Last (x) movies you saw

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)

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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.

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(Hazel was not shortlived, just her Hollywood moment)

zero rewatches! and from 8 different decades.

Sleep, My Love (1948, Sirk) 6/10
The I Don't Care Girl (1953, Bacon/Jack Cole) 6/10
Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Takahata) 9/10
Son of Saul (2015, Nemes) 7/10
Tabu (1931, Murnau) 10/10
Tartuffe (1925, Murnau) 8/10
Results (2015, Bujalski) 7/10
(These Are) The Damned (1963, Losey) 6/10
Tonight and Every Night (1945, Saville/Jack Cole) 7/10
Tomorrow We Move (2004, Akerman) 6/10

Wow at Hazel Brooks.

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (7.0)
Waitress (7.0)
Dirty Pretty Things (7.0)
James White (6.0)
The Hateful Eight (6.0)
Mustang (7.0)
I Smile Back (6.0)
Screen Tests (8.0)
Mrs. Warhol (5.0)
War Horse (7.0)

What I learned this month: The level of my enjoyment of any Star Wars movie is proportional to the presence of Han Solo, the lack of awards-season attention being languished upon Desiree Akhavan pretty much invalidates the entire sorry spectacle for me, that while Song of the South remains suppressed, Disney clearly gives no fuck about offending Native Americans, Gilda is kinda overrated, The Wrong Man is kinda underrated, and 1976 was one wacky year for horror movies.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) 6/10
God Told Me To (Cohen, 1976) 6/10
Appropriate Behavior (Akhavan, 2014) 8/10
Peter Pan (Geronimi, Jackson and Luske, 1953) 5/10
*The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973) 8/10
*Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012) 9/10
Gilda (Vidor, 1946) 6/10
Alice, Sweet Alice (Sole, 1976) 6/10
The Wrong Man (Hitchcock, 1956) 7/10
*Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens, 2013) 6/10

*rewatches

Stage Fright (Hitchcock, 1950)
Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)
Listen To Me Marlon (Riley, 2015)
Blind Chance (Kieslowski, 1987)
Carmen Comes Home (Kinoshita, 1951) - surprised myself to learn that was the 1st Kinoshita film I've seen
The Imitation Game (Tyldon, 2014)
Amour Fou (Hausner, 2014)
Hard To Be a God (German, 2013)
Le Coup de Berger (Rivette, 1956)
World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Weekend (Godard, 1967)

Tenue De Soirée 7/10
It Follows 7/10
Spotlight 6/10
Ginger & Fred 9/10

What We Do In The Shadows (Clement/Waititi, 2014) 6/10
The Canyons (Schrader, 2013) 2/10
Anomalisa (Johnson/Kaufman, 2015) 8/10
Hi Mom! (De Palma, 1970) 5/10
Crimson Peak (Del Toro, 2015) 5/10
*The Daytrippers (Motolla, 1996) 6/10
Slow West (Maclean, 2015) 7/10
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (Gibney, 2015) 6/10
Kung Fury (Sandberg, 2015) 7/10
Exibition (Hogg, 2013) 6/10

The Revenant (Inarritu, 2015) 7/10
The Assassin (Hou, 2015) 9/10

Ant-Man (Reed, 2015) 6/10
The Skull (Francis, 1965) 8/10
Oslo, August 31st (Trier, 2011) 7/10
The Mummy's Shroud (Gilling, 1967) 6/10
Dracula, Prince of Darkness (Fisher, 1966) 7/10
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994) 7/10
Terror in a Texas Town (Lewis, 1958) 7/10
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) 9/10
The Lost Weekend (Wilder, 1945) 8/10
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Heller, 2015) 6/10
Love Thy Neighbour (Robins, 1973) 2/10
Duelle (Rivette, 1975) 8/10

The Assassin (Hou, 2015)
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)
Film Like Any Other (Godard, 1968)
Listen to Me Marlon (Riley, 2015)

Not knowing that much about Brando I concluded he was the true anti-actor. Godard's Film Like Any Other was really ugly and challenging - a good thing. Just not one for the workers.

