Last (x) movies you saw

Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)
Micmacs (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009)
Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott, 2010)
Radio On (Christopher Petit, 1979)
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1975)
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest, 2003)
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)
A Serious Man (Coen brothers, 2009)
Date Night (Shawn Levy, 2010)
Ondine (Neil Jordan, 2009)

The Conspirator
Scream 4 (FUCKING AWFUL)
Oldboy (omg loved this)

Into the Fire (doc on Toronto's G20 summit...illuminating, but I could do without idiots yelling "fascist!" at the screen)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78 version)
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Barry Lyndon
Heart Like a Wheel
Il Posto
Night Moves (Penn series at the Cinematheque)
The Missouri Breaks
Mickey One
The Sugarland Express
The Heartbreak Kid ('72 version, of course)

That's 11, covering about a month. I probably missed something.

Burlesque
Black Swan (twice)
Double Indemnity

wait I rewatched Nightmare on Elm St 2 btwn BS and DI

Do you like NOES2 or am I the only one

Street Fight
Easy A
The Adjustment Bureau
The Expendables
The Runaways
I'm Still Here
Source Code
Cyrus
Chinatown
The Kid Stays in the Picture

Meek's Cutoff
The Night of the Hunter
Lost Bohemia
Source Code
Of Gods and Men
Showgirl in Hollywood
Exraordinary Stories
City of Life and Death
If I Had a Million
Tillie and Gus
The Beaver
The Arbor
Dog Day Afternoon
Hesher
True Grit (1969, Henry Hathaway)
His Kind of Woman
The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
There Be Dragons
Nostalgia for the Light

how was Hesher, Morbs?

blech

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/hesher/5500

le plaisir
pretty maids all in a row
bridesmaids
an education
savage messiah
desperately seeking susan
kick-ass
the reflecting skin

Went the Day Well?
Vault of Horror
Jazz on a Summer's Day

I just saw "The Book of Eli". Surprisingly good for a hackneyed apocalyptic movie.

until the ending, right?

I have seen much worse (hi dere "Ultraviolet")

the ending of ultraviolet, i'm assuming, was the cast turning around to camera and en masse chanting 'lol u watched this far'

basically!

yeah, by the time i turned it off at 15 mins in i figured it would be something like that.

Harakiri
Le Beau Serge
Mysteries Of Lisbon
The Grey Man
The Mother And The Whore
The Song Remains The Same

fanny and alexander (after talking to alfred about it)
marwencol
the hangover (first time. it was okay...)
kung fu panda 2
still walking
summer war

The Runaways
Salt
MST3K: The Movie
Black Swan
Thor

I also saw The Hangover 2, which was exactly like The Hangover

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Wages of Fear
Hesher
The Troll Hunter
Fish Tank
Lupid the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
The Conformist
Mind Game
The Illusionist
Come and See
M
Mind Game

Speed Racer
Psycho
Spiderhole
Gainsbourg
Chico & Rita
Attack the Block
Peeping Tom
Morning Glory

Nostalgia for the Light

how was this, morbs? i have the battle of chile set ready to plough through but think this might be a gentler intro to guzman. it sounds great.

some recent things:
shara
le quattro volte (great!)
isle of flowers
animal crackers (which i forgot i'd seen, & can't imagine remembering well enough to negate the pleasure of rescreening)
correspondences (eugene green)
puppetmaster (don't want to start a revolt but actually sorta kinda underwhelmed?, i felt like it demanded a cinema viewing, & was sorta too much to take in at home; i'm still drawn to his more recent 'urban female' films, & will probably veer that way when catching up on his '80s stuff)

The Secrets in Their Eyes (Campanella, 2009)
Boogie Nights (Anderson, 1996)
Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010)
A Single Man (Ford, 2009)
Festen (Vinterberg, 1998)
Blow Out (De Capra, 1981)
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
The New World (Malick, 2005)
Thumbsucker (Mills, 2005)
Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932)

Messiah Of Evil (dir W Huych & G Katz, 1973)
The Room (dir T Wiseau, 2003)
The Cremator (dir J Herz, 1969)
The Happiness Of The Katakuris (dir T Miike, 2001)
Wizard of Gore (dir Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1970)
The War Game (dir P Watkins, 1965)
Threads (dir M Jackson, 1984)
Rare Exports (dir J Helander, 2010)
Morgiana (dir J Herz, 1972)
Amer (dir H Cattet & B Forzani , 2009)
Thundercrack! (dir C McDowell, 1975)
Cult Of The Damned aka Angel Angel Down We Go (dir R Thom, 1969)
Penda's Fen (dir A Clarke, 1973)
Possession (dir A Żuławski, 1981)
The Stone Tape (dir P Sasdy, 1972)
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (dir F Francis, 1970)
Teorema (dir P P Pasolini, 1968)

Most of these have been film club type nights at ours, it's alarmingly rare we just stick on a DVD on a whim. Only a couple of those at the cinema too ('The Room' and 'Rare Exports').

