Last (x) movies you saw

The Blues Brothers (Landis, 1980) 8/10

Cocaine's a helluva you-know

Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder, 1943) 6/10
Manchester By The Sea (Lonergan, 2016) 7/10
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Herzog, 2016) 7/10
Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016) 6/10
La La Land (Chazelle, 2016) 4/10
De Palma (Baumbach, Paltrow, 2015) 7/10

Kiki's Delivery Service 9/10
La Grande Bellezza 7/10

The Man From Snowy River - 1982 - George T. Miller 8/10
The Sons Of Katie Elder - 1965 - Henry Hathaway 9/10
Results - 2015 - Andrew Bujalski 6/10
The Black Stallion - 1979 - Carroll Ballard 10/10
Never Cry Wolf - 1983 - Carroll Ballard 8/10
King Of The Hill - 1993 - Steven Soderbergh 8/10
The Wild Bunch - 1969 - Sam Peckinpah 10/10
7 Men From Now - 1956 - Budd Boetticher 8/10
The Magnificent Seven - 1960 - John Sturges 9/10
There Was A Crooked Man... - 1970 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz 9/10
How The West Was Won - 1962 - Ford. Hathaway, Marshall 9/10
Three Violent People - 1957 - Rudolph Mate 9/10
Forty Guns - 1957 - Samuel Fuller 9/10

Loaded (Anna Campion, 1994) - not too bad
The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980) - liked it
Freejack - (Geoff Murphy, 1992) - eh
Young Sherlock Holmes (Levinson, 1986) - had some good parts
Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994) - ok
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Reinhardt and Dieterle, 1935) - liked it, ballet scenes are fantastic, James Cagney and Joe E. Brown are great, but Mickey Rooney is such a twerp
Morgan The Pirate (De Toth, 1960) - I guess this was OK
inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan, 1965) - liked this a lot
Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis, 1983) - eh
The Borrower (McNaughton, 1991) - enjoyed this one
Thursday's Game (Robert Moore, 1974) - This was fun but probably not as good as you would hope a James L. Brooks, Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart film would be
Ghost Story (Irvin, 1981) - probably would watch again
Panther (Mario Van Peebles, 1995) - I liked it

Silence (Scorsese, 2016)
...But Film Is My Mistress (Björkman, 2010)
Lions Love (...and Lies) (Varda, 1968)
Incident by a Bank (short - Östlund, 2010)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Misumi, 1972)
Dégustation Maison (short - Tatischeff, 1978)
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza One (short - Frampton, 1977)
Gloria! (short - Frampton, 1979)
The Tin Drum (Schlondörff, 1979) -- David Bennent, the kid who plays Oskar, is astoundingly good in this
Chris Marker's Bestiary (shorts, 1990-1994)
— Bullfight in Okinawa
— Cat Listening to Music
— An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl
— Slon Tango
— Zoo Piece
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder, 1971)

Experimenter has left me utterly depressed.

Paterson - 5/10
Julieta - 8/10

slow soggy weekend:

Florence Foster Jenkins (Frears, 2016) 4/10
* Postcards from the Edge (Nichols, 1990) 6/10
* The End of Summer (Ozu, 1960) 7/10

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Edwards, 2016) 4/10
Spectre (Mendes, 2015) 7/10
*Mother (Brooks, 1996) 8/10
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel, 1956) 7/10
Hell or High Water (Mackenzie, 2016) 5/10
*His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) 5/10
*They Live (Carpenter, 1988) 7/10
Bad Day at Black Rock (Sturges, 1955) 7/10
Finding Dory (Stanton and MacLane, 2016) 6/10
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story (Stabile, 2015) 7/10
Seashore (Matzembacher & Reolon, 2015) 6/10
Bamboozled (Lee, 2000) 6/10

January:

Adam's Rib (Cukor, 1949) 7/10
Things to Come (Hansen-Love, 2016) 8/10
Horror Express (Martin, 1972) 7/10
Silence (Scorsese, 2016) 7/10
An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951) 8/10
Napoleon (Gance, 1927) 8/10
Cry of the City (Siodmak, 1948) 6/10
Manchester by the Sea (Lonergan, 2016) 8/10
Psychomania (Sharp, 1973) 7/10
Expresso Bongo (Guest, 1959) 5/10
Pat and Mike (Cukor, 1952) 7/10
Irma Vep (Assayas, 1996) 8/10
Days of Wine and Roses (Edwards, 1962) 8/10
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956) 7/10
Gaslight (Cukor, 1944) 7/10
The Blade (Tsui, 1995) 7/10 - this was viewed on a legit but very ropey looking Region 2 DVD - want to rewatch sometime
Experiment in Terror (Edwards, 1962) 7/10

