Last (x) movies you saw

i saw it in '78; best for martial-arts fight between Rachel Roberts and Burgess Meredith

as movies written by Colin Higgins go, at least it beats Harold and Maude

Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016, Ducastel, Martineau) 6/10
Captain Fantastic (2016, Ross) 6/10
Law of Desire (1987, Almodovar) 8/10
Manchester by the Sea (2016, Lonergan) 7/10
*The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Minnelli) 8/10
Susan Slept Here (1954, Tashlin) 6/10
Panique (1946, Duvivier) 8/10
Spa Night (2016, Ahn) 6/10
*Mother (1996, Brooks) 7/10
Aferim! (2015, Jude) 8/10

It's possible that I saw Law of Desire 20+ years ago, but i think i would've remembered Antonio Banderas as a psycho bottom.

Debbie Reynolds pockets both Susan Slept Here and Mother.

Sieranevada (Puiu)
Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (Nasrallah)
The Suffering of Ninko (Niwatsukino)
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Diaz)
Bad Influence (Huaiquimilla)
Wùlu (Coulibaly)
Heartstone (Gudmundsson)
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Kuosmanen)
Ascent (Tan)
I, Olga Heparová (Kazda & Weinreb)
Sami Blood (Kernell)
Take Me Home (Kiarostami)
76 min 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami (Samadian)
Knife in the Clear Water (Wang)
Death in Sarajevo (Tanovic)
Birdshot (Red)
Little Wing (Vilhunen)
Burning Birds (Pushpakumara)
The Inertia Variations (St Michaels)
Death of a Child (Barkfors & Barkfors)
Manifesto (Rosefeldt)
The Human Surge (Williams)
For the War to End, the Walls Should Have Crumbled (Dardenne & Dardenne)
The Unknown Woman (Dardenne & Dardenne)

Smaller festival haul than usual. But some really good ones in there, especially Knife in the Clear Water and Burning Birds. If you get the chance, jump on them!

My Best Friend's Wedding (Hogan, 1997) 3/10
John Wick (Stahelski, 2014) 5/10
Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016) 8/10
Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) 7/10
The Handmaiden (Chan-Wook, 2016) 7/10
Things to Come (Hansen-Løve, 2016) 9/10
Love & Friendship (Stillman, 2016) 8/10
Embrace of the Serpent (Guerra, 2015) 8/10
Network (Lumet, 1976) 8/10

Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016) 7/10

Executive Suite - 1954 - Wise 7/10 (man, this movie has the best people in it. william holden, barbara stanwyck, walter pidgeon, fredric march, shelley winters! and its directed by an american hero. so many people i would have sex with. but then they add the excruciating horror that is june allyson. with that voice that will make your skin crawl like something out of a lovecraft short story. oh well.)

Texas - 1941 - Marshall 9/10 (speaking of sexy...when was the last time you saw YOUNG william holden in a movie? oof....this movie rules. also, george marshall made a zillion awesome movies and hardly anyone knows who he is. not talking about YOU dweebs. i would watch any of his movies any day of the week.)

Chillerama (various, 2011) 4/10
10 Cloverfield Lane (Trachtenberg, 2016) 5/10 pretty good until the wtf 2nd ending. i liked how it rushed through ending 1.
Suicide Squad (Ayer/Trailer Park, 2016) 3/10 first 20 minutes are a fiasco, the rest is boring bad.
Fury, the (de Palma, 1978) 6
La La Land (Chazelle, 2016) 8
Margaret (Lonergan, 2011) 9 theatrical cut
Hidden Figures (Melfi, 2016) 6 decent corn

It's possible that I saw Law of Desire 20+ years ago, but i think i would've remembered Antonio Banderas as a psycho bottom.

Debbie Reynolds pockets both Susan Slept Here and Mother.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 2, 2017 3

Banderas is more beautiful, walking or on his back, bare legs splayed, than any man deserves to be.

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North to Alaska - 1960 - Hathaway 8/10 (so great.)

El Dorado - 1966 - Hawks 8/10 (also so great. james caan and michelle carey are both oooooof....)

