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Charles Foster Kane · Sep 1, 2015

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dno_1966 · Sep 1, 2015

Playing catch up: -

Interstellar - I was pretty disappointed with it really, especially the tesseract. Overall it looked good but some of the acting and the script especially, let it down for me.

Nightcrawler - loved it, slightly to my surprise as I wasn't expecting much. I found it really funny, most I've laughed at a film in ages, he's just so odd.

Birdman - Left me a bit cold, I'm glad I saw it but it didn't blow me away, just seemed a bit too pleased with itself.

Whiplash - Really enjoyed it, kept me guessing as to what would happen, which I liked. The drumming was great. Also made me laugh a fair bit because the teacher was just so OTT obnoxious.

Ex Machina next...

karasu · Sep 1, 2015

Top 5 of August

1. Solaris
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Thin Red Line
5. Possession(1981)

Charles Foster Kane · Sep 1, 2015

I didn't even watch 5 movies last month. lol

Forgetting what it's like to watch movies

Will try to do much better this month.

madkiller · Sep 1, 2015

Top 5 (first watches) of August

1) Extreme Prejudice (1987) - Dir. Walter Hill
2) Targets (1968) - Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
3) Johnny Guitar (1954) - Dir. Nicholas Ray
4) You Only Live Once (1937) - Dir. Fritz Lang
5) The Conformist (1970) - Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci

not psycho · Sep 1, 2015

Top 5 first time watches of August

1. The Lady Eve (1941)
2. City Lights (1931)
3. Memories of Murder (2003)
4. High and Low (1963)
5. Barton Fink (1991)

Kazaam · Sep 1, 2015

My first time on a Movies You've Seen Recently thread, so I'll try to answer the few questions about myself.

1. It is absolutely impossible to choose a favourite film, but the film that probably had the biggest impact and influence on me is Federico Fellini's "Otto e mezzo". I was quite young when I first saw it and it really made me realise there are no limits in cinema in terms of creativity. It's an amazingly free, witty and bold film, with what I still think it's one of the most wonderful endings.

2. I think this is even harder than with films. I'll just list a few of my favourite directors throughout my life: Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Chantal Akerman, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming Liang, etc.

3. Marcello Mastroianni. Monica Vitti.

4. Drama, I guess..

Top 5 of August
(lucky enough to see all these films premiere at the Locarno Film Festival)

1. No Home Movie (2015)
2. Bella e perduta (2015)
3. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
4. Cosmos (2015)
5. Happy Hour (2015)

Divius · Sep 1, 2015

Back from my holiday and ready to watch some movies again! Will also start collecting horror movies for the 31 Days of Horror 2015 challenge next month (also taking suggestions).

TOP 5 NEW VIEWINGS OF AUGUST
5. Argento's Sleepless
4. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
3. Zatôichi
2. The Verdict
1. Battleship Potemkin

BEST AND ONLY REWATCH
Evil Dead 2

TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared · Sep 1, 2015

I have a letterboxd!

http://letterboxd.com/MadManWithaBox/

in terms of what I seen recently

Mission impossible rogue nation - 3.5/5 - Tom Cruise may be crazy, but he's a real good actor, and I liked this a lot. Not sure how much I like constant setting up for sequels though.

We are your friends - 2.5/5 - Erm, kinda generic coming of age story, trying to be more gritty and edgy than it should have been. I'm not a huge fan of electric dance music like this, but maybe if I was I'd enjoy it more. Kinda mediocre, don't recommend.

Paper towns - 3/5 - Yet another kinda mediocre YA fiction adaption. Cara Delevingne is still awesome as fuck. It looks kinda nice. It definitely isn't a paper movie

SuperInuit · Sep 1, 2015

Welcome Kazaam! Always cool to see a new poster.

Kinda a top 7 from me:

1) Nosferatu The Vampyre or Woyzeck
2) Apocalypse Now
3) Manhattan
4) Aguirre: The Wrath of God
5) Amadeus
6) Labyrinth

I think my film watching quota is gonna sky rocket in a couple weeks after I move to uni...

