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July, 2020



* I forgot to add: Midsommar (Aster, 2019) 5.5

* ERROR: Wish You Were Here was directed by Leland, not Radclyffe


Second straight month without a single documentary in the mix. I'll get scurvy if I don't watch one soon!

in order of preference

Winchester '73 (1950, Anthony Mann) ♥
The Jericho Mile (1979, Michael Mann) ♥
The Patriot (2000, Roland Emmerich) 'merica
Max en convalescence / Max Is Convalescent (1911, Max Linder)
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952, Henry Koster)
Love Affair (1939, Leo McCarey)
Cabiria (1914, Giovanni Pastrone)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)
Wells Fargo (1937, Frank Lloyd)

kagero-za (seijun suzuki)
sweetie (jane campion)
jammin' the blues (gjon mili)
changing (hugh smith)
the man with a shotgun (seijun suzuki)
broken blossoms (d. w. griffith)
enemy (denis villeneuve)
bulbbul (anvita dutt guptan)
session 9 (brad anderson)
ashes of time (wong kar-wai)
savage streets (danny steinmann)
the stuff (larry cohen)
the toxic avenger (michael herz / lloyd kaufman)
the boy who came back (seijun suzuki)
kagemusha (akira kurosawa)
the toxic avenger part ii (michael herz / lloyd kaufman)
full moon scimitar (chor yuen)
hopscotch (ronald neame)
borderline (jerrold freedman)
bat without wings (chor yuen)
mr. deeds goes to town (frank capra)
khubsoorat (hrishikesh mukherjee)
the toxic avenger part iii: the last temptation of toxie (michael herz / lloyd kaufman)
once upon a time in china (tsui hark)
meet john doe (frank capra)
the last metro (francois truffaut)
borom sarret (ousmane sembene)
clan of the white lotus (lo lieh)
the swimmer (frank perry)
alibaba aur 40 chor (latif faiziyev / umesh mehra)
sicario: day of the soldado (stefano sollima)
bodyguard (richard fleischer)
heroes shed no tears (chor yuen)
black mama white mama (eddie romero)
across 110th street (barry shear)
the big doll house (jack hill)
battle of the sexes (jonathan dayton / valerie faris)
bedazzled (stanley donen)
the sentimental swordsman (chor yuen)
the super cops (gordon parks)

September 2020 (MOVIE MONTH) (31)

5/5

4.5/5

The Great Waldo Pepper (George Roy Hill, 1975)

4/5

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (David Zucker, 1988)

3.5/5

Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Serpent's Poison (František Vláčil, 1982)
The Town in White (František Vláčil, 1972)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005)
The Wise Little Hen (Wilfred Jackson, 1934)
Babes in the Woods (Burt Gillett, 1932)

3/5

Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)
The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson, 1935)
Albert (František Vláčil, 1985)
The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
Art Nouveau's Prague (František Vláčil, 1974)
Chase (František Vláčil, 1960)
Funny Farm (George Roy Hill, 1988)
Little Monsters (Abe Forsythe, 2019)

2.5/5

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (Werner Herzog, 1967)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Dean DeBlois, 2019)
Mág (František Vláčil, 1988)
Honey Boy (Alma Har’el, 2019)
Shades of Fern (František Vláčil, 1986)
Making Coco: The Grant Fuhr Story (Don Metz, 2018)

2/5

Hail Satan? (Penny Lane, 2019)
A Goofy Movie (Kevin Lima, Paul Brizzi, 1995)

1.5/5

Team Foxcatcher (Jon Greenhalgh, 2016)
Lord of War (Andrew Niccol, 2005)
Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, 1928)
Toys in the Attic (George Roy Hill, 1963)

1/5

Lonesome Ghosts (Burt Gillett, 1937)

0.5/5

The Mechanic (Simon West, 2011)

0/5

Holymanm wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:13 amPainted Faces (Alex Law, 1988)

yesssss! was really surprised at this one, and wasn't sure if anyone else here had seen it yet, but it's like the rosetta stone for everything hk kung fu

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0720 (VI)

22 Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, 1983) -- 1.5/4
21 Sign of Cancer (Juraj Herz, 1967) -- 2/4
06 Spanglish (James L. Brooks, 2004) -- 0/4
05 Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987) -- 2/4
03 Heaven Knows What (Joshua Safdie/Benny Safdie, 2014) -- 3/4
02 Summer's Tail (Cheng Wen-tang, 2007) -- 2.5/4

JULY Watches.
Mostly a deep dive into the year, 1960.

