Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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brody's review, as he often does, bitches about what the film is not but at least takes the time to acknowledge all the good things it is. I'll admit the removal from the current socioeconomic political story makes it feel a bit adrift from the world and the smoothing of the story into a filmic narrative makes it almost impossible to register as a documentary but these are structural concerns and not questions of quality or enjoyment.

Anthony Lane reviewed it for the magazine, iirc, and was very positive.

yeah, i read that one too. it's mostly getting raves!

The Haunted Bedroom (Edison Company, 1913)
The Rink (Chaplin, 1916)
Nice and Friendly (Chaplin, 1922)
A Night in the Show (Chaplin, 1915)
Don't Shove (Goulding, 1919)
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (Jones & Laurel, 1926)
Finn and Hattie (McLeod & Taurog, 1931)
Elstree Calling (Brunel, Hitchcock, et al, 1930)
By the Sun's Rays, (Giblyn, 1914)
What Price Glory (Walsh, 1926)
Pilgrimage (Ford, 1933)
The Woman Condemned (Davenport, 1934)
The Iceman's Ball (Sandrich, 1932)
Flying Elephants (Butler & Roach, 1928)
By Whose Hand? (Stoloff, 1932)
Hangman's House (Ford, 1928)
The Silver Cord (Cromwell, 1933)
Blood Money (Brown, 1933)
Regeneration (Walsh, 1915)

Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite is great, though I'm not sure what he's going on about here in that there's not really a last minute switch up? Just savvy marketing I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0A35bB1gw

anyways, it's quite funny and just flat out impressive filmmaking... the man knows how to frame a scene! Dunno how thought provoking I'd call it but your mileage may vary. "Truly which of us is the REAL parasite" seems to be the extent of its fairly surface level social commentary but when your film is this fun who cares?

Lucretia Martel's Headless Woman was an interesting back-to-back with Parasite as both are essentially altered perception murder mysteries-cum-portraits of the clueless in class warfare. A bit of a living dream, which is how Zama felt too.

Funny Face (Donen)
Indiscreet (Donen)
Charade (Donen)
Arabesque (Donen)
Two for the Road (Donen)
Norma Rae (Ritt)
Coming Home (Ashby)
The Mosquito Coast (Weir)
Drugstore Cowboy (van Sant)
Psycho (van Sant)
Restless (van Sant)
The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Greengrass)
Captain Phillips (Greengrass)
Jackie Brown (Tarantino)*
Kill Bill (Tarantino)*
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino)
To the Wonder (Malick)*
Knight of Cups (Malick)*
Song to Song (Malick)
The Childhood of a Leader (Corbet)
Vox Lux (Corbet)
Lords of Chaos (Åkerlund)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Singer & co)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (Scorsese)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (Watts)
Mondo Cane (Jacopetti, Cavara & Prosperi)

The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925) - 10/10
Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009) - 8/10
In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) - 6/10
The Sun Shines Bright (Ford, 1953) - 9/10
Les Carabiniers (Godard, 1963) - 7/10
The Devil, Probably (Bresson, 1977) - 6/10
Bad Times at the El Royale (Goddard, 2018) - 5/10
3 Godfathers (Ford, 1948) - 8/10
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1979)
Forbidden Games (Clement, 1952) - 8/10
Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006) - 8/10
Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) - 10/10
Lancelot of the Lake (Bresson, 1974) - 9/10
The Flower of My Secret (Almodóvar, 1995) - 8/10
Sergeant Rutledge (Ford, 1960) - 8/10
A Separation (Farhadi, 2011) - 9/10
Twentieth Century (Hawks, 1934) - 8/10
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford, 1936) - 8/10
One Wonderful Sunday (Kurosawa, 1947) - 7/10
Amour (Haneke, 2012) - 6/10
The Traveller (Kiarostami, 1974) - 7/10
The Skin I Live In (Almodóvar, 2011) - 9/10

the Fassbinder is a 9

David Crosby: Remember My Name (Eaton, 2019) 6/10
The Farewell (Wong, 2019) 6/10
Once Upon a Time in America (Tarantino, 2019) 7/10
Peterloo (Leigh, 2019) 8/10
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) 7/10
* Hard Eight (Anderson, 2019) 8/10
Midsommar (Aster, 2019) 7/10
* Klute (Pakula, 1971) 6/10
* Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962) 9/10
* The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941) 10/10

* Wang

That’s a fun slate! Haven’t seen Hard Eight in years.
Amazing Grace (finally!) and Last Black Man in San Francisco lined up for the next few days.

Oh wow I'd give "Peterloo" half that score, Alfred. I found it incredibly hamfisted and broad and a total nosedive after the great "Mr Turner".

I loved it.

