Last (x) movies you saw (II)

All 3.5/5:
True Stories (1986)
Blackkklansman
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
The Lost City of Z

Mission Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 8/10
the Happy Prince (Everett, 2018) 7/10
Yellow Submarine ( Dunning, 1968) 8/10
Unseeworld U.S.A (Fuller, 1960) 7/10
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987) 6/10
Paddington 2 (King, 2017) 9/10
Hostiles (Cooper, 2017) 7/10

Um, Underworld U.S.A. that should be.

Gone With the Wind (1939) 7.5/10
Iron Man (2008) 7/10
Tangerine (2015) 8/10

bunch of airplane streaming on the way to and from berlin, the only one i'd seen before is philadelphia story:

all about eve (mankiewicz, 1951) 10/10
paddington 2 (king, 2017) 8/10
rocky (avildsen, 1976) 8/10
the philadelphia story (cukor, 1940) 9/10
happy death day (landon, 2017) 6/10
inside out (docter, 2015) 8/10

honestly happy death day was surprisingly enjoyable for what it was

the gospel of the bear film has reached the troposphere

lol

The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011) 6
Mission: Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 7
Disney Christopher Robin (Marc Forster, 2018) 4
Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010) 8
Icarus (Bryan Fogel, 2017) 8

read that marwencol has been adapted & now will have steve carell in it

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yeah I watched it because i saw the trailer for the zemeckis movie. The trailer makes it out to be an "inspirational" true story but it's not really, not exactly.

baby driver (2017 edgar wright) 6.5/10
mollys game (2017 sorkin) 2/10
suburbicon (2017 clooney) 2/10
the killing of a sacred deer (2017 lanthimos) 6/10
angelo my love (1983 duvall) 3/10
eighth grade (2018 burnham) 8/10
thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10

thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10

I don't do the out of 10 thing but I'd give this at least a 6. It made me laugh a lot.

lil too try hard idk

*The Naked Spur : 7/10
Vampire's Kiss : 6/10
Dying Of the Light (Paul Schrader Edit): 7/10 -- only 7/10 because Nic Cage is in full on weirdo mode and Schrader's noodling around on Final Cut. The doctor accent is...wow...almost as great as the accent in "Vampire's Kiss"
*The Young One: 7/10 - minor Buñuel for me but still great

Crazy Rich Asians – kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people. Lots of film history embedded in it.

What Price Jazz (Baerwitz, 1934)
Felix Gets Broadcasted (Messmer, 1923)
High Flyers (Cline, 1937)
Inflation (Myers, 1933)
Felix in Fairyland (Messmer, 1923)
*Roast-Beef and Movies (Baerwitz, 1934)
*Big City Fantasy (Henabery, 1934)
The Magician (Bergman, 1958)
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955)

Re-watching Whit Stillman's Barcelona tonight.

I was hoping for good things from Crazy Rich Asians, but found it fairly bland. I may have had the wrong expectations for a mainstream PG rom-com, but I felt like it needed sharper jokes.

kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people

!!! I'm sure this cast looks fine, but you are aware that Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn were considered pretty attractive, right?

in theaters July 26 - August 22

Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) - 6/10
Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) - 9/10
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018) - 8/10
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018) - 6/10
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - 7/10
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Peter Rida Michail, Aaron Horvath, 2018) - 3/10
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) - 9/10

! at low rating for Three Identical Strangers

I knew nothing about the backstory before seeing it at SIFF but on a str8 narrative level it’s my favourite doco of the year

it is an incredible story. a documentary that makes itself, really. what bothered me was how much they reused the same footage from the same Donahue, NBC, + other TV appearances. the same lines. it kinda falls apart at the end, and felt padded even at ~95 minutes. that has nothing to do with the actual story being unresolved, i just thought with so much material to go through (and so many years passed over) the reuse of footage was bizarre.

and fwiw I knew not only the backstory but most of the twists before I saw it. I would've rated it higher if I had gone in completely cold, I wish I could've.

yeah fair enough! the repeated lines are very few & read in SUPER different context the second times around, but if you’re not seeing it / that footage cold, those won’t have the same kick

a documentary that makes itself, really.

this undermines the work they do in visuals and research and in editing the story though — I felt v impressed by how manipulative it was without cheats in the first half-hour, and how well the makers shift to mostly-archival telling thereafter.

i've seen much worse evaluations of 3IS

Apostasy (Dan Kokotajlo, 2017) - fairly ho hum drama around Jehovah's witnesses.
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.

