ranked:

Iruvar
Mouna ragam
raavanan
Nayagan
thalapathi
bombay
kaatru veliyidai
anjali

this is really tough for me. a combination of having grown up watching every srk movie and being old enough to where i can't reliably recall a bunch of them. hoping to watch/rewatch some over this long weekend. so might edit. rab ne bana di jodi kabhi haan kabhi naa main hoon na kal ho na ho asoka s...

Dreileben: Don't follow me around
Die katz
im angesicht des verbrechens
Smoke on the water
Frau bu lacht

Not sure if it will work but my first pick is Dominik Graf. Will come up with some alternates as well soon. I've watched 9 from graf but can watch another one soon if that's a catch.

would count myself as having watched 14. have seen more but it was years ago and am not counting those.

chupke chupke
gol maal
khubsoorat
anand
guddi
abhimaan
naram garam
alaap

Took me months for complicated reasons that have little to do with the book itself but finally devoured the second half of Enrique Vila-Matas's Mac's Problem this weekend. The book is really funny but also it's like having your favorite most well-read uncle summarize a bunch of canon short stories ...

Took me months for complicated reasons that have little to do with the book itself but finally devoured the second half of Enrique Vila-Matas's Mac's Problem this weekend. The book is really funny but also it's like having your favorite most well-read uncle summarize a bunch of canon short stories y...

naked city?

I don't want to get into it but am fine not having my ballot counted. I enjoyed the process of making the list regardless. Also, tastes and proclivities can shift a lot over time in terms of art as I'm sure everyone here understands. You can get into a movement or period or genre/subgenre and so on ...

+5 Joker (Raju Murugan,2016) Avargal (K Balachander,1977) Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta,1988) Jait re Jait (Jabbar Patel,1977) Attakathi (Pa Ranjith,2012) 1-10 Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda,1965) Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah,1970) Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali,1974) Charulata (Satyajit Ray,1964) Out 1: ...

am working on this but will likely need till july 4th weekend to come up with something. it'll still be highly arbitrary and unscientific.

Beijing Watermelon may be one of the most wonderful films I've seen in a while. Lest that make it sound like a cute film, it's not that at all. It's sad and very complicated. Does really dense frames with layers with a real sensibility and meaning. Interesting that it released the same year as City ...

Not sure but think I've seen about 35 or so probs. 1. kaala (pa. ranjith) 2. periyerum perumal (maari selvaraj) 3. vada chennai (vetrimaaran) 4. hotel by the river (hong sang soo) 5. claire's camera (hong sang soo) 6. manmarziyaan (anurag kashyap) 7. asako 1 and 2 (ryusuke hamaguchi) 8. tumbbad (rah...

Also just putting this out here but haven't felt any inclination to listen to the Gully Boy sdtrk or watch the movie. My little personal boycott.

Its from amit chaudhuri's friend of my youth. Tough to pin down the shape of the book even after finishing it but a) generous in its descriptions of food and restaurants which is catnip for me ofc and b) I think any reservations I have about it are things he's poking at completely intentionally. I m...

. But also miss you and left you this on Twitter just coz.

@augusto omg pls pls tell me about watching joker

made a very simple rajma (red kidney beans) and brown rice. made it at work to send for my chef who just got out of the hospital and brought some home. really aiming to cook more at home this coming year. constrained by partially functional refrigerator and absolutely dysfunctional exhaust/vent and ...