Last (x) movies you saw (II)

It's the Cats (Ray, 1934)
Perfectly Mismated (Horne, 1934)
*Hasty Marriage (Pratt, 1931)
In the Dog House (Ripley, 1934)
Deliverance (Platt, 1919)
Hold Your Temper (White, 1933)
One Too Many (McGowan, 1934)
Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984)
Vengeance (Mayo, 1930)
Madame Butterfly (Gering, 1932)

Elemental (Pixar, 2023) 4/10
I feel like I shouldn't be getting a headache while watching a children's movie.

Mad Love (Karl Freund, 1935) 8/10
Freund directed 9 movies, but this and The Mummy are the only ones he's known for -- his next most popular movie on letterboxd has only 69 views counted. Possibly better known as the guy who invented the three-camera, flat lighting, live audience sitcom formula.

Dracula's Daughter (Universal, Lambert Hillyer, 1936) 6/10
Watch the scenes with the title character and skip everything else. a great performance in an otherwise bland movie.

The Deadly Bees (Amicus, Freddie Francis, 1966) 5/10
The Birds knockoff only notable for its unconvincing bee swarm effects. Has an MST3K version that I haven't watched.

Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001) 5/10
The Hole in the Ground (Lee Cronin, 2019) 5/10
My Best Friend's Exorcism (Amazon, Damon Thomas, 2022) 4/10
Jennifer's Body with 80s references instead of humor

The Deadly Bees notable for the appearance of the UK group The Birds - featuring a very young Ronnie Wood.

The Shout (Skolimowski, 1978)
Young America (Borzage, 1932)
The Miracle Man (McLeod, 1932)
Drums o' Voodoo (Hoerl, 1934)
Things Are Looking Up (de Courville, 1935)
Jean Eustache’s Wasted Breath (Díez, 1997)
Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Delights (Eustache, 1981)
Alix's Pictures (Eustache, 1980)
Offre d'Emploi (Eustache, 1982)

The Appointment (1981) 4/5. Seems like everyone who has seen this points out it has an impressive, surreal car crash sequence, and I'm happy to go with the flow.
* Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) 3.5/5
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) 3.5/5
Death Becomes Her (1992) 3.5/5
Fire of Love (2022). 3/5 Vastly different, more early 2010s-style twee tone than the Werner Herzog doc on the same couple listed above. The main draw of both films is the stunning volcano footage shot by the couple, which Herzog realizes and fully leans into.
Doctor X (1932) 3/5. See if you can spot the Dr. Octagon sample.
Azor (2021) 4/5
Vanishing Point (1971) 4.5/5. Finally caught up with this one and it exceeded my expectations.
* Dangerous Game (1993) 2.5/5. Really hated this when I saw it years ago. Still think it's one of Abel Ferrara's more tedious exorcisms, and that James Russo is unwatchably loathsome as the film-within-a-film's lead actor. Madonna was better than I remembered; probably the best she ever was.

Shorts and short-ish films:
The Rat Catcher (2023) 3.5/5
The Bones (2021) 3.5/5
You Are Not I (1981) 3.5/5
Surviving Desire (1992) 4/5
The Wonderful Story of Harry Sugar (2023) 3.5/5

Meant "self-exorcisms" above.

Howdy Duke (Taurog, 1927)
The Big Clock (Farrow, 1948)
Pitfall (de Toth, 1948)
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
*Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Barton, 1948)
My Little Loves (Eustache, 1974)

