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Um... this is a thing. there are some good performances in that series but they are mostly awful, with the directors really having no idea at all what to do with staging and camera with these things. the major exception was egoyan's version of krapp's last tape, starring john hurt. the rest are bes...

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doesn't work in the us, but hopefully this is better than the tv/vhs quality rip that's been floating around for awhile?

do not hate the andre record but it does feel like a minor ecm record you would find in a cheap thrift store bin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKSbbwPl1Q

was playing during lunch today

does anyone remember 'wild palms' a miniseries from the early 90s -- i'm almost positive i saw some of this on cable at some point. anyways gonna revisit very strange series in any number of ways - can't imagine anything more "of its time." had a friend in college who was totally obsessed...

this week

that's the crazy thing these days, they say psychopathic shit but don't realize they're psychopaths, so they don't realize they should be hiding this as far as i can understand the current mess - netanyahu is barely holding onto power, has been since his "comeback," and in order to keep a...

Fragile as the World (Rita Azevedo Gomes) Nandha (Bala) Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette) Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) No Such Thing (Hal Haratley) To the Backstreets: The Films Kenji Nakagami Left Out (Shinji Aoyama) Love on a Diet (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai) Wu Yen (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai) ...

october the ceremonies, t.e.d. klein go back at once, robert aickman kane of old mars, michael moorcock landscape with traveler, barry gifford treacle walker, alan garner my death, lisa tuttle the black tulip, alexandre dumas comics ralph azham, lewis trondheim & brigitte findalky nexus (first s...

What's everyone's favourite Corman Poe? Rischka got me to watch my first this morning (Tomb of Ligeia) and I loved it. ligeia is my favorite - beyond the wonderful style it's one of the most emotionally resonant movies in the genre, and one of the strangest. but my next favorite would be pit and th...

I think the only major Val Lewton film I haven't seen is the The Curse of the Cat People. Maybe I should watch it this month. curse is interesting but don’t expect a horror movie at all - more of a strange domestic fantasy (with gothic overtones). the studio pushed for the cat people connection but...

I started to watch sicario but turned it off. since I can't access my pc rn I'm using Amazon prime (until I cancel it again 😤) maybe I'll give it another chance this afternoon an evil movie, which is fine (there are a lot of great evil movies), but also impossibly boring. if you're making best use ...

loved vishal bhardwaj's agatha christie adaptation charlie chopra & the mystery of solang valley , which is a surprisingly classical minded whodunnit. probably the least essential thing vb has made, but sometimes you just want to see a host of incredible character actors in incredible winter wea...

i think school in the crosshairs was the second obayashi i watched, after house of course, and at the time i thought it was a let down, but i rewatched it on the kadokawa years boxed set this year and thought it was great. somehow i'd totally forgotten how wild that final section gets. and it looks ...

Still not over my immense frustration at the baffling Only Features (58m.+) rule for the BS&S poll. How are we supposed to keep the memory of the first fifth (1895-1920) of film history alive if it's ruled out as ineligible by fiat in the very places intended to correct the oversights of the do...

terence davies...

september - abdul bashur, dreamer of ships, alvaro mutis the cutie, donald westlake triptych on land and sea, alvaro mutis the whispering mountain, joan aiken conjure wife, fritz leiber our lady of dreams, fritz leiber comics - die, kieron gillen & stephanie hans the original nexus, steve rude &...

got an early start on october season with fritz leiber's 1943 cult classic conjure wife (though this must have been significantly revised, since there's talk about atomic bombs here). fascinating and in some ways very odd book - a sociology professor in a small town college finds out that his wife p...

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:00 pm ok i can't deny he's hot there but i have no memory of watching this and lb says i did

rewatch needed then! evelyn's recs are almost always on point but this one became an instant favorite

yorgos lanthimos adapting alasdair gray's poor things was already an affront to the people of scotland. but why did they have to (finally) reprint the book not with his lovely original drawings but horrible poster art from the movie?

jawan - kind of an extraordinary pop spectacle. srk (there's more than one srk in this, but that would be spoiling it) leads a 6 woman vengeance squad targeting the systemic failure of the government to protect its citizens rather funnel its resources into corporate profit. the old kind of masala - ...

sally wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 5:51 pm (no surprise, from the country that gave us malpertuis)

also published most recently by wakefield press, who are about as close to a sure thing as a publisher can get right now. although (to gripe) it feels like that chateaureynaud on their forthcoming page has been forthcoming for years now...

Four episodes into Out 1 and I'm kinda struggling, the cuteness of Juliet Berto is what keeps me going. out 1 is something i think of as one of my most important movie experiences, but i always wonder if i'd have the same experience if shown in a different format. i saw it over two weekend days, wi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COv52Qyctws booked tickets for jawan. pathaan was a disappointment to say the least but this is atlee instead of the mediocre sid anand and a passion project srk has been building towards for years. srk in at least 3 different roles, vijay sethupathi as the villain, l...

mehboob khan's gender politics are usually thorny in a productive way (though mother india and its earlier version aurat do that woman as metaphor for the nation thing that sally hates) but ann is just...deeply strange? have read for years about the english version ("the savage princess") ...

the one on kg has an annoying watermark but it is more than watchable, had it at one point but old hard drive died and still haven't figured out the torrenting kinks in the new apartment. it's frustrating that so much is missing but it's a very interesting movie. the other two i liked from '52, k.a....

august 2023 - the rose of sarifal, paul park (writing as pauline claiborne) the tramp steamer's last port of call, alvaro mutis three hearts and three lions, poul anderson amirbar, alvaro mutis an irish eye, john hawkes comics - three rocks: the story of ernie bushmiller, the man who created nancy, ...

I'd assume that he remained basically a Czechoslovak literary figure cause he wrote in Czech till his death and didn't switch to a foreign language (like Nabokov or Kundera). though interesting you mention the gombrowicz touch earlier, since he is a rare case where he becomes a significant figure i...

i think they did basically run out of resources. ruiz being ruiz i'm not sure if the ending would have been any less abrupt.

jon jost was there shooting a documentary about the production but either it was never finished or just never got released

haven't seen the pagnol yet but the incident in jean giono's blue boy (a great book) isn't played for comedy at all. importantly in the book the shepherd comes back to the village to fight and flirt with the women, and any sense of the baker's victory is totally undermined. sounds like pagnol goes i...

it is turning into a very good few months for new indian releases. the new karan johar, rocky aur rani ki prem kahani , has turned into a minor phenomenon at least in the west, where almost everybody i know who has seen it has gone back multiple times. his last, ae dil hai mushkil was a great movie ...