Viewing Journal: 7/31/2022

455) SUMMERTIME

(1955 dir. David Lean) Date Seen: July 31 2022

Lean's return to color film after exclusively shooting black & white for 10 years. And formally really starting to resemble the director who went on to make all them giant aspect ratio epics.

#CriterionBluray

454) 

  GULPILIL: ONE RED BLOOD

(2002 dir. Darlene Johnson) Date Seen: July 31 2022

453) A HERO AIN’T NOTHIN’ 

                        BUT A SANDWICH

(1977 dir. Ralph Nelson) Date Seen: July 31 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/29/2022

451) VENGEANCE

(2022 dir. B.J. Novak) Date Seen: July 29 2022

450) DOGORA

       [GIANT SPACE MONSTER DOGORA]

(1964 dir. Ishirō Honda) Date Seen: July 29 2022

449) THE CRAWLING EYE

    [THE TROLLENBERG TERROR]

(1958 dir. Quentin Lawrence) 2nd Viewing: July 29 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/28/2022

448) 

  MY DONKEY, MY LOVER & I

    [ANTOINETTE DANS LES CÉVENNES]

(2022 dir. Caroline Vignal) Date Seen: July 28 2022

447) THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES

(1968 dir. Ted V. Mikels) Date Seen: July 28 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/27/2022

446) ALMA'S RAINBOW

(1994 dir. Ayoka Chenzira) Date Seen: July 27 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/30/2022

452) THE REEF: STALKED

(2022 dir. Andrew Traucki) Date Seen: July 30 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/26/2022

445) THE BLACK PHONE

(2022 dir. Scott Derrickson) Date Seen: July 26 2022

Ethan Hawke brings out the best in Scott Derrickson yet again.. Also bears mentioning how well this movie evokes a late 1970s look (Something I felt FEAR STREET II did poorly). 

Thank God "Prime Time" was on the other end when lil' homie picked up that phong. 

Viewing Journal: 7/25/2022

444) SKINAMARINK

(2023 dir. Kyle Edward Ball) Date Seen: July 25 2022

a very spooky arthouse expansion of HECK

Viewing Journal: 7/24/2022

443) NOPE

(2022 dir. Jordan Peele) Date Seen: July 24 2022

Well Holy leapin' Lord. Peele just did one for the ages.. Arguably the greatest Western vs Creature feature hybrid since TREMORS (1990).

Viewing Journal: 7/23/2022

442) THE DUKE

(2022 dir. Roger Michell) Date Seen: July 23 2022

441) LOST HIGHWAY

(1997 dir. David Lynch) 3rd Viewing: July 23 2022

[4K restoration @Texas Theatre]

Viewing Journal: 7/22/2022

440) THE GRAY MAN

(2022 dir. Russo bros.) Date Seen: July 22 2022

Speaking of "Gray" men; when is James Gray's new movie coming out?

Viewing Journal: 7/21/2022

439) MEN

(2022 dir. Alex Garland) Date Seen: July 21 2022

This is the first Alex Garland helmed thing I've been on the fence about. It has a few very good eerie parts (That bit from his 28 DAYS LATER script where the infected in the church suddenly sit up & stare is visually echoed in a lengthier more stylistic way. **not to mention his fear of silhouettes in tunnels**). Unfortunately the movie contains lots of silly shit too. & about 40% of it just felt like a poor man's REPULSION to me.

Rory Kinnear is tour de force though.

Viewing Journal: 7/20/2022

438) 

  WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

(2022 dir. Olivia Newman) Date Seen: July 20 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/19/2022

437) NEPTUNE FROST

(2022 dir. S.Williams / Uzeyman) Date Seen: July 19 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/18/2022

436) PAWS OF FURY: 

               THE LEGEND OF HANK

(2022 dir. Minkoff/Bailey/Koetsier) Date Seen: July 18 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/17/2022

435)

   MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

(2022 dir. Anthony Fabian) Date Seen: July 17 2022

A little surreal to see Lesley Manville entering the old Angela Lansbury stage of her career.

434) THE CHASE

(1966 dir. Arthur Penn) 2nd Viewing: July 17 2022

433) GUN FURY 3D

(1953 dir. Raoul Walsh) Date Seen: July 17 2022

Viewing Journal: 7/16/2022

432) MARCEL 

        THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

(2022 dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp) Date Seen: July 16 2022

the most humanist animated film I've seen probably since Hertzfeldt's WORLD OF TOMORROW (2015). So there's that. Also refreshingly optimistic in a pragmatic way. 

ALSO ALSO my fat ass thinks Marcel looks like a croissant.

431) THE SADNESS

(2022 dir. Robert Jabbaz) Date Seen: July 16 2022