Last (x) movies you saw

Carol (Haynes, 2015) 5/10
*Secret Admirer (Greenwalt, 1985) 4/10
The American Friend (Wenders, 1977) 6/10
Billy Boy (Mizer, 1970) 6/10
Where to Invade Next (Moore, 2015) 5/10
*The Opposite of Sex (Roos, 1998) 8/10
X-Men: Apocalypse (Singer, 2016) 5/10
The New Girlfriend (Ozon, 2015) 7/10
*Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950) 9/10

Oh my god the Spanish film ma ma (Penelope Cruz gets magic cancer) is so excruciatingly terrible

I was minutes away from seeing this then checked the reviews, which are not generally the outright barometer for me, but you can't argue with like 20%. I love PC, but this looked woeful.

Symptoms (Larraz, 1974) 7/10
The Old Dark House (Castle, 1963) 5/10
Embrace of the Serpent (Guerra, 2015) 7/10
Rams (Hákonarson, 2015) 6/10
Tale of Tales (Garrone, 2015) 6/10
The Measure of a Man (Brizé, 2015) 8/10
Beat Girl (Gréville, 1960) 5/10
Last Train from Gun Hill (Sturges, 1959) 7/10

Central Intelligence 8/10
Our Kind of Traitor 6/10
Swiss Army Man 7/10

No Home Movie (Akerman, 2015) - film of the year.
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1972) - first time watching on the big screen where the framing of the camera is matched by distanced, cold, hateful gaze. More mirrowing -- a chill to see the racial hatred, talk of immigrants and 'all their rapes' from the mouths of the characters being aped by politicians today. Hits home.

*Jodorowsky's Dune
Lemonade
Tickled
The Last Detail
*Harold and Maude
M. Hulot's Holiday
*The Stunt Man

Those last four with my parents visiting for the long weekend; surprisingly, all but The Stunt Man were hits.

No Home Movie (Akerman, 2015) - film of the year

I would agree; this was devastating, and would have been even if it weren't, sadly, a coda to Akerman's work. It makes me especially want to see Dis-moi which seems to prefigure it in a lot of ways. How many filmmakers can convey such powerful sadness and unease with long still shots of empty rooms?

Kid Blue (1973, Frawley) 6/10
Private Property (1960, Stevens) 7/10
Cry ‘Havoc’ (1943, Thorpe) 5/10
*All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Milestone) 9/10
*Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong) 7/10
Nuts! (2016, Lane) 6/10
Raising Cain (1992, De Palma) 6/10
*The American Friend (1977, Wenders) 9/10
The Witness (2015, Solomon) 6/10
*Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015, Gomes) 7/10
*Last Night At The Alamo (1983, Pennell) 8/10

lord of the rings fellowship 9/10
LOTR two towers 7/10
LOTR return of the king 7/10
already tomorrow in hong kong 7/10
the chosen ones (2015) 6/10
the jungle book (2016) 4/10
to the wonder 10/10
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind 7/10
tree of life 8/10
in the mood for love 8/10
knight of cups 6/10

*Last Night At The Alamo (1983, Pennell) 8/10

YAY! There's a benefit screening of the restoration here on Thursday, but tickets are $40 (and up). So I'll hold onto my bootleg DVD and continue to cherish my memories of seeing The Whole Shootin' Match in 2008 w/a panel discussion between Sonny Davis, Lou Perryman (RIP), and Kim Henkel before a small audience consisting of myself, a few Rice film students, and Davis' assorted siblings and nieces and nephews.

new DVD obv coming

i also just got The Whole Shootin' Match outta the library

The Witch (2015) 3.5/5
Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) 5/5
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) 3/5
Hard to Be a God (2013) 2/5
Modern Romance (1981; rewatch) 4/5
Tokyo Tribe (2014) 3/5
L'intrus (2004) 4/5
OJ: Made in America (2016) 4.5/5
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) 3.5/5
Dressed to Kill (1980) 3/5
Alice in the Cities (1974) 3.5/5

The Nice Guys (2016) 5
Finding Dory (2016) 6

Masters of the Universe (1987) 1/10
Always (Spielberg) 4
Purple Rain (1984) 4
Godzilla (2014) 5
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 5
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) 2
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 2
Best Worst Movie 6
Troll 2 (1990) 1
The Best Years of Our Lives 4 finally bit this bullet after reading Five Came Back a few years ago
O.J.: Made in America (2016) 7
Old Yeller 4
Holy Motors 4

Well, at least I'm not the only one who doesn't dig The Best Years of Our Lives.

