Last Movie You Watched

[James]

Which one did you watch, James? All of them?  There are some great ones there that I haven't seen in decades!

All 8  ...

[Gurn Blanston]

All 8  ...

Damn, Marathon Man!  Oh, no, didn't mean that...

[Drasko]

Devil in the Flesh: pshychotic highschool girl obsessed with the teacher. It was straight to video and that pretty much says it all.

Lewis & Clark & George is quite better. Two escaped convicts and a mute girl searching for a gold mine in Mexico, various characters on their trail ... not much realistic and rather campy in tone but enjoyable. Has a lovely scene where Rose McGowan playing a mute character lipsyncs to Connie Francis' Where The Boys Are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvjx_uoWeYE

[SimonNZ]

Last night: The Social Network

The film itself, immediately followed by the Sorkin and cast commentary. I'll also be doing the Fincher commentary before I return it.

Ninety-nine takes they did of that great opening scene. An it sounds like that's about typical for Fincher. Makes Kubrick seem slap-dash.

edit: but I'm disappointed now to learn that Sorkin unapologetically played fast and lose with the facts, including those of the main characters' temperaments and ethics, as well as their motivations.

[James]

Les Diaboliques
1955 ‧ Mystery/Crime film ‧ 1h 56m

In this classic of French suspense, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse), becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife (Vera Clouzot) and the mistress he brazenly flaunts (Simone Signoret). The women, brought together by their mutual hatred for the man, pull off the crime but become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

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[James]

Damn, Marathon Man!  Oh, no, didn't mean that...

It was over the course of about a week and a half.

[aligreto]

Last night....

[James]

From Alien to Nosferatu: the most horrifying movie monsters of all time

[James]

The Hills Have Eyes
1977 ‧ Horror ‧ 1h 30m

Wes Craven's cult classic about cannibalistic mountain folk on the trail of stranded vacationers in the arid Southwest.

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[aligreto]

Last night, the sequel to the above....

[James]

Carrie
1976 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 1h 38m

In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

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[Spineur]

Jean-Jacques Beineix: Diva

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This should be a mandatory watch for joining GMG, for its fantastic sountrack (Catalani: La Wally).

I wish they would reissue this movie as a fully restored blu-ray, it is so fantastic.

37.2 was the only other movie of Jean-Jacques Beineix which was really sucessful.  He tended to take big risks in the subject he picked.

[George]

Well done doc. Makes you feel like you were there.

[James]

Dressed to Kill
1980 ‧ Mystery/Drama film ‧ 1h 46m

When Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), a prostitute, sees a mysterious woman brutally slay homemaker Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), she finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police think Liz is the murderer, the real killer wants to silence the crime's only witness. Only Kate's inventor son, Peter (Keith Gordon), believes Liz. Peter and Liz team up to find the real culprit, who has an unexpected means of hiding her identity and an even more surprising motivation to kill.

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[George]

Smokey. And The Bandit

[Spineur]

Getting ready for my trip to myanmar

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A very powerful movie

[listener]

Betty Compson is amazing to watch as proto Marlene Dietrich in Sternberg's superb The Docks of New York from previous year (1928)...

I'll watch for that one.  In the meantime tonight FIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL III with Stephen Chou(various spellings) a genre farce-parody of Basic Instinct.   Directed by Wong Jing, rather low contrast in this edition but not a "classic", Chinese and English subtitles.
Chow is close to being a HK version of Preston Sturges, but a matter of taste.  Very off-the-wall humour IMHO.

[SimonNZ]

Getting ready for my trip to myanmar

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A very powerful movie

A masterpiece that deserves to be much more famous.

[James]

Raising Cain
1992 ‧ Crime film/Drama film ‧ 1h 34m

A highly regarded child psychologist, Dr. Carter Nix (John Lithgow) has shown signs of being unstable, but he completely snaps when he discovers that his wife, Jenny (Lolita Davidovich), is having an affair. Nix's mental breakdown leads to the emergence of various other personalities, including a ruthless thug and a scared little boy. Nix's descent into madness involves murder, revenge and even the abduction of his own daughter, resulting in a suspenseful web of intrigue.

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[Bogey]

The Wolfman
2010 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 1h 59m

Though absent from his ancestral home of Blackmoor for many years, aristocrat Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) returns to find his missing brother at the request of the latter's fiancee, Gwen (Emily Blunt). He learns that a creature has links to an ancient curse turning people into werewolves when the moon is full. To save the village and protect Gwen, he must slay the bloodthirsty beast, but he contends with a horrifying family legacy.

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Love the old Universal stuff, so had to opt into this version last night.