Last (x) movies you saw (II)

In practice I found Parenthood the vulgar American equivalent of an Ozu comedy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Obviously not remotely the hill I’m willing to die on, tho.

The cultural & language barrier cannot be understated but I could see that. My problems with Parenthood are with the kind of film it is, and how it promotes and reinforces malignant American family dynamics, even as it lightly criticizes some of them (the Rick Moranis character, for example). As you said, it's the A1 version of this type of movie, great cast and competently made as almost everything Howard has done is competently made (I don't mean that as an insult, I think he gets ragged on too often). I just find the specific relationships, dynamics, and values it presents and promotes as hideous and damaging and disgusting.

Agree on Keanu tho

Phantasm (Coscarelli, 1979) - 4/5
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1973) 5/5
Rabid (Cronenberg, 1978) 4/5
Shivers (Cronenberg, 1975) 3/5
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Hancock, 1971) 4/5
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) 3.5/5

Ash is Purest White (Zhangke, 2018) 4.5/5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977) 4/5
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) 4.5/5

Rabid, Close Encounters and Texas Chainsaw were rewatches, though it'd been decades. TCM actually surprised me at how scary it still was. Visceral, sticky, sweaty...from what I read the conditions were rough during filming; it comes across. Also mobiles out of human bones. Rabid seemed like a more refined version of Shivers, fewer straggly threads and tighter editing. Body Snatchers was missing something. Maybe it was a plot? Or that they kept hiding under stairs? I felt like the tension could have been ramped up far better and Nimoy was wasted. Awesome effects, though. Also Donald Sutherland's creamy voice sometimes bugs me.

Phantasm was a pleasant surprise...excellent atmosphere, the tall man was chilling and great fx.

oh, I thought you gave Phantasm a negative 4 out of 5 lol

Memories of Murder (6.0)
Halloween (8.0)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (7.0)
The Social Dilemma (6.5)
The Untouchables (7.0)
Lovelace (6.5)
The New Corporation (7.0)
Gas Food Lodging (7.5)
Casualties of War (10.0)
Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head (6.0)

*Say it With Songs (Bacon, 1929)
Zaza (Dwan, 1923)
The Spieler (Garnett, 1928)
It Pays to Advertise (Tuttle, 1931)
So's Your Old Man (La Cava, 1926)
After Dark (Parker, 1933)
*Abbott and Costelle Meet Frankenstein (Barton, 1948)
A Ten-Minute Egg (McCarey, 1924)
The Misfit (Austin & Cook, 1924)
*Bumping Into Broadway (Roach, 1919)

The Falcon and the Snowman (Schlesinger, 1985) - 8/10
Dollar (Mollander, 1938) - 7/10
*The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Fassbinder, 1972) - 10/10
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Ross Brothers, 2020) - 9/10
*Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks, 1939) - 10/10
Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945) - 9/10
*California Split (Altman, 1974) - 10/10
The Moment of Truth (Rosi, 1965) - 8/10
*Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939) - 10/10
The Beast (Borowczyk, 1975) - 8/10
*Lola (Fassbinder, 1981) - 10/10
I Used to Go Here (Rey, 2020) - 4/10
*Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982) - 10/10
*The Social Network (Fincher, 2010) - 8/10
Dillinger is Dead (Ferreri, 1969) - 10/10
Les Creatures (Varda, 1966) - 7/10
Tootsie (Pollack, 1982) - 8/10
Variety (Gordon, 1983) - 8/10
*L’avventura (Antonioni, 1960) - 9/10
Ham on Rye (Taormina, 2020) - 8/10
*The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983) - 10/10
Vitalina Varela (Costa, 2020) - 7/10
The Silent Partner (Duke, 1978) - 8/10

1/2 Japanese The Band That Would Be King
Biography of the band . Came out in 92 and I just found it on Demonoid which I only discovered was running again last week.
Quite interesting I guess. Makes me want to listen to some of their stuff.
Hadn't realised Penn Jilette was one of the people behind 50 Squidillion Watts.
The Fairs seem resolutely geeky.
& Don Fleming seemed surprisingly young as anew interviewee.
Also not sure if I've seen Byron Coley on screen before or if he was playing a part here instead of being more directly himself. Same with Gérard Cosloy.

