SCFZ

Provisional list: Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety) Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader) Howards End (James Ivory) Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann) Hoffa (Danny DeVito) The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) Candyman (Bernard Rose...

April 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945) 8 The House of Fear (Roy William Neill, 1945) 5 Pursuit to Algiers (Roy William Neill, 1945) 7 The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill, 1945) 7 Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, 1956) 8 Please Murder Me (Peter Godfrey, 1956) 6 Dr....

Final list Brief Encounter (David Lean) The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise) Hangover Square (John Brahm) Pursuit to Algiers (Roy William Neill) The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill) Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (S. Sylvan Simon) The Naughty Nineties (Jean Yar...

fail/safe (sidney lumet 1964) an excellent cold war thriller that had the bad luck to come out the same year as dr strangelove Glad you liked it. Fail Safe is one of my favorite films and I vastly prefer it to Dr. Strangelove . Fail Safe would go well in double-bill with Seven Days in May .

Final list Ranked in two tiers Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) Fargo (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 1996) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)...

Thanks, Flip, for running our annual poll!

I haven't seen May December yet, but I love Todd Haynes' work so I'll be checking it, hopefully soon.

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Seen 76 1. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne) 2. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) 3. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) 4. The Rapture (Iris Kaltenbäck) 5. The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno) 6. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) 7. The Peasants (DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman) 8. Asteroid City (...

March 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 A great month for me! Watched 87 films (including 6 rewatches). Might be my new record, actually. More than half of it was due to Vilnius Film Festival where I saw 47 films thanks to having an accreditation which allowed me to go to any screening I wanted to...

February 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925) 8 Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) 9 On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) 6 The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) 6 Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) 9 The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) 8 Paper Moon (Peter...

I will post my ballot tomorrow. Watched plenty of 2023 films last month thanks to film festival.

Rewatched SEA OF LOVE (1989) by Harold Becker after 25 years. Still the only Becker I've seen... It's proto-Basic Instinct (including, for no reason, a beaver shot of Barkin...), but the serial killer angle doesn't work - at all. Everything else is pretty much cinema gold. This should have been a r...

And it's back! Long live and prosper, SCFZ!

January 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Hibernatus (Édouard Molinaro, 1969) 6 The Final Countdown (Don Taylor, 1980) 6 Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982) 7 Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) 8 Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989) 7 Darkman (Sam Raimi, 1990) 8 The Visitors (Je...

Final list : Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) Barbara (Mathieu Amalric) Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh) On Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi) First Reformed (Paul Schrader) Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) Get Out (Jordan Peele) War for the Pla...

December 2023 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976) 9 Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone, 1979) 8 Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone, 1982) 7 The Beast of War (Kevin Reynolds, 1988) 8 Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) 9 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus, 1992) 8 Christmas i...

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Best First Time Watches in 2023 10/10 Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970) Frenzy (Emin Alper, 2015) Tár (Todd Field, 2022) 9/10 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman, 1972) Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) The Body of My Enemy (Henri Verneuil, 1976) I… For Ica...

November 2023 rewatch All ratings out of 10 I participated in ICM's Low IMDb Rating Challenge ( IMDb ratings of 5.4 or lower ) and only watched two TV documentaries outside of this challenge. That explains my own ratings and film selection. :D Stroker Ace (Hal Needham, 1983) 5 Pick Up Your Belongin...

Not much so far:

1. Tótem (Lila Avilés)
2. Black Stone (Spiros Jacovides)
3. Medusa Deluxe (Thomas Hardiman)
4. War Pony (Riley Keough, Gina Gammell)
5. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)
6. The Old Way (Brett Donowho)

Final list : La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel) Lantana (Ray Lawrence) Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen brothers) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg) The Pledge (Sean Penn) Ali (Michael Mann) Spy Game (Tony Scott) Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter) Harry Potter and the ...

October 2023 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) 8 Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) 9 Le Guignolo (Georges Lautner, 1980) 6 Critters (Stephen Herek, 1986) 5 Return of the Living Dead II (Ken Wiederhorn, 1988) 2 Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (Anthony Hickox, 1992) 3 Maniac Cop 3: B...

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Final list Serpico (Sidney Lumet) The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann) Amarcord (Federico Fellini) The Sting (George Roy Hill) Breezy (Clint Eastwood) High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood) Charley Varrick (Don Siegel) Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty) The Offence (Sidney Lumet) The Seven-Ups (Phi...

Cat People! Great film!

I think the only major Val Lewton film I haven't seen is the The Curse of the Cat People. Maybe I should watch it this month.

I love pretty much every Lewton horror film.

I think I Walked with a Zombie might be my favorite.

Next year, Evelyn?

finally watched the deep blue sea -- like what if brief encounter continued for months 😭 this woman needs therapy I can see the resemblance between the two films. I've only watched Brief Encounter three years ago. Might still be my favorite romance in movies. The Deep Blue Sea is great too. Terence...

Horror October so far: 1. Flatliners (Niels Arden Oplev, 2017) 3/10 2. Return of the Living Dead II (Ken Wiederhorn, 1988) 2/10 3. Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009) 6/10 4. Critters (Stephen Herek, 1986) 5/10 5. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) 8/10 6. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (Joe Lynch, 2007) 4/10 7. ...

I’m participating in this too. Gonna write about what I’ve already seen later tonight.

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