Last (x) movies you saw

The Signalman (Clark, 1976) 7/10
Mr Majestyk (Fleischer, 1974) 7/10
Green for Danger (Gilliat, 1946) 6/10
Good Time (Safdie bros, 2017) 7/10
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991) 9/10
Accident (Losey, 1967) 7/10
Fun With Dick and Jane (Kotcheff, 1977) 4/10
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh, 2017) 5/10
Lover for a Day (Garrel, 2017) 6/10
Three Outlaw Samurai (Gosha, 1964) 8/10
Torn Curtain (Hitchcock, 1966) 7/10
Outer Space (Tscherkassky, 1999) 10/10
Ran (Kurosawa, 1985) 8/10
Magic Mike (Soderbergh, 2012) 6/10

flappy bird in essence otm about The Post

I can accept that if we agree to also accept that The Shape of Water is closer to 0/10

Audiences that would applaud at either that or Amelie are fit for the snake pit.

The Lovers (1958, Malle) 9/10
Outrage (1950, Lupino) 7/10
Lover for a Day (2017, Garrel) 6/10
Take This Hammer (1964, Moore) 7/10
Baldwin’s N*gg*r (1968, Ove) 8/10
*Flirting with Disaster (1996, Russell) 8/10
Underground U.S.A. (1980, Mitchell) 4/10
*The Holy Girl (2004, Martel) 8/10
20th Century Women (2016, Mills) 7/10
Baby Driver (2017, Wright) 5/10
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970, Schatzberg) 7/10
*A Quiet Passion (2016, Davies) 8/10

Baby Driver (2017, Wright) 5/10

About right.

The Little Pest (Belasco & Darling, 1927)
The Golf Specialist (Brice, 1930)
City Girl (Murnau, 1930)
4 Devils (the stills/sketches/script reconstruction in the Murnau, Borzage & Fox box) (Murnau, 1928)
*Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
Lazybones (Borzage, 1925)
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance (de Chomon, 1908)
*Lucky Star (Borzage, 1929)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir, 1936)

LOving Vincent.
Live action drama based on a postman's son trying to deliver a letter to Vincent Van gogh's brother a year after he died.
Twist here is that they took that live action film and painted over each frame in a van Gogh style.
Quite lovely.

Three Billboards etc. (Martin McDonagh, 2017) 6/10
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) 7
Hercules (Clements and Musker, 1997) 4
The Black Cauldron (Berman and Rich, 1985) 6
Make Mine Music (various, 1946) 4
Darkest Hour (2017) 3
Amelie Fucks Alf (del Toro, 2017) 5
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) 3
Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, 2012) 4

managed to see 8/9 BP Oscar noms this year. Nobody wants me to see Phantom Thread apparently -- never came locally, not on the usual places yet. Also I finished seeing all the disney studios non-package animated features.

Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990)
To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch, 1942)
The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970)
La Ciénaga (Martel, 2001)
Manhatta (short - Sheeler/Strand, 1921)
*Kill Bill, vols 1 & 2 (Tarantino, 2003/2004)
The Shape of Water (Del Toro, 2017)
Tabu (Murnau, 1931)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu, 1978)
Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul, 2006)

Yojimbo
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
MI: Rogue Nation

Fado, Major and Minor (1995, Ruiz) 6/10
The Blind Owl (1987, Ruiz) 4/10
It Rains on Our Love (1946, Bergman) 5/10
*Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016, Morrison) 8/10
King and Country (1964, Losey) 8/10
*The Flying Deuces (1939, Sutherland) 7/10
*Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur) 10/10
*Get Carter (1971, Hodges) 8/10
1 P.M. (1972, Pennebaker, Leacock, Godard) 6/10
*Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Gutierrez Alea) 9/10
Driftwood (1947, Dwan) 7/10

Baby Driver (2017, Wright) 5/10

Ansel Elgort (2017) 9/10

Melvil Poupaud, age 45 with a bald spot Q&A last night, 9/10

He's not shirtless in enough movies.

