Last (x) movies you saw

Underworld (Von Sternberg, 1927) 9/10
A Girl In Every Port (Hawks, 1928) 7/10
The Crowd (Vidor, 1928) 10/10
Sherlock Jr. (Keaton, 1924) 10/10 rewatch
Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2004) 6/10
Grandma's Boy (Lloyd, 1922) 7/10
The Last Command (Von Sternberg, 1928) 9/10
True Grit (Coen, 2010) 7/10 rewatch
Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972) 9/10

*Cabaret (1972, Fosse) 10/10
Much Ado about Nothing (2013, Whedon) 6/10
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011, G. Miyazaki) 6/10
I Married a Witch (1942, Clair) 7/10
Camouflage (1977, Zanussi) 8/10
*Safety Last! (1923, Newmeyer, Taylor / Lloyd) 9/10
Alphaville (1965, Godard) 7/10
*It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, Kramer) 6/10
Don Jon (2013, Gordon-Levitt) 4/10
This Is the End (2013, Rogen, Goldberg) 5/10
Manila in the Claws of Light (1975, Brocka) 7/10
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013, Cote) 8/10
Possession (1981, Zulawski) 6/10
*Museum Hours (2012, Cohen) 8/10

*rewatches

Too low for Possession, Dr M!

It's pretty compelling bullshit.

I was kind of draggy and exhausted this past weekend, possibly due to the combined hysteria factor of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Possession.

oh, Alphaville should be marked as a rewatch (tho it mighta been about 30 years)

Smile ( 1975, Ritchie)
All Is Lost ( 2013, Chandor)
Chronicle of a Summer (Morin & Rouch, 1961)
Only The Young (Mims, Tippet, 2012)

Breaking the Frame (Marielle Nitoslawska, 2014) - Portrait of Carolee Schneemann. This settles into (once Nitoslawska allows Carolee complete space) film of the year by some distance. Her films were great (and what i know), but so are her paintings, writings, happenings and conceptions. Music set by James Tenney, that's also great too.

I need a closer watch because I found nothing to really quibble with.

commando (1985) 6/10 although maybe an 8, this movie is great fun
doubt (2008) 7/10
diary of the dead (2007) 5/10
this is the end (2013) 4/10
*silver linings playbook (2012) 8/10
ten canoes (2006) 7/10

Where did you see that, julio?

ICA.

An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai, 2006)
A Geisha (Mizoguchi, 1953)
The Red and the White (Jancso, 1967)*
The Red Psalm (Jancso, 1972)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1961-64)
Stilleben (Farocki, 1997)
Our African Journey (Kubelka, 1966)
Rose Hobart (Cornell, 1936)

There is a small Farocki retrospective at the cinemateque this month. Hope to see a few more.

that kubelka is one of fred camper's favourite films

i have only ever watched kubelka in terrible vhs rips on youtubes

Yup, me as well. They work great as vhs-art, but yeah, it's a question whether or not it should count as having 'seen' the film. But I have to screen and check out a lot of stuff at the moment for work, just wrote it all up.

Nikita (Besson, 1990)
Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock, 1940)
Antonio Gaudi (Teshigahara, 1984)
Richard III (Loncraine, 1995)
Captain Phillips (Greengrass, 2013)
* Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Mendes/Korda, 1936)
Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir, 1932)
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (DeNicola/Mori, 2012)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956)

Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
L'Histoire d'Adele H. (Truffaut, 1974) - Adjani effortlessly carrying this flat-toned movie through. There is something here about writing and madness that wasn't made as much out of as I thought it would be.

That's still the only late Truffaut I love. Adjani gives the best perf in a Truffaut movie since Leaud, and if it feels claustrophobic credit the choice of framing.

Almost all of this movie was about her face. And can you blame him etc.?

Bet Two English Girls is a laugh.

