Last (x) movies you saw

Oh yeah - saw You Were Never Really Here. Gets a 6/10 from me. Certainly excellent cinematography, sound design, yadda yadda but dded up to an emotionally empty and tonally confused whole for me.

*added

Rewatched Vicki, the 1953 remake of I Wake Up Screaming. I had forgotten that the role of Harry, played by wide eyed Elisha Cook, Jr. in the original, was played by wide-eyed Aaron Spelling.

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Bread, Love and Dreams (Comencini)
Bread, Love and Jealousy (Comencini)
Scandal in Sorrento (Risi)
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino)*
Youth (Sorrentino)*
I’m Not Scared (Salvatores)
Out of Sight (Soderbergh)
Frost/Nixon (Howard)
Noah (Aronofsky)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader)
Auto Focus (Schrader)
Dances With Wolves (Costner)
Vicky Christina Barcelona (Allen)
Whatever Works (Allen)
Precious (Daniels)
Paddington (King)
Paddington 2 (King)
Guldregn (Kragh-Jacobsen)
The Boys from St Petri (Kragh-Jacobsen)
What No One Knows (Kragh-Jacobsen)
The Hour of the Lynx (Kragh-Jacobsen)
Head-On (Akin)
The Edge of Heaven (Akin)
Soul Kitchen (Akin)
In the Fade (Akin)
Places in Cities (Schanelec)
Passing Summer (Schanelec)
The Counterfeiters (Ruzowitzky)*
Lovely Rita (Hausner)
Hotel (Hausner)
One. Two. One (Akbari)
Nahid (Panahandeh)
Bending the Rules (Behzadi)

Rashomon - 10/10
Family Plot - 6/10
Gods of the Plague - 9/10
The Men - 7/10
The American Soldier - 7/10
The Seven Year Itch - 6/10
Atlantic City - 10/10
Certain Women - 10/10
Double Indemnity - 9/10
Touch of Evil - 8/10
The Red Shoes - 7/10
The Passion of Joan of Arc - 10/10
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog - 8/10
The Little Foxes - 6/10
Life is Sweet - 10/10
Masculin Féminin - 8/10
Stage Fright - 6/10
After Hours - 10/10
Mrs. Miniver - 7/10
Things to Come - 9/10
Miller’s Crossing - 5/10
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna - 10/10
Sweet Smell of Success - 8/10
Lacombe, Lucien - 9/10
Yi Yi - 10/10
La Jetée - 9/10
Sans Soleil - 9/10
Walkabout - 9/10
Casanova Brown - 1/10 <--------- this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen. +1 for teresa wright
I Heart Huckabees - 7/10
Something to Live For - 7/10
Beware of a Holy Whore - 8/10

*International House (Sutherland, 1933)
*Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Cline, 1941)
Back Pay (Borzage, 1922)
The Half-Back of Notre Dame (Lord, 1924)
Throttle Pushers (White, 1933)
Pro Football (McCarey, 1934)
Mental Poise (Rowland, 1938)
You're Telling Me! (Kenton, 1934)

Isle of Dogs - 4/10
Blockers - 8/10
Claire’s Camera - 5/10
Mean Streets (1973) - 7/10
Flower - 9/10
Finding Your Feet - 6/10
Rampage - 6/10
You Were Never Really Here - 10/10
Port of Call (1948) - 9/10
I Feel Pretty - 6/10
Phantom Lady (1944) - 9/10

Blockers - 8/10
Mean Streets (1973) - 7/10
You Were Never Really Here - 10/10

who's your pharmacist?

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Night and the City (Dassin, 1950) 8/10
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) 7/10
The Breadwinner (Twomey, 2017) 6/10
Paterson (Jarmusch, 2016) 8/10
Marjorie Prime (Almereyda, 2017) 7/10
The Heart is What Dies Last (Durand-Brault, 2017) 4/10
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (Apatow, 2018) 7/10
*The Lady From Shanghai (Welles, 1947) 9/10
Heartstone (Guomundsson, 2016) 7/10
The Shape of Water (del Toro, 2017) 7/10

The Touch (Bergman, 1971) 7/10
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Lang, 1933) 8/10
Tabu (Murnau, 1931) 8/10
Isle of Dogs (Anderson, 2018) 8/10
BPM (Campillo, 2017) 8/10
Ghost Stories (Dyson/Nyman, 2017) 6/10
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (Scavolini, 1981) 7/10
Cupid's Infirmary (Mike Kuchar, 1995) 5/10
The Pictures of Dorian Gay (Mike Kuchar, 1995) 6/10
Sins of the Fleshapoids (Mike Kuchar, 1965) 8/10
The Secret of Wendel Samson (Mike Kuchar, 1966) 6/10
The Craven Sluck (Mike Kuchar, 1967) 7/10
Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977) 7/10
Billy Liar (Schlesinger, 1963) 6/10
A Gentle Creature (Loznitsa, 2017) 7/10
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo bros, 2018) 7/10

Iron Man - 7/10
Iron Man 2 - 6/10

I'm starting to watch these Marvel flicks. These were both pretty decent, I didn't see much difference in quality between the two. The acting elevates everything here, thinking Gwyneth Paltrow is somewhat underrated and her screen persona remains vv appealing even as her IRL persona grates on a lot of people.

