Saturday, April 12, 2014

Movie talk 76

Walkabout (Nicolas Noeg) 8 (wow new film language, need a copy)
After hours (Scosesse) 6 (ok do we need to be surprised all along the movie?)
Frances Ha (Noah) 6 (The only good thing about this movie is how young generation - or maybe some of them -lives their lives in USA)
Barbarian invasions
An angel at the table (Jane campion)
The decline of the American expire
Le Grande Bouffe
Audition
Closely watched trains
Jesus of Montreal
La Vie de Jsus (life of Jesus)
Picnic at hanging rock
The city of your final destination (Jame Ivory) Revisit
Death in Venice (Visconti)
Mahler (Ken Russell)
American Gigolo
Germany, Pale mother
The damned (Visconti)
Women in love (Ken Russell)
La Caza (Carlos Saura)
Memories of underdevelopment
Yeelen (Solomani Sise)
Local hero (Bill Forsyth)
Deus e o diabo na terra do sol
He who hits first, hits twice (Santiago Alvarez)
Timecode (Mike Figgis)


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Movie talk 75

The children are watching us (De Sica) 9 (how many movies can you remember in your life when you die? - this is one of them)
Pierrot Le Fou (Godard) 9
Nothing but a man (michael Boemer)
Letter from an unknown woman (Max Ophuls) 5 (hate this noblety thing)
Les Cousins (Claude Charbrol) 7 (not sure how good the ending is)
Melo (Resnais) 8 True masterpiece
La Guerre Est Finie (Resnais) 8
Girl with a suitcase (Valerio Zurlini) 8 (great film language, clean)
Violent summer (Valerio Zurlini) 7
A man escaped (Bresson) 8
Wild reeds (revisit, Andre Techine) 8
Sergei Einstein autobiography 7
Wend Kunni (7)
Beyond the clouds (Antonioni) 7 (there are some good shots should have had a copy
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle) 7 (too story-eyy)
Kaagaz ke Phool (Guru dutt) 7 (some good shots)

ALSO WATCHED:
Electra, my love (Miklos Jancso) 6 ok long takes long shot but so what? what is that important?
The were expendables (John ford) 6 - as much as people like me don't care about john ford, I appreciate this movie being very low key in describing soldiers' everyday life like normal
The marquise of O (Eric Rohmer) 6 - I actually feel this movie is high-evaluated as some of his others - it is like a stage play: fake.
Children of men (Alfonso) 7
vive l'amore (Tsai ming-liang) 7
Hands over the city (Rosi) 7.5
The knack and how to get it 6 sorry not my tea
Que viva Mexico! (Eisenstein) 7
Gaslight (1944) 7
Duck soap 8 Incredibly funny (airplane copied some of the tricks)
Pelle the conqueror (Bille August) 8 masterpiece

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Movie talk 74

Distant voices, still life (Terence Davies) 7 Semi-autobiography - i am not sure the style.
The tenant (Polanski) 7 Interesting, but lacking something to become a masterpiec
Come and see 6
Paradise: hope (Uldrich) 6 (a bit disappointing)

Friday, January 03, 2014

Movie talk 73

Let the right one in 6 (only some shots are good when they first met)
Take shelter 7 (I am not sure, it is intriguing, but very far from a masterpiece)
Vicent and theo (Altman) 4 (worst Altman film)
Blast of silence 7 (oh, THE black white film)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Richard Thorpe) 7 (decent story, that's it)
The assassination of Richard Nixon 7
Persona (Bergman) 7
Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
Paradise: Faith (Ulrich)
The heiress
Bubble (Soderberg) 7 (some great shots of the environment)
'Night mother
Duck soup 8
Naked (Mike leigh)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray) (some good elements) 7
El Sol del Membrillo (Victor Erice) 7
Manon (Clouzot)
Wartime moments (videotape can't watch)
Insect woman 8
Videodrome 7 (good start, terrible ending)
Pelle the conqueror
Lars and the real girl
Harold and Maude
The perks of being a wallflower (intriguing, funny, and thats it) 7
Mary and Max
Adaptation
Elling 6
The complete Jean Vigo (4 films)
Repulsion
A taste of honey
Mr. Brooks 6 (hollywood)
Three days of condor 7 (hollywood)
The Machinist 7 (good built-up, just for hit and run?)


