SCFZ

Twenty Years Later (Eduardo Coutinho, 1984) ♥
Hercules (John Musker, Ron Clements, 1997)
The Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador (Léonce Perret, 1912)
The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal, 2000)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (Harold M. Shaw, 1912)
Summer Vacation 1999 (Shusuke Kaneko, 1988)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995)
The Hot Rock (Peter Yates, 1972)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch, 1927)
Aag (Raj Kapoor, 1948)
Numéro Deux (Jean-Luc Godard, 1975)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino, 1974)
Mozart in Love (Mark Rappaport, 1975)♥
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
Mary and the Witch's Flower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2017)
The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019)
Tempting Heart (Sylvia Chang, 1999)♥
Places in Cities (Angela Schanelec, 1998)
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, 1990)
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)♥
The High Sign (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, 1921)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)
Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
Escape at Dannemora ( 2018)
Salomé (Carmelo Bene, 1972)
Gnome Alone (Peter Lepeniotis, 2017)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (Mark Rappaport, 1997)
Bandits en automobile - Épisode 2: Hors-la-loi (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, 1912)
Orly (Angela Schanelec, 2010)
Glass (M. Night Shyamalan, 2019)
The Mills in Joy and Sorrow (Alfred Machin, 1912)
The Heart and the Money (Louis Feuillade, Léonce Perret, 1912)
The Beauties of Italy, Triptych of Picturesque Views (Piero Marelli, 1911)
Marseille (Angela Schanelec, 2004)♥
Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008)
Red Sparrow (Francis Lawrence, 2018)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast, 2018)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-Liang, 1984)♥
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan, 2018)

2019. 7

Amanda (Mikhael Hers, 2018)
Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho, 1953) ♥
The Whistler (William Castle, 1944)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle, 1944)
Spider-Man: Far from Home (Jon Watts, 2019)
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont, 2017)
The Fear (Kostas Manoussakis, 1966)
The Millennial Bee (Juraj Jakubisko, 1983)
Rangeela (Ram Gopal Varma, 1995)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
Toutes les nuits (Eugene Green, 2001) ♥
The Living World (Eugene Green, 2003)
Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018)
House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, 1955)
I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918)
Father Sergius (Alexandre Volkoff, Yakov Protazanov, 1918)
Hell Bent (John Ford, 1918)
The Dead Don't Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)
The King's Letters (Cho Chul-hyun, 2019)
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978) ♥
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan, 2018)
The Dream Lady (Elsie Jane Wilson, 1918)
The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjostrom, 1918) ♥
Tih Minh (Louis Feuillade, 1918) ♥
Le Pont des Arts (Eugene Green, 2004) ♥
Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue (Miki Dezaki, 2018)
Exit (Lee Sang-geun, 2019)

and watched 40+ shorts (under 40 minutes) and among them I like..

The Irresistible Piano (Alice Guy-blanche, 1907)
The Race for the Sausage (Alice Guy-blanche, 1907)
The Cameraman’s Revenge (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912)
The Land Beyond the Sunset (Harold M. Shaw, 1912)
The Massacre (D.W. Griffith, 1912)
The Mills in Joy and Sorrow (Alfred Machin, 1912)
A Dog's Life (Charlie Chaplin, 1918)
Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger, 1953)
Cry When It Happens (Laida Lertxundi, 2010)
The Room Called Heaven (Laida Lertxundi, 2012)

p rad that three of us watched and loved Point Break this month

They Live by Night (1948, Nicholas Ray) ♥♥♥

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, James Cameron) ♥♥
Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow) ♥♥

Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick) ♥
Une si jolie petite plage / Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949, Yves Allégret) ♥
Green Dream (1994, Josephine Massarella) ♥
Dow Rahehal Baraye yek Massaleh / Two Solutions for One Problem (1975, Abbas Kiarostami) ♥

