Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Daughter loved "Yojimbo" for today's movie, as well she should.

just watched Girlhood, I’ve see all of the Céline Sciamma films now. A Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Tomboy are my favorites but they are all good

The Wild Pear Tree, Synonyms, Transit and Pain and Glory were alll on my ballot for the film poll

* Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) 3.5/5
Dark Star (1974) 3/5
The Company (2003) 4/5
* They Live 4/5
The Hunger (1983) 4/5
* Leave Her to Heaven (1945) 4/5
Transit (2018) 3.5/5
Emma. (2020) 2.5/5
* Irma Vep (1996) 4/5
* The Straight Story (1999) 5/5
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) 3.5/5
* Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006) 3.5/5

Extra half star for JCS due to DC's own Carl Anderson.

I loved Irma Vep

not sure why you’re not using US dates in your documentation here morbs, Transit and The Wild Pear Tree we both first released in the US in 2019 I thought

Oops, forgot:

Popeye (1980) 4/5

for this thread I use whatever the imdb/Letterboxd has

we're not giving out annual honors here

Here's what I got for the last two weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-33jcEDk4

Great:
The Truth (Kore-eda, 2020)
Force Majeure (Ostlund, 2014)
Bacurau (Filho, Dorneles, 2020)

Very Good to Very Very Good:
Bellbird (Bennett, 2019)
Crip Camp (Lebrecht, Newnham, 2020)
Project Grizzly (Lynch,1996)
Drawn from Memory (Fierlinger, 1995 )

Almost Okay to Occasionally Good:
Tread (Solet, 2019)
It Started as a Joke (Clem/Druckerman, 2019)

No:
Wetlands (Wnendt, 2013)

"We have taken a powerful psychotropic drug. And you are going to die."

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948, Litvak) 6/10

I thought this was great! I mean 6/10 makes sense, it wasn't a masterpiece and was hampered by them having to be so vague about what Burt was really up to. A+ quarantine viewing at any rate.

big thumbs up for the new tsai and straub films

Days (Tsai, 2020) 8/10
A Tale of Springtime (Rohmer, 1990) 5/10
*Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001) 9/10
Leon Morin, Priest (Melville, 1961) 5/10
Heaven is Still Far Away (Hamaguchi, 2016) 5/10
Tea Leaf (Novaczek, 1988) 7/10
Eerie (Lahire, 1992) 6/10
G (Stein, 1979) 4/10
Existent (Cronenburg, 1999) 8/10
Light Work I (Reeves, 2007) 8/10
Color Neutral (Reeves, 2014) 6/10
Trains are for Dreaming (Reeves, 2009) 9/10
Girls Daydream about Hollywood (Reeves, 1992) 8/10
Saisonnier (Davis, 2016) 6/10
Bande a Part (Godard, 1964) 5 /10
Stable (Todd, 2003) 7/10
Passing (Todd, 2008) 8/10
Partie de la Campagne (Renoir, 1946) 9/10
Or/our (Budapest) (Perconte, 2018) 6/10
Reel in Colour #11 (Delgado Ramo, 2019) 3/10
Resistance (Favre, 2017) 6/10
3 Peonies (Barber, 2017) 6/10
601 Revir Drive (Weissbach, 2017) 4/10
*Howl’s Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2004) 6/10
Spirit House (Todd, 2008) 8/10
American International Pictures (Ostrovsky, 1997) 4/10
*Ponyo (Miyazaki, 2008) 6/10
Drips in Strips (Menken, 1961) 7/10
Excursion (Menken, 1968) 5/10
Eye Music in Red Major (Menken, 1961) 7/10
Glimpse of the Garden (Menken, 1957) 9/10
Lights (Menken, 1966) 9/10
*The Wind Rises (Miyazaki, 2013) 9/10
Inventing the Future (Medina, 2020) 4/10
*Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950) 8/10
La France Contre Les Robots (Straub, 2020) 9/10
Seven Landscapes (Hammen, 1995) 7/10
A Tale of Winter (Rohmer, 1992) 8/10
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Tsukamoto, 1989) 7/10
A Countess from Hong Kong (Chaplin, 1967) 7/10
Mobilize (Monnet, 2015) 7/10
Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart Is (Mack, 2012) 6/10
House and Universe (Zwirchmayr, 2015) 5/10
Om (Smith, 1986) 6/10
All My Life (Baillie, 1966) 9/10
Little Girl (Baillie, 1966) 7/10
A Lax Riddle Unit (Lertxundi, 2011) 6/10
Blue (Apichtapong, 2018) 8/10
This is My Kingdom (Reygadas, 2010) 4/10
L’arbe, Le Maire, et La Mediateque (Rohmer, 1993) 9/10
Bois ton Cafe (Rohmer, 1986) 6/10

