Last (x) movies you saw

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)

however good or bad the movie turns out to be, it will only be my second favourite Stalin related thing as Kotkin's vol 2 Stalin book comes out next week. What be the other "the death of _____" film?

ahh just checked, yeah got see the Louis XIV one. Probs a better double with that would be the classic Rossellini tv movie - The Rise To Power of...

as I said in the Death Of Stalin thread, it seems to be based on the penultimate Aleksey German film, which I kind of would prefer to see tbh. maybe that's the double-bill

Khrustalyov, My Car! I've got a 6 gig rip of a R9 DVD on my hard drive, but haven't seen it yet. I think there might have been subtitle issues.

Yeah I'm just being silly they have nothing in common beyond the titles and a few superficial things surrounding the actual death part (team of hapless doctors &c); it also isn't even close between them, the Serra is brilliant.

I did like the iannucci tho, it's of a piece with his latterday work like ttoi/in the loop so if you like those you should check it out. It also sometimes feels like an extended skit from the Armando Iannucci shows. Only occasionally does it slip into his increasingly useless "go fuck a flapjack you humpbacked turd" mode

xp didn't realise/forgot there was a thread, soz

"his increasingly useless "go fuck a flapjack you humpbacked turd" mode"

that does get very wearing at times.

Faces Places (Varda, 2017) 7/10
Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino, 2017) 7/10
4 Days in France (Reybaud, 2017) 6/10
The Meyerowitz Stories (Baumbach, 2017) 5/10
The Florida Project (Baker, 2017) 4/10
Three Dancing Slaves (Morel, 2004) 5/10

Meyerowitz Stories that bad eh, Alfred? I generally like Baumbach. Can anyone rec some good flicks BTW? This year has been mediocre so far

It's not terrible -- it's familiar. I'm thinking Baumbach needs Greta Gerwig around or in his films.

these are my favorites of the year thus far (alphab)

Call Me by Your Name
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Good Time
Hermia & Helena
I Called Him Morgan
The Lost City of Z
Nocturama
A Quiet Passion
Staying Vertical

I'd add:

The Ornithologist
The Death of Louis XIV
Get Out
Harmonium
A Ghost Story

Of the four movies I've seen from 2017 so far, I like Get Out the best.

Get Out is my #2 behind Personal Shopper

think my #1 is still Prevenge

amazing:

good time
get out
call me by your name
blade runner
baby driver

good:
other side of hope
dunkirk

wanted to like but left me cold:
personal shopper

actively bad:
mother!
valerian

need to see lost city of z, prevenge, death of stalin, nocturama

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. It was fun watching Tom Cruise kick people off roofs.

my 11 favourite movies of the year (so far), fuck:

Faces Places
Get Out
A Ghost Story
The Lost City of Z
mother!
Nocturama
The Ornithologist
Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo
Personal Shopper
A Quiet Passion
Staying Vertical

Why, Eric! You, Morbs, and I overlap! Where the elite meet.

The Florida Project & Kékszakállú today, loved both

Ecstacy (Machaty, 1933)
Long Lost Father (Schoedsack, 1934)
Such Is Life (Junghans, 1930)
On the Sunnyside (Vancura, 1933)
Mother (Pudovkin, 1926)
Performance (Roeg & Cammell, 1970)

Why, Eric! Using Brit spellings!

The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Serra) 8/10
*Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958, Tashlin) 5/10
Damaged Lives (1933, Ulmer) 5/10
Zama (2017, Martel) 7/10
Pandora’s Box (1929, Pabst) 9/10
*Creed (2015, Coogler) 8/10
The Day After (2017, Hong) 6/10
First Reformed (2017, Schrader) 9/10
Call Me by Your Name (2017, Guadagnino) 8/10

Look at you watching CREED again.

helluva movie

also i am trying to finalize my 2015 best-of

(I fucked year-end rushes forever when i quit content-providing)

excited to see Call Me By Your Name based on all the acclaim itt, doesn't come here until the end of December though

new Haneke isn't coming here until end of January

I'm thinking Baumbach needs Greta Gerwig around or in his films.

As someone who doesn't find the art world intrinsically interesting, Baumbach didn't do much to show me why I should care about it, so most of the stuff about the father's career seemed a bit perfunctory. There are enough whimsical set-pieces and A-list acting chops to keep the thing chugging along though.

A Ghost Story (Lowery, 2017) 6/10
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) 9/10
Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2016) 7/10
The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975) 7/10
Point Blank (Boorman, 1967) 8/10
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953) 7/10
Memories of Murder (Joon-Ho, 2003) 7/10
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) 8/10
The Naked City (Dassin, 1948) 6/10
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991) 10/10
Terrorizers (Yang, 1986) 9/10
On Body and Soul (Enyedi, 2017) 7/10
Lucky (Lynch, 2017) 6/10
The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) 5/10
Suspicion (Hitchcock, 1941) 6/10

I need to watch Chinatown again soon. Perfect autumn movie for me (for some reason)...

Wonderstruck (Haynes, 2017)
Bumping Into Broadway (Roach, 1919)
Broadway Ballyhoo (Mack, 1935)
Marie Galante (King, 1934)
Officer O'Brien (Garnett, 1930)
Tonka of the Gallows (Anton, 1930)
Bad Girl (Borzage, 1931)
The Royal Bed (Sherman, 1931)

Tried to watch The Purge: Election Year and bailed after 20 minutes. The writing and acting were roughly on the level of a mid-'90s Wicked Pictures production (say, the one where Jenna Jameson plays a firefighter).

An American Werewolf in London (1981) 2.5/5
Raw (2016) 3/5
Kill Baby, Kill (1966; rewatch) 3.5/5
The Seventh Victim (1943; rewatch) 3.5/5
Bedlam (1946) 3/5
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (2007) 3.5/5
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 3/5
Wuthering Heights (1939) 3.5/5
Heat (1995; rewatch) 4/5

Boy in the World
My Life as a Zucchini
Miss Hokusai
April and the Extraodinary World

(all good. all Gkids animation now on Netflix)

Days of Heaven* - 8/10
Viceroy’s House - 5/10
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House - 4/10
Blade Runner 2049 - 9/10
Lucky - 7/10
Possession* - 6/10
The Florida Project - 7/10
Victoria & Abdul - 7/10
Goodbye Christopher Robin - 6/10
Suburbicon - 8/10

that's the first positive review of suburbicon i've seen

it was great. SO much darker & more twisted than advertised. it was obvious why the Coen abandoned it, the story was a dry run for Fargo. it's flawed by a racial subplot that does not connect to the main story at all in any meaningful way and could be cut without making the movie any less coherent, but the meat of the movie is really nice and pulpy and realllllllly fucking evil. I understand why it got trashed, especially by audiences: people generally hate movies with misleading advertising, especially when the movie is much bleaker than the studio let on. I love that shit though. I mean, even minor Coens is better than 80% of the shit currently in theaters at any time.

that trailer looks like trash mate