Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Never Grow Old.
Connemara filmed dark Western about a small gang lead by semi unrecognisable John Cusack (who looks more like Michael Madden on first look than himself).
Not sure how big the budget was. Seems pretty low but they must have built all the sets etc. Whole thing seems murky and attempted realistic. Quite moralistic while eschewing the forced piety of forced religion and it's bigotry.
Somewhat enjoyed it, missed it during the Film Fleadh this summer.
But not sure it works fully.
& does every Irish filmed Western need to have somebody from elsewhere playing the supposedly Irish lead character. This was the guy from Into The Wild.

OUATIH (cam, whilst on the Tube)

Kidding.

OUATIH 8/10 (watched twice this week. Uneven yet probably his most fun film yet. I was born in '69 and grew up with 70s US TV and the radio on constantly so this "popped" for me. Will watch many more times.)

MUBI:

O Fantasma (Rodrigues, 2003)
Season of the Devil (Diaz, 2018)
Elles (Szumowska, 2011)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai, 2006)
Certified Copy (kiarostami, 2014)
Archipelago (Hogg, 2013)

Cinema:

Transit (Petzold, 2019)
Pain and Glory (Almodovar, 2019)

Sony have refused the theatre that has cheap Wednesdays from showing OUATIH at all so I guess Morbs the terrorists have won

Catch that Tarantella shit in 35mm if you can. Looks great.

A Face in the Crowd (Kazan, 1957) - 9/10
Steamboat Round the Bend (Ford, 1935) - 8/10
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929) - 10/10
Les Cousins (Chabrol, 1959) - 9/10
I Was a Male War Bride (Hawks, 1949) - 10/10
Early Spring (Ozu, 1956) - 8/10
Doctor Bull (Ford, 1933) - 9/10
*Lola (Fassbinder, 1981) - 10/10
Murder! (Hitchcock, 1930)
*Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929) - 8/10
La Chienne (Renoir, 1931) - 8/10
Live Flesh (Almodóvar, 1997) - 8/10
Cookie’s Fortune (Altman, 1999) - 8/10
Where is the Friend’s House? (Kiarostami, 1987) - 8/10
White Rose Campus: Then... Everybody Gets Raped (Ohara, 1982) - 6/10
And Life Goes On (Kiarostami, 1992) - 9/10
Enthusiasm (Vertov, 1931) - 9/10
The Fugitive (Ford, 1947) - 9/10
Summer of Sam (Lee, 1999) - 7/10
Through the Olive Trees (Kiarostami, 1994) - 8/10
A Foreign Affair (Wilder, 1948) - 9/10

+1 Image Book

A Band In DC.
the Bad Brains documentary. Sad to see the state of HR as things progress.
Heard he may have improved a bit now.
Otherwise very interesting film.
Just has me wondering about chronology since it has Chuck Mosley in the band prior to the Quickness and I thought the one show I saw with him in the later Marquee location was a couple of years later.
Looked like the band fronted by Israel was pretty powerful and I don't know if I have checked anything out with them.
Listened to a podcast on Rock For Light yesterday which may have prompted me watching the doc.

Harvey (Koster, 1950) 4/10
The Navigator (Keaton and Crisp, 1924) 7/10
Swing Time (Stevens, 1936) 7/10
*Chuck & Buck (Arteta, 2000) 6/10
The Lonely Guy (Hiller, 1984) 5/10
Red Dust (Fleming, 1932) 7/10
Little Women (LeRoy, 1949) 7/10
Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2012) 7/10
*Giant Little Ones (Behrman, 2018) 9/10
No Way Out (Mankiewicz, 1950) 7/10

In Fabric 6/10
Amazing Grace 9/10 for filmmaking, 11/10 for performances
*The Wild Bunch 7/10

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

I cried twice for amazing grace

The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940)
Seas Beneath (Ford, 1931)
Girl Without a Room (Murphy, 1933)
Clubs Are Trump (Roach, 1917)
Microscopic Mysteries (Lund, 1932)
Service for Ladies (Korda, 1932)
The animated works of Winsor McCay (1911-21)
Two Men in Manhattan (Melville, 1959)

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

I bought a set of the first five M:I movies on Blu-Ray for $20 and watched this one first 'cause I remembered it being the most fun. It was completely fucking nuts, and you can absolutely tell that the director of The Incredibles was in charge. Not just because of the set pieces but even the way the camera swoops around rooms.

