Last (x) movies you saw

and Setsuko Hara plays cookies full of arsenic!

The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973) 10/10
Quicksand (Pichel, 1950) 5/10
Cabaret (Fosse, 1972) 7/10
Happy Birthday, Gemini (Benner, 1980) 2/10
Every Day (Sucsy, 2018) 6/10
Game Night (Daley and Goldstein) 6/10
Annihilation (Garland, 2018) 5/10

Take a Chance (Goulding, 1918)
*Lizzies of the Field (Lord, 1924)
Bashful (Goulding, 1917)
Just Neighbors (Lloyd & Terry, 1919)
*The Big Idea (Mohr & Pratt, 1917)
*Look Pleasant, Please (Goulding, 1918)
A Gasoline Wedding (Goulding, 1918)
By the Sad Sea Waves (Goulding, 1917)
The Marathon (Goulding, 1919)
Captain Kidd's Kids (Roach, 1919)
Billy Blazes, Esq. (Roach, 1919)
Expensive Women (Henley, 1931)
Rambling Round Radio Row #4 (Wald, 1932)
Flaming Gold (Ince, 1932)
The Iron Horse (Ford, 1924)
A Dream Walking (Fleischer, 1934)
Versus Sledge Hammers (Clements, 1915)
Just Pals (Ford, 1920)
*Pay Day (Chaplin, 1922)
Just Suppose (O'Brien, 1948)
Cellbound (Lah & Avery, 1955)
*Beyond the Rockies (Allen, 1932)
The Two-Alarm Fire (Fleischer, 1934)
Under a Spell (Smith, 1925)
The Guardians (Beauvois, 2017)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)

seeing Sicario Too today

like, shockingly bad

Thoroughbreds is a lot of fun, looks amazing, and the ending is a genuine surprise.

Sicario One was pretty bad and dumb as well, I don't get the hype at all.

Hotel Artemis (Pearce, 2018)
Faces Places (Varda & JR, 2017)
Old Joy (Reichardt, 2006)
Madame Tutli-Putli (short - Lavis & Szczerbowski, 2007)
Old Man (short - Shore, 2012)
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Van Peebles, 1971)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Huston, 1967)
The Firemen's Ball (Forman, 1967)
Last Flag Flying (Linklater, 2017)
Begone Dull Care (short - McLaren & Lambart, 1949)
The Other Side of Hope (Kaurismäki, 2017)

j.lu: why the middling response to Wild Strawberries?

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985) - 8/10
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) - 9/10
The Imperfect Lady (Lewis Allen, 1947) - 7/10
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) - 10/10
Cruel Gun Story (Takumi Furukawa, 1964) - 8/10
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984) - 9/10
From the East (Chantal Akerman, 1993) - 10/10
The Happy Ending (Richard Brooks, 1969) - 7/10
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945) - 10/10

A City of Sadness (1989) 5/5
* Topsy-Turvy (1999) 4.5/5
Sorry to Bother You (2018) 3.5/5
The Other Side of Hope (2017) 4/5
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 5/5
* Predator (1987) 4/5
Aquarius (2016) 3.5/5
* Aliens (1986) 4.5/5

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It was my first Bergman (although I do plan on seeing more of the retrospective), and I had a hard time staying awake. For what it's worth, I have a history of reacting badly to the canonical "masterpieces." I seem to be more attuned to racy little pre-1935 programmers and two-reel comedies.

flappy how do you curate your watch list? good stuff on there (well honestly a lot I've never heard of)

recommendations from here and elsewhere, borrowed discs from friends, and continuing to search out work by people I really like (Akerman, Bergman, Kiarostami, Teresa Wright). and to stymie infinite choice paralysis, sometimes if I watch a movie that starts with "The" or is just a single word, I'll watch three or more of those in a row (consecutive days - I almost always watch at least one movie a day, often two or three if I went to the theater early in the day).

envious of your sched

i'd like to watch a movie every night but most nights i'm too tired and opt to fall asleep to a sitcom

Being an insomniac helps

eyes wide shut (kubrick, 1999) 9/10
the gate (takács, 1987) 7/10
the wicker man (hardy, 1973) 10/10
vampyros lesbos (franco, 1971) 9/10

Being an insomniac helps

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June 11th through June 29th.

° Genesis Of The Daleks (Maloney vs. Hinchcliffe, 1975)
📽️ La Notti Bianche (Visconti, 1957)
Bernard & Huey (Mirvish, 2017)
Lick The Star (Coppola fille, 1998)
Dementia 13 [2017 director's cut] (Coppola père, 1963)
✈️ The Party (Potter, 2017)
✈️ A Bad Moms Christmas (Lucas, Moore, 2017)
✈️ How To Be Single (Ditter, 2016)
Tag (Tomsic, 2018)
The Incredibles 2 (Bird, 2018)
Queerama (Asquith, 2017)
American Animals (Layton, 2018)
*Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989)
*Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (Elliott, 1994)
📽️ *Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
Blue Velvet Revisited (Braatz, 2016)
Hereditary (Aster, 2018)
Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits (E. Badgley, 2018)
Mother Of George (Dosunmu, 2013)
West Side Story (V/A, 1961)
Ocean's 8 (Ross, 2018)

untagged are all DCP, except Incredibles which was laser-projected. both the 35mm screenings and Incredibles were masked, many others weren't even framed to the screen (allowance made for Blue Velvet Revisited, which was a double feature with Blue Velvet, but is mixed aspect ratios anyway. I missed America entirely in West Side Story because I went down three floors to complain that the entire picture was floating in the middle of the screen with at least three feet of black on all four sides.

