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June 2017 watches

Rewatches are highlighted in blue

June 1 - Unbreakable (M. Night Shymalan; 2000) -
June 3 - John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski; 2017) -
June 5 - Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson; 2009) -
June 6 - American Psycho (Mary Harron; 2000) -

June 7 - Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson; 2014) -
June 8 - Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn; 2011) -

June 9 - A History of Violence (David Cronenberg; 2005) -
June 10 - The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson; 2012) -
June 11 - eXistenZ (David Cronenberg; 1999) -
June 12 - Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino; 1992) -
June 14 - Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson; 2012) -
June 14 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson; 2004) -
June 16 - The Nice Guys (Shane Black; 2016) -
June 17 - Rocky (John G. Alvildsen; 1976) -
June 19 - The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky; 2006) -
June 20 - American Beauty (Sam Mendes; 1999) -

June 20 - Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen brothers; 2013) -
June 21 - There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson; 2007) -
June 22 - Arrival (Denis Villenueve; 2016) -
June 23 - Get Out (Jordan Peele; 2017) -
June 24 - Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson; 1999) -
June 24 - Her (Spike Jonze; 2013) -

June 25 - Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese; 1976) -
June 28 - Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson; 1996) -
June 30 - Blue Velvet (David Lynch; 1986) -

Total: 25
2017 Total: 118

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Damn. Catching up on some greats there, Yam. Holy sh*t. That might just be the best movie month ever right there!

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Flesh + Blood (Paul Verhoeven, 1985) -
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947) +
Manchester By the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)
The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1970) (Rewatch)
Sing (Christophe Lourdelet and Garth Jennings, 2016)
Robots (Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, 2005) (Rewatch)
Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990) (Rewatch)
Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995) (Rewatch) -
Inner Workings (Leonardo Matsuda, 2016) (Rewatch) +
Moana (Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker and Chris Williams, 2016) (Rewatch) -
Bronson (Nicholas Winding Refn, 2008) (Rewatch) +
Mandingo (Richard Fleischer, 1975) (Rewatch) -
Drum (Steve Carver and Burt Kennedy, 1976)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, 2017) +
Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon, 2017) -
The Mummy (Alex Kurtzman, 2017) +
The Lego Batman Movie (Chris McKay, 2017) -
Lou (Dave Mullins, 2017)
Cars 3 (Brian Fee, 2017)

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June, 2017 movies watched-

Double Indemnity (1944) Repeat viewing Not sure why it took me three times watching to love this movie.

Fires Were Started (1943) A great look at British firefighters during World War II.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) + Very elegant and creepy, just a tad slow at times.

End of the Line (2007) Terror and mayhem on the subway that's worth watching for horror fans.

His Girl Friday (1940) Repeat viewing - I enjoy this but I wish it wouldn't try to do so much in such a short time.

Beauty and the Beast (1946) A very rare fantasy movie that I loved, so a major surprise.

Odd Man Out (1947) Repeat viewing A brilliant first half with a fairly average second half bailed out by a strong ending.

Dread (2009) - Decent horror.

Caliber 9 (1972) Very cool Italian crime flick.

I Remember Mama (1948) A very warm and pleasant movie.

A Dog's Purpose (2017) + What a dog lover would expect from a dog movie.

Phantom Lady (1944) - Noir that's a little uneven but entertaining with some memorable scenes.

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) Not your usual Frankenstein with enough weirdness to make it worth watching.

John Wick 2 (2017) Fairly entertaining but I could have used more reality.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) + I'd say Gene Tierney is the biggest of many reasons to watch this.

The Sea Wolf (1941) + A good movie but it had the potential for much more.

Cry of a Prostitute (1974) Henry Silva and this movie are pretty badass.

We Bought a Zoo (2011) Less of a feel good movie than I expected.

The Salesman (2016) - A main character's actions kept me annoyed but it's great drama.

Fear in the Night (1947) - Very weak entry from the noirs list.

Total June viewings-20
Total 2017 viewings-164

The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2008) -
Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc, 1978) -
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai, 2007) -
The Double (Richard Ayaode, 2013) -
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (Jan de Bont, 2003) -
La Soufrière (Werner Herzog, 1977) -
Lessons in Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992) -
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank, 1980) -
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982) -
Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017) -

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Camera Store (Scott Marshall Smith, 2017)

Original Gangstas (Larry Cohen, 1996)

Valentino (Ken Russell, 1977)

Frantz (François Ozon, 2016)

After WWI, Frenchman Pierre Niney comes to Germany to pay respects to a fallen German soldier, his parents and his fiancée Paula Beer.
Stabat Mater (Josef Dabernig, 2017)

The Big Game (George Nichols Jr., 1936)

The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982)

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Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford, 1964)

A tribe of proud Cheyenne, led by Ricardo Montalban, Victor Jory and Gilbert Roland, travel to their ancestral hunting grounds in violation of the white man’s orders.
Jason’s Lyric (Doug McHenry, 1994)

