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Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:12 pm**

joaquim pinto's e agora? lembra-me (2013). pinto was sound guy on a bunch of ruiz and monteiro's films. this is a sort of documentary memoir, about friends, family, art and his life with HIV, concentrating on one year exploring various experimental treatments. it's nearly 3 hours long, i'll be with this one for awhile. much more my thing than the spell to ward off darkness i think. which speaking of, new banner courtesy patrick

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:35 pm**

i'm watching the strange colour of your body's tears for the 2013 poll. i don't know why, i don't like horror or gore. i'm in no place to assess it as i'm sure i'm missing a ton of references, especially with the sound off and my stomach still in knots. it was a mistake to decide to watch it really.

and for someone who makes one post a month, that's a hell of a lot of effort to go to. thanks patrick. do we even have a banner option though?

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 10:32 am**

A DVD of Terence Davies' trilogy of short films arrived and I'll be watching that bad boy soon.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 10:46 am**

Just finished Manthan, a Shyam Benegal film from the 70's about Milk Cooperatives in the boonies of Gujurat--animosities due to caste, politics, gender, etc.
Pretty good, not really new terrain even in the 70's, but Smita Patil is formidable.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 10:51 am**

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WESTERN (Grisebach, 2017).

It's a study on a person's process of acclimatization to foreigners and strangers, and to unfamiliar surroundings, beautifully filmed and acted. 7/10

20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mills, 2016)

Adolescent boy brought up by three women, including his mother. I particularly enjoyed the scene where the son, reading from an analytical feminist book, explains to his mother who she is, how she feels, and why, and she basically tells him to fuck off. It's a fun film, mostly, and quite thoughtful. 7/10

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Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 2:14 pm**

will try to write a little bit more about these when i have some time but have been enjoying the early christian petzold films i've seen at the ongoing lincoln center retro, so far only pilots and the state i am in. will be going to see cuba libre tonight, if work doesn't end up destroying my plans.

and roscoe if i remember correctly that trilogy is pretty impressive...

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:28 pm**

carp's elvis

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:56 pm**

nrh wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 2:14 pm will try to write a little bit more about these when i have some time but have been enjoying the early christian petzold films i've seen at the ongoing lincoln center retro, so far only pilots and the state i am in. will be going to see cuba libre tonight, if work doesn't end up destroying my plans.

I watched a bunch of petzolds recently. Favorite early one is the Sex Thief.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 10:13 pm**

well, i finally watched the zeki's nausea:

and had quite enough of the manbaby so i then watched borzage's back pay and saw our old mubi friend robert regan listed in the credits at the end for making the restoration possible. good on you bob! (with this new place we're going round in circles and coming home!)

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:59 am**

I just watched Home from Home for the 2013 poll (despite not watching the third Heimat series first). Luckily it turns out you can watch it without even having seen the first one - it takes place a century before the rest of them. It'd probably resonate more if you've at least seen Heimat 1, but I'd recommend it to anybody (and it's only 4 hours long, so way less of a time investment than the rest).

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:26 am**

Hey, I'm a bit confused, I thought rischka's topic was about what stuff we're GONNA/PLANNING TO watch? Didn't mean to step on her toes.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:08 am**

Robert did love his Borzages, so well done on helping make more of them available to see in top condition.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:55 am**

White Heart, Daniel Barnett (Barnett just released new masters of his work on Vimeo.) Pretty absorbing, recommendable stuff, as far as experimental cinema goes. Was it Stan Brakhage who said that if in a classical film, whatever that means, before the first frame, the film has X options of what direction to move in, then those options are reduced by half by the end of the first scene? I find that comment both remarkably ignorant and untrue.

It seems to me that the experimental genre is the most internally homogenous of all, its aesthetics the most easy to predict.

But this film is quite enjoyable.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:44 pm**

how dare you pabs

(JK it's fine)

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:32 pm**

ban him. BAN HIM!

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:51 pm**

thoxans wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:32 pmban him. BAN HIM!

You might notice I'm on a big horse, but what you didn't notice is that I've also got a big bullwhip on me with which to whup yur ass.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:24 pm**

late to the party on Minnelli, but watched Meet Me in St. Louis for the first time and it was oh so delightful

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:35 pm**

You Were Never Really Here. (Ramsay 2017)

Joaquin Phoenix is a treasure and they nailed the ending.

