What I Watched This Month......

[flip]

long:
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958) - 8/10
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982) - 8/10
I Walk the Line (John Frankenheimer, 1970) - 7/10
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsey, 2017) - 7/10
The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020) - 6/10
Set It Up (Claire Scanlon, 2018) - 6/10
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993) - 6/10
Surviving Edged Weapons (Dennis Anderson, 1988) - 5/10
7500 (Patrick Vollrath, 2019) - 5/10
Samurai Cop (Amir Shervan, 1991) - 3/10
Enola Holmes (Harry Bradbeer, 2020) - 3/10
The Man from Toronto (Patrick Hughes, 2022) - 1/10
The Star Wars Holiday Special (Steve Binder/David Acomba, 1978) - 1/10
A Talking Cat!?! (David DeCoteau, 2013) - 0/10
The Atheist Delusion (Ray Comfort, 2016) - 0/10

short:
Feelings (Todd Solondz, 1984) - 2/10
Gayn***** from Outer Space (Morten Lindberg, 1992) - 1/10

[pabs]

July, 2022

Features my first 10/10 in a very, very, very long time. I think I've not given a 10 to more than a dozen films in my life. This 10 goes to Euphoria (S2, 2022), which I watched half of in June and awarded that 7.5 points out of 10. The second half (four episodes) I saw in July brought the whole thing up to 10. The whole better than the sum of its parts. Really such a wonderfully written and brilliantly acted thing. I thoroughly recommend it.

[DT.]

- August -

Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971)
2000 Weeks (Tim Burstall, 1969)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi, 2022)
The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen, 2022)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund, 2022)
Mandingo (Richard Fleischer, 1975)
Viy (Georgiy Kropachyov and Konstantin Ershov, 1967)
Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022)
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (Éric Rohmer, 1993)

TV:

American Crime Story (season 3)

[ofrene]

2022. 8

Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1995)
Emergency Declaration (Han Jae-rim, 2021)
Le Garcu (Maurice Pialat, 1995)
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Love, 2021)
Boiling Point (Philip Barantini, 2021)
Prey (Dan Trachtenberg, 2022)
The Enclosed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 1995)
One Hundred and One Nights (Agnes Varda, 1995)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995) ♥
Full Time (Eric Gravel, 2021)
Hunt (Lee Jung-Jae, 2022)
A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer, 1990)
A Summer’s Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996) ♥
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
Cow (Andrea Arnold, 2021)
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sophie Hyde, 2022)
Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995) ♥
Ulysses’ Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos, 1995)
Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
Cardiogram (Darezhan Omirbayev, 1995)
The Blade (Tsui Hark, 1995) ♥
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995)
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia, 2021)
Jason (Maasja Ooms, 2021)
Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisim, 2022)
Klondike (Maryna Er Gorbach, 2022)
The Dream and the Radio (Renaud Despres-Larose, Ana Tapia Rousiouk, 2022)
Blind Spot (Claudia von Alemann, 1981)
Decameron (Rita Hui, 2021)
Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953) ♥
Persuasion (Roger Michell, 1995)
Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
Like Grains of Sand (Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 1995)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, 1995)
The Neon Bible (Terence Davies, 1995)

[Joks Trois]

All scores out of 10. * = rewatches.

Doors: Morrison Hotel (no idea) - 5
Pacifiction (Serra) - 7
About Endlessness* (Andersson) - 7.5
Electra, My Love* (Jancso) - 8
Walker* (Cox) - 7.5
Prey (no idea) - 4.5
Munchies (no idea) - 4
Halloween 4* (Little) - 4.5
Thinner* (Holland) - 5

[rischka]

august

museum hours (2012)
manhattan melodrama (1934)
special effects (1984)
test pilot (1938)
i love you again (1940)
ballet (1995) ♥
prey (2022)
white sun of the desert (1969) ♥
hell in the pacific (1968)
the web of death (1976)
elvis (2022)
black mountain (1994)
idiot (1991)
the bridges of madison county (1995)
ziegfeld girl (1941)
good men good women (1995)
when tomorrow comes (1939)
little man, what now? (1934)

rewatches: planet of the vampires ♥ green snake ♥♥ predator (1987) late spring ♥♥ goodbye south, goodbye ♥

