Last (x) movies you saw (II)

A Passport to Hell (Lloyd, 1932)
Adorable (Dieterle, 1933)
Mummy's Boys (Guiol, 1936)
Toyland Broadcast (Ising, 1934)
Lightnin' (King, 1930)
Lions Love (Varda, 1969)

Ready Or Not
very black comedy horror. Quite effective. Reminds me a lot of a white Get Out if that's not too close to contradictory.
I was thinking this was the film that Trump tried to stop when I first heard about it.
Glad I saw it anyway.

flappy, not sure, and iMdB is no help; i just know i was looking at a DCP

The Pirates of Blood River (Gilling, 1962) 6/10
The Devil-Ship Pirates (Sharp, 1964) 6/10
Le Vent D'est (Godard & Gorin, 1970) 8/10
It Chapter Two (Muschietti, 2019) 4/10
Countess Dracula (Sasdy, 1971) 7/10
Lust for a Vampire (Sangster, 1971) 6/10
British Sounds (Godard, Roger, 1970) 9/10
Twins of Evil (Hough, 1971) 6/10
Class Relations (Huillet/Straub, 1984) 9/10
The Vampire Lovers (Baker, 1970) 7/10
The Mummy's Shroud (Gilling, 1967) 6/10
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer, 1970) 8/10
Straight on Till Morning (Collinson, 1972) 5/10
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie aka The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Grau, 1974) 8/10
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955) 8/10

Scarface (Hawks, 1932) 6/10
Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919) 6/10
The General (Keaton and Bruckman, 1926) 8/10
The Fall of the House of Usher (Corman, 1960) 6/10
Mysterious Object at Noon (Weerasethakul, 2000) 7/10
Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 7/10
Gaslight (Dickinson, 1940) 7/10
*Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950) 9/10
Ulee's Gold (Nunez, 1997) 7/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1934) 8/10

I made it 40% through Blow before turning away in boredom. Maybe halfway through Spring Breakers for the same.

idk with Spring Breakers maybe it had more to do with an "enhanced" state and lack of stomach for things to go crazier

Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola, Jerry Leichting, Arlene Sarner 1986) 5/10
Late Night (Nisha Ganatra, Mindy Kaling 2019) 2/10
M:i:III (Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci 2006) 2/10
Folk Hero And Funny Guy (Grace 2016) 1/10
Dolemite (Martin, Jones, Moore 1975 ) 7/10
Prescription Murder (Irving, Levinson, Link 1968) 6/10
A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, Jessica Sharzer, Darcey Bell 2018) 7/10
Between Two Ferns (Aukerman, Galifinakis 2019) 6/10
Hollywood Man (Starrett, Farese, Girardin, Gombardella, Smith 1976) 5/10 on a 4:3 cropped TV-edited streaming edition, would play as 8/10 on film with an audience
Casino Royale (Brown Jr, Bennett, Ellis, Fleming 1954) 2/10
* The Third Man (Reed, Greene 1949 ) [DCP] 10/10
* Paddington 2 (King, Farnaby &al. 2017) 10/10
Soapdish (Hoffman, Harling, Bergman 1991) 7/10
All The President's Men (Pakula, Goldman 1976) 6/10
Bottle Shock (Randall Miller, Jody Savin, Ross Schwartz 2008) 1/10
* Sleuth (Mankiewicz, Shaffer 1972) 8/10
* Slither (Gunn 2006) [DCP] 7/10

xxp a year after seeing it I'm still thinking about Close-Up

the idea that he inserted himself into this story reenacting true events using the original non-actor participants and then helped to guide the eventual outcome is mind-blowing to me

Yeah, Close-Up is probably in my top ten of all time. That ending. Just thinking about it makes me emotional.

