Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (Rock & Pembroke, 1925)
Fascination (Mander, 1931)
The Telltale Heart (Shamroy & Klein, 1928)
Mabel's Strange Predicament (Normand, 1914)
The Flame Song (Henabery, 1934)
*The Infernal Cauldron (Melies, 1903)
The Infernal Cakewalk (Melies, 1903)
*Frankenstein (Dawley, 1910)
Satan in Prison (Melies, 1907)
The Moonstone (Barker, 1934)
Burn ’Em Up Barnes (Schaefer, 1934)
*Menu (Grinde, 1933)
Les Patineurs (Melies, 1908)
The Sorrows of Satan (Griffith, 1926)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Neill, 1943)
Dos Monjes (Bustillo Oro, 1934)

Home (Meier, 2008)
Amateur (Hartley, 1994)
Salon Kitty (Brass, 1976)
Cure (Kurosawa, 1997)
Le Navine Night (Duras, 1979)
Still the Water (Kawase, 2014)

An Unmarried Woman (Mazursky, 1978) - 5/10
Mister Roberts (Ford, LeRoy; 1955) - 6/10
Missing (Gavras, 1982) - 8/10
*The Searchers (Ford, 1956) - 10/10
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi, 2016) - 3/10
The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) - 7/10
*Just Before Nightfall (Chabrol, 1971) - 9/10
*She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford, 1949) - 9/10
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Woliner, 2020) - 7/10
House of Bamboo (Fuller, 1955) - 8/10
The Gambler (Reisz, 1974) - 8/10
Hi, Mom! (De Palma, 1970) - 6/10
*Le Bonheur (Varda, 1965) - 10/10
The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) - 8/10
Out of the Blue (Hopper, 1980) - 8/10
The Fury (De Palma, 1978) - 7/10
The Eroticist (Fulci, 1972) - 8/10
Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968) - 10/10
The Contender (Lurie, 2000) - 2/10
Phenomena (Argento, 1985) - 9/10
Malibu High (Berwick, 1979) - 6/10
Appassionata (Calderone, 1974) - 9/10
*Brewster McCloud (Altman, 1970) - 6/10
*Nashville (Altman, 1975) - 10/10
*Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol, 1960) - 9/10
*Fear of Fear (Fassbinder, 1975) - 9/10
*Night and Fog (Resnais, 1956) - 10/10
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) - 10/10
Girlfriends (Weill, 1978) - 10/10 <--------------------------Extraordinary film
*Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976) - 9/10
Murder by Contract (Lerner, 1958) - 8/10
*It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) - 10/10
The Kennel Murder Case (Curtiz, 1933) - 7/10
The Immortal Story (Welles, 1968) - 8/10
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Curtiz, 1939) - 8/10
On the Rocks (Coppola, 2020) - 9/10

(Waititi, 2016) - 3/10

have you seen / liked Boy or What We Do In The Shadows?

No, just Hunt & Jojo. Probably my least favorite active filmmaker

That’s too mild—I think he’s atrocious

Fwiw he did the only Marvel movie I didn’t outright loathe.

I'm honestly fine with anyone giving Hunt and Jojo 3/10, but Thor and Shadows are great fun.

idk if you'd like either of Boy or Shadows, especially if you'd bring a distaste for the whimsy elements of his work along, but they're far better than Hunt and Jojo.

there may come a time... Strong dislike always demands reevaluation

Claudia Weill's Girlfriends is amazing though, look out for that when Criterion puts it out / puts it on the channel. It's like a Chabrol movie, way more dark (atmospherically) than most NYC 1970s movies, despite the relatively light setup. Felt really European, besides being in 1:66.

Girlfriends is great. Watched for the first time a year or two ago and left a lasting impression.

Girlfriends is an excellent movie.

What We Do and Shadows (okay though i'm much preferring the series), Boy (pretty solid throughout) and Thor (absolute top notch fun comic book stuff) are the Waititi I've seen.

Just scored a copy of the FOURTEEN HOUR Women Make Film documentary series so that may guide my watching for awhile.

