Last (x) movies you saw

Inside llewyn Davis - really good
Her - worthwhile
Hunger Games: Catching Fire - ok
American Hustle - sort of lame
Frances Ha - good

Paradise: Faith (3/5)
Star Trek Into Darkness (3/5)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2/5)
Inside Llewyn Davis (4/5)
Cluny Brown (rewatched: 4/5)

Prisoners (2013) hokum, pity as it looked good and there was potential in two lead performances/characters

lol i watched tht last night also -- agreed, theres not really much there; it held my interest but it so wants to have it every way & that makes it even more empty

jackman hammer-destroying the sink was p cool tbh

thought jackman was going somewhere p interesting with the guy until he just became a flatface moron, pity

also- missed probably about half the dialogue, ludicrous mix

tho i mean it was free so maybe that was just us hem hem

is Jake nude in it

no but his hair is ridiculous idk if that's a help or hindrance

https://static.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/51ce6099e4b0d911b4489b79/51ce618ae4b0d911b4497922/1372436555069/1000w/trailer-for-the-intense-hugh-jackman-thriller-prisoners-header.jpg

that and worse at times tbh

his hair is OUT OF CONTROL in the scene that still is from

The Great Beauty (4/5) - could have done with a bit of pruning, Sorrentino's best yet though
Mouchette (5/5) -
Fahrenheit 451 (3/5) - weirdly stilted dialogue and inexplicable use of a heavily-accented German actor in the lead role make for a strange viewing experience. Great fire engine though! Can Julie Christie actually act?
The Honeymoon Killers (5/5) - up there with Carnival Of Souls and Blast Of Silence as great debuts by directors who never seemed to do anything much else.
Ikarie XB-1 (4/5) - Czech SF from the early 1960s, seems to have influenced both Star Trek and 2001. Awesome futuristic disco scene, midway between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Music by Zdenek Liska, who really needs more of his scores reissued.
Pierrot Le Fou (3/5) - not sure if Godard's really dated that well tbh.
Les Enfants Terrible (3/5) - bit of a fascinating mess, maybe Cocteau should have just directed it himself.
Los Olvidados (5/5) - best film I've seen from Bunuel's Mexican period, could have lapsed into either sentimentality or cynicism but thankfully doesn't.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (5/5) - knowing what's coming (on a 2nd viewing) doesn't make this any easier to sit through. SPOILER imdb page suggests Otilia is maybe pregnant herself, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.
Mother Joan Of The Angels (5/5) - Polish adaptation of The Devils Of Loudon,but starting after the events depicted in Russel's The Devils. Second Run DVD are really pulling out some great East European obscurities of yesteryear, Daisies is the only disappointing one I've seen so far.

Mouchette - can't think of anything to say about it you couldn't say about any Bresson. Um, the DVD making of feature is worth a look.

ikarie is on my list, need to see that.

Runner Runner (1/5) - I don't get the public's acceptance of Ben Affleck. This guy is poison.
The Lone Ranger (3/5) - Verbinski is a mess of a director here but the visuals are gorgeous.
Blue Jasmine (2/5)
Ginger Baker In Africa (4/5)

that Ginger Baker doc is crazy!

affleck gets out-acted by justin timberlake in that movie

He gets out-acted by a rattan chair at one point I think!
I kept watching because Gemma Arterton.

affleck's been acting longer than i've been alive and he still uses his eyebrows like this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uxSGRNLA6o

Blue Jasmine shold be a 3/5 from me. Thought Cate B summoned more out of that flimsy script than it deserved. I couldn't stop watching her.

H4A that video reminds me of something Buñuel wrote to the effect that "eyebrow" acting was a dead giveaway for him of a shitty actor.

yeah that + not controlling your blinking are decent giveaways that your watchin an amateur. i was watching lee ving (of Fear) in a straight to video action movie a while back and both his eyelids and eyebrows were moving 1000 mph

Eyebrows working overtime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-yFLKTjqQ

Pet Peeve: child actors who blink overtime when playing 'curious'.

xpost hahah

Enjoyed watching all of these movies
Prisoners
Insidious 2
The Kill List
Gravity
12 Years A Slave
Leave Her To Heaven
East Of Eden
To The Wonder

Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, 2001) - post- Fill the Void I reminded myself to track a torrent of this. Great sex scene, well-played all round through the ending. The family as oppression made to feel real by also showing how weak minded and pathetic it is, by how childish its threats are.

So far in 2014:

Playtime (Tati, 1967) - I'll be damned if that isn't one of the best, meticulously designed - both image and in sound - movies ever, although it didn't really kick into life and joy till the restaurant scene, Bcz its not that funny and I didn't have time for the "modernism is fucking up human interaction" theme.

Day for Night (Truffaut, 1973) - Leaud is awesome (the scene with Truffaut where he tries to talk him out of his depression - over a girl, natch - feels as for real as anything, surely he was auditioning for La Mama et la Putain) here. Ultimately its not that good on cynicism and the movies like 8 1/2 but what can you do?

Gloria (Sebastian Leilo, 2012) - very beautiful, touching, funny film, and probably the first Chilean film I've seen that isn't about the coup. Just people living, getting hurt, dancing and laughing about it afterwards.

