Last (x) movies you saw

That guy on the wheelchair is great.

There was an old guy who sat in the front row and laughed maniacally through an entire screening of TCM I caught a little while back. Morbs?

My grandmother is extremely sensitive, she seems hurt when people use coarse language onscreen and takes violence really badly but John Carpenter's The Thing was an an uproarious absurdist comedy to her.

I had TCM #1 on my ILX horror-film ballot five years ago, but I do understand cryptosicko's indifference. I saw it in a theatre at some point since then, and while its intensity and audaciousness (and humor) was still as clear as ever, it also, for lack of a better word, just wasn't a rewarding thing for me to watch anymore.

I also had that feeling at the last screening (which was maybe, who knows, the 7th time I've seen it?) but I've had that with literally every movie I've seen that extensively. Watched The Shining again the other week and the jazz wasn't there either. I don't know, getting older and seeing things a bunch weakens all impact.

Janbal is best film of the year.

This cute routine of yours never gets old.

Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) - pure Verhoeven Eurothrash (every scene seemed to be trolling something or other) but instead of Sharon Stone you have Isabelle Huppert in the lead. She was great but it was really odd seeing her in this setting. Given the lead its inescapable to see many similarities with "Things to Come" in the way the main lead navigated the post-marriage, grown-up children and grandchildren - that might be a great dbl bill. 'Moving on' with this rich past behind her. Except with the psycho-sexual mumbo-jumbo. Also you rarely get to see a 60 year old being so confident with her sexuality in a film (hard to recall this one).

The Salesman (Farhadi, 2016) - great script, performances. Its all so good to a clinical scary precision.

Also great cat performance in both

LOL yeah.

Forgot:

Aquarius (Mendonça Filho, 2016) - as I know my telenovelas from childhood it was nice to see Braga in the lead (of course this is a point of comparison with Huppert; Braga in her 70s but entirely understandable to see her lacking in confidence in establishing sexual relationships again - although she ahs an erratic journey) and yeah a couple of scenes just felt straight out of a telenovela to me as well. Probably nostalgic more than anything - even though the story is very London (very everywhere I suppose).

Janbal is best film of the year.
This cute routine of yours never gets old.

― xyzzzz__, 2. april 2017 11:33 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've written more on it elsewhere on ilx, and am currently working on a longer appreciation in English. Excuse me for not writing an essay every time I mention a film.

Seeing Aquarius next week! Have so far only watched half of it on a screener. Made me dance to Gilberto Gil for a week. Mendonca Filho is really great, if you haven't seen it, you should really check out Neighboring Sounds.

I'm watching Aquarius again this week. At the time I thought it a good movie whose tension slackens in the last third and far too dependent on its (compelling) star turn.

Aquarius got shafted by the programming at my local picturehouse (I feel like I maybe grumble about this too much, they are good on the whole) - really wanted to see it but 9:30pm on a weeknight isn't ideal for a 2.5hr film

Aquarius should've gotten more press last fall, but apparently promoters couldn't handle more one legend-makes-good-picture project at a time.

Made me dance to Gilberto Gil for a week.

Are your feet sore?

I also had that feeling at the last screening (which was maybe, who knows, the 7th time I've seen it?) but I've had that with literally every movie I've seen that extensively.

That factors into every movie I've seen multiple times too, but it was more than that the last time I saw TCM, something more particular. It's a really hateful and nihilistic film--that's where its intensity comes from, why it's so powerful--and I was just a lot more in sync with those feelings in my 20s.

get out 8
free fire 7.5

I've written more on it elsewhere on ilx, and am currently working on a longer appreciation in English. Excuse me for not writing an essay every time I mention a film.

Its just sorta mindless to say a film that might not get distribution for months (if at all), a film you have seen on a festival is 'best of the year' w/out anything else. A sentence or two showing you might have thought anything through.

Like I'd care to click on a link to a fucking blog after that.

As I said, I did. On the same day, in the Year-Best-Film-Poll thread. I wrote this:

"Hope it'll come further out. It's this absolutely amazing mix of local and trans-national - portraying beliefs on a small Iranian island, but influenced from all over the Persian gulf - + old and modern - mystic belief system portrayed on grainy digital. It does some of the same things as Eduardo Williams The Human Surge, which some of you might have seen a few weeks ago?"

I'm Danish, I do most of my film writing in Danish. As I said, I'm working on something I hope will spread the word further in English, but it's not as simple as just writing a couple of thoughts -> getting it published. I also work several jobs in film, so I don't have a ton of time + I honestly don't owe you anything. You could just ask, though, instead of getting weirdly offended.

LOL I'm not offended.

You owe us everything though.

March:

Certain Women (Reichardt, 2016) 8/10
OJ: Made in America (Edelman, 2016) 8/10
Bunny Lake is Missing (Preminger, 1965) 7/10
Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) 5/10
Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2016) 6/10
Oedipus Rex (Pasolini, 1967) 6/10
The Cracksman (Scott, 1963) 4/10
Celia (Turner, 1989) 8/10

I really did not like "Personal Shopper"

same rating for me at the NYFF last fall; i don't get the raves

Oh, to add to the above,

Prevenge 8.5

I was pretty ambivalent about Prevenge. The music was good though

it was the slasher movie we all needed

OK, who was it? Own up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39501196

saw "The 400 Blows" for the first time on TCM the other night

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The only rave of Personal Shopper I read (after I'd seen the movie) was Peter Bradshaw's 5 star review in the Guardian, which felt like he was reviewing the film he wanted to see, rather than what we actually got. I wanted to like PS, too - it felt like Assayas was paying part tribute to some of Rivette's more oblique supernatural excursions (esp Histoire de Marie et Julien), but it was done without any of Rivette's playfulness, or abiding sense of mystery. The whole central 'texting' section felt needlessly modish.

