Last (x) movies you saw (II)

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/

I like looking at those lists.

I’m not all that into the earliest silent films, except Safety Last! (1923) with Harold Lloyd, which i saw at the SF Silent Film festival with live organ accompaniment. But I really liked The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).

Thought Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, Part One (1922) was pretty good too, am looking forward to seeing Part Two

Burning, the Korean film, was very good

tru

#3 in the ILX film poll for 2018!

Oh cool

"Some Kind of Heaven" was pretty good, a lot more stylized and weird than I expected from a doc about a Florida retirement community. Riyl David Lynch, Wes Anderson and ... "Gates of Heaven"?

Liked "Sound of Metal" a lot. Of course it's (almost) all about Ahmed, but the film did feel like like it was telling a story I've not seen depicted before, despite some familiar beats.

The Assistant (6.0)
Waco (6.5)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (7.0)
Studio 54 (7.0)
The Celluloid Closet (8.0)
Black Widow (6.0)
Small Axe (overall: 8.0)
Mr. Robot (all seasons: 7.0)
Housekeeping (6.5)
Gregory’s Girl (7.5)

I added some television in there. I was thinking that a parallel thread to this one for television might be useful in terms of checking what you saw over the year when the television poll comes up. That's how I'm able to put together a year-end movie list; I open up this thread and scan my posts for the year. I know some people use Letterboxd that way.

that's what i use the ten best shows thread for.
Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I'll use that then. I like to rate stuff--seasons, entire runs, single episodes even--so I'll probably do that too.

look at me watching a lot of movies and enjoying some of them this month

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) 7/10
*The Lion King (1994) 8
*Toy Story (1995) 8
*Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) 8
The Suitor (Etaix, 1962) 6
The Man Who Would Be King (Huston, 1975) 7
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) 5 great score tho
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) 6
Soul (2020) 8
The Parallax View (Pakula, 1974) 7
For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965) 7
The Spiral Staircase (1946) 6
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) 8
The Detective (1968) 6
Blast of Silence (1961) 8
Things to Come (1936) 7
Head of the Family (1996) 3
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 5
*The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 5
Runaway Train (Cannon Films, Konchalovsky, story by Kurosawa, 1985) 8
Always for Pleasure (Blank, 1978) 6 love the food sequence
Song of the South (yes the Disney one, 1946) 4
Sayat-Nova a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969) 6

* (Well It's) The Taking of (the) Pelham 123 (1974) 4.5/5
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) 4/5
* To Be or Not to Be (1942) 4.5/5
The Last Movie (1971) 3/5
Tommaso (2019) 3/5
The Panama Papers (2018) 3/5
Time (2020) 3.5/5
Miami Blues (1990) 4/5
* Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) 4.5/5
Ham on Rye (2019) 3/5

If you want a doody rhyme then come see (the) me

The Bridge (Vidor, 1929)
Luxury Liner (Mendes, 1933)
Good Housewrecking (Sweet, 1933)
The Road to Reno (Wallace, 1931)
Under-Cover Man (Flood, 1932)
Peter Ibbotson (Hathaway, 1935)
The Signal Tower (Brown, 1924)
His Wooden Leg-Acy (1920)
*Mum's the Word (McCarey, 1926)

Les Visiteurs Du Soir

finally got to see this again . Tried to d/ld it and play it a few years ago but couldn't get the subtitles to work on the tv I was using at the time but this worked ok this time. Had a couple of glitches , words forming oddly on the screen for some reason getting wa ves and I'll not registering quite right.
BUt really good film, quite dark, funny in places, a little otherworldly. I don't know if they would be able to use dwarves in the same way now.
I kept looking at Gilles and thinking he looked like somebody I knew from a band but couldn't quite place him. Unless it was Bingo or something.
Saw this about 30 or 40 years ago. I think it was shown on tv at the time. I always remembered the bit where the recently arrived guest starts laughing then asks why everybody else who joined in was laughing. Struck me that taht actor might be a drag queen elsewhere in life but could have that totally wrong, teh mincing slimy nature of the character's moves or however else that is to be taken (hoping I'm not projecting somewhat iffy attitudes towards genderised movement cods I don't think they're hangups of mine). Anyway did really enjoy it so glad i finally got to again.
THink I might work through some more classic European films as I should have been doing for the last couple of decades. At some point I stopped watching subtitled European films for the main pat. Not sure why, possibly multitasking while doing things meaning I had to keep rewinding.

Any talk about Ham on Rye here or elsewhere? It’s... something.

Gunda was very special. I have thoughts, feel like i need to organize them though and i don't know if anyone would care to hear them?

xp I liked Ham on Rye. It made me think of the never-filmed original ending of Heathers, where the bombs blows up the school and everyone goes to prom in Hell.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz, Keighley; 1938) - 7/10
L’innocente (Visconti, 1976) - 7/10
Manhattan Baby (Fulci, 1982) - 7/10
Canal Zone (Wiseman, 1977) - 9/10
Barbarella (Vadim, 1968) - 8/10
The Bitch (O'Hara, 1979) - 7/10
*Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932) - 10/10
*The Nice Guys (Black, 2016) - 9/10
Electra Glide in Blue (Guercio, 1973) - 7/10
Le Mariage de Chiffon (Autant-Lara, 1942) - 7/10
Fun with Dick and Jane (Kotcheff, 1977) - 7/10
The Black Cat (Fulci, 1981) - 8/10
*Popeye (Altman, 1980) - 9/10
Aenigma (Fulci, 1987) - 9/10
The River’s Edge (Dwan, 1957) - 8/10
State Legislature (Wiseman, 2006) - 10/10
*Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder, 1976) - 9/10
The Slumber Party Massacre (Jones, 1982) - 6/10
The Brute and the Beast (Fulci, 1966) - 7/10
The Thing from Another World (Nyby, 1951) - 7/10
Two Champions of Shaolin (Chang, 1980) - 7/10
The Hole (Tsai, 1998) - 10/10
Duel to the Death (Ching, 1983) - 9/10
*Alphaville (Godard, 1965) - 10/10
Soul Man (Miner, 1986) - 0/10
Chinese Portrait (Wang, 2018) - 9/10
*A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961) - 9/10
*Bamboozled (Lee, 2000) - 10/10
*The River (Tsai, 1997) - 10/10
Promising Young Woman (Fennell, 2020) - 2/10
*The Fugitive (Ford, 1947) - 8/10
Mr. Klein (Losey, 1976) - 9/10
*Dishonored (von Sternberg, 1931) - 10/10
Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (Clemens, 1939) - 6/10
*My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936) - 10/10
Get on the Bus (Lee, 1996) - 9/10
Voices from Beyond (Fulci, 1991) - 6/10
*On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong, 2017) - 8/10

So that Ham on Rye isn't the Bukowski origin story which I think was filmed a while back?

Ham on Rye is a promising first feature. Comparisons to Lynch seem off-base, not surprisingly. Maybe more of a Hal Hartley sensibility, with less dialogue.

Yeah, no relation to Bukowski. And only related to Lynch superficially, separate wavelength imo.

I watched it twice in a row last night. Not because I loved it, but because I wasn’t done reckoning with it. Made me uniquely uncomfortable, despite familiar ingredients. It’s beautifully, confidently made. I felt some new things.

I expect this guy to have some interesting things ahead of him.