Aniki Bóbó (de Oliveira)No, or the Vainglory of Command (de Oliveira)Voyage to the Beginning of the World (de Oliveira)Mandala (Im Kwon-taek)Sopyonje (Im Kwon-taek)The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo)The Net (Kim)The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong)Yourself & Yours (Hong)On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong)Claire’s Camera (Hong)Five Boys from Barska Street (A. Ford)Knights of the Teutonic Order (A. Ford)The First Day of Freedom (A. Ford)Dear Wendy (Vinterberg, script by von Trier)The House That Jack Built (von Trier)Titicut Follies (Wiseman)Ex Libris (Wiseman)A Bomb Was Stolen (Popescu-Gopo)Opera Jawa (Nugroho)Gosford Park (Altman)The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen & Coen)The Other Side of the Wind (Welles)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:28 (five years ago) link
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948) 9/10Three (To, 2016) 6/10No Home Movie (Akerman, 2010) 9/10Predators (Antal, 2010) - a spanish dub, seemed ok?Suspiria (Argento, 1977) 7/10Dead Souls (Wang, 2018) 8/10Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) 7/10Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Coppola, 1992) 7/10* The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger, 1948) 8/10
― devvvine, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
what's the streaming service to watch like bergman and ozu again? that exists right
no art house w/in 300 miles of me and i want to check some of these out. have no idea who kore-eda even is.
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
Kanopy.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:38 (five years ago) link
Korla (Turner, 2015): Documentary about the musician and personality Korla Pandit. He had a pretty interesting story, and the doc was low-key enough to not get in the way. Interviews with Santana, Harry Edwards, Ben Fong-Torres, the Muffs, etc. Really changed the way I think about Liberace.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coens, 2018) 9/10*Gilda Live (Nichols, 1980) 8/10The Great McGinty (Sturges, 1940) 7/10*The Fog (Carpenter, 1980) 7/10The Mortal Storm (Borzage, 1940) 6/10BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 7/10*The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) 10/10The Incredibles 2 (Bird, 2018) 7/10The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 2018) 5/10They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Neville, 2018) 6/10
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
flappy bird your passion for Bergman has convinced me to explore his films
― Dan S, Monday, December 3, 2018 11:58 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
get the box 😈
― flappy bird, Sunday, 9 December 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
The Secret Bride (Dieterle, 1934)Next Aisle Over (1919)Triumph of the Heart (Molander, 1929)A Little Hero (Sennett, 1913)Woman Haters (Gottler, 1934)Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Yates, 2018)The Night Before Christmas (Jackson, 1933)The Emperor's Nightingale (Trnka, 1949)Smash Your Baggage (Mack, 1932)The Ascent (Shepitko, 1977)
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 10 December 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
how did you like The Ascent? I saw Wings and wasn't really into it
― flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
Terribly grueling, although certainly true to the subject and period. I saw Wings so long ago I don't trust my memories of it. (It does end with the teacher taking a plane for a joyride?)
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 10 December 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
Re-watching Carpenter's The Thing tonight.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 10 December 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
xp yes, and that's pretty much exactly what I thought of Wings (although I do love that ending, but more in concept than execution)
― flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
* Pickup on South Street (1953) 4/5Roma 3.5/5Gotti (2018) 0/5Shirkers (2018) 4.5/5Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012) 4/5The Favourite 3.5/5
― Chris L, Monday, 10 December 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
saw the Roger Ailes doc DIVIDE AND CONQUER, v good, catch it in theaters if you can bc it's doing terrible business. likability of subject never occurred to me as a factor but runaway success of Mr. Rogers, Gila Radner, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg docs this year gives me pause (and depresses me - Ailes is inarguably one of the most important and influential people of the last 50 years).
― flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
College Swing (1938, Walsh) 6/10 Filmworker (2017, Zierra) 6/10 For Heaven’s Sake (1926, Taylor / Lloyd) 9/10 *Love Songs (2007, Honore) 7/10 White Lightning (1973, Sargent) 4/10 *Porcile aka Pigsty (1969, Pasolini) 6/10 Wolfsburg (2003, Petzold) 7/10 Yella (2007, Petzold) 7/10 Vester-Vov-Vov aka People of the North Sea (1927, Lauritzen) 6/10 Bisbee ’17 (2018, Greene) 8/10 Son premier film (1926, Kemm) 5/10 The Hitch-Hiker (1953, Lupino) 7/10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Tried watching Eastwood's Hoover movie on a plane. Holy shit, what a smoking trash pile.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
First Reformed (Schrader, 2018)Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018)Sorry to Bother You (Riley, 2018)Deep Red (Argento, 1975)You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2018)The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen/Coen, 2018)Zama (Martel, 2018)Let the Sunshine In (Denis, 2017)Revenge (Fargeat, 2017) The Other Side of the Wind (Welles, 2018)The Polymath (Taylor, 2009)Theory of Obscurity (Hardy, 2016)The Night Comes for Us (Tjahjanto, 2018)
― WmC, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942) - 9/10M (Lang, 1931) - 10/10Topaz (Hitchcock, 1969) - 3/10Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi, 1936) - 9/10Career Girls (Leigh, 1997) - 8/10Trafic (Tati, 1971) - 9/10The Thing Called Love (Bogdanovich, 1993) - 5/10A Report on the Party and the Guests (Němec, 1966) - 8/10Intimidation (Kurahara, 1960) - 9/10Blue is the Warmest Color (Keciche, 2013) - 7/10American Honey (Arnold, 2016) - 10/10Brewster McCloud (Altman, 1970) - 9/10Mouchette (Bresson, 1967) - 9/10Roma (Fellini, 1972) - 6/10Claire’s Knee (Rohmer, 1970) - 4/10Parade (Tati, 1974) - 6/10Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson, 1945) - 4/10El Norte (Nava, 1983) - 8/10
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
Making Christmas Crackers (1910)Santa Claus (Smith, 1898)The Masquerader (Wallace, 1933)Bubbling Over (Jason, 1934)Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018)The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018)L'Innocente (Visconti, 1976)
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Monday, 17 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
(xpost) Ratings are ratings, everyone has different taste, and I hate having a solitary rating of my own cherry-picked and held up ridicule here, so I'm not trying to doing that. But I'd be interested in hearing some elaboration on the 4/10 for Claire's Knee.
― clemenza, Monday, 17 December 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
not only boring but contemptible, a film revolving around an absurd conceit and a 'moral tale' that gives too much (any) credit to the protagonist's dilemma. it's the first Rohmer I've seen and I will continue to plug away, but wow, after trying to see Claire's Knee for the better part of a year, it was a real letdown.
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 December 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
Loving You (To, 1995) 6/10Miami Vice (Mann, 2006) 9/10Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (To, 2011) 6/10*Breathless (Godard, 1960) 7/10The 15:17 to Paris (Eastwood, 2018) 7/10Cosmopolis (Cronenberg, 2012) 6/10*His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) 9/10An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu, 2018) 8/10Shirkers (Tan, 2018) 7/10xXx: State of the Union (Tamahori, 2005) 5/10Patience (After Sebald) (Gee, 2011) 7/10
― devvvine, Monday, 17 December 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
MUBI run:
Lovers of the Artic Circle (Medem, 1998)Room in Rome (Medem, 2010)Chaudhvin Ka Chand (Sadiq, 1960) - this was really great: utterly farcical plot pushed to the limit.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird,
lol I understand. My favorite Rohmers aren't even CK or My Night at Maud's. His writing and filmmaking got better in the eighties.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I saw Love in the Afternoon and Claire's Knee first, probably due to the Criterion stamp. It was years before I tried again and realized the actual breadth of his work.
― jmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
yeah i just find men intellectualizing their horniness to be really tedious. I'll see if the video store has The Green Ray this weekend
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
Its probably his best film - there was a switch in his writing and he focused on women a lot more, and his films are perhaps better for it.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
I like Claire's Knee a lot. But I'm like the Don, may he rest peace--my way of doing things is over.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
the film he made before it, Full Moon in Paris, is almost as good as a record of the young chattering classes.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
I like Claire's Knee now. I was just under a misconception that this was his whole shtick. It's more palatable knowing that he can also write amazingly sympathetic and natural female-centered stories.
― jmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
are all of the moral tales m/l similar to Claire's Knee in approach?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
I guess my favourite is Maud's, though. I've six or seven in all, some of them later.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
"seen"
It's hard to say. Love in the Afternoon is my favorite of the batch in part because the male protagonist's confusion about Zouzou's character was honestly rendered; also, she makes it clear she doesn't need him.
It's been many years, though.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
i own the moral tales box but i've only seen la collectionneuse and love in the afternoon, both of which are tremendous though i prefer love. every rohmer short i've seen is also excellent. boring but contemptible is my thing i guess
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
I like when his characters go to the beach. Rohmer's good at beach sequences.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
That's the side of Rohmer that really won me over.
― jmm, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
yeah i just find men intellectualizing their horniness to be really tedious.
Maybe that's why I like Triple Agent best of the Rohmer's I've seen?
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
Body Melt (Brophy 1993) [TV]Batman Returns (Burton, Waters 1992) [TV]Ralph Breaks The Internet (Moore, Johnston, Ribon, Reardon, Trinidad, Younger, Reilly 2018) [3D DCP]Computer Chess (Bujalski 2013) [TV]Results (Bujalski 2015) [TV]Gräns [Border] (Abbasi, Eklöf, Lindqvist 2018) [DCP]Gremlins (Dante, Columbus 1984) [DCP]Never Goin' Back (Frizzell 2018) [TV]* Role Models (Wain, Dowling, Herron, Rudd, Marino 2008) [gym]Faces Places [Visages, Villages] (Varda et R 2017) [gym]Nancy (Choe 2018) [TV]Heat (Mann 1995) [DCP]The Favourite (Lanthimos, Davis, McNamara 2018) [DCP]* The Informant! (Soderbergh, Burns 2009) [TV]Roma (Cuarón 2018) [Laser]Burning [버닝] (Lee, Oh 2018) [DCP]
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Vox Lux (Corbet, 2018) 6/10Green Book(Farrelly, 2018) 2/10The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) 7/10Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) 9/10Hereditary (Aster, 2018) 7/10Widows (McQueen, 2018) 6/10Mirai (Hosoda, 2018) 8/10Beautiful Boy (Van Groeningen, 2018) 3/10Roma (Cuaron, 2018) 5/10* A Day in the Country (Renoir, 1936) 9/10* Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir, 1932) 9/10
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
Ex Machina (Garland, 2014) 4/5*Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018) 4/5*Opera (Argento, 1987) 4/5 (I like these films ok)
*A Blade in the Dark (Bava the lesser, 1983) 1.5/5. The ending is- rot13 to blank out spoilers for this insanely mediocre giallo- genafcubovp nf fuvg; seeing it in Italian (with the surrounding films, as part of Philly's Exhumed Films birthday screening) also made it obvious that what little enjoyment could be found came almost entirely from the infamously shitty dubbing ("Is it possible you're such a vacant nerd that your pleasure is to bake like a frog in the sun?!") Just a dreary film- boring locations (shot in a producer's villa on the cheap and it shows), a sub-Friday the 13th score that Bava thinks is compelling enough to put front and center (remember the amazing crane shot in Tenebrae where the music is suddenly revealed as diegetic? now imagine that it's almost two hours long and it fucking sucks) and no visible care or passion put into anything but the kills, which- with the twist mentioned earlier- make it feel even more misogynist than your average giallo. Garbage. Avoid.
