Last (x) movies you saw (II)

grimm (2003, van warmerdam) 6/10
in jackson heights (2015 wiseman) 6.5/10
fat city ('72 huston) 8/10
the old man & the gun (2018 lowery) 1/10
booksmart (2019 olivia wilde) 5/10
fading gigolo (2013 turturro) 6/10
roma (2018 cuaron) 6/10
dragged across concrete (2018 zahler) 6.5/10
*the last picture show ('71 bogdanovich) 8/10
daddy and them (2001 billy bob thornton) 6.5/10
profound desires of the gods ('68 imamura) 6/10

I generally don't post shorts I watch (unless the films are as long as La Jetee), but for the next few weeks i'm planning to alternate Stan Brakhage and Looney Tunes.

Whirlpool (Larraz) nasty, crude, fascinating death of the 60s artifact
every Friday the 13th movie on Prime (v/a) largely undistinguished
My Bloody Valentine (Mihalka) no Black Christmas or Alice Sweet Alice but not bad
McQueen- would've appreciated more context from an academic/curatorial side but not the puff piece i expected
Sleepaway Camp III (who cares) eh
Spider Baby (Hill) a ball
Horror Express (Martin) Hammer Horror's The Thing
Time Piece (Henson) HALP
In Fabric (Strickland) loved it

On Purge Bébé (Renoir, 1931)
Personal Problems (Gunn, 1980)
Loyalties (Dean & Dickinson, 1933)
Two Heads On a Pillow (Nigh, 1934)

Ad Astra
Some nice visuals in places but too many obviously earthbound staircases and things.
Astronauts are getting older. & i think there are at least a couple of plotholes where the story is supposed to be being driven.

Without a Clue (1988) 4/10
the first half of The Lion King shot-for-shot remake (2019) 2/10
Hustlers (2019) 7/10
Ad Astra (2019) 5/10

Mørklægning (Kjærulff-Schmidt)
Sons of the Desert (Seiter)
Way Out West (Horne)
Training Day (Fuqua)
Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
Toy Story 4 (Cooley)
Late Night (Ganatra)
Contact (Zemeckis)
Ad Astra (Gray)
Pain and Glory (Almodóvar)
Aimless Bullet (Yoo)
An Empty Dream (Yoo)
The Housemaid (Kim)
Woman of Fire (Kim)
Woman of Fire ‘82 (Kim)
The Handmaiden (Park)*
Clare’s Camera (Hong)*
Train to Busan (Yeon)
From Moscow to Petushki (Pawlikowski)
Serbian Epics (Pawlikowski)
The Woman in the Fifth (Pawlikowski)
Ida (Pawlikowski)*
Cold War (Pawlikowski)
Walesa: Man of Hope (Wajda)
United States of Love (Wasilewski)*
Mother (Donskoi)
Anna Karenina (Zarkhi)
Vassa (Panfilov)
Mother (Panfilov)*
Nouvelle Vague (Godard)*
Éloge de l’Amour (Godard)*

Ratings or it doesn't count.

The Unknown Known (2014)
True Grit (2010)
Monrovia, Indiana (2018)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
My Best Fiend (1999)
The Tomb of Ligea (1964)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
Predator (1987)
Dolemite (1975)
The Babadook (2014)
Solaris (2002)
Saboteur (1942)

Ratings or it doesn't count.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), 27. september 2019 15:14 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hate rating films. But Nouvelle Vague is 10/10 and Walesa is not...

My Darling Clementine (Ford 1946) 10/10
Out of the Past (Tourneur 1947) 10/10
Lifeforce (Hooper 1985) 8/10 for the first 15 minutes, 3/10 for the rest
Dead Heat (Goldblatt 1988) 7/10
The Hidden (Sholder 1987) 8/10
Stone Cold (Baxley 1991) 6/10
Kuffs (Evans 1992) 6/10
Black Moon Rising (Cokliss 1986) 5/10
The Challenge (Frankenheimer 1982) 7/10
Man on Fire (Chouraqui 1987) 7/10
The Clovehitch Killer (Skiles 2018) 8/10
Two for the Road (Donen 1967) 8/10, 10/10 for Hepburn’s wardrobe
Stadt als Beute (Pollesch 2005) 7/10
The Big Lebowski (Coen 1998) 7/10
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter 1994) 4/10
Capitaine Conan (Tavernier 1996) 9/10
The Big Gundown (Sollima 1966) 7/10
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen 2013) 9/10
As Above, So Below (Dowdle 2014) 8/10 for the catacombs, otherwise 5/10
Vampire’s Kiss (Bierman 1988) 7/10
Red Dawn (Milius 1984) 7/10
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Fassbinder 1972) 9/10
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (Parisot 1988) 7/10
Horror Express (Martin 1972) 8/10; 10/10 for the credits font
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor 2013) 6/10

Thank you, tonsillitis, for making this movie marathon possible.

