Yeah wow, I actually have that blu ray, maybe I’ll watch it tonight
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 August 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
Secret of the Blue Room (Neumann, 1933)*Lost Horizon (Capra, 1937)#A Kiss in the Dark (surviving reels) (Tuttle, 1925)#Too Many Kisses (Sloane, 1925) (personal festival highlight)#Your Technocracy and Mine (Benchley, 1933)#The Mad Game (Cummings, 1933)#We Faw Down (McCarey, 1928)#The House That Shadows Built (unidentified Paramount drudges, 1931)#On the Brink (Porter & Weber, 1911)#Romola (King, 1924)*#The Cocoanuts (Florey & Santley, 1929)#Mamba (Rogell, 1930)#The Circus of Life (Julian, 1917)#The Stolen Ranch (Wyler, 1926)#Princess Lady Bug (Barker, 1930)#The Storm (Wyler, 1930)*#Brats (Parrott, 1930)#Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (Del Ruth, 1934)#A Daughter of the Law (Cunard, 1921)#The Night of Love (Fitzmaurice, 1927)#Television Highlights (Schwarzwald, 1936)#School for Swing (Schwarzwald, 1937)#It's Great To Be Alive (Werker, 1932)*#The Coming of Sunbeam (Guy, 1913)#Twenty Dollars a Week (Weight, 1924)#Ed Sullivan's Headliners (Schwarzwald, 1934)#Her First Mate (Wyler, 1933)#Call of the Cumberlands (Lloyd, 1916)#The Rescue (Brenon, 1929)
#Capitolfest 16, or J.Lu Yet Again Is Reminded that Not All Silent and Pre-Code Films Are Classics.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 13 August 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link
celebrating the new thread with some all timers (uk folks nuts in may is back on the iplayer!)
Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960) 9/10Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951) 10/10Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959) 9/10* Nuts in May (Leigh, 1976) 8/10* Love and Friendship (Stillman, 2016) 7/10Hereditary (Aster, 2018) 5/10Ordet (Dreyer, 1955) 10/10
― devvvine, Monday, 13 August 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
I don't log short films like j.lu does, but I saw about 8 Sadie Benning videos (made in Pixelvision) that I last watched about 25 years ago; most of those would be 8-10/10.
Three Faces West (1940, Vorhaus) 6/10 *My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, Frears) 8/10 Flat Is Beautiful (1998, S Benning) (50min) 5/10 Swallow (1995, Subrin) (28min) 7/10 The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958, Becker) 9/10 The Young Savages (1961, Frankenheimer) 5/10 Another Girl, Another Planet (1992, Almereyda) (56min) 6/10 Wake of the Red Witch (1948, Ludwig) 7/10 A Girl’s Folly (1917, M Tourneur) 7/10 Gavagai (2016, Tregenza) 4/10Les Amis (1971, Blain) 5/10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
I'd suggest you watch more Davies as prep than Frears, but don't want to prescribe any other TV while yr still not moving forward on Twin Peaks
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Davies? this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_Davies
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
Russell T. Davies, the writer of A Very British Scandal. Roughly every second of his works deals with different facets of men-attracted-to-men negotiating a homosociality within heteronormative culture - Very British Scandal is the first that is a period piece, rather than directly contemporary.
Cucumber, his previous main project (eight episodes, twinned with another series called Banana, and a docoseries called Tofu, all named for the hardness of erections), was the best thing he's done ime.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
Laundrette's focus on gay stuff is at most 33%.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
I just figured Frears was on yr slate because you'd said you were planning to watch Brit Scandal; to me he's a director who is efficient in service of a script's tone and agenda, rather than having an authorial throughline or preoccupations that can be tracked through his work.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
if you watch the Laundrette Criterion supplements, he denies being an auteur while his producer insists that he is. Frears does say he considers his string from The Hit thru The Grifters to be a reaction to Thatcherism.
I'm not actually likely to watch that scandal show anytime soon... always drowning in things to watch.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
Frears otm! The Grifters as the end of Thatcher reactions, vs the good first step into a bad period of Americana, is interesting, would be curious to rewatch with that in mind.
("gay stuff" is only 7% of AVBS at most, except for how the closet is the driver for every bad action across the fifteen years or so it covers. fascinatingly handled, re. it being a period piece, is how no "character" in it identifies as gay, it's not even an option to consider: those who come out to each other instead compare to what point their bedroom preference is for which gender, how much marriage is a thing they genuinely value vs are having to take on for optics, etc.)
