Last (x) movies you saw

That reminds me, even if I found Everlasting Moments boring as hell, is there still a chance that I'll like The New Land (or The Emigrants)?

Hard To Be a God (German, 2015) 8/10

I really loved this but every time I see/hear the title I want to (and sometimes do) make a shit joke about it being a Kanye West biopic.

hahaha

That reminds me, even if I found Everlasting Moments boring as hell, is there still a chance that I'll like The New Land (or The Emigrants)?

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko),

A slim one. The New Land >> The Emigrants, although not buy much. Outside of Dovzhenko, I can't think of another filmmaker so quietly skilled at showing people's relation to the land, which is a stern mistress.

"people's relation to the land, which is a stern mistress" -- Isn't that a George Costanza quote?

when he played the skeevy lawyer in Pretty Woman

I was thinking of "The sea, she was angry that day..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8KUgUqprw

Güeros (Palacios, 2014) 6/10
Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015) 8/10
The Walk (Zemeckis, 2015) 5/10
Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani and Taviani, 1982) 6/10
*The Kid (Chaplin, 1921) 8/10
*I Confess (Hitchcock, 1953) 8/10
Frozen River (Hunt, 2008) 7/10
Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012) 4/10
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Heller, 2015) 4/10
*Strange Brew (Moranis and Thomas, 1983) 7/10
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967) 6/10

*rewatches

boy that's a high score for I Confess

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

challopy scores all 'round

Well, let's hear it!

i liked the stuff about Phoebe Gloeckner becoming an underground cartoonist in The Diary of a Teenage Girl; wish it had been the whole movie

Couple of torrents as there was nothing playing in the cinemas:

Scenario du film Passion (Godard, 1982) - another great little essay film from JLG, going behind the thought processes that went into his '82 feature Passion but also willing to do his own thing (using from the film I haven't seen (and have little interest in seeing) as jump off points into whatever). The image, text sound combination are a clear beginning to the Histoire(s) Du Cinema

Kyoto, My Mother's Place (Oshima, 1991) - this is some gem, made for the BBC in the early 90s when the BBC had money and could help directors make cinema for television, unlike the 'BBC films' crap that infests the cinema release schedule these days

(this is back at the cinema now)

Innocence of Memories (Grant Gee, 2015) - this is an example of what I'm talking about. What we have is an Arena doc from the early 80s. Needless shots of Istanbul street meander at night. Never been that into Pamuk (or nothing has made me pick up his bks), now less so..

Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlak Tahimik, 1977) - sorta naive essay film from the Philipino filmmaker (via Germany where he now lives). There was some intro by some PhD candidate which was so off-putting (just stop reading a fkn essay to us, I don't care you know) but the humour as the film started kept me going. Its a naive-ish film - its his first effort but he also revels in the third world-isms too. There was a mini-season so would've like to have seen his later efforts.

(I should add, wrt to Innocence, you could've cut that by half an hour and it would've been a GOOD Arena Doc feature on a novel -- something the BBC don't do much if at all these days)

Raggedy Man (1981, Fisk) 6/10
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Linklater) 7/10
The Queen (1968, Simon) 9/10
Tricia's Wedding (1971, Miron) (33m) 8/10
Le coup du berger (1956, Rivette) (28m) 7/10
Synthetic Sin (1929, Seiter) 6/10
Strange Victory (1948, Hurwitz) 7/10
Blackhat (2015, Mann) 5/10
My Golden Days (2015, Desplechin) 7/10
The Nude Restaurant (1967, Warhol) 7/10
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014, Elkabetz, Elkabetz) 8/10

Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman, 1953)
The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983)
Things To Come (Menzies, 1936)
Pee-wee's Big Holiday (Lee, 2016)
Nazoranai (Weiss, 2015)
Taxi (Panahi, 2015)
*Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997)
Thief (Mann, 1981)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul, 2010)
The Driver (Hill, 1978)
Rabindranath Tagore (Ray, 1961)
The General (Keaton, 1927)

Pearl Button (Patricio Guzman, 2015)
The Propaganda Game (Álvaro Longoria, 2015)

Pearl Button is the best film you'll see, just so many starnds smartly woven together. A+ essayisms and moving as Guzman has used pretty much all his creative energies to try and understand, bring together and begin to heal the madness his country was plunged into.

The Propaganda Game fairly pedestrian stuff on North Korea, except the film managed to find the only foreigner on the North Korean payroll as a government minder to visitors - which was a horror show all on its own.

