Last (x) movies you saw

Discontent (Siegler & Weber, 1916)
The High Sign (Cline & Keaton, 1921)
Black Panther (Coogler, 2018)
Max and His Mother-in-Law (Nonguet et Linder, 1911)
Feline Follies (Messmer, 1919)
The Old Barn (Sennett, 1929)
Taris (Vigo, 1931)
À Propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930)
*Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933)
Attempted Suicide (Gasnier, 1906)
The Barber Shop (Ripley, 1933)
Un Idiot qui se Croit Max Linder (Bosetti et Nonguet, 1914)
Pool Sharks (Middleton, 1915)
Don't Be Nervous (Watson, 1929)
Kick Me Again (Myers, 1925)
*L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
Post No Bills (Ceder, 1923)
Gussle's Wayward Path (Avery & Chaplin, 1915)
Too Many Highballs (Bruckman, 1933)
*Kean (Volkoff, 1924)

If anyone cares about my numbered ratings, see https://letterboxd.com/PollyPrecoder/films/diary/.

february in theaters:

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool - 3/10
Lover for a Day - 9/10
Peter Rabbit - 6/10
The Magician (1958) - 8/10
Porto - 6/10
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) - 8/10
Game Night - 9/10
Annihilation - 8/10

Marathon (1993) 3/5
The Mission (1999) 3.5/5
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983; rewatch) 4/5
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) 4.5/5
Black Panther (2018) 4/5
El (1953) 4/5
XTC: This is Pop (2017) 3/5
Dragon Inn (1967) 3/5
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 3/5 to 5/5, depending on how much the symbolism just went over my head.
Fruit of Paradise (1970) 4/5

Un Mauvais Fils : 9/10 - Great Sautet film. Patrick Dewaere in non-manic mode is excellent.
The Florida Project : 6/10 - Loved Dafoe in this. Not sure what they were getting at here but it's an interesting indie.
Black Panther : 8/10 - Borderline psychedelic Afrofuturist fun.
The Hot Spot : 6/10
Cesar et Rosalie: 8/10 - Man, I love Sautet when he was on.

Staying Vertical (Guiraudie, 2016) 4/10
*Lost in America (Brooks, 1985) 9/10
D.O.A. (Maté, 1950) 7/10
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017) 7/10
Hopscotch (Neame, 1980) 7/10
Two Women (De Sica, 1960) 8/10
Ingrid Goes West (Spicer, 2017) 7/10

L’avventura - 10/10
Drop Dead Gorgeous - 9/10
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 10/10
To Be or Not to Be - 8/10
La Notte - 8/10
Dude, Where’s My Car? - 10/10
Monterey Pop - 9/10
Shock Corridor - 6/10
Suspicion - 8/10
Two-Lane Blacktop - 6/10
Code Unknown - 8/10
Fox and His Friends - 8/10
Design for Living - 8/10
Pumpkin - 10/10
Short Cuts - 10/10
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight - 7/10
Some Like It Hot - 7/10
I Am Waiting - 8/10
The Merchant of Four Seasons - 10/10
Jules and Jim - 5/10
Vera Drake - 9/10
Vampyr - 8/10
Love is Colder Than Death - 7/10
The Double Life of Véronique - 9/10
L’eclisse - 7/10

Downsizing (Payne, 2017) 5/10
The Woman Next Door (Truffaut, 1981) 7/10
The Party (Edwards, 1968) 6/10
Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998) 5/10
Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017) 8/10
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Becker, 1954) 7/10
To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962) 8/10
Loveless (Zvyagintsev, 2017) 8/10
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Tati, 1953) 7/10
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Baumbach, 2017) 7/10

some of the really callous dialogue in Loveless completely cracked me up, like the straight talking police officer saying the streets will be even more inhospitable than your shitty home. I fell asleep watching it cos of tiredness and red wine, but I have to watch that again it seemed pretty great.

