Last (x) movies you saw (II)

special spinal surgery edition

Lured (1947, Sirk) 6/10
The Violent Men (1955, Maté) 7/10
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Menzel) 7/10
*Duck Soup (1933, McCarey) 10/10
The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920, Wegener, Boese) 7/10
*The Squid and the Whale (2005, Baumbach) 8/10
Tennessee’s Partner (1955, Dwan) 7/10
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Wiene) 9/10
The Manxman (1929, Hitchcock) 7/10
Blood on the Moon (1948, Wise) 7/10

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 10:42 AM

I wish we knew what Morbs watched after these. For closure's sake, I'm going to imagine that his sister found a scrap of paper with the name of a single Spielberg film and "(10/10)." Rosebud. Please tell me if that comes across as weird or insensitive; I don't have a good gauge for those things.

According to his Letterboxd log here's everything he watched following the batch quoted above:

Sons of the Desert (Seiter, 1933) 5/5
A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964) 4/5
Adoration (Egoyan, 2008) 2/5
Graduate First (Pialat, 1978) 3.5/5
The Crowd Roars (Hawks, 1932) 3.5/5

Ah, I never think of Letterboxd, thanks.

ty for the update

I am pleased he got to see duck soup one more time

And Sons of the Desert!

Citizen Kane (10.0)
Mank (6.0)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (7.0)
Hillbilly Elegy (5.5)
Affairs of State (2.0)
Blume in Love (6.5)
Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (5.0)
The Parallax View (7.0)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (6.5)
The Net (6.5)

I have no excuse for last rating, other than to say it’s an example, for me, of some of what I was trying to say in this thread: NYT: The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. Early in her career, I really liked Sandra Bullock.

The Loveless (Bigelow, Montgomery, 1981)
Joint Security Area (Park, 2000)
Influenza (Bong, 2004)
Rabid (Cronenberg, 1977)
Season of the Witch (Romero, 1973)
The Killers (Tarkovsky, Beiku, Gordon, 1956)
Camera (Cronenberg, 2000)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)
Pool Sharks (Middleton, 1915)
The Servant (Losey, 1963)
Stand Up (Pierre, 2008)
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
The Underneath (Soderbergh, 1995)
*The Host (Bong, 2006)
The Fatal Glass of Beer (Bruckman, 1933)
Bacurau (Filho, Dornelles, 2019)
Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky (Nance, 2017)
Audience (Hammer, 1983)
Night Nurse (Wellman, 1931)
Ordinary People (Redford, 1980)
The Vast of Night (Patterson, 2020)
The Barber Shop (Ripley, 1933)
Zappa (Winter, 2020)
*House (Obayashi, 1977)
Robots of Brixton (Tavares, 2011)
The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937)

Boy, which of you recommended "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets"? I loved it. These brother filmmakers, or the Safdie brothers ... there are apparently a lot of brothers making these weird pseudo-verite movies that blur the edges of documentary and narrative.

I liked it but I kept getting distracted thinking back to the Nathan for You ep "smoking allowed"

Which was a great, amazing episode! Forgot all about that one.

i found it sorta meh? nice idea, poor execution imo.

Speaking of which i have REALLY not been watching movies much but I did see a couple just recently, including a few that are among the best things I've seen this year:

Great Movies:
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020, Blank) - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/movies/radha-blank-40-year-old-version.html
Deux (2020, Meneghetti) - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/two-of-us-tiff-2019-1238870
Nate (2020, Burgers – Netflix) - https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/natalie-palamides-amy-poehler-nate-netflix
The Nest (2020, Durkin) - https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/ambition-is-the-antagonist-sean-durkin-on-the-nest
Baldwin’s Nigger (Ové, 1968) - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/480522/index.html
Syvato (Kossakovsky, 2005) - https://vimeo.com/31901502