Judex (1916, Louis Feuillade)
Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
It Happens Every Spring (1949, Lloyd Bacon)
I grandi magazzini / Department Store (1939, Mario Camerini)
Lilo & Stitch (2002, Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois) (rewatch)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart) (rewatch)
Bellezze italiche / The Beauties of Italy, Triptych of Picturesque Views (1911, Pietro Marelli)
Place of Work (1976, Margaret Tait)
The Metaphor (1980, King Vidor)

Killer’s Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick) (rewatch)
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019, Jon Watts)
Gubijinsô / The Poppy (1935, Kenji Mizoguchi) (rewatch)
One Woman Waiting (1985, Josephine Massarella)
Blue Black Permanent (1992, Margaret Tait)
Amama (2015, Asier Altuna)
Symphonie diaganale (1924, Viking Eggeling)
Devo: Mongoloid (1978, Bruce Conner)

A Spy in the House that Ruth Built (1990, Vanalyne Green)
Snake Feed (1997, Debra Granik)
Limitless (2011, Neil Burger) (rewatch) ↓

liquidnature wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 3:21 pm p rad that three of us watched and loved Point Break this month

Perfect summer movie. I also watched two other Bigelow movies this month, both perfectly adequate, both 10X more fun than her later celebrated crap.

kanafani wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 5:27 pm

liquidnature wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 3:21 pm p rad that three of us watched and loved Point Break this month

Perfect summer movie. I also watched two other Bigelow movies this month, both perfectly adequate, both 10X more fun than her later celebrated crap.

It really is. And interesting, I'll have to check those out.

July 2019

Mostly focused on Sidney Lumet for the upcoming Stats showdown.


Re-watch

At the cinema

How to Murder Your Wife (Richard Quine, 1965) 6/10
The Deadly Affair (Sidney Lumet, 1967) 7/10
You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert, 1967) 6/10
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969) 8/10
The Offence (Sidney Lumet, 1973) 7/10
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) 9/10
Just Tell Me What You Want (Sidney Lumet, 1980) 8/10
Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet, 1981) 9/10
Daniel (Sidney Lumet, 1983) 6/10
Garbo Talks (Sidney Lumet, 1984) 7/10
Rambo: First Blood Part II (George P. Cosmatos, 1985) 6/10
Rambo III (Peter MacDonald, 1988) 4/10
Street Fighter (Steven E. de Souza, 1994) 2/10
Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood, 1997) 6/10
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, 1997) 8/10
Critical Care (Sidney Lumet, 1997) 6/10
There’s Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly, 1998) 7/10
The Replicant (Ringo Lam, 2001) 3/10
Strip Search (Sidney Lumet, 2004) 6/10
Everything or Nothing (Stevan Riley, 2012) 5/10
Racing Extinction (Louie Psihoyos, 2015) 6/10
Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017) 8/10
Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018) 8/10
The State Secret (Donatas Ulvydas, 2019) 7/10
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Chad Stahelski, 2019) 8/10

TV:
Fargo (Season 1) 10/10
The Grand Tour (Season 2) 9/10

Shorts:
A Swiss Trick (John Foster & Vernon Stallings, 1931) 5/10
Rocketeers (John Foster & George Rufle, 1932) 6/10
Fresh Hare (Friz Freleng, 1942) 8/10
Falling Hare (Robert Clampett, 1943) 7/10

Best: Fargo (TV), Dog Day Afternoon, Prince of the City
Worst: Street Fighter, The Replicant

there's a canadian tv website that has a lot of free movies available (most of them not very good), so i decided to catch a lot of fairly well known films i wouldn't normally choose to watch. a few good surprises, and quite a few things that met my low expectations:

A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966) - 8/10
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan, 1983) - 8/10
D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson, 2004) - 8/10
Black Is (Aldo Tambellini, 1965) - 8/10
Ishtar (Elaine May, 1987) - 7/10
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993) - 7/10
Ali (Michael Mann, 2001) - 7/10
True Believer (Joseph Ruben, 1989) - 6/10
Bad Teacher (Jake Kasdan, 2011) - 6/10
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993) - 6/10
The Natural (Barry Levinson, 1984) - 5/10
Philomena (Stephen Frears, 2013) - 5/10
Late Night (Nisha Ganatra, 2019) - 4/10
Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer, 1998) - 3/10
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994) - 3/10
Awakenings (Penny Marshall, 1990) - 3/10
The Fan (Tony Scott, 1996) - 2/10
Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004) - 2/10
Bewitched (Nora Ephron, 2005) - 1/10
Fired Up! (Will Gluck, 2009) - 1/10

July, 2019



Not listed here are six films I rewatched, which is too many, I think. I should have watched at least a few never-befores in place of them.

Top 5 first time watches this month:
1. Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood (2019, Quentin Tarantino)
2. The Valley of the Bees (1968, František Vláčil)
3. Switchblade Sisters (1975, Jack Hill)
4. Ruins Rider (2017, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt)
5. Murder, My Sweet (1944, Edward Dmytryk)

Top 5 rewatches:
1. The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971, Stan Brakhage)
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
3. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
4. Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
5. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, Joseph Zito)

guru (mani ratnam)
a face in the crowd (elia kazan)
ok kanmani (mani ratnam)
chasing the dragon (wong jing / jason kwan)
mark of the vampire (tod browning)
nymphomaniac: vol. i (lars von trier)
nymphomaniac: vol. ii (lars von trier)
ip man (wilson yip)
ip man 2 (wilson yip)
ip man 3 (wilson yip)
i fidanzati (ermanno olmi)
crazed fruit (ko nakahira)
taboo (nagisa oshima)
tie wa (lo wei)
spirits of the dead (federico fellini / louis malle / roger vadim)
mary jane's not a virgin anymore (sarah jacobson)
mugamoodi (mysskin)
anima (paul thomas anderson)
prince charming (wong jing)
under the skin (jonathan glazer)
dragon tiger gate (wilson yip)
spring dreams (keisuke kinoshita)
the hurt locker (kathryn bigelow)
rampant (kim sung-hoon)
my golden days (arnaud desplechin)
the x from outer space (kazui nihonmatsu)
mac and me (stewart raffill)
get carter (mike hodges)
crossing delancey (joan micklin silver)
white zombie (victor halperin)

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0719 (XVII, lxi)