Goodnight Mommy (8/10)
The Devils (7/10)
A Field In England (6/10)
Sicario (6.5/10)

Chaplin (6/10)

Papusza (Krauze (x 2), 2013) - Showing in UK cinemas atm. Read some pretty negative reviews about this that almost put me off (got to stop doing that), but eventually I found this very moving and unique. Stunningly-shot biopic of the first gypsy poet and an incredibly unusual directorial tone. Kind of emotionally measured, as though afraid to overwhelm. Seriously beautiful though.

The Club (Larrain, 2015) - The darkest of comedies. Exceptional and terrifyingly complicated tangle of morals and spiralling rationales. Starkly and impeccably told. Probably favourite of 2016 so far.

Hail, Caesar! (Coen Bros, 2015) 6/10
Brute Force (Dassin, 1947) 8/10
Anomalisa (Johnson/Kaufman, 2015) 6/10
All My Good Countrymen (Jasny, 1969) 7/10
45 Years (Haigh, 2015) 7/10
High-Rise (Wheatley, 2015) 5/10
The Witch (Eggers, 2015) 8/10
The Green Inferno (Roth, 2013) 6/10
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin, 2008) 7/10
Eskimo Nell (Campbell, 1975) 6/10

Couldn't not see the club as a Chilean remake of father ted

Millennium Mambo (8/10)
Hail, Caesar! (6/10)

Couldn't not see the club as a Chilean remake of father ted

― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Sunday, April 3, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is there a priest playing Jungle at 3am on this?

conspicuously absent :-(

I made the Father Ted comment to tt as well lol

just watched straub/huillet's chronicle of anna magdalena bach, but I couldn't get my blu-ray player to display the subtitles, lol. I just watched it without them as it was too early to bother with troubleshooting. My german stinks so I was only picking up the odd word and just enjoying the compositions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Will try to sort the problem before I watch sicilia!

Ha, exactly the same thing happened to me with Anna Magdalena Bach. I just enjoyed the music.

I had a similar problem last night watching a torrented Son Of Saul through the media player. I found renaming the sub file the same as the mkv file did the trick.

Was it the new wave edition you were watching frederik? I figured out the problem for sicilia! (Which was great btw) - you have to set the subtitles to "off" on the main menu. Seriously.

Charade (Donen, 1963) 7/10
The Selfish Giant (Barnard, 2013) 8/10
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino, 2013) 7/10
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (Cheh, 1969) 7/10
Acacia (Park ki-hyung, 2003) 5/10
*Singles (Crowe, 1992) 6/10
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Schnabel, 2007) 7/10
Victoria (Schipper, 2015) 7/10
Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015) 6/10

*rewatch

lucy (besson, '14) 2/10
critical care (lumet, '97) 6/10
ricki and the flash (demme, '15) 7/10
tomorrowland (bird, '15) 3/10
Lilith (rossen, '64) 4/10
45 years (haigh, '15) 8/10
a quiet place in the country (petri, '68) 5/10
the wolfpack (crystal moselle, '15) 9/10
smiles of a summer night (bergman, 1955) 5/10
inside out (pete docter, '15) 5/10
she's gotta have it (spike lee, '86) 8/10
secret things (jean cluade brisseau, 2002) 6/10

Max Rose (2013, Noah) 4/10
Quick Billy (1970, Baillie) 6/10
NOTFILM (2015, Lipman) 6/10
*Junior Bonner (1972, Peckinpah) 8/10
The Getaway (1972, Peckinpah) 8/10
Convoy (1978, Peckinpah) 5/10
Cross of Iron (1977, Peckinpah) 6/10
d'Est (From the East) (1993, Akerman) 8/10
Mr. Freedom (1969, Klein) 6/10
Her Man (1930, Garnett) 7/10
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966, Klein) 6/10
Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Guerra) 8/10
Saint Laurent (2014, Bonello) 7/10
*The Straight Story (1999, Lynch) 9/10
*Every Man for Himself (1980, Godard) 6/10

Watched Future Shock the 2000AD story last night. It was very good.
May watch The Witch or Manchurian Candidate tonight.

A Perfect Day (7/10) - affected me more than I expected. Also the best acting by Benicio DT in eons.
We Will Not Live Together (8/10) - Jean Yanne the greatest lovable asshole in cinema.
Flowers Of Shanghai - 8/10

Bummer about "Max Rose", Morbs. I was hoping for the best.

Rapture (Guillermin, 1965) - 9/10
The Maggie (Mackendrick, 1954) - 7/10
10 Cloverfield Lane (Trachtenberg, 2016) - 6/10
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part Two (Lawrence, 2015) - 5/10
John Wick (Stahelski, Leitch, 2015) - 3/10
Pool of London (Dearden, 1951) - 7/10
The System (Winner, 1964) - 5/10
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974) - 8/10

rewatches:
Raising Arizona (Coens, 1987) - 8/10
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989) - 8/10
Total Recall (Verhovan, 1990) - 7/10
Dial M For Murder (Hitchcock 1954) - 7/10
Three Days of the Condor (Pollack, 1975) - 8/10

Id give Total Recall a 10 tbh

It is fun, quotable etc, but boyyy is it showing its age. And not in a good way. Really ugly-looking film.