Book of Christ (the fatal farm guys, 2014) short
Poison (Anderson, 2023) 4/10 short -- i'm sick of anderson's schtick
This is Financial Advice (Dan Olsen, 2023)
TMNT: Mutant Mayhem (written by Rogen & Goldberg, d. Jeff Rowe, 2023) 8/10

spooky month movies:
Thirteen Women (1932) 6/10 irene dunne vs. myrna loy and lots of deaths
Weird Woman (1944) 5/10 part of a 6-film series all introduced by a floating head in a crystal ball
Japan Sinks (Shirō Moritani, 1973) 4/10 great title, but the movie is mostly people talking in rooms
The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982) 4/10
The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013) 6/10
Ready or Not (Chad, Matt & Rob, 2019) 8/10
Freaky (blumhouse, 2020) 5/10 good kills in the first half
Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022) 9/10
Scream VI (Chad, Matt & Rob, 2023) 7/10
No One Will Save You (Brian Duffield, 2023) 6/10 liked the sensory experience, disliked the attempt at deeper meaning
Totally Killer (blumhouse, 2023) 7/10 as far as direct-to-streaming "algorithm movies" go, this is top notch

Us
finally saw most of it but missed the start.

year of the dog (mike white, 2007) 7/10
beau is afraid (aster, 2023) 4/10
*last summer (frank perry, '69) 8/10
*to live and die in la (friedkin '85) 8/10
*blood simple (coens '84) 8/10
down in the valley (david jacobson '05) 6/10
reality (tina satter, 2023) 7/10
things seen and heard (shari springer berman & robert pulcini, '21) 6/10
driving miss daisy (beresford, '89) 7/10
awakenings (penny marshall, '90) 7/10
on golden pond (rydell, '81) 6.5/10
when we were kings (leon gast, '96) 10/10
turn every page: the adventures of robert caro & robert gottlieb (lizzie gottlieb, '22) 7.5/10
when the levees broke (spike lee, '06) 9/10
if god is willing and da creek dont rise (spike lee '10) 9/10

Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
Marty (Mann, 1955)
Gleaming the Cube (Clifford, 1989)
Trust (Harley, 1990)
Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2022)
No One Will Save You (Duffield, 2023)
Blackhat (Mann, 2015)
The Changeling (Medak, 1980)
Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984)
Madeline's Madeline (Decker, 2018)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves, 1968)
May December (Haynes, 2023)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi, 2023)
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter, 1994)

D. Mann and M. Mann, respectively, obv.

Scotland Yard (Howard, 1930)
They Live by Night (Ray, 1948)
Hollow Triumph (Sekely & Henreid, 1948)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948)
The Night Stalker (Moxey, 1972)
The Velvet Touch (Gage, 1948)
He Walked by Night (Werker, 1948)
Cry of the City (Siodmak, 1948)

Julien Donkey Boy (Korine, 1999) 5/10
Head (Rafelson, 1968) 6/10
The Future Tense (Lawlor/Molloy, 2022) 4/10
*Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997) 8/10
*Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) 10/10
China Girl (Ferrara, 1987) 7/10
*Dune (Lynch, 1984) 7/10 - this is the Spicediver edit which is available on YT
Death Spa (Fischa, 1988) 7/10
*Heat (Mann, 1995) 9/10
*The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986) 8/10
*Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957) 10/10
*Dawn of The Dead (Romero, 1978) 8/10
Killers of The Flower Moon (Scorsese, 2023) 7/10
Black Christmas (Clark, 1974) 6/10

Smoking Causes Coughing (Dupieux, 2022) 7/10
Spider-Man:Across the Spider-verse (Dos Santos, Thomas (2023) 8/10
Squaring the Circle (Corbin, 2022) 8/10
Medusa Deluxe (Harriman, 2022) 6/10 (9/10 for end credits)
3 Bad Men (Ford, 1926) 8/10
The Toxic Avenger (Kaufman, Herz, 1984) 6/10)
Past Lives (Song, 2023) 8/10
Marlowe (Jordan, 2022) 5/10

