Last (x) movies you saw

Unsane (6.5)
Good People (6.0)
The Heartbreak Kid (8.5)
Teachers (5.0)
Paterno (6.5)
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (8.0)
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (7.0)
United Skates (7.0)
The Fourth Estate (6.5)
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End (7.0)

The Old Fashioned Way (Beaudine, 1934)
My Little Chickadee (Cline, 1940)
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo & Russo, 2018)
*The Bank Dick (Cline, 1940)

Numerical assessments, and some reviews, in the event anyone cares: https://letterboxd.com/pollyprecoder/films/diary/

Tried to watch The Limehouse Golem last night. Lasted an hour.
Tonight: Violent, an arty little Norwegian/Canadian (director's Canadian, but it takes place in Norway) thing.

maryland film festival 2018. wish i saw more but what i did get to see was great:

Genderbende - 9/10
Sollers Point - 8/10
MDFF Shorts: Charged Spaces - 8/10
I, Olga Hepnarová (2016) - 9/10
Wobble Palace - 9/10

shove the .5s already

I, Olga Hepnarová (2016) - 9/10

― flappy bird, 7. maj 2018 04:32 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is a crazy little film. I really don't know what to think of it, but would love to see it again.

Let the Sunshine In (Clare Denis, 2016) - Loved this, had some really great lines with a terrific last scene too.
The Square (Ruben Östlund, 2017) - diverting enough satire. Didn't get much out of it.

I, Olga Hepnarová (2016) - 9/10

― flappy bird, 7. maj 2018 04:32 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is a crazy little film. I really don't know what to think of it, but would love to see it again.

Memories of Underdevelopment, newly restored on a great-looking all-region Blu-Ray.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, May 4, 2018 8:31 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw this at the rep cinema a few weeks ago, so good

*point break (1991) 8/10
drowning by numbers (1988) unrateable
ulzanas raid (1972) 7/10
avengers: infinity war (2018) 7/10
spirited away (2001) 9/10
the three stooges (2012) 7/10
you were never really here (2017) 6/10

Call Me by Your Name (Guadagnino, 2017) 8/10
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Kasdan, 2017) 7/10
The Collector (Wyler, 1965) 7/10
The Party (Potter, 2017) 5/10
The Loves of a Blonde (Forman, 1965) 8/10
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Vaughan, 2017) 6/10
Body and Soul (Rossen, 1947) 8/10
Crash (Haggis, 2004) 3/10
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (Shaw, 2016) 7/10
Girls Trip (Lee, 2017) 5/10
Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) 9/10
Death at a Funeral (Oz, 2007) 6/10

*It's a Gift (McLeod, 1934)
*The Movies (Goodrich Arbuckle, 1925)
*Do-Re-Mi-Boom! (Wright, 1915)
Max Is Convalescent (Linder, 1911)
Max Toréador (Linder, 1913)
Fatty Joins the Force (Nichols, 1913)
Out of Place (St. John, 1922)
Her Bridal Night-Mare (Christie, 1920)
The Docks of New York (von Sternberg, 1928)
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2017)
Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)

Morvern Callar (Ramsay, 2002) 7/10
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) 9/10
By The Time it Gets Dark (Suwichakornpong, 2016) 7/10
Western (Grisebach, 2017) 8/10
All I Desire (Sirk, 1953) 8/10
Dolls (Kitano, 2002) 6/10
Isle of Dogs (Anderson, 2018) 5/10
Magnificent Obsession (Sirk, 1954) 6/10
Let The Sunshine In (Denis, 2017) 7/10
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955) 9/10
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969) 10/10

Let the Sunshine In (Denis, 2018) 7/10
RBG (Cohen, West) 4/10
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2018) 8/10
Zama (Martel, 2018) 8/10
A Quiet Place (Krasinski, 2018) 6/10
Baal (Schlöndorff, 1970) 7/10
* Women in Love (Russell, 1969) 6/10
* Black Narcissus (Archers, 1947) 8/10
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (Ozu, 1952) 7/10

The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969) 8/10
High Plains Drifter (Eastwood, 1973) 8/10
Black Rain (R Scott, 1989) 4/10
I, Tonya (Gillespie, 2017) 6/10
Ace in the Hole (1951, Wilder) 9/10
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988, Spheeris) 8/10

Taste of Cherry - 10/10
Jour de Fête - 7/10
Au Revoir Les Enfants - 6/10
Straw Dogs - 9/10
Jimi Plays Monterey - 9/10
MASH - 6/10
Certified Copy - 10/10
Blind Chance - 8/10
Enchantment - 7/10
Shadows in Paradise - 10/10
Ariel - 9/10
The Match Factory Girl - 9/10
Like Someone in Love - 8/10
The Other Side of Hope - 9/10
The Rules of the Game - 8/10
Last Year at Marienbad - 10/10

Am fine with MASH ranked the worst of that group.

altman should've just cut the football section imo

I thought the recent Denis ("Let The Sunshine In") her weakest in years. Binoche carries the whole thing on her shoulders but even her character's "woe is me" angle gets tiresome pretty quickly. I think Denis has done attraction and loneliness much better than this before ( "Friday Night"). The current buzz for this one is a headscratcher for me.

