Movie Club

Title	Directed by	Episode	Genre	Julie's Verdict
The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, and Anonymous	Episode 153	Documentary
After Porn Ends	Bryce Wagoner	Episode 150	Oh Boy	Yeeeeeesh
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer	Nick Broomfield		Documentary
All that Jazz	Bob Fosse	Episode 152	Musical	Great. Julie relates Bob Fosse to Stanley Kubrick. Geniuses who used actors and performers like art supplies. Fosse specifically using actors and dancers as an extension of his own wants and needs as an artist and choreographer and creating movements and performances never seen before. Nobody moves like Ann Reinking.
Alien	Ridley Scott	Episode 148	Horror/Science Fiction	A Good Movie. Julie was glad that the cat survived and was inspired by H.R. Giger's creep art.(The latter not true)
Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe	Episode 165	Music-oriented	Not very good,guys. Cameron Crowe might not be very good.
American Swing	Jon Hart & Matthew Kaufman		Documentary
Annie	Will Gluck	Episode 157	Musical	We are not emotionally prepared for this movie or Cameron Diaz's role in it.
Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	Episode 2	Comedy
The Bad Seed	Mervyn LeRoy	Episode 139	Horror/Thriller
A Band Called Death	Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett		Documentary
Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan	Episode 135	Action
Beauty is Embarrassing	Neil Berkeley		Documentary
Beetlejuice	Tim Burton	Episode 130	Comedy
Behind The Candelabra	Steven Soderbergh	Episode 117	Biopic
The Birdcage	Mike Nichols		Comedy
Big Business	Jim Abrahams	Episode 2	Comedy
The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan	Episode 183	Baby Boomer Entitlement Incarnate	The Robert Frost ode to White People. A garbage movie. Glenn Close bakes and cries in the shower and her hair is nice. Jeff Goldblum is gross. William Hurt is impotent(Vietnam?) and he does cocaine and has an earring. The Motown soundtrack is patronizing because it becomes background noise to the white experience or is appropriated into this bland lifestyle of people whose coolness peaked when The Beatles and Bob Dylan peaked in the culture. The movie kills itself for a state of authenticity that was never authentic. Burn this movie/this baby boomer entitlement to the ground, start over, or give the millennials the keys.
Bill Cunningham: New York	Richard Press	Episode 21	Documentary
Blow Out	Brian De Palma		Suspense!!!	John Travolta is a fabulous actor and Julie credits it to Scientology. Nancy Allen on the other hand is not. If Julie never saw her again she would be ok.
Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen	Episode 135	Comedy
Body Double	A Weirdo		Suspense/trash	Julie would say she likes the movie, but the torture scene with the powerdrill is too upsetting. Not a fan of torture or women in pain. Julie thinks De Palma is a sick man, but she has a morbid but distant curiosity towards his films. The "citrus fruits" on him(two grapefruits) to cast Tippi Hedren's daughter, Melanie Griffith, to make a sleazy version of Vertigo and Rear Window and also put a Frankie Goes to Hollywood music video in the middle of a film is fascinating, but the urge to depict that level of violence and the desire to depict acts of cruelty towards women specifically and sentient creatures more broadly alludes Julie and she judges it as something deeply problematic and it hurts her heart. She likes her sadism in cringe humour.
The Bride of Frankenstein	James Whale	Episode 139	Horror
Broadway Danny Rose	Woody Allen		Comedy I guess?	You know whose fabulous in that? Mia Farrow. She plays a better trashy character in that than Nancy Allen in Blow Out. And she looks fabulous! FABULOUS!
Cabaret	Bob Fosse	Episode 146/Ongoing	Musical
Capturing the Friedmans	Andrew Jarecki	Ongoing	Documentary	Inconclusive
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life	Dori Berinstein	Episode 8	Documentary
Carrie	Brian De Palma		Horror
ChickenHawk	Adi Sideman	Episode 133	Documentary
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2	Cody Cameron & Kris Pearn	Episode 133	Animation	Julie hasn't seen it(Uh she read the book), but finds it delightful that a concept artist somewhere made animals out of hamburgairs.
