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1. Shanghai Triad
2. Curse of the Golden Flower
3. Shadow
4. The Road Home

...have you actually seen any movies?

Requiem for a Dream?

- April - Woman Demon Human (Huang Shuqin, 1987) ♥ The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) ♥♥♥ Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick, 2016) The Damned (Joseph Losey, 1962) Raising Cain (Brian De Palma, 1992) Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota, 2001) ♥♥ The Death of Maria Malibran (Werner Schroeter, 1972) Blind...

Yep!

Nice, haven't seen it in nearly ten years but instantly recognised that last shot - it's clearly my favourite Rohmer for a reason!

A Tale of Winter?

Seen 8 Kim (and 7 Araki).

1. Breath
2. Moebius

Moebius’ wordless conceit made it pretty effective for me. And I found Breath to be his most idiosyncratic without being needlessly provocative (at least from memory).

1. Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf) The Babadook (Jennifer Kent) Bird People (Pascale Ferran) Blind Massage (Lou Ye) Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) Dearest (Peter Chan) Haider (Vishal Bhardwaj) Heaven Knows What (Josh and Benny Safdie) It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) Leviathan (Andrey Zvyag...

- March - Rangeela (Ram Gopal Varma, 1995) Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 2019) The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, 1996)* The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi’nan, 2019) ♥ Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939) ♥♥ Images (Robert Altman, 1972) Chase a Crooked Shadow (Michael Anderson, 1958) Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalba...

Is it finally Rob Reiner's time to shine?

1. Antichrist
2. The House That Jack Built
3. The Idiots
4. Manderlay
5. Breaking the Waves

1. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong) All That Jazz (Bob Fosse) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) Gol Maal (Hrishikesh Mukherjee) La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci) Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki) The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa) The Marriage of Maria Brau...

- February - A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019) Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios, 2014) The God of Cookery (Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-Chi, 1996) Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan, 2020) Morgiana (Juraj Herz, 1972) Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973) Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, 2020) Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda,...

I wonder what the joke is for Swedish movies then...

- January - Sibyl (Justine Triet, 2019) Heimat (Edgar Reitz, 1984) Interrogation (Ryszard Bugajski, 1982) Happy Hour (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, 2015) Yolanda and the Thief (Vincente Minnelli, 1945) Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018) The Damned (Luchino Visconti, 1969)* Main Theme (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1984) M...

1. It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman) 2. Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter) 3. The Invisible Life of Eurydíce Gusmão (Karim Aïnouz) 4. Les Misérables (Ladj Ly) 5. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 6. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) 7. Öndög (Wang Quan'an) 8. By the Grace of God (Franç...

dt might like andhadhun. Just watched it. An interesting ride, to say the least! I've seen some people compare it to Dil Se in its mash-up of genres, though Andhadhun lacks the political overtones that make Dil Se and its romance so potent. Andhadhun tackles some social themes, but they're largely ...

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:01 pm It can cause silicosis.

I think you mean pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

^ Are you sure that isn't just the next video game you're reviewing?

^ Agreed. I think this is the best list we’ve come up with.

and now would be the time to guess the poll-winner, for anyone who likes doing that kind of thing -- in terms of points, the distance between 1st place and 2nd place is the same as the difference between 2nd and 17th, so it was a runaway victory. Nice work so far, flip! I’d have to say Like Someone...

1. Joker (Ruju Murugan, 2016)
2. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
3. The King's Speech and Argo
4. Winter Sleep and Dheepan
5. Toni Erdmann and The Favourite

1. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami) Anna Karenina (Joe Wright) Drug War (Johnnie To) Eega (S. S. Rajamouli) Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein) Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (György Pálfi) Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach) Holy Motors (Leos Carax) The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg) In Another Country (Hong S...

- December - Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) ♥♥ They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948) Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) ♥♥ The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019) ♥ Atlantics (Mati Diop, 2019) L'Innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976) War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywa...

Cats - even with the lowest expectations, this was a nightmare.