This Island Earth (1955) - Very impressive. Best space effects pre-2001 imo. Great matte paintings and composting. Cool bug-eyed aliens. Brak is in this!
The Boy and the Pirates (1960) - A lot of fun. A sort of proto-Goonies but more violent and fantastic. The guy who played Blackbeard (Murvyn Vye? what a name...) was really good.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - Amazing sets and mod goth style but it put me to sleep. I need to revisit this.
Static (1986) - Only caught the end of this. Woah. I HAVE to see this some day.
The Barbarians (1987) - Silly and ott Canon Conan ripoff. These guys came across as dumb dumb dumb even though the script was trying to be self-aware about it, which made it even funnier. Fwiw i highly rate the first Conan. This was fun though! Some character actors you see in a bunch of similar stuff from the period.
Prison Planet AKA Badlanders (1992) - Really bad Mad Max ripoff.
Land of Doom (1986) - Same but slightly better w a bigger budget, female co-lead and, Star Wars Jawas.

* 45 Years (Haigh, 2015) 8/10
Güeros (Ruizpalacios, 2015) 7/10
Horse Money (Costa, 2014) 7/10
Mustang (Ergüven, 2015) 6/10
Queen of Death (Perry, 2015) 6/10
* Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas, 2015) 6/10
A Burning Hot Summer (Garrel, 2011) 6/10
* A Christmas Tale (Desplechin, 2006) 7/10
* Anatomy of Hell (Breillat, 2005) 3/10
* Flowers of Shanghai (Hou, 1998) 8/10
Gods of the Plague (Fassbinder, 1970) 6/10
* The Silence (Berman, 1963) 7/10
* The World of Apu (Ray, 1959) 9/10
Autumn Leaves (Aldrich, 1955) 5/10
River of No Return (Preminger, 1954) 4/10
Harriet Craig (Sherman, 1950) 5/10
3 Godfathers (Ford, 1948) 6/10

Queen of Death

haha, nice slip

ARP and his gf sat next to me at the Serge Gainsbourg film the other night. (Randy Jones of the Village People also in the house)

From Gothenburg:

Dawn (Pakalnina, 15)
Paulina (Mitre, 15)
They Will Have to Kill Us First (Schwartz, 15)
Rams (Hakanarsson, 15)
Land of Mine (Zandvliet, 15)
Cemetery of Splendour (Weerasethakul, 15)
Schneider vs Bax (van Warmerdam, 15)
Sparrows (Runarsson, 15)
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi, 15)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbender, 71)
The Boda Boda Thieves (Yes! It’s us, 15)
The Heart of a Dog (Anderson, 15)
No Home Movie (Akerman, 15)
In Front of Others (Jonasson, 16)
Chevalier (Tsangari, 15)
Fragment 53 (Tribbioli & Lodoli, 15)
Chasuke’s Journey (Sabu, 15)
On Football (Oksman, 15)
The Show of Shows (Erlingsson, 16)
Lamb (Zeleke, 15)
I Don’t Belong Anywhere - The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (Lambert, 15)
Granny’s Dancing on the Table (Skold, 15)
Summer of ’92 (Barfoed, 15)
The Mine (Salmenperä, 15)
God Bless the Child (Macholan & Ojeda-Beck, 15)
The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are Not Brothers (Rivers, 15)
Taklub (Mendoza, 15)
Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa, 15)
The Model (Matthiesen,
The Night (Dinter, 16)
Chronic (Franco, 15)
The Family (Liu, 15)
October, 1 (Afolayan, 14)

Youth of the Son (Kobayashi, 1952)
Young Törless (Schlondorff, 1966)
The Law of the Border (Akad, 1966)
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (Downey, 1975)
Watership Down (Rosen, 1978)
Lola Montès (Ophuls, 1955)
The Brood (Cronenberg, 1979)
Camera Buff (Kieślowski, 1979)
Antoine and Colette (Truffaut, 1962)
Rupture (Etaix, 1961)
Always for Pleasure (Blank, 1978)

