Last (x) movies you saw

I'm going to stick with ranking each batch from favorite to least-favorite for the time being, instead of listing them in the order I saw them.

* Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
* Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)
Apur Sansar (Ray, 1959)
Aparajito (Ray, 1956)
Big Hero 6 (Hall/Williams, 2014)
*John Wick (Stahelski/Leitch, 2014)
Man Hunt (Lang, 1941)
Star Wars: TFA (Abrams, 2015)
What We Do in the Shadows (Clement/Waititi, 2014)
Lady Snowblood (Fujita, 1973)
Satyajit Ray (Benegal, 1982)

The Martian 7/10
Thou Wast Mild And Lovely 7/10
Carol 7/10
Spotlight 7/10
Bridge Of Spies 4/10
*Scrooged (1988) 8/10
The Red Spectacles (1987) 7/10
*The Boston Strangler (1968) 7/10
Man In The Wilderness (1971) 6/10

*Ball of Fire (1941, Hawks) 9/10
45 Years (2015, Haigh) 8/10
The Assassin (2015, Hou) 7/10
Interlude (1957, Sirk) 6/10
*The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah) 9/10
Pal Joey (1957, Sidney) 6/10
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013, Silva) 5/10
The Savage Eye (1960, Maddow, Meyers, Strick) 7/10
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015, Gomes) 7/10
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015, Gomes) 6/10
*Lost Highway (1997, Lynch) 5/10
Run for Cover (1955, N. Ray) 6/10
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940, Arzner) 6/10

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, the (2014) 2
World's End, the (2013) 7
Short Circuit 2 (1988) 4
Life of Emile Zola, the (1937) 5
A Christmas Story (1983) 8 -- first time i've seen all of it at once
Hot Fuzz (2007) 8
Frank (2014) 7
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) 5
I Am Here.... Now (2009) 1?

I Am Here.... Now (2009) 1?

lol i tried to watch a bit of 'double down' last week. i think i made it about 10 minutes in. unwatchable. most of it is just him listing off stuff hes really awesome at while he walks around the desert. his old laptops and crappy mobiles were pretty funny tho

The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015) 6/10
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (Temple, 2015) 7/10
*The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1982) 10/10
Notes On A Scandal (Eyre, 2006) 7/10

Radiator 7.5
By Our Selves 7

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (this was amazing, 10/10)
The Red Shoes
Lola Montès
Ministry of Fear
Mata Hari
Ninotchka
Gremlins

Fat Man on a Beach (Michael Bakewell/ B.S. Johnson, 1973) 10/10
Screener Season:
Bridge of Spies 8.5/10
Trumbo 6/10
Brooklyn 6/10
The Big Short 3/10
The Hateful Eight 3/10
Steve Jobs 5/10
Creed 5/10
Spotlight 7.5/10

Aside from that barfy Lynne Ramsay thing, which I watched in a class, December was entirely a month of re-watches for me (which it typically tends to be):

We Need To Talk About Kevin (Ramsay, 2011) 2/10
After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) 10/10
Adventures in Babysitting (Columbus, 1987) 5/10
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) 8/10
Mon oncle Antoine (Jutra, 1971) 9/10
Home For the Holidays (Foster, 1995) 5/10
Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954) 7/10

Trumbo 6/10
The Martian 5/10
The Assassin 9/10

Oh yeah...

James Bond: SPECTRE 6/10

The Good Dinosaur 7/10
Just Jim 8/10
Tangerine 8/10
A Christmas Horror Story 5/10
Irrational Man 3/10
In The heart Of The Sea 7/10
The Wolfpack (doc) 7/10
The Punk Singer (doc) 8/10
The Seven Five (doc) 7.5/10
The Walk 3/10
Creed 8/10
Burnt 4/10
Pawn Sacrifice 7/10
Anomalisa 8/10

...and I'm going out shortly, so that'll be all til next year.

new Star Wars 8.5/10
Breathless 10/10
Spectre 6/10
Spotlight 7.5//10
Wild Tales 9/10
It Follows 8.5/10
Inherent Vice 9.5/10
Mockingjay 7/10
Milo and Otis 10/10
Concussion 4/10
Sicario 7/10
Midnight Diner 7.5/10
Neko Samurai 3/10
Hello Junichi 7.5/10
Lady Snowblood 7/10

forgot one: I saw Tangerine on Netflix it's rlly rlly good

American Ninja (1984) - Totally awesome 80s Peak Ninja. I love the scene where the bad guy is giving some other bad guys a tour of his base, declaring "This is my private army" as dozens of ninjas dressed in black, red, yellow, and blue, run through a collection of deadly obstacle courses. So cheesy and so great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9tkntwNSGM

Just watch that scene: it is perfect. "Ah....very impressive".

saw howl's moving castle, the forbidden room, anatomy of a murder, beetlejuice, scrooged, about 30min of it's a wonderful life, wild at heart, lost highway, mulholland dr, some terrible brett ratner thing and jurassic world. Wish I'd seen home alone. Next xmas, maybe.

American Ninja (1984)

saw this in the theater with Dad that year.

