Last (x) movies you saw (II)

I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo (1970, Smith) (28m) 6/10
No President (1967, Smith) (50m) 7/10
*Grandma’s Boy (1922, Newmeyer/Lloyd) (48m) 8/10
Any Number Can Win (1963, Verneuil) 7/10
Carefree (1938, Sandrich) 6/10
*The Driver (1978, Hill) 8/10
*Dead End (1937, Wyler) 7/10
*Humoresque (1920, Borzage) 7/10
PROTOTYPE (2017, Williams) 6/10
*The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968, Van Peebles) 7/10
L'invitation au voyage (1927, Dulac) (36m) 6/10
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923, Dulac) (38m) 7/10

Fred I just watched News from Home with some friends that had never seen it last night. I was nervous but they all loved it and we talked for an hour afterwards about and for once a post-film group discussion actually had some insight and substance for me. it's my favorite film of hers and was very happy to see half a dozen of my friends hypnotized by it.

Recently watched that too and it was beautiful. Though my roommate and their significant other walked through and seemed rather perplexed, not sure my half-assed explanation while still locked in really helped.

damn that sucks. yeah, that was my main fear in showing it. luckily only like 6-7 people showed up, and I'm glad our plans to do it outside got rained out, the thought of people coming and going or talking during NFH makes my skin crawl... though I completely understand... "locked in" is it exactly. I was worried I wouldn't be able to focus after a long day at work and little sleep the night before, but 20 minutes in I was completely hypnotized.

her mother can be so funny. "you haven't written in 10 days, it's getting a little annoying!" and her encouraging comments about the screenplay Chantal sent her: "it seems good, but you know my tastes: it's very sad and depressing." those letters are from 1972-73, so she must be referring to the script for Jeanne Dielman right? her mother says "it's important to show these people and their struggle and how they're suffering," which could apply to JD.

Going Spanish (Christie, 1934)
Good Morning, Nurse (Bacon, 1925)
A Sleepless Night (Bowers, 1940)
The Telephone Girl and the Lady (Griffith, 1913)
Helter Skelter (Lamont, 1929)
Office Blues (Blumenstock, 1930)
The Antique Shop (Cozine, 1931)
A Panic in the Parlor (Roberts, 1941)
His New Mamma (Del Ruth, 1924)
Felix All Balled Up (Messmer, 1924)
Falbalas (Becker, 1945)
The Biffle Murder Case (Parrott, 1935 Schlesinger, 2015)
Imitation of Wife (McCarey, 1935 Schlesinger, 2015)
Antoine et Antoinette (Becker, 1947)

I know I've seen a lot of the shorts you list, j.lu, but what's with the crossouts? And is that Paul Parrott or Charley (Chase) Parrott?

From The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster, a fake 1930s comedy duo. The shorts are supposed to be in the style of Paul Parrott and Ray McCarey. A lot of love and knowledge of early sound comedy clearly went into these shorts.

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) - 9/10
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010) - 9/10
Heavyweights (Steven Brill, 1995) - 4/10
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) - 8/10
No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa, 1946) - 6/10
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) - 10/10
EuroTrip (Jeff Schaffer, 2004) - 3/10
25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002) - 8/10

F for Fake (Welles, 1973) 8/10
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies, 1988) 9/10
Purple Butterfly (Lou, 2003) 5/10
Cocote (De Los Santos Arias, 2017) 8/10
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966) 9/10
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) 6/10
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Hara, 1987) 9/10
Sennan Asbestos Disaster (Hara, 2017) 7/10

Active Measures.
Think I knew most of this, though it goes back further into 80s trump than I was familiar with.
Has a load of people in as talking heads. Quite enjoyed it and my girlfriend did too when i rewatched it with her.
Oh yeah, had missed the story aboutPutin's mother the first time around because i'd been doing something else at the same time.
Also not that familiar with Ukraine situation which is covered here.

Death of Stalin
very dark, funny in places. Not really sure what girlfriend made of this.
Glad I finally watched it.

American Animals
THought i was going to see Blackkklansman but time I saw online a few days earlier wasn't showing it. Early afternoon showing is cheaper so went to see this cos had come across some of the promos tuff for it when I'd been in cinema a few weeks earlier.
Anyway interesting film about ineptitude in ambitious post-adolescents.
Quite enjoyed it though it has some pretty slow bits.
Funny and dark in places. It was odd seeing a number of people I thought i recognised from elsewhere.
Thought that the real Warren looked like Mark Kozeleik or someone so thought that reality might be another layer away from what was shown.

Blackkklansman
enjoyed this though it is a little cartoonish so makes me want to read the memoir it's based on to see how fictionalised it is.
Looks like they changed the time it was set in since black style is very much early 70s. Seas of massive afros etc. Events appear to have been in 78 in real life.
Have just seen taht book is only 2014 so not sure how long the story was around. Was it even much of a rumour before that came out.

Ocean’s 8 was smarter and funnier than 12 or 13.

