Last (x) movies you saw (II)

December:

The Amazing Colossal Man (Gordon, 1957) 6/10 YOUTUBE
Liberte (Serra, 2019 ) 8/10 MUBI
Mank (Fincher, 2020) 4/10 NETFLIX
Absolution (Page, 1978) 6/10 YOUTUBE(written by Anthony Shaffer)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Melendez, 1966) 7/10
The More the Merrier (Stevens, 1943) 8/10 DVD
The Alligator People (Del Ruth, 1959) 7/10 YOUTUBE
The Ape (Nigh, 1940) 4/10 YOUTUBE
Rocco and his Brothers (Visconti, 1960) 8/10 MUBI (Alain Delon is the prettiest prize fighter you ever did see)
Attack of the Giant Leeches (Kowalski, 1959) 6/10 YOUTUBE
The House on Straw Hill aka Expose (Clarke, 1976) 7/10 YOUTUBE
Ask a Policeman (Varnel, 1939) 6/10 DVD (Will Hay comedy)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks, 1953) 7/10 TV
The Five Venoms (Chang, 1978) 7/10 NETFLIX
Silver Lode (Dwan, 1954) 7/10 YOUTUBE
Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey, 1963) 8/10 TV
A Bucket of Blood (Corman, 1959) 7/10 YOUTUBE

Alain Delon is the prettiest prize fighter you ever did see

Seriously, the only one to rival Brando in Streetcar for hotness.

Newman in cat tbf but that's not raising any objections to the main point obv

Mank, 2020, 8/10

Newman was so hot

Last two of 2020 and first eight of 2021:

*Nothing Sacred (1937, Wellman) - 8/10
Broken Blossoms (1919, Griffith) - 9/10
*Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Hawks) - 9/10
City of the Living Dead (1980, Fulci) - 7/10
Deconstructing Harry (1997, Allen) - 8/10
Steaming (1985, Losey) - 6/10
Car Wash (1976, Schultz) - 7/10
The House by the Cemetery (1981, Fulci) - 7/10
Violence at Noon (1966, Oshima) - 9/10
"Bananas" (1971, Allen) - 8/10

Finally got to see Tenet last night after finding too many video files not working on old tv and the one that did having audio too quiet to follow.
Interesting soundtrack music verging on noise etc
I haven't looked up fan theories so not sure what wasn't thought to be answered in the film.

Amazing Grace
Aretha Franklin sings gospel in 1972.

i hope you got subtitles; i wouldn't have been able to follow that fuckin' nonsense for half an hour without them.
not that they make it any better!

Amazing Grace is prob a top 100 for me, i cried a few times.

The Tiger's Coat (Clements, 1920)
The Mystery Squadron (Clark & Howard, 1933)
The Girl and Her Trust (Griffith, 1912)
Their First Mistake (Marshall, 1932)
The Midnight Patrol (French, 1933)
Me and My Pal (Rogers, 1933)
Going Bye-Bye! (Rogers, 1934)
Oliver the Eighth (French, 1934)
Jack's the Boy (Forde, 1932)
The Merry Jail (Lubitsch, 1917)
*After the Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1936)
Fanchon, the Cricket (Kirkwood, 1915)
Wonder Woman 1984 (Jenkins, 2020)
The Leech Woman (Dein, 1960)
No Vacancies (Morris, 1923)
*The Two Johns (Buckingham, 1923)

MY octopus Teacher
looks really great on my tv picture is really nice and clear.

& cinematopgraphy is really nice.
I must finish the book Soul of An Octopus finally.

Soul which is a really nice film with an ok score.
I keep falling asleep when i relax in front of the tv and this wouldn't rewind on me for some reason which sia drag.
BUt overall it seemed to be a nice film. THough not sure it had any real revelations. Main characters are non-Anglo though i suppose, one of the support roles might be an anal retentive antipodean

I thought it was an ok film with a really nice score.

I thought "The Climb" was really good. Riyl ... "Bottle Rocket"? "Thunder Road"? Whatever the hell movies like that are. Great camera work.