Missed a trick by not taglining this thread "Oh yes... There will be blood"

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Electric Bloodaloo

Kagemusha (1980)
RoboCop (2014)
The Endless (2017)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
*The Social Network (2010)
Super Troopers 2 (2018)
A Ciambra (2017)
Frenzy (1972)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
*The Cabin In The Woods (2012)
A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
*Nightcrawler (2014)
First Reformed (2017)
*Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Super 8 (2011)
30 Days of Night (2007)
One Sings, The Other Doesnt (1977)

Re-watched Miami Vice tonight (the director’s cut). It’s kind of maddening how 90% of the shots are fantastically beautiful, and then the other 10% look like they were shot on somebody’s flip phone.

I've gotta get on that, watched Heat a few weeks ago for the first time and loved it. Haven't seen Collateral since it opened in 2004 but remember loving it, too.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall, good movie

The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.

― xyzzzz__, 23. august 2018 15:15 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, for one reason or another Latin American cinema works a lot with de-focus these days, I find. Sergio Armstrong, most famous for shooting most films of Pablo Larrain, is masterful at it. Apart from Larrains films he does it greatly in From Afar and The Desert Bride. It's one of the most innovative little things happening in World Cinema at the moment, but I'll admit I have no idea what to make of it.

August 1st to 16th:

* The Brothers Bloom (Johnson 2008) 📺
Teen Titans GO! To The Movies (Michail, Horvath, Jelenic 2018)
True Confession (Ruggles, Binyon 1937) 📽️
* Sneakers (Robinson 1992) 📺
The Spy Who Dumped Me (Fogel, Iverson 2018)
Nothing Sacred [Kino restoration] (Wellman, Hecht, Schulberg, Lardner Jr., Parker, Howard, Hart, Kaufman, Carson 1937)
BlacKkKLansman (Lee, Wachtel, Rabinowitz, Willmott 2018)
Madonna: Truth Or Dare (Keshishian 1991)
To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch, Mayer 1942) 📽️

Re-watched Miami Vice tonight (the director’s cut). It’s kind of maddening how 90% of the shots are fantastically beautiful, and then the other 10% look like they were shot on somebody’s flip phone.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, August 24, 2018 8:01 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've gotta get on that, watched Heat a few weeks ago for the first time and loved it. Haven't seen Collateral since it opened in 2004 but remember loving it, too.

― flappy bird, Friday, August 24, 2018 8:26 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MV is the purest distillation of the Mann aesthetic. I actually recommend the theatrical cut over the director’s cut, though I’m not sure if one is easier to track down over the other. If you’re onboard with his “thing” it’s one of the greatest action films in recent years.

You can rent the theatrical cut on Amazon but the director's cut is the only one available on DVD/Blu-Ray.

Has the director's cut of Blackhat ever been released anywhere? I never saw the first version but the re-edit is supposed to be a substantially better movie, so I'm intrigued.

Apparently MV (theatrical cut, probably) will be free via Amazon Prime starting September 1.

*Out West (Arbuckle, 1918)
Charley on the Farm (Sullivan, 1919)
The Dippy Dentist (Goulding, 1920)
Standing Pat (Montgomery, 1928)
Campus Romeos (Pratt, 1927)
A Broadway Romeo (Blumenstock, 1931)
All the King's Horses (Tuttle, 1935)
*The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934)
Re-Animator (Gordon, 1985)
Good References (Neill, 1920)

Primary (6.5)
A Bronx Tale (7.0)
Promised Land (7.5)
Shock and Awe (5.5)
Nico, 1988 (6.0)
Nico Icon (7.0)
Singer Presents...Elvis (6.5)
Twister (6.5)
Class Action (7.5)
Sorry to Bother You (6.0)

I was going to leave Sorry to Bother You unrated because a) I drifted a bit early on, and b) as it got weirder and weirder, I just didn't know what to make of it. So take the rating as more of a question mark than any kind of comment on how good it is.