The Cooler	Wayne Kramer	Episode 74	Drama
Crumb	Terry Zwigoff		Biopic
Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud	Episode 133	Animation
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Frank Oz		Comedy	Very well directed film. Franz Oz takes you on a journey. He does things visually and musically that are really cool and set the tone and makes you feel like you're on a holiday. He makes interesting cuts over extended dialogue and takes you to different locations through these cuts and edits. He frames shots interestingly. There is one shot where Michael Caine and Steve Martin are talking in the lobby of the hotel Janet Colgate( aka Glenne Headly) checks in. Steve Martin and Michael Caine are in what appears to be at first an uneven frame on the right side of the screen in front of a wall, but then you notice how it's intentionally framed so that it puts Caine and Martin on the right because Glenne Headly is behind them out of focus. It's this weird shot that puts all the characters together (this is probably not that interesting). There is another scene where Ruprecht is told he is moving to Oklahoma and he is not happy about it and he knocks one breakable antique off the mantelpiece and he walks a little bit and knocks off another one and walks a little bit and knocks off another one where Julie thought and hoped Jimmy wasn't watching this scene because that is what he likes to do. FUN FACT! Did you know Frances Conroy was in the movie? She played the woman from Palm Beach who dines with Lawrence Jamieson and Ruprecht Jamieson. She is wearing a beehive. She looks matronly and tall. Ruprecht is fucking around with his cork on a fork and making circular motions on a plate of apple sauce. That whole "may I go to the bathroom thank you" exchange was done in front of fucking Frances Conroy. Julie's Bitch, Member of the Red Head Hall of Fame, and Cool Ass Bitch. Frances "Motherfucking" Conroy was in that movie.
Eating Raoul	Paul Bartel	Episode 96	Comedy	It's a romp. Swingers are like zombies in this movie.
Enough Said	Nicole Holofcener	Episode 133	Comedy
The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato		Documentary
The Exorcist	William Friedkin	Episode 103	Horror
Faithful	Paul Mazursky	Episode 2	Comedy
Fargo	Joel and Ethan Coen		Comedy
Feet Feet Feet	Quentin Tarantino	Episode 151	Feet	Feet Feet
Foxcatcher	Bennett Miller	Episode 195: "She's a Hurricane"	Drama	Not enough women. (There are only two women who speak in the film.)
Frances Ha	Noah Baumbach	Episode 117: HWYW Gems 4	Comedy?	Frances Ha-ted it. Who dreams of going back to college?
Funny Girl	William Wyler	Episode 146: "The Opposite of Rock & Roll"	Musical romantic comedy	The opposite of Rock & Roll. Julie remembers "Don't Rain on My Parade" being much more radical when she heard the song and saw this movie as a child but watching it as an adult, she has more reservations on this movie, the song, and Barbara Streisand as a feminine figure.
George Harrison: Living in the Material World	Martin Scorsese	Episode 135	Documentary
Ghostbusters	Ivan Reitman	Episode 2	Comedy
Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese	Episode 136	Drama
The Graduate	Mike Nichols		Drama
The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson		Comedy	The shots were symmetrical and centred and there weren't a lot of women in it.
Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón	Episode 134	Drama	Stunk. Sandra Bullock's haircut stunk too.
Grey Gardens	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde & Muffy Meyer		Documentary
Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen	Episode 136	Comedy	A masterpiece despite Woody Allen and his attitude towards women.
A Hard Day's Night	Richard Lester	Episode 135	Comedy
Head	Bob Rafelson	Episode 53	Musical
Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse	George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola & Fax Bahr		Documentary
Heathers	Michael Lehmann	Episode 20	Comedy
Her	Spike Jonze	Episode 147	Romantic	Loved it. Julie has never seen a more artful and accurate movie about life after your heart is broken.[From Twittair]
The Hollywood Complex	Dylan Nelson & Dan Sturman		Documentary
Hoop Dreams	Steve James	Episode 73: "The Sneaker Nap"	Documentary	Could have been better if it had followed the cheerleaders.
Hugo	Martin Scorsese		Steampunk/Family	Liked it. Probably will never see it again.
The Imposter	Bart Layton		Documentary
Irréversible	Gaspar Noé	Episode 136	Thriller
The Interrupters	Steve James		Documentary
Jackie Brown	Quentin Tarantino	Episode 135	Drama	Love it. It gets better everytime you see it. One of the movies Julie can watch whenever.
Jaws	Steven Spielberg		Horror	Is this-Is this a B-Movie?
