This was really good! Exploring Blade Runner type themes but I much preferred this to the Blade Runner sequel. It did pack a lot in just under 90 minutes. It couldve done with another 10 minutes imo (I dont say that very often)
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 20 May 2024 12:52 (six months ago) link
I agree it could have gone on longer. I was invested.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 20 May 2024 13:19 (six months ago) link
vampire's kiss, 1989american psycho and also maybe vampire? bad script from the writer of after hours. saved by nic cage's insane performance.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 20 May 2024 21:58 (six months ago) link
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.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:39 (six months ago) link
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) 2/10The 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) 📺
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 20:34 (five months ago) link
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)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 June 2024 02:34 (five months ago) link
May
In The Land of Saints and Sinners (Lorenz, 2023) 4/10Priscilla (Coppola, 2023) 7/10Madeline's Madeline (Decker, 2018) 7/10Pale Rider (Eastwood, 1985) 6/10Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) 5/10*Nomadland (Zhao, 2020) 8/10Mars Express (Perin, 2023) 7/10*Perdita Durango (De La Iglesia, 1997) 6/10Speed Racer (Wachowski, 2008) 5/10*The French Connection (Friedkin, 1974) 8/10House of Tolerance (Bonello, 2011) 8/10Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz, 1942) 6/10Pom Poko (Takahata, 1994) 8/10The Delinquents (Moreno, 2023) 7/10*The Player (Altman, 1992) 9/10Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Miller, 2024) 8/10*Pennies From Heaven (Ross, 1981) 7/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 7 June 2024 23:18 (five months ago) link
xp forgot to 'sterisk Die For, Desire, Lavender, Paprika, Gems and Cop
― bae (sic), Sunday, 9 June 2024 06:01 (five months ago) link
Hit Man (2024) 3/5* The Music Room (1958) 4.5/5I Saw the TV Glow 4/5Furiosa 3/5* Inherent Vice (2014) 4.5/5 Through the Olive Trees (1994) 4.5/5Lumiere d'ete (1943) 3.5/5* Heat (1995) 4.5/5Life, and Nothing More... (1992) 4/5Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023) 4/5Trenque Lauquen (2022) 5/5
― Chris L, Monday, 10 June 2024 14:48 (five months ago) link
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 performancesGirl, Interrupted (Mangold) 6/10The Girl Can't Help It (Tashlin) 7/10 how can they look so bored during that Little Richard performance*Topsy Turvy (Leigh) 10/10Blue Collar (Schrader) 9/10 the only good richard pryor movie?
― master of the pan (abanana), Monday, 10 June 2024 17:00 (five months ago) link
Ratings according to the Maltin System, i.e. **** for classic all the way down to BOMB for irredeemable shite
Black Girl (Sembene, 1966) ***1/2Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) ***The Zone of Interest (Glazer, 2023) ***1/2Poor Things (Lanthimos, 2023) ***Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) ***Mars Express (Périn, 2023) ***I Saw the TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) **1/2Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi, 2023) ***Saltburn (Fennell, 2023) **1/2Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023) BOMB (ironically)
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 23:42 (five months ago) link
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
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 June 2024 00:19 (five months ago) link
I bomb ironically Einstein’s discoveries and hypotheses can’t define how I be dropping these
― bae (sic), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:58 (five months ago) link
xp good on Grandpa Malty
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 15:24 (five months ago) link
June
