Last (x) movies you saw

MUBI:

The Idea of a Lake (Mullenthaler, 2016)
Balnearioa (Llinas, 2002)
Castro (Moguillansky, 2009)
The Event (Loznitsa , 2016)

Set of films by Argentinian directors: Castro is meant to be a loose adaptation of Beckett's Murphy and I can see something of that in its existentialist slapstick mode. The Llnias was a doc around Argentinian places and resorts that took a turn on focusing on a bourgie art maker in its final chapter. Not sure what to make of it, it didn't give enough on a distracted view for me to think on any further. Idea of a Lake is the most challenging of the lot, quite a few elements of remembrance (via photography, holiday videos, digital image, conversations both live and on the distance of a web chat, song and dream) that build a picture of parental loss that never quite fades into obscurity.

Loznitsa's The Event puts together gootage from 1991's coup that led to the dissolution of the USSR (in one of the frames you can see a young Putin stepping into a car, just this background fucntionary). Similar to Maidan in its concentrated study of crowd and mass. Comparing its hopes on the ground to the reality (its shattering) years later.

At cinema:

Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak, 1964) - just a total film in its conception, play with sound (Ghatak is really up there with Godard in that regard, very alert to its textures). The symbolism of a giving 'mother' of the house and her eventual destruction as everyone's dreams but hers are realised is executed to virtual perfection (some erratic editing aside??) Such a great and still sorta unknown film-maker. There is a wonderful sensibility to the writing of the main female character (in an Indian context and yet its a story we see often): a very giving, intelligent woman who is crushed by forces around her - its a process that is known to all around and the main character and yet we dive in to it head-on. Fassbinder before Fassbinder.

Interesting. They had a Ghatak retro at Lincoln Center about twenty years ago. I didn't make it, but heard from one of the theater staff later that it was severely underattended, or words to that effect.

Also for anyone who is interested I think its the only rendition of Tagore that really 'translates' for Western viewers. Never got on with the novels and poetry, but he wrote thousands of songs and there are several performances on Youtube from the films: this is from Cloud-Capped. Sadly no subs there, but some of the other clips do have 'em.

Tagore songs is something I am investigating a bit as well.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) - 10/10
Dunkirk - 3/10
Apocalypse Now (1979) - 5/10
A Ghost Story - 6/10
The Emoji Movie - 7/10
Landline - 4/10
Atomic Blonde - 1/10
The Glass Castle - 4/10
Person to Person - 4/10
Stop Making Sense (1984) - 8/10
Brigsby Bear - 7/10
Logan Lucky - 6/10
Wind River - 6/10

what on earth did you expect watching atomic blonde

that post should just have been your apocalypse now and emoji movie ratings tbh

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I like that you can tell if flappy liked or not from ratings. Lists that go from 6 to 8 I'm like sure that's just a list of mood-dependent 7s

Wind River - 6/10

About right. What did you think of the late-breaking flashback? It ruined what was a solid, unpatronizing little movie.

Oh whoa, I thought that was by far the best part of the movie. I've been watching all of Nicolas Roeg's movies lately and it felt like something out of Bad Timing or Eureka. Would've loved it even if not for coincidence, I'm a big fan of anything that uses creative editing like that. in Roeg's work it's often disruptive or disorienting, but this was really seamlessly deployed. Only found out after that it's by the same guy that wrote Hell or High Water and Sicario.

The defense of vigilantism stuck in my craw.

Before those moments, though, Sheridan is a better director of his own scripts than than Villeneuve and Mackenzie.

batman returns (1992) 7/10
dunkirk (2017) 8/10
Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in PyongYang (2015) 6/10 (worth watching for the most disastrous dinner party you'll ever see)
marie antoinette (2006) 7/10
handsome devil (2016) 6/10
liquid sky (1982) 7/10
wild tales (2014) 8/10
ricki and the flash (2015) 5/10
kedi (2016) 7/10
the private life of sherlock holmes (1970) 7/10
the duke of burgundy (2014) 6/10
day of the dead (1985) 8/10
the third generation (1979) 6/10

The defense of vigilantism stuck in my craw.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, August 20, 2017 8:07 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah his movies are all pretty generic but there a few things like this that stick out in Sicario and especially Hell or High Water. my problem with that was it didn't really fit the character - seemed like a pretty straight arrow guy, all of a sudden he's a Tarantino hero.