Morbs didn't say *where* the bald spot was tbf

The Fraidy Cat (Parrott, 1924)
Jonah Jones (Hibbard, 1924)
Baby Take a Bow (Lachman, 1934)
Sold at Auction (Chase, 1923)
Max à Monaco (Linder, 1915)
Max Sets the Fashion (Linder et Leprince)
*Street Angel (Borzage, 1928)
Cockatoos for Two (Wickersham, 1947)
Anticipation of the Night (Brakhage, 1958)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage, 1959)
The Dead (Brakhage, 1960)
Mothlight (Brakhage, 1963)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1964)
One Wet Night (Watson, 1924)
Cook, Papa, Cook (MacDonald, 1928)
Scenes From Under Childhood, Sections One through Four (Brakhage, 1967-1970)

Blade runner 2049
nicely done.

Orion’s Belt (Solum)
Out of Nature (Giæver)
From the Balcony (Giæver)
In Order of Disappearance (Moland)*
1001 Grams (Hamer)
Oslo, August 31st (Trier)*
Avengers (Whedon)*
Predestination (Spierig & Spierig)
Immortals (Singh)
The Matrix (Wachowski & Wachowski)*
The Matrix: Reloaded (Wachowski & Wachowski)*
The Matrix: Revolutions (Wachowski & Wachowski)
Cloud Atlas (Wachowski, Wachowski & Tykwer)
Basic Instinct (Verhoeven)*
Election (Payne)
Wonder (Chbosky)
Wonderstruck (Haynes)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin)*
Pickup on South Street (Fuller)
White Dog (Fuller)
Major Dundee (Peckinpah)
The Getaway (Peckinpah)
Convoy (Peckinpah)
Angel Heart (Parker)
Evita (Parker)
Rio Lobo (Hawks)
Pale Rider (Eastwood)
Easy Rider (Hopper)
Monday (Sabu)
Miss Zombie (Sabu)
Cure (Kurosawa)
Pulse (Kurosawa)*
Mala Noche (van Sant)
Last Days (van Sant)
Mr Governor (Månsson)
Avalon (Petersén)
A Dragon Arrives! (Haghighi)
Don’t Get Me Wrong (Pintilie)
Gueros (Ruizpalacios)
In the Name of… (Szumowska)
Under Electric Clouds (German)
Wolfsburg (Petzold)
Gespenster (Petzold)
Teenage Angst (Stuber)
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter (Zellner)
Austerlitz (Loznitsa)
Exotica, Erotica, Etc (Kranioti)
Gandu (Q)

They Had to See Paris (Borzage, 1929)
A Tantalising Young Lady (de Morlhon, 1909)
Free and Easy (Mack, 1931)
Liliom (Borzage, 1930)
Song O' My Heart (Borzage, 1930)
Why Wild Men Go Wild (Beaudine, 1920)
All Teed Up (Kennedy, 1930)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Webster, 1964)
The Informer (silent version) (Robison, 1929)

Obv numbered ratings are problematic but I don't see the point of this thread without them

Time Regained (restoration)* (9/10)
Phantom Thread (8/10)
Thor:Ragnarok (6/10)
Blade Of the Immortal (6/10)
Django (Reinhardt biopic) (5/10)
Barbara (6/10)
Une Femme est Une Femme * (9/10)
Eric Clapton docu (7/10)
Chavela (8/10)
Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (2015 Lea Seydoux Version) (6/10)
Murder On The Orient Express (2017) (5/10)
The Ballad Of Lefty Brown (2/10) - There's a dim glimmer of a potentially well-made film here but, Jesus, it's hot garbage

*Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, Ford) 9/10
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936, Ford) 7/10
On Top of the Whale (1982, Ruiz) 5/10
Jitterbugs (1943, St. Clair) 6/10
Life Is a Dream (1987, Ruiz) 6/10
The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985, Ruiz)6/10
Mammame (1986, Ruiz) 7/10
Ingrid Goes West (2017, Spicer) 6/10
*A Thousand Clowns (1965, Coe) 7/10
Cinerama Adventure (2002, Strohmaier) 7/10
How the West Was Won (1962, Hathaway, Marshall, Ford) 6/10

I saw dead slow ahead on mubi and thought it was really good: an ambient doc (I guess) filmed on an enormous freighter but nothing at all like that leviathan film from a few years ago (which I also loved). Felt very sci-fi with all the uninhabited shots of what honestly looks like the interior of a spaceship. I was reminded of part 3 of twin peaks at times.

Also loveless is my film of the year so far

Thank you for validating my own enjoyment of Loveless, wins.

{spoilers)I thought it was a really impressive piece of filmmaking. The Sight and Sound review (which, as always, I read after seeing the film) was quite dismissive - heavy-handed (a woman on a treadmill wearing a track suit w/ Russia written on it), didactic (everyone bad is on their mobile phone all the time oh the humanity), predictably arty (refuses to resolve the mystery of the vanished child) etc. But for me it was gripping all the way through, and I don't mind a bit of didacticism when the imagery is so stunning - the slow opening wintery shots, the sequence in the abandoned building, the exterior shots of the high rise at night. Not as funny as Leviathan, but a more complete film.

of the three Zvyagintsev films I've seen, I like Elena best; haven't gotten to this one.

This one gave me strong Kieslowski 10 Commandment vibes at times

rough night (2017 lucia aniello) 3/10
the shape of water (2017 del toro) 8/10
the devil's backbone (2001 del toro) 8/10
Ingrid goes west (2017 spicer) 6/10
3 billboards outside ebbing, Missouri (2017 mcdonagh) 4/10
phantom thread (2017 pta) 8/10
extremities (1986 Robert m young) 5/10
the pope of Greenwich village (1984 Rosenberg) 5/10
the square (2017 ostlund) 6/10
big night (1996 tucci/scott) 9/10

A Fantastic Woman (Lelio, 2017)
Mudbound(Rees, 2017) 5/10
Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017)
In the Fade(Akin, 2017) 4/10
After the Storm (Kore-eda, 2017) 6/10
Félicité (Gomis, 2017) 7/10
* God's Own Country (Lee, 2017) 7/10
Battle of the Sexes (Dayton and Faris, 2017) 5/10
The Man Without a Past (Kaurismaki, 2002) 7/10
* A Nos Amours (Pialat, 1983) 8/10
* Face to Face (Bergman, 1976 6/10
* Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976) 7/10
L'enfance Nue (Pialat, 1968) 8/10
The Passion of Anna (Bergman, 1968) 5/10
* Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman, 1960) 9/10
* The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi, 1952) 10/10
Wagon Master (Ford, 1950)
Watch on the Rhine (Shumlin, 1943) 4/10
After the Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1936) 4/10
The Crime of Monsieur Lange(Renoir, 1936) 9/10

Thought L'enfance Nue was fantastic when I saw it two or three years ago.

Pialat's work my favorite recent-ish discovery. See his "House In The Woods" tv mini series if you can.

Graduation (2016) 6/10
Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014) 5/10
The Longest Yard (2005) 6/10
Phantom Thread (2017) 9/10
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) 5/10
It Comes At Night (2017) 7/10
Zootopia (2016) 8/10
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) 7/10
Loving Vincent (2017) 6/10

Good Time (Safdie/Safdie, 2017)
Nocturama (Bonello, 2016)
Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2017)
*The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
The Mission (To, 1999)
The Black Balloon (short - Safdie/Safdie, 2012)
Black Panther (Coogler, 2018)
Prospero's Books (Greenaway, 1991)
Bluebeard (short - Painlevé, 1936)
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh, 2017)
Festival (Lerner, 1967)

Festival haul from Berlin. I'm not going to grade, but do ask if there's anything anyone wants to know about. Best ones are Infinite Football, Khook, and, surprisingly for me, Mug. And the Lav Diaz one is disappointing :(

