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Cheers, will make sure to seek it out soon.

Two new instant favourites that were barely on my radar until the S&S Critics' Poll top 250: The Watermelon Woman (1996, Cheryl Dunye) https://scontent.fmla2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/333939659_5924765424239998_1487543478015424773_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=...

Thanks for hosting, Flip!

Really excited to see Unrueh climb to the second spot, and a really interesting top 10 for sure!

Not seen The Novelists' Film - it has not been priority as I'm yet to be impressed by Hong, but this makes me more curious.

Giving this a bump as the deadline is coming up. Have everyone been updating their lists? I just went through mine. I'm likely still behind everyone in 2022 viewings, but went heavy in February (still have many planned this month) and am nearing 100. Finally feel pretty confident that I have seen mo...

My top 20: Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn) Jiao you / Stray Dogs (2013, Ming-liang Tsai) Kaguyahime no monogatari / The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese) Le passé (2013, Asghar Farhadi) La grande bellezza / The Great Bea...

Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom / Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003, Ki-duk Kim) Dogville (2003, Lars Von Trier) Bu san / Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Ming-liang Tsai) The Saddest Music in the World (2003, Guy Maddin) Salmer fra kjøkkenet / Kitchen Stories (2003, Bent Hamer) Kontro...

I am cautiously looking forward to Crimes of the Future if it helps rischka. Very high on my watchlist and will see it by the deadline.

On another note I'm really excited to see 2 more votes come in for Unrest!

A little early for me, but already have a very strong top 5: 1. Unrueh / Unrest (2022, Cyril Schäublin) 2. Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra) 3. À vendredi, Robinson / See You Friday, Robinson (2022, Mitra Farahani) 4. Rimini (2022, Ulrich Seidl) 5. Syk pike / Sick of Myself (2022, Kristoffer Borgli) ...

Glad you liked Unrest one of my favorites at TIFF last year, but everyone in my theater seemed to hate it. Jealous you got to see it on the big screen and surprised to hear about the amount of hate. I'd expect reactions to be a bit mixed given the unusual style of course, but that's disappointing t...

Two good candidates for best film of 2022: Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra) https://www.andergraun.com/files/CINEMA/BORA/PACIFICTION14.png A neon-clad, moody anti-thriller, trading more on suspicion and uncertainty, than a steadfast plot, Pacifiction arises as one of the clearest masterpieces of the...

In terms of first-time viewings this is my list:

https://letterboxd.com/gloede/list/firs ... -the-crop/

The top 20:

I ended up seeing Ballerina btw, strong recommendation even if it did not end up making my list.

My top 20: Chinesisches Roulette (1976, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Network (1976, Sidney Lumet) Cría cuervos (1976, Carlos Saura) News From Home (1976, Chantal Akerman) I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, Sister and Brother... (1976, René Allio) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Nicholas...

Been binging Akerman (with a detour of 3 Duras rewatches) the last few days and Almayer's Folly is a new favourite for me. While Golden Eighties or Tomorrow We Move are probably the Akerman's for non-Akerman fans, this feels like the Akerman for the minimalist/arthouse viewers who never connected wi...

https://ptpimg.me/34v43s.png I just rewatched News From Home , I somehow did not connect to it at all the first time I saw it (back in 2012), this time it became an instant favourite and I couldn't believe how Akerman managed to craft two so unique and powerful films back to back - she was in her 2...

anyway, some basic info: https://filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/person/jc-mol more of his films held by EYE: https://www.youtube.com/@eyefilmNL/search?query=j.%20c.%20mol the most indepth article i managed to find: https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/47/3/273/1669754 and the...

Finished Uit het rijk der kristallen, absolutely wonderful effects. I can certainly see his impact on the film.

Mainly excluded Mol as I have never heard the name before, many of the effects are quite like Painlevé. Is this a director with many works available. Can't find a J.C. Mol, but C.G. Mol is credited on IMDb, with this sole listing: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0995846/ Uit het rijk der kristallen is a...

Included The Evil Eye on my list, and thank you so much for the shout-out for this one, has to be one of the big unsung arthouse classics of the 30s, a decade with quite few to choose from so always exciting to find one. Charles Dekeukeleire already made one of my favourite features, Histoire de dét...

There are subs made for the Vimeo file as well.

Somehow The Evil Eye was never on my radar... Need to see it now!

I have found subs.

My top 20: Le roman de Renard / The Story of the Fox (1930/37, Irene Starewicz & Wladyslaw Starewicz) Pépé le Moko (1937, Julien Duvivier) Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux / Bizarre, Bizarre (1937, Marcel Carné) Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey) Les perles de la c...

One of the most terrifying and disturbing films I have seen: Mali vojnici / Playing Soldiers (1967, Bahrudin 'Bato' Cengic) https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZF1Zo1rZUX2hB8Rzro5WWcGBMZozc4odcqwHe1CPzYeJ/vlcsnap-2022-03-28-20h18m21s221.webp This is a film that is very much open about what it is from the...

My top 20: Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru / The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa) La Dolce vita (1960, Federico Fellini) Akibiyori / Late Autumn (1960, Yasujiro Ozu) Tirez sur le pianiste / Shoot the Piano Player (1960 François Truffaut) L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni) Le trou / The Ho...

Cruces Sobre El Yermo is in dialogue with a lot of earlier movies that set forth ideas about what rape represents within gender ideology, specifically -- maybe -- El Rebozo De Soledad by Gavaldon, where the characters all take seriously the idea that raping a woman is a way to lay claim to her as a...

Anyone seen either of these two endlessly fascinating Mexican films, with a lot of, shall we say, "interesting" subtext on gender, in particular the latter. Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante) / The Important Man (1961, Ismael Rodríguez) https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRrDCH3MfTc88juAzRxB...

Not overly happy with the below list, so going with 4x5 rather than 5x4. 2010 is probably one of the weaker years this century for me, and coupled with the fact that most have not been seen since release I'm less certain on this list than many others: Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky) Uncle Boonme...

Oblako-ray / Cloud Heaven (1990, Nikolay Dostal) https://ptpimg.me/l56318.png Cloud Heaven tells the tale of a small town in Siberia, where nothing seems to happen and no one really has anything to talk about - or at least that is the case of Kolya. Desperate for conversation and connection, he is ...

Nice results. Not seen Shanghai Blues, The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, American Dreams and Streetwise from the top 10. Especially interested in the latter.

My list: 1. La cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol) 2. Les rendez-vous de Paris (1995, Eric Rohmer) 3. To Die For (1995, Gus Van Sant) 4. Safe (1995, Todd Haynes) 5. La haine / Hate (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz) 6. Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese) 7. Kids (1995, Larry Clark) 8. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)...