31 Stella Maris (Marshall Neilan, 1918) -- 2.5/4
29 Shooting Stars (Anthony Asquith/A.V. Bramble, 1928) -- 2/4
29 "27/71: On Peacock Isle" (Kurt Kren, 1971) -- 2.5/4
29 "40/81: Breakfast im Grauen" (Kurt Kren, 1981) -- 3/4
29 "Retour d'un repère" (Rose Lowder, 1979) -- 2/4
28 Call of the Wild: Howl, Buck (Kouzou Morishita, 1981) -- 2.5/4
28 Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004) -- 4/4
28 Ikarie XB 1 (Jindřich Polák, 1963) -- 3.5/4
27 The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker, 1993) -- 3/4
21 "Roulement, rouerie, aubage" (Rose Lowder, 1978) -- 0.5/4
21 "13/67: Sinus Beta" (Kurt Kren, 1967) -- 3/4
21 "The Consequences of Feminism" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906) -- 2/4
21 "The Dirigible 'Homeland'" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906) -- 2/4
21 "The Truth Behind the Ape-Man" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906) -- 3/4
21 "A Story Well Spun" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906) -- 3/4
21 "A Sticky Woman" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906) -- 2.5/4
21 "Ocean Studies" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906) -- 3.5/4
20 "18/68: Venecia kaputt" (Kurt Kren, 1968) -- 3.5/4
20 "4/61: Walls-Positive-Negative and Path" (Kurt Kren, 1961) -- 2/4
20 "The Kleptomaniac" (Edwin S. Porter, 1905) -- 2.5/4
20 "La Légende de Rip Van Winckle" (Georges Méliès, 1905) -- 2/4
20 "Spain" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1905) -- 2.5/4
20 "The Little Train Robbery" (Edwin S. Porter, 1905) -- 2.5/4
20 "An Adventurous Automobile Trip" (Georges Méliès, 1905) -- 2/4
20 "A Flirtatious Woman" (Jean-Luc Godard, 1955) -- 3/4
20 "Diary of a Pregnant Woman" (Agnès Varda, 1958) -- 2.5/4
19 "The Palace of the Arabian Nights" (Georges Méliès, 1905) -- 3/4
19 "Falling Leaves" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1912) -- 3/4
18 Tarzan of the Apes (Scott Sidney, 1918) -- 0.5/4
18 Shoulder Arms (Charles Chaplin, 1918) -- 2/4
17 "The Burglars" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1897) -- 3/4
17 "Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1900) -- 1.5/4
17 "The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1898) -- 2/4
17 "At the Floral Ball" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1900) -- 2/4
17 Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973) -- 2.5/4
17 "30/73: Coop Cinema Amsterdam" (Kurt Kren, 1973) -- 3/4
17 "20/68: Schatzi" (Kurt Kren, 1968) -- 2.5/4
16 She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 1986) -- 3/4
16 "10b/65: Silver – Action Brus" (Kurt Kren, 1965) -- 3.5/4
16 "Quiproquo" (Rose Lowder, 1992) -- 3.5/4
16 "Adebar" (Peter Kubelka, 1957) -- 3/4
16 "Danse serpentine" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1900) -- 0/4
16 "Danse fleur de lotus" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1897) -- 2.5/4
16 "Danse du papillon" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1900) -- 2/4
16 "Serpentine Dance by Lina Esbrard" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1902) -- 2/4
16 "Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1899) -- 2.5/4
15 "Impromptu" (Rose Lowder, 1989) -- 3/4
15 "44/85: Foot’-age Shoot’-out" (Kurt Kren, 1985) -- 2/4
15 "The Cook" (Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, 2018) -- 1.5/4
14 BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) -- 4/4
13 "Take a Chance" (Alfred J. Goulding, 1918) -- 1.5/4
13 "The Sinking of the Lusitania" (Winsor McCay, 1918) -- 2/4
13 "A Dog's Life" (Charles Chaplin, 1918) -- 3.5/4
13 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004) -- 3/4
13 "39/81: Which Way to CA?" (Kurt Kren, 1981) -- 2.5/4
13 "Les tournesols" (Rose Lowder, 1982) -- 3/4
07 "Porky in Wackyland" (Bob Clampett, 1938) -- 2.5/4
07 "Guernica" (Alain Resnais/Robert Hessens, 1951) -- 2/4
07 "The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk" (Mark Rappaport, 2015) -- 4/4
07 High Life (Claire Denis, 2018) -- 2.5/4
07 "Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus" (Georges Méliès, 1905) -- 3.5/4
07 "Grandma Despina" (Janaki Manaki/Milton Manaki, 1905) -- 2.5/4
07 "Desistfilm" (Stan Brakhage, 1954) -- 3/4
07 "Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1905) -- 2.5/4
07 "Clown, Dog and Balloon" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1905) -- 3/4
07 "Cook & Rilly’s Trained Rooster" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1905) -- 1.5/4
07 "The Magician’s Alms" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1905) -- 2.5/4
07 "Scotch Hop" (Christopher Maclaine, 1953) -- 3/4
07 "Ragtime Bear" (John Hubley, 1949) -- 3.5/4
07 "Plane Crazy" (Walt Disney/Ub Iwerks, 1928) -- 3/4
07 "The Capture of Roma" (Filoteo Alberini, 1905) -- 1.5/4
07 The Mysterious Magician (Alfred Vohrer, 1964) -- 2.5/4
06 "King of Dollars" (Segundo de Chomón, 1905) -- 2/4
06 "The Enchanted Sedan Chair" (Georges Méliès, 1905) -- 2.5/4
06 "The Scheming Gambler’s Paradise (Georges Méliès, 1905) -- 2.5/4
06 "The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog" (Edwin S. Porter, 1905) -- 2/4
06 I Was Nineteen (Konrad Wolf, 1968) -- 3/4
05 Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993) -- 4/4
01 Pattes blanches (Jean Grémillon, 1949) -- 3/4

I caught 49 films in July. Far less hectic than the last few months, but still a large number. It was also a month filled with great discoveries amidst lukewarm disappointments, and even caught two new (lesser) favourites.

