Last (x) movies you saw

Michel Piccoli never did oafishly funny before or since, i don't think

Cock of the Air (Buckingham, 1932, in the Academy Film Archive restoration)
A Blonde for a Night (Hopper & Willis, 1928)
Getting Gertie's Garter (Hopper, 1927)
The Front Page (Milestone, 1931, the recently restored American cut)

I think I'm emotionally exhausted after so much fast-paced comedy.

Watched Beatriz At Dinner last night. Salma Hayek plays a masseuse/spiritual healer called to Connie Britton's house; when her car breaks down, she's invited to dinner. The guest of honor is John Lithgow, playing a crass real estate magnate. Mild awkwardness ensues. Had this been written by Michael Tolkin, it might have been something, but it's by Mike White, and directed by Miguel Arteta, so it's nothing—unfunny and incoherent. At least he makes the rich family's big house look nice, but White can't even make Hayek's interactions with the Spanish-speaking kitchen staff interesting.

I watched it last night too, turning it off with a similar reaction.

Mike White has written some good things tho this may not be one

Brad's Status is better.

Life is too short to watch Ben Stiller movies.

brads status was ok, its m/l non-profit Greenberg

jeez, he wrote Brad's Status, too? dude is on a roll this year (i haven't seen Brad's Status) but Beatriz at Dinner and The Emoji Movie is a solid double header. lol I just looked him up and realized he's the wimpy wife of Sarah Silverman/roommate of Jack Black in School of Rock.

The Greatest Show on Earth (DeMille, 1952) 2/10
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015) 7
Hamlet (Olivier, 1948) 7

3 more BP winners down, 3 to go (cavalcade, chariots of fire, rain man)

Ex Libris - New York Public Library (2017) 4/5
It (2017) 3/5
Certain Women (2016) 4/5
Straight Time (1978; rewatch) 4/5
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015) 3.5/5
Personal Shopper (2016) 4/5
I Married a Witch (1942) 3.5/5

Big Trouble in Little China

this movie really stands up. almost relentless with the one liners and crazy action setpieces. visuals to die for. probably one of my favorite films of all time.

*Fargo (Coen, 1996) 10/10
The Man With the Golden Gun (Hamilton, 1974) 6/10
*Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996) 8/10
My Favorite Wife (Kanin, 1940) 7/10
*Gosford Park (Altman, 2001) 7/10
The Lost City of Z (Gray, 2016) 7/10
You’ll Never Be Alone (Anwandter, 2016) 6/10
After the Storm (Koreeda, 2016) 6/10
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Bailey and Barbato, 2016) 7/10
Tea and Sympathy (Minnelli, 1956) 5/10

That's Your Funeral (Robins, 1972) 5/10
Decalogue VII (Kieslowski, 1989) 8/10
Decalogue VIII (Kieslowski, 1989) 6/10
Decalogue IX (Kieslowski, 1989) 8/10
Decalogue X (Kieslowski, 1989) 8/10
Mickey One (Penn, 1965) 7/10
It (Muschietti, 2017) 6/10
The Anderson Tapes (Lumet, 1971) 7/10
The Goose Steps Out (Dearden/Hay, 1942) 6/10
Mother! (Aronofsky, 2017) 8/10
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh, 2017) 7/10
Ball of Fire (Hawks, 1941) 9/10

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977, Varda) 7/10
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Renoir) 9/10
Pursued (1947, Walsh) 9/10
The Wonderful Country (1959, Parrish) 8/10
*The President’s Analyst (1967, Flicker) 8/10
Black Legion (1937, Mayo) 5/10
Bucking Broadway (1917, Ford) 6/10
The Unknown Girl (2016, Dardenne, Dardenne) 6/10
Boeing, Boeing (1965, Rich) 5/10
*Stagecoach (1939, Ford) 10/10
The Love Eterne (1963, Li) 8/10
Pork Chop Hill (1959, Milestone) 7/10

Wild at Heart (1990) - 9/10
Good Time - 8/10
Columbus - 7/10
Ingrid Goes West - 8/10
Patti Cake$ - 4/10
The Trip to Spain - 6/10
Menashe - 2/10
It - 6/10
Home Again - 6/10
mother! - 3/10
Beach Rats - 9/10
Rat Film - 8/10
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present - 8/10
American Made - 6/10
Battle of the Sexes - 7/10

I found Beach Rats pretty shallow beneath its beautiful, neorealistic skin. Disappointing after Hittman's debut feature, It Felt Like Love.