World Cup has eaten up most of my viewing hours:

Executive Action (Miller, 1973) 7/10
The Flowers of St Francis (Rossellini, 1950) 10/10
Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1964) 9/10
PTU (To, 2003) 7/10
Black Girl (Sembene, 1966) 8/10
Hereditary (Aster, 2018) 7/10
Arcadia (Wright, 2017) 8/10

Village Of Haze - South-Korean film from 1982. Woman goes to teach at a mountain village and there's a mysterious homeless man there who the villagers abuse and sometimes tolerate and accommodate in strange ways as a means to denying their own problems. People here falsely believe themselves superior to city folk. Ominous organ music and the teacher listens to Yazoo hits in her bedroom. Ending will surely piss people off because while it is thoughtful about infidelity and rape, it still blunders on the latter. But it's worth seeing.

Checked and I think this is a legit way to watch it from Korean Film Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0_EKqYjhk

Sicario the first one, cos i was thinking o0f going to the sequel.
Quite dark, enjoyed it . But wonder if the sequel is as good. Probably darker considering who the protagonists are now.

Too OTT & silly to be darker. I enjoyed it more than the first one, which I found really really boring. New one is dumber, faster, pulpier... while still being very confusing.

The Wall Street Mystery (Hurley, 1931)
The Water-Funker (Linder, 1912)
A Short-Sighted Duellist (Gasnier, 1910)
Wet Hare (McKimson, 1962)
Room and Bird (Freling, 1951)
3 Bad Men (Ford, 1926)
A Woman of the World (St. Clair, 1925)
Plop Goes the Weasel (McKimson, 1953)
Four Sons (Ford, 1928)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Torment (Sjöberg, 1944)
Crisis (Bergman, 1946)
Lucky (J.C. Lynch, 2017)
It Rains on Our Love (Bergman, 1946)

4 Days in France (2016, Reybaud) 6/10
Le Notti Bianche aka White Nights (1957, Visconti) 8/10
*Hester Street (1975, Silver) 7/10
*Gerry (2002, Van Sant) 9/10
Star Spangled to Death (2004, Jacobs) 8/10
The Death of Stalin (2017, Iannucci) 8/10
Winter Brothers (2017, Pálmason) 6/10
Araby (2017, Uchoa, Dumans) 7/10
*First Reformed (2017, Schrader) 9/10
*Phantom Thread (2017, Anderson) 9/10

Way too low on Winter Brothers :(

I'd give it a 7 but I agree it's one of the year's best.

Correct score for 4 Days in France, maybe too high.

WB needed more outright slapstick (ie the bro fight was the peak)

Fred you're wrong about everything, cockroach

American Graffiti (9.0)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (7.5)
You Were Never Really Here (6.0)
A Quiet Place (6.5)
First Reformed (7.0)
Flower (5.0)
Design Canada (7.5)
Landline (6.0)
Over the Edge (7.0)
Always at the Carlyle (5.5)

I thought the Bergdorf's documentary from a few years ago was kind of interesting, but there was something about Always at the Carlyle I found creepy. Bill Murray's 90 seconds is funny.

Gerry always looked interesting but I never checked it out, thanks for the reminder Morbs.

def upper-tier Van Sant

Finally pulled a couple Kim Ki-Duk titles off the shelf after hearing them recommended in the Arrow Video podcast (usually a quality source of recommendations) only to see what dude's been up to recently and find him outed as a serial rapist and abuser

um

fuckin yikes

anybody want a copy of 3 Iron

I somehow did not hear about that, jfc

Yeah. English-speaking media didn't seem to care but dude's getting eaten alive in Korea, which: good.

Backs to Nature (Meins, 1933)
Beauty and the Bus (Meins, 1933)
*Hair-Raising Hare (Jones, 1946)
*Muratti Marches On (Fischinger, 1934)
The Limejuice Mystery or, Who Spat in Grandfather’s Porridge? (Harrison, 1930)
Sons of the Desert (Seiter, 1933)
The Saphead (Blaché & Smith, 1920)
A Ship to India (Bergman, 1947)
Music in Darkness (Bergman, 1948)
Je Voudrais un Enfant (Linder, 1910)
Now You Tell One (Bowers & Muller, 1926)
Port of Call (Bergman, 1948)

Port of Call has one amazing cut in it early on, when the boyfriend tries to hug the girl but she passes thru the doorway instead, and Bergman cuts from one room to the next as she passes thru. Hard to explain. I'll look for a clip.