Consistently Pretty Good to Very Very Good:
Lynch: A History (2020, Shields) - https://www.lynch-a-history.com/
The Mole Agent (2020, Alberdi) - https://businessdoceurope.com/bde-interview-the-mole-agent-by-maite-alberdi/
Build the Wall (2020, Swanberg) - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/review-age-shows-in-joe-swanbergs-build-the-wall
Possessor (2020, Cronenberg) - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/movies/brandon-cronenberg-possessor.html

No:
Tank Girl (1995)
The Pollinators (2020)
Freaky (2020)
Tenet (2020)

Tank Girl did suck, didn't it

i didn't want it to but yeah, i had to tune out pretty quickly

*Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963) - 9/10
*The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964) - 9/10
*The Searchers (Ford, 1956) - 10/10
Othello (Welles, 1952) - 10/10
City Hall (Wiseman, 2020) - 10/10
*La Cérémonie (Chabrol, 1995) - 9/10
goddamn, you went through a handful of some of my favorite films just lately!

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 7, 2020 2:24 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was a good run!

The Shadow of the Eagle (Beebe & Eason, 1932)
The Death Ship (1928)
A Private Engagement (1930)
Do Detectives Think (Guiol, 1927)
Come fu che l’ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti (Deed, 1910)
The Parish Priest's Christmas (Guy, 1906)
*Habeas Corpus (McCarey & Parrott, 1928)
The Hoose-Gow (Parrott, 1929)
Frozen Frolics (Bailey & Foster, 1930)
They Go Boom! (Parrott, 1929)
Men o' War (Foster, 1929)
Perfect Day (Parrott, 1929)
*Double Whoopee (Foster, 1929)
Unaccustomed as We Are (Foster & Roach, 1929)
Night Owls (Parrott, 1930)
A Christmas Carol (Dawley et al., 1910)
Hotel Continental (Cabanne, 1932)
The Return of the Vampire (Landers, 1943)
Zigoto Drives a Locomotive (Durand, 1912)
*Bout-de-Zan and the Crocodile (Feuillade, 1913)
Zoé a la main malheureuse (1913)
Camping Out (Arbuckle, 1919)

Somehow, against all odds, I'd never seen "All About Eve" until tonight, and you know what? It was really good!

spoilers

*The Image Book (Godard, 2018) - 10/10
Beverly Hills Cop (Brest, 1984) - 9/10
Conquest (Fulci, 1983) - 7/10
Blue Sunshine (Lieberman, 1977) - 5/10
Appropriate Behavior (Akhavan, 2014) - 7/10
Fearless (Weir, 1993) - 8/10
*Whity (Fassbinder, 1971) - 8/10
Fedora (Wilder, 1978) - 8/10
Blood on the Moon (Wise, 1948) - 8/10
*The Scarlet Empress (Sternberg, 1934) - 9/10
Zombie (Fulci, 1979) - 9/10
Poetry (Lee, 2010) - 9/10
Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963) - 8/10
The Perfect Storm (Petersen, 2000) - 7/10
Black Sunday (Bava, 1960) - 7/10
Skyscraper (Thurber, 2018) - 7/10
Baywatch (Gordon, 2017) - 8/10
The Wings of Eagles (Ford, 1957) - 8/10
Like a Bird on a Wire (Fassbinder, 1975) - 8/10
48 Hrs. (Hill, 1982) - 5/10
Run of the Arrow (Fuller, 1957) - 7/10
Les Novices (xxx, 1970) - 6/10 <------ghost directed by Claude Chabrol after Guy Casaril proved incompetent
Serenity (Knight, 2019) - 8/10
Broadcast News (Brooks, 1987) - 7/10
Warning from Space (Shima, 1956) - 9/10
Sergeant York (Hawks, 1941) - 8/10
Ball of Fire (Hawks, 1941) - 9/10
The Stepford Wives (Forbes, 1975) - 8/10
*In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) - 10/10
*Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder, 1975) - 10/10
Why Don’t You Just Die! (Sokolov, 2018) - 7/10
*The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940) - 10/10