Hero of the Red Light District (1960) 83/100
The Flower Thief (1960) 66
Morgan, the Pirate (1961) 52
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) 97
Vyssí princip (1960) 86
Cage of Evil (1960) 59
Spring Dreams (1960) 77
Kyonetsu no kisetsu (1960) 84
Bell' Antonio (1960) 80
Purple Noon (1960) 85
Devi (1960) 87
Les Bonnes femmes (1960) 83
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) 85
Kapò (1959) 83
Aki tachinu (1960) 84
I dolci inganni (1960) 77
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1960) 54
Nise daigakusei (1960) 95
A Sense of Wonder (2008) 86
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 63
There's Something About Mary (1998) 46
Short Circuit (1986) 55
Weird Science (1985) 50
Without a Trace (1983) 65
The Cannonball Run (1981) 30
Jigoku (1960) 78
To Each His Life (1960) 66
David and Lisa (1962) 77
Subete Ga Kurutteru (1960) 82
The League of Gentlemen (1960) 79
Jûsangô taihi-sen ori: Sono gôshô o nerae (1960) 68
Kawaita mizuumi (1960) 68
Do widzenia, do jutra (1960) 76
Escape by Night (1960) 81
The Twilight Story (1960) 83
El cochecito (1960) 82
Neotpravlennoye pismo (1959) 79
Classe Tous Risques (1960) 84
Baishey Shravana (1960) 82
Nihon no yoru to kiri (1960) 74
Dog Star Man (1964) 68
Lipstick (1960) 73
The Lost Alibi (1960) 86
If the Wind Frightens You (1960) 78
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) 89
The Wretches (1960) 78
Return of the Vagabond (1960) 62
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960) 96
The Devil's Eye (1960) 83
The Lady with the Dog (1960) 86
Taiyo no hakaba (1960) 68
Moderato cantabile (1960) 78
Strangers When We Meet (1960) 90
Le Voyage en ballon (1960) 57
Resurrection (1960) 98
La lunga notte del '43 (1960) 87
Fuefukigawa (1960) 80
Zazie Rides The Metro (1960) 77
Jokyo (1960) 86
The Young One (1960) 73
Everybody Go Home (1960) 88
Adua and Her Friends (1960) 82
It's a Disaster (2012) 63

All ratings out of 10. * = rewatched

Bowfinger* (Oz) - 6
Metro* (no idea) - 5
The Professor and The Madman (no idea) - 5
Rising of The Moon (Ford) - 6.5
Zizek (no idea) - 5.5
Sweet and Lowdown* (Allen) - 5
Tales From The Hood 2 (Cundieff) - 3
Illegally Yours (Bogdanovich) - 4
1917 (Mendes) - 5.5
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (no idea) - 5.5
Capricorn One (Hyams) - 5.5
Breaker Morant* (Beresford) - 5.5
Me Myself and Irene* (Farrelly Bros) - 5
Crimson Tide* (Scott) - 7
Journey To Italy* (Rossellini) - 6.5
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad* (no idea) - 6.5
The Pawnbroker (Lumet) - 6
A Geisha (Mizoguchi) - 7.5
They Were Expendable* (Ford) - 7
The Offence (Lumet) - 6
Murders In The Rue Morgue* (Florey) - 6
Pinocchio (2019) - 6.5
The Black Cat* (Ulmer) - 7
Cold Fish (Sono) - 5.5
French Cancan* (Renoir) - 7
The Raven* (Landers) - 7
The Ape Man (Beaudine) - 4.5
Dracula* (Browning) - 7
Bill and Ted Face The Music (no idea) - 5
The Invisible Man (Whannel) - 4
Ed Wood* (Burton) - 8.5
Sansho The Baliff* (Mizoguchi) - 8
Frankenstein* (Whale) - 7.5

Still might watch something but I'm bored now so. Seen und enjoyed:

The Flying Train (1902)
Point of Order! (Emile de Antonio, 1964)
Translucent Appearances (Barry Gerson, 1975)
The Road to the Racetrack (Jang Sun-woo, 1991)
Vassourinha: The Voice and The Void (Carlos Adriano, 1998)
Chain (Jem Cohen, 2004)
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw (Kōji Wakamatsu, 2004)
The Sky Turns (Mercedes Álvarez, 2004)
Wolff Von Amerongen: Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences? (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl, 2004)
Sewer (Sherad Anthony Sanchez, 2008)
The Mouth of the Wolf (Pietro Marcello, 2009)
Conrad Veidt – My Life (Mark Rappaport, 2019)
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (Mark Rappaport, 2020)
Last Year in Dachau (Mark Rappaport, 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9CRJjd1u8