IN:
Meet me in St Louis (Minnelli, 1944) 8/10
Kings of the Road (Wenders, 1976) 8/10
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino, 2013) 7/10
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964) 8/10
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 1962) 8/10
Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil, 1967) 8/10
La Strada (Fellini, 1954) 8/10
Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933) 4/10
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-really-wants-to-like-the-marx-brothers,1482/
The Piano (Campion, 1993) 6/10
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932) 8/10
Daisies (Chytilova, 1966) 7/10

OUT:
Her (Jonze, 2013) 4/10
Touch of Sin (Jia, 2013) 7/10
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, 2013) 7/10
Norte, the End of History (Diaz, 2013) 9/10

wow, must see Norte, the End of History

Yeah, I really want to see that one as well!

revisited a few favs on the big screen this last month or two:

rebecca (hitch, 1940) 10/10
rear window (hitch, 1954) 9/10
the punk singer (sini anderson, 2013) 8/10
indiana jones/temple of doom (spielberg, 1984) 7/10
daisies (vera chytilova, 1966) 10/10

*Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993) 4/5
The Mighty (Chelsom, 1998) 2/5
Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945) 3.5/5
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Branagh, 2014) 3/5
Lady for a Day (Capra, 1933) 4/5
*Cat's Eye (Teague, 1985) 4/5
Frances Ha (Baumbach, 2013) 2.5/5

(*rewatches, of course)

Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943) - How have I managed to miss this all my life? Excellent. A big influence on Lynch by the looks of it (the occasional dreamlike flashbacks to ballroom dancers even reminded me of the very first shot of Mulholland Dr.). 9/10
Nebraska (Payne, 2013) - 4/10
Fantastic Voyage (Fleisher, 1996) - 7/10 *
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988) - 9/10 *
Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002) - 4/10 *
Prince Avalanche (Paul Gordon Green, 2013) - 7/10
Metropolis (Lang, 1927) - 8/10 *
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964) - 8/10
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) - 8/10 *
Filth (Jon S. Baird, 2013) - 1/10
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens, 2013) - 6/10
The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973) - 6/10
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948) - 9/10
(* = rewatch)

(David Gordon Green)

I'm sick as hell and have a week off from school so I've started binge-watching. So far: Total Recall (an old favorite), In Bruges (surprisingly not shit), and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (first time seeing it in full since I was five; aside from Bob Hoskins' terrifying back hair it holds up)

Ward Fowler, smdh at you

Ward Fowler, buying you a drink.

go watch some "camp"!

*Betrayal (1983, Jones/Pinter) 7/10
*Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968, Resnais) 8/10
Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013, Desplechin) 6/10
*To Catch a Thief (1955, Hitchcock) 8/10
Caesar Must Die (2012, Taviani, Taviani) 7/10
The Carey Treatment (1972, Edwards) 5/10
*The Hospital (1971, Hiller/Chayefsky) 6/10
*The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012, Rodrigues, Guerra da Mata) 9/10
The Butler (2013, Daniels) 4/10
Oh… Rosalinda!! (1955, Powell & Pressburger) 5/10
The Great Beauty (2013, Sorrentino) 4/10
Waltes from Vienna (1934, Hitchcock) 5/10

To Catch a Thief is not "minor" Hitchcock, it's a splendid sex comedy with depth anyone else would have to huff n' puff for.

Never heard of that Powell & Pressburger. Ever seen Gone to Earth? Looks like the twee-est bullshit ever but I'm still kind of curious, I think my local place only has it in PAL though.

tbh that onion/marx bros story has always kind of pissed me off

yes, I like Gone to Earth, it's a weird one. Jennifer Jones is underappreciated in general.

i love the marx brothers but i snorted at that onion article

Watched Broken Circle Breakdown last night, not knowing anything about the plot, thinking it was a neat Belgium movies about bluegrass. Left me utterly devastated. I kept thinking things are going to get better for these people....

the uninvited (1944) - 9/10 - unexpectedly moving moment when Milland played Stella by Starlight to Gail Russell, exacerbated by Russell's career backstory. it's like a mournful standard for her.
the furies - 8/10 - pretty amazing though it ends a bit sentimental considered the events that precede it.
Star Trek into darkness - 5/10 - looks good but this is basically a crap reboot series we're seeing in action here. Abrams sucks.
The lady vanishes - 9/10 - loved it. wish I hadn't seen "flightplan" first.