* The Limey (1999) 4.5/5
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) 3.5/5
Ad Astra 2.5/5
Summer Interlude (1951) 3.5/5
* Titus (1999) 3.5/5
Amazing Grace 4/5
The Souvenir 4.5/5
Depeche Mode: 101 (1989) 4/5
The Image Book (2018) 3/5
All About My Mother (1999) 3.5/5
* The Hired Hand (1971) 4/5
At Berkeley (2013) 4/5
* The Long Good Friday (1980) 4.5/5
Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2018) 3.5/5

First Cow (2019, Reichardt) 5/10
*Comfort and Joy (1984, Forsyth) 8/10
The Baker’s Wife (1938, Pagnol) 9/10
*Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984, Radford) 7/10
Operation Petticoat (1959, Edwards) 8/10
The Long, Long Trailer (1954, Minnelli) 5/10
*That Sinking Feeling (1979, Forsyth) 8/10
Young Törless (1966, Schlöndorff) 7/10
Slightly Scarlet (1956, Dwan) 7/10
Damn Yankees! (1958, Donen, Abbott) 6/10
The Load (2018, Glavonić) 7/10
Rubber Band Pistol (1962, Itami) (33m) 7/10
*Tampopo (1985, Itami) 9/10
The Crimson Pirate (1952, Siodmak) 7/10

Whoa, new Reichardt? No good?

very disappointing imho

don't like to hear that! I will certainly see it anyway.

the night scenes are... barely visible? Digital needs some work.

also frequently dull

i watched Gauche the Cellist from Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata last night and it is an abundant treat and well worth the hour's investment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evewEVPqTrk

xp she didn't shoot on 35?

A Passport to Hell (Lloyd, 1932)
Adorable (Dieterle, 1933)
Mummy's Boys (Guiol, 1936)
Toyland Broadcast (Ising, 1934)
Lightnin' (King, 1930)
Lions Love (Varda, 1969)

Ready Or Not
very black comedy horror. Quite effective. Reminds me a lot of a white Get Out if that's not too close to contradictory.
I was thinking this was the film that Trump tried to stop when I first heard about it.
Glad I saw it anyway.

flappy, not sure, and iMdB is no help; i just know i was looking at a DCP

The Pirates of Blood River (Gilling, 1962) 6/10
The Devil-Ship Pirates (Sharp, 1964) 6/10
Le Vent D'est (Godard & Gorin, 1970) 8/10
It Chapter Two (Muschietti, 2019) 4/10
Countess Dracula (Sasdy, 1971) 7/10
Lust for a Vampire (Sangster, 1971) 6/10
British Sounds (Godard, Roger, 1970) 9/10
Twins of Evil (Hough, 1971) 6/10
Class Relations (Huillet/Straub, 1984) 9/10
The Vampire Lovers (Baker, 1970) 7/10
The Mummy's Shroud (Gilling, 1967) 6/10
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer, 1970) 8/10
Straight on Till Morning (Collinson, 1972) 5/10
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie aka The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Grau, 1974) 8/10
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955) 8/10

Scarface (Hawks, 1932) 6/10
Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919) 6/10
The General (Keaton and Bruckman, 1926) 8/10
The Fall of the House of Usher (Corman, 1960) 6/10
Mysterious Object at Noon (Weerasethakul, 2000) 7/10
Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 7/10
Gaslight (Dickinson, 1940) 7/10
*Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950) 9/10
Ulee's Gold (Nunez, 1997) 7/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock, 1934) 8/10

I made it 40% through Blow before turning away in boredom. Maybe halfway through Spring Breakers for the same.

idk with Spring Breakers maybe it had more to do with an "enhanced" state and lack of stomach for things to go crazier

Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola, Jerry Leichting, Arlene Sarner 1986) 5/10
Late Night (Nisha Ganatra, Mindy Kaling 2019) 2/10
M:i:III (Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci 2006) 2/10
Folk Hero And Funny Guy (Grace 2016) 1/10
Dolemite (Martin, Jones, Moore 1975 ) 7/10
Prescription Murder (Irving, Levinson, Link 1968) 6/10
A Simple Favor (Paul Feig, Jessica Sharzer, Darcey Bell 2018) 7/10
Between Two Ferns (Aukerman, Galifinakis 2019) 6/10
Hollywood Man (Starrett, Farese, Girardin, Gombardella, Smith 1976) 5/10 on a 4:3 cropped TV-edited streaming edition, would play as 8/10 on film with an audience
Casino Royale (Brown Jr, Bennett, Ellis, Fleming 1954) 2/10
* The Third Man (Reed, Greene 1949 ) [DCP] 10/10
* Paddington 2 (King, Farnaby &al. 2017) 10/10
Soapdish (Hoffman, Harling, Bergman 1991) 7/10
All The President's Men (Pakula, Goldman 1976) 6/10
Bottle Shock (Randall Miller, Jody Savin, Ross Schwartz 2008) 1/10
* Sleuth (Mankiewicz, Shaffer 1972) 8/10
* Slither (Gunn 2006) [DCP] 7/10

xxp a year after seeing it I'm still thinking about Close-Up

the idea that he inserted himself into this story reenacting true events using the original non-actor participants and then helped to guide the eventual outcome is mind-blowing to me

Yeah, Close-Up is probably in my top ten of all time. That ending. Just thinking about it makes me emotional.

Dough and Dynamite (Chaplin, 1914)
Bulls and Bears (Sennett, 1930)
Dance in the Sun (Clarke, 1953)
Skyscraper (Clarke, 1960)
*Chances (Dwan, 1931)
Felix Doubles for Darwin (Messmer, 1924)
In Paris Parks (Clarke, 1954)
Bullfight (Clarke, 1955)
The Ghoul (Hunter, 1933)
Loro (Sorrentino, 2018)

1951's Olivia: omigawwwwwwwd, so lurid, so beautiful, so immensely risky and risque. i think parts of this got pilfered for The Favourite. Gonna have to see more from Jacqueline Audry; this thing out-Sirks Sirk. And no moral come-uppance! (Virtually) no men at all!
The moment where she grabs Miss America and slurps at her neck, sooooo over the top. This was great eye candy, great fun and nearly seventy years ahead of its time.

Cinema:

Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov, 2019)
La-Bas (Akerman, 2006)
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman (Akerman, 1997)

MUBI:

The Death of Empedocles (Straub-Huillet, 1987)
Woman on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar, 1988)
Rapado (Rejtman, 1992)

what did you think about honeyland? I think it's probably gonna be in my best of and am urging people to see it in theaters as the visuals are such a vital part of the experience

Yeah it's top 10, the visuals are great. I saw while "Amazon on fire" was near the top of the news cycle which made it for an even more charged viewing.

Honeyland was cool

The Heiress (Wyler, 1949) - 10/10
*The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder, 1971) - 10/10
Matador (Almodóvar, 1986) - 8/10
Lumière and Company (various, 1995) - 10/10
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Scorsese, 1974) - 8/10
*Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964) - 8/10
Daddy Longlegs (Safdie Brothers, 2009) - 8/10
Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977) - 7/10
Climax (Noé, 2018) - 3/10
Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953) - 9/10
Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999) - 10/10
Heaven Knows What (Safdie Brothers, 2014) - 9/10
Satan’s Brew (Fassbinder, 1976) - 10/10
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Almodóvar, 1984) - 7/10
Senso (Visconti, 1954) - 8/10
The Brown Bunny (Gallo, 2003) - 9/10
High Heels (Almodóvar, 1991) - 6/10
The Human Surge (Williams, 2016) - 10/10

Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976) - 9/10
Morvern Callar (Ramsay, 2002) - 10/10
Fear of Fear (Fassbinder, 1975) - 8/10
The Cry of the Owl (Chabrol, 1987) - 9/10
River’s Edge (Hunter, 1986) - 5/10
Portrait of Jason (Clarke, 1967) - 10/10
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder, 1975) - 9/10
Rio Das Mortes (Fassbinder, 1971) - 7/10
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (Pflaum, 1993) - 9/10
The Bigamist (Lupino, 1953) - 9/10
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980) - 10/10

+2 Image Books

How many times have you watched Image Book by now? I'm jealous :)

Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999) - 10/10
Hey everyone listen to flappybird for once, he is randomly correct! That film makes my chest hurt in the best possible way

I mean, I haven't seen like this century or something, but I still wake up with images in my head like the curtain shot, or the field shot, or fuckit I don't need to rewatch, this film lives in my head...

