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droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 11 Oct 2024, 20:33

Shit was wild. Shower scene especially.

Ryeknow · Post by **Ryeknow** » 12 Oct 2024, 18:35

Yeah it was great

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 12 Oct 2024, 19:24

The scene in the attic with the security guard is my favorite kill.

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 12 Oct 2024, 19:26

Seeing this today

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 12 Oct 2024, 21:06

Our thesters arent playing it will stream asap like the second one

Just watched trick r treat and the stuff

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 13 Oct 2024, 03:43

droidspawn wrote: ↑
11 Oct 2024, 20:33
Shit was wild. Shower scene especially.

People kept talking up the opening scene but this one was way more gnarly

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 13 Oct 2024, 05:54

Easily. Opening was pretty ruthless but then again the entire franchise is.

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 13 Oct 2024, 06:09

True. The ones who get off "easy" are the ones who die the quickest.

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 21 Oct 2024, 06:53

The Lighthouse

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 21 Oct 2024, 06:55

i have watched the following things in the last week:

repo man
happiness
the velvet vampire
lucifer rising
inauguration of the pleasure dome
el topo

the latter three screened on film

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 21 Oct 2024, 08:18

i'll add that while i haven't seen the holy mountain, if el topo is any indicator, watching jodorowsky on acid is certified insane person behavior. holy shit

brandonfromohio · Post by **brandonfromohio** » 21 Oct 2024, 10:29

I am watching Longlegs.

The only other movies I have watched this year are King Richard, La Mesita De Comedor, and the original Pinnochio.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 22 Oct 2024, 23:05

criterion flash sale today, just put an order in and cleaned out all my gift vouchers along with the remnants of an amex gift card i've been sitting on. following stuff is on the way, all 4k discs:

the red shoes
peeping tom
double indemnity
the trial
the last emperor
demon pond
the seventh seal
blow out

all blind buys with the exception of blow out

i am not now watching these. but i will be... soon

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 24 Oct 2024, 05:42

Peeping Tom is excellent. You'll dig it.

Snagged a 4k copy of Bad Lieutenant and the Criterion 4k of Gummo.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 24 Oct 2024, 06:28

hell yeah

loved black narcissus, so i'm very much looking forward to peeping tom & the red shoes out of the bunch. couldn't resist and went back for more before the sale ended today, also got wings of desire, le cercle rouge, i am cuba & women in love (the sole not-4k of the bunch) en route as well. already seen wings but i'm going in blind for the rest

still have never seen gummo, that one's probably a torrent candidate. wasn't a fan of HK when i was young so i'm apprehensive but someday perhaps

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 24 Oct 2024, 07:24

If you like movies like Kids or Ken Park gummo will be for you if you like me are really not into them gummo is in the same vein

Peeping Tom is a classic thats being forgotten, with the resurgenceof giallo inspired films maybe other slasher precursors will be rediscovered too

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 24 Oct 2024, 07:36

i absolutely hated kids when i saw it back in the day, but that was like 25+ years ago by now. so i'm somewhat distrustful of such an old and probably irrelevant impression. but it nonetheless lingers

and yeah i was kinda surprised to hear that peeping tom was roundly dismissed in its day and didn't really get any recognition until decades later. i don't think that kind of meta-cinema was novel by 1960, but i guess the way he went about it was too much for the audiences of the day

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 24 Oct 2024, 08:48

I feel gross as an adult watching those graphic teen life dramas i guess it and eye trauma are my cinematic icks.

Yeah wild that movie is iver 60 amd wild it was treated like giallo films were but there are a few younger folks looking back into them now. Recent movies like Malignant and Last Night in Soho sparked a niche interest in them for some.

Of course those films will never be mainstream and remain cult classics/niche genres.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 24 Oct 2024, 09:16

yeah i definitely hear you. i felt bad watching them even when i was close enough to the same age

i got a tad of that from andrea arnold's movies too, but they're... slightly less lurid and have a certain combination of class consciousness and humanity that redeem them. i don't imagine i'd get the same thing from korine, and i don't think it's important or necessary that he should take that tack. but also it's probably just not for me

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 27 Oct 2024, 20:55

slugbait wrote: ↑
13 Oct 2024, 03:43

droidspawn wrote: ↑
11 Oct 2024, 20:33
Shit was wild. Shower scene especially.
People kept talking up the opening scene but this one was way more gnarly

I liked it

Made me feel a little nauseous or was that the quick meal. Part one I saw at home, this one was at the cinema. Much better

You can really see the wounds

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 27 Oct 2024, 21:27

I also like that the kids weren't spared

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 27 Oct 2024, 22:00

last week's viewings: cosmopolis, the fog, the seventh seal

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 28 Oct 2024, 04:14

Satan's Blood

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 28 Oct 2024, 05:13

Trick r treat

Halloween tradition

User · Post by **User** » 28 Oct 2024, 19:08

as someone who watched movies constantly in my childhood and teenage years and then did a cinema studies degree i'm still disoriented by the turn of this mabb thread at a time when i am the least interested in movies i have ever been in the last 30 years

