Last (x) movies you saw

love The Eel's old-waveness

lol guess the lack of 'action' and its quirks are 'new wave' ingredients. Overall tho' I kept thinking Imamura = Chabrol.

Towelhead
Hook, Line and Sinker

Watched Paper Moon last night, what an awesome movie.

Anybody here on http://letterboxd.com/ ? Social network thing for films, where you can do what we basically do here: list watched films, give ratings, reviews. Also you can make lists, follow friends, etc.
It's still in beta testing, and you'll need an invite to join - I have an invite going spare if anyone's interested in checking it out (that person will then receive 3 invites of their own to send out). It's much, much better than Flixster of what-have-you. It's a nicely designed, easy to use site, imo. Anyway, holla if you want the invite.

I'm : http://letterboxd.com/davidm2000ad/ btw

Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968) 5/5

Really want to see this - not a failure at all then?

I thought it was slightly short of being sublime — amazing photography, hysterical and surreal dialogue (and costumes), and an absolutely stunning setting. The stars are the only thing that keep it from being more widely recognized as a masterpiece, imo — but they are a huge part of the reason it is so great.

great, thx for saying a bit more.

haha, I saw Boom! in a beautiful print at Lincoln Center about 5 years ago. It's dreadful, but not boring.

xyzzzz, i agree w/ you about the eel - i remember it being a bit baggy and all over the place - but really enjoyed a recentish home viewing of his vengeance is mine, which is a lot more 'together', even p exciting in places, and yet still has a 'sociological' emphasis on poverty, prostitution etc. i saw imamura's remake of the ballad of narayama many years ago, and the only thing i can recall now is a scene where an old woman smashes her own teeth out, deliberately (for reasons i can't recall!)

Yeah think I saw that years ago, totally forgot about it till now and it was p solid iirc.

On the theme of poverty/prostitution I'd like to see The Pornographers, looks promising.

it's not great

Distant Voice, Still Lives (1988, Terence Davies) 4/5
trilogy (1976-83, Terence Davies) 2/5
Keyhole (2011, Guy Maddin) 3/5 (tentative)
The Deep Blue Sea (2011, Terence Davies) 3/5
Queen of Diamonds (1991, Nina Menkes) 3/5
Attenberg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari) 4/5
La Terra Trema (1948, Luchino Visconti) 4/5
Reenactment (1968, Lucian Pintilie) 4/5
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975, Andrzej Zulawski) 2/5
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011, Lasse Hallstrom) 1/5
The Oak (1991, Lucian Pintile) 4/5
Detachment (2011, Tony Kaye) 1/5

Henry Poole was Here
Muppets Take Manhattan
Doctor Zhivago
Fools Rush In

Adam Bruneau: When I saw Paper Moon as a kid on VHS I kept rewinding to the part where they make change for $10. I wanted to learn how to do that swindle and make so much money, ha!

Kuroneko
Apollonides (sp?)
Un Ete Brulant

Have been watching a lot of pulpy things recently.

The Oregonian 3.5/5
Possession 5/5
Dale & Tucker vs Evil 3/5
Don't Torture A Duckling 3/5
Lizard In A Woman's Skin 4/5
Night Of The Hunted 4.5/5
To Live & Die In LA 5/5
Miami Vice 4/5
S. Darko 4/5
Paris Is Burning 5/5
The Shrine 2.5/5

How was Kuroneko?

Night of the Hunter
Brute Force

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011)
The Awakening (Nick Murphy, 2011)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2011)
The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986)

http://letterboxd.com/davidm2000ad/

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)-really enjoyed this film!

Mexico: the Frozen Revolution (Raymundo Gleyzer, 1973) - doc detailing the history from the Mexican revolution and how that ws suppressed by the emergent middle class culminating in the '68 student murders. Its a familiar story, leaves wanting more details and questions...

Salaam Dunk (David Fine, 2011) - as part of the Human Rights fest at the ICA. A heartwarming story around the university's Iraqui Women's basketball players and their American coach - can't doubt the personal good intentions, unfortunately had to ask myself if this wasn't using culture to build bridges and 'civilise'.

Enchanted Earth (Glauber Roach, 1967) - drama of another revolution betrayed. Its told with a really unique style -- wilful obsfucation of plot satifyingly replaced with powerful allegory matched by pristine cinematography. A film where risks are truly being taken.

High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968) - fine and watchable but I'm hardly going to get behind someone that accepts the manipulative nature of docs by piling more of it. Easy answers.

@tanuki "Kuroneko" is a beauty.

Ronin - Finally saw this. Was fun. Blu-ray looks amazing.

The Prowler

Rockers

Great Expectations (David Lean, 1946) 3.5/5
Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987) 5/5
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011) 4/5
Butterflys Tongue (Jose Luis Cuerda, 1999) 4/5
Parked (Darragh Byrne, 2011) 1/5
The Firm (Alan Clarke, 1989) 4/5
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) 3/5
The Sleeping Voice (Benito Zambrano, 2011) 3/5

The Long, Long Trailer

I liked Wiseman's High School and Hospital.