Sorry, Wrong Number also in the pantheon of movies where the title is said only once as the last spoken line

gattaca - good as hell
legally blonde - totally fine rom-com
legally blonde 2 - abomination
first reformed - great
putney swope - risible, further evidence of how shit the counterculture in the United States was

moonstruck - Italians say the craziest things. likable failure of a movie
secrets and lies - great, I cried when Timothy Spall has his wee exasperated emotional rant at the birthday party

that Disney Robin Hood from the 70s - kinda bad honestly

The gradually-revealed lack of a coherent ethos in Putney Swope, the film, mirrors the depiction of Putney Swope, the character.

risible? it's sposed to be funny

Putney Swope was a disappointment after wanting to see it for years

I've just been watching trash for the last 2 weeks really. Best of what I've seen are Crank 2 (yes trash obv, but deliriously demented trash) and Simple Men (I've retreated into 90s nostalgia since lockdown and this fitted perfectly)

risible? it's sposed to be funny

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius),Thursday, April 16, 2020 3:09 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

could use "laughable" here also. wouldn't mean that the movie is funny

the crank movies are fantastic trash

maybe u shd see the rest of Downey Sr's films for context

https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/eclipse-series-33-up-all-night-with-robert-downey-sr/

putney swope is hilarious wtf

the movies in that criterion set are all great, especially No More Excuses, where he interviews a bunch of college/high school students (I think) at some type of youth club in midtown Manhattan in early 60s. I think. its great. there's another one in that set that has one of my favorite jokes ever

*Europa ’51 (1952, Rossellini) 10/10
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957, J. Sturges) 6/10
*The Bank Dick (1940, Cline) 9/10
The Harder They Fall (1956, Robson) 6/10
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945, Lewis) 7/10
So Dark the Night (1946, Lewis) 7/10
Murder by Contract (1958, Lerner) 8/10
*La Jetée (1962, Marker) (28m) 10/10
Toni (1935, Renoir) 9/10
Never Weaken (1921, Newmeyer) (29m) 8/10

Safe (7.0)
The Dreamers (5.0)
Something in the Air (7.0)
Cold Water (9.0)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (8.5)
Adventureland (8.5)
Kramer vs. Kramer (7.5)
Margot at the Wedding (7.0)
American Graffiti (9.0)
Saturday Night Fever (8.5)

Still working my way through The Stand, which in indeed terrible. Three-quarters finished, should be done by the time a vaccine comes along.

Red Sun (Young, 1971)
Snow Trail (Taniguchi, 1947)
*Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
Kinetta (Lanthimos, 2005)
Destiny (Lang, 1921)
Eyes of Laura Mars (Kershner, 1978)
Monos (Landes, 2019)
The Two of Us (Berri, 1967)
Side by Side (Kenneally, 2012)
Tomboy (Sciamma, 2011)
Titicut Follies (Wiseman 1967)
The Tram (short - Kieślowski, 1966)
Seven Women of Different Ages (short - Kieślowski, 1978)
Hospital (short - Kieślowski, 1976)
Railway Station (short - Kieślowski, 1980)
Factory (short - Kieślowski, 1970)
Talking Heads (short - Kieślowski, 1980)
A Dandy in Aspic (Mann, Harvey (uncredited), 1968)
Man of the West (Mann, 1958)
Water Lilies (Sciamma, 2007)
Come and See (Klimov, 1985)
The Scar (Kieślowski, 1976)
Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger, 1958)