Here's what I watched during Christmas

Star Wars 7
Kill Bill (rewatch)
The Wizard of Oz (rewatch)
The Wild Bunch
The Imomortal Story
Hugo
Children of Paradise
The Leopard
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The 400 Blows (rewatch)
Wreck-It Ralph (rewatch)

Doctor Zhivago (Lean, 1965) 8/10
Sunset Song (Davies, 2015) 7/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) 6/10

Frankenstein Created Woman (Fisher 1967) 6/10
Best of Enemies (Gordon & Neville, 2015) 5/10
A Most Violent Year (Chandor, 2014) 5/10
Predestination (Spierig Bros, 2014) 5/10
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour, 2014) 6/10
We are the Best! (Moodysson, 2013) 7/10
Comanche Station (Boetticher, 1960) 7/10
Caliber 9 (Di Leo, 1972) 7/10

Carol 7/10
Szamanka 7/10
Boris Goudonov (sp?) 8/10

Those last two part of my determined effort to watch any and all Zulawski.
"Carol" had some beautiful stuff going on, including the score, but I dunno ... There were moments where I thought anyone in Therese's shoes would've beat a hasty retreat. Especially after that first visit chez Carol.

Speaking of Zulawski...

Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
Tangerine (Baker, 2015)
Polyester (Waters, 1981)
M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1953)
* Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955)
Jupiter Ascending (Wachowskis, 2015)
* The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise, 1951)
Ex Machina (Garland, 2015)
The Hateful 8 (Tarantino, 2015)

Carol (4/5)
Amy (2015; 4/5)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014; 2/5)
3 Godfathers (1948; 3.5/5)
Sisters (2015; 2.5/5)
Speedy (1928; 3/5)
The Roaring Twenties (1939; 4/5)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (3.5/5)
Girlhood (2014; 4/5)

Mistress America (7.0)
Tangerine (5.5)
The Martian (7.5)
Room (7.0)
Lonesome Cowboys (6.5)
Nude Restaurant (7.0)
Seventeen (6.5)
Smiling Through the Apocalypse (6.5)
The Moth Diaries (5.5)
Bike Boy (6.5)

2016 so far

The devil rides out (1968) 6
It's a wonderful life (1946) 8
The perfume of the lady in black (1974) 8
Le mepris (1963) 10
The leopard (1963) 9
Certified copy (2010) 7
Mad max: fury road (2015) 8
Taste of cherry (1997) 7
Grey gardens (1975) 9
The wind will carry us (1999) 8

Queen of Earth (Perry, 2015) 6/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) 7/10
Youth (Sorrentino, 2015) 3/10
Carol (Haynes, 2015) 6/10
The Big Short (McKay, 2015) 3/10
* A Christmas Tale (Desplechin, 2008) 7/10
* The Silence (Bergman, 1964) 7/10

Invasion USA (1985)

http://pixelbedlam.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Invasion-USA-1985-Cannon-Asia.jpg

watched it mainly for the scenes shot in Atlanta of rocket launchers blowing up real suburban houses

Yeah, been meaning to see Invasion USA after watching that Cannon Films doc:

"According to the documentary on Cannon Films, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, the scene where terrorists destroy homes in a suburb with rocket launchers featured explosions in actual houses. The Atlanta airport was going to bulldoze an entire suburban neighborhood to extend a runway, so the filmmakers were allowed to destroy the existing homes. Similarly, part of Dadeland Mall was being rebuilt, so the filmmakers were allowed to destroy everything in the actual mall."

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935, Sirk) 8/10
Summer Storm (1944, Sirk) 7/10
The First Legion (1951, Sirk) 6/10
Hitler’s Madman (1943, Sirk) 5/10
La Habanera (1937, Sirk) 5/10
*Heart of a Dog (2015, Anderson) 8/10
Sign of the Pagan (1954, Sirk) 4/10
Lovers and Lollipops (1956, Engel, Orkin) 8/10
Slightly French (1949, Sirk) 5/10
Mysterious Island (1961, Endfield) 7/10
Take Me to Town (1953, Sirk) 7/10
Creed (2015, Coogler) 8/10
Love & Mercy (2015, Pohlad) 6/10
A Scandal in Paris (1946, Sirk) 6/10

watched it mainly for the scenes shot in Atlanta of rocket launchers blowing up real suburban houses

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 January 2016 16:04

I misread that as "suburban horses"

Godard season running thru Jan/Feb, so that's what I'll mostly be watching, I 'xpecs

A Candle For the Devil (Martin, 1973) - 8/10
Crimson Peak (del Toro, 2015) - 6/10
The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) - 5/10
Tomorrowland (Bird, 2015) - 5/10
Mr Holmes (Condon, 2015) - 5/10
The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015) - 7/10
rewatches:
The Spiral Staircase (Siodmak, 1946) - 7/10
Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998) - 9/10
Batman Returns (Burton, 1992) - 6/10

Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015) 7/10
*The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015) 7/10
Shadows in Paradise (Kaurismaki, 1986) 7/10
Persona (Bergman, 1966) 9/10
The Revenant (Innaritu, 2015) 7/10
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957) 6/10
Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015) 6/10