‘Zur Chronik von Grieshuus’ - von gerlach 1925
sanshiro sugata - kurosawa 1943
tropical malady - weerasethakul 2004 ♥♥
Der Apfel ist ab - käutner 1948
shaolin mantis - lau 1978
black widow - johnson 1954
dawn at socorro - sherman 1954
dood water - rutten 1934
mind game - yuasa 2004
be my wife - linder 1921
el cielo gira - alvarez 2004 ♥♥
‘Hat Wolff von Amerongen Konkursdelikte begangen?’ - friedl 2004
go go tales - ferarra 2007
'36 Quai des Orfèvres’ - marchal 2004
jhoom barabar jhoom - ali 2007 ♥
a portuguesa - azevedo gomes 2018 ♥♥
transit - petzold 2018 ♥♥
'Pájaros de verano’ - guerra/gallego 2018
cycling chronicles: lanscapes the boy saw - wakamatsu 2004 ♥
wait til the sun shines nellie - king 1952 ♥
36 hours - seaton 1964
coronation - ai weiwei 2020
triple agent - rohmer 2004
la belle equipe - duvivier 1936

rewatches

throw down - to 2004 ♥♥
alone in the wilderness - proenneke 2004 ♥
tenchu/hitokiri - gosha 1969 ♥♥
angel - lubitsch 1937 ♥♥

- August -

Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller, 1973)
Nomad (Patrick Tam and Terry Tong, 1982)
Britannia Hospital (Lindsay Anderson, 1982)
Prêt-à-Porter (Robert Altman, 1994)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
Sundays and Cybèle (Serge Bourguignon, 1962)
Avanti! (Billy Wilder, 1972)
Noises Off... (Peter Bogdanovich, 1992) ♥♥
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)
Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey, 1968)
Jallikattu (Lijo Jose Pellissery, 2019)
Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)
Bangkok Nites (Katsuya Tomita, 2016)
The Wildcat (Ernst Lubitsch, 1921)

2020. 8

Siberia (Abel Ferrara, 2020)
Voices in the Wind (Nobuhiro Suwa, 2020)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) ♥
The Case of Grinning Cat (Chris Marker, 2004)
Deliver Us from Evil (Hong Won-chan, 2020)
Ford v Ferrari (James Mangold, 2019) *rewatch
Special Actors (Shinichiro Ueda, 2019)
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi’nan, 2019)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004) ♥
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer, 2004)
Pansy and Ivy (Kye Un-kyoung, 2000)
Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (Wu Wenguang, 1990)
Okay Madam (Lee Cheol-ha, 2020)
Ten Months (Namkoong Sun, 2020)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo, 2002) ♥
Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, 2004)
On The Record (Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, 2020)
Love (between) Pickle (Park Sye-young, 2020)
Gull (Kim Mi-jo, 2020)
The Year of Discovery (Luis López Carrasco, 2020)
Tommaso (Abel Ferrara, 2019)
Days in a summer (Oh Jung-seok, 2019)
East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front (Kim Mi-rye, 2019)
Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça, Filho Juliano Dornelles, 2019)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)
Letters to Buriram (Oh Min-wook, 2019)
Acasa, My Home (Radu Ciorniciuc, 2020)
Walchensee Forever (Janna Ji Wonders, 2020)
The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004) ♥
Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004)
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa, 2004)
Fukuoka (Zhang Lu, 2019)
The Sky Turns (Mercedes Álvarez, 2004) ♥
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004)
Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2004)

Looks like I beat my July numbers: 80 films total, again managing a feature film every day except when I split La flor into a two-day marathon.

These are the biggest discoveries:

La flor (Mariano Llinás, 2016)
Invasión (Hugo Santiago, 1969)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
The New Testament (Sacha Guitry, 1936)

Finished the month with 8 Youssef Chahines, several of them quite fine especially the earlier ones, but nothing to top Cairo Station. If anyone wants to propose a Chahine poll I'm ready. Also watched 7 by Peter Hutton and 5 by Amit Dutta.