Dough and Dynamite (Chaplin, 1914)
Bulls and Bears (Sennett, 1930)
Dance in the Sun (Clarke, 1953)
Skyscraper (Clarke, 1960)
*Chances (Dwan, 1931)
Felix Doubles for Darwin (Messmer, 1924)
In Paris Parks (Clarke, 1954)
Bullfight (Clarke, 1955)
The Ghoul (Hunter, 1933)
Loro (Sorrentino, 2018)

1951's Olivia: omigawwwwwwwd, so lurid, so beautiful, so immensely risky and risque. i think parts of this got pilfered for The Favourite. Gonna have to see more from Jacqueline Audry; this thing out-Sirks Sirk. And no moral come-uppance! (Virtually) no men at all!
The moment where she grabs Miss America and slurps at her neck, sooooo over the top. This was great eye candy, great fun and nearly seventy years ahead of its time.

Cinema:

Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov, 2019)
La-Bas (Akerman, 2006)
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman (Akerman, 1997)

MUBI:

The Death of Empedocles (Straub-Huillet, 1987)
Woman on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar, 1988)
Rapado (Rejtman, 1992)

what did you think about honeyland? I think it's probably gonna be in my best of and am urging people to see it in theaters as the visuals are such a vital part of the experience

Yeah it's top 10, the visuals are great. I saw while "Amazon on fire" was near the top of the news cycle which made it for an even more charged viewing.

Honeyland was cool

The Heiress (Wyler, 1949) - 10/10
*The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder, 1971) - 10/10
Matador (Almodóvar, 1986) - 8/10
Lumière and Company (various, 1995) - 10/10
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Scorsese, 1974) - 8/10
*Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964) - 8/10
Daddy Longlegs (Safdie Brothers, 2009) - 8/10
Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977) - 7/10
Climax (Noé, 2018) - 3/10
Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953) - 9/10
Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999) - 10/10
Heaven Knows What (Safdie Brothers, 2014) - 9/10
Satan’s Brew (Fassbinder, 1976) - 10/10
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Almodóvar, 1984) - 7/10
Senso (Visconti, 1954) - 8/10
The Brown Bunny (Gallo, 2003) - 9/10
High Heels (Almodóvar, 1991) - 6/10
The Human Surge (Williams, 2016) - 10/10

Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976) - 9/10
Morvern Callar (Ramsay, 2002) - 10/10
Fear of Fear (Fassbinder, 1975) - 8/10
The Cry of the Owl (Chabrol, 1987) - 9/10
River’s Edge (Hunter, 1986) - 5/10
Portrait of Jason (Clarke, 1967) - 10/10
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder, 1975) - 9/10
Rio Das Mortes (Fassbinder, 1971) - 7/10
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (Pflaum, 1993) - 9/10
The Bigamist (Lupino, 1953) - 9/10
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980) - 10/10

+2 Image Books

How many times have you watched Image Book by now? I'm jealous :)

Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999) - 10/10
Hey everyone listen to flappybird for once, he is randomly correct! That film makes my chest hurt in the best possible way

I mean, I haven't seen like this century or something, but I still wake up with images in my head like the curtain shot, or the field shot, or fuckit I don't need to rewatch, this film lives in my head...

Throwing food at the drunken dad, that happened, right? (did in my house at least)

September - October viewing

*Empire Records 4/10
Reality Bites 5/10
Rocketman 8/10
Jackie 6/10
Bohemian Rhapsody 4/10
Peterloo 7/10
Fahrenheit 11/9 7/10
Spiderman: Far from Home 4/10
The Golden Dream 7/10
Crips and Bloods: Made in America 5/10
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) 8/10
*Casino 8/10
*Back to The Future 8/10
Joker 6/10
Something In The Air 6/10
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie 6/10

I've seen The Image Book 12 times

the Ratcatcher CC disc has four of Ramsay's short films, all excellent

didn't realize until now that The Image Book is on Kanopy

A Moment in Love (Clarke, 1956)
A Scary Time (Clarke, 1960)
Bridges-Go-Round (Clarke, 1958)
*Pickup on South Street (Fuller, 1953)
*Laura (Preminger, 1944)
Murder, My Sweet (Dmytryk, 1944)
Unrelated (Hogg, 2007)
Exhibition (Hogg, 2013)
Hey, Pop! (Goulding, 1932)
The File on Thelma Jordon (Siodmak, 1950)
Trapped (Fleischer, 1949)
Pushover (Quine, 1954)