Just re-watched Hardcore. Schrader is such a fuckin' nut. I should have included him on my list of greatest living American filmmakers.

Barbecue (2017) 2.5/5
Good Time (2017) 4/5
Tu dors Nicole (2014) 3.5/5
Dune (1984) 3/5
Wildwood, NJ (1994) 4/5
Track of the Cat (1958) 3/5
I Don't Know Jack (2000; rewatch) 3/5
Song to Song (2017) 3.5/5
Born to Kill (1947) 4/5
On the Silver Globe (1988) 3/5. Can't say I hated this -- it's too visually striking -- but man, is it an endurance test. People exhaust themselves after three straight hours of yelling and so do films. Even when the astronaut is crucified toward the end he just keeps going.

So bummed that, at least as of now, it looks like GOOD TIME won't be coming to my city. I've heard so many great things from friends.

Hell or High Water (Mackenzie, 2016)
Bay of Angels (Demy, 1963)
Night on Earth (Jarmusch, 1991)
Odd Man Out (Reed, 1947)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
No More Excuses (Downey, 1968)
a bunch of Hollis Frampton shorts
Take a Chance (short - Goulding, 1918)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009)
*Tampopo (Itami, 1985)

Robbery (1967, Yates) 7/10
*Bullitt (1968, Yates) 8/10
*Tightrope (1984, Tuggle) 7/10
*Ed Wood (1994 , Burton0 9/10
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944, LeRoy) 6/10
*The Lusty Men (1952, Ray) 9/10
Elephant (1989, Clarke, TV) 6/10
Christine (1987, Clarke, TV) 8/10
The Quiet Earth (1985, Murphy) 8/10
*Ceddo (1977, Sembene) 7/10
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938, Lubitsch) 8/10

Just got Blu-Rays of The Brood, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Laughing Policeman and Figures in a Landscape in today's mail, so that's the weekend.

Sans lendemain (Ophüls, 1939)
La tendre ennemie (Ophüls, 1936)

I am finding Ophüls and female hormones to be a dangerous combination. Do I need to do a film detox, or should I just watch something mediocre?

Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 5/10
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson, 2017) 7/10
You Only Live Twice (Gilbert, 1967) 6/10
Decalogue V (Kieslowski, 1989) 8/10
Decalogue VI (Kieslowski, 1989) 9/10
I Called Him Morgan (Collin, 2016) 5/10
Trainwreck (Apatow, 2015) 4/10
A Ghost Story (Lowery, 2017) 7/10
Housekeeping (Forsyth, 1987) 8/10
I Only Arsked (Tully, 1958) 4/10
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Watts, 2017) 7/10
Detroit (Bigelow, 2017) 7/10
Dunkirk (Nolan, 2017) 7/10

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Pieges (Siodmak, 1939). If anyone cares I'll post my thoughts on the Chevalier thread.
Mollenard (Siodmak, 1938)

How To Be A Latin Lover. Salma Hayek is funnier in Spanish than she's ever been in English.

Crash (--)
By Sidney Lumet (7.0)
Expo 67: Mission Impossible (6.0)
Point Blank (7.5)
Martin (6.0)
The Other Side (8.0)
Burden of Dreams (7.0)
The King of Comedy (8.5)
Honeysuckle Rose (7.0)
Fear and Desire (5.5)

Finally watched the Fear and Desire DVD I ordered a couple of years ago. Lots of great stills scattered throughout, but Kubrick's still a photographer--the performances and most everything else are amateurish. (Knowing what Paul Mazursky later looked like, I couldn't see him in his character here.) As I said on the Cronenberg thread, I dislike Crash so much, the rating wouldn't make sense in view of its reputation.

