Last (x) movies you saw

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?

"Uncommercial" is not the term I would use; more like "one-stop shop for avant-garde film clichés." The dream element, the making-a-movie element, the off-kilter morality element....The program notes compared Prison to Rope (1948), which is inevitable given that both feature a protagonist's former teacher endorsing the upending of conventional virtues.

Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959) 9/10
The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura, 1983) 8/10
Silence (Scorsese, 2016) 7/10
The other side of hope (Kaurismaki, 2017) 7/10
The Death of Stalin (Ianucci, 2017) 5/10
A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956) 9/10
First Reformed (Schrader, 2017) 8/10
*Lancelot Du Lac (Bresson, 1974) 10/10
Claire’s Camera (Hong, 2017) 8/10

Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) - 9/10
South (Chantal Akerman, 1999) - 8/10
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969) - 9/10
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) - 10/10
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 8/10
The Passenger (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1975) - 9/10
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) - 9/10
I Only Want You to Love Me (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) - 8/10
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) - 10/10

Suburbia (Spheeris, 1983)- 3.5/5
Over the Edge (Kaplan, 1979)- 4/5
River's Edge (Hunter, 1986)- 4.5/5
The Point! (Wolf, 1971)- 3/5 (not my *first* watch, but I haven't seen it since I was little)
The Machine Girl (Iguchi, 2008)- 1/5 (I don't know why I gave it a chance other than I was bored & depressed; this dude's shorts have all been dogshit and I don't know why I expected a feature to be any better)
*The Cat With Hands (Morgan, 2001)- 3.5/5 (a great little short, even if the Quay debt is a little too obvious in places)

Suburbia (Spheeris, 1983)- 3.5/5
Over the Edge (Kaplan, 1979)- 4/5
River's Edge (Hunter, 1986)- 4.5/5

When I saw Over the Edge a couple of weeks ago, the programmer described this as a genre in his introduction: "Youth in Peril."

To Live and Die in L.A. (7.5)
The Cell (7.0)
Filmmaker (6.0)
Gun Crazy (7.0)
Performance (5.0)
Broken City (5.5)
Chappaquiddick (5.0)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor (6.5)
The King (7.5)
Suspect Zero (5.0)

The Cell is probably one of my favourite pieces of junk the past 15 years. Performance, which I hadn’t seen in 40 years, was no less of an ordeal now than it was then. The points are for “Memo from Turner,” Ry Cooder, and Anita Pallenberg.

The Machine Girl

I suffered through this at a genre festival - horrible

Filmmaker should read Filmworker--the Kubrick/Leon Vitali documentary.

To Live and Die in L.A. (7.5)

Is this a 35mm print that's on tour? opens here today for a week's run.

Could be, but it was a one-time part of a five-film Friedkin series here.

Probably not, then! The 70-seater that's showing it here is pairing it with Ronin.

The Big Sleep - Didn't expect to enjoy this much but I liked it quite a lot. A veritable parade of slamming babes.

Dunkirk - Didn't expect to enjoy this much but I liked it quite a lot. A veritable parade of slamming babes.

Leave no Trace (Debra Granik, 2017) - watched this with a friend that works in mental health and she really liked the more grown-up portrait with the caveat it probably reduced the stresses in the main relationship.

Leave No Trace was great

The High and the Flighty (McKimson, 1956)
Feather Bluster (McKimson, 1958)
Porky Chops (Davis, 1949)
Zipping Along (Jones, 1953)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Pollard, 1927)
Rambling ’Round Radio Row #2 (Wald, 1932)
Call for Mr. Caveman (Goulding, 1919)
My Wife's Relations (Keaton, 1922)
The Ropin' Fool (Badger, 1922)
To Joy (Bergman, 1950)
Summer Interlude (Bergman, 1951)
Six of a Kind (McCarey, 1934)
Secrets of Women (Bergman, 1952)

The one about the long lost identical triplets. Pretty good!

