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she's kind of in a fascinating space. starts as a critic for the small but influential lettre du cinema magazine and other places like les inrocks, sometimes a very harsh critic, writes or co-writes everything by serge bozon (who is easily the most famous of that small group). but for her i'd say - ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TNvsOC6tyE


will anyone else take the drawing nomo challenge?

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:02 pm Never heard of this one, looks great. Watchlisted.

have you seen any of the other ropert movies? i love this one but it's probably not the one to start with (would pick tirez la langue mademoiselle, which is my favorite and the favorite of most of the other people i know).

https://i.imgur.com/hYyPEWD.jpg https://i.imgur.com/XPybN7m.jpg revisited axelle ropert's first movie etoile violette ahead of the retrospective playing in brooklyn this month (it's the one movie they couldn't figure out the rights for), and i genuinely think i love it. of course it has hot serge b...

have been watching the beloved melancholy high school baseball series cross game, which is very charming but never quite as good as it could be. but i am somewhat obsessed with the closing credits contest, in which they challenge (apparently children) to draw the mascot cat character (actual cat cha...

rrr winning best song is kind of funny, since every year hollywood scrapes the bottom of the barrel of mediocre songs that play over end credits as an afterthought while india is putting out dozens of original film songs per week. also think that end credits songs shouldn't count, but that's a whole...

i mostly hated the first avatar and loved the second one. most of the middle section is a walsh type neighborhood movie, or at least as close as we're going to get to one in a modern hollywood movie. but not sure how it would play without movie theater 3d. i think it's the best use of that technolog...

i totally forgot about glass onion...did avatar 2 get nominated for something? i bet it did. i would vote for that.

think i've only seen 3 movies nominated for anything this year (batman, all that breathes and rrr). can't remember if that's less than the last few years but it really does feel like a year where i have no interest in watching pretty much anything else...

the etched city, k.j. bishop
snow, john banville
hollow, b. catling
the jaguar hunter, lucius shepard

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 12:25 am i like the SZA album SOS! maybe cuz i miss RZA and GZA

i like this a lot but why is every album 20+ tracks now? I mean we know the answer (the algorithms) but still...

Blind Detective (Johnnie To) Tirez La Langue Mademoiselle (Axelle Ropert) Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton) The Parrot & the Swan (Alejo Moguillansky) Mille Soleils (Mati Diop) Seventh Code (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) Onaayum Aatt...

it's been long enough since i did a zatoichi marathon that a lot of them have blurred together in my head, but i think the you can't really go wrong with pretty much anything up to about the first 10 or so, with fight zatoichi fight and zatoichi's flashing sword being my favorites after the opening ...

the zatoichi series makes for a pretty fun marathon. the first three movies make a kind of trilogy, much bleaker in tone than most of the rest of the movies. some of the later movies get a bit repetitive but the directing is almost always very high quality. hanzo the razor trilogy is just a weird ob...

crimson peak doesn't really work in the end but it's definitely worth watching, especially if you like Old Dark House Melodramas. if nothing else one of those movies where it is hard to believe it got greenlit by hollywood at all.

EDIT: I guess the nay-sayers are noir fanbros, protecting their franchise. the noir fanbros don't even care much for the '40s version, and neither the book nor spain's comic adaptation seem to be all that well known either. mostly everyone just found del toro's approach to the material laughable (o...

reindeer games is what first came to mind as well, but it doesn't seem quite right? and the estranged daughter made me think of matchstick men, but that is definitely not the movie you're looking for.

i remember drawing pictures of the top hat eyeball guy as a kid, years before i would have been exposed to their actual music, so they definitely made some way into the broader culture, at least visually (wondering now if i'd have seen the freak show comic? it was definitely around in (the right) co...

k. viswanath also passed away at 92, not very well known outside of south india but he was especially iconic for a series of melodramas, often centered around classical arts, the he made from the late '70s through the early '90s. they're fascinating movies, much thornier than their reputation sugges...

i was going to write that she becomes much stronger as an actress as she ages, but it may be that when she was young directors wanted a certain kind of blank quality from her (this is certainly true in the bunuel movies), and only later is she asked to be an actress rather than a star or icon? haven...

The Desert of the Tartars
My Night At Maud's
Les Biches
Death Laid an Egg
The Man Who Lies
Confidentially Yours

wish the movie he made with astruc was available.

run hot and cold on shymalan (often in the space of a single movie) but i had a really good time with knock at the cabin this weekend. it is the smallest and most controlled of the movies he has been making since his turn to self financing with the visit (that is maybe even smaller but the filmmakin...

Tristana
Kings and Queen
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Le vent de la nuit
Genealogies of Crime

a strange star/actress in some ways. will also say i've seen less from her than i had assumed i'd seen. wish there were subs for her movie with vecchiali.

Found more than enough films directed by female actors too, that will be useful as well, since I want to watch more films directed by women. I found both films directed by Jeanne Moreau too. i'm sure kinuyo tanaka is already on your radar (especially with all the new restorations that have been flo...

that times article is a little right and kind of misleading at the same time. for the last 5+ years there has been an attempt by india's ascendent far right/hindu nationalist factions to use the hindi/bollywood industry as a soft target for secularist values. so you had a situation in 2017 where rig...

lolly willowes!

how is the printing quality on the subliminal books?

Pithamagan, Bala The Story of Marie & Julien, Jacques Rivette Ce jour-la, Raul Ruiz PTU, Johnnie To Vai-e-Vem, Joao Cesar Monteiro Mondo Meyer Uphakyan, Buddhadeb Dasgupta Raghu Romeo, Rajat Kapoor The Matrix Reloaded, Wachowski Sisters The Matrix Revolutions, Wachowski Sisters Cafe Lumiere, Hou...

the rider on the white horse (nyrb collection), theodor storm moderan (1971 avon version), david r. bunch comics - dear mother & other stories, bhanu pratap schappi, anna haifisch through the valley with dead folks, tim truman puke force, brian chippendale the lone ranger & tonto, tim truman...

introduction, hong sang-soo 2021 in front of your face, hong sang-soo 2021 the novelist's film, hong sang-soo 2022 all that breathes, shaunak sen 2022 pathaan, sid anand 2023 the heike story, 2022 yurie deco, 2022 a very good month, and start to the year, except for pathaan, which is the first movie...

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:33 pm i had no idea that godspeed you black emperor the band were named after a film. they're incredible so i wanna see it now

mitsuo yanagimachi is one of the greatest japanese directors that nobody really talks about all that much.