Akahige · Sep 1, 2015

Force Majeure (2014) - Brutal fucking movie, expertly framed and directed, this is a film I'll remember for a long time. I was not expecting this to be as funny as it was, I had to pause the movie near the end because I was laughing too hard when

during the whiteout the father leave the children, goes out to find his wife screaming for help, comes back to children carrying wife, places her down smiling, then she gets up and walks away to go grab her skies, the guy was just so proud of himself. I loved how many awkward humorous moments this moves had.

UrbanRats · Sep 1, 2015

Top 5:

1) A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence.
2) Match factory girl.
3) Jauja
...
4) Fast & Furious 7.
...
5) Ex Machina.

Aside from the top 3, most movies this month bored me quite a bit, not sure what the worst one would be though.

BaronLundi · Sep 1, 2015

Welcome Kazaam! Always cool to see a new poster

who doesn't seem to think that Speed Racer is the pinnacle of cinema.

phoenixyz · Sep 1, 2015

My Top 5:

1. The Breakfast Club
2. Furious 7
3. La Haine
4. Filth
5. Strange Days

Moppeh · Sep 1, 2015

It's been a while since I posted here and my Letterboxd isn't up to date, but I'm pretty sure this is my top 5 from last month:

1. La Dolce Vita
2. Once Upon a Time In The West
3. On The Waterfront
4. Rear Window
5. The General

I had a great month for new films and I hope this one is equally baller.

Currently halfway through Alphaville. It's my third Godard film and I can already tell that I like it a lot less than Breathless or Le Mepris. Its anachronistic mise en scene does give it a lot of charm, but that's the only thing keeping me interested.

SuperInuit · Sep 1, 2015

BaronLundi said:
Welcome Kazaam! Always cool to see a new poster

who doesn't seem to think that Speed Racer is the pinnacle of cinema.

People really think that?

AnkitT · Sep 1, 2015

Top 5 from august:
1. Algorithms
2. Cop car
3. Clouds of sils maria
4. The salt of the earth
5. The duke of burgundy

BaronLundi · Sep 1, 2015

SuperInuit said:
People really think that?

Wait til we have the result for the best films of all time thread

Every film thread on GAF except this one makes me want to curl up and cry.

Kazaam · Sep 1, 2015

SuperInuit said:
Welcome Kazaam! Always cool to see a new poster.

BaronLundi said:
Welcome Kazaam! Always cool to see a new poster

Thank you! It's really nice to see so many great films mentioned in this thread.

Currygan · Sep 1, 2015

slow month for me, due to holidays and general low choice of movies actually worth watching. Top new movies for August

- Rampart
- Cruising
- Ned Beatty taking Godzilla's tail up his arse raw and smiling about it

-Chef
-Four weddings and a fucking bore of a fucking movie

best rewatch - The Fugitive

worst Sean Bean movie ever - Ca$h

SuperInuit · Sep 1, 2015

BaronLundi said:
Wait til we have the result for the best films of all time thread

Every film thread on GAF except this one makes me want to curl up and cry.

I'm not gonna look at the results xD

True Savior · Sep 1, 2015

You guys know what i did ? I bought an vhs yesterday (less than a dollar). The thing is i saw Nolte with an hat in the cover and thought it was the Walter Hill movie (he's a texas ranger) but it wasn't. It was Mulholland Falls. A movie which i suppose hired every single B-actor in hollywood (Nolte , Melaine Griffith , Palminteri , Madsen , Chris Penn , Daniel Baldwin , Kyle Chandler , Titus Welliver , W. Petersen , Bruce Dern) and Malkovich and gorgeous Jennifer Connely. This should be a good LA noirish kind of movie but it isnt. There's 4 cops going over a case but why 4 ? 2 of them are ditched in the final act. Nolte does the usual repressed angry. The opening scene is way too explicit regarding the case. Just an awkward production. I wouldn't buy this for a dollar.

I love the LA setting though.

Ayumi · Sep 1, 2015

Hi, I'm new & I made a thingie. (๑´・ω・`&#3665

http://letterboxd.com/ayu/

Working on updating it!

thenexus6 · Sep 1, 2015

My August watch list, * = seen before

Wet Hot American Summer
A Scanner Darkly *
Hana Bi *
Grave of the Fireflies *
Insomnia *
Serpico
Good Will Hunting
Eyes Wide Shut
The Odd Couple
The people under the stairs

UrbanRats · Sep 1, 2015

This movie "Rebel" (or Return of Rebel, not sure) was in the Youtube recommended videos, 'cause i was watching some Bollywood trailers, i assume.
I started watching it as a joke, since it had subtitles, but i ended up watching almost an hour of this absolutely nauseating insanity.