From the Trump thread (two different posts)--thought I'd respond here:

man I'm watching (The Other Side) right now, almost an hour in, and I gotta say those last five minutes are gonna have to be completely amazing to redeem it, because it's otherwise "see? people who are totally ok with taking support services away from the poor, denying equal protection under the law, relaxing environmental protections because paperwork's a hassle -- they're not total monsters, they also are able to have conversations w/o killing the people they're talking to, as long as nobody actually calls them out when they're wrong!"

This movie says "we have to understand that the vitriol of the other side is largely performative, and be extra nice to them in the hopes of stopping them from ruining more stuff & making things worse"

I regret watching it

-Joan Crawford Loves Chachi

It seems like you've got the director pushing one message in the meth part of the film, and a different and somewhat contradictory message in the militia part--maybe I'm misreading you. Anyway, I don't think he pushes any message, which is why I compared the film to Wiseman. I thought it was very humane, but if you came away from it, as you indicated in your first post, angry at the director for not being angry at the hypocrisy of these people, I don't think the director would object--I'm sure he's aware of the disconnect.

Hello, My Name is Doris (8/10)

*The Bellboy (1960, Lewis) 8/10
Stella Dallas (1937, Vidor) 7/10
The Delicate Delinquent (1957, McGuire) 5/10
Eureka (1983, Roeg) 5/10
Water and Power (1989, O'Neill) 8/10
*The Right Stuff (1983, Kaufman) 8/10
Song to Song (2017, Malick) 4/10
The Boxer and Death (1963, Solan) 8/10
Enchanted Desna (1965, Solntseva) 8/10
Ajantrik (1958, Ghatak) 6/10

My Cousin Rachel (the new version)

The Vortex (Brunel, 1928)
Below the Sea (Rogell, 1933)
The Stolen Jools (McGann, 1931)
The Big Gamble (Niblo, 1931)
Hellzapoppin (H.C. Potter, 1941)

ant man (2015) 7/10
the incredible jessica james (2017) 5/10
hitchcock/truffaut (2015) 7/10
*the texas chainsaw massacre (1974) 8/10
*tango and cash (1989) 7/10
the wrong man (1956) 7/10
the d train (2015) 4/10
crash and burn (2016) 6/10

Valley of the Dolls - 6/10
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - 5/10
Only God Forgives - 7/10
Lost Highway - 7/10
Don’t Look Now - 9/10
Bad Timing - 10/10
Performance - 5/10
Eureka - 7/10
Insignificance - 4/10
Rope - 8/10
A Serious Man - 9/10
The Royal Tenenbaums - 8/10
The Neon Demon - 9/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - 5/10
Interstellar - 7/10
Badlands - 3/10
The 39 Steps - 10/10
School of Rock - 6/10
Breaking the Waves - 8/10
The Exterminating Angel - 8/10
The Lady Vanishes - 9/10
Rebecca - 9/10
River of Grass - 8/10
Rumble Fish - 6/10

5 out of 10 for "Performance"? You have to be kidding me. I couldnt even finish watching "Bad Timing" (which gets a 10)

don't worry he gives Emoji movie a 7

Interstellar - 7/10
Badlands - 3/10

omg

Interstellar could have been a cool premise, once it got into the final third I was basically like

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Perhaps too harsh on Performance, I'd say a 6. Really impressive for a debut, but it's too muddled & the pacing is very sloppy. Roeg's talent as an editor is already evident here, and it's the best part of the movie. And what can I say, Bad Timing is one of my favorite movies - I understand why you & others might not like it. It just really works for me.

Interstellar managed to keep me gripped for nearly 3 hours despite the fact that it makes absolutely no sense (I loved reading the ILX thread on it after watching). The 5th dimensional infinity bookcase thing was such an incredible image, & I love time travel shit that goes beyond point a to point b. So despite all its flaws - an hour and a half of characters vomiting exposition, nonsensical decisions & physics, Nolan using an extremely convoluted narrative conceit to convey a very simple human emotion - it kept me hooked.