Hog Wild (Parrott, 1930)
Beau Hunks (Horne, 1931)
One Good Turn (Horne, 1931)
Come Clean (Horne, 1931)
Our Wife (Horne, 1931)
Chickens Come Home (Horne, 1931)
Be Big! (Horne, 1931)
*Scram! (McCarey et al, 1932)
The Chimp (Parrott, 1932)
Helpmates (Parrott, 1932)
Any Old Port! (Horne, 1932)
*Laughing Gravy (Horne, 1931)
It's a Boy (Whelan, 1933)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (Henson, 1992)
Sure-Mike! (Guiol, 1925)
A Shadowed Shadow (Beaudine, 1916)
*There Ain't No Santa Claus (Parrott, 1926)

Tchoupitoulas (2012) 3/5
Porco Rosso (1992) 4/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987) 1/5
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) 5/5
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2005)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 1 (1968) Don't want to rate it as I was somewhat distracted and didn't see what many others see in this.
* Trouble in Paradise (1932) 5/5
Lady Snowblood (1973) 4/5
The Royal Road (2015) 3/5
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (2020) 3.5/5
Love is the Devil: Portrait for a Study of Francis Bacon (1998) 3/5
The Best Man (1964) 4/5
Bugsy (1991) 3/5
Crossing Delancey (1988) 3.5/5
* The Awful Truth (1937) 4/5
Diego Maradona (2019) 3/5

Julie Dash shorts:
Illusions (1982) 4/5
Diary of an African Nun (1977) 4/5

Three killer noirs courtesy of Eddie Muller's great Noir Alley, a bunch of re-watches and two current gay films, among which I preferred the Lifetime Christmas movie to the grotesque prestige-y remake. Also, two David Goodis adaptations in there; I really gotta read some of his stuff.

Tomorrow Is Another Day (Feist, 1951)
The Boys in the Band (Mantello, 2020)
*The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
The Burglar (Wendkos, 1957)
*The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937)
*Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
The Christmas Setup (Mills, 2020)
*Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960)
Kiss of Death (Hathaway, 1947)
*Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)

As gay 2020 Christmas movies went ...

The Christmas Setup > Happiest Season > The Christmas House

Yeah, I liked that the movie was relatively free of contrivance; we get to see the couple actually getting to know each other rather than try to work their way through some dumb plot entanglements. The discovery of the early-20th century gay couple was nice (this being my first Lifetime movie, I wasn't sure if I should expect their ghosts to return upon discovery, but this ain't that kind of Christmas story). I liked the leads--a real-life married couple--as well, but I didn't understand why the one had to be a tech-bro millionaire, unless wealth-as-virtue is just part of the convention (how's that working out for you, America?). Also, the trying to fit the tree through the narrow doorframe may be my favourite covert gay sex scene in a movie since the motorbike ride in My Bodyguard.

LOL, I admit I hadn't even considered that interpretation.

Lord Edgware Dies (Edwards, 1934)
*Hogfather (Jean, 2006)
Matinee Idol (King, 1933)
Always Faithful (Cohn, 1929)
Social Register (Neilan, 1934)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Wolfe, 2020)
*The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934)
Fultah Fisher's Boarding House (Capra, 1922)
Tempest (Taylor, 1928)
Valley of the Dragons (Bernds, 1961)
*It's a Gift (Fay, 1923)
*Father Was a Loafer (Lehrman, 1915)
*The Butcher Boy (Arbuckle, 1917)

this year's christmas watches

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Hughes, 1987) 5/10 don't think I watched this before
The Ref (1994) 6/10
*A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011) 7/10
The War with Grandpa (produced by Guy Fieri et al., 2017/2020) 1/10
*Home Alone (Columbus, written by Hughes, 1990) 5/10
*The Santa Clause (1994) 2/10 wow bad
*The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) 9/10 last seen in the 90s as a teenager. made a much better impression on me this year.