There were 3 key trends this month:

- 40s (sadly poorly represented among my favourites)
- Early 2010s (Big titles I missed)
- Brazil (Sudden focus of the last week, and will likely carry-on into August)

The month started very poorly, with many miscellaneous films I had been meaning to see falling short. I even had to suffer through a tragically poor Masumura (Super Express). However, as I focused in on bigger titles, as well as a great cinema nation I have seen far too little from, I was set.

Top viewings:

9s
Paris vu par... (1965, Douchet, Marker, Pollet, Rohmer, Godard & Chabrol) (l) (l)
Tomboy (2011, Céline Sciamma) (l) (l)

8.5s
A Margem (1967, Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias)
Meteorango Kid: Herói Intergalático (1969, André Luiz Oliveira)
Le gamin au vélo / The Kid with a Bike (2011, The Dardenne Brothers)
Noite Vazia / Men and Women (1964, Walter Hugo Khouri)
Ala-Arriba! (1942, José Leitão de Barros)

8s
Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966, William Klein)
La proie pour l'ombre / Shadows of Adultery (1961, Alexandre Astruc)
Eles Não Usam Black-Tie / They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981, Leon Hirszman)
L'enfant (2005, The Dardenne Brothers)
O Homem do Pau-Brasil / The Brazilwood Man (1982, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
Toda Nudez Será Castigada / All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973, Arnaldo Jabor)
La venganza (1958, Juan Antonio Bardem)
O Rei da Noite / King of the Night (1975, Hector Babenco)
A Rainha Diaba / The Devil Queen (1974, Antonio Carlos da Fontoura)

* = rewatch. All scores out of 10

Do The Right Thing* (Lee) - 8
Tank Girl* (Talahay) - 4.5
Alphaville* (Godard) - 8
Red River* (Hawks) - 7.5
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (Herzog) - 6
Bubba Ho-Tep* (Coscarelli) - 7.5
Life Itself (no idea) - 5.5
Into The Inferno (Herzog) - 7
Salt and Fire (Herzog) - 4
Waterworld* (Reynolds/Costner) - 6
Night On Earth* (Jarmusch) - 7
King Cohen (no idea) - 5
Leviathan* (2012) - 7.5
The Hot Spot* (Hopper) - 5
Zama* (Martel) - 7
Lurking Fear* (who cares) - 4
Cutter's Way* (Passer) - 6.5
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Gilliam) - 4.5
Aladdin (2019) - 5
Don't Mess With The Zohan* (Coraci) - 6.5
That's My Boy* (no idea) - 5
Shazam (who cares) - 4.5
Monsieur Verdoux* (Chaplin) - 7.5
Sandy Wexler (who cares) - 4.5
Wagon Master* (Ford) - 7.5

Best: Do The Right Thing

Worst: Lurking Fear

the fool killer - gonzalez '65
undercurrent - minnelli '46
the cobweb - minnelli '55 ♥
dusty stacks of mom - mack '13 ♥
forest of the hanged - ciulei '65
samurai assassin - okamoto '65
subarnarheka - ghatak '65
house of bamboo - fuller '55 ♥
storm warning - heisler '51
the wild angels - corman '66
the debussy film - russell '65
baahubali: beginning - rajamouli '12
baahubali: conclusion - rajamouli '15
fort graveyard - okamoto '65 ♥
vinyl - warhol '65
torrid noon - heskiya '65
karla - zschoche '65
an innocent witch - gosho '65
dreaming film - pauwels '10 ♥



shorts including the lovely dvoe (two) and a lot of jodie mack rewatched borzage's mortal storm ♥♥