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work	Ricki Stern		Documentary
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night	Mark A. Catalena & Peter Jones	Episode 130	Documentary
Jumping Jack Flash	Penny Marshall	Episode 2	Comedy
The Kid Stays in the Picture	Brett Morgen		Documentary
The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	Episode 1	Over-dramatization of not-the-most irrelevant thing that happened at that time (WWII)	Hated it
The Last House on the Left	Wes Craven	Episode 136	Horror
Life with Alex	Emily Wick	Episode 134	Documentary
Logan's Run	Michael Anderson	Episode 188	Science Fiction	Julie fell asleep near the end, but this is one of the better movies that take place in a mall. Peter Ustinov recites lines from T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats(which is also the basis for Cats the Musical) and Julie didn't know what the fuck was going on but she liked those parts and felt the rest of the movie was garbage and silly. Farrah Fawcett was in it. A little bit of Michael York goes a long way but a lot of Michael York...no thank you.
Loopair	Rian Johnson	Episode 159	Science Fiction/Crime	LOOPAIR!!! THAT WAS A GOOD MOVIE!!
Make Believe	J. Clay Tweel	Episode 11	Documentary
Mannequin	Michael Gottlieb	Episode 159	Comedy	Julie really skewers this movie. Hollywood is wonderful though. Andrew McCarthy's character is a little dumb.
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present	Matthew Akers & Jeff Dupre		Documentary
Married to the Eiffel Tower	Agnieszka Piotrowska	Episode 20	Documentary
Mask	Peter Bogdanovich	Episode 2	Drama
Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen		Comedy(I'm guessing)	Sure, Woody Allen. Living in Paris twenty years before the Holocaust/World War 2 was great.
Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	Episode 2	Comedy
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.	Errol Morris		Documentary
Nashville	Robert Altman		Drama
Never Sleep Again:The Elm Street Legacy	Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch	Episode 165	DVD extra	Julie doesn't care about the Nightmare on Elm Street series, but she watched this documentary from start to finish and now knows everything about it. Robert Englund is probably terrible in bed. These aren't feminists movies if Freddy Krueger is the one you're rooting for. Freddy Krueger represents the horrible 1980's where the bad guys won. Also The Fresh Prince was a loser. Nightmare on My Street is not a pun, you idiot.
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film	Andrew Monument		Horror Documentary	Don't bother but there are good clips. Julie doesn't care about 30's Horror movies because she is not Robert Osborne and doesn't care about the Wolf Man or The Mummy (start with Rosemary's Baby). But she did learn about a movie called The Stuff which is about junk food that turns people crazy. Julie likes it when people talk about Horror movies and say "sounds like real life today, right?" Also,regarding the more violent torture-based horror films, things like "look at what's on the news! That's worse!" No it isn't because our version of the news is Kathie Lee and Hoda.
The Nomi Song	Andrew Horn		Documentary
Out of Sight	Steven Soderbergh	Episode 148	Crime	Does not hold up.
Paris is Burning	Jennie Livingston	Episode 26	Documentary
The Phantom of the Paradise	Brian De Palma	Episode 130	Horror/Musical
Popeye	Robert Altman		Musical	Julie coke-splained what brought about this film and how weird this film is even though she remembers her family thinking it was a standard family film when in reality it is pretty weird. Everyone making it(Robert Evans, Jules Feiffer, Robert Altman) was like "Toot toot up the patoot" with dunes of white stuff they had just lying around. This is what coke could accomplish. The residents of Sweet Haven are weird. "He Needs Me" is beautiful. "He's Large" is one of the best musical comedy moment songs. Linda Hunt is in it but not in it enough, but there is an Octopus.
Public Speaking	Martin Scorsese	Episode 26	Documentary
Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	Episode 132	Drama
The Queen of Versailles	Lauren Greenfield	Episode 74	Documentary	Julie loved it.
Red Dragon	Brett Ratner	Episode 164	Serial Killer stuff	Julie went in and out of this movie as it was on tv, but Ralph Fiennes eats a William Blake painting and there could've been more "serial killer dating a blind girl" jokes. A good movie.