Isle of Dogs (Anderson)
Classical Period (Fendt)
Interchange (Cassidy & Shatzky)
Inland Sea (Soda)
Wild Relatives (Manna)
Las Hereredas (Martinessi)
Damsel (Zellner & Zellner)
Black 47 (Daly)
L’Empire de la Perfection (Faraut)
Dovlatov (German Jr)
Transit (Petzold)
Eva (Jacquot)
Garbage (Q)
La Prière (Kahn)
Figlia Mia (Bispuri)
The Real Estate (Månsson & Petersén)
Young Astrid (Christensen)
Infinite Football (Porumboiu)
U-July 22 (Poppe)
3 Days in Quiberon (Atef)
Season of the Devil (Diaz)
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot (van Sant)
Victory Day (Loznitsa)
Khook (Haghighi)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu)
Mein Bruder Heisst Robert und ist ein Idiot (Gröning)
Unsane (Soderbergh)
Museo (Ruizpalacios)
Touch Me Not (Pintilie)
11 x 14 (Benning)
Mug (Szumowska)
In the Aisle (Stuber)

how is isle of dogs and the new gus van sant?

Wrote about Isle of Dogs in it's thread. Probably my favorite Anderson other than his masterpiece Moonrise Kingdom. New van Sant is fine but kinda kinda nothingy. You've seen it all before, but it's not bad.

sounds about right

How was Black '47?

Rubbish imo. I'm all for seeing Englishmen killed for their role in the Irish famine, but the film also wanted to ask serious questions and was kinda boringly shot. Needed much more gore and beheadings.

That's a shame. There's never been a proper film about the famine and I had my doubts that Lance Daly would be the right man for the job.

Yeah, the subject deserves a great movie. A lot of them, probably. But the Irish are mostly just suffering with no agency, and the English in the film are so obviously evil that they kinda condensate the collective guilt into these few people. Who knows, if it becomes a succes, perhaps there'll be a second attempt?

The Emigrants (1972, Troell) - (9/10)
The New Land (1972, Troell) - (9/10)

I’d never even heard of these until a friend recommended them the other week. Was that just a blind spot on my part or have they been kinda pushed aside?

Anyway, utterly captivating 6-ish hours of von Sydow, Ullmann + others working their way from Sweden to the American Midwest in the mid 1800’s. Sounded like work but incredibly watchable from frame one. Beautiful, wrenching films.

Joachim Trier said in his Criterion Closet video that those films made him “understand something fundamental about America as a European, and I won’t say more.” Been meaning to check them out but keep avoiding due to prohibitive length. Glad to hear it’s not a slog.

Unfortunately just left FilmStruck as of today. The ticking expiration was my impetus for jumping in.

It’s certainly... grueling in parts, particularly in The New Land. But you can’t watch the first 90 minutes of The Emigrants and NOT want to see it to completion. Amazing pair of films and criminally under appreciated.

The Villainess: Totally berserk Korean action/crime/revenge movie. Some astonishing violence, but it's about 30 minutes too long and 45 of those extra 30 minutes involve the protagonist crying. Free on Hulu.

xp i'll keep them in my mind next time they do a flash sale

Didn't realize until recently MVS and Liv Ullmann are the leads in it, which is a big incentive...

Face to Face (Bergman, 1976) - its the TV version and its a masterpiece. Highlight of the Bergman season for me so far and one of the best film screenings I'll go to this year.

I saw the 135-minute film a second time a couple weeks ago and thought it solidly second tier. Is the 177-minute version available for Stateside consumption?

As far as I'm aware the 177 min version isn't available in the UK either, this was a one-off screening.

Amazing pair of films and criminally under appreciated.

I've been meaning to see them forever. I don't know that they were underappreciated at the time--they made a lot of Top 10s and won or were nominated for lots of big awards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067919/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069035/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1