Last (x) movies you saw

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

Terminator Genisys (2015) - still fun the 2nd time through.
Deep Space (1988) - b-grade combo of Aliens, Miami Vice, and Evil Dead
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985) - Christopher Lee goes to a New Wave club. upon signing on for Gremlins II Lee apologized to Joe Dante for being in this, as Dante made the first one.
Blackula (1972) - cool intro animation, pretty unique story for a Dracula movie. heavily edited for TV tho.

Went to dad's for Thanksgiving and he gets over the air TV. His newest channel is called Comet and plays the 90s remake of The Outer Limits & Stargate SG-1 in between MGM b-movies.

Extreme Prejudice - Walter Hill's last truly great movie. Had to order the Blu-Ray from Japan.

Heaven Knows What (2015, Safdie, Safdie) 7/10
The Walk (2015, Zemeckis, 3D) 6/10
*Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988, Haynes) 10/10
Office (2015, To, 3D) 6/10
*The Four Musketeers (1974, Lester) 8/10
*Safe (1995, Haynes) 8/10
*The Three Musketeers (1973, Lester) 9/10
This Land Is Mine (1943, Renoir) 6/10
*The Parallax View (1974, Pakula) 8/10
Reel In The Closet (2015, Maddux) 7/10
Crime Wave (1985, Paizs) 8/10
Je, tu, il, elle (1976, Akerman) 7/10
*Citizenfour (2014, Poitras) 8/10
Clandestine Zero Line (1960, Suzuki) 7/10
Archangel (1991, Maddin) 5/10
In This Our Life (1942, Huston) 7/10

Spectre (Mendes, 2015)
The Sound and the Fury (Ritt, 1959)
Mark of the Vampire (Browning, 1935)
Mr. Holmes (Condon, 2015)
Innocence Unprotected (Makavejev, 1968, after Aleksić, 1941)
Bitter Rice (de Santis, 1949)
The English Patient (Minghella, 1996)
*Ronin (Frankenheimer, 1998 w/his commentary track)
A Short Film About Killing (Kieslowski, 1988)
*Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)

So I was drunk and not remembering stuff for a week, but I started watching films again yesterday; so far:

Bigmaechi - this was in my notes but I was still sobering up, better rewatch, I vaguely remember it being... good? (yay my critic skills) I'll guess 7/10
Entertainment - the Neil Hamburger bisnes, quality but not really entertaining. Like that TimnEric film The Comedy was good, but not a comedy 7/10
Pocket Listing - Not BAD bad, but I starting checking Twitter and opening mail and folding paper cranes. In retrospect, probably bad. 7/10
The Legend Of Barney Thomson - Bobby Carlyle's directorial debut. Pish. 7/10

Then started on the horror pile, firstly a coupla 80's ones by Tibor Takas, who I never previously checked out:
The Gate - very entertaining 7/10
I, Madman - not as good as the previous 7/10
then I watched
Deep Dark - pish 7/10
The Perfect Husband - actually quite offensive. The husband abuses and tortures his wife then (SPOILER) unreliable narrator, turns out it was the other way round and the wife was the pycho torturer. Fuck this shit. 6/10

saw the secret in their eyes remake, p bad. theres a cool shot sweeping down and into dodger stadium and the girl they cast to play julia roberts daughter really resembles her so wtg there.. ultimately tho they just futz a lot of characters behavior (esp like the counterterriorism bosses as villains) 2 create the plot and set up the pointless twists. also bothered that in the baseball scene its supposed to be 2002 and they say its 6-5 dodgers over the mets going to the 9th i believe? no game matches that so either just don't get that specific or pull from a real scenario, 2/10

theres a cool shot sweeping down and into dodger stadium

Yeah, pretty sure that'll be the only thing I end up remembering from that dumb movie.

Father's Day (Astron-6)- I don't feel like I have the necessary Troma background to rate this properly? I'm not really sure what the director(s?) brought to this and what's Troma. I still kind of want to see their giallo takeoff (The Editor) because I'm a sucker for that kind of thing

*Hellraiser (Barker)- Still A+ horror classic even if individual elements dated badly (that skeleton dragon puppet especially)

*Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (Randel)- Liked it much less than I used to, sadly. It's still competent, the gore is still upsetting, but it's unmistakably where the franchise went wrong- essentially by jamming Barker's interesting stuff into an overtly Christian framework, with an actual "hell" that exists to punish naughty people. I understand Barker's new book and comics do the same thing, which is an absolute shame.

Enter the Void (Noe)- This is a stupid fucking movie that I'm still glad I watched. It seems like it would be better drunk or high and with something else entirely on the soundtrack (I never want to hear that little girl screaming after the car crash again), which is fine, really

*Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth- SPEAKING OF FUCKING STUPID

Love (Noe)- eeeh. I enjoyed it, more or less (mostly down to the excellent soundtrack and some really good editing) but it's still overlong and self-indulgent and kind of dumb.

In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution (Statler)- it's on Youtube in high quality, presumably ripped from Criterion's DVD of Island of Lost Souls. I'd seen the "Jocko Homo" video before, but the whole thing is wonderful. And "General Boy" is still one of my favorite throwaway character names ever

*A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway)- rewatched for the first time in at least a decade to prepare for a Photoshop poster design project. Still the funniest Greenaway I've seen, still an insanely great Nyman soundtrack

*Moebius Redux- mediocre made-for-TV doc on Moebius that I forgot I'd already watched a few years ago. It seems like they had a lot of access to Giraud, and he's charming as hell and manages to do most of the heavy lifting for them, but he's a fairly introspective artist and it's a little boring to watch a documentary that doesn't seem to have any critical perspective whatsoever. I'm not even talking about problematizing the subject's work or whatever, I just mean getting things to deviate from the predictable biography/career overview/established persona route.