The Boxers Omen (Chih-Hung, 1983) 7/10Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki, 2023) 8/10The Beast (Bonello, 2023) 7/10Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Jude, 2023) 9/10In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) 8/10Triangle of Sadness (Ostlund, 2022) 6/10Blue Jay (Lehmann, 2016) 8/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 21:57 (five months ago) link
June in cinemas: Hit Man (Linklater, Powell 2024) * Furiosa (Miller, Lathouris, Bandopadhayay, Chakravarti, Collee, Maeda, Sixel Miller, Norris pere, Norris fils 2024) Challengers (Gudagnino, Kuritzkes 2024) † Purple Rain (Magnoli, Nelson, Blinn, Albert Magnoli 1984) † In The Cut (Campion & Campion after Moore 2003) Cruising (Friedkin after Walker 1980) Crash (Cronenberg after Ballard 1996) † Body Double (DePalma, Avrech 1984) I Saw The TV Glow (Schoenbrun 2024) † Bound (The Wachowskis 1996) L'Inconnu du lac [Stranger By The Lake] (Alain Guiradie et autres, 2013) † The Matrix (The Wachowskis 1999) 📽️† The Hunger (Scott, Davis, Thomas after Streiber 1983) † Train To Busan [부산행] (Yeon, Park 2016) † Body Heat (Kasdan 1981) 📽️ Female Trouble (Waters 1974) * Furiosa (Miller, Lathouris et al. 2024) June at home: Ricky Stanicky (Farrelly, Occhino, Decker, Bushnell, Oedekerk, Jarvis, Freeman, Jones, Cerrone 2024) 1/10 for Cena's commitment Hot Dogs For Gaugin (Brest 1972) short Ohayo [Good Morning] (Kon 2008) short Hot Tomorrows (Brest 1977) Succumb To The Crumb (Glazer 2010) short* Midnight Run (Brest, Gallo 1988)
― bae (sic), Monday, 15 July 2024 17:16 (four months ago) link
Man on the Roof (1976) 4/5. Kind of a Swedish French Connection. Really involving but has a strange ending.Stripper (1985) 3.5/5. Heavily staged but interesting pseudo-documentary. An absolute explosion of 80s tackiness.Challengers 3/5. I was watching this when the Trump assassination attempt happened, so I was a little distracted.* The Mother and the Whore (1973) 5/5Black God, White Devil (1964) 4.5/5* Equinox Flower (1958) 4/5* Messiah of Evil (1973) 4/5Delta Space Mission (1984) Trippy Romanian cartoon. Would be wild to catch on TV at like 2 AM.What a Way to Go! (1964) 3/5Madame Web (2024) 1/5. Watched this on a plane. The villain in this is so comically bad and the French actor appears to have been totally re-dubbed by a guy who sounds like Lee Van Cleef.Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981) 3/5France (2021) 3.5/5Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) 4/5Wild Side (1995) 2.5/5. Director's cut. Christopher Walken at his most unhinged, and I don't say that lightly. Way too much of Steven Bauer playing a rapist cop for this to be much fun.
― Chris L, Monday, 15 July 2024 21:02 (four months ago) link
sic, what does the dagger in front of your titles mean? I hope it’s not “this movie is dead to me.”
― Josefa, Monday, 15 July 2024 21:58 (four months ago) link
rewatch but first time on a big screen. the dagger came out more prominent than intended!
― bae (sic), Monday, 15 July 2024 22:28 (four months ago) link
That’s a category of film viewership I’ve really been leaning into recently. Before all the cinemas close down, which seems inevitable, I want to see as many of my favorite films on a big screen as possible.
― Josefa, Monday, 15 July 2024 22:48 (four months ago) link
Challengers (5.5)Drive (5.0)Evil Does Not Exist (7.5)Mr. Robot (S2-4 – 6.5)Teenage Superstars (6.5)Players (5.0)Borg vs. McEnroe (6.0)Battle of the Sexes (7.0)Hit Man (6.0)Kinds of Kindness (6.5)Longlegs (6.0)
Took me since May 3 to accumulate nine films and two TV shows. I just don't watch movies anymore.
― clemenza, Sunday, 28 July 2024 12:05 (four months ago) link
Watched the latest MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie on Amazon Prime but it just wasn't *fun* the way the fourth and fifth ones were. It's grim and dour and *dumb*. I mean, the villain is an AI, and in 2024 we all know that AIs are just racist, lying chatbots. Also it's 2 hours 45 and ends on a cliffhanger. (But does it count as one if I genuinely didn't care if they ever actually accomplished their goal?)
