Top 10 Films First Seen During 2013 [Archive]

Ivan Drago

01-07-2013, 05:19 AM

B-side

01-07-2013, 06:44 AM

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)

Kurious Jorge v3.1

01-07-2013, 07:32 AM

1. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
2. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Anderson/1975) 81
3. "Junkopia" (Chris Marker/1981) 79
4. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles/1942) 78
5. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen/1997) 77
6. "Study of a River" (Peter Hutton/1997) 76
7. "Running Around Like a Chicken..." (Les Blank/1960) 76
8. Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz/2006) 74
9. Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes/1993) 73
10. "The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins" (Les Blank/1970) 72

B-side

01-07-2013, 07:41 AM

Ferrara's the best, man.

baby doll

01-07-2013, 08:19 AM

The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
L'innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976)
White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1982)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

Rowland

01-07-2013, 08:48 AM

1. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
2. "Running Around Like a Chicken..." (Les Blank/1960) 76
3. Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz/2006) 74
4. Charleen (Ross McElwee/1980) 72
5. "Cigarette Blues" (Les Blank/1985) 72
6. Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker/1967) 70
7. Looper (Rian Johnson/2012) 65
8. Backyard (Ross McElwee/1984) 63
9. Meanwhile (Hal Hartley/2011) 59
10. Raising Arizona (Coen Bros./1987) 55This is one eclectic list of viewings for only a week into the new year. Dance Party USA is pretty good stuff, I like it more in retrospect than Katz's following features, Quiet City and Cold Weather.

Kurious Jorge v3.1

01-07-2013, 09:40 AM

This is one eclectic list of viewings for only a week into the new year. Dance Party USA is pretty good stuff, I like it more in retrospect than Katz's following features, Quiet City and Cold Weather.

:lol: I am moving to South Korea in a month to teach english...so january = no job + 3-4 films a day. I have already watched 18 films in this young year (a handful of them were some Les Blank shorts)

I definitely need to see some more Katz. I held a bias against his work without seeing it simply because of of how many times mumblecorish indie has offended my sensibilities. The only mumbecore film I would call great is Mutual Appreciation. I loathe Lena Dunham.

Ferrara's the best, man.

I dont know about the best, but he owned the early to mid 90's, and Ms. 45 is a masterpiece as well. 4:44 Last Day on Earth was a bore though.

Winston*

01-07-2013, 09:43 AM

1. This Is Not A Film
2. Senna
3. Faust (Svankmajer)
4. Wreck It Ralph
5. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

B-side

01-07-2013, 12:54 PM

4:44 Last Day on Earth was a bore though.

Bah!

SirNewt

01-08-2013, 10:32 PM

1 Sleepwalk with Me
2 Street Thief
3 Freakonomics

All I got, so far.

Dukefrukem

01-08-2013, 11:06 PM

1. John Dies At the End

Dead & Messed Up

01-09-2013, 02:07 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

SirNewt

01-09-2013, 02:23 AM

5. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

Whoa. For reals?

Winston*

01-09-2013, 03:16 AM

Whoa. For reals?

It's pretty bad.

Melville

01-09-2013, 11:29 AM

Great movies I've seen so far:

Fat City
The Master
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Splendour in the Grass

Dukefrukem

01-09-2013, 12:03 PM

It's pretty bad.

:rolleyes:

Winston*

01-09-2013, 11:29 PM

:rolleyes:

Why the rolled eyes? It's hardly a controversial opinion. Spielberg doesn't even like the film.

SirNewt

01-10-2013, 04:23 AM

Why the rolled eyes? It's hardly a controversial opinion. Spielberg doesn't even like the film.

I really liked it the last time I saw it (8 years ago).

I was just more surprised that someone who's been on match-cut as long as you have hadn't seen it before.

SirNewt

01-10-2013, 04:27 AM

1 Sleepwalk with Me
2 Martha Marcy May Marlene
3 Street Thief
4 Freakonomics
5 Waiting for Guffman

baby doll

01-10-2013, 05:19 AM

I was just more surprised that someone who's been on match-cut as long as you have hadn't seen it before.I haven't seen it at all, but then I've never been a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

SirNewt

01-10-2013, 06:29 AM

I haven't seen it at all, but then I've never been a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Makes sense, most people say it's inferior. For me, Spielberg was such a staple of my childhood that had I not sat down and watched the movie through, I likely would have seen it's combined footage between commercials on network television and out of the corners of my eyes at friends' houses.

Winston*

01-10-2013, 06:54 AM

I really liked it the last time I saw it (8 years ago).

I was just more surprised that someone who's been on match-cut as long as you have hadn't seen it before.

I wasn't sure if I'd seen it as a kid or not until I watched it the other night.

Scar

01-11-2013, 12:26 AM

1) Dredd (2012)

Scar

01-11-2013, 12:32 AM

I find Temple of Doom to be passable entertainment. Ranks third in the Indy movies. Certainly liked it more as a kid, but still enjoyable.

Hell, when I walked into the Ossuary at Sedlec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_ossuary), the chanting from Temple of Doom kicked in in my head and I started giggling.

Dead & Messed Up

01-11-2013, 06:27 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Kurious Jorge v3.1

01-11-2013, 07:42 AM

1. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
2. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Anderson/1975) 81
3. "Junkopia" (Chris Marker/1981) 79
4. American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese/1978) 78
5. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles/1942) 78
6. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen/1997) 77
7. "Study of a River" (Peter Hutton/1997) 76
8. "Running Around Like a Chicken..." (Les Blank/1960) 76
9. Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz/2006) 74
10. "Dottie Gets Spanked" (Todd Haynes/1993) 73

I have watched 47 (feature and short-length) films in the first 10 days of 2013 :pritch:

Yxklyx

01-13-2013, 08:10 AM

1. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)

elixir

01-13-2013, 03:23 PM

1. Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
2. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)
3. Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz, 2004)
4. Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
5. Le départ (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1967)
6. A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996)
7. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
8. Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
9. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1983)
10. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie, 1971)

Scar

01-14-2013, 01:39 AM

1) Dredd (2012)
2) Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Spun Lepton

01-14-2013, 03:38 AM

1. John Dies at the End -- 7/10
2. Iron Sky -- 5/10
3. The Lorax -- 3/10

dreamdead

01-14-2013, 03:42 AM

1. Paju - 9
2. Headshot - 7.5
3. Zero Dark Thirty -7.5
4. Dark Days -7
5. Kill List - 6.5
6. Invisible Waves - 6.5
7. Paranorman - 6.5
8. Blow Out - 6.5
9. Tears of the Black Tiger - 6.5
10. Django Unchained - 6

Silver Linings Playbook - 6
The Raid: Redemption - 5.5
Dial M for Murder - 5
Super - 5

Dead & Messed Up

01-14-2013, 05:10 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Weeping_Guitar

01-15-2013, 02:13 AM

01. Looper (Johnson, 2012)
02. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
03. Ladybug Ladybug (Perry, 1963)
04. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Swift, 1967)
05. Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968)

Kurious Jorge v3.1

01-15-2013, 08:52 AM

03. Ladybug Ladybug (Perry, 1963)

YES. Third best Frank Perry (after The Swimmer and Doc)

Kurious Jorge v3.1

01-15-2013, 09:01 AM

1. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
2. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
3. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
4. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
5. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
6. Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
7. "Here I Am" (Bruce Baillie/1962) 82
8. Eadwerd Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Anderson/1975) 81
9. "Coming Attractions" (Peter Tscherkassky/2010) 80
10. "Junkopia" (Chris Marker/1981) 79
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese/1978) 79

Boner M

01-15-2013, 10:40 AM

I haven't seen a first-time-viewing older film I've loved (ie ***1/2 or above) in the last several months. I should amend this.

Rowland

01-15-2013, 12:53 PM

What I've liked so far, the first two being a great start for the year in terms of discovering older films:

1. Detour (Ulmer, 1945)
2. The Boxer's Omen (Kuei, 1983)
3. Alps (Lanthimos, 2012)
4. The Deep Blue Sea (Davies, 2012)
5. Turn Me On, Goddammit! (Jacobsen, 2012)
6. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
7. This is 40 (Apatow, 2012)
8. A Burning Hot Summer (Garrel, 2012)

SirNewt

01-15-2013, 04:15 PM

1 Sleepwalk with Me
2 Martha Marcy May Marlene
3 Raising Arizona
4 Street Thief
5 Freakonomics
6 Waiting for Guffman
7 Revenge of the Electric Car

ContinentalOp

01-15-2013, 09:06 PM

1. Everything Will Be Ok- *** 1/2
2. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
3. Larry Crowne- ***
4. Dredd- ** 1/2

Dead & Messed Up

01-15-2013, 09:13 PM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

megladon8

01-15-2013, 10:05 PM

Yeah I actually much preferred Sanjuro to Yojimbo (though the latter is still fantastic).

The final stare-down and duel is one of my all-time favorite movie moments.

Dead & Messed Up

01-15-2013, 10:10 PM

Yeah I actually much preferred Sanjuro to Yojimbo (though the latter is still fantastic).

The final stare-down and duel is one of my all-time favorite movie moments.

Yeah, that last moment was great. Nothing...nothing...nothing... wait...and I'm on the edge of my seat the whole time. And it's exciting, but it's also tragic. I wasn't prepared for how funny it is. So many times when Mifune all but looks at the camera and says, "Can you believe these idiots?"

SirNewt

01-16-2013, 02:28 AM

Yeah, that last moment was great. Nothing...nothing...nothing... wait...and I'm on the edge of my seat the whole time. And it's exciting, but it's also tragic. I wasn't prepared for how funny it is. So many times when Mifune all but looks at the camera and says, "Can you believe these idiots?"

BTW, from the looks of things you're already having a great year.

B-side

01-16-2013, 02:42 AM

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
3. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
4. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

Dead & Messed Up

01-16-2013, 02:58 AM

BTW, from the looks of things you're already having a great year.

Yeah, trying to branch out and watch more foreign/classic movies. I'll be watching Umberto D. tonight.

transmogrifier

01-16-2013, 01:55 PM

1. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
2. Hugo (2011) - 69
3. Argo (2012) - 68
4. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
5. The Killer Elite (1975) - 68
6. The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
7. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61
8. Django Unchained (2012) - 58
9. Dredd (2012) - 58
10. The Thieves (2012) - 57

Unbowed (2012) - 55
Helpless (2012) - 54
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29

SirNewt

01-16-2013, 07:44 PM

4. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68

Oh good. I've been feeling guilty for being lukewarm on this for a while now.

transmogrifier

01-16-2013, 11:10 PM

Oh good. I've been feeling guilty for being lukewarm on this for a while now.

I'm a little bit leery of films that put their themes so bluntly into the mouths of their characters ("I believe in what I own. I love money. I hate death."/"You'll die like everyone else"). Doesn't do much for me.

Visually, it's great, and it has an emotional wallop even as it kind of keeps you at an emotional distance most of the time (and least, for me anyway).

