Last (x) movies you saw

I'm on the recent cult theme (not cult movies, but movies on cults)

The Master
The Sound of Her Voice
Kumare
Bill W.
Crazy Wisdom
The Source Family
The Institute

The last of which, just released on the eyetoons, is mind-bending spectacular fun.

Nice! I've only seen the first two. Recommendations for what I see next?

you gotta see the Source Family

Interestingly, of my list; the first two are fictional, and the rest are documentary of the so-strange-it's-true variety. They all fit nicely into a family of movies. Probably other titles too, any additions?

bad grandpa . i want more of that kind of ingeniosity in storytelling. lol/10

crystal fairy. the director said his movie is "about the birth of compassion in someone's life" and yes there is this moment in there but it was not clear if that realization will have a staying power, imo it was more interesting to see the annoying end of 2 random type of "new citizen of the world" who travel as a rite of passage/to find or escape themselves , the insecure lil shit talker "into the drug culture" and the sanctimonious new age hippy who got it all figured out, end of the world prophecy included. another lol/10 plus a big bag of unsalted peanuts.

Joshua. newborn crying / 10
the end was meh but as far as psychological horror goes they really touch a nerve with many ppl : will one's kids will be normal? made me think of a news item i read some months ago about a schizophrenic little girl that was hearing voices telling her to do violent/gory things. as far as mental illness exploitation goes it was pretty cool.

gravity. could have done without the praying thing.

the best offer. a bit of a mess , wanting to bite more than it can chew (the interrelations between Art! /Truth!/ Authenticity! /Love! /Value!/ etc!) and i knew where it was going rather early on but it did made me think bout things, the effects of our fears on life choices and time doesn't stop for anybody and stuff.
pensive thirtysomething/10

The Visitor (Giulio Paradisi, 1979): Italy's attempt to cash in on The Exorcist, I guess? A very fun midnight movie. John Huston slowly walks through many scenes and sometimes raises his arms.

Saw A field In England last night, bit weird and possibly self-consciously so. WAs it trying to ape 60s cinema?

& prior to that The Eagle about a Roman officer going North of Hadrian's wall to reclaim the standard of his father's legion. Couldn't place where I knew the British slave actor from and it was haunting me.

Chocolat (1988, Denis) 9/10
The Dawn Patrol (1930, Hawks) 7/10
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012, Resnais) 7/10
News from Home (1977, Akerman) 7/10
This Is Martin Bonner (2013, Hartigan) 7/10
Stark Love (1927, Brown) 7/10
Land of the Pharaohs (1955, Hawks) 6/10
The Counselor (2013, Scott) 6/10
Go for Sisters (2013, Sayles) 5/10
In the Name of... (2013, Szumowska) 4/10

Fleshpot on 42nd Street (5/10)
Mystery Date (3/10)
Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli (should never have gone—too tired)
Dead Ringers (8/10)
The Juror (6/10)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (7/10)
Jazz on a Summer’s Day (8/10)
Rising Sun (4/10)
The Player (8/10)
The Dead Zone (9/10)

Rikyu (Teshigara, 1989) - Looks great (those bamboos as Rikyu goes away to pass), bit long, with a terrific Takemitsu theme tune
Come and See (Klimov, 1985) - there are false notes in that collage towards the end (shall we kill baby hitler?) otherwise easily the best film about WWII in Europe I've seen.

On plane flights:

Skyfall (Mendes, 2012) - just bankrupt in every which way you can conceive of. At least the baddies win.
The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann, 2013) - so this gives up on being an adaptation and goes straight to a book reading for the final third or so, by which the time the pretty scenary loses impact and I don't think Luhrmann even bothers with his soundtrack choices, and I lost interest, too. Actually put me off reading the book, but I'm sure its far better...
Shield of Straw (Mike, 2013) - lacks the energy after the set-up (cops protecting awful child serial killer from a bounty on his life). Never watch enough from him to know where I'm at but on its own there wasn't much there.

a band called death 3/5
tootsie 3/5
all is lost 3.5/5
breaking the waves 3/5
ali 3/5

long nights journey into day (2000) 8/10
sankofa (1993) 7/10
the sapphires (2012) 2/10
the hunter (2011) 5/10

come and see is a tough watch! good though.

