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Weak year for me, I'll start with these:

Malcolm X
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Bad Lieutenant
Basic Instinct
Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki

Bitter Moon
Cronos
Memoirs Of An Invisible Man

Final:

Children Of Paradise
Detour
The Southerner
Twilight

Bugambilia
Identity Unknown
Scarlet Street
Spellbound

I Know Where I'm Going
Mildred Pierce
My Name Is Julia Ross
Rome Open City

Club Havana
Me He De Comer Esa Tuna
Sensation Hunters
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Interesting essay on Jean Vigo, lots of biographical info I wasn't privy to -- maybe y'all have read the Brazilian biography... https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-jean-vigo?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1OW-q9z0E45Cblu48U1-za0CQmiKPl7OFUYlP56C4Kdpm5xDEX1gKj-cs_aem_AZsVreoDphBGRPVEXdL5J9Bf90xrbPH0OeHY...

I was at a ski lodge with four or five siblings. We were planning to kill the oldest brother.

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:33 pm no-one seems to have noticed it before now

Apparently, Bordwell mentions it in Reinventing Hollywood, I'll have to look for a copy.

Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:58 pm Or am I forgetting all sense of good taste?

It's hard to tell sometimes, innit? I kept asking myself "How can it really be this good and no-one seems to have noticed it before now?"

wba wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:20 pm Sounds like a must-see!

I'd push hard for this one... if only you weren't such a stickler for print quality.

Ooh, Gilbert Roland's in Captain Kidd? That's a must-see. Already had it downloaded...

Deep-dive discovery: Identity Unknown dir. Walter Colmes. One of those heavy-zeitgeist noir burners -- and there isn't even any crime in it! Combat veteran manages his trauma by developing amnesia; his superiors figure out that he's one of four specific people, and he goes to visit the families of a...

Some youtube things I haven't gotten to yet: Arturo de Cordova in English: Incendiary Blonde. Don Siegel's first directing credit: A Star In The Night (18 min) indie short starring Louis Jourdan: Caldonia. Also, I see Gavaldon's La Barraca is up there with subtitles now. I didn't like it much, but B...

I was talking to somebody; I looked closer and saw that he had a bullet-hole just under his hairline, disguised with make-up.

Glenn Danzig had a big pair of scissors and he was getting ready to mutilate the original art for a Krazy Kat Sunday page.

rischka wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:42 pm well that was ok

State Fair borderline bugged the hell out of me, New York elites telling the flyover proles how to think about themselves, complete w/ chorus boys duded up like Grant Wood yokels with unfash chinwhiskers.

But, yeah, Frank McHugh.

...

Found it already, thanks. The subs'll be helpful, though.

sally wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:26 pm pierrot, pierrette - louis feuillade

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! So glad you found that!

Something like this, for now: Entr'acte Greed The Last Laugh Sherlock Jr La Galerie Des Monstres L'Inhumaine Nibelungen 1 Nibelungen 2 Helen Of Troy - Noa The Iron Horse The Swallow and The Titmouse The Thief Of Bagdad Conductor 1492 - Frank Griffin He Who Gets Slapped A Trip To Mars - Dave Fleischer

Final list. I'm *this* unenthusiastic right now.

Junk Head -
The Traveling Soap Opera - Mr and Ms Ruiz

Baahubali 2 - Rajamouli
The Bottomless Bag -

Me Gusta Pero Me Asusta - Beto Gomez
The Shape Of Water -

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:27 pm pt 2 in 2025!

I'm glad he's still working (seven years for the first one, second one coming right on schedule...)

So that's good.

But I wonder if he can find anything new to include in this storyverse. Seeing the same stuff for two more hours wouldn't necessarily not be tedious.

Welcome aboard, G. You have interesting tastes.

I'm not praising or defending the movie -- struck me as very middling in all respects -- but I don't agree with Zgaib's assessment. The script is seeded with moments where the main character is confronted with the perception of dirtiness in politics, and as a result he reawakens to the need to asser...

Mariano Llinas cowrote La Cordilleras/The Summit but it's not very Llinas -- an Argentine president attends a summit meeting about the region's oil production, has some experiences that force him to refine his moral compass, and ends up voting for a measure that looks like the first wee incremental ...

I woke up on the pavement, between two parked cars. No idea where I was, and I had no shoes on. I started talking to two college-boy types; I explained my situation (for some reason I told them I had gone to sleep in Culiacan Sinaloa) and asked questions. They told me I was in Guatemala, the local m...

Junk Head - Takahide Hori Stop-motion sci-fi; it's as if the Quay Brothers went looking for the wildest possible manga to adapt. Ghost In The Shell/Street Of Crocodiles metaphysics, class-consciousness, monsters and lots of middle-school humor. Pretty amazing. You know where to find it. It hasn't s...

Here's mine:

https://letterboxd.com/lencho_o_t_apes/ ... 3-edition/

Horse Feathers, Duck Soup and Monkey Business for me.

uguisu (toyoda) slice of life stream of humanity in the midst of a grinding poverty. police in a rural village try to solve life's problems by imposing laws. a messy proposition I hope to get to this, but I'm going to watch Hotaru-0no-hikari first; it was on somebody's prelim. Hope I have time for ...

That dog is intensely. focussed.

Only the first six or seven are movies I value more than "lightly likeable," and even then I found it hard to come up with a full twenty. If I try again, things like Robin Hood will probably show up. Bringing Up Baby - Hawks Holiday - Cukor The Lady Vanishes - Hitchcock You And Me - Lang A...