Hobsons Choice (Lean, 1954) 8/10
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2018) 6/10
Ad Astra (Gray, 2019) 4/10
Too Late to Die Young (Sotomayor, 2018) 7/10
Lupin the third: Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki, 1979) 7/10
Ada Kaleh (Wittman, 2018) 6/10
Drift (Wittman, 2017) 8/10

lff:

Atlantics (Diop, 2019) 7/10
To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa, 2019) 7/10
Fire Will Come (Laxe, 2019) 5/10
Martin Eden (Marcello, 2019) 6/10
Unheimlich II: Astarti (Klonaris, Thomadaki, 1980) 6/10
Krabi 2562 (Rivers, Suwichakornpong, 2019) 6/10
Vitalina Varela (Costa, 2019) 8/10

hey flappy, do you recommend i try image book on a television screen? still worth it?

These were great:
Crawl (2019, better by far than you think!)
Selfish Giant (Barnard, 2013... gonna want to see her other movies shortly!)
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015, really sticking with me)
Toy Story 4

These were very good to okay:
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)
Derren Brown: Svengali (2013)
Thief and the Cobbler, Recobbled Cut (1995)
Fleabag at National Theater Live
El Camino
Parasite
Sound of Silence

These were okay i guess but not really worth recommending unless the subject matter is your jam:
Meeting Gorbachev
Genesis 2.0
Life and Times of Don Rosa

These were hot garbage:
Hits (David Cross, 2014)
Greener Grass (2019)

Yeah Godard said that was how he wanted people to watch it:

During our second visit in March 2018, the film was almost finished. The room in which we talked (and where Zoé Bruneau watches a character from Fritz Lang's Metropolis in Goodbye to Language) has now been turned into a small screening room. This is where the first screenings of The Image Book take place, in conditions Godard judges to be the most appropriate. The room is designed in a particular manner: a big TV screen in the center, two big speakers set forward toward the viewers who sit against the opposite wall. These three elements structuring the space recall the ultimately abandoned idea of making a film-sculpture for three screens. But most important is to distance the sound from the image as Godard stresses during our short conversation with him and Fabrice Aragno just after the screening.

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/jean-luc-godard-2018-words-like-ants

it was worth seeing 3 times in a theater because the sound design is awesome and there's some great, restrained use of surround sound later on.

Life and Times of Don Rosa

I'll comment anyway because it's directed by a friend of mine :) His followups are more distinct, he makes slow cinema documentaries now.

Will give image book a shot.
Don Rosa doc was well worth it for me, just a question of a very niche topic!

The Souvenir (2019)
The Witch (2015)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Motor Psycho (1965)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Vampyr (1932)
The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)
Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Bedlam (1948)
Mandy (2018)
Witchfinder General (1968)

x-post: One of the greatest artists of the nineties? What do you mean?!?!?!?

No, I do get what you mean. Just yesterday I saw this lifestyle program on Danish television where two experts go through the home of a celebrity and has to guess who lives there, and they both were really surprised that the guy in question had a signed drawing by Don Rosa hanging on his wall (I don't, but I did give my brother a signed copy of the first Don Rosa collection fifteen years ago. And the fact that me and a girl I met one summer couldn't stop writing about Don Rosa with each other probably added a couple of months to a relationship that really didn't have long-term potential). He just shouldn't be niche, you know? I'd say he should be considered as significant a comic book writer as Moore, Gaiman, Morrisson, etc.

Preaching to the converted here as I have slipcover copies of his work. Have had a pair of meaningful conversations with him. He's lesser known in America than any of the guys you mentioned of course.

