Last (x) movies you saw (II)

In-flight entertainment, yesterday/today:
American Fiction (3/5, seemed like two scripts smooshed together with only partial success)
Barbie (2/5, honestly I am not the target market)

Lined up for the return journey in a couple of weeks if the Aer Lingus menu hasn't changed:
Oppenheimer & Killers of the Flower Moon, well that is going to be one serious and important movie session, hopefully the passenger in front won't lean their seat back too far.

Repo Man (4.0)
Krush Groove (6.0)
Make Me Famous (6.0)
Prime Cut (5.0)
The Old Oak (7.5)
Wayne’s World (6.0)
Mr. Robot (S1 - 7.5)
Vanishing Point (5.5)
Hickey & Boggs (5.5)
Belly (5.0)

Seven of these I watched in connection to two books I'm reading: Charles Taylor's Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s and Nate Patrin's The Needle and the Lens.

I know people love Repo Man, so I made sure not to post on the relevant thread. I was a so-so on it when it came out; other than the occasional clever line (still remembered "ordinary fucking people"), got nothing 40 years later. Just in general, I don't think I like cult films...not sure if I've ever liked one, in the classic sense of the term. Which may or may not even have meaning anymore: originally, as in Hoberman and Rosenbaum's book, I think it was tied in with the idea of late-night rep screenings.

in cinemas, April:
* The Thin Man (1934 Van Dyke, Hackett, Goodrich, Hammett) 📽️
Lady Snowblood [修羅雪姫] (1973 Fujita, Osada, Koike, Kamimura)
Rashōmon [羅生門] (1950 Kurosawa, Hashimoto, Akutagawa) 📽️
Green Plums And A Bamboo Horse [青梅竹馬 / Taipei Story] (1985 Yang, Chu, Hou)
Riddle Of Fire (2024 / 2023 Razooli) 📽️
Hundreds Of Beavers (2024 / 2022 Cheslik, Tews)
Late Night With The Devil (2024 / 2023 Cairnes & Cairnes)
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2024 / 2023 Jude)
The Homicide Incident Of The Youth On Guling Street [牯嶺街少年殺人事件 / A Brighter Summer Day] (1991 Yang, Hung, Lai, Yang, Yan)
Tampopo [タンポポ] (1985 Itami)
Mahjong [麻將] (1996 Yang)
Civil War (2024 Garland)
A Confucian Confusion [獨立時代] (1994 Yang, Hung)
* Airplane! (1980 Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, Proft, Jorgensen, Hailey, Bartlett, Champion)
Gas Food Lodging (1992 Anders, Peck)
* Civil War (2024 Garland )
* Spider-Man 2 (2004 Raimi, Sargent, Chabon, Gough, Millar, Koepp, Ditko)
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024 Ritchie, Tamasy, Johnson, Amel, Lewis) 3/10
Sasquatch Sunset (2024 Zellner)
Inception (2010 Nolan)
Abigail (2024 Radio Silence, Shields)
The People's Joker (2024 Drew, LeRose)

home viewing:
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 McTiernan, Dixon, Wimmer, Trustman) 📺
It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964 Scorsese, Martin) 📺 16 min
Batman & Robin (1997 Schumacher, Goldsman) 📺
Basic (2003 McTiernan, Vanderbilt) 📺

king fu rascals (1992) - 4 out of 5

Mars Express (2024) - French animation sci fi detective thriller that expertly mixes up elements from every human vs machine flick we've seen into a compelling, surprisingly original package. The entire thing was just great fun to watch and beautifully conceived.

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)

I agree it could have gone on longer. I was invested.

vampire's kiss, 1989
american psycho and also maybe vampire? bad script from the writer of after hours. saved by nic cage's insane performance.

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.