Homeboy (1988) 2.5/5
* Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) 3/5
The Man From London (2007) 3.5/5
7 Up (1964) think I should wait til I see more in the series before judging it
Between the Lines (1977) 3.5/5
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 4/5
The Projectionist (2019) 3.5/5
* The Phantom Carriage (1921) 4/5 We coincidentally watched this on the exact 100th anniversary of the film's premiere date without realizing it.
Zardoz (1974) 2.5/5
Passe ton bac d'abord (1978) 4/5
* The Thin Man (1934) 4/5
City Hall (2020) 4/5
* The Elephant Man (1980) 5/5
The Heiress (1949) 4.5/5
Accident (1967) 2.5/5
Little Women (2019) 4/5
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) 1/5
* Phantom Thread (2020) 5/5 Even funnier and richer on 2nd viewing
Bell, Book, and Candle (1958) 3/5
* Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) 4/5
Neat: The Story of Bourbon (2018) 2.5/5

think I should wait til I see more in the series before judging it

This isn't really part of "the series" - Apted's approach is very different.

A Dash Through the Clouds (Sennett, 1912)
The Star Prince (Brandeis, 1918)
The Hot Spot (Gallaher, 1931)
Darkened Rooms (Gasnier, 1929)
Back Street (Stahl, 1932)
Uncle Yanco (Varda, 1967)
The Flying Fool (Garnett, 1929)
The King on Main Street (Bell, 1925)
The Beast With Five Fingers (Florey, 1946)
The Radio Bug (Roberts, 1926)
*Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry (Curtis, 1915)
*His Marriage Wow (Edwards, 1925)

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

Now that's a title!

sure is, damn

assumed it was on youtube and so it was: episodic silents from the teens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5nalbrVMc

Only 3 out of 11 installments are known to survive, but those survivors...*chef's kiss*

Finally caught up with "The Assistant." Excellent, seems like it kind of went under the radar, but at the same time it's so subtle and eerily low-key it's almost designed to do that. There were a couple of glitches in our stream that at first we thought were intentional, but in the end we think they were just glitches. Sort of similarly weird was the Patrick Wilson ... cameo? I guess that's a cameo, playing himself for a second? Anyway, very good, original movie from the top down.

Very good movie

Crossing Delancey (Silver, 1988) - 6/10
Old Boyfriends (Tewkesbury, 1979) - 8/10
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948) - 7/10
How to Marry a Millionaire (Negulesco, 1953) - 7/10
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953) - 10/10
Mo’ Better Blues (Lee, 1990) - 8/10
It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946) - 8/10
The Devil’s Honey (Fulci, 1986) - 9/10
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (Clemens, 1939) - 7/10
Comedy of Power (Chabrol, 2006) - 6/10
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Fulci, 1971) - 8/10
Vive L’Amour (Tsai, 1994) - 9/10
Bacurau (Filho, Dornelles; 2019) - 5/10
The Beyond (Fulci, 1981) - 8/10
Sinai Field Mission (Wiseman, 1978) - 9/10
*Cisco Pike (Norton, 1972) - 9/10
Sleeping Fist (Yip, 1979) - 6/10
Pretty Maids All in a Row (Vadim, 1971) - 8/10
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (Chen, 1998) - 9/10
The Sting (Hill, 1973) - 7/10
Don’t Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972) - 8/10
Verboten! (Fuller, 1958) - 9/10
Cheyenne Autumn (Ford, 1964) - 9/10
Alice’s Restaurant (Penn, 1969) - 8/10

Haven't seen it since I saw it twice when it came out, but I thought Crossing Delancey was kind of touching at the time.

To clarify a bit more: what I found moving was how Riegert--as I remember it--was both embarrassed about and proud of his job, and how he handled that with regards to Irving.

I agree (the bit about ...vanilla? covering up the smell of pickle juice), it's a nice movie, I think Riegert is miscast though, or he's just off here--he comes off a lot more resentful and angry than the material calls for, he plays it pretty low and isn't exactly oozing charisma.

