Last (x) movies you saw

It's a fine movie with excellent use of deep focus. The quiet crumbling of the Loy-March marriage is well done.

most of it, it's obvious where it's going, and it's so slow. the dana andrews plot was a complete waste of time to me.

les demoiselles de rochefort (demy, 7/10)
sans soleil (marker, 10/10) (rewatched)
captain america: the first avenger (johnston, 6/10)
les rendez-vous d'anna (akerman, 8/10)
captain america: winter soldier (russo bros, 7/10)
x-men: days of future past (singer, 5/10)
night mail (watt and wright, 6/10)
one day pina asked... (akerman, 7/10)
the wicker man (hardy, 7/10)
chronicle of a summer (rouch and morin, 9/10)

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It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember my main issue being the distasteful mining of March's alcoholism for LOLs. On Alfred's remark about the visuals, I cannot really comment as the one time I saw it was via a less than stellar print on syndicated commercial TV broadcast. That alone probably warrants a rewatch.

thirst (chan-wook park, 2009) 8/10
we need to talk about kevin (ramsay, 2011) 6/10
embrace of the serpent (guerra, 2015) 8/10
tin can man (kavanagh, 2007) 4/10
you can count on me (lonergan, 2000) 7/10

documentaries:

capitalism a love story (moore, 2009) 7/10
trophy kids (bell, 2013) 7/10
the decline of western civilisation (spheeris, 1981) 7/10
(dis)honesty: the truth about lies (melamede, 2015) 6/10

rewatches:

withnail & 1 (robinson, 1987) 10/10
the master (anderson, 2012) 7/10

*The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995) 5/10

the only time i saw it the ending made me so angry i think i would have come on here and given it 1/10 had i been on ilx

it didn't age well that's for sure

the music is atrocious!!

lol! i don't remember much except wanting everyone involved thrown out of a window for the ending

i saw it like ten years ago. almost as much time has elapsed since i saw it than elapsed between its release and me seeing it. that is weird

anyway

Remainder 7.5/10
Smiley Face 7.5/10

Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 4/5
Blackhat (2015) 2.5/5
The Lobster (2015) 4/5

Film (Schneider, 1965)- 4.5/5 if I'm being honest but it felt like a 5
Notfilm (Lipman, 2015)- 4/5
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)- 4.5/5
*Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams, 2009)- 3/5
Demons (Bava, 1985)- 2/5 but a fun 2/5

Juggernaut (7.0)
Weiner (6.0)
Beautiful Darling (7.0)
The Deer Hunter (7.0)
Carrie (10.0)
Nostalghia (--)
Money Monster (6.0)
The 400 Blows (10.0)
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (7.0)
Blow Out (9.0)

I thought Andrei Rublev was impressive when I saw it about a decade ago, and I liked Ivan’s Childhood more recently. Nostalghia was like Stalker for me: memorable final image, the rest of it a very tough slog. I want to see The Mirror, but I’ll have to wait until it shows up at the Lightbox again—the one remaining video store that carries such stuff doesn’t seem to have it.

I found Beautiful Darling compelling for its performance footage of Candy and others and for some of its interviews with Candy's friends, but it says something about the film that one of its interview subjects invokes the "straight man vomiting at the sight of a trans woman's body" trope within the first ten minutes or so. Not an unsympathetic treatment of Candy's life, but at times hard to watch if you tend to have a visceral reaction to transmisogyny. (I was also fairly depressed while I watched this last year, though, so that probably colored the experience.)

All the Tarkovsky films are free and legal online. Stalker really needs to be seen on the big screen, though, I think. I used to think that was one of the most overrated films ever, but changed my mind after watching it in cinema.

The only Tarkovsky I've ever seen was Solaris on tv when I was a teen. It was a bit of a slog and I don't think I finished it tbh. Scene with the car driving through the city was cool though.

Forgot about Solaris, I've seen that too. Three were in a theatre--always my first choice, although I'll settle more readily for a DVD now than when I used to wait forever--Ivan's Childhood and Nostalghia at home. I was certainly aware of how great parts would have looked on in a theatre...but that didn't salvage Stalker for me.

looooooove nostalgia

(saw in cinema)

Me too a couple of weeks ago. I'm finding it harder to unravel than the three others I've seen. Had to revise favourite film for the first time in eleven years to Stalker recently after seeing it in the cinema. Tarkovsky is a dream-stealer.

(xposts) I thought Beautiful Darling was generally very sympathetic, seemed to be mostly filtered through Jeremiah Newton's relationship with Darling (which was left a little ambiguous). I recall the comments you quote, not who said them, but they seemed in keeping with the era that was being recalled, and you wouldn't really want to take them out. I didn't think they were reflective of the film as a whole.

Yeah, I don't think the film should have been sanitized, by any means, and I think the filmmakers were at least responsible about balancing out the more transphobic interview subjects (with their juxtaposition of Fran Lebowitz's and Jayne County's remarks, for example). I found it emotionally hard to watch, but that isn't a criticism of the film.