Superbad - 2007 - Mottola 7/10 (still pretty funny!)

Gun Crazy - 1950 - Lewis 10/10 (still perfect!)

Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Schroeder, 1978)
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Misumi, 1972)
Green Grow the Rushes (Twist, 1951)
Cameraperson (Johnson, 2016)
*Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg, 1984)
The Nice Guys (Black, 2016)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike, 2001)
Mona Lisa (Jordan, 1984)

shorts:
Coda (Holly, 2013)
Black Panthers (Varda, 1968)
The Idle Class (Chaplin, 1921)

Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016) - 10/10
Camaraperson (Johnson, 2016) - 10/10
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) - 7/10
Pandora's Box (Pabst, 1929) - 7/10

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (7.5)
To Die For (7.5)
Bright Lights, Big City (7.0)
Westworld (6.5)
Jackie (7.0)
Up in the Air (6.5)
Malcolm X (9.0)
Franca: Chaos and Creation (6.5)
American Honey (7.5)
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (7.0)

The Time Traveler (1964) - This is a really cool 60s space b-movie w an incredibly cool ending and weird twist that brings to mind Momento or Interstellar. They plant something near the beginning, a shadow breezing across the frame and one of the leads saying "What was that?", and it gets forgotten about and doesn't come up again until an hour later during the mind fuckery. It was really clever and felt super modern. I also enjoyed the weird proto-psychedelic light show sequence where some lady plays a futurists organ w weird colored buttons.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) - Damn classic! Saw this a long time ago and forgot how good it is. The balloon animal they use to track down victims was awesome. The guy that plays the old grizzled cop is hilarious. What a fun movie.

Meteor Man (1993) - Never saw this full film until now. Really stacked cast (ft. Don Cheadle and James Earl Jones), cool pro-community message w a unique twist on the now-standard superhero film formula, a hopeful superhero movie for a less cynical time. One of his super powers is the ability to learn by osmosis and I totally called it when he accidentally touches a Bruce Lee instructional manual (which was still awesome). Has a real thick new jack swing feel to it all, especially the Gold Lords gang. It gets weird near the end of the movie when Bill Cosby brings a dog back from the dead...

The Comedian - 2/10
The Shining - 10/10
Toni Erdmann - 7/10
John Wick: Chapter 2 - 1/10 (walk out)

lol how long did it take?

The Heartbreak Kid ( May) : 6/10
Jackie : 3/10 : Portman's ACTING is terrible. Great score. Got an hour in then stopped.
The Physician : 6/10
Dillinger Is Dead : 9/10

Jackie is terrible.

My 3/10 for the score but, yes, quite the overrated turd.

Kiss Me Deadly - 10/10
Pitfall - 7/10
Murder, My Sweet 8/10
Kansas City Confidential - 7/10
The Grand Budapest Hotel - 8/10

barry lyndon (kubrick '75) 9/10
*thumbsucker (mills '05) 7/10
*a bigger splash (guadagnino '15) 6/10
bring me the head of alfredo garcia (peckinpah '74) 7/10
popstar: never stop never stopping (schaffer/taccome '16) 4/10
julieta (almodovar '16) 6/10
serena (ryan white '16) 6/10
demolition (vallee '15) 6/10
20th century women (mills '16) 7/10

tampopo (juzo itami, 1985) -- 4/5
jackie (pablo larrain, 2016) -- 1/5
do the right thing (spike lee, 1989) -- 5/5
bobby fischer against the world (liz garbus, 2011) -- 4/5

Thought Bobby Fischer was excellent--good soundtrack, even.

yeah, i was tempted to rate it even higher -- so much archival footage i'd never seen before. loved all the old news show clips; still seems so wonderfully insane that a chess match briefly became the top story in america.

That was exactly my favourite part of the whole movie, that one network broadcast that went something like, "We've got new developments in Vietnam, and also the latest employment figures, but first, today's Fischer-Spassky match."

That and--what better to soundtrack an international chess summit?--"Theme from Shaft."

