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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...

mostly awful I don't know about 'awful' -- the text was pretty damn intractable and this guy whoever made some passably "in-te-rest-ing" choices about how to present it. I didn't realize there were a series of productions going on; I'll be on the lookout for Egoyan's Krapp. Loved that pla...

Um... this is a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2QJ0FYE3pw

Early this morning, those rascally republicans sabotaged a presidential address by planting a smoke machine behind the podium, as a visible symbol of the fog that Biden speaks from within.

Whoops, almost forgot about this. Final list: The Hourglass Sanatorium The Mother And The Whore We Can't Go Home Again - Nick Ray World On A Wire Juvenile Court - Wiseman Black Caesar - Larry Cohen Don Quixote Cabalga De Nuevo - Gavaldon Lisa And The Devil - Bava Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein - Franc...

Human Nature - Michel Gondry, screenpkay by Charley Kaufman.

Would have been very suitable for Jiri's old "feminine hirsute" category in the old games. It surprises me to see a Kaufman script where he doesn't clown himself, and he didn't here. Nlot totally.

The Man Who Wasn't There is peak Coens. Maximally stylized, densely novelistic script... It did the 'Barton Fink' thing better (at least for me) than Barton Fink did. And it fits into this month's noiretc focus.

La Noche Avanza?

This is a super-weak year for me, but I'm starting with these: The Confession - The Zeki De Ida Y Vuelta - Salvador Aguirre The Devil's Backbone - del Toro Distance - Kore-eda Electric Dragon 80000 V Eloge D'Amour - Godard Escrito En El Cuerpo De La Noche - Hermosillo Forklift Driver Klaus: First Da...

clergymen spitting wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:06 pm John Berger is not referring to THESE PAGES

Are you quite sure? And it's not like that would be a 'bad' thing.

métaphore, mon cul wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:40 pm "I was there - Jonas Mekas"

Am I seeing some Mekas skepticism here? I once called one of his essays "You're Drunk, Jonas, Go Home: The Movie."

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:09 pm https://youtu.be/NiZDFE_7NkM

Such a lovely song! A little before my time, and I didn't discover it till the oughts. Rants? What rants?

He ain't headless, he just lit wrong. Very popular cult movie.

Esoterica roundup, KJK-style Armenian deep-cut: at first glance, it looked like a feature-length version of Healthy People For Fun. Also points toward a future with Kusturica in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVtGsLBKZeU Czech fairy tale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIFCIArJrCc Sovietica, a...

rischka wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:01 pm a cat cactus

Any cat that's lived outdoors would know those things aren't for scratching on.

rischka wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:26 pm black caesar

I didn't know anybody actually read these lists! Glad you enjoyed it. (I'm guessing none of the others measured up...)

What a coincidence -- I started the 1973 game with the psychedelic mountain man movie too. I had only three unseen movies from 1973 on my drive, so it was either that, Don't Look In The Basement or The Werewolf Of Washington.

Prelim. list: The Hourglass Sanatorium The Mother And The Whore We Can't Go Home Again - Nick Ray World On A Wire Black Caesar - Larry Cohen Don Quixote Cabalga De Nuevo - Gavaldon Lisa And The Devil - Bava Messiah Of Evil Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein - Franco J'Irai Comme Un Cheval Fou - Arrabal Ph...

The Golden Coach Ikiru monkey business Umberto D The Citizen - Ghatak le plaisir El Rebozo De Soledad Subida Al Cielo - Bunuel Childen of Hiroshima Clash By Night The First Time - Tashlin Mujeres De Medianoche - Urruchua Como Yo No Hay Dos Lightning No Abras Nunca Esa Puerta The White reindeer Bend ...

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 12:02 pm microaggression

Yeah, that bit was really striking, @ m. 20-30, that series of little things grinding away at him till he finally gets all "I've gotta go punch some faces."

This was interesting, neo-reo vibe without ever ceasing to be "Hollywood" (maybe by way of the Actor's Studio). Indie effort that's hugely investing in giving representation to Mex/Amer experience, so hard to fault it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW0g7I6y1eA

rischka wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 12:44 am censored?

Not censored, just banned. Details here': https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_sombra ... a_de_1960)

caudillo I have a fresh copy of this, some recent 4K transfer that's got to look better than whatever I watched, so I'm close to rewatching it. Never would have occurred to me to link it to Jan 6th... or to think of it as black comedy, I'll have to look for that. For a movie that was destroyed and ...

I try to write something down or concentrate on enough salient details that I can recreate it later. If I don't go back and fill in the details, sometimes my journal entries look like this: 9/1 Black Jane. Three-legged stool. Proboscis. 9/3 Me, mumsy, an imaginary sister, miau "miau" was a...