Last (x) movies you saw

saw Thoroughbreds, halfway thru I was thinking it was a classic then screeeeech. But worth checking out

Yeah I liked it but was kinda half baked

Oh, no--it's completely baked.

Adventure Girl (Raymaker, 1934)
Troubles of a Grass Widower (Linder, 1908)
Be My King (Lane, 1928)
Hard Luck (Keaton & Cline, 1921)
The Party (Potter, 2017)
The Price (Weber & Smalley, 1911)
The Statue (Guy, 1905)
Les surprises de l’amour (Linder? 1909)
*The Oyster Princess (Lubitsch, 1919)
Sumurun (Lubitsch, 1920)
Blue of the Night (Sennett, 1931)
King Lear (Kozintsev, 1971)

Numbered ratings and some reviews? https://letterboxd.com/pollyprecoder/films/diary/

xp all the promo and reviews compare it to Heathers which is such a blot on Heathers. Thoroughbreds doesn't have anything to say.

I saw Submission today - Stanley Tucci plays a writing professor and has an affair with a student. was OK but was very nice to see Tucci in a) a starring role, and b) a quality rug

Famous movie line, FB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrdsIxelE2M

Thanks, that reminds me of this, said by Mike Nichols to Elaine May:
Do you remember what you said to me about The Exorcist? I also turned down The Exorcist because I didn’t want to do that to a little girl for six months. And it was my best friend again, the head of the studio, and it opened and it was a gigantic hit. He took me to see the line. He said, “You personally lost $30 million by not making this movie.” And I said to Elaine, “I’m trying to feel bad because John said I lost $30 million by not doing The Exorcist.” And Elaine said, “Don’t worry darling, if you’d made it, it wouldn’t have made that kind of money.” She meant it as a compliment, seems like.
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/elaine-may-in-conversation-with-mike-nichols/

George Harrison - Living In the Material World (Scorsese)
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge (Gibney)
Concerning Violence (Olsson)*
The Salt of the Earth (Wenders)
Scarlet Street (Lang)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Schlöndorff)
Diplomacy (Schlöndorff)
Amour (Haneke)
The Celebration (Vinterberg)*
The Commune (Vinterberg)
Everything Will Be Fine (Boe)
Beast (Boe)

Beast is probably the worst Danish film of the decade so far. The Commune isn't much good either, but The Celebration is still a masterpiece and soon 20 years old.

*My Little Chickadee (1940, Cline) 8/10
*I’m No Angel (1933, Ruggles) 8/10
Goin’ to Town (1935, Hall) 7/10
Salon Mexico (1949, Fernandez) 7/10
*After the Rehearsal (1984, Bergman) 8/10
*O Lucky Man! (1973, Anderson) 9/10
The Iceman Cometh (1973, Frankenheimer) 7/10
Enamorada (1946, Fernandez) 8/10
Charge It (1921, Garson) 6/10
The War Between Men and Women (1972, Shavelson) 4/10
Seres Extravagantes aka Odd People Out (2004, Zayas) 7/10
Western (2017, Grisebach) 8/10
Janitzio (1935, Navarro) 6/10

battling insomnia with Mae West

Tomb Raider cos girlfriend's brother got tickets to the local preview. I think it's officially out tomorrow.
I've never played teh game so not sure if there are central plot points taht come from there.
Did notice taht new actress doesn't seem to have massive boobs like the character used to be portrayed with.

& this seems to be an introduction to the character who seems to begin as a total neophyte whereas Angelina Jolie seemed to have been used to the life for a while.

it's an adaptation of the video game from 2013, which was a reboot / origin story.

The Skull Murder Mystery (Henabery, 1932)
The Gem of the Ocean (Mack, 1934)
The Hansom Cabman (Edwards, 1924)
Sing, Bing, Sing (Stafford, 1933)
Popeye the Sailor (Fleischer, 1933)
*The Wildcat (Lubitsch, 1921)
Spring Fever (Roach, 1919)
By Candlelight (Whale, 1933)
Une Idylle à la Ferme (Linder, 1912)
The Death of Stalin (Iannucci, 2017)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)

If anyone cares about my numbered ratings: https://letterboxd.com/pollyprecoder/films/diary/

visited some family in the N Ga mountains, we hit up RedBox to see a bunch of last year's movies:

Dunkirk (2017) - 9/10 Really incredible. Really captured a hopeless feeling, the scene where they are hiding in the boat waiting for the tide while the enemy uses it for target practice was insane.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - 8/10 Great stuff, makes me want to rewatch the original. I like how Leto only has two scenes, he was very effective. Gorgeous movie. Strong Kubrick vibes, lots of ambience, and a nice mystery at the center of it. Felt like classic sci fi.
War of the Planet of the Apes (2017) - 6/10 Not bad but way too many shots of Ceasar and Woody Harrelson looking at each other. It was funny to see the huge army show up at the end and get quickly disposed of.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) - 7/10 This was insane. Not really sure what to make of it. The humor was very British. Like a cross between Bourne Identity, The Big Lebowski, and Inspector Gadget (and the 60's Avengers show). Elton John's cameo was pretty great (and kind of weirdly fit with the Blade Runner Elvis hologram battle. seems like nowadays if you have a secret hideout Vegas-style entertainment rooms are all the rage)

Guardians of teh Galaxy
Paddington 2

That Summer of 96 a short documentary about a friend's battle with menangitis and subsequent recovery. Worth seeing debut from a director who I hope goes onto a lot more stuff.

Gra and Eagla and Console My Heart and 2 others that were in a showing locally yesterday because they were part of a project called Dig Where You Stand. Gra and Eagla is about local comedian Aine gallagher's relationship with the Irish language. Hope it gets seen a lot more.
Also just saw her in another short called The Postcard about the further career of a girland a donkey who had appeared in a famous postcard together. Quiite amusing.

Syfy are reshowing Tomb raider in the Angelina Jolie guise presumably to tie in with the theatrical release of the new incarnation. So have that on in the background.

@ Adam - I loved, loved, loved Blade Runner 2049. I never liked the book or the first movie (huge PKD fan but that one did nothing for me), but this one was so massive, so moving as just a tone poem. Near the end, when they're marooned on that cement/steel beach thing, which the tide coming in occasionally? Oh my god. And all the stuff with the hologram girlfriend was just incredible. One of my top 5 movies of 2017.

Saw Three Billboards... last night and Thor: Ragnarok today, via Amazon. Billboards... mostly sucked, but Thor was at least the right kind of funny/silly. I don't get the general rapture over Goldblum's performance, but Blanchett was good.

*The Pilgrim (Chaplin, 1923)
Hot Money (Horne, 1935)
*Monkey Business (McGowan, 1926)
In Love with the Bearded Woman (1909)
Rupture (Etaix et Carriere, 1961)
Whisperin' Bill (Holmes, 1933)
*An Optical Poem (Fischinger, 1937)
The Sex Life of the Polyp (Chalmers, 1928)
A Naughty Nurse (1928)
David Golder (Duvivier, 1931)
Nature in the Wrong (Chase, 1933)
Gobs of Fun (McCarey, 1933)
The Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg, 1934)

If anyone cares about my numbered assessments: https://letterboxd.com/PollyPrecoder/films/diary/

Documentary Festival Haul:

Good Luck (Russell)
Rat Film (Anthony)
Lek and the Dogs (Kötting)
Infinite Football (Porumboiu)*
13, a Ludodrama about Walter Benjamin (Ferrand)
That Summer (Olsson)
Maidstone (Mailer)
The Return (Choi)
The Ancient Woods (Survila)
Mrs Fang (Wang)
Visitor (Cordes)
Caniba (Castaing-Taylor & Paravel)
12 Days (Depardon)
Harmony (Paxton)
Welcome to Sodom (Kröner & Weigensamer)
Minding the Gap (Bing)
Conventional Sins (Zuria & Winther)
Central Airport TBH (Aïnouz)
Makala (Gras)
Becoming Animal (Davie & Mettler)
Beautiful Things (Ferrero & Biasin)
Extinction (Lamas)
What Remains (Giancristorafo)
Looking for Oum Kulthum (Neshat)
Entrance to the End (von Hausswolff & Friis Kristensen)
A Moon Made of Iron (Rodriguez)
Little Pyongyang (Rezvany)
Bisbee ‘17 (Greene)
Black Mother (Allah)

AMA. The new Castaing-Taylor & Paravel is horrifying, but a really interesting filmic development of their style. Anyone who has seen their Somniloquies?

Is Maidstone a documentary? I noticed that it's up and complete on YouTube.

You've maybe answered this elsewhere, but do you have a job, Frederik?

Yes. I'm a filmcritic ;) Not a fulltime filmcritic, I also work as a church singer and do some ad hoc work when needed.

Maidstone is, well, sort of a documentary. It's an experiment, Mailer created a slightly fictional situation about himself as a presidential candidate / film director who everyone hated, then improvised and waited to see what would happen, but in the end what happens seems to go beyond the fictional story.

OK, just wanted to establish that you were, in fact, a unicorn.

Man, I'm mostly just poor... But there are quite a lot of festivals nearby me, two in Copenhagen, one in Gothenburg, Berlin, so I'm able to do a few a year without too much expense.

