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Not seen that one yet, so no! But yeah, you're on the right track.

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That was a nice exhibition, this one really struck me for some reason:

Watched Night Nurse which is fun and certainly has Stanwyck firing already early on in her film career but becomes bogged down in a boring plot in the second half. Don't think it'll make my list. Gonna keep this open a while longer.

Another Londoner, woo

I saw Death Grips outside in Barcelona and they were incredible. And I wasn't even high (yet)

Bond movies were my entry point into the world of cinema (From Russia With Love -> North By Northwest -> Other Hitchcock -> Kurosawa / Leone if I recall correctly) so I'd be happy to run that poll when the new one is released, haven't revisited most of them in years so could be fun to do a mini-mara...

Surprised by Antonioni, I feel like his aesthetic and sensibility is very much in line with this forum's. the thread for the antonioni poll from a few years back was not...enthusiastic about his work, although like the wkw poll i think that was largely because the people who didn't like the work we...

Kurosawa was #2 on the poll Curtis ran recently, Tarkovsky was top 20, Kubrick top 26. Surprised by Antonioni, I feel like his aesthetic and sensibility is very much in line with this forum's. L'avventura did come 13th on the top 200 you guys did in 2019 but I guess he doesn't have a deep backlog fo...

One of my favourites, great excuse for me to get off my butt and catch up with some stuff.

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Been slacking off on this but did watch There's Always Tomorrow yesterday which made me cry. Gonna keep this open for a while longer for purely selfish reasons but would be great to see some more ballots, seems like both greg and kanafani have been MIA for some time, and I would've expected Lencho a...

Forgot all about that clip, rischka, fantastic stuff. Should have been accepted imo.

Wait did I mix up the two songs? They're both sick. Even though this is off-topic, it isn't really - I think Wong's use of pop music is nearly unparalleled, at least in the films that I've watched. Apart from the obvious Scorseses and Tarantinos, who are the directors who can lay claim to rivalling ...

I watched Streets of Fire pretty damn stoned when we had the Hill poll a while back and as that sequence was playing I was honestly considering where the film would fall on my top 10 list. Hard to live up to that tho.

I like both Mean Streets and Streets of Fire a lot, and I enjoyed this one, but I mostly found the triads stuff comically exaggerated and not at all hard-hitting, which is why I prefer Wong's sidelining/abstraction of genre elements in his later work. Anyway, flip's list has alerted me to a couple o...

Huh, I've been pronouncing it (in my head, mostly) with a ch (like in change, I don't know orthography, sadly) sound all this time. So would that have been Czytilova?

Lol, I was sure it was something I hadn't seen, but to be fair it's been ages, definitely time for a re-watch. I'll put something up and get the ball rolling again this weekend.

Watched As Tears Go By , which was a fun little take on Mean Streets of Fire but wba's assertion that it's Wong's best film by far is a bit baffling as it's clearly a blueprint for his collaborations with Doyle which squeeze vastly more out of the same milieu of Hong Kong, neon, and romantic longing...

Looks like an Olmi, maybe? I Fidanzati? Haven't seen it but I am pretty sure it's not Il Posto yet it's giving me Il Posto vibes...

Is it Italian?

hmm 5 stars Brooklyn (John Crowley) 4 stars Room (Lenny Abrahamson) Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) 3 stars Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Max Max: Fury Road (George Miller) The Big Short (Adam McKay) 2 stars The Revenant (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) I don't hate any of these the way I hated Darkest H...

Ex Machina is 2014 according to IMDB, would've made my list as well otherwise.

Just woke up from a dream where I'd been attacked by a tiger who for some reason was left to roam a suburban petting zoo unattended. I'm gonna sue the shit out of those guys

Sadly, Fruit of Paradise was the opposite of brilliant, though it did amuse me to think of what Holyman would make of it. The first ten minutes are daring, eye-grabbing stuff, but the hour and a half that follow consist of nearly unwatchable am-dram, annoying sound design, and empty symbolism. Prett...

thought i'd make a start on 2015 with a nice gentle comedy in case all the silent stuff had made all the modern arty-farty fare unpalatable, so i watched a man called ove. this was a mistake. holy shit the music. here is the sad bit, here is the overcoming bit, here is joyous reconciliation. here a...

Bagful of Fleas was brilliant, thanks jiri and wba for pushing me towards it!
I've still got a couple to watch so will try to finish up a list tomorrow, but if not:

Bagful of Fleas
Something Different