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Have we gotten word about what specifically happened? And do we know what to do to protect against it in the future?

Tentative list... I didn't limit director duplicates because some directors I just love a lot of their films specifically, but I may tweak this to allow for more breadth later. Underground (Anthony Asquith, 1928) The Cameraman (Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick, 1928) Harriet Craig (Vincent Sherman, 19...

Cranking through Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet. Just finished the third one, Footsteps , which is really where the whole thing starts to come together. I think he gets compared to Mahfouz and the Cairo Trilogy a lot, but I don't think that comparison does him any favors. The writing is so muc...

i finished gravity's rainbow after putting it down a bunch of times. there are some nice passages but man was it tough to get through he's doing melville wrong imo I sort of felt that way about Against the Day but GR really worked for me in almost every way. One of my favorite books. I loved how as...

I also haven't been able to get through it yet. But the images, taken on their own as individual shots, are quite impressive to me. Especially as someone who also has shot a lot of footage on the iPhone 6. I've never been able to find a workflow that yielded anything close to those results which I f...

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:09 pm haven't seen a kore-eda in years, just can't get into it

Monster is not going to convert anyone. But I thought it was very sweet. Other than Shoplifters I find all his films charming, sweet, and kind of forgettable.

Someone directed me to this list on letterboxd today. https://i.ibb.co/85PtMvF/Screenshot-2024-01-17-9-54-25-AM.png I never followed Zahler much. I saw Bone Tomohawk and found it reasonably entertaining, but not particularly exciting. All I know is that he's considered sort of a MAGA filmmaker by ma...

Top 20 I saw in 2023, arranged chronologically by release year. 1992 was a good year for me in 2023. Tiga Dara (Usmar Ismail, 1956) Falling Leaves (Otar Iosseliani, 1966) Accident (Joseph Losey, 1967) Du Cote d'orouet (Jacques Rozier, 1971) A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (Seijun Seizuki, 1977) Winter ...

First Reformed - Paul Schrader The Day After - Hong Song-Soo The Florida Project - Sean Baker Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson One Cut of the Dead - Shinichiro Ueda The Square - Ruben Ostlund You Were Never Really Here - Lynne Ramsay Satan's Slaves - Joko Anwar Terrified - Demien Rugna Twin Pe...

Bummer. Was in the process of working through his filmography chronologically. But got sidetracked by life.

I've seen 18 films from 2023 so far. A few that I liked decently enough. I don't think I've discovered any new favorites though. Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismaki Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos I Told You So - Ginevra Elkann The Killer - David Fincher You Hurt My Feelings - Nicole Holofcener May Decemb...

I tried to listen to it, but it's very not for me. The way people seem to feel about Carlos D'Alessio's pan flute score in Baxter, Vera Baxter (which I love) is how this is hitting me. Loved reading through all the track titles though.

Not actually the last thing I saw, but the last thing I saw before a very chaotic week that prevented me from talking to people about it. I saw When Dragons Collide , aka Twin Dragons , aka The Rendezvous of Warriors , originally called Tu Du ke (1973). One of the perks to the part of NY I live in n...

So you mean to say there are (Israeli) Jews living in Hamas controlled territory and not being harassed by Hamas? Very much not what I mean to say. What I mean to say is what I said. It's not happening with Hamas, and it is happening with Israel. The comparison is apt because of the structure of po...

Well, if you want to draw a parallel, it's Hitler - Hamas obviously. Both want to exterminate all Jews. That ignores the structure of the Holocaust in favor of the individuals. Hamas hasn't put any Jews in concentration camps, Israel has done this with Palestinians. Hamas hasn't created Jewish ghet...

I have a lot of friends and people I care for in Palestine. None in Gaza, which is a tiny, morbid, upside. If I hear “blue no matter who” ever again, I’ll probably lash out at the speaker physically. The dems have always supported bloodshed if it buttresses their imperialist agenda. Asking me to vot...

Best year ever for teenagers just starting to expand their tastes. I have a lot of nostalgia for this year, but a lot of them haven't been revisited in quite a while. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch What Time Is It There - Tsai Ming-Liang The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke Vanilla Sky - Cameron Crowe...

My wife and I have done a good job of hitting nearly a horror film per day. We've only watched two that I found actually kind of scary. Demian Rugna's Terrified and Damian Mc Carthy's Caveat So clearly the Damians are winning this October. But John Grissmer's Scalpel was a standout for me too. Would...

Oh weird. It's 73 on Letterboxd and Wikipedia.

But... it looks like wikipedia also cites it winning the top prize at the 72 Carthage film festival. So 72 is probably more accurate.

Duvidha - Mani Kaul F for Fake - Orson Welles The Iron Rose - Jean Rollin The Last Detail - Hal Ashby Hotel Monteray - Chantal Akerman Don't Look Now - Nic Roeg The Long Goodbye - Robert Altman Scarecrow - Jerry Schatzberg Turkish Delight - Paul Verhoeven Day For Night - Francois Truffaut I guess T...

In Toronto for the final weekend of TIFF. Started last night with a midnight screening of Working Class Goes to Hell . Apparently the first ever Balkan film to screen in the program. A dubious honor because I felt like the film was stunted by the programming. The Midnight Madness crowd desperately w...

Which one? Not that I've read any of them. It seems like the Arsonist and the Hideout are the only two that are somewhat widely available in English, but wild that he was living in Jersey throughout the 50s and 60s and managed stay almost solely a czech literary figure.

Yeah. I think McElroy's cache has more than just a little to do with the wildly inflated prices. I know more than a few people who have tracked down copies of all his books but have yet to read a single one. I think a lot of people are feeling the adrenaline rush of the hunt for difficult to find bo...

Oh, is that the basis for the Radu Jude film? I didn't realize it was an adaptation. Very cool. Also, I finally got a hold of a copy of Joseph McElroy's (extremely difficult to find) Lookout Cartridge which is noteworthy because it's literally about filmmaking. Not deep enough into it to really make...

Hi! I might be good at this one! My wife is learning Georgian, and so we've already been trying to work through a bunch of Georgian films for the past few months. A recent standout for me was The Eccentrics Which is silly in a way that quite worked for me. Saw some comparisons to Terry Gilliam, but ...

Lots of good stuff this year! But there's a lot that's been sitting on my watchlist forever that I haven't gotten to yet either. Destroy She Said - Marguerite Duras My Night at Maud's - Eric Rohmer Dillinger is Dead - Marco Ferrari The Cremator - Juraj Herz Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice - Paul Maz...

Some friends brought me along on their Barbenheimer venture. Which I'm glad I did. I liked both films enough. But I somehow have way more qualms with Oppenheimer. Could not get S3 of Twin Peaks out of my head during the whole trinity test scene, and it's a comparison that does Nolan's film no favors...

Yeah.. that's the Son of Godzilla. https://letterboxd.com/film/son-of-godzilla/

I never saw many of the later ones, so I didn't realize he comes back in other films.

Lol. From "Sleepy" Joe to Cokehead Joe.

Haha, good to know. Though it's too late for me.