Last (x) movies you saw

'Loi du Marché' is a much better title, but the pun is probably untranslatable.

Loi du Marc Hey

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space - not an actual cat

Xxpost Yeah, I thought the same thing. "Measure Of A Man" is somewhat of a sledgehammer.

Finished Arabian Nights btw. Wonderful achievement. Can barely see it getting beaten as my 2016 film of choice

No cartoons playing next week then?

Anime, sorry.

Evolution seems like it might be this week's xyzzzz disgust bait

It was good, but it's pretty much the same film as Innocence. But wow at the colors and the underwater photography.

We haven't seen Victoria yet either - a film that seems wholly designed to piss yer man off

No cartoons playing next week then?

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Anime, sorry.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, May 11, 2016 11:34 AM (57 minutes ago)

The time stamp says 2016, but I'm sure this barb came direct from 1990.

I'll make sure to place a hashtag next time for the update

^ keeping up

Victoria was pretty good! Loved the first 40 minutes, and the return to the club especially. And the ending was nice enough I guess

"Victoria" is compelling and obv brilliantly made but I found the ending incredulous

the night was over, man

ah sure we've all been there

The ending wasn't the problem.

you actually saw this

ctrl + F

I liked it fine, the lead guy is cute, and the ending was disappointing.

The Measure of a Man (Brizé, 2016) 7/10
Louder Than Bombs (Trier, 2016) 6/10
Everybody Wants Some!! (Linklater, 2016) 8/10
Born to Be Blue (Boudreau, 2016) 5/10
My Golden Age (Desplechin, 2016) 6/10
Three Monkeys (Ceylan, 2008) 7/10
* Lost Highway (Lynch, 1996) 6/10
Presumed Innocent (Pakula, 1990) 6/10
Let’s Get Lost (Weber, 1988) 7/10
* The Searchers (Ford, 1956) 5/10
* Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950) 9/10
* Gilda (Vidor, 1946) 8/10
Port of Shadows (Carne, 1938) 8/10

The Searchers (Ford, 1956) 5/10

THAT'LL BE THE DAY

The New Girlfriend (2014, Ozon) 7/10
Little Man, What Now? (1934, Borzage) 9/10
Air Mail (1932, Ford) 6/10
King of Jazz (1930, Anderson) 7/10
History Lessons (1972, Straub, Huillet) [W/O 0:50]
The Man I Love (1947, Walsh) 8/10
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968, Straub, Huillet) 7/10
James White (2015, Mond) 6/10
*Güeros (2014, Ruizpalacios) 7/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, Abrams) 6/10
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979, Schatzberg) 5/10
Brooklyn (2015, Crowley) 6/10
*The Projectionist (1971, Hurwitz) 6/10
A Touch of Zen (1971, Hu) 7/10
Victim (1961, Dearden) 9/10
The Case of Mr. Lin (1955, Segel) 8/10
My Hustler (1965, Warhol) 7/10
The Captive (2000, Akerman) 8/10

I love early Borzage.

thanks for reminding me that I gotta check out the Basil Dearden Eclipse series (I saw Victim years ago in college: a bit stiff around the neck iirc. But it's been long enough).

it's pretty plainspoken and blunt for the era, and one of Bogarde's best performances

what'd you think of Brooklyn? A 6 is about right, with Cohen responsible for at least three points.

I found too much of it "familiar" both in cinematic and personal terms, having Irish immigrant grandparents meself. Among the actors I thought Ronan's character was just a little too dull for her chops, but liked the underplaying of Gleeson (just before i saw him shouting his way thru that nothing role in Star Wars) and the actress playing the mother (in contrast w/ Julie Walters' scenery chewing as the landlady).

local TV used to show Dearden's Sapphire a lot in my teens but i haven't seen it since

also, Little Man, What Now? was put out on DVD in the Universal Vault Series a couple years ago -- i didn't imagine the Brooklyn library would have it, but it does. (Saw it yesterday at MoMA.)

