Last (x) movies you saw

I failed to keep track for a couple of months, damn it. But the most recent batch includes
Night of the Hunter
Wise Blood
Night Train to Munich

Blue Valentine
Hobo with a Shotgun
X-Men: First Class
They Live
Thor
Fair Game
Bridesmaids
The Conspirator
Of Gods and Men
Slapshot

oh yeah, that reminds me, I saw Thor as well.

Was scrolling upthread and got a small lol from this:

Blow Out (De Capra, 1981)

duh, wishful thinking on my part, either that or a brainfart. He's not as good as Hitchberg.

Spielcock

my recent 'love film' rentals:

Minne & Moskowitz
The Queen of Spades
Tiger of Bengal/The Tomb of Love
Two in the Wave
Certified Copy

Last film I saw at the cinema - Renaldo and Clara!

going to Incendies later....

I saw "Went the Day Well" at Film Forum a couple weeks ago. A solid B sleeper. It starts out in light comedy/social satire mode, but then takes a hard dive into gritty thriller territory. Well-paced and entertaining throughout.

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The New World
Midnight in Paris
The Wild and Wonderful World of the Whites
Shock 'Em Dead
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
My Dinner with Andre
Step Up 3
Elizabethtown
Birdemic

Shoeshine (1946, Vittorio De Sica)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010, Werner Herzog)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Went the Day Well? (1942, Cavalcanti)
Le Rayon Vert (1986, Eric Rohmer)
Tuesday, After Christmas (2010, Radu Muntean)
Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen)

three docs from the Human Rights Watch film fest:

Better This World (airs on PBS in Sept)
Love Crimes of Kabul (HBO in July)
You Don't Like the Truth -- 4 Days Inside Guantanamo

Minne & Moskowitz

i watched this at home, recently, too, and it blew my mind. mainly because of the contrast between hearing, almost incessantly, & practically knowing, that it was cassavetes' 'lightest', 'funniest' film, his romantic comedy, and then seeing the first forty five minutes.

and after the fact it turns out to be something not unlike that, but just after a circuitous journey.

it looks beautiful too.

renaldo & clara wasn't at the GFT, was it?

going to Incendies later....

tentatively psyched for this.

Watching a lot of old movies with my son, recently - stuff like North by Northwest, Man from Laramie or Quatermass and the Pit. It's a fantastic experience, his reactions made the films brand new to me too.

Casino
I Clowns
YMO:Propaganda
Horror Express

cave of forgotten dreams
dark habits
in the realm of the senses
hideaway
ishtar
penn & teller get killed
wild grass
nine

The Makioka Sisters
The Straight Story
Crossfire
On Dangerous Ground
Vampyr
Midnight in Paris
Meek's Cutoff
Thor
My Man Godfrey
From Here to Eternity

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Massacre at Central High
Isle of the Dead
Midnight Movies
Human Desire
From Beyond the Grave
The Education of Shelby Knox

bigger than life
to be and to have
enemies: a love story
wax, or the discovery of television among the bees
max mon amour
water drops on burning rocks
threads
a generation
let's make love

last summer - this was incredible btw - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Summer)

wild at heart
the fighter
kanal
rolling thunder
high art
the yards
tie me up! tie me down!

I Clowns : Wow. Had never seen this one. Loved it.
Inception (2nd time. Hated it first time around in theatre.. Liked it much better this time)
The Brasher Doubloon: Cool slept-on old noir
The Tree Of Life: <3 x 1000
Syndromes And A Century
The Aviator (stopped about 90 mins in. Still awful.)
Werner Herzog 2010 UCSB Interview : (Cool 2 hour long intvw with WH found on the interwebs)

been wanting to see last summer for a while, seems like something criterion should tackle

lol @ the last movies I've seen in the theaters

x-men first class
green lantern
harry potter & dh pt 2
tree of life

Enter the Void - avoid.