Song of Summer (Ken Russell, 1968) 4.5/5
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1994) 3/5
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986) 3/5
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) 5/5
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992) 4/5
The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977) 3/5
The Debussy Film (Ken Russell, 1965) 4/5
Always on Sunday (Ken Russell, 1965) 3.5/5

eating raoul ('82 bartel)
lips of blood ('75 rollin)
the nude vampire ('69 rollin)
killing car ('89 rollin)
13 going on 30 ('04 winick)
your highness ('11 gordon green) (-3/5 btw)
the piano teacher ('02 haneke)
no strings attached ('11 reitman)
two girls and a guy ('97 toback)
the end of violence ('97 wenders)
new york stories ('89 allen/coppola/scorsese)

Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors

Oh my lord what a film. Was a bit tired when I started watching but the whole thing jolted me awake, such a weird film, really doesn't seem like it's nearly 50 years old.

oh yeah that's great. was this the hawk & a hacksaw remix thing?

No, just got the straight DVD. Can see how AHAAH would be perfect to do stuff for that. The OST is amazing.

they sorta skimmed in & out of suiting the film. but the film was beautiful, yeah, the light and the colour's gorgeous, he really knew how to spin a camera around for the sheer messy optics of film grain, i feels so delirious sometimes

British Sounds (JLG, 1969)
Climates (Nuri Ceylan, 2006)
Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010)

Re-watched:
Karate Kid and about half of Lawrence of Arabia - knew the boy's own bullshit would put me to sleep (really in need due to flu recovery) and right enough it did.

Times Square (1980, Allan Moyle) 3/5
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976, John Cassavetes) 4/5
It's Only Money (1962, Frank Tashlin) 3/5
The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies) 4/5
The Big Lebowski(1998, Joel Coen) 3/5
Hard Times (1975, Walter Hill) 4/5
Sleepwalk (1986, Sara Driver) 2/5
Four Lovers (2010, Antony Cordier) 2/5
Las Acacias (2011, Pablo Giorgelli) 3/5
Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo) 5/5

nuri ceylan is good, he is an exemplar of the current sort of /international style/ of ~serious cinema~ that might be transposed from one continent to another, while allowing a sensitivity to local climate, myths, decor etc

Kind of, see it as a continuation-furthering of a style that began in parts of SE Asia in the 80s.

Haven't seen his new one..

The Divide (2011)-yuk!
Our Idiot Brother (2011)

Times Square and Eating Raoul were two films I watched pretty close together when I was in this 80's film phase for a month. Foxes(1980) was what I watched right after Times Square as a double feature.

requiem for a vampire (rollin '71)
late marriage (kosashvili '01)
30 minutes or less (fleischer '11)
same time, next year (mulligan '78)
friends with benefits (gluck '11)
the crazy family (ishii '84)
nights of cabiria (fellini '57)
la ronde (ophuls '50)

<3 la ronde

Old School (Todd Philips, 2002) 2/5
The Shootist (Monte Hellman, 1966) 3/5
The Awakening (Nick Murphy, 2011) 3.5/5
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011) 3.5/5
Best Laid Plans (David Blair, 2012) 4/5
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) 4.5/5
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011) 3.5/5
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) 4.5/5
Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, 2007) 3.5/5
They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey, 1971) 4/5

Not Reconciled (Straub-Huillet, 1965) - hilariously imcomprehensible.
Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006) - best film about football - hardly much competition on that front tho'.
This is not a Film (Jafar Panahi, 2011) - much funnier than I thought it was going to be. And goes w/out saying, its a superlative film.
Fire in Babylon (Stevan Riley, 2010) - doc about the 15 year period of West Indian dominance. Not sure about some of the claims of the team's significance outside the cricket - wanted more on that, and maybe a chunk of an update post-dominance too and for the claims to be examined in relation to that.

As a Windies fan, i enjoyed Fire In Babylon but it didn't really do enough to convey their sporting brilliance or provide much meat on the broader political significance.

Rather glad they didn't provide a post-dominance update though :(

Bored at home with the kids this week and we have watched

Matilda (1996) - funny & cute & weird Dahl adaptation with a truly unnerving scary woman.
Catwoman (2004) - I think we're the only people in the world who quite liked this.
The Dark Knight (2008) - Awesome fun but over-long imo.
Stuart Little 2 (2002) - meh, but my daughter liked it.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) - entertaining and quirky Vampire/freak thing based on books my son loved.

then 'Enter The Dragon' tonight <3

john carter 1/5
beyond atlantis 2/5
the kid with a bike 4/5
four flies on grey velvet 4/5 (lovely new blu-ray, watched on a massive screen mmm)
the house of laughing windows 3/5
scream 4 3/5
cold prey 2: resurrection 3/5

Dracula - Prince of Darkness (Terence Fisher, 1966. Blu-ray) 4/5
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962. Blu-ray) 4/5
Wrath of the Titans (Jonathan Liebsman, 2012. Cinema) 2/5
Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis, 1981. TV) 3.5/5
In Time (Andrew Nicol, 2011. DVD) 2/5
Real Steel (Shawn Levy, 2011. Blu-ray) 3/5
Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox, 1986. TV) 2.5/5
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984. Blu-ray) 4.5/5
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (Peter Lord, 2012. Cinema) 4/5

Love Repo Man. How is the blu compared to dvd, if you're able to say? Am tempted to double-dip (again).

I did watch the DVD a couple of years ago and had no problems with how it looked, but the Blu-ray upgrade is impressive. It's gorgeous, it really is; the colours pop but it hasn't been over sharpened. It's a great looking film though - surprising for the type of film it is.
Good extras on the Masters of Cinema Blu-ray too - it even includes Alex Cox's TV cut, with its "melonfarmer" dialogue replacement, which is good for a laugh. And the interview with Harry Dean Stanton is, er, interesting.

Cheers - it's now on the wishlist!