Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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