Show Me The Picture
Biography of Jim Marshall which was on Sky Arts last night.
Great picture fo a photographer I was already aware of and have several books by mainly on 60s and early 70s rock people.
He documented Monterey, Haight Ashbury and the Stones.
Good film worth catching if you get the chance.

Before that I tried watching a boot of Tenet a week or so ago but couldn't hear the dialogue so gave up.

Isn’t muffled dialogue standard for a Christopher Nolan movie.

I wish it were more muffled

Lol

The Tempest (Siodmak, 1932)
*The Village Chestnut (Wright & Griffith, 1918)
Only Me (Lane, 1929)
The Broken Butterfly (Tourneur, 1919)
Eleven P.M. (Maurice, 1928)
Womanhandled (La Cava, 1925)
Them! (Douglas, 1954)
Loose Change (Beaudine, 1928)
*Versus Sledge Hammers (Clements, 1915)
*The Immigrant (Chaplin, 1917)

I'm only 3/4 through 'On the Rocks' but had to say something because I'm loving it

On the Rocks (Coppola, 2020) - 9/10

― flappy bird, Saturday, November 7, 2020 3:03 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

my man. I sort of unconsciously started it and thought to myself "wtf am I doing?" What a delight.

Soooo good. Like a classic screwball comedy. Carole Lombard could've played the Rashida part. Loved it

pretty great NYC movie as well

I haven't posted on this thread since June but here's the best movies I've seen since then

The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Lee, 2016)
World On A Wire (Fassbinder, 1973)
Country (Eyre, 1981)
Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer, 1983)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Ross Brothers, 2020)
Bacurau (Filho, 2019)

Up for Murder (Bell, 1931)
The Vanishing Shadow (Landers, 1934)
The Girl in 419 (Hall, 1933)
Journey’s End (Whale, 1930)
Kiss and Make-Up (Thompson, 1934)
Illegal (McGann, 1932)
Tumultes (Siodmak, 1932)
*Teddy at the Throttle (Badger, 1917)
*Papa's Boy (Taurog, 1927)
Corruption (Roberts, 1933)

absolutely baffled how anyone could do anything but laugh at how terrible On The Rocks was. a good new york movie? if you're into the tightly circumscribed habits of rich tribeca fuckheads, i guess. my wife and i put it on last night because of the novelty of having a PS4 app for our (free) AppleTV subscription, and hey, rashida jones. bill murray! but... oh my god. we kept with it because the movie kept promising a payoff. when it came we were like, no. we turned to each other. no! are they really doing this?? this is...... it?? there isn't a B-plot. there's nothing. i will give coppola credit that the photography is outstanding. but everything else... my god. absolutely zero chemistry between the wife and husband (who is written as a monumental douchebag, regardless of his fidelity or not, so any happy reconciliation between them feels totally slimy). jones seemingly existing to tee up murray to deliver totally snoozeful theories about biology as destiny. and to fret in her zillion dollar tribeca apartment about whether she'll ever make progress on her 'book' - what's it about, who knows, who cares. they're all just so hateful, the stakes are so low, murray totally phones it in. just pitiful. sub-beginner level filmmaking.

i can only guess that the reason it got made is that after lost in translation murray told coppola he'd do anything else she asked. this was it, and murray's involvement guaranteed investors. otherwise it's just.. it's gobsmacking

Journey's End
which was quite moving.
interplay between men in the trenches in WWI.
Probably because i t was Remembrance Day weekend, I think this was Saturday night.

Red Sparrow
which I was thinking of watching since I hadn't seen it before.
Russian intrigue with an ex ballerina.
Caught most of it in a +1 channel.
Nowhere near as good. so glad i watched Journey's End through

Legend of the Mountain (1979) 4/5
* The Servant (1963) 4.5/5
* Girlfriends (1978) 3.5/5
The Color of Money (1986) 3/5
Demons (1985) 3.5/5
The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) 3/5
In Fabric (2018) 3.5/5
* The Parallax View (1974) 4/5
Haxan (1922) 3/5
Black Christmas (1974) 3.5/5
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) 3/5
The Velvet Vampire (1971) 3/5

Shorts:
The Barbershop (1933) 3.5/5
The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933) 3/5
The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) 3.5/5
Street of Crocodiles (1986) 4/5
575 Castro Street (2009) 3.5/5
Blue Diary (1997) 3.5/5

I grew up in tribeca so yes xxp

i'm kinda with Tracer, but i only lasted 15 minutes so i don't feel like i have much room to jump in and complain.

