2004 Poll

[Roscoe]

^^Thanks for the reminder about SIX SHOOTER.

[brian d]

the sky turns (álvarez)
light is calling (morrison)
innocence (hadzihalilovic)
a visit to the louvre (straub/huillet)
the holy girl (martel)
los muertos (alonso)
unconscious (oristrell)
stages of mourning (pucill)
the battle of mohács (jancsó)

to watch:
wolff von amerongen (friedl)
skagafjördur (hutton)*
evolution of a filipino family (diaz)*
manasarovar (kurian)

[greennui]

yell about wolff von amerongen again

remember this being circulated within a certain mubi community (ahem, scfz v 1.0) back in the day, around the same time the parallel street started making the rounds iirc

yeah that was me. no one watched it then either. it's fine. i like it.

i have a copy and i will watch it!!

Could any of you put it in the place pls

[rischka]

i can

[sally]

um, now everyone is going to yell at me for making them watch this film. pls adjust your expectations downward.

also as some explanation of european economic and social history, it seems overly subtle these days when our prime minister just gives life peerages to cunts

[thoxans]

yell at me

glad i could help

our prime minister just gives life peerages to cunts

have no idea what any of this means, but i like it nonetheless

[sally]

sorry that was crass i'd edit but it would still be in your reply? i'm angry, they just keep going lower and lower and lower

[MrCarmady]

speaking of our hellhole terf tory island and 2004, is dead man's shoes any good? remember it being so hyped back in the day but nobody talks about it nowadays

[thoxans]

crass

when talking about crass people, the crasser, the better. talking respectfully about pieces of shit never quite made sense to me...

[sally]

yell at me

glad i could help

our prime minister just gives life peerages to cunts

have no idea what any of this means, but i like it nonetheless

i mean boris johnson just made his brother a lord (not that jo johnson is a c**t, that's the others on the list, but still. how is this happening)

[sally]

speaking of our hellhole terf tory island and 2004, is dead man's shoes any good? remember it being so hyped back in the day but nobody talks about it nowadays

it's violent? not the greatest fan of that so that's all i feel qualified to say

[rischka]

i mean boris johnson just made his brother a lord (not that jo johnson is a c**t, that's the others on the list, but still. how is this happening)

ivanka trump is special adviser to the president? anything is possible now. rush limbaugh got the medal of honor or some shit. the FEMINAZI guy

anyways no politics (note to self, i'm enjoying a relaxing day off)

dead man's shoes i probably saw at time of release it was terribly overhyped

It is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors

edit: it was presidential medal of freedom, now worthless trash (not that it wasn't before but wever)

BACK ON TOPIC: GONNA RE-WATCH THROWDOWN SRY THROW DOWN

[thoxans]

like, i like the title throwdown better, but throw down is how all-caps imdb spells it, but still it's like damn, i just like the title throwdown better

[Silga]

Some titles from my watchlist:

Aaltra (Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern)
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino)
Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte)
Silver City (John Sayles)

I've seen a clip of Bouli Lanners singing Sunny in Aaltra countless times, guess now is a right time to finally watch the entire film.

[Mauries]

Disintegration Loop 1.1 (William Basinski)

Chain (Jem Cohen)
Skagafjordur (Peter Hutton)
Alone in the Wilderness (Proenneke & Swerer jr.)
Le Pont des Arts (Eugene Green)
Papillon d’Amour (Nicolas Provost)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
Light is Calling (Bill Morrison)

[sally]

Pont des Arts or Tropical Malady's a tough choice for me. Two of the best movies of the last 20 years.

ooooh, never had karl down as a eugene green fan. how lovely

[ralch]

1. Tropical Malady — Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2046 — Wong Kar-wai
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Michel Gondry
Fahrenheit 9/11 — Michael Moore
The Holy Girl — Lucrecia Martel
I ♥ Huckabees — David O. Russell
The Incredibles — Brad Bird
The Intruder — Claire Denis
Machuca — Andrés Wood
Mean Girls — Mark Waters
Moolaadé — Ousmane Sembene
The Motorcycle Diaries — Walter Salles
Los muertos — Lisandro Alonso
Mysterious Skin — Gregg Araki
Roma — Adolfo Aristarain
Social Genocide (Memoria del saqueo) — Fernando Solanas
The Taste of Tea — Katsuhito Ishii
A Tree in Tanjung Malim — Chui Mui Tan
Whisky — Pablo Stoll, Juan Pablo Rebella
Woman Is the Future of Man — Hong Sang-soo

