Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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Soldiers of the King (Elvey, 1933)
*A Propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930)
*Taris (Vigo, 1931)
*Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933)
*L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
What Price Innocence (Mack, 1933)
When You Read This Letter (Melville, 1953)

Love Story (6.0)
The Straight Story (9.0)
Unforgettable (5.5)
The Image Book (--)
Fuzz (6.0)
Eyes Wide Shut (7.5)
Burroughs: The Movie (6.0)
15 Minutes (5.5)
The American President (6.0)
Disobedience (6.5)

Forever 'B' / Abducted In Plain Sight (Skye Borgman 2017)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Lord, Rothman, Persichetti, Ramsey 2018) [Laser]
Happy Death Day (Landon after Lobdell 2017)
Coherence (Byrkit, Manugian 2013)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (Gregory 2014)
Gumshoe (Frears, Smith 1971)
High Flying Bird (Soderbergh, McCraney 2019)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Lord, Miller, Mitchell 2019) [Laser]
Murder On The Orient Express (Lumet, Dehn, allegedly Shaffer, after Christie 1974)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda 2018) [DCP]
* Miller's Crossing (Coen & Coen 1990)

love california split

― flopson

one of the best movies about addiction I've ever seen

* Hour of the Wolf (1968) 4/5
* Miller's Crossing 5/5
High Flying Bird 4/5
Velvet Buzzsaw 2/5
Querelle (1982) 3.5/5
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) 4/5
The Aviator's Wife (1981) 3.5/5
Fyre Fraud (2019) 2.5/5
Fyre (2019) 3/5
The Tarnished Angels (1957) 4/5
Columbus (2017) 3.5/5

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was on TV last night so I watched it. There sure was a lot of "Hey! Here's a thing you liked the last time we did it!"

Support the Girls was a great little movie that no one saw. Well worth it.

Regina Hall made a few critics award runners-up lists.

i loved it; it's on hulu and anyone who has that should see it

Speaking of Hulu, no one was lying about Minding the Gap.

"Thunder Road" was really good, too. Reminded me of a more tragicomic"Bottle Rocket," in some ways. Impressive that the guy wrote, acted in and directed it. I kind of want to find some interviews with him now.

I just got back from seeing a 1958 film where the guy wrote, acted in & directed it, followed half an hour’s walk away by a 1971 film where the guy wrote, scored, produced, acted in, directed & edited it

is that a puzzle? van peebles?

Uh, Regina Hall WON best actress from the NY film critics (also Vancouver). Disappointed in Sotosyn's failure in remembering the prizes and nods.

it wasn’t a puzzle, but Josh’s mind is gonna be blown when he sees his first ten or twenty Woody Allen flicks

(yes, Van Peebles, plus Welles)

Woody who?

I'm not a fan of Woody Allen films, really. I don't think he's that great of an actor. Or even director, for that matter, though he has made a couple of movies I've liked. Cassavetes is kind of a more impressive writer/actor/director. Citizen Kane is pretty good, too. But it's been a while since I've seen a movie written, directed by and starring the same person, which is why it struck me.

Though I appreciate the pedantic sarcasm.

Oh yeah, speaking of Shane Carruth, he's a more recent triple-threat, too. And Sling Blade? Seemed to happen more during the indie boom of the '90s.

Kane was 1941 btw

The Kindergarten Teacher (Colangelo, 2018) 7/10
Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936) 8/10
Broken Arrow (Daves, 1950) 7/10
*Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, 1990) 8/10
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018) 8/10
Querelle (Fassbinder, 1982) 6/10
The Rachel Divide (Brownson, 2018) 7/10
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Lubitsch, 1927) 7/10
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976) 7/10
*Annie (Huston, 1982) 6/10

Birds of Passage was outrageously good and Shakespearean in scope; highest recommendation to anyone near where it's screening

The Artits, which I hadn't seen before last night's BBC4 showing. Quite effective largely silent film or at least the sound consists of soundtrack music apart from a couple of crucial points. Hope taht isn't too much spoiler.
French/US film with 2 French leads and several internationally known ones. I didn't recognise the actress who played Peppy so has she made much of a move intop International film, or is she well known in france?
Quite fun.

fwiw Woody Allen has always said he's not an actor

Enoch Arden (1911, Griffith) (33m) 7/10
Shoplifters (2018, Kore-eda) 7/10
*Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007, Jones) (TV) 8/10
Stan & Ollie (2018, Baird) 7/10
*The Crying Game (1992, Jordan) 8/10
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969, Matsumoto) 6/10
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991, Callow) 5/10
*Mikey and Nicky (1976, May) 10/10
Warlock (1959, Dmytryk) 8/10
*Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (1993, Riggs) (38m) 8/10

Morbius what is it about Mikey and Nicky? I haven't seen it & you're pretty parsimonious with 10/10's so my interest is piqued.

I read Frank Bill’s DONNYBROOK last year and really didn’t like it much at all. It felt like a try-hard cross between Harry Crews and Jim Thompson, lapped up by soft-handed, voyeuristic critics. The movie, which I just watched tonight via Amazon, is much better. It’s beautifully shot, and minimalist in a good way, and although there’s a lot of violence it’s handled…tastefully, sort of. Recommended, if you’re a fan of movies about hillbilly bare-knuckle boxing tournaments.

fb, it's Elaine May's masterpiece -- the two actors' too. Not a wasted frame.