The Wrecker (von Bolvary, 1929)
No One Man (Corrigan, 1932)
The Dumb Girl of Portici (Weber, 1916)
Road House (Elvey, 1934)
Merry-Go-Round (Julian and/or von Stroheim, 1923)
County Hospital (Parrott, 1932)
The Policy Girl (Mack, 1934)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (Arnold, 1954)
Home Cured (Goodrich Arbuckle, 1926)
Blow Your Horn (Myll, 1916)
*The Blacksmith (Keaton & St. Clair, 1922)

Trick Baby 1972
Film based on iceberg slims 2nd novel.

Cos I just watched a bio of slim.

Now watching Hamilton cos I haven't seen it but may not be in the mood to stick with it.

It's been at least 25 years since I last saw "Das Boot," and it remains a really impressive feat of virtuoso filmmaking. It's kind of too bad Petersen spent most of his career making middle of the road Hollywood pablum.

Nice work if you can get it tho

For sure! And a couple of those movies were good, too.

Soul (Docter, 2020)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (Siodmak, 1945)
The Vast of Night (Patterson, 2019)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lewin, 1945)
*It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
The Glass Key (Heisler, 1942)
Yentl (Streisand, 1983)
Witness to Murder (Rowland, 1954)
I'm Your Woman (Hart, 2020)
*Make Way For Tomorrow (McCarey, 1973)

er, Make Way For Tomorrow was 1937.

Have people shared Letterboxd accounts on ILX anywhere? Mine is https://boxd.it/ENrV. I used it sparingly in the past but am logging every movie i watch in 2021.

I think I've shared mine before, but here it is again: https://letterboxd.com/jer_fairall/

Have shared mine before: https://letterboxd.com/PollyPrecoder/

https://letterboxd.com/souleraser/

Mine's just two lists of favourite movies; this thread is actually my Letterbox for what I watch.

https://letterboxd.com/hunsecker/lists/

I like looking at those lists.

I’m not all that into the earliest silent films, except Safety Last! (1923) with Harold Lloyd, which i saw at the SF Silent Film festival with live organ accompaniment. But I really liked The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).

Thought Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, Part One (1922) was pretty good too, am looking forward to seeing Part Two

Burning, the Korean film, was very good

tru

#3 in the ILX film poll for 2018!

Oh cool

"Some Kind of Heaven" was pretty good, a lot more stylized and weird than I expected from a doc about a Florida retirement community. Riyl David Lynch, Wes Anderson and ... "Gates of Heaven"?

Liked "Sound of Metal" a lot. Of course it's (almost) all about Ahmed, but the film did feel like like it was telling a story I've not seen depicted before, despite some familiar beats.

The Assistant (6.0)
Waco (6.5)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (7.0)
Studio 54 (7.0)
The Celluloid Closet (8.0)
Black Widow (6.0)
Small Axe (overall: 8.0)
Mr. Robot (all seasons: 7.0)
Housekeeping (6.5)
Gregory’s Girl (7.5)

I added some television in there. I was thinking that a parallel thread to this one for television might be useful in terms of checking what you saw over the year when the television poll comes up. That's how I'm able to put together a year-end movie list; I open up this thread and scan my posts for the year. I know some people use Letterboxd that way.

that's what i use the ten best shows thread for.
Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I'll use that then. I like to rate stuff--seasons, entire runs, single episodes even--so I'll probably do that too.

look at me watching a lot of movies and enjoying some of them this month

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) 7/10
*The Lion King (1994) 8
*Toy Story (1995) 8
*Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) 8
The Suitor (Etaix, 1962) 6
The Man Who Would Be King (Huston, 1975) 7
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) 5 great score tho
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) 6
Soul (2020) 8
The Parallax View (Pakula, 1974) 7
For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965) 7
The Spiral Staircase (1946) 6
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) 8
The Detective (1968) 6
Blast of Silence (1961) 8
Things to Come (1936) 7
Head of the Family (1996) 3
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 5
*The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 5
Runaway Train (Cannon Films, Konchalovsky, story by Kurosawa, 1985) 8
Always for Pleasure (Blank, 1978) 6 love the food sequence
Song of the South (yes the Disney one, 1946) 4
Sayat-Nova a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969) 6