last movie watched

[Pokemon Mastah]

I had a dream last night that Takashi Miike was directing a live action Pokemon film

Anyway, I recent saw Once Upon a Time In Anatolia, Michael, and The Artist at the cinema. I enjoyed them all.

[number none]

Didn't really know what to make of Michael. While it undoubtedly disturbing, i'm not sure what the point of it all was. The end credits made me feel like i had some kind of joke played on me too

[walt whitman]

watched part of Old Joy.

kelly reichardt was def. the original MUMBLECORE

[Phil]

No.

[saranclaps]

21 Jump Street was real good.

[Sharmoota]

Watching a documentary about Jon Venables.

[Buddy Glass]

Dreams of a Life (Who Gives A Fuck, 2011) - Turned it off 1/3 of the way through. There's an amazing film to be made here, given the source material, it's just too bad no one was interested in making it. As it stands now, this is an aesthetic trainwreck, a masterclass in making something suck that by all accounts should be incredible. If you gave Rob Devor and Sean Kirby this story you'd have one of the best doc/narrative hybrids of the last 10 years.

[Phil]

N:O:T:H:I:N:G - Probably the best thing I've watched all year. Glad I waited to be able to see it in a theater.

[Sharmoota]

Dreams of a Life (Who Gives A Fuck, 2011) - Turned it off 1/3 of the way through. There's an amazing film to be made here, given the source material, it's just too bad no one was interested in making it. As it stands now, this is an aesthetic trainwreck, a masterclass in making something suck that by all accounts should be incredible. If you gave Rob Devor and Sean Kirby this story you'd have one of the best doc/narrative hybrids of the last 10 years.

Have been meaning to see this for a while now. Her story's so fascinating and sad.

[Buddy Glass]

Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1959) - Pretty good, and great photography obviously. Plus it's hard not to melt watching Tatyana Samojlova. The blatant fakeness of the helicopter rescue ending is fairly subversive (if that sort of thing does it for you). It's curious that the love triangle aspect was such a heavy element in the first half of the film but then had nothing to do with the ultimate downfall of the group.

Criterion missed a great opportunity here for extras that could explore Sergei Urusevsky's camerawork, its innovations, how it influenced later filmmakers, etc. The booklet essay touches on it in only the most rudimentary sense, and that's literally the only extra for the whole release.

[catatronic]

N:O:T:H:I:N:G - Probably the best thing I've watched all year. Glad I waited to be able to see it in a theater.

Can you provide a bit more info on this?

Also, what do you think of Bla Tarr?

[Buddy Glass]

Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) - Quietly devastating. I'm by no means an expert on films of this period, but Mizoguchi's style really struck me as surprisingly modern - night sequences that are jet black, tracking shots largely obscured by out-of-focus objects and people in the foreground, unflinchingly bleak situations and utterly flawed characters, and an ending that is completely unresolved and unsettling. Mizoguchi was already a master of sound cinema, wringing particularly wrenching effects from Ayako's sister as she begs her not to abandon her.

[Mesh]

I'm by no means an expert on films of this period, but Mizoguchi's style really struck me as surprisingly modern - night sequences that are jet black, tracking shots largely obscured by out-of-focus objects and people in the foreground, unflinchingly bleak situations and utterly flawed characters, and an ending that is completely unresolved and unsettling.

Yeah, that whole Mizoguchi Eclipse set feels stylistically alive, in a way that makes each film's release date seem illogical. The five or so Ozu films I've seen do this too, though the formality of his movies sort of counteracts this for me.

[Mesh]

The Boy Friend

Visual feast I was only able to deal with for about half its runtime. Failed monumentally for me as a narrative musical, succeeds to a tiresome extent at saluting really, really old musicals. I was kind of hoping it'd go a lot darker as it went along, but it didn't. I think this is the only other time I've seen the evil dude from The Apple and Barry Lyndon's wife's waifish butler dude in other movies. Twiggy's name Don Don'd me...and she was pretty talented.

