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not too much recently december: cyropaedia (xenophon) **** the buried giant (kazuo ishiguro) ** moby dick (herman melville) [reread] ***** the passion of new eve (angela carter) *** january: the western wind (samantha harvey) **** parabola (lily hoang) * against the physicists/against the ethicists ...

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how about roberto gavaldón next?

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 11:47 pm https://geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/

so is the entire coast of norway lined with lighthouses...

i'd give medicine man a perfunctory vote, it might be laughable (i don't remember exceptionally well) but that's not the worst thing in the world

I'm still shook that Gibraltar isn't actually an island, it only dawned on me a few years ago. In my mind it's still an island.

california once was for a few centuries actually

seen 3

mississippi burning


let's mix things up and go with roberto gavaldón next?

seen 8

the legend of sleepy hollow
one hundred and one dalmatians
lady and the tramp
sleeping beauty

seen 3

memento

my top 10: a journal of the plague year (daniel defoe) the souls of black folk (w.e.b. dubois) don't look now [and other stories, nyrb edition] (daphne du maurier) the man within (graham greene) apprenticeship, or the book of pleasures (clarice lispector) the anarchist's workbench (christopher schwa...

seen 6

hunt for red october
die hard
13th warrior (probably terrible but i thought the book was cool when i read it a long time ago and that helped the movie undoubtedly)

seen 3

the sons of katie elder
nevada smith

sorry, no, i've seen 6 total. and i definitely vote for el mariachi over sin city, probably a million times over if i could.

seen 4

point blank
excalibur

seen 2

black christmas

seen 1

in the heat of the night

seen 2

all the president's men

seen 3

desperado
el mariachi
from dusk til dawn

"a communist cinephile forum financed by a crowd of losers" sounds like the perfect tagline for this site if ever there was one

seen 2

bonnie and clyde

whose names are unknown (sanora babb) *****
north and south (elizabeth gaskell) **
on humanistic education (giambattista vico) ****
the trespasser (dh lawrence) **
don't look now and other stories (daphne du maurier) *****
the anarchist's workbench (christopher schwarz) *****

seen 5, liked them all, so i should see the rest someday

culloden
the war game
punishment park

seen 2

far from the madding crowd

seen 9

¡que viva méxico!
alexander nevsky
ivan the terrible 1
ivan the terrible 2
the general line

unranked, since it's been too long

seen 5

thieves highway
night and the city
10:30 pm summer

that's a lot of noir for me to be voting on in one list...

yep, probably the first ever gay marriage in literature, and they're so very tender with each other. it's really cute. and very dirty too.

yeah that's definitely a wtf?!

i'm rereading the dirtiest book in the english language, moby dick, and loving it again. especially from looking for all the suggestive lines

only seen dil se and not really a fan of its politics so going to give it a pass. i'll probably use the list for recs though (if i ever get into a movie-watching groove again...)

seen 9 willow far and away parenthood i had no idea he had directed the vast majority of the movies i'd seen by him. not sure if he just doesn't really have a clear style, or they're so mundane that any competent director could have made them, or i'm just not paying attention. i think i liked him be...

seen 2

the french connection

brief lives of idiots (ermanno cavazzoni) *** at a high cost (mikhailo kotsiubynsky) *** the conquest of plassans (émile zola) *** a journal of the plague year (daniel defoe) ***** the lunar trilogy 3: the old earth (jerzy zuławski) ** justine (lawrence durrell) * a confederacy of dunces (john kenne...