Last (x) movies you saw (II)

The Constant Woman (Schertzinger, 1933)
Jack Ahoy (Forde, 1934)
The Savage Girl (Fraser, 1932)

The 2023 Library of Congress Festival of Film & Sound
*Belle of Samoa (Silver, 1929)
*So's Your Old Man (La Cava, 1926)
Frenchman's Creek (Leisen, 1944)
*Umpa (Goode et al, 1933)
The Iron Mask (Dwan, 1929)
The Soundman (Stell, 1050)
Spy Smasher Strikes Back (Burtt recutting Spy Smasher [Witney, 1942] to feature length, 2022)
Dark Manhattan (Fraser, 1937)
Gerald McBoing Boing (Cannon, 1950)
Memory Lane (Stahl, 1926)
Caldonia (Crouch, 1945)
Ceiling Zero (Hawks, 1936)
Lindbergh's Flight from N.Y. to Paris (Fox Movietone, 1927)
*Submarine (Capra, 1928)
A Cry For Help (Griffith, 1912)
The Phantom Empire (Ch. 1) (Brower & Eason, 1935)
Spring Parade (Koster, 1940)
*Call Her Savage (Dillon, 1932)
All That Money Can Buy (aka The Devil and Daniel Webster) (Dieterle, 1941)
Johanna Enlists (Taylor, 1922)
Craig's Wife (Arzner, 1936)
*Melody Cruise (Sandrich, 1933)
The Lady (Borzage, 1925)
Carne de Cabaret (Cabana Cabanne y Arozamena, 1931)

Re-watched Eastern Promises last night and I feel like there was a little bit more to that movie the last time I saw it? It felt really slight, and kind of handwaved a lot of stuff just to be done in 100 minutes. On the plus side, it was over in 100 minutes.

Night of the Demon (Tourneur, 1957)
On Secret Service (Woods, 1933)
Myrt and Marge (Boasberg, 1933)
Confessions of a Co-Ed (Burton & Murphy, 1931)
The Crime of the Century (Beaudine, 1933)
Asteroid City (Anderson, 2023)
Night Walk (Sohn Koo-Yong, 2023)
Unidentified (Jude Chun, 2022)

A Simple Plan (Raimi, 1998)
Her Smell (Perry, 2018)
Past Lives (Song, 2023)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park, 2002)
Along Came a Spider (Tamahori, 2001)
20th Century Women (Mills, 2016)
The Bone Collector (Noyce, 1999)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens, 1951)
Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)
Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)

Interested in your thoughts on 20th Century Women.

I loved it.

June

92 in the Shade (Thomas McGuane, 1975)
R.P.M. (Stanley Kramer, 1970)
Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022)
Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Yes, Madam! (Corey Yuen, 1985)
Shopping (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1994)
Time to Love (Metin Erksan, 1965)
Journey Into Fear (Daniel Mann, 1975)
*Rikky and Pete (Nadia Tass, 1988)
Falling Leaves (Otar Iosseliani, 1966)
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
Dreams That Money Can Buy (Hans Richter, 1947)
Fire Music (Tom Surgal, 2021)
Dr. Caligari (Stephen Sayadian, 1989)
Silver Hawk (Jingle Ma, 2004)
*The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh, 1947)
The Northman (Robert Eggers, 2022)
Underwater (William Eubank, 2020)
The Big Sleep (Michael Winner, 1978)
18½ (Dan Mirvish, 2021)
Man on a Swing (Frank Perry, 1974)
Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo, 2007)
The Intruder (Roger Corman, 1962)
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (Toby Amies, 2022)
Bloody Daughter (Stéphanie Argerich, 2012)
Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
Open Windows (Nacho Vigalondo, 2014)
*Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
Filibus (Mario Roncoroni, 1915)
Dark City (William Dieterle, 1950)
Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976)
El Planeta (Amalia Ulman, 2021)
*Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957)

It took me a long time to get to Corman's The Intruder but hfs what a movie. Of recent things, El Planeta is the one I'd single out - yeah, it rips from early Jarmusch, but I wish more movies did that.

I can't get long-winded about the rest of the list when Chess Of The Wind is on it. I watched it twice in a row - it's unusual enough that I think it needs some heavy lifting on the viewer side. Man on a Swing fulfills 70s anti-hero-who-makes-you-feel-gross quota.

