Last (x) movies you saw

Man of Steel (2013) - not as bad as i feared but not very memorable after the first half. also one of the earliest shots of Superman flying and he has a huge blood vessel in his forehead that just looks wrong. i liked the alien invasion focus.
Batman V Superman (2016) - piece of shit move trailer expanded to feature length.
Green Lantern (2011) - kind of amazed this Ryan Reynolds guy has a successful career now what a charisma vacuum. always thought Green Lantern was stupid as a kid and this movie just told me i was right.
The Apple (1980) - this holds up, this movie is insane. i always forget about Mr. Tops.
Club Paradise (1986) - lots of fun to hang out w this movie. Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis as clueless beach bums trying and failing at love was wonderful. Robin Williams actually kind of scary at times in here.
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) - omg how was this movie even made? so bizarre. i love this as a kid but never realized how insane it is. Sally Field losing it at the dinner at the end was classic. "I have to go! We have to leave! I have to go now! We have to leave now!"
Election (1999) - enjoyed this movie a lot. saw pieces of it on IFC all the time back in the day, as a whole movie it's pretty great.

hooray, someone else who thought John Wick was shit

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) 8
*Cinderella (1950) 4
Blue Ruin (2013) 6
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (2016) 6
*Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 10
Superman III 4
Superman IV 3
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Snyder, 2016) 2
Daredevil 3
Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987) 2
Ex Machina (2015) 6

shame that ex machina ends up at "sexbot gets revenge"
daredevil -- a bunch of scenes from the comic book. i notice that affleck pronounces "killed" as "kilt" which is something kevin smith does too.

The True Story of Lili Marlene (Jennings, 1944) 6.5/10
Handsworth Songs (Akomfrah, 1987) 9/10
Eight Hours of Terror (Suzuki, 1957) 7/10
Youth of the Beast (Suzuki, 1963) 9.5/10
Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais, 1959) 10/10
Cremaster 1 (Barney, 1996) 6.5/10, even less comfortable assigning a number to this than I am with general release films
The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland, 2014) 9/10

BRIEF PAUSE to note that The Duke of Burgundy is amazing, possibly the best film of 2014 released in the US in 2015 that I've seen in 2016

Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966) 8.5/10- this would have been higher if I hadn't seen Youth of the Beast first, frankly. Sure, he whistles his own theme music and wears a powder blue suit and that is wonderful, but he's no Joe Shishido
Anomalisa (Kaufman, 2015) 8.5/10- really liked this! I admire Kaufman's solo joints more than I enjoy them, usually, but at least this one seemed to allow for the possibility of happiness existing somewhere in the world, even if it isn't with the sad asshole protagonist. I checked to see what some of my favorite reviewers thought about it and immediately ran into an asinine WHAT REALLY HAPPENED theory that I can't believe people actually subscribe to.

And Anomalisa is just further evidence that Tom Noonan is some kind of benevolent magical giant who descends into our world from his fairy kingdom to make movies awesome

Got to see Barry Lyndon though I missed seeing it in the right order. Missed the start but got to see it from just after on the +1 of the same tv channel an hour later thanks to ad breaks.
Also missed the fight with the stepson but it was the next bit on the +1 after the film ended.

Thought I hadn't seen it before but I recognised a lot of it I think.
Loved the proto stetson the stepson was wearing in the duel. Assume hat evolution has that as a direct ancestor.

James White (7/10): Thought the casting was great in this. Better than I expected.
The Witch (3/10) : stupid and grotesque overrated film.

There Was a Father (Ozu, 1942)
La Promesse (Dardenne Bros., 1996)
Je tu il elle (Akerman, 1975)
*Tootsie (Pollack, 1982)
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (Blank, 1995)
Passing Fancy (Ozu, 1933)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Oshima, 1967)
News from Home (Akerman, 1977) – 10/10
The Model Couple (Klein, 1977)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)

Dheepan (Audiard, 2016) - Audiard taking the piss out of the English with that ending.

Victoria (Schipper, 2015) - best clubbing scene in a German film since Requiem (?) Probably where the film was at his best. One continuous shot was fine got the t-shirt, the explanation for V's action at the coffee scene made me bring out the violins.

The Devil (Zulawski, 1972) - having a go at Stalinism through te medium of slasher film sound-tracked to Krautrock-y lenses.

Victoria is def a good movie but I was impressed more by the form of the film than its content.

