SCFZ

Seen 16, most of them in the early '90s, so they're a bit hard for me to rank properly, but here's my best effort:

1. Under the Roofs of Paris
2. Paris qui dort
3. Beauties of the Night
4. Beauty of the Devil
5. Quatorze Juillet

2 Browning, 16 Clair, 4 Côté

I have no idea how to rank the Lumières I've seen, so I'll abstain.

Seen 6

1. Hell's Island
2. Kansas City Confidential
3. 99 River Street

Incidentally, as of four days ago we've been doing these director polls for three years. We're currently starting the eleventh round, which means each round has lasted an average of 110 days.

1. Winter Light 2. L'immortelle (Robbe-Grillet) 3. Lord of the Flies (Brook) 4. The Silence (Bergman) 5. Charade (Donen) 6. The Ceremony (Harvey) 7. 8 1/2 (Fellini) 8. The Mind Benders (Dearden) 9. The Servant (Losey) 10. Ophélia (Chabrol) 11. The Birds (Hitchcock) 12. Le feu follet (Malle) 13. The ...

Seen 16

1. The Maltese Falcon
2. The African Queen
3. Key Largo
4. In This Our Life
5. The Misfits

Interesting trivia: Barack Obama's mother was named after Bette Davis' character in In This Our Life.

3 De Heer
16 Huston

Seen 6, all more than 27 years ago. These two shorts struck me back then as her best work:

A Girl's Own Story
Passionless Moments

Yup. First thing I did with my pro account was toggle off watchlist additions. My own watchlist is only about 80 films, many of them recommended by SCFZ, that I'm extremely eager to find.

That's awful. What a loss. He was a favorite of mine, the second one (at least) lost to covid, after Lucia Bosè.

Seen 21

1. Statues also Die
2. La jetée
3. Level Five
4. Three Cheers for the Whale
5. Le joli mai

5 Doillon
0 Franco
0 Widerberg
20 Marker

Thanks for such a thorough answer. I feel like I share your viewpoint 100%, and I consider Lithuania a valuable friend to my country. Valdas Adamkus lived in the Chicago area the same time I did; I'm trying to remember which suburb, somewhere around Hinsdale or Brookfield. I'm happy to say I voted f...

@holymann... very much agreed about the urgency of climate change.

Silga, what is the general mood about the U.S. election in Lithuania?

Something just occurred to me: When Trump was a child did he have a sled named Covfefe?

Seen 8

1. The Watchmaker of St. Paul
2. In the Electric Mist
3. The French Minister
4. Life and Nothing But

8 Tavernier
4 Costa-Gavras

I've watched 5 by TGA.

Looks like you got it, Bure!





Pretty clearly an inspiration for Bande à part in several ways.

You're half right

...overarching focus on the needs and dangers of deception in a hypocritical society appearing again and again in ways that are often odder than would initially seem... That seems like a pretty accurate description, NRH. I've seen 12, all of them this year including one earlier this evening. Mukher...

I have 11 Mukherjee and 9 Benegal.

Seen 18 but there's only one I'd vote for. Burton is an inspired art director, but if he wants to make good movies he ought to collaborate with better writers who can develop plots and create intelligent dialogue.

1. Edward Scissorhands

the thoxans avenger wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:40 amdid you vote in the cassavetes poll?

Cassavetes is a huge blind spot in my viewing history, maybe even the biggest in terms of canonical reputation. I've seen only two of his, Opening Night and WUI.

Roscoe's Baby wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:33 amAny admirers of Waleryan Borowczyk in the house?

Pretty sure WBA's our in-house Boro admirer.

That has to be Rebecca.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 4:36 pmmight watch india song tonight

I watched India Song seven times this past spring. Michael Lonsdale fits the movie so well, and I'm sorry he's gone.

Short answer: utterly destroying the rule of law, which paves the way for horrors on a far more monstrous scale. If you ask people like Noam Chomsky or Mehdi Hasan, both of whom are well informed and concerned about neoliberal incursions like Honduras and Libya, I guarantee you they'll say it's vita...

Cassavetes: 2
Marker: 20

SATANTANGO -- once the initial shock of the cat scene passed, and I found out that the cat was fine and the scene was supervised by a vet and the cat was even adopted by a member of the crew, I can't say that it bothers me that much any more, and I even find the whole thing something of a distracti...