lots of Hong Sang-soo, just hook it to my veins

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 9/10
Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes, 1971) 7/10
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi, 2015) 9/10
La Collectionneuse (Rohmer, 1967) 6/10
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong, 2015) 8/10
Three Colours: Blue (Kieślowski, 1993) 7/10
Three Colours: White (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10
Three Colours: Red (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10
In Another Country (Hong, 2012) 8/10
On The Beach at Night Alone (Hong, 2017) 8/10
Blackkklansman (Lee, 2018) 7/10
The Aviators Wife (Rohmer, 1981) 9/10
Woman on the Beach (Hong, 2006) 9/10
The Day After (Hong, 2017) 7/10

Crazy Rich Asians: 7.5

*Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971, Van Peebles) 8/10
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928, Dulac) (41m) 8/10
La folie des vaillants (1926, Dulac) (46m) 6/10
La Belle dame sans merci (1920, Dulac) 7/10
Princesse Mandane (1928, Dulac) 6/10
Freaky Friday (1976, Nelson) 7/10
Surrender (1950, Dwan) 5/10
Dutchman (1967, Harvey) (55m) 7/10
Rendezvous in July (1949, Becker) 6/10
Nico, 1988 (2017, Nicchiarelli) 5/10
*The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961, Guest) 8/10

On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) - 10/10
A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) - 5/10
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) - 10/10
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) - 10/10
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002) - 7/10
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) - 10/10
Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) - 6/10
Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930) - 7/10

A Ciambra, a story about a Romani family of low-level criminals in Italy, and a young boy's coming-of-age/becoming-a-scumbag.

Alex Strangelove (Johnson, 2018) 6/10
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone, 1946) 8/10
Vision Quest (Becker, 1985) 5/10
*Mean Girls (Waters, 2004) 6/10
*Heathers (Lehmann, 1989) 9/10
A Man There Was (Sjöström, 1917) 7/10
Heartaches (Shebib, 1981) 6/10
The Story of Temple Drake (Roberts, 1933) 7/10

Nearest and Dearest (Robins, 1972) 4/10
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955) 8/10
The Boys From Fengkuei (Hou, 1983) 8/10
Cabaret (Fosse, 1972) 7/10
The Big Combo (Lewis, 1955) 7/10
The Final Programme (Fuest, 1973) 6/10
The Devil's Rain (Fuest, 1975) 7/10
Rawhide (Hathaway, 1951) 8/10
Further up the Creek (Guest, 1958) 6/10
The Women (Cukor, 1939) 8/10
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Reed, 2018) 6/10

(the recent Radiance release came with a 15 min featurette on the architecture)

kinds of kindness 4 bags
everything everywhere all at once 5 bags
leningrad cowboys meet moses 4 bags
united trash (schlingensief 1996) 1 bag german edgelord shit
ein grosser verhau unter sternen (the big mess - alexander kluge 1971) hippies mess about in bedsits and expect you to believe they are in space. 4 bags
black bag 4 bags

finally watcvhong some 2025 movies on streaming

superman 8
mi final reckoning 8
house of dynamite 7
new yorker at 100 6
elio 6
wake up dead man 9
freakier friday 6
fantastic 4 baby steps 5
cap america brave new world dnf

Sentimental Value (6.0)
Fargo (S1 – 7.0)
Sunday (6.5)
Jay Kelly (5.0)
Fargo (S3 – 7.0)
The New Yorker at 100 (6.5)
Wonderland (7.0)
Nobody (3.0)
Daydream Nation (4.0)
Breakdown: 1975 (6.0)

Saw quite a lot at the cinema last year, most of it via Mubi Go.

Presence
Hard Truths
Bring Them Down
The Brutalist
I'm Still Here
Queens
The Last Showgirl
On Falling
Mickey 17
Flow
The End
Four Mothers
One to One: John & Yoko
Sinners
Parthenope
North by Northwest
Motel Destino
Magic Farm
The Big Lebowski
When the Light Breaks
The Phoenician Scheme
The Encampments
Tornado
The Last Journey
Caché
28 Years Later
Hot Milk
F1
Barry Lyndon
Harvest
Friendship
Savages
Bring Her Back
Materialists
Sorry, Baby
The Life of Chuck
Tomboy
Caught Stealing
Deaf
Steve
Steve
One Battle After Another
Urchin
The Smashing Machine
Souleymane's Story
The Mastermind
Frankenstein
Die My Love
Bugonia
The Ice Tower
Pillion
One Battle After Another
It Was Just an Accident
One Battle After Another
It's a Wonderful Life
Sentimental Value
Marty Supreme

My stand out new films were One Battle After Another, Steve, Flow, and I'm Still Here.