That was supposed to be an interviewee not sure where anew came from.

didn't realise demonoid was still going in a meaningful sense - as in the unique torrents that weren't anywhere else, where are they these days?

That 1/2 Japanese doc is really good. Same guy who did the Daniel Johnston one. The DVD had a big pull quote on the front from a critic that was like “The funniest rock movie since Spinal Tap!” which always irritated the fuck out of me and really misrepresented the band and doc. It is funny. And they’re goofy. But I’ve met the Fair brothers a few times, know people who have worked with David for years, and that childlike sense of play and joy in creativity they exude is very real and fucking dope.

first man (2018 chazelle) 9/10
the nest (2020 durkin) 5.5/10
possessor (2020 b cronenberg) 5/10
on the rocks (2020 s. coppola) 6/10
the human stain (2003 benton) 6/10
*rebecca (1940 hitchcock) 8/10
rebecca (2020 wheatley) 5/10
*the 39 steps (1935 hitchcock) 9/10
*the tenant (1976 polanski) 8.5/10
brief encounter (1945 lean) 9/10

the nest really didn't do much for me

Young Romance (Melford, 1915)
Oh, Doctor! (Pollard, 1925)
Thanksgiving Day (Foy, 1928)
Glorious Betsy (Crosland, 1928)
The Last Vermeer (Friedkin, 2019)
The Thing From Another World (Nyby, 1951)
*It's Me (Sweet, 1927)
*Won in a Closet (Normand, 1914)
*Jus' Passin' Through (Chase, 1923)

November:

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Hara, 1987) 9/10 DVD
Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001) 6/10 DVD
The Witch Who Came From the Sea (Cimber, 1976) 6/10 BLU-RAY (part of the American Horror Project 1 box)
Slow Motion (Godard, 1980) 8/10 DVD
Raw Deal (Mann, 1948) 8/10 (John Alton the star once again) YouTube
Eyeball (Lenzi, 1975) 6/10 (travelog-giallo is my new favourite kind of giallo) BLU-RAY
How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941) 7/10 YouTube
House of Bamboo (Fuller, 1955) 8/10 (again, 8 out 10 as much for the widescreen technicolour travelog aspects, 50s Japan looking amazing throughout) DVD
The Chase (Ripley, 1946) 7/10 YouTube
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976) 8/10 YouTube (cheeky upload of the Criterion print)
M (Losey, 1951) 7/10 YOUTUBE (Again, a pristine print of a film that has never had a proper physical media release in the UK)
They Drive by Night (Walsh, 1940) DVD 7/10
The Reckless Moment (Ophuls, 1949) YouTube 7/10
Attack of the Crab Monsters (Corman, 1957) YouTube 6/10
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (Marins, 1964) 6/10 DVD (first Coffin Joe)
Way Out West (Horne, 1937) 8/10 (L&H) YouTube
Blonde Cobra (Jacobs, 1963) 8/10 YouTube
Hold Me While I'm Naked (Kuchar, 1966) 8/10 YouTube
Report (Conner, 1965) 9/10 YouTube
The Damned (Visconti, 1969) 6/10 - with all the zoom shots and all the Nazipoitaton, this is more like a Jess Franco film than anything else DVD
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman, 1942) 7/10 YouTube
And Now the Screaming Starts! (Baker, 1973) 6/10 DVD
Not of this Earth (Corman, 1957) 7/10 YouTube
West Side Story (Wise, Robbins 1961) 6/10 - some of the colours/sets reminded me of original series Star Trek DVD
Alligator (Teague, 1980) 7/10 Robert Forster in the lead, great John Sayles script, def a superior giant X movie YouTube

Waaaay too low for "How Green Was My Valley"

M (Losey, 1951) 7/10 YOUTUBE (Again, a pristine print of a film that has never had a proper physical media release in the UK)

I don't know about the UK, but in the US the rights reverted from Columbia to the Nebenzal family, who for whatever reason have not authorized a legitimate release.

*Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)
Parting Glances (Sherwood, 1986)
Dames (Enright, 1934)
Lenny (Fosse, 1974)
*Modern Romance (Brooks, 1981)
Suspense (Tuttle, 1946)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Lee, 1934)
*Dressed to Kill (De Palma, 1980)
High Plains Drifter (Eastwood, 1973)
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)

(it was purely by accident that I happened to watch two covert ghost stories back to back)

We watched Crip Camp, which was inspiring.