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) 2/10
The 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) 📺

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)

May

In The Land of Saints and Sinners (Lorenz, 2023) 4/10
Priscilla (Coppola, 2023) 7/10
Madeline's Madeline (Decker, 2018) 7/10
Pale Rider (Eastwood, 1985) 6/10
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) 5/10
*Nomadland (Zhao, 2020) 8/10
Mars Express (Perin, 2023) 7/10
*Perdita Durango (De La Iglesia, 1997) 6/10
Speed Racer (Wachowski, 2008) 5/10
*The French Connection (Friedkin, 1974) 8/10
House of Tolerance (Bonello, 2011) 8/10
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz, 1942) 6/10
Pom Poko (Takahata, 1994) 8/10
The Delinquents (Moreno, 2023) 7/10
*The Player (Altman, 1992) 9/10
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Miller, 2024) 8/10
*Pennies From Heaven (Ross, 1981) 7/10

xp forgot to 'sterisk Die For, Desire, Lavender, Paprika, Gems and Cop

Hit Man (2024) 3/5
* The Music Room (1958) 4.5/5
I Saw the TV Glow 4/5
Furiosa 3/5
* Inherent Vice (2014) 4.5/5
Through the Olive Trees (1994) 4.5/5
Lumiere d'ete (1943) 3.5/5
* Heat (1995) 4.5/5
Life, and Nothing More... (1992) 4/5
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023) 4/5
Trenque Lauquen (2022) 5/5

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 performances
Girl, Interrupted (Mangold) 6/10
The Girl Can't Help It (Tashlin) 7/10 how can they look so bored during that Little Richard performance
*Topsy Turvy (Leigh) 10/10
Blue Collar (Schrader) 9/10 the only good richard pryor movie?

Ratings according to the Maltin System, i.e. **** for classic all the way down to BOMB for irredeemable shite

Black Girl (Sembene, 1966) ***1/2
Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) ***
The Zone of Interest (Glazer, 2023) ***1/2
Poor Things (Lanthimos, 2023) ***
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass, 2024) ***
Mars Express (Périn, 2023) ***
I Saw the TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) **1/2
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi, 2023) ***
Saltburn (Fennell, 2023) **1/2
Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023) BOMB (ironically)

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

I bomb ironically
Einstein’s discoveries and hypotheses can’t define how I be dropping these

xp good on Grandpa Malty

June

The Boxers Omen (Chih-Hung, 1983) 7/10
Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki, 2023) 8/10
The Beast (Bonello, 2023) 7/10
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Jude, 2023) 9/10
In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) 8/10
Triangle of Sadness (Ostlund, 2022) 6/10
Blue Jay (Lehmann, 2016) 8/10

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)

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) 5/5
Black God, White Devil (1964) 4.5/5
* Equinox Flower (1958) 4/5
* Messiah of Evil (1973) 4/5
Delta Space Mission (1984) Trippy Romanian cartoon. Would be wild to catch on TV at like 2 AM.
What a Way to Go! (1964) 3/5
Madame 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) 3/5
France (2021) 3.5/5
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) 4/5
Wild 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.

sic, what does the dagger in front of your titles mean? I hope it’s not “this movie is dead to me.”

rewatch but first time on a big screen. the dagger came out more prominent than intended!

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.

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.

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?)

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 relief
Knox Goes Away (Keaton, Poirier 2024)
WILL THERE BE ANYTHING ELSE ? (David Lynch 2024) 4min
Wicked Little Letters (Sharrock, Sweet 2024)

hoo h

hoo a

The Mikado (1939) 7/10
Sorcerer (Friedkin 1977) 9/10
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger, 1950) 5/10
Born to be Bad (Ray, 1950) 6/10
*Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973) 6/10
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) 8/10
The Daytrippers (Mottola, 1996) 5/10
A Canterbury Tale (Archers, 1944) 7/10
Blue Steel (Bigelow, 1990) 4/10
*Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004) 6/10 hawk's book sounds awful
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (Rice and Calleros, 2022) 8/10

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.

