Last (x) movies you saw (II)

*Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929) 6/10
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953) 9/10 -- I think I only saw the first half previously, because the second half rang no bells
The Comedy of Terrors (Tourneur, written by Matheson, 1963) 6/10
Don't Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972) 7/10
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10
John Jacobs and the Power Team (1991) like
*Microcosmos (Nuridsany & Pérennou, 1996) 9/10

Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos, 2024) 5/10 (barely)
The Vourdalak (Beau, 2023) 6/10
Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2023) 6/10
Sleep (Yu, 2023) 6/10
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Oshii, 2004) 6/10
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt, 2012) 7/10
Moving (Ohikkoshi) (Sōmai, 1993) 7/10
Suburbia (Spheeris, 1983) 7/10
Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) 6/10
North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959) 5/10, I think I'm just not a Hitchcock fan tbh, he was a smarmy git
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974) 9/10
Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001) 10/10

Here (2023) 4/5. VERY low-key and quiet movie on Criterion Channel. Making soup and studying moss are important plot points.
Lifeforce (1985) 3.5/5. Wild stuff.
The Strangler (1970) 4/5. One of those movies that's so much stranger than what a basic plot description promises.
Megalopolis (2024) 1/5
Mr. McMahon (2024) 3/5
The Substance (2024) 3.5/5
Bend of the River (1952) 4/5
Red Rocket (2021) 4/5
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 3/5
The Whole Town's Talking (1935) 3.5/5
Trouble in Mind (1985) 4/5. Kris Kristofferson shares a scene with Divine here. The man did it all. RIP.
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (1995) 4/5

*Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997) 10/10
*The Duellists (Scott, 1977) 8/10
Ad Astra (Gray, 2019) 7/10
Snack Shack (Rehmeier, 2024) 6/10
*Point Break (Bigelow, 1991) 8/10
Rebel Ridge (Saulnier, 2024) 8/10
Hound (Lazraq, 2023) 8/10
*The Silence of The Lambs (Demme, 1991) 8/10
*The End of The Tour (Ponsoldt, 2015) 8/10
Gift (Farrell, Niccoli, 1993) 6/10
The Substance (Fargeat, 2024) 8/10
Motherhood (Dieckmann, 2009) 4/10
Megalopolis (Coppola, 2024) 5/10

Some Play for Today's:
Your Man From Six Counties (Davis, 1976) 7/10
Shut Down (Mackenzie, 1973) 6/10
One Day at A Time (Wilson, 1977) 8/10
Blue Remembered Hills (Gibson, 1979) 8/10

the spooky month so far:
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1972) 5
Someone's Watching Me! (Carpenter, TV, 1978) 6
Humanoids from the Deep (Peeters and others, 1980) 4
The Entity (1982) 8
Christine (Carpenter, 1983) 6
The Company of Wolves (Jordan, 1984) 7
The Toxic Avenger (Kaufman & Herz, 1984) 5
The Toxic Avenger Part II (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3
The Toxic Avenger Part III (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3
The Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie (Kaufman & frat boys, 2000) 2
The Stuff (Cohen, 1985) 8
Cemetery Man (Soavi, 1994) 8
Alien Resurrection (Jeunet, 1997) 5
The Faculty (Rodriguez, 1998) 6
Saw (Wan, 2004) 6
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (Aster, 2011) good
The Vast of Night (2019) 7
Gatlopp (2022) 4
Beetlejuice x2 (Burton, 2024) 7

Cemetery Man a.k.a. Dellamorte Dellamore is my discovery of the month: something like a combination of Possession and Dead Alive.

also:
Will & Harper (Greenbaum, 2024) 6

Spooktober viewing (although I didn't totally limit myself to spooky movies)

The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934) 8/10
The Asphyx (Newbrook, 1972) 6/10
Angst (Kargl, 1983) 9/10
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10
Duck, You Sucker (Leone, 1971) 8/10
Old (Shyamalan, 2021) 4/10
The Hills Have Eyes (Craven, 1977) 8/10
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Hooper, 1986) 7/10
Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001) 8/10
El Conde (Larrain, 2023) 5/10
*Tetsuo The Iron Man (Tsukamoto, 1989) 8/10
Rap World (O'Malley, 2024) 7/10

i watched Spike Lee's Malcolm X for the first time on monday, despite owning it on VHS for 32 years...

