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- March / April - Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024) Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023) Ashes of Time Redux (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)* Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983) ♥ About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023) The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung, 2023) ♥ 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skol...

- January / February - Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999) Ferrari (Michael Mann, 2023) The Graceful Brute (Yuzo Kawashima, 1962) Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2022) Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, 2023) Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)* Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023) Mons...

Welcome back all! For posterity: About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Afire (Christian Petzold) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World (Radu Jude) The Killer (David Fincher) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) Poor Things (Yorgos Lant...

The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola) BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel) First Reformed (Paul Schrader) Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) The Rid...

Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022) Woman in Chains (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, 2020) Wendy (Benh Zeitlin, 2020) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, 2023) 20,000 Species of Bees (Estíbali...

- November / December - Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda, 2002) The Killer (David Fincher, 2023) Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952) Woman They Almost Lynched (Allan Dwan, 1953) ♥ May December (Todd Haynes, 2023) Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, 2020) The Sorr...

Nope, it was pretty much the entirety of The Miseducation, plus the singles from The Score.

Listened to it today. Pretty great! https://i.discogs.com/mkx6fAy7lbNNiPRVxXlVpxf_l7795etES97rlLE666w/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg2MzIz/MTktMTY2MTI4ODAw/Ny03NTA1LmpwZWc.jpeg Saw her live a few months ago on the 25th anniversary tour. The sound mixing an...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg) All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai) Avalon (Mamoru Oshii) Gosford Park (Robert Altman) The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike) Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota) The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel and Ethan Coen) Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) M...

- September / October - Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) Afire (Christian Petzold, 2023) ♥ Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) Angels in America (Mike Nichols, 2003) The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023) Killers of the Flower Moon (Mart...

- July / August - Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, 2004) 20,000 Species of Bees (Estíbaliz Urresola, 2023) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) ♥ Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) The Flash (Andy Muschietti, 2023) Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, 1992) Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987) BlackBerry (Matt ...

Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci) The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen) Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica) Dance Me to My Song (Rolf de Heer) Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman) Secret Defense (Jacques Rivette) Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma) Sombre (Philippe Gr...

- May / June -

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn, 2023)
Wendy (Benh Zeitlin, 2020) ♥
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)
My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, 1974)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)

- March / April - All the Beauty and Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022) Woman in Chains (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968) Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, 2020) Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001) The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath a...

Carmen (Carlos Saura) The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg) El Sur (Victor Erice) Holy Flame of the Martial World (Tony Lou Chun-Ku) The Hunger (Tony Scott) L’argent (Robert Bresson) The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa) Man of Flowers (Paul Cox) The Millennial Bee (Juraj Jakubisko) Monty Python’s The Meani...

Before, Now & Then (Kamila Andini)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love)

flip wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:54 pm

DT. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:27 am Athena (Romain Gavras)

thanks for the ballot! am i correct to assume that the ballot is not meant to be in order?

Yes

Athena (Romain Gavras) Babylon (Damian Chazelle) The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino) Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen) Everything Everywhere All At Once (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert...

Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh) Blind Detective (Johnnie To) The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai) Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron) The Immigrant (James Gray) Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen) Mood Indigo (Michel Gondry) Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) Pain & Gain (Michael Bay) Shield of...

- January / February - White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022) Into the Night (John Landis, 1985) EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022) Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lam Nai-choi, 1991) Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022) ♥♥ The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022) Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quant...

Alexandra's Project (Rolf de Heer) The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand) The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo) Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom) The Company (Robert Altman) Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi) Dogville (Lars von Trier) The Flower of Evil (Claude Chabrol) Games of Love ...

armageddon time - i have never wanted to beat up a child more than the child in this movie. jeremey strong as the father seems to be doing a muppet voice throughout. baffled that james gray would end up with a movie as bad as this? or as thoughtless & dull? Agreed, this was a weird one. Though ...

- November / December - Armageddon Time (James Gray, 2022) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022) Tár (Todd Field, 2022) The Lady and the Duke (Éric Rohmer, 2001) Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022) ♥ The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) ♥ Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer, 2004)...

25 for 22 (so far) Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985) Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021) Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, 2009) The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021) My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer, 1969)* Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson, 1981) The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021) The Marquise...

Not watching as much these days. - September / October - Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934) Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2012) Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, 2005) The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) In My Skin (Marina de Van, 2002) Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961) Basic (...

Jack Lemmon as an exasperated nuclear scientist in The China Syndrome might be a more extreme example of what you’re looking for…

Twentieth Century (1934) - Am I the only one who thinks this has aged poorly? A petulant man-child exercising a classic case of coercive control, Jewish and Native American stereotypes played for humorous effect, etc…

Oh, and it’s not even that funny.

The Arbor (Clio Barnard) Archipelago (Joanna Hogg) Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche) Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami) The City Below (Christoph Hochhausler) Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima) Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski) The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski) Honey (Semih Kaplanoglu) Kaboom (Gregg...

- August - Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971) 2000 Weeks (Tim Burstall, 1969) Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi, 2022) The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen, 2022) Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund, 2022) Mandingo (Richard Fleischer, 1975) Viy (Georgiy Kropachyov ...

The Addiction (Abel Ferrara) The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood) Casino (Martin Scorsese) La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol) Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano) Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) In the Bleak Midwinter (Kenneth Branagh) Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark) The Mangler (Tobe ...