History Lessons (1972, Straub, Huillet) [W/O 0:50]

lol

Knight of Cups (Malick, 2016) 9/10
Son of Saul (Lazlo Nemes, 2016) 7/10

haha of coooooourse you liked Knight of Cups

And why do you think I liked it? #thisWillBeFun

Room (Abrahamson, 2015) 9/10

Pile Ou Face (6/10)
My Golden Years (7/10)
Captain America : Civil War (7/10)
Muriel (8/10)
Pedicab Driver (7/10)
Triple 9 (6/10)

high rise (wheatley, 2016) 7/10
the way way back (rash, faxon) 4/10
beasts of the southern wild (zeitlin, 2012) 6/10
danton's death (clarke, 1978) 6/10
the last wave (weir, 1977) 7/10
gallipoli (weir, 1981) 8/10
le mepris (godard, 1963) 8/10
pixote (babenco, 1981) 9/10

*Akira (Otomo, 1988)
*Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)
The Legend of Leigh Bowery (Atlas, 2002)
Seizure (Stone, 1974)
Lady Snowblood (Fujita, 1973)
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (Fujita, 1974)
*Re-Animator (Gordon, 1985)
The Eliminators (Manoogian, 1986)
*Crawlspace (Schmoeller, 1986)
*From Beyond (Gordon, 1986)
Winter Kills (Richert, 1979)

Hush (Flanagan, 2016) 6/10
Aaaaaaaah! (Oram, 2015) 2/10
The Keeping Room (Barber, 2015) 6/10
Beat Girl (Greville, 1960) 5/10
High-Rise (Wheatley, 2016) 7/10
The Color Purple (Spielberg, 1985) 6/10
The Forest (Zada, 2016) 3/10
The Decline of Western Civilization (Spheeris, 1981) 7/10
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Spheeris, 1988) 7/10
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (Spheeris, 1998) 8/10

Was going to defend Beat Girl but to be honest I think a score in the middle is about right - I do like 50s/60s juvie exploitation films but they're not actually often (ever?) good films.

I loved the sets; '50s Soho streets and coffee bars and all that. And the slang-heavy dialogue, delivered by the well-spoken 'delinquents', was straight from the fridge, daddy-o. The story was really run-of-the-mill, though, and felt dated and a bit naff, even for 1960.

barbara (petzold, 2012) 7/10
a good old fashioned orgy (alex Gregory + peter huyck, 2011) 8/10
green room (saulnier, 2016) 7/10
the bad news bears (Ritchie, 1976) 7/10
the gambler (wyatt, 2014) 3/10
11 minutes (skolimowski, 2016) 4/10

Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015)
Captain America: Civil War (Russo Bros., 2016)
Jauja (Alonso, 2014)
*The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)
Arabian Nights, Vol. 1: The Restless One (Gomes, 2015)
The Forbidden Room (Maddin, 2015)
Sex and Broadcasting (Smith, 2015)
The Saddest Music in the World (Maddin, 2003)
Jeremiah Johnson (Pollack, 1972)

Zootopia 8/10
Total Recall (Verhoeven) 7/10
Mon Roi 7/10
The Source (Beat Generation docu) 6/10
Cosmos 7/10
Alice In The Cities (9/10)*
Five Women Around Utamaro* (9/10)

xxpost Too bad that new Skolimowski's supposedly a chore. What're your thoughts, johnny crunch?

xpost Cosmos is Zulawski not Sagan

yea it surprised me to learn he wrote it also for its relative lack of depth

nice 2 see a high score on alice in the cities, that ones been sitting on my dvr for some time now

Heart of a Dog (Anderson, 2015) - A film by someone who has lived a long time. Laurie chews over lots of Western and Eastern modes of philosophy, music, art and encounters. This is a mix of film, biography, documentary, animation, with her dog in the middle (although idk how much that also stands for Lou Reed). A lot of it is clumsily done, she hasn't got many filmmaking chops (the snow falling on trees just didn't have kick at all), but there are moments here and there, but a lot of it is undermined.

Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky, 1962) - It was all there from the beginning.

heart of a dog is so audio/voiceover-intensive, i think would work better as a radio documentary. some touching shots (and interesting/moving thoughts on death) of the dog, but otherwise, no, shes no filmmaker, not on this evidence anyway.