*The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991, Bailey/Wagner/Tomlin) 8/10
I Am Wanda (1991, Raganelli) 6/10
The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981, Szulkin) 7/10
*Wanda (1970, Loden) 9/10
*The Pajama Game (1957, Donen, Abbott) 8/10
*A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Powell, Pressburger) 9/10
The Hero (1966, S. Ray) 7/10
*The Trip (1967, Corman) 6/10
The Year I Lost My Mind (2017, Iben) 4/10
*Dead of Night (1945, Cavalcanti, Hamer, Dearden, Crichton) 7/10
Mod Fuck Explosion (1994, Moritsugu) 6/10
The Wild Angels (1966, Corman) 5/10

Cinema:

The Souvenir (Hogg, 2019)

MUBI:

Exhibition (Hogg, 2013)
Leto (Serebrenikov, 2018)
Dark Habits (Almodovar, 1983)
The Needle (Nugmanov, 1988)
Class Relations (Huillet/Straub, 1984)
Law of Desire (Almodovar, 1987)

Grumpy (Cukor & Gardner, 1930)
Bulldozing the Bull (Fleischer & Bowsky, 1938)
I've Got to Sing a Torch Song (Palmer, 1933)
Magnet of Doom (Melville, 1963)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
Mutiny Ain't Nice (Fleischer, 1938)
The Old Pioneer (Ising, 1934)
That's My Boy (Neill, 1932)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Hunt, 1969)

Achievement unlocked: I have watch all of Melville's films.

This weekend:

Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982)
Never Goin' Back (Augustine Frizzell, 2018)
Aniara (Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja, 2019)

looks like I have 4 to go, j.lu

Mr. Brooks (Evans, 2007) 2/10
High Plains Difter (Eastwood, 1973) 6/10
Summer Hours (Assayas, 2008) 7/10
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai, 2006) 9/10
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai, 2005) 8/10
Annabelle Comes Home (Dauberman, 2019) 5/10
Jackass 3D (Tremaine, 2010) 7/10
*Jackass: Number Two (Tremaine, 2006) 7/10
Certified Copy (Kiarostami, 2010) 8/10
Many Undulating Things (Wang, Pan, 2019) 5/10
No Data Plan (Revereza, 2019) 6/10
Embracing (Kawase, 1992) 7/10
Sky Wind Fire Water Earth (Kawase, 2001) 8/10
Petition (Zhao, 2009) 9/10
Phoenix (Petzold, 2014) 8/10
La Flor (Llinas, 2018) 7/10

When You Read This Letter is great early Melville

Many Undulating Things (Wang, Pan, 2019)

tee hee

xp Melville dismissed it as work for hire but yes, it is intriguing. The Criterion Channel currently has it and 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown; they seem to be the most obscure of his works.

Glad I saw it at a rep screening earlier this year. Beautiful 4K restoration but if it's on the channel I guess it's not coming to disc anytime soon. (maybe would've been an Eclipse entry in the past?)

Jabberwocky (Gilliam, 1977)
Peterloo (Leigh, 2019 — but I bailed out halfway through)
A Vigilante (Daggar-Nickson, 2018)
It (Muschietti, 2017)
Calcutta (Malle, 1969)
Pinkus's Shoe Palace (short - Lubitsch, 1916)
Yella (Petzold, 2007)
*Logorama (short - H5, 2009)
*Safety Last! (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1923)
*Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)
Secret Sunshine (Lee, 2007)
The Brothers Bloom (Johnson, 2009) - 1/10
*A Trip to the Moon (short - Méliès, 1902)
*La Jetée (short - Marker, 1963)
*Solar Walk (short - Bucsi, 2018)
*World of Tomorrow (short - Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Lessons of Darkness (Herzog, 1992)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog, 1970)
Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)
Hold Me While I'm Naked (short - Kuchar, 1966)
The Green Ray (Rohmer, 1986)

:D at being so mad at Brothers Bloom that it's the only one to get a rating

I generally don't post shorts I watch (unless the films are as long as La Jetee), but for the next few weeks i'm planning to alternate Stan Brakhage and Looney Tunes.

