Last (x) movies you saw

with bad teeth!

i've now seen every best picture winner. those last two were a struggle to sit through.
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana)

That was a project of mine many years ago too, but I never followed up (probably still around 30 to go, most of them early or recent). Then I was going to make sure I had seen the Top 100 on the latest They Shoot Picture, Don't They? list. Then I let that slide too, and watched All the President's Men for the twentieth time instead.

Here's how I rank every BP winner. Note that I haven't seen some of them since I was a teenager (e.g. Gigi).
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I get how it may be easy to do so, but I think you seriously underrated Wings. One of the more visually interesting silents I've seen.

Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010)
*Burroughs: The Movie (Brookner, 1983)
Shirley Clarke shorts:
--- Dance in the Sun (1953)
--- In Paris Parks (1954)
--- Brussels Loops (with D.A. Pennebaker, 1957) 9/10
--- Bridges-Go-Round, Pts. 1 & 2 (1958)
--- Skyscraper (1958)
--- Bullfight (1955)
--- 24 Frames Per Second (1977)
--- Butterfly (with Wendy Clarke, 1967)
mother! (Aronofsky, 2017)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)
The Hit (Frears, 1984)
Long Strange Trip (Bar-Lev, 2017)
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (Brittain, Owen, 1966) 10/10, the scene at the end where Cohen sees the footage of himself is amazing.
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)

hell's angels blows wings away

3 for cuckoo's nest seems pretty low. if i did a list it'd prob be one of the 8s or 9s.

i don't relate to jack nicholson's character and the nurse is a cardboard cutout villain.

Just bailed on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 after an hour. What a pointless piece of shit (and I'm speaking as someone who loves the original). It wasn't scary, it wasn't funny, it was just...nothing. Yes, Dennis Hopper's good in it. But so what? William Forsythe is really good in The Devil's Rejects and that was crap too.

Cinema:

The Work (Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous, 2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
On the Silver Globe (Zulawski, 1976/88)

MUBI:

Graduate First (Pialat, 1979)
Police (Pialat, 1985)
The City Below (Hochhausler, 2010)

Finally got to see Get Out earlier to day.
pretty great

Funny People - the Robin Williams Joke caught me off guard

The Lost City of Z starring the guy from Sons of Anarchy and Byker Grove.
Quite enjoyed it but would like to know more about the true story it's based on.

Anomalisa, finally saw this one too since it's on Netflix.
Bit of a downer but good film.

Just bailed on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 after an hour. What a pointless piece of shit (and I'm speaking as someone who loves the original). It wasn't scary, it wasn't funny, it was just...nothing. Yes, Dennis Hopper's good in it. But so what? William Forsythe is really good in The Devil's Rejects and that was crap too.

― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, October 8, 2017 2:58 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

William Forsythe is exceptionally good in that movie but yeah after a second screening i felt the same.

Re-watched The Conversation last night. Harrison Ford's best movie by far, and Coppola's second-best. The 2011 Blu-Ray looks incredible.

Baby Driver (4.0)
Nixon by Nixon (7.5)
Columbus (6.5)
The Call (5.0)
Lady Macbeth (6.0)
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (6.5)
Scandal Sheet (7.5)
Mother (4.0)
The Vietnam War (8.5)
Charley Varrick (7.0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi0jP4CBsc0&t=1203s

Not sure why that didn't post correctly; the Nixon film's on YouTube.

Really liked "Lady Macbeth".

Woman in the Dark (1934). I do not objectively think this is a great movie. But it fits so closely what I like about this period and genre and performers that I'm not quite certain I didn't hallucinate it.

Festival haul:

Hannah (Pallaoro)
Jupiter’s Moon (Mundruczo)
Menashe (Weinstein)
Western (Grisebach)
The Nothing Factory (Pinho)
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (Godard)
The Day After (Hong)
All the Cities of the North (Komljen)
Danmark (Larsen)
Ana, Mon Amour (Netzer)
The Desert Bride (Atan & Pivato)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Surya)
Heaven Will Wait (Mention-Schaar)
Sexy Durga (Sasidharan)
En Frygtelig Kvinde (Tafdrup)
A Man of Integrity (Rasoulof)
Sommeren 93 (Simon)
Custody (Legrand)
Soldiers (Mladenovic)
Lemon (Bravo)
Montparnasse Bienvenue (Seraille)
Oblivion Verses (Khatami)
Vazante (Thomas)
A Ciambra (Carpignano)
I Am Not a Witch (Nyoni)
Samui Song (Ratanaruang)
Antonio One Two Three (Mouramateus)
The Dinner (Moverman)
Ismael’s Ghosts (Desplechin)
QEDA (Kestner)
Redoubtable (Hazanivicius)
Kuso (Flying Lotus)
Outrage Coda (Kitano)
The Florida Project (Baker)

MUBI:

A Month in Thailand (Negolescu, 2012)
The Future Perfect (Wohlatz, 2016)
Shinjuku Triad Society (Miike, 1995)

Cinema:

God's Own Country (Lee, 2017) - This had a a terrific 20/30 min stretch of that opening up to emotions and intimacy between two people that was just so well done.