Blackberry (Johnson, 2023)
The Company of Wolves (Jordan, 1984)
*The Wicker Man:Directors Cut (Hardy,1973)
Blind Fury (Noyce, 1989)
Asteroid City (Anderson, 2023)
*Absolute Power (Eastwood, 1997)
The Boss Of It All (Von Trier, 2006)
Querelle (Fassbinder, 1982)

lots of dumb streaming movies this last month and a half.

The Gangster (1947) 8/10
Yoyo (Étaix, 1965) 9/10
*Earthquake (1974) 7/10
City on Fire (1979) 3/10
When Time Ran Out... (1980) 3/10 https://letterboxd.com/adamt/list/1970s-disaster-movies-ranked/
Creepshow 2 (1987) 5/10
Delirious (1991) 4/10
Blue (Jarman, 1993) 6/10
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter, 1994) 7/10
Executive Koala (2005) 6/10
Black Dynamite (2009) 7/10
Triangle (2009) 6/10
Time Trap (2017) 7/10
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) 2/10
The Sound of 007 (2022) 4/10
The Fire Place a.k.a. Adult Swim Yule Log (Casper Kelly, 2022) good
Cocaine Bear (2023) 5/10

Yeah Chess of the Wind is truly remarkable, unbelievably beautiful to look at while drifting between family drama, social realism, and horror.

Raging Bull (10.0)
You Hurt My Feelings (6.5)
Party Girl (Parker Posey, not Nicholas Ray - 6.5)
Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, not Parker Posey - 6.0)
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (6.0)
It Ain't Over (7.0)
Squaring the Circle (6.0)
Reggie (7.0)
Past Lives (7.0)
Daliland (6.0)

Would really like to see Chess of the Wind, based on yall's takes!

Re-watched Eastern Promises last night and I feel like there was a little bit more to that movie the last time I saw it? It felt really slight, and kind of handwaved a lot of stuff just to be done in 100 minutes. On the plus side, it was over in 100 minutes.

I liked it at first, but mostly I'm with unperson: even 100 minutes was plenty time to fizzle out. However, DVD extras incl. The Mark of Cain, doc about Russian prison tattoos, true ikon codes of the underground, as presented (Viggo said Cronenberg made him get this or a book version, been years since I've seen this library disc, can't quite remember, but) def tail over dog burying the lede interest-wise, visually and otherwise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mark_of_Cain_(2000_film)

Divorce Among Friends (Del Ruth, 1930)
High Anxiety (Brooks, 1977)
Corsair (West, 1931)
Stand Up and Cheer (MacFadden, 1934)
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (Rowland, 1936)
Old Ironsides (Cruze, 1926)
The Car (Silverstein, 1977)
This Is Francis X. Bushman (Davis, 2021)

* Le Havre (2011) 4/5. Underrated as one of the most charming movies of the 21st century.
Flesh + Blood (1985) 3/5
The Man From Laramie (1955) 4.5/5
American Dream (1990) 4.5/5
* Georgia (1995) 3.5/5
* The Naked Spur (1953) 4/5. Somewhat deflated by the ending as Stewart's final decision makes no sense to me.
Asteroid City (2023) 4/5
* Shadows in Paradise 4/5
Creed II 3/5
* In a Lonely Place (1950) 4.5/5
* High and Low (1963) 5/5
New Rose Hotel (1998) 4/5

The Phantom President (Taurog, 1932)
The Sad Sack (Renoir, 1928)
Border Devils (Nigh, 1932)
Evensong (Saville, 1934)
Palmy Days (Sutherland, 1931)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Mangold, 2023)

Blue Jean is like three good movies in one, including a good teacher movie, but I probably won't rate it here when my next 10 come up. I mentioned almost losing my hearing aids on another thread--they're in for repair right now, so no hearing aids + British film meant I caught probably 70% of the dialogue. Not crucial to understanding the film or appreciating the mood, but obviously not ideal.

The Mark of Cain is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-fccwTjuI

Over the last couple of months or so. though most of this is from MUBI I am beginning to go to the cinema regularly again, so felt like getting back to listing stuff.

