Last (x) movies you saw

Gimme Danger (2016) 3/5
Misterio (2013) 2.5/5
Escape from New York (1983) 3.5/5
The Silent Partner (1978) 2.5/5
A Poem is a Naked Person (1974; rewatch) 4/5
Dangerous Men (2005) 0.5/5
Verboten! (1959) 3.5/5
The Big Red One (expanded edition; 1980) 4/5
David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) 3/5
Duelle (rewatch; 1976) 4/5
Nuts! (2016) 3/5
Le Joli Mai (1963) 4/5
Viva (2007) 3/5

lists are terrible

Generally interested in these things, but something about this one struck me as particularly insufferable. Like too obviously constructed to hit certain notes and be ~controversial~. Morbs maybe ultimately OTM.

Dear Diary (Moretti, 1993) 5/10
True Stories (Byrne, 1986) 6/10
La La Land (Chazelle, 2016) 7/10
Nightfall (Tourneur, 1956) 7/10
Metro Manila (Ellis, 2013) 8/10
Hacksaw Ridge (Gibson, 2016) 7/10
Manchester by the Sea (Lonergan, 2016) 8/10
Vera Drake (Leigh, 2004) 9/10
Spotlight on a Murderer (Franju, 1961) 7/10
The Reckless Moment (Ophuls, 1949) 6/10

The Reckless Moment (Ophuls, 1949) 6/10

really

the Gibson war porn film and LLL are better at what they attempt than The Reckless Moment?

I saw the latest kaurismäki and liked it

This is the 5000th post itt btw

*The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927, Lubitsch) 8/10
Cisco Pike (1972, Norton) 8/10
Torch Song (1953, Walters) 6/10
*The Knack… and How to Get It (1965, Lester) 6/10
Loving (2016, Nichols) 5/10
Eternal Love (1929, Lubitsch) 6/10
Broken Lullaby aka The Man I Killed (1932, Lubitsch) 7/10
*Last Summer (1969, Perry) 8/10
Doc (1971, Perry) 6/10
Série noire (1979, Corneau) 8/10

The Salesman: Wake up to a horrible noise from construction or demolition project, apparently one with no prior announcement, and you don't complain to the city, you just move, that's all, to the first place your connection tips you to, even though you have to sell your car to make the deposit because you're a high school teacher, ha-ha. (Oh, and your colleague is sending back those books; too politically controversial for his innocent students.) One who's playing demolition project Willy Loman in a little theater production; your wife is playing his wife (the government rep likes it, just wants you to make three little cuts). What the heck, lots of times and places when it seems better not to bother the cops, to take personal responsibility---so this was filmed and also released in Iran, I take it (any little cuts seem to have done absolutely no harm), even won an Oscar, even though the director didn't take the bait, what with Trump's initial travel ban chaos.
Psychological suspense, kinda makes me think of 50s Kurosawa (or Hitchcock?) adapting non-Maigret Simenon.
Personal Shopper: Promising, but last third down the tubes, jittery and sluggish

Wonder Woman.
Quite fun. Much much better than that Batman vs Superman anyway, but most things are.
Hope that BM vs SM stands as the absolute worst in a related series.

Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges, 1941) 8/10
It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) 9/10
Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954) 8/10
Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960) 7/10
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 (Gunn, 2017) 6/10
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson, 2011) 8/10
Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992) 7/10
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949) 6/10

Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949) 6/10

I'm not saying I can't see someone not being a fan of this film, but I'm close enough to your rankings on many of the above movies to be baffled by this rating.

need to rewatch cause it didn't really get a fair shot, was dead tired when I put it on and ended up having to interrupt it a lot.

just watched Double Team (1997) with Jean Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman. hilarious, OTT late 90s action at its best. Rodman's hair changes color every scene. so many unnecessarily silly things happen in here. the script is insane. they run into a bunch of monks who take them into their convent and then down to the basement where there is this crazy 90s hacker lair full of wires everywhere and they say "These guys are cyber-MONKS". the ending is so sick, it looks like a man-on-man fight VD vs. Mickey Rourke is about to happen (in a Colosseum filled with land mines) and then they throw a tiger in there for no reason at all. i only caught the last 3/4 of the film (it was on tv) but it was amazing, i loved it.

oh i guess the tiger makes sense wrt the colosseum, it's just the way it's set up, this whole movie you are going "whaaaa?"

