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it occurs to me (maybe curtis can confirm or deny) that this supreme court ruling also entitles the lgbtq+ web designer to deny services to anyone who, for religious reasons, wants to deny equal rights to lgbtq+ people and who wants a website to promote their views or religion or anything related. t...

rischka wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 2:49 pm we've had a pandemic, the rise of fascism, a titanic disaster and now russian revolution....

i didn't see this until now, but this was clever

oh that's sad, i haven't listened to brotzmann in years but 'punkest jazz ever' is a very good descriptive, i'll have to listen to some today

GOP are saying this is the same as clinton's emails and she wasn't charged so this is just persecution if they think it's the same, they either have to stop chanting "lock her up", or they have to start chanting "lock him up", or they're the ones with the double standard. i don'...

at the world series of poker, if you 'bubble' the tournament - i.e. if you are the last person to be eliminated before they start paying out prizes - they give you a free entry to the next year's tournament. so maybe the top runner-up should be automatically entered into next year's dtc without need...

welcome to scfz! you have july rain on your letterboxd favourites

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 6:11 pm PGA merging with LIV - let me guess. donald trump brokered the deal. honestly i'm pissed off every time i see a golf course now

yeah, i'm boycotting golf now. i was also boycotting golf before, now that i think about it.

i'm one of the lowest raters... and i was worried i was giving out too many 6's

insanely good year for noir, can't believe how many good films i had to cut: Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery) The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges) The Web (Michael Gordon) The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Felix Feist) Ivy (Sam Wood) The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz) Ramrod (Andre de Toth) Ni...

not a productive month, film-wise long: Judgment (Tom Topor, 1990) - 7/10 Legalese (Glenn Jordan, 1998) - 5/10 Self/less (Tarsem Singh, 2015) - 5/10 The Fighting Stallion (Robert Emmett Tansey, 1950) - 2/10 Sam and Kate (Darren le Gallo, 2022) - 1/10 The Jane Mysteries: Inheritance Lost (Marco Deufe...

there were some downright weird nominations this year. i just sent mine in too!

i'm halfway through rating the films too, so i should get it in today!

i've had a plan for a couple of months to start rewatching a lot of films i liked when i was just starting to learn about film, to see what i'd make of them now. i haven't put the plan into action yet, though. i almost did recently -- i was going to start with atom egoyan's the sweet hereafter -- bu...

i try not to read much about films before i see them, but i'm really looking forward to the triet, i gather it's at least partly a courtroom thriller or something in that orbit, and i watch films like that even if they're bad (and this film sounds like it's good). also curious to get triet recommend...

the awards were just announced: Palme d'Or: Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) Grand Prix: The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) Jury Prize: Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki) Director: The Pot-au-Feu (Tran Anh Hung) it turns out the guardian favourites didn't win anything, and the jury grid predicted t...

the guardian reviews are all in, and they gave out a second 5-star review, to the alice rohrwacher film la chimera so if the guardian were giving out the top two prizes, they'd give them to: Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) (with a lot of films tied for third place) if lett...

fallen leaves , the aki kaurismaki film, now tops the screen daily jury grid. the justine triet and todd haynes films are tied for second place. kidnapped , the marco bellocchio film, is the only 5-star reviewed film by the guardian so far the zone of interest , the jonathan glazer adaptation of ma...

and a day after the guardian gives a veteran italian director the first 5-star review of the cannes competition, it gives a veteran italian director its first 1-star review. they describe nanni moretti's a brighter tomorrow as "bafflingly awful" (is it really all that baffling though?)

maybe i was right that marco bellocchio would finally win his first cannes prize on his eighth try -- his kidnapped is the first competition film to get a 5-star review from the guardian

just past the halfway point of the competition, and the guardian has given just over half of the films a 4-star review, so i guess it's a strong year in their eyes. on the screen daily jury grid, which isn't updated with the most recent two screenings (the justine triet and karim ainouz films), the ...

late to the party, i'll pick panthers and stars to win, panthers take the cup

as usual, i'll include the guardian ratings for each competition film. i use the guardian only because i have easy access to it, and they seem to review everything, but i don't look at their reviews otherwise, so i have no idea what perspective they generally take on film. on opening day, it seems t...

i'm happy to see some other participants! i realized the first competition film doesn't screen until tomorrow, so if anyone else wants to join, there's still about a day to get a ballot in. and i imagine no one cares much about the competition and rules, but if you want to, nrh, you can post an alte...

cannes starts today, so if anyone wants to join me trying to guess the awards, now's the time to post a ballot!

after watching a few trailers and reading about a few films, i'm predicting it will be an especially weak year. i'll probably be completely wrong but i'll bet the old guard don't win much this time: Palme d'Or: Club Zero (Jessica Hausner) Grand Prix: The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) Jury Prize...

Cannes 2023 starts next week (May 16), so time for our annual Cannes betting contest! The in-competition lineup features several once-popular directors I had almost forgotten about -- Tran Anh Hung, Catherine Breillat, Wim Wenders, Aki Kaurismaki -- with four past Palme d'Or winners (Nuri Bilge Ceyl...

i have not seen all that much from this year, usually my early/mid 1920s ballots are full of buster keaton but this was not his best year imo Jeux des Reflets et de la Vitesse (Henri Chomette) The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian) Paris qui Dort (Rene Clair) Strike (Sergei Eisenstein) The Circle ...

There's french speakers on here, right? How would you translate "Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse"? Games of Reflection and Speed? Some places have translated it as "games of", "games on" and even "play on". literally, it's "Games of Reflections and Spe...

hard to believe how little i watched this month, nothing i can recommend

No Strings Attached (Ivan Reitman, 2011) - 6/10
Lou (Anna Foerster, 2022) - 5/10
London Has Fallen (Babak Najafi, 2016) - 5/10
Life (Ted Demme, 1999) - 3/10
Sam and Kate (Darren Le Gallo, 2022) - 1/10

sally wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 10:16 am

RogerTheMovieManiac wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 1:04 am I should try to post on here more often! If you'll have me, here are 20 I hold dear.

please do roger!

seconded! good to see you roger!