Fear of Fear (Fassbinder, 1975)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Rejected (short film; Hertzfeldt, 2000)
Anomalisa (Kaufman/Johnson, 2015)
Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015)
Mala Noche (Van Sant, 1986)
Gomorra (Garrone, 2008)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Kiarostami, 1999)
Ghostbusters (Feig, 2016)

Men & Chicken. Liked it quite a lot. Reminds me a bit of Taxidermia but not nearly as gross or weird.

It's quite fun! If you haven't seen them, the directors other films, The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples, are pretty good as well.

Thanks, I'll look out for them.

the bakery girl of monceau (rohmer 63, 6/10)
x-men: first class (vaughn 2011, 5/10)
i'm all right, jack (boulting 59, 5/10)
le coup du berger (rivette 56, 4/10)
gilda (vidor 46, 8/10)
the red shoes (powell and pressburger 48, 9/10) *rewatched
daguerrotypes (varda 75, 6/10)
I don't belong anywhere: the cinema of chantal akerman (lambert 2016, 6/10)
don't look now (roeg 73, 7/10)

Gilda was a revelation, so sleek and uneasy and daring in how it handled its queer subtext. I don't belong anywhere is a little too reliant on a watered-down version of Akerman's visual sensibility (especially given its proximity to the more radical No Home Movie, and the interviews with Gus van Sant seem out of place and perfunctory as a means of discussing Akerman's influence, but Akerman's commentary on her own work is illuminating.

Cyrus and I watched The War. Kevin Costner almost made me cry! In a good way! Frodo was good too. 7/10

Cyrus and I watched A Night In Casablanca last night. best Chico piano. Cyrus before the movie: "Do they get chased a lot and do people hide in trunks?" Yes. And yes. 7/10

Cyrus and I went and saw the Louis CK cartoon dog movie. It was entertaining but I kinda forgot about it as soon as we left the movies. 6/10

Cyrus and I went and saw Finding Dory. Maria came too. 8/10 to Nemo's 9/10.

I watched Boom Town by myself and almost wet my pants when this scene came up. so hot. 8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGVzNf3J_I

Oh and watched Mustang on Netflix. Liked that a lot. 7/10

*The Long Day Closes (1992, Davies) 9/10
Simon (1980, Brickman) 6/10
Part Time Wife (1930, McCarey) 5/10
*Westworld (1973, Crichton) 6/10
The Battle of the Century (1927, Bruckman/McCarey) (19m) 8/10
The BFG (2016, Spielberg) 6/10
Microbe and Gasoline (2015, Gondry) 7/10
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet (1997, Plympton, Curtis) 7/10
*Mala Noche (1986, Van Sant) 8/10
On Purge Bébé (1931, Renoir) 6/10
The Travelling Players (1975, Angelopoulos) 8/10
*La Chienne (1931, Renoir) 10/10
Open All Night (1924, Bern) 6/10
The Brink’s Job (1978, Friedkin) 5/10
*Attenberg (2010, Tsangari) 8/10

*The Master (Anderson, 2012) 7/10
Green Room (Saulnier, 2015) 7/10
Jupiter Ascending (The Warchowskis, 2015) 6/10
Tale of Tales (Garrone, 2015) 7/10
Muriel's Wedding (Hogan, 1994) 8/10

Fixed Bayonets! (Fuller, 1951) 9/10
Black Widow (Rafelson, 1987) 7/10
*Catch Me if You Can (Spielberg, 2002) 8/10
Shane (Stevens, 1953) 7/10
Batman: The Killing Joke (Liu, 2016) 2/10
Star Trek Beyond (Lin, 2016) 4/10
Ghostbusters (Feig, 2016) 7/10

Alan Clarke: Dissent & Disruption box set (so far):
George's Room (1967) 6/10
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel (1969) 5/10
Sovereign's Company (1970) 8/10
The Hallelujah Handshake (1970) 7/10
To Encourage the Others (1972) 8/10
Under the Age (1972) 7/10
*Horace (1972) 8/10
The Love Girl and the Innocent (1973) 6/10
*Penda's Fen (1974) 7/10

WANT that Clarke boxset

Anomalisa (DVD) Amusing at times but pretty pointless
Terminator: Genisys (Prime) Bleh
Medium Cool (DVD) Great, also awesome use of Love's "Emotions" for main theme
Midnight Special (DVD) Great!
Salo: 120 Days of Sodom (DVD) Saw Criterion at library and figured I should watch it finally--not exactly enjoyable
99 Homes (Prime) Andrew Garfield was... not good in this, but I thought Shannon was (in fact not sure why Garfield's character even needed to exist). A bit heavy handed maybe, but not sure how you make a movie like this otherwise...

watched Snow Angels and it was bad Sundance bait and a criminal waste of my hero Kate Beckinsale. and criminal waste of Griffin Dunne and Amy Sedaris for that matter. 4/10 (i don't know why anyone thought Garden State + In The Bedroom was a good idea. But film people are weird. the book must be better or something.)

i suggest a movie where griffin dunne and amy sedaris hire a nanny played by kate beckinsale and watch the sparks fly!

