Last (x) movies you saw (II)

"This actress" = Patty Duke, who'd already won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker (1962) and had a starring role in the blockbuster Valley of the Dolls so she was already famous before Me, Natalie, but you're right that she was unreasonably cast as an ugly duckling there and that wasn't the only time. She was short (5'0") but always nice looking I thought.

Incoherence (Bong 1994)
Streetwise (Bell 1984)
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Horvát 2020)
The Cremator (Herz 1969)
Comanche Station (Boetticher 1960)
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu 1973)
Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (Bell 2016)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Huston 1957)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman 1942)
King of New York (Ferrara 1990)
Titus (Taymor 1999)
Twentieth Century (Hawks 1934)
Seven Men from Now (Boetticher 1956)
Days of Being Wild (Wong 1990)
After Hours (Scorsese 1985)
Crimson Gold (Panahi 2003)
A Cat in Paris (Gagnol, Felicioli, 2010)
Cutter's Way (Passer 1981)
A Touch of Sin (Jia 2013)
Ride Lonesome (Boetticher 1959)
Bumping Into Broadway (Roach 1919)
Nude on the Moon (Wishman, Phelan, 1961)
Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You (B. Cronenberg 2010)
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo (Sachs 2021)
Vacation from Marriage (Korda 1945)

The Oil Raider (Bennet, 1934)
Paradise Island (Glennon, 1930)
No More West (Grinde, 1934)
Makers of Melody (Kaufman, 1929)
The Loves of Carmen (Walsh, 1927)
One Year Later (Hopper, 1933)
Young and Beautiful (Santley, 1934)
The Avenging Conscience (Griffith, 1914)
Cartoon Carnival (Smith, 2021)
The Boxing Kangaroo (Fleischer, 1920)
The Reunion (Fleischer, 1922)
The Cartoon Factory (Fleischer, 1924)
Vacation (Fleischer, 1924)
Come Take a Trip in My Airship (Fleischer, 1924)
It's the Cats (Fleischer, 1926)
Hurry Doctor! (Fleischer, 1931)
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (Fleischer, 1933)
Let's Sing With Popeye (Fleischer, 1934)
Betty Boop and Grampy (Fleischer, 1935)
*Dancing on the Moon (Fleischer, 1935)
8The Fraidy Cat (Parrot, 1924)
*Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (Sennett, 1913)
*The Rough House (Arbuckle & Keaton, 1917)

Better Call Saul (S5: 7.5)
It’s My Turn (5.5)
The Ice Storm (9.0)
The Card Counter (5.0)
Carlito’s Way (6.0)
The Deuce (S3: 7.0)
Best Sellers (2.0)
Six Feet Under (S1-S5: 7.5)
The Guilty (--)
The Many Saints of Newark (6.0)

Really disliked The Guilty (the new remake--never saw the original), but I did fall asleep for 10-15 minutes, so I'll give it a ratings pass.

Third or fourth time through, Six Feet Under felt like more of a mess than ever...Not sending Claire to art school would have been a big improvement: no Olivier, no Russell, no Edie, less Billy. One thing still holds me, though, from start to finish, the most obvious thing in the world: it's a great show on the subject of death.

October so far. I'm using my free month of Shudder.

Geometry (del Toro 1987) short, updated version, 3/10
The Stone Tape (Peter Sasdy 1972) tv movie, 7/10
The Raven (Universal, Landers 1935) 6/10
Blood and Black Lace (Bava 1964) 6/10
Blacula (Crain 1972) 5/10 not bad enough to be fun bad
The Telephone Box (Mercero 1972) short, 8/10
Shakma (1990) 3/10 creatively bad
Night of the Comet (Eberhardt 1984) 7/10 the stand as chronicled by mallrats
Love at First Bite (1979) abandoned, racist and unfunny
One Cut of the Dead (Shin'ichirō Ueda 2017) 8/10
*Outer Space (Tscherkassky 1999) short, 7/10

also
Explorers (Dante 1985) 6/10
Columbo seasons 8, 9, 10

A Scream in the Night (Newmeyer, 1935)
Madame Behave (Sidney, 1925)
Two Fresh Eggs (Carter, 1930)
The Merry Frolics of Satan (Melies, 1906)
Hollywood Mystery (Eason, 1934)
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (Iwerks, 1934)
This Little Piggie Went to Market (Fleischer, 1934)
The Show Off (St. Clair, 1926)
The Haunted Castle (Murnau, 1921)
Titane (Ducornau, 2021)

