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Haha, I love both Ottinger and Jodorowsky but can sympathise if it is not your thing. I will say that this is the time to watch Dorian. When I saw it, it looked like this: https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmetUNidcv1zdvj27TSLcT8qm4x2dCW5rFPTFvCXskWzks/vlcsnap-00186.png Now it looks like this: https://ga...

I'll do it in sets of 5 this time: Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders) Öszi almanach / Almanac of Fall (1984, Béla Tarr) Les nuits de la pleine lune / Full Moon in Paris (1984, Eric Rohmer) Angyali üdvözlet / The Annunciation (1984, András Jeles) Decoder (1984, Muscha) Te rongyos élet / Oh, Bloody Life...

Very interesting top picks, wba. Do you know if Die Deutschmeister, Ein Herz voll Musik or Alibi are out with English subtitles anywhere?

Spectacular book, spectacular movie!

Thoughts on 5 films by Elio Petri https://www.dailygreen.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pe.jpg Elio Petri was a bleak political satirist who from the very beginning of his career took poisonous shots at wealth, power and labour relations. His comedic tragedies may occasionally make you smile, but sa...

My top 20: 1955 stands out to me first and foremost for the explosive James Dean double-feature, though it has been too long since I saw either, and I do wonder if they will rank as high in my esteem of a rewatch, the same goes for many of the other films below: Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas...

Haha, I had never considered we had completely opposite tastes, but yes, frenetic will beat melodrama in my book. I never thought of it as claustrophobic, too bad the print was poor. The print is saw was quite good, and I believe there has been a restoration done after I saw it as well.

Btw, Sally, did you ever end up watching Lisbon?

I can not make an all-great top 20 for this year, unfortunately, so will limit my selection to 12: Seven Years Bad Luck (1921, Max Linder) Hamlet (1921, Svend Gade & Heinz Schall) L'Atlantide (1921, Jacques Feyder) Eldorado (1921, Marcel L'Herbier) The Kid (1921, Charlie Chaplin) Der müde Tod (1...

Outside of the psychedelic visuals late in the film I thought the music did not work that well with the visuals and that it felt like a not that great music video. That said, it did make me discover The Mandrake Memorial. I believe the soundtrack to this film is just their third album "Puzzle&q...

I have seen that one actually, and from my rating I can tell that I liked it, but sadly it is a bit of a blur.

I love Lisbon from the same director (same year as well), one of the most immersive and free silents ever made. that's on muh list! (iberia challenge needs more 1930s representation anyway) i just went with the sea first... (and it will be in resources here when my dial-up speed broadband finally f...

I need to seek out Maria do Mar ASAP it seems. Will try to catch it today. I love Lisbon from the same director (same year as well), one of the most immersive and free silents ever made. His later, also sea focused Ala-Arriba! is also great.

Thank you for your thoughts and observations greg x, very good read!

My list, though it has been a very long time since I saw the majority: 1. La belle et la bête / Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau) 2. A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) 3. Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) 4. Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna / Five Women...

Taming the Garden (2021, Salomé Jashi) https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSkc7K58BdQN9sJz9qHYWh4TRUkV27UygmCXUeWHRgTv4/vlcsnap-2021-06-13-22h00m40s740.webp How do you tell the story of the richest man in Georgia buying gigantic trees from all across the country, employing what could be hundreds of peop...

I completely missed that this was already live... and am very happy to see the deadline got pushed. Out of 75 films: 1. Gritt (Itonje Søimer Guttormsen) 2. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude) 3. Brother's Keeper (Ferit Karahan) 4. Petite maman (Céline Sciamma) 5. La traversée / The Crossing (...

Gritt (2021, Itonje Søimer Guttormsen) https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSVF2Z97mKnjx5f5DxtBEJdQoBeEMdQVxu2dJEyhFmMw8/2.webp Gritt is one of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences I have ever had. It may, at least to some people seem like a critique, but there where moments when I genuinely had to...

That is really exciting, especially as Insect was one of his weaker films. Can't wait to see what he comes up with.

Seen 5:

The Petrified Forest

I'm also predicting that the biggest riser into the top 100 will be Cleo from 5 to 7, and I think the two other Vardas on the list, The Gleaners & I (#589) and Le bonheur (#763) will also enjoy notable jumps of at least 200 spots. I'm also expecting a couple of other Vardas to make it on. The mo...

An incredibly competitive year: Motforestilling (1972, Erik Løchen) Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog) The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) The Other Side of the Underneath (1972, Jane Arden) Solyaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) Una pelea cubana contra los demo...

no context 1972 michael lonsdale! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ https://i.imgur.com/ZinTUxQ.png Undoubtedly the best film in the Four Seasons cycle, and so incredibly different from the others. While it could be accused of being a gimmick, with a fairly basic premise/progression, the way it works with cinematic form is...

I mean, it happened at the US open and the ATP finals (and none of the big 3 have won the ATP finals since 2015), but I have to say, this was an unbelievable match, bordering on surreal. Medvedev is on track to becoming the world number 1 though, which is quite huge as excluding Murray the last play...

Thanks, Rischka, hope you share your views on the Farockis you catch as well. Which were you thinking of seeing.

Bookmarked The Leather Boys, looks like a very interesting film.

Die Schulung AKA Indoctrination (1987, Harun Farocki) https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmfVK8kn9ktvFp6jWw7TGpFoK936XdrUwj4tF53EnA7hA8/img84_8389_capture8dx6.jpg After writing up my thoughts on The Re-Education I could not help myself from jumping back to Farocki's first exploration of corporate seminar...

2 Great & Forgotten Films from Harun Farocki (including 1 new favourite) https://miro.medium.com/max/644/0*BofgTraVX5lxaR7S.jpg Exciting to see two films from very different parts of Harun Farocki's career and both revealed a new side of him that I had not previously seen. Having progressed thr...

Seen 16:

Souls at Sea (1937)
Garden of Evil (1954)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
True Grit (1969)

Seen 9, though none are fresh in mind:

The Cincinnati Kid
In the Heat of the Night
...and justice for all.

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:26 am

hilarious bergman joke in tarkovsky's the sacrifice

I just rewatched this today and somehow didn't catch it.

(Also, with Nykvist on board (shot both films) + Erland Josephson on screen, it was hard not comparing it to Bergman throughout)