The last six weeks:

Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018) 6/10
The Wife (Runge, 2018) 3/10
Nico, 1988 (Nicchiarelli, 2018) 7/10
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 5/10
The Third Murder (Kore-eda, 2018) 6/10
Love, Cecil (Vreeland, 2018) 7/10
Eighth Grade(Burnham, 2018) 7/10
Lean On Pete (Haigh, 2018) 6/10
Tully (Reitman, 2018) 7/10
After the Storm (Kore-eda, 2017) 8/10
Our Little Sister (Kore-eda, 2016) 7/10
* Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017) 8/10
Chi-Raq (Lee, 2015) 6/10
4 Little Girls (Lee, 1997) 8/10
* Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 7/10
* The Glass Shield (Burnett, 1994) 7/10
Sharkey's Machine (Reynolds, 1981) 6/10
* Two English Girls (Truffaut, 1974) 6/10
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Bresson, 1962) 7/10
* Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958) 9/10
The Song of Bernadette (King, 1944) 4/10
Toni (Renoir, 1935) 8/10

* Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 7/10

Too low!

When I first saw it an easy 8

After the Storm (Kore-eda, 2017) 8/10

loved this, didn't seem to get the attention it deserved

If Close-Up isn't a 10, nothing is a 10

Mandy (2018) 4/5
Othello (1952) 4.5/5
Sun Ra: a Joyful Noise (1980) 3/5
King Cohen: the Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017) 2.5/5
* Hana-Bi (1997) 4/5
* The Guest (2014) 4/5
Mission Impossible: Fallout 4/5
Long Strange Trip (2017) 3.5/5
The Summer of Flying Fish (2013) 3/5
Un Flic (1972) 3/5
Pauline at the Beach (1983) 4/5

The Prisoner of Zenda (Ingram, 1922)
*Thrills of Yesterday (1931)
Roundhay Garden Scene (Le Prince, 1888)
*The Water Nymph (Sennett, 1912)
Hot Pepper (Blystone, 1933)
Edouard et Caroline (Becker, 1951)
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Becker, 1954)
Rendezvous in July (Becker, 1949)
Limite (Peixoto, 1931)

Really annoyed with myself for not seeing Mandy for its one-night showing last week as it turned out "opens September 14th" meant precisely dick- it's not playing anywhere in or near Philadelphia.

Elle
In a Lonely Place
Los Angeles Plays Itself

I couldn't make it to Mandy on Thursday either - it's running for a week (once a day, at 9pm) here, but the premiere was a double-feature with Mom & Dad, which was only projected about 4/5 on screen when I saw it in January.

very suspicious of all the local Mandy hype here. sounds like Stranger Things for people who are too cool to watch or admit they watch Stranger Things. I think I'll see it this week. but if it's mostly just Nic Cage being extra, why? Herzog already did that with a movie that can't be topped.

and I got that impression from two people I trust who saw the movie separately in packed theaters full of knowing chuckles

love to divine the quality of a movie from secondhand reports of how people reacted to it in a theater

but then i haven't seen it either. i like and support cosmatos though

like I said I trust their opinions, and they're very different people. and yes, they described the movie too and their issues with the thing itself. crazy OTT throw everything at the wall genre movies are not my thing but I will see it with an open mind.

very suspicious of all the local Mandy hype here. sounds like Stranger Things for people who are too cool to watch or admit they watch Stranger Things. I think I'll see it this week. but if it's mostly just Nic Cage being extra, why? Herzog already did that with a movie that can't be topped.

I assume a lot of the people who wanted to see this initially are going in with similar expectations: for an 80s retro, wacky Nic Cage flick they can laugh at. It's nearly 45 minutes into the film before Cage is even much of a factor though, and by then it was already one of the most sensory immersive films I've seen in a while. No one will accuse the script of being particularly brainy, but the film doesn't collect cultural references so much as transmute them into a spiky, snarling beast. Johann Johannson's score is great and will remind you all over again what a loss his death was. And it does top the Herzog movie.

now that is some encouraging word of mouth. i'll definitely see it on wednesday. one of my friends said she liked the first half a lot more. can't name a movie with a Johannson score off the top of my head but surely I've seen one.

OK, last thing before I actually see Mandy:

I assume a lot of the people who wanted to see this initially are going in with similar expectations: for an 80s retro, wacky Nic Cage flick they can laugh at.

the made-to-order B movie / movie you can laugh at, I don't fuck with that at all. especially when The Wicker Man remake exists. even Bad Lieutenant veers a bit too much.

All the President’s Men (Robert Redford, 1976) - 10/10
The Capture (John Sturges, 1950) - 3/10
The Restless Years (Helmut Käutner, 1958) - 6/10
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931) - 9/10
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) - 8/10
Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder, 1963) - 8/10
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936) - 10/10
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984) - 10/10
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) - 8/10

xp yea mandy trascends its genre trappings imo, reminded me of mad max fury road in that sense

The Last Boy Scout. In terms of "who's made more movies I would willingly re-watch," Tony Scott > Ridley Scott, though it's close.