One Fine Morning (Hansen-Løve, 2023)
King Lear (Godard, 1987)
Mother and Son (Serraille, 2023)
Small, Slow But Steady (Miyake, 2023)
Playback (Comedi, 2019)
Potemkinistii (Radu Jude, 2022)
Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015)
The Earrings of Madame de...(Ophuls, 1953)
Gerhard Richter Painting (Belz, 2012)
Blind Spot (Von Alemann, 1981)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Scorsese, 1995)
Of Human Bondage (Cromwell, 1934)
I am Divine (Schwarz, 2013)
The Blue Caftan (Touzani, 2023)
Return to Seoul (Chou, 2022)

One Fine Morning (Hansen-Løve, 2023)

thoughts?

It uses a bog standard relationship drama template to go through the issues in the French care system, each of those elements add up quite nicely I think.

Did you like it?

I quite did. Léa Seydoux and my beloved Melvil Poupaud are fresh. At times it reminded me of a Hong Sang-soo. I didn't want it to end.

*Movieland (Taurog, 1926)
Sugar Daddies (Guiol & McCarey, 1927)
The Fighting Trooper (Taylor, 1934)
By Your Leave (Corrigan, 1934)
My Friend From India (Hopper, 1927)
Kid Millions (Del Ruth & Pogany, 1934)
The Lesson (Troughton, 2023)

to leslie (michael morris, 2022) 7/10
the great beauty (sorrentino, 2013) 7/10
hud (ritt, 1963) 8/10
sanctuary (zachary wigon, 2022) 4/10
stars at noon (denis, 2022) 8/10
infinity pool (b cronenberg, 2023) 7/10
*seduced and abandoned (toback, 2013) 7/10
the natural (levinson, 1984) 6/10
paper moon (bogdanovich, 1973) 9/10
parallel mothers (almodovar, 2021) 8/10
the untouchables (depalma, 1987) 5/10

Saw "Biosphere," pretty much a standard two guys in a room indie, but as far as movies that explore male friendships go, I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like it since "Humpday" (which also starred Mark Duplass, though Sterling K. Brown is great in this as the other guy). Would make a good play, probably, which is what is essentially is, anyway.

The Cassandra Crossing (1976) 4/10 euro disaster movie
Two-Minute Warning (1976) 4/10 people watching football disguised as a sniper movie
*Skyjacked (1972) 6/10
The Bees (1978) 6/10 fantastic b-movie, doesn't scrimp on the bees

Secret of the Incas (1954) 4/10
The Mind Benders (1963) 5/10 you got a marriage melodrama in my cold war sf/f movie
Vagabond (Varda, 1985) 7/10 S&S#101
Opera (Argento, 1987) 6/10
Robot Wars (1993) 3/10

Wonder Woman (Jenkins, 2017) 6/10
Twisted Pair (2018) 6/10

The Savage Bees (TV movie, 1976) is better than that pos

is the Mind Benders that one with the great shots early on of him in a large sensual deprivation tank?

Yeah! Really like that film. Inspiration for the band name obv.

(imdb trailer suggests it is, you can see him climbing in to the tank but not the shot of him floating there, taken from underneath. yeah, i remember the rest of the film not living up to the premise)

Great! Movies (that's the channel name) showed Les Mis last week, the liam neeson version, not the musical. would like to see the depardieu version but doubt i will.

Night Of The Demon on last night. i don't remember it being 2hrs long (with ads).

Secret of The Incas (Hopper, 1954)
Touki Bouki (Mambéty, 1973)
*Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1980)
*Eureka (Roeg, 1983)
Insignificance (Roeg, 1985)
A Cop Movie (Ruizpalacios, 2021)
Hellzapoppin' (Potter, 1941)
Return to Seoul (Chou, 2022)
Gerry (Van Sant, 2002)
Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023)

After Death (Bauer, 1915)
Here Comes the Groom (Sedgwick, 1934)
Crack-Up (Berke, 1934)
Pop's Pal (Edwards, 1933)
Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023)
Dream Street (Griffith, 1921)
Roman Scandals (Tuttle, 1933)

