Jake Gittes

It's September.

The Descent? Not a major studio movie but still an accessible wide release.

F9 just did.

Maybe they're about to move the US release up to September too.

1. Once Upon a Time in the West 2. Johnny Guitar 3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 4-5 My Darling Clementine The Wild Bunch 6-10 3:10 to Yuma (1957) Dead Man El Dorado The Good, the Bad and the Ugly McCabe & Mrs. Miller 11-15 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Ox-Bow Incident The Searchers The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Unforgiven 16-20 Destry Rides Again For a Fistful of Dollars Gunman's Walk Meek's Cutoff The Tall T 21-25 First Cow The Gunfighter The Naked Spur Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Red River 26-35 Blazing Saddles Bone Tomahawk For a Few Dollars More Hell or High Water High Plains Drifter Navajo Joe Rio Bravo Seven Men from Now Stagecoach True Grit (2010) 36-50 Deadwood: The Movie Decision at Sundown Django Unchained El Topo Forty Guns The Hateful Eight Heaven's Gate High Noon Jauja Jeremiah Johnson The Outlaw Josey Wales Pale Rider Rango Tombstone The Wind

Pre-release, if the question's still relevant.

Watched El Dorado, Hawks' own remake of Rio Bravo. Enjoyed it more than the original (which I liked a lot), if only because there's no painfully self-conscious Angie Dickinson throwing herself at Wayne for the entire movie. Tighter, too. No replacing Walter Brennan in the Stumpy role, but Arthur Hunnicutt puts his own spin on it, and Mitchum and Caan are at least as good as Martin and Nelson. A grand old time. Guess that's my last recommendation of something I haven't seen FYC'd in this thread before.

July aka Western month, thanks Panda *Amélie - 6/10 The Magnificent Seven - 6/10 Pyaasa - 7/10 Le Notti Bianche - 7/10 *Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - 8/10 *The Leopard - 7/10 *I Vitelloni - 6/10 Pinocchio - 8/10 Johnny Guitar - 9/10 The Emperor's New Groove - 9/10. Obviously the greatest thing Disney has ever done. *Cloud Atlas - 6/10 Watch Out for the Automobile - 6/10 Stagecoach - 8/10 Destry Rides Again - 8/10 The Ox-Bow Incident - 8/10. Actually quite a bit better than that for 80% of its runtime, until the awful device with the letter that couldn't possibly sound more like a preachy Author's Message if the writer himself stepped into the frame, got on a soapbox and read it into the camera. A shame. The first hour is terrifying. *Trainspotting - 7/10 My Darling Clementine - 9/10 [longer "pre-release" cut] Not a fan of what this ends up doing with Linda Darnell's character, but otherwise a nearly perfect hangout western I could watch for hours. Wouldn't surprise me if David Milch had the same thought once upon a time, and that's how we got Deadwood. *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 8/10 Red River - 8/10 [shorter cut with the narration] First hour's something of a drag, but it starts paying off in a big way once Clift takes charge. The ending is powerful in theory and almost works in practice, it's just hard to accept it given some of the things Wayne's character does in the lead-up to it. Has what is probably the greatest-ever reaction by a movie character to getting shot with an arrow. The Gunfighter - 8/10 The Naked Spur - 8/10 The Searchers - 8/10. The first 45 minutes is pretty staggering, absolutely feeling like myth brought to life, which only makes the useless comic relief to come more bewildering. The romantic/melodramatic parts semi-work for me as contrast to the urgency of the main narrative (Life Goes On, etc.), and are helped by some emotionally raw work from Vera Miles, but still barely function on their own narratively. It's a testament to the fundamental power of Ethan's character and story, and to Ford's sense of control whenever he doesn't inexplicably lose it, that I still came away thinking of this as a great film. Basic Instinct - 6/10 Seven Men from Now - 7/10 The Tall T - 8/10 3:10 to Yuma (1957) - 8/10, though I suspect I'm underrating it and can't wait to see it again. Biggest surprise of the month, a moody melancholy western with some breathtakingly beautiful stretches (everything with Glenn Ford and Felicia Farr as the barmaid), gratifying attention paid to character interactions above all else and an ending that actually makes sense unlike the remake's. Forty Guns - 7/10 Decision at Sundown - 7/10

FYC for the final stretch

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tom-hanks-wes-andersons-feature-exclusive-1234990834/

Looks like a return to his slick crime/crime-adjacent dramas with a coat of existentialism like American Gigolo, Light Sleeper and The Walker which I guess was predictable, he wasn't gonna do another First Reformed. Those movies are a mixed bag at best, hopefully this is better than at least some of them. I wonder what would have happened if he'd gotten to make Nine Men from Now instead of this.

This just became a Margaret reunion @lorddemaxus

Y'all don't know CJohn very well, do you?

This isn't a sequel.