It was mostly nonsensical garbage, with a sickening editing and camera work (i mean like, it gave me motion sickness) but this moment was absolutely brilliant:

Blader · Sep 1, 2015

Once Upon a Time in America
I've had one of my unpredictable changes of heart. When I first saw this some years ago, I came away hating it pretty fiercely. Now, well, I like it. I still think Noddles' kid actor is pretty shit, but overall, for whatever reason, I found this a lot more engrossing and interesting than I had the first time. It's also funny how much more of Leone's style is in this movie than I remember. Maybe because I've just gotten more familiar with Leone's films since I first saw this, but scenes like the opening with the three gunmen searching for Noodles (very Once Upon a Time in the West-ish) to even the way guards file out of and surround the bank, which reminds me of similar blocking in FAFDM or Duck You Sucker.

Anyway, all that said, top 5 watches of August:

1. Bulworth
2. Mad Max
3. Strangers on a Train
4. Revolver
5. Once Upon a Time in America (rewatch)

Sanjuro · Sep 1, 2015

BaronLundi said:
Wait til we have the result for the best films of all time thread

Every film thread on GAF except this one makes me want to curl up and cry.

Is this the thread where we rank our favorite Marvel films from best to greatest?!

Currygan · Sep 1, 2015

True Savior said:
You guys know what i did ? I bought an vhs yesterday (less than a dollar). The thing is i saw Nolte with an hat in the cover and thought it was the Walter Hill movie (he's a texas ranger) but it wasn't. It was Mulholland Falls. A movie which i suppose hired every single B-actor in hollywood (Nolte , Melaine Griffith , Palminteri , Madsen , Chris Penn , Daniel Baldwin , Kyle Chandler , Titus Welliver , W. Petersen , Bruce Dern) and Malkovich and gorgeous Jennifer Connely. This should be a good LA noirish kind of movie but it isnt. There's 4 cops going over a case but why 4 ? 2 of them are ditched in the final act. Nolte does the usual repressed angry. The opening scene is way too explicit regarding the case. Just an awkward production. I wouldn't buy this for a dollar.

I love the LA setting though.

that's one hell of a cast, quantitatively speaking. Also, a VHS? I'll be damned, you can't get more old school than that, lol

Fancy Clown · Sep 1, 2015

What up Kazaam, welcome to the thread!

I had a good month, watched 27 films, most of which were very good. Gonna do a Top 10 (in no particular order) this time to accommodate.

-High and Low
-Days of Heaven
-The Tree of Life
-Eraserhead
-Mulholland Drive
-The French Connection
-The Road Warrior
-Rififi
-The Wild Bunch
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Most valuable rewatch:
My (two part) back to back watch through of the Alien series.

DeathoftheEndless · Sep 1, 2015

August Top 5:

1. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
2. Rashomon
3. Bay of Blood
4. Pirates! Band of Misfits
5. Demon Knight

I watched The Life Aquatic a couple of days ago. I didn't care for it. It was nowhere near as fun as it should have been.

True Savior · Sep 1, 2015

Currygan said:
that's one hell of a cast, quantitatively speaking. Also, a VHS? I'll be damned, you can't get more old school than that, lol

It was in a bin in a old village-store. They might had the movie there for 20 years there ahah.

Hoagmaster · Sep 1, 2015

Top 5 of August:

1. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
3. The Transporter
4. Cinderella (1950
5. Pitch Perfect

Bit of a slow month for me. Doubling on job hunting can do that to free time...

George Oscar Bluth II · Sep 1, 2015

I didn't watch many films in August...

1) Seven Samurai
2) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
3) Princess Mononoke
4) Hero

Pretty good watches, though.

Snowman Prophet of Doom · Sep 1, 2015

I'd argue Once Upon a Time in America as superior to The Godfather in most respects. So fucking great.

Infernostew · Sep 1, 2015

Back on the wall of shame. 26 films watched in August compared to 8 in July... whew.