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Movie talk 72

Mayerling 7
Amour (Haneke) What a dissapointment! 6 (so there is tension, but so what)
Before midnight 6 (tired of these dialogues, where are our film language)
Playtime (Tati) 6 (not sure if I like these sound designs)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) 8 (masterpiece)
The unbelievable truth (selected by sundance? 1989) 2
The tale of Hoffman (Powell & Pressburger 1951) didn't finish
The browning version (Anthony Asquith, written by Ratigan) 8 Need watch again and again
Murmur of the heart (Malle)
Diabolique (Clouzot) 8 (great intriguing story)
Five easy pieces 8 (great movie need to watch again)
The learning tree
The misfits 7(not bad, better than most hollywood movies - what I mean most is 99.9%)
The conformist
Dark water 7 (horror so what)
Tender mercies 7 (great clean shots all over)
Diva
Giant 7
The silence (bergman) 9 (need to watch once per year, at least)
Through a glass darkly (revisit) (bergman) 7 (lacking things to become masterpiece)
Psycho (Hitchcock) 8
Lenny 8 (better than most hollywood movies)
God bless America 6 (an okay comedy)
Le Corbeau (The raven)7
The last circus 5 (not be able to finish)
Mind of a rampage killer (Dateline show)6
Falling down 7 (masterpiece beginning sequence from 8.5 afterwards just ok)
Bob Hoskins - the lonely passion of Ms. ...6
Ironweed 5 (seriously, Jack and Merryl nominated for best actors?)
Observe and report (okay comedy)
Quai des orfevres 7
To play or to die (spelen of sterven) 7 (50 minutes movie, ends abruptly, need to be a feature length)
look back in anger (screenplay 3 points, directing: 8 points) 5
Il Bidone (Fellini) 7 One of the worst Fellini's works
Intervista (Fellini) 8
Billy liar 7
To the wonder (Malick) 4 Worst Malick movie so far
Lust for life (Vicente) 6 so so





Saturday, November 23, 2013

movie talk 71

Taking off (Milos Forman) 7 Milos is great!
The damned (Rene Clement)
City light (choplin) 8
Variety (E. A. Dupont) 8 Need watch again
Maya Deren's experiment shorts 7 need watch again
Pieta (Kim Ki Don?) 7
Gervaise (Rene Clement) 8 (great white black movie)

Jean Renoir's collection:
Whirlpool of fate
Nana
Charleston Parade
The little match girl 6 (so so, some montages are nice)
La Marseillaise
The doctor's horrible experiment
The elusive Corporal


Monday, November 04, 2013

Movie talk 70

The crowd (king vidor) 8 (need watch again, masterpiece)
Berlin, a symphony of a great city 8 (great shots)
The arsenal (dovzhenko) 8 (great shots)
A hijacking 5 (very so so)
The apartment
From here to eternity 8 (one of top hollywood movies)
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi) 7 (great shots)
The blood of a poet (Cocteau) 7 (great shots)

Stagecoach (John Ford) 7 - one of better works of way over-valued John ford
Dog day afternoon (Sidney Lumet) 7
Bringing up baby (Howard Hawk) 8 (surprisingly funny!)
All quiet on the western front
Anatomy of a murder


Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Movie talk 69

Upstream color (not be able to finish)
Big deal at modonna st
Mickey one (Penn) 7
Portrait of Jennie 8 (need watch again) very un-hollywood
Luis bunnuel 2 movies (one is good, the other is terrible)
Gate of hell (7) not crazy about the story)
birds (7)
39 steps (7)
Essential Killing (6, one of the worst polish movies)
The battle of the rail 7
Kind hearts and coronets 7
Senso 7
Richard III (not be able to finish)
Pepe Le Moko 8 MASTERPIECE!
The kids with a bike 6 (Worst film from Darlene brothers)
Hate 8 (tension, intriguing and realistic)
Harold Lloyd Collections (many are very very good!)8
Stalker
The rules of the game 8 (true classic)

City of God 8
Vidas Secas 8 MASTERPIECE!!!
La Roue (the wheel) 8 MASTERPIECE
Michael Powell's films:
A matter of life and death
Age of consent
Alexander Korda's four films:
The private life of Henry III
The rise of Cathrine the great
Rembrandt 8 Really good!
The private life of Don Juan
Double Indemnity 8
Love me tonight (Douben Mamoulien) (Surprisingly good) (8)
The phantom of Carriage 8
Port of shadows(MASTERPIECE!!!!) 9 (a movie that needs to be watched every year like 8 1/2)