Princess Arete (Katabuchi)- like Howl's Moving Castle but better, kind of? That's a really facile comparison (anime movie based on Western fantasy book) but almost everything in this felt stronger and more focused and grounded and humane. It doesn't have the visual imagination of the Miyazaki film, but it's just quietly gorgeous instead, with this earthy palette and details drawn just as much from actual medieval art and costuming as from fantasy lit.

Modesty Blaise (Losey)- this movie is completely batshit, but not as stupid as it looks on the surface- besides, look at that fucking cast! Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde as maybe the best camp villain I have ever seen

Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (Sallin)- so much better than the Moebius doc, even if the subject isn't quite as much to my taste and it's a little hagiographic (entirely understandable since he was quite aged and died shortly after filming was completed)- they had tremendous access to archival footage, including some jaw-dropping sequences of Giger working with just an airbrush, and also Giger's adorable cat Muggi

*Maska (Quay)- seeing this in HD has shot it up near the top of my personal Quay list. I'm finally past the point where I'm weirded out by (kind of) sync dialog and open, unvarnished romanticism in a Quay film and can just roll with how unbelievably gorgeous it is. I am no longer worried about the Quays being forced to use digital media (though of course I'd prefer it if they could reliably get funding to produce films on their own terms). Great use of Penderecki too.

*De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis (Quay)

School Daze (Lee, 1988) 5/10
Jamaica Inn (Hitchcock, 1939) 6/10
The Heartbreak Kid (May, 1972) 9/10
The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942) 5/10
In Cold Blood (Brooks, 1967) 8/10
The Secret Garden (Holland, 1993) 3/10
The Guest (Wingard, 2014) 2/10

The Heartbreak Kid (May, 1972) 9/10

Excellent. Been looking now for 10 or 15 years for a reasonably priced DVD (I have a home-taped VHS I periodically dig out). Same with An Unmarried Woman, except I don't have that home-taped and would settle for a used VHS.

Spectre (Mendes, 2015) 6/10
Taxi Tehran (Panahi, 2015) 9/10
The Lady in the Van (Hytner, 2015) 5/10
Steve Jobs (Boyle, 2015) 4/10
Carol (Haynes, 2015) 8/10

Results (Bujalski, 2015) 7/10
The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968) 7/10
The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953) 8/10
Terror on the Britannic aka Juggernaut (Lester, 1974) 5/10
Ice Station Zebra (Sturges, 1968) 6/10
Judex (Franju, 1963) 8/10
Chimes at Midnight (Welles, 1965) 8/10
Thieves Like Us (Altman, 1974) 7/10

Headless Woman (Martel, 2008) - Saw it as part of the just finished Tarkovsky season and its pretty inspired to get this in. Although Martel isn't as in communion with nature as Tarkovsky, and would never talk about class politics (even factoring the era and environment they both work in you could never see such a high priest of art as Tarkovsky ever dealing with it) I can see the parallels in the dream (or, more accurately nightmare) logic to talk of national hurt (Argentina's Junta vs a repression of art in Tarkovsky). There was a 25 mins or so, post-accident, where the lead wasn't at all there - and it was impressive how this was grounded in a reality of hospitals, X-rays, her meanderings and interactions leading right up to sex (almost as a way to feel 'human' again, rare to see sex in this way really)...that sequence was just great. Almost engulfed the film although the rest of it was so well-played played and done and told.

The Judge (5.0)
Damsels in Distress (6.0)
Beneath the Harvest Sky (5.5)
Kitchen (?)
Sunset Strip (6.0—mediocre documentary, not the other one)
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (7.5)
In Jackson Heights (8.0)
Poor Little Rich Girl (6.0)
Spotlight (6.5)
I Am Evel Knievel (5.0)

Martian, the (2015) 5
Spectre (2015) 5

Captain Phillips (2013) 5/10
Little Shop of Horrors, the (1960) 6 -- could have been a radio play, nothing visual going on
Terminator Genisys (2015) 4
Mommie Dearest (1981) 6 despite some great scenes
Whiplash (2014) 9
*Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) 7 mostly for the ending
Tusk (2014) 2
Hunger Games, the (2012) 6
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the (2013) 4

paradise: hope - (2013, seidl) 6/10
soaked in bleach (2015, Benjamin statler) 6/10
all things fair ('95, widerberg) 6/10
museum hours ('13, jem cohen) 9/10
pigeon on a branch... ('14, andersson) 7/10
jojo dancer, your life is calling ('86, pryor) 7/10
decline of western civ 3 ('98, spheeris) 4/10
the collector ('65, Wyler) 7/10
who can kill a child? ('76, narciso Ibanez serrador) 6/10
admission ('13, weitz) 2/10
listen to me marlon ('15, stevan riley) 6/10
3.5 minutes, ten bullets ('15 marc silver) 8/10

crunch, the Pryor autobiopic doesn't come across as sentimentalized baloney?

def not; I wouldn't say im that familiar w all the finer pts of his life but it felt candid to an extent & hes a good actor imo... the hokiest thing is just the flashback device used but nbd