4.5/5
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
Jerichow (Christian Petzold, 2008) (rewatch)

4/5
Archipelago (Joanna Hogg, 2010)
The Mouth of the Wolf (Pietro Marcello, 2009)
Caprice (Emmanuel Mouret, 2015)
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
Une autre vie (Emmanuel Mouret, 2013)

3.5/5
Please, Please Me! (Emmanuel Mouret, 2009)
Venus & Fleur (Emmanuel Mouret, 2004)
The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, 1952)
The Invincibles (Dominik Graf, 1994)
Specter of the Rose (Ben Hecht, 1946)
One More River (James Whale, 1934)
Kuei-mei, a Woman (Chang Yi, 1985)
Ana and the Others (Celina Murga, 2003)
All the Fine Promises (Jean-Paul Civeyrac, 2003)
Just Walk Naked! (Emmanuel Mouret, 1999)
Will Geer - America's Grandpa (Mark Rappaport, 2018)
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (Mark Rappaport, 2020)

3/5
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) (rewatch)
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002) (rewatch)
Mint Julep (Kathy Fehl, Ian Teal, 2010)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai, 2011)
Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh, 2007)
The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol, 2004)
A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage, 1932)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach, 2017)
Jesse James (Henry King, 1939)

2.5/5
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To, 2014)
Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019)
Le Canapé rouge (Marie Rivière, 2005)

1.5/5
The House That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, 2018)

Did not finish
Narcissus and Psyche (Gábor Bódy, 1980)

No rating
Jumanji: The Next Level (Jake Kasdan, 2019)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson, 2008)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson, 2005)
The Last Dance (Jason Hehir, 2020)

August 2020

Rewatch


GoldenEye (Martin Campbell, 1995) 6/10
Broken Arrow (John Woo, 1996) 5/10
Fallen (Gregory Hoblit, 1998) 7/10
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002) 6/10
Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003) 9/10
Catwoman (Pitof, 2004) 1/10
Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004) 7/10
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004) 9/10
Silver City (John Sayles, 2004) 6/10
The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004) 8/10
Haven (Frank E. Flowers, 2004) 4/10
Spider Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004) 7/10
50 First Dates (Peter Segal, 2004) 6/10
Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) 9/10
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, 2004) 4/10
Highwaymen (Robert Harmon, 2004) 2/10
36th Precinct (Olivier Marchal, 2004) 7/10
Suspect Zero (E. Elias Merhige, 2004) 3/10
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2004) 7/10
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) 7/10
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004) 7/10
Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte, 2004) 6/10
The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar, 2004) 6/10
Aaltra (Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, 2004) 5/10
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004) 4/10
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004) 8/10
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller, 2004) 8/10
The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber, 2004) 5/10
Eros (Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai, 2004) 6/10
The Longest Yard (Peter Segal, 2005) 4/10
Shooter (Antoine Fuqua, 2007) 6/10
Spider Man 3 (Sam Raimi, 2007) 3/10
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 2007) 8/10
Body of Lies (Ridley Scott, 2008) 7/10
This Is 40 (Judd Apatow, 2012) 7/10
Colette l'insoumise (Cécile Denjean, 2017) 6/10
The Current War (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2017) 7/10
The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019) 9/10
Ava (Tate Taylor, 2020) 3/10
Hard Kill (Matt Eskandari, 2020) 1/10
Extraction (Sam Hargrave, 2020) 5/10

TV:
Homicide: Life on the Street (Season 1, 1993) 9/10
Homicide: Life on the Street (Season 2, 1994) 7/10

Shorts:
True (Tom Tykwer, 2004) 6/10
Cashback (Sean Ellis, 2004) 7/10
Call Register (Ed Roe, 2004) 6/10
Grayson (John Fiorella, 2004) 2/10
Consent (Jason Reitman, 2004) 5/10
Carlo (Michaël R. Roskam, 2004) 7/10
Agent Orange (Tony Scott, 2004) 3/10
Heinous Crime (Taika Waititi, 2004) 2/10
Six Shooter (Martin McDonagh, 2004) 5/10
Our Time Is Up (Rob Pearlstein, 2004) 6/10
Finding Kate (Katherine Brooks, 2004) 5/10
The Last Farm (Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2004) 8/10
Easily and Sweetly (Ignas Miskinis, 2004) 3/10
Everything Goes (Andrew Kotatko, 2004) 7/10
Two Cars, One Night (Taika Waititi, 2004) 7/10
Green Vinyl (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2004) 6/10
Scrapple (Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, 2004) 4/10