I liked It Felt Like Love, I saw it at a festival 4 years ago. Really good for a debut & I kept her name in mind, but I remember it felt undercooked/slightly amateurish. Beach Rats was imo a huge improvement and really fuckin impressive - first of all, the main guy is just great, & the cinematography is gorgeous - specifically thinking of that shot of moonlight on the water as he hooks up with one of those guys in the woods. Very understated & poignant, I think it articulated itself pretty well. You know, just, the unnecessary agony and guilt and shame that this world imposes upon so many young people. A really powerful moment: when he asks the girl about two guys kissing & if it's hot, and she's just so dismissive: "no, that's just gay." I mean, just crushing.

La Verite (Clouzot, 1960) 8/10
Ghost in the Shell (Sanders, 2017) 5/10
The Cocoanuts (Santley, 1929) 7/10
Brute Force (Dassin, 1947) 8/10
Chase a Crooked Shadow (Anderson, 1956) 7/10
Edward and Caroline (Becker, 1951) 7/10
Life (Espinosa, 2017) 7/10
Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933) 10/10
My Life as a Courgette (Barras, 2016) 7/10
Serendipity (Chelsom, 2001) 5/10

The Love Eterne (1963, Li) 8/10

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), 2. oktober 2017 18:01 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love this one.

Finally got to see I, Daniel Blake last night.

Good film but really depressing.
Hoping that here is a way of moving away from that model which just seems to be all too prevalent.
I thought the twist was going to be at least partially that he was oenalised for the work he was doing for the young family.

Very worth watching as most loach has been.

mother! (aranofsky, 2017) 5/10
nocturama (bonello, 2016) 6/10
nymphomaniac (von trier, 2013) 7/10
maze (burke, 2017) 7/10
*king of new york (ferrera, 1990) 7/10
vampires kiss (bierman, 1988) 7/10
pain and gain (bay, 2013) 6/10
miracle mile (de jarnatt, 1988) 7/10

Rain Man (Levinson, 1988) 6/10
Chariots of Fire (Hudson, 1981) 5/10
Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd, 1933) 3/10

i've now seen every best picture winner. those last two were a struggle to sit through.

Rebel in the Rye (Strong, 2017) 1/10
Brad's Status (White, 2017) 6/10
Graduation (Mungiu, 2017) 6/10
The Big Sick (Showalter, 2017) 5/10
mother! (Aronofksy, 2017) 4/10
Paris Can Wait (Coppola, 2017) 3/10
The Unknown Girl(2017, Dardenne, Dardenne) 6/10
Ryan's Daughter (Lean, 1970) 5/10
The Breaking Point (Curtiz, 1950) 8/10
Pursued (Walsh, 1947) 7/10
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Renoir) 9/10

Ryan's Daughter is terrible. Punch cartoon stereotypes of Irish people

with bad teeth!

i've now seen every best picture winner. those last two were a struggle to sit through.
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana)

That was a project of mine many years ago too, but I never followed up (probably still around 30 to go, most of them early or recent). Then I was going to make sure I had seen the Top 100 on the latest They Shoot Picture, Don't They? list. Then I let that slide too, and watched All the President's Men for the twentieth time instead.

Here's how I rank every BP winner. Note that I haven't seen some of them since I was a teenager (e.g. Gigi).
https://pastebin.com/cdD2fzqT

I get how it may be easy to do so, but I think you seriously underrated Wings. One of the more visually interesting silents I've seen.

Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010)
*Burroughs: The Movie (Brookner, 1983)
Shirley Clarke shorts:
--- Dance in the Sun (1953)
--- In Paris Parks (1954)
--- Brussels Loops (with D.A. Pennebaker, 1957) 9/10
--- Bridges-Go-Round, Pts. 1 & 2 (1958)
--- Skyscraper (1958)
--- Bullfight (1955)
--- 24 Frames Per Second (1977)
--- Butterfly (with Wendy Clarke, 1967)
mother! (Aronofsky, 2017)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)
The Hit (Frears, 1984)
Long Strange Trip (Bar-Lev, 2017)
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (Brittain, Owen, 1966) 10/10, the scene at the end where Cohen sees the footage of himself is amazing.
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)

hell's angels blows wings away

3 for cuckoo's nest seems pretty low. if i did a list it'd prob be one of the 8s or 9s.

i don't relate to jack nicholson's character and the nurse is a cardboard cutout villain.