Knife + Heart (Gonzalez, 2018) 8/10
*Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002) 5/10
*Jackass: The Movie (Tremaine, 2002) 8/10
Tonka of the Gallows (Anton, 1930) 7/10
Islands (Gonzalez, 2017) 7/10
Battle in Heaven (Reygadas, 2005) 7/10
*Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954) 10/10
Une Femme Douce (Bresson, 1969) 6/10
Adoption (Meszaros, 1975) 6/10

The Knife of the Party (Jason, 1934)
Estrellados (de Alberich & Sedgwick)
*The Bishop Misbehaves (Dupont, 1935)
That Man From Rio (de Broca, 1964)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (Watts, 2019)

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982) 3/5
* Love Streams (1984) 5/5
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) 3.5/5
The Lawnmower Man (1992) 3/5
* Detour (1945) 3/5
Pokemon Detective Pikachu 2.5/5
Silver Jew (2007) 3/5
* Eyes Wide Shut 3.5/5
Bombshell: the Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) 3/5
Under the Silver Lake (2018) 1/5
* Starship Troopers (1997) 3.5/5

Rolling Thunder Revue (7.5)
The Contender (7.5)
Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood (7.5)
Rocketman (5.5)
David Crosby: Remember My Name (7.0)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (7.5)
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank (7.0)
Jaws (10.0)
Yesterday (6.0)
Mid90s (7.0)
Eighth Grade (7.0)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Bayona, 2018) 5/10
Brewster McCloud (Altman, 1970) 7/10
King of New York (Ferrara, 1990) 7/10
Start the Revolution Without Me (Yorkin, 1970) 6/10
I Am Michael (Kelly, 2015) 6/10
The Farewell (Wang, 2019) 6/10
Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst, 1929) 7/10
*Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, 1971) 8/10
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970) 5/10
*The Freshman (Bergman, 1990) 7/10

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018, Minervini) 7/10
Marius (1931, Korda/Pagnol) 9/10
The Shining Hour (1938, Borzage) 6/10
La Flor (2018, Llinas) 6/10
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Olmi) 8/10
*Let the Sunshine In (2017, Denis) 9/10
The Thrill of It All (1963, Jewison) 5/10
I Fidanzati (1963, Olmi) 8/10
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931, Leonard) 6/10
*Pillow Talk (1959, Gordon) 8/10

mid90s is the most realistic depiction of teenage subcultures (in this case, dirtbag skater kids) since River's Edge. Low-stakes, funny, and streaming for free on Amazon Prime.

Kursk (Vinterberg, 2018)
T.R. Baskin (Ross, 1971)
The Rover (Michôd, 2014)
Backbeat (Softley, 1994)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (Sullivan, 2018)
Alita: Battle Angel (Rodriguez, 2019)
Rams (Hustwit, 2018)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994) (*repeat viewing)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Stahelski, 2019)
Charlie Says (Harron, 2018)

The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940) - 8/10
I’m So Excited! (Almodóvar, 2013) - 8/10
Jungle Fever (Lee, 1991) - 7/10
Law of Desire (Almodóvar, 1987) - 7/10
The Killing of Sister George (Aldrich, 1968) - 10/10
The Gingerbread Man (Altman, 1998) - 6/10
The Iron Horse (Ford, 1924) - 9/10
All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999) - 8/10
Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002) - 9/10
Wagon Master (Ford, 1950) - 9/10
Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010) - 8/10
*Buffalo ’66 (Gallo, 1998) - 8/10
Talk to Her (Almodóvar, 2002) - 7/10
The Golden Coach (Renoir, 1952) - 7/10
*Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982) - 9/10

just watched In Pursuit of Venus (Infected) by Lisa Reihana at the De Young, it was incredible

never watched anything on an 85 foot screen before

All Things Must Pass the doc about Tower records history. I don't think I knew much about the chronology before. This was pretty good.

1/2 of Sorry To Bother You which I was watching on memory stick when I found out All Things Must Pass was on TV.
Really enjoying it so need to get back to it.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Slightly revisionist but quite enjoyable. But that's Tarant8no for you.

Battling Butler (Keaton, 1926)
Mud and Sand (Pratt, 1922)
Le Doulos (Melville, 1963)
Dancing Sweeties (Enright, 1930)
Reunion in Vienna (Franklin, 1933)
Le Deuxième Souffle (Melville, 1966)

Amour fou is incredibly beautiful but so austere, I’m thinking I will appreciate it more on later viewings

only seen two films of hers so far, but I think Jessica Hausner is an amazing director

I agree. I'd also say that Amour Fou is one of the funniest films I know, though of course in a veeeeery droll way.

Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
Popeye (1980)
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Foxy Brown (1974)
Tropicalia (2012)
A Bigger Splash (1974)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Muhammad and Larry (2009)
The Beach Bum (2019)
Trafic (1971)

xp watching it I remember wondering if Amour fou was actually a very ascetic comedy

she juxtaposed an emotional (and very morose) story against super dry discussions about tax law

It has one of the best sound-effect jokes in the scene where Kleist discusses suicide with his cousin, while her dogs trot around.

'Do you want to die with me?'
[Woof!]
'...no?'

The whole thing is so absurd. It's a very weird form of humour, but I think it's hilarious.