Best: Monster, Birth, Sideways
Worst: Catwoman, Hard Kill, Highwaymen

didn't watch much this month, but saw a few great things:

features:
Monologue (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1987) - 9/10
The Need (Alireza Davoudnejad, 1992) - 9/10
New York Confidential (Russell Rouse, 1955) - 8/10
Un Homme qui Dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1971) - 7/10
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, 1981) - 7/10
London Blackout Murders (George Sherman, 1943) - 7/10
Wyoming Outlaw (George Sherman, 1939) - 6/10
Dawn at Socorro (George Sherman, 1954) - 6/10
L'Homme qui Ment (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1968) - 6/10
Ferat Vampire (Juraj Herz, 1981) - 5/10
A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, 2003) - 4/10
Crazy Rook (Abolhassan Davoodi, 2015) - 3/10
X Marks the Spot (George Sherman, 1942) - 3/10

shorts:
Kiev Frescoes (Sergei Parajanov, 1966) - 8/10
Time and Tide (Peter Hutton, 2000) - 8/10
Boston Fire (Peter Hutton, 1979) - 7/10
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (Alexandre Promio, 1897) - 6/10

the boss didn't say good morning (jacques tourneur)
the face behind the mask (jacques tourneur)
killer constable (kwei chih-hung)
the ship that died (jacques tourneur)
the incredible stranger (jacques tourneur)
big wednesday (john milius)
le samourai (jean-pierre melville)
devi (satyajit ray)
knife in the water (roman polanski)
primary (robert drew)
casque d'or (jacques becker)
barabbas (richard fleischer)
insignificance (nicolas roeg)
oldboy (spike lee)
tokyo chorus (yasujiro ozu)

thoxans wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 2:07 am the boss didn't say good morning (jacques tourneur)

One of the all-time great titles!

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0820 (XXIV, ii)

29 Raven's End (Bo Widerberg, 1963) -- 3/4
29 Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948) -- 3/4
28 Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000) -- 3/4
27 Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950) -- 3/4
27 Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) -- 3.5/4
25 Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985) -- 3.5/4
25 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000) -- 3/4
24 Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001) -- 2.5/4
23 Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996) -- 4/4
23 Stepmom (Chris Columbus, 1998) -- 0/4
18 They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) -- 4/4
18 Field Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2015) -- 3.5/4
17 So Dark the Night (Joseph H. Lewis, 1946) -- 0.5/4
17 "Antonyms of Beauty" (Khalik Allah, 2013) -- 3/4
17 "Urban Rashomon" (Khalik Allah, 2013) -- 4/4
15 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) -- 3.5/4
15 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) -- 3/4
14 Absolute Giganten (Sebastian Schipper, 1999) -- 4/4
13 Black Angel (Roy William Neill, 1946) -- 1.5/4
12 The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) -- 2.5/4
07 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005) -- 3/4
07 Highball (Noah Baumbach, 1997) -- 2/4
06 A Day Off (Lee Man-hee, 1968) -- 3/4
06 Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) -- 4/4
02 Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019) -- 2/4
01 Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015) -- 2.5/4

August, 2020



* ty to kanafani for MARTIN EDEN.

- September -

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020) ♥
Black Sun (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1964)
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016)
The New Mutants (Josh Boone, 2020)
So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019)
Zoo zéro (Alain Fleischer, 1979)
Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
Kansas City (Robert Altman, 1996)
Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1971) ♥
Marius (Alexander Korda, 1931)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)

TV:

Atlanta (season 1)
Harley Quinn (season 1)

All scores out of 10. * = rewatch

Three On a Couch (Lewis) - 5.5
Who Killed Jam Master Jay? (who cares) - 4.5
Kingpin* (Farrelly Brothers) - 6
Husbands* (Cassavetes) - 8
White Zombie* (Halperin) - 7
The Mysterious Mr.Wong (who cares) - 4
Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events (who cares) - 5
Ace Ventura Pet Detective* (Shadyac) - 5.5
A Rainy Day in New York (Allen) - 4.5
Poem (Jissoji) - 7
Vitalina Varela* (Costa) - 8
The Immortal Story* (Welles) - 6.5
Bride of Frankenstein* (Whale) - 7
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure* (Herek) - 6
Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi) - 7
Murders In The Rue Morgue (alternate cut) - 6.5
Portrait of Madame Yuki (Mizoguchi) - 6.5
Shades of Fern (Vlacil) - 6.5
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey* (no idea) - 6.5
Dudley Do-Right* (Wilson) - 3
The Serpent's Poison (Vlacil) - 6
The Man Who Laughs (Leni) - 8
Waxworks (Leni) - 6.5

Best: Vitalina Varela/The Man Who Laughs

Worst: Dudley Do-Right

2020. 9

The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020)
It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman, 2013)
Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)
Howards End (James Ivory, 1992)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993) ♥
The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry, 1936) ♥
The Only Son (Yasujirō Ozu, 1936) ♥
The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir, 1936)
The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1991)
My Extraordinary Summer with Tess (Steven Wouterlood, 2019)
Maiden (Alex Holmes, 2018)
Fury (Fritz Lang, 1936) ♥
Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang, 1952)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)
The Wasteland (Ahmad Bahrami, 2020)
The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo, 2020)
Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
Conrad Veidt – My Life (Mark Rappaport, 2019)
Genus, Pan (Lav Diaz, 2020)
Days (Tsai Ming-liang, 2020) ♥
Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936) ♥
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)
Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)
Reiwa Uprising (Kazuo Hara, 2019)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019) ♥
Widows (Steve Mcqueen, 2018)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford, 1936)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936) ♥
Christine (John Carpenter, 1983)
Frownland (Ronald Bronstein, 2007)

