Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Wow, you saw the first Stella Dallas? I heard something about it getting restored, is that what you saw?

Yes, care of The Film Foundation. They restored it but I haven't heard anything about a physical media release.

Me neither. I heard it about from a friend who works in the film department at MoMA.

Oh, did you register and watch online?

Yes, The Film Foundation has set up an online screening room (https://delphiquest.com/film-foundation/restoration-screening-room/). Unfortunately SD is no longer available.

Me neither. I heard it about from a friend who works in the film department at MoMA.

― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, May 14, 2023 7:12 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Speaking of MoMA's film department, I'm envious of anyone who has access to film series like https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5600. AFI Silver and the National Gallery of Art get some of the recently restored films that are making rounds, but only if there's time available in between boringly sententious documentaries.

might as well do a roundup as I've been cutting back on my movie watching. trying to make real life happen.

Pyaasa (Dutt, 1957, S&S22 #185) 7/10
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves, 1968, S&S22 #173) 9/10
Police Story 3 (Stanley Tong, 1992) 5/10
Dadetown (Russ Hexter, 1995) 6/10
Cremaster 4 (Barney, 1995) 3/10
Cremaster 1 (Barney, 1996) 2/10
Cremaster 5 (Barney, 1997) 2/10
Slither (Gunn, 2006) 6/10
The Fabelmans (Spielberg, 2022) 7/10
Murder Mystery 2 (some hack, 2023) 2/10

The Big Diamond Robbery (Forde, 1929)
The First Degree (Sedgwick, 1923)
A Strange Adventure (Whitman & Del Ruth, 1932)
She Goes to War (King, 1929)
The Man Without Desire (Brunel, 1923)
The Thing With Two Heads (Frost, 1972)
Master Gardener (Schrader, 2022)
The Eight Mountains (van Groeningen & Vandermeer, 2022)

The Breath Courses Through Us 2013 Alan Roth.
Documentary on the history of and the preparation for a reunion by the New York Art Quartet . Milford Graves, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, and Reggie Workman plus Amiri Baraka who had recorded together in the mid 60s and then were talked into doing a support slot for Sonic Youth in 2000. The latter means that Thurston Moore makes an appearance at a couple of points.
I just got Vimeo on my entertainment package that feeds my tv so I can find documentaries etc. Also have youtube which had vanished from teh Virgin package years back. So can get even more.
This was great, I had looked up Free jazz o teh search engine and got this returned. Need to see what else I can find.

In the Company of Men (7.5)
Kubrick by Kubrick (6.5)
Carole King Home Again: Live in Central Park (6.5)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (6.5)
Odds Against Tomorrow (7.0)
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (7.0)
Air (6.0)
BlackBerry (5.0)
My Friend Dahmer (6.5)
Master Gardener (5.0)

Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022) 3.5/5
* Certain Women (2016) 4/5
* Winchester '73 (1950) 4/5
Color of Night (1994) 1.5/5
Gang of Four (1989) 3/5
*Sans Soleil (1983) 5/5
Tokya-Ga (1985) 4/5
* The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 4/5
* Lone Star (1996) 4.5/5
Boiling Point (1990) 3/5
* Variety (1983) 4/5
Becket (1964) 3.5/5

May

*Barfly (Schroeder, 1987) 7/10
Waiting... (McKittrick, 2005) 3/10
Whistle Down The Wind (Forbes, 1961) 8/10
House of Flying Daggers (Yimou, 2004) 8/10
Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972) 6/10
Varda by Agnes (Varda, 2019) 5/10
Mephisto (Szabo, 1981) 7/10
Christine (Carpenter, 1981) 6/10
The Appointment (Vickers, 1981) 8/10
Body Snatchers (Ferrara, 1993) 6/10
New Rose Hotel (Ferrara, 1998) 8/10
Flesh + Blood (Verhoeven, 1985) 8/10
*Breathless (Godard, 1960) 8/10
*Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) 8/10

Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022) 3.5/5

Still think about having to miss the one screening of this in my area--I hope it turns up on Kanopy eventually.

It’s probably more entertaining than my rating might suggest. Lots of good quotes and moments from both guys, and the last scene ends up being one of those perfectly telling moments you couldn’t plan.