The Stanford Prison Experiment (6.0)
The Regular Lovers (6.5)
The Last Time (4.0)
In the Company of Men (7.5)
Blade Runner 2049 (6.0)
The Face of an Angel (6.0)
Election (8.0)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (7.0)
Rising Sun (5.5)
The Gambler (3.5)

I didn't know someone had remade The Gambler until I found it in a remainder bin last week. I wouldn't say that Karel Reisz's original is a great film--very mid-'70s, for mostly better and some worse--but I've seen it many times and always get caught up in it. The new one, with Mark Wahlberg, has to be one of the worst things I've sat through in years. Even John Goodman's terrible.

red sparrow sucked

The Square was intermittently funny, but it let pretty much every plot thread dangle and some of the stuff with the most potential (a janitor vacuuming up a piece of art) was handled off-camera, which was disappointing. Can't really recommend it.

Sweet Bean - 8/10
*Ran - 8/10
*The Hidden Fortress - 8/10
Garçon - 7/10
Call Me By Your Name - 7/10
Kedi - 7/10
A Season In Hell - Terence Stamp as Rimbaud and JC Brialy as Verlaine! In Italian! Still miles better than the DiCaprio Rimbaud flick and that's not saying much - 6/10

Anna Boleyn (Lubitsch, 1920)
The Doll (Lubitsch, 1919)
I Don't Want To Be A Man (Lubitsch, 1918)
In a Difficult Position (Heuze, 1908)
Anybody's Goat (Goodrich Arbuckle, 1932)
Benjamin Smoke (Cohen & Sillen, 2000)
Shooting Stars (Bramble & Asquith, 1928)
La Malle au Mariage (Linder, 1912)
Loveless (Zvyagintsev, 2017)
Down With Husbands (Watson, 1930)
Romeo Turns Bandit (Bosetti, 1909)

For numbered ratings: https://letterboxd.com/PollyPrecoder/films/diary/

j.lu, what is your source for watching most silent films?

*The Scarlet Letter (1926, Sjöström) 9/10
*The Magician aka The Face (1958, Bergman) 9/10
Night After Night (1932, Mayo) 5/10
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971, Grosbard) 6/10
Hour of the Wolf (1968, Bergman) 8/10
Torment (1944, Sjöberg) 5/10
He Who Gets Slapped (1924, Sjöström) 8/10
Wild Boys (2017, Mandico) 5/10
El mar la mar (2017, Snaidecki, Bonnetta) 7/10
I’ve Always Loved You (1946, Borzage) 7/10
The Rite (1969, Bergman) 5/10

xp Common sources for shorts: 1) Archive.org and 2) Ben Model's Youtube channel and ensuing recommendations. The Lubitsch titles are from the Lubitsch in Berlin box, which I'm working through in anticipation of flipping on Amazon. And the National Gallery of Art film program brings in a lot of silents.

thx, I know Ben!

"Marutai no onna"/"Woman in Witness Protection" (Juzo Itami, 1997). Loved this. Nobuko Miyamoto is incredible in it. I need to see more Juzo Itami movies.

(what do the asterixes mean again?)

rewatch

El mar la mar (2017, Snaidecki, Bonnetta)

I thought this was not uninteresting substantively or formally, but was at least a little disturbed by the choice to give screen time to the militia, and didn't find the filmmakers particularly thoughtful about it.

hey if it's playing in your city I highly recommend THE PARTY, a very short (71 minutes) black comedy by Sally Potter. great cast: Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall. I realize it came out in the UK in October but just opened here in the States.

Jailbait (Edward D. Wood)
DOA
Detour
Coco
Paper Moon

*The Magician aka The Face (1958, Bergman) 9/10

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 5, 2018 12:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I never got around to seeing this! That good huh? How does it compare to other Bergman films?

I've told my wife and daughter many times, if they ever feel like approaching Bergman, that's the one I want them to start with.

I really don't like magician shit but I liked it a lot. Has a couple amazing scenes.

Lady Bird managed to be both exactly what I expected and disappointing at the same time.