spook cinema:
* Hundreds Of Beavers (Cheslik, Tews 2024 [2022-2023 festivals])
I Know Where I'm Going! [BFI restoration] (Powell and Pressburger 1945)
My Old Ass (Park 2024)
Ravenous (Bird, Griffin 1999) 📽️
Les Yeux sans visage (Franju, Boileau-Narcejac, Redon, Sautet, Gascar après Redon 1960)
Blade (Norrington, Goyer 1998)
A Matter Of Life And Death (Powell and Pressburger 1946)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Burton, Gough, Millar 2024)
Megalopolis (Coppola, Coppola 2024)
Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger 1947)
Blade II (del Toro, Goyer 2002) 📽️
Opera [4K Severin restoration] (Argento, Ferrini 1987)
Bell, Book and Candle (Quine, Taradash after Van Druten 1958)
The Red Shoes [UCLA restoration] (Powell and Pressburger and Winter and Helpmann et al 1948)
Rumours (Maddin, Johnson & Johnson 2024)
† The Evil Dead (Raimi 1981)
Demon Knight (Dickerson, Bishop, Reiff, Voris
1995) 📽️
The Fall [4K restoration] (Tarsem, Gilroy, Soultanakis after Petrov 2006)
The Small Back Room [FF/BFI restoration] (Powell and Pressburger after Balchin 1949)

happy home:
Kiss Me, Stupid (Wilder, Diamond 1964) 💿
Bones And All (Guadagnino, Jajganich after DeAngelis David Kajganich after Camille DeAngelis 2022)

Trap (2024) 2.5/5
* Let's Get Lost (1989) 4.5/5
* Play Time (1967) 5/5
Anora (2024) 4.5/5
High Sierra (1941) 3.5/5
* The Brood (1979) 4/5
The Crazies/Code Name: Trixie (1973) 4/5
Rap World (2024) 4/5
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 3/5
Martin (1977) 4/5
* Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 2.5/5. I hate the scene with the little people in jars A LOT.
Distant Sky (2018) 4/5. Nick Cave concert film
The Facts of Murder (1959) 3.5/5
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) 4/5
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) 3/5
Q (2023) 3/5. Documentary on Criterion Channel about the director's mother, a longtime member of a Lebanese religious cult
The Church (1989) 3.5/5
Christine (1983) 3.5/5

“Curse Of The Werewolf” is such a bizarre Hammer: Spanish setting, rape, cursed offspring of that crime as main protagonist, Ollie Reed as one of the coolest looking werewolves in cinema but onscreen for - iirc - a small fraction of the film. Still - prob my fave werewolf flick.

The Ring (Verbinski, 2002)
The Substance (Fargeat, 2024)
The Blob (Russell, 1988)
His Three Daughters (Jacobs, 2023)
Saturday Night (Reitman, 2024)
The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986)
Emilia Perez (Audiard, 2024)
Heathers (Lehmann, 1989)
Hard Truths (Leigh, 2024)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
Woman of the Hour (Kendrick, 2023)
It Follows (Mitchell, 2014)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992)
Anora (Baker, 2024)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945)
Conclave (Berger, 2024)

Call Jane (7.0)
Adventureland (9.5)
Crooklyn (6.5)
Eno (7.5)
Megalopolis (4.5)
Joker: Folie à Deux (5.0)
Apartment 7A (5.5)
The Comeback (7.0)
The Color of Money (7.5)
Rounders (8.0)

Took me over two months to watch that much.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Camp 2022)
Days (Tsai Ming-liang 2020)
Rebel Ridge (Saulnier 2024)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi 2023)
La Prisonnière (Clouzot 1968)
The King of the Jews (Rosenblatt 2000)
The Evil Eye (Bava 1963)
Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos 2024)
The Substance (Fargeat 2024)
The Taste of Things (Hung 2023)
Strip Nude for Your Killer (Bianchi 1975)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini 1960) definitely done with Fellini now
Hearts of Darkness (Bahr, Hickenlooper, E. Coppola, 1991)
Out of the Blue (Hopper 1980)
Kung Fu Jungle (Chan 2014)
Desert Fury (Allen 1947)
*Paper Moon (Bogdanovich 1973)
Deadpool and Wolverine (Levy 2024)
*Scarface (DePalma 1983)
Man of Steel (Snyder 2013)
Pulse (Kurosawa 2001)
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass 2024)

lots of noirs. not intended to be a noirvember but it ended up like that.

