Last (x) movies you saw (II)

you might be right, i'm fairly certain a laptop screen is not the best way to experience Faust.

curious what you thought of the Bi Gan, Frederik?

Teen Titans Go To The Movies

turned up on a torrent site yesterday. I used to watch the tv series about 10 years ago.
I think this wanted to be a Lego Movie type deal not quite taht good but some of it was quite amusing.

^ the series started five years ago and is still running

curious what you thought of the Bi Gan, Frederik?

― devvvine, 10. oktober 2018 17:44 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's... definitely a trip, that final hour is pretty incredible. But I don't get why Bi Gan all of a sudden wanted to make such a noir-pastiche, and what the point of that is supposed to be. I watched Kaili Blues as preparation, and it's a much more humble film, but it honestly gave me much more to think about.

Sic could you possibly go and get a fixation on somebody else ?

TV series I was watching started in 2003.
So as i said I was watching it about 10 years ago

The Killing of Sister George (Aldrich, 1968) 7/10
The Post (Spielberg, 2017) 6/10
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018) 8/10
Deadpool 2 (Leitch, 2018) 5/10
Somewhere in the Night (Mankiewicz, 1946) 7/10
*Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers, 2013) 10/10
The Golden Coach (Renoir, 1952) 8/10
Cry-Baby (Waters, 1990) 9/10
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (Cameron-Mitchell, 2017) 3/10
Avengers Infinity War (Russo Brothers, 2018) 4/10
Enter the Void (Noe, 2009) 5/10
General della Rovere (Rosellini, 1959) 9/10
Hysteria (Wexler, 2011) 7/10

Inside Llewyn Davis is the best Coen Bros. film, change my mind

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Hidden Fortress
Lucy

the strange depiction of american communists in Hail Caesar soured me on those moments in ILD.

The Sisters Brothers (Audiard, 2018)
Menace (Murphy, 1934)
The Infernal Cauldron (Melies, 1903)
Felix the Cat Switches Witches (Messmer, 1927)
Felix the Ghost Breaker (Messmer, 1923)
The Non-Stop Fright (Messmer, 1927)
Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018)
Sculls and Skulls (Messmer, 1930)
Legend of a Ghost (de Chomon, 1908)
The Atomic Soldiers (Knibbe, 2018)
The Atomic Cafe (Rafferty, Loader, & Rafferty, 1982)

Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018) 6
Chopping Mall (Wynorski, 1986) 6
Demolition Man (Brambilla, 1993) 5; good jokes, boring action. the character with 90s nostalgia has a Red Hot Chili Peppers poster lol.

watching too much TV to watch movies

Frederik, was the hour-long shot of Long Day's Journey in 3D when you saw it? If so, what was that like?

if this Bi Gan is anything like Kaili Blues then I think I will love it. The blurring of boundaries between past, present and future in that film was incredible, as was the concept of a 40 minute take that included the protagonist traveling on the back of the motorbike. The only director whose sensibility comes close to his I think is Weerasethakul Apitchatpong

or rather Apitchatpong Weerasethakul

Y’all we need to talk about Venom. Despite a generic plot and some truly abysmal CGI, I...kinda loved it? Tom Hardy almost singlehandedly pulls the movie out of mediocrity and makes it a blast to watch. He’s channeling some vintage Nic Cage gonzo energy and it rules so hard. It’s like he’s beamed in from another universe while everyone else is acting as if they’re in a regular comic book movie. And bizarrely, it works for the character. I did not expect this outcome at all!

Also saw Bad Times at the Tarantino Inn or whatever it’s called. It was pretty good, though maybe a smidge too long and it kinda stumbles a bit in the last act. Slickly directed, though. Worth seeing!

Re-watching my Japanese Blu-Ray of Charley Varrick tonight (the only way to see it in its original aspect ratio on a US machine; the domestic DVD is 1.33:1 for some goddamn reason). One of the best movies of the Seventies. Walter Matthau's whole mini-career as an action hero was so weird and awesome.