Well, yeah, but he is huge in Finland. Sigh.

didn't realize until now that The Image Book is on Kanopy

― Dan S, Sunday, 13 October 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Reminder I need to get on Kanopy

Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (Snyder)
Wonder Woman (Jenkins)
Justice League (Snyder & Whedon / Whedon & Snyder)
Aquaman (Wan)
Joker (Philips)
Black Panther (Coogler)
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo & Russo)
Rapado (Rejtman)
Silvia Prieto (Rejtman)
The Magic Gloves (Rejtman)
Two Shots Fired (Rejtman)
La Ciénaga (Martel)
The Headless Woman (Martel)*
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life (Heymann)
Wolfland (Chamby-Rus)
Hunting for Hedonia (Grønkjær)
The Idealist (Rosendahl)
Violently in Love (Rosendahl)
Reconstructing Utøya (Javér)
Rediscovery (Ambo)
Neon Heart (Flensted-Jensen)
Valhalla (Madsen)*
Valhalla (Ahmad)
Go With Peace, Jamil (Shargawi)
Western Arabs (Shargawi)
Where Do We Go Now? (Labaki)
Capernaum (Labaki)
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Lakhdar-Hamina)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)*
In Syria (Van Leeuw)
Clash (Diab)
Atlantiques (short) (Diop)
A Thousand Suns (Diop)
Badou Boy (Diop Mambety)
Down to the Bone (Granik)
Winter’s Bone (Granik)*
Leave No Trace (Granik)
Skin (Nattiv)
The Myth of the American Sleepover (Mitchell)
Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell)
Patti Cake$ (Jasper)

I'm not good with ratings, but Batman vs Superman and Justice League are pretty much 0/10

you had yourself a little superhero filmfest i see!

i would rep these from your pile:
The Headless Woman (Martel)*
Leave No Trace (Granik)
Winter’s Bone (Granik)*

not rep for Patti Cake$

and have these on the waiting list:)
La Ciénaga (Martel)
Where Do We Go Now? (Labaki)
Capernaum (Labaki)
Atlantiques (short) (Diop)
The Myth of the American Sleepover (Mitchell)
Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell)

i should know by now but how/why do you see so much film Frederik? Are you a critic?

Yes :) Also, my girlfriend left me, so now I have much more time for film

(she just moved away, we're long distance, I'm joking)

I do NOT recommend Under the Silver Lake either, btw. Really kinda hated it.

Go on... (I was going to rent it)

I kind of liked Under the Silver Lake

it was definitely too long though and it fell apart at the end

reminded me a little of Southland Tales

Yeah I thought it was pretty fun.

not sure if it was a great film but I really enjoyed Capernaum

I just fought my way through Synonyms, which was beautifully shot and rivetingly acted but so completely outside of my own experience or understanding that I felt I needed an interpreter. Reading through the required postprandial reviews suggests my presumptions regarding the context clues were mostly accurate and that Lapid's tendencies are willfully obscurist and just as unwelcoming as they felt in the watching... but I still feel a bit stupid american trying to untangle this nest of prejudices and presumptions about Frenchness and Israeliness and the alienation and integration of those cultures that was central to the film's humor and insight. Mercier was, as noted, outrageous and captivating but it's a bravura performance within a framework that I'm afraid I was only barely following.

(and I thought Mitchell's 'It Follows' was a brilliant and affecting work about the boogeyman of sexual violence in youth but man, the press for Silver Lake was so unanimous in it's "this guy doesn't get it"-ness that I've been a bit worried to try it)

I was too but there's enough people that love it to make me curious

although the same thing happened with Bad Times at the El Royale and that movie suuuuuuuuuuuuucked

also, as long as I'm rambling here, can i just say how weird it is to me that Parasite has become this phenomenal event film? I love Bong Joon-Ho (though Snowpiercer was unbelievably bad) and Parasite is a very fun, enjoyable movie but I don't get how it somehow become this vortex of total critical assent and drawing massive (young!) crowds to theaters. Everything I'm reading ascribes a much more heightened and nuance sense of social critique when it seemed pretty obvious, if funny, in its EAT THE RICH thesis. I'm happy he's getting love for it but it's not nearly his third best film and i get the sense it's gonna get a best picture, best screenplay and best director nomination.