The Suspect (Siodmak, 1944) 6/10
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Gunn, 2023) 6/10
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Anderson, 2023) 6/10
Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese, 2023) 8/10

the spooky month continues:
Number Seventeen (Hitchcock, 1932) 3/10
Fiend Without a Face (1958) 3/10 criterion, why
The Mummy (hammer, Terence Fisher, 1959) 4/10
Horror Express (Eugenio Martín, 1972) 6/10 the thing on a train
*Suspiria (Argento, 1977) 9/10
Dead and Buried (Gary Sherman, 1981) 8/10
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Hooper, 1986) 6/10
Raising Cain (De Palma, 1992) 5/10
*Ravenous (Antonia Bird et al., 1999) 8/10 last seen on vhs shortly after its release
Resolution (Moorhead and Benson, 2012) 4/10 my first no-budget mumblecore. fuck this genre.
M3GAN (blumhouse, 2022) 6/10

Happy Landing (Bradbury, 1934)
Her First Affaire (Dwan, 1932)
Secret Sinners (Ford, 1933)
The Last of the Line (Ince & Hunt, 1914)
The Beast of Borneo (Garson, 1934)
The Night Strangler (Curtis, 1973)
The Eyes of the Totem (Van Dyke, 1927)

Messiah of Evil (1974) 4/5. Newly restored version. This looked really cool and had an excellent weird mood; a nice surprise.
Shivers (1975) 3/5
Twilight (1990) - Blind bought this as soon as I saw the description from Second Run. Bela Tarr fans need this in their life.
Sleepaway Camp (1983) 3/5
Gothic (1986) 3/5
Def by Temptation (1990) 3/5
* Trouble Every Day (2001) 3.5/5
The Five Devils (2022) 3.5/5
Killers of the Flower Moon 5/5
Past Lives (2023) 4/5
Passages (2023) 3.5/5
One Way Passage (1932) 4/5
Vive L'Amour (1994) 4.5/5

Sorry, Twilight was a 4/5.

The Alpinist (Mortimer 2021) 3/5
Enys Men (Jenkin 2022) 3.5/5
The Gleaners & I (Varda 2000) 5/5
Pickpocket (Bresson 1959) 5/5
Sisu (Helander 2022) 3/5
*London (Keiller 1994) 5/5
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 (Gunn 2023) 2/5
*Psycho (Hitchcock 1960) 5/5
Bait (Jenkin 2019) 4/5
The Talented Mr Ripley (Minghella 1999) 3/5
Ip Man (Yip 2008) 4/5
Zama (Martel 2017) 4/5
Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki (Nai-Choi 1991) 4/5

The Lady of the Dugout (Van Dyke, 1918)
At the Circus (Buzzell, 1939)
The Lucky Dog (Robbins, 1921)
*45 Minutes From Hollywood (Guiol, 1926)
*Duck Soup (Guiol & McCarey, 1927)
*Slipping Wives (Guiol, 1927)
Within the Law (Lloyd, 1923)
Kingdom of the Spiders (Cardos, 1977)
Crime on the Hill (Vorhaus, 1933)

Robes of Sin (Allen, 1924)
The Man I Love (Wellman, 1929)
*Secrets of a Secretary (Abbott, 1931)
A Throw of Dice (Osten, 1929)
The Polish Dancer (Hertz, 1917)
Mothers of France (Mercanton et Hervil. 1916)
The Sleuth (Grey, 1922)
In the Grease (Howe, 1925)
*Careful Please (Taurog, 1926)

Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, 2003) 6/10
It Came from Kuchar (Jennifer M. Kroot, 2009) 7/10
The Face of AIDS (Matt Wolf, 2016) short, ok
The Swan (Anderson, 2023) 4/10
Once Upon a Studio (two zootopia guys, 2023) short, bad

spooky month leftovers
Black Sunday (Bava, 1960) 8/10
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) 7/10 ugh, female sexual hysteria
Nightbreed (Clive Barker, 1990) 5/10
964 Pinocchio (Shozin Fukui, 1991) 6/10
My house walk-through (2016) short, good

noirvember
The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler, 1942) 6/10
Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945) 7/10 my fifth preminger and he is 5 for 5
The River's Edge (Allan Dwan, 1957) 7/10
Sapphire (Basil Dearden, 1959) 5/10
All Night Long (Dearden, 1962) 8/10

