What I Watched This Month......

[flip]

i did several double and triple bills this month from some randomly chosen filmmakers, something i used to do years ago. also watched three more body swap-related films, the cross-racial brain transplant film change of mind, which was pretty interesting, the disney-made brother/sister swap the swap, which was not very interesting, and one more i feel like i shouldn't mention because it could be a spoiler.

features:
Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan, 1977) - 9/10
There Is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2020) - 8/10
Kummatty (Govindan Aravindan, 1979) - 8/10
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946) - 8/10
Golden Salamander (Ronald Neame, 1950) - 8/10
Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968) - 8/10
Uppercase Print (Radu Jude, 2020) - 7/10
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, 1969) - 7/10
Three Men in a Boat (Stephen Frears, 1975) - 7/10
A Ship to India (Ingmar Bergman, 1947) - 7/10
Chain (Jem Cohen, 2004) - 7/10
Esthappan (Govindan Aravindan, 1980) - 7/10
The Card (Ronald Neame, 1952) - 7/10
The Front (Martin Ritt, 1976) - 7/10
School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003) - 7/10
Erendira (Ruy Guerra, 1983) - 6/10
Austin Found (Will Raee, 2017) - 6/10
Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982) - 6/10
It Rains on Our Love (Ingmar Bergman, 1946) - 6/10
Change of Mind (Robert Stevens, 1969) - 6/10
Music in Darkness (Ingmar Bergman, 1948) - 6/10
Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 1966) - 5/10
The Two Of Us (Claude Berri, 1967) - 5/10
Teenage Bank Heist (Doug Campbell, 2012) - 5/10
Take My Life (Ronald Neame, 1947) - 5/10
The Man (Joseph Sargent, 1972) - 4/10
The Intimate Stranger (Joseph Losey, 1956) - 4/10
The Swap (Jay Karas, 2016) - 3/10
The Goodbye Girl (Herbert Ross, 1977) - 3/10
The Evacuees (Alan Parker, 1975) - 3/10
Foreign Body (Ronald Neame, 1986) - 2/10
Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery (Kevin Kaufman, 2016) - 1/10

shorts
Launch of the 'Oceanic' (William KL Dickson, 1899) - 10/10
Cellbound (Tex Avery, 1955) - 9/10
Panoramic View of Conway on the L&NW Railway (William KL Dickson, 1898) - 9/10
Burglary at Night (Gaston Velle, 1904) - 8/10
Irish Mail - L&NW Railway - Taking up Water at Full Speed (William KL Dickson, 1898) - 8/10
Crissie Sheridan (William KL Dickson, 1897) - 8/10
Process Red (Hollis Frampton, 1966) - 7/10
The Evidence of the Film (Lawrence Marston/Edwin Thanhouser, 1913) - 7/10
Warships at Sunset (William KL Dickson, 1900) - 7/10
Hollywood Steps Out (Tex Avery, 1941) - 7/10
Annie Oakley (William KL Dickson, 1894) - 7/10
Maniac Chase (Edwin S Porter, 1904) - 7/10
Four Warships in Rough Seas (William KL Dickson, 1900) - 7/10
Blacksmith Scene (William KL Dickson, 1893) - 7/10
I Love to Singa (Tex Avery, 1936) - 7/10
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (William KL Dickson, 1894) - 7/10
Los del Baile (Guillen Landrian, 1965) - 6/10
The Mistletoe Bough (Percy Stow, 1904) - 6/10
Les Parisiennes (William KL Dickson, 1897) - 6/10
The Short and Curlies (Mike Leigh, 1988) - 6/10
A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (William KL Dickson, 1898) - 6/10
The Christmas Angel (Georges Melies, 1904) - 6/10
Dickson Greeting (William KL Dickson, 1891) - 6/10
Surface Tension (Hollis Frampton, 1968) - 5/10
Information (Hollis Frampton, 1966) - 5/10
Public Prosecutor: "The Case of The Man Who Wasn't There" (Lew Landers, 1948) - 5/10
The Escaped Lunatic (Wallace McCutcheon, 1904) - 5/10
Jerky Turkey (Tex Avery, 1945) - 5/10
Sandow (William KL Dickson, 1896) - 5/10
Chinese Laundry Scene (William KL Dickson, 1894) - 5/10
The Barbershop (William KL Dickson, 1894) - 5/10
There's Only One Sun (Wong Kar-Wai, 2007) - 4/10
Steve's First Bath (David Feiss, 2014) - 4/10
I Travelled 9000 km To Give It To You (Wong Kar-Wai, 2007) - 3/10
Personal (Wallace McCutcheon, 1904) - 3/10
Rip's Twenty Year Sleep (William KL Dickson, 1896) - 3/10
Buffalo Dance (William KL Dickson, 1894) - 3/10
Edison Kinetoscope Record of a Sneeze (William KL Dickson, 1894) - 1/10
Dancing in the Dark (Brian De Palma, 1984) - 1/10
The Follow (Wong Kar-Wai, 2001) - 1/10

