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wigwam · Post by **wigwam** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:11 pm

Colonel Kurz wrote:Minnelli:

Tea and Sympathy
An American in Paris
The Bad and the Beautiful
Bells Are Ringing
Home from the Hill

Meet Me in St. Louis
Some Came Running
Cabin in the Sky
The Reluctant Debutante
Two Weeks in Another Town

Lust for Life
The Pirate
The Band Wagon
Brigadoon
Gigi

(here in a nicer presentation: http://letterboxd.com/kurz/list/vincent ... li-movies/)

nice to see someone else overrate Bells and underrate The Pirate like I do but the Two Weeks positioning calls THIS ALL INTO QUESTION1!!!

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:28 am

wigwam wrote:...but the Two Weeks positioning calls THIS ALL INTO QUESTION1!!!

seconded!

Loose Seal · Post by **Loose Seal** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:45 am

Though I lurk every day I've not posted in a while, but it's time for me to once again shamelessly promote my write-up on my favorite films of the previous year.
https://cinematicheavenandhell.wordpres ... in-review/

As always, mostly American mainstream stuff, and not the best writing out there, but I'm content and it is what it is. And it has the pretties banners I've been able to do so far.

wigwam · Post by **wigwam** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:56 pm

Loose Seal wrote: https://cinematicheavenandhell.wordpres ... in-review/

(i.e. the act of falling in love is shown as a complex medical procedure performed by cherubs)

love Plympton, need to see that

Shieldmaiden · Post by **Shieldmaiden** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:26 am

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/201507 ... ican-films

Counted, and I've seen only 67. So, I decided to pick three from the top 25 to watch today:

City Lights
The Searchers
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Epistemophobia · Post by **Epistemophobia** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:00 am

mccabe is heart

Shieldmaiden · Post by **Shieldmaiden** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:15 am

It's third because I was saving the best for last.

Captain Oats · Post by **Captain Oats** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:30 pm

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/a ... l-20150728

Captain Oats · Post by **Captain Oats** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:45 pm

July

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 6:54 am

Spengo wrote:July

While I'm not crazy about the cinematic equivalent of a black hole making the top spot, I've always been a big fan of T2/The Train, so that helps balance things out some in the end.

Captain Oats · Post by **Captain Oats** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:34 am

Now there's a hot take.

jade_vine · Post by **jade_vine** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 11:07 am

July:

1. Le Vent d'est (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1970)
2. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung, 1984)
3. Vampyros lesbos (Jesús Franco, 1971)
4. Movimentos Perpétuos: Cine-Tributo a Carlos Paredes (Edgar Pêra, 2006)
5. Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard, 2002)
6. The Fourth Dimension (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 2001)
7. I Married a Witch (René Clair, 1942)
8. Runaway Nightmare (Michael Cartel, 1982)
9. Eli Eli, Lema Sabachthani? (Shinji Aoyama, 2005)
10. Traumstadt (Johannes Schaaf, 1973)

Kayden Kross · Post by **Kayden Kross** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 1:28 pm

War Zone is just so bubbly and colourful!

snapper · Post by **snapper** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:23 pm

July

A+
-

A
1. Like Grains of Sand (1995, Hashiguchi)
2. The Music Room (1958, Ray)

A-
3. Days of ’36 (1972, Angelopoulos)
4. The Garden of Women (1954, Kinoshita)

B+
5. Portrait of Hell (1969, Toyoda)
6. How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1990, Farocki)
7. Okuni and Gohei (1952, Naruse)
8. Le bonheur (1965, Varda)

B
9. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985, Greenaway)
10. Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967, Schmidt)

B-
11. The Mirror (1975, Tarkovsky)
12. Eat Sleep Die (2012, Pichler)
13. Les enfants (1985, Duras)
14. The Gold Diggers (1983, Potter)
15. L’amant (2004, Hiroki)

C+
16. Flammes (1978, Arrieta)
17. The Last House on the Left (1972, Craven)

C
18. The Pact (2012, McCarthy)
19. Days of Youth (1929, Ozu)
20. Effi Briest (1974, Fassbinder)

C-
-

D
-

F
-

Pic
LIKE GRAINS OF SAND
RU – THE MUSIC ROOM

Dir
PETER GREENAWAY / A Zed & Two Noughts
RU – THEODOROS ANGELOPOULOS / Days of ‘36

Actor
YOSHINORI OKADA / Like Grains of Sand
RU – CHHABI BISWAS / The Music Room

Actress
MARGARITA TEREKHOVA / The Mirror
RU – MICHIYO KOGURE / Okuni and Gohei

S Actor
KINNOSUKE NAKAMURA / Portrait of Hell
RU – DAVID HESS / The Last House on the Left