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
Mississippi (2015), streaming on Netflix - 36/42
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 13 August 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
*Mississippi Grind
xp I’m not sure what I think of A Very English Scandal. It had a breezy quality, but it was in a very different key than I was expecting.
I loved how lizard-like Hugh Grant was, though. Was he wearing contacts? because there was something very creepy about his black irises
― Dan S, Monday, 13 August 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
OK, I had no idea Frears directed A Very English Scandal (u have to spell things out, sic) -- because why would I? I haven't seen anything of his since Dirty Pretty Things in 2002. Then he started doing all that Peter Morgan royal shite.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Dream Tower (7.0)Our Nixon (7.5)20th Century Women (9.0)Eighth Grade (6.5)Demon Seed (5.5)Quadrophenia (7.5)McQueen (6.0)Ocean’s Eight (4.0)BlacKkKlansman (7.0)A Stranger Among Us (6.5)
The last one is a late Lumet I saw at the time and completely forgot about. Relatively low key for him. Explicitly quotes from Hud when Melanie Griffith says "I already put in time with one cold-hearted bastard, I'm not looking to find another one." Good one for that last-line-should-have-been-the-title thread: Ask Your Rabbi.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
Mission Impossible (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018) - yup, that's how badly my year is going.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
It was fun etc.
I forgot to note earlier how amused I was that it was j.lu who pitched for an Electric Boogaloo subtitle on the new thread.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
/The Counselor/ (Ridley Scott/Cormac McCarthy, 2013). I saw this in a theater and didn't like it much, but recently learned that the Blu-Ray included a director's cut that was 20 minutes longer. I bought it on eBay for $5 and miraculously, the long version is a really good movie! Recommended.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
last batch for a while
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992) - 10/10Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) - 9/10Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) - 8/10This Happy Breed (David Lean, 1944) - 8/10Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980) - 7/10Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973) - 3/10
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
China Gate (Fuller)The Search (Zinnemann)From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann)A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann)The Longest Day (Annakin, Marton & Wicki)The Army of Crime (Guédiguian)La Vie en Rose (Dahan)Grace of Monaco (Dahan)Cop (A. Refn)Once a Cop... (A. Refn)R (Noer & Lindholm)Key House Mirror (Noer)*A Hijacking (Lindholm)*A War (Lindholm)*A Second Chance (Bier)Summer With Monika (Bergman)Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman)Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)The Virgin Spring (Bergman)Morvern Callar (Ramsay)We Need to Talk About Kevin (Ramsay)Katalin Varga (Strickland)For Those in Peril (Wright)*Hyena (Johnson)Ex Machina (Garland)Beast (Pearce)Under the Skin (Glazer)Her (Jonze)Lucy (Besson)Ghost in the Shell (Sanders)
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 08:19 (six years ago) link
All 3.5/5:True Stories (1986)BlackkklansmanWon’t You Be My Neighbor?The Lost City of Z
― Chris L, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
Mission Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 8/10the Happy Prince (Everett, 2018) 7/10Yellow Submarine ( Dunning, 1968) 8/10Unseeworld U.S.A (Fuller, 1960) 7/10The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987) 6/10Paddington 2 (King, 2017) 9/10Hostiles (Cooper, 2017) 7/10
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
Um, Underworld U.S.A. that should be.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
Gone With the Wind (1939) 7.5/10Iron Man (2008) 7/10Tangerine (2015) 8/10
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
bunch of airplane streaming on the way to and from berlin, the only one i'd seen before is philadelphia story:
all about eve (mankiewicz, 1951) 10/10paddington 2 (king, 2017) 8/10rocky (avildsen, 1976) 8/10the philadelphia story (cukor, 1940) 9/10happy death day (landon, 2017) 6/10inside out (docter, 2015) 8/10
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
honestly happy death day was surprisingly enjoyable for what it was
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
the gospel of the bear film has reached the troposphere
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
lol
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011) 6Mission: Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 7Disney Christopher Robin (Marc Forster, 2018) 4Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010) 8Icarus (Bryan Fogel, 2017) 8
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
read that marwencol has been adapted & now will have steve carell in it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.meta-sphere.com/wp-content/uploads/welcome-to-marwen_tete-600x220.jpg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
yeah I watched it because i saw the trailer for the zemeckis movie. The trailer makes it out to be an "inspirational" true story but it's not really, not exactly.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
baby driver (2017 edgar wright) 6.5/10mollys game (2017 sorkin) 2/10suburbicon (2017 clooney) 2/10the killing of a sacred deer (2017 lanthimos) 6/10angelo my love (1983 duvall) 3/10eighth grade (2018 burnham) 8/10thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10
I don't do the out of 10 thing but I'd give this at least a 6. It made me laugh a lot.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
lil too try hard idk
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:38 (six years ago) link
*The Naked Spur : 7/10Vampire's Kiss : 6/10Dying Of the Light (Paul Schrader Edit): 7/10 -- only 7/10 because Nic Cage is in full on weirdo mode and Schrader's noodling around on Final Cut. The doctor accent is...wow...almost as great as the accent in "Vampire's Kiss"*The Young One: 7/10 - minor Buñuel for me but still great
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
Crazy Rich Asians – kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people. Lots of film history embedded in it.