Just bailed on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 after an hour. What a pointless piece of shit (and I'm speaking as someone who loves the original). It wasn't scary, it wasn't funny, it was just...nothing. Yes, Dennis Hopper's good in it. But so what? William Forsythe is really good in The Devil's Rejects and that was crap too.

Cinema:

The Work (Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous, 2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
On the Silver Globe (Zulawski, 1976/88)

MUBI:

Graduate First (Pialat, 1979)
Police (Pialat, 1985)
The City Below (Hochhausler, 2010)

Finally got to see Get Out earlier to day.
pretty great

Funny People - the Robin Williams Joke caught me off guard

The Lost City of Z starring the guy from Sons of Anarchy and Byker Grove.
Quite enjoyed it but would like to know more about the true story it's based on.

Anomalisa, finally saw this one too since it's on Netflix.
Bit of a downer but good film.

Just bailed on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 after an hour. What a pointless piece of shit (and I'm speaking as someone who loves the original). It wasn't scary, it wasn't funny, it was just...nothing. Yes, Dennis Hopper's good in it. But so what? William Forsythe is really good in The Devil's Rejects and that was crap too.

― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, October 8, 2017 2:58 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

William Forsythe is exceptionally good in that movie but yeah after a second screening i felt the same.

Re-watched The Conversation last night. Harrison Ford's best movie by far, and Coppola's second-best. The 2011 Blu-Ray looks incredible.

Baby Driver (4.0)
Nixon by Nixon (7.5)
Columbus (6.5)
The Call (5.0)
Lady Macbeth (6.0)
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (6.5)
Scandal Sheet (7.5)
Mother (4.0)
The Vietnam War (8.5)
Charley Varrick (7.0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi0jP4CBsc0&t=1203s

Not sure why that didn't post correctly; the Nixon film's on YouTube.

Really liked "Lady Macbeth".

Woman in the Dark (1934). I do not objectively think this is a great movie. But it fits so closely what I like about this period and genre and performers that I'm not quite certain I didn't hallucinate it.

Festival haul:

Hannah (Pallaoro)
Jupiter’s Moon (Mundruczo)
Menashe (Weinstein)
Western (Grisebach)
The Nothing Factory (Pinho)
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (Godard)
The Day After (Hong)
All the Cities of the North (Komljen)
Danmark (Larsen)
Ana, Mon Amour (Netzer)
The Desert Bride (Atan & Pivato)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Surya)
Heaven Will Wait (Mention-Schaar)
Sexy Durga (Sasidharan)
En Frygtelig Kvinde (Tafdrup)
A Man of Integrity (Rasoulof)
Sommeren 93 (Simon)
Custody (Legrand)
Soldiers (Mladenovic)
Lemon (Bravo)
Montparnasse Bienvenue (Seraille)
Oblivion Verses (Khatami)
Vazante (Thomas)
A Ciambra (Carpignano)
I Am Not a Witch (Nyoni)
Samui Song (Ratanaruang)
Antonio One Two Three (Mouramateus)
The Dinner (Moverman)
Ismael’s Ghosts (Desplechin)
QEDA (Kestner)
Redoubtable (Hazanivicius)
Kuso (Flying Lotus)
Outrage Coda (Kitano)
The Florida Project (Baker)

MUBI:

A Month in Thailand (Negolescu, 2012)
The Future Perfect (Wohlatz, 2016)
Shinjuku Triad Society (Miike, 1995)

Cinema:

God's Own Country (Lee, 2017) - This had a a terrific 20/30 min stretch of that opening up to emotions and intimacy between two people that was just so well done.

The Beguiled (Coppola, 2017) - This movie lives or dies based on the viewer's belief in Colin Farrell's attractiveness. But as I said to my wife, casting Idris Elba would have been historically dubious. Anyway, Kidman and Dunst were great, Fanning is a gawky nonentity, and the thing is absolutely beautiful to look at.

The Lego Ninjago Movie (various, 2017) 3/10
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017) 7
American Made (Doug Liman, 2017) 6
Empire of the Ants (Bert Gordon, 1977) 2
The House That Dripped Blood (Peter Duffell, 1971) 5
I Married a Witch (Rene Clair, 1942) 6
*Repulsion (Polanski, 1965) 9
*Hocus Pocus (Kenny Ortega, 1993) 5

The death of Stalin is only my second favourite "the death of _____" film this year (someone should put on a double bill)