Try some Budd Boetticher joints they're all 75-80 minutes long and well-regarded. The Ox-Bow Incident, too. Anthony Mann's westerns are all 90-100 minutes.

At least this means fewer undeserving Williams scores in the top 10

1. Kiki’s Delivery Service 2. The Emperor’s New Groove 3. The Incredibles 4. Toy Story 5. WALL·E 6. Toy Story 2 7. Waking Life 8. Pinocchio 9. Fantastic Mr. Fox 10. Spirited Away 11. Ratatouille 12. Tower 13. Monsters, Inc. 14. Toy Story 3 15. The Iron Giant 16. Dumbo 17. Wolfwalkers 18. My Neighbor Totoro 19. Castle in the Sky 20. Fantastic Planet 21. Coco 22. Porco Rosso 23. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 24. Cheatin’ 25. The Princess and the Frog 26. Corpse Bride 27. Coraline 28. Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro 29. The Nightmare Before Christmas 30. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 31. Up 32. Tangled 33. Rango 34. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 35. Wolf Children 36. Soul 37. The Secret of Kells 38. The Triplets of Belleville 39. Finding Nemo 40. It’s Such a Beautiful Day 41. Shaun the Sheep Movie 42. How to Train Your Dragon 43. The Three Caballeros 44. Flushed Away 45. Perfect Blue 46. Ponyo 47. The Illusionist 48. Princess Mononoke 49. Fantasia 50. Hoodwinked!

This music is not original to In the Mood for Love, people. (Galasso's is, but it's not his stuff that's played 40 times in the movie and is most associated with it.)

When you need to deal with that one toxic person stinking up the joint

1. Vertigo (1958, Bernard Herrmann) 2. Blade Runner (1982, Vangelis) 3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Ennio Morricone) 4. Chinatown (1974, Jerry Goldsmith) 5. The Third Man (1949, Anton Karas) 6. Days of Heaven (1978, Ennio Morricone) 7. Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Ennio Morricone) 8. Touch of Evil (1958, Henry Mancini) 9. Under the Skin (2013, Mica Levi) 10. Brick (2005, Nathan Johnson) 11. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, John Williams) 12. Star Wars (1977, John Williams) 13. Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Miles Davis) 14. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Michel Legrand) 15. The Social Network (2010, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) 16. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992, Vangelis) 17. Laura (1944, David Raksin) 18. Suspiria (1977, Goblin) 19. The Piano (1993, Michael Nyman) 20. Psycho (1960, Bernard Herrmann) 21. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Ennio Morricone) 22. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985, Philip Glass) 23. Safe (1995, Ed Tomney) 24. The Straight Story (1999, Angelo Badalamenti) 25. There Will Be Blood (2007, Jonny Greenwood) 26. Gone with the Wind (1939, Max Steiner) 27. Trouble in Mind (1985, Mark Isham) 28. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Howard Shore) 29. The Godfather (1972, Nino Rota) 30. Sorcerer (1977, Tangerine Dream) 31. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, John Williams) 32. Beauty and the Beast (1978, Petr Hapka) 33. Chungking Express (1994, Frankie Chan & Roel A. García) 34. Taxi Driver (1976, Bernard Herrmann) 35. Seven (1995, Howard Shore) 36. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989, Joe Hisaishi) 37. Local Hero (1983, Mark Knopfler) 38. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis) 39. Dead Man (1995, Neil Young) 40. The Childhood of a Leader (2015, Scott Walker) 41. The Conformist (1970, Georges Delerue) 42. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, Junkie XL) 43. Truck Turner (1974, Isaac Hayes) 44. The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015, Mark Korven) 45. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) 46. Thief (1981, Tangerine Dream) 47. Henry V (1989, Patrick Doyle) 48. The Mission (1986, Ennio Morricone) 49. The Last Airbender (2010, James Newton Howard) 50. Mulholland Dr. (2001, Angelo Badalamenti) 51. Angel Heart (1987, Trevor Jones) 52. The Terminator (1984, Brad Fiedel) 53. Starman (1984, Jack Nitzsche) 54. Batman (1989, Danny Elfman) 55. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015, Daniel Pemberton) 56. Cat People (1982, Giorgio Moroder) 57. Navajo Joe (1966, Ennio Morricone) 58. Blood Simple (1984, Carter Burwell) 59. Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Jon Brion) 60. The Incredibles (2004, Michael Giacchino) 61. The Godfather: Part II (1974, Nino Rota & Carmine Coppola) 62. Gladiator (2000, Hans Zimmer) 63. Breathless (1960, Martial Solal) 64. Jurassic Park (1993, John Williams) 65. A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Ennio Morricone) 66. Patty Hearst (1988, Scott Johnson) 67. Good Time (2017, Oneohtrix Point Never) 68. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Erich Wolfgang Korngold) 69. Ratatouille (2007, Michael Giacchino) 70. The Thing (1982, Ennio Morricone) 71. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982, James Horner) 72. Jaws (1975, John Williams) 73. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992, Angelo Badalamenti) 74. Friday Night (2002, Tindersticks) 75. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Howard Shore) 76. The Departed (2006, Howard Shore) 77. Phantom Thread (2017, Jonny Greenwood) 78. Inception (2010, Hans Zimmer) 79. Bullitt (1968, Lalo Schifrin) 80. Castle in the Sky (1986, Joe Hisaishi) 81. Heaven’s Gate (1980, David Mansfield) 82. For a Few Dollars More (1965, Ennio Morricone) 83. Deep Red (1975, Goblin) 84. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, Wojciech Kilar) 85. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Joe Hisaishi) 86. Hanna (2011, The Chemical Brothers) 87. The Age of Innocence (1993, Elmer Bernstein) 88. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, Alexandre Desplat) 89. Memento (2000, David Julyan) 90. Walker (1987, Joe Strummer) 91. Sunshine (2007, Underworld & John Murphy) 92. The Village (2004, James Newton Howard) 93. The Dark Knight (2008, Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard) 94. Old Joy (2006, Yo La Tengo) 95. 127 Hours (2010, A.R. Rahman) 96. It Follows (2014, Disasterpeace) 97. The Book of Eli (2010, Atticus Ross) 98. The Fountain (2006, Clint Mansell) 99. Midnight Special (2016, David Wingo) 100. Catch Me If You Can (2002, John Williams)