Tony: The Last Boy Scout*, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire, Domino*, Unstoppable*
Ridley: The Duellists, Alien*, Blade Runner*, The Counselor*

*movies I own

marie antoinette (coppola, 2006) 9/10
the long day closes (davies, 1992) 10/10
a.i.: artificial intelligence (spielberg, 2001) 10/10
perfect blue (kon, 1997) 8/10
paprika (kon, 2006) 9/10
ms. 45 (ferrara, 1981) 9/10
the craft (fleming, 1996) 7/10

Close Up (Kiarostami, 1990) 8/10
Rope (Hitchcock, 1948) 6/10
Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, 1997) 9/10
35 Shots of Rum (Denis, 2008) 9/10
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder, 1972) 9/10
Chocolat (Denis, 1988) 8/10
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1948) 6/10
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul, 2010) 8/10
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) 8/10
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941) 9/10
The Great McGinty (Sturges, 1940) 6/10
Hill of Freedom (Hong, 2014) 8/10
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973) 8/10
The World (Jia, 2004) 9/10
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir, 1936) 9/10
Metropolitan (Stillman, 1990) 9/10
Outrage (Kitano, 2010) 7/10
Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder, 1975) 8/10
A New Leaf (May, 1971) 7/10

mandy (cosmatos 2018) 7/10
greater southbridge (rod murphy 2003) 7/10
ex libris: the new york public library (wiseman 2017) 7/10
birds of passage (gallego/guerra 2018) 7.5/10
high life (denis 2018) 7/10
life itself (fogelman 2018) 7/10
greta (neil jordan 2018) 3/10
everybody knows (farhadi 2018) 6.5/10
support the girls (bujalski 2018) 2/10
vox lux (corbet 2018) 6/10
the hummingbird project (kim nguyen 2018) 5.5/10

I was expecting Upgrade to be a half-decent SF spin on Death Wish; it turned out to be a smart and beautifully shot thriller with an SF angle. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36PDeN9NRZ0

The Tin Drum (Schlöndorff, 1979) 6/10
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Bird, 2011) 7/10
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation(McQuarrie, 2015) 7/10
Criminal (Vromen, 2016) 4/10
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Russell, 1987) 7/10
Joe (Green, 2013) 8/10
*Local Hero (Forsythe, 1983)

Uncle Tom's Crabbin' (Messmer, 1927)
Felix in the Swim (Messmer, 1922)
Dangerous Corner (Rosen, 1934)
Fluttering Hearts (Parrott, 1927)
Sneak Easily (Meins, 1932)
Tomatos Another Day (Watson, 1930)
Bridge Wives (Arbuckle, 1932)
Kissing Time (Mack, 1933)
Careless Lady (MacKenna, 1932)
*Lazy River (Seitz, 1934)
Le Trou (Becker, 1960)

Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa, 1963)
Charlotte Gray (Armstrong, 2001)
Bob le Flambeur (Melville, 1955)
Cul-de-sac (Polanski, 1966)
Night Mayor (short - Maddin, 2009)
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (Macdougall, 1959)
*Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
Blithe Spirit (Lean, 1945)
The Pianist (Polanski, 2002)
The Late Show (Benton, 1977)

I was expecting Upgrade to be a half-decent SF spin on Death Wish; it turned out to be a smart and beautifully shot thriller with an SF angle.

La Roue (1923, Gance) 8/10
Love and Anger (1969, Bellochio, Bertolucci, Godard, Lizzani, Pasolini) 6/10
*The Other Side of Hope (2017, Kaurismaki) 9/10
We the Animals (2018, Zagar) 7/10
The Sandpiper (1965, Minnelli) 4/10
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, Ritt) 9/10
The Rider (2017, Zhao) 6/10
This Can't Happen Here aka High Tension (1950, Bergman) 5/10

Burton is brilliant in Spy.

and not so in The Sandpiper

The Rider (2017, Zhao) 6/10

Saw a trailer for this yesterday - looked p Malick-like, or Malick-lite, or Malick-light.

there is lots of fantastic grimy 60's real englandness in the first act of Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The scene where he decks the shopkeeper seemed absolutely brutal when I was a kid.

since shopkeeper is played by Bernard "M" Lee, i assumed he was undercover.

The Rider rather more docu-realist than Malick, sometimes mundanely so.

Women Make Film (Mark Cousins)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Maya (Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Innocent (Simon Jaquemet)
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
High Life (Claire Denis)
The Trial (Sergei Loznitsa)
Dead Souls (Wang Bing)

thoughts on maya? skeptical about the concept but bought a ticket on the strength of things to come

Black 47
bloody, violent Irish Western (both thematically and set in the West of ireland)about a deserting Irish soldier taking revenge on the people who have directly and indirectly lead to the death of his family.
Stars 2 Australian actors who do pretty good at irish and English accents & also the son of Edward Fox as a British officer.
Also has that young Bobby Gillespie looking guy from Dunkirk and American Animals as a private soldier attached to the British officer.

very dark and really effective.
Think it's going out on general release elsewhere around the globe over the next couple of weeks. Saw it had a Guardian review today.

I've no idea where else to put this but I watched Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and was surprisingly moved and impressed by it. That is one ridiculously charismatic performance by Annette Benning. I actually cried at the end.