Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Triple Threat: an action movie starring Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais and Tiger Chen as the heroes, and Scott Adkins and Michael Jai White as the villains. Shit-tons of hand-to-hand fighting, giving you pretty much every possible combination of those guys in twos and threes (there are a couple of other performers/fighters, but these five are the big names). On Netflix.

* Memoria (Apichatapong, 2021) 9/10
Drive My Car (Hamaguchi, 2021) 7/10
* The Verdict (Lumet, 1982) 6/10
Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974) 8/10
* Fort Apache (Ford, 1948) 7/10

Without giving away the plot, does "Memoria" have a plot? "Uncle Boonmee" is the only one of his I've seen, and I thought it was ... just OK. The new one's log-line is vaguely reminiscent of "Safe."

it's marvelous -- read the discussion on the '21 film poll results thread

memoria is the least accessible weerasethakul film i've seen but it's also the best one

lol I am trying to process this through the Brad filter and not sure if my conclusions are correct.

memoria does have a plot but it’s very minimal. true of every film of his i’ve seen. tho?

There are moments of his last film burned into my memory, but the vast majority of it evaporated, like a dream.

Like, I remember something about a monk, something about a Bigfoot/monkey spirit, someone having sex with a fish, someone working on a farm? If there was a plot I don't remember it being particularly linear or constant.

weeraseethakul films are meant to be remembered as dreams if you're doing it right

there is not much plot in his films but the in-the-moment aspects of them are so mesmerizing

The question I suppose boils down to: if I tell my wife this movie is good and convince her to watch it, will she be mad at me? I kind of wonder the same thing about "Drive My Car."

I liked Drive My Car enough that I'll see it a second time next week so I can see it in a theatre. I don't know Uncle Vanya from Uncle Buck, so I was at a disadvantage there, but it's a good mournful-widower mood piece, certainly more accessible than the three Weeraseethakul films I've seen. I was unsure of one plot point that I probably just missed and should be cleared up by a second viewing.

i would say don't take someone who doesn't like it when scenes go on for really long xp

thought Uncle Boonmee and Cemetery of Splendour were both amazing but don't think I could recommend a Weerasethakul film to someone else. How were you planning on seeing Memoria? It's definitely not showing in any theater near me

Huh, I had no idea of the film's distribution gimmick. Seriously, one theatre at a time? No streaming, no planned physical release? As if it wasn't hard enough to see a movie these days. Well, anyway, it's out there to be found in the usual places.

It’s amazing, never watch it

I will say as someone who loves the ~cinema experience~ these stances from directors can come across as out of touch and potentially discriminatory not to mention borderline covidiotic

BUT for anyone who decides to watch memoria at home I do recommend that you use the best headphones you have access to

Can I listen to whatever I want to listen to, or do I need to listen to the movie?

You may listen to the movie as long as you never watch it

Lol, that would be kind of genius, selling a film's audio track only and requiring the audience be at a specific place at a specific time to watch the movie itself. Like on the side of a building, or in the middle of the desert, or at the beach or something.

Letter from Siberia (1957) 4/5
Jackass Forever (2022) 3.5/5
Five Shaolin Masters (1974) - this has something in common with the film above in that someone's testicles get absolutely destroyed.
* Park Row (1952) 4.5/5 - 2nd viewing I realized Samuel Fuller basically made a western but with eastern newspapermen.
Niagra (1953) 3.5/5
The Golden Coach (1952) - Bobby Hill would love this movie

Border Law (King, 1931)
Fighting to Live (Cline, 1934)
South of Panama (Hunt, 1928)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi, 2021)
Jackass Forever (Tremaine, 2022)
*Nightmare Alley: The Blatant Cash Grab Vision in Darkness and Light (del Toro, 2021)

(...another informal double feature of performers degrading themselves to entertain the public?)

April Fool's Day (1986) 3/10
Enemies of the State (2020) 5/10
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022) ?/10, was playing with my phone
You're Next (2011) 6/10
First Reformed (2017) 9/10
Who? aka Robo Man (1974) 3/10 that makeup, lol
The Night Of (w: Richard Price, 2016) 8/10...
...and then the original Criminal Justice (2008) 7/10

♥ golden coach

A Real Young Girl (Breillat, 1976) - 10/10

― flappy bird, Saturday, January 18, 2020 1:23 AM (two years ago)

I saw my first Catherine Breillat film tonight and it was this one. I was actually kind of impressed and didn't think it was bad at all, despite its low imdb rating and many hostile reviews.

Will probably go back to see more of the Breillat films in this series (IFC Center, NYC) while not getting my hopes up too high.