At the Party (Foy, 1929)
Hell's Heels (Lantz, 1930)
Mickey's Orphans (Gillett, 1931)
Summer Daze (Ray, 1932)
I Take This Woman (Gering, 1931)
Christmas Inventory (Gomes, 2000)
Snow Time (Davis & Foster, 1930)
Lady and Gent (Roberts, 1932)
A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus (Dawley & Porter, 1907)
White Woman (Walker, 1933)
A Christmas Carol (Greenwood, 1923)
Family Life (Kerr, 1924)
Pants (Becker, 1919)

I thought "Shithouse" was really good, super sweet. I hope whoever is in charge of marketing, as well as being capable of getting over the hurdle of the terrible title, can find a way to push it as well as "Palm Springs," wherever it lands, because it's got a very similar vibe despite being less silly and all around much better.

Don’t Touch the White Woman! (Ferreri, 1974) - 10/10
*Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963) - 9/10
*The Niklashausen Journey (Fassbinder, 1970) - 9/10
War on Everyone (McDonagh, 2016) - 7/10
*The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964) - 9/10
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969) - 9/10
*The Searchers (Ford, 1956) - 10/10
Possessor (Cronenberg, 2020) - 10/10
Othello (Welles, 1952) - 10/10
*The Other Guys (McKay, 2011) - 8/10
Murder Rock: Dancing Death (Fulci, 1984) - 9/10
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Ferreri, 1981) - 10/10
The Woman in the Window (Lang, 1944) - 7/10
The Verdict (Lumet, 1982) - 8/10
*The Third Generation (Fassbinder, 1979) - 10/10
Out of the Past (Tournier, 1947) - 8/10
City Hall (Wiseman, 2020) - 10/10
*Death in Venice (Visconti, 1971) - 10/10
*La Cérémonie (Chabrol, 1995) - 9/10
The Landlord (Ashby, 1970) - 7/10
Millenium Mambo (Hou, 2001) - 8/10
The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (1974, Sargent) - 9/10
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes, 1963) - 6/10
Straight Time (Grosbard, 1978) - 9/10

Possessor is 9/10

*Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963) - 9/10
*The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964) - 9/10
*The Searchers (Ford, 1956) - 10/10
Othello (Welles, 1952) - 10/10
City Hall (Wiseman, 2020) - 10/10
*La Cérémonie (Chabrol, 1995) - 9/10

goddamn, you went through a handful of some of my favorite films just lately!

Lovers Rock (2020) 4/5
* Masque of the Red Death (1964) 4/5
* Robocop 5/5
Mank (2020) 2/5
* Space is the Place (1974) 3.5/5
* Rapture (1965) 3.5/5
Law and Order (1969) 3.5/5
A Touch of Sin (2013) 4/5
* Housekeeping (1987) 4.5/5
The Joy of Life (2005) 3.5/5
* Soul Power (2008) 3.5/5
* When We Were Kings (1996) 5/5
Blondie Johnson (1933) 3.5/5
Gold Diggers of 1933 4/5
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) 3/5
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) 4/5
Black Mother (2018) 4/5

special spinal surgery edition

Lured (1947, Sirk) 6/10
The Violent Men (1955, Maté) 7/10
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Menzel) 7/10
*Duck Soup (1933, McCarey) 10/10
The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920, Wegener, Boese) 7/10
*The Squid and the Whale (2005, Baumbach) 8/10
Tennessee’s Partner (1955, Dwan) 7/10
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Wiene) 9/10
The Manxman (1929, Hitchcock) 7/10
Blood on the Moon (1948, Wise) 7/10

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 10:42 AM

I wish we knew what Morbs watched after these. For closure's sake, I'm going to imagine that his sister found a scrap of paper with the name of a single Spielberg film and "(10/10)." Rosebud. Please tell me if that comes across as weird or insensitive; I don't have a good gauge for those things.

According to his Letterboxd log here's everything he watched following the batch quoted above:

Sons of the Desert (Seiter, 1933) 5/5
A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964) 4/5
Adoration (Egoyan, 2008) 2/5
Graduate First (Pialat, 1978) 3.5/5
The Crowd Roars (Hawks, 1932) 3.5/5

Ah, I never think of Letterboxd, thanks.

ty for the update

I am pleased he got to see duck soup one more time

And Sons of the Desert!