Same reaction to The Witch as to It Follows (think there's a thread but won't go looking for it): clever, atmospheric, some beautiful painterly shots, big build-up and then it ends. In fairness, I don't think home-viewing benefits either film.

I loved The Witch's dumb ending, a masterclass in buying into yr own shtick.

Swallows and Amazons (Lowthorpe, 2016) 6/10
Finding Dory (Stanton, MacLane, 2016) 5/10
Waltzes From Vienna (Hitchcock, 1934) 5/10
Sabotage (Hitchcock, (1936) 7/10
Young and Innocent (Hithcock, 1937) 7/10

rw:
Twenty-Four Hour Party People (Winterbottom, 2001) 7/10
Dune (Lynch, 1984) 7/10
Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter, 1976) 8/10
Vampires (Carpenter, 1998) 4/10
Sirens (Dulgan, 1993) 7/10
The Parallax View (Pakula, 1974) 7/10
Carrie (De Palma, 1976) 7/10
The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999) 7/10
The Cannonball Run (Needham, 1981) 3/10
Animal House (Landis, 1978) 6/10

Brokeback Mountain (Lee, 2005) 6/10
Your Name (Shinkai, 2016) 7/10
OJ Made in America (Edelman, 2016) 7/10
The Leopard (Visconti, 1963) 6/10
Manchester by the Sea (Lonergan, 2016) 8/10
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) 9/10
The Neon Demon (Winding-Refn, 2016) 6/10

Watched two Korēda films over the weekend - Hana, a light jidai-geki about a son seeking vengeance but being much more suited to schoolteaching than samurai skills. It was really terrible, just twee and cutesie without any point that I could discern. This surprised me because I love his work usually. And then Maboroshi no Hikari the following night, K's debut feature and utterly, distractingly beautiful but also so well told I remembered everything I loved. And absolutely littered with Ozu nods, so much for his later claim that he didn't see the comparison and felt more akin to Naruse.
But every shot a natural light poem, these will be too dark on the page I guess:
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Flight (Zemeckis, 2012) 7/10
High Hopes (Leigh, 1988) 7/10
T2 Trainspotting (Boyle, 2017) 6/10
Thief (Mann, 1981) 9/10

documentaries:

Author: The JT Leroy Story (Feuerzeig, 2016) 8/10
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! (Horn, 2014) 6/10
Amanda Knox (McGinn/Blackhurst, 2016) 7/10

Haven't done one of these in a while:

Don't Deliver Us From Evil (Seria, 1971)
Two Evil Eyes (Romero/Argento, 1990)
Ghostbusters (Feig, 2016)
*Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
Turbo Kid (Simard/Whissell/Whissell, 2015)
*Deep Red (Argento, 1975)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (Harrison, 1990)
*Inferno (Argento, 1980)
*House (Miner, 1986)
House 2: The Second Story (Wiley, 1987) (THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST FUCKING THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN)
*Tenebre (Argento, 1982)
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (Waddell, 2016) (this is a bonus feature on Synapse's recent Tenebre blu-ray, but it is really startlingly good- way better than it had to be)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi, 2016)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Edwards, 2016)
Demons 2 (Bava, 1986)
*World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Dreams in the Witch House (Gordon, 2005)
Castle Freak (Gordon, 1995)
I Am Love (Guadagnino, 2009)
Eden and After (Robbe-Grillet, 1970)

Watched two Korēda films over the weekend - Hana, a light jidai-geki about a son seeking vengeance but being much more suited to schoolteaching than samurai skills. It was really terrible, just twee and cutesie without any point that I could discern. This surprised me because I love his work usually. And then Maboroshi no Hikari the following night, K's debut feature and utterly, distractingly beautiful but also so well told I remembered everything I loved. And absolutely littered with Ozu nods, so much for his later claim that he didn't see the comparison and felt more akin to Naruse.

― attention vampire (MatthewK), 13. februar 2017 12:42 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have you seen his Air Doll? That one is quite terrible as well. I think he floundered a bit in the years after Distance, some hits (Still Walking is from this period), some misses, as he tried to find his place in the larger Japanese film-business. But he has never quite recaptured what he had in his first three ones, in my view.