TV: better call saul ♥♥ for all mankind season 3

[nrh]

vacation month vs. non vacation month

july 2022 -

kala, rohit v.s. (2021)
kadhala kadhala, singeethan srinivasa rao (1998)
koozhangal, p.s. vinothiraj (2021)
shavam, don palathara (2015)
elippathayam, adoor gopalakrishanan (1982)
anantaram, adoor gopalakrishnan (1987)
uyare, manu ashokan (2019)
piravi, shaji n. karun (1988)
perumthachan, ajayan (1991)
njan gandharvan, padmarajan (1991)
mathilukal, adoor gopalakrishnan (1989)
kadaisi vivasayi, m. manikandan (2021)
subramaniapuram, m. sasikumar (2008)
agni natchathiram, mani ratnam (1988)
kodi parakuthu, bharathiraja (1989)

august
detectives vs. sleuth, wai ka fai (2022)
shamshera, karan malhotra (2022)

[Silga]

August 2022

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971) 6
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971) 8
Taking Off (Milos Forman, 1971) 9
The Omega Man (Boris Sagal, 1971) 4
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971) 7
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971) 7
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes, 1971) 5
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) 10
Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1971) 8
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) 9
Cobra (George P. Cosmatos, 1986) 4
My Girl (Howard Zieff, 1991) 7
Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995) 1
Forget Paris (Billy Crystal, 1995) 7
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995) 8
Die Hard with a Vengeance (John McTiernan, 1995) 7
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, 2006) 6
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017) 7

TV:
Michael Palin’s New Europe (Roger Mills, John-Paul Davidson, 2007) 3
Collateral (S.J. Clarkson, 2018) 6
The Victim (Niall MacCormick, 2019) 8
The Pembrokeshire Murders (Marc Evans, 2021) 6
The Home of Basketball (Dominykas Kubilius, Laura Paukste, 2021) 8

Best: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Alien, Taking Off
Worst: Hackers, Cobra, The Omega Man

[flip]

grim month for movies

The Gray Man (Anthony and Joe Russo, 2022) - 6/10
Downsizing (Alexander Payne, 2017) - 4/10
Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin, 2005) - 4/10
The Rundown (Peter Berg, 2003) - 3/10
Wedding Season (Ton Dey, 2022) - 2/10
Our Ladies (Michael Caton-Jones, 2019) - 1/10
Girl Happy (Boris Sagal, 1965) - 1/10

[wba]

August 2022

Guilty Bystander (Joseph Lerner, 1950, USA) [9/10]
The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964, USA/France/Italy) [6/10]
Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges, 1959, USA) [7/10] ♥
Money Train (Joseph Ruben, 1995, USA) [7/10] ♥
Sleepers (Barry Levinson, 1996, USA) [5/10]
The Octagon (Eric Karson, 1980, USA) [7/10] ♥
Barbie as the Island Princess (Greg Richardson, 2007, USA/Canada) [6/10]
Bullet Train (David Leitch, 2022, USA/Japan) [5/10]
Jeder fragt nach Erika (Friedrich Zelnik, 1931, Germany) [9/10]

[...]

Don't normally do this, but I want to remember my month of hotel viewing since it sure was something. (Actually covers the end of July and beginning of September too, but I'm going with it since I won't likely remember to make a new list next month.)

