recently watched Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light (2010) and The Pearl Button (2015), and really liked them both. Looking forward to seeing the third part of the trilogy The Cordillera of Dreams which was released this year (but won’t be out in US until Feb 2020)
― Dan S, Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
*Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller 2015)*Marathon Man (Schlesinger 1976)Greenaway shorts: Intervals (1973), Windows (1974), H is for House (1976), Water Wrackets (1978)*Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone 1968)The Irishman (Scorsese 2019)The Inland Sea (Corra 1991)Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli 1944)Border (Abbas 2018)Knives Out (Johnson 2019)*Cemetery of Splendour (Weerasethakul 2015)The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck 2006)Parasite (Bong 2019)The Lighthouse (Eggers 2019)Scarlet Street (Lang 1945)Marriage Story (Baumbach 2019)30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (various, 2019)The Petrified Forest (Mayo 1936)The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Sturges 1944)Mauvais sang (Carax 1986)Tokyo Godfathers (Kon 2003)Aves (short - Keene 1998)
― Miami weisse (WmC), Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
Anybody's Woman (Arzner, 1930)A Christmas Story (Clark, 1983)*Hogfather (Jean, 2006)National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Chechik, 1989)
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 23 December 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
Atlantis (2019) 5/10The Chills:The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillips (2019) 6/10Tabu (2012) 7/10Frost/Nixon (2008) 6/10The Irishman (2019) 8/10Let The Sunshine In (2017) 7/10The Program (2015) 4/10High Flying Bird (2019) 7/10The Nightingale (2019) 6/10Colossal (2016) 6/10Marriage Story (2019) 8/10*Memento (2000) 8/10Hustlers (2019) 7/10The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) 7/10Ken Park (2002) 5/10Uncut Gems (2019) 8/10
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Monday, 23 December 2019 10:45 (four years ago) link
Handmade Mountain (Clarke, 2019) 5/10The Hook Up (Smith, 2019) 5/10Woman Dress (Cuthand, 2019) 7/0Reviving the Roost (Shraya, 2019) 7/10The Bassinet (Hsiang, 2019) 6/10Isn't It Romantic (Strauss-Schulson, 2019) 6/10Never Sock a Baby (Fleischer, 1939) 7/10*A Christmas Story (Clark, 1983) 8/10Ash Is Purest White (Jia, 2018) 7/10Us (Peele, 2019) 6/10Beyond Tomorrow (Sutherland, 1940) 5/10
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Moses und Aron (Straub-Huillet)Class Relations (Straub-Huillet)Chocolate (Denis)*A Film for Friends (Jude)The Marshal’s Two Executions (Jude)Ecce Bombo (Moretti)Bianca (Moretti)The Son’s Room (Moretti)Mia Madre (Moretti)*The House on Trubnaya (Barnet)Outskirts (Barnet)A Good Lad (Barnet)Pages of Life (Barnet)Poet (Barnet)The Wrestler and the Clown (Barnet & Yudin)Annushka (Barnet)Alyonka (Barnet)Whistle Stop (Barnet)Jesus Christ Superstar (Jewison)Godspell (Greene)The Night Falls (Gavaldon)Straight Outta Compton (Gray)The President’s Last Bang (Im)Parasite (Bong)Like Someone In Love (Kiarostami)*Honey Boy (Har’el)Trainwreck (Apatow)Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)*Fight Club (Fincher)*Black Book (Verhoeven)Elle (Verhoeven)Spotlight (McCarthy)It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra)Free Solo (Char Vasarhelyi & Chin)American Sniper (Eastwood)Infernal Affairs (Lau & Mak)I am Not Your Negro (Peck)*Tokyo Godfathers (Kon)
Boris Barnet. What a joy. I knew By the Blues of Seas, but his other early films are amazing as well. House on Trubnaya really a forgotten silent gem, as inventive as Vertov, and as crowd pleasing as Chaplin (ok, not quite, but closer than you'd think!). Outskirts the best early sound film I've seen since M, although the many sound jokes does take a bit of the grandeur out of the portrayal of glorious revolution. All the cannons sound like pratfalls, it's a bit confusing. The late ones aren't as good, Alyonka is even a bit overrated, but there's something about well made propaganda which is calming and fun to watch. 'All over glorious Soviet workers flock to the cities to be part of Stalins five year plan!'. That kind of thing. Boy, a lot of them end with big speeches...