S Actress
AYUMI HAMASAKI / Like Grains of Sand
RU – HIDEKO TAKAMINE / The Garden of Women

A Screenplay
THE MUSIC ROOM
RU – PORTRAIT OF HELL

O Screenplay
LIKE GRAINS OF SAND
RU – EAT SLEEP DIE

snapper · Post by **snapper** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:32 pm

First 150 films I've seen this year. * denotes picks of the batch:

3-Iron (Kim)
A Child in the Crowd (Blain)
A City of Sadness (Hou)
A New Leaf (May)
A Single Girl (Jacquot)
A Wife’s Heart (Naruse)
A Woman’s Place (Naruse)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway)
AKA Serial Killer (Adachi)
Akira (Ōtomo)
Alice (Švankmajer)
American Dreams (lost and found) (Benning)
An Angel at My Table (Campion)
An Inlet of Muddy Water (Imai)
Apart from You (Naruse)
Aprili (Iosseliani)
Ashes and Embers (Gerima)
Baptême (Féret)
Barren Lives (Pereira dos Santos)
Baxter, Vera Baxter (Duras)
Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder)
Border Incident (Mann)
Boyhood (Linklater)
Breaking News (To)
Brief Encounters (Muratova)
Cake (Barnz)
Cargo 200 (Balabanov)
Castle of Sand (Nomura)
* Children in the Wind (Shimizu)
* Crimson Gold (Panahi)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (Naruse)
Days of ’36 (Angelopoulos)
Days of Youth (Ozu)
Destroy, She Said (Duras)
Downfall (Im)
Drôle de drame (Carné)
Eat Sleep Die (Pichler)
Echoes of Silence (Goldman)
Effi Briest (Fassbinder)
* Elle a passé tant d’heures sous les sunlights… (Garrel)
Fallen Angels (Wong)
Few of Us (Bartas)
Field Guide to November Days (Peterson)
Flammes (Arrieta)
* Gertrud (Dreyer)
God’s Comedy (Monteiro)
Goodbye First Love (Hansen-Løve)
Helter Skelter (Ninagawa)
Hotel Monterey (Akerman)
How to Live in the German Federal Republic (Farocki)
I Am an S+M Writer (Hiroki)
I Am Keiko (Sono)
I Flunked, But… (Ozu)
I Was Born, But… (Ozu)
* In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
In the Family (Wang)
India Song (Duras)
It Follows (Mitchell)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Eisenstein)
Jackal of Nahueltoro (Littín)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Tanner)
* Khrustalyov, My Car! (German)
La perle (d’Ursel)
La rupture (Chabrol)
La vie de bohème (Kaurismäki)
La vie de Jésus (Dumont)
L’amant (Hiroki)
Late August at the Hotel Ozone (Schmidt)
Le bonheur (Varda)
Le camion (Duras)
Le Horla (Pollet)
Le jeune Werther (Doillon)
Leila (Mehrjui)
Les enfants (Duras)
* Like Grains of Sand (Hashiguchi)
Lola (Fassbinder)
Love Like Poison (Quillévéré)
Love Streams (Cassavetes)
M (Hiroki)
Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore (Jacobson)
Mauvais sang (Carax)
Metropolitan (Stillman)
Mommy (Dolan)
Nachalo (Panfilov)
Nathalie Granger (Duras)
Night Watch (Cozarinsky)
O Sangue (Costa)
Okuni and Gohei (Naruse)
Pari (Mehrjui)
Police (Pialat)
Port of Flowers (Kinoshita)
Portrait of Hell (Toyoda)
River (Hiroki)
* Romance (Breillat)
* Rosetta (Dardenne & Dardenne)
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Kinoshita)
Simple Men (Hartley)
* Sombre (Grandrieux)
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (Duras)
Sound and Fury (Brisseau)
Sound Barrier (Naderi)
Starry Eyes (Kölsch & Widmyer)
Summer Clouds (Naruse)
That Night’s Wife (Ozu)
That Old Dream That Moves (Guiraudie)
* The Aviator’s Wife (Rohmer)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
The Brady Bunch Movie (Thomas)
The Crowd (Vidor)
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong)
The Dreamlife of Angels (Zonca)
The Egoists (Hiroki)
The Enclosed Valley (Rousseau)
The Garden of Women (Kinoshita)
The Gold Diggers (Potter)
The Lady and the Beard (Ozu)
The Last House on the Left (Craven)
* The Last of England (Jarman)
The Lightning Tree (Hiroki)
The Lonely Voice of Man (Sokurov)
* The Long Day Closes (Davies)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
* The Music Room (Ray)
The Nest (de Armiñán)
The Pact (McCarthy)
The River Fuefuki (Kinoshita)
The Traveller (Kiarostami)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
The Witness (Bacsó)
The Yotsuya Ghost Story, Part 1 (Kinoshita)
The Yotsuya Ghost Story, Part 2 (Kinoshita)
* The Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy)
There’s Always Tomorrow (Sirk)
Thérèse (Cavalier)
* Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (Jang)
Times of Joy and Sorrow (Kinoshita)
Tokyo Chorus (Ozu)
Utopia (Shahid-Saless)
Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)
Walk Cheerfully (Ozu)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
When a Stranger Calls (Walton)
Where Chimneys Are Seen (Gosho)
Where Is the Friend’s Home? (Kiarostami)
Whiplash (Chazelle)
White Beast (Naruse)
Yellow Elephant (Hiroki)