The highpoint was a suggestion by Jerry, the last movie I watched online and the only one really worthy of suggesting as something to view.
Accused of Murder 1956 Josphen Kane

The sorry lot that followed:
Godzilla vs Kong
Free Guy
Suicide Squad
Old
Geostorm
Hotel Transylvania 3
Despicable Me 3
Leap Year
Star Wars (the first one, new hope or whatever its called now)
Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink
Anaconda 3: The Offering
Dracula Untold
Tenet
West Side Story (Spielberg's)
Beerfest
Central Intelligence
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Batman
Ford v Ferrari
First Man
10 Things I Hate About You
Hulk (the Edward Norton one)
The Emoji Movie
Thor: Ragnarok
Despicable Me 2
The Shape of Water
The Girl on the Train
Superfly (2018)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The Spirit
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The one before the Rise of Skywalker
The Rocker
Blended
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Barely Lethal
Ride Along
Temptation Under the Sun
In Bed with a Killer
Peppermint
Hotel Transylvania 2
Change Up
Click
Battleship
Bodyguard Seduction
Power of the Air
Silly Human
Tempted by Danger
Bad Boys II
Iron Man 2
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Avengers: Infinity War
Death on the Nile
2 Guns
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

and parts of a bunch more I've already seen or couldn't finish that aren't worth noting. Jesus, cable plays a fuckton of Marvel movies, Adam Sandler flicks and Harry Potter stuff so I started drifting to Lifetime movies instead.)

[wba]

Why ON EARTH did you watch all these??????????
And where are the lifetime movies on the list?
And why SO MANY?? In, like, 5 or 6 weeks?

You couldn't have been forced to do this?
Or was this some kind of payed experiment?

[...]

Living in a hotel with internet that isn't great for streaming leaves only cable for watching things. The array of shows are even worse, so I pick whatever movie I find most interesting. Interesting not meaning good, just that has something worth considering about Hollywood or the niche productions like Lifetime or the religious channel stuff. Not all of them were bad exactly, a couple were fine a couple more close to it, just nothing exceptionally exciting. But I did learn some things, so you take what you can get.

[ofrene]

2022. 9

What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001) ♥
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2006) ♥
Sleeping on Dark Waters (Tsai Ming-liang, 2008)
Visage (Tsai Ming-liang, 2009)
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006) ♥
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo, 2008) ♥
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) ♥
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006) ♥
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, 2022)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke, 2010)
Man with No Name (Wang Bing, 2010) ♥
Karamay (Xu Xin, 2010) ♥
Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Aram Avakian, Bert Stern, 1959) ♥
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010)
Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972)
Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, 1972)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ♥
Black Peter (Milos Forman, 1964)
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Nemec, 1966)
Happy End (Oldrich Lipsky, 1967)
Case for a Rookie Hangman (Pavel Juracek, 1970) ♥
The Joke (Jaromil Jires, 1969)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires, 1970)
Beauty and the Beast (Juraj Herz, 1978)
The Sun in a Net (Stefan Uher, 1963)
The Valley of the Bees (Frantisek Vlacil, 1968)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna, 1970) ♥
Forest of Oppression (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1967) ♥
Winter in Narita (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1970) ♥
Three Days War in Narita (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1970) ♥
Narita: The Building of Iwayama Tower (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1972) ♥
Narita: The Sky of May (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1977) ♥
A Couple (Frederick Wiseman, 2022)
Rewind and Play (Alain Gomis, 2022)
The Plains (David Easteal, 2022)
Ah Ying (Allen Fang, 1983)
The Fire Within : A Requirm for Katia and Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog, 2022)
Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022)
Athena (Romain Gavras, 2022)
Our Memory Belongs to Us (Rami Farah, 2021)
What about China? (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 2022)

[rischka]

sept '22

the housemaid -kim (1960)
woman of fire -kim (1971)
boxing gym -wiseman (2010) ♥
hahaha -hong (2010) ♥
oki's movie -hong (2010)
the devils of loudun -liebermann (1969) this is the opera. it was quite good!
spider-man: into the spider-verse -some guys (2018) this was also surprisingly good
il cavaliere misterioso -freda (1948) ♥
meera naam joker -kapoor (1970) madness
a espada e a rosa -nicoloau (2010) more madness
all the king's men -hu (1983) ♥
the moderns -rudolph (1988)
homebound -lee (1967) ♥
the devil's stairway -lee (1964)
melo -resnais (1986) ♥♥
children of the revolution -o'sullivan (2010)
dangerous passage -berke (1944)
nope -peele (2022) liked it better than get out tbh
judex -feuillade (1916) ♥ feuillade is the GOAT
road to nowhere -hellman (2010)
knives out -johnson (2019) NO
thomas mao -zhu wen (2010) ♥
the world at war -multiple guys (1973) it's harrowing but i'll make it. 6 hrs to go

rw dans la ville blanche ♥♥, dirty ho ♥♥ a v good month

[Silga]

