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flip wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 2:35 pm

karl wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 12:48 pm It's a good year.

would be great to get your ballot for our 10th anniversary poll, if you're interested in participating!

Um yeah maybe. A bit busy these days. Gainfully employed in the Land of the Free (sigh) for the short term. Until I have enough in pocket to flee again.

The Oak (Pintilie) The Thief of Children aka Stolen Children (Amelio) Hill of No Return (Wang) Quince Tree Sun (Erice) Travelers (Beizai) Dream of Russia (Satō) Life and Nothing More (Kiarostami) The Need (Davoudnejad) A Heart in Winter (Sautet) The Best Intentions (movie version) (August) Waltz on ...

children of paradise brief encounter rome open city they were expendable nob hill the famous sword bijomaru dark is the night (barnet) a tale of archery at the sanjusangendo i know where i'm going! the great flamarion the story of gi joe the southerner dames du bois de boulogne the gate of heaven (d...

Here's what I've got for now:

He Who Gets Slapped
Greed
The Marriage Circle
Gosta Berling's Saga
Sherlock, Jr.
The Last Man/Laugh
Gallery of Monsters
Iceland Fishermen (de Baroncelli)
The Navigator
Au Secours!
Don Quixote (Lauritzen)
Isn't Life Wonderful?

The Bottomless Bag
Chronicles of the Time of Troubles (Vladimir Eisner)
The Phantom Thread
The Square
Waiting for the Barbarians
First Reformed
Downsizing

The only 2023 movies I saw - and I saw very few - that I enjoyed were Wes Anderson's short Roald Dahl films. This is a director I'd almost given up on (and, based on its trailer, if I want to keep my rather good current opinion of him I ought to skip his 2023 feature), but the World Socialists convi...

There's a rip on Youtube without the logo (search for Bottomless Bag) and a set of subs at KG that match up with it.

Next.

The great Uzbek surrealist of Russian film does beautiful, totally bonkers remake of Japanese classic Rashomon. If there's a better film from 2017 I'll eat my hat.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/g ... smsnnews11

I liked this actress very much in the few things I've seen her in - Halfway House, State Secret, etc.

(Actually a little research has revealed that 2017 might not be, as I'd earlier assumed it to be, worthless - there are a few intriguing works from this year, mostly from the ex-Soviet realm. Bottomless Bag, for instance. And, though I gave up on him years ago, I may just may look at one of the Hong...

As per that last screenshot, I'm surprised that anyone would think Nazi cinema's total lack of irony striking. Totalitarian regimes of all stripes are routinely destitute of a sense of irony or humor - this lack is one of their defining qualities. As is a fondness for kitsch.

Of the eight I seem to have seen, I don't rate two (Meyerowitz Stories, Shape of Water), and the last on this list probably gets its spot only because I'm feeling charitable - because I don't remember much of anything about it except that it's a kind of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with Matt Damon in th...

The Lady Vanishes Angels with Dirty Faces The Childhood of Gorky The Masseurs and a Woman Le Schpountz Spawn of the North The New Moscow The Puritan (Musso) Hotel du Nord Pygmalion Stolen Death A Letter to Mama (Green & Trystan) You and Me Nightingale (Toyoda) Composition Class (Yamamoto) Family...

The good thing about a month's worth of worthless years like 2017 and 1899 is that it will allow me to watch movies that I was unable to see from earlier polls - 1938, I'm sure, still holds some delightful surprises, not to mention 1939 - while everyone else is debating the merits or lack thereof of...

Though it's probably his most beloved film, THE BAKER'S WIFE from '38 is one of my least favorites from the great Marcel Pagnol because it strains so hard to elicit sympathy for its tiresome main character. Fernandel's character in LE SCHPOUNTZ is also tiresome, but the film I like much better, sinc...

A number of good flickers I saw last year, but these're the ones I gave over the 4-star (I liked it!) rate: One Way or Another (Sara Gomez) Funeral Ceremonies (Zdenek Sirovy) Khrustalyov, My Car! (Alexei German) Lautarii (Emil Loteanu) An Unusual Exhibition (Eldar Shengelaia) L'entraîneuse (Albert V...

I'm sure I've seen more, but I've only logged eight movies from 2017. And 1899... is that even a year?

Very sad. One of the last of the old guard. How many are left?

Good year! Long list of contenders, much I'd like to see - tho' journeying thru' South America with the wife at present, so don't know how many of those I'll get to. The Lady Vanishes The Masseurs and a Woman The Childhood of Gorky Angels with Dirty Faces La Bête Humaine The New Moscow The Puritan T...

Not a good year for cinema, but probably the only year you'll ever see me put an animated movie on any of these lists. Killing Mad Dogs Baran Failan The Royal Tennenbaums Late Marriage Sprited Away Taking Sides (Szabo) The Road (Omirbaev) No Man's Land Gosford Park Invincible (Herzog) What Time Is I...

melodies of the vera quarter (shengelaya) the duel (kheifits) monologue (averbakh) nirmalyam (vasudevan nair) illumination (zanussi) field lilies (havetta) photography (zolnay) we're cursed, irina! (angelovski) blow, wind! (piesis) 25 fireman's street (szabo) a brief vacation (de sica) defying every...

Well if Evelyn don't return, why not?

Cripes, I wish I'd never started this. I've got things to do today! But here's:

https://letterboxd.com/karljkiplin/list ... ond-sound/

Christ.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... e-his-wife

THE MEN (Edmond Keosayan): Amusing Armenian comedy about the misadventures of three taxi drivers who try to help their painfully shy taxi driver pal romance his dream girl, rather awkwardly Englished on Youtube. Won't make my list, but it goes down easily and at 67 mins doesn't wear out its welcome:...

contenders: melodies of the vera quarter (shengelaya) the duel (kheifits) monologue (averbakh) nirmalyam (vasudevan nair) blow, wind! (piesis) we're cursed, irina! (angelovski) illumination (zanussi) 25 fireman's street (szabo) spirit of the beehive (erice) field lilies (havetta) photography (zolnay...

Ikiru (Kurosawa) Umberto D. (de Sica) Mother (Naruse) Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nelly (King) LIghtning (Naruse) The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (Ozu) La Fête à Henriette (Duvivier) Don Camillo (Duvivier) Okuni and Gohei (Naruse) The Quiet Man (Ford) Way of a Gaucho (Tourneur) High Noon (Zinnemann)...

I found that one too! Discovered it totally by accident on one of my occasional obsessive Youtube movie hunts (once every two weeks, tops). Was amazed it existed. And despite the 1972 label on the video - most Russian & Soviet films due to the calendar they used are listed as a year earlier over...

By the way, magpies, you see Malyan's Father with subs or no?