They Drive by Night (Walsh, 1940) 7/10 feels like 2 movies tacked together -- only the first is good
The Face Behind the Mask (1941) 5/10
Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946) 9/10
The Prowler (Losey, 1951) 8/10
Human Desire (Lang, 1954) 8/10
Hobson's Choice (Lean, 1954) 8/10
*The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) 9/10 up from 7/10
Time Without Pity (Losey, 1957) 8/10
*Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958) 9/10
The Crimson Kimono (Fuller, 1959) 7/10

...And Justice for All (Jewison, 1979) 7/10
*Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) 8/10
The Road to El Doracdo (2000) 6/10
*Zoolander (Stiller, 2001) 8/10
*Elf (Favreau, 2003) 7/10 i watched the first half only -- it gets way worse after they leave the north pole
Woman of the Hour (Kendrick, 2023) 6/10
Late Night with the Devil (2023) 7/10
Conclave (2024) 7/10
Deadpool & Wolverine (the night at the museum guy, 2024) 7/10
Spin the Bottle (2024) 3/10
Dear Santa (Farrelly, 2024) 5/10

The Substance (Fargeat, 2024) (5/10)
A Different Man (Schimberg, 2024) (6/10)
The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986) (8/10)
Memoir of a Snail (Elliot, 2024) (5/10)
Anatomy of a Fall (Triet, 2023) (5/10)
Babes (Adlon, 2024) (5/10)
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) (9/10)
Anora (Baker, 2024) (8/10)
All We Imagine as Light (Kapadia, 2024) (8/10)
Memories of Murder (Bong, 2003) (9/10)
Blast of Silence (Baron, 1961) (10/10)
Rumours (Maddin, Johnson & Johnson 2024) (5/10)
Tokyo Godfathers (Kon, 2003) (7/10)

Thieves Like Us (Altman, Tewkesbury, Willingham, after Anderson 1974)
† John Wick (Stahelski, Leitch, Kolstad 2014)
Here (Zemeckis & Roth 2024 after McGuire 2014 after McGuire 1989) 2/10
Know Your Place (Mohajerjasbi 2024)
* All About Eve (Mankiewicz after Mary Orr 1950)
The Substance (Forgeat 2024)
Anora (Baker 2024)
Heretic (Beck and Woods 2024)
* Alien (Scott, O'Bannon, Shusett, Hill, Giler, Giger, Giraud, Foss, Cobb 1979)
* North By Northwest (Hitchcock, Lehmann 1959)


Vice (McKay 2018)
Late Bloomers (Steen, Greenfield 2024)
* Irma La Douce (Wilder, Diamond and Previn after Breffort and Monnot 1963)

emojis fell off on the last three:
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Tenebre (Argento, 1982) 8/10
Anora (Baker, 2024) 8/10
Such A Pretty Little Beach (Allegret, 1949) 6/10
The Stranger (Welles, 1946) 5/10
The Crimson Kimono (Fuller, 1959) 7/10
Kansas City Confidential (Karlson, 1952) 7/10
Running Scared (Hyams, 1986) 6/10
Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950) 8/10
Enter The Void (Noe, 2009) 8/10
Experiment in Terror (Edwards, 1962) 6/10
*Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) 8/10
Hit Man (Linklater, 2023) 7/10
*Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant, 1989) 8/10
*Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) 10/10
Cemetery Man (Soavi, 1994) 8/10
Juror #2 (Eastwood, 2024) 5/10