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 28 July 2024 13:06 (four months ago) link
July big, projected:Maxxxine (West 2024) Audition [オーディション] (Miike, Tengan, Murakami 1999) Kinds Of Kindness (Lanthimos, Filippou 2024) M. Hulot's Holiday [Les Vacances de M. Hulot] (Tati, Marquet 1953/1962/1978) The Hardest Line: The Story of Midnight Oil (Clarke 2024) Koyaanisqatsi (Ron Fricke, Reggio, Hoenig, Walpole, Glass 1982) small, LCD: Scent Of A Woman (Brest, Goldman 1993) rental expired after 48 hours 2/3 of the way in, as a blessed reliefKnox Goes Away (Keaton, Poirier 2024) WILL THERE BE ANYTHING ELSE ? (David Lynch 2024) 4minWicked Little Letters (Sharrock, Sweet 2024)
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 23:29 (four months ago) link
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― master of the pan (abanana), Thursday, 1 August 2024 01:09 (four months ago) link
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― bae (sic), Thursday, 1 August 2024 04:51 (four months ago) link
The Mikado (1939) 7/10Sorcerer (Friedkin 1977) 9/10Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger, 1950) 5/10Born to be Bad (Ray, 1950) 6/10*Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973) 6/10*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) 8/10The Daytrippers (Mottola, 1996) 5/10A Canterbury Tale (Archers, 1944) 7/10Blue Steel (Bigelow, 1990) 4/10*Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004) 6/10 hawk's book sounds awfulBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (Rice and Calleros, 2022) 8/10
― master of the pan (abanana), Friday, 2 August 2024 06:29 (four months ago) link
June & July
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)Queen of Speed (Barbie MacLaurin, 2021)Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (Andy Brown & Brian Lindstrom, 2022)La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)*The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Chad Freidrichs, 2011)*Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)Europa (Lars Von Trier, 1991)Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024)*Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)Une affaire de femmes (Claude Chabrol, 1988)The Assassination & Mrs. Paine (Max Good, 2022)The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)Torakku yarô: tenka gomen (Norifumi Suzuki, 1976)Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962)Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985)Century of the Dragon (Clarence Fok, 1999)*Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, 1987)The 27th Day (William Asher, 1957)The Mystery of Aris San (Dani Dotan, Dalia Mevorach, 2007)The World Is Yours (Romain Gavras, 2018)The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973)*The Beguiled (Don Siegel, 1971)The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall, 1946)The Walking Hills (John Sturges, 1949)Concrete Utopia (Tae-hwa Eom, 2023)La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)Faye (Laurent Bouzereau, 2024)
More re-runs than usual - Ms. T and I got systematic about our checking off titles on the"classic movies that one has seen but the other hasn't" lists. I'm the person who only just now saw Desperately Seeking Susan. What a great movie! The 27th Day is a total outlier among 50s saucer movies - worth tracking down. The World Is Yours and Concrete Utopia both kinda meh for different reasons that are glaringly obvious when I look at the trailers for them now.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 August 2024 09:35 (four months ago) link
July
Aggro Drift (Korine, 2023) 4/10*The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972) 8/10The Small Back Room (Powell & Pressburger, 1949) 7/10*Two Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971) 8/10Longlegs (Perkins, 2024) 6/10Nineteen Eighty Four (Radford, 1984) 7/10Chameleon Street (Harris Jr, 1989) 8/10Hackers (Softley, 1985) 6/10Anything Else (Allen, 2023) 4/10Challengers (Guadagnino, 2024) 8/10I Saw The TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) 7/10Sabotage (Hitchcock, 1936) 7/10Coma (Bonello, 2022) 6/10A Visitor to A Museum (Lopushansky, 1989) 7/10Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982) 8/10Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962) 6/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 2 August 2024 12:40 (four months ago) link
Desperately Seeking Susan is a very fun movie. I rewatched it recently, I hadnt seen it since I was a kid.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 2 August 2024 12:57 (four months ago) link
Maxxxine - All surface. Kevin Bacon is fun until he isn’t anymore. 4/10
Out Of Time - Carl Franklin’s “Devil In A Blue Dress” is a favorite. I had no clue he’s made a second film with Denzel. This was good fun. Solid B-crime thriller for a sticky Summer night. 7/10
Starve Acre - If “Geogaddi” was a movie. Properly wacko retro folk horror. Beautifully done. 8/10
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 4 August 2024 07:53 (three months ago) link
*Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda 1962)The World's Greatest Sinner (Carey 1962. Shouldn't count...I didn't make it to the end...)Once Upon a Time in America (Leone 1984)Furiosa (Miller 2024)Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki 2023)Hit Man (Linklater 2024)The Great Train Robbery (Porter 1903)From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann 1953)Dizzy Gillespie (Blank 1965)32 Sounds (Green 2022)Victims of Sin (Fernández 1951)Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog 2009)Cairo Station (Chahine 1958)
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 01:32 (three months ago) link
Cairo Station probably my favourite discovery at Noir City this year.
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 19:03 (three months ago) link
The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993) 3.5/5* Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) 4.5/5Beijing Watermelon (1989) 4/5* Seven Samurai (1954) 5/5Danton (1983) 4/5Lumumba (2000) 4/5House of Tolerance (2011) 4/5Kamikaze Hearts (1986) 4/5Longlegs (2024) 1/5. Hated pretty much everything about this. * Blood and Wine (1996) 3/5My Own Private Idaho (1991) 4/5
― Chris L, Monday, 19 August 2024 17:45 (three months ago) link
some really great camera blocking in Longlegs tbf.