Top 5 in August:

1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Little Children
4. Tabloid
5. Ferfect Crime

Hopefully this'll be a good month for theater watches since August was a disaster for me.

Secret Fawful · Sep 1, 2015

I didn't watch enough movies in August. If I made a top five watches, it would include both great and shitty movies, but whatever I'll post it anyway.

1. That Man From Rio
2. Galaxy of Terror

...
Now for the shit.

3. Scooby Doo Meets KISS: A Rock and Roll Mystery(this movie was bad? but fucking insane so I will have to write a post about it sometime)
4. Terminator: Genisys
5. The Dark Side of the Moon

I know I'm forgetting some really quality movie, but I can't think of what it is. I just haven't had time to watch a lot lately. :/

Scully · Sep 1, 2015

Another new poster reporting to duty. My taste is essentially 'Frankenhooker meets L'eclisse'.

I watched 25 movies in August and most of them were trash (that's what happens when you go on a horror-binge on Netflix). So instead of doing August top 5, I'll post my top 4 of this summer:

1. Fear X
My second favorite Winding Refn film. Great, unsettling atmosphere. Can't wait to see Valhalla Rising.
2. Nightcrawler
Great performance from Gyllenhaal.
3. The House of the Devil
Enjoyable modern horror, although the ending was somewhat disappointing. Definitely going to keep an eye on Ti West.
4. The Scent of Green Papaya
Beautiful cinematography and lovely pacing.

Fancy Clown · Sep 1, 2015

I loved the ending of House of the Devil. Dissapointingly Ti West hasn't made anything close to as good since then though.

big ander · Sep 1, 2015

Welcome to all the new posters, stick around
A+ job on the OP gif

August was slow for me. just 12 features 1 short. best new watches:

5) Mistress America
4) The Marriage Circle (1924)
3) What's Up, Doc?
2) The Look of Silence
1) Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Kazaam said:
Top 5 of August
(lucky enough to see all these films premiere at the Locarno Film Festival)

1. No Home Movie (2015)
2. Bella e perduta (2015)
3. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
4. Cosmos (2015)
5. Happy Hour (2015)

very jealous of anyone who attends Locarno. How was Cosmos, have seen weirdly little about it given it's the return from a pretty celebrated director

Akahige said:
Force Majeure (2014) - Brutal fucking movie, expertly framed and directed, this is a film I'll remember for a long time. I was not expecting this to be as funny as it was, I had to pause the movie near the end because I was laughing too hard when

during the whiteout the father leave the children, goes out to find his wife screaming for help, comes back to children carrying wife, places her down smiling, then she gets up and walks away to go grab her skies, the guy was just so proud of himself. I loved how many awkward humorous moments this moves had.

And it's so much fun to ask there:

did the wife really get lost? or was she staging it so they could reinstate the traditional husband-hero dynamic?

Ostlund's previous movie Play is worth watching too. harder to stomach than Force Majeure.

BaronLundi said:
Welcome Kazaam! Always cool to see a new poster

who doesn't seem to think that Speed Racer is the pinnacle of cinema.

It's not THE pinnacle. just A pinnacle

Fancy Clown said:
I loved the ending of House of the Devil. Dissapointingly Ti West hasn't made anything close to as good since then though.

I like Innkeepers considerably more than House of the Devil. Innkeepers is one of the best horror movies since 2000. The Sacrament...still working to forget that exists

Akahige · Sep 1, 2015

Forgot my Top Five New Watches of August:

Great, Best Movie I've Seen Since Like Father, Like Son :
1. Force Majeure (2014)
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.
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Pretty Good & Entertaining but nowhere near the Top One:
2. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
4. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Written with class and intelligence, liked it:
5. Obvious Child (2014)

I'm convinced I've seen Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) before so I won't put that, but it would have been number 2 (don't shoot me for that).

big ander said:
And it's so much fun to ask there:

did the wife really get lost? or was she staging it so they could reinstate the traditional husband-hero dynamic?

Ostlund's previous movie Play is worth watching too. harder to stomach than Force Majeure.

Absolutely the feeling I got from that scene, I will seek out the directors other films soon.