Some revisions:
The System probably deserves a 2 or a 3/10, tbh. Bizarre, unfocused film about mod-era PUAs. Directed by that loser Michael Winner. Utter shite. Oliver Reed makes it just about watchable.
and I might bump Rapture up to a 10. Stunning camerawork, spellbinding central performance, an incredible, haunting film..

also, I missed off:
The Decline of Western Civilization (Spheeris, 1981) - 7/10

Man of Steel (2013) - not as bad as i feared but not very memorable after the first half. also one of the earliest shots of Superman flying and he has a huge blood vessel in his forehead that just looks wrong. i liked the alien invasion focus.
Batman V Superman (2016) - piece of shit move trailer expanded to feature length.
Green Lantern (2011) - kind of amazed this Ryan Reynolds guy has a successful career now what a charisma vacuum. always thought Green Lantern was stupid as a kid and this movie just told me i was right.
The Apple (1980) - this holds up, this movie is insane. i always forget about Mr. Tops.
Club Paradise (1986) - lots of fun to hang out w this movie. Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis as clueless beach bums trying and failing at love was wonderful. Robin Williams actually kind of scary at times in here.
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) - omg how was this movie even made? so bizarre. i love this as a kid but never realized how insane it is. Sally Field losing it at the dinner at the end was classic. "I have to go! We have to leave! I have to go now! We have to leave now!"
Election (1999) - enjoyed this movie a lot. saw pieces of it on IFC all the time back in the day, as a whole movie it's pretty great.

hooray, someone else who thought John Wick was shit

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) 8
*Cinderella (1950) 4
Blue Ruin (2013) 6
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (2016) 6
*Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 10
Superman III 4
Superman IV 3
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Snyder, 2016) 2
Daredevil 3
Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987) 2
Ex Machina (2015) 6

shame that ex machina ends up at "sexbot gets revenge"
daredevil -- a bunch of scenes from the comic book. i notice that affleck pronounces "killed" as "kilt" which is something kevin smith does too.

The True Story of Lili Marlene (Jennings, 1944) 6.5/10
Handsworth Songs (Akomfrah, 1987) 9/10
Eight Hours of Terror (Suzuki, 1957) 7/10
Youth of the Beast (Suzuki, 1963) 9.5/10
Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais, 1959) 10/10
Cremaster 1 (Barney, 1996) 6.5/10, even less comfortable assigning a number to this than I am with general release films
The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland, 2014) 9/10

BRIEF PAUSE to note that The Duke of Burgundy is amazing, possibly the best film of 2014 released in the US in 2015 that I've seen in 2016

Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966) 8.5/10- this would have been higher if I hadn't seen Youth of the Beast first, frankly. Sure, he whistles his own theme music and wears a powder blue suit and that is wonderful, but he's no Joe Shishido
Anomalisa (Kaufman, 2015) 8.5/10- really liked this! I admire Kaufman's solo joints more than I enjoy them, usually, but at least this one seemed to allow for the possibility of happiness existing somewhere in the world, even if it isn't with the sad asshole protagonist. I checked to see what some of my favorite reviewers thought about it and immediately ran into an asinine WHAT REALLY HAPPENED theory that I can't believe people actually subscribe to.

And Anomalisa is just further evidence that Tom Noonan is some kind of benevolent magical giant who descends into our world from his fairy kingdom to make movies awesome

Got to see Barry Lyndon though I missed seeing it in the right order. Missed the start but got to see it from just after on the +1 of the same tv channel an hour later thanks to ad breaks.
Also missed the fight with the stepson but it was the next bit on the +1 after the film ended.

Thought I hadn't seen it before but I recognised a lot of it I think.
Loved the proto stetson the stepson was wearing in the duel. Assume hat evolution has that as a direct ancestor.

James White (7/10): Thought the casting was great in this. Better than I expected.
The Witch (3/10) : stupid and grotesque overrated film.

There Was a Father (Ozu, 1942)
La Promesse (Dardenne Bros., 1996)
Je tu il elle (Akerman, 1975)
*Tootsie (Pollack, 1982)
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (Blank, 1995)
Passing Fancy (Ozu, 1933)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Oshima, 1967)
News from Home (Akerman, 1977) – 10/10
The Model Couple (Klein, 1977)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)