So far this year:

Mojave 6/10
The Big Short 4/10
Trumbo 7/10
Call Me Lucky (doc) 8/10
Prophet's Prey (doc) 7/10
Nasty Baby 6/10
Everest 6/10
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl 8/10
Youth 7/10
Pasolini 7/10
The Good Soldier Svejk (1957) 7/10
Tabloid (2010 doc) 7/10
Neshoba (2008 doc) 6/10
Magician: The Astonishing Life And Work Of Orson Welles (doc) 5/10
Infinitely Polar Bear 6/10
Hateship Loveship 6/10
Chat 2/10
Curse Of The Undead (1959) 7/10
Taxi 8/10
Chi-Raq 5/10
The Visit 5/10
American Hero 4/10
Street Trash (1987) 7/10
Finders Keepers (doc) 5/10
Gabriel 6/10
Magic Mike XXL 8/10
The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2010) 7/10
Dope 8/10
Queen & Country 3/10
Unaccompanied Minors (2006) 6/10
3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (doc) 7/10
If There Be Thorns 2/10
Hell And Back 5/10
Meet Bill 5/10
*Parents (1989) 8/10

Macbeth (Polanski) 9/10
Steve Jobs 6/10
Youth 7/10
Diary Of A Teenage Girl 5/10
Le Grand Jeu 7/10
Dragon Gate Inn 9/10

Le Mepris (Godard, 1963) - er, nice colourful bum we have here..

Polanski's Macbeth is the first movie where I noticed the Walk & Talk. (Hey, they're not going anywhere in the play!)

I think it hits the witchy peaks (and then some, oh boy) that Welles was going for in his version.

Moon (Jones, 2009) 7/10
Magic Mike XXL (Jacobs, 2015) 7/10
The Conjuring (Wan, 2013) 7/10
Room (Abrahamson, 2015) 7/10
David Bowie - Five Years (Whatley, 2013) 6/10
Creed (Coogler, 2015) 6/10

the state of things (82 wenders) 3/10
house of suh (2010 iris shim) 7/10
mad max: fury road (2015 miller) 8/10
perfume: the story of a murderer (06 tykwer) 6/10
a tale of winter (92 rohmer) 7/10
aloha (2015 crowe) 2/10
both aileen wuornos broomfield docs 8/10
the revenant (2015 inarritu) 6/10
manglehorn (2015 dgg) 5/10
ginger and rosa (2012 sally potter) 4/10
man is not a bird (65 makavejev) 8/10

Dirty Harry. I'd only ever seen this on network TV until now, but this weekend I bought a set that had the first four DH movies on Blu-Ray for $15.

A Face in the Crowd (Kazan, 1957) - 9/10
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964) - 8/10
The Paperboy (Daniels, 2012) - 6/10
Creed (Coogler, 2015) - 7/10
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour, 2014) - 8/10
Spy (Feig, 2015) - 5/10
Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (Goodwin, 2015) - 7/10
The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015) - 5/10

rewatches:
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999) - 6/10
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) - 8/10

The Chess Players (1977, S. Ray) 7/10
Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913/2014, Hunter, Middleton, unfinished)
The Treasure (2015, Porumboiu)
*Amour fou (2014, Hausner) 9/10
The Mask (1961, Roffman) 5/10
Executive Action (1973, Miller) 4/10
The Grandmother (1970, Lynch) (34m) 7/10
Bone Tomahawk (2015, Zahler) 8/10
Battle Hymn (1957, Sirk) 6/10
Sweaty Betty (2015, Frank, Reed) 7/10
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939, Mizoguchi) 9/10

The Unholy Three (Browning, 1925)
Brian Eno: 1971-1977 - The Man Who Fell to Earth (such a sketchy collection of uncleared music and video clips that no one claims responsibility for directing it, 2012)
Chandu the Magician (Menzies/Varnel, 1932)
Bulldog Drummond (Jones, 1929)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Richter, 1984)
Shockproof (Sirk, 1949)
*The Prestige (Nolan, 2006)
Roxy the Movie (Zappa 1973/Albarian 2015)
Phase IV (Bass, 1974)
Kiss of Death (Hathaway, 1947)
David Bowie: Five Years (Whately, 2013)
There's Always Tomorrow (Sirk, 1956)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) [2D] 5/10
Hateful Eight, the (2015) [digital projection] 7
Revenant, the (2015) 6
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 5
Death of "Superman Lives", the (2015) 4
Electric Boogaloo (2014) 7
Babadook, the (2014) 8
Tomorrowland (2015) 4

and here's some TV because it's 2016 and TV and movies have melded into the same thing really
Jessica Jones S1 (2015) 7
Doctor Who S8 (2014) 5
Doctor Who S9 (2015) 6
History of the Eagles (2013) 2?
Sherlock "The Abominable Bride" (2016) 3

On back-to-back nights I have seen films featuring shortlived postwar vamp Hazel Brooks! (Mitzi Gaynor musical vehicle The I Don't Care Girl and Sirk's noir Sleep, My Love.) And she only did about 5 movies.

http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/hazel_brooks/brooks_5.jpg