MadMan · Post by **MadMan** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:36 am

Horrorfest 2015 List (so far):

Netflix Instant Viewing

1. The Babadook (2014, creature feature)
2. Pet Sematary 2 (1992, demonic)
3. Housebound (2014, ghosts)
4. Late Phases (2014, werewolf)
5. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977, mad scientist)
6. Troll (1986, creature feature)
7. Disturbing Behavior (1998, crazy people)
8. Nightbreed: Director’s Cut (1990, monsters)
9. V/H/S: Viral (2014, anthology)
10. Starry Eyes (2014, crazy people)
11. Almost Human (2013, slasher)
12. The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013, giallo)
13. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014, vampire)
14. The Quiet Ones (2014, ghosts)
15. Ghoulies Go To College (1991, monsters)
16. Leprechaun 3 (1995, creature feature)
17. Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997, creature feature)
18. Ju-on: The Grudge (2002, ghosts)
19. Damien: The Omen II (1978, demonic)
20. Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981, demonic)
21. The Fly (1958, creature feature)
22. Dead Silence (2007, killer puppets)
23. Deep Star Six (1989, creature feature)
24. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988, demonic)
25. Vampire in Brooklyn (1995, vampires)
26. The Sacrament (2013, crazy people)
27. Murders In The Rue Morgue (1971, slasher)
28. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, aliens)

Other Media:

29. IT (1990, creature feature)
30. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986, slasher)
31. Society (1989, creature feature)
32. Murder Party (2007, slasher)
33. Q The Winged Serpent (1982, creature feature)
34. Night of the Demons 2 (1994, demonic)
35. God Told Me To (1976, crazy people)

Shieldmaiden · Post by **Shieldmaiden** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:50 pm

MadMan wrote:Netflix Instant Viewing

Best one you missed:

1. Rigor Mortis

MadMan · Post by **MadMan** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 5:39 am

Shieldmaiden wrote:Best one you missed:

1. Rigor Mortis

Added to the list.

jade_vine · Post by **jade_vine** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:10 pm

Me and a friend were just thinking that movies about painters tend to be good. Top fives anyone?

1. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
2. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
3. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
4. The Quince Tree Sun (Víctor Erice, 1992)
5. Pirosmani (Georgiy Shengelaya, 1969)

snapper · Post by **snapper** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 9:31 pm

El sol del membrillo! yusss

Schalcken the Painter is good

cloak · Post by **cloak** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 7:56 pm

1. van gogh (pialat)
2. edvard munch (watkins)
3. quince tree of the sun (erice)
4. andrei rublev (tarkovsky)
5. the beautiful troublemaker (rivette)

Shieldmaiden · Post by **Shieldmaiden** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 12:37 pm

Best film about a painter?

Not only does it do a lot of clever things visually, telling a plausible story through characters/symbolism/tableaux taken from his art, but it has a real feel for painting – demonstrating undercoats and layers, the process.

Perverted Hermit · Post by **Perverted Hermit** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:43 pm

First 150 films I've seen this year. What the fuck man? What kinda list is that...

jade_vine · Post by **jade_vine** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:48 pm

Shieldmaiden wrote:Best film about a painter?

Not only does it do a lot of clever things visually, telling a plausible story through characters/symbolism/tableaux taken from his art, but it has a real feel for painting – demonstrating undercoats and layers, the process.

Yeah, it's definitely a great and unique portrait of an artist. Though the reproductions of his paintings look a bit garish at times. What can you do, though, I suppose?

Three great documentaries on painters from great directors that I forgot:

Dong (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
The Artist and the City (Manoel de Oliveira, 1956)
Lucebert, Time and Farewell (Johan van der Keuken, 1994)

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:58 pm

Not sure about a top five, but Ruiz' Klimt and Stelling's Rembrand Fecit 1667 are definitely up there.