― remy bean, Saturday, 18 August 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
What Price Jazz (Baerwitz, 1934)Felix Gets Broadcasted (Messmer, 1923)High Flyers (Cline, 1937)Inflation (Myers, 1933)Felix in Fairyland (Messmer, 1923)*Roast-Beef and Movies (Baerwitz, 1934)*Big City Fantasy (Henabery, 1934)The Magician (Bergman, 1958)BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018)Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955)
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
Re-watching Whit Stillman's Barcelona tonight.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
I was hoping for good things from Crazy Rich Asians, but found it fairly bland. I may have had the wrong expectations for a mainstream PG rom-com, but I felt like it needed sharper jokes.
― jmm, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people
!!! I'm sure this cast looks fine, but you are aware that Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn were considered pretty attractive, right?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
in theaters July 26 - August 22
Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) - 6/10Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) - 9/10Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018) - 8/10Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018) - 6/10Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - 7/10Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Peter Rida Michail, Aaron Horvath, 2018) - 3/10BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) - 9/10
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
! at low rating for Three Identical StrangersI knew nothing about the backstory before seeing it at SIFF but on a str8 narrative level it’s my favourite doco of the year
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:18 (six years ago) link
it is an incredible story. a documentary that makes itself, really. what bothered me was how much they reused the same footage from the same Donahue, NBC, + other TV appearances. the same lines. it kinda falls apart at the end, and felt padded even at ~95 minutes. that has nothing to do with the actual story being unresolved, i just thought with so much material to go through (and so many years passed over) the reuse of footage was bizarre.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:52 (six years ago) link
and fwiw I knew not only the backstory but most of the twists before I saw it. I would've rated it higher if I had gone in completely cold, I wish I could've.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:54 (six years ago) link
yeah fair enough! the repeated lines are very few & read in SUPER different context the second times around, but if you’re not seeing it / that footage cold, those won’t have the same kick
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:22 (six years ago) link
a documentary that makes itself, really.this undermines the work they do in visuals and research and in editing the story though — I felt v impressed by how manipulative it was without cheats in the first half-hour, and how well the makers shift to mostly-archival telling thereafter.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:26 (six years ago) link
i've seen much worse evaluations of 3IS
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link
This was really good! Exploring Blade Runner type themes but I much preferred this to the Blade Runner sequel. It did pack a lot in just under 90 minutes. It couldve done with another 10 minutes imo (I dont say that very often)
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 20 May 2024 12:52 (four months ago) link
I agree it could have gone on longer. I was invested.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 20 May 2024 13:19 (four months ago) link
vampire's kiss, 1989american psycho and also maybe vampire? bad script from the writer of after hours. saved by nic cage's insane performance.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 20 May 2024 21:58 (four months ago) link
Bought a 2008(?) Blu-Ray of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes on eBay; it showed up today. I own the original five movies on DVD, but the Blu-Ray of Conquest has the original ending, where Caesar leads the apes in violent revolution and they murder the humans. I was really struck, watching it tonight, just how violent it was; there are scenes of apes piling up the bodies of dead cops that are astonishing. And the original ending is dark as fuck. Had they released this version in the first place it would easily be regarded as the second-best movie in the series, after the original.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:39 (four months ago) link
May:
To Die For (Van Sant, Henry after Maynard 1995) Kiki's Delivery Service [Witch's Express Home Delivery / 魔女の宅急便] (Miyazaki after Kadono 1989) The Marriage Circle (Lubitsch, Bern & Vance after Schmidt 1924) Monkey Man (Patel, Angunawela, Collee 2024) Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (Snead 2024) The Fall Guy (Leitch, Pearce 2024) Wings Of Desire [4K resto / 5.1 remix] (Wenders, Handke, Reitinger 1987) Poolman (Pine, Gotler 2024) 2/10The Lavender Hill Mob [4K resto] (Crichton, Clarke 1951) Making Of (Kahn, Burdino, Doux 2024) Aggro Dr1ft (Korine 2024) Dìdi [弟弟] (Wang 2024) The New Boy (Thornton 2023) Dragon Superman [神龍飛俠] (Kobayashi, Lo-hui, Hsiao-tao 1968) Paprika [パプリカ] (Kon, Minakami after TsuTsui 2006) Uncut Gems (Safdie, Bronstein, Safdie 2019) Furiosa (Miller, Lathouris 2024) Babes (Adlon, Glazer, Rabinowitz 2024) Evil Does Not Exist [悪は存在しない] (Hamaguchi 2024) Going In Style (Brest 1979) 📀Millennium Actress [千年女優] (Kon, Murai, Hirasawa 2001) 📺Beverly Hills Cop (Brest, Petrie 1984) 📺
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 20:34 (four months ago) link
March, April, May
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (Nicole Newnham, 2023)The Landlord (Hal Ashby, 1970)The Holdovers (Alexander Payne, 2023)*MC5: A True Testimonial (David C. Thomas, 2002)Central Station (Walter Salles, 1998)Maestro (Bradley Cooper, 2023)A City of Sadness (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 1989)Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)Why Man Creates (Saul Bass, 1968)Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)Le petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (Peter Wintonick, 1999)The Glass Web (Jack Arnold, 1953)Confess, Fletch (Greg Mottola, 2022)Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph, 1976)20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, 2023)El sol del membrillo (Víctor Erice, 1992)Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom, 2003)The Possibilities Are Endless (James Hall, Edward Lovelace, 2014)Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023)The Senator Was Indiscreet (George S. Kaufman, 1947)Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (Thomas von Steinaecker, 2022)So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)City Of Fear (Irving Lerner, 1959)The American Sector (Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez, 2020)Le rayon vert (Éric Rohmer, 1986)Joan Baez I Am a Noise (Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, Karen O'Connor, 2023)Carmen (Valerie Buhagiar, 2022)Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani, 2003)Fremont (Babak Jalali, 2023)Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)The White Bus (Lindsay Anderson, 1967)Chloe (Atom Egoyan, 2009)Led Zeppelin Played Here (Jeff Krulik, 2014)Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2021)The Beekeeper (David Ayer, 2024)On the Run (Alfred Cheung, 1988)Taking Off (Milos Forman, 1971)Athena (Romain Gavras, 2022)Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi, 1976)Shadowman (Georges Franju, 1974)Epidemic (Lars von Trier, 1987)Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophüls, 1988)Befrielsesbilleder (Lars von Trier, 1982)Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)Kuroi doresu no onna (Yôichi Sai, 1987)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 June 2024 02:34 (three months ago) link
May
In The Land of Saints and Sinners (Lorenz, 2023) 4/10Priscilla (Coppola, 2023) 7/10Madeline's Madeline (Decker, 2018) 7/10Pale Rider (Eastwood, 1985) 6/10Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) 5/10*Nomadland (Zhao, 2020) 8/10Mars Express (Perin, 2023) 7/10*Perdita Durango (De La Iglesia, 1997) 6/10Speed Racer (Wachowski, 2008) 5/10*The French Connection (Friedkin, 1974) 8/10House of Tolerance (Bonello, 2011) 8/10Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz, 1942) 6/10Pom Poko (Takahata, 1994) 8/10The Delinquents (Moreno, 2023) 7/10*The Player (Altman, 1992) 9/10Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Miller, 2024) 8/10*Pennies From Heaven (Ross, 1981) 7/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 7 June 2024 23:18 (three months ago) link
xp forgot to 'sterisk Die For, Desire, Lavender, Paprika, Gems and Cop
― bae (sic), Sunday, 9 June 2024 06:01 (three months ago) link
Hit Man (2024) 3/5* The Music Room (1958) 4.5/5I Saw the TV Glow 4/5Furiosa 3/5* Inherent Vice (2014) 4.5/5 Through the Olive Trees (1994) 4.5/5Lumiere d'ete (1943) 3.5/5* Heat (1995) 4.5/5Life, and Nothing More... (1992) 4/5Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023) 4/5Trenque Lauquen (2022) 5/5
― Chris L, Monday, 10 June 2024 14:48 (three months ago) link
Throw Momma From the Train (DeVito) 4/10 so i started watching always sunny, wanted to watch one of the movies devito directed. i picked a bad one. The Children's Hour (Wyler) 4/10 audrey had some bad performancesGirl, Interrupted (Mangold) 6/10The Girl Can't Help It (Tashlin) 7/10 how can they look so bored during that Little Richard performance*Topsy Turvy (Leigh) 10/10Blue Collar (Schrader) 9/10 the only good richard pryor movie?