[nrh]

the cold-blooded trap (takahisa zeze 1998)
dog star (takahisa zeze, 2002)
when you love and are loved (takahisa zeze, 2010)
anarchy in japansuke (takahisa zeze, 1999)
the last lear (rituparno ghosh, 2007)
gamera: guardian of the universe (shusuke kaneko, 1995)
raju ban aya gentleman (aziz mirza, 1992)
gamera: attack of legion (shusuke kaneko, 1996)
chrysanthemum and the guillotine (takahisa zeze, 2018)
watching the detective (junichi yagi, 1998)
pyrokinesis: crossfire (shusuke kaneko, 2000)
silent souls (aleksey fedorchenko, 2010)
earth light (guy gilles, 1970)
moon child (takahisa zeze, 2003)

wish i had more time to watch the cup films but glad i got to see both round 3 picks, which were great. all the zezes are terrific, and the kaneko gamera films are unexpectedly terrific.

[pabs]

February, 2021

Six documentaries this month, some good, some great!



TV series finished:

We Are Who We Are (Guadagnino, 2020) 7/10

and

Euphoria (Frizzell, Levinson, Morrison, Bianco) 7.5/10

[thoxans]

alice doesn't live here anymore (martin scorsese)
outrage beyond (takeshi kitano)
outrage coda (takeshi kitano)
eyes of a stranger (ken wiederhorn)

[Samourai]

February

Mank (2020)
Wolfwalkers (2020)
Soul (2020)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Sound of Metal (2019)♥
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Tenet (2020)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
The White Tiger (2021)
First Cow (2019)
Bacurau (2019)
Da 5 Bloods
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage (1998)

[---]

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0221 (VI, iii)

27 "Women Reply" (Agnès Varda, 1975) -- 2/4
27 "Black Panthers" (Agnès Varda, 1968) -- 3.5/4
27 "Diary of a Pregnant Woman" (Agnès Varda, 1958) -- 3/4
22 Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994) -- 4/4
19 Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000) -- 3/4
12 Framing Britney Spears (Samantha Stark, 2021) -- 3.5/4
11 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, 2011) -- 2/4
07 A Little Romance (George Roy Hill, 1979) -- 4/4
07 Judy Versus Capitalism (Mike Hoolboom, 2021) -- 4/4

[cinesmith]

Golden Salamander (Ronald Neame, 1950) - 8/10

I caught up with this one just a couple years ago. Very much enjoyed this as well as a number of the other early ones starring Trevor Howard.
I would also recommend 'I See a Dark Stranger' (1946) and 'They Made Me a Fugitive' (1947) as another pair of his overlooked early works.

Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968) - 8/10

I also went through the Losey filmography and found this one in particular to be quite the visual surprise.
John Waters of all people speaks very highly of this picture too.

[cinesmith]

February. 28 films. 6 docs. 12 foreign.

The Sparks Brothers 2021
Prisoners of the Ghostland 2021
Mr. Popper’s Penguins 2011
Warsaw 44 2014
The Astronaut Farmer 2006
Synchronic 2019
The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965
In the Presence of a Clown 1997
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced 2003
Vaxdockan 1962
One Summer of Happiness 1951
Lake of the Dead 1958
The Architecture of Doom 1989
The Lost City of Z 2016 (rerun)
Sound of Metal 2019
Degenerate Art 1993
The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz 1982
Pawn Sacrifice 2014
30 Coins 2020
Papillon 2017
Don’t Read This On a Plane 2020
Force 10 from Navarone 1978
Man on the Roof 1976
Cold Tracks 1962
From the Life of the Marionettes 1980
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World 2021
The Inugami Family 1976
Fire in the Night 1955

[flip]

I caught up with this one just a couple years ago. Very much enjoyed this as well as a number of the other early ones starring Trevor Howard.
I would also recommend 'I See a Dark Stranger' (1946) and 'They Made Me a Fugitive' (1947) as another pair of his overlooked early works.

thanks for the recs - i think i watched five neame films last month (might suggest him for a director poll at some point), and on balance, i think i like his earlier films better than his more famous later ones, though there's interesting work throughout his career.