The Man Between (Reed 1953) 8/10
A Generation (Wajda, 1955) 8/10
Barfly (Schroeder, 1987) 5/10
They Won't Believe Me (Pichel, 1947)
The Shallows (Collet-Serra, 2016) 7/10
Wiener-Dog (Solondz, 2016) 7/10
Foul Play (Higgins, 1978) 5/10
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki, 1984) 7/10
Romance (Breillat, 2004) 4/10
Bunny Lake is Missing (Preminger, 1965) 9/10

Foul Play (Higgins, 1978) 5/10

aww :-(

i saw it in '78; best for martial-arts fight between Rachel Roberts and Burgess Meredith

as movies written by Colin Higgins go, at least it beats Harold and Maude

Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016, Ducastel, Martineau) 6/10
Captain Fantastic (2016, Ross) 6/10
Law of Desire (1987, Almodovar) 8/10
Manchester by the Sea (2016, Lonergan) 7/10
*The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Minnelli) 8/10
Susan Slept Here (1954, Tashlin) 6/10
Panique (1946, Duvivier) 8/10
Spa Night (2016, Ahn) 6/10
*Mother (1996, Brooks) 7/10
Aferim! (2015, Jude) 8/10

It's possible that I saw Law of Desire 20+ years ago, but i think i would've remembered Antonio Banderas as a psycho bottom.

Debbie Reynolds pockets both Susan Slept Here and Mother.

Sieranevada (Puiu)
Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (Nasrallah)
The Suffering of Ninko (Niwatsukino)
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Diaz)
Bad Influence (Huaiquimilla)
Wùlu (Coulibaly)
Heartstone (Gudmundsson)
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Kuosmanen)
Ascent (Tan)
I, Olga Heparová (Kazda & Weinreb)
Sami Blood (Kernell)
Take Me Home (Kiarostami)
76 min 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami (Samadian)
Knife in the Clear Water (Wang)
Death in Sarajevo (Tanovic)
Birdshot (Red)
Little Wing (Vilhunen)
Burning Birds (Pushpakumara)
The Inertia Variations (St Michaels)
Death of a Child (Barkfors & Barkfors)
Manifesto (Rosefeldt)
The Human Surge (Williams)
For the War to End, the Walls Should Have Crumbled (Dardenne & Dardenne)
The Unknown Woman (Dardenne & Dardenne)

Smaller festival haul than usual. But some really good ones in there, especially Knife in the Clear Water and Burning Birds. If you get the chance, jump on them!

My Best Friend's Wedding (Hogan, 1997) 3/10
John Wick (Stahelski, 2014) 5/10
Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016) 8/10
Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) 7/10
The Handmaiden (Chan-Wook, 2016) 7/10
Things to Come (Hansen-Løve, 2016) 9/10
Love & Friendship (Stillman, 2016) 8/10
Embrace of the Serpent (Guerra, 2015) 8/10
Network (Lumet, 1976) 8/10

Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016) 7/10

Executive Suite - 1954 - Wise 7/10 (man, this movie has the best people in it. william holden, barbara stanwyck, walter pidgeon, fredric march, shelley winters! and its directed by an american hero. so many people i would have sex with. but then they add the excruciating horror that is june allyson. with that voice that will make your skin crawl like something out of a lovecraft short story. oh well.)

Texas - 1941 - Marshall 9/10 (speaking of sexy...when was the last time you saw YOUNG william holden in a movie? oof....this movie rules. also, george marshall made a zillion awesome movies and hardly anyone knows who he is. not talking about YOU dweebs. i would watch any of his movies any day of the week.)

Chillerama (various, 2011) 4/10
10 Cloverfield Lane (Trachtenberg, 2016) 5/10 pretty good until the wtf 2nd ending. i liked how it rushed through ending 1.
Suicide Squad (Ayer/Trailer Park, 2016) 3/10 first 20 minutes are a fiasco, the rest is boring bad.
Fury, the (de Palma, 1978) 6
La La Land (Chazelle, 2016) 8
Margaret (Lonergan, 2011) 9 theatrical cut
Hidden Figures (Melfi, 2016) 6 decent corn

It's possible that I saw Law of Desire 20+ years ago, but i think i would've remembered Antonio Banderas as a psycho bottom.