It's second tier Denis but she's trying something else. My audience loathed it.

I guess I think it's better than 'Bastards', but not as good as the films in her 1999-2009 run.

That's about right.

Justice League (Snyder and Whedon, 2017) 3/10
trivia answer The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) 3/10
Show Dogs (2018) 3/10

Jolson cries

trivia answer The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) 3/10

Generous much?

*Overture: Tannhäuser (DuPar, 1926)
*Wife and Auto Trouble (Henderson, 1916)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (Bruckman & Fields, 1935)
Moonlight and Pretzels (Freund, 1933)
Max Pédicure (Linder, 1914)
Max Fears the Dogs (1912)
Poppy (Sutherland, 1936)
Max n’aime pas les chats (Linder, 1913)
Follow That Blonde (Yates, 1946)
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (Marshall & Cline, 1939)
The Nut (Reed, 1921)
Deadpool 2 (Leitch, 2018)
Shotgun Pass (McGowan, 1931)

you are both assigned to Jolson films for the rest of the month, or perhaps the Jerry Lewis and Neil Diamond versions of TJS

(btw abanana, i bet you're wrong about the question that film is allegedly the answer to)

Thief (1981, Mann) 8/10
The Mad Game (1933, Cummings) 6/10
Dressed to Kill (1928, Cummings) 7/10
Ready Player One (2018, Spielberg) 5/10
*Faces Places (2017, Varda, JR) 8/10
Afternoon (1965, Warhol) 6/10
Lean on Pete (2017, Haigh) 7/10
*Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954, Anger) 8/10
The Shape of Water (2017, del Toro) 5/10
*One-Eyed Jacks (1961, Brando) 8/10
Ray Meets Helen (2018, Rudolph) 5/10
*Port of Call (1948, Bergman) 6/10

Not all of us can get to the Fox program at MOMA, you lucky so-and-so.

Don Juan (Crosland, 1926), The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927), and The Lights of New York (Foy, 1928): Each worth watching once for historic purposes, but never again.

first full-length movie with spoken dialog?

I don't think it is! Depending how those things are defined, it's pretty amorphous. It was the first semi-sound feature that was a big hit, bcz Jolie.

Filmmakers were trying to pair up film with prerecorded audio almost from the beginning of the medium. The Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology (Don Juan and The Jazz Singer) was commercially successful in ways its predcessors weren't, but if it had flopped Fox Films was doing work with Movietone sound-on-film that probably would have gone public in 1928.

Chocolat (Denis)
Trouble Every Day (Denis)
L’Intrus (Denis)
Let the Sunshine In (Denis)
A Man in Love (Kurys)
A Very Long Engagement (Jeunet)
The Family (Besson)
Betty Blue (Beineix)
La Haine (Kassovitz)
The Crimson Rivers (Kassovitz)
Renoir (Bourdos)
Workshop (Cantet)
The Redeemed (Vest)
The Night We Fell (Hannibal)
Deja Vu (Bang Carlsen)
The Erotic Man (Leth)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Jones)
The Work (McLeary & Aldous)
Girls in Uniform (von Radványi)
Katzelmacher (Fassbinder)
The Unknown Soldier (Laine)
The Unknown Soldier (Mollberg)
The Unknown Soldier (Louhimies)
Concrete Night (Honkasalo)*
The Place (Genovese)
Lemonade (Knowles & Joseph)
It’s All About Love (Vinterberg)
Italian for Beginners (Scherfig)*
The Charmer (Alami)

flappy bird has figured out how to live. you have to be in a pretty good place mentally to enjoy so many movies so much

I hope so

Those are great movies, what’s not to enjoy.

Come Drink with Me (1966) 4/5
The Green Ray (1986; rewatch) 5/5
The Rider (2017) 3.5/5
Faces Places (2017) 4/5
Je T'aime, Je T'aime (1968; rewatch) 4.5/5
Avengers: Infinity War 3/5
Teorema (1968) 2/5
Police, Adjective (2009) 3.5/5

saw the new Denis film and completely fell for it -- it's very funny, especially if you've dated all those men. I was disturbed by that French cinema icon in the final scene, particularly the giant tropical fruit he has for a nose now.

