Last (x) movies you saw (II)

I agree it could have gone on longer. I was invested.

vampire's kiss, 1989
american psycho and also maybe vampire? bad script from the writer of after hours. saved by nic cage's insane performance.

Bought a 2008(?) Blu-Ray of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes on eBay; it showed up today. I own the original five movies on DVD, but the Blu-Ray of Conquest has the original ending, where Caesar leads the apes in violent revolution and they murder the humans. I was really struck, watching it tonight, just how violent it was; there are scenes of apes piling up the bodies of dead cops that are astonishing. And the original ending is dark as fuck. Had they released this version in the first place it would easily be regarded as the second-best movie in the series, after the original.

May:

To Die For (Van Sant, Henry after Maynard 1995)
Kiki's Delivery Service [Witch's Express Home Delivery / 魔女の宅急便] (Miyazaki after Kadono 1989)
The Marriage Circle (Lubitsch, Bern & Vance after Schmidt 1924)
Monkey Man (Patel, Angunawela, Collee 2024)
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (Snead 2024)
The Fall Guy (Leitch, Pearce 2024)
Wings Of Desire [4K resto / 5.1 remix] (Wenders, Handke, Reitinger 1987)
Poolman (Pine, Gotler 2024) 2/10
The Lavender Hill Mob [4K resto] (Crichton, Clarke 1951)
Making Of (Kahn, Burdino, Doux 2024)
Aggro Dr1ft (Korine 2024)
Dìdi [弟弟] (Wang 2024)
The New Boy (Thornton 2023)
Dragon Superman [神龍飛俠] (Kobayashi, Lo-hui, Hsiao-tao 1968)
Paprika [パプリカ] (Kon, Minakami after TsuTsui
2006)
Uncut Gems (Safdie, Bronstein, Safdie 2019)
Furiosa (Miller, Lathouris 2024)
Babes (Adlon, Glazer, Rabinowitz 2024)
Evil Does Not Exist [悪は存在しない] (Hamaguchi 2024)


Going In Style (Brest 1979) 📀
Millennium Actress [千年女優] (Kon, Murai, Hirasawa 2001) 📺
Beverly Hills Cop (Brest, Petrie 1984) 📺

March, April, May

The Disappearance of Shere Hite (Nicole Newnham, 2023)
The Landlord (Hal Ashby, 1970)
The Holdovers (Alexander Payne, 2023)
*MC5: A True Testimonial (David C. Thomas, 2002)
Central Station (Walter Salles, 1998)
Maestro (Bradley Cooper, 2023)
A City of Sadness (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 1989)
Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
Why Man Creates (Saul Bass, 1968)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
Le petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (Peter Wintonick, 1999)
The Glass Web (Jack Arnold, 1953)
Confess, Fletch (Greg Mottola, 2022)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)
Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph, 1976)
20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, 2023)
El sol del membrillo (Víctor Erice, 1992)
Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom, 2003)
The Possibilities Are Endless (James Hall, Edward Lovelace, 2014)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023)
The Senator Was Indiscreet (George S. Kaufman, 1947)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (Thomas von Steinaecker, 2022)
So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)
City Of Fear (Irving Lerner, 1959)
The American Sector (Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez, 2020)
Le rayon vert (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
Joan Baez I Am a Noise (Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, Karen O'Connor, 2023)
Carmen (Valerie Buhagiar, 2022)
Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani, 2003)
Fremont (Babak Jalali, 2023)
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
The White Bus (Lindsay Anderson, 1967)
Chloe (Atom Egoyan, 2009)
Led Zeppelin Played Here (Jeff Krulik, 2014)
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2021)
The Beekeeper (David Ayer, 2024)
On the Run (Alfred Cheung, 1988)
Taking Off (Milos Forman, 1971)
Athena (Romain Gavras, 2022)
Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi, 1976)
Shadowman (Georges Franju, 1974)
Epidemic (Lars von Trier, 1987)
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophüls, 1988)
Befrielsesbilleder (Lars von Trier, 1982)
Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Kuroi doresu no onna (Yôichi Sai, 1987)

May

In The Land of Saints and Sinners (Lorenz, 2023) 4/10
Priscilla (Coppola, 2023) 7/10
Madeline's Madeline (Decker, 2018) 7/10
Pale Rider (Eastwood, 1985) 6/10
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) 5/10
*Nomadland (Zhao, 2020) 8/10
Mars Express (Perin, 2023) 7/10
*Perdita Durango (De La Iglesia, 1997) 6/10
Speed Racer (Wachowski, 2008) 5/10
*The French Connection (Friedkin, 1974) 8/10
House of Tolerance (Bonello, 2011) 8/10
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz, 1942) 6/10
Pom Poko (Takahata, 1994) 8/10
The Delinquents (Moreno, 2023) 7/10
*The Player (Altman, 1992) 9/10
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Miller, 2024) 8/10
*Pennies From Heaven (Ross, 1981) 7/10

xp forgot to 'sterisk Die For, Desire, Lavender, Paprika, Gems and Cop

Hit Man (2024) 3/5
* The Music Room (1958) 4.5/5
I Saw the TV Glow 4/5
Furiosa 3/5
* Inherent Vice (2014) 4.5/5
Through the Olive Trees (1994) 4.5/5
Lumiere d'ete (1943) 3.5/5
* Heat (1995) 4.5/5
Life, and Nothing More... (1992) 4/5
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023) 4/5
Trenque Lauquen (2022) 5/5

Throw Momma From the Train (DeVito) 4/10 so i started watching always sunny, wanted to watch one of the movies devito directed. i picked a bad one.
The Children's Hour (Wyler) 4/10 audrey had some bad performances
Girl, Interrupted (Mangold) 6/10
The Girl Can't Help It (Tashlin) 7/10 how can they look so bored during that Little Richard performance
*Topsy Turvy (Leigh) 10/10
Blue Collar (Schrader) 9/10 the only good richard pryor movie?

Ratings according to the Maltin System, i.e. **** for classic all the way down to BOMB for irredeemable shite

Black Girl (Sembene, 1966) ***1/2
Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) ***
The Zone of Interest (Glazer, 2023) ***1/2
Poor Things (Lanthimos, 2023) ***
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) ***
Mars Express (Périn, 2023) ***
I Saw the TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) **1/2
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi, 2023) ***
Saltburn (Fennell, 2023) **1/2
Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023) BOMB (ironically)

I was wondering if Leonard Maltin gave Oppenheimer four stars, so I looked it up and it turns out he was surprisingly cool on the film