September 2022

All ratings out of 10

The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, 1960) 4
La vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960) 7
The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960) 8
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1960) 7
Classe Tous Risques (Claude Sautet, 1960) 8
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960) 8
Dead Man's Folly (Clive Donner, 1986) 5
The Whistle Blower (Simon Langton, 1986) 7
22 Bullets (Richard Berry, 2010) 6
The Losers (Sylvain White, 2010) 4
Wild Target (Jonathan Lynn, 2010) 7 (rewatch)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010) 9
Everything Must Go (Dan Rush, 2010) 6
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena, 2017) 8 (rewatch)
Eternals (Chloé Zhao, 2021) 4
Spencer (Pablo Larraín, 2021) 10 (rewatch)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts, 2021) 5
Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro, 2021) 9
Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022) 4

Best: Spencer, Winter's Bone, Nightmare Alley
Worst: The Losers, Eternals, Blonde

One of the best months in a while.

[flip]

i just haven't felt like watching movies for a couple of months, which is why i haven't been as active here recently, when i get through some real life preoccupations, things will return to normal. my slightly embarrassing slate of watches for september:

Young Adult (Jason Reitman, 2011) - 7/10
Big Business (Jim Abrahams, 1988) - 6/10
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Robert Butler, 1969) - 5/10
I Came By (Babak Anvari, 2022) - 4/10
Appointment at the Mill (Jan Krizenecky, 1898) - 4/10
I Used to Be Famous (Eddie Sternberg, 2022) - 3/10
Do Revenge (Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, 2022) - 2/10
Carnaval (Leandro Neri, 2021) - 1/10

[Joks Trois]

All scores out of 10. * = rewatches.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (no idea) - 4.5
Le Quattro Volte* (Frammartino) - 7
The Fog* (Carpenter) - 7.5
Cooley High (Schultz) - 6
Pickpocket* (Bresson) - 8.5
Prince of Darkness* (Carpenter) - 6.5
Malignant* (Wan) - 5.5
Raging Bull* (Scorsese) - 9
Escape From New York* (Carpenter) - 8
The Munsters (Zombie)- N/A
They Live* (Carpenter) - 7

[DT.]

Not watching as much these days.

- September / October -

Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2012)
Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, 2005)
The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)
In My Skin (Marina de Van, 2002)
Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961)
Basic (John McTiernan, 2003)
Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022)
Halloween (Rob Zombie, 2007)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook, 2022)
Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016)
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983)

TV:

Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 2) ♥
30 Rock (season 1)

[ofrene]

2022. 10

Disturbed Earth (Guillermo Carreras-Candi, Kumjana Novakova, 2021)
For Your Peace of Mind Make Your Own Museum (Ana Endara Mislov, Pilar Moreno, 2021)
Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann, 2022)
Until the Stones Speak (Kim Kyung-man, 2022)
Fanatic (Oh Se-yeon, 2021)
Furuyashiki : A Japanese Village (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1982) ♥
Magino Village : A Tale (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1987) ♥
Lady with the Dog (Iosif Kheifits, 1960)
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960) ♥
Viy (Georgiy Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov, 1967)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)
Don’t Torture a Duckling (Lucio Fulci, 1972)
Opera (Dario Argento, 1987)
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Leonardo Favio, 1975)
Devi (Satyajit Ray, 1960)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960) ♥
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930) ♥
Never Sleep Again (Pia Frankenberg, 1992)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan, 2022)
Macario (Roberto Gavaldon, 1960)
House of Usher (Roger Corman, 1960)
Good Deal (Cho Kyoung-Ho, 2021)
Revolution of Our Times (Kiwi Chow, 2021)
The Keep (Michael Mann, 1983)
The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980) ♥
Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1982)
The Exorcist 3 (William Peter Blatty, 1990)
The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957) ♥
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford, 1960)
Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960)
Wolf's Hole (Vera Chytilova, 1987)
The Good Nurse (Tobias Lindholm, 2022)
Black Adam (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2022)
The Stranger (Thamas M. Wright, 2022)
Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre, 2022)
Descendant (Margaret Brown, 2022)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960) ♥
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960) ♥
Hero of the Red Light District (Tomu Uchida, 1960)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) *rewatch
The Autopsy (David Prior, 2022)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)
The Viewing (Panos Cosmatos, 2022)
The Murmuring (Jennifer Kent, 2022)
Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick, 2022)
Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger, 2022)
Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1960)
All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen, 2022)
The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future (Francisca Alegría, 2022)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)

