Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Not sure if Christopher Walken is playing a senile old guy or playing Christopher Walken in "Stand Up Guys". The film is twice as bad as you would expect.

Just Maine Folks (O'Neil, 1912)
Switzerland the Beautiful (1934)
Cross Fire (Brower, 1933)
Un Chant d'Amour (Genet, 1950)
Rhythmus 21 (Richter, 1923)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Worsley, 1923)
The Brig (Mekas, 1964)
Guns of the Trees (Mekas, 1961)
Project Gutenberg (Chong, 2018)

Calamity Jane (Butler, 1953) 6/10
Cecil B. DeMented (Waters, 2000) 5/10
Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (Asher, 1983) 6/10
The Fruit Machine (Fodey, 2018) 8/10
Myra Breckinridge (Sarne, 1970) 4/10
The Normal Heart (Murphy, 2014) 7/10
The Long Good Friday (Mackenzie, 1980) 8/10
*Die Hard 2 (Harlin, 1990) 7/10
House by the River (Lang, 1950) 6/10
The Terry Fox Story (Thomas, 1983) 4/10

* Monterey Pop (1968) 4.5/5
The Juniper Tree (1990) 3/5
* Death Proof (2007) 3.5/5
* Veronika Voss (1982) 4/5
Model Shop (1968) 3/5
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4/5
Apollo 11 (2019) 4/5
* Showgirls 3.5/5

Our Betters (Cukor, 1933)
The Old Man and the Gun (Lowery, 2018)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Frears, 1985)
A Face in the Crowd (Kazan, 1957)
One-Eyed Jacks (Brando, 1961)
The African Queen (Huston, 1951)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Ross, 2018)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)
The Heiress (Wyler, 1949)
The Prisoner (Glenville, 1955)
*Monterey Pop (Pennebaker, 1968)
Police Story (Chan, 1985)

tsk, leaving ellipses out of the Film of the Year

So what did you think about the movie, Morbs?

xp -- whatever, you old hatebag

it's the best film he's ever made by some distance

asked a cinema friend about it, he really loved it but wasn't willing to go that far, not yet anyway

* Married to the Mob (Demme, Strugatz, Burns 1988) 📺
Stuber (Dowse, Clancy, Goldstein, Daley 2019)
The Thin Man (W. S. Dyke, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, after Dashiell Hammett 1934) 📽️ 35mm
Under The Silver Lake (Mitchell 2019) 📺
Bad Times At The El Royale (Goddard 2018) 📺
Assault On Precinct 13 (Carpenter 1976) 📺
Gold Diggers Of 1933 (LeRoy, Berkeley, Hopwood, Gelsey, Seymour, Markson, Boehm, Warren, Dubin 1933)
* Magic Mike XXL (Jacobs, Carolin 2015)
Speed Racer (Wachowski & Wachowski after Yoshida 2008)
Starcrash (Cozzi, Wachsberger 1978)
Valkyrie (Sex Criminal, McQuarrie, Alexander 2008) 📺
Django (Corbucci, Corbucci, Rossetti, Maesso, Vivarelli 1966)
* Magic Mike XXL (Jacobs, Carolin 2015)
Sword Of Trust (Lynn Shelton, Mike O'Brien 2019)
ffolkes a/k/a North Sea Hijack (McLaglen, Davies 1980) 📺
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Tarantino 2019) 📽️ 35mm
Jobe'z World (Bilandic 2019) 📺
The Wrecking Crew (Karlson, McGivern after Hamilton 1968) 📺
Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood (Tyrnauer 2017) 📺

Honeyland was one of the more complex and crazy things I've seen this year; worth the trek to catch it in a theater if you can. it's a documentary parable about modernity, obligation and futility... with bees! the lead woman, Hatidze, is one of the most amazing characters you're ever going to see on screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B27ORUHlp6E

those treks in full:

Melbourne, Australia
18 August , 7:00 PM | The Capitol

Fort Collins, CO, – USA
30 August, time TBA | The Lyric

Also playing in NYC at the Quad five times a day through at least next week:
https://quadcinema.com/film/honeyland/
'twas an NYT pick and the wednesday early evening show i went to was packed so i think word is getting out.

https://honeyland.earth/screenings/

brody's review, as he often does, bitches about what the film is not but at least takes the time to acknowledge all the good things it is. I'll admit the removal from the current socioeconomic political story makes it feel a bit adrift from the world and the smoothing of the story into a filmic narrative makes it almost impossible to register as a documentary but these are structural concerns and not questions of quality or enjoyment.

Anthony Lane reviewed it for the magazine, iirc, and was very positive.

yeah, i read that one too. it's mostly getting raves!