― master of the pan (abanana), Monday, 10 June 2024 17:00 (three months ago) link
Ratings according to the Maltin System, i.e. **** for classic all the way down to BOMB for irredeemable shite
Black Girl (Sembene, 1966) ***1/2Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) ***The Zone of Interest (Glazer, 2023) ***1/2Poor Things (Lanthimos, 2023) ***Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) ***Mars Express (Périn, 2023) ***I Saw the TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) **1/2Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi, 2023) ***Saltburn (Fennell, 2023) **1/2Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023) BOMB (ironically)
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 23:42 (three months ago) link
I was wondering if Leonard Maltin gave Oppenheimer four stars, so I looked it up and it turns out he was surprisingly cool on the film
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 June 2024 00:19 (three months ago) link
I bomb ironically Einstein’s discoveries and hypotheses can’t define how I be dropping these
― bae (sic), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:58 (three months ago) link
xp good on Grandpa Malty
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 15:24 (three months ago) link
June
The Boxers Omen (Chih-Hung, 1983) 7/10Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki, 2023) 8/10The Beast (Bonello, 2023) 7/10Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Jude, 2023) 9/10In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) 8/10Triangle of Sadness (Ostlund, 2022) 6/10Blue Jay (Lehmann, 2016) 8/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 21:57 (three months ago) link
June in cinemas: Hit Man (Linklater, Powell 2024) * Furiosa (Miller, Lathouris, Bandopadhayay, Chakravarti, Collee, Maeda, Sixel Miller, Norris pere, Norris fils 2024) Challengers (Gudagnino, Kuritzkes 2024) † Purple Rain (Magnoli, Nelson, Blinn, Albert Magnoli 1984) † In The Cut (Campion & Campion after Moore 2003) Cruising (Friedkin after Walker 1980) Crash (Cronenberg after Ballard 1996) † Body Double (DePalma, Avrech 1984) I Saw The TV Glow (Schoenbrun 2024) † Bound (The Wachowskis 1996) L'Inconnu du lac [Stranger By The Lake] (Alain Guiradie et autres, 2013) † The Matrix (The Wachowskis 1999) 📽️† The Hunger (Scott, Davis, Thomas after Streiber 1983) † Train To Busan [부산행] (Yeon, Park 2016) † Body Heat (Kasdan 1981) 📽️ Female Trouble (Waters 1974) * Furiosa (Miller, Lathouris et al. 2024) June at home: Ricky Stanicky (Farrelly, Occhino, Decker, Bushnell, Oedekerk, Jarvis, Freeman, Jones, Cerrone 2024) 1/10 for Cena's commitment Hot Dogs For Gaugin (Brest 1972) short Ohayo [Good Morning] (Kon 2008) short Hot Tomorrows (Brest 1977) Succumb To The Crumb (Glazer 2010) short* Midnight Run (Brest, Gallo 1988)
― bae (sic), Monday, 15 July 2024 17:16 (two months ago) link
Man on the Roof (1976) 4/5. Kind of a Swedish French Connection. Really involving but has a strange ending.Stripper (1985) 3.5/5. Heavily staged but interesting pseudo-documentary. An absolute explosion of 80s tackiness.Challengers 3/5. I was watching this when the Trump assassination attempt happened, so I was a little distracted.* The Mother and the Whore (1973) 5/5Black God, White Devil (1964) 4.5/5* Equinox Flower (1958) 4/5* Messiah of Evil (1973) 4/5Delta Space Mission (1984) Trippy Romanian cartoon. Would be wild to catch on TV at like 2 AM.What a Way to Go! (1964) 3/5Madame Web (2024) 1/5. Watched this on a plane. The villain in this is so comically bad and the French actor appears to have been totally re-dubbed by a guy who sounds like Lee Van Cleef.Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981) 3/5France (2021) 3.5/5Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) 4/5Wild Side (1995) 2.5/5. Director's cut. Christopher Walken at his most unhinged, and I don't say that lightly. Way too much of Steven Bauer playing a rapist cop for this to be much fun.
― Chris L, Monday, 15 July 2024 21:02 (two months ago) link
sic, what does the dagger in front of your titles mean? I hope it’s not “this movie is dead to me.”