Rodin
'R Xmas
Police Judiciare
Between Worlds
Mom And Dad
Faust (Sokurov)
Blue Collar
Le Concierge

I Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953) - 8/10
Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958) - 9/10
Reality Bites (Stiller, 1994) - 5/10
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007) - 8/10
Collateral (Mann, 2004) - 9/10
Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990) - 7/10
La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960) - 9/10
The Love Parade (Lubitsch, 1929) - 8/10
Boyhood (Linklater, 2014) - 9/10
The Departed (Scorsese, 2006) - 8/10
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966) - 8/10
Road Trip (Philips, 2000) - 2/10
8½ (Fellini, 1963) - 10/10

Frederik, was the hour-long shot of Long Day's Journey in 3D when you saw it? If so, what was that like?

if this Bi Gan is anything like Kaili Blues then I think I will love it. The blurring of boundaries between past, present and future in that film was incredible, as was the concept of a 40 minute take that included the protagonist traveling on the back of the motorbike. The only director whose sensibility comes close to his I think is Weerasethakul Apitchatpong

― Dan S, 15. oktober 2018 01:40 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it was in 3D and it was used very well. I don't think anything was coming out of the screen, it's just used to make this dark, dreamy world appear even more different. I'm very happy to have seen that part.

Solo: A Star Wars Story 1.5/5
Leave No Trace (2018) 4/5
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) 1/5
Game Night 3/5
* Gun Crazy (1950) 4/5
Italianamerican (1974) 3.5/5

in theaters September & October so far:

Puzzle (Turtletaub, 2018) - 4/10
California Split (Altman, 1974 / 35mm) - 10/10
A Simple Favor (Feig, 2018) - 5/10
Life Itself (Fogelman, 2018) - 0/10 <----- this is a bizarre and unintentionally hilarious/horrifying failure, honestly worth checking out
Love, Gilda (Dapolito, 2018) - 6/10
Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman, 1953) - 9/10
Blaze (Hawke, 2018) - 2/10
Lolita (Kubrick, 1962 / 35mm) - 7/10
A Star is Born (Cooper, 2018) - 5/10
First Man (Chazelle, 2018) - 6/10
22 July (Greengrass, 2018) - 1/10
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) - 10/10

I watched California Split over the weekend (2nd time seeing it). Probably my fave Altman. The tinge of desperation despite all the camaraderie and hi-jinks. 10/10 for sure

a single shot makes the whole movie: after they've won at the end, and elliott gould is collecting the money all excited, and then it cuts to that wide shot of the empty bar slowly zooming into george segal sitting in the other room, morning light pouring in, completely dejected.

22 July (Greengrass, 2018) - 1/10

i feel like this is the exact type of film i hate to see, just basically a faithful recreation of the mass murders of a bunch of kids. I liked Bloody Sunday and Paul G's Bourne flicks but I ain't gonna see this one.

I was relieved that, while the attack is dramatized in full, it's only the first 25 minutes of the movie. most of it is about the aftermath & trial. still, exploitative and horrible, yes. it's also 143 minutes (!!)

Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (2014, Keach) 6/10
*Hard Times (1975, Hill) 8/10
The Stork Club (1945, Walker) 5/10
Transit (2018, Petzold) 4/10
*O Fantasma (2000, Rodrigues) 8/10
Golden Exits (2017, Perry) 6/10
The Image Book (2018, Godard) 8/10
Sharky’s Machine (1981, Reynolds) 6/10
Your Face (2018, Tsai) 7/10
Come Back Little Shiksa (1953, Lewis) (39m) 6/10

well, I made a mistake here, shd be

Transit (2018, Petzold) 8/10

what did you think of Golden Exits?

Better than Her Smell! It seemed like Perry's Interiors for millennials. Enjoyed Mary-Louise Parker's performance, but was impatient with/hated all the characters.

(also it's set about 2 miles from where I live, so it seems I haven't been missing anything)

yeah, it was really light imo & I agree he either hates his characters or doesn't realize how boring and casually cruel they are. his cinematographer Sean Price Williams is great though, that movie looked fantastic.

was impressed by south korean debut feature last child, recommend if people get the opportunity to see it

Sic could you possibly go and get a fixation on somebody else ?