~ mini-series ~
Top of the Lake : China Girl
The Little Drummer Girl

The Sweet Hereafter might be the best film I've seen this year. Magnificent work by Atom Egoyan. It also appears that author Russell Banks had two perfect adaptations of his work released in 1997, the other being Affliction, another film I absolutely adore.


September 2020

Kings of the Sun (J. Lee Thompson, 1963) 4/10
Murder at the Gallop (George Pollock, 1963) 6/10
The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, 1963) 7/10
Gunfight at Comanche Creek (Frank McDonald, 1963) 6/10
Fat City (John Huston, 1972) 9/10
North Sea Hijack (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1980) 5/10
Forced Vengeance (James Fargo, 1982) 1/10
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985) 7/10
Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) 6/10 (rewatch)
Seven (David Fincher, 1995) 9/10 (rewatch)
Drive (Steve Wang, 1997) 3/10
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997) 9/10
Traveller (Jack N. Green, 1997) 7/10
City of Industry (John Irvin, 1997) 4/10
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997) 7/10
The Big One (Michael Moore, 1997) 8/10
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997) 7/10
Beverly Hills Ninja (Dennis Dugan, 1997) 2/10
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997) 10/10
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (Kiefer Sutherland, 1997) 4/10
The Bone Collector (Phillip Noyce, 1999) 5/10 (rewatch)
Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki, 2005) 8/10
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (Robert Greenwald, 2006) 6/10
No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson, 2007) 8/10
Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore, 2009) 8/10
All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki, 2010) 4/10
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter, 2013) 4/10
Big Eyes (Tim Burton, 2014) 6/10
Live by Night (Ben Affleck, 2016) 4/10
Mile 22 (Peter Berg, 2018) 5/10
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018) 5/10
Night School (Malcolm D. Lee, 2018) 3/10
The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard, 2018) 6/10
Colewell (Tom Quinn, 2019) 7/10
Bombshell (Jay Roach, 2019) 6/10
Crown Vic (Joel Souza, 2019) 6/10
The Courier (Zackary Adler, 2019) 1/10
Georgetown (Christoph Waltz, 2019) 6/10
Guest Artist (Timothy Busfield, 2019) 4/10
Olympic Dreams (Jeremy Teicher, 2019) 5/10
Men in Black: International (F. Gary Gray, 2019) 4/10
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (Albert Shin, 2019) 6/10
Blow the Man Down (Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy, 2019) 7/10
The Tax Collector (David Ayer, 2020) 2/10
Spenser Confidential (Peter Berg, 2020) 5/10

Shorts:
Judith Hotel (Charlotte Le Bon, 2018) 7/10

Best: The Sweet Hereafter, The Ice Storm, Fat City
Worst: The Courier, Beverly Hills Ninja, The Tax Collector

made my whole list and logged out w/o posting grrrrr. k i'ma fix this now

amar jyoti (v shantaram 1936)
the legend of fong sai yuk (corey yuen 1993)
postal inspector (otto brower 1936)
la vie est à nous (french commies 1936)
das mädchen irene (reinhold schünzel 1936) ♥
club de femmes (jacques deval 1936)
ceiling zero (howard hawks 1936) ♥
mayerling (anatole litvak 1936) ♥
ramona (henry king 1936)
kaala (pa. ranjinth 2018) ♥
blood of the condor (jorge sanjinés 1969)
the lovers/butterfly lovers (hark tsui 1994)
i married a monster from outer space (gene fowler jr 1958)
secret agent (alfred hitchcock 1936)
gypsy melody (edmond t gréville 1936)
morning's tree-lined street (naruse mikio 1936)
the savages (tamara jenkins 2007)
craig's wife (dorothy arzner 1936) ♥
the new road: akemi & ryota (heinosuke gosho 1936)

