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Oh yeah another thing that came across was a complete subversion of the usual romantic undertones wrt Dracula feeding on a woman. The climactic feeding scene in this has him slurping and sucking his victim like a pathetic addict rather the suave Universal-style Dracula archetype. It's gross and horrifying rather than darkly beautiful and erotic.

News from Home (7.5)
The Go-Go Boys (6.5)
A Fuller Life (6.0)
Lambert & Stamp (6.5)
True Story (6.0)
Satan’s School for Girls (5.0)
Hoosiers (6.0)
Regular or Super (7.0)
Inside Llewyn Davis (8.0)
Love & Mercy (7.0)

Satan’s School for Girls has Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd and Satan; all it needed was uniforms.

maybe some Brando '50s films next

The Pearl (1947, Fernandez) 7/10
*To Sleep with Anger (1990, Burnett) 8/10
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941, Hathaway) 8/10
Liliom (1930, Borzage) 7/10
The Toll of the Sea (1922, Franklin) 6/10
Moonfleet (1955, Lang) 6/10
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942, McCarey) 5/10
That Cold Day in the Park (1969, Altman) 5/10
The Blood of Jesus (1941, Williams) 6/10
Güeros (2014, Ruizpalacios) 8/10
*Mr. Arkadin (1955, Welles) 7/10
*Andrei Rublev (1966, Tarkovsky) 10/10
Babes in Arms (1939, Berkeley) 6/10
*The World of Apu (1959, Ray) 7/10
*To Be or Not To Be (1942, Lubitsch) 8/10
Coherence (2013, Byrkit) 7/10

Results (Bujalski, 2015) 7/10
* The Verdict (Lumet, 1982) 5/10
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder, 1971) 9/10
* Amadeus (Forman, 1984) 5/10
The Color of Lies (1999, Chabrol) 6/10
* Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, Benton) 5/10
Eastern Boys (Campillo, 2014) 5/10

It's not normally my kind of film, but I think Kramer vs. Kramer is pretty great within its movie-of-the-week trappings (a lot better than Ordinary People). The performances are uniformly excellent. Love The Verdict too, although I realize they add a few extra layers of grim to Newman and deny him a lot of the things that made him so good.

Alice In Wonderland (1966 BBC) 8/10
The Last Days Of Disco 7/10
Dupont Lajoie 8/10
Damsels In Distress 6/10
The Shepherd Of The Hills 8/10 (thx for the tip, Morbs!)
Avengers 2 : The Age Of Confusion 6/10

Re: "The Shepherd..." : Hathaway was pretty untouchable, as far as major studio filmmakers go, whenever he got into lyrical/romantic mode. His "Peter Ibbetson" is extraordinary and some of the quieter scenes in "Shepherd" produced that same rare mix of melodrama and high poetry.

yr welcome

I appreciate The Verdict 's snowbound Boston atmosphere, Mason, and the scenes with the black doctor. I can't get past its contrivances and wholly unbelievable ending.

I think Newman's flowery summation is one of the film's weakest scenes, but I don't find the particulars of the ending--that this venerable doctor might have fudged the admittance form to cover up his negligence, and that the nurse would have disappeared to avoid dealing with that--not believable.

Winning the case seemed way too easy a solution to his dilemma, although with a better director and less schematic script it might've worked as as an example of the final cackle of fate. He was a horrible lawyer (refusing the settlement w/out consulting the family? That'll get you disbarred, I think!), and the movie insists he deserves a chance.

There's no movie if he takes the money..."Watch Paul Newman in the role of a lifetime, as he wins an out-of-court settlement!" It's a movie--you've got to cut them a little slack.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, Pressburger, 1943) - 9/10
The League of Gentlemen (Dearden, 1960) - 81/0
Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964) - 7/10
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Feust, 1971) - 7/10
Dr Phibes Rides Again (Fuest, 1972) - 5/10

rewatches:
Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) - 9/10
Kill Bill vol.2 (Tarantino, 2004) - 7/10
Rollerball (Jewison, 1975) - 7/10
They Live (Carpenter, 1988) - 7/10
Bound (Wachowskis, 1996) - 7/10

They Live rated too low!