Bridge of Spies - 7/10

This is extremely good, there were a few on-the-nose parts and it's sort of depressing to see an actor as phenomenal as Amy Ryan relegated to the role of a somewhat disapproving wife whose husband is lawyering around with key figures in a '60s drama (shades of Sissy Spacek's thankless role in JFK) but it looks amazing, and the Berlin parts are peak Spielberg. Hanks is great here!

Gun Crazy - 10/10

Peggy Cummins could have won an Oscar for her facial expressions alone, the ecstatic looks she gives when she turns around and sees no one is following after the first bank robbery are legit terrifying. I liked how they kinda subtly set up Bart's dull hometown life by pairing up his buddies in the most banal manner possible in every scene, just side by side, simply framed. You understand why he'd want to go out in a blaze of glory like that with Annie at his side instead of living a few decades more hanging out with those two.

Gwyneth Paltrow is somewhat underrated and her screen persona remains vv appealing even as her IRL persona grates on a lot of people.

yeah it's funny, in the films she's kind of the down to Earth foil to the manic Tony Stark. she has some really cool moments in 3 if you feel like continuing.

gp is surprisingly good in the iron man films. i went out of the first one wondering if it was really her.
iron man 2 has bad writing. i like this essay on it: http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/14/14315.html

tbf, I don't recall ever having a problem with Paltrow's acting.

Memories of Underdevelopment, newly restored on a great-looking all-region Blu-Ray.

*Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994, Rudolph) 8/10
*The Moderns (1988, Rudolph) 6/10
*Breakfast of Champions (1999, Rudolph) 6/10
*Equinox (1992, Rudolph) 8/10
Welcome to L.A. (1976, Rudolph) 7/10
Silence (1971, Shinoda) 8/10
*The Bad News Bears (1976, Ritchie) 8/10
The Emperor’s Nightingale (1949, Trnka) 7/10
Lemonade Joe (1964, Lipsky) 5/10
Bayaya (1950, Trnka) 8/10
*Love Me Tonight (1932, Mamoulian) 10/10
Odd Obsession (1959, Ichikawa) 7/10
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, Johnson) 7/10

Dunkirk - 7/10
The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 6/10

Unsane (6.5)
Good People (6.0)
The Heartbreak Kid (8.5)
Teachers (5.0)
Paterno (6.5)
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (8.0)
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (7.0)
United Skates (7.0)
The Fourth Estate (6.5)
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End (7.0)

The Old Fashioned Way (Beaudine, 1934)
My Little Chickadee (Cline, 1940)
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo & Russo, 2018)
*The Bank Dick (Cline, 1940)

Numerical assessments, and some reviews, in the event anyone cares: https://letterboxd.com/pollyprecoder/films/diary/

Tried to watch The Limehouse Golem last night. Lasted an hour.
Tonight: Violent, an arty little Norwegian/Canadian (director's Canadian, but it takes place in Norway) thing.

maryland film festival 2018. wish i saw more but what i did get to see was great:

Genderbende - 9/10
Sollers Point - 8/10
MDFF Shorts: Charged Spaces - 8/10
I, Olga Hepnarová (2016) - 9/10
Wobble Palace - 9/10

shove the .5s already

I, Olga Hepnarová (2016) - 9/10

― flappy bird, 7. maj 2018 04:32 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is a crazy little film. I really don't know what to think of it, but would love to see it again.

Let the Sunshine In (Clare Denis, 2016) - Loved this, had some really great lines with a terrific last scene too.
The Square (Ruben Östlund, 2017) - diverting enough satire. Didn't get much out of it.

I, Olga Hepnarová (2016) - 9/10

― flappy bird, 7. maj 2018 04:32 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is a crazy little film. I really don't know what to think of it, but would love to see it again.

Memories of Underdevelopment, newly restored on a great-looking all-region Blu-Ray.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, May 4, 2018 8:31 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw this at the rep cinema a few weeks ago, so good

*point break (1991) 8/10
drowning by numbers (1988) unrateable
ulzanas raid (1972) 7/10
avengers: infinity war (2018) 7/10
spirited away (2001) 9/10
the three stooges (2012) 7/10
you were never really here (2017) 6/10

Call Me by Your Name (Guadagnino, 2017) 8/10
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Kasdan, 2017) 7/10
The Collector (Wyler, 1965) 7/10
The Party (Potter, 2017) 5/10
The Loves of a Blonde (Forman, 1965) 8/10
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Vaughan, 2017) 6/10
Body and Soul (Rossen, 1947) 8/10
Crash (Haggis, 2004) 3/10
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (Shaw, 2016) 7/10
Girls Trip (Lee, 2017) 5/10
Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) 9/10
Death at a Funeral (Oz, 2007) 6/10

