Last (x) movies you saw

Born in Flames (Borden, 1983)
Dragnet Girl (Ozu, 1933)
La Cambrure (short - Shaki, 1999)
Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)
*La Jétee (Marker, 1963)
Wonder Woman (Jenkins, 2017)
Everything Will Be OK (short - Hertzfeldt, 2006)
The Lamp (short - Polanski, 1959)
Manchester By the Sea (Lonergan, 2016)
Cat People (Tourneur, 1942)
The Trial (Welles, 1962)

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Argento, 1970) - new Blu-Ray remaster. Looks great, and still one of the smartest and most coherent movies he's ever done.

Cremator by Juraj Herz. Pretty good, I can see why people would think it's his best film, but I still prefer Beauty And The Beast and Morgiana. I don't recall their camera work being as creative as Cremator.

It Comes At Night, dir. Trey Edward Shults (2017).
Staying Vertical, dir. Alain Guiraudie (2017).
Afterimage, dir. Andrzej Wadja (2016)

Revisiting William Friedkin's The Hunted tonight.

^^^^ all-time imo

In the opening scene, set in modern Kosovo, there is a brief shot of what it appears to be a Serbian gendarme on a bicycle. Serbian gendarmerie (along with their recognizable uniforms) ceased to exist 55 years earlier.

office Christmas party (will speck/josh Gordon, 2016) 2/10
what time is is there? (tsai ming-liang, 2001) 6/10
whose life is it anyway? (john badham, 81) 6/10
a star is born (frank pierson, 76) 4/10
the wizard of lies (levinson, 2017) 6/10
backstage (chris fiore, 2000) 5/10
trapped (mandoki, 2002) 2/10
we were the mulvaneys (peter werner, 2002) 5/10
beatriz at dinner (arteta, 2017) 7/10

Hard to be a God
Cemetery of Splendour
Mon Oncle Antoine (I LOVED this one. It might be a perfect film.)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Solaris, on the big screen

Re-watched John Carpenter's Vampires and Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice this week. Kinda amazed my dad took me to see a testosterone-poisoned bloodbath like EP when I was 14 (and my brother was 11). The scene where Nick Nolte blasts a guy's foot with a shotgun still makes me wince.

The Transfiguration (2016) - Rockaway in Queens makes a good location for a low-key horror like this one. Liked it. Reminiscent of Martin and Let The Right One In 7/10

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) - Top notch Lynch. I'd put off seeing it for years because of all the bad press it got but I think people have come around to it now. Last hour is amazing. Sheryl Lee so good too. 8/10

The Intent (2016) - Tries to be a London Grime Scarface (with a bit of Heat in there for good measure) but fails terribly. I actually turned this off, bad acting, bad script, bad everything really 4/10

Arizona Dream (1993) - I saw this a good few years back and remember disliking it for being so wacky. Its still incredibly wacky but I appreciated it more this time around. Very 90s - slacker dreamers, anti-conformity, hollowness of the American Dream 7/10

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (7.0)
The Edge of Seventeen (6.0)
American Pastoral (6.5)
American Honey (8.0)
Spring Breakers (6.0)
Monterey Pop (8.0)
Made for Each Other (1971—6.5)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (7.0)
The Promotion (6.0)
Tower (7.0)

The Edge of Seventeen (6.0)

I was sure that if anyone here was gonna be as nuts about this movie as I was, it'd be you.

My biggest problem with it was Hailee Steinfeld--just didn't like her at all. (The performance, I mean--I realize her character was intentionally abrasive.) On the other hand, I thought Woody Harrelson did a lot with a basically nothing role.

And I liked the ending. I see so many films I'm so-so on where I like the ending.

That movie left me cold too.

does Blake Jenner get naked?

No, alas. Just an under-the-sheets hand job.

Re-watched Apocalypse Now and Excalibur this weekend.

There's a Neil Jordan docu on the making of "Excalibur" playing in Paris this week.

Pretty good few weeks

Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953) 7/10
Serpico (Lumet, 1973) 7/10
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) 8/10
Patton (Schaffner, 1970) 8/10
Lancelot du Lac (Bresson, 1974) 7/10
Yi Yi (Yang, 2000) 10/10
Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) 8/10
Metropolis (Lang, 1927) 8/10
A Touch of Sin (Zhangke, 2013) 9/10
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2009) 7/10
My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007) 10/10
After The Storm (Koreeda, 2016) 8/10
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976) 9/10

My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007) 10/10

Great movie!

Was really amazing to finally see it, had caught a little bit of it on tv when I was about 14 and then spent years trying to find out what it was.

The Tenant cos it was on Netflix.
I think I read Jah Wobble mention it in his bio, though could possibly have been Cosey Fanni tutti. So thought I'd finally get to watch it after its been on my Netflix list since I got the service.
Quite creepy.

My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell, 2017) - well shot blah and Weisz wau but it just didn't do tension or any kind of suspense. The ending was rushed. Don't care if its to do with the material, they should've changed it!

Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016) 7/10
20th Century Women (Mills, 2016) 6/10
Hidden Figures (Melfi, 2016) 5/10
Being 17 (Techine, 2016) 8/10
Get Out (Peele, 2017) 7/10
*Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993) 8/10
Cameraperson (Johnson, 2016) 7/10

devvvine's sold dear old lancelot short there

Think I agree. Need a rewatch, only seen it once several years ago, but it's haunted my brain.