* An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 5/5
Titane (2021) 4/5
The Invisible Man (1933) 4/5; such a funny movie
* After Hours (1985) 4/5
The Black Cat (1934) 3.5/5
* Ms. 45 (1981) 4/5
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) 3/5
The Many Saints of Newark (2021) 1.5/5
Remember My Name (1978) 4/5. Geraldine Chaplin is extremely unnerving in this.

MALIGNANT is the best movie I've seen all year. If you don't like it, you should reevaluate whether or not you actually like horror movies.

just watched The Wailing (Na Hong-jin, 2016), a horror film which was too long, but it was bat-shit crazy and I liked it

Marriage Italian Style (De Sica, 1964)
Les Diaboliques (Clouzot, 1955)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Barreto, 1976)
Open Hearts (Bier, 2002)

"Late Spring (Ozu 1949) 6/10 i guess i don't get it"

What didn't you get?

I've actually watched enough in the last few weeks to contribute to this thread:

Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961) 4/5
Prince of Darkness (Carpenter, 1987) 3/5
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957) 4/5
Night Moves (Penn, 1975) 5/5
Man on Fire (Scott, 2004) 3/5
Us (Peele, 2018) 4/5
Breathless (Godard, 1960) 4/5
Black Narcissus (P&P, 1947) 5/5
The Burning (Maylam, 1981) 3/5
River's Edge (Hunter, 1986)

River's Edge 3.5/5, I think. Still can't decide about Crispian Glover.

The thing that saves Glover's performance in that movie, I think, is that the rest of the cast acts like he's their weird friend who they put up with without being 100% sure why. Their collective "he's an asshole, but he's our friend and we haven't got that many of those" affect puts what he's doing into the proper light, because every group of high school friends has/had one of those guys.

I agree with that: their credulity and general acceptance guides (maps?) ours. His final howl in the park is pretty shattering.

What didn't you get?

The main thing is that the plot is so basic that it could have been a short -- I don't know what the feature length adds. I also don't know why the daughter dislikes the idea of remarriage, or why that's important enough to repeat several times.

Thanks. Agree it isn't much of a plot though I think what it's trying to capture is the emotions bought by that set-up and Noriko's unknowability. I find her at attempt at withdrawal from the normal way of things fascinating. I'll keep some of this in mind for the next time I see it.

No Time to Die (Fukunaga, 2021)
The Ghost Train (surviving elements, Forde, 1931)
The Phantom Honeymoon (Dawley, 1919)
The Midnight Message (Hurst, 1926)
Rain (Ivens & Franken, 1929)
*Force of Evil (Polonsky, 1948)
I Walk Alone (Haskin, 1947)
Fly-By-Night (Siodmak, 1942)
Road House (Negulesco, 1948)
Somewhere in the Night (Mankiewicz, 1946)

In Search of Darkness (2019) 5/10
In Search of Darkness Part II (2020) 6/10

some hooptober movies, although i'm not reviewing them

haunted houses:
House (Miner, 1986) 6/10
Saturday the 14th (1981) 6/10

the worst part 2 I can find: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) 2/10
kaiju: The Giant Claw (Fred Sears, 1957) 2/10
POC director: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (Ernest Dickerson, 1995) 4/10
hooper/1981: The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981) 7/10
00s: Jennifer's Body (2009) 4/10
spain: Pieces (Juan Piquer Simón, 1982) 5/10

Watched In the Earth yesterday; first time I've been able to get through anything by Ben Wheatley.