I'm a big Coppola defender - I like almost all of her movies, including The Beguiled - but this new one just looks like complete garbage.

Watched two space horror movies this weekend: Sputnik (Russia, 2020) and The Last Days on Mars (US, 2013). Both very good. Sputnik is on Hulu, The Last Days on Mars is free on Amazon Prime.

*Three Days of the Condor (Pollack, 1975) - 8/10
Obsession (De Palma, 1976) - 9/10
Tenebrae (Argento, 1982) - 9/10
Bodyguard (Fleischer, 1948) - 7/10
Parenthood (Howard, 1989) - 0/10
Two Rode Together (Ford, 1961) - 6/10
*Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962) - 8/10
This is the Army (Curtiz, 1943) - 8/10
The Servant (Losey, 1963) - 7/10
Brute Force (Dassin, 1947) - 9/10
La Grande Bouffe (Ferreri, 1973) - 10/10
Rooster Cogburn (Millar, 1975) - 6/10
10 Rillington Place (Fleischer, 1971) - 7/10
*Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Fassbinder, 1971) - 9/10
Time Bandits (Gilliam, 1981) - 7/10
Dodge City (Curtiz, 1939) - 7/10
*Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) - 8/10
Blind Date (Losey, 1959) - 5/10
The Shootist (Siegel, 1976) - 8/10
*Sisters (De Palma, 1973) - 9/10
*Election (Payne, 1999) - 10/10
Greetings (De Palma, 1968) - 8/10
The Psychic (Fulci, 1977) - 8/10
Vampyros Lesbos (Franco, 1971) - 6/10

Parenthood (Howard, 1989) - 0/10

Here's where I have my Ebert hat on about "is it as good as a movie of its type could be?" to which in this case I unequivocally say hell yes.

the movie kept promising a payoff

I posted about the Coppola film a few weeks ago. I didn't think it was inept, but yeah, it just didn't go anywhere at all. (The big father-daughter confrontation almost felt like Coppola was aware of that too and tried to gin up something--though I did wonder if Jones was airing specific grievances Sofia harbored towards her own father.) Bill Murray used to surprise regularly, now he plays Bill Murray; Jones was very good in her small Social Network role--capturing her character's arm's-length sympathy for Zuckerberg--but to me didn't have anywhere near enough presence to carry the movie.

Parenthood (Howard, 1989) - 0/10

Here's where I have my Ebert hat on about "is it as good as a movie of its type could be?" to which in this case I unequivocally say hell yes.

― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

You're right, but this specific type of family film is something I find not only bad but objectionable and malicious at every level. Poison.

Haven't seen it since 1989, but on memory I'd at least give it 1/10 for Keanu in goofy teen mode.

In practice I found Parenthood the vulgar American equivalent of an Ozu comedy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Obviously not remotely the hill I’m willing to die on, tho.

The cultural & language barrier cannot be understated but I could see that. My problems with Parenthood are with the kind of film it is, and how it promotes and reinforces malignant American family dynamics, even as it lightly criticizes some of them (the Rick Moranis character, for example). As you said, it's the A1 version of this type of movie, great cast and competently made as almost everything Howard has done is competently made (I don't mean that as an insult, I think he gets ragged on too often). I just find the specific relationships, dynamics, and values it presents and promotes as hideous and damaging and disgusting.

Agree on Keanu tho

Phantasm (Coscarelli, 1979) - 4/5
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1973) 5/5
Rabid (Cronenberg, 1978) 4/5
Shivers (Cronenberg, 1975) 3/5
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (Hancock, 1971) 4/5
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978) 3.5/5

Ash is Purest White (Zhangke, 2018) 4.5/5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977) 4/5
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) 4.5/5

Rabid, Close Encounters and Texas Chainsaw were rewatches, though it'd been decades. TCM actually surprised me at how scary it still was. Visceral, sticky, sweaty...from what I read the conditions were rough during filming; it comes across. Also mobiles out of human bones. Rabid seemed like a more refined version of Shivers, fewer straggly threads and tighter editing. Body Snatchers was missing something. Maybe it was a plot? Or that they kept hiding under stairs? I felt like the tension could have been ramped up far better and Nimoy was wasted. Awesome effects, though. Also Donald Sutherland's creamy voice sometimes bugs me.