Extraction 2 (Hargrave 2023)
*The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Archers 1943)
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (Wang 1985)
Ghosted (Fletcher 2023)
The Man from Laramie (Mann 1955)
M:I 2 (Woo 2000)
M:I Dead Reckoning Pt 1 (McQuarrie 2023)
Barbie (Gerwig 2023)
Oppenheimer (Nolan 2023)
The Heart of the World (Maddin 2000)
The Cry of Jazz (Bland 1959)
After Yang (Kogonada 2022)
The Play House (Keaton, Cline 1921)
Asteroid City (Anderson 2023)
*Resurrection (Petrie 1980)
Danger: Diabolik (Bava 1968)
Tenet (Nolan 2020)
Coogan's Bluff (Siegel 1968)
The Cowboy and the Frenchman (Lynch 1987)
Flesh for Frankenstein (Morrissey 1973)
Blood for Dracula (Morrissey 1974)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese 2023)
The Killer (Fincher 2023)

That's it going back to June. My movie and tv watching has dropped off almost to nothing, much of it attributable to the uncomfortable "home theater recliner" I got for my office.

The Killer (2023) 2.5/5
The Great Muppet Caper (1981) 4/5. Never saw it as a kid! A must for Charles Grodin fans.
*Where is My Friend's House? (1987) 5/5
Priscilla (2023) 3.5/5
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) 2.5/5. Not surprised when I saw this was originally supposed to be 3.5 hours long. Such a self-important chore to get through. There's a scene here where someone offscreen tries to imitate the voice of Martin Luther King and almost sounds like Putney Swope.
Return to Seoul (2022) 4/5. People who say they want complex, unlikeable female protagonists: here's what you asked for.
* The Devil, Probably (1977) 4.5/5
Body Snatchers (1993) 3.5/5

Short:
The Swan (2023) 3.5/5

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
The Dead Zone (Cronenberg, 1983)
Anatomy of a Fall (Triet, 2023)
House (Obayashi, 1977)
Carnal Knowledge (Nichols, 1971)
The Cell (Singh, 2000)
Laura (Preminger, 1944)
Saint Omer (Diop, 2022)
Red, White & Royal Blue (Lopez, 2023)
The Killer (Fincher, 2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese, 2023)
Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018)

A Tale of Autumn (1998) 4/5
* Head (1968) 3.5/5
* Dersu Uzala (1975) 5/5
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018) 3/5
* Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) 5/5
52 Pick-Up (1986) 4/5
The Nickel Ride (1974) 4/5. A hidden gem; very Friends of Eddie Coyle-like.
* Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) 3/5
* Defending Your Life (1991) 4/5
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023) 3/5

Actually I should have revised the Struggle rating to 2/5. The apologetic tone it takes toward its subject has not sit well with me.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline 4/5
A Thousand and One 4.5/5
The Royal Hotel 3.5/5
May-December 4.5/5

From approx September to now:

Suspiria 2018
Venom and Eternity, 1951
Songs for Drella, 1990
Unfaithfully Yours 1948
An Actor’s Revenge 1963
Kagemusha 1980
Miss Julie 1951
Ghost 1984
The Terence Davies Trilogy 1983
Sorry We Missed You 2019
Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall 2022
When Evil Lurks 2023
The Long Day Closes 1992
Equus 1977
The Beekeeper 1986
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor 2023
Barbara 2012
The Mother and the Whore 1973
Othon 1970
The Diary of a Chambermaid 1946
The State I Am In ‘Die innere Sicherheit’ 2000
Serpent’s Path 1998
Eyes of the Spider 1998
Men 2022
Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss 1982
Lola 1981
Don’t Look Up/Ghost Actress 1996
A Cure for Wellness 2016
Black Moon 1975
Yella 2007
Long Strange Trip 2017
Talk to Me 2022
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time 2020
Mother 2009
Exhibit A 2007
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites 2019
Piggy 2022
Black Girl 1966
Evil Dead Rise 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022
Moses and Aaron 1975
The Last Waltz 1978
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band 2019
Kuroneko 1968
News from Home 1976

The Beekeeper was a disappointment, not top tier Angelopoulos for me. Evil Dead Rise was poor. I liked Men probably more than most. Working y way through Christian Petzold's filmography after Barbara stunned me.

