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A lesser To (and Chow), for sure. But it's still a fun way to spend 90 minutes.

A wonderful year! Will have to kick out some favorites to reduce it to a mere 20... Films seen: 110+ Final list 5 tiers L'Amant "The Lover" (Jean-Jacques Annaud, France/UK) The Tune (Bill Plympton, USA) Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven. USA/France) Hap do Ko Fei "Full Contact" (Rin...

Great to read how you enjoyed it. When I was a young Plympton enthusiast I also thought it was his worst movie. But nowadays I'm of the opinion it is by far his best. But I can understand what might irritate people about the film. Plympton has also directed many other great films. A true auteur and...

Great to know he's still working! Need to finally see one of his films.

great to have your ballots, shara and oOgiandujaOo, lots of scfz favorites on there, along with several titles that are unfamiliar to me that i'll have to investigate... Preliminarily, I've sent the mail a job to bring me Plympton's The Tune (courtesy of wba's recco) Wow, that's great! :cowboy: I d...

Palme d'Or : The Seed and the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Grand Jury Prize : Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Jury Prize : Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
Director : Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Alternate : All We Imagine As Light (Payal Kapadia)

April 2024 The Waste Lands (Stephen King / 1991 / USA / English / English) Ein Schwert zwischen uns (Horst Lange / 1952 / West Germany / German / German) ♥ Die drei ??? – Das leere Grab (André Marx / 1997 / Germany / German / German) Storia di domani “Geschichte von morgen“ [translated by Hellmut L...

Looks like this website isn't available in "your region" (whatever that means). You probably need to change your VPN. Yes, I understood that. My computer skills aren't sophisticated enough to mess with VPNs... Neither are mine. ^^ But fortunately, for every stream one can't access there a...

great to have your ballots, shara and oOgiandujaOo, lots of scfz favorites on there, along with several titles that are unfamiliar to me that i'll have to investigate... Preliminarily, I've sent the mail a job to bring me Plympton's The Tune (courtesy of wba's recco) Wow, that's great! :cowboy: I d...

https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/de/cinema/policier-et-suspense/toutes-peines-confondues Fehler 403 – Es tut uns leid, dieser Inhalt ist für Ihre geografische Region leider nicht verfügbar. Looks like this website isn't available in "your region" (whatever that means). You probably need to ch...

watched a great 1992 film two days ago (totally by chance), called "Toutes peines confondues" by Michel Deville.

It can be watched here for free in 1080p and with English subs:
https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/de/cinema/ ... confondues

shara wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:58 pm loosely ranked


The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

You listed The Parallel Street twice. So you get one more spot for free.

Ringo Lam, a true master.

THE PRESIDIO (Peter Hyams, 1988) Hyams is a true master, and the machine-gun-fire-like dialogue and characterization, coupled with one of the best chase scenes in film history... The flud camerawork by Hyams himself is as always outstanding and his mastery of pacing and getting fantastic performance...

greennui wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:42 pm I've trimmed my top 500 to a top 250 so far, very hard...

Yeah, it's hard. I have about 2000 favorites, but I've been doing similar lists a lot over the past 15 years, so one gets used to trimming down again and again.

Ha, I did it!!!!
I finished my list.

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:09 pm

also all films should be 70 mins

Absolutely!

Sounds like a must-see! I'd push hard for this one... if only you weren't such a stickler for print quality. Hehe. :D I searched a bit, but couldn't find an upload that didn't look atrocious. So I'll wait till someone releases this in better quality or simply never watch it. ^^ As for why I'm such ...

Deep-dive discovery: Identity Unknown dir. Walter Colmes. One of those heavy-zeitgeist noir burners -- and there isn't even any crime in it! Combat veteran manages his trauma by developing amnesia; his superiors figure out that he's one of four specific people, and he goes to visit the families of ...

Final List unranked in chronological order Until They Get Me (Frank Borzage, 1917) Heart o’ the Hills (Sidney Franklin/Joseph De Grasse, 1919) The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924) Melodie des Herzens (Hanns Schwarz, 1929) Night Nurse (William A. Wellman, 1931) Anna and Elizabeth (Frank Wysbar, 1...

Blood on the Moon (Robert Wise, 1948)

A solid noir-western, with great acting by Mitchum and outstanding camerawork. Not one of Wise's best films, though.

March 2024 Eine gefährliche Begegnung (Ernst Jünger / 1985 / West Germany / German / German) Dein Sohn lässt grüssen (Ulrich Schamoni / 1962 / West Germany / German / German) Das Wallmüllerhaus (Hermann Wolfgang Zahn / 1930 / Germany / German / German) Alf (Bruno Vogel / 1929 / Germany / German / G...

flip wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:31 pm
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak)

The Spiral Staircase is 1946 on ImdB (and letterboxd as well).

Films seen: 30+ three tiers Les enfants du paradis "Children of Paradise" (Marcel Carné, France) Solistin Anna Alt (Werner Klingler, Germany) The Kid Sister (Sam Newfield, USA) Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, USA) Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, USA) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan, USA) Ko...

Started watching THE NAKED JUNGLE (1953) by Byron Haskin. Still not sure if this wasn't (supposed to be) a 3-D movie... I'm a mere 35 minutes in, but I simply love those early Charlton Heston movies like DARK CITY, PONY EXPRESS, SECRET OF THE INCAS or THE FAR HORIZONS, where it's ok for Heston to be...

Listened to this album 5 times on compact disc today.

Childqueen - Kadhja Bonet (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkChAj8pGJc

March 2024 01. Mysteries of Love (Jeffrey Schwarz, 2002, USA) [8/10] ♥ 02. El sueño del mono loco "The Mad Monkey" (Fernando Trueba, 1989, Spain/France) [8/10] ♥ 03. The New Kids (Sean S. Cunningham, 1984, USA) [7/10] 04. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler, 1981, USA) [7...

Thanks, I'll keep them in mind!

February 2024

Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson / 1919 / USA / English / English) ♥
The Grass Harp (Truman Capote / 1951 / USA / English / English)

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:53 pm it was on a freeleach at kg

Hehe, lucky you!