Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Lizzie. Two thirds of a good movie with a terrible last act

Honeysuckle Rose (1980, Schatzberg) 7/10
The Lincoln Cycle (1917, Stahl/Chapin) 7/10
Jewel Robbery (1932, Dieterle) 9/10
High Flying Bird (2019, Soderbergh) 8/10
Insignificance (1985, Roeg) 5/10
*The Longest Yard (1974, Aldrich) 7/10
Kinetta (2005, Lanthimos) 6/10
*Peppermint Candy (1999, Lee) 7/10
The Son of Joseph (2016, Green) 6/10
The Iron Mask (1929, Dwan) 7/10
Never Fear (1949, Lupino) 6/10
*Cat People (1942, Tourneur) 9/10

Free Solo can be read as an exploration of a remarkably difficult relationship if yo uwant

Step Forward (Beaudine & Jones, 1922)
Brilliantino the Bullfighter (Wilson, 1922)
Hooked (Hibbard, 1925)
Oil's Well (Wilson, 1923)
Felix Lends a Hand (Messmer, 1922)
Felix Turns the Tide (Messmer, 1922)
*Up the River (Ford, 1930)
Felix Goes a-Hunting (Messmer, 1923)
#Animal Behaviour (Snowden & Fine, 2018)
#Bao (Shi, 2018)
#Late Afternoon (Bagnall, 2017)
#One Small Step (Chesworth & Pontillas, 2018)
#Weekends (Jimenez, 2017)
Tweet-Tweet (Bekmambetova, 2018)
Wishing Box (Zhang & Li, 2017)
#Detainment (Lambe, 2018)
#Fauve (Comte, 2018)
#Marguerite (Farley, 2018)
#Madre (Sorogoyen, 2017)
#Skin (Nattiv, 2018)
West of Hot Dog (Rock & Pembroke, 1924)

#Academy Award-nominated short

Updated "things i missed in 2018 and still need to see that are streaming" list:

In Progress/Next:
Roma (Netflix)
You Were Never Really Here (Amazon)
First Reformed (Amazon)
Incredibles 2 (Netflix)
Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)

Still To See:
Unsane (Amazon)
The Great Buddha+ (Amazon)
Generation Wealth (Amazon)
Loveless (Amazon/Starz)
Western (Amazon)
John McEnroe: in the Realm of Perfection (Amazon)
Minding the Gap (Hulu)
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Kanopy/Hulu)
Nancy (Kanopy)
Let the Corpses Tan (Kanopy)
The Other Side of the Wind (Netflix)
Black Panther (Netflix)
Avengers Infinity War (Netflix)
Happy as Lazzarro (Netfix)
Bird Box (Netflix)
Filmworker (Netflix)
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Netflix)
Solo (Netflix)
What Still Remains (Netflix)
Tully (HBO)
The Tale (HBO)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (HBO)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor (HBO)

The friday the 13th remake. I really wanted to finish it cause of supernatural's jared. But god damn it was horrendous. Also I was so stoned. Fell asleep.

xp the mcenroe doc is a curious one, i watched it yesterday; even coming to it as a huge tennis fan as i am, its prob a bit too niche/odd for me & id be surprised if it has/had much broad appeal

i'm afraid it may be unwatchable if not on the big screen, but let's see

Minding the Gap was really painful, really beautiful; perfect companion piece for Monrovia, Indiana.

I love 'In the Realm of Perfection' but lol at them adding 'John McEnroe' to the title. It's an experimental doc, but I just love the footage. That one clip with Sonic Youth under it is breathtaking.

should I watch Kansas City or Johnny Guitar tonight

Johnny Guitar

Festival haul Berlin:

The Kindness of Strangers (Scherfig)
Gully Boy (Akhtar)
Heimat ist ein Raum auf Zeit (Heise)
System Crasher (Fingscheidt)
By the Grace of God (Ozon)
Öndög (Wang Quan’an)
The Ground Beneath My Feet (Kreutzer)
Out Stealing Horses (Molland)
African Mirror (Hedinger)
The Golden Glove (Akin)
God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya (Mitevska)
Breathless Animals (Lei)
Mr Jones (Holland)
From Tomorrow On, I Will (Markovic & Wu)
Ghost Town Anthology (Coté)
The Stone Speakers (Drljaca)
A Tale of Three Sisters (Alper)
Vanishing Days (Zhu)
The Garden (Jarman)
I Was at Home, But (Schanelec)
Piranhas (Giovannesi)
Farewell to the Night (Téchiné)
Years of Construction (Emigholz)
Varda by Agnés (Varda)
Elisa y Marcela (Coixet)
Synonymes (Lapid)
So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai)
About Some Meaningless Events (Derkaoui)
Eleven Miles (Joshi)
Variety (Gordon)

that's a lot sans commentary. what do you recommend?