Conclave is so much fucking fun

The Brutalist (2024) 5/5. If you can't tell from the rating, I thought this was phenomenal.
* Female Trouble (1974) 4/5
* Raising Arizona (1987) 5/5
* Desperate Living (1977) 4/5
Working Girls (1986) 4/5
* Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) Jack Nicholson rides off at the end to have the biggest film career of the cast.
* The Shooting (1966) 4/5
Cold Water (1994) 4.5/5
D.O.A. (1949) 3.5/5
My Heart is That Eternal Rose (1989) 3.5/5
* Affliction (1997) 4.5/5
Suzhou River (2000) 4/5
* Next of Kin (1982) 4/5
The Linguini Incident (1991) 3/5
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966) 3/5
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) 4/5
Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 4/5

* Affliction

Finishing out 2024

Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre, 2022)
Brats (Andrew McCarthy, 2024)
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (Alex Gibney, 2023)
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024)
Late Night with the Devil (Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes, 2023)
Christmas Holiday (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, 2022)
Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987)
Kim's Video (David Redmon, Ashley Sabin, 2023)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill, 2023)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
*A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
Cyndi Lauper: Let the Canary Sing (Alison Ellwood, 2023)
A Leg (Yaosheng Chang, 2020)
Ali (Michael Mann, 2001)
Eno (Gary Hustwit, 2024)
Out of Sync (Juanjo Giménez Peña, 2021)
*Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Erin Lee Carr, 2024)
*The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
The Dentist (Leslie Pearce, 1932)
The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995)
Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski, 2003)
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird (Nicolas Jack Davies, 2023)
Cemetery Without Crosses (Robert Hossein, 1969)
Neither Confirm Nor Deny (Philip Carter, 2020)
*Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney, 2005)
*Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (Steven M. Martin, 1993)
Clear History (Greg Mottola, 2013)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)
The Second Civil War (Joe Dante, 1997)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook, 2022)
The Shape of Night (Noboru Nakamura, 1964)
*Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957)
The Strange Woman (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1946)

*bad lieutenant: pocno (herzog 09) 10/10
*its a wonderful life (Capra 46) 10/10
the fisher king (Gilliam 91) 4/10
nightbitch (heller '24) 3/10
bram stoker's Dracula (Coppola '92) 5/10
mary shelleys frankenstein (branagh 94) 6/10
born to be blue (robert budreau 2015) 5/10
love story (Erich segal 1970) 5/10
the curious case of benjamin button (fincher 2008) 7/10
jules (turtletaub 2023) 5/10
blink twice (kravitz 2024) 2/10
the movie man (matt finlin 2024) 8/10

What I watched last year:

La Bete / The Beast (Bonello, 2023) *****
Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922) ***1/2
Nosferatu (Eggers, 2025) ****
Ethel & Ernest (Rewatch) *****
The Holdovers *****
Time Masters ***1/2
Glengarry Glen Ross ****
Eyes of Fire ****
The Florida Project ****1/2
Hundreds Of Beavers ** (DNF)
Babe: Pig In The City *****
Wasp (Arnold, 2003) ****
American Movie **1/2
Anora *****
The Substance *****
It Follows (Rewatch) ***
The VVitch (Rewatch) *****
Late Night With The Devil ***
Mad God **
Lords of Chaos ***1/2
The Zone Of Interest ****
The Night Of The Hunter *****
The Hypnosis ***
Alien: Romulus **1/2
Azor **
The Childhood Of A Leader ****1/2
Saw II ***
Saw X ****
Saw ****
First Cow ****1/2
Civil War ***1/2
American Fiction ***1/2
RRR *****
Pig (Rewatch) ****
Barbarian ***
Poor Things *****
The Boy And The Heron ***1/2
The Green Knight ****1/2

