WHAT MOVIE SHOULD I WATCH TONIGHT NOT A POLL

i have a long pile of stuff i've been meaning to watch forever and i'm tired and have the night off unexpectedly and i'm gonna try and watch as much of it as i can so help me curate this mini film program for one I think most of this is probably p good maybe.

Last year in marienbad (resnais)
Klassenverhältnisse (straub huillet)
Nicht ohne Risiko (farocki)
US Go Home (Denis)
the magnificent amberson (welles)
xala (sembene)
the specialist (Sivan)
loin du vietnam
elephant (clark)
looking for langston (julien)
mala noche (van sant)

this is maybe tangentially a thread about procrastination or indecision or being too broke to go out on a friday night because you're saving your money for saturday.

have you not seen marienbad coz if not, that.

my answer to this will invariably be sans soleil tho

i have not seen any of the movies on this list. sans soleil is one of my favourite movies though.

im sortof leaning to marienbad as it is because im trying to know who robbe-grillet is atm

but US Go Home and Looking for langston feel like a really sweet double bill.

US Go Home (Denis)

plax please watch this; first of all let me say it is only an hour long so it definitely has virtues either as something you can watch alongside other stuff, or you can watch if you get distracted but still want to squeeze in a film & tick something off your list. it's def one of my fav denis films. is it a selling point if i tell you there is dancing in it.

this is otherwise a killer list so enjoy your night.

I've only seen three of them--Ambersons out of those.

Watch Elephant alone. Spend the rest of the evening alone.

try to squeeze in Stroszek & Iggy Pop's The Idiot over the weekend too, right

schlump i dled US go home after reading a post by you here before about it. movies about dancing i think.

have you seen nicht versöhnt, plax? it's only an hour long and a good intro to s&h

also prob the most difficult film i've seen

Nicht ohne Risiko and elephant because its better to dream than to die

watch Xala and ruminate abt the usage of film in african cultures

I'm going to highjack this thread and ask ppl which of these films I should watch next bcz I've had them on my computer for over a month:

Andrei Rublev
Bringing Up Baby
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Flower of My Secret
Hocus Pocus
Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Spoorloos
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Thing
The Universe of Keith Haring
The Phildelphia Story
a Soulwax documentary
a Jane's Addiction 1997 reunion documentary

elephant is van sant, no? p.s. don't watch it

a Soulwax documentary

if the thing is the carpenter version then that one.

Last year in marienbad (resnais)

last year is one of those films where the first viewing is sort of a tedious formality that prepares you for repeated viewings

so like if you are fellin that then by all means

van sant named his 'elephant' as a tribute to alan clarke's film of the same name

xala is great. haven't that seen particular farocki but dude is usually dependable

xala (sembene)

This is just great. xp!

I am going to be a "film Catholic" and say that Marienbad loses A LOT when not seen on a theater screen. You live in a cultural capital, plax, wait for the opportunity if possible.

i have a big projector and a hifi, its like being in a cinema but lying under a duvet.

oh, it might suffice then

feeling like a tron legacy blu ray night for me

lying under a duvet might be prime sleep position for a first look at LYaM, tho; you want to be sitting up and pref caffeinated.

stevie you will love philadelphia story

ico, watch Ambersons.

Stevie, watch Bringing Up Baby (The Thing and Philadelphia Story are both good too, though).

The Thing

this is one of the greatest movies ever made, so this one

tbf, The Thing and Bringing Up Baby are two very different moods, so choose accordingly, I guess.

have marienbad to watch myself

Nother vote for bringing up baby stevie

ok i watched US Go Home, Looking for Langston and Nichte Ohne Risiko.

what should i watch tonight

Options? Or do you just want us all to start shouting out random titles?

watch images of the world and inscriptions of war or tongues untied.

triangulate between showgirls and luchino visconti

tongues untied then

Oh deeefffff tongues untied.

brother to brother brother to brother

ph1l decided on the doom generation

ugh that sucks i tried watching that like two days ago and switched it off after an hour.

heh

i thought it was all right. gregg araki's movies are all kind of the same.

the doom generation is shit

if i can walk to the bus tomw i may go see Totally F***ed Up

Nicht ohne Risiko (farocki)

this was maybe just a distilled, refined version of his film "the interview" in a lot of ways i think (although actually about twice the running length, it feels much more pared down, probably because of the fact that its basically just the one encounter instead of several). very similarly structured, right down to the final moment of self-reflexivity. the part where the characters look right out at the meta-narrative. i guess i prefer his more marker-ish essayistic work rather than this kindof meta-para-docu style approach. kindof impressive how he makes it so that you can follow what is going on though, considering all the business and technology jargon that needs to be explained. my new roommate had him as a professor in vienna and she says this is her favourite of his films so w/e. i'm sticking to videograms of a revolution or respite.

looking for langston (julien)

my downstairs neighbour was gonna come watch this with me because he really liked the one we watched about fanon but i'm glad he didn't because this movie is mad sexxxay. also lol @ acting credits for toni morrison and stuart hall. the guy who plays james baldwin is totally dreamy also. I don't really know what to say about this. i mean it was evocative and pretty and like "well made". it looked like it was gonna be a jarman movie for a while but i was glad it didn't pan out that way. 45 minutes is a good length for my attention span.

