Last (x) movies you saw

that final slo-mo scene & buildup was worth it.

Something in the Air (Assayas, 2012) - If he hadn't made Carlos this would be pure hokum. Works in that line, with a great last scene.

saw this tonight, really enjoyed it. Long & meandering & pretty & fun & namedroppy. There's kevin ayers! There's john ashberry! &c

some v cuet actors in it too

I'll see Something in the Air within a week or two--I hope it's better than the Bertolucci's The Dreamers.

Get rid of that stray "the."

Disorder (2009, Huang) 9/10
Vamps (2012, Heckerling) 8/10
Stories We Tell (2012, Polley) 7/10
Augustine (2012, Winocour) 6/10
Broken Arrow (1950, Daves) 7/10
*Badlands (1973, Malick) 8/10
*The Girl Can't Help It (1956, Tashlin) 6/10
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012, Nance) 8/10
*Sabotage (1936, Hitchcock) 8/10
The Red House (1947, Daves) 7/10
Pride of the Marines (1945, Daves) 7/10
Who's Minding the Store? (1963, Tashlin) 7/10
The Last Wagon (1956, Daves) 7/10
Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990, Wu) 8/10
*Voyage to Italy (1954, Rossellini) 10/10
Under the Sun of Satan (1987, Pialat) 5/10

*rewatches

Le Jour Se Leve (Carne, 1939) 9.5/10
The Connection (Clarke, 1961) 7/10
Cocksucker Blues (Frank, 1972) 4/10
Ornette: Made in America (Clarke, 1986) 7/10
Moi, un Noir (Rouch, 1958) (bailed 20 minutes in because shakycam makes me nauseous)

Providence (Alain Resnais) 10/10

Looking forward to 'The Wall' on Friday.

Gangster Squad comic-book escapism with added violence.
& Josh Brolin looking like a young Nick Nolte, who was himself in the film though he's spread rather latitudinally so might no longer be immediately recognisable.

Quite enjoyed it though I missed th ebegining and then spent ages trying to work out when it was set. i remembered thinking i'd read that it was '49 which would make sense of the heroes being ex-army, now cops.

the cowboy guy looks like Bowie playing Tesla, was it the liquid metal Terminator actor? Knew I'd seen him somewhere.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:33 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was better than i'd hoped, straight lift of untouchables with more than a dash of black dahlia/la confidential. schlock but well done schlock, knew it was schlock kind of thing. nolte weird looking, brolin nolte looking, penn wtf looking and robert patrick looking like john voight kinda

i'm p sure gf did not draw breath at any stage while ryan gosling was on screen

The Loved Ones - ridiculously unhinged enough to work, despite the gore porn tendencies
The Future - I really hated this. Indie mumblecore at its most grinding

Oh I enjoyed Sugarman

The Wall was less enjoyable than I hoped. Too gloomy ultimately.

the future destroyed me, but i can see why someone would find it irritating.

Seduced and Abandoned (on Hulu/Criterion) is A+ indictment of sicilian patriarchy, just a great film

Miranda July was really proud of those damned cat v/o's, but slice them out and The Future would've been tolerable (if a lot more generic).

latest batch:

the battle of algiers
melancholia
valhalla rising
rio bravo
casablanca
jesus of montreal
a canterbury tale

I had vaguely meant to see The Future, but that was before I discovered (just now) that they had cat voice overs.

Spring Breakers. Well, THAT scene, you know which one I'm talking about, with the... song... was absolutely freaking brilliant. The rest was ok.

Only God Forgives. I've been a bit proud that there has been three Danish directors with films in Cannes these last few years, but after seeing this I remembered that two of those are bat-shit crazy misogynists, and the third is Thomas Vinterberg... Still, I like the career Winding Refn has build up, few people have had as many ups and downs, and pretty much all of his downs are because he's made a stylish but mindless sadistic film like this. At some point you would have thought he would have learnt his lesson, but no... Still, it's very well made, beautiful to look at, and with iconic characters, but you've seen almost all of it before...

The cat voice-overs are not the sort of twee whimsy you might think though. They are the saddest thing in the movie.

xp

Sad that they're in the movie.

p sure i have indignant & blustering defences of the future elsewhere on ilx so won't repeat, but yeah the dismissal of that stuff/this film in general as twee is really lazy, i think - it's a really thoughtful, personal film about anxiety & creativity but receives a lot of the same reflexive rejection as something like girls, with assumptions that it's just some kind of miranda july video diary capturing entitled whites. such an interesting film, it really gets at some of the boundaries that people draw around their activities in a way that nothing else i can think of does.

a funny thing about The Future is that Miranda July let the Old Christine guy play the "Miranda July part".

trailer for the future was insufferable, were any of those bits in the film

I liked The Future and the cat parts were heartbreaking

I actually went out and strangled a cat on the way home from seeing that movie.

nooooooo

we can't talk anymore xp

i pretty much avoid all movies where bad things might potentially happen to cats

but it's a cat voiced by Miranda July

i pretty much avoid all movies where bad things might potentially happen to cats

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 06:34 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never ever watch Satantango!

Or Maurice Pialat's L'enfance nue.

Or Boondock Saints

or Gummo

Or an american tail

or disney's cinderella

that scene in satantango...

i will second the request to never watch gummo

Or Dogtooth

Is there a doesthecatdie.com?

No?

Only a doesthedogdie.com?

Nobody cares about cats.

or ppl who aren't American, in Argo

i've seen dogtooth but fortunately got warned ahead of time so i knew when to avert my eyes.

tbh i am completely fine with never seeing satantango, boondock saints, or gummo.

what about 1900?

you should totally see gummo. bicycle scene = the tree of life that actually works.

All rewatches except for the first and then the last two on the list.

The Organizer (Monicelli, 1963) 7/10
Husbands and Wives (Allen, 1992) 8/10
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) 10/10
Reality Bites (Stiller, 1994) 6/10
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951) 9/10
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming etc, 1939) 9/10
Battle Royale (Fukasaku, 2000) 3/10
Mysteries of Lisbon (Ruiz, 2010) 5/10

Madame Bovary (Chabrol, 1991) - Don't really care for Chabrol and haven't paid any attn to Flaubert, just any ol' excuse to watch Isabelle Huppert walking around in triffic gowns for a couple of diverting hours on a breezy Sun afternoon.

^^^^ first Chabrol I ever saw (in the theatre!)

Before Midnight
8 1/2 (third viewing)
Nat'l Lampoon's European Vacation (christ this was junk -- the worst of the original trilogy?)

Yes, I saw it at a nice screening today. Really liked the scene @ the ball, and I suppose given the lack of human feel to any Chabrol the literary material suits. Not sure what Flaubert fans think of it?

mysteries of lisbon is excellent. so sensual.

i can't remember what i've seen but I loved the secret of the grain. so rich. even its portrait of small-town racism is somehow warm.