What Films did You Watch Last Week (13/05 - 19/05) CLOSED

Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your host (me) posts my weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. I will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film.

FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

The Wild One (1953, Laslo Benedek)
The original motorcycle gang film starring Brando has a plot that is pretty rough around the edges but is a great looking film for the most part with solid performances.
6/10

Under the Silver Lake (2018, David Robert Mitchell)
Just like directors before him, the director of the surprise hit 'It Follows (2014)' follows that more straight forward horror with something over packed with ideas and quite verbose in it's ambition and ripe with metaphors. In this story Andre Garfield (The Social Network) plays Sam, a twenty something without purpose who finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears and he sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre. I will give the film props for trying something different and it was pretty interesting throughout (for one viewing at least) but the film is not really that well made visually (bar a couple of key sequences) and is bloated in places. Also I am in the minority I think, but I did not overly care for Garfield's lead performance.
5/10

House of Bamboo (1955, Samuel Fuller)
This full colour Film Noir shot on location in Japan follows a U.S. Army Investigator who attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
The film does not really work, the direction could have been a lot better and it feels like it waffles at times. Kind of a waste of a great cast and  a well budgeted location project.
3.5/10

REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING

None this week

FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWING

Knock Down the House (2019, Rachel Lears)
Netflix
A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election.
Recommended

FIRST TIME TV SERIES VIEWING

True Detective (2019, Season Three, HBO)
After a dud second season, the show is back to quality writing and characters. Its a little more of a slow burner than season one but its very strong none the less. The finale might be a little flatter than the build up but this is still top shelf television.
Highly Recommended

Survivor:Edge of Extinction (2019, Season 38)
tv
Good season of the top reality show and social experiment on television.
Recommended

WEEKLY FILM AWARDS

BEST FILM: The Wild One
BEST ACTOR: Marlon Brando - The Wild One
BEST ACTRESS: Mary Murphy - The Wild One
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Lee Marvin - The Wild One
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Riki Lindhome - Under the Silver Lake
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hal Mohr - The Wild One (two weeks in a row for Hal)
BEST SCORE: Disasterpeace - Under the Silver Lake
BEST DIRECTOR: Laslo Benedek - The Wild One


10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible)
09/10 - An Excellent film
08/10 - A VERY Good film
07/10 - A Good film
06/10 - A Solid film
05/10 - An Average film
04/10 - Below Average film
03/10 - A mostly bad film
02/10 - A mostly terrible film
01/10 - Awful through and through
00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too