Winston*

01-23-2013, 12:24 AM

Narrative

Sansho the Bailiff
The Master
The Lady From Shanghai
Life of Pi
Paranorman
Faust
House of the Devil
Wreck It Ralph
The Dictator
Les Miserables
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Documentary

This is Not a Film
Senna
The Secret Glory
Trumbo
In the Shadow of the Moon
Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

transmogrifier

01-23-2013, 12:47 AM

1. Paranorman (2012) - 77
2. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
3. Hugo (2011) - 69
4. Argo (2012) - 68
5. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
6. The Killer Elite (1975) - 68
7. Happy End (1999) - 67
8. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) - 66
9. The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
10. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61

Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) - 59
Django Unchained (2012) - 58
Dredd (2012) - 58
The Thieves (2012) - 57
Unbowed (2012) - 55
Helpless (2012) - 54
The Furies (1950) - 53
The Impossible (2012) - 45
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29

Scar

01-23-2013, 01:11 AM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Dredd (2012)
3) Hotel Transylvania (2012)

SirNewt

01-23-2013, 01:17 AM

1 Reservoir Dogs
2 Sleepwalk with Me
3 Martha Marcy May Marlene
4 Raising Arizona
5 Street Thief
6 The Grey
7 Freakonomics
8 Waiting for Guffman
9 Revenge of the Electric Car

B-side

01-23-2013, 04:13 AM

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
3. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
4. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
3. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
4. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
5. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

TripZone

01-23-2013, 04:44 AM

documentaries can have narrative and most often do

/pedantry

1. Die Nibelungen
2. Kamome Diner
3. Executive Suite

Winston*

01-23-2013, 05:17 AM

documentaries can have narrative and most often do

/pedantry

1. Die Nibelungen
2. Kamome Diner
3. Executive Suite
Happy to be suggested a better classifying term.

Boner M

01-23-2013, 05:20 AM

Which Faust, Winston*?

Boner M

01-23-2013, 05:22 AM

Ignoring stuff below ***:

1. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
2. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
3. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)
4. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
5. Girl Walk // All Day (Krupnick, 2012)

Winston*

01-23-2013, 05:35 AM

Which Faust, Winston*?

Jan Svankmajer's. Admired the metatextual aspect, can't think of many mythic films that so overtly deal with the cultural history of their stories, and the noise the puppet Mephistopholes makes is the best thing ever but I can't deny finding the film a bit of a trial at times. There's nothing as nothing as Alice's constant fourth wall breaking, but Svankmajer's tendency towards repetition of an effect still tried my patience.

Want to seee Little Otik at some point this year.

Boner M

01-23-2013, 06:07 AM

Jan Svankmajer's. Admired the metatextual aspect, can't think of many mythic films that so overtly deal with the cultural history of their stories, and the noise the puppet Mephistopholes makes is the best thing ever but I can't deny finding the film a bit of a trial at times. There's nothing as nothing as Alice's constant fourth wall breaking, but Svankmajer's tendency towards repetition of an effect still tried my patience.

Want to seee Little Otik at some point this year.
Completely agree; Little Otik is the only feature-length Svankmajer that hasn't been trying for me, so check that out.

MadMan

01-23-2013, 08:29 AM

1. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Yum-Yum

01-23-2013, 11:46 AM

Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
Candy Snatchers, The (Guerdon Trueblood, 1973)
Cosmopolitan Girls, The (Roger Watkins, 1981)
Criminal Lovers (François Ozon, 1999)
Demoniacs, The (Jean Rollin, 1974)
Girl from Rio, The (Jess Franco, 1969)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin, 1975)
Run and Kill (Billy Tang, 1993)
Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Kim Henkel, 1994)

Melville

01-23-2013, 04:32 PM

I'm up to 40 some movies on the year. Here's everything I've thought was great:

Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
Fat City (Huston)
The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg)
The Master (Anderson)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
Snowtown (Kurzel)
The Heiress (Wyler)
Odd Man Out (Reed)

Splendour in the Grass (Kazan)
The Killers (Siodmak)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone)

Dead & Messed Up

01-24-2013, 04:53 AM

The hot streak continues!

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Stay Puft

01-24-2013, 07:02 AM

Let's get this rolling. Just a top five for now until I see more I feel strongly enough about.

1. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksey German, 1986)
2. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
4. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
5. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)

B-side

01-24-2013, 08:10 AM

B-side

01-24-2013, 08:12 AM

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
3. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
4. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
5. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
3. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
4. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
5. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
6. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

Melville

01-24-2013, 11:36 AM

Bookmarked the Hathaway. Hadn't even heard of it until now. How'd it get on your radar?
Being in the mood for an old-timey fantasy in the vein of Portrait of Jennie and The Devil and Daniel Webster, I searched 'fantasy' in the They Shoot Pictures list on iCheckMovies. Those old-timey fantasies are magical. Or maybe it's just those three movies; I also watched The Ghost and Mrs. Muir recently and loathed it.

B-side

01-24-2013, 12:32 PM

Being in the mood for an old-timey fantasy in the vein of Portrait of Jennie and The Devil and Daniel Webster, I searched 'fantasy' in the They Shoot Pictures list on iCheckMovies. Those old-timey fantasies are magical. Or maybe it's just those three movies; I also watched The Ghost and Mrs. Muir recently and loathed it.

Ah. I haven't seen any of those! Should probably get on it, huh? At least the first 3, right? :P

Boner M

01-24-2013, 12:56 PM

Peter Ibbetson is great; discovered it from Adrian Martin's Sight & Sound top 10 from '02. Those old-timey transcendental-love-themed movies that Melville mentions are also notable for being championed by Andre Breton back in their day, and had a major influence on the surrealists of yore.

B-side

01-24-2013, 01:07 PM

Yxklyx

01-24-2013, 04:42 PM

Yeah I really like Peter Ibbetson as well - and I'm no fan of Cooper. One of the top films from 1935. I'd say it was influenced by some of the surrealist films of the late 20s.

Melville

01-24-2013, 06:23 PM

Ah. I haven't seen any of those! Should probably get on it, huh? At least the first 3, right? :P
Yeah, all three are great. As Boner and Yxklyx mentioned, they have a somewhat surreal style. Like in a fairy tale, magical things happen without exposition dwelling on them or pointing at them; but unlike most fairy tales, the movies feel deeply inside their magical atmosphere, following paths perpendicular to reality as if they're the perfectly natural routes.

Stay away from The Ghost and Mrs Muir unless you like corny seamen...which actually makes it sound better than it is. It's not really similar to the others; it's bad jokes and a mundane tone in place of the others' romantic surrealism.

Yxklyx

01-24-2013, 09:04 PM

Melville

01-24-2013, 09:24 PM

Comparing Petter Ibbetson to Portrait of Jennie is very apt though. I think there are a few British Gothic Romances from this period that are similar but not quite - there's one I saw which has Christopher Lee in his first role for instance.
Corridor of Mirrors? Looks promising. I'd be interested in seeing other movies of the same sort. Even things further afield like the Val Lewton horror movies have a bit of the same magical romantic atmosphere (though more overtly Romantic in that case).

B-side

01-24-2013, 10:54 PM

Yeah, all three are great. As Boner and Yxklyx mentioned, they have a somewhat surreal style. Like in a fairy tale, magical things happen without exposition dwelling on them or pointing at them; but unlike most fairy tales, the movies feel deeply inside their magical atmosphere, following paths perpendicular to reality as if they're the perfectly natural routes.

Stay away from The Ghost and Mrs Muir unless you like corny seamen...which actually makes it sound better than it is. It's not really similar to the others; it's bad jokes and a mundane tone in place of the others' romantic surrealism.

Sounds good.

MadMan

01-26-2013, 07:46 AM

1. Lost In Translation (2003), Netflix Instant Viewing
2. Valhalla Rising (2010), Netflix Instant Viewing
3. Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Netflix Instant Viewing

For ratings see here: http://madman731.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/movie-log/

ContinentalOp

01-26-2013, 06:22 PM

1. Everything Will Be Ok- *** 1/2
2. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
3. Ruby Sparks- *** 1/2
4. Highway Patrolman- ***
5. Fat City- ***
6. Larry Crowne- ***
7. Dredd- ** 1/2
8. Lawless- **

Melville

01-27-2013, 11:12 AM

I love me some noir.

Criss Cross (Siodmak)
Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
Fat City (Huston)
The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg)
The Master (Anderson)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
Moonrise (Borzage)
Snowtown (Kurzel)

Runners up:

The Heiress (Wyler)
Odd Man Out (Reed)
Splendour in the Grass (Kazan)
The Killers (Siodmak)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone)

Other good noirs I've watched recently: Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

B-side

01-27-2013, 11:55 AM

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
3. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
4. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
5. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
6. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
3. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
4. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
5. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
6. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
7. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
8. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
9. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

Spun Lepton

01-27-2013, 06:07 PM

Are people including films they've already seen?

1. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli; 2013) 7/10
2. ParaNorman (Chris Butler, Sam Fell; 2012) 6/10
3. Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola; 2012) 5/10
4. The Lorax (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda; 2012) 3/10

MadMan

01-27-2013, 08:48 PM

Only first time viewings for me. I haven't logged second or multiple time viewed films in years.

kopello

01-28-2013, 12:20 AM

1. Tea and Sympathy (Minnelli, 1956)
2. Sexy Beast (Glazer, 2001)
3. Drums Along the Mohawk (Ford, 1939)
4. The Color Wheel (Perry, 2011)
5. Student (Omirbayev, 2012)
6. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
7. Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012)
8. Dredd (Travis, 2012)

Dead & Messed Up

01-28-2013, 06:13 AM

B-side

01-28-2013, 08:13 AM

Are people including films they've already seen?

I don't.

Yxklyx

01-29-2013, 01:26 AM

Are people including films they've already seen?

...

The thread is called

"Top 10 Films First Seen During 2013"

not

"Top 10 Films Seen During 2013"

transmogrifier

01-29-2013, 01:57 AM

Are people including films they've already seen?

I'm just listing random movies, I don't know about anyone else.

kuehnepips

01-29-2013, 06:28 PM

1. Allen's Midnight in Paris - I'm serious.

baby doll

01-30-2013, 04:11 AM

American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932)
Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
Cuadecuc, vampir (Pere Portabella, 1971)
L'innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
Douches froides (Antony Cordier, 2005)Here's where it stands at the end of January.

Irish

01-30-2013, 04:15 AM

Here's where it stands at the end of January.

BTW, I read with some interest your review of Woo's "A Better Tomorrow." I'm a little disappointed you didn't seem to dig it, and that it failed to capture your imagination.

Do you feel similarly about other HK action movies from this era, or was it just this one?

B-side

01-30-2013, 04:33 AM

Nice to see someone else digging Capra's American Madness. Woefully underseen.

baby doll

01-30-2013, 05:10 AM

BTW, I read with some interest your review of Woo's "A Better Tomorrow." I'm a little disappointed you didn't seem to dig it, and that it failed to capture your imagination.

Do you feel similarly about other HK action movies from this era, or was it just this one?I'm not especially well versed in Hong Kong cinema so I don't want to make any generalizations, but this one struck me as pretty silly.

baby doll

01-30-2013, 05:19 AM

Nice to see someone else digging Capra's American Madness. Woefully underseen.It's too bad Hollywood movies today aren't seventy-five minutes long. Then again, even Capra started making longer movies once he had access to more money (and therefore longer shooting schedules).

Dead & Messed Up

01-30-2013, 06:37 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)

Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Irish

01-30-2013, 06:47 AM

I'm not especially well versed in Hong Kong cinema so I don't want to make any generalizations, but this one struck me as pretty silly.

You need to see more Hong Kong films then, and write about them. :D

(And don't you live in China now?)

baby doll

01-30-2013, 07:16 AM

You need to see more Hong Kong films then, and write about them. :D

(And don't you live in China now?)I do live in China, and it's painful to me that Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmasters is playing all over town and I can't see it because I can't speak Cantonese and/or read Chinese characters.

Irish

01-30-2013, 07:19 AM

I do live in China, and it's painful to me that Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmasters is playing all over town and I can't see it because I can't speak Cantonese and/or read Chinese characters.

Ahhhh yeah. That would flat out suck.

This'll sound imperialistic (because it is, haha) -- but I miss the Hong Kong industry that existed before 1997. The law said every movie made there had to have English subtitles, and so they did.

Stateside this meant I could walk into any theater in Chinatown and watch a movie fresh from HK, or rent something from a back-alley videostore without worry (frequently before these movies were "officially" released by US distributors).