[Phil]

Can you provide a bit more info on this?

It's ~40 minutes, most of it is monochrome color fields, with a new color every few frames. Occasionally there's an image of a drawing of a lightbulb that slowly drains of the light inside it, and there's a brief section where a chair falls over. Watching it is, at a very basic level, being made aware of an entirely new perspective on the act of watching a movie; it makes the idea of film as a grammar seem ridiculous.

And I don't like Bela Tarr very much, but I haven't seen Satantango or much of the early stuff, so yeah.

[Geoff]

Watched Cave of Forgotten Dreams, interesting but not my favourite Herzog.

[catatronic]

Thanks.

Just coincidentally got to the page is this thread in my other open tab where Tarr is discussed.
Something about the screen cap you posted for NOTHING, made me think it was some crazy new feature.

I enjoy your commentary.

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[Meginhufr]

the incident at blood pass - uneventful with only a couple moments of interest, mainly the scenes between Mifune and Katsu. but the climax was a let down and confusing. it's a shame such a great cast was wasted.

[kid8]

finally saw weekend. it was really great.

[Phil]

When Pigs Fly - I don't really know why I had low expectations for this given how much I love her other 3, but this was just as good. Germany playing the American rust belt, but either way, it's exceptional for how richly detailed its vision of industrial life is without ever seeming like it's either the point of the movie or overly affected like it always is in working class American films. Marianne Faithfull singing Danny Boy killed me.

[rtt]

The Boy Friend

Visual feast I was only able to deal with for about half its runtime. Failed monumentally for me as a narrative musical, succeeds to a tiresome extent at saluting really, really old musicals. I was kind of hoping it'd go a lot darker as it went along, but it didn't. I think this is the only other time I've seen the evil dude from The Apple and Barry Lyndon's wife's waifish butler dude in other movies. Twiggy's name Don Don'd me...and she was pretty talented.

that guy is also in russells devils. which is also great but tiresome. i mean, i remember the intensity being pretty constant.

[rtt]

i really need to see Boyfriend. i only watched the first half hour.

[Mesh]

The Boy Friend

Visual feast I was only able to deal with for about half its runtime. Failed monumentally for me as a narrative musical, succeeds to a tiresome extent at saluting really, really old musicals. I was kind of hoping it'd go a lot darker as it went along, but it didn't. I think this is the only other time I've seen the evil dude from The Apple and Barry Lyndon's wife's waifish butler dude in other movies. Twiggy's name Don Don'd me...and she was pretty talented.

that guy is also in russells devils.

Shit, you're right. Forgot about that. Murray Melvin.

[morbo]

Dreams of a Life (Who Gives A Fuck, 2011) - Turned it off 1/3 of the way through. There's an amazing film to be made here, given the source material, it's just too bad no one was interested in making it. As it stands now, this is an aesthetic trainwreck, a masterclass in making something suck that by all accounts should be incredible. If you gave Rob Devor and Sean Kirby this story you'd have one of the best doc/narrative hybrids of the last 10 years.

this is one of the main reasons why i pay my rent on a weekly basis while living alone. also my lifestyle is very high-risk.

i'll try watching this later, based on your description it seems like it'll help me finally get some sleep.

[spix et chicho]

hey morbo.

[Durham]

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Hadn't seen it in like 10 years, and that was in school and I was doing homework instead of watching it so I didn't really see it. Wackier than I expected. Good fun, though.

[Kafkaesque]

The Dead Mountaineer's Hotel- fuck yeah.

[morbo]

hey morbo.

oh hey. i sleep a lot so i missed this.

wild at heart, laura dern kinda looks like my ex, but not in this movie

[deadaswarhol]

BOY

p funny and cute. lots of ET references. main dude/director did a Q&A afterwards and he was also p funny

[swamp thing]

can honestly say i was trying to like this right up til the end credits but man


the laffs just did not outweigh the shit