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Ramblers (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2003) - 8/10 always happy to see someone watching (and liking) the early nobuhiro yamashitas. the linda linda linda cult is deserved but i think he has one of the more interesting careers of the last two decades or so, and there is something very striking about those f...

april 2024 the last of the wine, mary renault soldier of the mist, gene wolfe soldier of arete, gene wolfe soldier of sidon, gene wolfe comics monica, daniel clowes time under tension, m.s. harkness my name is shingo vol. 1, kazuo umezzo hercules: adventures of the man god, sam glanzman/joe gill/den...

cocktail, homi adajania 2012 el escarabajo de oro, alejo moguillansky 2014 amar singh chamkila, imtiaz ali 2024 premalu, girish ad 2024 el custodio, rodrigo moreno 2006 juana a los 12, martin shanly 2014 arturo a los 30, martin shanly 2023 politzeiruf 110: the scarlet angel, dominik graf 2005 laapat...

february 2024 nest in the bones, antonio di benedetto my last sigh, luis bunuel (with, or really by, jean-claude carriere) jaguar's tomb, angelica gorodischer objects of desire: conversations with luis bunuel, jose de la colina & tomas perez torrent comics - tokyo these days vol. 1, taiyo matsum...

the great, eccentric scottish cartoonist john g. miller - https://www.tcj.com/john-g-miller-1954-2024/

made it to two of my favorites, subida al cielo and la ilusión viaja en tranvía at the buñuel in mexico retrospective at moma. digital restorations, probably about as good as these movies are going to look given the source material, although the audio was kind of piercing. packed house for both and ...

A film that's PG-13 and cast with actors playing the various spirits and demons inspired by the original manga. Nothing earth shattering here but Miike knows how to add a mixture of absurd in any of his films. i'm always tempted to make a case for this one; there is something very beautiful, for ex...

afire, christian petzold 2023 full river red, zhang yimou 2023 kaathal: the core, jeo baby 2023 toby, basil alchalakkal 2023 eXistenZ, david cronenberg 1999 the delinquents, rodrigo moreno 2023 mein falke, dominik graf 2023 nanpakal nerathu mayakkam, lijo jose pelissery challenge of the masters, lau...

December 2023 The Queen's Necklace, Antal Szerb The Psychology of the Rich Aunt, Erich Musam The Famous Magician, Cesar Aira The Perfidious Parrot, Janwillem de Wettering Twice Lost, Phyllis Paul Artificial Respiration, Ricardo Piglia Comics Talk to My Back, Yamada Murasaki Procaryote Season, Leo Fo...

• voters can decide which films are eligible for the poll -- anything released in 2023 is clearly eligible, as are any 2022 festival releases that weren't available for most people to watch until 2023. that said, any film that received support in our best of 2022 poll (results here: https://letterb...

almost only listen to albums, but rarely newer ones, so most of this is a gluttonous run through recent critical favorites (and albums by artists i find interesting) over the last month or two, which is probably not the best way to engage with anything. but still... not ranked - maps, billy woods &a...

at 38, still have a few more i definitely want to watch. 1. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (Lijo Jose Pelissery) 2. Mein Falke (Dominic Graf) 3. Mad Fate (Soi Cheang) 4. Purusha Pretham (Krishand) 5. Thuramukham (Rajeev Ravi) 6. The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha) 7. Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) 8. To...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqDLiObvefA won't be the very next movie i see - it doesn't release until the end of the week - but sure to be one of the more interesting releases of the year -ljp is coming off the best movie of his career, and is one of the rare directors who go fairly far into art...

Mariano Llinas cowrote La Cordilleras/The Summit but it's not very Llinas i have no idea what to really make of the llinas/mitre connection (i think they went to school together?), or really any of llinas writing work outside of the pampero cine family, whereas moguillansky's "outside" wo...

still haven't seen godzilla minus one, and i know plenty of people who adored it, but the director is best known for the eternal zero, a weepy lost cause movie glorifying kamikaze pilots, based on a book by a war crimes denier...abe (rip, lol) and his wife attended and wept...not to mention great wa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_XVr2ZiCs merry christmas , sriram raghavan - disappointed that this is getting spotty distribution in the us, but it's very much the years long wait - a frederich dard adaptation(!) with makkal selvan vijay sethupathi and katrina kaif meeting cute on christmas eve ...

probably in the last stages of 2023 catchup - nanpakal nerathu mayakkam , lijjo jose pelissery lijo has been a hit or miss director for me, very ambitious and talented with an increasingly serious interest in literature, but his projects almost always fall flat; his last project with the terrific wr...

4. Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) watched this last week, and glad to see it here; i thought it was strong even in the context of bellocchio's remarkable last few decades. can't help but think he gets overlooked in the english language film world, despite being one of the last of the great older euro...

Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (Dileesh Pothan) The Little Match Girl (Alejo Moguillansky) Kaatru Veliyidae (Mani Ratnam) Lu Over the Wall (Masaaki Yuasa) The Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Masaaki Yuasa) Baahubali: The Conclusion (S.S. Rajamouli) Thupparivaalan (Mysskin) The Day After (Hong Sang-Soo) ...

feel like this was a year where i read a reasonable amount, but not seriously at all, just bouncing from one thing to another, some interesting curiosities but nothing revelatory. not sure i'd recognize something revelatory if i read it. maybe piglia's artificial respiration, catling's hollow, and g...

another year where i barely watched anything, and much more skewed to recent movies than i would have liked. i also didn't write anything down, so i'm almost certainly missing something. excluding 2023 releases for variety sake. the novelists film, hong sang-soo in front of your face, hong sang-soo ...

Everything? Favorites?

some catchup - trenque lauquen (laura citarella) - 2022 but has been showing up on 2023 lists, wide release this year. generally love el pampero cine, but citarella's first movie dog lady was their one movie i didn't like at all, so i was a little trepidatious about spending four + hours with this. ...

should rewatch turn left, turn right, since it was the only to/wai that i really hated the first time i saw it. watched may december , which i guess was the big social media movie of the last weekend. for all that this is haynes going back to something spikier and a little more confrontational (emph...

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just hit publish on a big translation from one of the more interesting spanish language film magazines

ponniyin selvan 2, mani ratnam mad fate, soi cheang jawan, atlee rocky aur rani, karan johar knock at the cabin, m night shyamalan jailer, nelson viduthalai part 1, vetrimaaran dasara, srikanth odela shin kamen rider, hideaki anno leo, lokesh kanagaraj barely anything, although except for the anno e...

christie malry's own double entry, bs johnson i recently re-read that too, it made more of an impression the first time for me but i still like it it was my introduction to b.s. johnson, and i've been told since that it might not have been the best introduction. interesting book though (certainly s...

november - the abyss, jeyamohan christie malry's own double entry, bs johnson skeletons in the closet, jean-patrick manchette the long-legged fly, james sallis nightmare in the street, derek raymond fassbinder thousands of mirrors, ian penman goopy gyne bagha byne & other stories, upendrakishore...

shane macgowan

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