Debbie Reynolds pockets both Susan Slept Here and Mother.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 2, 2017 3

Banderas is more beautiful, walking or on his back, bare legs splayed, than any man deserves to be.

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North to Alaska - 1960 - Hathaway 8/10 (so great.)

El Dorado - 1966 - Hawks 8/10 (also so great. james caan and michelle carey are both oooooof....)

Superbad - 2007 - Mottola 7/10 (still pretty funny!)

Gun Crazy - 1950 - Lewis 10/10 (still perfect!)

Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Schroeder, 1978)
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Misumi, 1972)
Green Grow the Rushes (Twist, 1951)
Cameraperson (Johnson, 2016)
*Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg, 1984)
The Nice Guys (Black, 2016)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike, 2001)
Mona Lisa (Jordan, 1984)

shorts:
Coda (Holly, 2013)
Black Panthers (Varda, 1968)
The Idle Class (Chaplin, 1921)

Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016) - 10/10
Camaraperson (Johnson, 2016) - 10/10
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) - 7/10
Pandora's Box (Pabst, 1929) - 7/10

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (7.5)
To Die For (7.5)
Bright Lights, Big City (7.0)
Westworld (6.5)
Jackie (7.0)
Up in the Air (6.5)
Malcolm X (9.0)
Franca: Chaos and Creation (6.5)
American Honey (7.5)
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (7.0)

The Time Traveler (1964) - This is a really cool 60s space b-movie w an incredibly cool ending and weird twist that brings to mind Momento or Interstellar. They plant something near the beginning, a shadow breezing across the frame and one of the leads saying "What was that?", and it gets forgotten about and doesn't come up again until an hour later during the mind fuckery. It was really clever and felt super modern. I also enjoyed the weird proto-psychedelic light show sequence where some lady plays a futurists organ w weird colored buttons.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) - Damn classic! Saw this a long time ago and forgot how good it is. The balloon animal they use to track down victims was awesome. The guy that plays the old grizzled cop is hilarious. What a fun movie.

Meteor Man (1993) - Never saw this full film until now. Really stacked cast (ft. Don Cheadle and James Earl Jones), cool pro-community message w a unique twist on the now-standard superhero film formula, a hopeful superhero movie for a less cynical time. One of his super powers is the ability to learn by osmosis and I totally called it when he accidentally touches a Bruce Lee instructional manual (which was still awesome). Has a real thick new jack swing feel to it all, especially the Gold Lords gang. It gets weird near the end of the movie when Bill Cosby brings a dog back from the dead...

The Comedian - 2/10
The Shining - 10/10
Toni Erdmann - 7/10
John Wick: Chapter 2 - 1/10 (walk out)

lol how long did it take?

The Heartbreak Kid ( May) : 6/10
Jackie : 3/10 : Portman's ACTING is terrible. Great score. Got an hour in then stopped.
The Physician : 6/10
Dillinger Is Dead : 9/10

Jackie is terrible.

My 3/10 for the score but, yes, quite the overrated turd.

Kiss Me Deadly - 10/10
Pitfall - 7/10
Murder, My Sweet 8/10
Kansas City Confidential - 7/10
The Grand Budapest Hotel - 8/10

barry lyndon (kubrick '75) 9/10
*thumbsucker (mills '05) 7/10
*a bigger splash (guadagnino '15) 6/10
bring me the head of alfredo garcia (peckinpah '74) 7/10
popstar: never stop never stopping (schaffer/taccome '16) 4/10
julieta (almodovar '16) 6/10
serena (ryan white '16) 6/10
demolition (vallee '15) 6/10
20th century women (mills '16) 7/10

tampopo (juzo itami, 1985) -- 4/5
jackie (pablo larrain, 2016) -- 1/5
do the right thing (spike lee, 1989) -- 5/5
bobby fischer against the world (liz garbus, 2011) -- 4/5

Thought Bobby Fischer was excellent--good soundtrack, even.

yeah, i was tempted to rate it even higher -- so much archival footage i'd never seen before. loved all the old news show clips; still seems so wonderfully insane that a chess match briefly became the top story in america.

That was exactly my favourite part of the whole movie, that one network broadcast that went something like, "We've got new developments in Vietnam, and also the latest employment figures, but first, today's Fischer-Spassky match."

That and--what better to soundtrack an international chess summit?--"Theme from Shaft."