Citizen Kane (10.0)
Mank (6.0)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (7.0)
Hillbilly Elegy (5.5)
Affairs of State (2.0)
Blume in Love (6.5)
Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (5.0)
The Parallax View (7.0)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (6.5)
The Net (6.5)

I have no excuse for last rating, other than to say it’s an example, for me, of some of what I was trying to say in this thread: NYT: The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. Early in her career, I really liked Sandra Bullock.

The Loveless (Bigelow, Montgomery, 1981)
Joint Security Area (Park, 2000)
Influenza (Bong, 2004)
Rabid (Cronenberg, 1977)
Season of the Witch (Romero, 1973)
The Killers (Tarkovsky, Beiku, Gordon, 1956)
Camera (Cronenberg, 2000)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)
Pool Sharks (Middleton, 1915)
The Servant (Losey, 1963)
Stand Up (Pierre, 2008)
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
The Underneath (Soderbergh, 1995)
*The Host (Bong, 2006)
The Fatal Glass of Beer (Bruckman, 1933)
Bacurau (Filho, Dornelles, 2019)
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky (Nance, 2017)
Audience (Hammer, 1983)
Night Nurse (Wellman, 1931)
Ordinary People (Redford, 1980)
The Vast of Night (Patterson, 2020)
The Barber Shop (Ripley, 1933)
Zappa (Winter, 2020)
*House (Obayashi, 1977)
Robots of Brixton (Tavares, 2011)
The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937)

Boy, which of you recommended "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets"? I loved it. These brother filmmakers, or the Safdie brothers ... there are apparently a lot of brothers making these weird pseudo-verite movies that blur the edges of documentary and narrative.

I liked it but I kept getting distracted thinking back to the Nathan for You ep "smoking allowed"

Which was a great, amazing episode! Forgot all about that one.

i found it sorta meh? nice idea, poor execution imo.

Speaking of which i have REALLY not been watching movies much but I did see a couple just recently, including a few that are among the best things I've seen this year:

Great Movies:
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020, Blank) - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/movies/radha-blank-40-year-old-version.html
Deux (2020, Meneghetti) - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/two-of-us-tiff-2019-1238870
Nate (2020, Burgers – Netflix) - https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/natalie-palamides-amy-poehler-nate-netflix
The Nest (2020, Durkin) - https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/ambition-is-the-antagonist-sean-durkin-on-the-nest
Baldwin’s Nigger (Ové, 1968) - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/480522/index.html
Syvato (Kossakovsky, 2005) - https://vimeo.com/31901502

Consistently Pretty Good to Very Very Good:
Lynch: A History (2020, Shields) - https://www.lynch-a-history.com/
The Mole Agent (2020, Alberdi) - https://businessdoceurope.com/bde-interview-the-mole-agent-by-maite-alberdi/
Build the Wall (2020, Swanberg) - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/review-age-shows-in-joe-swanbergs-build-the-wall
Possessor (2020, Cronenberg) - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/movies/brandon-cronenberg-possessor.html

No:
Tank Girl (1995)
The Pollinators (2020)
Freaky (2020)
Tenet (2020)

Tank Girl did suck, didn't it

i didn't want it to but yeah, i had to tune out pretty quickly

*Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963) - 9/10
*The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964) - 9/10
*The Searchers (Ford, 1956) - 10/10
Othello (Welles, 1952) - 10/10
City Hall (Wiseman, 2020) - 10/10
*La Cérémonie (Chabrol, 1995) - 9/10
goddamn, you went through a handful of some of my favorite films just lately!

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 7, 2020 2:24 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was a good run!

The Shadow of the Eagle (Beebe & Eason, 1932)
The Death Ship (1928)
A Private Engagement (1930)
Do Detectives Think (Guiol, 1927)
Come fu che l’ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti (Deed, 1910)
The Parish Priest's Christmas (Guy, 1906)
*Habeas Corpus (McCarey & Parrott, 1928)
The Hoose-Gow (Parrott, 1929)
Frozen Frolics (Bailey & Foster, 1930)
They Go Boom! (Parrott, 1929)
Men o' War (Foster, 1929)
Perfect Day (Parrott, 1929)
*Double Whoopee (Foster, 1929)
Unaccustomed as We Are (Foster & Roach, 1929)
Night Owls (Parrott, 1930)
A Christmas Carol (Dawley et al., 1910)
Hotel Continental (Cabanne, 1932)
The Return of the Vampire (Landers, 1943)
Zigoto Drives a Locomotive (Durand, 1912)
*Bout-de-Zan and the Crocodile (Feuillade, 1913)
Zoé a la main malheureuse (1913)
Camping Out (Arbuckle, 1919)