The Haunted Bedroom (Edison Company, 1913)
The Rink (Chaplin, 1916)
Nice and Friendly (Chaplin, 1922)
A Night in the Show (Chaplin, 1915)
Don't Shove (Goulding, 1919)
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (Jones & Laurel, 1926)
Finn and Hattie (McLeod & Taurog, 1931)
Elstree Calling (Brunel, Hitchcock, et al, 1930)
By the Sun's Rays, (Giblyn, 1914)
What Price Glory (Walsh, 1926)
Pilgrimage (Ford, 1933)
The Woman Condemned (Davenport, 1934)
The Iceman's Ball (Sandrich, 1932)
Flying Elephants (Butler & Roach, 1928)
By Whose Hand? (Stoloff, 1932)
Hangman's House (Ford, 1928)
The Silver Cord (Cromwell, 1933)
Blood Money (Brown, 1933)
Regeneration (Walsh, 1915)

Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite is great, though I'm not sure what he's going on about here in that there's not really a last minute switch up? Just savvy marketing I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0A35bB1gw

anyways, it's quite funny and just flat out impressive filmmaking... the man knows how to frame a scene! Dunno how thought provoking I'd call it but your mileage may vary. "Truly which of us is the REAL parasite" seems to be the extent of its fairly surface level social commentary but when your film is this fun who cares?

Lucretia Martel's Headless Woman was an interesting back-to-back with Parasite as both are essentially altered perception murder mysteries-cum-portraits of the clueless in class warfare. A bit of a living dream, which is how Zama felt too.

Funny Face (Donen)
Indiscreet (Donen)
Charade (Donen)
Arabesque (Donen)
Two for the Road (Donen)
Norma Rae (Ritt)
Coming Home (Ashby)
The Mosquito Coast (Weir)
Drugstore Cowboy (van Sant)
Psycho (van Sant)
Restless (van Sant)
The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Greengrass)
Captain Phillips (Greengrass)
Jackie Brown (Tarantino)*
Kill Bill (Tarantino)*
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino)
To the Wonder (Malick)*
Knight of Cups (Malick)*
Song to Song (Malick)
The Childhood of a Leader (Corbet)
Vox Lux (Corbet)
Lords of Chaos (Åkerlund)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Singer & co)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Scorsese)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (Watts)
Mondo Cane (Jacopetti, Cavara & Prosperi)

The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925) - 10/10
Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009) - 8/10
In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) - 6/10
The Sun Shines Bright (Ford, 1953) - 9/10
Les Carabiniers (Godard, 1963) - 7/10
The Devil, Probably (Bresson, 1977) - 6/10
Bad Times at the El Royale (Goddard, 2018) - 5/10
3 Godfathers (Ford, 1948) - 8/10
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1979)
Forbidden Games (Clement, 1952) - 8/10
Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006) - 8/10
Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) - 10/10
Lancelot of the Lake (Bresson, 1974) - 9/10
The Flower of My Secret (Almodóvar, 1995) - 8/10
Sergeant Rutledge (Ford, 1960) - 8/10
A Separation (Farhadi, 2011) - 9/10
Twentieth Century (Hawks, 1934) - 8/10
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford, 1936) - 8/10
One Wonderful Sunday (Kurosawa, 1947) - 7/10
Amour (Haneke, 2012) - 6/10
The Traveller (Kiarostami, 1974) - 7/10
The Skin I Live In (Almodóvar, 2011) - 9/10

the Fassbinder is a 9

David Crosby: Remember My Name (Eaton, 2019) 6/10
The Farewell (Wong, 2019) 6/10
Once Upon a Time in America (Tarantino, 2019) 7/10
Peterloo (Leigh, 2019) 8/10
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) 7/10
* Hard Eight (Anderson, 2019) 8/10
Midsommar (Aster, 2019) 7/10
* Klute (Pakula, 1971) 6/10
* Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962) 9/10
* The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941) 10/10

* Wang

That’s a fun slate! Haven’t seen Hard Eight in years.
Amazing Grace (finally!) and Last Black Man in San Francisco lined up for the next few days.

Oh wow I'd give "Peterloo" half that score, Alfred. I found it incredibly hamfisted and broad and a total nosedive after the great "Mr Turner".

I loved it.

