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Gone With the Wind (1939) 7.5/10
Iron Man (2008) 7/10
Tangerine (2015) 8/10

Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link

bunch of airplane streaming on the way to and from berlin, the only one i'd seen before is philadelphia story:

all about eve (mankiewicz, 1951) 10/10
paddington 2 (king, 2017) 8/10
rocky (avildsen, 1976) 8/10
the philadelphia story (cukor, 1940) 9/10
happy death day (landon, 2017) 6/10
inside out (docter, 2015) 8/10

princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link

honestly happy death day was surprisingly enjoyable for what it was

princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link

the gospel of the bear film has reached the troposphere

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link

lol

princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link

The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011) 6
Mission: Impossible Fallout (McQuarrie, 2018) 7
Disney Christopher Robin (Marc Forster, 2018) 4
Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010) 8
Icarus (Bryan Fogel, 2017) 8

adam the (abanana), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link

read that marwencol has been adapted & now will have steve carell in it

johnny crunch, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link

yeah I watched it because i saw the trailer for the zemeckis movie. The trailer makes it out to be an "inspirational" true story but it's not really, not exactly.

adam the (abanana), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link

baby driver (2017 edgar wright) 6.5/10
mollys game (2017 sorkin) 2/10
suburbicon (2017 clooney) 2/10
the killing of a sacred deer (2017 lanthimos) 6/10
angelo my love (1983 duvall) 3/10
eighth grade (2018 burnham) 8/10
thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10

johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link

thoroughbreds (2018 cory finley) 4/10

I don't do the out of 10 thing but I'd give this at least a 6. It made me laugh a lot.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link

lil too try hard idk

johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link

*The Naked Spur : 7/10
Vampire's Kiss : 6/10
Dying Of the Light (Paul Schrader Edit): 7/10 -- only 7/10 because Nic Cage is in full on weirdo mode and Schrader's noodling around on Final Cut. The doctor accent is...wow...almost as great as the accent in "Vampire's Kiss"
*The Young One: 7/10 - minor Buñuel for me but still great

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link

Crazy Rich Asians – kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people. Lots of film history embedded in it.

remy bean, Saturday, 18 August 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link

What Price Jazz (Baerwitz, 1934)
Felix Gets Broadcasted (Messmer, 1923)
High Flyers (Cline, 1937)
Inflation (Myers, 1933)
Felix in Fairyland (Messmer, 1923)
*Roast-Beef and Movies (Baerwitz, 1934)
*Big City Fantasy (Henabery, 1934)
The Magician (Bergman, 1958)
BlacKkKlansman (Lee, 2018)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955)

Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link

Re-watching Whit Stillman's Barcelona tonight.

grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link

I was hoping for good things from Crazy Rich Asians, but found it fairly bland. I may have had the wrong expectations for a mainstream PG rom-com, but I felt like it needed sharper jokes.

jmm, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link

kind of a riff on Philadelphia Story, but with better-looking people

!!! I'm sure this cast looks fine, but you are aware that Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn were considered pretty attractive, right?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link

in theaters July 26 - August 22

Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) - 6/10
Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1951) - 9/10
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018) - 8/10
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018) - 6/10
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - 7/10
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Peter Rida Michail, Aaron Horvath, 2018) - 3/10
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) - 9/10

flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link

! at low rating for Three Identical Strangers

I knew nothing about the backstory before seeing it at SIFF but on a str8 narrative level it’s my favourite doco of the year

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link

it is an incredible story. a documentary that makes itself, really. what bothered me was how much they reused the same footage from the same Donahue, NBC, + other TV appearances. the same lines. it kinda falls apart at the end, and felt padded even at ~95 minutes. that has nothing to do with the actual story being unresolved, i just thought with so much material to go through (and so many years passed over) the reuse of footage was bizarre.

flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:52 (five years ago) link

and fwiw I knew not only the backstory but most of the twists before I saw it. I would've rated it higher if I had gone in completely cold, I wish I could've.

flappy bird, Thursday, 23 August 2018 06:54 (five years ago) link

yeah fair enough! the repeated lines are very few & read in SUPER different context the second times around, but if you’re not seeing it / that footage cold, those won’t have the same kick

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:22 (five years ago) link

a documentary that makes itself, really.

this undermines the work they do in visuals and research and in editing the story though — I felt v impressed by how manipulative it was without cheats in the first half-hour, and how well the makers shift to mostly-archival telling thereafter.