† Casablanca (Curtiz, Epstein, Epstein, Koch, Robinson, Burnett, Alison 1942)
Lisa Frankenstein (Williams, Cody 2024) 📺
Y2K (Mooney, Winter 2024)
Conclave (Berger, Straughan, Harris 2024)
† Interstella 5555 (Matsumoto, Takenouchi, Bangalter, Hervet, de Homem-Christo 2003)*
Interstellar (Nolan, Nolan, Thorne, Obst 2014)
Tokyo Godfathers (Kon, Nobumoto 2003)
Flow (Zilbalodis, Kaža 2024)
Nightbitch (Heller after Yoder 2024)
Oh Canada (Schrader after Banks 2024)
Queer (Guadagnino, Kuritzkes, Burroughs 2024)
⸸ Dial M For Murder (3-D) (Hitchcock, Knott 1954) 💿
I, The Jury (3-D) (Essex after Spillane 1953) 💿 2/10, tapped out maybe an hour into this 87-minute film but some nice photography and the Christmas cards were good
⸸ Piranha 3D (Aja, Levasseur, Stolberg, Goldfinger, Russell, Sayles, Dante 2010) 💿
Duel [OG TV version] (Spielberg, Matheson 1971) 📺
Babygirl (Reijn 2024)
For The Birds (Reijn 2021) 📺 3min short
The Sugarland Express (Spielberg, Barwood, Robbins 1974) 📺
Something Evil (Spielberg, Clouse 1972) 📺
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Park, Crossingham, Burton, Walsh, O'Shaughnessy 2024) 📺

* have to admire the immersive commitment to a modern ~activated experience~ by taking a musical about replacing committed passionate musicians with soulless facsimilies, and rendering it in blurry AI upscaling & playing the sound at half-volume

Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002) 3/5
* Cry-Baby (1990) 3.5/5
Kiru/Destiny's Son (1962) 3.5/5
Sweet Charity (1969) 3.5/5
* Blood Simple (1984) 5/5
Nosferatu (2024) 3.5/5
Juror #2 (2024) 2.5/5. Really dumb script.
Dahomey (2024) 4/5
Vox Lux (2018) 3/5
Conclave (2024) 3/5
* No Country for Old Men (2007) 5/5
* Serial Mom (1994) 4/5

Juror #2 is pretty dumb

holiday movies i watched this year

Time Without Pity (Losey, 1957)
Dear Santa (Farrelly, 2024)
*Elf (Favreau 2003) only watched the first half
Carry-On (Collet-Serra, 2024) it's die hard in an airport. it's die hard 2. 6/10
The Holdovers (Payne, 2023) 6/10
*Home Alone 2 (Columbus did this?, 1992) 2/10
*It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946) 8/10
Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979)
Hundreds of Beavers (Cheslik, 2024) 10/10 it counts because it has a guy who looks like santa
Jingle All the Way (Levant, 1996) 4/10

Gilda (Vidor, 1946)
My Old Ass (Park, 2024)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Ross, 2018)
A Real Pain (Eisenberg, 2024)
The Holiday (Meyers, 2006)
High Hopes (Leigh, 1988)
Deja Vu (T. Scott, 2006)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Reijn, 2022)
Queer (Guadagnino, 2024)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
Scarface (Hawks, 1932)
Juror #2 (Eastwood, 2024)
A Complete Unknown (Mangold, 2024)
Nosferatu (Eggers, 2024)
Dont Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)
Problemista (Torres, 2023)
Gladiator (R. Scott, 2000)

What'd you think of Gilda ?

I didn't really like it, tbh. Hayworth is great, of course, but the plot felt overwrought.

Saturday Night (5.0)
True Detective: North Country (6.0)
A Complete Unknown (8.0)
Anora (5.5)
Twin Peaks (S1 – 8.0)
Twin Peaks (S2 – 7.0)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (6.5)
Twin Peaks: The Return (7.0)
Nosferatu (6.0)
Real Pain (7.0)

A Real Pain that should read...the ambiguity of which I loved.

Rated on a 7 scale because why not

Cinema:
Conclave (2024) 5/7
Queer (2024) 4/7
A Bloodthirsty Killer (aka A Devilish Homicide) (1965) 5/7
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) 5/7
The Girl With the Needle (2024) 4/7

In-flight entertainment:
Tenet (2020) 2/7
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) 4/7
Janet Planet (2023) 5/7

YouTube:
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) 7/7
Slade in Flame (1975) 5/7
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004) 5/7
Dolemite (1975) 4/7
His Girl Friday (1940) 6/7
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) 4/7
The Rutles: All You Need is Cash (1978) 5/7
Shack Out on 101 (1955) 5/7
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) 5/7

I love Slade in Flame. Solid document of crap 70s Britain imo

Scripted by Jane Birkin's brother!

