Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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)

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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

*Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997) 10/10
*The Duellists (Scott, 1977) 8/10
Ad Astra (Gray, 2019) 7/10
Snack Shack (Rehmeier, 2024) 6/10
*Point Break (Bigelow, 1991) 8/10
Rebel Ridge (Saulnier, 2024) 8/10
Hound (Lazraq, 2023) 8/10
*The Silence of The Lambs (Demme, 1991) 8/10
*The End of The Tour (Ponsoldt, 2015) 8/10
Gift (Farrell, Niccoli, 1993) 6/10
The Substance (Fargeat, 2024) 8/10
Motherhood (Dieckmann, 2009) 4/10
Megalopolis (Coppola, 2024) 5/10

Some Play for Today's:
Your Man From Six Counties (Davis, 1976) 7/10
Shut Down (Mackenzie, 1973) 6/10
One Day at A Time (Wilson, 1977) 8/10
Blue Remembered Hills (Gibson, 1979) 8/10

the spooky month so far:
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1972) 5
Someone's Watching Me! (Carpenter, TV, 1978) 6
Humanoids from the Deep (Peeters and others, 1980) 4
The Entity (1982) 8
Christine (Carpenter, 1983) 6
The Company of Wolves (Jordan, 1984) 7
The Toxic Avenger (Kaufman & Herz, 1984) 5
The Toxic Avenger Part II (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3
The Toxic Avenger Part III (Kaufman & Herz, 1989) 3
The Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie (Kaufman & frat boys, 2000) 2
The Stuff (Cohen, 1985) 8
Cemetery Man (Soavi, 1994) 8
Alien Resurrection (Jeunet, 1997) 5
The Faculty (Rodriguez, 1998) 6
Saw (Wan, 2004) 6
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (Aster, 2011) good
The Vast of Night (2019) 7
Gatlopp (2022) 4
Beetlejuice x2 (Burton, 2024) 7

Cemetery Man a.k.a. Dellamorte Dellamore is my discovery of the month: something like a combination of Possession and Dead Alive.

also:
Will & Harper (Greenbaum, 2024) 6

Spooktober viewing (although I didn't totally limit myself to spooky movies)

The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934) 8/10
The Asphyx (Newbrook, 1972) 6/10
Angst (Kargl, 1983) 9/10
Lifeforce (Hooper, 1985) 5/10
Duck, You Sucker (Leone, 1971) 8/10
Old (Shyamalan, 2021) 4/10
The Hills Have Eyes (Craven, 1977) 8/10
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Hooper, 1986) 7/10
Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001) 8/10
El Conde (Larrain, 2023) 5/10
*Tetsuo The Iron Man (Tsukamoto, 1989) 8/10
Rap World (O'Malley, 2024) 7/10

i watched Spike Lee's Malcolm X for the first time on monday, despite owning it on VHS for 32 years...

spook cinema:
* Hundreds Of Beavers (Cheslik, Tews 2024 [2022-2023 festivals])
I Know Where I'm Going! [BFI restoration] (Powell and Pressburger 1945)
My Old Ass (Park 2024)
Ravenous (Bird, Griffin 1999) 📽️
Les Yeux sans visage (Franju, Boileau-Narcejac, Redon, Sautet, Gascar après Redon 1960)
Blade (Norrington, Goyer 1998)
A Matter Of Life And Death (Powell and Pressburger 1946)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Burton, Gough, Millar 2024)
Megalopolis (Coppola, Coppola 2024)
Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger 1947)
Blade II (del Toro, Goyer 2002) 📽️
Opera [4K Severin restoration] (Argento, Ferrini 1987)
Bell, Book and Candle (Quine, Taradash after Van Druten 1958)
The Red Shoes [UCLA restoration] (Powell and Pressburger and Winter and Helpmann et al 1948)
Rumours (Maddin, Johnson & Johnson 2024)
† The Evil Dead (Raimi 1981)
Demon Knight (Dickerson, Bishop, Reiff, Voris
1995) 📽️
The Fall [4K restoration] (Tarsem, Gilroy, Soultanakis after Petrov 2006)
The Small Back Room [FF/BFI restoration] (Powell and Pressburger after Balchin 1949)

happy home:
Kiss Me, Stupid (Wilder, Diamond 1964) 💿
Bones And All (Guadagnino, Jajganich after DeAngelis David Kajganich after Camille DeAngelis 2022)

