Last (x) movies you saw

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

also fuckin clooney's cutesy aping of their style--blegh

yeah i saw the trailer a few times, makes the movie look like a tame Burn After Reading/A Serious Man repeat, but man, you gotta see it to believe it. It is SO fucked up. and the evil is compounded by the very colorful & straightforward & welcoming mise en scène, unlike the vast desolation & permafrost & realistic presentation of Fargo. re: Clooney aping their style - well, it is from their script, so I didn't care. I think it's a really strong Coens b-side, and definitely worth seeing if you're a fan.

ok, i will watch it if it's on an airplane or something. for you

thank you. that is pretty much exactly what this movie deserves

*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920) 8/10
Born Yesterday (Cukor, 1950) 7/10
The Changeling (Medak, 1980) 6/10
Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 5/10
Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960) 7/10
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Argento, 1970) 7/10
The Blackcoat's Daughter (Perkins, 2016) 4/10

i must quarrel w/ Peeping Tom getting less than 10

I'm genuinely wondering if part of my reaction isn't just "NO WAY is this the equal of Psycho!" That said, the neighbor's persistent ignoring of red flags did stretch credibility for me (Psycho, and Taxi Driver, for that matter, have more believably swift heroines), but I'm willing to concede that this might grow on me with a second viewing. Which it'll likely get; at the very least, I'll be checking the DVD out of library again to hear the Laura Mulvey commentary.

at home the last month or so-

Putney Swope - 10/10
North by Northwest - 8/10
Rosemary’s Baby - 10/10
RoboCop - 8/10
Love Liza - 9/10
3 Women - 9/10
Notorious - 8/10
Psycho - 7/10
Repulsion - 3/10
Persona - 8/10
Blade Runner: The Final Cut - 4/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - 8/10
All That Heaven Allows - 10/10
Dont Look Back - 9/10
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - 9/10
Zelig - 7/10
Cries and Whispers - 10/10
Strangers on a Train - 9/10
Picnic at Hanging Rock - 5/10
Shadow of a Doubt - 10/10
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! - 8/10
Saboteur - 8/10
Wild Strawberries - 9/10
His Girl Friday - 6/10
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - 8/10
Cat People - 8/10
One Hour With You - 7/10
Belle de Jour - 9/10
All That Jazz - 10/10
Eating Raoul - 10/10

great month!

Charaluta (Ray, 1964) 8/10
The Stone Killer (Winner, 1973) 7/10
Le Trou (Becker, 1960) 9/10
Get Out (Peele, 2017) 8/10
The National Health (Gold, 1973) 6/10
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Medak, 1972) 5/10
The Square (Ostlund, 2017) 6/10
Wanda (Loden, 1970) 9/10
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Hunt, 1969) 6/10
Three Colours: White (Kieslowski, 1994) 7/10
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017) 6/10
The Death of Stalin (Iannucci, 2017) 7/10
Diamonds are Forever (Hamilton, 1970) 5/10
Thor: Ragnarok (Waititi, 2017) 7/10

Repulsion - 3/10

Damn.

that's an awesome selection of movies, fb. are they all first viewings?

Except Dont Look Back and Women on the Verge..., yes. Having a ball

Alien (director's cut) - 9/10

i don't know what's different from the regular one, seemed like they showed the alien more idk

/Repulsion - 3/10/

Damn.

Psycho - 7/10

the Van Sant version?

nope, Hitchcock's. Unfortunately through cultural osmosis, the shower scene's impact & unusual structure that followed was totally blunted for me. The interminable expository monologue at the end by the attorney explaining Bates' condition was grating, but I understand that it was necessary for audiences in 1960. One thing that lost none of its power through cultural omnipresence was the incredible score.

Cat People and Blade Runner:TFC scores got reversed lol?

ha, no- i was not into Blade Runner at all, which was surprising... I'm a huge PKD fan, and while Do Androids... isn't one of my favorites, not even in my top 15, I thought I would like the movie for its Dickian atmosphere... I just didn't dig it at all, beyond a few perfect details (the pneumatic empathy machine in the beginning, the cityscape, the sound design), I thought it was tedious and surprisingly devoid of action...

Cat People was great, that one was a birthday present. maybe a 7 though. also lol don't know why i said 7 for Zelig, that shit was a 5 or 6

Alien (director's cut) - 9/10

i don't know what's different from the regular one, seemed like they showed the alien more idk

― brimstead, Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:18 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc the differences are they show the colony at the beginning and Newt's dad getting facehugged, there's the automatic guns set up to guard the tunnel, and there's more near the beginning w/Ripley getting acclimated to having returned (finding out her daughter has died and so on, etc...)

so, wait, you saw Aliens, not the first one.

Psycho is a whole different deal on a big theater screen btw, much more than many of his other films