Last (x) movies you saw

McBain (James Glickenhaus, 1991) - this is fucking nonsense and not even fun with it, bar the odd walken moment.

Woah, McBain is a real movie?! Does he get Mendoza in the end?

Godspell (Greene, 1973) 3/5 Can't decide if my favourite bit was when Jesus and the disciples are partying in the fountain or the bit when the pharisees are a robotic monster.
The Red Shoes (Archers, 1948) 4.5/5 such a colourful and fun movie. I love how long and fantastical the ballet section is. I saw Play Time last week and it strikes me how both are one-of-a-kind type movies.
The Killing (Kubrick, 1956) 3.5/5 quality noir.
Cruel Intentions (Kumble, 1999) 2.5/5 stop judging me!

I tried to watch Pickpocket (sat night) and Close-Up (sun night) but was too tired to give either the attention they deserved.

An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962)
I Was Born, But... (Ozu, 1932)

oh, an alternate ending for certified copy ..

les glaneurs et la glaneuse (varda). graceful and seems so effortless, 10/10.
la mala educacion (almodovar), good as usual.

Slither (1973, Zieff) 6/10
Hearts of the West (1975, Zieff) 7/10
Footnote (2011, Cedar) 6/10
Perret in France and Algeria (2012, Emigholz) 8/10
Five Broken Cameras 7/10
Troublemakers (1966, Macover, Fruchter) 7/10
The Contract (1977, Kiarostami) 7/10
Sitting Pretty (1933, Brown) 6/10
Silver Linings Playbook 5/10
Moonrise Kingdom 9/10
Killer Joe 5/10

I.D. (Phil Davis, 1995) 3/5
7 Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, 2012) 1/5
Jamon Jamon (Bigas Luna, 1992) 4/5
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981) 4/5

argo yeah ok
flight yeah ok, to a point
lawless never ok
network better than ok but got a bit much
manhattan great
nashville didnt get this but enjoyed it anyway

Beauty is Embarrassing (2012; 3/5)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012; 4/5)
The Long Day Closes (1992; 5/5)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948; 5/5)
The Imposter (2012; 3.5/5)
In a Lonely Place (1950; 2nd viewing; 5/5)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970; 3/5)
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012; 2/5)

Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959) 4/5 To me this wasn't quite up there with the other two bressons i've seen. good tho nonetheless.
Close-up (Kiarostami, 1990) 4.5/5 awesome
Berberian Sound Studio (Strickland, 2012) 4/5 I liked this a lot
Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997) 3.5/5 good
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972) 3.5/5 fun but unsettling (lol satire)

Inescapable: cut rate South African/Canadian remake of Taken without any pacing that thinks it's far more clever than it is. not a good film

Amour: 5/5

"Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997)"

"Jaws (Stephen, 1975)"

i just stopped halfway through code unknown so i can finish it fully awake; holy shit this is good.

sweet dreams

The Bitter Buddha, q+a with filmmaker and Eddie Pepitone followed, of course I had to ask a babbling non-question like every q+a of any kind

L’UNIVERS DE JACQUES DEMY (Orig.) (Varda, 1993) - always good to see film footage but yu can't help feeling she is guarded abut Demy in a way Varda might not be about herself in her other films. Makes the silence on his death strange.

nashville didnt get this but enjoyed it anyway

― lance armstrong will have been delighted (darraghmac)

Just noticed this, would like to hear more. If you enjoyed it, I think you did get it.

Ha that's fair, having read the threads on it.

enjoyed it but thought it was pretentious overrated rubbish

If you mean the film itself, as opposed to all that's been written about it, I don't totally understand the charge of pretentiousness. To me that always goes hand in hand with excessive solemnity, which is not Nashville. I can certainly understand where someone might find it unfunny or glib.

Nakhville

Naffville?

M*A*S*H*

should have called it M*E*S*S*

The Too Long Goodbye

xpost whaaat

Ashes of Time Redux (Stephen, 1975. Haha, happy now Albert?) 3.5/5 There were some beautiful bits (all the birdcage stuff) and then "you gained an egg but lost a finger. was it worth it?" was a good line but ultimately it was too hard to follow.
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999) 5/5 my second watch. loved it.
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980) 5/5 great
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987) 4/5 the first half is perfect but the second half is a mess imo.
Iron Giant (Bird, 1999) 3/5 ok.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen, 2010) 2.5/5 whatev.

wong is the surname

antares (gotz spiegelmann '04) 3.5/5
bellflower (evan glodell '11) 3/5
walking and talking (holofcener '96) 3/5
drive, he said (nicholson '71) 1.5/5
reds (beatty, '81) 3/5
eyes of laura mars (irvin kershner, '78) 1.5/5
seance on a wet afternoon (forbes, '64) 4/5 - anyone see the nu-kurosawa version? any good?
rapture (john guillermin, '65) 3.5/5
invisible waves (pen-ek ratanaruang, '06) 3/5

what'd u think of reds johny

reasonably into it, felt a bit too academic but the witnesses are great; beatty is p blank, honestly dont feel like i learned much abt reed; liked keaton; needed more nicholson as oneill

leviathan is a dream of hell and drowning and should be seen in theaters for sure.

