Last (x) movies you saw

You're Next - I'd previously seen The Guest, from the same writer and director; that's a great modern update of an 80s action thriller. This one is kind of a splattery thriller with a twist that you'll piece together as the body count rises. Lots of practical gore effects, some of them quite wince-inducing. Highly recommended.

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is excellent; great look into a publically disowned history.
Collins' "Losing Ground" is WAY ahead of its time, a sign of great things to come unfulfilled.

The Martian (Scott, 2015) 6/10
The Walk (Zemeckis, 2015) 5/10
The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) 8/10

Castle Freak (Gordon, 1995) 5/10
Young Mr Lincoln (Ford, 1939) 8/10
The Shanghai Gesture (Von Sternberg, 1941) 7/10
Lancelot du Lac (Bresson, 1974) 8/10
Die Sage Des Todes aka Bloody Moon (Franco, 1981) 6/10
Before I Go To Sleep (Joffe, 2014) 3/10
Pretty Poison (Black, 1968) 8/10
Puppet Master (Schmoeller, 1989) 5/10
Cactus Flower (Saks, 1969) 6/10
Canyon Passage (Tourneur, 1946) 7/10
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Hartley, 2014) 7/10

The Assassin (Hou, 2015) 7/10
Room (Abrahamson, 2015) 6/10
El Club (Larrain, 2015) 6/10
* Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) 7/10
The Brood (Cronenberg, 1979) 6/10
* Witness For the Prosecution (Wilder, 1957) 5/10
La Captive (Akerman, 2000) 8/10
12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995) 4/10
* Clueless (Heckerling, 1995) 7/10
Man is Not a Bird (Makavejev, 1965) 6/10
Death of a Cyclist (Bardem, 1955) 6/10
* All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955) 9/10

Fidelity (Zulawski): 7/10
Any Number Can Win : 7/10
Tomorrowland : 6/10
The Man From U.N.C.L.E : 5/10
L'âme sœur : 8/10
Cockfighter: 8/10

finishing up the bond series
Live and Let Die (1973) 3/10
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) 2
Moonraker (1979) 2
Octopussy (1983) 3
A View to a Kill (1985) 3
GoldenEye (1995) 3
3 to go (licence to kill, never say never again, the new one) :(

spooky movies for october
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) 5
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) 3
Dance of the Vampires a.k.a. Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) 7
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 5
*The Wicker Man (1973) 8
*Drag Me to Hell (2009) 8
Frozen (2010) 3
Crimson Peak (2015) 5

misc
Ministry of Fear (1944) 6
Short Circuit (1986) 4
*Back to the Future Part II (1989) 5
David Wants to Fly (2010) 6

missed one
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) 2
nice animation -- drac's spindly legs are great. the first one was bearable because the animators crammed a ton of stuff into the background. this one doesn't. also: adam sandler's sleepy voice acting, rehashed jokes, and a plot that is obviously going nowhere.

why do you keep watching Bond films, abanana, if you hate them that much?

i already watched the ones i like. the first three, ohmss, and casino royale are all 7/10 or better.

The Martian (Scott, 2015)
Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015)
The Big Country (Wyler, 1958)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
Ill Met By Moonlight (Powell/Pressburger, 1957)
Outrage (Lupino, 1950)
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)
Kameradschaft (Pabst, 1931)
Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997)

Insiang (1976, Brocka) 7/10
Inferno (1953, Baker) 6/10
Heart of a Dog (2015, Anderson) 8/10
Eat Your Soup (1997, Amalric) 5/10
Kingpin (1996, Farrelly, Farrelly) 6/10
Girlhood (2014, Sciamma) 6/10
Taxi (2015, Panahi) 8/10
*The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981, Reisz) 6/10
*Late August, Early September (1998, Assayas) 7/10
*Juggernaut (1974, Lester) 8/10

I forgot to add a rewatch asterisk to Lost Highway.

the clearing (Pieter jan brugge, 04) 4/10
losing ground (Kathleen Collins '82) 5/10
decline of western civ 1 (spheeris '81) 3/10
decline of western civ 2 (spheeris '88) 5/10
Gucci: the director (Christina voros 2013) 7/10
rage (George c scott '72) 4/10
apartment troubles (Jennifer prediger & jess weixler, 2015) 7/10
the beast (borowczyk '75) 7/10
results (bujalski '15) 8/10
diary of a teenage girl (marielle heller 2015) 5/10
dumb and dumber to (farrellys 2014) 6/10
99 homes (bahrani 2015) 7/10
black mass (scott cooper 2015) 5/10

Rewatched Aliens and Alien3 - Alien3 is a much better movie.