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:26 (five years ago) link

i've seen much worse evaluations of 3IS

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link

Apostasy (Dan Kokotajlo, 2017) - fairly ho hum drama around Jehovah's witnesses.
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link

Missed a trick by not taglining this thread "Oh yes... There will be blood"

koogs, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link

Electric Bloodaloo

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link

Kagemusha (1980)
RoboCop (2014)
The Endless (2017)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
*The Social Network (2010)
Super Troopers 2 (2018)
A Ciambra (2017)
Frenzy (1972)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
*The Cabin In The Woods (2012)
A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
*Nightcrawler (2014)
First Reformed (2017)
*Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Super 8 (2011)
30 Days of Night (2007)
One Sings, The Other Doesnt (1977)

. (Michael B), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link

Re-watched Miami Vice tonight (the director’s cut). It’s kind of maddening how 90% of the shots are fantastically beautiful, and then the other 10% look like they were shot on somebody’s flip phone.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link

I've gotta get on that, watched Heat a few weeks ago for the first time and loved it. Haven't seen Collateral since it opened in 2004 but remember loving it, too.

flappy bird, Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link

Forgetting Sarah Marshall, good movie

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link

The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2017) - this is going to be top 2/3 for the year. Loved the use of (de-)focus to mirror the main character's state of mind (which could've been too on the nose), the script really nails the intricacies of class mobility across a more Latin American milieu, and then the final encounter between Chela and the much younger Angy -- all that hidden passion and desire across age and class -- really was a terrific driver for the last 1/3 of the film.

― xyzzzz__, 23. august 2018 15:15 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, for one reason or another Latin American cinema works a lot with de-focus these days, I find. Sergio Armstrong, most famous for shooting most films of Pablo Larrain, is masterful at it. Apart from Larrains films he does it greatly in From Afar and The Desert Bride. It's one of the most innovative little things happening in World Cinema at the moment, but I'll admit I have no idea what to make of it.

Frederik B, Saturday, 25 August 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link

August 1st to 16th:

* The Brothers Bloom (Johnson 2008) 📺
Teen Titans GO! To The Movies (Michail, Horvath, Jelenic 2018)
True Confession (Ruggles, Binyon 1937) 📽️
* Sneakers (Robinson 1992) 📺
The Spy Who Dumped Me (Fogel, Iverson 2018)
Nothing Sacred [Kino restoration] (Wellman, Hecht, Schulberg, Lardner Jr., Parker, Howard, Hart, Kaufman, Carson 1937)
BlacKkKLansman (Lee, Wachtel, Rabinowitz, Willmott 2018)
Madonna: Truth Or Dare (Keshishian 1991)
To Be Or Not To Be (Lubitsch, Mayer 1942) 📽️

▫◌▫ (sic), Sunday, 26 August 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link

Re-watched Miami Vice tonight (the director’s cut). It’s kind of maddening how 90% of the shots are fantastically beautiful, and then the other 10% look like they were shot on somebody’s flip phone.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, August 24, 2018 8:01 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've gotta get on that, watched Heat a few weeks ago for the first time and loved it. Haven't seen Collateral since it opened in 2004 but remember loving it, too.

― flappy bird, Friday, August 24, 2018 8:26 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MV is the purest distillation of the Mann aesthetic. I actually recommend the theatrical cut over the director’s cut, though I’m not sure if one is easier to track down over the other. If you’re onboard with his “thing” it’s one of the greatest action films in recent years.

omar little, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link

You can rent the theatrical cut on Amazon but the director's cut is the only one available on DVD/Blu-Ray.

