Last (x) movies you saw

Legend (Helgeland, 2015) 4/10
Irrational Man (Allen, 2015) 7/10
The Visit (Shyamalan, 2015) 3/10
L'Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962) 10/10
Everest (Kormakur, 2015) 6/10
Horse Money (Costa, 2014) 8/10
Hard to be a God (German, 2013) 9/10

The Silence (Odar, 2010) 6/10
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954) 7/10
Platform (Jia, 2000) 8/10
Christmas in July (Sturges, 1940) 8/10
Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960) 7/10
While the City Sleeps (Lang, 1956) 7/10
The Silence (Bergman, 1963) 8/10
Phoenix (Petzold, 2014) 6/10
A New Leaf (May, 1971) 8/10
Margot at the Wedding (Baumbach, 2007) 6/10
Greed (Von Stroheim, 1924) 9/10

the subject was roses (grosbard '68) 8/10
Marfa girl (clark '12) 6/10
low down (jeff preiss '14) 5/10
something in the air (assayas '12) 6/10
city of hope (sayles '91) 5/10
heaven knows what (safdies '15) 5/10
collaborator (marin Donovan '11) 5/10
alex of venice (chris messina '14) 5/10
trainwreck (apatow '15) 6/10
men, women & children (Reitman '14) 5/10
Joe (dgg '13) 6/10
ned rifle (Hartley '15) 3/10

"city of hope (sayles '91) 5/10"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXpuEFansic&t=0m14s

Black Mass (2015) 6/10

Speed Racer (2008) 6/10 wtf
Ip Man (2008) 4
Terminator Salvation (2009) 3
Come Drink with Me (1966) 4
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) 5
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 5
*Pinocchio (1940) 7 amazing background art
The AristoCats (1970) 4

52 Pick-Up on Blu-Ray. Just as scuzzy as I remembered it.

13 Assassins (2010) : 7/10
The Getaway : 6/10
Turks Fruit : 8/10
Nightfall : 8/10

Flight of the Red Baloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2008)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2003)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005)

smh at those low scores for 'city of hope' and 'ip man'

A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-Woon, 2005) 7/10
Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977) 7/10
Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996) 7/10
Straight Outta Compton (Gray, 2015) 7/10
The Crazies (Romero, 1973) 6/10
*Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Gibney, 2015) 8/10
Seaview (Gogan, Rowley, 2008) 7/10

Taxi (Panahi, 2015) 7/10
Victoria (Schipper, 2015) 7/10
The New Girlfriend (Ozon, 2015) 8/10
The Second Mother (Muylaert, 2015) 7/10
Keith Richards: Under the Influence (Neville, 2015) 5/10
* Weekend (Haigh, 2011) 8/10
* The Witnesses (Techine, 2008) 8/10
News From Home (Akerman, 1976) 7/10
* The Wings of the Dove (Softley, 1997) 7/10
* The Official Story (Puenzo, 1985) 7/10

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - the Man and His Work (1984, Ventura) (56m) 7/10
In the Shadow of Women (2015, Garrel) 8/10
*Used Cars (1980, Zemeckis) 7/10
Love Streams (1984, Cassavetes) 5/10
Home of the Brave (1949, Robson) 6/10
Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Weerasethakul) 7/10
Morituri (1965, Wicki) 5/10
The Upturned Glass (1947, Huntington) 8/10
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015, Maddin) (31m) 7/10
Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia) 8/10
The Fool (2014, Bykov) 7/10

Oh good, tell me about Cemetery of Splendour and the Garrel.

Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015, Maddin) (31m) 7/10

So Maddin's got *two* new ones I gotta see, huh?

^that's a weird subversive making-of he did for a gung-ho Canadian war movie. May not circulate.

i was very fatigued during the Joe -- a medical/political ghost story. Has nurses joking/poking about morning erections.

Garrel nearly as good as Jealousy, only Louis only narrates... Unsentimental dissection of adultery as self-inflicted guilt trip. Contrasted with the grays of the French Resistance!