Tampopo (1985; rewatch) 4/5
Things to Come (2016) 3.5/5
American Honey (2016) 2.5/5
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) 3.5/5

Shorts:
Immer Zu (1997) 4/5
Ghost Algebra (2009) 3.5/5
The Heart of the World (2000; rewatch) 4/5
Junkopia (1981) 4/5

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992) 8/10
Graduation (Mungiu, 2016) 8/10
I Only Want You to Love Me (Fassbinder, 1976) 8/10
Wonder Woman (Jenkins, 2016) 5/10
City of the Dead (Moxey, 1960) 6/10
Slack Bay (Dumont, 2016) 8/10

20th Century Women (2016) 8/10
*The Red Shoes (1948) 10/10
Paterson (2016) 6/10
Wonder Woman (2017) 6/10
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016) 6/10
A Touch of Sin (2013) 8/10
The Red Turtle (2016) 5/10
Basic Instinct (1992) 5/10
Aquarius (2016) 8/10
Okja (2017) 6/10

*Le Trou (1960, Becker) 9/10
*1941 (1979, Spielberg) 6/10
*Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg) 7/10
Three Women (1924, Lubitsch) 6/10
Swamp Water (1941, Renoir) 7/10
*Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Hawks) 10/10
The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974, Tavernier) 8/10
The Judge and the Assassin (1976, Tavernier) 9/10
*Chimes at Midnight (1965, Welles) 9/10
A Week's Vacation (1980, Tavernier) 6/10
It Happened at the Inn (1943, Becker) 8/10
*Little Shop of Horrors (1986, Oz) 8/10
*Being There (1979, Ashby) 7/10
Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920, Lubitsch) 7/10
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918, Lubitsch) 6/10
*The Jerk (1979, C Reiner) 6/10
That Uncertain Feeling (1941, Lubitsch) 7/10

How did you watch Swamp Water? I watched a YouTube version last month.

35mm print in this series. The fucking audience ruined it w/ giggles; wish i'd had a machine gun. Millennial hipsters, soooo superior.

http://www.bam.org/film/2017/southern-gothic

I learned after reading the new Renoir bio that it was Fox's highest grossing film that year.

it's odd how it tried to piggyback off The Grapes of Wrath (Fox the prev year) by using some of the same music. And the studio apparently wanted Henry Fonda for the Dana Andrews role.

A Separation (Farhadi, 2011)
The Italian Connection (DiLeo, 1972)
Summer Hours (Assayas, 2008)
Paraíso (short - Kurtz, 2012)
Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017) - 3/10, surprisingly crap
Another Year (Leigh, 2010) - 9/10, (not as) surprisingly terrific
The Lodger (Hitchcock, 1927)
Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966)
Vagabond (Varda, 1985)
Kubo and the Two Strings (Knight, 2016)
Get Out (Peele, 2017)

Act of Violence---1948, dir. Fred Zinneman, starring Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Janet Leigh, Phyllis Thaxter, and Mary Astor ( In her autobiography, A Life on Film, Astor recalled filming her scenes for Act of Violence while simultaneously shooting Little Women: "For two weeks or so I was with the Zinnemann company playing a sleazy, aging whore, with Van Heflin and Robert Ryan. It was such a contrast that it was stimulating - and reviving....---thanks TCM!). Shit you can't take back, no matter how much you pay, in a star-spangled suburban way or otherwise---crisis of the intractable, locked gears, film fucking noir. (I got a bit tired of the earnest running around that Leigh, Astor, and Thaxter have to do, but the guys do it too, in a grimmer way, all in the maze.)

Last two months.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Gunn, 2017) 6
The Spanish Prisoner (Mamet, 1997) 7
*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch, 1992) 6
Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 8

Okja (6/10)

Yeah Okja was a big disappointment. The different elements didn't gel together well

Despite having read the book, Lost City of Z was dreamier and weirder than I expected. The structure alone is super idiosyncratic, but the performances carry through.

i do not think Bong's creature movies are for me, prefer the sad crime stuff

Funeral Parade of Roses (6.5)
Les Ordres (7.0)
I Never Sang for My Father (7.5)
The Manchurian Candidate (Demme—6.5)
The Beguiled (Coppola—6.0)
Get Me Roger Stone (6.5)
My Cousin Rachel (6.0)
Something Wild (7.5)
Girl Asleep (5.5)
Adult World (6.0)

Re-watching Sunshine tonight. Danny Boyle's best movie.

for an hour

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
quite enjoyed it. Not watching films much these days so may need to remedy that.
Indie seeming thing about a nurse's assistant getting her own back after a robbery and getting involved in some nastiness.
Has Elijah Wood in as a weird neighbour, seems similar to the Dirk gently role or something so hope he can diversify, maybe he's too pretty though.
Also has David Yow in as a nasty baddy. Thought I recognised him from somewhere.

Blackmail (sound version) (Hitchcock, 1929)
The Lodger (Hitchcock, 1927)
Man Hunt (Cummings, 1933)

*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch, 1992) 6
Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 8

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 6 July 2017 23:23 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Apologies if this thread is a safe space but

That raised my eyebrow, but rating FWWM the same as Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 made my eyebrows do a perplexed dance.