Captives (6.0)
The End of the Tour (7.0)
Tab Hunter Confidential (7.0)
Charlie Bartlett (4.0)
The Spectacular Now (6.5)
Waking the Dead (7.0)
Promised Land (7.5)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (6.0)
Paul Sharits (7.5)
Eat the Document (8.0)

can't even manage a facepalm re "what's better than Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf"

the cinematography is annoying in that one imo

because...? Wexler was one of the greats.

The Legend of Leigh Bowery (Atlas, 2002) 6/10
Dollhouse (Sheridan, 2012) 3/10
Bicycle Thieves (Di Sica, 1948) 8/10
Glassland (Butler, 2015) 5/10
The Seventh Continent (Haneke, 1989) 8/10

From CPH:DOX

Man Falling (Wivel, 15)
Rabin: The Last Day (Gitai, 15)
Behemoth (Zhang, 15)
A Young Patriot (Du, 15)
Innocence of Memories (Gee, 15)
Brothers (Holm, 15)
The Pearl Button (Guzman, 15)
The Other Side (Minervini, 15)
Arabian Nights pts 1, 2, 3 (Gomes, 15)
Academy of Muses (Guerin, 15)
The Event (Loznitsa, 15)
Uncertain (McNicol & Sandilands, 15)
Lost and Beautiful (Marcello, 15)
Mallory (Trestikova, 15)
The Fear of 13 (Sington, 15)
The Death of JP Cuenca (Cuenca, 15)
Over the Years (Geyrhalter, 15)
Cartel Land (Heineman, 15)
The Swedish Theory of Love (Gandini, 15)
The Moulin (Huang, 15)
A Good American (Moser, 15)
Unseen: The Lives of Looking (Goodwin, 15)
The Thoughts That Once We Had (Anderson, 15)
The Letters (Gutierrez, 15)
Birobidjan (Hinant, 15)
In Limbo (Viviani, 15)
In Jackson Heights (Wiseman, 15)
A Girl of Her Age (Laranjeira, 15)
Ah, Humanity! (Casting-Taylor, Paravel & Karel, 15)
Event Horizon (Moncayo, 15)
No No Sleep (Tsai, 15)*

Dope: Friday + Juice x Risky Business. Recommended.
Metalhead: It's not about metal, it's about pain (and cows). Also recommended.

you had me at "cows"

Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
Taxi Tehran (Panahi, 2015) - not a normal film yet Panahi becomes such a good actor, or at least he seems to have developed a straight face/persona to everything and everyone and every situation.

Re-watching Tombstone tonight. Greatest collection of mustaches in movie history?

Monsieur Klein (8/10)
Life of Oharu (rewatch--11/10)
Ant Man (7/10)
Mistress America (6/10)

Stalker 11/10
The Lady In The Van 8.5/10

latter genuinely funny & affecting with two amazing central performances. british cinema/alan bennett's not dead!

I liked the look of it until I saw Cordon bleurgh! But tbf it looks pretty good.

Spectre. Maybe 40 good minutes rattling around amid 2 1/2 hours of pointlessness.

Spotlight was magnificent

Some Came Running (1958) 3.5/5
The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 4.5/5
Uninvited (1988) 1/5; featuring a mutant cat terrorizing people on a yacht
The Assassin (2015) 3/5
The Mummy (1959) 2/5
It Follows (2015) 3/5
The Nightmare (2015) 3/5
Winter Sleep (2014) 4/5

I liked the look of it until I saw Cordon bleurgh! But tbf it looks pretty good.

― xelab, Sunday, November 15, 2015 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

james corden is in it for approximately 6 seconds

props for the pun though lol

Kidulthood cos it was on BBC3

Benny's Video (Haneke, 1992) 8/10
The Trouble With Harry (Hitchcock, 1955) 5/10
Call Me Lucky (Goldthwait, 2015) 7/10
Tangerine (Baker, 2015) 8/10

Didn't mention that I have also seen:

Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2003) - this is probably the best tribute from one director to another I have ever seen, from my pov the more obscure a tribute the better.

Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2008) - I saw about five films from the Hou season, and they weren't enough

Mother and Son (Sokurov, 1997) - this is from the Tarkovsky season and its incredible in terms of execution and a great counterpart to Mirror, both in themes and real shared spirit.

Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961) - good to catch this one, got a lot more from it than I first saw it ten+ years ago. Its like chocolate box of surrealism uncovered, with added anarchist anger at catholicism (the crucifix as swiss army knife) but also any system. The patriarch's suicide is at that intersection of the funny and macabre. Love the non-endings too.

Think I've seen almost everything from Bunuel season currently screening at the ICA and I was kinda do I want to revisit? Well, yes I do.

The Salvation, a Danish Western starring Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Eva Green. It's on Showtime this month, so I pulled it in through Hulu. It's fairly straightforward "you killed my brother"/"your brother raped my wife and killed my son" revenge stuff, with a few twists. Eva Green's great in it despite having literally not a single line of dialogue, and the guy who wasn't played by Donal Logue in Terriers is in it, too, which was cool - I hadn't seen him in anything since then. It's nicely shot, though some scenes feature not-quite-distressingly obvious CGI (used for day-for-night, rain, and fire).

Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015) 7/10
What Our Fathers Did; A Nazi Legacy (Evans, 2015) 7/10
Tangerine (Baker, 2015) 7/10
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Morgen, 2015) 7/10
I'll See You in My Dreams (Haley, 2015) 6/10
Jurassic World (Trevorrow, 2015) 3/10
Satantango (Tarr, 1994) 10/10
* License to Kill (Glen, 1989) 4/10
* The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960) 8/10
Summer with Monika (Bergman, 1956) 9/10

just thinking to myself that I would probably struggle to take in Satantango in a single viewing, but it looks amazing

I broke it in half a couple weekends ago, about three hours each part give or take. I don't think I breathed once, especially during the cat sequence.

I thought this thread was "Last movie in xxxx genre that you've seen" - so answering that instead, sorry.

I realised last month that I hadn't seen a superhero film since Batman Returns, not intentionally, just never really interested enough. I asked a few people for suggestions for one to try, a few people said "Kick-ass," so I watched that and found it unpleasant for a variety of reasons. Do people actually like this film, or was I just asking the wrong people?

Bitter Lake (Curtis, 2015) 8/10
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Freidrich, 2012) 7/10
Viva Riva! (Munga, 2012) 6/10
Gueros (Ruizpalacios, 2015) 7/10
*The Nutty Professor (Shadyac, 1996) 4/10
*Adaptation (Jonze, 2002) 7/10

aw man TNP is worth it for "how do you think you get your colon cleansed? by taking your asshole to the carwash?"

I'm probably being overly harsh on TNP. Eddie as Buddy Love is pretty fearsome.

I mean it's not a "good" movie by any means! and it did kickstart the "Eddie Murphy playing 17 characters" horseshit that led to NOrbit years later so....

Bitter Lake - flawed, but ought to be on the national curriculum anyway.

This Gun For Hire (Tuttle, 1942) - 8/10
The Falling (Morley, 2015) - 6/10
Spectre (Mendes, 2015) - 4/10
Mission:Impossible - Rogue Nation (McQuarrie, 2015) - 5/10
Young Ones (Paltrow, 2014) (renamed Bad Land: Road to Fury here in the UK, and advertised as a Mad Max: Fury Road post-apocalyptic action film (Nicholas Hoult is also in this.) It's actually a somewhat languid neo-western drama, and a bit of a snooze at times.) - 6/10
Amy (Kapadia, 2015) - 9/10

rewatches:
Sleepy Hollow (Burton, 1999) - 6/10
Lincoln, (Spielberg, 2012) - 8/10
The Counsellor (Scott, 2013) - 6/10
Evil Dead: Army of Darkness (Raimi, 1993) - 5/10
The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935) - 9/10

Wow so "Spectre" is that bad eh? Gonna be the first Craig Bond I sit out, then. Too bad.

Mulholland Drive (rewatch/Criterion Blu): 8/10
The Harem : 7/10

Think spectre is a love or hate. Several of us liked it in the Bond thread

Spectre has some competent action set-pieces but there's no sense of any enthusiasm behind any of it. It kind of is the Dark Knight Rises of the Craig Bonds