Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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.

Very good movie

Crossing Delancey (Silver, 1988) - 6/10
Old Boyfriends (Tewkesbury, 1979) - 8/10
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948) - 7/10
How to Marry a Millionaire (Negulesco, 1953) - 7/10
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953) - 10/10
Mo’ Better Blues (Lee, 1990) - 8/10
It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946) - 8/10
The Devil’s Honey (Fulci, 1986) - 9/10
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (Clemens, 1939) - 7/10
Comedy of Power (Chabrol, 2006) - 6/10
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Fulci, 1971) - 8/10
Vive L’Amour (Tsai, 1994) - 9/10
Bacurau (Filho, Dornelles; 2019) - 5/10
The Beyond (Fulci, 1981) - 8/10
Sinai Field Mission (Wiseman, 1978) - 9/10
*Cisco Pike (Norton, 1972) - 9/10
Sleeping Fist (Yip, 1979) - 6/10
Pretty Maids All in a Row (Vadim, 1971) - 8/10
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (Chen, 1998) - 9/10
The Sting (Hill, 1973) - 7/10
Don’t Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972) - 8/10
Verboten! (Fuller, 1958) - 9/10
Cheyenne Autumn (Ford, 1964) - 9/10
Alice’s Restaurant (Penn, 1969) - 8/10

Haven't seen it since I saw it twice when it came out, but I thought Crossing Delancey was kind of touching at the time.

To clarify a bit more: what I found moving was how Riegert--as I remember it--was both embarrassed about and proud of his job, and how he handled that with regards to Irving.

I agree (the bit about ...vanilla? covering up the smell of pickle juice), it's a nice movie, I think Riegert is miscast though, or he's just off here--he comes off a lot more resentful and angry than the material calls for, he plays it pretty low and isn't exactly oozing charisma.

The Wrecker (von Bolvary, 1929)
No One Man (Corrigan, 1932)
The Dumb Girl of Portici (Weber, 1916)
Road House (Elvey, 1934)
Merry-Go-Round (Julian and/or von Stroheim, 1923)
County Hospital (Parrott, 1932)
The Policy Girl (Mack, 1934)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (Arnold, 1954)
Home Cured (Goodrich Arbuckle, 1926)
Blow Your Horn (Myll, 1916)
*The Blacksmith (Keaton & St. Clair, 1922)

Trick Baby 1972
Film based on iceberg slims 2nd novel.

Cos I just watched a bio of slim.

Now watching Hamilton cos I haven't seen it but may not be in the mood to stick with it.

It's been at least 25 years since I last saw "Das Boot," and it remains a really impressive feat of virtuoso filmmaking. It's kind of too bad Petersen spent most of his career making middle of the road Hollywood pablum.

Nice work if you can get it tho

For sure! And a couple of those movies were good, too.

Soul (Docter, 2020)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (Siodmak, 1945)
The Vast of Night (Patterson, 2019)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lewin, 1945)
*It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)
The Glass Key (Heisler, 1942)
Yentl (Streisand, 1983)
Witness to Murder (Rowland, 1954)
I'm Your Woman (Hart, 2020)
*Make Way For Tomorrow (McCarey, 1973)

er, Make Way For Tomorrow was 1937.

Have people shared Letterboxd accounts on ILX anywhere? Mine is https://boxd.it/ENrV. I used it sparingly in the past but am logging every movie i watch in 2021.

I think I've shared mine before, but here it is again: https://letterboxd.com/jer_fairall/

Have shared mine before: https://letterboxd.com/PollyPrecoder/

https://letterboxd.com/souleraser/

Mine's just two lists of favourite movies; this thread is actually my Letterbox for what I watch.

https://letterboxd.com/hunsecker/lists/