Most of these have been film club type nights at ours, it's alarmingly rare we just stick on a DVD on a whim.

yeah i am this way all the time now. i find it harder & harder to watch films, i think because of the quicker-hit of episodic stuff, and the weird intimidation of knowing that if you start watching something at ten, when it's over it won't be long before you have to go to sleep. making it film night makes it formal & makes me get around to watching stuff that would be easier to postpone. we're watching perfumed nightmare, next, i think.

Funeral Parade Of Roses is next for us I think. Possession and The Other Side Of Underneath likely soon.

The Other Guys
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Hollywood Ending
Anything Else
Melinda & Melinda
Thor
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
The Incredible Hulk
Bridesmaids

It seems clear in hindsight that I'm trying to come back from a month of films like the just-mentioned Possession (seriously one of the best and most nightmarishly-overwhelming movies I've ever seen), Enter The Void, and multiple viewings of Eraserhead. I've maybe not been in the best place lately...

Oh, and after poring through the ILX thread yesterday, I'm determined to see a matinee of The Tree of Life tomorrow afternoon.

I wasn't manic for Nostalgia for the Light, but it's undeniably worthwhile, and perpetrates some visual coups that will be diminished on a home screen, alas.

I saw the Hangover 2 :(

The Last Man on Earth
Nowhere Boy
Red White & Blue
Theater of Blood
Bridesmaids
The Other Guys
Vampire Circus
Witchfinder General
Wet Hot American Summer
Marwencol

blank city
altman's popeye
the original arthur
the heartbreak kid remake
please give

haven't seen much in theaters lately, but tree of life will prob be my next one.

badlands
midnight in paris
date night
despicable me

Saw The Tree of Life, gushed excessively about it in its own thread.

Also somehow forgot to include The Cannonball Run in my list above. And Flight of the Navigator. No, I couldn't really tell you why.

mixture of cinema, blu-ray and dvd:

the town
monsters
x-men: first class
a swedish love story
blue valentine
laputa - castle in the sky
of gods and men
pina
13 assassins
departures

a swedish love story

is that the first, sorta-conventional-looking roy andersson? how is it, if so?

I wasn't manic for Nostalgia for the Light, but it's undeniably worthwhile, and perpetrates some visual coups that will be diminished on a home screen, alas.

ah, such a shame as i'll never get to a screening, here. i'll report back on the other guzmans when i'm an expert on chilean history.

>is that the first, sorta-conventional-looking roy andersson?

yeah - it got a recent DVD release (in the UK at least). I *loved* it. Not many hints of the visual style that he'd develop as he went on, but there's lots of dialogue which is uncannily like stuff from ...Second Floor etc ie. monologuing, despairing. It's shot almost documentary fashion, so there's a very appealing rawness and it does look beautiful - a glorious Swedish summer captured on film.

oh that's great. i'd wondered if it was a minor, hired-gun sorta studio thing, but reading up it sounds really interesting. i'll check it out.

just to continue to turn this thread into a personal q-&-a, how was Nowhere Boy, darin? it looked impossibly bad and yet i kept hearing good things about it.

The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
Rejoice & Shout
Tales from the Crypt (Amicus)
X Men First Class
Been Rich All My Life
Hiruko the Goblin

I failed to keep track for a couple of months, damn it. But the most recent batch includes
Night of the Hunter
Wise Blood
Night Train to Munich

Blue Valentine
Hobo with a Shotgun
X-Men: First Class
They Live
Thor
Fair Game
Bridesmaids
The Conspirator
Of Gods and Men
Slapshot

oh yeah, that reminds me, I saw Thor as well.

Was scrolling upthread and got a small lol from this:

Blow Out (De Capra, 1981)

duh, wishful thinking on my part, either that or a brainfart. He's not as good as Hitchberg.

Spielcock

my recent 'love film' rentals:

Minne & Moskowitz
The Queen of Spades
Tiger of Bengal/The Tomb of Love
Two in the Wave
Certified Copy

Last film I saw at the cinema - Renaldo and Clara!