Has the director's cut of Blackhat ever been released anywhere? I never saw the first version but the re-edit is supposed to be a substantially better movie, so I'm intrigued.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link

Apparently MV (theatrical cut, probably) will be free via Amazon Prime starting September 1.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link

*Out West (Arbuckle, 1918)
Charley on the Farm (Sullivan, 1919)
The Dippy Dentist (Goulding, 1920)
Standing Pat (Montgomery, 1928)
Campus Romeos (Pratt, 1927)
A Broadway Romeo (Blumenstock, 1931)
All the King's Horses (Tuttle, 1935)
*The Black Cat (Ulmer, 1934)
Re-Animator (Gordon, 1985)
Good References (Neill, 1920)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Sunday, 26 August 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link

Primary (6.5)
A Bronx Tale (7.0)
Promised Land (7.5)
Shock and Awe (5.5)
Nico, 1988 (6.0)
Nico Icon (7.0)
Singer Presents...Elvis (6.5)
Twister (6.5)
Class Action (7.5)
Sorry to Bother You (6.0)

I was going to leave Sorry to Bother You unrated because a) I drifted a bit early on, and b) as it got weirder and weirder, I just didn't know what to make of it. So take the rating as more of a question mark than any kind of comment on how good it is.

clemenza, Monday, 27 August 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link

lots of Hong Sang-soo, just hook it to my veins

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 9/10
Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes, 1971) 7/10
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi, 2015) 9/10
La Collectionneuse (Rohmer, 1967) 6/10
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong, 2015) 8/10
Three Colours: Blue (Kieślowski, 1993) 7/10
Three Colours: White (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10
Three Colours: Red (Kieślowski, 1994) 7/10
In Another Country (Hong, 2012) 8/10
On The Beach at Night Alone (Hong, 2017) 8/10
Blackkklansman (Lee, 2018) 7/10
The Aviators Wife (Rohmer, 1981) 9/10
Woman on the Beach (Hong, 2006) 9/10
The Day After (Hong, 2017) 7/10

devvvine, Monday, 27 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link

Crazy Rich Asians: 7.5

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 August 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link

*Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971, Van Peebles) 8/10
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928, Dulac) (41m) 8/10
La folie des vaillants (1926, Dulac) (46m) 6/10
La Belle dame sans merci (1920, Dulac) 7/10
Princesse Mandane (1928, Dulac) 6/10
Freaky Friday (1976, Nelson) 7/10
Surrender (1950, Dwan) 5/10
Dutchman (1967, Harvey) (55m) 7/10
Rendezvous in July (1949, Becker) 6/10
Nico, 1988 (2017, Nicchiarelli) 5/10
*The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961, Guest) 8/10

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link

On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) - 10/10
A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) - 5/10
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) - 10/10
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) - 10/10
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002) - 7/10
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) - 10/10
Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) - 6/10
Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930) - 7/10

flappy bird, Friday, 31 August 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link

A Ciambra, a story about a Romani family of low-level criminals in Italy, and a young boy's coming-of-age/becoming-a-scumbag.

grawlix (unperson), Friday, 31 August 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link

Alex Strangelove (Johnson, 2018) 6/10
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone, 1946) 8/10
Vision Quest (Becker, 1985) 5/10
*Mean Girls (Waters, 2004) 6/10
*Heathers (Lehmann, 1989) 9/10
A Man There Was (Sjöström, 1917) 7/10
Heartaches (Shebib, 1981) 6/10
The Story of Temple Drake (Roberts, 1933) 7/10

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 September 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link

Nearest and Dearest (Robins, 1972) 4/10
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman, 1955) 8/10
The Boys From Fengkuei (Hou, 1983) 8/10
Cabaret (Fosse, 1972) 7/10
The Big Combo (Lewis, 1955) 7/10
The Final Programme (Fuest, 1973) 6/10
The Devil's Rain (Fuest, 1975) 7/10
Rawhide (Hathaway, 1951) 8/10
Further up the Creek (Guest, 1958) 6/10
The Women (Cukor, 1939) 8/10
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Reed, 2018) 6/10

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 September 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link

The Finsl Programme is one of the rare movies that I watched, thoroughly entertained the whole way through, with absolutely no clue as to what was happening.