no rewatches this month? i need to do something about that soon

Bloodshot and Serenity really sucked
Favorites get a

The Sentimental Swordsman (Chor Yuen, 1977)
Primrose Hill (Mikhaël Hers, 2007)
The Ship of Exile (Jocelyne Saab, 1982)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn, 2017) rewatch
Destinee (Mohamed Soueid, )
War Children (Jocelyne Saab, 1976)
Tout le monde a raison (Emmanuel Mouret, 2017)
Brightburn (David Yarovesky, 2019)
Change of Address (Emmanuel Mouret, 2006)
Amanda (Mikhaël Hers, 2018)
Lady J (Emmanuel Mouret, 2018)
The Eyes, the Mouth (Marco Bellocchio, 1982)
Serenity (Steven Knight, 2019)
The Vampires of Poverty (Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina, 1977)
The Shadow Box (Paul Newman, 1980)
Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936)
Sea Fever (Neasa Hardiman, 2019)
Thor (Kenneth Branagh, 2011) rewatch
One Second in Montreal (Michael Snow, 1969)
The Fatal Glass of Beer (Clyde Bruckman, 1933)
Bloodshot (Dave Wilson, 2020)
'Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing, 2013)
Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death (Arthur Jafa, 2016)
Ceiling Zero (Howard Hawks, 1936)
Greyhound (Aaron Schneider, 2020)
The Art of Love (Emmanuel Mouret, 2011)
Host (Rob Savage, 2020)
Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello, 2015)
The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 2020)
Black Panthers (Agnès Varda, 1968)
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007)

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0920 (XXV, xlvii)

29 "Eaux d’artifice" (Kenneth Anger, 1953) -- 3/4
29 "The Vacuum Cleaner" (Segundo de Chomón, 1908) -- 2/4
29 "Diabolical Pickpocket" (Segundo de Chomón, 1908) -- 2/4
29 "The Mischance of a Photographer" (Georges Méliès, 1908) -- 1/4
29 "Magic Bricks" (Segundo de Chomón, 1908) -- 2/4
29 "Excursion to the Moon" (Segundo de Chomón, 1908) -- 2/4
29 "In the Bogie Man’s Cave" (Georges Méliès, 1908) -- 2/4
29 "Remote Electric Photography" (Georges Méliès, 1908) -- 1.5/4
29 "The Inextinguishable Fire" (Harun Farocki, 1969) -- 2.5/4
29 "Valparaiso" (Joris Ivens, 1963) -- 3/4
29 "Castro Street" (Bruce Baillie, 1966) -- 2.5/4
29 "Invisible Ink" (Dave Fleischer, 1921) -- 3/4
29 "In the Darkness of Time" (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001) -- 3.5/4
29 "Three Little Pigs" (Burt Gillett, 1933) -- 2/4
29 "The Town in White" (Frantisek Vlácil, 1972) -- 3.5/4
28 Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, 2020) -- 3/4
27 Undine (Christian Petzold, 2020) -- 1.5/4
27 Summer of 85 (François Ozon, 2020) -- 2.5/4
27 "My Brother is Coming" (Michael Curtiz, 1919) -- 1.5/4
27 "The Wall" (Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac, 1960) -- 2/4
27 "The Focus" (Ivan Martinac, 1967) -- 3/4
27 "Jammin’ the Blues" (Gjon Mili, 1944) -- 2.5/4
27 "Black Film" (Želimir Žilnik, 1971) -- 2.5/4
27 "Lily and Jim" (Don Hertzfeldt, 1997) -- 3/4
26 Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980) -- 4/4
26 "Nightclub" (Jonathan Hodgson, 1983) -- 3/4
26 "The Man with the Beautiful Eyes" (Jonathan Hodgson, 1999) -- 3/4
26 "Train of Thought" (Jonathan Hodgson, 1985) -- 2.5/4
26 "Feeling My Way" (Jonathan Hodgson, 1997) -- 3.5/4
26 "Home Avenue" (Jennifer Montgomery, 1989) -- 4/4
25 Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer, 1965) -- 2/4
25 "Rocky VI" (Aki Kaurismäki, 1986) -- 2/4
24 "His First Cigar" (Louis J. Gasnier, 1908) -- 3/4
24 "Rescued from an Eagle's Nest" (J. Searle Dawley/Edwin S. Porter, 1908) -- 2/4
24 "The Adventures of Dollie" (Billy Bitzer/D. W. Griffith, 1908) -- 1.5/4
24 "The Thieving Hand" (J. Stuart Blackton, 1908) -- 1.5/4
24 "The Frog" (Segundo de Chomón, 1908) -- 3.5/4
24 "The Runaway Horse" (Louis J. Gasnier, 1908) -- 2.5/4
24 "The Dog and His Various Merits" (unknown, 1908) -- 2.5/4
24 "The Puppet's Nightmare" (Émile Cohl, 1908) -- 2.5/4
24 "A Fantasy" (Émile Cohl, 1908) -- 2/4
24 "A Very Fine Lady" (Louis Feuillade/Romeo Bosetti, 1908) -- 2.5/4
24 Homesick (Anne Sewitsky, 2015) -- 3/4
23 "Hand Held Day" (Gary Beydler, 1975) -- 2/4
23 "Glen Falls Sequence" (Douglass Crockwell, 1946) -- 3/4
23 "Ars colonia" (Raya Martin, 2011) -- 2/4
23 "Comingled Containers" (Stan Brakhage, 1997) -- 3.5/4
23 "The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon" (Georges Méliès, 1907) -- 3/4
23 "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (Georges Méliès, 1907) -- 2.5/4
23 "Tunneling the English Channel" (Georges Méliès, 1907) -- 1.5/4
23 "The 'Teddy' Bears" (Wallace McCutcheon/Edwin S. Porter, 1907) -- 4/4
23 "Ben Hur" (Sidney Olcott/Frank Oakes Rose, 1907) -- 1.5/4
23 Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras, 1969) -- 2.5/4
23 "L’homme atlantique" (Marguerite Duras, 1981) -- 3.5/4
22 The Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1961) -- 3.5/4
22 A Wife’s Heart (Mikio Naruse, 1956) -- 3.5/4
22 X-Paroni (Spede Pasanen/Jaakko Pakkasvirta/Risto Jarva, 1964) -- 3.5/4
18 You and Me (Fritz Lang, 1938) -- 1.5/4
18 I Hired a Contract Killer (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990) -- 3/4
18 Kisses (Yasuzō Masumura, 1957) -- 3/4
18 Colors (Dennis Hopper, 1988) -- 2.5/4
17 The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon, 1973) -- 3/4
16 Room 666 (Wim Wenders, 1982) -- 2.5/4
16 Such a Pretty Little Beach (Yves Allégret, 1949) -- 4/4
16 ‎Toute une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982) -- 3/4
15 Railroaded! (Anthony Mann, 1947) -- 2/4
15 Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969) -- 2.5/4
14 ‎Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018) -- 4/4
13 Where Are Now the Dreams of Youth? (Yasujirō Ozu, 1932) -- 2/4
13 ‎The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning, 1936) -- 3/4
13 ‎The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley (Frantisek Vlácil, 1983) -- 3/4

