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Just seen 1 but I loved it so I'll vote for

1. Carnival in Flanders

I've seen 5 by Hooper

I might watch it, I gotta know whether or not Wolff Von Amerongen committed bankruptcy offences

Final: 1. The Falls (Greenaway) Airplane! (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker) Alexander the Great (Angelopoulos) Esthappan (Aravindan) Narcissus and Psyche (Body) Murder Psalm (Brakhage) Panelstory (Chytilova) Operneia (Eizykman) Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder) Raging Bull (Scorsese) Who's Singin' Over Ther...

Seen 8:

1. Three Landscapes
2. New York Portrait, Chapter II
3. Time and Tide
4. Landscape (for Manon)

Seen 3:

1. The Wages of Fear

Seen 3:

1. High Noon

Seen 8:

1. The Promised Land
2. Ashes and Diamonds
3. Young Girls of Wilko
4. Kanal

Just realized Alexander the Great is from 1980 and now there's another super-long movie on my watchlist. Thank god I've already seen Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Yeah, I'm fascinated by late style, especially directors like Bressane who've had a long career and seemingly aren't beholden to anything other than their own impulses anymore. Reminds me of some late Vecchiali in that sense, but pushing things even further.

Seen 2:

1. L'Inhumaine

Final list: 1. Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa) Araya (Benacerraf) Fate of a Man (Bondarchuk) Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage) Nazarin (Bunuel) Room at the Top (Clayton) A Bucket of Blood (Corman) The Hanging Tree (Daves) A Simple Story (Hanoun) North by Northwest (Hitchcock) The Human Condition I: ...

The Blazing World is absolutely wild, one of the oddest books ever written.

Seen 8:

1. Brief Encounter
2. The Passionate Friends
3. Great Expectations
4. Lawrence of Arabia

I watched Rose Tinted Dreams and Before the Face of the Sea , and enjoyed both greatly, especially the enchanting Rose Tinted Dreams , which brings rural Slovakia to life in a beautiful way. Also includes some of cinema's best pigeons. Before the Face of the Sea is an atmospheric horror-adjacent pie...

My recs for nrh:

Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksey Fedorchenko)
Beduino (Julio Bressane)
Peppermint Soda (Diane Kurys)

Alternates in case you've seen these: Charisma (K. Kurosawa), Book of Days (Meredith Monk)

nrh, do you have any blindspots you're looking to fill/particular likes you want me to target? Otherwise I can just pick some favorites that I think you might like.

So it is! (And I don't mind people guessing mine early, saves me some work!)

Seen 5:

1. Stop Making Sense
2. Rachel Getting Married

Kaili Blues?

WHAT I'VE SEEN: https://letterboxd.com/mesnalty/ WHAT I LIKE: I've got eclectic tastes, and for the purposes of this exercise I'm more interested in filling in my blindspots and/or trying out something that my partner likes than in listing my own likes BLINDSPOTS: pre-60s Hollywood, African cinema, ...

Seen 2:

1. The Driver

Seen 6:

1. Anatomy of a Murder
2. Laura
3. Bunny Lake Is Missing

Seen 13:

1. Ornette: Made in America
2. Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Mysterium
3. Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Trans
4. Bridges-Go-Round
5. Dance in the Sun
6. Four Journeys into Mystic Time: One Two Three

Let's do Shirley Clarke before I forget then!

Seen 15:

1. Dusty Stacks of Mom
2. Let Your Light Shine
3. Glistening Thrills
4. The Grand Bizarre
5. Something Between Us

Yay Mack! (I've seen 13 Clarkes too, for future reference.)

Final list, probably: 1. Sunrise (Murnau) 7th Heaven (Borzage) Invitation to a Journey (Dulac) October (Eisenstein and Aleksandrov) Walking from Munich to Berlin (Fischinger) Napoleon (Gance) The Lodger (Hitchcock) Metropolis (Lang) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Lubitsch) Charleston Parade (...

I've seen 3 and will boringly vote for

1. All About Eve