― bae (sic), Monday, 19 August 2024 19:13 (three months ago) link
The First Omen (2024) 2.5/5. First overrated horror movie of the season! * The Leopard (1963) 4/5Touch (1997) 2/5My America... or Honk If You Love Buddha (1997) 3/5Suspicion (1941) 3.5/5High School (1968) 5/5Royal Warriors (1986) 4/5Victims of Sin (1951) 3.5/5Mr. Klein (1976) 5/5
― Chris L, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:16 (three months ago) link
August in large rooms with high ceilings:The Zodiac Killer (Hanson, Cantrell, Cardoza 1971) Cannibal! The Musical (Parker 1993) * Donnie Darko (Kelly 2001) [theatrical cut, 4K resto]Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland (Worsley 2022) The Love Nest (Cline, Keaton 1923) † Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton, Bruckman, Havez, Mitchell 1924) † Wet Hot American Summer (Wain, Showalter 2001) She Freak (Mabe, Friedman 1967) [new restoration] Blood Feast (Lewis, Downe, Friedman 1963) Indecent Desires (Wishman 1968) [2K restoration from 35mm negative] Crossing (Akin 2024) Longlegs (Perkins 2024) Cuckoo (Singer 2024) Road House (Herrington, Henry, Henkin 1989) * Coraline (Selick after Gaiman 2009) [remastered 3D] * Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Peebles 1971) I Married A Witch (Clair, Pirosh, Connelly, Trumbo, after Smith completed by Matson 1942) Between The Temples (Silver, Wells 2024) She Mob (Wuest, Paschal 1968) A Woman Under The Influence (Cassavetes 1974) Chopping Mall (Wynorski, Mitchell 1986) Trap (Shyamalan 2024) low ceilings:* Shiva Baby (Seligman 2020) On Your Mark (Miyazaki 1995) 6min Jackpot! (Feig, Yescombe 2024) 1/10, paused 45 minutes in to check bcz I couldn't believe the writer of Spy did this Fury Has An Anthem (Newman 2023) 7min
― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 17:06 (three months ago) link
spy was easily the best feig/mccarthy movie. take that bridesmaids.
― master of the pan (abanana), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 03:18 (two months ago) link
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coens, 2018)Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Mazursky, 1969)Twisters (Chung, 2024)On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)The Beast (Bonello, 2023)Trap (Shyamalan, 2024)The Last of Sheila (Ross, 1973)The Village (Shyamalan, 2004)La Chimera (Rohrwacher, 2023)Snake Eyes (De Palma, 1998)Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)WarGames (Badham, 1983)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 03:42 (two months ago) link
August:
West Side Story (Spielberg, 2021) 5/10The Wild Geese (McLagen, 1978) 4/10Yannick (Dupieux, 2023) 5/10Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2023) 7/10 (at the cinema)La Chimera (Rohrwacher, 2023) 7/10Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) 8/10*The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) 8/10*Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) 8/10Alien Romulus (Alvarez, 2024) 4/10*The Founder (Hancock, 2016) 7/10*Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003) 7/10The Hypnosis (De Geer, 2023) 7/10The Five Devils (Mysius, 2022) 7/10Frankenhooker (Henenlotter, 1990) 8/10Major Dundee (Peckinpah, 1965) 7/10Oddity (McCarthy, 2024) 7/10 (at the cinema)
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 08:59 (two months ago) link
Inferno - 1953 6/10*The Last of Sheila - 8/10Desert Fury - 1947 6/10Eyes of Laura Mars - 1978 6/10Hit Man - Linklater, 2023 7/10
― master of the pan (abanana), Thursday, 5 September 2024 03:39 (two months ago) link
Didi (7.0)Closer (6.5)The Americans (8.5)Night of the Living Dead (8.0)Only the River Flows (6.0)Reagan (4.0)Twisters (6.0)Paris, Texas (7.5)Amadeus (6.0)Breaking Bad (8.5)
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 September 2024 12:57 (two months ago) link
September:
features in cinemas Le Samouraï [2024 4K restoration] (Melville, Pellegrin 1967) † Paris, Texas [2024 4K restoration] (Wenders, Shephard, Carson 1984) S/He Is Still Her/e - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary (Rodrigues with Petrillo 2024) † The Conversation [2024 50th anniversary 4K resto] (Coppola 1974) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [2011 Academy resto] (Powell and Pressburger 1943) Once In A Lifetime (Mack, Miller after Hart, Kaufman) 1932) 📽️ The Cohens And Kellys In Hollywood (Dillon, Green 1932) 📽️ Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Lubitsch, Brackett, Wilder after Savoir trans. Andrews 1938) 📽️ Hollywood Boulevard (Dante, Arkush, Opatoshu 1976) 📽️ El espinazo del diablo [The Devil's Backbone] (del Toro, Muñoz, Trashorras 2001) 📽️† The Hairy Bird [US theatrical Strike! cut] (Kernochan 1998) 📽️ Bye Bye Birdie (Sidney, Brecher, Stewart, Strouse, Adams, Green, Padula, Champion 1963) * The World's End (Wright, Pegg 2013)