Other than that. Like Someone In Love is really underrated, I think. I might prefer it to Certified Copy, even if the other one is more daring. But the mood in LSIL is just remarkable.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 26 December 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
The Holly and the Ivy (1952, O'Ferrall) 8/10 Sweet Movie (1974, Makavejev) 4/10 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018, Heller) 7/10 Little Odessa (1994, Gray) 5/10 Nell Gwyn (1926, Wilcox) 6/10 Deadwood: The Movie (2019, Minahan) (TV) 8/10 Cold War (2018, Pawlikowski) 7/10 *Two for the Road (1967, Donen) 6/10 Rare Exports (2010, Helander) 4/10 *Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954, Becker) 9/10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Little Women (Gerwig, 2019) 8/10Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Abrams, 2019) 3/10Queen & Slim (Matsoukas, 2019) 6/10Uncut Gems (Safdie, 2019) 7/10Bombshell (Roach, 2019) 4/10The Two Popes (Meirelles, 2019) 4/10A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Heller, 2019) 4/10The Stranger (Visconti, 1966) 7/10* The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) 10/10
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Dolemite Is My Name (Craig Brewer, 2019)Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)Chronicle of a Summer (Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch, 1961)Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Bret Wood, 2003)Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback (Lucía Palacios, Dietmar Post, 2006)Advise & Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962)The Devil's Rain (Robert Fuest, 1975)Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, 1972)Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 28 December 2019 08:08 (four years ago) link
* Dark Star (Carpenter, O'Bannon 1974) Knives Out (Johnson 2019) [DCP]One Of My Wives Is Missing (Jordan, Marton, Thomas 1976) Ghostbusters (extended version) (Paul Feig, Katie Dippold 2016) * Knives Out (Johnson 2019) [DCP]Parasite (Bong, Han 2019) [DCP]A Friend In Deed (Gazzara, Fischer 1974) The Last Of Sheila (Ross, Sondheim, Perkins 1973) Marriage Story (Baumbach 2019) * Mission: Impossible - Ghost; Protocol‽ (Bird, McQuarrie, Appelbaum, Nemec 2011) The Man Who Haunted Himself (Dearden after Armstrong 1970) Earth Girls Are Easy (Julien Temple, Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey, Terrence E. McNally 1988)
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 29 December 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
throwing a potato thru the windows of all the uk critics who panned peterloo
Peterloo (Leigh, 2018) 9/10Private Fears in Public Places (Resnais, 2006) 4/10To Catch a Thief (Hitchcock, 1955) 6/10Le Petit Soldat (Godard, 1963) 8/10The Death of Louis XIV (Serra, 2016) 8/10*Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai, 2003) 10/10Picnic on the Grass (Renoir, 1959) 5/10*Vive L’Amour (Tsai, 1994) 10/10*No No Sleep (Tsai, 2015) 8/10*The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) 10/10*Yi Yi (Yang, 2000) 10/10Clue (Lynn, 1985) 4/10Marriage Story (Baumbach, 2019) 4/10*Metropolitan (Stillman, 1990) 9/10Riddles of the Sphinx (Mulvey, Wollen, 1977) 9/10India Song (Duras, 1975) 8/10Love Man Love Woman (Nguyen, 2007) 6/10The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Rossellini, 1966) 9/10The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942) 6/10The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964) 6/10
― devvvine, Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
Ang Lee's version of Hulk which I was slightly surprised to find on TV Thought it was now non canon so wouldn't be shown.