Shame (Bergman, 1968)
Mute (Jones, 2018)
Annihilation (Garland, 2018)
La Vie de Bohéme (Kaurismäki, 1992)
The Hero (Ray, 1966)
His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017)
Westfront 1918 (Pabst, 1930)
The Passion of Anna (Bergman, 1969)
Natural Born Killers (Stone, 1994)
I See a Dark Stranger (Launder, 1946)

Magician/Ansiktet is solid 1A Bergman. Also one of von Sydow's most compelling roles.

just got Westfront 1918, excited to watch that

The Gold Of Love - 7/10
March Or Die - 7/10
Joanna - 6/10
*Madadayo - 9/10
Adieu, Poulet - 7/10
L'Arme a gauche - 6/10
In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter - 7/10

Exorcist II: The Heretic (Boorman, 1977) 4
War Games (Badham, 1983) 7
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965) 9
Licence to Kill (Glen, 1989) 3
I, Tonya (2017) 6
Game Night (Daley and Goldstein, 2018) 7
Phantom Thread (PT Anderson, 2017) 8
Screamers (Duguay, 1995) 5; watched after reading "Second Variation"
*Get Out (Peele, 2017) 9; rating unchanged
Find Me Guilty (Lumet, 2006) 6
Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter, 1933) 7

saw Thoroughbreds, halfway thru I was thinking it was a classic then screeeeech. But worth checking out

Yeah I liked it but was kinda half baked

Oh, no--it's completely baked.

Adventure Girl (Raymaker, 1934)
Troubles of a Grass Widower (Linder, 1908)
Be My King (Lane, 1928)
Hard Luck (Keaton & Cline, 1921)
The Party (Potter, 2017)
The Price (Weber & Smalley, 1911)
The Statue (Guy, 1905)
Les surprises de l’amour (Linder? 1909)
*The Oyster Princess (Lubitsch, 1919)
Sumurun (Lubitsch, 1920)
Blue of the Night (Sennett, 1931)
King Lear (Kozintsev, 1971)

Numbered ratings and some reviews? https://letterboxd.com/pollyprecoder/films/diary/

xp all the promo and reviews compare it to Heathers which is such a blot on Heathers. Thoroughbreds doesn't have anything to say.

I saw Submission today - Stanley Tucci plays a writing professor and has an affair with a student. was OK but was very nice to see Tucci in a) a starring role, and b) a quality rug

Famous movie line, FB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrdsIxelE2M

Thanks, that reminds me of this, said by Mike Nichols to Elaine May:
Do you remember what you said to me about The Exorcist? I also turned down The Exorcist because I didn’t want to do that to a little girl for six months. And it was my best friend again, the head of the studio, and it opened and it was a gigantic hit. He took me to see the line. He said, “You personally lost $30 million by not making this movie.” And I said to Elaine, “I’m trying to feel bad because John said I lost $30 million by not doing The Exorcist.” And Elaine said, “Don’t worry darling, if you’d made it, it wouldn’t have made that kind of money.” She meant it as a compliment, seems like.
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/elaine-may-in-conversation-with-mike-nichols/

George Harrison - Living In the Material World (Scorsese)
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge (Gibney)
Concerning Violence (Olsson)*
The Salt of the Earth (Wenders)
Scarlet Street (Lang)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Schlöndorff)
Diplomacy (Schlöndorff)
Amour (Haneke)
The Celebration (Vinterberg)*
The Commune (Vinterberg)
Everything Will Be Fine (Boe)
Beast (Boe)

Beast is probably the worst Danish film of the decade so far. The Commune isn't much good either, but The Celebration is still a masterpiece and soon 20 years old.