2019. 8

except short, rewatching

Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel, 1965)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
White Mountains (Melis Ubukeyev, 1965) ♥
Knife+Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)
Jamilia (Aminatou Echard, 2018)

Dusty Stacks of Mom : The Poster Project (Jodie Mack, 2013) ♥
Crossing the line (Pietro Marcello, 2007)
The Mouth of the Wolf (Pietro Marcello, 2009)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet, 1979) ♥
Adoption (Marta Meszaros, 1975) ♥

Thunder Road (Jim Cummings, 2018)
Winter ade (Helke Misselwitz, 1989)
The Seaside Village (Kim Soo-yong, 1965)
A Thousand Girls Like Me (Sahra Mani, 2018)
The House of Us (Yoon Ga-eun, 2019)

Andhadhun (Sriram Raghavan, 2018)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)
Yoyo (Pierre Etaix, 1965) ♥
The Last Stage (Wanda Jakubowska, 1948)
Skate Kitchen (Crystal Moselle, 2018)

Enjoyed:

Apart from You (Mikio Naruse, 1933)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933)
Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho, 1953)
Summer Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1958) 🌤
A Cold Wind in August (Alexander Singer, 1961) 🌬
Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)
What a Way to Go! (J. Lee Thompson, 1964)
The Debussy Film (Ken Russell, 1965)
The Party's Over (Guy Hamilton, 1965)
Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1970)
Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972)
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, 1973)
Simone Barbes or Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou, 1980)

Features only, in order of preference.

♥♥
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971, Monte Hellman)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

♥
Hai tan de yi tian / That Day, on the Beach (1983, Edward Yang)
Pilgrimage (1933, John Ford) (rewatch)
Other Men's Women (1931, William A. Wellman)
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923, Charles Chaplin)

good
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
Le château de verre / The Glass Castle (1950, René Clément)
The Major and the Minor (1942, Billy Wilder)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019, Chad Stahelski) (theatrical)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, Jonathan Mostow)
Koto no ha no niwa / The Garden of Words (2013, Makoto Shinkai)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, Alfred Hitchcock)

okayish
Dernier atout / The Trump Card (1942, Jacques Becker)
Air Force One (1997, Wolfgang Petersen)
Terminator Salvation (2009, McG)

not okay
Terminator Genisys (2015, Alan Taylor)
Traitor (2008, Jeffrey Nachmanoff)

August 2019

Re-watch

At the cinema

The Great Race (Blake Edwards, 1965) 4/10
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt, 1965) 9/10
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen, 1966) 4/10
Beware of the Car (Eldar Ryazanov, 1966) 9/10
The Wrecking Crew (Phil Karlson, 1968) 3/10
Diamonds Are Forever (Guy Hamilton, 1971) 6/10
Extreme Prejudice (Walter Hill, 1987) 6/10
Last Man Standing (Walter Hill, 1996) 5/10
Undisputed (Walter Hill, 2002) 4/10
Half Past Dead (Don Michael Paul, 2002) 2/10
Interstella 5555 (Daisuke Nishio, Hirotoshi Rissen, Kazuhisa Takenouchi & Leiji Matsumoto, 2003) 7/10
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, 2003) 7/10
Inside North Korea: Then & Now (Peter Yost, 2007) 7/10
Wild Target (Jonathan Lynn, 2010) 7/10
Marauders (Steven C. Miller, 2016) 5/10
Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer, 2017) 6/10
American Made (Doug Liman, 2017) 7/10
Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen, 2017) 6/10
American Assassin (Michael Cuesta, 2017) 4/10
Teen Spirit (Max Minghella, 2018) 6/10
A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen, 2019) 5/10
Escape Room (Adam Robitel, 2019) 4/10
A Score to Settle (Shawn Ku, 2019) 5/10
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) 10/10
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Michael Dougherty, 2019) 4/10