Limehouse Golem which wasn't great. Had me wondering if it was some kind of intended cash in on From Hell though not sure how well that did.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah My Fair Lady. Which had me thinking wasn't GBS some kind of socialist which this doesn't seem to show too well.Also has anybody done a Feminist or class war version of this. Just seems to be too much angled to the upper class and women knowing their place. Unless it corrects itself in the last hour.Funny seeing Jeremy Brett playing the wet sop who'd rather stand out in the street drinking in the street where she lives than accept an invitation in. 20 years later he played one of the more memorable Sherlock Holmes as I assume you are aware.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
*Big Business (Horne & McCarey, 1929)Waltzing Around (Sweet, 1929)*The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934)*There It Is (Muller & Bowers, 1928)Knives Out (Johnson, 2019)*Night After Night (Mayo, 1932)The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (Lourié, 1953)Uncut Gems (Safdie & Safdie, 2019)John's Gone (Safdie & Safdie, 2010)
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
National Gallery (2014) 3.5/5The Raid 2 (2014) 3.5/5Climax (2018) 2/5* Night and the City (1950) 4/5Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 3/5Uncut Gems 4.5/5* Batman Returns 3.5/5Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 3/5Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker 2/5
― Chris L, Monday, 30 December 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
GBS was a Fabian socialist, yes.
Pygmalion unadorned is moreso, but not really w/ the ending added for *that* film.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
- Wiseman's The Market (less enthralling than most, still a fun look at Southern hypercapitalism in the 80s)- Little Joe (abandoned right around the time i realized it just wasn't going to get smarter; i think when the kid brings his girl into the flowers. what the fuck was the dog doing in the clean room anyway?)- Songwriter (1984, batshit hero fantasy about marauding country stars with Willie and Kris Kristoffersen in the lead roles and Rip Torn as the heavy; loads of fun for a half hour but eventually too stupid and sexist to maintain. Worth a Youtube glance tho')- Ad Astra (James Gray's "inward-looking" sci-fi film AD ASTRA starring Brad Pitt)- Seahorse (Rolling trans arts thread)- Memories: Origin of Alien (enjoyable watch, stupified i never made the Bacon/Alien connection, not really necessary unless you're a series fan of the franchise but a fun bauble otherwise)- The Proposal (2018, really more of a supporting element of a larger artwork and - as such - occasionally beautiful to look at but mostly self indulgent and better represented by a new yorker piece like this one: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/how-luis-barragan-became-a-diamond)- Murder in the Zoo (1933, I recommend this for its OTT sequences of pre-slasher film sadism in thriller horror fashion... the film starts with our villain sewing a man's mouth shut and sending him into the jungle to die! Trigger warning that there are a lot of sequences where animals were clearly mistreated in the making, but i guess that's the 1930's)- Little Women (2019, Let's have a fangirl freakout over Greta Gerwig's LITTLE WOMEN (Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet))
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
and since i have work to do, let's just put these here and if anyone's curious I'm happy to discuss:
Rabbi’s Cat (2011)Beware Mr. Baker (2012)Be Natural: Alice Guy (2019)Framing John DeLorean (2019)Where’d You Go Bernadette (2019)Okko’s Inn (2019)A Brother’s Love (2019)Cutting my Mother (2019)- https://www.topic.com/cutting-my-motherFather’s Kingdom (2017)Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Rewatch, 1933)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
After autumn's flurry of film watching, I've had very little time in November and December unfortunately.