Bottoms Up (Butler, 1934)
Thrill of Youth (Thorpe, 1932)
Second Hand Kisses (Foster, 1931)
The Goose Woman (Brown, 1925)
Hold'er Sheriff (Sennett, 1931)
The Mad Whirl (Seitier, 1925)
Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1963)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Anger, 1965)
*The Killer Shrews (Kellogg, 1959)

The Fountain (Cromwell, 1934)
Sham Poo, the Magician (Sweet, 1932)
The Bride's Mistake (Rodney, 1931)
Mouse Heaven (Anger, 2004)
Trapped in Tia Juana (Fox, 1932)
Sally of the Subway (Seitz, 1932)
Shoot the Works (Ruggles, 1934)
*Man-Made Monster (Waggner, 1941)
*The Little Pest (Darling & Belasco, 1927)
How Stars Are Made (Blystone, 1916)
*Scrambled Weddings (Barrows, 1928)

Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall (Bob Smeaton, 2022)
The Quatermass Conclusion (Piers Haggard, 1979)
Asking for It (Amanda Lundquist, Becky Scott, 2020)
Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman, 2011)
Rancho Deluxe (Frank Perry, 1975)
Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)
Friday Foster (Arthur Marks, 1975)
City On Fire (Alvin Rakoff, 1979)
Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)
*Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong, 1992)
Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, 1967)
No Down Payment (Martin Ritt, 1957)
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
Dead Pigeon On Beethoven Street (Samuel Fuller, 1973)
Ballet (Frederick Wiseman, 1995)
Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History (Stephen Ives, 2023)
Dirty War (Daniel Percival, 2004)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)
Highway Dragnet (Nathan Juran, 1954)
Who Killed the KLF? (Chris Atkins, 2021)
I Didn't See You There (Reid Davenport, 2022)
New Police Story (Benny Chan, 2004)
Alla ricerca del piacere (Silvio Amadio, 1972)
Royal Flash (Richard Lester, 1975)
Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint (Halina Dyrschka, 2019)
Mystify: Michael Hutchence (Richard Lowenstein, 2019)
*The Yakuza (Sydney Pollack, 1974)
La danse (Frederick Wiseman, 2009)
*Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard, 1990)
The Wrath of Go (Ralph Nelson, 1972)
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski, 2023)
Crazy Thunder Road (Gakuryû Ishii, 1980)
Underground (Arthur H. Nadel, 1970)
Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022)
*The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk (Corey Yuen, 1993)
Dragnet (Jack Webb, 1954)
A Girl Is a Gun (Luc Moullet, 1971)

Husband Hunters (Adolfi, 1927)
Woman to Woman (Saville, 1929)
Night Monster (Beebe, 1942)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (dos Santos et al., 2023)

The Wrath of Go (Ralph Nelson, 1972)

i was hoping this was another board game movie like the monopoly one.

have taken to recording and watching things for company during the day

My Darling Clementine
How The West Was Won
Meet Me In St Louis
Mad Max 2
Good and Dolls

htwww is very wide, 3 strip Cinerama. and you can often see the individual strips because the colours aren't accurate at the joins. odd geometric effects at times too, like fisheye. but very watchable and star studded. the Duke, leia's mum, Morticia, Face man...

gad was the old story of Frank Sinatra trying to arrange a craps game whilst Marlon Brando tried to seduce a salvation army woman.

mm2 was obviously the template for Fury Road

Sisters with Transistors (Rovner 2020)
The High Sign (Keaton, Cline 1921)
The Goat (Keaton, St. Clair, 1921)
The Bread and Alley (Kiarostami 1970)
LYNCH2 (blackANDwhite 2007)
Man With a Shotgun (Suzuki 1961)
*Stalker (Tarkovsky 1979)
*A Canterbury Tale (Archers 1944)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (del Toro, Gustafson 2022)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Gunn 2022)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Daley, Goldstein 2023)
Ant-Man Quantumania (Reed 2023)
Puce Moment (Anger 1949/1970)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Anger 1965)
No Bears (Panahi 2022)
*Vertigo (Hitchcock 1958)
*The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock 1938)
Sisu (Helander 2022)
Histoires d'Amérique (Akerman 1989)
Last Holiday (Cass 1950)
Sound of Metal (Marder 2019)
Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg 1970)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Dos Santos, Powers, Thompson 2023)
The Mother (Caro 2023)

The Fall of The Roman Empire (Mann, 1964)
Upgrade (Whannell, 2018)
Beau is Afraid (Aster, 2023)
Master Gardener (Schrader, 2022)
*Speed (De Bont, 1994)
Bone (Cohen, 1972)

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.