They Live has its moments, but I can't quite get beyond the self-consciously campy tone. Its like Carpenter didn't trust the material enough play it as a straight sci-fi B-movie.

If you're a fan of either They Live (which I'm kindasortanotreally) and/or Jonathan Lethem (which I definitely am), though, his monograph on the film from a few years ago is very much worth reading.

Zizek has some great stuff to say on it too

Black Souls (Munzi, 2015)
Katyn (Wajda, 2009)
Jack Strong (Pasikowski, 2014)
Wild Tales (Szifron, 2015)

what was katyn like

I thought it was decent and had a very haunting finale. Probably not a classic, but I am glad they made it.

Mysterious Skin (Araki, 2004) 7/10
It Follows (Mitchell, 2015) 7/10

Marnie a much better fetish movie than Kill Bill

KB has David Carradine

that fucking Clark Kent speech

^yeah to both points

has anyone seen jerzy skolimowski's walkover? It's playing tonight as part of that scorsese polish cinema thing, considering going but I do have work to do

haven't b u t what else are you seeing/have to you seen in the season? it was here awhile ago & i loved it. killer zanussi movies.

This is the 1st I've managed to catch but plan on seeing the rest although I don't know what's upcoming. It was great btw

Marnie was impressive on the whole. I even quite liked the artificiality of it. Tippi Hedren was a knockout, and the cleaning lady, and the horse riding scenes both classic Hitch, in a technical/suspense sense.

But the moments of high drama just became increasingly heavy-handed, and Hitchcock takes all of the armchair psychology stuff too seriously. It was also pretty disappointing how Diane Baker's character didn't really live up to its potential. The Marnie / Lil rivalry was never resolved.

Marnie bummed me out when I first saw it as a precocious, Hitch-loving teen, but I even suspected at the time that it was "adult," for lack of a better word, in a way that kept me from digging it the way I did Psycho or North by Northwest or even Frenzy. I owe it a re-watch.

I like Marnie. You'd probably never get such a direct shot of a dog's anus in mainstream film even several years after that. Not that I'm an expert.

pink flamingos iirc

Marnie is Hitchcock at his most giallo

I can't tell if Dr Phibes Rides Again is deliberate or not

You'd probably never get such a direct shot of a dog's anus in mainstream film even several years after that.

The way he frames the injured horse, too: you don't see its head, but you do clearly see its genitals.

dont blame that awful Italian shit on Hitch

the fire within ('63 malle) 3/5
fearless ('93 weir) 1/5
red flag ('12 karpovsky) 4/5
don't bother to knock ('61 roy ward baker) 3/5
young adam ('03 david Mackenzie) 3.5/5
even cowgirls get the blues ('93 gvs) 1/5
hits (2014 david cross) 2/5
lil quinquin (2014 Dumont) 4.5/5
the immortal story ('68 welles) 2/5
term of trial ('62 peter glenville) 3.5/5
pretty baby (78 malle) 3.5/5
*the descent ('05 neil marshall) 3/5
actress ('14 Robert greene) 5/5
bluebird ('13 lance edmands) 1.5/5
loving ('70 kershner) 2/5

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I thought Horrible Dr Hichcock might be available by now but there's just loads of posters and mugs. Have you seen it Ward?

Yes, on VHS, many years ago - it's got some of the same production values and atmos as a Hammer movie, but with a greater emphasis on necro kink. I don't know if this online version is complete:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15o7r8_horrible-dr-hichcock-1962_shortfilms

I'm sure you know, RAG, that the Arrow Region 2 of Bava's Black Sunday includes Freda's I Vampiri as a bonus feature.

Actually I didn't know that, but thanks because I still haven't seen I Vampiri.

