joão césar monteiro hiroshi shimizu ritwik ghatak govindan aravindan hou hsiao-hsien mani kaul king hu edward yang abbas kiarostami peter hutton kenji mizoguchi yasujiro ozu alain resnais luis buñuel  johnnie to jacques tourneur liu chia-liang buster keaton pier paolo pasolini nagisa oshima sai para...

if mubi was coffee, then scfz is espresso does that explain why i drink coffee more than espresso? :D but no, just feel mubi theauteurs was chaotic good, this is closer to neutral good (if i'm understanding these terms correctly, though more likely i'm just being *steve buscemi meme*). miss it a lo...

started visiting an old haunt (neighborhood park) again. still avoiding people, just not the sky.

i'm currently reading the baphomet! have been for little more than a week after i realized i'm teaching online for another semester and needed something to intermittently take me away from the screen. not entirely sure why i picked the klossowski, but i'd bought this one after reading his sade book,...

throw down (johnnie to) swapner din (buddhadeb dasgupta) tropical malady (apichatpong weerasethakul) skagafjördur (peter hutton) main hoon na (farah khan) the sky turns (mercedes alvarez) light is calling (bill morrison) une visite au louvre (straub/huillet) pirated copy (he jianjun) moolaade (sembe...

lodz symphony
budapest portrait (memories of a city)
skagafjordur
study of a river
time and tide

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esthappan arising from the surface arrival (mani kaul) mon oncle d'amerique evening rain zigeunerweisen bhavni bhavai return to the 36th chamber khubsoorat (hrishikesh mukherjee) berlin alexanderplatz poto and cabengo sparsh albert pinto ko gussa kyun ata hai (saeed akhtar mirza) kagemusha the shin...

tier 1: 1 -- 10 raining in the mountain (king hu, 1979) dirty ho (liu chia-liang, 1979) a touch of zen (king hu, 1971) the fate of lee khan (king hu, 1973) the assassin (hou hsiao-hsien, 2015) eight diagram pole fighter (liu chia-liang, 1984) green snake (tsui hark, 1993) come drink with me (king hu...

God Tier: 5 films Esthappan (G. Aravindan, 1980) The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938) Njan Gandharvan (P Padmarajan, 1991) Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008) Sparrow (Johnnie To, 2008) Tier 1: 1 -- 10 A River Called Titash (Ritwik Ghatak) Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1...

xTait

xGilic

xBernard

'twas the first sastry film i'd watched (and was floored by) many years ago, but perhaps best as a curtain closer for this cup. (he made short films, in case you hadn't noticed.) a twitter mutual of mine posted a short quip on the film's letterboxd page that goes: "chitra qitaab" , meaning...

xKhitruk

"15th august, 1947. well it means a lot. first of all, it's my birthday of course." the greatest talking heads in all of indian cinema. (and some years back, samanth subramanian tried to locate some of them .) ps: most of the interviews are in english, but a few aren't, and the copy on yo...

xWilliams

loved this shot music of the spheres ends on, and could stare at it for a long time...



xBelson (Music of the Spheres)

dirty ho (liu chia-liang) kummatty (g. aravindan) raining in the mountain (king hu) from the clouds to the resistance (huillet, straub) new york portrait: chapter i (peter hutton) le navire night (duras) gol maal (mukherjee) manzil (chatterjee) ek din pratidin (sen) kaala patthar (yash chopra) bato...

xSolomon

got a lot more out of the solomon from this round. shocks of color, recurring shots like haunted memories. strangely moving.

at 30+ minutes each, is this the longest tie of the round (and the longest of the cup so far)? in any case, i picked `on the move' as it's simultaneously quintessential -- kaleidoscopic sound design over dense, disparate, contrapuntal images, furiously edited -- but also something different, one of ...

xTait

i loved the cat as well!

xKhitruk

bit of a throwback to those`director intros' we used to do during the old mubi cups. not that this is one in any meaningful sense of the term, more an excuse to post a link to a wonderful tumblr resource called sarkari shorts maintained by alexander keefe (here: https://filmsdivisionindia.tumblr.com...

the heart
conflagration
an actor's revenge
the burmese harp

i'll go with s. n. s. sastry

sorry i haven't logged in in a while, but my votes (if you're still taking them): 1. country 2. director 3. year would ideally prefer doing something that's a combination of country/director(s)/a time period spanning years that's a politically significant epoch, but that'd be hard to define, i under...

can manage and watch if it's shorts.

seen 8. only truly fond of the first (and to an extent the second).

the private life of sherlock holmes
the apartment
some like it hot
double indemnity

Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012) i didn't look up any other films (on anyone's ballot) but this kiarostami film has too many views to go in the five-film top tier (a film must have < 2500 views on letterboxd, and that kiarostami has 10k views). lots of great films later on your ballot ...

Tier 1: 1 -- 25 Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira, 2012) Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016) Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014) Maheshinte Prathikaaram (Dileesh Pothan, 2016) Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012) Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo, 2010) Kaala (Pa. Ranjith, 2018) The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsie...