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I'm probably not watching much this time.

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

430

6.6

Bird Box

12/27/18

Directed by: Susanne Bier

One of the worst.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

409

7.5

The Favourite (2018)

12/27/18

Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos

It's funny. Shot kinda bad some of the time but the editing is real punchy.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

7.1

6.3

Apocalypse After (2018)

12/19/18

Directed by: Bertrand Mandico

I was worried about Mandico dabbling in the synthwave aesthetic but it merged with his style pretty seamlessly and the film was fun and had good feel like everything he does.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

342

7.4

7.7

Roma (2018)

12/19/18

Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron

Almost great but the camerawork was too mechanical and distant to really connect with it. It does get better in the final act though.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.8

6.7

L'animale

12/18/18

Directed by: Katharina Mückstein

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.1

6.2

The Image Book

12/04/18

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

It's bullshit but it's a e s t h e t i c bullshit.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

547

6.8

Annihilation (2018)

12/03/18

Directed by: Alex Garland

So just about every technical aspect of the film is dog shit, most notably the colour correction, editing and sound mixing, and its also just boring and badly paced. It improves in the final chapter but even then all the cool stuff is stuff I could get out of music videos.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

108

6.6

6.4

Alps (2011)

11/27/18

Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos

I liked it overall but I've seen the concept done before in better films though it did get more intriguing in the last act.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

11/25/18

Directed by: Joel & Ethan Coen

Only 2 of the 6 stories are any good and also it looks like garbage.

6.8

The Other Side of the Wind

11/25/18

Directed by: Orson Welles

This shit is wild.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.9

Female Human Animal

11/25/18

Directed by: Josh Appignanesi

A bit amateurish but I dig the aesthetic and mood a good deal.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.3

All the Boys Are Called Patrick

11/19/18

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Ueno_Station54's rating:

From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances

5.7

6.1

From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances...

11/19/18

Directed by: Jon Wang

Ueno_Station54's rating:

7.1

6.7

King of Jazz

11/15/18

Directed by: John Murray Anderson

There's definitely some great stuff here, just a bit inconsistent and has some jank editing.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

May I Please Enter?

11/11/18

Directed by: Alan Resnick

5.5

5.2

Ada Kaleh

11/10/18

Directed by: Helena Wittmann

Ueno_Station54's rating:

The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin

6.4

The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin

11/10/18

Directed by: Benjamin Crotty

Ueno_Station54's rating:

5.3

5.6

Touch Me Not

11/07/18

Directed by: Adina Pintilie

Mostly just your stock, beige, Eurodrama with a quasi-documentary angle being the only real difference. It's very tell, not show and just matter-of-factly muses its topic in mostly unrewarding ways. The music from Einstürzende Neubauten is pretty rad the handful of times it comes up though and its not like its a pain to sit through or anything.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.9

Wishing Well

11/06/18

Directed by: Sylvia Schedelbauer

Initially super impressive and engaging but gets less so as it goes on. Still really good overall.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.7

5.3

The Glass Note

11/06/18

Directed by: Mary Helena Clark

Ueno_Station54's rating:

7.9

7.5

The Wolf House

11/05/18

Directed by: Joaquín Cociña & Cristóbal León

The stop-motion is incredible and is actually very cinematic in how the camera bobs around as if there was a literal cameraman. Really impressive.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

5.6

Trees Down Here (2018)

11/05/18

Directed by: Ben Rivers

Good aesthetics.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

4286

5.6

6.2

Scary Movie (2000)

10/26/18

Directed by: Keenan Ivory Wayans

You KNOW what it is.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

3450

6.6

7.4

Scream

10/26/18

Directed by: Wes Craven

You know what it is.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.2

5.5

Kichiku dai enkai (1997)

10/19/18

Directed by: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Mostly just a lame, poorly developed torture-porn type film but elevated a bit by the shot composition (mostly in the final act) that is extremely new-wave inspired and some half-decent special effects.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.5

5.8

Gimî hebun (2005)

10/14/18

Directed by: Toru Matsuura

Possibly the most "of its time and place" movie. It's just all the dumbest cliches of the post-Cure Japanese mystery movie. The soundtrack was dope, though it was implemented terribly.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.3

6.5

Symptoms

10/03/18

Directed by: Joseph Larraz

It's shot well and it had me for a bit until it became clear that nothing was going to happen.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

5.3

5.9

Water for Maya (2003)

09/25/18

Directed by: Stan Brakhage

Ueno_Station54's rating:

5.8

Puce Moment (1949)

09/21/18

Directed by: Kenneth Anger

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.1

7.1

Eaux d'artifice (1953)

09/21/18

Directed by: Kenneth Anger

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.1

6.3

Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) (1973)

09/21/18

Directed by: Kenneth Anger

Ueno_Station54's rating:

6.4

5.4

Wavelength

09/21/18

Directed by: Michael Snow

Kind of a masterpiece.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

La résurrection des natures mortes (Living Still Life)

7.2

La résurrection des natures mortes (Living Still Life)... (2014)

09/20/18

Directed by: Bertrand Mandico

Ueno_Station54's rating:

Stations

09/20/18

Directed by: Julien Huger

7.5

6.8

The Wild Boys (2017)

09/20/18

Directed by: Bertrand Mandico

Its really fucking rad please see it.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

4.8

4.2

The Prey (1983)

09/15/18

Directed by: Edwin Brown

The opening scene was somewhat promising but it ends up being aggressively bland.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

4.3

Iced (1989)

09/12/18

Directed by: Jeff Kwitny

Just a horribly boring film throughout with almost nothing going for it but spoilers it has a Blood Debts level last 5 seconds.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

313

5.8

Above the Law

09/02/18

Directed by: Andrew Davis

On one hand, its amazing how sudden and visceral Seagal's fight scenes are but on the other hand they're also over extremely fast.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

Eviction Notice

08/23/18

Directed by: Ben Ruffett

The film itself is obviously terrible but the gimmick is really freaking cool and I do dig the killer's design.

286

4.8

5.3

3 Ninjas (1992)

08/23/18

Directed by: Jon Turteltaub

I expected this to be crap and only be good for some cheap nostalgia but what I found was that I didn't actually remember anything from it (except maybe the music?) but also that its kinda fucking awesome.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

7.5

7.1

Kuro

07/12/18

Directed by: Joji Koyama & Tujiko Noriko

A soft, meditative film that slowly goes to some strange places and the music (as expected from Tujiko Noriko) is beautiful and appropriately scant.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

356

7.4

7.5

Masculin Feminin (1966)

07/09/18

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Cool vibe and all but just not terribly interesting characters and boy does it feel a lot longer than it is. Good tunes as well.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents

7.5

6.9

Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents... (2015)

07/08/18

Directed by: Don Hardy

A not very interesting documentary about the most interesting band.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

329

5.4

5.8

Sudden Death (1995)

06/28/18

Directed by: Peter Hyams

Passable.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

2.7

'It's Alive!' (1969)

??/??/18

Directed by: Larry Buchanan

Mostly boring but has a few choice moments and the monster costume is incredible.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

5.2

4.5

Fantasy Mission Force

04/22/18

Directed by: Yen-ping Chu

It's hard to follow for awhile and there's so much bizarre stuff going on but the last few set pieces are incredible and I think a viewing of a proper subtitled version (instead of this hacked up english dub) would probably be amazing.

Ueno_Station54's rating:

101

3.9

3.8

Silent Night, Deadly Night 2

04/15/18

Directed by: Lee Harry

There's no particularly standout scenes but Eric Freeman's amazingly both animated and wooden performance keeps the whole thing consistently entertaining.