It's a fine movie with excellent use of deep focus. The quiet crumbling of the Loy-March marriage is well done.

most of it, it's obvious where it's going, and it's so slow. the dana andrews plot was a complete waste of time to me.

les demoiselles de rochefort (demy, 7/10)
sans soleil (marker, 10/10) (rewatched)
captain america: the first avenger (johnston, 6/10)
les rendez-vous d'anna (akerman, 8/10)
captain america: winter soldier (russo bros, 7/10)
x-men: days of future past (singer, 5/10)
night mail (watt and wright, 6/10)
one day pina asked... (akerman, 7/10)
the wicker man (hardy, 7/10)
chronicle of a summer (rouch and morin, 9/10)

xpost

It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember my main issue being the distasteful mining of March's alcoholism for LOLs. On Alfred's remark about the visuals, I cannot really comment as the one time I saw it was via a less than stellar print on syndicated commercial TV broadcast. That alone probably warrants a rewatch.

thirst (chan-wook park, 2009) 8/10
we need to talk about kevin (ramsay, 2011) 6/10
embrace of the serpent (guerra, 2015) 8/10
tin can man (kavanagh, 2007) 4/10
you can count on me (lonergan, 2000) 7/10

documentaries:

capitalism a love story (moore, 2009) 7/10
trophy kids (bell, 2013) 7/10
the decline of western civilisation (spheeris, 1981) 7/10
(dis)honesty: the truth about lies (melamede, 2015) 6/10

rewatches:

withnail & 1 (robinson, 1987) 10/10
the master (anderson, 2012) 7/10

*The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995) 5/10

the only time i saw it the ending made me so angry i think i would have come on here and given it 1/10 had i been on ilx

it didn't age well that's for sure

the music is atrocious!!

lol! i don't remember much except wanting everyone involved thrown out of a window for the ending

i saw it like ten years ago. almost as much time has elapsed since i saw it than elapsed between its release and me seeing it. that is weird

anyway

Remainder 7.5/10
Smiley Face 7.5/10

Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 4/5
Blackhat (2015) 2.5/5
The Lobster (2015) 4/5

Film (Schneider, 1965)- 4.5/5 if I'm being honest but it felt like a 5
Notfilm (Lipman, 2015)- 4/5
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)- 4.5/5
*Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams, 2009)- 3/5
Demons (Bava, 1985)- 2/5 but a fun 2/5

Juggernaut (7.0)
Weiner (6.0)
Beautiful Darling (7.0)
The Deer Hunter (7.0)
Carrie (10.0)
Nostalghia (--)
Money Monster (6.0)
The 400 Blows (10.0)
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (7.0)
Blow Out (9.0)

I thought Andrei Rublev was impressive when I saw it about a decade ago, and I liked Ivan’s Childhood more recently. Nostalghia was like Stalker for me: memorable final image, the rest of it a very tough slog. I want to see The Mirror, but I’ll have to wait until it shows up at the Lightbox again—the one remaining video store that carries such stuff doesn’t seem to have it.

I found Beautiful Darling compelling for its performance footage of Candy and others and for some of its interviews with Candy's friends, but it says something about the film that one of its interview subjects invokes the "straight man vomiting at the sight of a trans woman's body" trope within the first ten minutes or so. Not an unsympathetic treatment of Candy's life, but at times hard to watch if you tend to have a visceral reaction to transmisogyny. (I was also fairly depressed while I watched this last year, though, so that probably colored the experience.)

All the Tarkovsky films are free and legal online. Stalker really needs to be seen on the big screen, though, I think. I used to think that was one of the most overrated films ever, but changed my mind after watching it in cinema.

The only Tarkovsky I've ever seen was Solaris on tv when I was a teen. It was a bit of a slog and I don't think I finished it tbh. Scene with the car driving through the city was cool though.

Forgot about Solaris, I've seen that too. Three were in a theatre--always my first choice, although I'll settle more readily for a DVD now than when I used to wait forever--Ivan's Childhood and Nostalghia at home. I was certainly aware of how great parts would have looked on in a theatre...but that didn't salvage Stalker for me.

looooooove nostalgia

(saw in cinema)

Me too a couple of weeks ago. I'm finding it harder to unravel than the three others I've seen. Had to revise favourite film for the first time in eleven years to Stalker recently after seeing it in the cinema. Tarkovsky is a dream-stealer.

(xposts) I thought Beautiful Darling was generally very sympathetic, seemed to be mostly filtered through Jeremiah Newton's relationship with Darling (which was left a little ambiguous). I recall the comments you quote, not who said them, but they seemed in keeping with the era that was being recalled, and you wouldn't really want to take them out. I didn't think they were reflective of the film as a whole.

Yeah, I don't think the film should have been sanitized, by any means, and I think the filmmakers were at least responsible about balancing out the more transphobic interview subjects (with their juxtaposition of Fran Lebowitz's and Jayne County's remarks, for example). I found it emotionally hard to watch, but that isn't a criticism of the film.

Fear of Fear (Fassbinder, 1975)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Rejected (short film; Hertzfeldt, 2000)
Anomalisa (Kaufman/Johnson, 2015)
Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015)
Mala Noche (Van Sant, 1986)
Gomorra (Garrone, 2008)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami, 1999)
Ghostbusters (Feig, 2016)

Men & Chicken. Liked it quite a lot. Reminds me a bit of Taxidermia but not nearly as gross or weird.