The Report (Scott Z. Burns, 2019)Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, 1993)Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)Aquarela (Viktor Kosakovskiy, 2018)
― brain (krakow), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
Murder in the Zoo (1933, I recommend this for its OTT sequences of pre-slasher film sadism in thriller horror fashion... the film starts with our villain sewing a man's mouth shut and sending him into the jungle to die! Trigger warning that there are a lot of sequences where animals were clearly mistreated in the making, but i guess that's the 1930's)
Peak Lionel Atwill. Glorious, in the sickest way (not least how he seems to desire his wife all the more after...dispatching...her admirers). Gives Kongo (1932) a run for its money as the most over-the-top pre-Code film.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
It's wacky! Also, it's short! The comic relief is an alcoholic publicist.
i guess i'll see Kongo now. What else falls under this category that you'd recommend?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
Hmmmm....Footlight Parade is my all-time favorite movie period. The Scarlet Empress is a fever dream of sex, violence, and grotesqueness; anyone who has not seen it should do so IMMEDIATELY. Try to watch Kongo as a double-feature with West of Zanzibar (1928), a silent version (starring Lon Chaney) of the play on which Kongo was based. And if you haven't seen any of Erich von Stroheim's films, do so (if only as serious exercises in wish fulfillment).
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
okay! gonna do the von sternberg and Kongo shortly.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
December:
The Irishman (Scorsese, 2019) 8/10The Scalphunters (Pollack, 1968) 6/10Face to Face (Sollima, 1967) 7/10The Vikings (Fleischer, 1958) 8/10 - a surprisingly beautiful-looking film - Jack Cardiff!The Gunfighter (King, 1950) 8/10Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes, 1971) 8/10Shane (Stevens, 1953) 8/10The Beyond (Fulci, 1981) 8/10The Perfume of the Lady in Black (Barilli, 1974) 8/10Two Rode Together (Ford, 1961) 7/10What Have You Done to Solange? (Dallamano, 1972) 7/10Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Abrams, 2019) 5/10Support Your Local Sheriff (Kennedy, 1969) 7/10Marriage Story (Baumbach, 2019) 7/10Stranger on Horseback (Tourneur, 1955) 7/10
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
November + December in theaters
Motherless Brooklyn (Norton, 2019) - 5/10Greener Grass (DeBoer, Luebbe; 2019) - 3/10The Baker’s Wife (Pagnol, 1938) - 7/10Jojo Rabbit (2019, Waititi) - 3/10The Report (Burns, 2019) - 6/10Frankie (Sachs, 2019) - 2/10The Irishman (Scorsese, 2019) - 8/10Knives Out (Johnson, 2019) - 8/10Honey Boy (Har’el, 2019) - 7/10Dreams (Bergman, 1955) - 9/10Dark Waters (Haynes, 2019) - 5/10Marriage Story (Baumbach, 2019) - 4/10The Devil’s Eye (Bergman, 1960) - 8/10Richard Jewell (Eastwood, 2019) - 5/10Bombshell (Roach, 2019) - 6/10Cats (Hooper, 2019) - 2/10Little Women (Gerwig, 2019) - 7/10Uncut Gems (Safdie Brothers, 2019) - 9/10American Dharma (Morris, 2018) - 6/10After the Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1936) - 8/10
that last one was the only movie I saw on celluloid in 2019, unfortunately - there were hardly any to see
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 January 2020 05:14 (four years ago) link
saw five on film: Once Upon...Hollywood and Knife + Heart in new release (the latter either the only print in America or the only print in the world); Witchfinder General as rep; and The (first) Thin Man and Hitchcock's The Wrong Man in museum screenings.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 2 January 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
i think you liked greener grass more than i did flappy.
