Meanwhile... does anyone have workable subtitles for Chunhyang? I've tried four or five different srt files, and all of them are 10 minutes + out of sync, too much to fix in vlc player. I'd hate to bail on it... i think there are 2 versions of the movie, a 1 hr 55 minute cut version and a 2 hr 16 m...

there was some other complicated context that i don't quite remember, and i never got to see the entire movie in the dream, but last night i dreamt that max ophuls in the '30s made a movie called "the paw and the feather," where the feather was a feather in a woman's extravagant hat, and t...

black leopard, red wolf (marlon james) ** this was the biggest disappointment, definitely not sure i was getting much out of it i remember this being something of a confounding book. it was funny that there was a huge publicity push, an hbo adaptation deal and "next game of thrones" talk ...

june 2024 my life as edgar, dominique fabre maigret & the killer, george simenon stories of the true, jeyamohan adam, s. hareesh july diary of a malayali madman, n. prabhakaran sakina's kiss, vivek shanbhag scavenger's son, t. sivasankara pillai my grandad had an elephant, basheer the execution ...

No Thangalaan screenings in MSP. USA distribution of Indian cinema is such a mystery to me. Same thing happened to Ranjith's last movie, Natchathiram Nagargiradhu--though that seemed much less mainstream than this tbh natchathiram got screens in nyc. i always assume there is some degree of distribu...

Tea and Sympathy Great Day in the Morning Hollywood or Bust Between Heaven and Hell Screen Director's Playhouse: A Ticket for Thaddeus Beatrice Cenci Jagte Raho There's Always Tomorrow Cela s'appelle l'aurore Screen Director's Playhouse: High Air regret not having time to try and watch any of the be...

an interesting essay on nitrate picture show (and il cinema ritrovato) from this weekend - https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the- ... -s-dilemma

doillon, it must be said, is in the middle of a very upsetting rape scandal...

A secret wish of mine would be to see an alternative reality where sound wouldn't be discovered/integrated for another, or at least a few more years. which is sort of what happened in japan, where you get a number of quite interesting hybrid practices running simultaneously. it was very interesting...

may 2024
bellefleur, joyce carol oates
the feast, margaret kennedy
the girls, john bowen
the waitress was new, dominique fabre

comics
blood of the virgin, sammy harkham
witchman, tom scioli

the coppola/crash thing (at least according to coppola) was assumption on cronenberg's part -

https://x.com/lou_kicks/status/1763097822826508393

the chinese critics are going for kapadia too

https://x.com/hanglutvd/status/1793896731685314784

it's been a weird year, partially because it has been the worst year for hindi/bollywood in recent memory, not just that movies are flopping but there are weeks going by when there's nothing at all in theaters. merry christmas was great (my movie of the year so far) but it was barely released in the...

after a pretty bleak opening seems like there is some real excitement for gomes, kapadia and jia.

just read the reactions to the audiard and..kind of amazed that the movie is what it is.

so far the moire film grid has been the fun one to watch - https://moir.ee/editions/cannes24

Ramblers (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2003) - 8/10 always happy to see someone watching (and liking) the early nobuhiro yamashitas. the linda linda linda cult is deserved but i think he has one of the more interesting careers of the last two decades or so, and there is something very striking about those f...

april 2024 the last of the wine, mary renault soldier of the mist, gene wolfe soldier of arete, gene wolfe soldier of sidon, gene wolfe comics monica, daniel clowes time under tension, m.s. harkness my name is shingo vol. 1, kazuo umezzo hercules: adventures of the man god, sam glanzman/joe gill/den...

cocktail, homi adajania 2012 el escarabajo de oro, alejo moguillansky 2014 amar singh chamkila, imtiaz ali 2024 premalu, girish ad 2024 el custodio, rodrigo moreno 2006 juana a los 12, martin shanly 2014 arturo a los 30, martin shanly 2023 politzeiruf 110: the scarlet angel, dominik graf 2005 laapat...

february 2024 nest in the bones, antonio di benedetto my last sigh, luis bunuel (with, or really by, jean-claude carriere) jaguar's tomb, angelica gorodischer objects of desire: conversations with luis bunuel, jose de la colina & tomas perez torrent comics - tokyo these days vol. 1, taiyo matsum...

the great, eccentric scottish cartoonist john g. miller - https://www.tcj.com/john-g-miller-1954-2024/

made it to two of my favorites, subida al cielo and la ilusión viaja en tranvía at the buñuel in mexico retrospective at moma. digital restorations, probably about as good as these movies are going to look given the source material, although the audio was kind of piercing. packed house for both and ...

A film that's PG-13 and cast with actors playing the various spirits and demons inspired by the original manga. Nothing earth shattering here but Miike knows how to add a mixture of absurd in any of his films. i'm always tempted to make a case for this one; there is something very beautiful, for ex...

afire, christian petzold 2023 full river red, zhang yimou 2023 kaathal: the core, jeo baby 2023 toby, basil alchalakkal 2023 eXistenZ, david cronenberg 1999 the delinquents, rodrigo moreno 2023 mein falke, dominik graf 2023 nanpakal nerathu mayakkam, lijo jose pelissery challenge of the masters, lau...

December 2023 The Queen's Necklace, Antal Szerb The Psychology of the Rich Aunt, Erich Musam The Famous Magician, Cesar Aira The Perfidious Parrot, Janwillem de Wettering Twice Lost, Phyllis Paul Artificial Respiration, Ricardo Piglia Comics Talk to My Back, Yamada Murasaki Procaryote Season, Leo Fo...

• voters can decide which films are eligible for the poll -- anything released in 2023 is clearly eligible, as are any 2022 festival releases that weren't available for most people to watch until 2023. that said, any film that received support in our best of 2022 poll (results here: https://letterb...

almost only listen to albums, but rarely newer ones, so most of this is a gluttonous run through recent critical favorites (and albums by artists i find interesting) over the last month or two, which is probably not the best way to engage with anything. but still... not ranked - maps, billy woods &a...

at 38, still have a few more i definitely want to watch. 1. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (Lijo Jose Pelissery) 2. Mein Falke (Dominic Graf) 3. Mad Fate (Soi Cheang) 4. Purusha Pretham (Krishand) 5. Thuramukham (Rajeev Ravi) 6. The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha) 7. Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) 8. To...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqDLiObvefA won't be the very next movie i see - it doesn't release until the end of the week - but sure to be one of the more interesting releases of the year -ljp is coming off the best movie of his career, and is one of the rare directors who go fairly far into art...

Mariano Llinas cowrote La Cordilleras/The Summit but it's not very Llinas i have no idea what to really make of the llinas/mitre connection (i think they went to school together?), or really any of llinas writing work outside of the pampero cine family, whereas moguillansky's "outside" wo...

still haven't seen godzilla minus one, and i know plenty of people who adored it, but the director is best known for the eternal zero, a weepy lost cause movie glorifying kamikaze pilots, based on a book by a war crimes denier...abe (rip, lol) and his wife attended and wept...not to mention great wa...