[Silga]

October 2022

All ratings out of 10

The Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941) 6
House of Usher (Roger Corman, 1960) 5
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, 1971) 9
The Night Stalker (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1972) 3
The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976) 8 (rewatch)
The Sentinel (Michael Winner, 1977) 6
Damien: Omen II (Don Taylor, 1978) 6 (rewatch)
The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979) 3
Prom Night (Paul Lynch, 1980) 5
Madman (Joe Giannone, 1981) 1
Alone in the Dark (Jack Sholder, 1982) 5
Children of the Corn (Fritz Kiersch, 1984) 6
Silver Bullet (Daniel Attias, 1985) 7
Killer Party (William Fruet, 1986) 6
The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987) 7
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (Tony Randel, 1988) 3
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (Rob Hedden, 1989) 3
Night of the Living Dead (Tom Savini, 1990) 4
Split Second (Tony Maylam, 1992) 6
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Adam Marcus, 1993) 3
The Craft (Andrew Fleming, 1996) 6
Spawn (Mark A.Z. Dippé, 1997) 2
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (Steve Miner, 1998) 4
Stir of Echoes (David Koepp, 1999) 6 (rewatch)
Thir13en Ghosts (Steve Beck, 2001) 4
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth, 2002) 4
Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt, 2003) 5
The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz, 2004) 6
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2005) 7
The Hills Have Eyes (Alexandre Aja, 2006) 6
Trick 'r Treat (Michael Dougherty, 2007) 8
The Strangers (Bryan Bertino, 2008) 3
Daybreakers (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, 2009) 5
Piranha 3D (Alexandre Aja, 2010) 5 (rewatch)
Oculus (Mike Flanagan, 2013) 5
The Blackcoat's Daughter (Oz Perkins, 2015) 7
Mom and Dad (Brian Taylor, 2017) 7
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019) 9 (rewatch)

Shorts:
A Grand Day Out (Nick Park, 1989) 7
A Close Shave (Nick Park, 1995) 7

TV:
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey - Episodes 4-8 (2014)

Best: Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Ad Astra, The Omen
Worst: Madman, Spawn, The Driller Killer

[flip]

actually watched quite a few films this month for the first time in a while.

long
Matilda (Danny DeVito, 1996) - 8/10
We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007) - 8/10
Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016) - 8/10
Bird Box (Susanne Bier, 2018) - 8/10
Remember (Atom Egoyan, 2015) - 8/10
The Yards (James Gray, 2000) - 7/10
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) - 7/10
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino, 2021) - 7/10
The Young Savages (John Frankenheimer, 1961) - 7/10
Run (Aneesh Chaganty, 2020) - 7/10
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) - 7/10
The Duke (Roger Michell, 2020) - 7/10
Masterminds (Jared Hess, 2016) - 7/10
The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979) - 6/10
The Ratings Game (Danny DeVito, 1984) - 6/10
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016) - 6/10
The Final Girls (Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2015) - 6/10
Prime Suspect (Noel Black, 1982) - 5/10
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Joel Schumacher, 1981) - 5/10
Inside the Mind of a Cat (Andy Mitchell, 2022) - 4/10
I Used to be Famous (Eddie Sternberg, 2022) - 4/10
Sleepers (Barry Levinson, 1996) - 3/10
Bigbug (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2022) - 3/10
22 July (Paul Greengrass, 2018) - 3/10
Double Take (George Gallo, 2001) - 2/10
Reckless Disregard (Harvey Hart, 1985) - 2/10
Created Equal (Bill Duke, 2017) - 1/10
Look Both Ways (Wanuri Kahiu, 2022) - 1/10

