january 2025 -

the suicides, antonio di benedeto
insistence as a fine art, enrique vila-matas
boston adventure, jean stafford

comics
the gull yettin, joe kessler
the concierge at hokkyoku department store, tsuchika nishimura
agony, mark beyer
juliette, camille jourdy

among so many other things, just one of the most incredible second acts in all of popular music

1. Merry Christmas (Sriram Raghavan) 2. Un Prince (Pierre Creton) 3. Kottukaali (PS Vinothraj) 4. Meiyazhagan (C. Prem Kumar) 5. Territorio (Jose Celestino Campusano) 6. Ruka on the Road (Shunji Iwai) 7. Raayan (Dhanush) 8. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel) 9. Vaazhai (Mari Selvraj) 10. La Practica (M...

oOgiandujaOo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:44 am 1. Die Theorie von Allem / The Universal Theory (2023 - Timm Kröger)

have been curious about this one - dominik graf does the voiceover?

i like gomes enough that i will probably give it another chance when it gets a proper theater release in march, but grand tour was one of my big crushing 2024 disappointments (the alonso being the other one)...

december 2024
martian time slip, philip k. dick
point zero, seicho matsumoto
verdigris, michele mari
you, bleeding childhood, michele mari
the thinking about gladys machine, mario levrero
the doomed city, boris & arkady strugatsky

it's always good to have an excuse to post luc moullet's lovely text on blind owl - https://web.archive.org/web/20240715202 ... blind.html

november 2024 - hell! said the duchess, michael arlen valentine pontifex, robert silverberg the bride from odessa, edgardo cozarinsky maigret & the nahour case, georges simenon ten, juan emar fictions, basheer tokyo express, seicho matsumoto non-stop, brian aldiss inverted world, christopher pri...

sent 50

october 2024 -
the continuous katherine moretenhoe, d.g. compton
dead space: martyr, brian evenson
lord valentine's castle, robert silverberg
the comedy is finished, donald westlake
the wasp factor, iain banks
doctors wear scarlet, simon raven

it is very depressing to see the democrats blaming everybody but themselves. biden ran as a "bridge" candidate - he was consistently signaling that he would only run for a single term. that the party at no point seemed to consider that his advancing age and senility - and rapidly declining...

i read the plains and loved it, definitely a more conventional work of fiction than the other murnane i've read, which is all after his 20 year break break from publishing fiction. i'm pretty sure i got mine used for a few dollars, it's the relatively ugly "text classics" paperback

september the wandering unicorn, manuel mujica lainez maigret's patience, georges simenon cyrion, tanith lee palm of the hand stories, yasunari kawabata the wood beyond the world, william morris border district, gerald murnane comics isaac the pirate (vol 1 & 2 in the us edition), cristophe blai...

always interested in vecchiali's pics for the '30s, here we get the otsep and gance which are more or less expected, and two films i've never heard of - raymond bernand's fauborg montmarte, and a fascinating looking zola adaptation by jacques de baroncelli called la reve that sadly doesn't seem to h...

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...