Across the Sea, a Turkish movie from 2014.

I'm glad to see Zama has some enthusiastic responses on here, gonna watch it tonight.

June 9 - July 16 in theaters:

On Chesil Beach (Dominic Cooke, 2017) - 4/10
Late Spring (Yasujirō Ozu, 1949) - 10/10
Heart Beats Loud (Brett Haley, 2018) - 5/10
Tag (Jeff Tomsic, 2018) - 3/10
24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017) - 10/10
Sicario: Day of Soldado (Stefano Sollima, 2018) - 5/10
The Gospel According to André (Kate Novack, 2017) - 7/10
Early Summer (Yasujirō Ozu, 1951) - 8/10
Thirst (Ingmar Bergman, 1949) - 8/10
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018) - 8/10
Scarlet Diva (Asia Argento, 2000) - 10/10
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018) - 6/10
Road House (Jean Negulesco, 1948) - 8/10

On the Seventh Day (McKay, 2018) 7/10
The Cakemaker (Graizer, 2018) 6/10
A Ciambra (Carpignano, 2018) 7/10
Chappaquiddick (Curran, 2018) 6/10
Ava (Foroughi, 2018) 8/10
First Reformed (Schrader, 2018) 8/10
* A Christmas Tale (Desplechin, 2008) 8/10
The Swindle (Chabrol, 1997) 5/10
* Face/Off (Woo, 1997) 5/10
* Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1992) 7/10
Death Becomes Her (Zemeckis, 1992) 5/10
The Best Intentions (August, 1992) 7/10
A Tale of Springtime (Rohmer, 1990) 6/10
* Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951) 9/10
The Kiss (Feydeau, 1928) 6/10
Love (Goulding, 1927) 7/10

July 1st-13th: I got a TV and MoviePass stopped covering a nearby arthouse

📺 Mr Roosevelt (Wells, 2017)
📺 Brawl In Cell Block 99 (Zahler, 2017)
📺 Don't Think Twice (Birbiglia, 2016)
* A Hard Day's Night (4K Criterion restoration) (Lester, 1964)
Tank Girl (Talalay, 1995)
Ant-Man & The Wasp (Reed, 2018)
* Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
* Back To The Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
Deep Blue Sea (in Hecklevision) (Harlin, 1999)
📺 The Little Hours (Baena, 2017)
Twentieth Century (4K restoration) (Hawks, 1934)
📺 Fender Bender (Pavia, 2016)
📺 Raw Force (D. Murphy, 1982)

the last two were accidental, as I was trying to stream Joe Bob's Last Drive-In on Shudder, and their system got so overloaded it served me different movies from their catalogue until I caught on.

all the theatre screenings were DCP, Hawks & Hecht was the only one masked (in a museum, not a cinema)

Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 7/10
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945) - 9/10
Blithe Spirit (David Lean, 1945) - 8/10
Down There (Chantal Akerman, 2006) - 9/10
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946) - 8/10
The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980) - 9/10
Movie 43 (various, 2013) - 8/10
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) - 8/10
Black Moon (Louis Malle, 1975) - 7/10
The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999) - 9/10
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) - 7/10
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) - 10/10

Not watching movies much these days. Most of the time I cba and when I do watch a movie I fall asleep anyway

The Look of Love (Winterbottom, 2013) 6/10
The Happiness of The Katakuris (Miike, 2002) 7/10
Hereditary (Aster, 2018) 7/10
*Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015) 7/10
Sisters (Moore, 2015) 5/10
A Quiet Place (Krasinski, 2018) 6/10

Le Petit Soldat (Godard, 1963)
Don't Park Here (Chase, 1920)
Searching (Chaganty, 2018)
23 - Skidoo (Hurley, 1930)
Fright to the Finish (Kneitel, 1954)
Voltaire (Adolfi, 1933)
Diplomaniacs (Seiter, 1933)
The Rat (Cutts, 1925)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Reed, 2018)
Fashion's Mirror (Mack, 1930)
Thirst (Bergman, 1949)
Prison (Bergman, 1949)

Diplomaniacs is one of the better W&W pictues, but i might prefer Hips Hips Hooray.

Of the W&W movies I've seen, I like Half Shot at Sunrise the best so far.

City for Conquest (1940, Litvak) 7/10
Where Are My Children? (1916, Weber) 6/10
*Nocturama (2016, Bonello) 9/10
*The Woman in the Window (1944, Lang) 9/10
*The Disorderly Orderly (1964, Tashlin) 8/10
Variety (1983, Gordon) 6/10
The Boy with Green Hair (1948, Losey) 7/10
Sorry to Bother You (2018, Riley) 6/10
Survival in New York (1990, von Praunheim) 8/10
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939, Potter) 7/10
*The Patsy (1964, Lewis) 7/10

j.lu, what was Prison like? Isn't that the "uncommercial" version of Thirst or something?