Dirty Wars (2013) 3.5/5
The Act of Killing (2012) 4.5/5
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 2.5/5
The Heat (2013) 2/5
Kuroneko (1968) 3.5/5
Berberian Sound Studio (2012) 2.5/5
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009; 2nd viewing) 4/5
Cutie and the Boxer (2013) 4/5
Post Tenebras Lux (2012) 3/5

The World's End: 2.5/5
Tim's Vermeer 3/5

The Lady from Shanghai (8.5/10)
The Fury (7/10)
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (6.5/10)
Shock Corridor (7/10)
Runaway Jury (5.5/10)
(500) Days of Summer (6/10)
Carrie (10/10)
Harry and Tonto (7.5/10)
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (7.5/10)
Mock-Ups in Close-Up: Architectural Models in Film (6.5/10)

particle fever is surprisingly good; very compulsive and engaging narrative on a topic that's hard to even begin to understand

Going to see that on Sunday.

*Nashville (Altman, 1975)
Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, 2012)
The Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
The Tale of Zatoichi (Misumi, 1962)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Kramer, 1967)
Gate of Hell (Kinugasa, 1953)
Changing (documentary short; Hubert Smith, 1971)
Across the Pacific (Huston, 1942) - Once too often to the well for Bogart, Astor, Greenstreet, Huston and the other Falcon people involved in this
21 Days (Dean, 1940)
The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993)
*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)

Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2012)
Wall-E (Stanton, 2008)*
The Lego Movie (Miller & Lord, 2014)
(nostalgia) (Frampton, 1971)
India Song (Duras, 1975)
The Return (Zvyagintsev, 2003)
The Face of Another (Teshigahara, 1966)
What Time is it There? (Tsai, 2001)

Easy Virtue (1928, Hitchcock) 5/10
We Are the Best! (2013, Moodysson) 7/10
Christmas in Connecticut (1945, Godfrey) 6/10
*Under Capricorn (1949, Hitchcock) 8/10
The Island of St. Matthews (2013, Everson) 6/10
Regeneration (1915, Walsh) 8/10
*Repo Man (1984, Cox) 6/10
Child's Pose (2013, Netzer) 7/10
*Gentleman Jim (1942, Walsh) 8/10
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955, Fleischer) 6/10
*20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954, Fleischer) 7/10
Himizu (2011, Sono) 8/10
*New York, New York (1977, Scorsese) 8/10
Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) 8/10

arrrgh, that last one is Imamura

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, 2013) - looking at Tilda's filmography - she's in so many of these type of 'quirky' films (in the midst of blankly serious garbage like I am Love), its all such a waste. Funny but man oh man is the vampire = music totally played out or what? I shouldn't go to these films. But we all get bored sometimes.

Coup de Torchon (Tavernier, 1981) - More like it. I wanted to check my copy of Pop.1280 to read whether the story of how dogs started sniffing each other arseholes was in it.

Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945) - the ruins of a devastated Rome look beautiful, all crisp on the big screen. Magnani is titanic and I'm almost ashamed to go to the cinema again after watching this but I get bored sometimes.

started trying to watch the Ruling Class the 60s satire starring Peter O'Toole and it slipped out of sync with the sound after about 20 minutes. Shame have wanted to see that since my brother described it to me about 35 years ago.
Think I had a chance to watch it on tv about 10 years ago and fell asleep.

THen I d/lded it when I first had torrents at home and I think it must have been the same version I just tried to watch on Friday. ONly remembered that when I saw this slip out of sync, wondered why I hadn't watched it otherwise.

War Horse (Spielberg, 2011) 3/10
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938) 8/10
Limitless (Burger, 2011) 6/10
Lego Movie (Lord, 2014) 7/10
Carnage (Polanski, 2011) 7/10

war horse more like bore horse

I quit halfway through, I couldn't take it

I bet even the horse had that sack of shit expunged from it's imdb entry.