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dominicano1970 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 1:36 pmoriginal or English

original is fine in cases where that's the title most commonly used (e.g. sanshiro sugata would be preferable to judo saga); otherwise, english please

in lieu of the nonfunctioning spoiler tag, here's next month's poll in advance for anyone who's curious: ((369/3)^2-11179)/2=

i’ve had the same coffee cup for at least the past ten years; perfect weight, handle structure, doesn’t hold too much coffee or not enough, clearly doesn’t break easily like every other cup or mug, it’s truly been the goldilocks of coffee cups (it’ll probs break tomorrow thx guys...)

thoxans wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:10 amsooo [...] grrr

with all that being said, i've gotten some pretty good studying in with this thing (to paraphrase roscoe) on in the background

sooo, i'm a serial rewatcher. always have been. suppose i always will be to a certain extent. but my version of rewatching is mostly putting garbage on in the background while i do other stuff. you know how some people put on music in the background while they study? i put on movies that are either ...

one of the best pieces of advice i ever received was from a bartender who told me and my buddy to think of life as an rpg; it's all about leveling up

i mean, i could give y'all the entire order of the next 124 polls, but i'm pretty sure that sally's head would explode

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:43 pmso long

we def shaved a good 4-5 years off that man's life... which basically makes him like papa jerry-old now

i'd refer to the poll results. if tobi makes the final '43 list, that's enough for me to assume some semblance of community-wide consensus, thus making it ineligible for the '42 poll. not sure if i'll be posting the final lists to boxd, but if i do, then i may consider an addendum in cases such as t...

as with cycle 1.0, i don't think the accordance to imdb release dates should be hard and fast, especially if we as a community reach a different consensus. every single top hit in a quick google search for the ox-bow incident lists '43 as the year of release, except for imdb; and imdb's own page for...

choose your favorite films from 1943 (according to imdb) each person can vote for up to 20 films. do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number. ballots can be formatted as follows: - five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier - four tiers of five films eac...

cousin, cousine (jean-charles tacchella)
the trial (orson welles)
fleshpot on 42nd street (andy milligan)
the outlaw josey wales (clint eastwood)
the freshman (andrew bergman)

2002 was kinda the high-point of staccato editing and senseless camera shaking in Hollywood cinema yep. happened right around the millennium iirc. soderbergh won the academy award for best dir for traffic (where the shaky cam effect does work towards a purpose imo). and even major hollywood blockbu...

the freshman (andrew bergman) this one was... weird? idk. it's certainly a curiosity piece, cuz on paper it's really just a safe, shallow, superficial piece of popcorn fluff (not much diff than analyze this or mickey blue eyes or any of those other '90s mafia-related comedies); but there's this cons...

this thread needs more boaty mcboatface

i like it when a textbook tells me 'earlier you learned about...' cuz i'm always like 'i did? really...? i don't remember that at all, but good for me'

i’m a diligent turn signal-user and people who don’t use their blinkers are undeniably assholes sorry not sorry

oh duh it's chishu ryu!

no matter what, i still prefer a one-handed backhand to a two-

Barcelona stillman's '90s trillogy (to quote the curtis) was awesome in that those three films alone imo were enough to cement the guy as a staying figure with a very distinct style or vision or voice or whatever you wanna call it. while i enjoyed love & friendship, and haven't seen damsels in ...

Metropolitan is absolutely phenomenal and really woke me up too films that are good but also autobiographically (autofilmographically?) eyeopening are da best! yours is a very similar reaction that i had to metropolitan. for me, there were superficial similarities, like my name and a personally imp...

could see this being a fun exercise for some further back years where peeps have likely seen more, but i have seen literally nothing that's nominated this year, and actually haven't even heard of more than half of the titles. however, i do look forward to the laughably inevitable #oscarssoasian back...

Writers who use "film criticism" mainly as a platform to [psychoanalyze themselves and showcase how they're oh so special] are far and away the most annoying ftfy. and it's not even a film 'criticism ' specific thing; it's every single goddamn recipe blog that forces you to scroll past so...

i used to luvvv the new yorker capsule reviews before they reformatted (read: vastly diminished them), even more so than the long(er(ish)) reviews featured in the actual issues themselves. they were always a nice little paragraph-long summation, with a sprinkling of thought-nuggets here and there. t...

noice this is the part where i get to destroy so so many hopes and dreams

oh. apparently i have seen one. alice. neato

til that i'm a very morbid person, cuz i really don't like accounting (sorry to any accountants here, you poor miserable bastards), but i really enjoy depreciating stuff...

i lovelovelve getting my head washed by the girl who cuts my hair, but i hatehatehate it when my hair is cold and wet and she combs it down the back of my neck

been killing brain cells playing worldbox, an old school worldbuilding app. still being developed/improved upon, but i dig the pixelated aesthetic; not to mention how playing god satiates my ego

DEATHDREAM that sounds great! clark was such an unassumingly enigmatic filmmaker. made staples in multiple (sub)genres, horror (black christmas), xmas flicks (a christmas story), teenage sex romps (porky's). not to mention rhinestone and baby geniuses. the dude singlehandedly wreaked havoc on whate...