Sicario 6/10
A Touch Of Zen 8/10

is Louis nude in it

sounded nude

Flesh And Blood : 6/10
Saint Laurent : 9/10 (Fantastic.)
Black Book : 8/10
Exterieur Nuit : 7/10

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (7.5)
Diary of a Teenage Girl (7.5)
Norwegian Wood (7.0)
It’s Not Me, I Swear! (7.0)
Listen to Me Marlon (7.5)
Greenberg (7.0)
Foxy Brown (9.0)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (7.0)
Darkness (6.0)
Obvious Child (7.0)

lol what is "it's not me, I swear!"?

Canadian film, somewhat in the style of My Life as a Dog.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1163752/

yeah I looked it up. Sounds darker than the title suggests

Definitely--the kid is precociously acerbic and morose and always threatening to kill himself.

hi-five for Foxy Brown

yeah, Foxy Brown (racist trash) is better than Meet Me in St Louis, what a relief to find out

Re-watched the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers last night. Still scary as hell. More surprising was the realization that it was rated PG. Ah, the Seventies...

Yeah - it was rated PG so I was taken to see it while still way too young. Dog-Man haunted my nightmares for a loooong time haha.

PG? Surprised too. Besides just how scary and intense it is at times, there's a flash of nudity. It played at the theatre where I ushered in 1979--might be the best film we had for the year I worked there.

I was just a bit too young to see the Kaufman remake when it first came out (I think it was an 'AA' certificate in the UK, which meant you had to be 14 years old or over to see it), but I did own the photonovel:

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/photonovelbodysnatchers.png

The DVD has a quote from Pauline Kael on the back - "Undiluted pleasure and excitement. It may be the best film of its kind ever made." - which is going it a bit.

I goofed--Foxy Brown was supposed to read Jackie Brown (night I got Pam Grier's autograph).

Bridge Of Spies : 7/10
Mr. Holmes : 6/10 (though edging into 7 mainly because of how faithful it is to the source novel. Found McKellen too sympathetic as Holmes.)
Voici les temps d'assassins : 9/10 (incredibly dark late period Duvivier. Gabin as a chef is A++ casting. Just a great film.)
Danny Collins: 5/10 (Oscar bait crap but I admire Pacino's kinda restrained perf. )

Macbeth (Kurzel, 2015) - 8/10
The Martian (Scott, 2015) - 7/10
Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015) - 7/10
My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946) - 6/10
Frontier Marshall (Dwan, 1939) - 4/10
Mortdecai (Koepp, 2014) - 1/10
Kingsman - Secret Service (Vaughn, 2015) - 4/10
Wild (Vailee, 2014) - 7/10
Catch Me Daddy (Wolfe, 2015) - 7/10
The Gunman (Morel, 2014) - 4/10
Good Kill (Nicol, 2014) - 6/10

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977) - 8/10

I think Morbs must be busy with the sportsball playoffs and such so I'll fill in for him.

Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015) - 7/10
My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946) - 6/10

wtf you heathen

hahaha. Yeah - I was wondering where Morbs was once I saw that 6/10

some ppl just don't deserve John Ford

Ford country in Clementine looks like a dream - especially the wonderfully effective day-for-night photography of Monument Valley - but the view of it is few and far between. For me, the film stays indoors with stuffy melodrama a tad too long.

Field Niggas (2015, Allah) 8/10
The Noose (1958, Has) 8/10
The Forbidden Room (2015, Maddin, Johnson) 8/10
*Baby It's You (1983, Sayles) 7/10
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (1973, Has) 6/10
The Codes (1966, Has) 9/10
*Death Becomes Her (1992, Zemeckis) 7/10
The Red and the White (1967, Jancsó) 9/10
Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong) 6/10
What We Do in the Shadows (2014, Clement, Waititi) 6/10

The Martian (Scott, 2015) 4/10
Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine (Gibney, 2015) 6/10
The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) 8/10
Savage (Muldowney, 2009) 6/10