Cross of Iron - on blu-ray. Haven't watched this since I was a kid, but a lot of it had stayed with me, and it was good to revisit after all this time. Many terrific scenes, but doesn't quite add up to a wholly satisfactory whole for some reason. Coburn - an actor who it feels has been overlooked somewhat - is solid, but the best scene is between James Mason and David Warner as demoralised German officers:
Mason: "What will we do when we lose this war?"
Warner: "Prepare for the next"

Burke & Hare - Landis, Pegg, Serkis. Mildly entertaining rubbish.

Winter's Bone - Not quite the misery porn I was dreading. Pretty decent.

Howl - Boring.

Inferno - Argento's messy headscratcher on blu. It's pretty bad, but a few brilliant and bizarre moments redeem it. The tales from behind the scenes are revealing (Argento didn't shoot the memorable flooded cellar scene - he was ill in hospital. And when the actress in that scene became ill herself, he hastily had her character killed off. Such anecdotes go towards explaining the disjointedness of the film).

Morning Glory - Quite enjoyed this. Rachel McAdams is ridic cute, Ford is ridic growly. It's fun.

Stanley Kubrick collection on blu-ray: 2001 and Barry Lyndon look so, so good. Blew me away. The only issue I have with Lyndon is the central performance. Ryan O'Neil just isn't believable, sympathetic or very interesting, imo (also see Tom Cruise in EWS). I didn't enjoy Full Metal Jacket all that much. The first half is really repetitive, the second half kinda empty.

skipping the real stinkers:

Billy Budd (1962, Peter Ustinov)
Born to Be Bad (1950, Nicholas Ray)
The Interrupters (2011, Steve James)
19 Buster Keaton shorts (1920-23)
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010, Joann Sfar)
Girls About Town (1931, George Cukor)
Union Depot (1932, Alfred E. Green)
Littlerock (2010, Mike Ott)
Waterloo Bridge (1931, James Whale)
The Optimists (2006, Goran Paskaljevic)
Four Adventures of Reinette & Mirabelle (1987, Eric Rohmer)
Weekend (2011, Andrew Haigh)
Happy (2011, Roko Belic)
Leap Year (2010, Michael Rowe)
Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin Schaffner)
Terri (2011, Azazel Jacobs)
Momma's Man (2008, Azazel Jacobs)
The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)

Azazel Jacobs!

Littlerock!

what'd you think of Leap Year, morbius

pervy, good

Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006)
Bronco Bullfrog (Platts-Mills, 1969)
Mr Nice (Rose, 2011)
Trading Places (Landis, 1982)
Strange Powers:Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (Fix, O'Hara, 2010)
Attack the Block (Cornish, 2011)
Black Dynamite (Sanders, 2009)
Gainsbourg (Sfar, 2010)
Red (Schwentke, 2010)
The Cement Garden (Birkin, 1989)
The Guard (McDonagh, 2011)

Saw Thor and Super last night...

Thor was good...Super was depressing.

Horrible Bosses (crap)
Red State (crap)
Sense and Sensibility (love this, second time watching it)
Michael Clayton (ok)
Salvador (love this, second time watching it)

Since my last post in this thread:

Funeral Parade of Roses (dir T Matsumoto, 1969)
You, the Living (dir R Andersson, 2007)
Il Profumo della Signora in Nero (dir F Barilli, 1974)
The Night Of The Hunted (dir J Rollin, 1979)
Deep End (dir J Skolimowski, 1970)
Lake Mungo (dir J Anderson, 2008)
Vampyr (dir CT Dreyer, 1932)
The Day After (dir N Meyer, TV 1983)
When The Wind Blows (dir J Murakami, 1986)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (dir B Forbes, 1964)
Last Night (dir D McKellar, 1998)
The Year Of The Sex Olympics (dir M Elliot, TV 1968)
Privilege (dir P Watkins, 1967)

Thinking about 'Footprints On The Moon' (1975), 'The Shout' (1978), Songs From The Second Floor (2000) for watching soon.

