Last (x) movies you saw

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.

The Chris Isaak and Bowie segments don't work. If the movie had just been the Laura Palmer section, I'd give it a 7 or 8.

The Boss Baby is a much, much weirder and more subversive movie than you think it is. That doesn't mean anybody should watch it.

Apologies if this thread is a safe space but

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Sunday, July 9, 2017 6:59 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No space where you give opinions about movies on the internet is safe.

Nostalghia
The Gleaners & I, and the follow-up doc, Two Years Later
Vagabond
Wendy and Lucy
Baby Driver

I loved G&I. Varda brings so much life into it.

He Never Died
Henry Rollins lead piece about an immortal living an anonymous life in New York until his daughter turns up and gangster realted action starts to happen.
OK, but a bit sketchy and the acting seemed semi improvised in places.

Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006) 8/10
Okja (Joon-Ho, 2017) 6/10
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Herzog, 2016) 5/10
Nashville (Altman, 1975) 9/10
M.A.S.H (Altman, 1970) 7/10
Ran (Kurosawa, 1985) 8/10
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950) 9/10
Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 5/10

He Never Died
Henry Rollins lead piece about an immortal living an anonymous life in New York until his daughter turns up and gangster realted action starts to happen.
OK, but a bit sketchy and the acting seemed semi improvised in places.

― Stevolende, Monday, July 10, 2017 5:54 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha my dad was raving about this film

Saw "Miami Blues" for the first time since it was in theaters. Weird-ass movie. Also saw Schrader's "Cat People," which sucked and was so boring I could barely stay awake.

Rewatching "Timecrimes," this time with my wife, who really liked this book, a thriller called "Dark Matter," that reminded me of "Timecrimes," except "Timecrimes" is sooo much better and even though "Dark Matter" is ostensibly about parallel dimensions creating multiple versions of the same person I tried to explain to her how that's one of the many tropes of time travel stories, and she was all, no, this is quantum physics, and I was all, it doesn't matter what you call it, it's barely about quantum physics, it's about the same paradoxes, and people running around with guns and stuff, since the "Dark Matter" guy is clearly desperate to get it made into a movie, and she was all, whatever, don't ruin my fun, but she was a good sport and watched "Timecrimes" and came away saying, yeah, I guess that is a really similar sort of idea.

Know nothing about it but Timecrimes as a title is 10/10

Nashville (Altman, 1975) 9/10
― devvvine

Nice--first viewing? I find it's really hit or miss with people 40 years later. I was thinking about Barbara Jean at the airport yesterday when I saw the Trump/Macron Daft Punk clip.

A Bay of Blood (1971, Bava) 5/10
Le Salamandre (1971, Tanner) 9/10
The Young One (1960, Bunuel) 8/10
*The Meaning of Life (1983, Jones, Gilliam) 7/10
*The In-Laws (1979, Hiller) 8/10
It’s Great to Be Alive (1933, Werker) 6/10
Il Boom (1963, De Sica) 7/10
The Last Man on Earth (1924, Blystone) 5/10
Shy People (1987, Konchalovsky) 6/10
Kamikaze 89 (1982, Gremm) 5/10

You saw The Young One revival? I read Brody's blurb in The New Yorker. I saw it on VHS a few years ago: it's almost first tier Don Luis.

Re-watched Mad Max: Fury Road last night. My wife joined me for the final third, and after it was over we checked out the "Black & Chrome" version. It does actually look better in black and white, but it's still a piece of shit.

yeah, the first half of The Young One is esp mesmerizing, i didnt think Zachary Scott had that kinda stuff in him.

Nice--first viewing? I find it's really hit or miss with people 40 years later. I was thinking about Barbara Jean at the airport yesterday when I saw the Trump/Macron Daft Punk clip.

Yes, Long Goodbye remains my favourite Altman but was captivated from beginning to end. Saw some complaints in the thread about it saying the ending was a cheap way out but for me the whole thing felt like watching a plane out of fuel barrel towards the inevitable.

Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2017) - sorta dull doc about cats (which isn't very, as cats are lovely)
King Of New York (Abel Ferrara, 1990)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017) - as light a film as you could make on the subject. I sorta loved the last few mins of it, lingered long after.
A Nos Amous (Pialat, 1983) - the editing is simply masterful. I know that's what Pialat does however there is an odd alignment between tech and script, in this story of a young woman using meaningless sex to get away from her problems.
Love Streams (Cassavettes, 1984) - that's just my favourite of his. An unforgettable screening in this shabby converted old theatre in Bristol.