Polytechnique (Villeneuve, 09)
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 13)
Enemy (Villeneuve, 13)
Sicario (Villeneuve, 15)
Leatherheads (Clooney, 08)
The State I am In (Petzold, 00)
Mia Madre (Moretti, 15)
Topsy Turvy (Leigh, 99)
Dr Mabuse, der Spieler (Lang, 22)
Die Niebelungen: Siegfried (Lang, 24)
Die Niebelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (Lang, 24)
Die Frau Im Mond (Lang, 29)*
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Lang, 33)
The King’s Whore (Corti, 90)
I Killed My Mother (Dolan, 09)
Laurence Anyways (Dolan, 12)
Mommy (Dolan, 14)
Windows on Monday (Köhler, 06)
Concrete Love - The Böhm Family (Starkle-Drux, 15)
Watermark (Baichwal & Burtynsky, 13)
The Latin Skyscraper (Schindel, 13)
The Architect of Urbino (Piccardo, 15)
Beyond Metabolism (Gaus & Sattel, 14)
Exotica (Egoyan, 94)
Muddy River (Oguri, 81)
The Sting of Death (Oguri, 90)
Sleeping Man (Oguri, 96)
The Invisible Army (Jacobsen, 45)
Slow West (MacLean, 15)
45 Years (Haigh, 15)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Mazursky, 86)
Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 12)

*The Cell- Dumber than a stump but still gorgeous. Really missing Eiko Ishioka. Also missing the isolated score track on the old DVD, which the new budget blu-ray inexplicably drops- the best way to watch this movie by far is to totally cut the dialogue and just let Howard Shore do his Master Musicians of Jajouka thing.

White God- Disappointed. This kind of did nothing for me, other than marveling at how well the animal wrangler dealt with a shit-ton of dogs, and a friend deciding that the little terrier who's the main dog's Small Friend was named "Cap'n Scraps."

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present- what is David Blaine doing here

Death Wish 2 (Winner)- Gun porn for the morally retarded. Not even really likeable as sleaze, and I *love* sleaze. This episode's talented early-career character actor slumming it as a generic thug: Laurence Fishburne!

*Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)- I will never not love this movie. It's not perfect (still better than what Masamune Shirow is up to, though, jesus christ) but its' such an amazing time capsule of 90s cyberpunk. Oshii has a reputation for slow, drifty movies, but this is really economical (under 90 minutes without any wasted time) and manages to fit in these gorgeous mini-travelogue sequences where we just slowly part ways with the main character and watch people go about their daily business to that soundtrack.

Children of the Corn (Kiersch)- oh my god this is so fucking dumb
Still probably in the top half of King adaptations, which isn't saying much; so many things went wrong on what should have been salvageable with the actors and shooting locations they had to work with. But the cloyingly cutesy "good" kids, the horrible voiceover narration and the terrible ending pretty much scuttle the whole thing. I do like the defaced paintings and corn-based folk art, though- whoever decorated the sets earned their paycheck.

The Vampire Lovers (Baker)- One of the ur-texts of the modern lesbian vampire movie, way better than other Hammer productions of a similar vintage, more faithful to Carmilla than any Dracula adaptation has ever been; I'm not head over heels in love with it, but it's a keeper.

The Blob (Yeaworth Jr)- The original. Lives up to the classic billing- great effects, great color photography, and one of the only PARENTS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND horror films where the conflict between 30-year-old teenagers and authority figures isn't predicated on one or more people being absolute fucking morons.

Ici et Ailleurs (Godard, Gorin, Mieville)- my first Dziga-Vertov Group film, and one I need to rewatch and spend some time really digging into.

*Suspiria (Argento)- Drags a little more than I'd remembered, and I somehow forgot both the presence of a badly-dubbed Udo Kier and a SPOOOOOKY BAAAAAT, but still: Suspiria, A+++ would watch again

*Zazie dans le Metro (Malle)- Still basically a perfect movie. Not sure what I can add to this, really.

