Last (x) movies you saw

Help! (7.0)
Dance, Girl, Dance (7.5)
Stromboli (6.0)
Europa ’51 (7.0)
Bladerunner (7.0)
Before I Disappear (5.5)
The Company (CIA, not Altman--7.0)
Ivan’s Childhood (8.0)
Blackhat (5.0)
The One I Love (6.5)

Only a 7 for Blade Runner?

takeout slide on Ingrid and Roberto

Only a 7 for Blade Runner?

― tayto fan (Michael B)

too generous

(xpost) I've seen Bladerunner three or four times over the years. I can understand why it's held in high regard, but I find it very murky and slow, and I've never really connected with it.

The Kindergarten Teacher (Lapid, 2015) 7/10
Mistress America (Baumbach, 2015) 8/10
The Best of Enemies (Gordon and Neville, 2015) 6/10
Far From the Madding Crowd (Vinterberg, 2015) 6/10
* Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992) 6/`0
American Gigolo (Schrader, 1980)
9 to 5 (Higgins, 1980) 4/10
* People Will Talk (Mankiewicz, 1951) 7/10
* An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962) 9/10

Gere gets an incomplete?

6/10

i watched Klute last night and the more i think about it, the more i dislike it. i know applying anachronistic public mores is a mook's game but it seemed especially transparent as a backlash to first-wave feminism: the sexual revolution will lead women into prostitution, the male gaze controls and dominates everything both inside and out and the best outcome for those who let it all hang out is as a model. Otherwise, drug addiction or semi-deserved murder awaits. Bree can only be saved by an impenetrable, impassive superman of an incorruptible cop who can't be coerced by sex or the big city. Delivered back to suburbia, we're meant to hope for the best.
the sound design and music is intrusive and terrible, the direction is clumsy and gives away the bad guy a half hour early. fonda's acting is pretty good i suppose but it's in service of some heinous shit.

I haven't seen it in years but Alan J. Pakula's drawn-curtains approach to suspense didn't work when I watched it, but, c'mon, Fonda's amazing in it -- one of the few deserved acting Oscars of the last forty years.

Compulsion on TV today.

xp eh, it's good but not jaw dropping and the writing is tin eared

I saw "Sorcerer" on the big screen today. Good but not great. Lets be honest, they could have put the explosives in the helicopter in the first place. Jesus, the scene on the rickety bridge though. Incredible. That movie must have been a nightmare to shoot.

Drunk Wedding - amiable lo-budget raunch-com, ensemble cast has good energy

Pola X 7/10 - not Carax being all Carax-y but still compelling

that's probably my favorite film by him BECAUSE it's not "Caraxy"

I still think Mauvais Sang is the best one. The use of primary colors in that film is amazing.

Starred Up was pretty solid all the way around but holy shit, this jack o'connell kid is a piece of work, eh?

he's a compelling guy, also in '71, but i thought SU got increasingly formulaic as it went along.

Maybe. I didnt exactly want to find out what happened past the ending but the acting was all top flight and it handled itself pretty well by and large imo

i liked SPOILER

that the caring activist social worker quit

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Oh boy, that is an amazing film. Damn.

Church dance sequence was all-time beautiful.

Sure is. Possibly my favorite Ford.

Muppets Most Wanted :7/10 - Laughed a lot. Enjoyed it more than I expected to.

Baxter: 7/10

Vrai Faux Passeport (Godard) : 8/10

The Sword : 8/10 Gorgeous "wuxia" film from 1980

Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1987)
Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1993)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)

Comments on various thread on ILF: the home of film.

A Matter of Time (1976, Minnelli) 6/10
*The Front Page (1931, Milestone) 9/10
Day of the Outlaw (1959, De Toth) 7/10
Marriage Italian Style (1964, De Sica) 7/10
*Monsieur Beaucaire (1946, Marshall) 8/10
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015, Nelson) 6/10
Mistress America (2015, Baumbach) 5/10
*The Guns of Navarone (1961, Thompson) 8/10
Teresa Venerdì (1941, De Sica) 7/10
Wandering with the Moon (1945, Ekman) 8/10
The Gold of Naples (1954, De Sica) 9/10
June Night (1940, Lindberg) 6/10

The Negro Soldier (Heisler, 1944)
The Battle of San Pietro (Huston, 1945)
THX 1138 (Lucas, 1971)
Kurutta Ippêji (Kinugasa, 1926)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders, 1973)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972)
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (Capra, 1943)
Barbarella (Vadim, 1968)
The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991)
Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949)

Did you read Five Came Back?

Not a bad book.

Haven't read it yet, but I've been catching a bit of the Tuesday programming built around it on TCM. Harris' intros are very good and have got me excited to read it.

Anyone got any opinions on Ben Urwand's The Collaboration? I have read quite a few people ripping into Urwand's loose interpretation of source material and it's historical veracity, but it got a lot of positive reviews as well.

Hanna (re-watch; I saw it in theaters, and own the DVD). Wish more genre movies were this weird and beautiful.

