Last (x) movies you saw (II)

Out of the Blue (1980) 4.5/5. Finally saw this for the first time and it's gotta be the best thing Dennis Hopper ever did.

I agree. Pretty gut-wrenching but an outstanding film.

Where Are You Going (2016) dir. Yang Zhengfan. Reminds me a lot of a CharlieBo313 YouTube video, but with more depth.

The Today Show (S4 – 6.0)
Drive-Away Dolls (4.0)
L.I.E. (7.0)
To Die For (7.5)
American Fiction (7.0)
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans (7.0)
Ozark (S1-S4 – 7.0)
Natural Born Killers (4.0)
Modernism, Inc. (7.5)
Eileen (5.0)

Abraham’s Valley (de Oliveira, 1993)
NYAD (Vasarhelyi/Chin, 2023)
Surviving Desire(Hartley, 1992)
Ambition (Hartley, 1992)
Theory of Achievement (Hartley, 1991)
Seven Psychopaths (McDonagh, 2012)
Cop Land (Mangold, 1997)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
Back and Forth (Snow, 1969)
Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly) (Snow, 1976)
Standard Time (Snow, 1967)
The Strange Case of Angelica (de Oliveira, 2010
Working on the Douro River (de Oliveira, 1931)
Jungle Fever (Lee, 1991)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Frank, 1975)
Carlito’s Way (De Palma, 1993)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Jude, 2023)

The Today Show (S4 – 6.0)

The Morning Show that should be...

Orion and the Dark (Kaufman script, 2024) 6/10
Riki-Oh (1991) subbed 8/10
Je Tu Il Elle (Akerman) 4/10
*My Dinner With Andre (Malle, 1981) 7/10

in cinemas, March:
* The Iron Giant (1999 Bird, McCanlies after Hughes )
Trollhunter (2010 Øvredal)
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010 Craig, Jurgenson) 📽️
Hero [英雄] (2002 Zhang, Li, Wang)
Fresh (1994 Yakin)
Perfect Days (2023 Wenders, Takasaki)
The Pillow Book (1996 Greenaway )
Drive Away Dykes (2024 Coen & Cooke)
Kedi (2016 Torun)
Your Sister's Sister (2011 Shelton, Blunt, Duplass, DeWitt, Birbiglia)
the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020 Yan, Hodson)
* Nope (2022 Peele)
* Matinee (1993 Dante, Jerico, Haas)
The Host (2006 Bong, Ha, Baek)
They Cloned Tyrone (2023 Taylor, Rettenmaier)
Tremors (1990 Underwood, Maddock, Wilson)
The Fly (1986 Cronenberg after Langelaan after Pogue)
The Creature From The Black Lagoon (2D) (1954 Arnold, Essex, Ross, Zimm)
I'm "George Lucas" (2024 Jacobi, Sofillas)
* Asteroid City (2023 Anderson, Coppola)
Godzilla [ゴジラ] (1954 Honda, Murata, Kayama)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024 Glass, Tofilska, Mansell)
Problemista (2024 Torres)
Wendell & Wild (2022 Selick, Peele, Chapman)

home viewing:
* The Terminator ( 1984 Cameron, Hurd, Wisher Jr. ) 📀
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 Cameron, Wisher Jr. ) 📀
* Last Action Hero ( 1993 McTiernan, Penn, Leff, Black, Arnott, Goldman, Fisher, Ferguson ) 📀
Dark ( 2024 ARP, Hawke ) 📺 4 min
A Swiss Trick ( 1931 Foster, Stallings ) 📺 7 min
* The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 Jewison, Trustman, Legrand, Ashby ) 📺

Ikarie XB1 (Polák 1963)
June (Vaurio 2024)
Safe in Hell (Wellman 1931)
The Raid 2 (Evans 2014)
24-Hour Party People (Winterbottom 2002)
The Munekata Sisters (Ozu 1950)
*The Red Shoes (Powell & Presburger, 1948)
*Barton Fink (Coen & Coen, 1991)
Beau Is Afraid (Aster 2023)
New Rose Hotel (Ferrara 1998)
Poor Things (Lanthimos 2023)
*Lone Star (Sayles 1996)
Dreadnaught (Yuen Woo-ping 1981)
The Zone of Interest (Glazer 2023)
True Romance (Scott 1993)
The Holdovers (Payne 2023)
The Marvels (DaCosta 2023)
Dune Pt. 1 (Villeneuve 2023)
Anatomy of a Fall (Triet 2023)
Road House (Liman 2024)
Dune Pt. 2 (Villeneuve 2024)
American Fiction (Jefferson 2023)
Ballerina (Lynch 2003)
Monkey Man (Patel 2024)
STEVE! (martin) (Neville 2024)