* A Matter of Life and Death (1946) 4.5/5
* Morvern Callar (2002) 4/5
* All the President's Men (1976) 4/5
On Body and Soul (2017) 3.5/5
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017) 3/5
In Jackson Heights (2015) 3.5/5
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 3/5
Losing Ground (1983) 3.5/5
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) 3.5/5
Kings of the Road (1976) 4/5
* 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 5/5

The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969)
Pussy (short - Gasiorowska, 2016)
Call of Cuteness (short - Lien, 2017)
Sprout Wings and Fly (Blank, 1983)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Reed, 2018)
Bergman Island (Nyrerod, 2006)
Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
Toby Dammit (Fellini, 1968)
Lucky (Lynch, 2017)
*A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)
*Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976, with Scorsese/Schrader commentary)
*Persona (Bergman, 1966)
M:I - Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018)

Performance, which I hadn’t seen in 40 years, was no less of an ordeal now than it was then

Every second of Performance is pleasurable

Yeah "Performance" is amazing esp those opening 30 minutes

need to turn the subs on

FP'd for racism

I Just watched The Island of Lost Souls - great evocative horror, shadows, real sci fi noir - though Bela Lugosi's character is kind of over the top

Good film, genuinely icky.

God’s Own Country (Lee, 2017) 6/10
Beatriz at Dinner (Arteta, 2017) 6/10
Thelma (Trier, 2017) 7/10
Moonrise (Borzage, 1948) 8/10
Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017) 8/10
Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017) 7/10
Elevator to the Gallows (Malle, 1958) 8/10
The Woman in the Window (Lang, 1944) 7/10

Event Horizon (PWS Anderson, 1997) 4
Strange Brew (Moranis & Thomas, 1983) 7
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Ol Parker, 2018) 4

The Glass Key (Heisler, 1942) 6/10
The Nights of Zayandeh-rood (Makhmalbaf, 1990) - impossible to 'score' - the version that now exists has about a third of its running time missing, and the dialogue in some of the remaining scenes is inaudible due to censorship
The Verdict (Siegel, 1946) 7/10
Gimme Shelter (Maysles/Zwerin/Maysles, 1970) 9/10
The Flight of the Phoenix (Aldrich, 1965) 8/10
Ex Libris: New York Public Library (Wiseman, 2017) 8/10
On Dangerous Ground (Ray, 1951) 8/10
First Reformed (Schrader, 2017) 6/10
Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956) 8/10
The Gleaners & I (Varda, 2000) 9/10
Chronicle of a Summer (Morin, Rouch, 1961) 8/10
Being There (Ashby, 1979) 7/10
Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958) 7/10
F For Fake (Welles, 1973) 7/10

sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989) 8/10
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003) - 10/10
Quiz Show (Robert Redford, 1994) - 8/10
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013) - 5/10
Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard, 1969) - 7/10
Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg, 1980) - 10/10

i liked the blank teen consumer nihilism of "the bling ring"

The Smallest Show on Earth (1957, Dearden) 8/10
A Guy Named Joe (1943, Fleming) 6/10
*Senso (1954, Visconti) 9/10
Scarred Hearts (2016, Jude) 7/10
*The Power and the Glory (1933, Howard) 8/10
*The Intruder (2004, Denis) 7/10
*Adam’s Rib (1949, Cukor) 10/10
*2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick) 10/10
Caught in a Cabaret (1914, Normand) 8/10
*Le Havre (2011, Kaurismaki) 8/10

I've made this request before: can I, or someone else, start a new last-x-movies thread? This one is now almost 6,000 posts long. I know it's nice to have everything in one spot, but I use this thread regularly to check back on what I thought of stuff I saw years ago, and it takes forever and a day for the thread to load (if it does--sometimes I have to log off and try again). The new thread could start with a link to this one at the top.

If you have major objections to this, please speak up.

Why not yearly rolling threads, a la the Obituary thread, or the various genre-centric ones on ILM?

Yearly sounds good. Politics gets one every month, but obviously you don't need that here--those threads generate a few thousand posts monthly. This one's had 6,000 in 15 years, 400 a year (probably more now). That sounds manageable. (I realize this thread is basically my movie cloud. I just don't use Letterboxd.)

Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Do it