Trap (2024) 2.5/5
* Let's Get Lost (1989) 4.5/5
* Play Time (1967) 5/5
Anora (2024) 4.5/5
High Sierra (1941) 3.5/5
* The Brood (1979) 4/5
The Crazies/Code Name: Trixie (1973) 4/5
Rap World (2024) 4/5
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 3/5
Martin (1977) 4/5
* Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 2.5/5. I hate the scene with the little people in jars A LOT.
Distant Sky (2018) 4/5. Nick Cave concert film
The Facts of Murder (1959) 3.5/5
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) 4/5
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) 3/5
Q (2023) 3/5. Documentary on Criterion Channel about the director's mother, a longtime member of a Lebanese religious cult
The Church (1989) 3.5/5
Christine (1983) 3.5/5

“Curse Of The Werewolf” is such a bizarre Hammer: Spanish setting, rape, cursed offspring of that crime as main protagonist, Ollie Reed as one of the coolest looking werewolves in cinema but onscreen for - iirc - a small fraction of the film. Still - prob my fave werewolf flick.

The Ring (Verbinski, 2002)
The Substance (Fargeat, 2024)
The Blob (Russell, 1988)
His Three Daughters (Jacobs, 2023)
Saturday Night (Reitman, 2024)
The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986)
Emilia Perez (Audiard, 2024)
Heathers (Lehmann, 1989)
Hard Truths (Leigh, 2024)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
Woman of the Hour (Kendrick, 2023)
It Follows (Mitchell, 2014)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992)
Anora (Baker, 2024)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945)
Conclave (Berger, 2024)

Call Jane (7.0)
Adventureland (9.5)
Crooklyn (6.5)
Eno (7.5)
Megalopolis (4.5)
Joker: Folie à Deux (5.0)
Apartment 7A (5.5)
The Comeback (7.0)
The Color of Money (7.5)
Rounders (8.0)

Took me over two months to watch that much.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Camp 2022)
Days (Tsai Ming-liang 2020)
Rebel Ridge (Saulnier 2024)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi 2023)
La Prisonnière (Clouzot 1968)
The King of the Jews (Rosenblatt 2000)
The Evil Eye (Bava 1963)
Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos 2024)
The Substance (Fargeat 2024)
The Taste of Things (Hung 2023)
Strip Nude for Your Killer (Bianchi 1975)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini 1960) definitely done with Fellini now
Hearts of Darkness (Bahr, Hickenlooper, E. Coppola, 1991)
Out of the Blue (Hopper 1980)
Kung Fu Jungle (Chan 2014)
Desert Fury (Allen 1947)
*Paper Moon (Bogdanovich 1973)
Deadpool and Wolverine (Levy 2024)
*Scarface (DePalma 1983)
Man of Steel (Snyder 2013)
Pulse (Kurosawa 2001)
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass 2024)

lots of noirs. not intended to be a noirvember but it ended up like that.

They Drive by Night (Walsh, 1940) 7/10 feels like 2 movies tacked together -- only the first is good
The Face Behind the Mask (1941) 5/10
Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946) 9/10
The Prowler (Losey, 1951) 8/10
Human Desire (Lang, 1954) 8/10
Hobson's Choice (Lean, 1954) 8/10
*The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) 9/10 up from 7/10
Time Without Pity (Losey, 1957) 8/10
*Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958) 9/10
The Crimson Kimono (Fuller, 1959) 7/10

...And Justice for All (Jewison, 1979) 7/10
*Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) 8/10
The Road to El Doracdo (2000) 6/10
*Zoolander (Stiller, 2001) 8/10
*Elf (Favreau, 2003) 7/10 i watched the first half only -- it gets way worse after they leave the north pole
Woman of the Hour (Kendrick, 2023) 6/10
Late Night with the Devil (2023) 7/10
Conclave (2024) 7/10
Deadpool & Wolverine (the night at the museum guy, 2024) 7/10
Spin the Bottle (2024) 3/10
Dear Santa (Farrelly, 2024) 5/10