A Field in England (Wheatley)- Wonderful. Maybe a little too self-consciously clever, but fuck, I'll take that over a movie that doesn't try hard enough any day.

Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Farocki)- Dense, beautiful and achingly sad. My first Farocki film; definitely not the last.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven)- I loved this! Seriously, aside from the overwritten pileup of bullshit endings, it's a mostly smart, effective horror film, and there's even what I'm pretty sure is a nod to the underwater ballroom scene in Inferno (the impossibly deep bathtub).

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Sholder)- I...did not love this. As much. For the reasons the producers intended, anyway. I went into this knowing that it was deliberately crammed with as much gay subtext as humanly possible, and it absolutely delivered on that front. Some decent 80s-vintage practical effects, too, and an above-average score from Hellraiser's Christopher Young.

You're Next - I'd previously seen The Guest, from the same writer and director; that's a great modern update of an 80s action thriller. This one is kind of a splattery thriller with a twist that you'll piece together as the body count rises. Lots of practical gore effects, some of them quite wince-inducing. Highly recommended.

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is excellent; great look into a publically disowned history.
Collins' "Losing Ground" is WAY ahead of its time, a sign of great things to come unfulfilled.

The Martian (Scott, 2015) 6/10
The Walk (Zemeckis, 2015) 5/10
The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) 8/10

Castle Freak (Gordon, 1995) 5/10
Young Mr Lincoln (Ford, 1939) 8/10
The Shanghai Gesture (Von Sternberg, 1941) 7/10
Lancelot du Lac (Bresson, 1974) 8/10
Die Sage Des Todes aka Bloody Moon (Franco, 1981) 6/10
Before I Go To Sleep (Joffe, 2014) 3/10
Pretty Poison (Black, 1968) 8/10
Puppet Master (Schmoeller, 1989) 5/10
Cactus Flower (Saks, 1969) 6/10
Canyon Passage (Tourneur, 1946) 7/10
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Hartley, 2014) 7/10

The Assassin (Hou, 2015) 7/10
Room (Abrahamson, 2015) 6/10
El Club (Larrain, 2015) 6/10
* Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) 7/10
The Brood (Cronenberg, 1979) 6/10
* Witness For the Prosecution (Wilder, 1957) 5/10
La Captive (Akerman, 2000) 8/10
12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995) 4/10
* Clueless (Heckerling, 1995) 7/10
Man is Not a Bird (Makavejev, 1965) 6/10
Death of a Cyclist (Bardem, 1955) 6/10
* All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955) 9/10

Fidelity (Zulawski): 7/10
Any Number Can Win : 7/10
Tomorrowland : 6/10
The Man From U.N.C.L.E : 5/10
L'âme sœur : 8/10
Cockfighter: 8/10

finishing up the bond series
Live and Let Die (1973) 3/10
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) 2
Moonraker (1979) 2
Octopussy (1983) 3
A View to a Kill (1985) 3
GoldenEye (1995) 3
3 to go (licence to kill, never say never again, the new one) :(

spooky movies for october
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) 5
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) 3
Dance of the Vampires a.k.a. Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) 7
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 5
*The Wicker Man (1973) 8
*Drag Me to Hell (2009) 8
Frozen (2010) 3
Crimson Peak (2015) 5

misc
Ministry of Fear (1944) 6
Short Circuit (1986) 4
*Back to the Future Part II (1989) 5
David Wants to Fly (2010) 6

missed one
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) 2
nice animation -- drac's spindly legs are great. the first one was bearable because the animators crammed a ton of stuff into the background. this one doesn't. also: adam sandler's sleepy voice acting, rehashed jokes, and a plot that is obviously going nowhere.

why do you keep watching Bond films, abanana, if you hate them that much?

i already watched the ones i like. the first three, ohmss, and casino royale are all 7/10 or better.

The Martian (Scott, 2015)
Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015)
The Big Country (Wyler, 1958)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
Ill Met By Moonlight (Powell/Pressburger, 1957)
Outrage (Lupino, 1950)
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)
Kameradschaft (Pabst, 1931)
Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997)