The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013) - this will get Act of Killing comparisons just because they are about attrocities in Asia and has unusual devices to carry out an impossible re-creation (clay figurines here). This takes an essayistic approach - much more to my tastes - the script is beautiful, the images are relentlessly grim. A friend said that it was too much, even suggesting the possibility of an introduction of humour (just somehow!) before 'laughing' that idea off. Ultimately, its an important film - we don't know enough about the Khmer Rouge, it feels undocumented (and document we must) because of the lack of everything about it, basically. The destruction of all culture - no music, no dancing, no writing, no poetry - was unique. Most Soviet-types states didn't even try to do that, so its an important attempt to understand this attempt to 'make it new', the particular form and shape it took. They still use film to record camps and make propaganda, with a lack of any aesthetic sense (an attempt to be corny with it, like the soviets, or bad) that was disturbing.

Lady in the Lake (1947) Hoaky (a bit) yet impressive

Post Tenebras Lux
Sidelong Glances Of A Pigeon Kicker
Funeral Parade Of Roses
Secret Ceremony (Mia Farrow's most insane and creepy performance ever; she's not a normal person.)
The Lives Of Others

better keep that comment in the film thread, mp!

I thought that there were at least 2 performances in BJ better than Cate of the Tics (Hawkins and Dice Clay).

now you see me- trashy as fuck but knows it and p good fun

>better keep that comment in the film thread, mp!

seriously. your 'thread is off-topic' post was my one sad lol of the afternoon.

American Hustle (Russell '13)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot '53)
Pennies from Heaven (Ross '81) - technically a rewatch, though it had been 32 years and I didn't remember much
The Third Man (Reed '49) - rewatch
The Godfather (Coppola '72)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson '11)
Klute (Pakula '71)
Predator (McTiernan '87)
Suspicion (Hitchcock '41)
The Godfather Part II (Coppola '74)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Kurosawa '45)

First time watchin godfather!

Yeah, and Part II also. I kept putting them off and putting them off, and before I knew it I'd been putting them off for 25 years. Will probably skip Part 3.

The Other End of the Line (4/10)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (7/10)
The Brood (7.5/10)
Dallas Buyers Club (6/10)
The Electric Horseman (7/10)
John and Mary (6.5/10)
A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times (6.5/10)
Her (7.5/10)
Washington Behind Closed Doors (7/10)
Cocksucker Blues (7/10)

A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Histoire(s) de Cinema (Godard, 1988-98)*
Ring (Nakata, 1998)*
A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu, 1934)
Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982)
Yol (Güney, 1982)
The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983)

Il Sorpasso (4/5)
Van Gogh* (4/5)
Inside LLewyn Davis (3/5)

*rewatch

Watched Blue is the Warmest Colour again. Really brilliant at times, peeled a further layer or two.

Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955). Can't believe its taken me this long to watch it.

Bad Day at Black Rock (J. Sturges, 1955)
The Collector (Wyler, 1965)
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013)
Babette's Feast (Axel, 1987)
Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Lenny (Fosse, 1974)
Elmer Gantry (Brooks, 1960)
Safety Last! (Newmeyer/Taylor, 1923; w/Harold Lloyd)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese, 2013)
Margaret (Lonergan, 2011; extended cut)

alan partridge: alpha papa 5/10
*barry lyndon 9/10
the bling ring 8/10
the three caballeros 6/10
world war z 6/10
*do the right thing 10/10
no 8/10

* rewatch

what did u think of The Collector, WmC? a former ILXor tot trashed it on Letterboxd, i remember thinking it was ok

I liked it quite a bit! I was glad Wyler didn't give in to happy-ending pressure, and thought Eggar and Stamp were both very good. I'm sure there are articles to be written, or which have been written, about where Miranda is willing to do what it takes to escape vs. where she loses her nerve.

Saw it ages ago, don't remember it that well. What I do remember is that it was possibly the only Wyler film Andrew Sarris ranked very high in The American Cinema's yearly lists at the back of the book--maybe second or third for 1965.

City on Fire (Lam, 1987)
You, the Living (Andersson, 2007)
The Prodigal Son (Hung, 1981)
The White Diamond (Herzog, 2004)
Computer Chess (Bujalski, 2013)
Beyond the Hills (Mungiu, 2012)
The Song of the Styrene (Resnais, 1958)
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)*

I really love those early Resnais shorts.

whats the asterisk for

rescreens

Street Angel (Borzage, 1928) 8/10 quality romance. I watched this a couple of weeks ago and its stayed with me, a slow burner if you will.
Sir Arne's Treasure (Stiller, 1919) 9/10
Destiny (Lang, 1921) 7/10 I love how imaginative some of the early European films were. Cursed treasure! Deals with death! fun.
Rushmore (Anderson, 1999) 9/10 rewatch
Phantom of the Opera (Julian, 1925) 8/10
Blind Husbands (Stroheim, 1919) 9/10
Lady Windermere's Fan (Lubitsch, 1925) 6/10 this had some nice, subtle touches. it dragged a bit though.
Tol'able David (King, 1925) 8/10 decent modern day telling of David and Goliath
Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922) 7/10
The Lodger (Hitchcock, 1926) 8/10

Jane B. par Agnes V. (7/10)
Twixt (6/10)
La Bandera (9/10)
Panique (8/10)
Chaplin (5/10)