I just watched Mambety's "Hyenas", which popped up on YT (not ideal but hey). Great allegorical film

The Crowd (1928) 2.5/5
GLOW (the documentary; 2012) 3/5
Tour de Pharmacy (2017) 3/5
The Gleaners & I (2000) 3.5/5
The Lusty Men (1952; rewatch) 4.5/5
Fateful Findings (2013) 0.5/5
Baby Driver (2017) 3/5
Mifune: the Last Samurai (2016) 2.5/5
Mulholland Drive (2001; rewatch) 5/5
Tampopo (1985; rewatch) 4/5

Peter Tscherkassky shorts:
The Exquisite Corpus (2015) 4/5
The Arrival (1998) 3.5/5
Manufractur (1985) 3/5
Dream Work (2001) 4/5
Outer Space (1999; rewatch) 4.5/5

New Waterford Girl (7.0)
Reagan (7.0)
The Stepford Wives (remake—3.0)
20th Century Women (8.0)
Experiment in Terror (6.5)
Manson (6.5)
La belle saison (7.5)
The American Friend (6.5)
Citizen Jane (7.5)
Marie Antoinette (7.0)

The Dressmaker, with Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, and the non-Thor Hemsworth. It was pretty shocking in a lot of ways: a) how draggy Winslet looked throughout (she was wearing a lot of early 1950s ball gowns and cocktail dresses, with makeup to match, in the middle of the Australian desert); b) plot twists which I won't go into here; and c) how the population of a town in rural Australia was portrayed as basically a cross between Peyton Place, the townspeople from High Plains Drifter, and Deliverance. The last part was the most surprising to me, and I've seen Wake in Fright. You could never release a Hollywood movie that depicted the population of "real America" as a bunch of vicious, sniping, willfully ignorant trash who drove the only decent person in their shitty little town away behind some bullshit, and then portray her coming back and (semi-SPOILER) killing half of them as some kind of victory. Fox News Channel would never let you hear the end of it.

Past Life - 5/10
It Comes at Night - 2/10
Wakefield - 6/10
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) - 9/10
Rough Night - 6/10
Beatriz at Dinner - 7/10
The Hero - 4/10
Scum (1979) - 8/10
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) - 9/10
The Beguiled - 9/10
Blow Out (1981) - 8/10
The Big Sick - 0/10
Spider-Man: Homecoming - 3/10
Baby Driver - 9/10
The Little Hours - 6/10
War for the Planet of the Apes - 8/10

The Big Sick - 0/10

― flappy bird, Monday, 17 July 2017 17:43

Wow, it's that bad?

yep. let's see:
1) completely unlikeable, unctuous lead
2) you expect there to be some tie-in to the healthcare crisis in a movie called THE BIG SICK, but nope, everything is fine! no bills, no loans, no evil insurance companies
3) not funny at all. it's the epitome of contemporary comedy consisting of simply "making good points," bland moralizing & half-baked drama at the expense of jokes
4) vapid navel-gazing autobiography. again, you expect a movie called THE BIG SICK to make some comment on healthcare in America, but it's just the story of how Kumail and Emily met & got married
5) another piece of post-Louis dross that expects us to sympathize with the most loathsome and untalented people on earth - open mic stand ups. fuck off

I'm fond of Nanjiani so I still might see it.

for sure if you like him you'll like the movie

man can't believe a film that never at all professed to be this weird thing that you for some reason expected it to be turned out to not be that thing

like it was billed as this autobiographical meet-cute-turned-unexpected-medical-disaster flick and you went in expecting a Michael Moore piece?

Lost in Paris (Abel, Gordon, 2017) 5/10
The Ornithologist (Rodrigues, 2017) 8/10
Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 7/10
The Beguiled (Coppola, 2017) 5/10
The Student (Serebrennikov, 2017) 6/10
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (Howard, 2016) 7/10
* Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966) 8/10
* Clash of the Titans (Davis, 1981) 7/10
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Cimino, 1974) 7/10
* Shame (Bergman, 1967) 9/10
* Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946) 10/10

Lots of Pialat -- all a solid 9/10:

A Nos Amours
Sous Le Soleil de Satan
Police
Passe Ton Bac D'abord

Alien:Covenant (5/10)
Wonder Woman (6/10)
Endless Poetry (8/10)
A Quiet Passion (9/10)
The Mummy - 2017 version (2/10)