Shorts:
Vive le Tour (Louis Malle, 1962) 8/10
Cupid’s Shaft (Woody Allen, 1969) 7/10
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (Woody Allen, 1971) 7/10
La salute è malata (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1971) 6/10
Captain EO (Francis Ford Coppola, 1986) 3/10

Best: Beware of the Car, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Worst: Half Past Dead, The Wrecking Crew, Captain EO

won't have time to watch anything today, so:

The Garden of Stones (Parviz Kimiavi, 1976) - 9/10
Hajji Washington (Ali Hatami, 1982) - 8/10
Tranquility in the Presence of Others (Naser Taghvai, 1972) - 7/10
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, 1988) - 7/10
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981) - 7/10
Crazy Clown Time (David Lynch, 2012) - 6/10
Le Monde du Silence (Louis Malle/Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1956) - 6/10
Fear Town USA (Brandon Bassham, 2014) - 5/10
Idem Paris (David Lynch, 2013) - 4/10
One From the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1982) - 3/10
Actors Studio (Alireza Davoudnejad, 2013) - 3/10
Listen to Me (Douglas Day Stewart, 1989) - 0/10

Best of the month: August in the Water (Gakuryuu Ishii, 1995) - Would have selected it for the cup!
Worst of the month: Captain Marvel (Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, 2019)

Meeting a Milestone (Goutam Ghose, 1989)
As Ilhas Encantadas (Carlos Vilardebó, 1965)
Shazam! (David F. Sandberg, 2019)
The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan – Summer in Sanrizuka (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1968)
The Water Magician (Kenji Mizoguchi, Takumei Seiryo, 1933) ♥
The Garden (Frederick Wiseman, 2005)
The Endless (Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, 2017)
Blue Jeans (Jacques Rozier, 1958)
The Cruise (Marek Piwowski, 1970)
Captain Marvel (Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, 2019)
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez, 2019)
Moving (Shinji Sômai, 1993)
Bhoothakkannadi (A K Lohithadas, 1997)
SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang, 2015) ♥
Back to School (Jacques Rozier, 1956)
Street of Death (Karam Ghossein, 2017) ♥
Work (Souleymane Cissé, 1978) ♥
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004)
Curses (Jodie Mack, 2016)
Something Between Us (Jodie Mack, 2015)
Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack, 2013)
Far from Home (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1975) ♥
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
Central Park (Frederick Wiseman, 1990) ♥
The Private Eyes (Michael Hui, 1976)
Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey, 1966)
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack, 2013)
Main Theme (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1984) ♥
300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)
High Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
August in the Water (Gakuryuu Ishii, 1995)
Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018)
Jacques Rivette, le Veilleur (Claire Denis, Serge Daney, 1994) ♥
Workers, Peasants (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 2001)
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (Shinji Sômai, 1985)
Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, 1995)
Turumba (Kidlat Tahimik, 1981)
Fragile as the World (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2002) ♥
Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman, 2018)
Entranced Earth (Glauber Rocha, 1967)

Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh, 1942) ♥
Marriageable Girls (Janusz Kondratiuk, 1972)
Flashing Spikes (John Ford, 1962)

Didn't get around to watching many movies this month - just the final cup shorts and a rewatch of Walsh's Gentleman Jim, which remains essential to me as one of Walsh's unique character portraits.

@Kanafani
That's an amazing month! August in the Water, The Private Eyes, AND Main Theme!

arkheia wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:06 pm
@Kanafani
That's an amazing month! August in the Water, The Private Eyes, AND Main Theme!

Guess whose lists I've been peeking at on letterboxd

kanafani wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:09 pm

arkheia wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:06 pm
@Kanafani
That's an amazing month! August in the Water, The Private Eyes, AND Main Theme!

Guess whose lists I've been peeking at on letterboxd

Aww, I'm honored to have helped put you onto them.

I caught 50 films in September, but no new favorites in sight. Still found several great films however, including two recently subtitled Fabri films.

