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are there any great country records from this year beyond the john prine? i didn't like a lot of the big contenders much (kacey, colter wall, ashley mcbryde, etc).

i guess the sarah shook was pretty good?

@rischka do you buy this kid? i don't know... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_vyGh4xDcg

still thinking through the year but... santosh narayanan - vada chennai/kaala/pariyerum perumal/mercury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol5e445kTK0 santosh had an amazing year, but vada chennai soundtrack - a celebration of the north chennai street songs he almost singlehandedly brought into the mai...

wba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 3:11 am That's great news!!

Hope the restoration is good (the post makes it sound terrible and has nothing to do with how films are "actually" restored nowadays...
DCP my ass!

yes each time i hear "this film is restored" my heart sinks and i know i'll never see it on film again...

went to book store, ostensibly to get presents for family, but just got bounty hunters by elmore leonard, black prince by iris murdoch, melville by jean giono, honeymoon by patrick modiano, and montage:life, politics cinema by mrinal sen.

i don't see the drinking wine guy(s)

man, aadhi baghavan is a really interesting trainwreck. ameer sultan made a few of the most interesting tamil films of the 2000s, super focused, low to mid budget, very rural films that (especially with the success of paruthiveeran in 2007) had a big hand in changing what was commercially possible i...

just a handful of pages away from finishing 'the bell,' which is remarkably the first thing i've ever read by iris murdoch. it's a pretty striking book, and i'm definitely looking forward to reading more from her.

for books and so on

will try to write a little bit more about these when i have some time but have been enjoying the early christian petzold films i've seen at the ongoing lincoln center retro, so far only pilots and the state i am in. will be going to see cuba libre tonight, if work doesn't end up destroying my plans....

new stuff? old stuff? not nearly ready to make a personal best of 2018 list but thought folks might like to start trading interests and recommendations...