Everyone should try "Penguin Highway" if you can find it; beautifully animated coming-of-age tale about loss and death under several layers of absurdity and metaphor. Reminded me a lot of Satoshi Kon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMQVQVADx2E

An Actor’s Revenge (1963, Ichikawa) 9/10
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018, Gilliam) 5/10
Living on Velvet (1935, Borzage) 6/10
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945, Hamer) 8/10
The Round-Up (1966, Jancso) 10/10
*The Souvenir (2019, Hogg) 9/10
End of the Century (2019, Castro) 7/10
*Cutter’s Way (1981, Passer) 9/10
César (1936, Pagnol) 7/10
Fanny (1932, Allégret) 8/10

Alfie (Gilbert, 1966) 7/10

That's my august in movie watching. :/ I watched TV cartoons for the cartoon poll instead.

July + August in theaters

*Morocco (Sternberg, 1930) - 10/10
The Spy Behind Home Plate (Kempner, 2019) - 6/10
Midsommar (Aster, 2019) - 8/10
Stuber (Dowse, 2019) - 6/10
Wild Rose (Harper, 2018) - 5/10
*Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955) - 9/10
The Art of Self-Defense (Stearns, 2019) - 8/10
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019) - 10/10
The Farewell (Wang, 2019) - 8/10
Vera Cruz (Aldrich, 1954) - 8/10
Cry of the City (Siodmak, 1948) - 9/10
David Crosby: Remember My Name (Eaton, 2019) - 8/10
Ride Lonesome (Boetticher, 1959) - 7/10
The Kitchen (Berloff, 2019) - 3/10
Luce (Onah, 2019) - 5/10
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Øvredal, 2019) - 4/10
Ready or Not (Bettinelli-Olpin, Gillett; 2019) - 6/10
*Shanghai Express (Sternberg, 1932) - 10/10
After the Wedding (Freundlich, 2019) - 2/10

saw OUATIH 3 times

so that's a no on Wild Rose, eh? The lead actress is getting lots of praise.

Cobra Verde

she was ok, like most movies about aspiring musicians it was mostly bad

August:

Fortini/Cani (Straub-Huillet, 1976) 7/10
Charlie Bubbles (Finney, 1967) 7/10
The Ghoul (Francis, 1975) 5/10 (this was on Amazon Prime and looked as if it had been copied from an old VHS tape - the film is otherwise unavailable on home video)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (Straub-Huillet, 1979) 9/10
White Dust (Keen, 1972) 8/10
Cross of Iron (Peckinpah, 1977) 7/10
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019) 8/10
Pain and Glory (Almodovar, 2019) 7/10
Call Northside 777 (Hathaway, 1948) 7/10
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2019) 8/10
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (Baker/Chang, 1974) 6/10

Bad Times at the El Royale (Goddard, 2018)
Solar Walk (short - Bucsi, 2018)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)
*La chambre (short - Akerman, 1972)
Hare Krishna (short - Mekas, 1966)
Cassis (short - Mekas, 1966)
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (short - Jacobs, 2009)
Notes on the Circus (short - Mekas, 1966)
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (Mekas, 1968)
American Gigolo (Schrader, 1980)
Slack Bay (Dumont, 2016)
*A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger, 1944)
Police Story 2 (Chan, 1988)
The Bed Sitting Room (Lester, 1969)
Manny & Lo (Krueger, 1996)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog, 1974)
*Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)
*The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg, 1976)
The Gay Divorcee (Sandrich, 1934)
Mademoiselle (Richardson, 1966)
*Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Jones, 1983) + *The Crimson Permanent Assurance (short - Gilliam, 1983)
The Sisters Brothers (Audiard, 2018)
Mobilize (short - Monnet, 2015)

The Pajama Party (Roach, 1931)
La Bête Humaine (Renoir, 1938)
The Admiral's Secret (Newall, 1934)
Up to His Ears (deBroca, 1965)
After Tomorrow (Borzage, 1932)
Bedlam of Beards (Holmes, 1934)
Dancing Man (Ray, 1934)
The King of the Champs-Élysées (Nosseck, 1934)
The Curve (Shaki, 1999)

you all see so many films!

Slack Bay was reviled but I really loved it (as well as all of the other Dumont films)

also Klaus Kinski was something else in Cobra Verde

In The Soup (Rockwell, Kissell, Mitchell 1992)
* Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood (Tarantino 2019) [DCP]
* Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, W. Peter Iliff, Rick King, James Cameron 1991) [DCP]
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Hitchcock, Krasna 1941) [📽️ 35mm]
* Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (Carrivick, Mathieson 2009)
Willow Creek (Goldthwait 2013 )
MacGruber (Taccone, Forte, Solomon 2010)
Murder By The Book (Spielberg, Bochco 1971)
* Do The Right Thing (Lee 1989) [DCP]
Hollywood Vice Squad (Penelope Spheeris, James J. Docherty 1986)
* Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino 2009) [DCP]
Shakes The Clown (Goldthwait 1991)

I saw OUATIH again today

Klaus Kinski was something else in Cobra Verde

Last Black Man in San Francisco is such a romantic, loving, beautiful, well-written, well-acted, well-filmed movie; highly recommended and i prob need to rewatch shortly.