Knife + Heart (Gonzalez, 2018) 8/10
*Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002) 5/10
*Jackass: The Movie (Tremaine, 2002) 8/10
Tonka of the Gallows (Anton, 1930) 7/10
Islands (Gonzalez, 2017) 7/10
Battle in Heaven (Reygadas, 2005) 7/10
*Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954) 10/10
Une Femme Douce (Bresson, 1969) 6/10
Adoption (Meszaros, 1975) 6/10

The Knife of the Party (Jason, 1934)
Estrellados (de Alberich & Sedgwick)
*The Bishop Misbehaves (Dupont, 1935)
That Man From Rio (de Broca, 1964)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (Watts, 2019)

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982) 3/5
* Love Streams (1984) 5/5
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) 3.5/5
The Lawnmower Man (1992) 3/5
* Detour (1945) 3/5
Pokemon Detective Pikachu 2.5/5
Silver Jew (2007) 3/5
* Eyes Wide Shut 3.5/5
Bombshell: the Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) 3/5
Under the Silver Lake (2018) 1/5
* Starship Troopers (1997) 3.5/5

Rolling Thunder Revue (7.5)
The Contender (7.5)
Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood (7.5)
Rocketman (5.5)
David Crosby: Remember My Name (7.0)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (7.5)
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank (7.0)
Jaws (10.0)
Yesterday (6.0)
Mid90s (7.0)
Eighth Grade (7.0)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Bayona, 2018) 5/10
Brewster McCloud (Altman, 1970) 7/10
King of New York (Ferrara, 1990) 7/10
Start the Revolution Without Me (Yorkin, 1970) 6/10
I Am Michael (Kelly, 2015) 6/10
The Farewell (Wang, 2019) 6/10
Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst, 1929) 7/10
*Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, 1971) 8/10
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970) 5/10
*The Freshman (Bergman, 1990) 7/10

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018, Minervini) 7/10
Marius (1931, Korda/Pagnol) 9/10
The Shining Hour (1938, Borzage) 6/10
La Flor (2018, Llinas) 6/10
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Olmi) 8/10
*Let the Sunshine In (2017, Denis) 9/10
The Thrill of It All (1963, Jewison) 5/10
I Fidanzati (1963, Olmi) 8/10
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931, Leonard) 6/10
*Pillow Talk (1959, Gordon) 8/10

mid90s is the most realistic depiction of teenage subcultures (in this case, dirtbag skater kids) since River's Edge. Low-stakes, funny, and streaming for free on Amazon Prime.

Kursk (Vinterberg, 2018)
T.R. Baskin (Ross, 1971)
The Rover (Michôd, 2014)
Backbeat (Softley, 1994)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (Sullivan, 2018)
Alita: Battle Angel (Rodriguez, 2019)
Rams (Hustwit, 2018)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994) (*repeat viewing)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Stahelski, 2019)
Charlie Says (Harron, 2018)

The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940) - 8/10
I’m So Excited! (Almodóvar, 2013) - 8/10
Jungle Fever (Lee, 1991) - 7/10
Law of Desire (Almodóvar, 1987) - 7/10
The Killing of Sister George (Aldrich, 1968) - 10/10
The Gingerbread Man (Altman, 1998) - 6/10
The Iron Horse (Ford, 1924) - 9/10
All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999) - 8/10
Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002) - 9/10
Wagon Master (Ford, 1950) - 9/10
Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010) - 8/10
*Buffalo ’66 (Gallo, 1998) - 8/10
Talk to Her (Almodóvar, 2002) - 7/10
The Golden Coach (Renoir, 1952) - 7/10
*Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982) - 9/10

just watched In Pursuit of Venus (Infected) by Lisa Reihana at the De Young, it was incredible

never watched anything on an 85 foot screen before

All Things Must Pass the doc about Tower records history. I don't think I knew much about the chronology before. This was pretty good.

1/2 of Sorry To Bother You which I was watching on memory stick when I found out All Things Must Pass was on TV.
Really enjoying it so need to get back to it.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Slightly revisionist but quite enjoyable. But that's Tarant8no for you.

Battling Butler (Keaton, 1926)
Mud and Sand (Pratt, 1922)
Le Doulos (Melville, 1963)
Dancing Sweeties (Enright, 1930)
Reunion in Vienna (Franklin, 1933)
Le Deuxième Souffle (Melville, 1966)

Amour fou is incredibly beautiful but so austere, I’m thinking I will appreciate it more on later viewings

only seen two films of hers so far, but I think Jessica Hausner is an amazing director

I agree. I'd also say that Amour Fou is one of the funniest films I know, though of course in a veeeeery droll way.

Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
Popeye (1980)
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Foxy Brown (1974)
Tropicalia (2012)
A Bigger Splash (1974)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Muhammad and Larry (2009)
The Beach Bum (2019)
Trafic (1971)

xp watching it I remember wondering if Amour fou was actually a very ascetic comedy

she juxtaposed an emotional (and very morose) story against super dry discussions about tax law

It has one of the best sound-effect jokes in the scene where Kleist discusses suicide with his cousin, while her dogs trot around.

'Do you want to die with me?'
[Woof!]
'...no?'

The whole thing is so absurd. It's a very weird form of humour, but I think it's hilarious.

Everyone should try "Penguin Highway" if you can find it; beautifully animated coming-of-age tale about loss and death under several layers of absurdity and metaphor. Reminded me a lot of Satoshi Kon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMQVQVADx2E