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lost horizon (capracorn) wish i watched this for the mini-poll. def woulda topped my list as the dir's best (tho i still need to see the bitter tea)

dammit! rischka one-upped me with the price-is-right stategy. now i know how it feels to be outbid by one dollar...

therude wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:26 amdetective dee the four heavenly kings, tsui hark (2018)

quick q: do i need to have seen the previous detective dee flicks to get the gist of this particular entry?

don't go breaking my heart (johnnie to / wai ka-fai) pilgrimage (john ford) born reckless (andrew bennison / john ford) jiro dreams of sushi (david gelb) bicycle thieves (vittorio de sica) the reptile (john gilling) love (gaspar noe) train to busan (yeon sang-ho) dog eat dog (paul schrader) au revo...

1. dietrich +8 (i'm gonna price is right flip's responses from now on, and just add 1 to his estimates; it's the only way i'll ever come close)
2. ninotchka
3. touch of evil
4. greg x
5. rischka

no clue whatsoever. i don't remember blurry isabelle adjani and italian jack nicholson ever starring in a movie together...?

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:04 amBaby's Day Out* (Johnson)

one of nrh's favs

weekly sushi joint blowout: miso soup and oshinko (went a quasi-soup-and-salad route), zaru soba, ohitashi, an eel roll, then tuna, mackerel, and octopus nigiri. thoxans: single-handedly depleting the world’s fisheries one gluttonous blowout at a time (funnily enough (i hate that term, ‘funnily enou...

Pompeii ohhh yeah! i’d watch pompeii in 3d 4sho. i think back to p-funk’s review: ‘this wasn’t supposed to happen,’ which might be a paraphrase (but seriously, the goodness of that flick sneaks up on you (meanwhile, poor evelyn is still waiting on some meaningful argument about the tenets of 3d fil...

the crucified lovers

*seen two (whoops)

augusto wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:53 ammaheshinte prathikaram

watchlisted! thx

just finished andhadhun in fact, and it was great! it's like brian de palma met asghar farhadi, and they had a baby together, who grew up to make a great (off)bollywood flick

(note: this post was written with serri in mind)

does anyone have any top sugs based on the following list...? https://www.thecinemaholic.com/indian-m ... n-netflix/

(note: i've already seen or watchlisted kabhi haan kabhi naa, jab we met, baahubali, and andhadhun)

awww i'm glad i gave a nod to two for the road in the new dtc

i just watched gaspar noe's love, which was filmed in 3d. i didn't get to watch it in 3d though. idk if that's a good thing or a bad thing

flip wrote: ↑Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:57 amhollow man (2000) did not appear on a single ballot

well deserved

i'm surprised basic instinct took the top prize. not disappointed. just surprised...

Glad Total Recall didn't make the list; I found it fairly dull booo!!! it's one of the best uhmurican action films of the '90s! it also has a great anticolonialist streak! it's also wonderfully open-ended! we don't really ever know whether arnie's reality is really real post-visit-to-rekall, or whe...

i fuxkin luv the makioka sisters, and i'll try to watch requiem for a heavyweight, so i can vote. i'm assuming links are available in the usual spot...?

just like last year, i'm still not sure if i'm doing this correctly, but here goes anyways... the blackout (abel ferrara) the boy in the plastic bubble (randal kleiser) doppelganger (kiyoshi kurosawa) iguana (monte hellman) my childhood (bill douglas) om shanti om (farah khan) a poem is a naked pers...

chances
the half-breed
montana belle

*seen seven (will try to watch cattle queen of montana before the end of the poll)

umberto d.

*seen three (coincidentally, just watched bicycle thieves over the weekend, and i was pleasantly surprised it's one of those classics that actually deserves that designation)

i got losing ground's back fosho

patrick akerman

cria cuervos? (i have no idea what i’m talking about)

i'd like to take a moment to apologize to everyone for perhaps the worst dir poll that scfz has conducted thus far in its illustrious history

starship troopers
showgirls
total recall
basic instinct

*seen 8 (one of my fav dirs)

awww no one likes the mulligan man like i do. oh well...

dammit. i shoulda gotten that one. i knew it looked familiar too...

never made and up the down staircase is the best feature film that frederick wiseman never made. it's just as claustrophobic in its approach to its subject as a wiseman film, taking place nearly entirely inside of a high school, and just like a wiseman only its opening shots and closing shot give u...

the rat race was sweet and tender. Same time next year was quite lame. hell yeah. the rat race is the best film billy wilder never made, and while same time, next year has a spectacular opening scene and credit sequence (a strangely common theme in even mediocre mulligan movies - perhaps a surprisi...