I saw 62 first time viewings and 2 rewatches in September.

This was also the month I saw my 10,000th film, which is a goal I have been eyeing for a long time. Celebrated with Tilaï. A very good choice.

Rewatches:
Exterminating Angel - 9.5 --> 10
The Music Room - 7 --> 8

First Time Viewings:

9s
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese)
8.5s
Obyknovennyy fashizm / Ordinary Fascism (1965, Mikhail Romm)
8s
Tilaï / The Law (1990, Idrissa Ouedraogo)
Gospodin oformitel / Mister Designer (1987, Oleg Teptsov)
Komunaris chibukhi / The Communard's Pipe (1929, Kote Mardjanishvili)
Raiva / Rage (2018, Sérgio Tréfaut)
Be My Wife (1921, Max Linder)
J'accuse (2019, Roman Polanski)
Ilinskiy o Mayakovskom / Mayakovsky Laughs (1973, Sergei Yutkevich, Anatoliy Karanovich)
99 Francs (2007, Jan Kounen)
Assa (1988, Sergey Solovev)
Never Let Go (1960, John Guillermin)

didn't see much this month

Ratz (Thom Eberhardt, 2000) - 8/10
La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995) - 8/10
Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) - 7/10
I Was a Teenage Faust (Thom Eberhardt, 2002) - 7/10
Naked Fear (Thom Eberhardt, 2007) - 7/10
Half-Cocked (Suki Hawley, 1994) - 6/10
Face Down (Thom Eberhardt, 1997) - 6/10
Thomas the Impostor (Georges Franju, 1965) - 5/10
La Chamade (Alain Cavalier, 1968) - 4/10

... tick... tick... tick... (ralph nelson)
climax (gaspar noe)
...and god created woman (roger vadim)
hercules, samson & ulysses (pietro francisci)
forgotten silver (peter jackson)
look (adam rifkin)
the joneses (derrick borte)
waiting women (ingmar bergman)
mouna ragam (mani ratnam)
armored car robbery (richard fleischer)
the man in the barn (jacques tourneur)
lola montes (max ophuls)
nayakan (mani ratnam)
the bridge on the river kwai (david lean)
ash is purest white (jia zhang-ke)
vigilante force (george armitage)
the hidden fortress (akira kurosawa)
high life (claire denis)
mikey and nicky (elaine may)