Roaring Road (Hurst, 1926)
Roadhouse Nights (Henley, 1930)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein, 1928)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Hurst, 1934)
Side Street (Mann, 1950)
The Sound of Fury (Endfield, 1950)
High Tide (Reinhardt, 1947)

Dune
Not helped by the fact that the sun came out and reflected on my tv screen during the darkest bits of this which I must rewatch.
Anyway thought it quite epic and visually stunning and all like that.
Did wonder when the book was written from seeing the military showing off on the arrival of the Altreides and if it was actually something that was seen asa positive by Herbert. Now seen that book published in 1965 not the early 50s I was thinking, but Foundation was written in the early 50s which I had reversed in my head at the time.
Looking forward to seeing part 2. So wonder when it will appear

Ms.45 (Ferrera 1981) 6/10 if taxi driver were even less subtle
Candyman (1992) 4/10
*Se7en (Fincher 1995) 7/10
The Kiss of the Vampire (Don Sharp 1963) 6/10
Halloween Party (1989)
My Bloody Valentine (1981) 5/10 de-censored version
Pontypool (2008) 7/10
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) 5/10
Sleepaway Camp (1983) 6/10
*Plan 9 from Outer Space (Wood 1957) ed/10
*Re-Animator (Gordon 1985) 8/10 first time watching the uncensored version
Halloween II (1981) 4/10
Train to Busan (2016) 6/10

i am tired of horror movies now

also
No Time to Die (Fukunaga 2021) 7/10

i am tired of horror movies now

The ratings bear that out.

Rat Film (2016) 3.5/5
Dune: Part One 3.5/5
* The Innocents (1961) 4/5
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) 3/5
* House (1977) 5/5
* To Die For (1995) 3/5
Deep Cover (1992) 4/5. Found out a dialogue sample I first heard on De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate in 1993 is from this movie.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) 4/5
The Velvet Underground (2021) 4/5

Settlers (2021) - I don't know, I'm not really a ratings guy, 4/5? A dark (tone - it's lit quite brightly), minimalist sci-fi movie about a family who live all alone on Mars when suddenly some other people show up. There's violence, but it's mostly off camera, and things take several surprising turns. Recommended.

Musty's Vacation (Myll, 1917)
Koko Sees Spooke (Fleischer, 1925)
*Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (Rock & Pembroke, 1925)
Young Eagles (Bennett, 1934)
The Oval Portrait (1934)
Fancy Curves (Breslow, 1932)
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)
*Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)
Last Night in Soho (Wright, 2021)
*Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
The French Dispatch (Anderson, 2021)

A View to a Kill (Glen, 1985) 6/10 DVD
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Cretton, 2021) 6/10 CINEMA
Escape in the Fog (Boetticher, 1945) 6/10 BLU-RAY (part of Indicator's Columbia Noir Vol 1 box set)
Venom (Fleischer, 2018) 4/10 TV
Memoria (Weerasethakul, 2021) 8/10 CINEMA
The Velvet Underground (Haynes, 2021) 8/10 CINEMA
The French Dispatch (Anderson, 2021) 7/10 CINEMA
The Undercover Man (Lewis, 1949) 7/10 BLU-RAY (Columbia Noir Vol 1)
Happy Birthday to Me (Thompson, 1981) 7/10 BLU-RAY
Dune (Villeneuve, 2021) 5/10 CINEMA
Man Made Monster (Waggner, 1941) 6/10 BLU-RAY (part of Scream Factory's Universal Horrors Vol 3 set)

As the Earth Turns (Lyford, 1937)
Chinatown After Dark (Paton, 1931)
The Last Warning (Leni, 1928)
*Mabel's Married Life (Sennett, 1914)
*The Masquerader (Chaplin, 1914)
*The Rounders (Chaplin, 1914)
*Dough and Dynamite (Chaplin, 1914)
*The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Ingram, 1921)
*Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
*The General (Keaton & Bruckman)
*Underworld (von Sternberg, 1927)

The Marksman - this year's Liam Neeson movie. Apparently Clint Eastwood turned down the script at some point and it fell in Neeson's lap. He does OK with it but during the big physical fight scene I thought the director should have been charged with elder abuse.

Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (6.0)
Fanny: The Right to Rock (6.0)
The Stepford Wives (7.0--if you have to ask, you’ve never seen the remake)
Modern Romance (6.0)
Dune (2021--4.0)
Malcolm & Marie (6.0)
The Velvet Underground (7.5)
The Devil Wears Prada (6.0)
Donnie Darko (7.0)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (5.5)
Regarding Susan Sontag (8.0)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (7.0)
The French Dispatch (ordeal)
Q&A (5.5)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy with Berkeley, 1933) 7/10
Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) short
After the Thin Man (WB, "One Take Woody" Van Dyke, 1936) 3/10
The Witches (Hammer ltd, 1966) 5/10
Motel Hell (Kevin Connor, 1980) 7/10 i used preservatives
Junkopia (Marker, 1981) short mentioned by eric as zootopia and then junktopia
Rehearsal for Murder (1982) 4/10 tv movie written by the columbo guys
Halloween H20 (1998) 6/10 fantastic ending. michael myers drops the knife!
Dave Made a Maze (2017) 5/10 looks great but maybe the production guys shouldn't write the script too
Dune (Villeneuve, 2021) 9/10
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright, 2021) 6/10 that third act huh

I also finished watching all of Columbo. I guess Falk liked to have McGoohan as a director because he let Falk dick around, even when it made those episodes not make total sense.

Patrick McGoohan in the "By Dawn's Early Light" episode is one of the finest acting performances of the 70s, and I'm not exaggerating even a little bit.

his performance in Agenda for Murder is also very entertaining, even if the episode is a bit of a mess.

Well I watched Titane, yeah that was A Thing. Prolly like 8/10 but I will not be recommending that to anyone I know. Actually that is stayiing with me hours later, bump it up to 9/I10. Powerful shit like.
Then I watched Finch; Tom Hanks, Robot, Duggie, post-apocalyptic blahblahblah, this is right up my street, right? RIGHT?!? Eh whatever, too much robot not enough VGB IMO. Still, charming enough and better than the reviews made out. I dunno, 6/10?
What else did I watch? Shang-Chi: Whatever Subtitle, MCU/10, you know what that was
The VU doc, that was pretty poor for reasons expressed by more more verbose people than me in yon thread 5ish?
Dune was Fucking Amazing and I've got a knife and will (slowly) fight anyone says otherwise NINE

A Simple Plan. 10/10; a perfect movie.

* Con Air (1997) 3.5/5
* Devi (1960) 4.5/5
The White Balloon (1995) 3.5/5. One of the 6 or so of the top 247 movies in the Morbsies poll I hadn't seen. Doesn't have the charm of the very similar Where is the Friend's House?, which tbf is one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hangover Square (1945) 3.5/5
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) 2.5/5. I get a sense from the subject and some of the casting (Nick Cave as H.G. Wells) that the director originally set out to make a more unconventional biopic than this ended up being. This is probably bound to end up getting confused with other Benedict Cumberbatch movies for eternity.
The French Dispatch (2021) 3.5/5
In the Cut (2003) People who want the return of the erotic thriller often elide that this would entail the return of some goofy-ass endings.
* Pulse (2001) 3.5/5 Kinda surprised I found this slightly less effective than when I first saw it years ago.
The Brood (1979) 4/5

SHORTS:
Alone (2017) 3/5 From New York Times-produced web short to Criterion Channel.
Caprice (1986) 3.5/5 Joanna Hogg's aesthetically assured student thesis film with a very early Tilda Swinton appearance (billed here as "Matilda Swinton," in fact)
(nostalgia) 1971

The Lone Defender (Thorpe, 1930)
An Old Man's Love Story (Brooke, 1913)
Miss Lulu Bett (W. DeMille, 1921)
X Marks the Spot (Kenton, 1931)
Tell England (Asquith & Barkas, 1931)
Contented Calves (White, 1934)
Four Square Steve (Laemmle, 1926)
*The Boat (Keaton & Cline, 1921)
*The Goat (Keaton & St. Clair, 1921)
*The Balloonatic (Keaton & Cline, 1923)
*The Signal Tower (Brown, 1924)
Outside the Law (Browning, 1920)
The Man Without a World (Antin, 1991)
The City Without Jews (Breslauer, 1924)