Currygan · Sep 1, 2015

True Savior said:
It was in a bin in a old village-store. They might had the movie there for 20 years there ahah.

that's for sure
I still hold my VHSes close to my heart, expecially the Jurassic Park one which was supposed to be new and in fact it was a bootleg version (made by the shop owner, wtf)

UrbanRats · Sep 1, 2015

Watched Mystery Men yesterday.
Hadn't seen this since years ago (whenever it first came out).

My memory was definitely making it out to be funnier than it actually was, but i still enjoy it more than Dodgeball, if anything because Vince Vaghn (who is an annoying "straight guy" in that movie) isn't in it.
Also, didn't remember that Tom Waits was in it.

karasu · Sep 1, 2015

Akahige said:
Force Majeure (2014) - Brutal fucking movie, expertly framed and directed, this is a film I'll remember for a long time. I was not expecting this to be as funny as it was, I had to pause the movie near the end because I was laughing too hard when

during the whiteout the father leave the children, goes out to find his wife screaming for help, comes back to children carrying wife, places her down smiling, then she gets up and walks away to go grab her skies, the guy was just so proud of himself. I loved how many awkward humorous moments this moves had.

hahaha yeah that was pretty funny. That dad was such a disaster.

UrbanRats said:
This movie "Rebel" (or Return of Rebel, not sure) was in the Youtube recommended videos, 'cause i was watching some Bollywood trailers, i assume.
I started watching it as a joke, since it had subtitles, but i ended up watching almost an hour of this absolutely nauseating insanity.

It was mostly nonsensical garbage, with a sickening editing and camera work (i mean like, it gave me motion sickness) but this moment was absolutely brilliant:

hahahaha

True Savior · Sep 1, 2015

Currygan said:
that's for sure
I still hold my VHSes close to my heart, expecially the Jurassic Park one which was supposed to be new and in fact it was a bootleg version (made by the shop owner, wtf)

As long as it didnt had some porno after it its as good as the original eheh . Did he also printed the cover ?

Charles Foster Kane · Sep 1, 2015

big ander said:
A+ job on the OP gif

Thought you'd appreciate

Considered Blue.

Ignored White.

Toothless · Sep 1, 2015

Top five of August:

Shaun the Sheep Movie
The Gift
Trainwreck
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Southpaw

I saw nine movies in theaters, but none at home except for rewatches. Oh well, at least my top four this month are actually movies I'd consider very, very good and are in my top 10 of 2015 so far.

Divius · Sep 1, 2015

Fancy Clown said:
What up Kazaam, welcome to the thread!

I had a good month, watched 27 films, most of which were very good. Gonna do a Top 10 (in no particular order) this time to accommodate.

-High and Low
-Days of Heaven
-The Tree of Life
-Eraserhead
-Mulholland Drive
-The French Connection
-The Road Warrior
-Rififi
-The Wild Bunch
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Most valuable rewatch:
My (two part) back to back watch through of the Alien series.

Man, I wish I had months like that. I wish I could forget movies and experience them for the first time again.

Fancy Clown · Sep 1, 2015

Divius said:
Man, I wish I had months like that. I wish I could forget movies and experience them for the first time again.

Yeah, it was pretty awesome haha. And I feel like there's still an inexhaustible supply of great movies for me to watch.

big ander said:
I like Innkeepers considerably more than House of the Devil. Innkeepers is one of the best horror movies since 2000. The Sacrament...still working to forget that exists

I enjoyed The Innkeepers pretty well, but it had a lot less of the tension building and chilling atmosphere I liked about House of the Devil, and the ending wasn't nearly as good. Why did you like it more?

Infernostew · Sep 1, 2015

Fancy Clown said:
I enjoyed The Innkeepers pretty well, but it had a lot less of the tension building and chilling atmosphere I liked about House of the Devil, and the ending wasn't nearly as good. Why did you like it more?

Only part of The Innkeepers I liked is when they made fun of Lena Dunham. House of the Devil is much more quality. I'm really not into haunted house or ghost horror all that much but I seriously can't even recommend it.

Expendable. · Sep 1, 2015

August top 5:

5) Ghost in the Shell
4) The Killer
3) Letter From an Unknown Woman
2) Broken Blossoms
1) Last Tango in Paris

Honorable mentions: 45 Years, The Assassin, Shaun the Sheep, Hard to Be A God, Rogue Nation, The Reflektor Tapes, and Breathe.

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