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Final list:

1. Bulanti / Nausea (Zeki Demirkubuz)

Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)

After enjoying Landscape in the Mist and Eternity and a Day over a year ago but not delving deeper into Angelopoulos, I’m now working my way chronologically through his filmography after picking up the Artificial Eye collection that contains all of his 13 feature films. I’m only up to his third film...

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:48 pm

Aberration wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:34 pm https://letterboxd.com/aberration/

50% overlap in our top four, not bad.

Clearly you have good taste.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 7:10 pm Another Londoner, woo

I should update that actually. I'm based in Norfolk at the moment but hoping to end up back in London or near about eventually.

I have a small vinyl collection but gave up my record player as it’s not really feasible in my current home. When I move I’ll be looking at getting a new set up. Some of my favourite albums are… Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Neil Young - Harvest Roy Harper - Stormcock Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left...

Seen 11 Blue Red Dekalog The Double Life of Veronique Blind Chance I have a lot of fondness for Kieslowski and admire his best films for their emotional and moral complexity. The Three Colours Trilogy (well, Blue and Red anyway) and Dekalog were a gateway for me to a wider appreciation of cinema. Be...

Eagerly awaiting the console port. It's due this month, but there's been nothing but radio silence... should say i finished disco elysium since posting last and it more than sticks the landing, all in all it is i think one of the most carefully thought through video game plots i can think of. have ...

flip wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:01 am

Aberration wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:31 pm Seen 6

Aberration, you can pick our next director if you want!

i won't start the next poll for about a week though, so lots of time

Sure. How about Kieslowski?

I was really into Son of Saul as I was watching it but it left me with the sourest aftertaste. Maybe cuz it felt like The Holocaust: The VR game? was son of saul widely acclaimed? it got into a bunch of major festivals, as is probably pre-ordained for this kind of thing, but i remember nothing but ...

This is a good debate but to be honest, I think a lot of you have a different thing in mind when you’re using these terms so I don’t think you’re even disagreeing as much as you think you are. For me, there should be an underlying meaning to a film and for a film to be good or great, it has to ‘say’...

Saint Maud was pretty okay as debuts go. I felt that after a decent set up it went a little too safe and predictable in its final third, but there were some nice ideas and Morfydd Clark was very good. Still not sure why they marketed it as a horror though.

Seen 6

In the Mood for Love
Chungking Express
Fallen Angels

Once upon a time I worshipped Sergio Leone. I still have soft spots for Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly though I hold neither in nearly as high esteem as I once did, but it's been considerably over a decade since I last watched Once Upon a Time in America, and I jus...

Fenneker's film posters are really wonderful. Dorothea Fischer Nobisch has done some of my favourites...

A Confucian Confusion is the only Yang I have left to see. Is there a new blu-ray out? Been waiting for that. Really sorry to hear it compared to Mahjong - that was such a sour disappointment to me. Had none of his power, and just felt sloppy. Actually seems like we are fairly aligned on Yang given...

Finally watched all Yang's films with A Confucian Confusion the last and found it really forgettable and disappointing, which is much the same experience I had with Mahjong. It just struck me as a try too hard comedy. Not really sure what he was up to with those two when the rest of his filmography ...

Is there any benefit to Patron vis-a-vis Pro? Sort of considering getting Pro just to get rid of undesirable feed stuff, etc., as I'm stuck with the site now and should make the most of it. But Patron? Something vague about beta testing and having it say Patron next to your name? Look, will it give...

Just finished A Hidden Life and it is the best Malick for me since The Thin Red Line. This sort of film with morality at its heart wouldn't generally interest me, because nine times out of ten it will be spoiled by sentiment and romanticism, but Malick does a very good job of putting you in the char...

The Painted Bird (2019, Václav Marhoul) https://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-12-12_17_01-IMAGE-00-Windows-Photo-Viewer-750x400.png Shot with stunning black and white cinematography that brings back visions of the best of the Czechoslovakian epics of the 1960s - The Pain...

Finally got around to reading Krasznahorkai’s Satantango. I’ve been wanting to read him for a long time, given my interest in Tarr’s adaptations and other films with Krasznahorkai, but was a little wary because I kept hearing about these insanely long sentences and I gave up on Proust for that very ...

I realised I hadn't watched a single 2020 film when my Letterboxd Year in Review hit my inbox a few days ago. Obviously external events have impacted most on that, but thinking on it, there's not really a great deal I would have wanted to see anyway. I plan on watching Hong Sang-soo's The Woman Who ...

I tracked down a film I’ve been interested in for a while, Sürkület (English translation: Twilight), by the Hungarian director Gyorgy Feher. I have a big admiration for Bela Tarr but very limited knowledge of Hungarian cinema outside of him. I think besides Tarr, Miklos Jancso was the only Hungaria...

I think besides Tarr, Miklos Jancso was the only Hungarian filmmaker I had even seen actually. at least a couple of us here did a bit of a dive into hungarian cinema over the summer, because some national cultural org made a lot of hungarian film available in good subtitled prints for free on youtu...

I tracked down a film I’ve been interested in for a while, Sürkület (English translation: Twilight), by the Hungarian director Gyorgy Feher. I have a big admiration for Bela Tarr but very limited knowledge of Hungarian cinema outside of him. I think besides Tarr, Miklos Jancso was the only Hungarian...