Local hero  (1983) 8
Penda's fen (1974) 7
Farenheit 451 (1966) 6
Gallivant (1997) 7
The red shoes (1948) 9
Aaaaaaaah! (2015) 8
The good the bad and the ugly (1966) 8
Fatal attraction (1987) 6
Frenzy (1972) 7
Meshes of the afternoon (1943) 7
The assassin  (2015) 7
Nightmare alley (1947) 5
Fireworks  (1947) 6
Puce moment (1949) 6
Rabbit's moon (1950) 7
Who can kill a child (1976) 7
Eaux d'artifice  (1953) 8
Inauguration of the pleasure dome  (1954) 7
Scorpio rising (1964) 7
A tale of two sisters (2003) 7
The serpent and the rainbow (1988) 6
Lola montès  (1955) 9
The lobster (2015) 6

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Accattone (Pasolini, 1961) - 8/10
Comizi d’amore (Pasolini, 1964. Masters of Cinema Blu-ray) - 7/10
Both fitting nicely together on the same disc, both in a way taking the temperature of a post-war Italy struggling with religious conservatism and a push toward social freedoms. Watching Pasolini asking the man and woman on the street about their attitudes towards sex, relationships, and permissiveness in the Comizi d’amore doc is fascinating, occasionally amusing, often depressing. Despite many social differences however, everybody he encounters, from Milanese fashionistas to Sicilian farmhands, has the same attitude towards “sexual inverts.”

Deep End (Skolimowski, 1970. BFI Flipside Blu-ray) - 9/10
The peeling walls of the swimming baths, a park half-covered in melting snow, peep-show cinemas up back-alleys. A Polish director filming in wintry Munich captures well the essence of London’s decay and sleaze at the fag-end of sixties. A Vertigo for swingin' London.

The Honeymoon Killers (Kastle, 1969. Arrow Blu-ray) - 7/10
Unexpectedly brutal and chilling, and with this deadpan absurdest sense of humour, almost proto-Lynch.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973. Masters of Cinema Blu-ray) - 7/10
Peter Yates had an interesting career; from the dopey Cliff Richard vehicle Summer Holiday in the early ‘60s, to flashy sword'n'sorcery ‘epic’ Krull in the ‘80s, and somewhere in-between, this downbeat ‘70s thriller with a shabby Robert Mitchum.

The Bed-Sitting Room (Lester, 1967. BFI Flipside Blu-ray) - 6/10.
Two enjoyable, lengthy interviews with Peter Cook and Spike Milligan on the extra features. I was fearing the worst when Spike was asked leading questions about women’s lib and immigration, but he gave thoughtful, intelligent answers throughout

The Agnès Varda Collection vol.1 (Fusion Media DVD) :

• La Pointe Courte (1955) - 7/10
• Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) - 9/10
• Le Bonheur (1965) - 8/10
• La glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000) - 7/10

Amour fou (Hausner, 2015. Arrow DVD) - 4/10
The male lead reminded me faintly of Zach Braff. By the end I decided that Braff would actually be perfect for a US remake.

Rewatches:
The Sting (Hill, 1973) - 8/10
Hanna (Wright, 2011) - 6/10
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Hughes, 1985) - 9/10
Mad Max 2 (Miller, 1982) - 9/10

Bueller, jesus

Dheepan 8/10
Pather Panchali (Blu) 10/10
I Knew Her Well 7/10
Sherlock Jr. 9/10
Asterix : Mission Cleopatra (French version) 7/10

Palácios de Pena (2011, Abrantes, Schmidt) 6/10
The Marriage Circle (1924, Lubitsch) 7/10
Buzzard (2014, Potrykus) 6/10
Fort Buchanan (2014, Crotty) 7/10
I Knew Her Well (1965, Pietrangeli) 8/10
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971, Fuest) 6/10
*L'Enfance nue (1968, Pialat) 7/10
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Heller) 6/10
Christopher Strong (1933, Arzner) 5/10
Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988, Varda) 6/10
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960, Frankel) 5/10
Je t’aime moi non plus (1976, Gainsbourg) 4/10
Such Good Friends (1971, Preminger) 5/10