Chevalier 8/10 this year's Force Majeure

with a boner scene

Good boner scene in Cemetery of Splendour too

ha yes

Author: The JT LeRoy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2016) - I didn't know about the story, was impressed by the diligence in taping all convos for so many years (providing the Courtney Love snorting coke down the phone to JTL 'aside'). From the readings I heard I didn't care for the writing, felt all desperate times for anglo publishing but there were things in it if you paid enough attention (and might reveal themselves in another viewing I'll never take). The sheer number/range of people taken in is impressive, lots of people who are sorta muddling (Asia Argento, Corgan, C Love, whatever) and were revealed - by the way they acted with JTL - to also share in that desperation to make something, get a project off the ground that would make enough noise, connect. Nothing really I wasn't aware of but it was exposed from a partic angle.

I'd forgotten I'd seen it (was dragged to a premiere screening a couple of months ago) but I was reminded when I saw Close-up (Kiarostami, 1990). All po-mo games aside it was about someone who wanted to be in films. Far more moving bcz it only bought him grief (although hints of a turnaround at the end which was v moving), confronted the reality that most people don't get to do anything and how common failure is.

I watched Breaking Glass the Hazel O'Connor film earlier this week. Had suggested it when somebody was looking for Punk movies a couple of weeks back and they'd said it was good. I hadn't seen it before i don't think but had like the music from it and read the book around the time. I would have been 12 or 13 at the time so don't think I'd've got to see it at the cinema.

I enjoyed it. Thought it was pretty well done. Actually better than I'd expected, dystopian in the way that Slade's Flame was or something. Still prety much of its time and maybe that was the thing about it.
Wanted to get Bloody Kids which I remembered from around the same time but it seems to have got stuck at half way through its download.

Frederik B- you remember that scene in Men & Chicken where Mads Mikkelsen pretends to be his bald brother at the school and lowers the shade so the kids can't see them? Do they hurt that woman? I couldn't work out what was supposed to have happened.

Well, I don't particularly remember that scene, no. I don't remember any scenes in that film with violence to women, but it does happen every now and then in the films of Anders Thomas Jensen. They are quite violent, and nobody is safe. So it's not out of the question, but I don't remember it.

I found the review I wrote last year, if anyone's interested: http://cinemascandinavia.com/film-review-men-and-chicken/

Anomalisa (Kaufman and Johnson, 2015) 8/10
Brooklyn (Crowley, 2015) 6/10
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Hall, 1941) 7/10
Bitter Rice (De Santis, 1949) 7/10
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black, 2005) 7/10

July

The Black Panther (Merrick, 1977) 7/10
Too Late for Tears (Haskin, 1949) 8/10
Lourdes (Hausner, 2009) 8/10
Knight of Cups (Malick, 2015) 7/10
Some Will, Some Won't (Wood, 1970) 6/10
The Neon Demon (Refn, 2016) 6/10
Faces (Cassavetes, 1968) 8/10
Hotel (Hausner, 2004) 6/10
Seul Contre Tous (Noe, 1988) 8/10
Go To Blazes (Truman, 1962) 5/10
Three Days of the Condor (Pollack, 1975) 7/10
Offside (Panahi, 2006) 9/10
Cemetery of Splendor (Weerasethakul, 2015) 9/10
Bone Tomahawk (Zahler, 2015) 7/10
A Touch of Zen (Hu, 1971) 7/10
I Married a Monster From Outer Space (Fowler, 1958) 8/10
Star Trek Beyond (Lin, 2016) 5/10
Big Trouble (Cassavetes, 1986) 4/10
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel (Clarke, 1969) 6/10
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (Sears, 1956) 6/10
Mr. Mom (Dragoti, 1983) 5/10

Hail, Caesar! (Coens, 2015)
Green Room (Saulnier, 2015)
*The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
*Killer's Kiss (Kubrick, 1955)
Princess of France (Piñero, 2014)
A Touch of Zen (Hu, 1971)
Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul, 2004)

Duplicity (6.5)
Maggie’s Plan (7.5)
I Knew Her Well (7.5)
Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All... (7.0)
Wiener Dog (7.0)
Trudeau (7.0)
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (6.5)
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (5.5)
Josie and the Pussycats (5.0)
Aloha, Bobby and Rose (6.5)

town & country ('01 peter chelsom) 2/10
what we do in the shadows ('14 jemaine clement & taika waititi) 8/10
criminal activities ('15 Jackie earle haley) 2/10
harper ('66 jack smight) 5/10
white palace ('90 luis mandoki) 7/10
the man in the moon ('91 mulligan) 7/10
*lost highway ('97 lynch) 6/10
the night before ('15 Levine) 6/10
shy people ('87 Andrei konchalovsky) 6/10

criminal activities is oddly based on a screenplay by the poet Robert Lowell; harper is inferior to its sequel

south (akerman 98, 8/10)
tokyo story (ozu 53, 10/10)
kes (loach 69, 8/10)
benefit of the doubt (whitehead 69, 5/10)
from the other side (akerman 2002, 7/10)
ten (kiarostami 2002, 7/10)
pool of london (dearden 51, 6/10)

*whitehead 67, that is