Tower XYZ (Ayo Akingbade, 2017)

The Principal (Christopher Cain, 1987)

Torch Song Trilogy (Paul Bogart, 1988)

Professional drag queen Harvey Fierstein finds what appears to be happy domesticity with fashion model Matthew Broderick.
Suspect (Peter Yates, 1987)

The Zookeeper’s Daughter (Niki Caro, 2017)

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The Picasso Summer (Robert Sallin, 1969)

Two or the Road (Stanley Donen, 1967)

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”Married people” - which is what Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn are.
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen, 2016)

Employee of the Month (Dan Coolidge, 2006)

Look Who’s Talking (Amy Heckerling, 1989)

Mr. Lucky (H.C. Potter, 1943)

Tough gangster Cary Grant has his first experience trying to knit.

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Two for the Road - that was a good movie. Hepburn was beautiful in it.

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Police Academy - - Well put together and funny. Great cast.

Sun Choke - - Goes nowhere very slowly and expects audience to care enough to write the rest of the story. I didn't like it. Atmospheric or not, and good performances or not, still not enough to make a bad movie good.

The Enforcer - - Easily the least of the Dirty Harry movies right behind The Dead Pool. Kind of clumsy and terrible music score. Obnoxious installment.

Matchstick Men - - Very likable Ridley Scott comedy has some style but not too much. Cage and Lohman are great together as is Rockwell in his limited screen time. I'd watch this again.

No Escape - - Owen Wilson stars in extremely tense and well made nightmare political thriller. That is until Pierce Brosnan shows up and dilutes the credibility into another typical action picture. The first half of this film is not to be missed, though.

Cardboard Boxer - - Seeing Thomas Haden Church play a mentally slow man was a gamble for me at first, and I immediately felt the story had been cloying in my immediatet afterthought as credits rolled, but the ending choked me up and I realized within minutes that all of the pieces fit and felt that this was a brave and touching film.

Wild Oats - - Shirley Maclaine and Jessica Lange get millions of dollars from an insurance company error and decide to take off for the islands. Should be good considering the talent on board but it sadly is not good. At all. The dialog overlaps like an Altman film but has no meaning and instead plays out annoying and ever worse than the most sub standard Apatow Jonah Hill improv outtake. Shame.

Go for Sisters - - John Sayles' slow moving adventure picture has comedy, drama and unlikely and unrealistic situations and coincidences and jimmy crack corn and I don't care. The guys makes thoughtful movies and no one has the track record for quality that he does in my eyes. I enjoyed this twice so far. Not his best but better than most films trying to be something impossible.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) by William A. Wellman

Monsieur Verdoux (1947) by Charles Chaplin

His Girl Friday (1940) by Howard Hawks

Sound of the Mountain (1954) by Mikio Naruse

Angels of the Streets (1943) by Robert Bresson

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) by Alfred Hitchcock

Notorious (1946) by Alfred Hitchcock +

I Walked with a Zombie (1943) by Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton+

The Unknown Girl (2016) by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne +

Captain Underpants (2017) by David Soren

Watched a few movies for the 40's countdown and several of them are possibilities for my list. I hope to watch a lot here in July as i am on vacation in Lissabon for the whole month with absolutely no other plans than pure enjoyment. On my watch list is movies like Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Aniki Bobo and Letter from an Unknown Woman.

As it is i think i have a decent list of films for the 40's countdown, but that decade is definitely not my metier, so i hope to experience something new and revelating in the coming days.

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The Imitation Game (Tyldum, 2014)
This is a damn fine movie. Tyldum somehow manages to divine real drama from a bunch of blokes (and one woman) sitting in a room. All the poignant threads come together at the right time and Cumberbatch kills it.

Shotgun Stories (Nichols, 2007)
Minimalist pressure cooker of a movie, and oddly fun: it's a bit like Napoleon Dynamite meets Badlands. Michael Shannon is the clear standout here. Far better effort than Nichols' later film Take Shelter.

Shimmer Lake (Uziel, 2017)
The framing device (moving backwards in time) mostly works, but some awkwardly dark humor and flat performances sink an otherwise intriguing premise. Fargo this is not.

Godzilla (Edwards, 2014)
Talented director Edwards deftly channels splashy 1990s sci-fi disaster films, a la Jurassic Park and Independence Day. The leads are mostly forgettable, but it hardly matters when one considers the breathtaking digital effects and masterfully artistic use of the titular monster.

Wonder Woman (Jenkins, 2017)
This film oozes smarm, particularly at the beginning and end, but who cares? Gadot is a triumph in Wonder Woman's long-overdue cinema debut. The thrilling battlefield scene feels like the 1940s comics come alive. "No man's land" indeed.