Cruel Story of Youth, dir. Oshima, 1960) (AKA Naked Youth): Students, boy and girl, fight, fuck, fall in love, exploit older people (incl. sometimes envious, prematurely ageing), incl. sexual extortion (she's the bait, he's the avenger), in homage to Godard and the director's own generational experiences, back when "Made In Japan" was still an American punchline.
On TCM last night, and I got swept along, managed to stay awake for the whole thing, unlike Friday's Portrait of Jason---any takes on that one?

An homage to Godard from 1960?

I liked Portrait of Jason when it was shown at DOX a few years back. The final stretch is deeply uncomfortable though.

Born in Flames (Borden, 1983)
Dragnet Girl (Ozu, 1933)
La Cambrure (short - Shaki, 1999)
Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
*La Jétee (Marker, 1963)
Wonder Woman (Jenkins, 2017)
Everything Will Be OK (short - Hertzfeldt, 2006)
The Lamp (short - Polanski, 1959)
Manchester By the Sea (Lonergan, 2016)
Cat People (Tourneur, 1942)
The Trial (Welles, 1962)

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Argento, 1970) - new Blu-Ray remaster. Looks great, and still one of the smartest and most coherent movies he's ever done.

Cremator by Juraj Herz. Pretty good, I can see why people would think it's his best film, but I still prefer Beauty And The Beast and Morgiana. I don't recall their camera work being as creative as Cremator.

It Comes At Night, dir. Trey Edward Shults (2017).
Staying Vertical, dir. Alain Guiraudie (2017).
Afterimage, dir. Andrzej Wadja (2016)

Revisiting William Friedkin's The Hunted tonight.

^^^^ all-time imo

In the opening scene, set in modern Kosovo, there is a brief shot of what it appears to be a Serbian gendarme on a bicycle. Serbian gendarmerie (along with their recognizable uniforms) ceased to exist 55 years earlier.

office Christmas party (will speck/josh Gordon, 2016) 2/10
what time is is there? (tsai ming-liang, 2001) 6/10
whose life is it anyway? (john badham, 81) 6/10
a star is born (frank pierson, 76) 4/10
the wizard of lies (levinson, 2017) 6/10
backstage (chris fiore, 2000) 5/10
trapped (mandoki, 2002) 2/10
we were the mulvaneys (peter werner, 2002) 5/10
beatriz at dinner (arteta, 2017) 7/10

Hard to be a God
Cemetery of Splendour
Mon Oncle Antoine (I LOVED this one. It might be a perfect film.)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Solaris, on the big screen

Re-watched John Carpenter's Vampires and Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice this week. Kinda amazed my dad took me to see a testosterone-poisoned bloodbath like EP when I was 14 (and my brother was 11). The scene where Nick Nolte blasts a guy's foot with a shotgun still makes me wince.

The Transfiguration (2016) - Rockaway in Queens makes a good location for a low-key horror like this one. Liked it. Reminiscent of Martin and Let The Right One In 7/10

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) - Top notch Lynch. I'd put off seeing it for years because of all the bad press it got but I think people have come around to it now. Last hour is amazing. Sheryl Lee so good too. 8/10

The Intent (2016) - Tries to be a London Grime Scarface (with a bit of Heat in there for good measure) but fails terribly. I actually turned this off, bad acting, bad script, bad everything really 4/10

Arizona Dream (1993) - I saw this a good few years back and remember disliking it for being so wacky. Its still incredibly wacky but I appreciated it more this time around. Very 90s - slacker dreamers, anti-conformity, hollowness of the American Dream 7/10

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (7.0)
The Edge of Seventeen (6.0)
American Pastoral (6.5)
American Honey (8.0)
Spring Breakers (6.0)
Monterey Pop (8.0)
Made for Each Other (1971—6.5)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (7.0)
The Promotion (6.0)
Tower (7.0)

The Edge of Seventeen (6.0)

I was sure that if anyone here was gonna be as nuts about this movie as I was, it'd be you.

