Thursday, September 05, 2024

MOVIES TO SEE

COMING

March | Eephus (Sunday league ballpark to be demolished. Cannes contender. DM1016)

Exhibiting Forgiveness 


NOW PLAYING

Topology of Sirens


HAVE

The 4:30 Movie [Hoopla, Apple]

The Naked City

What Time Is It There?


NOW STREAMING

ADOLESCENCE [Liverpool-set series rec Katie & Carole]

American Fiction [Prime Apple Amazon]

Barbie [PN liked it]

Blitz (Steve McQueen, Saoirse Ronan) [Apple] DW didn't like it

Grand Theft Hamlet [MUBI]

HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh) | PN

Kim's Video [MUBI 7 days free] (NYC video store sold to foreign country, now returned to NYC)

My Old Ass (PRIME)

Daniel Reville: Really good film about learning to live in the moment, even when staring down an unknown future that’s already in motion, in spite of all of your best intensions.

It really packs a punch at the end, and it earns every right to do so. Just a really great film all around.

The Old Oak (2023, Hoopla)

The Pacifiction [MUBI Apple]

Promised Land (Amazon Apple Hoopla)

A REAL PAIN | PN

Saturday Night [Apple]

Oh, Canada [Schrader. Draft dodger?]

The Settlers [MUBI Apple] *

The Shadowless Tower [Apple $6.99]

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat


SEE WITH CAROLE

Game Night (comedic take on The Game)

Flora and Son (writer/director of Once and Sing Street)

Vengeance Most Fowl [streaming]


FIND

The Last Film Show (India, Julie Sutherland rec)

Looking for Eric (Ken Loach) depressed postman's conversations with Eric Cantona 

Porcelain War (Rosie rec, Ukrainian pottery)


REC MATT PAGE

LA CHIMERA or CORPO CELESTE: Soul Food films


REVILL

Thin Red Line

In The Loop (Brit poli satire, Gulf War)

Leviathan (also PN)

American Honey

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Fountain


GONE

Barbie

Blinded By The Light (2019) (Apple TV+ buy $12.99) *

Broken Circle Breakdown (DW: "mega sad". Belgian, bluegrass music)

Christ Stopped at Eboli (rec Anthony Forkush)

Cold Case Hammarskjold  HOOPLA  MUBI

The Gods of Times Square

Godzilla Minus One Minus / Godzilla Minus One Color 

Living 

Maestro (Daniel Revill #8, 2023)

Marlowe

The Mass Is Ended *

Memory

Norah's Will (Mexico, rec Geoff Cowper)

One Life

Past Lives (Daniel Revill #1, 2023)

The Road Dance (rec Michael Hart, Scottish small town w/ music)

Society of the Snow

The Taste of Things


NETFLIX  

Bank of Dave (Carole rec. Set in Burnley)

Poison

The Rat Catcher 

The Swan

The Wonder


Series

Chernobyl

True Detective Season One, as well as Season Four w/ Jodie Foster (Katie rec)


*


INFO


The 4:30 Movie (Kevin Smith, 2024)

A group of teens in the 1980s spend the day theatre-hopping.


comedic drama, Luton, 1987-88. Pakistani immigrant boy oppressed by his father’s rigid rules and cowed by the aggressions of local neo-Nazi youths. When Javed listens to Bruce Springsteen, the lyrics swirl around him on screen and he is transformed. 

The Mass Is Ended (1985, Italy, Nanni Maretti) 

"A young priest, Don Giulio, struggles to maintain his faith. Having been a radical college student in the 1960s, Don Giulio has now rejected his long hair and liberal ideals in favor of the church. He has himself transferred to his home parish, only to discover the church empty and the town indifferent. Meanwhile, Don Giulio’s friends from his radical days begin popping up with their lives in serious disarray. Don Giulio seeks solace with his beloved family, but his family too is in chaos. The director's follow-up, The Son's Room, was a stunner." VIFF


The Promised Land

an old-fashioned epic, a settler Western unfolding on the barren heaths of Denmark rather than the American frontier. Mads Mikkelsen is a longtime soldier seeking the favor of the Danish crown by cultivating a harsh landscape. Kahlen cobbles together a ragtag crew of waifs and cast-offs, and goes to bitter battle with a preening local lord. 


The Settlers  

In 1893, Segundo, a Chilean mestizo, an English army captain, and an American mercenary embark on an expedition on horseback to reclaim the lands that the State has granted to José Menéndez. What appears to be an administrative expedition turns into a violent hunt for Onas, the natives of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

 

The Shadowless Tower

This quiet but sweeping drama, a winsome tribute to the old quarters of Beijing, their narrow streets and hole-in-the-wall eateries. a rumpled, middle-aged food critic, is the soulful center of the film, while Huang Yao gamely plays the young photographer who coaxes him out of his stasis.