I also went through the Losey filmography and found this one in particular to be quite the visual surprise.
John Waters of all people speaks very highly of this picture too.

yeah as a film it's either amazing or terrible, and i think i decided it's the former. the filmmaking and cinematography excel the material, was my first impression. i didn't read about what losey was doing at the time - did he make modesty blaise to fund decadent vanity projects like boom? decent trade if so.

[cinesmith]

i didn't read about what losey was doing at the time - did he make modesty blaise to fund decadent vanity projects like boom? decent trade if so.

Indeed. This wouldn't be entirely shocking to me.

[greennui]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzACtH3_Kr8

These 2 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i12gr5zU2E0

[Holdrüholoheuho]

mhm, seems like Boom is a film i should definitely see!

the main reason i was inserting "guns & fitness" in my (early internet days) "about me" is i was too lazy to transcribe all that is said in this scene and insert it in my "about me" instead.
https://youtu.be/kVCCFF8BTkc

[Roscoe]

LADY 1: Is that a boy or a girl?
LADY 2: Is it a faggot?
LADY 1: It's a dyke.
LADY 2: No, it's a hippie.
LADY 1: A communist?
LADY 2: Perhaps it's a drag queen.
LADY 1: Or a wash rag queen.
LADY 2: It's probably a speed freak.
LADY 1: Or a pothead.
LADY 2: Or a muffin queen.
LADY 1: Look at her. It's just a whore.
LADY 2: Or maybe a gold digger.
LADY 1: She's a hustler.
LADY 2: Yeah, or some sort of intellectual.
LADY 1: She's probably a rimmer.
LADY 2: Hmmm. Maybe a speed freak.
LADY 1: A chicken queen.
LADY 2: Or a shrimp freak.
LADY 1: But, but it could be a narc.
LADY 2: Yeah, or maybe a beatnik.
LADY 1: Or a junkie.
LADY 2: Yes or an acid-head.
LADY 1: Or a spade.
LADY 2: Or just a gigolo.
LADY 1: Just a flower child.
LADY 2: Yeah, a shit-kicker.
LADY 1: Or a red.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a glamour girl.
LADY 1: Maybe she's some just sort of snob.
LADY 2: Yeah. Maybe just some Polack.
LADY 1: Or a warmonger.
LADY 2: Yeah or an S&M queen.
LADY 1: Oh, it's just a teenager.
LADY 2: Yeah, maybe it's one of those Hell's Angels.
LADY 1: You think it's a baby butch?
LADY 2: It could be a fag hag.
LADY 1: Or maybe it's a b-girl.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a closet queen.
LADY 1: A hair hopper.
LADY 2: Yeah, maybe a movie star.
LADY 1: Well, she's a dropout of some sort.
LADY 2: Yeah. What is that word? Uh, dingleberry.
LADY 1: Or a draft dodger.
LADY 2: Yeah, or maybe just a runaway.
LADY 1: Or some sort of, you know, peacenik.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a hooker.
LADY 1: Or she's one of those Yippies.
LADY 2: Mmmm. Maybe it's one of those jet-setters.
LADY 1: But I'll bet it's just a whore.
LADY 2: Yeah, or maybe a dinge queen.
LADY 1: A rimmer.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a size queen.
LADY 1: A hustler.
LADY 2: Oh, she makes me sick.
LADY 1: Whore.

(Having heard enough, Pearce's character clicks her heels together, a la Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and magically disappears.)

LADY 2: What is that?
LADY 1: Oh my god! Isn't that disgusting?
LADY 2: Let's wait for the bus somewhere else!
LADY 1: This whole thing has just made me sick.
LADY 2: Me, too. Let's move up here. Maybe we can wait for the bus in peace.