"Dheepan" is pretty unbelievable but I couldn't take my eyes off it. Crazy film but I think I liked it if mainly for the leads.

Une Sale Histoire 1 & 2 - 9/10
The Intern - 4/10
L'amour Par Terre - 8/10
The Jungle Book (2016) - 7/10

The French Connection (6.5)
Here Come the Videofreex! (7.0)
Chi-Raq (5.0)
The Winding Stream (7.0)
Everybody Wants Some! (6.0)
Welfare (10.0)
Basic Training (6.5)
Francofonia (6.0)
Huey Long (7.0)
Nobody Waved Goodbye (7.0)

That last one, from 1964, has a kind of raw clumsiness about it, but it's of historical interest in a couple of ways: the first narrative film to come out of Canada's NFB (by accident--they had another film in the works that was supposed to be the first), and it's also a clear map of where American films are headed for the next decade. Coppola used Peter Kastner in You're a Big Boy Now a couple of years later, and if there's any doubt about whether he had seen the Don Owen film, I think it's answered by an exchange between the Kastner character and his mom: she chides him about still being a little boy, he answers back "Oh--and when exactly will I be a big boy?" Basically John Vernon's film debut, fantastic ending.

http://static.rogerebert.com/redactor_assets/pictures/ebert-club/119-june-13-2012/nobody-waved-goodbye-poster-1965.jpg

lolling @ the use of commensurate in a pull quote

barber shop the next cut: a marvelous movie! a story commensurate with Madea Goes to Jail!

That is pretty funny--pre-Kael, maybe Brendan Gill?

Wikipedia entry for You're a Big Boy Now: "You're a Big Boy Now was released a year before Mike Nichols' The Graduate, which deals with similar themes of a young man getting involved with a predatory female and attempting to escape the societal conventions of his parents' generation. According to Mark Harris, when Nichols saw Coppola's film, he worried that it had "pre-empted" The Graduate." (Don't get on me for "predatory"--quoting.)

Nobody Waved Goodbye pre-empted You're a Big Boy Now.

The Whales of August (1987, L Anderson) 6/10
The Wild Party (1929, Arzner) 6/10
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001, Miike) 6/10
The Wings [Vingarne] (1916, Stiller) 6/10
*Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977/1998 director edition, Spielberg) 9/10
Showman (1963, Maysles, Maysles) 8/10
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965, Mulligan) 7/10
Plastic Jesus (1971/1990, Stojanović) 8/10
The Pearl Button (2015, Guzmán) 7/10
Oh, Bomb! (1964, Okamoto) 6/10
Charmed Particles (1979, Noren) 6/10
No Home Movie (2015, Akerman) 7/10
Toute une Nuit (1982, Akerman) 8/10

^ these are all theater viewing except Mulligan and Guzmán

Good Men, Good Women - 8/10
Deadpool - 5/10
Three Times - 9/10
L; amour Braque - 7/10
Spetters - 5/10

The Verhoeven film where I realized he's always been laughing at his audiences.

It's such a beautiful day (hertzfeldt 2012) 10/10
all things must pass (colin hanks 2015) 8/10
laggies (Shelton 2014) 6/10
adult beginners (ross katz 2015) 6/10
woodpecker (karpovsky 2008) 8/10
merchants of doubt (Robert kennan) 6/10
james white (mond 2015) 9/10
the salt of the earth (wenders 2014) 7/10
cop (james b harris 1988) 4/10
nothing left unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson cooper (garbus 2016) 9/10
wild tales (damian szifran 2014) 5/10

cop (james b harris 1988) 4/10

:-(

Yeah, that score needs to be doubled.

I would've liked to like it more. Woods is good, & has a lot to do/often in scenes by himself having to emote a lot, but it gets too unhinged as it goes idk. I also felt like there were often more compelling scenes like rt @ the edges of the action/timeline

it's a pretty solid B movie

King Lear (Peter Brook, 1971) - Great to see an adaptation of a Shakespeare play that tries to be sensitive to cinema - and likewise the auterist approach leads to pared down performances. Paul Scofield's powerful performance is captured not indulged.

Arabian Nights Vol 1 (Miguel Gomes, 2015) - a necessary doc marred by stunts etc

Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier, 2015) - surprisingly good aside issues w/casting of Huppert alongside Gabriel Byrne. For the lolz Eisenberg should've actually played his younger brother except he is a grown-up now DO U SEE. I liked the weight of grief never quite lifting - almost nothing happens, life as a series of uncomfortable shifts you somehow adapt and live through.

Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1975) - Loved the red and faded greens on the big screen. Such joy. A sinister love played to comedic high points.

I thought you loved stunts!

Anyway, Our Little Sister was good. Both it and Arabian Nights 1 made me cry, which feels unusual

deadpool (miller, 2016) 7/10
american movie (smith, 1999) 7/10
chinese roulette (fassbinder, 1976) 7/10
shadow of a doubt (hitchcock, 1943) 8/10
the invitation (kusama, 2016) 7/10
the guest (wingard, 2014) 5/10
night moves (reichardt, 2014) 7/10
battle in heaven (reygadas, 2005) 6/10
elgar: portrait of a composer (russell, 1962) 8/10
*24 hour party people (winterbottom, 2002) 7/10

Victoria (Schipper, 2015) 6/10
Tangerine (Baker, 2015) 7/10
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Snyder, 2016) 4/10
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves, 1968) 8/10
The Queen of Versailles (Greenfield, 2012) 6/10
Film (Schneider, 1965) 7/10
NotFilm (Lipman, 2015) 7/10
The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937) 8/10 - Jerry the Nipper!
Une Femme Douce (Bresson, 1969) 7/10
Miles Ahead (Cheadle, 2015) 5/10
Son of Saul (Nemes, 2015) 7/10

Miles Ahead (Cheadle, 2015) 5/10

Watched the trailer for this - when will this shit stop?

Louder Than Bombs was way too overplotted, and Gabriel Byrne in a movie these days is like dropping a Percosat in a glass of whiskey.

Film4's Love & Sex season:

Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) 1/10
Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) 6.5/10
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014) 8/10

Missed the Nymphomaniacs, sadly.

Other things:

Fear of Fear (RW Fassbinder, 1975) 8/10
Population 436 (Michelle MacLaren, 2006) 3/10 -- starring FRED DURST (and featuring a character called Courtney Lovett - coincidence? Hm)
Insidious (James Wan, 2010) 4/10
Advantageous (Jennifer Phang, 2015) 7/10
Separation (Jane Arden & Jack Bond, 1968) 9/10 [rewatch for nth time recently]

So basically a lot of crap that was shown on TV punctuated by a couple of things I actually wanted to watch.

re: Louder than Bombs - there were unnecessary things in it. Although it was unexplained why everyone knew it was a suicide not an accident - the Huppert character was clearly depressed by her work...still, glad no one tried to explain that, which on reflection I very much liked.

Re: Miles Ahead - I was actually inclined to give it a lower mark than that, but I was swayed by the more measured kind-heartedness of Mark S' review in the latest S&S, which I enjoyed reading afterwards as a palette cleanser.

I'll look at that.

Just when you thought musician biopics couldn't be any worse, there is one with Tom Hiddlestone playing Hank Williams out there. I don't know if death counts as a palette cleanser. TBF it is probably just as tedious as the Miles one, or indeed any of them.

Ive heard a lot of bad reports about the Hank Williams biopic

A Room With a View (Ivory 1985)
Early Spring (Ozu 1956)
Spotlight (McCarthy 2015)
The Danish Girl (Hooper 2015)
Heart of a Dog (Anderson 2015)
The Match Factory Girl (Kaurismäki 1990)
Warrendale (King 1967)
Europa (von Trier 1991)
Poto and Cabengo (Gorin 1980)
The Young Girls Turn 25 (Varda 1993)

Also Beyoncé's Lemonade album/film, if that counts (I think it does)

High-Rise (8/10)
Triple 9 (6/10)
Kill List (7/10)
The End Of the Day (Duvivier) 8/10

Hey film ilxors, have we ever done a short films ballot poll?

No. Too many genres.

I kind of like the idea of having a whole mix of genres in there, but I get your point, it does make it harder to choose your voting criteria.

well i'd just go with Keaton/Chaplin/Ton o' Fun.

and of course WC Fields

and that kneeslapper Maya Deren

Giving High-Rise 8/10 is insane, rating it better than Kill List is doolally.

I just watched High Rise earlier and I loved it but no its not better than Kill List

I'd even rate A Field In England above Kill List! Then again -- I'm prob insane yeah. Or doolally ( whatever that is ).

Kill List is my least favourite of those three.

they're all good, a field in england the best