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assuming sally's was a guess -- and not another (bigger) hint -- and it's correct!

not sure how much time i'll have to participate, but how about a more free-wheeling shorts by theme idea, that can be interpreted in any way -- to cite one example off the top of my head, shorts produced by films division of india (so neither all from one year nor from one director). edit: ok, think...

if memory serves, mental illness, mystery, melodrama are all good guesses (though perhaps not noir). also not hollywood, it's spanish, very spanish. i love it.

will try to find and post a second still after i get back home...

is it dracula's daughter? (not seen the film, but recall still from a tumblr i follow.)

mahjong it is!

this is the only other still i have to hand (though can find others if needed). not tsai, though taiwan (from the 90's) is right...

ok, here’s one.

pedicab driver

seen 8.

lancelot du lac
a man escaped
l'argent
pickpocket

posted it on the other site too, but doing one on malayalam cinema for 2019. started it about a month ago, and some wonderful finds already, most recent of which is nedumudi venu making faces in the mirror while singing chaudhvin ka chand as he fantasizes about his (one-sided) love for madhavi. http...

off the top of my head, some great pre-2017/8 films watched for the first time this year... meeting a milestone (gautam ghose) acto da primavera (oliveira) nirmalyam (m t vasudevan nair) valarthumrugangal (hariharan) jait re jait (jabbar patel) maheshinte prathikaaram (dileesh pothan) attakathi (pa....

not hearing anything yet on the soundtrack of upcoming rajni film with karthik subbaraj that's on par with what santhosh narayanan did with either rajni or karthik, but this one's quite an earworm...
ullaallaa

made bhuna w/chicken thighs, and ate it with some dinner rolls (which are a just about acceptable substitute for the ladi pav i'd typically have it with in bombay).

gajar ka halwa hmmm. i should be able to make my own clarified butter, but i'm wondering about the khoa. maybe i can get the excess liquid out of some ricotta, and take a shot at it...? y'know, i don't actually use ghee/clarified butter. not sure how a/typical that choice is, but follow and prefer ...

wasn't able to keep up with a lot of the films that released this year -- very keen to watch asako i & ii, transit, tsukamoto's killing, la flor, high life, the two hong films, the two rima das films, ee. ma. yau, etc. -- but still watched quite a few great ones, even if they're probably not on ...

went out to eat pho after teaching my last class of semester, and shoplifters was playing at the nearby cinema, so checked it out. not a kore-eda fan, but found a bit more of interest here than in the two or three i remember watching many years ago. sakura ando is quite astonishing and if, despite a...

i made gajar ka halwa for a friend's birthday and they loved it. thought it wasn't too bad myself, which was a pleasant surprise as i've only tried making it once before.