I like Brick and Looper and was looking forward to Knives Out, but this Bloom thing was so godawful, Johnson will have to re-win my favor.

Easy Living (Leisen, 1937) - 8/10
Under the Skin (Glazer, 2014) - 10/10
*Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009) - 9/10
Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir, 1932) - 8/10
Dr. T & the Women (Altman, 2000) - 7/10
Klute (Pakula, 1971) - 8/10
*Bad Education (Almodóvar, 2004) - 9/10
*News from Home (Akerman, 1977) - 10/10
Le Boucher (Chabrol, 1970) - 8/10
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Ramsay, 2011) - 9/10

Tokyo Twilight (Ozu, 1957) - 9/10
La Bête Humaine (Renoir, 1938) - 7/10
In Name Only (Cromwell, 1939) - 7/10
The Big Knife (Aldrich, 1955) - 7/10
Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman, 1974) - 9/10
Up the River (Ford, 1930) - 6/10
Sorry, Wrong Number (Litvak, 1948) - 9/10
Betty (Chabrol, 1992) - 9/10
Serpico (Lumet, 1973) - 9/10
Homework (Kiarostami, 1989) - 9/10

+1 Image Book

Dolor y Gloria - 7/10
*Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - 8/10
Body Snatchers - 5/10
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ('78) - 9/10
Anna - 5/10

The Brothers Bloom (Johnson, 2009) - 1/10

Show me on the doll where The Brothers Bloom touched you. It wasn't great but it was entertaining.

grimm (2003, van warmerdam) 6/10
in jackson heights (2015 wiseman) 6.5/10
fat city ('72 huston) 8/10
the old man & the gun (2018 lowery) 1/10
booksmart (2019 olivia wilde) 5/10
fading gigolo (2013 turturro) 6/10
roma (2018 cuaron) 6/10
dragged across concrete (2018 zahler) 6.5/10
*the last picture show ('71 bogdanovich) 8/10
daddy and them (2001 billy bob thornton) 6.5/10
profound desires of the gods ('68 imamura) 6/10

I generally don't post shorts I watch (unless the films are as long as La Jetee), but for the next few weeks i'm planning to alternate Stan Brakhage and Looney Tunes.

Whirlpool (Larraz) nasty, crude, fascinating death of the 60s artifact
every Friday the 13th movie on Prime (v/a) largely undistinguished
My Bloody Valentine (Mihalka) no Black Christmas or Alice Sweet Alice but not bad
McQueen- would've appreciated more context from an academic/curatorial side but not the puff piece i expected
Sleepaway Camp III (who cares) eh
Spider Baby (Hill) a ball
Horror Express (Martin) Hammer Horror's The Thing
Time Piece (Henson) HALP
In Fabric (Strickland) loved it

On Purge Bébé (Renoir, 1931)
Personal Problems (Gunn, 1980)
Loyalties (Dean & Dickinson, 1933)
Two Heads On a Pillow (Nigh, 1934)

Ad Astra
Some nice visuals in places but too many obviously earthbound staircases and things.
Astronauts are getting older. & i think there are at least a couple of plotholes where the story is supposed to be being driven.

Without a Clue (1988) 4/10
the first half of The Lion King shot-for-shot remake (2019) 2/10
Hustlers (2019) 7/10
Ad Astra (2019) 5/10

Mørklægning (Kjærulff-Schmidt)
Sons of the Desert (Seiter)
Way Out West (Horne)
Training Day (Fuqua)
Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
Toy Story 4 (Cooley)
Late Night (Ganatra)
Contact (Zemeckis)
Ad Astra (Gray)
Pain and Glory (Almodóvar)
Aimless Bullet (Yoo)
An Empty Dream (Yoo)
The Housemaid (Kim)
Woman of Fire (Kim)
Woman of Fire ‘82 (Kim)
The Handmaiden (Park)*
Clare’s Camera (Hong)*
Train to Busan (Yeon)
From Moscow to Petushki (Pawlikowski)
Serbian Epics (Pawlikowski)
The Woman in the Fifth (Pawlikowski)
Ida (Pawlikowski)*
Cold War (Pawlikowski)
Walesa: Man of Hope (Wajda)
United States of Love (Wasilewski)*
Mother (Donskoi)
Anna Karenina (Zarkhi)
Vassa (Panfilov)
Mother (Panfilov)*
Nouvelle Vague (Godard)*
Éloge de l’Amour (Godard)*

Ratings or it doesn't count.