Nobody Lives Forever (Jean Negulesco, 1946)

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Kiss of the Tarantula (Chris Munger, 1976)

Love Among the Ruins (Massimo Ali Mohammad, 2015)

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Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017)

Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) battles Germans during WWI.
Strange Says the Angel (Shalimar Preuss, 2017)

3œ Minutes, Ten Bullets (Marc Silver, 2015)

Forever, Darling (Alexander Hall, 1956)

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I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965)

Innocent Stefania Sandrelli has to grow up fast in the glamorous world of Roman show business.
So This Is Love (Gordon Douglas, 1953)

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How to Reach God Through Proper Exercising (Gabriel Herrera Torres, 2017)

An American Romance (King Vidor, 1944)

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White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Steve Okazaki, 2007)

After the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb, two boys wander the streets alone. They were the lucky ones.
Wedding in White (Robert Fruet,1972)

The Republic (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, 2017)

The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1932)

Okja (Bong Joon Ho, 2017)

Korean girl An Seo Hyun spends some idyllic moments with her pet and best friend Okja before the animal is taken to be turned into meat products.
Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1960)

The Farmer’s Wife (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929)

The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929)

The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)

Landlady Marie Ault lets her lodger (Ivor Novello) come in from the London fog, but she comes to think he may be the serial killer terrorizing the city.

Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, 2014) -
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002) -
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004) -
Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963) -
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts, 2017) -
Mindhorn (Sean Foley, 2016) -
Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962) -
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) -
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1997) -
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog, 2006) -

Seen in June, can't exactly remember when it started so I'll guess. No rewatches. Not in order.

Duck Soup 9/10
Harold and Maude 9/10
Dear Zachary 8.5/10
Ferris Beuller's Day Off 8.5/10
Finding Nemo 8/10
In The Heat of the Night 8/10
Downfall 8/10
Million Dollar Baby 8/10
Robocop 8/10
Crash 8/10
Hoop Dreams 8/10
The Raid 8/10
Straw Dogs (1971) 8/10
Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8/10
Passion of Joan of Arc 8/10
Twelve Monkeys 8/10
Battle at Elberbush Gulch 7/10
Night at the Opera 8/10
Battle Royale 8/10
Elephant Man 8/10
Deliverance 8/10
Eyes Wide Shut 8/10
Zodiac 8/10
All Quiet on the Western Front 8/10
Some Like it Hot 8/10
Young Frankenstein 8/10
Marathon Man 8/10
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8/10
Blade Runner 7.5/10
Sunset Boulevard 7.5/10
Lost in Translation 7.5/10
Safety Last! 7.5/10
It Happened One Night 7/10
Harvey 7/10
Thin Blue Line 7/10
American Graffiti 7/10
Assassination of Jesse James 7/10
Shadow of a Doubt 7/10
French Connection 6.5/10
Nashville 6.5/10
If... 6/10

Very impressive Hashtag! That's 41 movies in a month An impressive list of movies too, lots of great stuff films there.

I see you watched a couple of 1940s films...are you going to be sending in a voting list of your Top 25 favorite 1940s movies for the upcoming 40's Countdown? I hope so, the more the merrier

I am. Just watched Mildred Pierce a few minutes ago, twas good.

Cool!

Mildred Pierce is a great film, I love that one. (if you mean the original, I've never seen the remake)

Yeah the original.

Neruda



Surprised I didn't hear about this one more around Mofo. It has been on my radar for a while but I waited till I had a good way to see it. It was well worth the wait. Certainly the better of the Larrain films from last year and would have made my top ten. The same great sun soaked cinematography and beautiful score as Jackie but with a much better narrative. Simple story but beautifully done.

Okja



I am on the wrong side of another Bong Joon-ho film opinion. As with Snowpiercer it has some visual flourishes I enjoyed but I think the film is far from a visual masterpiece. The story reminds me of a child story with a few F bombs thrown in. Most of the film is what amounts to cartoon caricatures chasing a pig through the city. Really don't see what everyone is seeing in this.

The Beguiled



Visually interesting and never dull but it didn't grab hold of me the way I wished. A film that will find fans I think, but I don't think it will be me.

Baby Driver



Awesome action sequences and music. A lot of what comes in between those moments left a bit to be desired though. The character of Baby definitely grew on me and I will give it a rewatch for sure.

Spider-Man Homecoming



Just a whole lot of fun. Marvel has learned the formula for entertaining comic book flicks. Unfortunately I don't ever see myself being wowed by one of these films, but you never know. Best Spidey since the first Maguire movie for me.

The Salesman



Farhadi is the master of dialogue. I could watch his characters talk all day long. Really good film but A Separation remains the standard.

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The most striking thing visually about Okja is near the end when they go to the meat refinery where all the barbed wire, ghostly lights and animals marching to their doom are filmed as a Nazi/Jewish death camp.

I was actually going to mention that and forgot. That and the girl's mountain home looked hood. The rest felt pretty ordinary.