I don't think it helped that I'd seen Certain Women not that long before PS, where Stewart gives a not dissimilar performance in a much better film.

400 Blows still stands up, imho - last sequence is sublime. Truffaut certainly never topped it.

Midnight Special (2016, Nichols) 5/10
A Kind of Loving (1962, Schlesinger) 7/10
*Where’s Poppa? (1970, C. Reiner) 8/10
*Georgy Girl (1966, Narizzano) 7/10
The Birth of Love (1993, Garrel) 7/10
*Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964, Forbes) 8/10
After the Storm (2016, Kore-eda) 7/10
America America (1963, Kazan) 9/10
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966, Edwards) 5/10
Le Depart (1967, Skolimowski) 6/10
Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Beatty) 7/10
*The Entertainer (1960, Richardson) 8/10

Certain Women (Reichardt, 2017) 9/10
The Love Witch (Biller, 2016) 8/10
Get Out (Peele, 2017) 8/10
Paterson (Jarmusch, 2017) 7/10
Nerve (Schluman, Joost, 2017) 5/10
Your Highness (Green, 2011) 4/10
Lights Out (Sandberg, 2016) 5/10
The Young Offenders (Foott, 2016) 7/10
The Seven-Ups (D'Antoni, 1973) 6/10
Tombstone (Cosmatos, 1993) 5/10
The Mountain (Dymytryk 1956) 4/10
r/w:
Excalibur (Boorman, 1981) 7/10
The Big Lebowski (Coen bros, 1998) 7/10
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001) 7/10
docs:
One More Time With Feeling (Dominik, 2017) 8/10
Gimme Danger (Jarmusch, 2016) 6/10
Love Story (Kerry, Hall, 2006) 6/10
Tickled (Farrier, Reeve, 2016) 7/10

Lost City of Z (Gray, 2017) 8/10
Get Out (Peele, 2017) 6/10
Frantz(Ozon, 2017) 7/10
Personal Shopper(Assayas, 2017) 7/10
* Silence (Scorsese, 2016) 7/10
* Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) 7/10
* Wise Blood (Huston, 1979) 6/10
I Will Buy You (Kobayashi, 1956) 7/10
Remorques (Grémillon, 1939) 7/10

Five Came Back (Bouzereau, 2017 – I wouldn't list it but Morbs said it got an NYC theatrical microrelease)
Gate of Flesh (Suzuki, 1966)
People on Sunday (Siodmak, Ulmer, 1930 – I'd never heard of this until Filmstruck added it)
Barbara (Petzold, 2012)
Tiger Bay (Thompson, 1959)
Street of Crocodiles (short – Quay Brothers, 1986)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (short – Quay Brothers, 1988)
Equinox (Woods, 1970)
An Eastern Westerner (Harold Lloyd short – Roach, 1920)
Mur Murs (Varda, 1980)
Documenteur (Varda, 1981)

The Handmaiden (2016) 3/5
Danny Says (2015) 3.5/5
Full Moon in Paris (1984) 4/5
Five Came Back (2017) 4/5
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) 4/5
Speed Racer (2008; rewatch) 4/5
Jackie (2016) 3/5

Finally got to see Green Room cos it's on Netflix. Got a free sub for a few months.
Very nasty film innit but well done. & very end is classic.

Also saw Danny Says the bio of Danny Fields. Very good. Leaves me wanting to read the Warhol bio I bought years back and find out how tall the MC5 were. 6ft 2 came as a surprise so wonder if accurate.

The Lost City of Ze (Gray, 2017) 8/10
* Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016) 9/10
* Cameraperson (Anderson, 2016) 7/10
* Le Corbeau (Coouzot, 1943) 7/10
* Grand Hotel (Goulding, 1932) 6/10

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - 6/10
T2 Trainspotting - 5/10
Manhattan (1979) - 7/10
Your Name - 8/10
Going in Style - 3/10
The Thin Red Line (1998) - 7/10
Gifted - 8/10 (this was surprisingly good, trailer made it look like epiphany-core/xtian values/family inspo bullshit)
Song to Song - 7/10

which Going in Style is that? The remake isnt out yet, right?

ok, so it is. I thought the first one had a p good performance by George Burns.

yeah, it's really really bad, but enjoyable in the same way that Collateral Beauty, Here Comes the Boom, and The Happening are.

free fire (2016) 8/10
*cutters way (1981) 7/10
personal shopper (2016) 5/10
13 assassins (2010) 8/10
sandy wexler (2017) 4/10
*a man for all seasons (1966) 6/10

Bram Stoker's Dracula - bought this on Blu-Ray the other day. There are 3 Coppola movies I give a shit about; this is one.

i love that one too.

agreed, that movie fully rules.

Diving into Fassbinder - mix of MUBI/torrent and big screen (as posted about on the Fassbinder thread)

Effi Briest (1974) 8/10
Katzelmacher (1969) 6/10

Big screen:

Beware of the Holy Whore (1970) 10/10
I Don't Just Want You To Love Me (Hans Günther Pflaum, 1993) 5/10

iPlayer:

OJ: Made in America (Edelman, 2016) 7/10
Hypernormalisation (Curtis, 2016) 5/10

i hated the Coppola Dracula; so did Keanu. Stoker shoulda sued.

3 Coppolas I give a shit about:

Tetro
One from the Heart
Apocalypse Now

I can very well understand why Keanu hated the Coppola Dracula. I liked all the trompe-l'œil stuff - connecting Stroker/Dracula with the very beginnings of cinema etc - and the costuming. Bits of its happily remind me of the (much superior) BBC version w/ Louis Jourdan.

Like the Coppola Dracula for the same reasons but Keanu was awful in it and Hopkins' hamming almost as bad