June aka Animation and Camp Month, thanks chas and Cap *Hoodwinked! - 6/10. This is my preferred version of Rashōmon. X-treme Granny stuff cringy, Patrick Warburton and Japeth the Goat magnificent. *Monster House - 6/10. A pretty fun, these days refreshingly non-patronizing movie very nearly undone by some of the most eye-gouging horribly aged performance capture animation I've ever seen. (Did it ever look good? I don't remember being put off by it in 2006). Kept thinking about how awesome a Henry Selick-style stop-motion version might have looked like and trying not to cry inside. *Flushed Away - 7/10 *Ratatouille - 8/10. Hadn't seen it since 2012, and the last 15 minutes now get my vote as the greatest 15 minutes in any Pixar movie. *Ponyo - 7/10 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar - 7/10 *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 7/10 *Coraline - 7/10 *The Princess and the Frog - 7/10. Maybe my favorite WDAS since let's say 2002. It's true that the leads are more interesting in human form, but I'm a total sucker for the setting and style, and the supporting characters and musical numbers are all good-to-great. *Mary and Max - 3/10 *Fantastic Mr. Fox - 8/10 *Top Hat - 8/10 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 7/10. There are three movies happening here—a black comedy of family dysfunction, a Sunset Blvd. psychodrama and a nick-of-time physical suspense thriller—and the last of them gets too much screentime for how straightforward it is, while also leaving Joan Crawford with less and less to do as it progresses. Davis for her part is amazing, and the scene where Baby Jane revives her childhood act is an incredible piece of camp, funny, painful and disturbing all at once. *Monsters, Inc. - 8/10 *The Triplets of Belleville - 7/10 *Rango - 7/10 *Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - 6/10 *The LEGO Movie - 6/10. Loved this when it came out but looking at it now, it does overmilk the jokes and I'm not sure why it thinks it can relentlessly snark on its own narrative and characters, then turn around and play things straight (see e.g. the long scene with Good/Bad Cop's parents or the destruction of Cloud Cuckoo Land), not to mention culminate with that painfully earnest Everyone Is Special speech and Will Ferrell learning a valuable lesson about creativity. A truly committed movie would have embraced the anarchy. Arnett still the best Batman since BTAS, though. *Only Yesterday (1991) - 6/10 *Spirited Away - 8/10 *The Iron Giant - 8/10 *Inside Out - 6/10 *Fantasia - 7/10 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - 8/10 *Dumbo - 8/10 *The Secret of Kells - 7/10 *Song of the Sea - 6/10 *Waking Life - 8/10 *Sound of Metal - 7/10. Rating unchanged, but I liked it a little less on rewatch (big screen this time) because it's a lot more glaring how noncommittal its approach to sound really is. If the point of your movie is to immerse the audience in the subjective experience of someone losing their hearing (and of those close to them), there's no good reason for there to be any sound in (at the very least) the shelter scenes, where no hearing characters are present; that the movie randomly switches back to "normal" every few minutes makes it come off as, at best, insecure and more tourist-y than Marder presumably intended, as if it's privileging the comfort of its hearing audience over its own internal consistency and effect. Also, the fact that Ruben isn't explained how the [redacted] work until after he's gotten them seems to me like a pretty ridiculous contrivance. Pacing and performances still carry it; Raci wuz robbed. *Taxi Driver - 9/10

FYC

I don't think anyone would argue The Village isn't a good-looking movie. It helps having Deakins at your side.