Last half of 2025

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (Stefano Sollima, 2018)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, 2013)
Grand Canyon (James Algar, 1958)
The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020)
The Beach Boys (Frank Marshall, Thom Zimny, 2024)
Furies (Veronica Ngo, 2022)
Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier, 1981)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Ali and Nino (Asif Kapadia, 2016)
*In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman, 2015)
Supermarket Woman (Jûzô Itami, 1996)
Black Storm (Pengfei Qin, 2024)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
Ohio Confidential (Alex Gibney, 2025)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
Prince of Broadway (Sean Baker, 2008)
*Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder, 1990)
Devo (Chris Smith, 2024)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke, 2024)
Slumlord Millionaire (Steph Ching, Ellen Martinez, 2024)
*McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016)
Peninsula (Yeon Sang-ho, 2020)
Virus (Kinji Fukasaku, 1980)
Army Of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
All The Colors Of The Dark (Sergio Martino, 1972)
You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener, 2023)
Mars Express (Jérémie Périn, 2023)
Time Out of Mind (Robert Siodmak, 1947)
*The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)
Mr. Pu (Kon Ichikawa, 1953)
Nomads (John McTiernan, 1986)
Wealth of the Wicked (Alex Gibney, 2025)
Music and Apocalypse (Max Linz, 2019)
Theaters of War (Roger Stahl, 2022)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, 1995)
Neun Leben hat die Katze (Ula Stöckl, 1968)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow, 2025)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024)
How Radio Isn't Done (Ryan Worsley, 2017)
Workplace (Gary Hustwit, 2016)
CERN (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2013)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) (Questlove, 2025)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)
Ivy (Tolga Karaçelik, 2015)
Aniara (Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja, 2018)
Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Wonder Seven (Siu-Tung Ching, 1994)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
Little Joe (Jessica Hausner, 2019)
La raison d'État (André Cayatte, 1978)
Being Charlie (Rob Reiner, 2015)
The Stones and Brian Jones (Nick Broomfield, 2023)
Swan Song (Todd Stephens, 2021)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Carol & Joy (Nathan Silver, 2025)
*Harry and Tonto (Paul Mazursky, 1974)
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky, 2025)

ichi the killer (miike 2001) 1 bag for boredoms soundtrack, puerile rapey gangster shit
what's up doc? (bogdanovich 1972) 4½ bags
i love you, man (hamburg 2009) 1 bag for paul rudd. otherwise irredeemable garbage
carry on screaming (1966 thomas) 2 bags. top clowning
the ladykillers (coens 2004) 4 bags. hanks as jemaine clement v confusing
bugonia (2025 lanthimos) 4 bags
high-rise (2015 wheatley) 1 for vibe. garbage, bailed.
mountainhead (2025 armstrong) 3 bags. kinda shooting fish in a barrel.
prevenge (2016 lowe) 3½ bags.
but mainly i've been trying to sleep off yet another respiratory ailment while watching S3 of LEXX, which is still pure genius

Fargo (S4 – 7.0)
Monrovia, Indiana (7.0)
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (7.0)
Cover-Up (6.5)
Meshes of the Afternoon (influential)
Two-Lane Blacktop (6.0)
Fargo (S5 – 7.0)
The Boston Strangler (2023 – 5.0)
CFNY: The Spirit of Radio (5.0)
Coffy (5.0)
Foxy Brown (5.0)
Marty Supreme (6.0)

I watched the two Pam Grier films in advance of a chapter in Charles Taylor's drive-in book (haven't read the chapter yet). There's a dedicated Pam Grier thread that I won't dredge up. She is, of course, great in Jackie Brown, and she gives the most credible performances in those two films too. I understand and respect their historical importance. But they really are bad, and often demeaning to all involved.