The Substance (Fargeat, 2024) (5/10)
A Different Man (Schimberg, 2024) (6/10)
The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986) (8/10)
Memoir of a Snail (Elliot, 2024) (5/10)
Anatomy of a Fall (Triet, 2023) (5/10)
Babes (Adlon, 2024) (5/10)
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) (9/10)
Anora (Baker, 2024) (8/10)
All We Imagine as Light (Kapadia, 2024) (8/10)
Memories of Murder (Bong, 2003) (9/10)
Blast of Silence (Baron, 1961) (10/10)
Rumours (Maddin, Johnson & Johnson 2024) (5/10)
Tokyo Godfathers (Kon, 2003) (7/10)

Thieves Like Us (Altman, Tewkesbury, Willingham, after Anderson 1974)
† John Wick (Stahelski, Leitch, Kolstad 2014)
Here (Zemeckis & Roth 2024 after McGuire 2014 after McGuire 1989) 2/10
Know Your Place (Mohajerjasbi 2024)
* All About Eve (Mankiewicz after Mary Orr 1950)
The Substance (Forgeat 2024)
Anora (Baker 2024)
Heretic (Beck and Woods 2024)
* Alien (Scott, O'Bannon, Shusett, Hill, Giler, Giger, Giraud, Foss, Cobb 1979)
* North By Northwest (Hitchcock, Lehmann 1959)


Vice (McKay 2018)
Late Bloomers (Steen, Greenfield 2024)
* Irma La Douce (Wilder, Diamond and Previn after Breffort and Monnot 1963)

emojis fell off on the last three:
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Tenebre (Argento, 1982) 8/10
Anora (Baker, 2024) 8/10
Such A Pretty Little Beach (Allegret, 1949) 6/10
The Stranger (Welles, 1946) 5/10
The Crimson Kimono (Fuller, 1959) 7/10
Kansas City Confidential (Karlson, 1952) 7/10
Running Scared (Hyams, 1986) 6/10
Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950) 8/10
Enter The Void (Noe, 2009) 8/10
Experiment in Terror (Edwards, 1962) 6/10
*Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) 8/10
Hit Man (Linklater, 2023) 7/10
*Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant, 1989) 8/10
*Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) 10/10
Cemetery Man (Soavi, 1994) 8/10
Juror #2 (Eastwood, 2024) 5/10

Conclave is so much fucking fun

The Brutalist (2024) 5/5. If you can't tell from the rating, I thought this was phenomenal.
* Female Trouble (1974) 4/5
* Raising Arizona (1987) 5/5
* Desperate Living (1977) 4/5
Working Girls (1986) 4/5
* Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) Jack Nicholson rides off at the end to have the biggest film career of the cast.
* The Shooting (1966) 4/5
Cold Water (1994) 4.5/5
D.O.A. (1949) 3.5/5
My Heart is That Eternal Rose (1989) 3.5/5
* Affliction (1997) 4.5/5
Suzhou River (2000) 4/5
* Next of Kin (1982) 4/5
The Linguini Incident (1991) 3/5
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966) 3/5
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) 4/5
Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 4/5

* Affliction

Finishing out 2024

Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre, 2022)
Brats (Andrew McCarthy, 2024)
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (Alex Gibney, 2023)
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024)
Late Night with the Devil (Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes, 2023)
Christmas Holiday (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, 2022)
Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987)
Kim's Video (David Redmon, Ashley Sabin, 2023)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992)
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill, 2023)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
*A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
Cyndi Lauper: Let the Canary Sing (Alison Ellwood, 2023)
A Leg (Yaosheng Chang, 2020)
Ali (Michael Mann, 2001)
Eno (Gary Hustwit, 2024)
Out of Sync (Juanjo Giménez Peña, 2021)
*Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Erin Lee Carr, 2024)
*The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
The Dentist (Leslie Pearce, 1932)
The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995)
Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski, 2003)
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird (Nicolas Jack Davies, 2023)
Cemetery Without Crosses (Robert Hossein, 1969)
Neither Confirm Nor Deny (Philip Carter, 2020)
*Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney, 2005)
*Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (Steven M. Martin, 1993)
Clear History (Greg Mottola, 2013)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)
The Second Civil War (Joe Dante, 1997)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook, 2022)
The Shape of Night (Noboru Nakamura, 1964)
*Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957)
The Strange Woman (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1946)