The Ascent (Shepitko, 1977)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 1 (Greaves, 1968)
Woman on the Run (Foster, 1950)
L'Amore (Rossellini, 1948)
Murder, My Sweet (Dmytryk, 1944)
Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)
Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1972)
The Killers (Siodmak, 1946)
Edge of Tomorrow (Liman, 2014)

only one rewatch out of 12

Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula) (1958, Fisher) 7/10
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957, Fisher) 6/10
The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014, Nix, Yes Men) 6/10
*You, the Living (2007, Andersson) 8/10
Three-Cornered Moon (1933, Nugent) 7/10
The Blue Room (2014, Amalric) 7/10
Captain Lightfoot (1955, Sirk) 5/10
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970, Siegel) 7/10
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014, Andersson) 6/10
The Princess and the Pirate (1944, Butler / Bob Hope) 7/10
The Story of Three Loves (1953, Reinhardt, Minnelli) 7/10
Yolanda and the Thief (1945, Minnelli) 6/10

Lost in Translation (Coppola, 01)*
The Interregation (Bugajski, 82)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford, 49)
Larks on a String (Menzel, 70)
Three Monkeys (Ceylan, 08)*
Winter Sleep (Ceylan, 14)*
Ucho (Kachyna, 70)
Spy (Feig, 15)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, 59)*
Muriel (Resnais, 63)*
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 00)
Platoon (Stone, 86)
The Doors (Stone, 91)
Ivan’s Childhood (Tarkovsky, 62)*
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 66)*
The Gauntlet (Eastwood, 77)
White Hunter, Black Heart (Eastwood, 90)
Phoenix (Petzold, 14)*
Celine & Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 74)
Moulin Rouge (Luhrman, 01)
Two Days, One Night (Dardenne, 14)*

World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeld, 2015) 9/10
Its Such A Beautiful Day (Hertzfeld, 2012) 8/10
An Honest Liar (Weinstein/Measom, 2014) 6/10
The Institute (McCall, 2013) 5/10
Grabbers (Wright, 2012) 6/10
The Canal (Kavanagh, 2014) 4/10
Sanjuro (Kurosawa, 1962) 7/10

Watched the majority of Super last night. Such an unpleasant and weird film and it's really stuck in my head (all in a good way). Never been into Ellen Page but wow, she's incredibly hot in this. She actually rapes Rainn Wilson (the main character), who is also a complete maniac in the film.

Yeah, it's an odd film. Tonally all over the place. I like it tho.

*Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) 8/10
My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007) 8/10
*The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980) 8/10
Eastern Boys (Campillo, 2013) 7/10
Miami Connection (Park and Kim, 1988) 4/10
*Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983) 8/10
Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939) 9/10
White Heat (Walsh, 1949) 9/10
*The Fisher King (Gilliam, 1991) 7/10
Jurassic World (Trevorrow, 2015) 4/10
Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg, 1967) 6/10
Patton (Schaffner, 1970) 4/10
*Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) 9/10
Fame (Parker, 1980) 5/10
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943) 8/10
Kill Your Darlings (Krokidas, 2013) 4/10

Timbuktu (Sissako, 2014) 7/10
Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) 7/10
Spy (Feig, 2015) 5/10
Jurassic World (Trevorrow, 2015) 5/10
Mr Holmes (Condon, 2015) 4/10

What We Do in the Shadows (Clement/Waititi, 2014) 6/10
Yi Yi (Yang, 2000) 8/10
Barbara (Petzold, 2012) 7/10
Unrelated (Hogg, 2007) 7/10
Cafe Lumiere (Hou, 2003) 8/10
The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924) 8/10
Ganja and Hess (Gunn, 1973) 6/10
Night and the City (Dassin, 1950) 8/10
Journey to the West (Tsai, 2014) 9/10
House by the Edge of the Park (Deodato, 1980) 5/10

Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992): 9/10

Margaret (8.0)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (7.0)
Meet Me in St. Louis (6.5)
Fiddler on the Roof (6.5)
The Wolfpack (5.5)
The Woman in the Fifth (6.5)
Eyes Wide Shut (8.0)
Charade (7.5)
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (7.5)
The Princess of Nebraska (7.0)

Zardoz. A very good mix of unintentional ridiculousness, real weirdness, good ideas and images.