Jogo de Cena (2007) - 7/10 i guess

that's it

Harriet
Quite moving, probably a bit Hollywoodised.
But good to see that there wasa commercial film made about the historical figure.
The guy who is the organiser for the Underground Railroad looks like he should play John Coltrane.
Quite enjoyed it but probably need to read an accurate biography.
& hope she gets on a currency note next year

Saboteur (Hitchcock, 1942) 7/10
Across 110th Street (Shear, 1972) 7/10
*Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943) 8/10
Tom Brown's School Days (Stevenson, 1940) 5/10
The Panic in Needle Park (Schatzberg, 1971) 7/10
Another Year (Leigh, 2010) 8/10
The Lodger (Hitchcock, 1927) 7/10
Toy Story 4 (Cooley, 2019) 8/10
Cry of the City (Siodmak, 1948) 7/10
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (Garver, 2018) 6/10

don’t know why Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film Kandahar has been so ignored, it doesn’t even show up on IMDB, not sure why

it is beautiful

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283431/reference/

I remember Time magazine really liking it. It didn't click with me.

thanks for that link abanana, didn’t realize it showed up in Makhmalbaf’s filmography as The Sun Behind the Moon

*Starstruck (1982, Armstrong) 8/10
The Vikings (1958, Fleischer) 6/10
A Patch of Blue (1965, Green) 6/10
That Is the Dawn aka Cela s’appelle l’aurore (1956, Bunuel) 8/10
Robinson Crusoe (1954, Bunuel) 7/10
*Footlight Parade (1933, Bacon) 9/10
*Animal Crackers (1930, Heerman) 8/10
Raging Sun, Raging Sky (2009, Hernandez) 4/10
*It’s in the Bag! (1945, Wallace) 7/10
Street Scene (1931, K. Vidor) 9/10

MUBI:

Lola (Losey, 1962)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)

BFI Player

Love Exposure (Sono, 2008) - A one of a kind film even if the guy can't really shoot it still manages to bring in almost moronically subversive and egdelord angles to teen love I just haven't seen before. As a japanese film its definitely engaging with it (the Sada Abe ref) and also trying to paradigm shift it by bringing in the Madonna Black Jeus stuff in a culture that isn't Catholic. The music is often good, reminds me of the ambient freneticism of The Genius.

An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu, 2018) - 8/10
*I Love You, Man (Hamburg, 2009) - 8/10
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (Ferrara, 1976) - xxx/10 (this is just straight up hardcore pornography)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Straub-Huillet, 1968) - 7/10
What About Bob? (Oz, 1991) - 6/10
The Front Page (Milestone, 1931) - 8/10
Commando (Lester, 1985) - 7/10
Black Book (Verhoeven, 2006) - 8/10
Ride the Pink Horse (Montgomery, 1947) - 8/10
Glorifying the American Girl (Webb, 1929) - 8/10
*Escape from New York (Carpenter, 1981) - 9/10
*Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder, 1970) - 9/10
*3 Women (Altman, 1977) - 10/10
Moses and Aaron (Straub-Huillet, 1975) - 7/10
Bullitt (Yates, 1968) - 8/10
*Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943) - 10/10
Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960) - 9/10
*Sex Drive (Anders, 2008) - 8/10
Not Reconciled (Straub-Huillet, 1965) - 8/10
Stray Dogs (Tsai, 2013) - 9/10
Journey to the West (Tsai, 2014) - 9/10
Rififi (Dassin, 1955) - 8/10
Spun (Äkerlund, 2002) - 9/10
*Casque d’Or (Becker, 1952) - 9/10
The Kid Brother (Wilde, Howe; 1927) - 8/10
Bell, Book and Candle (Quine, 1958) - 7/10
Frantz (Ozon, 2016) - 8/10
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941) - 8/10
Girls Trip (Lee, 2017) - 8/10
Toy Soldiers (Petrie Jr., 1991) - 3/10
*Ici et Ailleurs (Godard, Gorin, Miéville; 1976) - 10/10
The Grifters (Frears, 1990) - 9/10
*The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder, 1971) - 10/10
A Safe Place (Jaglom, 1971) - 8/10

April:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980) 8/10
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Lanfield, 1939) 7/10
Dracula's Daughter (Hillyer, 1936) 5/10
The Seventh Victim (Robson, 1943) 7/10
The Devil-Doll (Browning, 1936) 6/10
The Return of Doctor X (Sherman, 1939) 6/10
The Invisible Man Returns (May, 1940) 5/10
The House by the Cemetery (Fulci, 1981) 8/10
The Wolf Man (Waggner, 1941) 7/10
The Thing From Another World (Nyby, 1951) 7/10
The Leopard Man (Tourneur, 1943) 6/10
The Body Snatcher (Wise, 1945) 7/10
Vampyros Lesbos (Franco, 1971) 7/10
Daughters of Darkness (Kumel, 1971) 8/10
Bedlam (Robson, 1946) 7/10
The Masque of the Red Death (Corman, 1964) 8/10
The Oblong Box (Hessler, 1969) 7/10
Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch, 2017) 9/10
Grip of the Strangler (Day, 1958) 5/10
Baron Blood (Bava, 1972) 6/10
Horrors of the Black Museum (Crabtree, 1959) 6/10
The Flesh and the Fiends (Gilling, 1960) 8/10
The Fly (Neumann, 1958) 7/10
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Barton, 1948) 4/10
Flesh for Frankenstein (Morrissey, 1973) 7/10
Vampyres (Larraz, 1974) 7/10

*Odd Man Out (1947) 4.5/5
What About Bob? (1991) 3.5/5
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (bad director's cut with the screensavers) n/a
Beastie Boys Story (2020) 3.5/5
Bamboozled (2000) 3/5
Intimate Lighting (1965) 3/5
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) 3/5
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) 2.5/5
Other Music (2019) 3/5
Experiment in Terror (1962) 3.5/5

two more weeks

Great:
Bad Education (Finley, 2019)

Very Good to Very Very Good:
The Hottest August (Story, 2019)
The Mighty Atom (Greenstein, 2017)
Boy (Waititi, 2012)
Platform (Gaztellu-Urrutia, 2019)

Almost Okay to Occasionally Pretty Good:
Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul (Bochniak, 2017)
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (Reid, 2018)
Dolemite is My Name (Brewer, 2019)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (Lowney, 2013)
Bit (Elmore, 2019)
Circus of Books (Mason, 2019)

No:
Limelight (Corben, 2011)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Barton, 1948) 4/10

Double that 4!

(almost all their other films are around 4/10)

long time first time

April:
Bacurau (2020) 8/10
Half-Cocked (1994) 7/10
Jezebel (2019) 7/10
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon (2019) 6/10
Legally Blonde (2001) 7/10
Obvious Child (2014) 8/10
Onward (2020) 8/10
Legally Blonde 2 (2003) 3/10
Sorry We Missed You (2019) 8/10
The Full Monty (1997) 7/10
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) 6/10
Jupiter Ascending (2015) 4/10
Morvern Callar (2002) 8/10

My pace has slowed way down. Watching movies at home = 4/10.

legally blonde - totally fine rom-com
legally blonde 2 - abomination

haha yep

Morbs, I used to like Abbot and Costello as a kid, but this was my first encounter with them for a long while, and found them pretty insufferable - a barking bully abusing a simpering man-child. And just not very funny. One good trivia fact I learned about Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is that this was the only other time that Lugosi played Count Dracula apart from in the 1931 Tod Browning original (of course he played lots of other vampires, some very like Dracula, but none named as such).

did you not like, for one example, Lou's famous reply to Lon Chaney's "When the moon is full I turn into a wolf"?

as was the case for Jerry Seinfeld too, the A&C sitcom from the '50s was a formative comedic experience for me in childhood.