Nowadays, not so much. You don't get the automatic (and occasionally hilarious) English subtitles with every new release.

Scar

01-30-2013, 01:51 PM

BTW, I read with some interest your review of Woo's "A Better Tomorrow." I'm a little disappointed you didn't seem to dig it, and that it failed to capture your imagination.

Do you feel similarly about other HK action movies from this era, or was it just this one?

The last twenty minutes or so of A Better Tomorrow II are shear awesome-sauce.

Irish

01-30-2013, 08:18 PM

The last twenty minutes or so of A Better Tomorrow II are shear awesome-sauce.

:D Hell yes. Also: Last thirty minutes of "Hard Boiled." Pretty much everything Woo did during this period was gold.

B-side

01-31-2013, 08:59 AM

It's too bad Hollywood movies today aren't seventy-five minutes long. Then again, even Capra started making longer movies once he had access to more money (and therefore longer shooting schedules).

I think I get what you're saying; that there was an economy of formal aptitude to it that tends to be lacking in the more bloated Hollywood dramas of recent, which I can't muster up the energy to disagree with.

Russ

02-01-2013, 03:56 AM

1. Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
2. La belle équipe (Julien Duvivier, 1936)
3. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
4. It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda, 1958)
5. Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011)
6. Bibliothèque Pascal (Szabolcs Hajdu, 2010)
7. Crossroads (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1928)
8. House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009)
9. Das Eskimobaby (Heinz Schall, 1918)
10. Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, 2011)

SirNewt

02-01-2013, 04:08 AM

Floating Weeds is an amazing looking movie. Definitely my favorite Ozu.

MadMan

02-01-2013, 08:07 AM

1. Lost In Translation (2003), Netflix Instant Viewing
2. Valhalla Rising (2010), Netflix Instant Viewing
3. Violent Cop (1989)-Netflix DVD
4. Night Train To Munich (1940)-Netflix Instant Viewing
5. Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Netflix Instant Viewing

For ratings see here: http://madman731.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/movie-log/

I think I'm still burned out from last October. Maybe that will change in February.

transmogrifier

02-01-2013, 01:47 PM

1. The Rapture (1991) - 76
2. Paranorman (2012) - 75
3. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
4. Mind Game (2004) - 73
5. Hugo (2011) - 69
6. Argo (2012) - 68
7. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
8. The Killer Elite (1975) - 68
9. Happy End (1999) - 67
10. Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) - 66

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) - 66
The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
Cure (1997) - 63
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) - 59
Django Unchained (2012) - 58
Dredd (2012) - 58
The Thieves (2012) - 57
Unbowed (2012) - 55
Lincoln (2012) - 54
Helpless (2012) - 54
The Furies (1950) - 53
Uzumaki (2000) - 50
The Impossible (2012) - 45
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - 42
All About My Wife (2012) - 39
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29

elixir

02-02-2013, 01:07 AM

1. Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
2. Audrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Ross, 2010)
3. Eighteen (Jang Kun-jae, 2009)
4. Primrose Hill (Mikhaël Hers, 2007)
5. Je t'aime moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976)
6. The Yards (James Gray, 2000)
7. Girl Walk // All Day (James Krupnick, 2011)
8. Hamilton (Matthew Porterfield, 2006)
9. Les corps ouverts (Sébastien Lifshitz, 1998)
10. Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
.

B-side

02-02-2013, 05:21 AM

How do you decide which titles get translated and which don't?:lol:

Kurious Jorge v3.1

02-02-2013, 07:05 AM

1. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
2. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
3. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
4. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
5. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
6. Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
7. My Girlfriend's Wedding (Jim McBride/USA/1969) 83
8. Paradies: Liebe (Ulrich Seidl/AUSTRIA/2012) 83
9. "Here I Am" (Bruce Baillie/1962) 82
10. Eadwerd Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Anderson/1975) 81

B-side

02-02-2013, 07:34 AM

1. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
2. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
3. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
4. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
5. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
6. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
7. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
8. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
9. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
2. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
3. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
4. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
5. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
6. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
7. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
8. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
9. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
10. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

elixir

02-02-2013, 08:54 AM

How do you decide which titles get translated and which don't?:lol:
For the most part, I just put what seems to be the most commonly used title (for English-language speakers). Usually what's listed on imdb.

Dead & Messed Up

02-02-2013, 09:10 AM

The Rapture (1991) - 76

Nifty. I support this.

B-side

02-02-2013, 12:11 PM

For the most part, I just put what seems to be the most commonly used title (for English-language speakers). Usually what's listed on imdb.

Gets a little tougher with more obscure releases since they don't have proper international English-language releases. I generally go for what's listed as the "International" title on IMDb, even if it doesn't show up in the heading.

elixir

02-02-2013, 12:28 PM

I guess. I just go with my gut. Le monde vivant over The Living World. It doesn't really matter.

Boner M

02-02-2013, 02:06 PM

Reeeeally love yr love (like?) of Resurrect Dead, B-Side. Did you discover it via my recommendation? <3

transmogrifier

02-02-2013, 02:12 PM

Reeeeally love yr love (like?) of Resurrect Dead, B-Side. Did you discover it via my recommendation? <3

R u drunk, or did you morph into a teenage girl overnight?

Boner M

02-02-2013, 02:20 PM

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltets0UyCe1qhov66o1_400 .png

transmogrifier

02-02-2013, 02:30 PM

That should be your avatar for all eternity.

Gizmo

02-02-2013, 05:43 PM

So far, and I'm really flying through films this year :rolleyes:

1. Zero Dark Thirty 2012
2. Wreck-It Ralph 2012
3. Ted 2012
4. Jeff, Who Lives at Home 2011

Spun Lepton

02-03-2013, 05:27 AM

I'm on a roll tonight. Pretty sure I'm gonna watch one more Netflix movie tonight. Been in the mood for some exploitation.

1. Looper (Rian Johnson; 2012) 7/10
2. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli; 2013) 7/10
3. ParaNorman (Chris Butler, Sam Fell; 2012) 6/10
4. Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola; 2012) 5/10
5. The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine (Sergio Grieco; 1974) 5/10
6. The Lorax (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda; 2012) 3/10

B-side

02-03-2013, 05:54 AM

Reeeeally love yr love (like?) of Resurrect Dead, B-Side. Did you discover it via my recommendation? <3

Hard to say. I vaguely remembered it being mentioned on here, and it sounded fascinating, so I gave it a go. Liked it a lot.

Spun Lepton

02-03-2013, 06:56 AM

1. Kill Baby, Kill (Mario Bava; 1966) 7/10
2. Looper (Rian Johnson; 2012) 7/10
3. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli; 2013) 7/10
4. ParaNorman (Chris Butler, Sam Fell; 2012) 6/10
5. Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola; 2012) 5/10
6. The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine (Sergio Grieco; 1974) 5/10
7. The Lorax (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda; 2012) 3/10

Going with a conservative rating of Kill Baby, Kill until I have time to digest it. Bava never ceases to surprise me.

B-side

02-03-2013, 09:01 AM

1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
2. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
3. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
4. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
5. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
6. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
7. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
8. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
9. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)
10. Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Randy Olson | 2006 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
3. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
4. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
5. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
6. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
7. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
8. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
9. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
10. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)

Winston*

02-03-2013, 09:58 AM

Narrative

Sansho the Bailiff
The Master
The Lady From Shanghai
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Paranorman
Faust
House of the Devil
Wreck It Ralph
The Maltese Falcon
The Dictator
Stepbrothers
Les Miserables
The Amazing Spider-Man
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Documentary

This is Not a Film
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Senna
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
The Secret Glory
Trumbo
In the Shadow of the Moon
Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Scar

02-03-2013, 07:20 PM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Argo (2012) Good Shit
3) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
4) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh

SirNewt

02-03-2013, 10:51 PM

1 Reservoir Dogs
2 Sleepwalk with Me
3 Martha Marcy May Marlene
4 Raising Arizona
5 Street Thief
6 The Grey
7 Ted
8 Layer Cake
9 Freakonomics
10 Waiting for Guffman

11 Revenge of the Electric Car
12 You've Got Mail

Yxklyx

02-04-2013, 04:23 AM

1. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)
2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
3. Despair (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson)
5. Blithe Spirit (1945, David Lean)

Winston*

02-04-2013, 08:18 AM

1. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)

:cool:

Fezzik

02-04-2013, 01:45 PM

I've been incredibly busy and haven't had a chance to see much yet, but here ya go:

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
The Master (2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Eat Pray Love (2011)

transmogrifier

02-05-2013, 01:58 PM

1. The Rapture (1991) - 76
2. Paranorman (2012) - 75
3. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
4. Mind Game (2004) - 73
5. Wild Life (1997) - 71
6. The Master (2012) - 69
7. Hugo (2011) - 69
8. Argo (2012) - 68
9. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
10. The Killer Elite (1975) - 68

Happy End (1999) - 67
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) - 66
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) - 66
The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
Cure (1997) - 63
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) - 59
Django Unchained (2012) - 58
Dredd (2012) - 58
The Thieves (2012) - 57
Unbowed (2012) - 55
Lincoln (2012) - 54
Helpless (2012) - 54
The Furies (1950) - 53
Uzumaki (2000) - 50
Marebito (2004) - 49
The Impossible (2012) - 45
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - 42
All About My Wife (2012) - 39
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29

Scar

02-07-2013, 11:29 PM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Argo (2012) Good Shit
3) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
4) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
5) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh

B-side

02-08-2013, 05:11 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
3. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
4. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
5. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
6. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
7. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
8. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
9. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)
10. A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo | 1946 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
3. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
4. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
5. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
6. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
7. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
8. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
9. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
10. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)

MadMan

02-09-2013, 10:08 AM

1. Lost In Translation (2003), Netflix Instant Viewing
2. Valhalla Rising (2010), Netflix Instant Viewing
3. Chasing Amy (1997), Blu Ray
4. Violent Cop (1989), Netflix DVD
5. Night Train To Munich (1940), Netflix Instant Viewing
6. Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Netflix Instant Viewing

For ratings see here: http://madman731.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/movie-log/

So much for spending all of February watching movies. Real life gets in the way, heh.

Yum-Yum

02-09-2013, 12:09 PM

Baby, The (Ted Post, 1973)
Bad Inclination (Pierfrancesco Campanella, 2003)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
Cabin in the Woods, The (Drew Goddard, 2011)
Candy Snatchers, The (Guerdon Trueblood, 1973)
Candy Tangerine Man, The (Matt Cimber, 1975)
Cosmopolitan Girls, The (Roger Watkins, 1981)
Criminal Lovers (François Ozon, 1999)
Demoniacs, The (Jean Rollin, 1974)
El Monstro Del Mar! (Stuart Simpson, 2010)

Foreigner, The (Amos Poe, 1977)
Girl from Rio, The (Jess Franco, 1969)
Headless Eyes, The (Kent Bateman, 1971)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin, 1975)
Return to Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 2008)
Run and Kill (Billy Tang, 1993)
Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Kim Henkel, 1994)
Toolbox Murders, The (Dennis Donnelly, 1978)
Watch Me When I Kill (Antonio Bido, 1977)

Stay Puft

02-09-2013, 06:12 PM

1. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksey German, 1986)
2. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
3. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
5. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
6. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
7. Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)
8. Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer, 2007)

Dead & Messed Up

02-09-2013, 08:11 PM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Winston*

02-10-2013, 03:45 AM

Fiction:

Sansho the Bailiff
The Long Day Closes
The Master
The Lady From Shanghai
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Paranorman
Faust
House of the Devil
Wreck It Ralph

From 11:
The Maltese Falcon
The Dictator
Stepbrothers
Les Miserables
Silver Linings Playbook
The Amazing Spider-Man
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Documentary:

This is Not a Film
Deliver Us From Evil
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Senna
The Gleaners and I
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
The Secret Glory
Trumbo
In the Shadow of the Moon
Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Boner M

02-10-2013, 08:43 AM

The Long Day Closes
This movie's fucking beautiful.