I did think Meshes of the Afternoon was impressive, I just don't want to give it a dispassionate 7.0 or whatever. (Why has it taken me forever to watch it? Obviously, the serious time committment of 14 minutes was the major stumbling block.) It's influence is obvious, especially on Lynch; the whole Black Lodge notion of Cooper chasing himself seems lifted right from Meshes, also the faceless imagery that turns up in Twin Peaks more than once. I'm sure this has been noted and analyzed to death by now.

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The Blue Angel (von Sternberg, 1930) 4.5/5
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, 1938) 4/5 - unbelievable cinematography, music (Prokoviev!), design and choreography, all in the service of a cornball flagfucker script that only a psychopath like Stalin could have loved
The Hands of Orlac (Wiene, 1924) 4/5
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu, 1941) 4/5
Charade (Donen, 1963) 4/5 - basically a Hitchcock film without the annoying Hitchisms
Gloria (Cassavetes, 1980) 4/5
The Moving Finger (Moyer, 1963) 4/5 - oddball beatnik cheapie, look out for Moondog for about 10 seconds
Winter Soldier (Winterfilm Collective, 1972) 4/5 - documentary footage of an unofficial series of hearings into US war crimes in Vietnam. One of the participants is no less than John Kerry!
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh, 2003) 4/5
The Big Gundown (Sollima, 1966) 4/5
Danger: Diabolik (Bava, 1967) 4/5
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann, 1927) 4/5
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Richardson, 1962) 4/5
Intolerance (Griffith, 1916) 4/5 - what's with all the arm-waving?
The Blue Light (Riefenstahl, yes that one, 1932) 4/5
Whistle Down the Wind (Forbes, 1961) 4/5 - unexpectedly moving, Alan Bates is excellent
The Intruder (Corman, 1962) 4/5 - William Shatner as a firebrand racist stirring up shit in a small Texas town. Watch out for Leo Gordon in a supporting role, great as always
Baby Face Nelson (Siegel, 1957) 4/5 - didn't realise Mickey Rooney did hard man roles, Leo Gordon's in this one too
Night Tide (Harrington, 1961) 4/5 - fantasy-horror starring a young Dennis Hopper and directed by Kenneth Anger collaborator Curtis Harrington
Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939) 4/5
Massacre at Central High (Daalder, 1976) 4/5 - better than the title suggests
A Diary of Chuji's Travels (Ito, 1927) 3.5/5 - very early jidaigeki, largely incoherent due to being a fix-up of surviving footage but who cares
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae Yong-Kyun, 1989) 3.5/5 - I'd need to study Buddhism deeper to find out
Earth vs. the Spider (Gordon, 1958) 3.5/5 - I won't spoil the surprise as to who wins
Burst City (Ishii, 1982) 3.5/5
Gaslight (Dickinson, 1940) 3.5/5
The Thing with Two Heads (Frost, 1972) 3.5/5 - first half is an entertaining comedy, second half completely runs out of ideas and turns into a smash-up car chase flick
Downfall (Hirschbiegel, 2004) 3/5 - in depicting the upper echelons of the Nazi hierarchy as human like anyone else the filmmakers are forced to skim over the reality of the lurid death cult they were running, thus proving that both-sides-ism is a dead end
The Lost One (Lorre, 1951) 3/5
Warlords of the 21st Century aka Battletruck (Cokeliss, 1982) 3/5 - boom operation by a young Lee Tamahori! Boom mic is visible in several scenes btw
Genevieve (Cornelius, 1953) 3/5
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008) 2.5/5 - meh
Island of Terror (Fisher, 1966) 2.5/5 - even Cushing can't save this one

quality notes

Catching up on 2025 stuff, plus some others

Blue Moon (Linklater, 2025) 3.5/5
Nouvelle Vague (Linklater, 2025) 3/5
Marty Supreme (Safdie, 2025) 3.5/5
No Other Choice (Park, 2025) 4/5
Roofman (Cianfrance, 2025) 3.5/5
Sorry, Baby (Victor, 2025) 3.5/5
28YL: The Bone Temple (Dacosta, 2025) 3/5
Girl With Hyacinths (Ekman, 1950) 3.5/5
Resurrection (Gan, 2025) 4/5
The Shrounds (Cronenberg, 2025) 3/5
Neighboring Sounds (Filho, 2012) 4/5