[rischka]

2004 louis koo y'all so pretty. so glad i rewatched this after 6 years!! wonder if i should re evaluate breaking news now



i think i need to add mean girls to my list

[---]

gang year, my #3 oat, two of my top 50, and many other ill classics

1. mysterious skin

alone in the wilderness (dick proenneke et al)
the life aquatic with steve zissou (big wes anderson)
a cinderella story (mark rosman)
a moment to remember (john h lee)
nobody knows (kore-eda)
breaking news (to)
survive style 5+ (gen sekiguchi)
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (gondry)
house of flying daggers (zhang yimou)
collateral (mike mann)
the hidden blade (yoji yamada)
before sunset (linklater)
demetri martin: if i (david g croft)
vital (shinya tsukamoto)

[MrCarmady]

Oh shit If I! One of my favourite sets of all time for sure, good shout.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Shiner - Christian Calson, USA

A queer American pinku, comparable to something like Muscle. Could be my #1 of the year, depending on what else turns up -- I was hugely impressed. All-about some characters who process their ideas on queer identity and queer desire in terms of violence and masculine toxicity, it "goes there" with real ferocity. If Greg Araki had become the figurehead of a movement, there'd be a lot more movies like this one floating around, and I'm sad now that that didn't happen

I can't really say that I 'like' everything about this -- I could give a shit about the fratboy headspace of these characters, and there's no room here for any other concerns to intersect with their cis/het(or not)/white reality -- but within the confines of the things the writer/director chose to think about and do, this movie accomplishes all of its goals pretty excellently. I want to grab WBA and force him to watch it. but I'm not sure who else I'd recommend it to; the actors approach their dialogue as if they were in a porn movie (and maybe they are) and the nonstandard "badness" of the acting is going to put a lot of people off. If you can hack that aspect, and it sounds interesting to you, go for it. Maybe Greg and Greennui, maybe LiquidNature...

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[greennui]

Disintegration Loop 1.1 (William Basinski)

It's truly a mainstay youtube video for me to wind down/fall asleep to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdZ8lhC0f0

[greennui]

The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker)



I remember saving this exact picture after reading up on Marker after having just seen La Jetée for the first time, like, more than 10 years ago. I kept the picture as a screen saver for a long time and I even used to draw knock offs and variations of the cat when I was still in school. Think I had a copy of the film but with no subs so could never watch it so it feels like I've come full circle and whatnot now after finally seeing it.

[rischka]

i may still include it. remember it being rather slight but v charming

gonna try to watch tropical malady in the next few days. v low key so i need to wait til shit is calm (maybe tmrw??)

[liquidnature]

Disintegration Loop 1.1 (William Basinski)

It's truly a mainstay youtube video for me to wind down/fall asleep to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdZ8lhC0f0

Just watched / listened to this for the first time, despite it being on my radar for a decade. Had no clue of its connection and root in 9/11, which is a day I have a powerful connection with myself. Have a feeling this is one I will be rewatching / relistening to perpetually for years to come. Thanks.

[Mauries]

The story of the music and the story of the image are both so great and heartbreaking. Them combined, as one piece on decay, is one of my favorite works of art of all time. I don't really listen to it to fall asleep though, it mostly just makes me sad . Triggering that feeling that everything is just temporary and will end at some point.

[greennui]

remember it being rather slight but v charming

Sounds about right.

Wolff Von Amerongen: Did twodeadmagpies Commit Recommendation Offences? (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl)

I really enjoyed it, struggled to follow the rapid-fire dialogue at times though due to being too transfixed by the footage. I'd like to watch it again at some point, perhaps muted to make it a Benning/Hutton type beat.

[rischka]

guys tropical malady is amazing. a very buddhist film (according to me, a non-buddhist.) fear and desire, hunter becomes the prey -- also the camera loves this actor



greennui was right about paying attention to the sound design ♥

[sally]

i have so far committed the offence of watching 0 2004 films. but i keep falling asleep in front of things so maybe i should watch disintegration loop except not tonight, because i'm too tired.

rischka, what things need to calm down, what have i missed?

[rischka]

rischka, what things need to calm down, what have i missed?

oh it's just my work sitch - no worries. lots of strange hours this week