My biggest problem with it was Hailee Steinfeld--just didn't like her at all. (The performance, I mean--I realize her character was intentionally abrasive.) On the other hand, I thought Woody Harrelson did a lot with a basically nothing role.

And I liked the ending. I see so many films I'm so-so on where I like the ending.

That movie left me cold too.

does Blake Jenner get naked?

No, alas. Just an under-the-sheets hand job.

Re-watched Apocalypse Now and Excalibur this weekend.

There's a Neil Jordan docu on the making of "Excalibur" playing in Paris this week.

Pretty good few weeks

Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953) 7/10
Serpico (Lumet, 1973) 7/10
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) 8/10
Patton (Schaffner, 1970) 8/10
Lancelot du Lac (Bresson, 1974) 7/10
Yi Yi (Yang, 2000) 10/10
Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) 8/10
Metropolis (Lang, 1927) 8/10
A Touch of Sin (Zhangke, 2013) 9/10
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2009) 7/10
My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007) 10/10
After The Storm (Koreeda, 2016) 8/10
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976) 9/10

My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007) 10/10

Great movie!

Was really amazing to finally see it, had caught a little bit of it on tv when I was about 14 and then spent years trying to find out what it was.

The Tenant cos it was on Netflix.
I think I read Jah Wobble mention it in his bio, though could possibly have been Cosey Fanni tutti. So thought I'd finally get to watch it after its been on my Netflix list since I got the service.
Quite creepy.

My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell, 2017) - well shot blah and Weisz wau but it just didn't do tension or any kind of suspense. The ending was rushed. Don't care if its to do with the material, they should've changed it!

Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016) 7/10
20th Century Women (Mills, 2016) 6/10
Hidden Figures (Melfi, 2016) 5/10
Being 17 (Techine, 2016) 8/10
Get Out (Peele, 2017) 7/10
*Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993) 8/10
Cameraperson (Johnson, 2016) 7/10

devvvine's sold dear old lancelot short there

Think I agree. Need a rewatch, only seen it once several years ago, but it's haunted my brain.

Tampopo (1985; rewatch) 4/5
Things to Come (2016) 3.5/5
American Honey (2016) 2.5/5
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) 3.5/5

Shorts:
Immer Zu (1997) 4/5
Ghost Algebra (2009) 3.5/5
The Heart of the World (2000; rewatch) 4/5
Junkopia (1981) 4/5

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992) 8/10
Graduation (Mungiu, 2016) 8/10
I Only Want You to Love Me (Fassbinder, 1976) 8/10
Wonder Woman (Jenkins, 2016) 5/10
City of the Dead (Moxey, 1960) 6/10
Slack Bay (Dumont, 2016) 8/10

20th Century Women (2016) 8/10
*The Red Shoes (1948) 10/10
Paterson (2016) 6/10
Wonder Woman (2017) 6/10
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016) 6/10
A Touch of Sin (2013) 8/10
The Red Turtle (2016) 5/10
Basic Instinct (1992) 5/10
Aquarius (2016) 8/10
Okja (2017) 6/10

*Le Trou (1960, Becker) 9/10
*1941 (1979, Spielberg) 6/10
*Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg) 7/10
Three Women (1924, Lubitsch) 6/10
Swamp Water (1941, Renoir) 7/10
*Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Hawks) 10/10
The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974, Tavernier) 8/10
The Judge and the Assassin (1976, Tavernier) 9/10
*Chimes at Midnight (1965, Welles) 9/10
A Week's Vacation (1980, Tavernier) 6/10
It Happened at the Inn (1943, Becker) 8/10
*Little Shop of Horrors (1986, Oz) 8/10
*Being There (1979, Ashby) 7/10
Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920, Lubitsch) 7/10
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918, Lubitsch) 6/10
*The Jerk (1979, C Reiner) 6/10
That Uncertain Feeling (1941, Lubitsch) 7/10

How did you watch Swamp Water? I watched a YouTube version last month.

35mm print in this series. The fucking audience ruined it w/ giggles; wish i'd had a machine gun. Millennial hipsters, soooo superior.

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/southern-gothic

I learned after reading the new Renoir bio that it was Fox's highest grossing film that year.