Recent viewing, in theaters and streaming. All pretty good.

Anatomy of a Fall (in theater)
Killers of the Flower Moon (in theater)
Tranquility in the Presence of Others (MOMA)
The Old Man and the Gun (Lowery)
The Duellists (Scott)
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)

No No: A Dockumentary (7.0)
Succession (season 4 -- 6.5)
The Killer (4.0)
Priscilla (5.0)
The Holdovers (5.0)
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (7.0)
The Stones And Brian Jones (6.0)
Rush to Judgement (6.0)
May December (7.0)
Killers of the Flower Moon (6.0)

Takes me longer and longer to accumulate 10 films. Question related to one of the above: did Ali MacGraw win any acting awards for Goodbye, Columbus or Love Story? I’d have to check, but I doubt that she did.

getting my money's worth out of criterion channel

Svengali (1931) no rating because antisemitism but i was entertained by the lead's lack of subtlety
Mystery of the Wax Museum (Curtiz, 1933) 6/10 -- amazing red/green technicolor
Murders in the Zoo (1933) 5
One Mile from Heaven (1937) 3
Dragonwyck (J. Mankiewicz, 1946) 7 -- vincent price's first gothic movie
The Harvey Girls (1946) 6 -- i was in the wrong mood to watch fluff
Repeat Performance (1947) 6
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948) 6 -- this is why the "holiday noir" category exists, isn't it
So Long at the Fair (Fisher et al., 1950) 6
No Way Out (J. Mankiewicz, 1950) 2
Madeleine (Lean, 1950) 5 -- lean's least favorite of his own films
Still of the Night (Benton, 1982) 6 -- meryl streep's least favorite of her own films, at least at one point
L'Argent (Bresson, 1983) 8
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (Wolf, 2008) 6
Old Dads (Bill Burr, 2023) 2
The Fall of the House of Usher (miniseries, Flanagan, 2023) 7
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 5

Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976)
Mad God (Phil Tippett, 2021)
The Big Game (Robert Day, 1973)
The Bay (Barry Levinson, 2012)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)
The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, 1956)
North Face (Philipp Stölzl, 2008)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (Anton Corbijn, 2022)
Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
Election (Johnnie To, 2005)
The Experimental City (Chad Freidrichs, 2017)
Heart of Stone (Tom Harper, 2023)
Nothing Compares (Kathryn Ferguson, 2022)
Nico, 1988 (Susanna Nicchiarelli, 2017)
Bullet in the Head (John Woo, 1990)
Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (Lisa Cortes, 2023)
Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)
Near Death (Frederick Wiseman, 1989)
Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman, 2023)
'Doc' (Frank Perry, 1971)
Moontide (Archie Mayo, 1942)
The Connection (Shirley Clarke, 1961)
Dear Mr. Brody (Keith Maitland, 2021)
Un couple (Frederick Wiseman, 2022)
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
River Road (Rob Willey, 2022)
Harmonium en Californie (Robert Fortier, 1979)
Black Sea (Kevin Macdonald, 2014)
The Whistleblower (Larysa Kondracki, 2010)
Good Guys Wear Black (Ted Post, 1978)
The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, 1984)
Caprice (Joanna Hogg, 1986)
*The Wolf Of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
Save The Tiger (John G. Avildsen, 1973)
The Nickel Ride (Robert Mulligan, 1974)
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party (Ian White, 2023)
*Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)

Wiseman is now one of the directors where I can justifiably claim that I've seen everything in their filmography. I need to fully debrief in the Wiseman thread, but Near Death is a masterpiece.