Dunno if it's been discussed, but I just saw and really enjoyed "Good One." Reminded me of a couple of things, like Kelly Reichardt movies and "Leave No Trace." Everyone is good but especially Lily Collias.

Amblin' (Spielberg 1968) 📺 30 min
* Paprika [パプリカ] (Kon, Minakami after TsuTsui 2006)
* To Live And Die In L.A. (Friedkin, Petievich 1985) 💿
Eyes (Spielberg, Serling 1969) 📺 30 min
Better Man (Gracey, Gleeson, Cole, Chambers 2024)
The Howling (Dante, Sayles 1981) 📺
* Murder By The Book (Spielberg, Bochco, Fischer 1971) 💿
Tales Of Hoffman (Powell, Pressburger, Offenbach, Arundell, Barbier, Hoffmann 1951)
* Twin Peaks: The Return episode 1 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
Make Me Laugh (Spielberg, Serling 1970) 📺 30 min
* Twin Peaks: The Return episode 2 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
Wolf Man (Whannell, Tuck 2025) 3/10
The Last Showgirl (Coppola, Gersten 2025)
Peeping Tom (Powell, Marks 1960)
Presence (Soderbergh, Koepp 2025)
* Twin Peaks: The Return episode 3 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
* Twin Peaks: The Return episode 4 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
Mysterious Skin (Araki, Heim 2004)
The Gold Rush [90-minute version, w/ rearr. of the 1942 score played live] (Chaplin 1925)
Hard Truths (Leigh 2025)
* Flow (Zilbalodis, Kaža 2024)
Gone To Earth (Powell and Pressburger after Webb 1950)

are the early spielbergs worth watching? I've only seen the columbo episode.

Eyes is good, from the Night Gallery pilot movie. Make Me Laugh is okay, from a Night Gallery series episode, but twice as long as it needs to be. Savage is a competently done procedural pilot that does not make you wish it had gone to series. Something Evil is a pretty weak haunted house story with a few good camera moves.

Duel absolutely rips, and there’s a good copy of the TV version on archive dot org — the disc version is horrifyingly AI “upscaled,,” with waxy melting faces, shape-changing teeth and depth of field turned random.

Amblin’ is kind of interesting for pointing up that its auteur was absolutely right to pursue purely commercial audience-driven work; he simply does not have anything to say in a formally playful work about counter-culture individuals. (I watched a dire rip on youtube, though— it might be more sensually enjoyable projected in good quality.)

Still have LA 2017 to get to from the TV years, but hadn’t seen Sugarland Express before, and that is a total delight. (And unlike Amblin’, does manage to combine a little movie brat / new hollywood tone with his core theme of “an American nuclear family disrupted is the most foreboding thing that can be depicted”)

We should be able to get a few years out of this one before it gets unwieldy.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, August 10, 2018

We got our few years--time for part III.

3382 is significantly fewer than 5982 iirc

Conclave (Berger 2024)
Made in England (Hinton 2024)
Deja Vu (Scott 2006)
Civil War (Garland 2024)
Nosferatu (Eggers 2024)
Flow (Zilbalodis 2024)
A Real Pain (Eisenberg 2024)
Historia Naturae, Suita (Svankmajer 1967)
Rumours (Maddin/Johnson/Johnson 2024; 1/10, first Maddin I've outright hated)
I Saw the TV Glow (Schoenbrun 2024)
A Different Man (Schimberg 2024)
The Beast (Bonello 2023)
Last Summer (Breillat 2023)
Buck and the Preacher (Poitier 1972)
Queer (Guadagnino 2024)
Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian 1932)
*The Big Boss (Lo Wei 1971)
Fist of Fury (Lo Wei 1972)
Kill (Bhat 2023)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (Bogdanovich 2013)
Sly Lives! (Thompson 2025)
The Boxer's Omen (Kuei Chih-Hung 1983)

