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strange year... i'm not sure i'd like some of these films now so maybe i'll rewatch some things i haven't seen in many years: Killing Mad Dogs (Bahram Beizai) All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai) Los (James Benning) La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso) A Ma Soeur (Catherine Breillat) The Happiness of the...

welcome to scfz, frisson!

a few of the corman poe films featured near the top of our scfz roger corman poll, it looks like tomb of ligeia did very well, but house of usher, the raven, and masque of the red death were close behind: https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/roger-corman-scfz-directors-poll-187/ i really should w...

it seems to me that if some sane republican (there are still a few of those?) put their name forward, someone democrats could trust, then that person could get half the republican votes and half the democrat votes, and then maybe there'd be a speaker both parties could work with, and who could put f...

thanks for posting that, i hadn't heard, just read about it, that's horrible

thanks sally

i can see this being a bit addictive...

what tool are you using to make these?

Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:35 pm Pleased to say Flip and I just might get the Deanna Durbin vehicle Mad About Music on the final list...

i hope so! unless i missed something, i don't think a single durbin film even got a vote in the s+s polling

my ballot https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/beyond-sight-sound-ballot/ quite a few films discovered because of friends at scfz, so thanks everyone :) i was trying to prioritize earlier films (meaning 1935-1960 or so, not the earliest films), but i think i failed at doing that. agree with the c...

interesting year... leaving out some classic films i haven't seen in so long i wouldn't know what i'd make of them now The Mongols (Parviz Kimiavi) The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice) Charley Varrick (Don Siegel) Not I (Anthony Page) The Seventh Bullet (Ali Khamraev) Ward Six (Lucian Pintilie) ...

watched a few films for the 1952 poll, and several double bills of mostly lesser-known films by john ford, george stevens, raoul walsh, robert wise, michael curtiz, henry hathaway, henry koster, samuel fuller, fred zinnemann, and charles marquis warren Day for Night (Francois Truffaut, 1973) - 9/10 ...

hope you feel better soon lencho!

Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) The Thief (Russell Rouse) The Turning Point (William Dieterle) The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli) Assignment: Paris (Robert Parrish) 5 Fingers (Joseph Mankiewicz) The Big Sky (Howard Hawks) Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson) The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer...

watched a lot of conventional movies i had never seen before, might try to make september a more interesting month long Miracle Mile (Steve de Jarnatt, 1988) - 10/10 How to Talk to Girls at Parties (John Cameron Mitchell, 2017) - 8/10 War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005) - 8/10 The Firm (Sydne...

i tried a couple of mcelroy novels (plus and smuggler's bible) a long time ago, and could never really figure out what he was about, but i know a lot of people think he's brilliant. i'll be curious to know what you make of lookout cartridge.

welcome! with that list of directors, i think you're in the right place

one thing i'm wondering about -- in the first half of the year, trump's super pac spent $40m on legal fees, and took in only $15m. they're losing $25m in six months, or $4m per month. they have about $4m cash on hand. so what happens a month from now? i'm also interested in these articles by constit...

i think the biggest problem with most of trump's potential defenses (e.g. ones about what he believed and did not believe) is that he'll need to take the stand to assert them, and if he does that, he's fucked and i've heard a lot of left media types discounting what pence did, saying he deserves no ...

i saw a giuliani clip where he was complaining about the indictment, and he does not seem well, looks like he's aged five years in a few months, and i don't think 79 year old alcoholics last all that long. i don't want him to die if only because i want him to live through what he's going to have to ...

yeah i just read the whole indictment, jack smith has a career writing thriller novels if he wants one. it was funny reading the nyt bit about "what happens if trump is in prison and gets elected?" one suggestion was the 25th amendment could be invoked to remove him from office for being u...

seems like an amazing year from what i've seen and i haven't seen most of the films on rischka's list so it's probably even more amazing than i think The Toth Family (Zoltan Fabri) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack) Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko) Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini) ...

as i was watching it, i enjoyed the new wes anderson quite a lot (more than i expected to), but it diminished in my mind on reflection. also watched the new robert rodriguez and damian szifron films, which were both terrible imo long: Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) - 7/10 Next of Kin (Atom Egoy...

Does anyone else watch movies around here? i watched a couple of 1998 movies yesterday, both hbo films i think -- the pentagon wars , a based-on-a-true-story satire of the absurdity of america's military industrial complex, with a very early viola davis alongside kelsey grammar, who was much better...

voters might find biden more interesting if he was coked up on the job. but the gop making a big deal about this (and saying it's biden when 1500 people work at the white house) might backfire on them if the rumours about donald trump jr are true.

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:42 am karl what is the name of that film please - google translate is not helping

i believe it is this:

https://letterboxd.com/film/common-people-1998/

Khroustaliov, My Car! (Alexei German) The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang) The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) Beshkempir (Aktan Abdykalykov) The General (John Boorman) Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller) Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) The Bird People in China (Takashi...

mainly watched movies that people think are very bad, and it turns out most of them are very bad: long/mid: Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood, 2015) - 6/10 Daniel, the Wizard (Ulli Lommel, 2004) - 5/10 Official Secrets (Gavin Hood, 2019) - 5/10 Stan Helsing (Bo Zenga, 2009) - 2/10 Swiped (Ann Deborah Fishm...

oh wait, i'm reading the supreme court majority opinion, and they say exactly what i said above -- they say if they had ruled the other way, "governments... could require a gay website designer to create websites for a group advocating against same-sex marriage". actually i think that was ...

it occurs to me (maybe curtis can confirm or deny) that this supreme court ruling also entitles the lgbtq+ web designer to deny services to anyone who, for religious reasons, wants to deny equal rights to lgbtq+ people and who wants a website to promote their views or religion or anything related. t...

rischka wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 2:49 pm we've had a pandemic, the rise of fascism, a titanic disaster and now russian revolution....

i didn't see this until now, but this was clever