July

Aggro Drift (Korine, 2023) 4/10
*The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972) 8/10
The Small Back Room (Powell & Pressburger, 1949) 7/10
*Two Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971) 8/10
Longlegs (Perkins, 2024) 6/10
Nineteen Eighty Four (Radford, 1984) 7/10
Chameleon Street (Harris Jr, 1989) 8/10
Hackers (Softley, 1985) 6/10
Anything Else (Allen, 2023) 4/10
Challengers (Guadagnino, 2024) 8/10
I Saw The TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024) 7/10
Sabotage (Hitchcock, 1936) 7/10
Coma (Bonello, 2022) 6/10
A Visitor to A Museum (Lopushansky, 1989) 7/10
Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982) 8/10
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962) 6/10

Desperately Seeking Susan is a very fun movie. I rewatched it recently, I hadnt seen it since I was a kid.

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

*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)

Cairo Station probably my favourite discovery at Noir City this year.

The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993) 3.5/5
* Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) 4.5/5
Beijing Watermelon (1989) 4/5
* Seven Samurai (1954) 5/5
Danton (1983) 4/5
Lumumba (2000) 4/5
House of Tolerance (2011) 4/5
Kamikaze Hearts (1986) 4/5
Longlegs (2024) 1/5. Hated pretty much everything about this.
* Blood and Wine (1996) 3/5
My Own Private Idaho (1991) 4/5

some really great camera blocking in Longlegs tbf.

The First Omen (2024) 2.5/5. First overrated horror movie of the season!
* The Leopard (1963) 4/5
Touch (1997) 2/5
My America... or Honk If You Love Buddha (1997) 3/5
Suspicion (1941) 3.5/5
High School (1968) 5/5
Royal Warriors (1986) 4/5
Victims of Sin (1951) 3.5/5
Mr. Klein (1976) 5/5

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

spy was easily the best feig/mccarthy movie. take that bridesmaids.

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)

August:

West Side Story (Spielberg, 2021) 5/10
The Wild Geese (McLagen, 1978) 4/10
Yannick (Dupieux, 2023) 5/10
Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2023) 7/10 (at the cinema)
La Chimera (Rohrwacher, 2023) 7/10
Perfect Days (Wenders, 2023) 8/10
*The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) 8/10
*Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) 8/10
Alien Romulus (Alvarez, 2024) 4/10
*The Founder (Hancock, 2016) 7/10
*Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003) 7/10
The Hypnosis (De Geer, 2023) 7/10
The Five Devils (Mysius, 2022) 7/10
Frankenhooker (Henenlotter, 1990) 8/10
Major Dundee (Peckinpah, 1965) 7/10
Oddity (McCarthy, 2024) 7/10 (at the cinema)

Inferno - 1953 6/10
*The Last of Sheila - 8/10
Desert Fury - 1947 6/10
Eyes of Laura Mars - 1978 6/10
Hit Man - Linklater, 2023 7/10

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)

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)

*Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929) 6/10
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953) 9/10 -- I think I only saw the first half previously, because the second half rang no bells
The Comedy of Terrors (Tourneur, written by Matheson, 1963) 6/10
Don't Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972) 7/10
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10
John Jacobs and the Power Team (1991) like
*Microcosmos (Nuridsany & Pérennou, 1996) 9/10

Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos, 2024) 5/10 (barely)
The Vourdalak (Beau, 2023) 6/10
Kneecap (Peppiatt, 2023) 6/10
Sleep (Yu, 2023) 6/10
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Oshii, 2004) 6/10
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt, 2012) 7/10
Moving (Ohikkoshi) (Sōmai, 1993) 7/10
Suburbia (Spheeris, 1983) 7/10
Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) 6/10
North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959) 5/10, I think I'm just not a Hitchcock fan tbh, he was a smarmy git
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974) 9/10
Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001) 10/10

Here (2023) 4/5. VERY low-key and quiet movie on Criterion Channel. Making soup and studying moss are important plot points.
Lifeforce (1985) 3.5/5. Wild stuff.
The Strangler (1970) 4/5. One of those movies that's so much stranger than what a basic plot description promises.
Megalopolis (2024) 1/5
Mr. McMahon (2024) 3/5
The Substance (2024) 3.5/5
Bend of the River (1952) 4/5
Red Rocket (2021) 4/5
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 3/5
The Whole Town's Talking (1935) 3.5/5
Trouble in Mind (1985) 4/5. Kris Kristofferson shares a scene with Divine here. The man did it all. RIP.
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (1995) 4/5