Winston*

02-10-2013, 09:34 AM

This movie's fucking beautiful.

Yup. Stunning. Tree of Life fans should see this.

Boner M

02-10-2013, 02:23 PM

Yup. Stunning. Tree of Life fans should see this.
Definitely; a double feature would be instructive in showing how such radically different approaches to the form can be used to similar ends.

Boner M

02-10-2013, 02:36 PM

Ignoring stuff below ***:

1. Route One, USA (Kramer, 1989)
2. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
3. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
4. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)
5. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
6. Girl Walk // All Day (Krupnick, 2012)

Two films into Robert Kramer's work and he's becoming a favorite; Milestones was probably the best film I saw for the first time last year, and Route One'll most likely remain near the top by the end of this year.

Spun Lepton

02-10-2013, 03:39 PM

Reordering my list a bit.

1. Kill Baby, Kill (Mario Bava; 1966) 7/10
2. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli; 2013) 7/10
3. Dredd (Pete Travis; 2012) 7/10
4. Looper (Rian Johnson; 2012) 7/10
5. ParaNorman (Chris Butler, Sam Fell; 2012) 6/10
6. Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola; 2012) 5/10
7. The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine (Sergio Grieco; 1974) 5/10
8. The Lorax (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda; 2012) 3/10

ContinentalOp

02-12-2013, 07:26 PM

1. The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2- ****
2. Everything Will Be Ok- *** 1/2
3. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
4. Ruby Sparks- *** 1/2
5. Highway Patrolman- ***
6. Dick Tracy- ***
7. Fat City- ***
8. ParaNorman- ***
9. Larry Crowne- ***
10. Sex & Fury- ** 1/2

11. Dredd- ** 1/2
12. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning- ** 1/2
13. Bleeder- **
14. Lawless- **

transmogrifier

02-13-2013, 06:00 AM

1. The Last Movie (1971) - 85
2. The Rapture (1991) - 76
3. Paranorman (2012) - 75
4. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
5. Mind Game (2004) - 73
6. Redbelt (2008) - 73
7. Wild Life (1997) - 71
8. The Master (2012) - 69
9. Hugo (2011) - 69
10. Punch (2011) - 68

Argo (2012) - 68
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
The Killer Elite (1975) - 68
Happy End (1999) - 67
Wake in Fright (1972) - 67
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) - 66
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) - 66
The Imposter (2012) - 66
The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
Cure (1997) - 63
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) - 59
Django Unchained (2012) - 58
Dredd (2012) - 58
Dancing Queen (2012) - 57
The Thieves (2012) - 57
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) - 55
Unbowed (2012) - 55
Lincoln (2012) - 54
Helpless (2012) - 54
The Furies (1950) - 53
Uzumaki (2000) - 50
Marebito (2004) - 49
The Impossible (2012) - 45
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - 42
All About My Wife (2012) - 39
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012) - 34
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29
The Neighbors (2012) - 26

Boner M

02-13-2013, 01:41 PM

Ignoring stuff below ***:

1. Route One, USA (Kramer, 1989)
2. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
3. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
4. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)
5. Silver Linings Playbook (Russell, 2012)
6. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
7. Girl Walk // All Day (Krupnick, 2012)
8. Saturday Night Fever (Badham, 1977)

Scar

02-13-2013, 01:46 PM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Argo (2012) Good Shit
3) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
4) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
5) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
6) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh

Dukefrukem

02-13-2013, 01:49 PM

1 Intouchables
2 Beasts of the Southern Wild
3 The Hunter
4 Silver Linings Playbook
5 Zero Dark Thirty
6 Django Unchained
7 Pitch Perfect
8 The Last Stand
9 Killing Them Softly
10 V/H/S

11 Resident Evil: Retribution
12 Knowing
13 Phase 7
14 Dredd
15 Lawless
16 The Possession
17 Next
18 Bangkok Dangerous

MadMan

02-16-2013, 08:30 AM

1. Dead Ringers (1988), Netflix DVD
2. Lost In Translation (2003), Netflix Instant Viewing
3. Valhalla Rising (2010), Netflix Instant Viewing
4. Chasing Amy (1997), Blu Ray
5. Adam and Dog (2011), YouTube
6. Violent Cop (1989), Netflix DVD
7. Mallrats (1995), Blu Ray
8. Night Train To Munich (1940), Netflix Instant Viewing
9. Head Over Heels (2012), YouTube
10. Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare", Online

11. Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Netflix Instant Viewing
12. Paperman (2012), YouTube
13. Fresh Guacamole (2012), Showtime

For ratings see here: http://madman731.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/movie-log/

Yes I'm counting the shorts. Judge me later.

dreamdead

02-16-2013, 09:00 PM

1. Possession (1981) - 9.5
2. Paju - 9
3. The Story of Oharu - 9
4. Girl Walk // All Day - 9
5. Gosford Park - 9
6. Cool Hand Luke - 8.5
7. Design for Living - 8.5
8. Stranger than Paradise - 8.5
9. Upstream Color - 8.5
10. The Ox-Bow Incident - 8.5

Before Midnight - 8.5
Hause - 8.5
Dead Man's Shoes - 8
In the Name of the Father - 8
One Fine Spring Day - 8
A Room with a View - 8
Take Shelter - 8
Sexy Beast - 8
Letter from an Unknown Woman - 8
To the Wonder - 7.5
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 7.5
The Lineup - 7.5
Holy Motors - 7.5
This is Not a Film - 7.5
Stories We Tell - 7.5
The Grandmaster - 7.5
A Matter of Life and Death - 7.5
The Master - 7.5
All the President's Men - 7.5
Stop Making Sense - 7.5
Chan is Missing - 7.5
Enough Said - 7.5
White Heat - 7.5
Starlet - 7.5
Vera Drake - 7.5
Tender Mercies - 7.5
Bullitt - 7
In the Cut - 7
House of Pleasures - 7
Headshot - 7
Zero Dark Thirty -7
In Another Country - 7
Gravity - 7
Frances Ha - 7
Take this Waltz - 7
In the Loop - 7
In Bruges - 7
The Wolf of Wall Street - 7
Primer - 7
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 7
Nanook of the North - 7
Paranorman - 7
My Left Foot - 7
Invisible Waves - 7
Ploy - 6.5
Blue Jasmine - 6.5
Not Fade Away - 6.5
The Descendants - 6.5
Kill List - 6.5
Blow Out - 6.5
Tears of the Black Tiger - 6.5
The 49th Parallel - 6.5
The Last Detail - 6.5
Stoker - 6
Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon) - 6
Django Unchained - 6
Doubt - 6
Liberal Arts - 6
Argo - 6
Medicine for Melancholy - 6
Drug War - 6
Silver Linings Playbook - 6
Blackmail - 6
Better Luck Tomorrow - 6
Only God Forgives - 5.5
The Great Gatsby - 5.5
Wreck-it Ralph - 5.5
Young Adult - 5.5
Prince Avalanche - 5.5
The Raid: Redemption - 5.5
Red River - 5.5
Birth - 5
Dial M for Murder - 5
Les Miserables - 5
Lars and the Real Girl - 5
American Mary - 5
Exterminating Angels - 5
Hysteria - 5
Logan's Run - 5
Resident Evil: Retribution - 5
Jesse and Celeste Forever - 5
Iron Man 3 - 4.5
Super - 4.5
Beverly Hills Cop - 4.5
The Wild One -4.5
Tootsie - 4.5
Admission - 4
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay - 3
Super Mario Bros. - 2

elixir

02-17-2013, 01:46 AM

1. Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
2. Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
3. Audrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Ross, 2010)
4. Presque rien (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2000)
5. Eighteen (Jang Kun-jae, 2009)
6. Primrose Hill (Mikhaël Hers, 2007)
7. Je t'aime moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976)
8. The Yards (James Gray, 2000)
9. Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler, 2002)
10. Girl Walk // All Day (James Krupnick, 2011)
update

Boner M

02-17-2013, 04:42 AM

Cool list lix, def. gonna seek the ones I haven't seen. Köhler's recent Sleeping Sickness was intriguing, Denis-via-Apichatpong, not as good as that sounds but stilllll.

transmogrifier

02-17-2013, 03:33 PM

1. The Last Movie (1971) - 85
2. The Rapture (1991) - 76
3. Paranorman (2012) - 75
4. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
5. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) - 73
6. Mind Game (2004) - 73
7. Redbelt (2008) - 73
8. Wild Life (1997) - 71
9. The Master (2012) - 69
10. Hugo (2011) - 69

Punch (2011) - 68
Argo (2012) - 68
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
The Killer Elite (1975) - 68
Happy End (1999) - 67
Wake in Fright (1972) - 67
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) - 66
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) - 66
The Imposter (2012) - 66
The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
Cure (1997) - 63
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) - 59
Django Unchained (2012) - 58
Dredd (2012) - 58
Dancing Queen (2012) - 57
The Thieves (2012) - 57
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) - 55
Unbowed (2012) - 55
Lincoln (2012) - 54
Helpless (2012) - 54
The Furies (1950) - 53
Parade (2010) - 51
Uzumaki (2000) - 50
Marebito (2004) - 49
The Ipcress File (1965) - 48
The Impossible (2012) - 45
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - 42
All About My Wife (2012) - 39
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012) - 34
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29
The Neighbors (2012) - 26

B-side

02-19-2013, 05:25 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
3. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
4. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
5. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
6. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
7. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
8. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)
9. The Living World (Eugène Green | 2003 | France/Belgium)
10. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Dennis Dugan | 2008 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
3. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
4. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
5. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
6. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
7. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)
8. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges | 1941 | USA)
9. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
10. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)

Rowland

02-19-2013, 06:33 AM

1. Sans soleil (Marker, 1983)
2. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
3. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov, 1964)
4. The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962)
5. Detour (Ulmer, 1945)
6. Wuthering Heights (Arnold, 2012)
7. The Doll (Lubitsch, 1919)
8. L'Age d'Or (Buñuel, 1930)
9. The Boxer's Omen (Kuei, 1983)
10. The Imposter (Layton, 2012)

Boner M

02-21-2013, 04:57 AM

Ignoring stuff below ***:

1. Route One, USA (Kramer, 1989)
2. Sombre (Grandrieux, 1998)
3. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
4. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
5. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)
6. Silver Linings Playbook (Russell, 2012)
7. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
8. Girl Walk // All Day (Krupnick, 2012)
9. Saturday Night Fever (Badham, 1977)

Scar

02-22-2013, 01:00 AM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Argo (2012) Good Shit
3) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
4) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
5) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?
5) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
6) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh

Kurious Jorge v3.1

02-22-2013, 06:14 PM

1. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
2. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
3. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
4. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
5. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
6. Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
7. My Girlfriend's Wedding (Jim McBride/USA/1969) 83
8. Paradies: Liebe (Ulrich Seidl/2012) 83
9. "Here I Am" (Bruce Baillie/1962) 82
10. "Mudanza" (Pere Portabella/2008) 82

Yxklyx

02-23-2013, 01:53 AM

1. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)
2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
3. Nuts in May (1976, Mike Leigh)
4. Abigail's Party (1977, Mike Leigh)
5. The Imposter (2012, Bart Layton)
6. The Big Knife (1955, Robert Aldrich)
7. Despair (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. The Artist (2011, Michel Hazanavicius)
9. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson)
10. Blithe Spirit (1945, David Lean)

B-side

02-23-2013, 09:24 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
3. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
4. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
5. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
6. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
7. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)
8. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges | 1941 | USA)
9. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)
10. Dante's Inferno (Various | 1911 | Italy/UK)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
3. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
4. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
5. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
6. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
7. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
8. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)
9. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges | 1941 | USA)
10. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)

Boner M

02-23-2013, 09:57 AM

2. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9en10uqX41qit8aco3_500 .gif

B-side

02-23-2013, 01:03 PM

That feel.