flappy what did you think of johnny guitar

I'm about to watch it! I ran out of time last night and watched a really great, very short (55 min) Godard film/video essay (Ici et Ailleurs / Here and Elsewhere).

i hope you enjoy it, it blew my mind a few years ago when they screened it at the momi

that's a lot sans commentary. what do you recommend?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), 15. februar 2019 00:29 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think only Gully Boy is available right now, as it's on Amazon Prime, and that's a pretty funny if very sentimentalized hip-hop rise-to-fame story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmbUdf6lEM

Elisa y Marcela should be on Netflix soon, but I can't really recommend it. It's supposed to be a story about Spains first same-sex marriage (one of the women claimed to be a man, and they were later sent to jail for, among other things, blasphemy) and it's supposed to show how ordinary same sex relationships are, but the first half is so awfully sentimental that it undercuts the message. Second half gets better.

But mostly I loved the German documentary/Berlin school stuff (Heise, Emigholz, Schanelec) as well as all the chinese stuff. Oh, and 'Stone Speakers' will absolutely define how you look at Bosnia going forward, if you like me don't really know anything about the country.

i think only Gully Boy is available right now, as it's on Amazon Prime

not on Prime in the US, but it is in cinemas this week

i hope you enjoy it, it blew my mind a few years ago when they screened it at the momi

― jolene club remix (BradNelson)

Loved it. Such a weird, enjoyable, inscrutable movie. Poor Turkey :(

Wind River (Sheridan, 2017) 4/10
Crisis (Bergman, 1946) 6/10
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton, 1928) 8/10
*Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017) 9/10
The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) 7/10
Poison (Haynes, 1991) 6/10
Shadows (Cassavetes, 1959) 8/10
Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001) 5/10
Fifty Shades Darker (Foley, 2017) 3/10
God's Little Acre (Mann, 1958) 9/10
Occidental (Beloufa, 2017) 5/10
*A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger, 1946) 10/10
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong, 2013) 6/10
Angels on the Street (Choi, 1941)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) 8/10
*Burning (Lee, 2018) 7/10

as part of overnight film festival

River of Grass (Reichardt, 1994) 6/10
Still Walking (Kore-eda, 2008) 9/10
Orlando (Potter, 1992) 10/10
El Salvavidas (Alberdi, 2011) 7/10
All these Sleepless Nights (Marczak, 2016) 7/10
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Mack, 2013) 7/10
Green Days (Ahn, Han, 2011) 4/10
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974) 8/10
A Girl's Own Story (Campion, 1984) 8/10
A Bagful of Fleas (Chytilova, 1962) 7/10

OG Darko or director’s?

og, also a rewatch

ah

Aria (various, 1987) - 7/10
Casino (Scorsese, 1995) - 9/10
Daisies (Chytilová, 1966) - 6/10
Contempt (Godard, 1963) - 5/10
Elephant (Van Sant, 2003) - 9/10
Made in U.S.A. (Godard, 1966) - 6/10
Keep Your Right Up (Godard, 1987) - 4/10
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (Altman, 1976) - 3/10
California Split (Altman, 1974) - 10/10
A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961) - 9/10
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard, 1967) - 9/10
What Women Want (Meyers, 2000) - 4/10
Tiny Furniture (Dunham, 2010) - 8/10
Comment ça va? (Godard, 1976) - 4/10
The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973) - 9/10
Wrong Move (Wenders, 1975) - 10/10
Ici et Ailleurs (Godard, 1976) - 9/10
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954) - 9/10
Kansas City (Altman, 1996) - 3/10
Sympathy for the Devil (Godard, 1968) - 6/10
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1974) - 8/10
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Rohmer, 1963) - 9/10

love california split

Soldiers of the King (Elvey, 1933)
*A Propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930)
*Taris (Vigo, 1931)
*Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933)
*L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
What Price Innocence (Mack, 1933)
When You Read This Letter (Melville, 1953)

