Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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

holiday movies i watched this year

Time Without Pity (Losey, 1957)
Dear Santa (Farrelly, 2024)
*Elf (Favreau 2003) only watched the first half
Carry-On (Collet-Serra, 2024) it's die hard in an airport. it's die hard 2. 6/10
The Holdovers (Payne, 2023) 6/10
*Home Alone 2 (Columbus did this?, 1992) 2/10
*It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946) 8/10
Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979)
Hundreds of Beavers (Cheslik, 2024) 10/10 it counts because it has a guy who looks like santa
Jingle All the Way (Levant, 1996) 4/10

Gilda (Vidor, 1946)
My Old Ass (Park, 2024)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (Ross, 2018)
A Real Pain (Eisenberg, 2024)
The Holiday (Meyers, 2006)
High Hopes (Leigh, 1988)
Deja Vu (T. Scott, 2006)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Reijn, 2022)
Queer (Guadagnino, 2024)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009)
Scarface (Hawks, 1932)
Juror #2 (Eastwood, 2024)
A Complete Unknown (Mangold, 2024)
Nosferatu (Eggers, 2024)
Dont Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)
Problemista (Torres, 2023)
Gladiator (R. Scott, 2000)

What'd you think of Gilda ?

I didn't really like it, tbh. Hayworth is great, of course, but the plot felt overwrought.