[Holdrüholoheuho]

LADY 1: Is that a boy or a girl?
LADY 2: Is it a faggot?
LADY 1: It's a dyke.
LADY 2: No, it's a hippie.
LADY 1: A communist?
LADY 2: Perhaps it's a drag queen.
LADY 1: Or a wash rag queen.
LADY 2: It's probably a speed freak.
LADY 1: Or a pothead.
LADY 2: Or a muffin queen.
LADY 1: Look at her. It's just a whore.
LADY 2: Or maybe a gold digger.
LADY 1: She's a hustler.
LADY 2: Yeah, or some sort of intellectual.
LADY 1: She's probably a rimmer.
LADY 2: Hmmm. Maybe a speed freak.
LADY 1: A chicken queen.
LADY 2: Or a shrimp freak.
LADY 1: But, but it could be a narc.
LADY 2: Yeah, or maybe a beatnik.
LADY 1: Or a junkie.
LADY 2: Yes or an acid-head.
LADY 1: Or a spade.
LADY 2: Or just a gigolo.
LADY 1: Just a flower child.
LADY 2: Yeah, a shit-kicker.
LADY 1: Or a red.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a glamour girl.
LADY 1: Maybe she's some just sort of snob.
LADY 2: Yeah. Maybe just some Polack.
LADY 1: Or a warmonger.
LADY 2: Yeah or an S&M queen.
LADY 1: Oh, it's just a teenager.
LADY 2: Yeah, maybe it's one of those Hell's Angels.
LADY 1: You think it's a baby butch?
LADY 2: It could be a fag hag.
LADY 1: Or maybe it's a b-girl.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a closet queen.
LADY 1: A hair hopper.
LADY 2: Yeah, maybe a movie star.
LADY 1: Well, she's a dropout of some sort.
LADY 2: Yeah. What is that word? Uh, dingleberry.
LADY 1: Or a draft dodger.
LADY 2: Yeah, or maybe just a runaway.
LADY 1: Or some sort of, you know, peacenik.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a hooker.
LADY 1: Or she's one of those Yippies.
LADY 2: Mmmm. Maybe it's one of those jet-setters.
LADY 1: But I'll bet it's just a whore.
LADY 2: Yeah, or maybe a dinge queen.
LADY 1: A rimmer.
LADY 2: Yeah, or a size queen.
LADY 1: A hustler.
LADY 2: Oh, she makes me sick.
LADY 1: Whore.

(Having heard enough, Pearce's character clicks her heels together, a la Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and magically disappears.)

LADY 2: What is that?
LADY 1: Oh my god! Isn't that disgusting?
LADY 2: Let's wait for the bus somewhere else!
LADY 1: This whole thing has just made me sick.
LADY 2: Me, too. Let's move up here. Maybe we can wait for the bus in peace.

oh, thanks!!!
going now to read the articles called like "4 Ways To Remove Padding Words" (and similar) and then will make out of it my new "about me" that i will use on some newly infiltrated social media.
pity i made my entreé to reddit already few weeks ago (to figure out what's all the millenial buzz about gamestop).
i am still not yet on tiktok so i might use this new "about me" there (to scare a bunch of kids with short attention span).

[DT.]

- March -

Buud Yam (Gaston Kaboré, 1997)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005)*
Earth Light (Guy Gilles, 1970)
Behemoth (Zhao Liang, 2015)
The Red Spectacles (Mamoru Oshii, 1987)
Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur, 1946)
Kamome Diner (Naoko Ogigami, 2006) ♥♥♥
The Club (Pablo Larraín, 2015)
A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano, 1991)
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (Tsui Hark, 1980)
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
Chronic (Michel Franco, 2015)

TV:

WandaVision (season 1)

[ofrene]