Same reaction to The Witch as to It Follows (think there's a thread but won't go looking for it): clever, atmospheric, some beautiful painterly shots, big build-up and then it ends. In fairness, I don't think home-viewing benefits either film.

I loved The Witch's dumb ending, a masterclass in buying into yr own shtick.

Swallows and Amazons (Lowthorpe, 2016) 6/10
Finding Dory (Stanton, MacLane, 2016) 5/10
Waltzes From Vienna (Hitchcock, 1934) 5/10
Sabotage (Hitchcock, (1936) 7/10
Young and Innocent (Hithcock, 1937) 7/10

rw:
Twenty-Four Hour Party People (Winterbottom, 2001) 7/10
Dune (Lynch, 1984) 7/10
Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter, 1976) 8/10
Vampires (Carpenter, 1998) 4/10
Sirens (Dulgan, 1993) 7/10
The Parallax View (Pakula, 1974) 7/10
Carrie (De Palma, 1976) 7/10
The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999) 7/10
The Cannonball Run (Needham, 1981) 3/10
Animal House (Landis, 1978) 6/10

Brokeback Mountain (Lee, 2005) 6/10
Your Name (Shinkai, 2016) 7/10
OJ Made in America (Edelman, 2016) 7/10
The Leopard (Visconti, 1963) 6/10
Manchester by the Sea (Lonergan, 2016) 8/10
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) 9/10
The Neon Demon (Winding-Refn, 2016) 6/10

Watched two Korēda films over the weekend - Hana, a light jidai-geki about a son seeking vengeance but being much more suited to schoolteaching than samurai skills. It was really terrible, just twee and cutesie without any point that I could discern. This surprised me because I love his work usually. And then Maboroshi no Hikari the following night, K's debut feature and utterly, distractingly beautiful but also so well told I remembered everything I loved. And absolutely littered with Ozu nods, so much for his later claim that he didn't see the comparison and felt more akin to Naruse.
But every shot a natural light poem, these will be too dark on the page I guess:
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Flight (Zemeckis, 2012) 7/10
High Hopes (Leigh, 1988) 7/10
T2 Trainspotting (Boyle, 2017) 6/10
Thief (Mann, 1981) 9/10

documentaries:

Author: The JT Leroy Story (Feuerzeig, 2016) 8/10
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! (Horn, 2014) 6/10
Amanda Knox (McGinn/Blackhurst, 2016) 7/10

Haven't done one of these in a while:

Don't Deliver Us From Evil (Seria, 1971)
Two Evil Eyes (Romero/Argento, 1990)
Ghostbusters (Feig, 2016)
*Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
Turbo Kid (Simard/Whissell/Whissell, 2015)
*Deep Red (Argento, 1975)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (Harrison, 1990)
*Inferno (Argento, 1980)
*House (Miner, 1986)
House 2: The Second Story (Wiley, 1987) (THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST FUCKING THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN)
*Tenebre (Argento, 1982)
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (Waddell, 2016) (this is a bonus feature on Synapse's recent Tenebre blu-ray, but it is really startlingly good- way better than it had to be)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi, 2016)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Edwards, 2016)
Demons 2 (Bava, 1986)
*World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Dreams in the Witch House (Gordon, 2005)
Castle Freak (Gordon, 1995)
I Am Love (Guadagnino, 2009)
Eden and After (Robbe-Grillet, 1970)

Watched two Korēda films over the weekend - Hana, a light jidai-geki about a son seeking vengeance but being much more suited to schoolteaching than samurai skills. It was really terrible, just twee and cutesie without any point that I could discern. This surprised me because I love his work usually. And then Maboroshi no Hikari the following night, K's debut feature and utterly, distractingly beautiful but also so well told I remembered everything I loved. And absolutely littered with Ozu nods, so much for his later claim that he didn't see the comparison and felt more akin to Naruse.

― attention vampire (MatthewK), 13. februar 2017 12:42 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have you seen his Air Doll? That one is quite terrible as well. I think he floundered a bit in the years after Distance, some hits (Still Walking is from this period), some misses, as he tried to find his place in the larger Japanese film-business. But he has never quite recaptured what he had in his first three ones, in my view.

White Girl. It was pretty good. The message got lost between all the dicks 'n' coke though.

Thanks Frederik. I love Still Walking pretty hard, and After Life and Nobody Knows are masterpieces. Yet to see Distance, but some of the later period ones like I Wish and Like Father Like Son are a bit meh to me. But his most recent, After the Storm, was just wonderful I thought. His TV series Going My Home is also great if you can find it.