Muppets from Space (1999) 4/10
Twisters (2024) 3/10
The Fall Guy (2024) low 8/10
Lightyear (2022) 4/10

mostly i've been watching every season of every version of the traitors

Woman of the Hour (6.5)
Alice, Darling (6.0)
Renaldo and Clara (5.5)
Eat the Document (7.5)
I’ll Be There (6.5)
Masked and Anonymous (5.5)
The Brutalist (7.0)
The Leftovers (S1 – 8.0)
The Leftovers (S2 – 7.5)
The Leftovers (S3 – 7.0)
The Best Man (1964 – 7.0)

Actually meant to give S3 of The Leftovers a 6.5--all over the place, though I did see more clearly this time all the fuss over Nora's big monologue at the end.

City of Hope (1991) 4/5
Cecil B. Demented (2000) 3/5
Flow (2024) 3.5/5
Naked Acts (1996) 4/5
The Astrologer (1976) bad movie watch
Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969) 3.5/5
Love is Colder Than Death (1969) 2.5/5
It's Not Me (2024) 3/5
* Real Life (1979) 4.5/5
* Beau Travail (1999) 4.5/5
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024) 4.5/5
* Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) 5/5
La Prisonniere (1968) 3/5
Hard Truths (2024) 4.5/5
The Childhood of a Leader (2015) 3.5/5
Electra, My Love (1974) 4/5

Short:
A Sense of History (1992) 5/5

We got our few years--time for part III.

clem you have posted on the "first half of twin peaks S3" thread 57 times since you started the second half, seven years and two months ago!

Only The River Flows 6/10
That Old Dream That Moves 8/10

* Twin Peaks: The Return Part 5 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
The Wild Robot (Sanders after Brown 2024)
* Twin Peaks: The Return Part 6 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
Superbob (Drever, Goldstein, Bridges 2015) 📺
The Brutalist (Corbet & Fastvold 2024)
* Twin Peaks: The Return Part 7 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
* Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
Memoir Of A Snail (Elliot 2024)
* The Muppets Take Manhattan (Oz, Tarses, Patchett, Misch 1984)
Nosferatu (Eggers after Galeen after Stoker 2024)
Love Hurts (Eusebio, Murray, Stoddard, Passmore 2025) 3/10 inc one point for being 83 mminutes
Caged (Cromwell, Kellogg, Schoenfeld 1950)
99 River Street (Karlson, Smith, Zuckerman 1953)
The Narrow Margin (Fleischer, Felton, Goldsmith, Leonard 1950)
Murder, My Sweet [Farewell, My Lovely] (Dmytryk, Paxton, Chandler 1944)
The Killing (Kubrick, Thompson, White 1956)
Detour (Ulmer, Goldsmith, Mooney 1945 )
* Twin Peaks: The Return Part 9 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
† Ace In The Hole (Wilder, Newman, Samuels 1951)
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 10 (Lynch, Frost 2017) 💿
You're Cordially Invited (Stoller 2025) 📺
L.A. 2017 (Spielberg, Wylie 1971) 📺
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman 1975)
The Monkey (Perkins after King 2025)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Weir, Green, Lindsay 1975)
Companion (Hancock 2025)
Born To Win (Ivan Passer, Milton 1971) 💿
Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti (Slijepčević 2024) 13 min
अनुजा (Anuja) (Graves 2024) 22 min
Ik ben geen robot (Warmerdam 2023) 22 min
A Lien ( Cutler-Kreutz & Cutler-Kreutz 2023) 15 min
The Last Ranger (Lee, Lee, Shaw, Hawkes 2024) 28 min

Still have LA 2017 to get to from the TV years,

This one's pretty fun - as much style in blocking as he could squeeze in on an episodic-ish TV budget, but the 1970s-future production design would be enjoyable enough on its own. Philip Wylie's script is novella-full, and clear enough for the unsuspecting audience to get this sudden sci-fi fable. Obviously watching in February 2025, the idea of a Los Angeles stricken by ecological catastrophe and an America completely ruled by a cadre of wealthy elites based around automobile manufacturing is absurdly far-fetched, but hey, nobody knew anything in 1971.