Double feature for Jan 1 was a rewatch of 'Spirited Away' in theaters on 35mm (totally holds up, one of the great modern fairy tales with outrageously iconic character/set design) and the documentary 'Jay Myself' at home (enjoyable portrait of a fast dying variety of NY eccentric genius artist and his ridiculous home, great visuals and mouthwatering realty)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 January 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
Macho Dancer (1988, Brocka) 5/10*"10" (1979, Edwards) 8/10*Husbands (1970, Cassavetes) 7/10Phffft! (1954, Robson) 8/10*Frankenstein (1931, Whale) 8/10*The Irishman (2019, Scorsese) 8/10*Going My Way (1944, McCarey) 7/10Dolemite Is My Name (2019, Brewer) 8/10Dolemite (1975, Martin) 5/10A Hidden Life (2019, Malick) 7/10The Farewell (2019, Wang) 6/10*Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Penn) 9/10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 January 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
Back to back Ghibli in theaters: Porco Rosso (the dub unfortunately, which badly hamstrings this... Michael Keaton has the perfect voice for it but is mailing in his performance and the Disney English script is unnecessarily ham-fisted and sexist throughout) and The Wind Is Rising (first time in theaters; definite top five, maybe top three for the studio)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 5 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
They Might Be Giants (Harvey, Goldman 1971) Black Christmas (Sophia Takal, April Wolfe 2019) 🎅 [DCP]* The Usual Suspects (S. Criminal, C. McQuarrie 1995) Death On The Nile (Guillermin, Shaffer, after Christie 1978) * Knives Out (w/ in-theater audio commentary) (Johnson 2019) [DCP] * The Long Kiss Goodnight (Harlin, Black 1996) 🎅 Anna And The Apocalypse (McPhail, McDonald, McHenry 2018) 🎅 Halloween (Green, Fradley, McBride 2018) Long Shot (Jonathan Levine, Dan Sterling, Liz Hannah 2019) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Gilliam, Grisoni 2019) Comfort and Joy (Forsyth 1984) 🎅 * Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (McQuarrie 2015) * Meet John Doe (Capra, Riskin, Presnell, Connell 1941) 🎅 An Exercise In Fatality (Kowalski, Cohen, Fischer 1974) * The Ref (Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese, Marie Weiss 1994) 🎅 Cats (Hooper & Hall vs Webber vs Possum 2019) [DCP] An Affair To Remember (Leo McCarey, Mildred Cram, Donald Ogden Stewart, Delmer Daves 1957) 🎆 After The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, after Dashiell Hammett 1936) 🎆 Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Wheatley & al. 2018) 🎆
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 5 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
Amador (Fernando Léon de Aranoa, 2010)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
Nothing Ever Happens (Mack, 1933)The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)Done in Oil (Meins, 1934)Sailors, Beware! (Guiol & Yates, 1927)The Bread and Alley (Kiarostomi, 1970)Recess (Kiarostomi, 1972)So Can I (Kiarostomi, 1975)Two Solutions for One Problem (Kiarostomi, 1975)The Colors (Kiarostomi, 1976)How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (Kiarostomi, 1977)A Wedding Suit (Kiarostomi, 1976)It Came From Outer Space (Arnold, 1953)The Traveler (Kiarostomi, 1974)
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Monday, 6 January 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
Oscar Doc hopeful 'Midnight Family' is a delicately delivered look at a deeply damaged and corrupt Mexican medical system from the perspective off a single family running a for-profit ambulance service staffed by a sixteen year old paramedic. everyone involved in the film is simultaneously heroic, cowardly, foolish, clever and desperate. it's a really good film; hope it gets distribution.https://midnightfamilyfilm.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM5I9N1OzTc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link
director's first film! lovely and sweet talkback where he discussed the ending which i won't spoil here but it was pretty harrowing how he got it.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
one more for anyone interested (And you should be):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR4aCknomCc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
I liked Midnight Family. Definitely worth seeing if you can.
