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Seen eight.

1. La région centrale
2. *Corpus Callosum
3. 'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
4. ↔ [Back and Forth]

Re: Evelyn You're welcome and thanks so much for the additional recommendations! I forgot about Shimizu's Nobuko, I'll be sure to add it to my 'to-watch' list along with Naruse's Traveling Actors which I've been meaning to rewatch. I wasn't aware of Quack Infantry Troop but I just checked it out - v...

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks) The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin) Arise, My Love (Mitchell Leisen) The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline) The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch) Fantasia (Disney) Nobuko (Hiroshi Shimizu) The Sea Hawk (Michael Curtiz) I've fallen down a 1940 Japanese cinema rabbit hol...

Cocteau Twins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq8TKMs6RLM

I've seen 8 Michael Snow films!

Spielberg seen 18

1 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
2 Jurassic Park
3 The Adventures of Tintin
4 Bridge of Spies
5 Minority Report

Some good alternative rock from Brazil

Gothic post-punk, very anguished vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSUvRbfxBPs

Melancholic-tinged post-punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUTgLJMNTg

Danceable psychedelic rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vos9X06kveg

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 12:59 am we need a hong kong section

Great idea, I just made a new topic for it under the 'regional cinemas' section!

A general thread for all things Hong Kong cinema!! :D Feel free to post and talk about films, books, music, movie stars, directors, etc. To start things rolling, yesterday I watched David Chung's Royal Warriors (1986), an enjoyable action film with a handful of well choreographed fight sequences. Th...

https://streamable.com/69spo Royal Warriors (1986) dir. David Chung A boilerplate 'cop vs. (insert x, in this case, terrorist veterans)' narrative services as a delivery vehicle for some very good set-pieces lead by the charismatic Michelle Yeoh. Director David Chung, best known for his cinematograp...

At its face, Quintet seems like an odd pivot for Altman - a large-scale post-apocalyptic dystopia centered on a small-scale board game - maybe that alone made contemporaneous audiences/critics a bit too dubious to earnestly grapple with it. There's a fine video essay re-appraisal of the film here: h...

You're right, I was thinking about that second tracking shot too, I believe this is the one you're referring to? https://streamable.com/mcris The shot also holds a secondary significance in tying back to this earlier scene of Mary leaving Smiley to accompany Bud. https://streamable.com/l3uor The sta...

Forget to mention it before but I agree, the banner looks great! Fits well on both the computer and mobile screen for me.

Seen 11 1. The Bitter Tea of General Yen 2. It Happened One Night 3. Rain or Shine 4. American Madness 5. Meet John Doe Not especially crazy about Capra. My favorite of his films, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, seems a bit like an anomaly in his oeuvre. I managed to dig up a few interesting articles...

https://i.imgur.com/A9tNkFS.png https://i.imgur.com/yBC9I8W.png https://i.imgur.com/p8fKNl7.png https://i.imgur.com/bCjrLV4.png Rain or Shine (1930) dir. Frank Capra 7/10 Letterboxd review One of Capra's early talkies, a carnival comedy of the 'show must go on' variety crossed with Capra-brand indi...

Seen 14. I think my most recent viewing was Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne on a 35mm print last year, everything else has been through DVD or VHS. I should really get around to revisiting some of the recent Blu-rays, the Criterion Blu-ray of L'argent looks quite crisp and that Japanese Blu-ray of Qua...

1. Three Landscapes
2. Six et demi onze
3. Patrick's yellow SCFZ banner

Solid year, although it's been awhile since I've seen some of these films so I'll probably try to revisit a few before finalizing my list. I'll try to keep this post updated with links to my notes in case anyone wants to know a little more about a film before deciding to check it out. 1. Portrait d'...

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:11 pm how did you see the beavers????

He presented it at a screening at the Pacific Film Archive back in 2016. Unfortunately it's not online afaik :/

Here's my latest list: 1. Listening to the Space in My Room (Robert Beavers) Dialogue of Shadows (Jean-Marie Straub) Sentimental Education (Júlio Bressane) After Earth (M. Night Shyamalan) The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski) BNSF (James Benning) Young Detective Dee: Rise Of The Sea Dragon (Tsui Hark) [...

Nice to see Gucci Mane (!) and Mac Dre (!!) get some love on here. Narrowing down to top 10 was pretty difficult and required some oddly convoluted leaps of logic on my part (ex. I ultimately couldn't decide on one Three 6 Mafia track and ended up leaving them off here entirely :think: and while the...

I like those Santosh Narayanan and John Prine joints, nrh! That's amazing that Prine is still making new music. I also like that Holiday track, bure420. Terrific twee-pop! I barely keep up with music nowadays but here's a couple of memorable songs I liked from this past year. NIKI - Vintage RnB-infl...

I think that Rischka's Three Landscapes picture is my favorite. The geometric lines are visually appealing and the clean, minimalist style should look good across all platforms (computers and phones). I also like that the 'scfz' name is easy to read, which would add to the overall clarity of the ban...

Thanks Bure for the PM. Glad to make the journey here with everyone, the site looks great!