The Beguiled (Coppola, 2017) - This movie lives or dies based on the viewer's belief in Colin Farrell's attractiveness. But as I said to my wife, casting Idris Elba would have been historically dubious. Anyway, Kidman and Dunst were great, Fanning is a gawky nonentity, and the thing is absolutely beautiful to look at.

The Lego Ninjago Movie (various, 2017) 3/10
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017) 7
American Made (Doug Liman, 2017) 6
Empire of the Ants (Bert Gordon, 1977) 2
The House That Dripped Blood (Peter Duffell, 1971) 5
I Married a Witch (Rene Clair, 1942) 6
*Repulsion (Polanski, 1965) 9
*Hocus Pocus (Kenny Ortega, 1993) 5

The death of Stalin is only my second favourite "the death of _____" film this year (someone should put on a double bill)

however good or bad the movie turns out to be, it will only be my second favourite Stalin related thing as Kotkin's vol 2 Stalin book comes out next week. What be the other "the death of _____" film?

ahh just checked, yeah got see the Louis XIV one. Probs a better double with that would be the classic Rossellini tv movie - The Rise To Power of...

as I said in the Death Of Stalin thread, it seems to be based on the penultimate Aleksey German film, which I kind of would prefer to see tbh. maybe that's the double-bill

Khrustalyov, My Car! I've got a 6 gig rip of a R9 DVD on my hard drive, but haven't seen it yet. I think there might have been subtitle issues.

Yeah I'm just being silly they have nothing in common beyond the titles and a few superficial things surrounding the actual death part (team of hapless doctors &c); it also isn't even close between them, the Serra is brilliant.

I did like the iannucci tho, it's of a piece with his latterday work like ttoi/in the loop so if you like those you should check it out. It also sometimes feels like an extended skit from the Armando Iannucci shows. Only occasionally does it slip into his increasingly useless "go fuck a flapjack you humpbacked turd" mode

xp didn't realise/forgot there was a thread, soz

"his increasingly useless "go fuck a flapjack you humpbacked turd" mode"

that does get very wearing at times.

Faces Places (Varda, 2017) 7/10
Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino, 2017) 7/10
4 Days in France (Reybaud, 2017) 6/10
The Meyerowitz Stories (Baumbach, 2017) 5/10
The Florida Project (Baker, 2017) 4/10
Three Dancing Slaves (Morel, 2004) 5/10

Meyerowitz Stories that bad eh, Alfred? I generally like Baumbach. Can anyone rec some good flicks BTW? This year has been mediocre so far

It's not terrible -- it's familiar. I'm thinking Baumbach needs Greta Gerwig around or in his films.

these are my favorites of the year thus far (alphab)

Call Me by Your Name
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Good Time
Hermia & Helena
I Called Him Morgan
The Lost City of Z
Nocturama
A Quiet Passion
Staying Vertical

I'd add:

The Ornithologist
The Death of Louis XIV
Get Out
Harmonium
A Ghost Story

Of the four movies I've seen from 2017 so far, I like Get Out the best.

Get Out is my #2 behind Personal Shopper

think my #1 is still Prevenge

amazing:

good time
get out
call me by your name
blade runner
baby driver

good:
other side of hope
dunkirk

wanted to like but left me cold:
personal shopper

actively bad:
mother!
valerian

need to see lost city of z, prevenge, death of stalin, nocturama

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. It was fun watching Tom Cruise kick people off roofs.

my 11 favourite movies of the year (so far), fuck:

Faces Places
Get Out
A Ghost Story
The Lost City of Z
mother!
Nocturama
The Ornithologist
Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo
Personal Shopper
A Quiet Passion
Staying Vertical

Why, Eric! You, Morbs, and I overlap! Where the elite meet.

The Florida Project & Kékszakállú today, loved both

Ecstacy (Machaty, 1933)
Long Lost Father (Schoedsack, 1934)
Such Is Life (Junghans, 1930)
On the Sunnyside (Vancura, 1933)
Mother (Pudovkin, 1926)
Performance (Roeg & Cammell, 1970)

Why, Eric! Using Brit spellings!

The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Serra) 8/10
*Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958, Tashlin) 5/10
Damaged Lives (1933, Ulmer) 5/10
Zama (2017, Martel) 7/10
Pandora’s Box (1929, Pabst) 9/10
*Creed (2015, Coogler) 8/10
The Day After (2017, Hong) 6/10
First Reformed (2017, Schrader) 9/10
Call Me by Your Name (2017, Guadagnino) 8/10

Look at you watching CREED again.