― Josefa, Monday, 15 July 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
rewatch but first time on a big screen. the dagger came out more prominent than intended!
― bae (sic), Monday, 15 July 2024 22:28 (two months ago) link
That’s a category of film viewership I’ve really been leaning into recently. Before all the cinemas close down, which seems inevitable, I want to see as many of my favorite films on a big screen as possible.
― Josefa, Monday, 15 July 2024 22:48 (two months ago) link
Challengers (5.5)Drive (5.0)Evil Does Not Exist (7.5)Mr. Robot (S2-4 – 6.5)Teenage Superstars (6.5)Players (5.0)Borg vs. McEnroe (6.0)Battle of the Sexes (7.0)Hit Man (6.0)Kinds of Kindness (6.5)Longlegs (6.0)
Took me since May 3 to accumulate nine films and two TV shows. I just don't watch movies anymore.
― clemenza, Sunday, 28 July 2024 12:05 (two months ago) link
Watched the latest MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie on Amazon Prime but it just wasn't *fun* the way the fourth and fifth ones were. It's grim and dour and *dumb*. I mean, the villain is an AI, and in 2024 we all know that AIs are just racist, lying chatbots. Also it's 2 hours 45 and ends on a cliffhanger. (But does it count as one if I genuinely didn't care if they ever actually accomplished their goal?)
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 28 July 2024 13:06 (two months ago) link
July big, projected:Maxxxine (West 2024) Audition [オーディション] (Miike, Tengan, Murakami 1999) Kinds Of Kindness (Lanthimos, Filippou 2024) M. Hulot's Holiday [Les Vacances de M. Hulot] (Tati, Marquet 1953/1962/1978) The Hardest Line: The Story of Midnight Oil (Clarke 2024) Koyaanisqatsi (Ron Fricke, Reggio, Hoenig, Walpole, Glass 1982) small, LCD: Scent Of A Woman (Brest, Goldman 1993) rental expired after 48 hours 2/3 of the way in, as a blessed reliefKnox Goes Away (Keaton, Poirier 2024) WILL THERE BE ANYTHING ELSE ? (David Lynch 2024) 4minWicked Little Letters (Sharrock, Sweet 2024)
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
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― master of the pan (abanana), Thursday, 1 August 2024 01:09 (two months ago) link
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― bae (sic), Thursday, 1 August 2024 04:51 (two months ago) link
The Mikado (1939) 7/10Sorcerer (Friedkin 1977) 9/10Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger, 1950) 5/10Born to be Bad (Ray, 1950) 6/10*Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973) 6/10*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) 8/10The Daytrippers (Mottola, 1996) 5/10A Canterbury Tale (Archers, 1944) 7/10Blue Steel (Bigelow, 1990) 4/10*Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004) 6/10 hawk's book sounds awfulBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (Rice and Calleros, 2022) 8/10
― master of the pan (abanana), Friday, 2 August 2024 06:29 (two months ago) link
June & July
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)Queen of Speed (Barbie MacLaurin, 2021)Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (Andy Brown & Brian Lindstrom, 2022)La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)*The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Chad Freidrichs, 2011)*Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)Europa (Lars Von Trier, 1991)Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024)*Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)Une affaire de femmes (Claude Chabrol, 1988)The Assassination & Mrs. Paine (Max Good, 2022)The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)Torakku yarô: tenka gomen (Norifumi Suzuki, 1976)Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962)Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985)Century of the Dragon (Clarence Fok, 1999)*Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, 1987)The 27th Day (William Asher, 1957)The Mystery of Aris San (Dani Dotan, Dalia Mevorach, 2007)The World Is Yours (Romain Gavras, 2018)The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973)*The Beguiled (Don Siegel, 1971)The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall, 1946)The Walking Hills (John Sturges, 1949)Concrete Utopia (Tae-hwa Eom, 2023)La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)Faye (Laurent Bouzereau, 2024)
More re-runs than usual - Ms. T and I got systematic about our checking off titles on the"classic movies that one has seen but the other hasn't" lists. I'm the person who only just now saw Desperately Seeking Susan. What a great movie! The 27th Day is a total outlier among 50s saucer movies - worth tracking down. The World Is Yours and Concrete Utopia both kinda meh for different reasons that are glaringly obvious when I look at the trailers for them now.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 August 2024 09:35 (two months ago) link