Silence (Scorsese, 2016) 7/10
The Florida Project (Baker, 2017) 4/10
Paris 05:59: Theo and Hugo (Martineau & Ducastel, 2016) 7/10
Summer Stock (Walters, 1950) 4/10
Meantime (Leigh, 1983) 7/10
Maudie (Walsh, 2016) 6/10
*Sid & Nancy (Cox, 1986) 5/10
Love, Simon (Berlanti, 2018) 6/10
The Match Factory Girl (Kaurismaki, 1990) 6/10
Coco (Unkrich, 2017) 8/10
*The Killing (Kubrick, 1956) 9/10
Last Flag Flying (Linklater, 2017) 7/10

Roxanne, Roxanne (2017) 2.5/5
Shanghai Express (1932; rewatch) 4/5
Annihilation (2018) 4/5
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) 3.5/5
The Road Movie (2016) 3.5/5
The Death of Stalin (2017) 3.5/5
The Connection (1961) 2/5
The Man in the White Suit (1951) 3/5
One of Us (2017) 3/5
The Florida Project (2017) 4/5
Beware of Mr. Baker (2012; rewatch) 3/5
Walk Hard (2007; rewatch) 3/5
A Quiet Passion (2016) 3.5/5
Icarus (2017) 4/5

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) 4
Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018) 8
Tron (Lisberger, 1982) 4
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh, 2017) 7
*Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000) [Untitled version] 8

march at home:

Je Tu Il Elle - 9/10
Late Spring - 10/10
Eyes Without a Face - 8/10
Black Girl - 9/10
The Third Man - 8/10
The Wrong Man - 10/10
Every Man for Himself - 10/10
Sabotage - 9/10
Hotel Monterey - 9/10
Tokyo Story - 8/10
Smiles of a Summer Night - 8/10
Paris, Texas - 6/10
Katzelmacher - 7/10
Wobble Palace - 8/10
The Asphalt Jungle - 10/10
The King of Comedy - 10/10
Spellbound - 7/10
Punch-Drunk Love - 8/10
Young and Innocent - 5/10
The Best Years of Our Lives - 10/10
Nostalghia - 10/10
The Phantom Carriage - 9/10
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 9/10
Prozac Nation - 7/10
Blackmail - 6/10
Wag the Dog - 8/10
Baal - 8/10
Murmur of the Heart - 3/10
Westfront 1918 - 7/10
The Apartment - 10/10
Pursued - 7/10

pretty extraordinary run for me, i don't know where to begin... i couldn't be happier. these are all first watches except Punch-Drunk Love and Paris, Texas (both of which i liked a lot less now).

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966) 6/10
In a Year With 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978) 8/10
Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017) 8/10
The Shape of Water (del Toro, 2017) 6/10
Black Panther (Coogler, 2018) 6/10
The Round-Up (Jancso, 1966) 8/10
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2017) 7/10
All About My Mother (Almodovar, 1999) 8/10
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi, 1956) 9/10
The Third Murder (Kore-eda, 2017) 5/10
Unsane (Soderbergh, 2018) 8/10
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946) 8/10
The Headless Woman (Martel, 2008) 8/10

What about Bob (5/10)
Fire Walk with Me (9/10)
Death to Stalin (7/10)

march in theaters:

Red Sparrow - 4/10
The Party - 9/10
Thoroughbreds - 7/10
Submission - 6/10
Happy End - 8/10
Love, Simon - 8/10
The Death of Stalin - 6/10
Unsane - 8/10
Crisis (1946) - 8/10
Isle of Dogs - 4/10

compliance (2012) 6/10
black panther (2018) 7/10
the founder (2016) 7/10
wind river (2017) 7/10
the death of stalin (2017) 8/10
downsizing (2017) 4/10
deja vu (2006) 7/10
*team american world police (2004) 10/10
the shape of water (2017) 6/10
eraserhead (1977) 8/10
ivan's childhood (1962) 7/10
annihilation (2018) 8/10
the disaster artist (2017) 5/10
isle of dogs (2018) 7/10

*team american world police (2004) 10/10

yes

Murder in the Clouds (Lederman, 1934)
La Tête d’un Homme (Duvivier, 1933)
Felix in Hollywood (Messmer, 1923)
Too Many Women (French & McGowan, 1932)
Believe It or Not #3 (Roth, 1930)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Godard, 1959)
Close Relations (McCarey, 1933)
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988)
Isle of Dogs (Anderson, 2018)
Their Big Moment (Cruze, 1934)
Old Shep (Bucquet, 1936)
Francesco d’Assisi (Cavani, 1966)
The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini, 1950)
Strange Cargo (Borzage, 1940)