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 28 Oct 2024, 19:12

yeah it has occurred to me more than a few times that i am basically speedrunning a film studies program in my spare time, just without any of the coursework or critical analysis that could potentially be useful

i watched the red shoes last night and i think i'm going to follow it up with peeping tom tonight. incongruity excites me

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 29 Oct 2024, 07:08

House

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 29 Oct 2024, 09:00

Which House? Both are fun for different reasons

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 29 Oct 2024, 19:31

obayashi gang rise up

i am hoping to squeeze in seven weeks and hanagatami before they cycle out of CC at the end of the month

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 30 Oct 2024, 06:55

Noyka wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2024, 09:00
Which House? Both are fun for different reasons

Hausu

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 30 Oct 2024, 06:57

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 30 Oct 2024, 07:23

slugbait wrote: ↑
30 Oct 2024, 06:55

Noyka wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2024, 09:00
Which House? Both are fun for different reasons
Hausu

Thats the more fun one

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 01 Nov 2024, 06:39

Hellraiser II

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 01 Nov 2024, 07:36

Im watching as many nightmare on elm street as i can im on Dream Warriors

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 02 Nov 2024, 10:46

this week's viewings so far

the red shoes
double indemnity
seven weeks
hanagatami
it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown
i am cuba

probably squeeze in one more tomorrow

User · Post by **User** » 02 Nov 2024, 16:18

double indemnity is one of my all time favourites

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 02 Nov 2024, 21:19

Barnes and Noble are having a 50% off Criterion sale and I just got paid yesterday....

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 02 Nov 2024, 21:31

User wrote: ↑
02 Nov 2024, 16:18
double indemnity is one of my all time favourites

my initial reaction was 'holy moly this might be the most efficient movie i've ever seen'. like there wasn't a shot or line or frame that felt superfluous or out of place or whatever. great, great film, i'm not sure where i stand on noir more broadly, but that was exemplary

slugbait wrote: ↑
02 Nov 2024, 21:19
Barnes and Noble are having a 50% off Criterion sale and I just got paid yesterday....

yeah i was browsing the B&N selection and i think i'm actually safe for now (because i already bought a dozen in the last two weeks

). the stuff at the top of my list right now is all on preorder and won't release until after the sale, so it doesn't get the full discount. but i'll definitely be grabbing the 4Ks of the new resto of paris texas and no country next month

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 02 Nov 2024, 21:55

Gonna try to not go too crazy because I also want to snag that Berserk steelbook Crunchyroll is putting out.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 02 Nov 2024, 22:16

i think i still have the original dvd boxset kicking around somewhere so i think i'm safe from that one. i will probably download the bluray version at some point just to have it in my library, but i have a hard time justifying spending twice on a series i've already watched several times

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 03 Nov 2024, 00:50

Didn't go too crazy at the B&N sale. Grabbed:

Eyes Without a Face
Peeping Tom (upgraded my copy from DVD to Blu-ray)
Sword of Doom

User · Post by **User** » 03 Nov 2024, 09:57

i watched subservience on the airplane recently, it was adequate, but nothing new. some funny bits

Mesarthim · Post by **Mesarthim** » 04 Nov 2024, 08:41

I finally got around to watching Dune (2021). I really enjoyed it, much better than I anticipated. solid plot, good acting, tasteful effects without becoming a cgi wankfest. I'll have to watch part 2 sometime soon.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 04 Nov 2024, 10:12

i attempted to watch the turin horse but i was not successful. another time

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 17 Nov 2024, 11:14

Late to the party but started Fallout I love it on ep 5

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 18 Nov 2024, 21:59

ok, i finished the turin horse, and also women in love, a woman under the influence, and fat sexy leopard elevator. i didn't mean to get something of a titular theme going there but i might need to roll with it for a bit

not to say the remainder of the film was a walk in the park, but fat sexy leopard elevator's ending might well be the most shocking thing i've ever seen in a film. holy shit. it's a case where you could make a reasonable case that a warning is legitimately warranted, but would also severely undercut the impact so it's better not to have it. and i knew something was coming, it's impossible not to. but jesus fuckin' christ i was not prepared

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 20 Nov 2024, 08:38

The Machine G.irl

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 25 Nov 2024, 10:08

women of the resistance
wings of desire (again, this time in 4k)
take-out
anora

the latter in the ein cinema, and i think it was mostly fine, a funny-enough story about the overwhelming and irresistible power of accumulated wealth through the lens of a brooklyn stripper marrying the failson of a russian oligarch. but i'm baffled as to how this took the palme d'or, 2024 must've been mid city across the globe

Noyka · Post by **Noyka** » 26 Nov 2024, 04:40

Took my bro to see elf
Went to see pulp fiction with my dad

Deciding what show to start next any blind recs? Heard shogun and the penguin are good

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 08 Dec 2024, 10:21

i am keeping busy, film-wise, by way of the following:

the piano
le cercle rouge
room 666
paper moon
the third murder
yacht rock: a dockumentary
party sexy leopard elevator
salo or the 120 days of sodom