short
How a Mosquito Operates (Winsor McCay, 1912) - 7/10

[nrh]

kantara, rishab shetty 2022
ponniyan selvan 1, mani ratnam 2022
the munsters, rob zombie 2022
shin ultraman, shinji higuchi 2022
the funhouse, tobe hooper 1981
the mummy, terence fisher 1959
the empty man, david prior 2020
the vampire doll, michio yamamoto 1970
earwig, lucille hadzihalilovicz 2021

[rischka]

the bat (west 1926)
jigsaw (markle 1949)
the master spearman (uchida 1960)
schalcken the painter (megahey 1979)
nobody's calling (kutz 1960) ♥
romeo, juliet and darkness (weiss 1960)
love is a racket (wellman 1932)
heroes shed no tears (yuen 1980)
savage hunt of king stakh (rubinchik 1979) ♥
sergeant rutledge (ford 1960)
intimidation (kurahara 1960)
maclovia (fernandez 1948)
the white rose (karim 1933)
blood diner (kong 1987) ♥
office killer (sherman 1997) ♥
sorority house massacre (frank 1986)
medicine ball caravan (reichenbach 1971)
the other side of the underneath (arden 1972)
first spaceship on venus (maetzig 1960)
evening stream (naruse/kawashima 1960)
a husband's confession (abdel wahab 1965) ♥
american movie (smith 1999)
les bonnes femmes (chabrol 1960) ♥
demon seed (cammell 1977)
era notte a roma (rossellini 1960) ♥
the longest nite (to/yau 1998)
youth in fury (shinoda 1960)
der fan (schmidt 1982)
the being (kong 1983)
la loba y la paloma (suarez 1974)
il demonio (rondi 1963) ♥
bedevil (moffatt 1993)
threshold of the void (davy 1972) ♥
the shadow of the cat (gilling 1961)
el grito de la muerte (mendez 1959)

rewatch: near dark ♥ america as seen by a frenchman & the gauntlet (for some stupid reason)

that's more than 30 features! finally hitting a groove

[pabs]

Very little watched in August and September, but bouncing back to a better than average October.

August, September, October, 2022

[ofrene]

2022. 11

The Big Risk (Claude Sautet, 1960)
The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)
Purple Noon (Rene Clement, 1960)
Porto das Caixas (Paulo Cesar Saraceni, 1963) ♥
Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)
Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie, 2022)
Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) ♥
The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, 1952) ♥
The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, 1955)
Alcarras (Carla Simon, 2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)
My Father’s Dragon (Nora Twomey, 2022)
Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, 2022)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922) ♥
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933) ♥
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1960)
The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931)
Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) ♥
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973) ♥
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ♥
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) ♥
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
The Wonder (Sebastian Lelio, 2022)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, 2022)
Armageddon Time (James Gray, 2022)
Wall Engravings (Guy Gilles, 1968)
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta desert (Marguerite Duras, 1976) ♥
Dragnet Girl (Ozu Yasujiro, 1933) ♥
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) ♥
She Said (Maria Schrader, 2022)
Twilight (Gyorgy Feher, 1990) ♥

[Silga]

November 2022

A great month of film-noir discoveries!