Premium Rush (Koepp, 2012) B
End of Watch (Ayer,2012) B+
Your Sister's Sister (Shelton, 2011) B-
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968) A
Charade (Kellino, 1953) C+
Dreams of a Life (Morley, 2012) B
The Sweeney (Love, 2012) C
Intouchables (Toledano, 2011) B+
Frankenweenie (Burton, 2012) C. I kind of wish Burton would stretch himself and make a movie about some 'normal' people as his gothic schtick feels well played out now.
His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) B
McCullin (Morris, 2012) A
Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012) B
Gambit (Hoffman, 2012) C. Not the car crash I was expecting but given the talent involved should have been so much better.

leviathan is like live-action brakhage

brakhage's The Jungle maybe yeah

Tempest, the (2010, Taymor) ***
Mona Lisa (1986, Jordan) C+
Crash (2004, Haggis) http://www.robertchristgau.com/icon/x2.gif
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima) has redeeming facet
Kes (1970, Loach) +++++
Senso (1954, Visconti) SSS
Taken (2009, Morel) 4 jox
Threepenny Opera, the (1931, Pabst) PG
Observe and Report (2009, Hill) 9/4/8/7

Funny you should ref christgau, as that is the first rating system I've seen that's more convoluted than his.

seul contre tous (noe)
noriko's dinner table (sono)

The Master (PTA, 2012) - 3/5
Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012) - 3/5
Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012) - 3.5/5
High Noon (Fred Zinneman, 1952) - 3/5
A Good Day to Die Hard - 0/5
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011) - 2.5/5

Lore (Cate Shortland, 2013) - Germany's post WWII fallout as Bavarian folk tale. Haunting, and pretty. Saskia Rosendahl is perfect as the sullen, stubborn, conflicted Aryan teen leading her siblings through the Black Forest in occupied Germany. 4/5
Absentia (Mike Flanagan, 2012) - Spookily effective and creepy slow-burn indie horror on a Kickstarter budget. 3.5/5
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) - Anti-Western in which the genre's familiar landscape of Monument Valley and dusty border towns is replaced with the bone-chilling, snowy wastes of Utah, and the trope of the taciturn, lone wolf hero single-handedly saving a town from outlaws is mockingly skewered. 3.5/5
Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) - Incredible art design and costumes etc, and Tilda Swinton - who is hilarious - has exactly the type of face you would expect to see gazing out from an Elizabethan portrait. 4/5

Feeling those DavidM. Thought Lore was brilliant.

Saw die hard another day, twas cack.

Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano, 2005) - while I enjoyed Fellini's 8½ immensely, it's a shame that every director seems to feel they have to do their own version of it when they run out of ideas. (2/5)
Le Quai des Brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938) - doom-laden from the first scene onwards, it can only end one way - badly! Extremely French. Michel Simon is great in this one. (5/5)
Sanshiro Sugata Pt.1 (Akira Kurosawa, 1943) - very good debut, now I have the rest of the Early Kurosawa box set to trawl through, hope it's all as good as this. (4/5)

Couldn't find Kôhei Oguri's name in a search, so I'm not sure if Muddy River (1981) has ever been mentioned on the board. I saw it this afternoon for the first time. A couple of minor quibbles with the last 15 minutes--which is pretty great regardless--but I think I'd put it just a notch below The 400 Blows, Pather Panchali, and L'enfance nue as the best films ever made about kids.

Man the we and the i sucked

le quattro volte (michelangelo frammartino, 2010): 4.5/5
bronson (nicholas wending refn, 2008): 3.5/5
gigante (adrian biniez, 2009): 3.5/5
the man from nowhere (jeong-beom lee, 2010): 3.5/5
that evening sun (scott teems, 2009): 3.5/5
the woman in the window (fritz lang, 1944): 4/5
what happened was ... (tom noonan, 1994): 3.5/5

Late Spring (Ozu, 1949) 4.5/5
Summer With Monika (Bergman, 1953) 3.5/5

stoker (park, 2013) 3.5/5

the editing in the film was atrocious but the acting was satisfactory and park did a commendable job of creating a moody, tense atmosphere centered on an otherwise been-there-done-that plot.

Plein Soleil (aka Purple Noon; Clément, 1960) - 8/10. Amazing just to look at, for one thing.
The Master (Anderson, 2012) - 7/10 or 8/10, my mood changes hourly on this.

The Queen of Versailles
The American Astronaut

Only the Young - everyone please go see this if it is screening near you. If it's not ask your local weird movie place if they will book it. It's quite wonderful, if you are like me and have a weird atavistic fascination with the emotional lives of teenagers, or if you like desolate wastelands of southern California suburbs.

check that, DVD release on 4/30.

Saw a good documentary on Greenwich Village tonight. Nothing the least bit surprising, but lots of great clips. My favorites were Mama Cass in the Big Three, the Simon Sisters backing up Oscar Brand, the Spoonful clip below where Zal Yanovsky flubs the beginning of "Do You Believe in Magic," Joni Mitchell doing "Night in the City," and an amazing clip of Melanie singing "Lay Down" in what looked like an empty industrial space where they stockpiled cement sewer drains--couldn't find it on YouTube. Of the many talking heads, I liked Don McLean the best, and couldn't figure out why Steve Earle was there. Odd omissions: don't think Joan Baez was mentioned once, or Paul Simon. Folk music in the early '60s sure was filled with gorgeous willowy women: Mary Travers, Mimi Farina, Michelle Phillips, Judy Collins, Joni.

http://www.greenwichmusicdoc.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysRa5HDB2ZY

I will say, as much as I love a lot of that folk stuff, after an hour straight of nothing but, "Do You Believe in Magic" sounded like "Anarchy in the UK"--and the DJ who came on next explaining what rock and roll lacked that folk music was able to bring to it evidently knows a lot more about folk music than rock and roll.