Throwing food at the drunken dad, that happened, right? (did in my house at least)

September - October viewing

*Empire Records 4/10
Reality Bites 5/10
Rocketman 8/10
Jackie 6/10
Bohemian Rhapsody 4/10
Peterloo 7/10
Fahrenheit 11/9 7/10
Spiderman: Far from Home 4/10
The Golden Dream 7/10
Crips and Bloods: Made in America 5/10
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) 8/10
*Casino 8/10
*Back to The Future 8/10
Joker 6/10
Something In The Air 6/10
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie 6/10

I've seen The Image Book 12 times

the Ratcatcher CC disc has four of Ramsay's short films, all excellent

didn't realize until now that The Image Book is on Kanopy

A Moment in Love (Clarke, 1956)
A Scary Time (Clarke, 1960)
Bridges-Go-Round (Clarke, 1958)
*Pickup on South Street (Fuller, 1953)
*Laura (Preminger, 1944)
Murder, My Sweet (Dmytryk, 1944)
Unrelated (Hogg, 2007)
Exhibition (Hogg, 2013)
Hey, Pop! (Goulding, 1932)
The File on Thelma Jordon (Siodmak, 1950)
Trapped (Fleischer, 1949)
Pushover (Quine, 1954)

Hobsons Choice (Lean, 1954) 8/10
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2018) 6/10
Ad Astra (Gray, 2019) 4/10
Too Late to Die Young (Sotomayor, 2018) 7/10
Lupin the third: Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki, 1979) 7/10
Ada Kaleh (Wittman, 2018) 6/10
Drift (Wittman, 2017) 8/10

lff:

Atlantics (Diop, 2019) 7/10
To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa, 2019) 7/10
Fire Will Come (Laxe, 2019) 5/10
Martin Eden (Marcello, 2019) 6/10
Unheimlich II: Astarti (Klonaris, Thomadaki, 1980) 6/10
Krabi 2562 (Rivers, Suwichakornpong, 2019) 6/10
Vitalina Varela (Costa, 2019) 8/10

hey flappy, do you recommend i try image book on a television screen? still worth it?

These were great:
Crawl (2019, better by far than you think!)
Selfish Giant (Barnard, 2013... gonna want to see her other movies shortly!)
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015, really sticking with me)
Toy Story 4

These were very good to okay:
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)
Derren Brown: Svengali (2013)
Thief and the Cobbler, Recobbled Cut (1995)
Fleabag at National Theater Live
El Camino
Parasite
Sound of Silence

These were okay i guess but not really worth recommending unless the subject matter is your jam:
Meeting Gorbachev
Genesis 2.0
Life and Times of Don Rosa

These were hot garbage:
Hits (David Cross, 2014)
Greener Grass (2019)

Yeah Godard said that was how he wanted people to watch it:

During our second visit in March 2018, the film was almost finished. The room in which we talked (and where Zoé Bruneau watches a character from Fritz Lang's Metropolis in Goodbye to Language) has now been turned into a small screening room. This is where the first screenings of The Image Book take place, in conditions Godard judges to be the most appropriate. The room is designed in a particular manner: a big TV screen in the center, two big speakers set forward toward the viewers who sit against the opposite wall. These three elements structuring the space recall the ultimately abandoned idea of making a film-sculpture for three screens. But most important is to distance the sound from the image as Godard stresses during our short conversation with him and Fabrice Aragno just after the screening.

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/jean-luc-godard-2018-words-like-ants

it was worth seeing 3 times in a theater because the sound design is awesome and there's some great, restrained use of surround sound later on.

Life and Times of Don Rosa

I'll comment anyway because it's directed by a friend of mine :) His followups are more distinct, he makes slow cinema documentaries now.

Will give image book a shot.
Don Rosa doc was well worth it for me, just a question of a very niche topic!