It's quite fun! If you haven't seen them, the directors other films, The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples, are pretty good as well.

Thanks, I'll look out for them.

the bakery girl of monceau (rohmer 63, 6/10)
x-men: first class (vaughn 2011, 5/10)
i'm all right, jack (boulting 59, 5/10)
le coup du berger (rivette 56, 4/10)
gilda (vidor 46, 8/10)
the red shoes (powell and pressburger 48, 9/10) *rewatched
daguerrotypes (varda 75, 6/10)
I don't belong anywhere: the cinema of chantal akerman (lambert 2016, 6/10)
don't look now (roeg 73, 7/10)

Gilda was a revelation, so sleek and uneasy and daring in how it handled its queer subtext. I don't belong anywhere is a little too reliant on a watered-down version of Akerman's visual sensibility (especially given its proximity to the more radical No Home Movie, and the interviews with Gus van Sant seem out of place and perfunctory as a means of discussing Akerman's influence, but Akerman's commentary on her own work is illuminating.

Cyrus and I watched The War. Kevin Costner almost made me cry! In a good way! Frodo was good too. 7/10

Cyrus and I watched A Night In Casablanca last night. best Chico piano. Cyrus before the movie: "Do they get chased a lot and do people hide in trunks?" Yes. And yes. 7/10

Cyrus and I went and saw the Louis CK cartoon dog movie. It was entertaining but I kinda forgot about it as soon as we left the movies. 6/10

Cyrus and I went and saw Finding Dory. Maria came too. 8/10 to Nemo's 9/10.

I watched Boom Town by myself and almost wet my pants when this scene came up. so hot. 8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGVzNf3J_I

Oh and watched Mustang on Netflix. Liked that a lot. 7/10

*The Long Day Closes (1992, Davies) 9/10
Simon (1980, Brickman) 6/10
Part Time Wife (1930, McCarey) 5/10
*Westworld (1973, Crichton) 6/10
The Battle of the Century (1927, Bruckman/McCarey) (19m) 8/10
The BFG (2016, Spielberg) 6/10
Microbe and Gasoline (2015, Gondry) 7/10
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet (1997, Plympton, Curtis) 7/10
*Mala Noche (1986, Van Sant) 8/10
On Purge Bébé (1931, Renoir) 6/10
The Travelling Players (1975, Angelopoulos) 8/10
*La Chienne (1931, Renoir) 10/10
Open All Night (1924, Bern) 6/10
The Brink’s Job (1978, Friedkin) 5/10
*Attenberg (2010, Tsangari) 8/10

*The Master (Anderson, 2012) 7/10
Green Room (Saulnier, 2015) 7/10
Jupiter Ascending (The Warchowskis, 2015) 6/10
Tale of Tales (Garrone, 2015) 7/10
Muriel's Wedding (Hogan, 1994) 8/10

Fixed Bayonets! (Fuller, 1951) 9/10
Black Widow (Rafelson, 1987) 7/10
*Catch Me if You Can (Spielberg, 2002) 8/10
Shane (Stevens, 1953) 7/10
Batman: The Killing Joke (Liu, 2016) 2/10
Star Trek Beyond (Lin, 2016) 4/10
Ghostbusters (Feig, 2016) 7/10

Alan Clarke: Dissent & Disruption box set (so far):
George's Room (1967) 6/10
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel (1969) 5/10
Sovereign's Company (1970) 8/10
The Hallelujah Handshake (1970) 7/10
To Encourage the Others (1972) 8/10
Under the Age (1972) 7/10
*Horace (1972) 8/10
The Love Girl and the Innocent (1973) 6/10
*Penda's Fen (1974) 7/10

WANT that Clarke boxset

Anomalisa (DVD) Amusing at times but pretty pointless
Terminator: Genisys (Prime) Bleh
Medium Cool (DVD) Great, also awesome use of Love's "Emotions" for main theme
Midnight Special (DVD) Great!
Salo: 120 Days of Sodom (DVD) Saw Criterion at library and figured I should watch it finally--not exactly enjoyable
99 Homes (Prime) Andrew Garfield was... not good in this, but I thought Shannon was (in fact not sure why Garfield's character even needed to exist). A bit heavy handed maybe, but not sure how you make a movie like this otherwise...

watched Snow Angels and it was bad Sundance bait and a criminal waste of my hero Kate Beckinsale. and criminal waste of Griffin Dunne and Amy Sedaris for that matter. 4/10 (i don't know why anyone thought Garden State + In The Bedroom was a good idea. But film people are weird. the book must be better or something.)

i suggest a movie where griffin dunne and amy sedaris hire a nanny played by kate beckinsale and watch the sparks fly!

Chevalier 8/10 this year's Force Majeure