TV series I was watching started in 2003.
So as i said I was watching it about 10 years ago

...I had looked up the Teen Titans Go! series when I saw the movie, as listed upthread(s), so remembered when it started. Mentioned it thinking you might be amused in a "how time flies," "wow the world is turning to a hellscape even faster than it feels" way to find out it was only five years ago. From you saying you'd watched the series and thus were curious to see the film, there was no way of knowing that you were talking about a completely different TV series, with (it says here) a serious-not-parodic approach, adapting the Wolfman/Perez material, a Timm/Murakami design style, different episode lengths, different writers and different title.

anyway, September 30 to October 14th, on track to get 31 scary films into a, let's say, six-week Halloween period

Fear City (Ferrara, St. John 1984) 📺
A Bucket Of Blood (Corman, B. Griffith 1959) 📺
Portal To Hell!!! * (Caldinelli, Watts 2015) 📺
Strange Invaders * (Barker 2002) 📺
The Phone Call * (Kirkby 2013) 📺
* Mandy (Cosmatos, Stewart-Ahn 2018) [DCP]
Dirty Work (Saget 1998) 📺
Halloween (Carpenter, Hill 1978) 📺
Night Of The Living Dead (Romero 'n' Russo 1968) 📺
Leave Her To Heaven (Stahl, Swerling, Williams 1945) 35mm 📽️
Carrie ( DePalma and D. Cohen 1976) 📺
*Dressed To Kill (DePalma 1980) 📺
House On Haunted Hill (White & Castle 1959) 📺
Splatter ** (Dante, Matheson 2009) 📺
The 'Burbs (Dante, Olsen 1989) 📺
Wacko (Clark, Olsen & al. 1982) 35mm 📽️
*Blow Out (DePalma 1981) 📺
Shimmer Lake (Uziel 2017) 📺
Dawn Of The Dead (Romero 1978) 📺
Little Evil (Craig 2017) 📺

* these are shorts: I signed up for Kanopy on the 30th, only to find that the Seattle Public Library limits users to five films pcm, so squeezed in ever-shorter horror/spook flicks as midnight approached
** this was on Netflix as a Corman/Dante film; turned out to be three episodes of a ten-episode choose your own adventure series stuck together.

My Talk with Florence (Paul Poet)
Xiao Mei (Maren Hwang)
Interchange (Brian M. Cassidy, Melissa Shatzky)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Anthropocene (Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)

Is Anthropocene worth a look?

Yes, especially if you like their earlier work. I found it just as compelling as the previous films, with great visuals of course.

lff:

Asako I & II (Hamaguchi, 2018) 9/10
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Wheatley, 2018) 5/10
Ash is Purest White (Jia, 2018) 8/10
Last Child (Shin, 2017) 7/10
Non-fiction (Assayas, 2018) 6/10
The Image Book (Goddard, 2018) 7/10
Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018) 7/10
The Green Fog (Maddin, Johnson, Johnson, 2017) 6/10
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Bi, 2018) 8/10
Maya (Hansen-Love, 2018) 4/10

other viewings:

*Late Autumn (Ozu, 1960) 10/10 - perhaps the most perfect film
The Day He Arrives (Hong, 2011) 8/10
Eros + Massacre (Yoshida,1969) 6/10
*Hill of Freedom (Hong, 2014) 9/10

The Wizard's Apprentice (Levee, 1930)
Frankenstein (Dawley, 1910)
Fast Life (Pollard, 1932)
The Frog (de Chomon, 1908)
Hallucinations pharmaceutiques ou Le truc de potard (Melies, 1908)
Bluebeard (Melies, 1901)
The Killers (Siodmak, 1946)
The Killers (Siegal, 1964)
The Headless Horseman (Iwerks, 1934)
The Mad Doctor (Hand, 1933)
Strange Justice (Schertzinger, 1932)
Son of the Border (Nosler, 1933)

xp is Late Autumn in the Late Ozu Eclipse box? been eyeing that one for a while

idk, this was a theatre screening but there's a bfi blu ray out there

A Life in Waves (6.0)
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (8.0)
Deterrence (5.0)
Bravetown (5.5)
My Generation (6.0)
Buffalo ’66 (5.5)
The World of Henry Orient (7.0)
Cold Water (8.0)
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (7.0)
Studio 54 (7.0)

One of the friends I saw Studio 54 with tonight was in there around '81 or '82, after Rubell and Schrager sold the club. I figure they would have asked me to vacate the line in 1977. Pretty conventional, but lots of great footage, including Rubell's 1976 club in Queens, and Michael Jackson dropping in on Rubell.

Really enjoyed that Studio 54 doc

Yayoi Kusama - Inifinity (Heather Lenz, 2018) - this was ok. Struck by the relation between someone asexual like Kusuma ending up on the end of transgressive art in the mid-60s. An under-explored facet.