I'm on (mostly) low-brow overdrive of late:

Robocop
Total Recall
Baraka
The Song Remains The Same
The Kids Are Alright
Tango & Cash
Cobra
Our Idiot Brother
Hatchet
The Sentinel
The Legend Of Hell House
Dazed & Confused
The Terminator

(That's The Who's Kids Are Alright, for those who aren't in any way keeping score.)

midnight run
charley varrick
the sting

strip search ('04 lumet)
haywire ('12 soderbergh)
the hole ('98 tsai ming-liang)
eden lake ('08 watkins)
marriage material ('11 swanberg)
fahrenheit 451 ('66 truffaut)
the king's speech ('10 hooper)
inside daisy clover ('65 mulligan)

Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi, 2011)
The Boyfriend (Ken Russell, 1971)
Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011)
Incendies (Dennis Villeneuve, 2010)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
Holy Rollers (Kevin Asch, 2011)
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)

hey craigo, 'the year of the sex olympics' is written by nigel kneale, yes - is there a legit release?

most recent dvd i watched - carnal knowledge (never seen this before - think i'd built it up in my mind too much, cos i was a bit underwhelmed - the ending is esp dreadful - but would still like to see little murders, another film written by jules fieffer (some of whose comics i love, esp his great graphic nov Tantrum))

Ratatouille (Brad Bird/Jan Pinkava, 2010)
Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)
Potiche (Francois Ozon, 2010)
The Informers (Gregor Jordan, 2008)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle, 1987)
The Trip (Michael Winterbottom, 2010)

ratatouille ftw there

Haywire (Steven Soderberg, 2012)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, 2011)
Dangerous Liasons (Stephen Frears, 1988)
Belle de Jour (Louis Brunel, 1967)
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011)
Une Femme est un Femme (Jean-Luc Goddard, 1961)
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961)
The Tree of Life (Terrance Malick, 2011)
The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppolla, 1983
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Mellville, 1970)

ugh. Soderbergh.

Kind of guessing and working backwards here:

Gimme Shelter
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Wedding Crashers
The Descent
Carnage
Branded To Kill
Tokyo Drifter
Diabolique
Dark of The Sun
Rancho Deluxe
Rancho Notorious
Puncture

hey craigo, 'the year of the sex olympics' is written by nigel kneale, yes - is there a legit release?

Not a legit release sadly, yr bog-standard DVDr jobbie. The BFI put it out a while back didn't it? Think it's stupid money for a proper copy.

Essential Killing
Submarine
Hobo with a Shotgun
Animal Kingdom
Sucker Punch
Green Lantern
Meek's Cutoff
War Horse
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher)
Margaret
Five Easy Pieces
Whisper of the Heart

mix of cinema and home, some for the first time.

>Tokyo Drifter

Would you recommend? I'm tempted to get the Criterion blu, have heard good things from a couple of friends.

Tintin : yeah it had ADD but I loved this.
Hamlet (Branagh) : Also kind of manic but I guess that's the point(?) Liked.
The Age Of The Medici
The Puppet Master
Habemus Papam
Sleeping Beauty (Leigh) : this was terrible

>Tokyo Drifter

Would you recommend? I'm tempted to get the Criterion blu, have heard good things from a couple of friends.

Yeah, I'd recommend it, although I'm more of a Branded... fan myself. When watching TD, take in the spectacle and don't worry about the story so much. I have the reissue DVD, which is gorgeous, but I've heard the blu is beyond stunning.

the mill & the cross (lech majewski): not sure what to make of it, some aspects of it were rly impressive tho

The Myth of the American Sleepover
Beginners
Meek's Cutoff
The first 40 minutes of The Help
Certified Copy
The Ides of March
Nostalgia for the Light
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Moneyball
Le Quattro Volte

Oh, and The Grey

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Face of Another