Numbered ratings? https://letterboxd.com/pollyprecoder/films/diary/

Magic Mike XXL

Le Bonheur (1965, Varda) 9/10
*Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, Varda) 10/10
Claire’s Camera (2017, Hong) 8/10
Pulp (1972, Hodges) 5/10
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972, Fassbinder, TV) 9/10
*Detective Story (1951, Wyler) 8/10
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954, Siegel) 8/10
*The King of Comedy (1983, Scorsese) 10/10
*Summer with Monika (1953, Bergman) 7/10
…And Justice for All (1979, Jewison) 6/10
*Chelsea Girls (1966, Warhol, Morrissey) 10/10
Crisis (1946, Bergman) 5/10
short films by Walerian Borowczyk (1959-84, some rewatches)

Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017) 9/10
Shame (Bergman, 1968) 9/10
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh, 2017) 4/10
Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017) 7/10
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Wiseman, 2018) 8/10
Wild at Heart (Lynch, 1990) 6/10
Lost Weekend (Wilder, 1945) 6/10
The Gleaners and I (Varda, 2000) 9/10
Annihilation (Garland, 2018) 6/10
Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987) 5/10
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Petri, 1970) 6/10
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay, 2018) 7/10
Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947) 8/10

Annihilation - 4/10
A Cure For Wellness - 6/10

(both films fall frustratingly just-short of the mark)

*Les Biches (7/10)
La Peau de Torpedo (6/10)
Hatari! (8/10)
All The Money In The World (6/10) - hammy but enjoyable.

PS Rest In Peace Stéphane Audran

The Vigil - watched on youtube, knowing nothing about it and not remembering where I heard about it. Really liked it, a beautiful rural film, quite strange. Then I discover it's by Vincent Ward and it's getting a bluray release from Arrow soon! (I will buy).
I've heard Ward's Navigator is particularly good, I'll seek it out. Any thoughts on Ward?

Isle of Dogs (Anderson, 2018) 7/10
Man Is Not a Bird (Makavejev, 1965) 9/10
5 to 7 (Levin, 2014) 2/10
The Love Parade (Lubitsch, 1929) 9/10
*The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970, Wilder) 6/10
Ingrid Goes West (Spicer, 2017) 6/10
*Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1941) 9/10
The Death of Stalin (Iannucci, 2017) 7/10
It Comes at Night (Shults, 2017) 5/10
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Lumet, 2007) 6/10
Casino (Scorsese, 1995) 6/10
The Lickerish Quartet (Metzger, 1970) 6/10
*Billy Liar (Schlesinger, 1963) 8/10
*Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017) 9/10
The Shape of Water (del Toro, 2017) 7/10
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945) 8/10
The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2010) 6/10

Pom Poko - 8/10
Vilmos Zsigmond Laszlo Kovacs Documentary -7/10
*The Hired Hand - 8/10
Prèparez vos mouchoirs - 6/10
Golden Exits - 3/10 - Alex Ross Perry: Auteur of the Insufferable White Folk film

*Fire Fighters (McGowan & McNamara, 1922)
*The Champeen (McGowan, 1923)
The Cobbler (McNamara, 1923)
A Pleasant Journey (McGowan, 1923)
Saturday Morning (McGowan & McNamara, 1922)
Poil de Carotte (Duvivier, 1932)
See Your Doctor (Wrangell, 1939)
Affinity (Linder, 1912)
The Student of Prague (Rye und Wegener, 1913)
*The Cowboy and the Girl (1928)
Vaudeville (Mack, 1934)
Eternal Love (Lubitsch, 1929)
Gemini (Katz, 2017)
Broken Lullaby (Lubitsch, 1932)

For numbered ratings: https://letterboxd.com/PollyPrecoder/films/diary/

Last seven, stalled for a few weeks. I no longer watch movies, just bootlegged TV shows.

Serpico (7.0)
Trust (5.5)
Suburbicon (6.0)
Red Sparrow (6.0)
Network (6.5)
Prince of the City (6.5)
Molly’s Game (6.0)

(I know that Red Sparrow is supposed to be irredeemable junk and the Lumet films are considered classics to one degree or another, but the Lumets fall short of their reputations--and I voted for him in the directors poll--while I think you'd have to have bizarrely high expectations for Red Sparrow to consider it a letdown, rather than mildly diverting junk.)

Which Trust did you watch: Hartley or Schwimmer? Given the rating, I'm hoping its the latter.

It was the David Schwimmer--should have clarified. Don't remember much a month later, other than I didn't find the girl very credible.

*Othello (Welles/1952 cut) 8/10
You Were Never Really Here 6/10
*Barry Lyndon 10/10
Man In The Shadows 6/10
*Touch Of Evil (Murch version) 8/10 - I'll say this again and stand by it: Heston is the weakest link. He seems completely lost. Saved by the beautifully orchestrated chaos and everyone acting their asses off around him.

"¡Dohn-day Ay-stah Mee Ay-Spoh-Sa!" indeed, Chuck.