Dodge Your Debts (Kenton, 1921)
A Cure for Pokeritis (Trimble, 1912)
Big Moments From Little Pictures (Clements, 1924)
A Small Town Idol (Kenton, 1939)
The Mighty (Cromwell, 1929)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Oswald, 1929)
The Lincoln Cycle (Eps. 1-4, Stahl & Chapin, 1917-1918)
The Worst Person in the World (Trier, 2021)

Ozark (S4 – 6.0)
The Report (5.0)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (6.5)
Red Rocket (7.5)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (7.5)
Wolf (6.5)
The Marcus-Nelson Murders (7.5)
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (7.0)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (7.5)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (7.5)

haven't seen a Catherine Breillat film yet

I’ve seen a few but not the ‘76 one, which is high on the list

Somebody recommend me a movie for tonight, I'll watch the first suggestion I haven't seen before. Something less than 3 hrs though and nothing too macho

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

Seen! Thanks though!

Women in Love

Seen! These are good recommendations though!

Voyage of the Rock Aliens

Night Moves. (Potentially a bit macho? It's Hackman though.)

I have also I'm afraid seen night moves

The Girl from Chicago!

We have a winner!

i can't tell if it has sound or not (i've only seen within our gates) but its very timely because i recently watched compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis which i think references within our gates quite a lot

i'll pair it with the recent documentary by lucretia martel that i've been wanting to watch

thanks to all the players though

i would have watched night moves if i hadn't seen it, its great and not too macho. I meant more like john wayne or something. or a war movie.

The Girl from Chicago does have sound, of a sort.

Spider-Man No Way Home
caught a decent transfer which now has decent sound. But is still a camera so there area couple of times where you get a pretty high detail shadow across the image. Or is that silhouette which is even more trippy than the film might be in itself. & there's some pretty cool psychedelic touches again . Do love the end credits graphics too.
Anyway quite enjoyed this. Assume there will be more. interesting to see the previous couple of actors who played him appear as hims

THis ended with a trailer for the next Dr Strange which looks like it could be good. Looking forward to seeing taht in May. Torrent sites have things claiming to be it but I assume it is way too early to get a decent version yet.

plax pls give your capsule of VOTRA

Marty Delbert Mann 1955
LOvely little film with a lot of detail centred on the potential romance between a mid 30s (tho9ugh I think age was differently valorised then) butcher and a chemistry teacher he meets at a dancehall. She is supposed to be too plain to be of interest to most men which I'm not sure I would agree with. But it is a hingepoint here as is his lack of physical attraction. She is betsy blair one time Mrs gene Kelly and somebody I'd question the idea of plain for and it is something that does crop up elsewhere , she is in the Spanish Film Calla Mayor and i think that also has that as a hingepoint. He is Ernest Borgnine.
Anyway great film which I've had trying to download for months and finally came through a week or so ago . I did like the details being included, like the way that people talked and stuff. Or what was talked about.

Kongi's Harvest Ossie Davis 1970
American character actor directs Nigerian playwright in a film of his play. I think this was one of a very few films he directed. THough just found out those include Cotton Comes TO harlem and i guess 7 isn't that low,
I heard about this from a book i read last year i think Africa Popular Theatre and i don't think the author liked it much. But I think it is about ok. Could hear a voice in the writing that reminded me of the other play by Wole Soyinke that I've worked on.
I quite enjoyed it anyway.
THis was another thing I had set up to download months ago that only landed recently.

Marty is on Tubi, at least in Canada. It's worth checking Tubi if you watch movies on a computer and you use an ad-blocker.

i recommended it on the hoops board but the (now Oscar Nominated) short "Queen of Basketball" is a very good watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFkcoTfr7g

Mothers Cry (Henley, 1930)
*Tide of Empire (Dwan, 1929)
Girl o' My Dreams (R. McCarey, 1934)
The Mystery Train (Whitman, 1931)
The Lady Lies (Henley, 1929)
The Unknown Singer (Tourjansky, 1931)
When the Cat's Away (Ireland, 1920)
Cinderella Cinders (Ireland, 1920)

The Keep (1983) 3/5
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Creole and Cajun Cooking (1990) 4/5
* Fallen Angels (1995; original cut) 4.5/5
Aspen (1991) 4/5
Kimi (2022) 3/5
Faya Dayi (2020) 3/5
Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) 3.5/5
Johnny Corncob (1973) 3/5
A Woman is a Woman (1961) 3/5

And the run that will ensure letterboxd shows Jeff Tremaine as one of my most-watched directors of 2022:
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) 3.5/5
* Jackass Forever (2022) 3.5/5
* Jackass 3D (2010) 3.5/5
* Jackass Number Two (2006) 4/5
* Jackass: The Movie (2002) 3.5/5