it's like a film noir list made by people who don't like old films

the probability that jd vance is one day us president is about as terrifying as anything else i can think of right now

my post mortem, blame to go around, agree with most or all things already said: • biden should always have been a one-term president, they should have known he would have trouble winning again (and that he probably shouldn't be president again even if he could win) • the coronation of harris with no...

people were saying the same thing in the hillary election, pabs, i won't feel comfortable until it's over (and i'll be scared out of my mind until then)

* = rewatch long L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) - 9/10* Nayakan (Mani Ratnam, 1987) - 9/10 Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933) - 9/10* Coeur Fidele (Jean Epstein, 1923) - 8/10 Kameradschaft (GW Pabst, 1931) - 8/10 The Grissom Gang (Robert Aldrich, 1971) - 8/10 The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (Jan ...

Transit (Christian Petzold) Leave No Trace (Debra Granik) Keep an Eye Out (Quentin Dupieux) Flame (Sami van Ingen) Searching (Aneesh Chaganty) Bird Box (Susanne Bier) The Guilty (Gustav Moller) How to Live With Regret (John Wilson) Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg) Burning (Lee Chang-dong) The Fav...

my favourite lubitsch and my favourite griffith are both from this year Die Puppe (Ernst Lubitsch) Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith) The Tantalizing Fly (Max Fleischer) Back to God's Country (David Hartford) Behind the Door (Irvin Willat) The Grim Game (Irvin Willat) The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch)...

based on what i've seen, this isn't the strongest year from the period, but i'll explore some more! Lancement d'un Navire (Louis Lumiere) Demolition of a Wall (Louis Lumiere) Panorama de l’Arrivee a Aix-les-Bains (Louis Lumiere) Pistol Duel (Gabriel Veyre) Arrivee d’un Train a Perrache (Louis Lumier...

cairo station is really good! hope you get a chance to see it... and cool to see a fregonese film on your list, he was a popular name around here several years ago

can't even list 20 for the year yet, maybe i'll watch a few more, edit - i did watch a few more, i can list 20 now: Kameradschaft (GW Pabst) Nail in the Boot (Mikhail Kalatozov) Street Scene (King Vidor) Safe in Hell (William Wellman) Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra) The Peach Girl (Bu Wancang) Chances...

basically didn't watch movies this month so i binged a few shorts yesterday: What Goes Up... (Robert Breer, 2003) - 9/10 Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958) - 8/10 Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953) - 8/10 Valentin de las Sierras (Bruce Baillie, 1968) - 7/10 Bullet Piercing a Soap Bubble (Lucien Bull, 1904) -...

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 5:31 pm Ratz (2000, Thom Eberhardt, Canada?)

it's on my list! a classic of postmodern cinema

has to be the strongest year of the 2000s, i even want to vote for the von trier and haneke films from this year, though if i ever see the akerman, varda, hong, mekas, ruiz, costa or aoyama films those could easily lose their spot The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin) Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr...

How To Live With Regret (John Wilson, 2018) - 8/10 How To Keep Smoking (John Wilson, 2014) - 8/10 How To Act on Reality TV (John Wilson, 2016) - 8/10 Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo, 2017) - 7/10 The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby, 1951) - 7/10 The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall,...

Q-bec My Love (Jean-Pierre Lefebvre) looks interesting, looks like it might be going in a toned-down Sweet Movie/WR: Mysteries direction... but it's in Quebecois and no subs. Maybe for Flip... interesting! i couldn't find that film, but i found an earlier lefebvre, and watched about ten minutes, an...

caught up on some classics i had never seen, and most were well worth the watch Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960) - 9/10 The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962) - 8/10 The Grey Fox (Phillip Borsos, 1982) - 8/10 I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953) - 8/10 Sounder (Martin Ritt, 1972) - 8/10 Hard Core Logo (Bruce ...

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:01 am Reconstituirea / Reconstruction (1970, Lucian Pintilie)

i'd include this in my list too, but it's 1968 on imdb

<t>Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)<br/> Les Choses de la Vie (Claude Sautet)<br/> Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg)<br/> Berlin Horse (Malcolm le Grice)<br/> <br/> Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy)<br/> L'Eden et Apres (Alain Robbe-Grillet)<br/> Earth Light (Guy Gilles)<br/> Inhabitants (Artav...

i watched about six episodes of beef, and i couldn't see the appeal, plot points seemed stretched really thin, and i got bored and never bothered to finish watching. so if the last few episodes of season 1 are phenomenal, let me know and i'll finally watch it all!

i should watch the bear, i think.

welcome to scfz!

looks like there are a lot of things i still need to see from this year (merry go round, ogre of athens, and about a dozen japanese films, to start) A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson) Man From Del Rio (Harry Horner) Star in the Dust (Charles Haas) Professor Hannibal (Zoltan Fabri) The Fastest Gun Alive ...

trying to watch a lot of french language film since i'm now living in a very french part of town, and thanks to the scfz lists i was using to pick a few films to watch, this month i saw my new favourite films by rohmer, demy, epstein and denis Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, ...

banner looks really really good, thanks therouxxx!

i think i did pretty well in this, at a quick count i think i'm 10-3 so far, if this is a competition at all i think it comes down to the dallas-edmonton result, if dallas comes back, i'll be 11-3 and will have picked a finalist correctly, but if edmonton wins, as they should, then i think curtis wi...

it will be funny if playtime doesn't win this, given our anniversary poll results...

imdb keeps changing the years on all their films... July Rain (Marlen Khutsiyev) Wavelength (Michael Snow) Mouchette (Robert Bresson) Risky Business (Andre Cayatte) Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil) The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev) Trans-Europ Express (Alain Robbe-Gri...

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005) - 8/10 Trespass (Walter Hill, 1992) - 8/10 (rewatch) Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers, 2013) - 8/10 Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971) - 8/10 Tin Men (Barry Levinson, 1987) - 7/10 Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997) - 7/10 (rewatch) Am...

it might be interesting to make a list excluding usa/europe, maybe i'll do that in a couple of days (moving weekend for me!).

by my count: chantal akerman: 67 joao csear monteiro: 64 and i looked up a few others i thought might place well, and these were the highest totals: buster keaton: 66 alain resnais: 65 robert bresson: 52 it seems a good measure of scfz's favourite directors, can check anyone else if there are sugges...

i'm actually amazed a rohmer film did so well, because i think of him like ozu in the sense that he's widely admired here, but for dozens of different films (whereas someone like parajanov gets votes concentrated around just a couple of films). the more prolific and consistent directors get a lot of...