Somehow, against all odds, I'd never seen "All About Eve" until tonight, and you know what? It was really good!

spoilers

*The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10
Beverly Hills Cop (Brest, 1984) - 9/10
Conquest (Fulci, 1983) - 7/10
Blue Sunshine (Lieberman, 1977) - 5/10
Appropriate Behavior (Akhavan, 2014) - 7/10
Fearless (Weir, 1993) - 8/10
*Whity (Fassbinder, 1971) - 8/10
Fedora (Wilder, 1978) - 8/10
Blood on the Moon (Wise, 1948) - 8/10
*The Scarlet Empress (Sternberg, 1934) - 9/10
Zombie (Fulci, 1979) - 9/10
Poetry (Lee, 2010) - 9/10
Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) - 8/10
The Perfect Storm (Petersen, 2000) - 7/10
Black Sunday (Bava, 1960) - 7/10
Skyscraper (Thurber, 2018) - 7/10
Baywatch (Gordon, 2017) - 8/10
The Wings of Eagles (Ford, 1957) - 8/10
Like a Bird on a Wire (Fassbinder, 1975) - 8/10
48 Hrs. (Hill, 1982) - 5/10
Run of the Arrow (Fuller, 1957) - 7/10
Les Novices (xxx, 1970) - 6/10 <------ghost directed by Claude Chabrol after Guy Casaril proved incompetent
Serenity (Knight, 2019) - 8/10
Broadcast News (Brooks, 1987) - 7/10
Warning from Space (Shima, 1956) - 9/10
Sergeant York (Hawks, 1941) - 8/10
Ball of Fire (Hawks, 1941) - 9/10
The Stepford Wives (Forbes, 1975) - 8/10
*In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) - 10/10
*Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder, 1975) - 10/10
Why Don’t You Just Die! (Sokolov, 2018) - 7/10
*The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940) - 10/10

Hog Wild (Parrott, 1930)
Beau Hunks (Horne, 1931)
One Good Turn (Horne, 1931)
Come Clean (Horne, 1931)
Our Wife (Horne, 1931)
Chickens Come Home (Horne, 1931)
Be Big! (Horne, 1931)
*Scram! (McCarey et al, 1932)
The Chimp (Parrott, 1932)
Helpmates (Parrott, 1932)
Any Old Port! (Horne, 1932)
*Laughing Gravy (Horne, 1931)
It's a Boy (Whelan, 1933)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (Henson, 1992)
Sure-Mike! (Guiol, 1925)
A Shadowed Shadow (Beaudine, 1916)
*There Ain't No Santa Claus (Parrott, 1926)

Tchoupitoulas (2012) 3/5
Porco Rosso (1992) 4/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987) 1/5
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) 5/5
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2005)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 1 (1968) Don't want to rate it as I was somewhat distracted and didn't see what many others see in this.
* Trouble in Paradise (1932) 5/5
Lady Snowblood (1973) 4/5
The Royal Road (2015) 3/5
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (2020) 3.5/5
Love is the Devil: Portrait for a Study of Francis Bacon (1998) 3/5
The Best Man (1964) 4/5
Bugsy (1991) 3/5
Crossing Delancey (1988) 3.5/5
* The Awful Truth (1937) 4/5
Diego Maradona (2019) 3/5

Julie Dash shorts:
Illusions (1982) 4/5
Diary of an African Nun (1977) 4/5

Three killer noirs courtesy of Eddie Muller's great Noir Alley, a bunch of re-watches and two current gay films, among which I preferred the Lifetime Christmas movie to the grotesque prestige-y remake. Also, two David Goodis adaptations in there; I really gotta read some of his stuff.

Tomorrow Is Another Day (Feist, 1951)
The Boys in the Band (Mantello, 2020)
*The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
The Burglar (Wendkos, 1957)
*The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937)
*Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
The Christmas Setup (Mills, 2020)
*Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960)
Kiss of Death (Hathaway, 1947)
*Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)