my #9, and I never thought that'd be the case for a documentary that opens with Christopher (Mad Dog) Russo
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
was it the footage of the 1919 World Series that did it?
the doc that featured the brothel owned by Trump's dad or granddad perhaps with typical "the absolute best brothel in the western world, all the rest are shite" type modesty on the advert. I liked this but forgot to vote for it.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 July 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
granddad... or not?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-grandfather-prostitution/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZYg0imm.jpg
19. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) d: Robin Campillo w: Robin Campillo & Philippe Mangeot 107 points, 5 votes 1 #1
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
So it's possible that BPM aka 120 Beats Per Minute is the best thing I've seen all year... and one of the best films in a long time about political activism. I liked Robin Campillo's last, Eastern Boys, but this is tougher, grimmer, sexier. ― Dr Morbius, November 13, 2017
― Dr Morbius, November 13, 2017
GREAT still.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
#6 on my list
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
"tougher, grimmer, sexier" is my new dating profile
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
"low" but if it got 5 votes i'm assuming 7 of you saw it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
I really wanted to see this but missed the handful of screenings it had here
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
not found a version of this with ENG subs yet, its on my watchlist.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
It’s out on dvd in the us (I think)
― Dan S, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1Bhyj9M.jpg
18. The Ornithologist d: João Pedro Rodrigues w: João Pedro Rodrigues & Joao Rui Guerra da Mata 114 points, 8 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
The Ornithologist is everything Staying Vertical should have been, a mishmash of landscapes, myths, times, and places, with identity a big factor, and a lovely sex scene on a sunny beach.― Frederik B, Monday, 31 October 2016
― Frederik B, Monday, 31 October 2016
I'm v keen to see The Ornithologist because of how beautiful the actor is. ― jed_, Wednesday, 28 March 2018
― jed_, Wednesday, 28 March 2018
feel a bit bad for only seeing the big obvious gay film last year
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
I loved Staying Vertical but The Ornithologist was great too
― Dan S, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
never saw Dawson City because all my friends warned that the schmaltzy music completely ruined it.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
wasn't esp keen on The Ornithologist, willing to try again
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
#3 on my list and a handy manual to buggery on the sand.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
BPM and The Ornithologist remain my big gay blindspots of the year.
I'm hesitant to watch Paddington 2 without having seen the first one. I don't recall it getting nearly as much hype or praise, unless I missed something?
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
what was your favorite queer film of 2017?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
xp I didn't see the first Paddington and it didn't matter, I loved Paddington 2 and sobbed the entire time
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Ornithologist my #2, now this is beguiling. Loved to die like a man as well
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
i thought The Ornithologist was a right trip, my no7.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
So far, I guess Thelma, but on my Letterboxd watchlist I currently have The Fabulous Allan Carr, Against the Law, 120 Beats Per Minute, The Wound, The Ornithologist, Beach Rats and a handful of shorts, so...ask me again in a couple of months?
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Beach Rats was fucking great
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
how much ornithology is there in this film btw
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
#1 is very very good but #2 is something else, and built for adult viewers and film nerds as well as kids and families. you can totally jump in on #2, but the first one's on Netflix and #2 has a two day run back in US Regal cinemas on August 14 & 15.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
xpplenty of hornythology tbf!
― calzino, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Less than last year’s Portuguese hit tbf imago
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
those portuguese and their avians
i guess an hour and a quarter of chaffinches is enough film ornithology for a decade or so
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird,
and I didn't like it except for the young lead. Gay!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZF9xWdv.jpg
17. mother! w/d: Darren Aronofsky 120 points, 8 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
aronofsky sucks imo so im not going to watch this. i didn't know he was dating jennifer lawrence!― jim in vancouver, 14 September 2017
― jim in vancouver, 14 September 2017
Visually, sonically, & psychologically, this movie was very compelling. The claustrophobia of the house, the constant closeups on Jennifer Lawrence, the nightmarish feeling of being unable to communicate with those around you & losing control of your environment... the lighting & Gothic atmosphere of the house & all its dust & debris & unfinished mess, all great... otherwise I thought it was pretty fucking daft and thematically shallow. Another movie about creativity and how hard it is to be an artist? Hard pass. So arrogant & uninteresting, & what's frustrating is there are sub-themes & tangents in here - fan/artist relationship; artist as deity & the one-way adulation & love between fan & artist - that are far more interesting than dwelling on how hard it must be to be someone's muse. A CRYSTAL? You must be fucking kidding me. And fwiw I found the violence & verbal abuse to be way over the top, gratuitous, obvious, & misogynist. He's a good technical director, but he should not write his own scripts.― flappy bird, 16 September 2017
― flappy bird, 16 September 2017
A lot of the criticisms are the opposite of how I felt about it. I thought it was deeply feminist and Christian― Whiney G. Weingarten, 16 September 2017
― Whiney G. Weingarten, 16 September 2017
I've never minded babies getting eviscerated in the hands of a mob.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, 17 September 2017
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, 17 September 2017
first half (with the family who invite themselves in) was a good surreal black comedy, second half (by the time kirsten wiig was instructing a militia to shoot fans of javier bardem's poetry in the face, i mean) was the worst movie i've ever seen. i now think daron aaronovfsky is a deeply stupid person (maybe i should have thought that a long time ago, but it's been a long time since i last saw a film of his). it's actually a feat how much the ending spoils whatever goodwill it had built up in me. sound design was cool (nailed the feel of a creaky echoey old house)― flopson, Monday, 18 September 2017
― flopson, Monday, 18 September 2017
I'm now going to see this just so i can complain about how terrible it is― jim in vancouver, Tuesday, 19 September 2017
― jim in vancouver, Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Sounds too yucky for me.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Aronofsky is M Kermode's idea of an auteur, say no more.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
It's possible watching this the week after Irma affected my response.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
How the fuck did that place so high
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Good job on “17!”
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
:)
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7cWBsJL.jpg
16. The Killing Of A Sacred Deer d: Yorgos Lanthimos w: Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou 124 points, 9 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Idk, and I have yet to see it, but I get the feeling that if Lanthimos read your first post here, he'd be nodding in agreement, going "excellent... excellent." He did move you, in a big way, to dig in the trenches and defend a position that this is rubbish and cruel, "torture porn". Again, not seen it (yet), but he can't have done everything wrong, going off of your criticism of it.― Le Bateau Ivre, November 7, 2017
― Le Bateau Ivre, November 7, 2017
Excuse me?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
What's going on here
LBI was right though, I hated Sacred Deer but am looking forward to The Favourite.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Beach Rats was on the low side of mediocre.
I am getting the scent of Eric H on these last two...
I've had Mother out of the library on twp separate occasions, haven't watched it yet.
Sacred Deer was an entertaining provocation but I didn't vote for it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Hated those last 2 films
― . (Michael B), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
lmao @ mother!
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Is this the most lurkeriffic film poll yetWhat’s gonna be shut out - I didn’t hate either of the last 2 but if they beat like a quiet passion that just about does it
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link