Last (x) movies you saw

others' reactions might be "well that's only one notch better than Cinderfella."

silence ('16 Scorsese) 7/10
certain women ('16 reichardt) 7/10
life ('17 Daniel Espinosa) 3/10
boat trip ('02 mort Nathan) 7/10
goin' south ('78 Nicholson) 5/10
*arrival ('16 vileneuve) 8/10
midnight express ('78 parker) 4/10
blue jasmine ('13 allen) 6/10
song to song ('17 malick) 7/10
any given sunday ('99 stone) 4/10
best of enemies ('15 Gordon/Neville) 6/10
kate plays Christine ('16 greene) 9/10

others' reactions might be "well that's only one notch better than Cinderfella

Too busy noting the true-to-yourself-ness of ranking the critically acclaimed, crossover horror hit as the second worst thing you saw in the whole batch.

Ward: Comfort and Joy is one of my favourite films ever.

But Eric, I filter for quality! Get Out is still better than average (for ppl who watch average movies).

(it's true, i give less of a shit about hits/non-hits than ever)

Lucky 8/10
The Disaster Artist 4/10
J'Accuse (1936 ) 8/10
Lady Bird 6/10
I, Tonya 6/10

Donnie Darko (Director's Cut) 8.5/10

Much prefer the hazier non-director's cut

The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 3.5/5
49th Parallel (1941) 3.5/5
Moonstruck (1987) 4.5/5
Crime Wave (the John Paizs one;1985;rewatch) 4/5
Liquid Sky (1982) 3.5/5
Kedi (2016) 3/5
Wormwood (2017) 4/5
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) 3/5
Logan Lucky (2017) 3.5/5
Nocturama (2016) 4/5

ladybird - 9/10
gilbert - 7/10
we're the millers - 3/10
wilson - 3/10

lol........ wilson

which Wilson? The 1944 Woodrow biopic?

doubtless better than

All the Money in the World (Scott, 2017)
Out West (Arbuckle, 1918)
The Hayseed (Arbuckle, 1919)
Week-End Wives (Lachman, 1929)
Neighbors (Keaton & Cline, 1920)
*There It Is (Bowers & Muller, 1928)
The Far Country (Mann, 1955)
Million Dollar Legs (Cline, 1932)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (Joyce & Oldenberg, 2011)
Dreams that Money Can Buy (Richter, 1947)
*Fatty's Tintype Tangle (Arbuckle, 1915)
Oh, My Operation (Cozine, 1931)
Max Wants a Divorce (Linder, 1917)
His First Cigar (Gasnier, 1908)
Max Plays at Drama (Linder et Leprince, 1911)
Liliom (Lang, 1934)
The Florida Project (Baker, 2017)
Out of the Blue (Gerrard, 1931)

Finally saw Lady Bird, and found it frustating. From the hype and some conscientious reviews, I expected dark, dense mother-daughter conflict on the foreground, not all the way through, but the plot leading to spiraling clashes---and we got the schematics for that, with as much force as Laurie Metcalf could squeeze in there---but breaded with the sweet hyper YA mediocrity; Sacremento Beeing and Nothingness. Lady Bird is the bee, buzzin' through the sweetburbs, though makes sense that she would be like this while mainly pushing against the repressive mothering. Mom announces that she's the child of an alcoholic mother, and the other threat of chaos breaking out again concerns the economic and emotional undertow of Dad, who has finally [?] lost his disappointing job (but is the most convenient depressive ever, far as Lady Bird's current plans are concerned). So Mom makes sense too (incl. being the empathetic mental health professional, efficiently compulsively earnestly compartmentalized).
But jeez all this watered down, perfectly timed high school crap, watered-down nuns, for instance, and the one guy who cares about the outside world, who is shown reading A People's History of the United States, is a paranoid depresso flake--says his father's dying of cancer, and the connection is never developed, no way Lady Bird's gonna think to even ask if he wants to talk about it, and the depiction of the brown people, the insular classmate, the adopted brother and his girlfriend in limbo for the moment (but they're stunned by the idea that they can't get jobs cause metal in the faces)--does make sense that they're wary of hyper Lady Bird, but they are otherwise props, and the depresso brown teddy bear priest eh; the little boy at the end is a reminder that some people are worse off than sheee, cause he's got a big ol' bandage, awww. 5/10

Everybody here that I've seen before can do better, prob most of the noobs too. Can Gerwig make better movies, better TV when she gets more clout? I hope for that too. Bring in the candles.

Saw Assayas' Personal Shopper last night (it's on Showtime; it might also be free if you have Amazon Prime), and I liked it. It reminded me of William Gibson's trilogy of thrillers about marketing (Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History), with some mildly goofy ghost-story stuff thrown in. Kristen Stewart's a nonentity whose appeal is totally baffling to me, but she was moderately OK in a few scenes here. Mostly I enjoyed the sense it conveyed of living in a nonplace-ish EU populated entirely by ultra-rich people and their servants.

I liked Stewart in Personal Shopper, but she was definitely aided by a script and direction that used her blankness as an asset.

You bitchy queens. She was magnificent.

Incredible!

An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (short - Campion, 1982)
L'Age d'Or (Buñuel, 1930)
A Quiet Passion (Davies, 2016)
Spitfire (Howard, 1942)
Godzilla (Honda, 1954)
Poison (Haynes, 1991)
Spark of Being (short - Morrison, 2010)
Release (short - Morrison, 2010)
Just Ancient Loops (short - Morrison, 2012)
Ten (Kiarostami, 2002)
Free Fire (Wheatley, 2017)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (Zahler, 2017)

what the hell is a "watered-down nun"?

