SCFZ

Not that thrilled with my choices, the movies are fine but don't really excite all that much, though it's been a good number of years since I've seen a lot of them too, so it might just be fading memory involved. Intended to watch more, but got caught up digging into Parajanov's Arabesques on a Piro...

el mariachi

Having a Wild Weekend/Catch Us If You Can
Excalibur
Deliverance
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Zardoz
Where the Heart Is

I dig Carnival in Moscow. One of it's lesser known pleasures is seeing where Lermontov started out before becoming a ballet impressario.



(Tell me that last guy doesn't look like an slightly undernourished Walbrook.)

The least Xmassy Xmas poll I could have imagined, the seasonal aptness within Clark's oeuvre nothwithstanding. I mean A Christmas Story is fine in the abstract, nothing too exciting, but nothing all that irksome, but, damn, the amount of attention and continual reference to it over the years bugged ...

Merry Christmas to the Rishka-est person in town!

I was a big Boorman fan as a teen, but my ardor cooled a bit post-Emerald Forest. I still liked Hope and Glory and Where the Heart is well enough, but it was a more mitigated thing. Those early movies had something of a proto-Lynchian oddness to them that faded a bit as Boorman learned to moderate h...

heh. This Zardoz related Christmas tweet came up yesterday.

http://twitter.com/jfkenney/status/1473 ... 76896?s=20

Have we done a Boorman poll yet? He is a nut, but an interesting one.

Moonstruck
The Thomas Crown Affair
Fiddler on the Roof
Rollerball
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Send Me No Flowers
In the Heat of the Night
Best Friends

If it's not too late:

Santa Claus (Which would have been my top choice unprompted, I really think it's great)
Mary Jane's Mishap
As Seen Through a Telescope
Grandma's Reading Glass
The X-Ray Fiend
Tartans of the Scottish Clans
The Miller and the Sweep

It's funny cuz it isn't like I lack things to watch that are actually of interest, I mean I did subscribe to Mubi and it's got more than enough to keep me going as if youtube didn't have enough floating around to already keep me interested. It just feels unsettling to have not seen nothing more than...

Yeah, the prices for the streaming services aren't onerous in themselves if you only get one or two, so that doesn't bother me exactly, though I can't really afford much, it's just something about the subscription model that really troubles me, where VOD is more a price thing matched to the cloud ba...

Ugh. I just became aware Spencer was directed by Pablo Larrain. I'd written it off since I had no desire to see a Princess Di film, but now I really want to see it since I thought Jackie was great, but the world of frickin' subscription viewing is just so damned annoying I'm torn about the whole thi...

I'd go with The Trap over Diary of an Unknown Soldier, the latter of which is fine and more important in some ways perhaps, but comparatively basic in concept in ways that don't really fit Watkins as he developed his methods further.

I kinda prefer one year at a time otherwise I end up choosing one and ignoring the other for any watching. I'm fine with whatever is decided though.

The Parallax View
All the President's Men
The Sterile Cuckoo
Klute
Starting Over
Rollover
Comes a Horseman

we should show the world that a communist cinephile forum financed by a crowd of losers is not a utopia but a feasible reality. Indeed. The needs of the masses must be in the forefront of our concerns. So to the battlements comrades! We must protect SCFZ against capitalist menace no matter the cost...

Wait, what? Was there a need for money recently? Is that why the site was down for a bit? I think I'm missing something here.

As long as The Skipping Cheeses make the cut I'm good with it.

left handed gun is the most risible of the "psychological" '50s westerns, and little big man is the most risible of the "revisionist" '70s westerns Heh, I get where you're coming from, but "most" in either case is a pretty high bar to clear as those depths were mined e...

Nice!

maybe i'm just saying i wish someone besides penn directed it. Not a fan eh? I kinda thought that mighta been the deal when you only voted for one. I kinda think Penn is more important than really good, maybe as much for being at the right place at the right time, but I think he has some real talen...

Night Moves The Left Handed Gun The Miracle Worker The Chase Penn and Teller Get Killed The Missouri Breaks Four Friends It's funny how much I've come to kinda dislike Penn's use of actors, given how important they are to his films, but other than Night Moves and The Miracle Worker, the star thing i...

The Astronomer's Dream 1898 The Skipping Cheese 1907 The Devil in a Convent aka The Sign of the Cross (Le diable au couvent) 1899 THE TERRIBLE ERUPTION OF MOUNT PELEE AND DESTRUCTION OF ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE 1902 A Desperate Crime 1906 Divers at Work on the Wreck of the Maine 1898 400 Tricks of the...

hmm, now that you mention Hou, that actually sounds more inviting at the moment. I'll have to see what I can make work at work. (oh, and I finally did "join" twitter, I guess I had an account from 2008 I never fully activated, so I can pretend I'm not joining a possibly questionable compan...

applies perfectly to Howard The Duck.

Oh, man, how did I miss that?

And, yeah, I caught part of The Singing Detective, but never got a chance to finish it either. Thanks for the reminder!

Heh. Not a bad idea, induction letters for peace, and other social progress. Incidentally, I did a quick rewatch of a couple of Watkins short films to refresh my memory of them and what really stands out for me about Watkins is how his style so well captures his sensibility about people compared to ...

Culloden
Edvard Munch
La Commune (Paris 1871)
Punishment Park
The Gladiators

Heh. One of my favorite adventure yarns from the studio era. If you get a chance you should check out the '52 version sometime soon too, not nearly as fun, but it uses a much of the same script, word for word, but to hugely different effect with the changes in actors, director, and era. Makes for a ...

I see I really do need to get serious about twitter I guess, unless there's another good platform to join that isn't facebook/instragram which I don't know about. I'm trying to avoid evil corps as much as possible.