Love Story (6.0)
The Straight Story (9.0)
Unforgettable (5.5)
The Image Book (--)
Fuzz (6.0)
Eyes Wide Shut (7.5)
Burroughs: The Movie (6.0)
15 Minutes (5.5)
The American President (6.0)
Disobedience (6.5)

Forever 'B' / Abducted In Plain Sight (Skye Borgman 2017)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Lord, Rothman, Persichetti, Ramsey 2018) [Laser]
Happy Death Day (Landon after Lobdell 2017)
Coherence (Byrkit, Manugian 2013)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (Gregory 2014)
Gumshoe (Frears, Smith 1971)
High Flying Bird (Soderbergh, McCraney 2019)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Lord, Miller, Mitchell 2019) [Laser]
Murder On The Orient Express (Lumet, Dehn, allegedly Shaffer, after Christie 1974)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda 2018) [DCP]
* Miller's Crossing (Coen & Coen 1990)

love california split

― flopson

one of the best movies about addiction I've ever seen

* Hour of the Wolf (1968) 4/5
* Miller's Crossing 5/5
High Flying Bird 4/5
Velvet Buzzsaw 2/5
Querelle (1982) 3.5/5
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) 4/5
The Aviator's Wife (1981) 3.5/5
Fyre Fraud (2019) 2.5/5
Fyre (2019) 3/5
The Tarnished Angels (1957) 4/5
Columbus (2017) 3.5/5

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was on TV last night so I watched it. There sure was a lot of "Hey! Here's a thing you liked the last time we did it!"

Support the Girls was a great little movie that no one saw. Well worth it.

Regina Hall made a few critics award runners-up lists.

i loved it; it's on hulu and anyone who has that should see it

Speaking of Hulu, no one was lying about Minding the Gap.

"Thunder Road" was really good, too. Reminded me of a more tragicomic"Bottle Rocket," in some ways. Impressive that the guy wrote, acted in and directed it. I kind of want to find some interviews with him now.

I just got back from seeing a 1958 film where the guy wrote, acted in & directed it, followed half an hour’s walk away by a 1971 film where the guy wrote, scored, produced, acted in, directed & edited it

is that a puzzle? van peebles?

Uh, Regina Hall WON best actress from the NY film critics (also Vancouver). Disappointed in Sotosyn's failure in remembering the prizes and nods.

it wasn’t a puzzle, but Josh’s mind is gonna be blown when he sees his first ten or twenty Woody Allen flicks

(yes, Van Peebles, plus Welles)

Woody who?

I'm not a fan of Woody Allen films, really. I don't think he's that great of an actor. Or even director, for that matter, though he has made a couple of movies I've liked. Cassavetes is kind of a more impressive writer/actor/director. Citizen Kane is pretty good, too. But it's been a while since I've seen a movie written, directed by and starring the same person, which is why it struck me.

Though I appreciate the pedantic sarcasm.

Oh yeah, speaking of Shane Carruth, he's a more recent triple-threat, too. And Sling Blade? Seemed to happen more during the indie boom of the '90s.

Kane was 1941 btw

The Kindergarten Teacher (Colangelo, 2018) 7/10
Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936) 8/10
Broken Arrow (Daves, 1950) 7/10
*Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, 1990) 8/10
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018) 8/10
Querelle (Fassbinder, 1982) 6/10
The Rachel Divide (Brownson, 2018) 7/10
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Lubitsch, 1927) 7/10
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976) 7/10
*Annie (Huston, 1982) 6/10

Birds of Passage was outrageously good and Shakespearean in scope; highest recommendation to anyone near where it's screening

The Artits, which I hadn't seen before last night's BBC4 showing. Quite effective largely silent film or at least the sound consists of soundtrack music apart from a couple of crucial points. Hope taht isn't too much spoiler.
French/US film with 2 French leads and several internationally known ones. I didn't recognise the actress who played Peppy so has she made much of a move intop International film, or is she well known in france?
Quite fun.

fwiw Woody Allen has always said he's not an actor