JoeStork, Saturday, 1 September 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link

I'd read the book many years ago, so that maybe helped - I'm not sure it was intended to be entirely coherent, in the manner of New Wave SF. Moorcock-loving fans of my acquaintance (and Moorcock himself) detest it, but as you say it's pretty pleasurable to watch. The director, Robert Fuest, had come from TV and things like the (Steed-Peel) Avengers, and he was a great set dresser and stylist - this set is the standout in FP:

https://thegameofnerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-final-programme-02.jpg

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 1 September 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link

The Good Marriage (Rohmer, 1982) - early to mid-80s Rohmer is really his best period. Also have an impression he is an interesting dabbler in these electronic music soundtracks - might be an idea to see them collected.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 September 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link

The First Slam Dunk (2022) 4.5/5. One of the great sports movies.
Out of the Blue (1980) 4.5/5. Finally saw this for the first time and it's gotta be the best thing Dennis Hopper ever did.
* Youth of the Beast (1963) 3.5/5
* Side Street (1949) 4/5
The Upturned Glass (1947) 3.5/5
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) 3/5
* Saint Omer (2022) 4.5/5
Saturday Fiction (2019) 4/5
Dune: Part Two 3.5/5
Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You (2023) 3.5/5 Bonnie Prince Billy "visual album" on Criterion Channel.
Meanwhile (2011) 2.5/5

Chris L, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:36 (one month ago) link

Latest 10:

Girls Of The Night, dir: Kinuyo Tanaka, 1961 - powerful
Love Under The Crucifix, dir: Kinuyo Tanaka, 1962- sad
Premalu, dir: Girish A D, 2024- corny
Hell Dogs, dir: Masato Harada, 2022- mid
The Case Is Closed, Forget It, dir: Damiano Damiani, 1971- savage
I Want Him Dead, dir: Paolo Bianchini, 1968 - serviceable
TMNT: Mutant Mayhem*, dir: Jeff Rowe, 2023 - tubular
El Puro, dir: Edoardo Mulargia, 1969- boring/interesting
Sword Of The Beast*, dir: Hideo Gosha, 1965- programmer
Merry Christmas*, dir: Sriram Raghavan, 2024- beguiling

* means rewatch

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:56 (one month ago) link

Out of the Blue (1980) 4.5/5. Finally saw this for the first time and it's gotta be the best thing Dennis Hopper ever did.

I agree. Pretty gut-wrenching but an outstanding film.

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 25 March 2024 14:05 (one month ago) link

Where Are You Going (2016) dir. Yang Zhengfan. Reminds me a lot of a CharlieBo313 YouTube video, but with more depth.

Vintage, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:09 (one month ago) link

The Today Show (S4 – 6.0)
Drive-Away Dolls (4.0)
L.I.E. (7.0)
To Die For (7.5)
American Fiction (7.0)
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans (7.0)
Ozark (S1-S4 – 7.0)
Natural Born Killers (4.0)
Modernism, Inc. (7.5)
Eileen (5.0)

clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 05:33 (one month ago) link

Abraham’s Valley (de Oliveira, 1993)
NYAD (Vasarhelyi/Chin, 2023)
Surviving Desire(Hartley, 1992)
Ambition (Hartley, 1992)
Theory of Achievement (Hartley, 1991)
Seven Psychopaths (McDonagh, 2012)
Cop Land (Mangold, 1997)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
Back and Forth (Snow, 1969)
Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly) (Snow, 1976)
Standard Time (Snow, 1967)
The Strange Case of Angelica (de Oliveira, 2010
Working on the Douro River (de Oliveira, 1931)
Jungle Fever (Lee, 1991)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Frank, 1975)
Carlito’s Way (De Palma, 1993)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Jude, 2023)

bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 12:43 (one month ago) link

The Today Show (S4 – 6.0)

The Morning Show that should be...

clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 12:48 (one month ago) link