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch 2013)
Intimate Lighting (Passer 1965)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Cretton 2021)
No Time to Die (Fukunaga 2021)
The Velvet Underground (Haynes 2021)
Inside Out (Docter, del Carmen, 2015)
Beat Girl (Gréville 1960)
The Dreamer (Rockwell 2012)
Open City Mixtape (2012) shorts by A.V. Rockwell: The Dreamer; Indigo's Smile; Trey; Heist
Niagara (Hathaway 1953)
Eternals (Zhao 2021)
The Innocents (Clayton 1961)
Tshiuetin (Monnet 2016)
The Big Steal (Siegel 1949)
Cure (Kurosawa 1996)
Doctor X (Curtiz 1932)
Drifting Clouds (Kaurismäki 1996)
Boomerang! (Kazan 1947)
Like (Bradley 2016)
Island of Lost Souls (Kenton 1932)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (McNaughton 1986)
Black Soil, Green Grass (Carbone 2016)
Black Widow (Johnson 1959)
Girlhood (Sciamma 2014)

The Card Counter actually quite great, I UNDERSTAND NOW why yis talk up Oscar Isaac, so expressive just through his eyes. Tiffany Hadddish and the Sheridan kid (who's beefed up somewhat since I last saw him) also good, and hey Willem Dafoe makes the most of his brief screen time. Speaking of whom, this last shot is surely a blatant callback to Light Sleeper? (Which I should've voted high in the Morbsies but forgot, oh well...)

I mean I'm not a fucken heathen, I'm aware the Light Sleeper shot was a Bresson reference, but still

Re-watched Event Horizon, which sent me to Wikipedia to see whether it had originally been shot for 3D exhibition. It had not, but there are a surprising number of shots of things flying directly at the camera for a non-3D movie.

Erotikon (Stiller, 1920)
Cross-Country Cruise (Buzzell, 1934)
Tol'able David (King, 1921)
Find the King (Howe, 1927)
Scrambled Weddings (Barrows, 1928)
*Dad's Choice (Howe, 1928)
*Fatty's Reckless Fling (Arbuckle, 1915)
*Good Night Nurse (Arbuckle, 1918)
*Camping Out (Arbuckle, 1919)
*The Garage (Arbuckle, 1920)
*So This Is Paris (Lubitsch, 1926)
*Won in a Closet (Normand, 1914)
By Might of His Right (Drew, 1915)
*The Village Chestnut (Wright & Griffith, 1918)
*Her First Kiss (Griffin, 1919)
*For Heaven's Sake (Taylor, 1926)

Pharma Bro (6.0)
Spencer (6.0)
So I Married an Axe Murderer (7.0)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (6.5)
Twisted (4.0)
Passing (6.5)
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (7.5)
House of Gucci (5.5)
Dean Martin: King of Cool (6.0)
Magic Shadows, Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies (7.0)

I got through the first episode Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer and bailed a few minutes into the second. Couldn't take one more scene of "And my cell starts beeping at 2:00 in the morning and there's a message that says 'Watch this,' so I opened up the link and I was like 'W...T...F!!!!???'" And then the interviewee will tell you he proceeded to watch the clip six more times.

Nightmare Alley (Goulding, 1947)
Yukon Jake (Lord, 1924)
The Mysterious Mystery! (McGowan, 1924)

I think I saw a lobby poster the other day for a remake of Nightmare Alley.

42nd Street (Bacon/Berkeley, 1933) 7/10 much better than Broadway Melody
Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967) 9/10
Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990) 10/10
The Invisible Maniac (1990) 3/10 he kills a guy with a submarine sandwich
Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon, 1995) 4/10 does not tear his ding dong off
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997) 8/10
Green Room (Saulnier, 2015) 8/10

tv
Penda's Fen (written by David Rudkin, 1974) 7/10
Squid Game (Hwang Dong-hyuk, 2021) 8/10
Midnight Mass (Mike Flanagan, 2021) 8/10
Fear Street 1666 (Janiak, 2021) 7/10
Disney's Fastpass: A Complicated History (the Defunctland guy, 2021)

oooh, i will watch that Fastpass doc!

fans of sbnation chart party videos will probably like that one

nu-Nightmare Alley adap is a Guillermo del Toro joint, screenplay by/with Kim Morgan