Spun Lepton

02-23-2013, 03:05 PM

1. Kill Baby, Kill (Mario Bava; 1966) 7/10
2. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli; 2013) 7/10
3. Dredd (Pete Travis; 2012) 7/10
4. Looper (Rian Johnson; 2012) 7/10
5. Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill; 1975) 7/10
6. ParaNorman (Chris Butler, Sam Fell; 2012) 6/10
7. Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola; 2012) 5/10
8. The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine (Sergio Grieco; 1974) 5/10
9. The Lorax (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda; 2012) 3/10

Switchblade Sisters is surprisingly entertaining, despite some hammy dialogue and acting. Character dynamics are constantly shifting in interesting directions. Cinematography never goes beyond serviceable. The ultra-low budget shows itself a few times. There's one scene in a juvenile detention ward that is eye-rolling, but they never take anything seriously enough for it to really damage the fun.

MadMan

02-24-2013, 12:54 AM

I've always wanted to see Swtichblade Sisters ever since Ebert bashed it. Plus its directed by Jack Hill so it can't be all bad.

Dead & Messed Up

02-24-2013, 05:16 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Kurious Jorge v3.1

02-24-2013, 05:47 AM

1. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
2. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
3. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
4. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
5. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
6. Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
7. "Aus Der Ferne - The Memo Book" (Matthias Mueller/1989) 85
8. My Girlfriend's Wedding (Jim McBride/USA/1969) 83
9. Paradies: Liebe (Ulrich Seidl/2012) 83
10. "Here I Am" (Bruce Baillie/1962) 82
"Mudanza" (Pere Portabella/2008) 82

transmogrifier

02-24-2013, 10:54 AM

1. The Last Movie (1971) - 85
2. The Rapture (1991) - 76
3. Paranorman (2012) - 75
4. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
5. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) - 73
6. Mind Game (2004) - 73
7. Redbelt (2008) - 73
8. Wild Life (1997) - 71
9. The Duellists (1977) - 71
10. The Master (2012) - 69

Dark Water (2002) - 69
Hugo (2011) - 69
Punch (2011) - 68
Argo (2012) - 68
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
The Killer Elite (1975) - 68
Happy End (1999) - 67
Wake in Fright (1972) - 67
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) - 66
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) - 66
Helpless (1996) - 66
The Imposter (2012) - 66
The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
Cure (1997) - 63
The Seven-Ups (1973) - 63
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61
The Man Who Was Superman (2008) - 61
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) - 59
Django Unchained (2012) - 58
Dredd (2012) - 58
Dancing Queen (2012) - 57
The Thieves (2012) - 57
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) - 55
Unbowed (2012) - 55
Lincoln (2012) - 54
Helpless (2012) - 54
The Furies (1950) - 53
Parade (2010) - 51
Uzumaki (2000) - 50
Marebito (2004) - 49
I Walk the Line (1970) - 49
The Ipcress File (1965) - 48
The Impossible (2012) - 45
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - 42
All About My Wife (2012) - 39
The Machine Girl (2008) - 36
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012) - 34
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29
The Neighbors (2012) - 26
Taking Off (1971) - W/O

Scar

02-24-2013, 02:28 PM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Argo (2012) Good Shit
3) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Brutally fun. Filet 'o leg was glorious.
4) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
5) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
6) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?
7) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
8) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh

Spun Lepton

02-25-2013, 04:30 AM

1. Kill Baby, Kill (Mario Bava; 1966) 7/10
2. John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli; 2013) 7/10
3. Dredd (Pete Travis; 2012) 7/10
4. The Dark Knight Returns (Jay Oliva; 2012/2013) 7/10
5. Looper (Rian Johnson; 2012) 7/10
6. Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill; 1975) 7/10
7. ParaNorman (Chris Butler, Sam Fell; 2012) 6/10
8. Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola; 2012) 5/10
9. The Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine (Sergio Grieco; 1974) 5/10
10. The Lorax (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda; 2012) 3/10

Irish

02-25-2013, 06:30 AM

Stay Puft

02-25-2013, 08:03 AM

1. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksey German, 1986)
2. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
3. Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
4. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
6. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
7. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
8. Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)
9. Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer, 2007)

transmogrifier

02-25-2013, 08:26 AM

D-K Rises at #4 is one of those things.
Returns.

Scar

02-25-2013, 11:29 AM

Returns.

An innocent enough mistake after a couple thirteen fourteen beers.

Spun Lepton

02-25-2013, 03:23 PM

Spun, I've got sigs turned off. Do you have a blog?

You offhandly post stuff that I think is interesting & want to hear more about. BUt it seems, I dunno, ham handed to keep asking about it on M-C.

D-K Rises at #4 is one of those things.

I do not. I tried blogging once upon a time, but I couldn't keep it up. I lost interest pretty quickly.

What's up?

Stay Puft

02-25-2013, 03:39 PM

Melville

02-26-2013, 06:43 PM

Out of ~90 movies in total:

Criss Cross (Siodmak)
Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
Fat City (Huston)
The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg)
The Master (Anderson)
Django Unchained (Tarantino)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)

Runners up:

Moonrise (Borzage)
Kes (Loach)
Snowtown (Kurzel)
The Heiress (Wyler)
Odd Man Out (Reed)
Splendour in the Grass (Kazan)
The Informer (Ford)
The Killers (Siodmak)
Salesman (Maysles)
How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
Listen to Britain (Jennings)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone)

Irish

02-26-2013, 09:14 PM

What's up?

Heh, actually just looking to get your reaction on the movie, beyond its appearance on your list. I watched it again a few months ago and didn't quite care for it as much as I used to.

Kurious Jorge v3.1

02-27-2013, 05:43 AM

1. "N.Y., N.Y." (Francis Thompson/1957) 91
2. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
3. "Fountain of Dreams" (Jordan Belson/1984) 87
4. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
5. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
6. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
7. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
8. Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
9. "Aus Der Ferne - The Memo Book" (Matthias Mueller/1989) 85
10. My Girlfriend's Wedding (Jim McBride/USA/1969) 83
Paradies: Liebe (Ulrich Seidl/2012) 83

I have watched 235 short and feature films through 2/26 in an attempt to go through as much of my dvd archives before I leave the US of A (not taking them with me)

B-side

02-27-2013, 08:10 AM

1. "N.Y., N.Y." (Francis Thompson/1957) 91

This looks fascinating. Bookmarked.

... before I leave the US of A (not taking them with me)

Intrigued. Mind if I ask where you're moving to and why?

Gizmo

02-27-2013, 08:12 AM

Up to 11 now on the year, enough for a whole top 10!:

1. Django Unchained 2012
2. Amour 2012
3. The Skin I Live In 2011
4. Zero Dark Thirty 2012
5. Lincoln 2012
6. Wreck-It Ralph 2012
7. Pitch Perfect 2012
8. The Secret World of Arrietty 2012
9. Ted 2012
10. Jeff, Who Lives at Home 2011

I need to watch some older films now.

Boner M

02-27-2013, 08:27 AM

1. Route One, USA (Kramer, 1989)
2. Sombre (Grandrieux, 1998)
3. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
4. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
5. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)
6. Pursued (Walsh, 1947)
7. Silver Linings Playbook (Russell, 2012)
8. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
9. Girl Walk // All Day (Krupnick, 2012)
10. Saturday Night Fever (Badham, 1977)

Dead & Messed Up

02-27-2013, 08:36 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

transmogrifier

02-28-2013, 03:38 AM

1. The Last Movie (1971) - 85
2. Barry Lyndon (1975) - 77
3. The Rapture (1991) - 76
4. Paranorman (2012) - 75
5. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - 74
6. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) - 73
7. Mind Game (2004) - 73
8. Redbelt (2008) - 73
9. Wild Life (1997) - 71
10. The Duellists (1977) - 71

The Master (2012) - 69
Dark Water (2002) - 69
Hugo (2011) - 69
Punch (2011) - 68
Argo (2012) - 68
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - 68
The Killer Elite (1975) - 68
Happy End (1999) - 67
Wake in Fright (1972) - 67
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) - 66
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) - 66
Helpless (1996) - 66
The Imposter (2012) - 66
The Life of Pi (2012) - 64
Cure (1997) - 63
The Seven-Ups (1973) - 63
Hell is for Heroes (1962) - 61
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - 61
The Man Who Was Superman (2008) - 61
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) - 59
Django Unchained (2012) - 58
Dredd (2012) - 58
Dancing Queen (2012) - 57
The Thieves (2012) - 57
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) - 55
Unbowed (2012) - 55
Lincoln (2012) - 54
Helpless (2012) - 54
The Furies (1950) - 53
Parade (2010) - 51
Uzumaki (2000) - 50
Marebito (2004) - 49
I Walk the Line (1970) - 49
The Ipcress File (1965) - 48
The Impossible (2012) - 45
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - 42
All About My Wife (2012) - 39
The Machine Girl (2008) - 36
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012) - 34
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - 29
The Neighbors (2012) - 26
Taking Off (1971) - W/O

baby doll

02-28-2013, 01:45 PM

American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
Le Ballon rouge (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
L'innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976)
The Ballad of Nayarama (Shohei Imamura, 1983)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)End of February. Germi's the man.

Yum-Yum

03-02-2013, 10:38 AM

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Baby, The (Ted Post, 1973)
Bad Inclination (Pierfrancesco Campanella, 2003)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
Black Shampoo (Greydon Clark, 1976)
Cabin in the Woods, The (Drew Goddard, 2011)
Candy Snatchers, The (Guerdon Trueblood, 1973)
Candy Tangerine Man, The (Matt Cimber, 1975)
Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991)
Cosmopolitan Girls, The (Roger Watkins, 1981)
Criminal Lovers (François Ozon, 1999)

Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
Demoniacs, The (Jean Rollin, 1974)
El Monstro Del Mar! (Stuart Simpson, 2010)
Empire Records (Alan Moyle, 1995)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, The (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)
Foreigner, The (Amos Poe, 1977)
Girl from Rio, The (Jess Franco, 1969)
Horrors of Malformed Men (Teruo Ishii, 1969)
Headless Eyes, The (Kent Bateman, 1971)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin, 1975)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The (Emilio Miraglia, 1971)
Rat Scratch Fever (Jeff Leroy, 2011)
Return to Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 2008)
Run and Kill (Billy Tang, 1993)
Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)
Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Kim Henkel, 1994)
Things (Andrew Jordan, 1989)
Tiptoes (Matthew Bright, 2003)
Toolbox Murders, The (Dennis Donnelly, 1978)
Watch Me When I Kill (Antonio Bido, 1977)

Kurious Jorge v3.1

03-03-2013, 05:45 AM

End of February. Germi's the man.

I was pretty underwhelmed by Seduced and Abandoned. Divorce, Italian Style - on the other hand - is a flat out masterpiece. Kes is as well (recently saw that as well - devastating).

Kurious Jorge v3.1

03-03-2013, 05:48 AM

Intrigued. Mind if I ask where you're moving to and why?

Teaching ESL in S. Korea.

Boner M

03-08-2013, 02:36 AM

1. Route One, USA (Kramer, 1989)
2. Sombre (Grandrieux, 1998)
3. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
4. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
5. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)
6. Silver Linings Playbook (Russell, 2012)
7. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)
8. Patrick (Franklin, 1978)
9. Girl Walk // All Day (Krupnick, 2012)
10. Saturday Night Fever (Badham, 1977)

B-side

03-08-2013, 05:23 AM

Teaching ESL in S. Korea.