*bad lieutenant: pocno (herzog 09) 10/10
*its a wonderful life (Capra 46) 10/10
the fisher king (Gilliam 91) 4/10
nightbitch (heller '24) 3/10
bram stoker's Dracula (Coppola '92) 5/10
mary shelleys frankenstein (branagh 94) 6/10
born to be blue (robert budreau 2015) 5/10
love story (Erich segal 1970) 5/10
the curious case of benjamin button (fincher 2008) 7/10
jules (turtletaub 2023) 5/10
blink twice (kravitz 2024) 2/10
the movie man (matt finlin 2024) 8/10

What I watched last year:

La Bete / The Beast (Bonello, 2023) *****
Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922) ***1/2
Nosferatu (Eggers, 2025) ****
Ethel & Ernest (Rewatch) *****
The Holdovers *****
Time Masters ***1/2
Glengarry Glen Ross ****
Eyes of Fire ****
The Florida Project ****1/2
Hundreds Of Beavers ** (DNF)
Babe: Pig In The City *****
Wasp (Arnold, 2003) ****
American Movie **1/2
Anora *****
The Substance *****
It Follows (Rewatch) ***
The VVitch (Rewatch) *****
Late Night With The Devil ***
Mad God **
Lords of Chaos ***1/2
The Zone Of Interest ****
The Night Of The Hunter *****
The Hypnosis ***
Alien: Romulus **1/2
Azor **
The Childhood Of A Leader ****1/2
Saw II ***
Saw X ****
Saw ****
First Cow ****1/2
Civil War ***1/2
American Fiction ***1/2
RRR *****
Pig (Rewatch) ****
Barbarian ***
Poor Things *****
The Boy And The Heron ***1/2
The Green Knight ****1/2

† Casablanca (Curtiz, Epstein, Epstein, Koch, Robinson, Burnett, Alison 1942)
Lisa Frankenstein (Williams, Cody 2024) 📺
Y2K (Mooney, Winter 2024)
Conclave (Berger, Straughan, Harris 2024)
† Interstella 5555 (Matsumoto, Takenouchi, Bangalter, Hervet, de Homem-Christo 2003)*
Interstellar (Nolan, Nolan, Thorne, Obst 2014)
Tokyo Godfathers (Kon, Nobumoto 2003)
Flow (Zilbalodis, Kaža 2024)
Nightbitch (Heller after Yoder 2024)
Oh Canada (Schrader after Banks 2024)
Queer (Guadagnino, Kuritzkes, Burroughs 2024)
⸸ Dial M For Murder (3-D) (Hitchcock, Knott 1954) 💿
I, The Jury (3-D) (Essex after Spillane 1953) 💿 2/10, tapped out maybe an hour into this 87-minute film but some nice photography and the Christmas cards were good
⸸ Piranha 3D (Aja, Levasseur, Stolberg, Goldfinger, Russell, Sayles, Dante 2010) 💿
Duel [OG TV version] (Spielberg, Matheson 1971) 📺
Babygirl (Reijn 2024)
For The Birds (Reijn 2021) 📺 3min short
The Sugarland Express (Spielberg, Barwood, Robbins 1974) 📺
Something Evil (Spielberg, Clouse 1972) 📺
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Park, Crossingham, Burton, Walsh, O'Shaughnessy 2024) 📺

* have to admire the immersive commitment to a modern ~activated experience~ by taking a musical about replacing committed passionate musicians with soulless facsimilies, and rendering it in blurry AI upscaling & playing the sound at half-volume

Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002) 3/5
* Cry-Baby (1990) 3.5/5
Kiru/Destiny's Son (1962) 3.5/5
Sweet Charity (1969) 3.5/5
* Blood Simple (1984) 5/5
Nosferatu (2024) 3.5/5
Juror #2 (2024) 2.5/5. Really dumb script.
Dahomey (2024) 4/5
Vox Lux (2018) 3/5
Conclave (2024) 3/5
* No Country for Old Men (2007) 5/5
* Serial Mom (1994) 4/5

Juror #2 is pretty dumb