Reservoir Dogs	Quentin Tarantino	Episode 132	Drama
Riding the Bus with My Sister	Anjelica Huston		Drama
Room 237	Rodney Ascher		Documentary
Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski	Ongoing	Horror
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags	Marc Levin	Episode 6	Documentary
Scream	Wes Craven	Episode 139	Horror
Sex Crimes Unit	Lisa P. Jackson		Documentary
The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	Ongoing	Horror
Shivairs(Shivers)	David Cronenberg		Horror	Just gross. A very silly and gross movie that looked like Nick Zedd tried to make a porno in Canada and then he got bored so he just started playing with doodee. The gross out sub-genre of horror is like kids playing with poop. It doesn't tickle the mind! Not like The Stuff!
Sisters	Brian de Palma	Episode 186	Suspense	Julie enjoyed it but doesn't know if it was good. It could be terrible. It's probably terrible. Margot Kidder and William Finley(Winslow Leach from The Phantom of the Paradise) play French Canadians.
Sling Blade	Billy Bob Thornton	http://howwasyourweek.libsyn.com/merrill-markoe-brian-stack-andy-kindler-hwyw-gem-vol-6- Gems Vol. 6]	Southern Gothic/90's movie/Yup	The film Billy Bob Thornton wanted to make in the 90's. He wrote it. He wanted to direct it. He wanted to star in it. And then some years later he had the filthiest and most macabre sex with Angelina Jolie imaginable where they drank each other's pee probably.
Sleeper	Woody Allen	Episode 136	Comedy
The Source Family	Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos		Documentary
Splash	Ron Howard		Comedy
The Staircase	Jean-Xavier de Lestrade	Episode 187	Documentary Mini series	Julie mainly talked about the anal sex portion of the mini-series but she recommends it. It's a good documentary especially if you love to fuck but have never been fucked and not sure you are interested.
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes	Jon Ronson		Documentary
The Stuff	Larry Cohen		Horror	Danny Aiello and his dog try to eat each other.
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon	Mike Myers	Episode 172: "Pellet of Pleasure"	Documentary	Myers' directorial choices were occasionally baffling. He does a lot of things that Soderbergh would not have done.
Synecdoche, New York	Charlie Kaufman		?	Julie doesn't care much for it but it is Jason Woliner's favorite movie.
Tabloid	Errol Morris	Episode 21	Documentary
Three Amigos	John Landis	Episode 140	Comedy
Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	Episode 7	Comedy
Twilight Zone: The Movie	John Landis, Steve Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller		Anthology film	FINALLY! Julie really took the Twilight Zone movie down a notch. Not a good movie, especially when you consider that people died making it(Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen) and John Landis had enough footage to work around it for his dumb vignette. Also Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks sing Creedence in the beginning? Scatman Crothers can read the phonebook to Julie but she had to skip through that "Kick The Can" segment.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Charles Walters	Episode 133	Musical
Vernon Florida	Errol Morris		Documentary
Vice Versa	Brian Gilbert	Episode 47	Comedy
Walking and Talking	Nicole Holofcener	Episode 136	Drama
Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Woody Allen	Episode 136	Comedy
We're the Millers	Rawson Marshall Thurber	Episode 133	Comedy
The Wiz	Sidney Lumet		Musical	A bad idea. The Wiz IS an icky experience or could be an icky experience if you haven't had nostalgia or affection for it. There is a 70's darkness to it that is quite scary in places and in others there is a saccharin brightness that people at the time thought would be delightful to children and maybe was to some but that mold and dust aged it so quickly that it became grotesque seemingly overnight. The Wiz is like a Birthday clown. A sad, crying clown that came to a child's birthday party and doesn't know why everyone is upset. It is like a dried macaroni collage that you made for your mom in the 70's and stayed up in the fridge since then and the pasta yellowed as the construction paper fades on the avocado coloured fridge door. That's what watching The Wiz is to Julie visually. Emotionally it is a whole bunch of other unpleasant things. Everytime Julie watches it she stops at a certain point. This time it was when Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow asks the crows passively and submissively to stop eating his body. Human beings dressed as crows eating him while he warmly says "Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are enjoying your breakfast!" Julie could not handle it. She stopped watching and then started watching August: Osage County and shut that off when Julia Roberts started talking. They're called Boobs, Ed.
The Wizard of Oz	Victor Fleming	Episode 137	Musical
Working Girl	Mike Nichols	Episode 2	Comedy