Oh, nice. Careful not to get nuked while you're there.

B-side

03-08-2013, 05:28 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
3. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
4. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
5. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
6. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
7. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
8. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)
9. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges | 1941 | USA)
10. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy | 2011 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
3. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
4. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
5. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
6. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
7. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
8. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
9. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)
10. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges | 1941 | USA)

B-side

03-09-2013, 08:44 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
3. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
4. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
5. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
6. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
7. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
8. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
9. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)
10. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges | 1941 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
4. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
5. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
6. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
7. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
8. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
9. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
10. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)

Scar

03-10-2013, 03:21 AM

Melville

03-10-2013, 07:36 PM

Criss Cross (Siodmak)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
Fat City (Huston)
The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah)
The Master (Anderson)
Django Unchained (Tarantino)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)

Runners up:

The Long Day Closes (Davies)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)
Body Heat (Kasdan)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
Moonrise (Borzage)
Kes (Loach)
Snowtown (Kurzel)
The Heiress (Wyler)
Odd Man Out (Reed)
Splendour in the Grass (Kazan)
The Informer (Ford)
The Killers (Siodmak)
Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian)
Salesman (Maysles)
How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
Listen to Britain (Jennings)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone)

Winston*

03-10-2013, 08:38 PM

Fiction:
The Red Shoes
Sansho the Bailiff
The Long Day Closes
The Master
The Lady From Shanghai
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Paranorman
Le Tableau
Sister

From 11:
Coriolanus
Faust
House of the Devil
Wreck It Ralph
The Maltese Falcon
The Dictator
Stepbrothers
Les Miserables
Silver Linings Playbook
The Amazing Spider-Man
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Documentary:

This is Not a Film
Deliver Us From Evil
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Senna
The Imposter
Samsara
The Gleaners and I
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
The Secret Glory
Trumbo

From 11:
In the Shadow of the Moon
Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Scar

03-10-2013, 09:12 PM

Scar

03-11-2013, 01:49 AM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Argo (2012) Good Shit
3) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Brutally fun. Filet 'o leg was glorious.
4) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
5) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
6) Paranorman (2012) I'll wait a little bit before watching this one w/ my niece
7) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?
8) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
9) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh
10) Red Dawn (2012) Police car vs Paratrooper = Awesome. The other 93+ mn, bleagh.
11) Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (2012) Copious decapitations aside, fuck this shit.

Scar

03-11-2013, 02:28 AM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Most Excellent
3) Argo (2012) Good Shit
4) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Brutally fun. Filet 'o leg was glorious.
5) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
6) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
7) Paranorman (2012) I'll wait a little bit before watching this one w/ my niece
8) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?
9) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
10) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh

11) Red Dawn (2012) Police car vs Paratrooper = Awesome. The other 93+ mn, bleagh.
12) Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (2012) Copious decapitations aside, fuck this shit.

B-side

03-11-2013, 04:07 AM

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah)

Great film.

Scar

03-15-2013, 02:08 AM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Most Excellent
3) Argo (2012) Good Shit
4) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Brutally fun. Filet 'o leg was glorious.
5) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
6) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
7) Paranorman (2012) I'll wait a little bit before watching this one w/ my niece
8) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) I like the white orc? Need a rewatch to see if it rises or plummets.
9) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?
10) Batman Year One Ok, I guess

11) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh
12) Red Dawn (2012) Police car vs Paratrooper = Awesome. The other 93+ mn, bleagh.
13) Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (2012) Copious decapitations aside, fuck this shit.

MadMan

03-15-2013, 08:14 AM

1. Dead Ringers (1988), Netflix DVD
2. Breathless (1960), Netflix DVD/Criterion
3. Lost In Translation (2003), Netflix Instant Viewing
4. Valhalla Rising (2010), Netflix Instant Viewing
5. Chasing Amy (1997), Blu Ray
6. Naked Lunch (1991), Netflix DVD
7. Adam and Dog (2011), YouTube
8. Violent Cop (1989), Netflix DVD
9. Mallrats (1995), Blu Ray
10. Red (2010), DVD

11. Head Over Heels (2012), YouTube
12. Night Train To Munich (1940), Netflix Instant Viewing
13. Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare", Online
14. Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Netflix Instant Viewing
15. Dredd (2012), Public Library
16. Paperman (2012), YouTube
17. Fresh Guacamole (2012), Showtime
18. Overdrawn At The Memory Bank (1985), YouTube with MSTK commentary

For ratings see here: http://madman731.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/movie-log/

ContinentalOp

03-15-2013, 09:42 PM

1. The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2- ****
2. Everything Will Be Ok- *** 1/2
3. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
4. Argo- *** 1/2
5. Flight- *** 1/2
6. Ruby Sparks- ***
7. Highway Patrolman- ***
8. Sinister- ***
9. Dick Tracy- ***
10. Wreck-It Ralph- ***

11. End of Watch- ***
12. Fat City- ***
13. ParaNorman- ***
14. Larry Crowne- ***
15. The Master- ** 1/2
16. Sex & Fury- ** 1/2
17. Dredd- ** 1/2
18. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning- ** 1/2
19. Bleeder- **
20. Lawless- **
21. Seven Psychopaths- * 1/2

B-side

03-21-2013, 09:26 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
4. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
5. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
6. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
7. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
8. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)
9. Primer (Shane Carruth | 2004 | USA)
10. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood | 1937 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
4. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran)
5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
6. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
8. Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf | 2000 | Multinational)
9. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
10. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)

Scar

03-22-2013, 02:10 AM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Most Excellent
3) Argo (2012) Good Shit
4) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Brutally fun. Filet 'o leg was glorious.
5) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
6) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
7) Paranorman (2012) I'll wait a little bit before watching this one w/ my niece
8) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) I like the white orc? Need a rewatch to see if it rises or plummets.
9) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?
10) Batman Year One Ok, I guess

11) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh
12) Red Dawn (2012) Police car vs Paratrooper = Awesome. The other 93+ mn, bleagh.
13) Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (2012) Copious decapitations aside, fuck this shit.
14) Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Absolute waste of my fucking time.

Yxklyx

03-23-2013, 02:12 AM

1. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)
2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
3. Nuts in May (1976, Mike Leigh)
4. Abigail's Party (1977, Mike Leigh)
5. The Loneliest Planet (2011, Julia Loktev)
6. The Imposter (2012, Bart Layton)
7. The Big Knife (1955, Robert Aldrich)
8. Despair (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. This Must Be the Place (2011, Paolo Sorrentino)
10. The Artist (2011, Michel Hazanavicius)

B-side

03-23-2013, 10:12 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
4. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran)
5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
6. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
8. Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf | 2000 | Multinational)
9. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)
10. Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis | 1983 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
4. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran)
5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
6. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
8. Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf | 2000 | Multinational)
9. Martyrs of Love (Jan Nemec | 1967 | Czechoslovakia)
10. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)

elixir

03-23-2013, 02:17 PM

1. Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
2. Le départ (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1967)
3. Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
4. Audrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Ross, 2010)
5. Les signes (Eugène Green, 2006)
6. Orly (Angela Schlnelec, 2010)
7. Presque rien (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2000)
8. Eighteen (Jang Kun-jae, 2009)
9. The Anthem (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
10. Nachmittag (Angela Schanelec, 2007)
update

Melville

03-23-2013, 04:07 PM

Criss Cross (Siodmak)
Margaret (Lonergan)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
Peter Ibbetson (Hathaway)
Fat City (Huston)
The Devil Is a Woman (von Sternberg)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah)
The Master (Anderson)
Django Unchained (Tarantino)
The Black Cat (Ulmer)

Runners up:

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
The Long Day Closes (Davies)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy)
Body Heat (Kasdan)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
Moonrise (Borzage)
Kes (Loach)
Snowtown (Kurzel)
The Heiress (Wyler)
Odd Man Out (Reed)
Splendour in the Grass (Kazan)
The Informer (Ford)
The Killers (Siodmak)
Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian)
Salesman (Maysles)
How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
Listen to Britain (Jennings)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone)

Kurious Jorge v3.1

03-23-2013, 07:49 PM

1. "N.Y., N.Y." (Francis Thompson/1957) 91
2. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
3. "Fountain of Dreams" (Jordan Belson/1984) 87
4. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
5. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
6. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
7. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
8. Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
9. Samsara (Ron Fricke/USA/2011) 85
10. "Aus Der Ferne - The Memo Book" (Matthias Mueller/1989) 85

Film count for 2013: 312 shorts and features

Russ

03-24-2013, 04:08 PM

1. The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
2. La belle équipe (Julien Duvivier, 1936)
3. The Stone Wedding (Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, 1973)
4. The Castle of Sand (Yoshitaro Nomura, 1974)
5. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
6. Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979)
7. Girl Walk // All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)
8. It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda, 1958)
9. Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011)
10. Bibliothèque Pascal (Szabolcs Hajdu, 2010)

Winston*

03-24-2013, 08:49 PM

Fiction:
The Red Shoes
Sansho the Bailiff
The Long Day Closes
The Master
The Lady From Shanghai
A Sense of History
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
La Jetée
Paranorman

From 11:
Le Tableau
Sister
Coriolanus
Faust
House of the Devil
Wreck It Ralph
The Maltese Falcon
The Dictator
Stepbrothers
Lawless
Argo
Les Miserables
Silver Linings Playbook
The Amazing Spider-Man
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Safety Not Guaranteed

Documentary:

This is Not a Film
Deliver Us From Evil
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Senna
The Imposter
Samsara
The Gleaners and I
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
The Secret Glory
Trumbo

From 11:
In the Shadow of the Moon
Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Kurious Jorge v3.1

03-24-2013, 10:53 PM

Fiction:
[LIST=1] The Red Shoes
Sansho the Bailiff
The Long Day Closes
The Master
The Lady From Shanghai
A Sense of History
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
La Jetée
Paranorman

you just watched two of the best shorts ever made

Winston*

03-24-2013, 10:58 PM

you just watched two of the best shorts ever made

My city's film society has a screening of the two together the other week.

Stay Puft

03-25-2013, 09:52 AM

1. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksey German, 1986)
2. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
3. Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
4. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
5. The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
7. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, 2011)
8. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
9. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
10. Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)

You know you're having a good year when it's still only March and a film by F.W. Murnau has already managed to slip out of the top five.

baby doll

03-26-2013, 05:00 AM

American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
Le Ballon rouge (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
L'innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)Here's where it's at for the end of March.

Boner M

03-26-2013, 11:07 PM

Kurious Jorge v3.1

03-29-2013, 03:29 AM

1. Lemon (Hollis Frampton, 1969)
2. Route One, USA (Kramer, 1989)
3. 2012 (Takashi Makino, 2013)
4. Sombre (Grandrieux, 1998)
5. Tango (Zbigniew Rybczyński, 1980)
6. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005)
7. Cry When it Happens (Laida Lertxundi, 2010)
8. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
9. Beyond the Black Rainbow (Cosmatos, 2010)
10. Silver Linings Playbook (Russell, 2012)

I also watched Route One USA this month. an amazing journey. I need to watch more Kramer. Our Daily Bread has been sitting in my "to watch soon" stack for months...I hated everything about Beyond the Black Rainbow except some of the effect heavy psychedelic sequences. The end was utter shit.