Marty Supreme (Safdie, 2025)
Die My Love (Ramsay, 2025)
Lurker (Russell, 2025)
No Other Choice (Park, 2025)
Roofman (Cianfrance, 2025)
The Secret Agent (Filho, 2025)
Sinners (Coogler, 2025) (rewatch)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Jude, 2023)
Hedda (DaCosta, 2025)
The Plot Against Harry (Roemer, 1969)
The Testament of Ann Lee (Fastvold, 2025)

Catching up on mostly '25 releases this month

It Ends (Ullom, 2025) 7/10
Marty Supreme (Safdie, 2025) 8/10
Sentimental Value (Trier, 2025) 7/10
Fists in the Pocket (Bellocchio, 1965) 6/10
Companion (Hancock, 2025) 6/10
A Face in the Crowd (Kazan, 1957) 8/10
It Was Just an Accident (Panahi, 2025) 8/10
The Life of Chuck (Flanagan, 2024) 6/10
The Piano Accident (Dupieux, 2025) 7/10
*Thief (Mann, 1981) 8/10
What's Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972) 6/10
Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto, 1969) 8/10
Rust and Bone (Audiard, 2013) 6/10
Rebuilding (Walker-Silverman, 2025) 6/10
To Catch A Thief (Hitchcock, 1955) 7/10
*Grosse Pointe Blank (Armitage, 1997) 7/10
Winter Kills (Richert, 1979) 8/10
Freaky (Landon, 2020) 6/10

Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto, 1969) 8/10

So wild. I didn't know much about it and didn't put it together until about 3/4 of the way what story it was telling.

Was on a good run of new movies until I got to the first one.

F1 (2025) 2/5. Not familiar with the company Expensify? You sure will be after this.
The Shrouds (2024) 4/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 4/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 4/5
Fassbinder's Women (2000) 3.5/5
School on Fire (1988) 4/5
Depeche Mode: M (2025) 3.5/5
Marty Supreme 4/5
Cover-Up (2025) 4/5
Far From Heaven (2002) 3.5/5
* El (1953) 4/5. Had no memory of having seen this before, but letterboxd says I did.
Eephus (2024) 4/5. Was worried this would be like one of Linklater's movies where everyone is an asshole but, refreshingly, it wasn't.

Xpost Feels crazy that it even got made. Going in blind is probably the best. I got the dvd so looking forward to watching it with the commentary at some point. Also...is that Les Rallizes Denudes playing over the freakout party at the flat?

Just watched Winter Kills two days ago and posted about it here; didn't like it as much as you but appreciated how suprisingly low-key it was (instead of the over-the-top satire I expected).

Winter Kills

I really loved how it balanced the tones. John Huston great at playing wealthy monsters.

The Paper (S1 – 6.5)
Ulzana’s Raid (6.0)
Dead Man’s Wire (6.5)
Aloha, Bobby and Rose (7.0)
American Hot Wax (8.0)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (8.0)
Euphoria (S1 – 5.0)
Hard Times (7.0)
Winter Kills (6.0)
The Eyes of Laura Mars (5.0)

december and january:

all the presidents men 8.5/10
hamnet 6.5/10
the new yorker at 100 👍
orwell 2+2=5 👎
the secret agent 8.5/10
nouvelle vague 6/10
materialists 3/10
wake up dead man 6/10
the mastermind 8/10
marty supreme 8.5/10
it was just an accident 7.5/10
on becoming a guinea fowl 8/10
oh. what. fun. 2/10
a pickleball christmas 0.5/10
anniversary 5/10
*casablanca 10/10
train dreams 8/10
frownland 8/10
people we meet on vacation 4/10
if I had legs I’d kick you 8/10
highest 2 lowest 6.5/10
the rip 4/10
left-handed girl 7/10
*meshes of the afternoon 10/10
daddy longlegs 8.5/10
cover-up 👍
misericordia 8.5/10
*blue moon 9/10

January:

What's New Pussycat (1965) 5/10
Marty Supreme (2025) 7/10
Sentimental Value (2025) 6/10
I'm Going Home (2001) 8/10
Dead End Drive-In (1986) 7/10
Behind the Mask (1932) 6/10
In Praise of Love (2001) 8/10
Frankenstein (2025) 5/10
Flowers of Shanghai (1998) 9/10
The Rip (2026) 6/10
No Other Choice (2025) 7/10