Orion and the Dark (Kaufman script, 2024) 6/10
Riki-Oh (1991) subbed 8/10
Je Tu Il Elle (Akerman) 4/10
*My Dinner With Andre (Malle, 1981) 7/10

adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 14:14 (one month ago) link

in cinemas, March:
* The Iron Giant (1999 Bird, McCanlies after Hughes )
Trollhunter (2010 Øvredal)
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010 Craig, Jurgenson) 📽️
Hero [英雄] (2002 Zhang, Li, Wang)
Fresh (1994 Yakin)
Perfect Days (2023 Wenders, Takasaki)
The Pillow Book (1996 Greenaway )
Drive Away Dykes (2024 Coen & Cooke)
Kedi (2016 Torun)
Your Sister's Sister (2011 Shelton, Blunt, Duplass, DeWitt, Birbiglia)
the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020 Yan, Hodson)
* Nope (2022 Peele)
* Matinee (1993 Dante, Jerico, Haas)
The Host (2006 Bong, Ha, Baek)
They Cloned Tyrone (2023 Taylor, Rettenmaier)
Tremors (1990 Underwood, Maddock, Wilson)
The Fly (1986 Cronenberg after Langelaan after Pogue)
The Creature From The Black Lagoon (2D) (1954 Arnold, Essex, Ross, Zimm)
I'm "George Lucas" (2024 Jacobi, Sofillas)
* Asteroid City (2023 Anderson, Coppola)
Godzilla [ゴジラ] (1954 Honda, Murata, Kayama)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024 Glass, Tofilska, Mansell)
Problemista (2024 Torres)
Wendell & Wild (2022 Selick, Peele, Chapman)

home viewing:
* The Terminator ( 1984 Cameron, Hurd, Wisher Jr. ) 📀
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 Cameron, Wisher Jr. ) 📀
* Last Action Hero ( 1993 McTiernan, Penn, Leff, Black, Arnott, Goldman, Fisher, Ferguson ) 📀
Dark ( 2024 ARP, Hawke ) 📺 4 min
A Swiss Trick ( 1931 Foster, Stallings ) 📺 7 min
* The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 Jewison, Trustman, Legrand, Ashby ) 📺

bae (sic), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:36 (one month ago) link

Ikarie XB1 (Polák 1963)
June (Vaurio 2024)
Safe in Hell (Wellman 1931)
The Raid 2 (Evans 2014)
24-Hour Party People (Winterbottom 2002)
The Munekata Sisters (Ozu 1950)
*The Red Shoes (Powell & Presburger, 1948)
*Barton Fink (Coen & Coen, 1991)
Beau Is Afraid (Aster 2023)
New Rose Hotel (Ferrara 1998)
Poor Things (Lanthimos 2023)
*Lone Star (Sayles 1996)
Dreadnaught (Yuen Woo-ping 1981)
The Zone of Interest (Glazer 2023)
True Romance (Scott 1993)
The Holdovers (Payne 2023)
The Marvels (DaCosta 2023)
Dune Pt. 1 (Villeneuve 2023)
Anatomy of a Fall (Triet 2023)
Road House (Liman 2024)
Dune Pt. 2 (Villeneuve 2024)
American Fiction (Jefferson 2023)
Ballerina (Lynch 2003)
Monkey Man (Patel 2024)
STEVE! (martin) (Neville 2024)

Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Friday, 12 April 2024 01:19 (three weeks ago) link

April

Ricochet (Mulcahy, 1991) 7/10
No Sudden Move (Soderbergh, 2021) 8/10
Page Eight (Hare, 2011) 6/10
*Uncut Gems (Safdie Brothers, 2019) 9/10
Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, 1947) 6/10
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger, 1943) 8/10
Reality (Satter, 2023) 6/10
All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979) 8/10
Mississippi Grind (Fleck/Biden, 2015) 7/10
Unhinged (Borte, 2020) 5/10
Hundreds of Beavers (Cheslik, 2022) 8/10
*Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Burton, 2005) 6/10
Owning Mahowny (Kwietniowski, 2003) 7/10

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:28 (two weeks ago) link

always interested in your picks/ratings michael b but that black narcissus rating is WACK. i guess some people just don't appreciate exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:38 (two weeks ago) link

Yeah, I knew someone would get pissed off at that rating and while it looks amazing, the movie splutters to this mad finale that just comes out of nowhere. It just didn't do it for me, soz

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:56 (two weeks ago) link

Got the Blu-Ray of THE ABYSS this weekend; finished watching it tonight. (I started it last night. It's long.) I saw it in theaters 35 years ago and was shocked how much I remembered. Maybe my favorite Cameron movie, and it looks amazing.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 00:47 (one week ago) link

Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) 8/10 for a prison movie from 1950 it's excellent
Night Killer (the Troll 2 team, 1990) good bad
A Family Finds Entertainment (Ryan Trecartin, 2005) first time watching it the whole way through
Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli, 2023) 8/10

adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 22:28 (one week ago) link

The Tall Men (1955) 2.5/5
Perfect Days (2023) 4/5
The Beast (2023) 3.5/5
Rockers (1978) 4/5
Dreadnaught (1981) 4/5
Mississippi Masala (1991) 4/5
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996) 3.5/5
Streetwise (1984) 4.5/5
Yakuza Graveyard (1976) 4/5
High Hopes (1988) 4/5
* One Fine Morning (2022) 4/5
* Blood Simple (1984) 5/5
* I'm Not There (2007) 5/5

Chris L, Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:45 (one week ago) link

In-flight entertainment, yesterday/today:
American Fiction (3/5, seemed like two scripts smooshed together with only partial success)
Barbie (2/5, honestly I am not the target market)

Lined up for the return journey in a couple of weeks if the Aer Lingus menu hasn't changed:
Oppenheimer & Killers of the Flower Moon, well that is going to be one serious and important movie session, hopefully the passenger in front won't lean their seat back too far.

a fatal dose of irony (Matt #2), Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:59 (one week ago) link

Repo Man (4.0)
Krush Groove (6.0)
Make Me Famous (6.0)
Prime Cut (5.0)
The Old Oak (7.5)
Wayne’s World (6.0)
Mr. Robot (S1 - 7.5)
Vanishing Point (5.5)
Hickey & Boggs (5.5)
Belly (5.0)

Seven of these I watched in connection to two books I'm reading: Charles Taylor's Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s and Nate Patrin's The Needle and the Lens.

I know people love Repo Man, so I made sure not to post on the relevant thread. I was a so-so on it when it came out; other than the occasional clever line (still remembered "ordinary fucking people"), got nothing 40 years later. Just in general, I don't think I like cult films...not sure if I've ever liked one, in the classic sense of the term. Which may or may not even have meaning anymore: originally, as in Hoberman and Rosenbaum's book, I think it was tied in with the idea of late-night rep screenings.

clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 17:52 (six days ago) link

in cinemas, April:
* The Thin Man (1934 Van Dyke, Hackett, Goodrich, Hammett) 📽️
Lady Snowblood [修羅雪姫] (1973 Fujita, Osada, Koike, Kamimura)
Rashōmon [羅生門] (1950 Kurosawa, Hashimoto, Akutagawa) 📽️
Green Plums And A Bamboo Horse [青梅竹馬 / Taipei Story] (1985 Yang, Chu, Hou)
Riddle Of Fire (2024 / 2023 Razooli) 📽️
Hundreds Of Beavers (2024 / 2022 Cheslik, Tews)
Late Night With The Devil (2024 / 2023 Cairnes & Cairnes)
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2024 / 2023 Jude)
The Homicide Incident Of The Youth On Guling Street [牯嶺街少年殺人事件 / A Brighter Summer Day] (1991 Yang, Hung, Lai, Yang, Yan)
Tampopo [タンポポ] (1985 Itami)
Mahjong [麻將] (1996 Yang)
Civil War (2024 Garland)
A Confucian Confusion [獨立時代] (1994 Yang, Hung)
* Airplane! (1980 Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, Proft, Jorgensen, Hailey, Bartlett, Champion)
Gas Food Lodging (1992 Anders, Peck)
* Civil War (2024 Garland )
* Spider-Man 2 (2004 Raimi, Sargent, Chabon, Gough, Millar, Koepp, Ditko)
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024 Ritchie, Tamasy, Johnson, Amel, Lewis) 3/10
Sasquatch Sunset (2024 Zellner)
Inception (2010 Nolan)
Abigail (2024 Radio Silence, Shields)
The People's Joker (2024 Drew, LeRose)

home viewing:
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 McTiernan, Dixon, Wimmer, Trustman) 📺
It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964 Scorsese, Martin) 📺 16 min
Batman & Robin (1997 Schumacher, Goldsman) 📺
Basic (2003 McTiernan, Vanderbilt) 📺

bae (sic), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:13 (three days ago) link


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