Kurious Jorge v3.1

03-29-2013, 03:35 AM

1. "N.Y., N.Y." (Francis Thompson/1957) 91
2. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
3. "Fountain of Dreams" (Jordan Belson/1984) 87
4. Route One USA (Robert Kramer/1989) 87
5. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
6. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
7. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
8. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
9. Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
10. Samsara (Ron Fricke/USA/2011) 85

Film count for 2013: 349 shorts and features

Boner M

03-29-2013, 04:07 AM

I hated everything about Beyond the Black Rainbow except some of the effect heavy psychedelic sequences. The end was utter shit.
But everything was a heavy effect psychedelic sequence! I agree that the ending was unfortunate.

Glad you liked the Kramer. I put Milestones near the top of last year's film log but Route One, USA made me think I overvalued the former (which is more fictional; very much in the same vein as Peter Watkins).

Dead & Messed Up

03-29-2013, 04:20 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
V/H/S (Adam Wingard et al, 2012)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Vamps Amy Heckerling, 2012)
Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958)
The Specials (Craig Mazin, 2000)
The 'burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Yum-Yum

03-30-2013, 02:28 AM

I agree that the ending was unfortunate.

Man, that shit was weak.

However, the use of "Anonymous" by SSQ over the end credits did manage to placate my anger somewhat.

Quirky fun-fact: "Anonymous" also played over the end credits of Cavegirl, a Crown International Pictures release from 1985.

Yum-Yum

03-30-2013, 09:16 AM

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Amer (Bruno Forzani, 2009)
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983)
Baby, The (Ted Post, 1973)
Bad Inclination (Pierfrancesco Campanella, 2003)
Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
Bitch Slap (Rick Jacobson, 2009)
Black Demons (Umberto Lenzi, 1991)
Black Shampoo (Greydon Clark, 1976)

Cabin in the Woods, The (Drew Goddard, 2011)
Candy Snatchers, The (Guerdon Trueblood, 1973)
Candy Tangerine Man, The (Matt Cimber, 1975)
Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991)
Cavegirl (David Oliver, 1985)
Cosmopolitan Girls, The (Roger Watkins, 1981)
Creepozoids (David DeCoteau, 1987)
Criminal Lovers (François Ozon, 1999)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
Death Walks at Midnight (Luciano Ercoli, 1972)
Death Walks on High Heels (Luciano Erocoli, 1971)
Demoniacs, The (Jean Rollin, 1974)
El Monstro Del Mar! (Stuart Simpson, 2010)
Empire Records (Alan Moyle, 1995)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, The (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)
Foreigner, The (Amos Poe, 1977)
Fuego (Armando Bo, 1969)
Girl from Rio, The (Jess Franco, 1969)
Horrors of Malformed Men (Teruo Ishii, 1969)
Headless Eyes, The (Kent Bateman, 1971)
Hunk (Lawrence Bassoff, 1987)
I Spit on Your Grave (Meir Zarchi, 1978)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin, 1975)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1999)
My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981)
Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The (Emilio Miraglia, 1971)
Phantom of Death (Ruggero Deodato, 1988)
Pyjama Girl Case, The (Flavio Mogherini, 1977)
Rat Scratch Fever (Jeff Leroy, 2011)
Return to Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 2008)
Run and Kill (Billy Tang, 1993)
Sentinel, The (Michael Winner, 1977)
Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)
Smash Cut (Lee Demarbre, 2009)
Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Kim Henkel, 1994)
Things (Andrew Jordan, 1989)
Tiptoes (Matthew Bright, 2003)
Toolbox Murders, The (Dennis Donnelly, 1978)
Watch Me When I Kill (Antonio Bido, 1977)
Weekend Pass (Lawrence Bassoff, 1984)

Scar

03-30-2013, 11:50 AM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Most Excellent
3) Django Unchained (2012) "Kill white people and get paid for it? What's not to like?"
4) Argo (2012) Good Shit
5) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Brutally fun. Filet 'o leg was glorious.
6) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
7) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
8) Paranorman (2012) I'll wait a little bit before watching this one w/ my niece
9) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) I like the white orc? Need a rewatch to see if it rises or plummets.
10) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?

11) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
12) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh
13) Red Dawn (2012) Police car vs Paratrooper = Awesome. The other 93+ mn, bleagh.
14) Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (2012) Copious decapitations aside, fuck this shit.
15) Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Absolute waste of my fucking time.

Yxklyx

03-30-2013, 09:59 PM

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)

This is like the clash of two worlds.

Gizmo

04-01-2013, 04:42 AM

Happy April Fools. 7 more this month brings me up to 18 total. Been watching a lot of tv series'.

1. Django Unchained 2012
2. Amour 2012
3. The Skin I Live In 2011
4. Zero Dark Thirty 2012
5. Lincoln 2012
6. The General 1926
7. Wreck-It Ralph 2012
8. Pitch Perfect 2012
9. The Secret World of Arrietty 2012
10. Take Shelter 2011

Bottom 5:
14. Our Idiot Brother 2011
15. Hotel Transylvania 2012
16. Act of Valor 2012
17. The Babysitters 2007
18. Human Centipede 2 2011

Kurious Jorge v3.1

04-01-2013, 09:56 PM

1. "N.Y., N.Y." (Francis Thompson/1957) 91
2. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
3. "Fountain of Dreams" (Jordan Belson/1984) 87
4. Route One USA (Robert Kramer/1989) 87
5. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
6. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
7. "Devotions" (James Broughton, Joel Singer/1983) 86
8. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
9. Samsara (Ron Fricke/USA/2011) 85
10. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85

Film count for 2013: 377 shorts and features

Sxottlan

04-04-2013, 09:17 AM

Is there a Top Ten of 2013 thread yet?

Here's my list after the first quarter so far. I would only recommend the first five films. The others are just there. Lots of genre films like last spring, but this year they're not as successful.

1. Spring Breakers: ***1/2
2. Side Effects: ***
3. The Last Stand: ***
4. Leviathan: ***
5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation: **1/2
6. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone: **1/2
7. Oz the Great and Powerful: **1/2
8. Warm Bodies: **1/2
9. Dead Man Down: **
10. Gangster Squad: **

Rowland

04-04-2013, 08:29 PM

1. Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1929)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov, 1965)
5. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
6. Fireworks (Anger, 1947)
7. The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962)
8. Sirius Remembered (Brakhage, 1959)
9. A Song of Love (Genet, 1950)
10. Land Without Bread (Buñuel, 1933)

An also awesome next ten:

11. Detour (Ulmer, 1945)
12. Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)
13. Swordsman 2 (Tong/Ching, 1992)
14. L'Age d'Or (Buñuel, 1930)
15. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jarmusch, 1999)
16. Wuthering Heights (Arnold, 2012)
17. Duel to the Death (Ching, 1983)
18. The Doll (Lubitsch, 1919)
19. The Boxer's Omen (Kuei, 1983)
20. Cat's Cradle (Brakhage, 1959)

B-side

04-05-2013, 08:21 AM

2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1929)
3. Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
4. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov, 1965)
5. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
6. Fireworks (Anger, 1947)
11. Detour (Ulmer, 1945)
18. The Doll (Lubitsch, 1919)

I envy you getting to see these for the first time.

Rowland

04-05-2013, 08:47 AM

I envy you getting to see these for the first time.
Not as big a fan of the rest, or haven't seen them?

B-side

04-05-2013, 10:47 AM

Not as big a fan of the rest, or haven't seen them?

A combination of both. I've seen and liked (to varying degrees) 7, 12, 14, 15 and 16. I love the Arnold film, but it felt strange to say I envy you getting to see something so recent.

B-side

04-05-2013, 11:07 AM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
4. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran)
5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
6. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
8. Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf | 2000 | Multinational)
9. Martyrs of Love (Jan Nemec | 1967 | Czechoslovakia)
10. Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis | 1966 | USA)

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 | USA)
2. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf | 1998 | Iran/France)
3. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso | 2001 | Argentina)
4. The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran)
5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks | 1940 | USA)
6. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford | 1935 | USA)
7. Martyrs of Love (Jan Nemec | 1967 | Czechoslovakia)
8. The Burning Body (Walter Hugo Khouri | 1966 | Brazil)
9. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi | 1956 | Japan)
10. Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf | 2000 | Multinational)

Winston*

04-08-2013, 01:32 AM

Fiction:
The Red Shoes
Sansho the Bailiff
The Long Day Closes
The Master
The Lady From Shanghai
A Sense of History
Life of Pi
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
The Awful Truth
Django Unchained

From 11: The Forbidden Planet
La Jetée
Paranorman
Rust and Bone
Le Tableau
Sister
Coriolanus
Faust
House of the Devil
Wreck It Ralph
The Maltese Falcon
The Dictator
Stepbrothers
Lawless
Argo
Les Miserables
Silver Linings Playbook
The Amazing Spider-Man
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Safety Not Guaranteed

Documentary:
This is Not a Film
Deliver Us From Evil
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Senna
The Imposter
Samsara
The Gleaners and I
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
The Secret Glory
Trumbo

From 11:
Good Hair
In the Shadow of the Moon
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Ivan Drago

04-12-2013, 04:34 AM

1. Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)
2. Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, 2012)
3. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
4. Your Sister's Sister (Lynn Shelton, 2012)
5. Shut Up and Play The Hits (Southern/Lovelace, 2012)
6. Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2012)
7. The Five-Year Engagement (Nicholas Stoller, 2012)
8. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
10. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)

11. A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (Jones/et al, 2012)
12. Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012)
13. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
14. Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010)
15. Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012)

1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
2. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
3. Les Miserables (Tom Hooper, 2012)
4. Stoker (Park Chan-Wook, 2013)
5. Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)
6. Your Sister's Sister (Lynn Shelton, 2012)
7. Shut Up and Play The Hits (Southern/Lovelace, 2012)
8. A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (Jones/et al, 2012)
9. The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2012)
10. Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009)

11. Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2012)
12. The Five-Year Engagement (Nicholas Stoller, 2012)
13. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
14. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
15. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)
16. No (Pablo Lorrain, 2012)
17. Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012)
18. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
19. Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010)
20. Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012)

ContinentalOp

04-12-2013, 09:12 PM

1. The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2- ****
2. Everything Will Be Ok- *** 1/2
3. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
4. Argo- *** 1/2
5. Flight- *** 1/2
6. Sinister- ***
7. The Place Beyond the Pines- ***
8. Ruby Sparks- ***
9. Highway Patrolman- ***
10. Rise of the Guardians- ***

11. Dick Tracy- ***
12. Wreck-It Ralph- ***
13. End of Watch- ***
14. Fat City- ***
15. Killing Them Softly- ***
16. Larry Crowne- ***
17. ParaNorman- ** 1/2
18. The Master- ** 1/2
19. Sex & Fury- ** 1/2
20. Dredd- ** 1/2
21. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning- ** 1/2
22. Zero Dark Thirty- **
23. Bleeder- **
24. Lawless- **
25. The Campaign- * 1/2
26. Seven Psychopaths- * 1/2

Russ

04-13-2013, 04:19 PM

1. The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
2. La belle équipe / They Were Five (Julien Duvivier, 1936)
3. Carnet de bal, Un / Dance Program (Julien Duvivier, 1937)
4. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
5. The Castle of Sand (Yoshitaro Nomura, 1974)
6. The Stone Wedding (Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, 1973)
7. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
8. Girl Walk // All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)
9. Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979)
10. It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda, 1958)

Philosophe_rouge

04-16-2013, 01:37 AM

1. Kill Bill Vol. 2
2. Tea and Sympathy
3. All the President's Men
4. Amour
5. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6. God's Comedy
7. Zero Dark Thirty
8. Run Lola Run
9. Tarantino's Mind
10. The Best of Everything

Yxklyx

04-18-2013, 05:41 PM

1. High Hopes (1988, Mike Leigh)
2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
3. Take This Waltz (2011, Sarah Polley)
4. Life of Pi (2012, Ang Lee)
5. Nuts in May (1976, Mike Leigh)
6. Abigail's Party (1977, Mike Leigh)
7. Holy Motors (2012, Leo Carax)
8. The Loneliest Planet (2011, Julia Loktev)
9. The Imposter (2012, Bart Layton)
10. The Big Knife (1955, Robert Aldrich)

Scar

04-20-2013, 10:41 PM

1) Skyfall (2012) Scar Seal of Approval
2) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Most Excellent
3)Django Unchained (2012) "Kill white people and get paid for it? What's not to like?"
4) Jack Reacher (2012) Just what the doctor ordered.
5) Argo (2012) Good Shit
6) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Brutally fun. Filet 'o leg was glorious.
7) The Dark Knight Returns Complete (2012/2013) Bats has issues....
8) Dredd (2012) Entertaining
9) Paranorman (2012) I'll wait a little bit before watching this one w/ my niece
10) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) I like the white orc? Need a rewatch to see if it rises or plummets.