Formula for a Murder (de Martino, 1985) 2.5/5. this, on the other hand! Also a minor giallo from the tail end of the genre, also cops some moves from American slasher movies, but it's so fucking coocoo bananas that it's kind of fun. Also much more pleasant to listen to because instead of beating us over the head with a single uninspiring cue for nearly two (!) hour (!!) it just recycles the score from The New York Ripper instead.
*Inferno (Argento, 1980)- 4/5. I'm back at the point in my cycle where I think this movie is brilliant again? I'm definitely past the point of wishing there was any strong central presence like Jessica Harper and embracing the confusion of viewpoints as the point of the thing. Emerson's score (with the one awesome exception still hasn't grown on me, which is a shame.
The Muppet Christmas Carol (Henson the lesser, 1992)- 4/5. OH MY GOD THIS WAS A PURE DELIGHT. I grew up in kind of a non-Muppet household so this was, believe it or not, the first mainline Muppet movie I've ever seen. And it's so good! Caine commits entirely to the part without a single wink to camera (not even at "Why, it's Mr. Fozziwig's rubber chicken factory!") and it's a surprisingly faithful adaptation, retaining most of Dickens' chewiest dialogue. The only complaint I could possibly have is the songs aren't up to the standard of like, "Rainbow Connection" or the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack, but come on, it has the greatest kiss in screen history.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
The Marleys were dead: to begin with...
― koogs, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Continuing my past year media dump; here's my 2018 seen and wanna see; would welcome any that I missed on the list:
Best Movies 2018:Monrovia, IndianaHereditaryZamaThe GuiltyThe Death of StalinKusama: InfinityPrivate LifeLife and Nothing MoreMama Africa
No:Sorry To Bother YouDamsel
To See:Free Solo* - Will likely see in theaters shortlyShoplifters* - Will likely see in theaters shortlyThe Favourite* - Will likely see in theaters shortlyUnsane (Amazon)First Reformed (Amazon/Kanopy)Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Kanopy)Let the Corpses Tan (Kanopy)The Other Side of the Wind (Netflix)Roma (Netflix)Black Panther (Netflix)Shirkers (Netflix)Filmworker (Netflix)Mary and the Witch’s FlowerEighth GradeBurningMiraiWe the AnimalsHave a Nice DayCan You Ever Forgive Me?Isle of DogsThree Identical StrangersA Quiet PlaceI Am Not a WitchIncredibles 2Leave No TraceWon’t You Be My NeighborViceThe Sisters BrothersPaddington 2Love, GildaLovelessAnnihilationBlacKkKlansmanAmazing Grace
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
i'm not so full of myself to suggest this was a bad year in film but i did a bad job seeing good films apparently.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
all great / very good:
UnsaneBurningPaddington 2First ReformedEighth GradeBlackKklansmanAnnihilationThree Identical StrangersMiraiThe Favourite
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
Can You Ever Forgive Me? was good too
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
you know if anything i didn't note with a streaming service is currently streaming somewhere on amazon/hulu/kanopy/netflix/hbo?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
The Grace Jones doc is also on Hulu, that's all I got.
― WmC, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Three identical strangers is an incredible story, def worth seeing on Netflix or wherever but no need to see at the cinema - the presentation is very boilerplate Insane True Story Documentary, like it has pretty much the exact same structure of something like the impostor from a few years ago, with the obligatory landfill doc musicI wanted to see more of the amoral eugenicist lady.
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
I saw Three Identical Strangers in a big, full theatre at a film festival, not knowing the story already, and being in a gasping audience was great
forks! the following comic book movies are all better than Black Panther:Teen Titans GO! To The MoviesAnt-Man & The WaspMutafukazBernard & Huey
these non-fiction films would probably be of interest to you:The Road MovieThe Green FogBeing Frank: The Chris Sievey StoryIndustrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! RecordsHal
and these might also work for you:BlindspottingMandy (on Shudder)Nancy (on Kanopy)Border [Gräns]The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (on Netflix)
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link