I'm not a fan of Terrence Malick. I find his films incredibly boring, daft, and aesthetically uninteresting. I hate when people describe his movies as "dreamlike" when they just mean "pretty." Too bad his golden hour style got copped by car commercials and epiphanycore bands in the last 15 years. I've seen all of his films aside from Days of Heaven, which I plan on seeing at a big theater next month. Regarding Badlands: I thought the gauzy emotional remove was ill suited for a murder spree. I just don't know what he's trying to say or do, or what others find compelling here.

and yes I liked The Emoji Movie

Night Moves on Blu-Ray. Looks fantastic. Hackman is amazing as always. I'd never seen Harris Yulin play a young (read: under 60) person, so that was interesting. Some great lines, too. "If Harry hears you call him Harry one more time, he's gonna make you eat that cat."

Flappy, I enjoy your contributions to this board, but you are also maybe the user that has the most bewilderingly off-the-mark takes on certain things.

Krisha (2015) 2.5/5
Targets (1968) 4/5. Was surprised at how little this felt like a first film, or like any other Bogdanovich I've seen (including Saint Jack)
Mon oncle (1958; rewatch) 5/5
Ten (2002) 3.5/5
The Lovers and the Despot (2016) 3/5
Teeth (2015) 2.5/5
Blade II (2002) 3.5/5
Walden (1969) 4/5

In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950) 9/10
Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955) 7/10
White Material (Denis, 2009) 7/10
Still Life (Zhangke, 2006) 7/10
Dong (Zhangke, 2006) 5/10
24 City (Zhangke, 2008) 8/10
The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1982) 8/10
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957) 10/10
Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946) 10/10
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951) 8/10
The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa, 1960) 8/10
Mccabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971) 9/10
Spring in a Small Town (Mu, 1948) 9/10
Silent Running (Trumbull, 1972) 4/10
Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940) 7/10
The Killing (Kubrick, 1956) 7/10
* Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001) 8/10
L’Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962) 6/10

Flappy, I enjoy your contributions to this board, but you are also maybe the user that has the most bewilderingly off-the-mark takes on certain things.

― circa1916, Saturday, September 9, 2017 10:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, thank you

MUBI watches:

Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llianas, 2008) - the nearest I've seen a film spin a tale the way Pynchon might do so in a book.
Suddenly, Last Summer (Mankeiwicz, 1959) - first time I've really savoured Elizabeth Taylor im film.
The Truth (Clouzot, 1960) - the only time I've seen Bardot in a film that isn't arthouse as such.

The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams, 2017)

What did you think of The Human Surge? Only played here for a week & I missed it, looked really interesting.

Night Moves on Blu-Ray. Looks fantastic. Hackman is amazing as always. I'd never seen Harris Yulin play a young (read: under 60) person, so that was interesting. Some great lines, too. "If Harry hears you call him Harry one more time, he's gonna make you eat that cat."

― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, September 10, 2017 2:34 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great movie, was just talking about it here

https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=92876

What did you think of The Human Surge? Only played here for a week & I missed it, looked really interesting.

― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 September 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Its interesting and its been a while -- should've written some notes straight after and didn't so the following may or may not be fair -- but my gut reaction was of some kind of take on globalisation that seems way past its sell by date as a thing to do and besides it didn't have anything fresh to say on the economics of it (people are exploited so what), or on (or lack of) intercontinental connection. I didn't see it on the cinema, only on MUBI and I would leave the possibility of it coming together were I to re-watch in a cinema.

Le Bonheur (Varda, 1965)
*Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
Empire of Passion (Oshima, 1978)
Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996)
The Duellists (Scott, 1977)
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Kinoshita, 1955)
You Owe Me One (short - C. Cuarón, 2002)
*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)