One Fine Morning (2022) 4/5
Jane B. par Agnes V. (1988) 4/5
Oppenheimer 4.5/5
Masked and Anonymous (2003) 3/5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 4/5. Typing this out made me realize how laboriously they had to avoid using a second colon.
Mission: Impossible (1996) 4/5

Odd Man Out (Reed, 1947) 6/10
*Three Cases of Murder (1955) 8/10 only let down by the forgettable second case
Les demoiselles de Rochefort (Demy, 1967) 9/10 S&S#185
Black Sunday (Frankenheimer, 1977) 4/10
The Piano (Campion, 1993) 8/10 S&S#50
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One (McQuarrie, 2023) 8/10 despite the plot being about AI and crypto

The Channel (William Kaufman, 2023): violent action trash about two ex-Marines turned bank robbers, one reluctant and the other psychotic. Really good action sequences, serviceable plot and characterization. The main FBI agent chasing them was clearly cast because Chadwick Boseman was a) dead and b) would have been out of their price range anyway. Rented it on Prime. Might see what else Kaufman's directed.

Mission: Impossible (DePalma, 1996)
Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)
Dune (Lynch, 1984)
Asteroid City (Anderson, 2023)
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh, 2017)
Deep Cover (Duke, 1992)
High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963)
Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014)
Reds (Beatty, 1981)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Metter, 1985)

Step by Step (Phil Rosen, 1946)
The Gong Show Movie (Chuck Barris, 1980)
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, 1941)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, 2023)
A Small Town in Texas (Jack Starrett, 1976)
Black Crab (Adam Berg, 2022)
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (Michael Pressman, 1976)
Slash/Back (Nyla Innuksuk, 2022)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)
China Gate (Samuel Fuller, 1957)
Z.P.G. (Michael Campus, 1972)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014)
The Rebel (Charlie Nguyen, 2007)
My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer, 1969)
It's Quieter in the Twilight (Billy Miossi, 2022)
I Walk Alone (Byron Haskin, 1947)
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach, 1995)
In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell, 1992)
Lifeline: Clyfford Still (Dennis Scholl, 2019)
Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By (André Bonzel, 2021)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Curtis Hanson, 1992)
Crossroads (Bruce Conner, 1976)
The Covenant (Guy Ritchie, 2023)
The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)

Asteroid City (Anderson, 2023) Cineworld 5/10
The Monolith Monsters (Sherwood, 1957) Blu-Ray 6/10
When Worlds Collide (Maté, 1951) DVD 8/10
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Fleischer, 1954) YouTube 7/10
Pacification (Serra, 2022) 9/10 MUBI
The Blancheville Monster (De Martino, 1963) Blu-Ray 7/10
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (Fukuda, 166) DVD 7/10
Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (Malle, 1958) MUBI 7/10
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Mangold, 2023) Cineworld 4/10

The Monolith Monsters is irrationally one of my favorite movies of all time ever since imprinting on it via late-night TV when I was a kid. It was my AIM name for years.

It's a very likeable film - the main flaw perhaps being that slowly advancing rock formations are not the most terrifying of monsters. I really like the desolate desert vibe of lots of 50s American SF/Horror - something that Tremors picks up on and runs with, also.

Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 2022 Peter Schnall
biographical documentary of most widely recorded jazz bassist.

Meet Me in the Bathroom 2022 Directors Will Lovelace Dylan Southern Andrew Cross
documentary based on Lizzy Goodman's book on the Brooklyn music scene from the turn of the millennium that came out a few years ago. Mainly cobbled together from footage from the time.
I think I only partly read the book cos it disappeared into a pile. May rectify that at some point.

Barbie (Gerwig, 2023)
Past Lives (Song, 2023)
The Peacock Fan (Rosen, 1929)
Million Dollar Ransom (Roth, 1934)
Quick Millions (Brown, 1931)
Wild Elephinks (Fleischer, 1933)
Street of Chance (Cromwell, 1930)
The Winning Ticket (Reisner, 1935)
Clinching a Sale (Cozine, 1930)
Oh! Oh! Cleopatra (Santley, 1931)
High Voltage (Higgin, 1929)
*The Shadow of the Cat (Gilling, 1961)
Miss Bluebeard (Tuttle, 1925)

Basic Instinct (4.0)
Blue Jean (7.0)
A League of Their Own (5.5)
Asteroid City (4.0)
The Wicker Man (7.5)
Bingo Long (6.5)
Field of Dreams (6.0)
The Bad News Bears (7.5)
Blow Out (9.0)
Oppenheimer (7.0)

The originals, obviously, with a coupe of those...I've been watching and re-watching various baseball films for an upcoming Zoomcast. Much to my surprise, I did not totally despise Field of Dreams.