The Unknown Known (2014)
True Grit (2010)
Monrovia, Indiana (2018)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
My Best Fiend (1999)
The Tomb of Ligea (1964)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
Predator (1987)
Dolemite (1975)
The Babadook (2014)
Solaris (2002)
Saboteur (1942)

Ratings or it doesn't count.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), 27. september 2019 15:14 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hate rating films. But Nouvelle Vague is 10/10 and Walesa is not...

My Darling Clementine (Ford 1946) 10/10
Out of the Past (Tourneur 1947) 10/10
Lifeforce (Hooper 1985) 8/10 for the first 15 minutes, 3/10 for the rest
Dead Heat (Goldblatt 1988) 7/10
The Hidden (Sholder 1987) 8/10
Stone Cold (Baxley 1991) 6/10
Kuffs (Evans 1992) 6/10
Black Moon Rising (Cokliss 1986) 5/10
The Challenge (Frankenheimer 1982) 7/10
Man on Fire (Chouraqui 1987) 7/10
The Clovehitch Killer (Skiles 2018) 8/10
Two for the Road (Donen 1967) 8/10, 10/10 for Hepburn’s wardrobe
Stadt als Beute (Pollesch 2005) 7/10
The Big Lebowski (Coen 1998) 7/10
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter 1994) 4/10
Capitaine Conan (Tavernier 1996) 9/10
The Big Gundown (Sollima 1966) 7/10
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen 2013) 9/10
As Above, So Below (Dowdle 2014) 8/10 for the catacombs, otherwise 5/10
Vampire’s Kiss (Bierman 1988) 7/10
Red Dawn (Milius 1984) 7/10
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Fassbinder 1972) 9/10
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (Parisot 1988) 7/10
Horror Express (Martin 1972) 8/10; 10/10 for the credits font
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor 2013) 6/10

Thank you, tonsillitis, for making this movie marathon possible.

* The Limey (1999) 4.5/5
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) 3.5/5
Ad Astra 2.5/5
Summer Interlude (1951) 3.5/5
* Titus (1999) 3.5/5
Amazing Grace 4/5
The Souvenir 4.5/5
Depeche Mode: 101 (1989) 4/5
The Image Book (2018) 3/5
All About My Mother (1999) 3.5/5
* The Hired Hand (1971) 4/5
At Berkeley (2013) 4/5
* The Long Good Friday (1980) 4.5/5
Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2018) 3.5/5

First Cow (2019, Reichardt) 5/10
*Comfort and Joy (1984, Forsyth) 8/10
The Baker’s Wife (1938, Pagnol) 9/10
*Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984, Radford) 7/10
Operation Petticoat (1959, Edwards) 8/10
The Long, Long Trailer (1954, Minnelli) 5/10
*That Sinking Feeling (1979, Forsyth) 8/10
Young Törless (1966, Schlöndorff) 7/10
Slightly Scarlet (1956, Dwan) 7/10
Damn Yankees! (1958, Donen, Abbott) 6/10
The Load (2018, Glavonić) 7/10
Rubber Band Pistol (1962, Itami) (33m) 7/10
*Tampopo (1985, Itami) 9/10
The Crimson Pirate (1952, Siodmak) 7/10

Whoa, new Reichardt? No good?

very disappointing imho

don't like to hear that! I will certainly see it anyway.

the night scenes are... barely visible? Digital needs some work.

also frequently dull

i watched Gauche the Cellist from Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata last night and it is an abundant treat and well worth the hour's investment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evewEVPqTrk

xp she didn't shoot on 35?