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, 1982)
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)

Small Foot.
musical animation about the tribe of the yeti's encounter with a Western film maker.
Quite fun. Noticed it had a G certificate which I don't remember having seen on a cinema screen before.
& for the lowest certificate there seemed to be a lot of what would be violence if it was real or is the idea that what would be physically or life threatening behaviour actually needing to be shown to have consequences before it makes the certificate go up.
Also questions of blasphemy and challenging received religious wisdom being a central theme of a lot of the film.

JUst hope 5 year old kids don't start dropping off the side of Himalayan mountains cos they've seen it's quite fun.
& there's easier ways of waking villages than displayed here.

I think i was just assuming that a worthwhile film couldn't be rated as low as G but may have been watching things rated as that without seeing the certificate.

Or taht since I'm so far above any certi8ficate age exclusion it becomes nominal but not really getting what allows anything to be a certain certificate. Presume for a lot of things the lower the certificate the better because the higher the potential audience. THough there is still the attraction/prestige of seeing a higher certificate or knowing that things may be more authentic and less bowdlerised if they're thought of as adult/mature.

Enjoyed most of this though.

The Merry Skeleton (Lumiere, 1898)
A Terrible Night (Melies, 1896)
The Bewitched Inn (Melies, 1897)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Henderson, 1912)
*Frankenstein (Whale, 1931)
Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party (Fleischer, 1933)
The Shriek (Lantz & Nolan, 1933)
The Monster Walks (Strayer, 1932)
The Smoke Scream (Messmer, 1928)
*Salome (Bryant & Nazimova, 1922) (Who would have thought half-naked men and an atmosphere of sacrilege and sex would be just what I DON'T need right now?)
*Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)

Being There (Ashby, 1979)
Hold the Dark (Saulnier, 2018)
The Gates (Maysles et al, 2007)
*Bulldog Drummond (Jones, 1929)
*King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)
Neighbours (short - McLaren, 1952)
My Josephine (short - Jenkins, 2003)
The Voice Thief (Adan Jodorowsky, 2013)
Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
*Y Tu Mamá También (Cuarón, 2001)

Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957) - 10/10
Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995) - 7/10
Schizopolis (Soderbergh, 1996) - 9/10
In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) - 10/10
Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999) - 9/10
Rome: Open City (Rossellini, 1945) - 8/10
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967) - 9/10
Basic Instinct (Verhoeven, 1992) - 8/10
Risky Business (Brickman, 1983) - 7/10
Before Sunrise (Linklater, 1995) - 9/10
Dekalog I (Kieślowski, 1988) - 9/10
Avanti! (Wilder, 1972) - 9/10
Uncle Yanco (Varda, 1967) - 9/10
Thief (Mann, 1981) - 9/10
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004) - 9/10
Dekalog II (Kieślowski, 1988) - 9/10
Dekalog III (Kieślowski, 1988) - 9/10
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1978) - 8/10
Black Panthers (Varda, 1968) - 10/10
Dekalog IV (Kieślowski, 1988) - 10/10
Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013) - 9/10

The Eye (Pang Bros, 2002) 3/10
The Deadly Trap (Clément,1971) 6/10
The Comedy of Terrors (Tourneur, 1963) 7/10
The Mind of Mr. Soames (Cooke, 1970) 6/10
The Ugly Ducking (Comfort, 1959) 5/10
The World of Henry Orient (Hill, 1964) 7/10 (because of the ILX revive - slightly surprising credit for Boris Kaufman, but no wonder all the New York locations look so good)
Road to Utopia (Walker, 1946)
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wenders, 1972) 7/10 (this was the recent restoration supervised by Wenders, with some new 'cover version' soundtrack substitutions for the now prohibitively expensive rock and pop hits heard throughout the film on jukeboxes, radios etc. Film looks stunning, Robby Müller already fully formed)
Halloween (Green, 2018) 6/10 - Haluk Bilginer making for a great, tiny degree of separation between this film and the work of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose latest film opens in the UK next month

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (Joseph Green, 1959) 2
Night of the Ghouls (Wood, 1952) 2
Doctor X (Curtiz (!), 1932) 4
Dead of Night (Cavalcanti, 1945) 6
*Gremlins 2 (Dante, 1990) 8
First Man (Chazelle, 2018) 7; shame about the suffering wife trope
Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018) 8