11) Flight (2012) Should I be drinking while watching this?
12) Batman Year One Ok, I guess
13) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Less than Meh
14) Red Dawn (2012) Police car vs Paratrooper = Awesome. The other 93+ mn, bleagh.
15) Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (2012) Copious decapitations aside, fuck this shit.
16) Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Absolute waste of my fucking time.

Kurious Jorge v3.1

04-21-2013, 08:06 AM

1. "N.Y., N.Y." (Francis Thompson/1957) 91
2. Innisfree (Jose-Luis Guerin/1990) 89
3. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman and friends/1994) 88
4. "Fountain of Dreams" (Jordan Belson/1984) 87
5. Route One USA (Robert Kramer/1989) 87
6. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara/1993) 86
7. "From The Window of My Room" (Cao Guimarães/2004) 86
8. "Devotions" (James Broughton, Joel Singer/1983) 86
9. "Boston Fire" (Peter Hutton/1979) 86
10. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie/1971) 85
Quixote (Bruce Baillie/1965) 85
Samsara (Ron Fricke/USA/2011) 85

EyesWideOpen

04-21-2013, 03:58 PM

1. Girl Walk // All Day (2011) A+
2. Stoker (2013) A+
3. Upstream Color (2013) A+
4. Side Effects (2013) A
5. Amour (2012) A
6. A Late Quartet (2012) A
7. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) A
8. The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) A
9. A Simple Life (2011) A-
10. Rust and Bone (2012) A-

Everything Else:

Spring Breakers (2013) A-
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) A-
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) A-
This Must Be the Place (2012) A-
Smashed (2012) A-
Metropolitan (1990) A-
Your Sister's Sister (2012) A-
Les Miserables (2012) A-
Seven Psychopaths (2012) A-
To the Wonder (2013) B+
Pieta (2012) B+
Jack Reacher (2012) B+
Iron Man 3 (2013) B+
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) B+
Evil Dead (2013) B+
Celeste + Jesse Forever (2012) B+
The Impossible (2012) B+
This is 40 (2012) B+
Perfect Sense (2011) B
Oblivion (2013) B
Antiviral (2012) B
The Day He Arrives (2011) B
This is Not a Film (2012) B
Sleepwalk with Me (2012) B
Compliance (2012) B
Dredd (2012) B
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) B
The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) B
The Factory (2012) B
Admission (2013) B-
Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011) B-
Sun Don't Shine (2013) B-
Nobody Walks (2012) B-
The Campaign (2012) B-
The ABC's of Death (2013) C+
Ruby Sparks (2012) C+
Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012) C+
Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013) C+
V/H/S (2012) C
Holy Motors (2012) C-
Pain & Gain (2013) C-
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012) C-
Room 237 (2013) C-
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) C-
John Dies at the End (2013) C-
Gangster Squad (2013) C-
Cirque du Soleil: World's Away (2012) C-
Chicken with Plums (2011) C-
Dark Horse (2012) D+
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) D
The Host (2013) D-

wigwam

04-24-2013, 01:06 AM

Ivan Drago

04-24-2013, 04:30 AM

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I'm assuming you're joking. The only thing that has me remotely interested in this is Andrew Niccol's direction.

wigwam

04-24-2013, 04:50 AM

I kind of am, but not completely and that's part of my love for it. I genuinely enjoyed it as entertaining sci-fi plus ironically found all kinds of brilliant social commentary in it. There's also 3 or 4 insanely beautiful tableaux that I was shocked to find in the middle of this kind of tweener popcorn junk. I mean, it's bad and the beginning is intensely terrible, but as it went along I just fell more and more in love with it and cartwheeled out of the theater. It's such a stupid movie that it's accidently genius, just like with The Happening.

baby doll

04-24-2013, 07:38 AM

Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1924)
American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964)
Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
L'innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976)
White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1982)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)Updated for the end of April.

MadMan

04-24-2013, 10:18 AM

1. Dead Ringers (1988), Netflix DVD
2. Breathless (1960), Netflix DVD/Criterion
3. Lost In Translation (2003), Netflix Instant Viewing
4. Valhalla Rising (2010), Netflix Instant Viewing
5. Chasing Amy (1997), Blu Ray
6. Naked Lunch (1991), Netflix DVD/Criterion
7. Bob le flambeur (1956), Netflix DVD/Criterion
8. Adam and Dog (2011), YouTube
9. Violent Cop (1989), Netflix DVD
10. Shame (2011), Netflx DVD

Muddled Middle:

11. Crash (1996), Netflix DVD
12. Mallrats (1995), Blu Ray
13. Red (2010), DVD
14. Head Over Heels (2012), YouTube
15. As Tears Go By (1988), Netflix Instant Viewing
16. Night Train To Munich (1940), Netflix Instant Viewing
17. Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" (2012), Online
18. Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Netflix Instant Viewing
19. Dredd (2012), Public Library
20. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
21. Paperman (2012), YouTube
22. Megamind (2010), FX

Worst:

23. Fresh Guacamole (2012), Showtime
24. Overdrawn At The Memory Bank (1985), YouTube with MSTK commentary

For ratings see here: http://madman731.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/movie-log/

baby doll

04-24-2013, 05:02 PM

10. Shame (2011), Netflx DVD[/FONT]

11. Crash (1996), Netflix DVDMaybe I had overly high expectations after Hunger but I thought Shame only got interesting towards the end with the suicide attempt. Like Somewhere but without Elle Fanning, it's another movie about a dude with white people problems (too much money, not enough heterosexual monogamy). Where's the suffering and bottomless despair?

Now Crash, on the other hand, that's fucking entertainment.

Yum-Yum

04-27-2013, 10:28 AM

1. Tuff Turf (Fritz Kiersch, 1985)
2. Blood Diner (Jackie Kong, 1987)
3. Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester, 1982)
4. Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982)
5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
6. Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983)
7. Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1983)
8. Convent of Sinners (Joe D'Amato, 1986)
9. Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)
10. Demoniacs, The (Jean Rollin, 1974)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Amer (Bruno Forzani, 2009)
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983)
Avengers, The (Joss Whedon, 2012)
Baby, The (Ted Post, 1973)
Bad Inclination (Pierfrancesco Campanella, 2003)
Being, The (Jackie Kong, 1983)
Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
Bitch Slap (Rick Jacobson, 2009)
Black Demons (Umberto Lenzi, 1991)
Black Shampoo (Greydon Clark, 1976)
Blood Diner (Jackie Kong, 1987)
Boys Next Door, The (Penelope Spheeris, 1985)
Cabin in the Woods, The (Drew Goddard, 2011)
Candy Snatchers, The (Guerdon Trueblood, 1973)
Candy Tangerine Man, The (Matt Cimber, 1975)
Cannibal Man, The (Eloy de la Iglesia, 1972)
Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991)
Cavegirl (David Oliver, 1985)
Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester, 1982)
Convent of Sinners (Joe D'Amato, 1986)
Cosmopolitan Girls, The (Roger Watkins, 1981)
Creepozoids (David DeCoteau, 1987)
Criminal Lovers (François Ozon, 1999)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
Death Walks at Midnight (Luciano Ercoli, 1972)
Death Walks on High Heels (Luciano Erocoli, 1971)
Demoniacs, The (Jean Rollin, 1974)
Dudes (Penelope Spheeris, 1987)
Dust Devil (Richard Stanley, 1992)
El Monstro Del Mar! (Stuart Simpson, 2010)
Empire Records (Alan Moyle, 1995)
Evil Dead, The (Sam Raimi, 1981)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, The (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)
Foreigner, The (Amos Poe, 1977)
Fuego (Armando Bo, 1969)
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964)
Girl from Rio, The (Jess Franco, 1969)
Horrors of Malformed Men (Teruo Ishii, 1969)
Headless Eyes, The (Kent Bateman, 1971)
Hunk (Lawrence Bassoff, 1987)
I Spit on Your Grave (Meir Zarchi, 1978)
Jabberwalk (Romano Vanderbes, 1977)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin, 1975)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1999)
My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981)
Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The (Emilio Miraglia, 1971)
Nightmares (Joseph Sargent, 1983)
Phantom of Death (Ruggero Deodato, 1988)
Pyjama Girl Case, The (Flavio Mogherini, 1977)
Rat Scratch Fever (Jeff Leroy, 2011)
Return to Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 2008)
Run and Kill (Billy Tang, 1993)
Savage Vengeance (Donald Farmer, 1993)
Sentinel, The (Michael Winner, 1977)
She Mob (Harry Wuest, 1968)
Slaughter High (George Dugdale, 1986)
Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)
Smash Cut (Lee Demarbre, 2009)
Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1983)
Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Kim Henkel, 1994)
Things (Andrew Jordan, 1989)
Tiptoes (Matthew Bright, 2003)
Toolbox Murders, The (Dennis Donnelly, 1978)
Tuff Turf (Fritz Kiersch, 1985)
Watch Me When I Kill (Antonio Bido, 1977)
Weekend Pass (Lawrence Bassoff, 1984)

Dead & Messed Up

04-28-2013, 01:19 AM

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro, 1991)
The Most Dangerous Game (Pichel & Schoedsack, 1932)
V/H/S (Adam Wingard et al, 2012)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Makoto Shinkai, 2004)
Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Vamps (Amy Heckerling, 2012)
Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958)
Explorers (Joe Dante, 1985)
The Specials (Craig Mazin, 2000)
The 'burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
Promised Land (Gus Van Sant, 2012)

Irish

04-28-2013, 03:55 AM

Damu, is that "spoiler" list in order? Because, Jesus, I really need to see "VHS" then.

Dead & Messed Up

04-28-2013, 04:25 AM

To be fair, horror anthologies can cut past my defenses pretty quickly, but I really did think a few of the segments were fantastic, and I dig on the spirit of such things. I especially liked how the segments were barely related by the "real footage" wrinkle, which allowed them to play differently with style and substance, as opposed to more unified flicks like Trick 'r Treat and Creepshow.

MadMan

04-28-2013, 10:45 AM

Maybe I had overly high expectations after Hunger but I thought Shame only got interesting towards the end with the suicide attempt. Like Somewhere but without Elle Fanning, it's another movie about a dude with white people problems (too much money, not enough heterosexual monogamy). Where's the suffering and bottomless despair?

Now Crash, on the other hand, that's fucking entertainment.I found Shame to be slowly engaging, grabbing my attention and causing me to actually care about a man with destructive tendencies. I thought that Crash could have gone farther enough, but once again I was indeed fascinated by the similar subject of people who could not let go of terrible habits. Both movie are worth seeing, and while I prefer Shame to Crash I wonder if my opinion will end up being switched by second viewings. There is a poetry involved in both, and since I engage in drinking, fast food, smoking weed sometimes and also questionable behavior at times I can all too well identify with the characters of both movies. I can't/won't comment about the suicide attempt...