8.5/10
Maine Ocean (1986, Jacques Rozier)

8/10s
La vieille dame indigne / The Shameless Old Lady (1965, René Allio)
En man som heter Ove / A Man Called Ove (2015, Hannes Holm)
Shanhkayskiy dokument / The Shanghai Document (1928, Yakov Bliokh)
Utószezon / Late Season (1967, Zoltán Fábri)
Lucía (1968, Humberto Solas)
Padurea spânzuratilor / Forest of the Hanged (1965, Liviu Ciulei)
...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1970, José Antonio Sistiaga)
Poklad Ptacího ostrova / A Treasure on Bird Island (1952, Karel Zeman)
Salto (1965, Tadeusz Konwicki)
D'Est (1993, Chantal Akerman)
Fábián Bálint találkozása Istennel ( Balint Fabian Meets God (1980, Zoltán Fábri)
Vanoce s Alzbetou / Christmas with Elisabeth (1968, Karel Kachyna)
A Grande Cidade ou As Aventuras e Desventuras de Luzia e Seus 3 Amigos Chegados de Longe (1966, Carlos Diegues)

Top 5 first time watches this month:
1. Forty Guns (1957, Sam Fuller)
2. The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Five Fingers of Death (1972, Jeong Chang-hwa)
4. Hatari (1962, Howard Hawks)
5. Goltzius and the Pelican Company (Peter Greenaway, 2012)

Top 5 rewatches:
1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
2. Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)
3. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George Romero)
4. Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
5. Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0819 (VIII, vii)

28 Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966) -- 3/4
26 "Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?" (Miguel Arteta, 2005) -- 2.5/4
25 La belle captive (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1983) -- 4/4
13 Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujirô Ozu, 1947) -- 3/4
11 First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017) -- 3/4
11 Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) -- 2.5/4
10 The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2017) -- 3/4
09 "Railway Station" (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1980) -- 2.5/4
07 "50/96: Snapshots (For Bruce)" (Kurt Kren, 1996) -- 2.5/4
07 "43/84: 1984" (Kurt Kren, 1984) -- 2.5/4
07 "24/70: Western 1970" (Kurt Kren, 1970) -- 2.5/4
07 "23​/69: Underground Explosion" (Kurt Kren, 1969) -- 2.5/4
04 "5/62: People Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc." (Kurt Kren, 1962) -- 3/4
04 Flashing Spikes (John Ford, 1962) -- 3/4
03 Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) -- 4/4

arkheia wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:06 pm Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh, 1942) ♥
Marriageable Girls (Janusz Kondratiuk, 1972)
Flashing Spikes (John Ford, 1962)

Didn't get around to watching many movies this month - just the final cup shorts and a rewatch of Walsh's Gentleman Jim, which remains essential to me as one of Walsh's unique character portraits.

@Kanafani
That's an amazing month! August in the Water, The Private Eyes, AND Main Theme!

plus bhoothakannadi and meeting a milestone!!!!

August, 2019

paheli (amol palekar)
room on the broom (jan lachauer / max lang)
a home with a view (herman yau)
zero (aanand l. rai)
boiling point (takeshi kitano)
shark busters (herman yau)
outrage (takeshi kitano)
tokyo sonata (kiyoshi kurosawa)
the grandmaster (wong kar-wai)
a nos amours (maurice pialat)
the horse thief (tian zhaungzhuang)
cigarette burns (carp)
boiling point (james b. harris)
loulou (maurice pialat)
road to nowhere (monte hellman)
the age of the medici (roberto rossellini)
hangman's house (john ford)
everyone else (maren ade)
the whole shootin' match (eagle pennell)
the mouth agape (maurice pialat)
abraham's valley (manoel de oliveira)
graduate first (maurice pialat)
3 bad men (john ford)
dry summer (metin erksan)
a river called titas (ritwik ghatak)
wazir (bejoy nambiar)
mysteries of lisbon (raul ruiz)
accident (soi cheang)
death warrant (deran sarafian)