What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[robertlouis]

The Lives of Others was a fascinating movie. Narrative conducted like a tragedy. Reminded me a bit of Kieslowski…

Good call. Something to do with a shared ironic melancholy for the vanished world of the stasi and solidarnosc.

[Stavros]

quick question.....

chaos, in the word association thread, put up "rosebud" to which I answered overrated.

i did so because i just don't understand the craze over Citizen Kane. I realize why historically it was an important movie, but it doesn't hold up over time with advances in film making styles/techniques etc.

so the question is...are there any films that you think you are supposed to like (because of history, tradition, etc) but just don't. my list includes citizen cane and the godfather series. i really just don't care of them although they are some of the most celebrated movies

All I can say is that I have been watching Kane for over 40 years and every time I see it I am impressed with its script, its editing, its story, its acting, the use of music -it is a multi-layered film with innovations in the use of deep focus- the whole conception is magical, as films often should be. You only need to see other attempts to make films within films, stories presented as a factual newsreel to see how thin they look next to Kane. There are also few films about political life which last beyond their age, yet you could easily see Kane in the context of Berlusconi, to a degree anyway.

As for classics that do nothing for me, I'm with Prospero on Chaplin, can't stand the man. I would also throw away all the Marx Bros films, but while in recent times the films of Gus van Sant are remarkable in being embarrasingly bad, nothing with a reputation is as vile as the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard. I think every one of his films stinks.

[maxpower]

session 9 is an often overlooked and undervalued psychological thriller

I agree. I found it by accident at Blockbuster Video years ago and have mentioned it to people too.

That movie is supposedly about the Norwich State Mental Hospital, in Connecticut. It's about a 20 minute drive from me. It's been closed and abandoned for some time now. Pretty creepy place.

[maxpower]

That movie is supposedly about the Norwich State Mental Hospital, in Connecticut. It's about a 20 minute drive from me. It's been closed and abandoned for some time now. Pretty creepy place.

OK, never mind what I said. I had heard it was about Norwich State a few times, but after looking into it, I see it's about a place in Massachusetts called Danvers State. I guess people in CT wanted to claim it as their own. Guess I should have found that out before making an ill-informed post. Norwich State is still creepy, though.

[Dino Velvet]

my father started to take me to movies he wanted to see since i was 5 or so. i know i actually saw more R rated movies as a kid than G and PG movies

My father was exactly the same. He loved Horror but my mom hated it so he took me instead. By the time I was 9 or 10 I chose the films we saw. Saw The Exorcist at 6 years old in a theater.

[trish]

Just got back from Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. If DeLillo wanted to say the soulessness of the upper one percent infects us all, he could've have said it more succinctly.

[Stavros]

Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 200
Mistakenly described as a 'love song and eulogy' for the city of Liverpool, this film, mostly archive film with some contemporary footage, is a sour, misanthropic, sarcastic, and overwhelmingly self-indulgent piece of tosh from someone who seems to be incapable of believing he was born in the place -having abandoned it in the 1970s one wonders why he bothered to return.

[Dino Velvet]

Just got back from Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. If DeLillo wanted to say the soulessness of the upper one percent infects us all, he could've have said it more succinctly.

I'll probably see that. I'm mainly into early Montreal Cronenberg but just about all of his stuff is consistently good. Keep meaning to see Eastern Promises again soon.

[Dino Velvet]

My favorite Vincent Price film.

[Dino Velvet]

My second favorite Vincent Price film.