White Girl. It was pretty good. The message got lost between all the dicks 'n' coke though.

Thanks Frederik. I love Still Walking pretty hard, and After Life and Nobody Knows are masterpieces. Yet to see Distance, but some of the later period ones like I Wish and Like Father Like Son are a bit meh to me. But his most recent, After the Storm, was just wonderful I thought. His TV series Going My Home is also great if you can find it.

I much prefer Distance to Nobody Knows, which in my view is the one where he gives up on his 'indieness' and begins floundering a bit. Like Father, Like Son is meh in my opinion as well, but it was a really big succes, which is kinda what I meant with him trying to find his place. It's a broad and populist prestige-film, which is okay for what it is. Our Little Sister is better, and now I'll look forward to see After the Storm this spring!

Yeah I liked OLS too but it's a minor work, in my opinion.

christine, last night. thought it was great. rebecca hall was brilliant, not sure how she isn't nominated for an oscar. tracy letts was great too. thought it was a really downbeat and sensitive portrayal of a person and their problems.

last sunday i watched childhood of a leader, thought it was slightly ridiculous. it was like it wanted to shock or horrify, but mostly the kid's awful behaviour was sort of one-note and comical, it reminded me of the childhood monte burns giggling as he rams his dodgem car into the irishman.

John Wick: Chapter 2

ridiculous movie, probably a shade below the first one but still a solid 8/10. i guess i'm most impressed by the set design and overall creativity of the world depicted in this series, as well as its good-natured take on an ultraviolent hitman story. i think a good thirty minutes of this movie is just John Wick running from room to room and double-tapping anonymous bad guys and occasionally getting into a close quarters knife fight. it's just extremely stylishly done and it's nice to see a movie that steers clear of teal and orange and instead heads right for blue and red and purple and black.

the JW series to date i guess is probably most like the Crank movies w/Statham but it doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth nor feel like Gavin McInnes' favorite action movies nor have a generally unlikable dude at its center, which are the big problems with those flicks.

I enjoyed it but those thirty minutes should really be a third of the film's running time rather than a quarter of it, cause man do these films get a little boring when they stop to take you through the (delightfully stooopid) workings of Assassin Club. Just really long scenes of being told the same joke over and over. If this was 90 minutes instead of 120 I'd watch it a second time, instead I'll prob just rewatch the action scenes on youtube

never seen a crank film, the rockstar games hurr he shot him in the dick hurr aspect puts me off a bit

i like the continental club shit, i guess for me it helps that Ian McShane and Lance Reddick are the dudes who are running it. where the movie stopped dead for me a bit was the scene with Fishburne, which took too long and felt stretched out (prob bc they were excited to have Neo and Morpheus together again and wrote it long.)

yeah the Crank films are way more like rockstar games, that's pretty accurate. Statham's problem is he never evolved into a likable screen presence after he became a star. i recognize that people really do like him but after awhile i was just like, man i don't want to see this prick in anymore movies. maybe in Spy he did a good job, i've heard good things, idk i never saw it.

I wasn't thinking of the stuff with lovejoy & cedric daniels (call them by their names pls) so much as like the "getting dressed" scene and the putting out a contract/people receiving text messages. I was like, we get it move on

Agree re fishburne scene. Liked the tango & cash homage at the end.

stathams muppet voice is a problem too

yeah i get that...at least the text messages and the contract stuff. i think these guys are really in love with their own world-building and want to show all the details. i respect that, but probably only needed to see a bit of it. two whole identical scenes was a bit much.

i liked the sommelier, good to see peter serafinowicz in that role. after that scene i feel like he could actually be a dark horse for Bond, as ridiculous as that might sound.

Statham's muppet/Bruce Willis/Krays henchman thing wore out its welcome for me after The Transporter.

peter serafinowicz as bond would bring me back to bond

THAT'S who that was! I knew I knew him from somewhere