Rischka and everyone in the US - I'm sending my best wishes. I'll be following it closely, sitting all night by my TV and laptop. I'm nervous, but trying to persuade myself that the outcome is going to be possitive and that angry maga cult will crumble like a Jenga set. And I wonder if Kamala have a...

October 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Highlight of the month was watching Gone with the Wind in cinema. Wonderful experience! The Raven (Lew Landers, 1935) 7 Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) 9 Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940) 7 Hold That Ghost (Arthur Lubin, 1941) 5 Night Monster (Fo...

Provisional list: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) Vox Lux (Brady Corbet) Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat) Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas) Widows (Steve McQueen) Ramen Shop (Eric Khoo) Unsane (Steven Soderbergh) Hereditary ...

I'm also watching Abbott and Costello horror flicks. Films aren't great, but their antics are still funny.

Oh hi, Rischka and everyone! Sorry for missing out for most of Spooktober . I've been watching plenty of horror films this month and made some brilliant discoveries. Favorites from the month of horrors so far: https://i.imgur.com/nyluKIY.jpeg The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946) 9/10 The Spir...

September 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 I Don’t Want to Be a Man (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918) 7 The Doll (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) 8 The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) 9 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) 8 Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922) 8 Our Heavenly Bodies (Hanns Walter Kornblu...

Final list : Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville) Wanda (Barbara Loden) The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman) Faro Document (Ingmar Bergman) Diary of a Mad Housewife (Frank Perry) Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel) Colossus: The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent) Airport (George Seaton) Soldier B...

Provisional list : O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) Brother (Takeshi Kitano) Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky) Traffic (Steven Soderbergh) Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook) Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan) The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bi...

Forgot to post here, so a long list of all the documentaries seen in 2024 so far: All ratings out of 10 Faro Document (Ingmar Bergman, 1970) 7 News from a Personal War (Kátia Lund, João Moreira Salles, 1999) 8 The Last Lions (Dereck Joubert, 2011) 8 The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (Tina...

August 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Watched only features from the 21st Century as per ICM's challenge, but I'm also very happy to return to the 20th Century cinema from September. Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute, 2000) 6 Novocaine (David Atkins, 2001) 5 Hearts in Atlantis (Scott Hicks, 2001) 8 Head...

Hi, Greennui, could you tell us the next year?

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July 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 It's been an amazing month with plenty of new favorites from around the world. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951) 9 Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958) 8 Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964) 8 The 10th Victim (Elio Petri, 1965) 6 Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc G...

Final list : The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson) The Killing (Stanley Kubrick) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel) Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur) The Solid Gold Cadillac (Richard Quine) Yield to the Night (J. Lee Thompson) Please Murder Me! (Peter Godfrey) The Green Man (Robert Day) The Ten Co...

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June 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 The Green Man (Robert Day, 1956) 8 The Solid Gold Cadillac (Richard Quine, 1956) 8 Christine (Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 1958) 6 The Sucker (Gérard Oury, 1965) 7 Boeing, Boeing (John Rich, 1965) 6 The Big Restaurant (Jacques Besnard, 1966) 6 The Jungle Book (Wolfga...

Final list

The Producers (Mel Brooks)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
The Deadly Affair (Sidney Lumet)

The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)
Who's Minding the Mint? (Howard Morris)
Billion Dollar Brain (Ken Russell)

menus-plaisirs-les troisgros (wiseman 2023) a pleasure to watch for 4 hours Rischka, I heard only good things about Menus-Plaisirs, but haven't seen it yet. but this year at the festival I saw She Chef (Melanie Liebheit, Gereon Wetzel). Very good documentary about a young chef as she tries three re...

Watched two films for the poll, both going to be on my final ballot. Who’s Minding the Mint? (Howard Morris) & The Jungle Book . Who’s Minding the Mint may not be a perfect film, but it is definitely one of the funniest comedies I've seen in a long time. It's got some obvious flaws in the third ...

I was pleasantly surprised by Buck and the Preacher (Sidney Poitier, 1972) that I watched last month. A very cool western featuring the great Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee as well.

Some clear inspirations for Tarantino's Django Unchained.

May 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 A great month of Westerns Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur, 1950) 7 The Bushwhackers (Rod Amateau, 1951) 4 Calamity Jane (David Butler, 1953) 7 A Bullet Is Waiting (John Farrow, 1954) 5 River of No Return (Otto Preminger, 1954) 6 Bad Day at Black Rock (John...

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Final list : Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety) Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader) Howards End (James Ivory) Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven) Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann) Hoffa (Danny DeVito) Deep Cover (Bill Duke) The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) Boo...

the coppola/crash thing (at least according to coppola) was assumption on cronenberg's part - https://x.com/lou_kicks/status/1763097822826508393 Interesting how Coppola remembers it. Might be true, of course. The story I wrote above was told to the audience before a screening of Crash this last Mar...

in Cronenberg's case it was Francis Ford Coppola who was the president of the jury that year and he hated Crash so much that he firmly stood against giving Palme D'Or for it, while a majority of the jury wanted to. When jury decided to present special award to Crash, Coppola even refused to present ...

Palme d'Or: All We Imagine As Light (Payal Kapadia)
Grand Jury Prize: Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
Jury Prize: Three Kilometres to the End of the World (Emanuel Parvu)
Director: Marcello Mio (Christophe Honore)
Alternate: The Seed and the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)

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April 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945) 8 The House of Fear (Roy William Neill, 1945) 5 Pursuit to Algiers (Roy William Neill, 1945) 7 The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill, 1945) 7 Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, 1956) 8 Please Murder Me (Peter Godfrey, 1956) 6 Dr....

Final list Brief Encounter (David Lean) The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise) Hangover Square (John Brahm) Pursuit to Algiers (Roy William Neill) The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill) Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (S. Sylvan Simon) The Naughty Nineties (Jean Yar...

fail/safe (sidney lumet 1964) an excellent cold war thriller that had the bad luck to come out the same year as dr strangelove Glad you liked it. Fail Safe is one of my favorite films and I vastly prefer it to Dr. Strangelove . Fail Safe would go well in double-bill with Seven Days in May .