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Man Hunt (Fritz Lang, 1941) 8
Manpower (Raoul Walsh, 1941) 6
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941) 8
Swamp Water (Jean Renoir, 1941) 4
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941) 7
Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941) 9
Sleepers West (Eugene Forde, 1941) 5
Dressed to Kill (Eugene Forde, 1941) 8
Out of the Fog (Anatole Litvak, 1941) 6
A Woman's Face (George Cukor, 1941) 7
Unholy Partners (Mervyn LeRoy, 1941) 7
Rage in Heaven (W.S. Van Dyke, 1941) 7
The Penalty (Harold S. Bucquet, 1941) 4
Strange Alibi (D. Ross Lederman, 1941) 5
Among the Living (Stuart Heisler, 1941) 7
I'll Wait for You (Robert B. Sinclair, 1941) 6
Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak, 1941) 10
Ladies in Retirement (Charles Vidor, 1941) 6
Dangerously They Live (Robert Florey, 1941) 6
Flight from Destiny (Vincent Sherman, 1941) 7
The Wagons Roll at Night (Ray Enright, 1941) 7
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, 1941) 8
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941) 8
I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941) 6
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956) 9
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) 10
Guncrazy (Tamra Davis, 1992) 4
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992) 9
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992) 8
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) 9
The Public Eye (Howard Franklin, 1992) 5
Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder, 1992) 3
Basic Instinct 2 (Michael Caton-Jones, 2006) 2
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) 9
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-Wook, 2022) 5

Best: Blues in the Night, The Silence of the Lambs, Light Sleeper
Worst: Basic Instinct 2, Swamp Water, Single White Female

[pabs]

November, 2022


Not much seen this month, but I've been watching a few series as well, including The Last Dance, about the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan in the 1990s. Wow, some amazing playing and riveting stories about the players and head to heads with other teams. Detroit Pistons were so violent!

Also been watching a weird Godard multi-part doco, France tour détour deux enfants (1977), where he interviews two kids aged about 9 years old and asks them all kinds of existential questions. A bit pretentious sometimes, so I don't know if I'll watch the whole 15 eps or whatever it is.

Also Andor, the latest Star Wars thing. A bit dull so far, hope it picks up.

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don't know if i watched anything this month anyone here would find interesting, tho i did end up watching two films apiece from fred olen ray and jonathan lynn, one of those by accident, so that was weird

Rob the Mob (Raymond de Felitta, 2014) - 7/10
The High Note (Nisha Ganatra, 2020) - 6/10
The Distinguished Gentleman (Jonathan Lynn, 1992) - 6/10
Trespass (Joel Schumacher, 2011) - 5/10
Wild Target (Jonathan Lynn, 2010) - 4/10
Newsies (Brett Sullivan, 2017) - 4/10
Vengeance: A Love Story (Johnny Martin, 2017) - 3/10
Falling for Christmas (Janeen Damian, 2022) - 3/10
Deep Space (Fred Olen Ray, 1988) - 2/10
211 (York Shackleton, 2018) - 2/10
My Sweet Holiday (Sandra Martin, 2020) - 1/10
Midnight at the Magnolia (Max McGuire, 2020) - 1/10
A Christmas Wedding Date (Fred Olen Ray, 2012) - 0/10

[rischka]

house of secrets (green 1956)
the fallen sparrow (wallace 1943)
arise my love (liesen 1940)
russia 1985-1999: traumazone (curtis 2022) this is 7 hrs long
mater dolorosa (gance 1917)
the king of paris (bauer/rakhmanova 1917)
também somos irmãos (burle 1949) ♥
dead birds (gardner 1963)
i hired a contract killer (aki 1990)
dossier 51 (deville 1978)
the man without a past (aki 2002)
tár (field 2022)
videograms of a revolution (farocki/ujica 1992) ♥♥
manolescu (tourjansky 1929)
the broad way (vaala 1931)
the callbird (hällström 1943)
bandits vs samurai squadron (gosha 1978)
the lost city of z (gray 2016)
spider-man: homecoming (watts 2017)
red cliff (woo 2008/9) this is 5 hours long
le chemineau (krauss 1917) ♥ thx sally for this ♥
murder without crime (thompson 1950)

a bunch of shorts and some rewatches: the dawn patrol, the last flight, mr arkadin and raavanan