Actually I had heard of Hedgehog in the Fog, and it was in fact on my list of ish to watch! FUCK YEAH!

didn't watch a ton this month, but i had fun, felt rejuvenated, and feel ready to start watching "a decent number" of movies again for the first time in a long time, moving forward 1218 (V, xix) 25 "A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus" (Edwin S. Porter/J. Searle Dawl...

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the signal and the noise (nate silver) - 8/10*
they shoot horses, don’t they? (horace mccoy) - 8/10

*would've been 9/10 if he hadn't implied that palestinians resisting their european colonists are terrorists

This was amazing!! Thanks for all your hard work, kanafani. I'm going to go watch this Chain Gang Mickey Mouse short and Hedgehog in the Fog now, because Matias (my champ-match) has given them 5/5 and I hadn't even heard of them!

Nobody has yet mentioned Anthony Mann. He's, like, a fucking huge player, right? I've seen 18, and gave 5 of them 4/5 or higher

Lancelot du Lac is doing well. That's actually by far my least favourite Bresson, but I saw it almost 8 years ago so it could use a reevaluation. Surprised that Une Femme Douce isn't doing better. One of those classic experiences that made me ashamed of my behaviour as a man and inspired me to striv...

Seen 11

Four nights of a dreamer
Une femme douce
Mouchette
A man escaped
Who's the best goalie of all-time? The Devil, probably

Three Landscapes has received 20 points and Dragon Inn has received 18. Nothing else has more than 8, so those will be our first two banners!

This seems like the appropriate place to ask, and I suppose we can avoid delays if people plan in advance whom they'll pick. So: who's seen 8+ or 10+ Masaki Kobayashi flicks?

Watched those two Edwin S. Porters--The Night Before Christmas last night and A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus today--and they were both fucking dope.

Gonna watch Back to God's Country later today

1. rischka's Three Landscapes
2. rischka's J'accuse
3. rischka's epstein

Vote for your top three banners. Be specific.

With respect to Paul Auster... you've read Moon Palace? One of my 2019 goals is to convince as many people as possible to read that book. It's not that it's my favourite book ever--it's my 6th favourite--it's just that I can't even envision anyone, or at least any straight/straightish male, not seei...

seen 12

It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)
You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra, 1938)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936)

Mysterious Skin - the perfect Christmas Eve movie, obviously. I've upgraded this from my #7 oat to my #3 oat - now my favourite American movie ever.

Everyone should watch this movie. Alone. Watch it alone. It's an important experience to have, I would think, for any human being

In AFI'S original list from 1998 you have a film like The Third Man , which had no US financing whatsoever - they could have equally included Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali or Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game . How it got on the list is a mystery. This is the same country that's nicknamed Canadian-b...

1. "Roswell" (Bill Brown)

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
Chungking Express

WAIT, I JUST WATCHED THREE LANDSCAPES AND ADDED IT TO MY LIST! Please count it! It was incredible! That movie needs to be recognized!

I don't think that sharing new releases is necessarily more illegal/risky than sharing older films, especially the arthouse stuff we watch... but am I out of the loop on something, where are you guys getting new releases?

I love Babs Stanwyck! Haven't seen as much Bette Davis, but I've definitely seen and like a bunch. Should be an interesting matchup

12 months, 10 films per month

1. Mexico
2. India Part I: Golden Age
3. USSR Part I: Soviet Russia
4. China (mainland)
5. Iran
6. India Part II: Classic Bollywood
7. USSR Part II: Soviet Non-Russia
8. HK
9. Brazil
10. India Part III: Contemporary Bollywood
11. Post-USSR Russia
12. Taiwan

would probably only have included 5-10 from the AFI's list anyway He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström, 1924) The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927) My Best Girl (Sam Taylor, 1927) Lonesome (Paul Fejos, 1928) Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon, 1928) The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick/Buster Keaton, 1928) He...

thanks kanafani!!! BEST SHOWDOWN YET!!! Loved looking through all of this

but seriously, yall NEED to check out Come Live With Me

Oooooh, some canuckerousness! Skating in Montreal and Skiing Scene in Quebec were great stuff! I'll have to check out this feature, too. I don't think I've seen any Canadian features that old.

Some possible Cups:

- Cast Member Cup
- short film Directors Cup

I'd be more active in a Movie Club this time around

Sorry, it was supposed to be only 1! It's set now. Should work but let me know if you still can't PM.

DT! I believe you have to make a post before you can send PMs. So you should be able to now.

The three bars in the top left are a menu; see Active topics

Oh yeah, The Outlaw and his Wife is utterly fantastic, probably my second favourite Sjostrom... Laila looks fantastic, except.... 165 minutes! My lord! I don't think I have the attention span for that right now. I'm going to bang out a couple of wintry shorts and watch this Romeo and Juliet in the S...

No, banners don't need to be exactly 1080X180! They just need to be, like, that general idea... wide, short strips for the top of the page. If it's 1250x250 or 1000x210 or whatever that's all fine