The Circle (5.0)
Jobs (6.0)
Boogie Nights (10.0)
Mark Felt (6.0)
The Right Stuff (8.0)
Detroit (5.5)
My Friend Dahmer (6.0)
State of Play (7.0)
I, Tonya (5.5)
The Post (7.0)
There Will Be Blood (8.0)

On Paul Thomas Anderson's tombstone: "One goddamn hell of a show."

(Or "Hot fuck action to the max"--they both work.)

Troll 2 (1990)

watched this for movie night last night. i forgot how insane this movie is! the part where grandpa shows up and hands the kid a molotov cocktail! that insane goth lady with the corncob seduction scene! infinitely better bad movie than The Room.

I liked the popcorn sex scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG1y3UdqN8w

yeah everything about this is certifiably insane

back to the future -- 9/10

Hey There (Goulding, 1918)
Breezing Along (Taurog, 1927)
I'm the Sheriff (Kenton, 1927)
*Hotel Anchovy (Christie, 1934)
Max in a Taxi (Linder, 1927)
Love in Armor (Cogley & Grandon, 1915)
A Hash House Fraud (Chase, 1915)
Allez Oop (Keaton & Lamont, 1934)
A Straight Crook (Roach, 1921)
Papa's Boy (Taurog, 1927)
Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh (Fleischer, 1940)
Feet First (Bruckman, 1930)
Aunt Sally (Whelan, 1934)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)

The Girl On The Train

Back to the future 2 — 8/10

i didn't like personal shopper at all

was that one of the 75th anniversary theater showings of Sierra Madre, j.lu? i've always found it a little overrated.

also i never list short films, but you likely see more of those vintage comedies than i do.

xp 70th anniversary, rather

70th anniversary screening from Fathom Events. My initial impression was "Testosterone Poisoning: The Movie." Although I do give all parties concerned points for following through the bad end implicit in Dobbs' storyline.

And I list shorts because I use them to fill out my statscock Letterboxd watchlist.

it was fairly uncommon for Bogey to play unbalanced antiheroes post-stardom -- well, this and Captain Queeg

And the James Stewart westerns I've seen so far features a somewhat diluted version of these darkly driven protagonists.

Jamaica Inn. Good.

Cronenberg's "Crash". Fantastic. One of his best for me.

Also on a bit of an Alberto Sordi kick atm. Will list once done but so far every one has been great especially because Sordi was brilliant.

Zappa (August)*
Twist and Shout (August)*
Pelle the Conqueror (August)*
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (August)
Night Train to Lisbon (August)
Babette’s Feast (Axel)*
Rasmines Bryllup (Schneevoigt)
Der er et Yndigt Land (Arnfred)
The Flying Devils (Refn)
I Belong to Me (Balling)
Fear Me Not (Levring)
Just Like Home (Scherfig)
An Education (Scherfig)
Their Finest (Scherfig)
Venus: Let’s Talk About Sex (Glob & Albrechtsen)
Flow (Ahmad)
Darkland (Ahmad)
Land of Mine (Zandvliet)*
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker)*
American Gangster (Scott)
Birdman (Inarritu)
The Namesake (Nair)
The Magnificent Seven (Sturges)
A Mighty Heart (Winterbottom)
Always (Spielberg)
Contagion (Soderbergh)
Conan the Barbarian (Milius)*
James White (Mond)*
Neruda (Larrain)*
Jackie (Larrain)*

back to the future 3 -- 7/10

Transatlantic (1931, Howard) 6/10
The Green Fog (2017, Maddin, Johnson, Johnson) 7/10
*Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock) 10/10
Dunkirk (2017, Nolan) 6/10
Lady Bird (2017, Gerwig) 8/10
Harvey (1950, Koster) 5/10
The Post (2017, Spielberg) 7/10
*The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944, Sturges) 10/10
*Good Time (2017, Safdie, Safdie) 8/10
*The Devil’s Cleavage (1975, Kuchar) 8/10

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I think this might have been a second viewing - some scenes were deja vu-ishly familiar.

perhaps you saw the miniseries (if not, do)

Two Plus Fours (McCarey, 1930)
Ghost Parade (Sennett, 1931)
Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017)
Antoine et Colette (Truffaut, 1962)
Catalina, Here I Come (Rodney, 1927)
Max Entre Deux Feux (Linder, 1917)
Une Nuit Agitée (Linder, 1912)
The Booze Hangs High (Harman & Ising, 1930)
Ask Dad (Faulcon, 1929)
Max et Son Chien Dick (Linder et Leprince, 1912)
The Nickel Nurser (Doane, 1932)
The Hearts of Age (Welles & Vance, 1934)
The Big Shot (Davis, 1929)
On Essex Road (Cohen, 2016)
Bury Me Not (Cohen, 2016)
Birth of a Nation (Cohen, 2017)
World Without End (No Reported Incidents) (Cohen, 2016)
Peter Hutton (Cohen, 2016)
Asphalt (May, 1929)
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (McGuigan, 2017)
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)

perhaps you saw the miniseries (if not, do)

No, but I have read the book. And I definitely had the feeling I'd seen specific scenes, with this cast, before. Probably just stuff that was in the trailer or uploaded to YouTube or something.

Fantastic Planet - OK, but somehow not French-hippie enough? I will say that I would watch Star Wars movies if they replaced John Williams' scores with the jazz-funk from this thing.

The BFG (Spielberg, 2016) a generous 4/10
A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017) 6; is this bathos?
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) 7
The Ghost Breakers (George Marshall, 1940) 4
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, 2016) 6
The Disaster Artist (Franco, 2017) 7
*The Room (Wiseau) 1 or 8
Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma, 1974) 7
Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2016) 8
Phantom Lady (Siodmak, 1944) 7
The Post (Spielberg, 2017) 7

I apologized for taking my family to A Ghost Story