Phantasm was a pleasant surprise...excellent atmosphere, the tall man was chilling and great fx.

oh, I thought you gave Phantasm a negative 4 out of 5 lol

Memories of Murder (6.0)
Halloween (8.0)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (7.0)
The Social Dilemma (6.5)
The Untouchables (7.0)
Lovelace (6.5)
The New Corporation (7.0)
Gas Food Lodging (7.5)
Casualties of War (10.0)
Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head (6.0)

*Say it With Songs (Bacon, 1929)
Zaza (Dwan, 1923)
The Spieler (Garnett, 1928)
It Pays to Advertise (Tuttle, 1931)
So's Your Old Man (La Cava, 1926)
After Dark (Parker, 1933)
*Abbott and Costelle Meet Frankenstein (Barton, 1948)
A Ten-Minute Egg (McCarey, 1924)
The Misfit (Austin & Cook, 1924)
*Bumping Into Broadway (Roach, 1919)

The Falcon and the Snowman (Schlesinger, 1985) - 8/10
Dollar (Mollander, 1938) - 7/10
*The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Fassbinder, 1972) - 10/10
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Ross Brothers, 2020) - 9/10
*Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks, 1939) - 10/10
Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945) - 9/10
*California Split (Altman, 1974) - 10/10
The Moment of Truth (Rosi, 1965) - 8/10
*Young Mr. Lincoln (Ford, 1939) - 10/10
The Beast (Borowczyk, 1975) - 8/10
*Lola (Fassbinder, 1981) - 10/10
I Used to Go Here (Rey, 2020) - 4/10
*Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 1982) - 10/10
*The Social Network (Fincher, 2010) - 8/10
Dillinger is Dead (Ferreri, 1969) - 10/10
Les Creatures (Varda, 1966) - 7/10
Tootsie (Pollack, 1982) - 8/10
Variety (Gordon, 1983) - 8/10
*L’avventura (Antonioni, 1960) - 9/10
Ham on Rye (Taormina, 2020) - 8/10
*The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983) - 10/10
Vitalina Varela (Costa, 2020) - 7/10
The Silent Partner (Duke, 1978) - 8/10

1/2 Japanese The Band That Would Be King
Biography of the band . Came out in 92 and I just found it on Demonoid which I only discovered was running again last week.
Quite interesting I guess. Makes me want to listen to some of their stuff.
Hadn't realised Penn Jilette was one of the people behind 50 Squidillion Watts.
The Fairs seem resolutely geeky.
& Don Fleming seemed surprisingly young as anew interviewee.
Also not sure if I've seen Byron Coley on screen before or if he was playing a part here instead of being more directly himself. Same with Gérard Cosloy.

That was supposed to be an interviewee not sure where anew came from.

didn't realise demonoid was still going in a meaningful sense - as in the unique torrents that weren't anywhere else, where are they these days?

That 1/2 Japanese doc is really good. Same guy who did the Daniel Johnston one. The DVD had a big pull quote on the front from a critic that was like “The funniest rock movie since Spinal Tap!” which always irritated the fuck out of me and really misrepresented the band and doc. It is funny. And they’re goofy. But I’ve met the Fair brothers a few times, know people who have worked with David for years, and that childlike sense of play and joy in creativity they exude is very real and fucking dope.

first man (2018 chazelle) 9/10
the nest (2020 durkin) 5.5/10
possessor (2020 b cronenberg) 5/10
on the rocks (2020 s. coppola) 6/10
the human stain (2003 benton) 6/10
*rebecca (1940 hitchcock) 8/10
rebecca (2020 wheatley) 5/10
*the 39 steps (1935 hitchcock) 9/10
*the tenant (1976 polanski) 8.5/10
brief encounter (1945 lean) 9/10

the nest really didn't do much for me