July
Aggro Drift (Korine, 2023) 4/10*The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972) 8/10The Small Back Room (Powell & Pressburger, 1949) 7/10*Two Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971) 8/10Longlegs (Perkins, 2024) 6/10Nineteen Eighty Four (Radford, 1984) 7/10Chameleon Street (Harris Jr, 1989) 8/10Hackers (Softley, 1985) 6/10Anything Else (Allen, 2023) 4/10Challengers (Guadagnino, 2024) 8/10I Saw The TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) 7/10Sabotage (Hitchcock, 1936) 7/10Coma (Bonello, 2022) 6/10A Visitor to A Museum (Lopushansky, 1989) 7/10Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982) 8/10Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962) 6/10
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 2 August 2024 12:40 (two months ago) link
Desperately Seeking Susan is a very fun movie. I rewatched it recently, I hadnt seen it since I was a kid.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 2 August 2024 12:57 (two months ago) link
Maxxxine - All surface. Kevin Bacon is fun until he isn’t anymore. 4/10
Out Of Time - Carl Franklin’s “Devil In A Blue Dress” is a favorite. I had no clue he’s made a second film with Denzel. This was good fun. Solid B-crime thriller for a sticky Summer night. 7/10
Starve Acre - If “Geogaddi” was a movie. Properly wacko retro folk horror. Beautifully done. 8/10
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 4 August 2024 07:53 (two months ago) link
*Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda 1962)The World's Greatest Sinner (Carey 1962. Shouldn't count...I didn't make it to the end...)Once Upon a Time in America (Leone 1984)Furiosa (Miller 2024)Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki 2023)Hit Man (Linklater 2024)The Great Train Robbery (Porter 1903)From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann 1953)Dizzy Gillespie (Blank 1965)32 Sounds (Green 2022)Victims of Sin (Fernández 1951)Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog 2009)Cairo Station (Chahine 1958)
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 01:32 (one month ago) link
Cairo Station probably my favourite discovery at Noir City this year.
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 19:03 (one month ago) link
The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993) 3.5/5* Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) 4.5/5Beijing Watermelon (1989) 4/5* Seven Samurai (1954) 5/5Danton (1983) 4/5Lumumba (2000) 4/5House of Tolerance (2011) 4/5Kamikaze Hearts (1986) 4/5Longlegs (2024) 1/5. Hated pretty much everything about this. * Blood and Wine (1996) 3/5My Own Private Idaho (1991) 4/5
― Chris L, Monday, 19 August 2024 17:45 (one month ago) link
some really great camera blocking in Longlegs tbf.
― bae (sic), Monday, 19 August 2024 19:13 (one month ago) link
The First Omen (2024) 2.5/5. First overrated horror movie of the season! * The Leopard (1963) 4/5Touch (1997) 2/5My America... or Honk If You Love Buddha (1997) 3/5Suspicion (1941) 3.5/5High School (1968) 5/5Royal Warriors (1986) 4/5Victims of Sin (1951) 3.5/5Mr. Klein (1976) 5/5
― Chris L, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:16 (one month ago) link
August in large rooms with high ceilings:The Zodiac Killer (Hanson, Cantrell, Cardoza 1971) Cannibal! The Musical (Parker 1993) * Donnie Darko (Kelly 2001) [theatrical cut, 4K resto]Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland (Worsley 2022) The Love Nest (Cline, Keaton 1923) † Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton, Bruckman, Havez, Mitchell 1924) † Wet Hot American Summer (Wain, Showalter 2001) She Freak (Mabe, Friedman 1967) [new restoration] Blood Feast (Lewis, Downe, Friedman 1963) Indecent Desires (Wishman 1968) [2K restoration from 35mm negative] Crossing (Akin 2024) Longlegs (Perkins 2024) Cuckoo (Singer 2024) Road House (Herrington, Henry, Henkin 1989) * Coraline (Selick after Gaiman 2009) [remastered 3D] * Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Peebles 1971) I Married A Witch (Clair, Pirosh, Connelly, Trumbo, after Smith completed by Matson 1942) Between The Temples (Silver, Wells 2024) She Mob (Wuest, Paschal 1968) A Woman Under The Influence (Cassavetes 1974) Chopping Mall (Wynorski, Mitchell 1986) Trap (Shyamalan 2024) low ceilings:* Shiva Baby (Seligman 2020) On Your Mark (Miyazaki 1995) 6min Jackpot! (Feig, Yescombe 2024) 1/10, paused 45 minutes in to check bcz I couldn't believe the writer of Spy did this Fury Has An Anthem (Newman 2023) 7min
― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 17:06 (one month ago) link
spy was easily the best feig/mccarthy movie. take that bridesmaids.