shorts in an apartment Sean Young filmed the making of Dune with David Lynch 1983 (Young 2010) * Lady Blue Shanghai (Lynch 2010) City Island: Movies (Lopez, Correll, Augenblick, Wendt & al. 2024) Absurda (Lynch 2007)
shorts in a theatre "My Directorial" (Harderson 2024)
― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Thursday, 3 October 2024 18:55 (two months ago) link
*Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929) 6/10Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953) 9/10 -- I think I only saw the first half previously, because the second half rang no bellsThe Comedy of Terrors (Tourneur, written by Matheson, 1963) 6/10Don't Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972) 7/10Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10John Jacobs and the Power Team (1991) like*Microcosmos (Nuridsany & Pérennou, 1996) 9/10
― master of the pan (abanana), Thursday, 3 October 2024 21:05 (two months ago) link
Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos, 2024) 5/10 (barely)The Vourdalak (Beau, 2023) 6/10Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2023) 6/10Sleep (Yu, 2023) 6/10Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Oshii, 2004) 6/10It's Such a Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt, 2012) 7/10Moving (Ohikkoshi) (Sōmai, 1993) 7/10Suburbia (Spheeris, 1983) 7/10Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) 6/10North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959) 5/10, I think I'm just not a Hitchcock fan tbh, he was a smarmy gitThe Conversation (Coppola, 1974) 9/10Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001) 10/10
― RIO Speedwagon (Matt #2), Thursday, 3 October 2024 21:42 (two months ago) link
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) 1/5Mr. McMahon (2024) 3/5The Substance (2024) 3.5/5Bend of the River (1952) 4/5Red Rocket (2021) 4/5Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 3/5The Whole Town's Talking (1935) 3.5/5Trouble 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
― Chris L, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 04:21 (one month ago) link
*Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997) 10/10*The Duellists (Scott, 1977) 8/10Ad Astra (Gray, 2019) 7/10Snack Shack (Rehmeier, 2024) 6/10*Point Break (Bigelow, 1991) 8/10Rebel Ridge (Saulnier, 2024) 8/10Hound (Lazraq, 2023) 8/10*The Silence of The Lambs (Demme, 1991) 8/10*The End of The Tour (Ponsoldt, 2015) 8/10Gift (Farrell, Niccoli, 1993) 6/10The Substance (Fargeat, 2024) 8/10Motherhood (Dieckmann, 2009) 4/10Megalopolis (Coppola, 2024) 5/10
Some Play for Today's:Your Man From Six Counties (Davis, 1976) 7/10Shut Down (Mackenzie, 1973) 6/10One Day at A Time (Wilson, 1977) 8/10Blue Remembered Hills (Gibson, 1979) 8/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 10:51 (one month ago) link
the spooky month so far:Lifeforce (Hooper, 1972) 5Someone's Watching Me! (Carpenter, TV, 1978) 6Humanoids from the Deep (Peeters and others, 1980) 4The Entity (1982) 8Christine (Carpenter, 1983) 6The Company of Wolves (Jordan, 1984) 7The Toxic Avenger (Kaufman & Herz, 1984) 5The Toxic Avenger Part II (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3The Toxic Avenger Part III (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3The Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie (Kaufman & frat boys, 2000) 2The Stuff (Cohen, 1985) 8Cemetery Man (Soavi, 1994) 8Alien Resurrection (Jeunet, 1997) 5The Faculty (Rodriguez, 1998) 6Saw (Wan, 2004) 6The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (Aster, 2011) goodThe Vast of Night (2019) 7Gatlopp (2022) 4Beetlejuice 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
― master of the pan (abanana), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 13:54 (one month ago) link
Spooktober viewing (although I didn't totally limit myself to spooky movies)
The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934) 8/10The Asphyx (Newbrook, 1972) 6/10Angst (Kargl, 1983) 9/10Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10Duck, You Sucker (Leone, 1971) 8/10Old (Shyamalan, 2021) 4/10The Hills Have Eyes (Craven, 1977) 8/10The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Hooper, 1986) 7/10Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001) 8/10El Conde (Larrain, 2023) 5/10*Tetsuo The Iron Man (Tsukamoto, 1989) 8/10Rap World (O'Malley, 2024) 7/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 14:16 (one month ago) link
i watched Spike Lee's Malcolm X for the first time on monday, despite owning it on VHS for 32 years...
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link
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)
― et a earwig (sic), Monday, 4 November 2024 16:43 (four weeks ago) link