The Gleaners and I (Varda, 2000) - 8/10
A Woman’s Face (Molander, 1938) - 8/10
Magnificent Obsession (Stahl, 1935) - 7/10
Perversion Story (Fulci, 1969) - 6/10
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993) - 8/10
Contraband (Fulci, 1980) - 7/10
Moonfleet (Lang, 1955) - 5/10
*W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Makajev, 1971) - 7/10
*The Guard (McDonagh, 2011) - 6/10
The American Friend (Wenders, 1977) - 7/10
The Vast of Night (Patterson, 2019) - 8/10
What Time Is It There? (Tsai, 2001) - 10/10
Walpurgis Night (Edgren, 1935) - 8/10
Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) - 8/10
*Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983) - 10/10
Stereo (Cronenberg, 1969) - 7/10
The James Dean Story (Altman, 1957) - 8/10
Lettres D’amour (Autant-Lara, 1942) - 5/10
Possessed (Bernhardt, 1947) - 6/10
Kung-Fu Master! (Varda, 1988) - 7/10
Heaven Can Wait (Beatty, Henry; 1978) - 8/10
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Death of Michael Corleone (Coppola, 1990*) - 7/10
June Night (Lindberg, 1940) - 7/10
Beverly Hills Cop II (Scott, 1987) - 5/10
Demonia (Fulci, 1990) - 6/10
Cane River (Jenkins, 1982) - 7/10
*The Sun Shines Bright (Ford, 1953) - 9/10
Donovan’s Reef (Ford, 1963) - 8/10
Yes, God, Yes (Maine, 2019) - 5/10
Four of the Apocalypse (Fulci, 1975) - 6/10
*The American Soldier (Fassbinder, 1970) - 9/10
The River (Tsai, 1997) - 10/10
*My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946) - 10/10
*The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1979) - 10/10

December:

The Amazing Colossal Man (Gordon, 1957) 6/10 YOUTUBE
Liberte (Serra, 2019 ) 8/10 MUBI
Mank (Fincher, 2020) 4/10 NETFLIX
Absolution (Page, 1978) 6/10 YOUTUBE(written by Anthony Shaffer)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Melendez, 1966) 7/10
The More the Merrier (Stevens, 1943) 8/10 DVD
The Alligator People (Del Ruth, 1959) 7/10 YOUTUBE
The Ape (Nigh, 1940) 4/10 YOUTUBE
Rocco and his Brothers (Visconti, 1960) 8/10 MUBI (Alain Delon is the prettiest prize fighter you ever did see)
Attack of the Giant Leeches (Kowalski, 1959) 6/10 YOUTUBE
The House on Straw Hill aka Expose (Clarke, 1976) 7/10 YOUTUBE
Ask a Policeman (Varnel, 1939) 6/10 DVD (Will Hay comedy)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks, 1953) 7/10 TV
The Five Venoms (Chang, 1978) 7/10 NETFLIX
Silver Lode (Dwan, 1954) 7/10 YOUTUBE
Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey, 1963) 8/10 TV
A Bucket of Blood (Corman, 1959) 7/10 YOUTUBE

Alain Delon is the prettiest prize fighter you ever did see

Seriously, the only one to rival Brando in Streetcar for hotness.

Newman in cat tbf but that's not raising any objections to the main point obv

Mank, 2020, 8/10

Newman was so hot

Last two of 2020 and first eight of 2021:

*Nothing Sacred (1937, Wellman) - 8/10
Broken Blossoms (1919, Griffith) - 9/10
*Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Hawks) - 9/10
City of the Living Dead (1980, Fulci) - 7/10
Deconstructing Harry (1997, Allen) - 8/10
Steaming (1985, Losey) - 6/10
Car Wash (1976, Schultz) - 7/10
The House by the Cemetery (1981, Fulci) - 7/10
Violence at Noon (1966, Oshima) - 9/10
"Bananas" (1971, Allen) - 8/10

Finally got to see Tenet last night after finding too many video files not working on old tv and the one that did having audio too quiet to follow.
Interesting soundtrack music verging on noise etc
I haven't looked up fan theories so not sure what wasn't thought to be answered in the film.