― master of the pan (abanana), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 03:18 (one month ago) link
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coens, 2018)Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Mazursky, 1969)Twisters (Chung, 2024)On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)The Beast (Bonello, 2023)Trap (Shyamalan, 2024)The Last of Sheila (Ross, 1973)The Village (Shyamalan, 2004)La Chimera (Rohrwacher, 2023)Snake Eyes (De Palma, 1998)Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)WarGames (Badham, 1983)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 03:42 (one month ago) link
August:
West Side Story (Spielberg, 2021) 5/10The Wild Geese (McLagen, 1978) 4/10Yannick (Dupieux, 2023) 5/10Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2023) 7/10 (at the cinema)La Chimera (Rohrwacher, 2023) 7/10Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) 8/10*The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) 8/10*Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) 8/10Alien Romulus (Alvarez, 2024) 4/10*The Founder (Hancock, 2016) 7/10*Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003) 7/10The Hypnosis (De Geer, 2023) 7/10The Five Devils (Mysius, 2022) 7/10Frankenhooker (Henenlotter, 1990) 8/10Major Dundee (Peckinpah, 1965) 7/10Oddity (McCarthy, 2024) 7/10 (at the cinema)
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 08:59 (one month ago) link
Inferno - 1953 6/10*The Last of Sheila - 8/10Desert Fury - 1947 6/10Eyes of Laura Mars - 1978 6/10Hit Man - Linklater, 2023 7/10
― master of the pan (abanana), Thursday, 5 September 2024 03:39 (four weeks ago) link
Didi (7.0)Closer (6.5)The Americans (8.5)Night of the Living Dead (8.0)Only the River Flows (6.0)Reagan (4.0)Twisters (6.0)Paris, Texas (7.5)Amadeus (6.0)Breaking Bad (8.5)
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 September 2024 12:57 (two weeks ago) link
September:
features in cinemas Le Samouraï [2024 4K restoration] (Melville, Pellegrin 1967) † Paris, Texas [2024 4K restoration] (Wenders, Shephard, Carson 1984) S/He Is Still Her/e - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary (Rodrigues with Petrillo 2024) † The Conversation [2024 50th anniversary 4K resto] (Coppola 1974) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [2011 Academy resto] (Powell and Pressburger 1943) Once In A Lifetime (Mack, Miller after Hart, Kaufman) 1932) 📽️ The Cohens And Kellys In Hollywood (Dillon, Green 1932) 📽️ Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Lubitsch, Brackett, Wilder after Savoir trans. Andrews 1938) 📽️ Hollywood Boulevard (Dante, Arkush, Opatoshu 1976) 📽️ El espinazo del diablo [The Devil's Backbone] (del Toro, Muñoz, Trashorras 2001) 📽️† The Hairy Bird [US theatrical Strike! cut] (Kernochan 1998) 📽️ Bye Bye Birdie (Sidney, Brecher, Stewart, Strouse, Adams, Green, Padula, Champion 1963) * The World's End (Wright, Pegg 2013)
shorts in an apartment Sean Young filmed the making of Dune with David Lynch 1983 (Young 2010) * Lady Blue Shanghai (Lynch 2010) City Island: Movies (Lopez, Correll, Augenblick, Wendt & al. 2024) Absurda (Lynch 2007)
shorts in a theatre "My Directorial" (Harderson 2024)
― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Thursday, 3 October 2024 18:55 (yesterday) link
*Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929) 6/10Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953) 9/10 -- I think I only saw the first half previously, because the second half rang no bellsThe Comedy of Terrors (Tourneur, written by Matheson, 1963) 6/10Don't Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972) 7/10Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10John Jacobs and the Power Team (1991) like*Microcosmos (Nuridsany & Pérennou, 1996) 9/10
― master of the pan (abanana), Thursday, 3 October 2024 21:05 (yesterday) link
Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos, 2024) 5/10 (barely)The Vourdalak (Beau, 2023) 6/10Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2023) 6/10Sleep (Yu, 2023) 6/10Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Oshii, 2004) 6/10It's Such a Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt, 2012) 7/10Moving (Ohikkoshi) (Sōmai, 1993) 7/10Suburbia (Spheeris, 1983) 7/10Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) 6/10North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959) 5/10, I think I'm just not a Hitchcock fan tbh, he was a smarmy gitThe Conversation (Coppola, 1974) 9/10Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001) 10/10
― RIO Speedwagon (Matt #2), Thursday, 3 October 2024 21:42 (yesterday) link