Liberté (2019, Costa) 4/10
*His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940) 10/10
*The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982, Greenaway) 7/10
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985) 5/10
The Wonders (2014, Rohrwacher) 5/10
*Vanya on 42nd Street (1994, Malle) 8/10
Vertical Features Remake (1978, Greenaway) (45m) 5/10
The Falls (1980, Greenaway) 6/10
*Monkey Business (1931, McLeod) 7/10
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1979, Greenaway) (41m) 5/10

legally blonde - totally fine rom-com
legally blonde 2 - abomination

have never seen #1 but #2 is the worst movie I have ever watched all the way through. meeting up with friends in the city on a visit to Brisbane during a 42° heatwave (107°F), it was the only thing starting at a time that we desperately needed to escape into airconditioning. on walking out, all three of us admitted that we had wanted to walk out, but hadn't wanted to break the stony silence in case the others were enjoying themselves.

No streaming service in our home. Pulling out our DVDs.

Viva Las Vegas - in which Elvis unexpectedly out sings, out dances and out acts Anne Margaret. Cesare Danova , as a sexy Italian race car driver, competes for Anne's hand, and dies in a fiery crash at the end, but two minutes later nobody notices or cares and the audience leaves the theater in an ecstatic conga line. Schlock was never schlockier, but, hey, what's an Elvis for if not schlock?

Pat & Mike - in which Katherine Hepburn appears to be surprisingly athletic and falls in love with Spencer Tracy for no discernible reason. Aldo Ray also appears, speaks words, moves about. A good time had by all.

North by Northwest - in which Cary Grant creates a deathless monument to the Cary Grantness of Cary Grant. Hitchcock plays with the audience as deftly as a cat plays with a mouse, plays with the camera and lighting like a maestro, and gets away with murdering plausibility with a truncheon. No one minds. Eve St. Marie is also excellent.

beg pardon, Eva Marie Saint.

full moon features odyssey pt 1:

trancers (1984, dir. charles band) - 8/10 -- blade runner/terminator/back to the future rip all at once, cool sets, cool story, ridiculous '80s action movie energy, helen hunt, the works
trancers ii: the return of jack deth (1991, dir. charles band) - 7/10 -- same director yet this shit looks like a soap opera. someone on letterboxd mentioned every shot/reverse shot conversation has each character looking directly into the camera. it's true. it's mesmerizingly inept. one of the funniest scripts ever imo, there's even an exploding ham
trancers iii: deth lives! (1992, dir. c. courtney joyner) - 7/10 -- you can tell it's good because there's an exclamation point in the title. the time fuckery gets weirder and stupider and the plot centers around this weird futuristic military compound connected to a strip club in the year 2005. more competent and visually interesting yet less funny and weird than trancers ii. still, hell yeah
subspecies (1991, dir. ted nicolaou) - 7/10 -- early '90s direct-to-video horror pretty much hit its peak here as far as i can tell, the perfect balance of hokey and creepy, and really boring in the best way. i wish i were watching this on a really dark and distorted pan-and-scan vhs, i think it would come off as intended
bloodstone: subspecies ii (1993, dir. ted nicolaou) - 10/10 -- were full moon suddenly flush with cash in '92-'93? i ask bc trancers iii and this feel like theatrical features, this especially, there's this incredible murnau-esque lighting in EVERY scene, the story is interesting, the characters matter... idk this is basically a '70s horror film to me, a creepy visual poem