
The Hateful 8 (Tarantino, 2015)

Carol (4/5)
Amy (2015; 4/5)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014; 2/5)
3 Godfathers (1948; 3.5/5)
Sisters (2015; 2.5/5)
Speedy (1928; 3/5)
The Roaring Twenties (1939; 4/5)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (3.5/5)
Girlhood (2014; 4/5)

Mistress America (7.0)
Tangerine (5.5)
The Martian (7.5)
Room (7.0)
Lonesome Cowboys (6.5)
Nude Restaurant (7.0)
Seventeen (6.5)
Smiling Through the Apocalypse (6.5)
The Moth Diaries (5.5)
Bike Boy (6.5)

2016 so far

The devil rides out (1968) 6
It's a wonderful life (1946) 8
The perfume of the lady in black (1974) 8
Le mepris (1963) 10
The leopard (1963) 9
Certified copy (2010) 7
Mad max: fury road (2015) 8
Taste of cherry (1997) 7
Grey gardens (1975) 9
The wind will carry us (1999) 8

Queen of Earth (Perry, 2015) 6/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) 7/10
Youth (Sorrentino, 2015) 3/10
Carol (Haynes, 2015) 6/10
The Big Short (McKay, 2015) 3/10
* A Christmas Tale (Desplechin, 2008) 7/10
* The Silence (Bergman, 1964) 7/10

Invasion USA (1985)

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watched it mainly for the scenes shot in Atlanta of rocket launchers blowing up real suburban houses

Yeah, been meaning to see Invasion USA after watching that Cannon Films doc:

"According to the documentary on Cannon Films, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, the scene where terrorists destroy homes in a suburb with rocket launchers featured explosions in actual houses. The Atlanta airport was going to bulldoze an entire suburban neighborhood to extend a runway, so the filmmakers were allowed to destroy the existing homes. Similarly, part of Dadeland Mall was being rebuilt, so the filmmakers were allowed to destroy everything in the actual mall."

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935, Sirk) 8/10
Summer Storm (1944, Sirk) 7/10
The First Legion (1951, Sirk) 6/10
Hitler’s Madman (1943, Sirk) 5/10
La Habanera (1937, Sirk) 5/10
*Heart of a Dog (2015, Anderson) 8/10
Sign of the Pagan (1954, Sirk) 4/10
Lovers and Lollipops (1956, Engel, Orkin) 8/10
Slightly French (1949, Sirk) 5/10
Mysterious Island (1961, Endfield) 7/10
Take Me to Town (1953, Sirk) 7/10
Creed (2015, Coogler) 8/10
Love & Mercy (2015, Pohlad) 6/10
A Scandal in Paris (1946, Sirk) 6/10

watched it mainly for the scenes shot in Atlanta of rocket launchers blowing up real suburban houses

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 January 2016 16:04

I misread that as "suburban horses"