I've watched a few lately after watching virtually nothing between july and sept.

Glengarry Glen Ross 9/10
Shutter Island 4/10
Paris, Texas 10/10 rewatch
The Men Who Stare At Goats 6/10
Superbad 4/10
West World 6/10
Killer of Sheep 8/10 this was a strange one, reminded me how few art films ive seen lately.
Repo Man 7/10
Heathers 9/10 this is one dark mofo.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 7/10

The Act of Killing 10/10 (go see this now)
Prozac Nation 6/10 (weird seeing 1985 via 2001, but I love me some Christina Ricci)
A Bag of Hammers 2/10
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 5/10
The People Under The Stairs 6/10 (but good for a Halloween flick I guess)
Upstream Color 7/10
Antiviral 6/10

Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971) 5/5
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968) 3/5
Riddles of the Sphink (Mulvey/Wollen, 1977) 4/5 - I watched the wonderful new BFI edition of this - there's a distinctly unremastered copy on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9u5md4QjF0

Macbeth (Polanski, 1971) 3/5
Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955) 4/5
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962) 4/5
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974) 4/5
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) 4/5
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Fiennes, 2012) 4/5
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor, 2013) 2/5
Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948) 4/5
The River (Renoir, 1951) 4/5
Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) 3/5

Vertigo (Hitchcock 1958)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford 1940)
The Sicilian Clan (Verneuil 1969)
Marathon Man (Schlesinger 1976)
A TCM program of short films, including Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1944) and a few others.

Is it safe?

NYC in 1976? Definitely not.

Eyes Without a Face (1960; 2nd viewing; 5/5)
The Eye (2003; 3/5)
The Haunting (1963; 3/5)
Blood and Black Lace (1963; 3/5)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974; 3.5/5)
Only God Forgives (2013; 3/5)
The Devil, Probably (1977; 5/5)

i've been putting off watching devil, probably for a while! i should get round to it soon.

Riddles of the Sphinx is pretty neat, thanks for posting.

Jaws (Spielberg 1975)
Journey to Italy (Rossellini 1954) (dubbed in Italian w/English subtitles aaaarrgh)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (Chodorov 2010)
This Is Not a Film (Panahi 2011)
The Bourne Legacy (Gilroy 2012)
What Did the Lady Forget? (Ozu 1937)
Sisters (De Palma 1973)

Modern Romance

Spacefloor?

The Devil, Probably didn't initially seem like it would turn into one of Bresson's all-time greats while I was watching it, but by the time of the bus sequence, I was riveted.

Wuthering Heights (1939) 4/5
Beeswax (2010) 4/5 <---- so so so much better than expected

beeswax is beautiful

Went to see Philomena yesterday because this girl in the cinema asked me if i'd seen it when I went to see Gravity. It was a surprising film for one written by Steve Coogan since it was a weepie, I thought he was more cynical than that. Maybe it was written as a vehicle for him though.
Anyway nice very touching film about nuns in Magdalene laundries selling babies to America and one of the 'shamed' girls or underage mothers of one of the babies trying to find her lost child 50 years later.
This girl was played by Judy Dench who I haven't seen since Skyfall last year, she has presumably been making other things since but this seemed to be quite a contrast. Here she plays a woman who has grown up reading the Daily Mail and Romantic fiction and searching desperately for her abandoned child, there she apparently tried to disown am adopted child at least according to some opinions.

Both actors did great jobs as did several other cast members.

Kind of glad I went to this but wish my showing hadn't been interrupted by the gurglings of other audience members. Somehow I chanced upon a showing with a pair of babies in front of me and the residents of one of the local residential homes dotted around the rest of the audience.

But it was a cheap ticket for the luxury cinema so maybe worth it.
Wish I could think where I'd seen the actress playing the teenage Judy Dench character though.

Indiscriminate gobbling of films like Skittles continues.

Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha, 1964)
Mister 880 (Edmund Goulding, 1950)
Jeopardy (John Sturges, 1953)
L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)
Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor, 2013)
Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak (Eric Rohmer, 1951)
Une Étudiante d'aujourd'hui (Eric Rohmer, 1966)
Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton, 2012)

Murder by Numbers (6/10)
Body Double (7/10)
The Night Listener (7/10)
Watermark (7/10)
Spider-Man 3 (5/10)
Defense of the Realm (7/10)
Sleepwalking (6/10)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (4/10)
Domestic Disturbance (6/10)
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (6/10)

I'll blame my affection for the novel for thinking the adaptation of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a travesty; it's lucky it's not better known.

I saw your worst-movie-I've-ever-seen post before I posted that...Haven't read the novel. Thought it had some feeling (helped along by the kind of soundtrack ambiance I'm susceptible to), liked Nolte, and thought Sarsgaard was good, though I found the character quite annoying. I was puzzled the whole film as to the alleged bond that brought these three characters together. They shared this life-changing friendship/love for no visible reason that I could see.

Olympus Has Fallen: F-/A+

The Dunwich Horror the 1969 version with Dean Stockwell as the Necronomicon user
and Sandra Dee in partially clothed form. Very very B I thought, special effects seemed to consist of a wind machine and a solariser. As well as a mock up of an ancient one, and several people in hooded monks garb.
Had me wondering what other films there were based on H.P. Lovecraft stories and the only thing I could think of off hand was the alien ships in The Matrix. Or was Re-Animator based on his work?

Re-Animator, From Beyond and Dagon - all directed by Stuart Gordon - are all based on Lovecraft stories.

matrix 3 avi, pitch black vhs, many movies on tbs for the last 9d constantly, even while asleep, except the tv set mysteriously turned off one of the nights. p scarry

They shared this life-changing friendship/love for no visible reason that I could see.

otm. Their relationship made no sense.

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (6/10)
Stories We Tell (8/10)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (7/10)
Dodsworth (7/10)

Elysium (3/10)
Alice In Wonderland <Burton>(5/10)
2 Guns (2/10)

American Graffiti (1973, Lucas)
Demon Lover Diary (1980, DeMott)
Dances With Wolves (1990, Costner) slow build, worth it. could do without the voice-over
Tourist, the (2010, von Donnersmarck) pretty good!
Jack Reacher (2012, McQuarrie) lol no
Room 237 (2012, Ascher)
Field of Dreams (1989, Robinson)

wreck-it ralph
post tenebras lux
gandahar (aka light years)

Elysium (3/10)
Alice In Wonderland <Burton>(5/10)

If Elysium is indeed worse than Burton's Alice, then I certainly made the right decision in turning down an invite to see it during the summer.

seems impossible imo

In the last week-point-five (in descending order of good):

Her
Computer Chess
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Blue Jasmine
Frozen
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Oldboy
Philomena
Black Nativity
Escape from Tomorrow
Nebraska
Delivery Man
Dallas Buyers Club

!! so the Woody wasn't crap...

I have about 25 titles to post.

Yeah, color me surprised. I guess it's a "once every 15 years or so" thing with him now.

I watched New World last night which has the fabulous Min-sik Choi(Oldboy) in it and it was a stylish Infernal Affairs type gangster movie, it was quite predictable but I really love shit like this and the style and understated performances more than make up for the hackneyed plot.

oh Spike Lee has done a hack remake of Oldboy, that sounds dreadful.

Dracula AD 1972 - lots of fun, some hilarious attempts at getting the youth culture, Dracula's hardly in it.
Magical Mystery Tour - not too good! Music video bits are good except for Fool on the Hill (super embarrassing) but the skits are all overlong and painful. Why didn't they include I'm Going in a Field?
Death and the Compass - some interesting directorial choices, not sure it adds up to a satisfying whole
Eureka (Aoyama) - feel like my interrupted viewing of this took a bit away, but this was really something. Fantastic performances. All the coughing stressed me out though!

Fargo (10/10)
Miller’s Crossing (10/10)
No Country for Old Men (10/10)
Blood Simple (7/10)
Enough Said (8/10)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (8/10)
Marathon Man (9/10)
Sisters (6/10)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (6/10)
November (6/10)