What movies have you seen recently?

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I like it a lot

Same here. IMO, if WB decides to give a Batman Beyond movie the green-light, WB should consider bringing back Michael Keaton to play the elderly Batman.

Holy crap I would love for them to make a Batman Beyond movie!! !!

Nosferatu (1922)

Child's play.
Bratz Forever Diamondz.

One of the greatest horror films EVER!

Yes it rocks extremely. Recently seen Vampyr as well, hasn't got much pace, but powerful atmospheres.

Next up is Metropolis and Potemkin, me and a friend are going through some of the silents.

I agree about Vampyr. Unfortunately, Metropolis had been heavily edited for American audiences, and it's that edited version that only survives (edited out was the protagonist exploring the vice industry in the proletarian areas).

Little Man Tate

American Mary.

An interesting first two thirds, but it felt like the writers didn't have much of an idea of how to bring it to a close. Good set-up, but too much sense of an opportunity wasted.

Katharine Isabelle's appearance made me remember how much I liked Ginger Snaps, and that I probably ought to give the prequel and sequel a watch.

The avengers.

The Duke of Burgundy.

Steeped and seemingly set in 70s European film (though it never feels like pastiche, apart from the knowing wink of the opening credits) where the light always has the quality of late afternoon in early summer. It's about a lesbian couple (there are no men at all in the film. No cars, either), and their sub/Dom dynamic, about who actually is in charge in such a thing. Butterflys and moths feature - the characters collect and study them, and attend lectures on them - though I couldn't quite grasp the symbolism there. Change, of course, and this stanza from Eliot's 'Prufrock' kept coming back to me:

And I have known the eyes already, known them all—
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?

There's a fetishistic approach to costume. Lots of texture. Heavy on the nylon, and on skin as a ridged, knitted surface rather than the wipe-clean rubberised photoshopped surface that we're presented with nowadays. There's sensuality and eroticism and langour and, as the film progresses and the characters reveal themselves and their relationship, it's tender and moving. Funny too, thank God. Brilliant use of sound. A proper cinematic experience I wish I could see in a proper cinema.

The specifics - a lesbian sub/Dom relationship somewhere in man-free 70s Europe - actually allow it a universality about roles and expectations and pressures in any relationship, romantic or otherwise.

Knocked my socks off. I look forward to looking into the writer-director's other work.

Murder of Innocence

Currently watching Casablanca.

I recently watched, Bone Tomahawk, a western horror starring Kurt Russel. The set up is like the Searcher's, where Russel organizes a posse to rescue a woman doctor who is abducted by "Indians". It's a perfect movie.

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