March 2025 rewatch All ratings out of 10 Watched more than usual thanks to Vilnius Film Festival . This year's edition had a great lineup. I particularly enjoyed two older films on a big screen. A captivating rewatch of Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love and a wonderful first time viewing of ric...

Provisional list Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer) Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet) The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet) The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller) A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone) Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis) The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller) Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton) The Searching ...

Final list : The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley) Wild at Heart (David Lynch) Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte) The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader) The Company of Strangers (Cynthia Scott) The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci) King of New York (Abel Fer...

From the new Canadian cinema, I would recommend Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic, 2021)

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Thanks for running this poll, Flip! Some of the films from the list I plan to watch during the Vilnius Film Festival which runs March 7-23 Souleymane’s Story All We Imagine as Light Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat The Seed of the Sacred Fig Bird A Different Man Universal Language Santosh To a Land Unkno...

Two more from me:

City of Wind (Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir)
Home (Leonor Teles)

I'm sorry to miss our Academy Awards poll this time, but Maria is the only nominated film I have seen. First time this happened, but I just wasn't interested in most new films in 2024.

February 2025 rewatch All ratings out of 10 La Poison (Sacha Guitry, 1951) 8 Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné, 1953) 9 The Night Affair (Gilles Grangier, 1958) 7 The Seventh Juror (Georges Lautner, 1962) 8 Any Number Can Win (Henri Verneuil, 1963) 6 Pasha (Georges Lautner, 1968) 8 The Burglars (Henri V...

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Great! Not only one of my favorite years in cinema, but also happens to be the year I was born.

I've only seen 18 films from 2024: 1. Maria (Pablo Larraín) 2. Sons (Gustav Möller) 3. Forever-Forever (Anna Buryachkova) 4. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass) 5. Dormitory (Nehir Tuna) 6. Crossing (Levan Akin) 7. My Favourite Cake (Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha) 8. The Successor (Xavier Legrand) 9...

Final list : The Dead (John Huston) Radio Days (Woody Allen) Angel Heart (Alan Parker) House of Games (David Mamet) The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson) September (Woody Allen) Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) The Witches of Eastwick (George Miller) Predator (John McTiernan) Planes, Trains &a...

Documentaries I've seen since my last post: All ratings out of 10 Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011) 8 Penguin Party (Phil Coles, 2021) 5 Space Station (Toni Myers, 2002) 6 Moby Doc (Rob Gordon Bralver, 2021) 4 Spy in the Snow (John Downer, 2018) 6 Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012) 9 (rewatch) I Am Chris...

Plus some of my favorite 8/10s Fresh (Mimi Cave, 2022) Sons (Gustav Möller, 2024) Faust (F. W. Murnau, 1926) Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011) Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004) Ms .45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981) Darkman (Sam Raimi, 1990) Cyclo (Trần Anh Hùng, 1995) Farha (Darin J. Sallam, 2021) Cry-Baby (John Waters, 19...

Only listing my favorite first time watches: 10/10 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999) - My absolute favorite of the year. In America (Jim Sheridan, 2002) The Holdovers (Alexander Payne, 2023) 9/10 Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976) Maria (Pablo Larraín, 2024) Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954) Tove (Zaida Be...

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Final 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 (Ari...

November 2024 rewatch All ratings out of 10 3 films each from 13 different directors. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948) 3 The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) 5 Trapeze (Carol Reed, 1956) 6 The Gambler (Karel Reisz, 1974) 9 Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) 10 Obsession (Brian De Palma, 1976) 6 Cruisin...

rischka wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:47 pm i'm really enjoying it

rischka wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:13 am i'm still gonna watch ash is purest white

Great pick! I was about to complain and lament that I don't see enough support for this brilliant film by Jia Zhangke.

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...

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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...