Agree about Near Death--I put it just a half-notch behind Welfare as his greatest film (though I still have many to see).

He's got another four-hour one for which I can't find a bloc at home to watch.

The Cassandra Cat (1963) 4/5. Delightful film on Criterion Channel about a tabby cat who turns people their true colors when he looks at them. Sort of the Zazie dans le Metro of the Czech New Wave.
Brigadoon (1954) 2.5/5
* Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) 5/5. Re-watched this on a whim. GTO still one of the all-time great movie characters.
* Millennium Mambo (2001) 4/5
The Rapture (1991) 3.5/5
May December (2023) 4.5/5
La Chimera (2023) 4.5/5. I hope this movie gets its due when it runs theatrically next year. Alice Rohrwacher is brilliant.
Fallen Leaves (2023) 4/5
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) 1/5. Gave up on this after the graphic pig slaughter scene. I guess gawking at peasants for 3.5 hours used to entail witnessing such an offense but that's one thing the movies have largely fixed.

Busy month... and it ain't over yet.

The Idiots (1998) 4/5. Of course Lars Von Trier's contribution to the Dogme 95 movement is about a bunch of poseurs who backpedal on their own artistic movement as soon as it's convenient.
Ferrari (2023) 3.5/5
Bachelor Mother (1939) 3.5/5
* My Night at Maud's (1968) 4.5/5
Poor Things (2023) 3/5
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) 4/5
Welfare (1975) 5/5. Frederick Wiseman doc. There is a long sequence where a racist WW II vet argues with a black security guard/Vietnam vet that might be one of the most enraging I've ever seen. Like the videos of the guy harassing the halal cart vendor.
La guerre est finie (1966) 3/5
Barbie (2023) 3.5/5
Of Time and the City (2008) 3/5
Saint Omer (2022) 4.5/5
Police Python 357 (1976) 4/5
* Little Murders (1971) 4/5
The Boy and the Heron (2023) 4/5
Rewind & Play (2022) 3/5
Afire (2023) 4/5
BlackBerry (2023) 3.5/5
The Glass Key (1942) 3.5/5

christmas crap wot i watched

A Christmas Dream, 1945, short
Lady in the Lake, 1946 5/10
Backfire, 1950 5/10
Roadblock, 1951 4/10
*A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965 i like it
*Home Alone, 1990 5/10
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown, 1992 meh
It's a Wondefful Knife, 2023 4/10

can’t figure out where i should talk about the iron claw a messy movie that contains my favorite scene in any movie i’ve watched this year

Bottoms (Seligman, 2023)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lawrence, 2023)
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967)
Passages (Sachs, 2023)
The Holdovers (Payne, 2023)
While You Were Sleeping (Turteltaub, 1995)
Duel (Spielberg, 1971)
Notting Hill (Michell, 1999)
Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013)
Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2016)
Premium Rush (Koepp, 2012)
Master Gardener (Schrader, 2022)
Josie and the Pussycats (Kaplan/Elfont, 2001)
Poor Things (Lanthimos, 2023)
Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)
Maestro (Cooper, 2023)
Love Actually (Curtis, 2003)

The last movie I watched in 2023 was MIDNIGHT RUN, which came out when I was 16 but which I had never seen until now. A couple of lines made me laugh, but honestly I am very much not a Charles Grodin fan, so it mostly seemed like a waste of Yaphet Kotto.

