Last Movie You Watched

[James]

Blood Simple
1984 ‧ Drama film/Thriller ‧ 1h 39m

"Blood Simple" was the first feature film from Joel and Ethan Coen. The stylish crime thriller premiered at film festivals in 1984. "Blood Simple" begins deep in the heart of Texas, where a jealous saloon owner hires a cheap divorce detective to kill the saloon owner's younger wife and her bartender lover. But the detective gets a better idea: he follows the two lovers, and...

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[Karl Henning]

Last night, again:  Shadows and Fog.  Charming;  yes, there is the mysterious drama of the horrid murders, but the impression at the last is, charming.

[Mister Sharpe]

Perhaps this project was doomed from the start; we already had an excellent documentary, Let's Get Lost , so a bio-pic on Chet Baker seems from the get-go like a useless appendage.  Now if Ethan Hawke could for even just one minute make me think he was Chet rather than Ethan Hawke playing Chet it might have worked for me.  He could have taken a hint from the title of that documentary, Chet routinely got lost.  But Hawke is too firmly in control ever to let it spin outta control as Chet did; my worst suspicions confirmed.   Missable and hissable.

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[James]

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 ‧ Fantasy/Thriller ‧ 1h 30m

When Sally (Marilyn Burns) hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

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[Karl Henning]

Last night:  Manhattan.  Love watching this one.

[SonicMan46]

Perhaps this project was doomed from the start; we already had an excellent documentary, Let's Get Lost , so a bio-pic on Chet Baker seems from the get-go like a useless appendage.  Now if Ethan Hawke could for even just one minute make me think he was Chet rather than Ethan Hawke playing Chet it might have worked for me.  He could have taken a hint from the title of that documentary, Chet routinely got lost.  But Hawke is too firmly in control ever to let it spin outta control as Chet did; my worst suspicions confirmed.   Missable and hissable.

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Agree w/ your comments - I've seen Let's Get Lost and own plenty of Chet's recordings - streamed the Baker bioptic w/ Hawke and cannot remember if I even watched to the end - for Chet fans, probably a watch but a 'thumbs down' from me.  Dave

[Mister Sharpe]

Agree w/ your comments - I've seen Let's Get Lost and own plenty of Chet's recordings - streamed the Baker bioptic w/ Hawke and cannot remember if I even watched to the end - for Chet fans, probably a watch but a 'thumbs down' from me.  Dave

Glad to see I'm in good company, Dave.  And you're smarter than I am - I shoulda stopped a quarter of the way through, but then train wrecks have their own peculiar morbid fascination...

[Ken B]

Glad to see I'm in good company, Dave.  And you're smarter than I am - I shoulda stopped a quarter of the way through, but then train wrecks have their own peculiar morbid fascination...

Is this cross posted from the Turangalila thread?

TD Mr Majestyk
The echt 70s Charles Bronson movie. It's watchable. 6/10.

[Mister Sharpe]

Is this cross posted from the Turangalila thread?

TD Mr Majestyk
The echt 70s Charles Bronson movie. It's watchable. 6/10.

Hey, why am I laughing...?

[Ken B]

Hey, why am I laughing...?

"Echt" is a funny word.

[Karl Henning]

Just re-watched Julius Cæsar with Brando, Gielgud, Mason, Alan Napier & Ned Glass, and score by Rózsa.  Splendid.

[Ken B]

Sully

Really good.

[James]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1986 ‧ Slasher/Cult film ‧ 1h 41m

Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface (Bill Johnson) is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally disturbed Chop-Top (Bill Moseley). This time, the masked killer has set his sights on pretty disc jockey Vanita "Stretch" Brock (Caroline Williams), who teams up with Texas lawman Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper) to battle the psychopath and his family deep within their lair, a macabre abandoned amusement park.

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[Jaakko Keskinen]

Great fun. Not as good as The Gold Rush, but still. The scene with the main character meeting the committee while stuck in a fire hose is uproariously droll.

[Drasko]

a classic

[Mister Sharpe]

More melodramatic than Fantômas or Les Vampyres, La Maison du mystère is a stylish silent serial (10 episodes) that's très français , even though produced for the most part by talented Russian émigrés.  Two titles that preceded it are lost to the sands of time, so cherish this one.  Neil Brand composed the sparkling modern piano accompaniment.

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[Spineur]

The highly talented cineast Wong Kar Wai and his top notch actors (Tony Leung-Gong Li) have a hard time making up for the abscence of scenario

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[listener]

lots of plot in this one though
FINGER OF DOOM   1971  HK  Shaw Brothers      dir. Pao Hsueh-li
with Ivy Ling-Po, Chin Han, Po Chin-hsien, Ching Feng-chin
Umbrella makers, survivors of an attempt to eradicate their whole family, a hunchback with zombies bearing a coffin containing a living corpse.     Nicely done of its type, notwithstanding direct quotes from "Le Sacre..."

[Karl Henning]

I was in no hurry (one knows the arc of the story practically at the outset), so I took three evenings to watch The Twelve Chairs.  It is cute (and you never saw Dom De Luise so thin), and worth the odd viewing;  but it is also clear that Mel Brooks would get better.  Much better.

[Karl Henning]

I was in no hurry (one knows the arc of the story practically at the outset), so I took three evenings to watch The Twelve Chairs.  It is cute (and you never saw Dom De Luise so thin), and worth the odd viewing;  but it is also clear that Mel Brooks would get better.  Much better.

That said, though, I could see myself watching this with arguably more frequency than many another initial effort (What's New, Pussycat? springs to mind.)