While stuck in bed I watched a whole bunch of movies. I already wrote about a few of them but let’s write about all of them:
For your pleasure
LA Plays Itself: Extremely valuable, made me a better person and movie watcher 5/5 Fake New York Street Corners
Cool World: Horny, Owns, A dream of a movie about absitience 4/5 Sexy Drawings
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey: hated it.
Die Paeallelstrasse: Was when the painkillers were thickest, I think I liked it.
Beyonce’s Lemonade: Visual feast. A good time was had by the viewer.
Kenji Eno Documentary: good watch, I would have editted it differently.
All About Lily Chou Chou: turned it off when I looked up the plot and saw it was mostly about bullying.
Smokey and The Bandit 2: somehow even less a movie than Smokey 1 even if it has more incoherent plot. The big cops-truckers scene at the end is worth a watch because they really did the thing.
Smokey and The Bandit 3: you won’t believe that the movie that doesn’t even have Sally Fields or Burt Reynolds is even again less of a movie than a collection of still images that give the illusion of movement.
Cosmopolis: Owned. I thought the whole thing took place in the car. There was a lot more out of the car than I thought. 4 out of 5 cratered stocks.
Personal Shopper: two Twilight actors made movies about how fucked up and inhuman The Rich are? 4 out of 5 worn dresses
The Card Counter: filmed in Biloxi Mississippi! Doesn’t stop Oscar Issac from saying the city incorrectly! Impossible for me to be objective. 4 out of 5 comped drinks.
Magnolia: The longest movie in existence. We’re all a bit aren’t we? 2 piles of blood and guts that were a frog a second ago (as opposed to full dead frogs)
THx1138: way hornier than I expected. Had a great time with all the ways George digitally fucked with his movie. 3 out of 5 emotional infractions
Repo Man: it was fine!
First Reformed: I think this Paul Schafer is a horny man. I appreciated he realized he couldn’t end the movie in the wish-fullfilment but them stumbled on how to end it exactly. 3 out of 5 Gift Shops
Beau Travail: Gay Warmovis Artmovis. Neat to see one of these repressed homosexual drill sergent movies from that perspective. Had trouble telling the beautiful men apart. Also loved the French Legionairre Trousers. 3 out of 5 sea water logged compasses.
The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover: incredible, grotesque, stunningly shot. Even with all the inhumanity on display an intensely human movie that was unflinching in what we are capable, culpable and witness every day. Definitely not for everyone. 4 out of 5 Chef’s Specials
The Magnificent Ambersons: Orson Welle rules. I turned it off 3 minutes before the ending because everyone mentioned the Studio ending sucked.
Touch of Evil: Orson Wells Rules. charleton Heston doing brown face, not so much, though I love the performance. Real creeping dread through the whole thing. So glad this was saved from the studio. 4 out of 5 sticks of dynamite (for my ranch)
Rebels of the Neon God: see before
Goodbye Dragon Inn: seems perfect in a theater where you really have to sit with the lingering shots. I love how a theme of it is “people in this foreign place are real space invaders” when the reality is someone has just found themself in a very strange situation. 4 out of 5 bites of a big Dumpling.
Night of the Generals: Peter O’Toole and Omar Sheriff in a contractually obligated Nazi movie. A prostitute has been murdered in Nazi controller Warsaw, the perpetrator one of three generals. Is justice for one worth it when thousands are being destroyed daily? I like it the more I think about it. 4 out of 5 red general stripes.
REDS: Warren Beatty got to make a 3 hour epic about the leftist movement in America during WW1 and the Russian Revolution. It’s also about his real disintegrating relationship with Diane Keaton. Yes she wears hats. She also jacks off a champagne bottle. Maybe too many scenes of the left eating itself, accurate but sad. 3 out of 5 American Communist Liberation Parties.