I've gotten into this strange habit of seeing Kelly Reichardt films on planes, which is maybe not ideal, but "Showing Up" was still pretty good. Also saw "The Creator," which I mentioned on the/a Radiohead thread. It reminded me of tons of other stuff, from "Blade Runner" to "AI" to a few action films, but its visuals, set pieces and mood made an impression on me, even if the movie ultimately fell a little short (and felt a little long). I thought "Monsters" was pretty thoughtful/striking, so it was good to see Gareth Edwards cash in some of his Hollywood franchise chits to make another more personal sci-fi movie.

that time of year when the xmas tv has finished and new season hasn't really started so i'm taping any film from tptv that looks even vaguely interesting to watch during the day

Not As A Stanger, robert mitchum and frank sinatra want to become doctors. two big name actors in a film i've not heard of.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048432/

yesterday was Landfall, about an RAF pilot accused of bombing a british submarine. starring no-one you've ever heard of but "From the novel by Nevil Shute".

also spent the time between xmas and new year catching up on recent dvds

Agnus Varda - Cleo from 5 to 7
Bela Tarr - Turin Horse
Tomu Uchida - Mad Fox

all of which i enjoyed.

(actually, Not As A Stranger features Gloria Grahame, the third film i've seen with her in it in the last month (Human Desire, The Man Who Never Was) ((also, it's a wonderful life, which was on A LOT over christmas but which i didn't watch)))

Thirteen Women (Archainbaud 1932)
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lam Mai-Choi 1991)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai 2003)
The Quick and the Dead (Raimi 1995)
Frontier Marshal (Dwan 1939)
Casino (Scorsese 1995)
May December (Haynes 2023)
The Grandmaster (Wong 2013)
Men (Garland 2022)
eXistenZ (Cronenberg 1999)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Anderson 2023)
High Anxiety (Brooks 1977)
*Being John Malkovich (Jonze 1999)
Maestro (Cooper 2023)
*L.A. Confidential (Hanson 1997)
Blast of Silence (Baron 1961)
The Equalizer 3 (Fuqua 2023)
The Equalizer (Fuqua 2014)
The Equalizer 2 (Fuqua 2018)
Birth (Glazer 2004)
Harry Brown (Barber 2009)
Little Odessa (Gray 1994)
Puss (Shore 2021)
The Diabolic Tenant (Méliès 1909)
India Song (Duras 1975)

* Altered States (1980) 3.5/5
The Iron Claw (2023) 4/5
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 4/5
Panic in the Streets (1950) 3.5/5
An Accidental Studio (2019) 3/5. Doc on Handmade Films currently on Criterion.
Godzilla Minus One (2023) 4/5
The Holdovers (2023) 3.5/5
SubUrbia (1996) 2/5. Had this soundtrack on cd in the 90s but never saw the movie. Steve Zahn nearly carries it but kind of a botch job from Linklater.
* Mean Streets (1973) 4.5/5

The Invisible Ray (Hillyer, 1936)
Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki. 2023)
The Johnstown Flood (Cummings, 1926)
Deluge (Feist, 1933)
*The Old Dark House (Whale, 1932)
One Day in Hollywood (Caldwell, 1924)
*From Soup to Nuts (Kennedy, 1928)

January:

The Long Hair of Death (Margheriti, 1964) 88 Films Blu Ray 6/10
The Vengeance of She (Owen, 1968) Hammer Film DVD Box Set 4/10
The Beguiled (Siegel, 1971) DVD 8/10
Saltburn (Fennell, 2023) Amazon Prime 6/10
Poor Things (Lanthimos, 2023) Cineworld 8/10
Jackass Forever (Tremaine, 2022) C4 4/10
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Siegel, 1970) DVD 7/10
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002) DVD 7/10
Witchhammer (Vavra, 1970) Second Run DVD 7/10
Barbarian (Cregger, 2022) Amazon Prime 7/10
The Holdovers (Payne, 2023) Cineworld 6/10
Blood Work (Eastwood, 2002) DVD 5/10

Leave the World Behind (6.0)
A Promising Young Woman (6.0)
Past Lives (7.5)
Napoleon (6.0)
Funny Girl (7.0)
Anatomy of a Fall (7.0)
The Office (S1-S9 – 7.5)
The Reckless Moment (6.5)
The Zone of Interest (6.0)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (6.5)