US Go Home (Denis)

this was my favourite film of the three. like i said upthread, i pretty much dled it based on an ilx post by schlump. it probably belongs to some canon of films that are really about the erotics of screen chiaroscuro, bodies emerging from the dark, receding into darkness. in and out of light, pieces of flesh barely sketched by light from another room, the headlamp of a car. and also movies about dancing, there are almost no movies i can think of that are about slow dancing like this. its almost a ghost story. i'm gonna wait til the midnight hour, the hovering present tense, bodies pressed close, or even just close enough to feel a little body heat. smoking cigarettes. i can never figure out what it is that happens to things when you photograph them but this film is about that too.

i think tonight i'm gonna watch the magnificent ambersons

plax i'm so glad you wrote those up - i have a bunch of farocki that i haven't watched, & i've only ever really seen him in driveby at galleries, &c, so i'm gonna watch probably images and the inscription (or maybe videograms) sometime on your recommend.

i have a real hard time watching things at home, unless people are around, so watching things that are shorter is a really achievable goal for me. a week or two ago i watched the house is black & godard's jlg/jlg just because they were doable & i wasn't so intimidated at ten pm to get around to them. the length of us go home is def nice - it was made for a pretty intriguing sounding french tv series, i think - & yeah it's all the things you wrote, so much about the sensuousness and closeness of smoking or sitting in a car with one other person as it is anything else, youth or night or whatever. i saw a film, last time i saw macao, by the guys who made to die like a man, a few nights ago, & it was a real blank; serious, panning deadpan digital footage of locations, details, constellations of objects on street corners, people posing for photographs. it made me think about claire denis and how she manages to imbue such magic in her films just by montage and pace, that other people are doing the same without the consequent feeling.

yeah images of the world is one of my favourites. almost a gesamtkunstwerk, the one i've most successfully shown to other people and probably the best introduction. not that its like lighter or anything, its also one of the densest and really rewards repeat viewings.

I have a bunch of stuff on my DVR. What should I watch next?

Valentino (Russell 1977)
Frances (Clifford 1982)
Enough Said (Holofcener 2013)
Deliverance (Boorman 1972)
Sherlock Holmes (Parker 1922)
The Judge (Dobkin 2014)
The Castle of Sand (Nomura 1974)
Greed (von Stroheim 1924)
Ministry of Fear (Lang 1944)
The Big Heat (Lang 1953)
Dark Passage (Daves 1947)
Macbeth (Welles 1948)
The Sea Gull (Lumet 1968)
The English Patient (Minghella 1996)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel 1972)
La Cienaga (Martel 2001)
The Young Savages (Frankenheimer 1961)
The Year of Living Dangerously (Weir 1982)
Going My Way (McCarey 1944)
In the Name of the Father (Sheridan 1993)

Macbeth

I'd go for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel 1972)

Deliverance is good too obv. I like "In The Name Of The Father", even if it is a bit contrived but theres some great stuff in it. I'd be interested to see Ken Russell's Valentino movie.

The Big Heat is my fave of these, though The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Enough Said are pretty great as well. Going My Way is minor, but enjoyable. Somewhere in The English Patient there may be a decent 90-minute 1940s studio picture, but its inflated to a ridiculous (if typical of contemporary prestige pics) length.

WHAT MOVIE SHOULD I WATCH:

Bridget Jones's Diary
The Babadook
Scream
Scream 2
Room 237
The Kids Are All Right
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Bound
Omar
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Children of the Corn
Stranger by the Lake
Nightbreed: Director's Cut
Black Sunday
Black Sabbath

Stranger by the Lake!

Either of the two documentaries, both pretty great.

Yeah, Room 237 is fun. I enjoyed The Babadook too, a straight up old fashioned horror.id like to see Los Angeles Played Itself though

stranger for sure

Room 237

but don't ignore Black Sunday. GIANT BLIMP

So, what'd you watch?

Room 237, and he's gone off the deep end. He's on his way to Florida right now to gather soil samples from the alleged Apollo 11 launch site.