Max and the Statue (Linder, 1912)
Never the Twins Shall Meet (Schwartz, 1932)
Her Boy Friend (Semon & Smith, 1924)
His Picture in the Papers (Emerson, 1916)
The Camels Are Coming (Whelan & Stevenson, 1934)
Martin Roumagnac (Lacombe, 1946)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Howard, 2018)

The Magnificent Seven (1960) - yeah this all-star cast of good guys defending a tiny town from banditos. this must be the main inspiration behind "The Three Amigos"
Return of the Seven (1966) - nowhere near as good as the first one w all the variety of characters. still a nice way to kill a saturday
Cave Man (1981) - the one with Ringo, Dennis Quaid, Shelly Long, etc. somehow infinitely stupider than the Flintstones movies.
America 3000 (1986) - yeah this is a Cannon film. kind of like Mad Max Fury Road if it built on really lame 80s sexual politics. i did enjoy when the guy discovered the presidential bunker (and had no trouble reading the intruction manual from a laser gun despite teaching himself how to read solely from an ABC's picture book). the ending made NO SENSE but by that time you are glad it's over.
Robocop 3 (1993) - it's like the PG-13 Cannon version of Robocop. a little girl hacks the ED-209. Robocop flies around like Superman. Robocop fights a ninja robot from Japan! i liked when he got punched and his mouth was all skewed and he had to re-adjust it. great creepy effects there. Robocop almost exclusively shoots at dirty cops in this despite the constant threat of roaming Final Fight-style punk street gangs.

it was fun spotting the stapler guy from Office Space and the guy from The West Wing slumming it in Robocop 3. Bradley Whitford does a good sleazy executive.

Magnificent Obsession (Sirk, 1954) 6/10

the more i think about this the more i want to call it 10/10

lol I was just gonna bump the Sirk thread to ask if any of his other movies even come close to All That Heaven Allows. because Magnificent Obsession is fine, but it's SO ridiculous and slapsticky and silly and lightweight. and Rock Hudson's character in that one is a total prick that the movie tries to redeem and fail iirc. the only other one I've seen is Written on the Wind, which was OK and I know a lot of people hold those three up, but idk, I was disappointed.

I really enjoyed The Tarnished Angels and All I Desire but I wouldn't say they hit the same marks as All That Heaven Allows; isn't Imitation of Life the one that usually gets talked about in the same breath?

Imitation of Life definitely top tier. See that one.

Now I’ll Tell (1934, Burke) 6/10
Isle of Dogs (2018, Anderson) 7/10
6 Hours to Live (1932, Dieterle) 6/10
Cymbeline (2014, Almereyda) 7/10
*Personal Shopper (2016, Assayas) 6/10
Let the Sunshine In (2017, Denis) 9/10
The Red Dance (1928, Walsh) 5/10
Rosita (1923, Lubitsch) 7/10
The Guardians (2017, Beauvois) 8/10
*Beautiful Thing (1996, MacDonald) 7/10
*Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988, Oz) 7/10

flappy, if you can find Lured, do so. Lucille Ball and George Sanders in London involved in murder.

I saw Lured on YouTube a few months ago, if you don't object to that format, And once you've seen Lured, try to find Pièges (Siodmak, 1939), the source for Lured.

Solo 5/10
*Cat People (Tourneur) 8/10
I Walked With A Zombie 8/10
The Seventh Victim 6/10
Marie-Jo et ses Deux Amants 8/10
Les Neiges De Kilimandjaro 6/10
Junun 7/10
Red Sparrow 4/10
Beach Of The War Gods 8/10
A Quiet Place 6/10
*Fellini Roma 9/10

Last couple of months, more or less:

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (Miraglia)- 3/5, <3
Gerald's Game (Flanagan)- 3.5/5
*The Vampire Lovers (Baker)- 3.5/5, <3
King Cohen (Mitchell)- 3.5/5, <3
*Bay of Blood (Bava)- 3/5
Demonlover (Assayas)- 3/5
10 Things I Hate About You (Junger)- 2.5/5
Vampyres (Larraz)- 4/5, <3
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (Cattet & Forzani)- 3.5/5, <3
Cigarette Burns (Carpenter)- 2.5/5
Pick Me Up (Cohen)- 3/5
Dead of Night (Curtis)- 2.5/5
*Hellraiser (Barker)- 4/5, <3
Tourist Trap (Shmoeller)- 2.5/5, <3
*Hellbound: Hellraiser II (Randel)- 2.5/5