Spoilers

That final scene where they both didn''t know where they wanted to go was so apt. Because seriously where could you go from there?

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:49 pm**

ARRRRGH if i can't have pirates i will watch a high wind in jamaica. it's been sufficiently long since i read the book, which was amazing, thanks people here who convinced me to do so first

what would i do without my fam

i'm a captain in the colombian navy

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:42 pm**

what's the emoji for when the best thing you've seen all day are the grotesquely deformed pecs of reg park? (it's not been a good day, movie-wise)

we should all have pirates. someone make the first list on here, and make it about pirates. it would be apt for all sorts of reasons. i can't right now, i have to go sail away on the sea of dreams for an early start tomorrow.............

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 12:33 am**

Roma leave me cold. Technically impressive(understand why so many people says it's for theater, not home), some shots are incredible and that sound of wave at the end is worthy of price, but that's it. It only feels artificial to me, not coming deeply.

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 12:43 am**

Forty40 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:35 pmSpoilers

The crossed out eye to the right of the font size dropdown menu gives you spoiler tags!

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:35 am**

i vote we merge the last film you saw thread with the what are you watching thread and that jointly we call it the what film you watch thread

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:02 am**

thoxans wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:35 ami vote we merge the last film you saw thread with the what are you watching thread

might make things simpler. i think on the old board, there was one thread for recent/current watching

unless rischka or pabs object, i will merge them?

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:06 am**

go for it

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:21 am**

Bitter Rice (1949) - Sexy neorealism is the best neorealism (see Ossessione also).

The Brown Bunny (2003) - Bold, sublime stuff. I was a fool for letting it's bad rep put me off it for so long. I can't get that Come Wander With Me song out of my head now.

The Last Movie (1971) - Yeah, there's no getting away from it, a complete trainwreck of a film. Not without it's merits though.

I'm pretty sure I read some Jodorowsky trashing on the old forum recently...:

Hopper asked Jodorowsky, among many others, to see a cut of the movie. The Chilean director, known for cult surrealist classics "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain," did and gave Hopper a harsh criticism.

Legend has it that after watching "The Last Movie," Jodorowsky told Hopper that he had failed and only made a conventional Hollywood movie. This motivated Hopper to destroy that cut of the movie and completely redo it with a more experimental eye.

But Jodorowsky told Business Insider that isn't the whole story. He didn't just give advice to Hopper — he got involved in the cutting, too.

"With the help of an assistant, I sat in font of an editing machine and in two days edited the entire movie," Jodorowsky said. "What was left was a magnificent version."

Hopper didn't settle on Jodorowsky's version. He continued to tinker with the edit, which is what Schiller and Carson found themselves walking into when they began filming Hopper for "The American Dreamer."

"I have great regard for Jodorowsky," Schiller said. "Don't get me wrong, he does incredible experimental films, but I think that f---ed around with Dennis' head. He felt all of a sudden here's somebody I respect and he's telling me I got to do it entirely different. I think that's what destroyed the film."

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Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:22 am**

Perfik.

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:42 am**

what film you watch woulda been a better thread title but it's still good to know the power i wield is immense

carp's elvis is amazing btw. i think joks used to say that only carp fans harp on it as a great pic, and that it's really not all that great in reality, and while i'm obvs a carp uberfan, i'm still genuinely impressed with the pic overall. there's some really great shot-making all throughout it for one thing, but more than the technical goods (it's carp, so obvs), there's also this specter of elvis as ELVIS that hangs over every moment in the film, as in we know this guy is ELVIS, and yet he's just elvis for the most part, and that dynamic totally works, especially if the film is (at least partly) about how an individual becomes an ICON. and the way the film moves from scene to scene in broad strokes is so perfect within the confines of made-for-tv filmmaking, working with the conventions of that particular medium, and making it something more... this is some top five carp fo sho (re-poll!)

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:02 am**

I think it's important that the verb be in the past tense.

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:20 pm**

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L'inconnu du lac (Giraudie) was a bit confronting, with all those cocks in my face and gay male sex, even closeups of fully erect penises at times. It was a glimpse into a world I knew existed (gay beats) but I had no real conception of before. The story gradually builds a great sense of tension and foreboding, without which it would have only amounted to a cheap porno. I was satisfied by how well handled and thrilling it turned out to be. Some good acting too by the entire cast. I give it between a good 6 and a solid, rigid 7/10.

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