Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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