JediMoonShyne · Post by **JediMoonShyne** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:24 pm

Also,

F for Fake
Basquiat
Lust for Life
Utamaro and His Five Women
Séraphine

Shieldmaiden · Post by **Shieldmaiden** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:12 pm

cloak wrote:1. van gogh (pialat)

JediMoonShyne wrote:Basquiat

Would vote for these, also.

snapper · Post by **snapper** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:30 pm

JediMoonShyne wrote:Also,

F for Fake
Basquiat
Lust for Life
Utamaro and His Five Women
Séraphine

Portrait of Hell! Plenty of Japanese ones I'm forgetting surely

Philosophe rouge · Post by **Philosophe rouge** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:53 pm

check out my month of August. I saw SOO many great movies <3

https://beyondtheredroom.wordpress.com/ ... in-review/

Captain Oats · Post by **Captain Oats** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:36 pm

August

Shieldmaiden · Post by **Shieldmaiden** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:02 am

Best of August

Van Gogh
Caravaggio
The Arrival of Joachim Stiller
Ned Rifle
Minority Report
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Nayak: The Hero
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Malpertuis
Pirosmani

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 2:33 pm

august

hello, dolly! (considering it a first time, as i couldn't recall it at all)
rocky II
rocky balboa
rocky IV
rocky III
rocky
murder by contract
wet hot american summer
demolition man
rocky V

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:03 pm

ribbon wrote: rocky II
rocky balboa
rocky IV
rocky III
rocky
rocky V

One and four best though.

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:15 pm

Yeah, I realize my rating isn't a popular one

. But mm melodrama <3333

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:20 pm

You like it when he wins.

ribbon wrote:But mm melodrama <3333

<3
Bollywood!

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:21 pm

I don't like high pitched melodrama.

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:23 pm

Hence your dislike of West Side Story.

I guess you like it more mubmly and muscly?

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:28 pm

mmyes. also sweaty.

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:35 pm

Meaty, even.

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:37 pm

I just love his sweet little stoops brain

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:40 pm

Speaking of stoops, is Rambo next?

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:47 pm

Been there. The first is great fun, the rest are not.

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:48 pm

tbh Cliffhanger is where it's at.

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:51 pm

As a kid I saw ads for that in magazines and thought that was where the term came from.

ribbon · Post by **ribbon** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:56 pm

haha you were stoops huh

Colonel Kurz · Post by **Colonel Kurz** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:03 pm

Well... to be fair it wasn't my language at 8-9 years old... I know, excuses, excuses...

Captain Oats · Post by **Captain Oats** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:35 pm

Welp.

jade_vine · Post by **jade_vine** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 1:14 am

August

1. An Inn in Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954)
2. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
4. Kyrie Eleison (Hisayasu Satô, 1993)
5. Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1972)
6. Arising from the Surface (Mani Kaul, 1980)
7. Thimble Theater (Joseph Cornell, 1938)
8. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
9. Dead Birds (Robert Gardner, 1963)
10. Emergency Squad (Stelvio Massi, 1974)

snapper · Post by **snapper** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:09 pm

August

A+
-

A
1. Au cœur de la vie (1963, Enrico)
2. The Conversation (1974, Coppola)
3. F for Fake (1973, Welles)

A-
4. O Drakos (1956, Koundouros)
5. An Angel at My Table (1990, Campion)
6. Children of the Beehive (1948, Shimizu)
7. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr)
8. Rien que les heures (1926, Cavalcanti)

B+
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)
10. Bushidō: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963, Imai)
11. An American in Paris (1951, Minnelli)

B
12. Barren Lives (1963, Pereira dos Santos)

B-
13. Le navire Night (1979, Duras)

C+
14. Lili Marleen (1981, Fassbinder)
15. The Good Fairy (1951, Kinoshita)
16. Love on Sunday (2006, Hiroki)
17. A Wanderer’s Notebook (1962, Naruse)
18. Rails (1929, Camerini)

C
19. The Moon Has Risen (1955, Tanaka)
20. Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bertolucci)

C-
-

D
-

F
-

BEST PICTURE
Au cœur de la vie
(RU: The Conversation)

BEST DIRECTOR
Robert Enrico, Au cœur de la vie
(RU: Orson Welles, F for Fake)

BEST ACTOR
Gene Hackman, The Conversation
(RU: Dinos Iliopoulos, O Drakos)

BEST ACTRESS
Kerry Fox, An Angel at My Table
(RU: Hanna Schygulla, Lili Marleen)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Roger Jacquet, Au cœur de la vie
(RU: Stéphane Fey, Au cœur de la vie)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Nina Foch, An American in Paris
(RU: Karen Fergusson, An Angel at My Table)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
An Angel at My Table
(RU: A Clockwork Orange)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
F for Fake
(RU: O Drakos)

Captain Oats · Post by **Captain Oats** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:11 am

September