The French Connection (Friedkin, 71)
The Connection (Jimenez, 14)
Megacities (Glawogger, 98)
Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes (Joseph, 15)
Face Off (Woo, 97)
The Other Bank (Ovashvili, 09)
Corn Island (Ovashvili, 14)
*Closed Curtain (Panahi & Patovi, 13)
Ed Wood (Burton, 95)
Mississippi Burning (Parker, 89)
Come and See the Paradise (Parker, 90)
A Blast (Tzoumerkas, 14)
*Foxcatcher (Miller, 14)
The Paperboy (Daniels, 12)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 88)
Spider (Cronenberg, 02)
A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg, 11)
Maps to the Stars (Cronenberg, 14)
Metropolis (Lang, 27)
Frau im Mond (Lang, 29)
The Angels’ Share (Loach, 12)
Mediterranea (Carpignano, 15)
Magnum Force (Post, 73)
The Enforcer (Fargo, 76)
We Own the Night (Gray, 07)
Heartbeats (Dolan, 10)

Bad Hair (Rondón, 2013) 7/10
Mazes and Monsters (Stern, 1982) 2/10
Last Summer (Thiedeman, 2013) 4/10
Inherent Vice (Anderson, 2014) 7/10

Legend (Helgeland, 2015) 4/10
Irrational Man (Allen, 2015) 7/10
The Visit (Shyamalan, 2015) 3/10
L'Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962) 10/10
Everest (Kormakur, 2015) 6/10
Horse Money (Costa, 2014) 8/10
Hard to be a God (German, 2013) 9/10

The Silence (Odar, 2010) 6/10
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954) 7/10
Platform (Jia, 2000) 8/10
Christmas in July (Sturges, 1940) 8/10
Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960) 7/10
While the City Sleeps (Lang, 1956) 7/10
The Silence (Bergman, 1963) 8/10
Phoenix (Petzold, 2014) 6/10
A New Leaf (May, 1971) 8/10
Margot at the Wedding (Baumbach, 2007) 6/10
Greed (Von Stroheim, 1924) 9/10

the subject was roses (grosbard '68) 8/10
Marfa girl (clark '12) 6/10
low down (jeff preiss '14) 5/10
something in the air (assayas '12) 6/10
city of hope (sayles '91) 5/10
heaven knows what (safdies '15) 5/10
collaborator (marin Donovan '11) 5/10
alex of venice (chris messina '14) 5/10
trainwreck (apatow '15) 6/10
men, women & children (Reitman '14) 5/10
Joe (dgg '13) 6/10
ned rifle (Hartley '15) 3/10

"city of hope (sayles '91) 5/10"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXpuEFansic&t=0m14s

Black Mass (2015) 6/10

Speed Racer (2008) 6/10 wtf
Ip Man (2008) 4
Terminator Salvation (2009) 3
Come Drink with Me (1966) 4
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) 5
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 5
*Pinocchio (1940) 7 amazing background art
The AristoCats (1970) 4

52 Pick-Up on Blu-Ray. Just as scuzzy as I remembered it.

13 Assassins (2010) : 7/10
The Getaway : 6/10
Turks Fruit : 8/10
Nightfall : 8/10

Flight of the Red Baloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2008)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2003)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005)

smh at those low scores for 'city of hope' and 'ip man'

A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-Woon, 2005) 7/10
Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977) 7/10
Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996) 7/10
Straight Outta Compton (Gray, 2015) 7/10
The Crazies (Romero, 1973) 6/10
*Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Gibney, 2015) 8/10
Seaview (Gogan, Rowley, 2008) 7/10

Taxi (Panahi, 2015) 7/10
Victoria (Schipper, 2015) 7/10
The New Girlfriend (Ozon, 2015) 8/10
The Second Mother (Muylaert, 2015) 7/10
Keith Richards: Under the Influence (Neville, 2015) 5/10
* Weekend (Haigh, 2011) 8/10
* The Witnesses (Techine, 2008) 8/10
News From Home (Akerman, 1976) 7/10
* The Wings of the Dove (Softley, 1997) 7/10
* The Official Story (Puenzo, 1985) 7/10

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - the Man and His Work (1984, Ventura) (56m) 7/10
In the Shadow of Women (2015, Garrel) 8/10
*Used Cars (1980, Zemeckis) 7/10
Love Streams (1984, Cassavetes) 5/10
Home of the Brave (1949, Robson) 6/10
Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Weerasethakul) 7/10
Morituri (1965, Wicki) 5/10
The Upturned Glass (1947, Huntington) 8/10
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015, Maddin) (31m) 7/10
Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia) 8/10
The Fool (2014, Bykov) 7/10

Oh good, tell me about Cemetery of Splendour and the Garrel.

Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015, Maddin) (31m) 7/10

So Maddin's got *two* new ones I gotta see, huh?

^that's a weird subversive making-of he did for a gung-ho Canadian war movie. May not circulate.

i was very fatigued during the Joe -- a medical/political ghost story. Has nurses joking/poking about morning erections.

Garrel nearly as good as Jealousy, only Louis only narrates... Unsentimental dissection of adultery as self-inflicted guilt trip. Contrasted with the grays of the French Resistance!

Sicario 6/10
A Touch Of Zen 8/10

is Louis nude in it

sounded nude