*My Little Chickadee (1940, Cline) 8/10
*I’m No Angel (1933, Ruggles) 8/10
Goin’ to Town (1935, Hall) 7/10
Salon Mexico (1949, Fernandez) 7/10
*After the Rehearsal (1984, Bergman) 8/10
*O Lucky Man! (1973, Anderson) 9/10
The Iceman Cometh (1973, Frankenheimer) 7/10
Enamorada (1946, Fernandez) 8/10
Charge It (1921, Garson) 6/10
The War Between Men and Women (1972, Shavelson) 4/10
Seres Extravagantes aka Odd People Out (2004, Zayas) 7/10
Western (2017, Grisebach) 8/10
Janitzio (1935, Navarro) 6/10

battling insomnia with Mae West

Tomb Raider cos girlfriend's brother got tickets to the local preview. I think it's officially out tomorrow.
I've never played teh game so not sure if there are central plot points taht come from there.
Did notice taht new actress doesn't seem to have massive boobs like the character used to be portrayed with.

& this seems to be an introduction to the character who seems to begin as a total neophyte whereas Angelina Jolie seemed to have been used to the life for a while.

it's an adaptation of the video game from 2013, which was a reboot / origin story.

The Skull Murder Mystery (Henabery, 1932)
The Gem of the Ocean (Mack, 1934)
The Hansom Cabman (Edwards, 1924)
Sing, Bing, Sing (Stafford, 1933)
Popeye the Sailor (Fleischer, 1933)
*The Wildcat (Lubitsch, 1921)
Spring Fever (Roach, 1919)
By Candlelight (Whale, 1933)
Une Idylle à la Ferme (Linder, 1912)
The Death of Stalin (Iannucci, 2017)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)

If anyone cares about my numbered ratings: https://letterboxd.com/pollyprecoder/films/diary/

visited some family in the N Ga mountains, we hit up RedBox to see a bunch of last year's movies:

Dunkirk (2017) - 9/10 Really incredible. Really captured a hopeless feeling, the scene where they are hiding in the boat waiting for the tide while the enemy uses it for target practice was insane.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - 8/10 Great stuff, makes me want to rewatch the original. I like how Leto only has two scenes, he was very effective. Gorgeous movie. Strong Kubrick vibes, lots of ambience, and a nice mystery at the center of it. Felt like classic sci fi.
War of the Planet of the Apes (2017) - 6/10 Not bad but way too many shots of Ceasar and Woody Harrelson looking at each other. It was funny to see the huge army show up at the end and get quickly disposed of.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) - 7/10 This was insane. Not really sure what to make of it. The humor was very British. Like a cross between Bourne Identity, The Big Lebowski, and Inspector Gadget (and the 60's Avengers show). Elton John's cameo was pretty great (and kind of weirdly fit with the Blade Runner Elvis hologram battle. seems like nowadays if you have a secret hideout Vegas-style entertainment rooms are all the rage)

Guardians of teh Galaxy
Paddington 2

That Summer of 96 a short documentary about a friend's battle with menangitis and subsequent recovery. Worth seeing debut from a director who I hope goes onto a lot more stuff.

Gra and Eagla and Console My Heart and 2 others that were in a showing locally yesterday because they were part of a project called Dig Where You Stand. Gra and Eagla is about local comedian Aine gallagher's relationship with the Irish language. Hope it gets seen a lot more.
Also just saw her in another short called The Postcard about the further career of a girland a donkey who had appeared in a famous postcard together. Quiite amusing.

Syfy are reshowing Tomb raider in the Angelina Jolie guise presumably to tie in with the theatrical release of the new incarnation. So have that on in the background.

@ Adam - I loved, loved, loved Blade Runner 2049. I never liked the book or the first movie (huge PKD fan but that one did nothing for me), but this one was so massive, so moving as just a tone poem. Near the end, when they're marooned on that cement/steel beach thing, which the tide coming in occasionally? Oh my god. And all the stuff with the hologram girlfriend was just incredible. One of my top 5 movies of 2017.

Saw Three Billboards... last night and Thor: Ragnarok today, via Amazon. Billboards... mostly sucked, but Thor was at least the right kind of funny/silly. I don't get the general rapture over Goldblum's performance, but Blanchett was good.