Salvation Hunters (von Sternberg, 1925)
The Heart of Wetona (Franklin, 1919)
The Shock Punch (Sloane, 1925)
*The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)

Capitolfest 20
Featured Star: Mary Astor

The Beggar Maid (Blache, 1921)
The Fighting American (Forman, 1924)
Ladies Must Love (Dupont, 1933)
Caviar (Moser, 1930)
Follow Thru (Corrigan & Schwab, 1930)
*Alibi Bye Bye (Holmes, 1935)
Jennie Gerhardt (Gering, 1933)
*Long Pants (Guiol, 1926)
The Golden Bed (DeMille, 1925)
The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942)
Fashions in Love (Schertzinger, 1929)
The Boy Friend (Roach, 1928)
*The Unknown (the 2022 restoration, incorp'ing addl. footage) (Browning, 1927)
Supper at Six (Shores, 1932)
Almost Married (Menzies, 1932)
Private Jones (Mack, 1932)
Brother of the Bear (Carle, 1924)
Blonde or Brunette (Rosson, 1927)
*Wake Up and Dream (Newmann, 1934)
My Lady o' the Pines (Gordon, 1921)
Second Fiddle (Tuttle, 1923)
Reckless Living (Gardner, 1931)
No Time to Marry (Lachman, 1938)
*Oh, Doctor! (Pollard, 1925)

Twisted Rails (Herman, 1934)
Autumn Crocus (Dean, 1934)
Bella Donna (Milton, 1934)
Swing High (Santley, 1930)
*Konga (Lemont, 1961)

The Goat (Keaton and St. Clair, 1921) short; very monkey island
A Matter of Life and Death (The Archers, 1946) 9/10 best opening scene ever? can't give it a 10 because it insults rock music
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954) 8/10 wow. weird mix of joan crawford ego project and action melodrama. still not sure what to make of it.
House of Usher (Corman 1960) 7/10
The Raven (Corman, 1963) 7/10 i wish there were more light horror comedies like this
The Masque of the Red Death (Corman, 1964) 7/10 the "satanism" and the misused wide-angles bring it down at least a point
The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, 1976) short
Paddington (King, 2014) 6/10
Mosaic (Soderbergh, 2018) miniseries version 7/10
Full Circle (Soderbergh, 2023) 8/10

Finally watched Tár last night. Enjoyed it. Didn't get the "from this point on it's all a nightmare" feeling at all.

Airport (George Seaton, 1970)
Of Unknown Origin (George P Cosmatos, 1983)
Abby (William Girdler, 1974)
Airport 1975 (Jack Smight, 1974)
Death Line ( Gary Sherman, 1972)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (William Wyler, 1970)
The Trip to Greece (Michael Winterbottom, 2020)
The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)
Silent Scream (Denny Harris, 1979)
Whip It (Drew Barrymore, 2009)
Airport '77 (Jerry Jameson, 1977)

How do you rate those three Airports?

I liked them all to some, pretty similar, degree.
'77 felt a bit more slow, dull, and humorless than the others despite the larger portion of the running time devoted to the disaster, increased passenger death/injury and more screaming and being thrown around which was good. It also had the least George Kennedy and in general underused the cast imo, apart from maybe Lee Grant.
The second one was a little better at being silly and trashy. It was hardest to watch fresh as it's the one with a nun singing to a sick child and the plane being flown by Karen Black (who was great and a standout across all the movies)
The first one felt the most "serious" with the most non-aviation disaster elements like character development and soap opera type relationship issues.
Unfortunately the 4th movie The Concorde...Airport '79 is not on netflix with the others.
These were all kind of mid-tier for me but I would keep watching if there has been more. The disasters seem to keep getting more outlandish. Some of the members of the large all-star casts do almost nothing, but oh well.