Last (x) movies you saw

last night i watched SHAKEDOWN with PETER WELLER and SAM ELLIOT in GRITTY 1988 NYC. terrible and often implausible and incomprehensible but totally fun to watch. obligatory action sequence on the cyclone!

i think alex in nyc would like this movie, though.

Film Comment-style, what are the last ten films you saw?

Nothing Personal (2009, Urszula Antoniak)
Sadgati [Deliverance] (1981, Satyajit Ray)
Get Out of the Car (2010, Thom Andersen)
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010, Peter Miller)
Poison (1991, Todd Haynes)
Bad Girl (1931, Frank Borzage)
Let Me In (2010, Matt Reeves)
Morning Glory (2010, Roger Michell)
The Tin Drum (1979/2010, Volker Schlondorff)
Summer and Smoke (1961, Peter Glenville)

Let Me In
Le Cercle Rouge
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (I have an excuse)
The Secret of Kells
Alphaville
Straight Time
Sensation (Irish movie with no real release yet)

I'm drawing a blank beyond these 7, watched a lot of old/new TV dramas lately so not as many films.

Zatôichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano)
Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero)
Despicable Me (2010, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994, Chia-Liang Liu & Jackie Chan)
The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg)
Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)

All I can remember too

The Project
Something Wild
When will I be loved?
Mulholland Dr
Scenes From a Marriage
Friday
The Sender
The Rachel Papers
Into the Night
Soul Kitchen

Two Mules for Sister Sara
Cosmotropia de Xam's SU (Surrealistica Uniferno)
Vincent & Theo
Lust for Life
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Dario Argento's Inferno
Repo Man
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Angel Heart
Simon King of the Witches

(no real dogs, except for Lust for Life)

mccabe & mrs miller
lift to the scaffold
les amants
le feu follet

this weekend saw

red desert
in the realm of the senses
the river
barry lyndon

all on a big screen

and

days of heaven
juliet of the spirits
the house of mirth

coming up next weekend. psyched, esp for my 1st big-screen malick.

Cropsey (2009, Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman)
The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
Kings of Pastry (2009, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker)
Catfish (2010, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman)
The Town (2010, Ben Affleck)
About Last Night... (1986, Edward Zwick)
Whip It (2009, Drew Barrymore)
Mother (2009, Bong Joon-ho)
No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Runaways (2010, Floria Sigismondi)

Have been watching one a day: Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York
Tonight: The Thing
Tomorrow: Christine
Lined up for the days after that: Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, Prince of Darkness, They Live, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from L.A., Vampires, Ghosts of Mars

(12 on DVD, 4 as avi)

I'm Gonna Explode (2009, Gerardo Naranjo)
The Boy With Green Hair (1946, Joseph Losey)
I'll Come Running (2006, Spenser Parons) - Left me freaked out because my best friend is a ringer for Melonie Diaz
Unmade Beds (2009, Alexis Dos Santos) - It falls apart when you think about it (homeless immigrants in London will likely not find themselves living out the hipster dream), but still exhilirating.
Marie Antoinette (1938, W. S. Van Dyke) - This movie should have lauched a thousand camp revivals by now.
Earrings of Madame De... (1953, Max Ophuls)

Nenette and Boni (Denis, 1997) (print)
I Can't Sleep (Denis, 1994) (print)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Costa, 2001) (print)
The Aviary/Nymphlight/Fable of Fountains (Cornell/Burkhardt, 1957-1970) (prints)
Dripping Water (Snow/Wieland, 1969) (print)
Straight and Narrow (Tony/Beverly Conrad, 1970) (print)
Razor Head (Tom/Ken Chomont, 1984) (print)
Dervish Machine (Er0s/Li0tta, 1992) (print)
Garden Path (Reed/ Brakhage, 2002) (print)
It Felt Like A Kiss (Adam Curtis, 2009) (.avi)

been hittin up the IFC Ctr, eh Colin?

For the Denis, yeah. I wasn't crazy about either of those, but there's some great stuff in I Can't Sleep. I'm really bummed I had to miss her Rivette doc. I've been trying to see that for years and something always intervenes. I'm going to try to catch No Fear No Die on Weds. Did you go to any of them?

no. and I have 'year-end' screenings Wed-Fri, and need to catch Pedro Costa and one of the Bruce Conner programs at FF the next 2 nights.

The Trojan Women
L'Avventura
Naked Lunch
Inside Job
Spanglish
Shutter Island
Howl
Step Brothers
Che
Please Give

Ne Change Rien is definitely worth seeing, but it's easily the weakest Costa, imo. There are a few incredible sequences -- mostly dealing with the Offenbach rehearsals, but the studio stuff can get very dull because Jeanne Balibar isn't a very interesting musician.

You can catch those Connors at MoMA like every other week!