*It's a Gift (McLeod, 1934)
*The Movies (Goodrich Arbuckle, 1925)
*Do-Re-Mi-Boom! (Wright, 1915)
Max Is Convalescent (Linder, 1911)
Max Toréador (Linder, 1913)
Fatty Joins the Force (Nichols, 1913)
Out of Place (St. John, 1922)
Her Bridal Night-Mare (Christie, 1920)
The Docks of New York (von Sternberg, 1928)
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2017)
Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)

Morvern Callar (Ramsay, 2002) 7/10
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) 9/10
By The Time it Gets Dark (Suwichakornpong, 2016) 7/10
Western (Grisebach, 2017) 8/10
All I Desire (Sirk, 1953) 8/10
Dolls (Kitano, 2002) 6/10
Isle of Dogs (Anderson, 2018) 5/10
Magnificent Obsession (Sirk, 1954) 6/10
Let The Sunshine In (Denis, 2017) 7/10
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk, 1955) 9/10
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969) 10/10

Let the Sunshine In (Denis, 2018) 7/10
RBG (Cohen, West) 4/10
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2018) 8/10
Zama (Martel, 2018) 8/10
A Quiet Place (Krasinski, 2018) 6/10
Baal (Schlöndorff, 1970) 7/10
* Women in Love (Russell, 1969) 6/10
* Black Narcissus (Archers, 1947) 8/10
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (Ozu, 1952) 7/10

The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969) 8/10
High Plains Drifter (Eastwood, 1973) 8/10
Black Rain (R Scott, 1989) 4/10
I, Tonya (Gillespie, 2017) 6/10
Ace in the Hole (1951, Wilder) 9/10
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988, Spheeris) 8/10

Taste of Cherry - 10/10
Jour de Fête - 7/10
Au Revoir Les Enfants - 6/10
Straw Dogs - 9/10
Jimi Plays Monterey - 9/10
MASH - 6/10
Certified Copy - 10/10
Blind Chance - 8/10
Enchantment - 7/10
Shadows in Paradise - 10/10
Ariel - 9/10
The Match Factory Girl - 9/10
Like Someone in Love - 8/10
The Other Side of Hope - 9/10
The Rules of the Game - 8/10
Last Year at Marienbad - 10/10

Am fine with MASH ranked the worst of that group.

altman should've just cut the football section imo

I thought the recent Denis ("Let The Sunshine In") her weakest in years. Binoche carries the whole thing on her shoulders but even her character's "woe is me" angle gets tiresome pretty quickly. I think Denis has done attraction and loneliness much better than this before ( "Friday Night"). The current buzz for this one is a headscratcher for me.

It's second tier Denis but she's trying something else. My audience loathed it.

I guess I think it's better than 'Bastards', but not as good as the films in her 1999-2009 run.

That's about right.

Justice League (Snyder and Whedon, 2017) 3/10
trivia answer The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) 3/10
Show Dogs (2018) 3/10

Jolson cries

trivia answer The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) 3/10

Generous much?

*Overture: Tannhäuser (DuPar, 1926)
*Wife and Auto Trouble (Henderson, 1916)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (Bruckman & Fields, 1935)
Moonlight and Pretzels (Freund, 1933)
Max Pédicure (Linder, 1914)
Max Fears the Dogs (1912)
Poppy (Sutherland, 1936)
Max n’aime pas les chats (Linder, 1913)
Follow That Blonde (Yates, 1946)
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (Marshall & Cline, 1939)
The Nut (Reed, 1921)
Deadpool 2 (Leitch, 2018)
Shotgun Pass (McGowan, 1931)

you are both assigned to Jolson films for the rest of the month, or perhaps the Jerry Lewis and Neil Diamond versions of TJS

(btw abanana, i bet you're wrong about the question that film is allegedly the answer to)

Thief (1981, Mann) 8/10
The Mad Game (1933, Cummings) 6/10
Dressed to Kill (1928, Cummings) 7/10
Ready Player One (2018, Spielberg) 5/10
*Faces Places (2017, Varda, JR) 8/10
Afternoon (1965, Warhol) 6/10
Lean on Pete (2017, Haigh) 7/10
*Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954, Anger) 8/10
The Shape of Water (2017, del Toro) 5/10
*One-Eyed Jacks (1961, Brando) 8/10
Ray Meets Helen (2018, Rudolph) 5/10
*Port of Call (1948, Bergman) 6/10

Not all of us can get to the Fox program at MOMA, you lucky so-and-so.

Don Juan (Crosland, 1926), The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927), and The Lights of New York (Foy, 1928): Each worth watching once for historic purposes, but never again.

first full-length movie with spoken dialog?

I don't think it is! Depending how those things are defined, it's pretty amorphous. It was the first semi-sound feature that was a big hit, bcz Jolie.

Filmmakers were trying to pair up film with prerecorded audio almost from the beginning of the medium. The Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology (Don Juan and The Jazz Singer) was commercially successful in ways its predcessors weren't, but if it had flopped Fox Films was doing work with Movietone sound-on-film that probably would have gone public in 1928.