April

Ricochet (Mulcahy, 1991) 7/10
No Sudden Move (Soderbergh, 2021) 8/10
Page Eight (Hare, 2011) 6/10
*Uncut Gems (Safdie Brothers, 2019) 9/10
Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, 1947) 6/10
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger, 1943) 8/10
Reality (Satter, 2023) 6/10
All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979) 8/10
Mississippi Grind (Fleck/Biden, 2015) 7/10
Unhinged (Borte, 2020) 5/10
Hundreds of Beavers (Cheslik, 2022) 8/10
*Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Burton, 2005) 6/10
Owning Mahowny (Kwietniowski, 2003) 7/10

always interested in your picks/ratings michael b but that black narcissus rating is WACK. i guess some people just don't appreciate exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land

Yeah, I knew someone would get pissed off at that rating and while it looks amazing, the movie splutters to this mad finale that just comes out of nowhere. It just didn't do it for me, soz

Got the Blu-Ray of THE ABYSS this weekend; finished watching it tonight. (I started it last night. It's long.) I saw it in theaters 35 years ago and was shocked how much I remembered. Maybe my favorite Cameron movie, and it looks amazing.

Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) 8/10 for a prison movie from 1950 it's excellent
Night Killer (the Troll 2 team, 1990) good bad
A Family Finds Entertainment (Ryan Trecartin, 2005) first time watching it the whole way through
Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli, 2023) 8/10

The Tall Men (1955) 2.5/5
Perfect Days (2023) 4/5
The Beast (2023) 3.5/5
Rockers (1978) 4/5
Dreadnaught (1981) 4/5
Mississippi Masala (1991) 4/5
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996) 3.5/5
Streetwise (1984) 4.5/5
Yakuza Graveyard (1976) 4/5
High Hopes (1988) 4/5
* One Fine Morning (2022) 4/5
* Blood Simple (1984) 5/5
* I'm Not There (2007) 5/5

In-flight entertainment, yesterday/today:
American Fiction (3/5, seemed like two scripts smooshed together with only partial success)
Barbie (2/5, honestly I am not the target market)

Lined up for the return journey in a couple of weeks if the Aer Lingus menu hasn't changed:
Oppenheimer & Killers of the Flower Moon, well that is going to be one serious and important movie session, hopefully the passenger in front won't lean their seat back too far.

Repo Man (4.0)
Krush Groove (6.0)
Make Me Famous (6.0)
Prime Cut (5.0)
The Old Oak (7.5)
Wayne’s World (6.0)
Mr. Robot (S1 - 7.5)
Vanishing Point (5.5)
Hickey & Boggs (5.5)
Belly (5.0)

Seven of these I watched in connection to two books I'm reading: Charles Taylor's Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s and Nate Patrin's The Needle and the Lens.

I know people love Repo Man, so I made sure not to post on the relevant thread. I was a so-so on it when it came out; other than the occasional clever line (still remembered "ordinary fucking people"), got nothing 40 years later. Just in general, I don't think I like cult films...not sure if I've ever liked one, in the classic sense of the term. Which may or may not even have meaning anymore: originally, as in Hoberman and Rosenbaum's book, I think it was tied in with the idea of late-night rep screenings.

in cinemas, April:
* The Thin Man (1934 Van Dyke, Hackett, Goodrich, Hammett) 📽️
Lady Snowblood [修羅雪姫] (1973 Fujita, Osada, Koike, Kamimura)
Rashōmon [羅生門] (1950 Kurosawa, Hashimoto, Akutagawa) 📽️
Green Plums And A Bamboo Horse [青梅竹馬 / Taipei Story] (1985 Yang, Chu, Hou)
Riddle Of Fire (2024 / 2023 Razooli) 📽️
Hundreds Of Beavers (2024 / 2022 Cheslik, Tews)
Late Night With The Devil (2024 / 2023 Cairnes & Cairnes)
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2024 / 2023 Jude)
The Homicide Incident Of The Youth On Guling Street [牯嶺街少年殺人事件 / A Brighter Summer Day] (1991 Yang, Hung, Lai, Yang, Yan)
Tampopo [タンポポ] (1985 Itami)
Mahjong [麻將] (1996 Yang)
Civil War (2024 Garland)
A Confucian Confusion [獨立時代] (1994 Yang, Hung)
* Airplane! (1980 Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, Proft, Jorgensen, Hailey, Bartlett, Champion)
Gas Food Lodging (1992 Anders, Peck)
* Civil War (2024 Garland )
* Spider-Man 2 (2004 Raimi, Sargent, Chabon, Gough, Millar, Koepp, Ditko)
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024 Ritchie, Tamasy, Johnson, Amel, Lewis) 3/10
Sasquatch Sunset (2024 Zellner)
Inception (2010 Nolan)
Abigail (2024 Radio Silence, Shields)
The People's Joker (2024 Drew, LeRose)

home viewing:
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 McTiernan, Dixon, Wimmer, Trustman) 📺
It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964 Scorsese, Martin) 📺 16 min
Batman & Robin (1997 Schumacher, Goldsman) 📺
Basic (2003 McTiernan, Vanderbilt) 📺