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March 2025 The Orchard Keeper (Cormac McCarthy / 1965 / USA / English / English) ♥ “Begleitbuch zu: Hanns Zischler liest Wilhelm Lehmann 'Der Provinzlärm'“ (Alpheus Verlag, Peter Nicolaisen [editor] / 2012 / Germany / German / German) Die kleinen Leute gehen ins Kino (Morticia Zschiesche / 2021 / G...

Wow, thanks for all the comments and ideas!
I thought this thread from last year was dead, but: never say never at SCFZ.

Such a wonderful movie!
More films by Ann Hui definitely need the HD treatment.

i also struggled with the 'screwball comedy' aspect i couldnt laugh funny wba lists pretty woman as one of his 1990 favorites - it's the film i thought of alongside uncut gems :lol: Now that you mention it, I see a lot of thematic similarity to both, and some aesthetic similarities in regards to UN...

Maybe it's because I don't watch a film expecting anything? At least not in terms of genre, or what the film should or might do. I expect to have a good time, but that's that. So a film cannot fulfill or contradict my expectations, or any of that. I also don't think if a horror film makes me feel ho...

That scene characterizes Igor. He's evil, but no sadist. Not much more I'd say. What people expect or don't expect from a scene is up to the individual, and not something the film "does". To me there was nothing funny about it. The whole film was like watching a horror movie. I personally ...

The piece writes what the film is about. I also felt and saw that while watching it, cause it's evidently obvious what the film is about (it literally hits you with a hammer with its messages, and doesn't stop hammering till the credits roll). The ideas expressed in it don't make it a good film thou...

Final List Films seen: 90+ 5 tiers Le petit criminel "The Little Gangster" (Jacques Doillon, France) Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, USA) Narrow Margin (Peter Hyams, USA) Umetni raj "Artificial Paradise" (Karpo Godina, Yugoslavia) Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, USA/UK) Back to...

February 2025

Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren (Wolf Haas / 2006 / Germany / German / German)

Umi no junjô "Pure Emotions of the Sea"
Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1956

Fun early film by Suzuki. Recommended.

Yeah absolutely. Russia is governed by a criminal, mafia-like organization, with Putin and his colleagues "acting" like politicians. Which they of course aren't, they are simply criminals. I didn't mean to trivialize Trump, just point out the obvious, as he seems a part of that group of pe...

I read that he was recruited by the KGB (in the 1980s, I believe). He definitely seems like one of the dumbest (and most incompetent) people on the planet, so I didn't mean it in a 007 way.

I thought I'd read his novels chronologically, if the first one would be great. So I'll definitely check out the second one. I was never interested in his work, but after I read an article about some of his early novels about 2 months ago, they sounded like they could be my thing. Initially I wanted...

I thought Trump had been exposed as a KGB agent some years ago, so no wonder he would do anything Putin wishes him to do.

It's a shame no ones watch Enchanted Day! It was already mentioned on at least 3 lists (I just took a quick glance at most). What's really a shame is that no one watches dozens of equally great German films made during the Nazi dictatorship. Pewas, who continued to make great films, wasn't an excep...

Reading my first McCarthy. Nice! ♥

Films seen: 30+ Final List two tiers Gaslight (George Cukor, USA) Laura (Otto Preminger, USA) Tall in the Saddle (Edwin L. Marin, USA) Der verzauberte Tag (Peter Pewas, Germany) Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel (Heinz Rühmann, Germany) The Suspect (Robert Siodmak, USA) The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, USA) ...

Seen only 8 so far, but loved 6 of them!

Top 4

01. Trap (M. Night Shyamalan) [9/10]
02. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner) [8/10]
03. The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen) [7/10]
04. Slide (Bill Plympton) [7/10]


worthless: Anora (Sean Baker) [4/10]

January 2025 El congreso de literatura “Der Literaturkongress“ [translated by Klaus Laabs] (César Aira / 1997 / Venezuela / Spanish / German) The Sea Is My Brothe r (Jean Louis Kirouac / 1942 / USA / English / English) ♥ Nacht im Bioskop (Clemens Meyer / 2020 / Germany / German / German) The Scarle...

That's a very nice idea, flip! I haven't read much poetry in my life (though a few hundred poems might have nevertheles assembled over the decades), but I'm currently reading a collection from the early 1920s by a poet who wrote in the German language. I remember enjoying some poems by William Blake...

Seen a mere 20 and didn't love most. Murnau never did anything for me (though NOSFERATU is at least watchable, compared to PHANTOM) È PICCERELLA by Notari sucks the other Dreyer I've seen from '22 is middling at best I don't remember anything anymore about the Tourneur I've watched the one by Reinig...

ofrene wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 11:40 pm fiction can't beat reality no matter how imaginative it is

so true

December 2024 Le Dernier Chouan ou la Bretagne en 1800 “Die Chouans oder die Bretagne im Jahre 1799” [new version, translated by Curt Noch] (Honoré de Balzac / 1829, 1845 / France / French / German) ♥ Wizard and Glass (Stephen King / 1997 / USA / English / English) ♥ The Life and Strange Surprizing...

Bicycleran / The Cyclist (1987, Mohsen Makhmalbaf) Hong gao liang / Red Sorghum (1987, Yimou Zhang) You have two spots more now, as BICYCLERAN is 1989 on Imdb (great film, though!), and RED SORGHUM is 1988 (otherwise it would have easily made my list somewhere near the top - probably below OPERA at...

Great year! Films seen: 90+ Final list Jigoku no banken: akai megane "The Red Spectacles" (Mamoru Oshii, Japan) Detskaya ploshchadka "Kids Playground" (Svetlana Proskurina, Soviet Union) Yanagawa horiwari monogatari "The Story of Yanagawa's Canals" (Isao Takahata, Japan...

November 2024

Lichtspiel (Daniel Kehlmann / 2023 / Germany / German / German)

Thanks for the support!

Sounds like sound advice - as long as you are not persecuted or simply directly affected by all the madness happening around you.

October 2024 Es steht geschrieben (Friedrich Dürrenmatt / 1947 / Switzerland / German / German) Hotel du Lac (Anita Brookner / 1984 / UK / English / English) The Heat (Garry Disher / 2015 / Australia / English / English) Das vierte Tor (Ilse Aichinger / 1945 / Austria / German / German) ♥ Die Proje...