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 January 2020 06:19 (four years ago) link
Greener Grass is fitfully funny yet so intentionally weird and annoying and off-putting (a la Tim & Eric) that I can barely take it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
It's just so stale, I can't believe we're still living through awful Tom Goes to the Mayor ripoffs and the UCB mindset.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
I eventually paused it, saw that I was only at the 25 minute mark, and then said "no way." I possibly said it out loud, to the cat.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
imagine the joy of being in a theater at that moment, a few rows away from the director
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
lmao
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
*The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972) - 8/10She’s the Man (Fickman, 2006) - 7/10Matewan (Sayles, 1987) - 9/10*Vanilla Sky (Crowe, 2001) - 8/10*Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2016) - 10/10The Twist (Chabrol, 1976) - 5/10Songwriter (Rudolph, 1984) - 7/10Love Before Breakfast (Lang, 1936) - 6/10The Phantom of Liberty (Buñuel, 1974) - 8/10Edge of Tomorrow (Liman, 2014) - 7/10La Haine (Kassovitz, 1995) - 7/10The Bridesmaid (Chabrol, 2004) - 8/10*Le Havre (Kaurismäki, 2011)Death Wish (Winner, 1974) - 8/10Cobra (Cosmatos, 1986) - 7/10Idle Hands (Flender, 1999) - 7/10La Vie de Jésus (Dumont, 1997) - 9/10*My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946) - 10/10*The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) - 10/10
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 05:41 (four years ago) link
Le Havre = 9/10
rewatched Honeyland in theaters; that's definitely a top ten of 2019 in my book.
Tried 'Chained For Life' and, while the intentions appear to be good and Adam Pearson is an arresting presence, the script is overbearing and the acting is painfully bad. Tapped out after 45 minute.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 06:34 (four years ago) link
on deck for the next few days: Aquarela in theaters (first time on the big screen, am expecting to be awed) and a pick 'em from the following for (all first time) home viewing: The Lighthouse, Phantom Thread, Hala, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History a Barbarians, Songs My Brothers Taught Me
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link
Further January big screen watches will include Three Christs (nice cast including Dinklage, Goggins, Bradley Whitford, Julianne Marguiles and the of-late blackballed Richard Gere), Weathering With You (mega-emo looking anime from Makoto Shinkai of "Your Name" fame), and Nicolas Cage tackling HP Lovecraft's Color Out of Space by AWOL horror auteur Richard Stanley
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 06:42 (four years ago) link
and, as long as I'm offloading, here's my current list of to-be-released films I'm psyched to see in 2020:
After Yang (Kogonada)Annette (Leo Carax)Antlers (April 2020)The Assistant (Jan 2020)Black Widow (May 2020)Dune (December 2020)Eternals (Zhao, November 2020)First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, September 2020)Invisible Man (Feb 2020)Last Night in Soho (September 2020)Memoria (Weeraseethakul, 2020)Nomadland (Zhao, 2020)Personal History of David Copperfield (Ianucci)Saint Maude (March 2020)Soul (Pixar, June 2020)The Truth (Kore-eda, March 2020)Underwater (Jan 2020)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 06:45 (four years ago) link
*National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (w: Hughes, 1989) 4/10*The Thin Man (MGM, Van Dyke, 1934) 6/10*Meet Me in St. Louis (MGM, Minelli, 1944) 7/10Remember the Night (w: Sturges, 1940) 6/10Trading Places (Landis, 1983) 4/10The Silent Partner (Duke, w: Hanson, 1978) 8/10Murders in the Rue Morgue (Hessler, 1971) 7/10Five Elements Ninjas (SB, Chang Cheh, 1982) 7/10 that wood ninja got taken down hardcore dammmmmmm*Watchmen (Snyder, 2009) 7/10 a refresher before watching the tv series
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
MUBI:
Two-lane backdrop (Hellman, 1971)Three Colours: White (Kieslowski, 1994)Three Colours: Blue (Kieslowski, 1993)A Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, 1997)
Cinema:
Cria Cuervos (Saura, 1976)So Long, My Son (Xiaoshuai, 2019)Little Women (Gerwig, 2019)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
The High School Hoofer (Mack, 1931)I'll Fix It (Neill, 1934)April Fool (Ceder, 1924)Whispering Whoopee (Horne, 1930)Tale of the Vienna Woods (Harman & Ising, 1934)The Report (Kiarostami, 1977)Solution No. 1 (Kiarostami, 1978)Orderly or Disorderly (Kiarostami, 1981)The Chorus (Kiarostami, 1982)Toothache (Kiarostami, 1983)Nurse-Mates (Fleischer, 1940)Body and Soul (Micheaux, 1925)
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Monday, 13 January 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link