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I decided to give Saaho a look in the theater as well and found myself focusing on the bits of ingenuity applied to maintain its consistent level of momentum. One instance could be this upside-down shot that tracks around until it adjusts itself right-side up with the character's plan moving forward...

Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey) Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka) Okoto and Sasuke (Yasujiro Shimazu) Poppies (Kenji Mizoguchi) The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock) Happiness (Aleksander Madvedkin) Amphitryon - Happiness From The Clouds (Reinhold Schünzel) The Band Concert (W...

Seen 20 Tashlin films (8 features and 12 shorts).

1. Artists and Models (1955)
2. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
3. The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
4. Susan Slept Here (1954)
5. The Disorderly Orderly (1964)

Curious to see how Fulci ranks, but alas I've only seen six.

I'll nominate Frank Tashlin

Just got my copy in the mail, very eager to dive into it.

Only seen 3, I will resolve to watch at least 1 more by the end of the poll.

1. Dirty Ho

kanafani wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:09 pm

arkheia wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:06 pm
@Kanafani
That's an amazing month! August in the Water, The Private Eyes, AND Main Theme!

Guess whose lists I've been peeking at on letterboxd

Aww, I'm honored to have helped put you onto them.

Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh, 1942) ♥ Marriageable Girls (Janusz Kondratiuk, 1972) Flashing Spikes (John Ford, 1962) Didn't get around to watching many movies this month - just the final cup shorts and a rewatch of Walsh's Gentleman Jim, which remains essential to me as one of Walsh's unique character...

You got it, wba!

and I wouldn't sweat it, Zulawski. I've only guessed like 1 in a 100 films here but on the upside I've found a lot of interesting stuff via these screenshots to check out.

nope and nope

Alright, let's go with this one...

Phenomena?

x1972 Well, it's at least three now. :newyear: Marriageable Girls had me more emotionally involved with its detailed performances and the subtle camera movements accentuating the social dynamics within the group of friends; I could have easily watched a full film of their city trips. Flashing Spikes...

shoji shimada's murder in the crooked house. of course a book by the writer of the famously byzantine locked room mystery tokyo zodiac murders wouldn't disappoint. are there already multiple diagrams in the first 30 pages? of course there are! oohh, this looks promising. I hadn't heard of Shimada b...

Looks like it has something to do with this short film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022883/ Thanks for catching that! I double-checked the film though and that photo used for the cover doesn't appear in it at all. :think: I'm guessing that the label Synergy Entertainment just used it because it c...

I was actually wondering from which movie your avatar is from, arkheia. :D I didn't recognize it from any W.C. Fields movies so I think Evelyn is right, it looks to be a publicity still or news photo. Unfortunately I can't seem to find much more about it on the web so it's difficult to know exactly...

Rutger Hauer in an Ermanno Olmi film?? Whoa, I gotta check that out

The last film I saw Hauer in was Surviving the Game (1994), a pretty good pulpy riff on The Most Dangerous Game.

You got it, Evelyn! Nicely done.

Love that movie, glad I guessed it correctly!

Alright... lets go with this one.

Bruce Baillie's Quick Billy

https://66.media.tumblr.com/a7a9e06fcf9b953eb8d9c8f51cc97df1/tumblr_njh254xVX91s30ma9o3_250.gif https://66.media.tumblr.com/4d229d6c3d270208751f57d80c604ad2/tumblr_p8x2amjgcP1r47flwo2_250.gif I Know Where I'm Going (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, 1947) Felt like revisiting an Archers film this...

Very cool, Zulawski, I especially like the first one. I was messing around with my (very old) version of photoshop and tried changing the text in the first photo here into the second photo below. Unfortunately I'm an amateur with this stuff so this was the best I could manage but if someone likes th...

greennui wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 8:29 pm Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is 1964 according to imdb.

Ah, thanks for catching that!

Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933)

First time watch but I guess I've read enough about it over the years that it felt oddly familiar. Very iconic Stanwyck performance, as expected.

The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)

The Golden Thread (Ritwik Ghatak)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
Film (Alan Schneider)
The Flicker (Tony Conrad)
Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub)
Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks)
The Ashes (Andzrej Wajda)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Jerzy Has)

Seen 6, rewatched a couple of the shorter ones just now. Perhaps echoing Roscoe's comment, I've never been quite sure how to best approach Anger's films. I admire the ones I've seen but feel as if they haven't quite 'clicked' for me yet. 1. Puce Moment (1949) 2. Eaux d'artifice (1953) 3. Invocation ...

rischka wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:44 pm the high sign will replace our hospitality in my list. TY ARKHEIA

Always glad to see High Sign getting some love!

22 Keatons

1. The High Sign
2. The Navigator
3. The Goat
4. Sherlock Jr.
5. Steamboat Bill, Jr.

So for this year I wanted to do something a little different. Really like this idea! Produces a very interesting list too. And I definitely relate: I find it easier to recall a film when I've written a capsule for it; and I usually find it much harder to write about movies that are already well-est...