"Standard Operating Procedure"
"Who is Harry Nilsson?"
"Barry Lyndon"
"Scott Pilgrim"
"Gold Diggers of 1933"
"Best Worst Movie"
"Wild Rebels" (MST3K)

The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Teen Wolf (1985)
U.S. vs. John Lennon, the (2006)
Thomas Crown Affair, the (1968, Jewison)
Born Yesterday (1950, Cukor)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970, Post)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956, Clouzot)
Return of the Living Dead, the (1985, O'Bannon)
I Know Where I'm Going (1945, Powell & Pressburger)
Circus, the (1928, Chaplin)

mostly netflix streaming

oooh, "the weakest Costa" is bad news in my book. not crazy about him tbh.

The Trojan Women

is this the one Kate Hepburn was in?

Yeah, she's the weakest thing in it: she's playing Eleanor of Aquitaine in a toga. I'm reminded again though that Genevieve Bujold is one strange, great actress.

I don't know, maybe you'll like it then? The narrative, as such, is more straightforward than the Fountainhas films, but it's still very him. Very dark image, long long takes of slight variations on the same action. It's closest to Hidden Smile, but instead of being about the fuckin Straubs, it's about a connected actress trying her hand at music.

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Trying to think back on what I've seen this year was difficult enough that I've resolved to start keeping a film journal.

Tyson (2008, James Toback)
21 (2008, Robert Luketic)
Greenberg (2010, Noah Baumbach)
The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
Four Lions (2010, Chris Morris)
Offside (2006, Jafar Panahi)
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010, Banksy)
Macgruber (2010, Jorma Taccone)
Due Date (2010, Todd Phillips)
All Tomorrows Parties (2009, Johnathon Caouette)

harry potter and the deathly hallows (2010) - okay, kinda fun, kinda dreary
i'm still here (2010) - near great
centurion (2010) - a lot of fun for about an hour, then less so

oh, and winter's bone (2010) - excellent

El mariachi (Robert Rodriguez, 1992)
Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010)
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton & Mike Johnson, 2005)
Zombieland (Rubin Fleischer, 2009)
Profound Desires of the Gods (Shohei Imamura, 1968)
An American Werewolf in London (Jon Landis, 1981)
Antichrist (Lars Von Trier, 2009)
Bird on a Wire (Tony Palmer, 1974)
Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)

I saw Due Date and Fair Game over the thanksgiving holiday.
Strange combo.
GOD were the two main characters in Due Date the most despicable people EVER.

Werckmeister Harmonies
The Piano Teacher
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days
Antichrist
A Man Escaped
Solaris (2003)
The Hurt Locker
The Consequences of Love
Jar City
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (fucking hell)

last film I saw was Thoroughly Modern Millie w/ Julie Andrews. Thought it was extremely entertaining. Before that:

Rock and Rule - talked all the way through this cause it seemed really boring/sexist after a few minutes. Cool animation though.
House (recent Japanese one) - meh.
MacGruber - was entertaining and funny enough. I always enjoy Val Kilmer.
The Signal - scary and unsettling. I recommend it highly.
Harold and Kumar - finally got around to watching this. It lived up to its hype.

Oh yeah and I saw Jojimbo at the local art house cinema. Its so fucking awesome! Loved it.

Avatar-awful, what is wrong with humanity.

err, more like "what is wrong with humanity?"

Who is Harry Nilsson?
Inside Job
Big Fan
The Insider
Fair Game
Due Date

xpost I know, the way they senselessly attacked those poor Na'avi! Fucking humanity!

Zero Bridge (2008, Tariq Tapa)
Cedar Rapids (2011, Miguel Arteta)
A Private Function (1984, Malcolm Mowbray/Alan Bennett)
Ministry of Fear (1944, Fritz Lang)
Doomed Love (1978, Manoel de Oliveira)
Potiche (2010, Francois Ozon)
The Time That Remains (2009, Elia Suleiman)
Kaboom (2010, Gregg Araki)
Broadcast News (1987, James L. Brooks)
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)

how was the ozon?

His worst that I've seen; flat, cutesy. I'm amazed Gerard Depardieu can still fit inside France.

Biutiful - Bardem the only upside, as expected

Atlantic City = great movie
The Road = not so great

Play Time (1967, Tati)
The Illusionist (2010, Chomet)
Les Enfants Terribles (1950, Melville)

jaws
the iron giant
devils on the doorstep
the runaways
kung fu hustle
animal kingdom
wolf creek
reprise
little big man

Ondine (2009, Neil Jordan)
Bombshell (1933, Victor Fleming)
Limitless (2011, Neil Burger)
Impostors (1979, Mark Rappaport)
Lord Love a Duck (1966, George Axelrod)
Red-Headed Woman (1932, Jack Conway)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Asphalt (1929, Joe May)
Jane Eyre (2011, Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Public Enemies. Liked the actress in it and some of the grainy video stuff (only saw the DVD, its probably more impressive in the big screen). Other than that I just couldn't care less.

Watching 'Les Diaboliques' tomorrow.

How is Asphalt? xp

so far this year, rev. chron. order:

The White Ribbon (Haneke)
Rango (Verbinski)
For a Few Dollars More (Leone)
A Fistful of Dollars (Leone)
The Parallax View (Pakula)
Gandhi (Attenborough)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
True Grit (Coen bros)
Bonnie & Clyde (Penn)
Black Swan (Aronofsky)
Late Spring (Ozu)