Cold War (2018) 7/10
Fyre (2019) 6/10
Burning (2018) 7/10
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) 3/10
The Handmaiden (2016) 7/10
Tarnation (2003) 7/10
Every Man For Himself (1980) 6/10
The Big Chill (1983) 5/10
The Cat Returns (2002) 7/10
Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse (2018) 7/10

Iron Man (Browning, 1931)
The Lemon Drop Kid (Neilan, 1934)
Below Zero (Parrott, 1930)
You're Darn Tootin' (Kennedy, 1928)
Too Busy to Work (Blystone, 1932)
Douro, Faina Fluvial (de Oliveira, 1931)
Aniki-Bóbó (de Oliveira, 1942)
The Green Years (Rocha, 1963)

Self/less (Tarsem, 2015) abandoned
Trolls (Dreamworks, Mike Mitchell, 2016) 3/10
Green Book (Farrelly, 2018) 3/10
*rewatch of A Star is Born (WB, Cukor, 1954) 9/10
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 8/10

slow month.

Apollo 11 is an amazing achievement, genuinely awe inspiring and beautiful. I'm sure it'll be on CNN before end of the year but do yourself a favor and see it in theaters or, better yet, IMAX.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/25/apollo-11-review-eye-opening-documentary-is-a-five-star-triumph
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/27/we-felt-a-huge-responsibility-behind-the-landmark-apollo-11-documentary
Director said they went through over 11k hours of footage and 18k hours of unsynched audio; took years to shake out. The effort and the love of production really shows.

Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964) 9/10
High Flying Bird (Soderbergh, 2019) 7/10
The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986) 10/10
Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972) 8/10
Daisies (Chytilova, 1966) 8/10
This Land is Mine (Renoir, 1943) 6/10
Hanagatami (Obayashi, 2017) 5/10
Let The Summer Never Come Again (Koberidze, 2017) 8/10
Yourself and Yours (Hong, 2016) 7/10
The American Friend (Wenders, 1977) 8/10

Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Yourself Yours (Hong Sang-soo, 2016)

does burning live up to the hype?
seeing woman at war tonight; will report back

I liked it. There is a thread here with a variety of takes:

BURNING (dir. Lee Chang-dong, 2018) - Murakami adaptation feat. Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo

Burning was great

You should definitely see Burning. In all honesty I probably prefer Woman at War, but both films good.

February:

Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018) 8/10
Fire (Smith, 2019) 6/10
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004) 7/10
Casque d'Or (Becker, 1952) 8/10
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Heller, 2018) 6/10 - might have rated this higher if the trailer hadn't given away the entire plot of the movie
Five Element Ninjas (Chang Cheh, 1982) 8/10
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Aldrich, 1964) 7/10
The Creeping Flesh (Francis, 1973) 7/10
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Curtis, 1974) 6/10
CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans (Dumont, 2018) 8/10
Machorka-Muff (Straub-Huillet, 1963) 7/10

Will wait on that thread till i view... bit looking forward to it!

might have rated this higher if the trailer hadn't given away the entire plot of the movie

snap

January & February in theaters:

Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) - 9/10
On the Basis of Sex (Leder, 2018) - 4/10
Destroyer (Kusama, 2018) - 2/10
Glass (Shyamalan, 2019) - 1/10
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) - 8/10
Stan & Ollie (Baird, 2018) - 1/10
When You Read This Letter (Melville, 1953) - 8/10
Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987) - 9/10
Clara’s Ghost (Elliott, 2018) - 2/10
They Shall Not Grow Old (Jackson, 2018) - 2/10
Secrets of Women / Waiting Women (Bergman, 1952) - 4/10
What Men Want (Shankman, 2019) - 8/10
2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action (various, 2018) - 0/10
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954) - 7/10
Cold Pursuit (Moland, 2019) - 6/10
2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary (various, 2018) - 3/10
The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10

Free Solo. Amazing feat, but Meru was the much better man-vs-mountain face movie, imo.

Lost In The White City - 8/10
Peterloo - 5/10 ( broadest acting of any Mike Leigh film I've seen. Nearly Pythons-level broad. Extra point for the beautiful period look.)
All Is Lost - 7/10

flappy, why so down on Stan & Ollie? just the bio genre in general? this one was about as good as those get.

Funny aside re: that one. A friend of mine was telling me the other day that she had some time to kill a while back, and Stan & Ollie was literally the only thing playing in the time slot she had free. So she went to see it, more or less blind, and really enjoyed it. Which is typically a sign of a good (or at least successful) movie.

Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954) - 7/10

Tough audience.

Yes, if any films demands a 10/10 rating it's Sansho - though it obv has to be seen in as pristine a print as possible for maximum perfection. Never sure if I favour Sansho over Ugetsu Monogatari, another 10 out of 10er.

Ugetsu is such a great looking movie. I haven't seen it for a long while but I remember it being as visually arresting as Sunrise.