Amazing Grace
Aretha Franklin sings gospel in 1972.

i hope you got subtitles; i wouldn't have been able to follow that fuckin' nonsense for half an hour without them.
not that they make it any better!

Amazing Grace is prob a top 100 for me, i cried a few times.

The Tiger's Coat (Clements, 1920)
The Mystery Squadron (Clark & Howard, 1933)
The Girl and Her Trust (Griffith, 1912)
Their First Mistake (Marshall, 1932)
The Midnight Patrol (French, 1933)
Me and My Pal (Rogers, 1933)
Going Bye-Bye! (Rogers, 1934)
Oliver the Eighth (French, 1934)
Jack's the Boy (Forde, 1932)
The Merry Jail (Lubitsch, 1917)
*After the Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1936)
Fanchon, the Cricket (Kirkwood, 1915)
Wonder Woman 1984 (Jenkins, 2020)
The Leech Woman (Dein, 1960)
No Vacancies (Morris, 1923)
*The Two Johns (Buckingham, 1923)

MY octopus Teacher
looks really great on my tv picture is really nice and clear.

& cinematopgraphy is really nice.
I must finish the book Soul of An Octopus finally.

Soul which is a really nice film with an ok score.
I keep falling asleep when i relax in front of the tv and this wouldn't rewind on me for some reason which sia drag.
BUt overall it seemed to be a nice film. THough not sure it had any real revelations. Main characters are non-Anglo though i suppose, one of the support roles might be an anal retentive antipodean

I thought it was an ok film with a really nice score.

I thought "The Climb" was really good. Riyl ... "Bottle Rocket"? "Thunder Road"? Whatever the hell movies like that are. Great camera work.

Homeboy (1988) 2.5/5
* Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) 3/5
The Man From London (2007) 3.5/5
7 Up (1964) think I should wait til I see more in the series before judging it
Between the Lines (1977) 3.5/5
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 4/5
The Projectionist (2019) 3.5/5
* The Phantom Carriage (1921) 4/5 We coincidentally watched this on the exact 100th anniversary of the film's premiere date without realizing it.
Zardoz (1974) 2.5/5
Passe ton bac d'abord (1978) 4/5
* The Thin Man (1934) 4/5
City Hall (2020) 4/5
* The Elephant Man (1980) 5/5
The Heiress (1949) 4.5/5
Accident (1967) 2.5/5
Little Women (2019) 4/5
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) 1/5
* Phantom Thread (2020) 5/5 Even funnier and richer on 2nd viewing
Bell, Book, and Candle (1958) 3/5
* Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) 4/5
Neat: The Story of Bourbon (2018) 2.5/5

think I should wait til I see more in the series before judging it

This isn't really part of "the series" - Apted's approach is very different.

A Dash Through the Clouds (Sennett, 1912)
The Star Prince (Brandeis, 1918)
The Hot Spot (Gallaher, 1931)
Darkened Rooms (Gasnier, 1929)
Back Street (Stahl, 1932)
Uncle Yanco (Varda, 1967)
The Flying Fool (Garnett, 1929)
The King on Main Street (Bell, 1925)
The Beast With Five Fingers (Florey, 1946)
The Radio Bug (Roberts, 1926)
*Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry (Curtis, 1915)
*His Marriage Wow (Edwards, 1925)

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

Now that's a title!

sure is, damn

assumed it was on youtube and so it was: episodic silents from the teens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5nalbrVMc

Only 3 out of 11 installments are known to survive, but those survivors...*chef's kiss*

Finally caught up with "The Assistant." Excellent, seems like it kind of went under the radar, but at the same time it's so subtle and eerily low-key it's almost designed to do that. There were a couple of glitches in our stream that at first we thought were intentional, but in the end we think they were just glitches. Sort of similarly weird was the Patrick Wilson ... cameo? I guess that's a cameo, playing himself for a second? Anyway, very good, original movie from the top down.