2021. 3

Silent Souls (Aleksey Fedorchenko, 2010)
Earth Light (Guy Gilles, 1970)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 2021)
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020)
Raya and the Last Dragon (Don Hall, Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2021)
Dear Comrades! (Andrei Konchalovsky, 2020)
3 Faces (Jafar Panahi, 2018)
Night Light (Kim Moo-young, 2018)
Buud Yam (Gaston Kadore, 1997)
Distance (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2001)
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football (Louis Myles, 2018)
The Depths (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2011)
Yokohama BJ Blues (Eiichi Kudo, 1981)
Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta, 1981) ♥
Compensation (Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999)
Old Boyfriends (Joan Tewkesbury, 1979)
Behemoth (Zhao Liang, 2015)
Aragane (Kaori Oda, 2015)
Cenote (Kaori Oda, 2019)
The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, 2017)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
Kamome Diner (Naoko Ogigami, 2006)
August in the Water (Gakuryy Ishii, 1995) ♥
The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978) ♥
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
Sunset Song (Terence Davies, 2015)
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015)
Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020)
Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, 2021)
11 x 14 (James Benning, 1977)
Office (Johnnie To, 2015)
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, 2015)
Forget Me Not (Kei Horie, 2015)
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman, 2020) ♥
La Pointe-Courte (Agnes Varda, 1955)
Lore (Cate Shortland, 2012)
The Book of Fish (Lee Joon-ik, 2021)

[rischka]

distance (kore-eda 2001)
birdboy: the forgotten children (rivero/vasquez 2015)
red moon tide (patiño 2020) ♥
behemoth (zhao 2015)
modern romance (brooks 1981)
yokohama BJ blues (kudo 1981)
kaiser: the greatest footballer (myles 2018)
aferim! (jude 2015) ♥
the living desert (algar 1953)
no home movie (akerman 2015)
good sam (mccarey 1948)
crumbs (llansó 2015)
right now, wrong then (hong 2015) ♥
cemetery of splendor (weerasethakul 2015) ♥
bridge of spies (spielberg 2015)
humoresque (negulesco 1946)
dead slow ahead (herce 2015)
the fits (holmer 2015) ♥
cosmos (zulawski 2015)
moon warriors (hung 1992) ♥
l. cohen (benning 2018)
lost and beautiful (marcello 2015)
kaili blues (bi gan 2015)

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1374 ... 59648?s=20

rewatch: humanity and paper balloons (yamanaka 1937) ♥♥♥ + assorted shorts & TIME TEAM

[Silga]

March 2021

Rewatch


Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961) 9/10
Good Neighbor Sam (David Swift, 1964) 8/10
A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964) 7/10
Distracted (Pierre Richard, 1970) 5/10
Pete 'n' Tillie (Martin Ritt, 1972) 7/10
A Pain in the Ass (Édouard Molinaro, 1973) 4/10
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (Robert Lamoureux, 1973) 6/10
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (Robert Lamoureux, 1975) 7/10
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) 7/10
Death on the Nile (John Guillermin, 1978) 6/10
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987) 7/10
Batman (Tim Burton, 1989) 8/10
Lethal Weapon 2 (Richard Donner, 1989) 6/10
Housesitter (Frank Oz, 1992) 6/10
Batman Returns (Tim Burton, 1992) 8/10
Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner, 1992) 5/10
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (Gene Feldman, 1994) 6/10
Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, 1995) 4/10
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman (Gene Feldman, 1996) 7/10
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough (Gene Feldman, 1997) 8/10
Wild Things (John McNaughton, 1998) 6/10
Kiss of the Dragon (Chris Nahon, 2001) 5/10
The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray, 2003) 6/10
Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013) 8/10
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Ultimate Edition (Zack Snyder, 2016) 8/10
The Untold Story of Euro Disco (Olivier Monssens, 2017) 6/10
Twilight's Kiss (Ray Yeung, 2019) 8/10
Song Without a Name (Melina León, 2019) 6/10
The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin, 2019) 3/10
Apples (Christos Nikou, 2020) 8/10
Residue (Merawi Gerima, 2020) 6/10
New Order (Michel Franco, 2020) 1/10
Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi, 2020) 6/10
I Am Greta (Nathan Grossman, 2020) 5/10
If It Were Love (Patric Chiha, 2020) 6/10
Saint-Narcisse (Bruce LaBruce, 2020) 2/10
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic, 2020) 5/10
The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo, 2020) 7/10
Night of the Kings (Philippe Lacôte, 2020) 4/10
The Painter and the Thief (Benjamin Ree, 2020) 6/10
Coming 2 America (Craig Brewer, 2021) 3/10
Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2021) 8/10
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude, 2021) 4/10

TV:
NB90s (Zak Levitt, 2013) 5/10
The Nineties (CNN, 2017) 8/10
Magical Land of Oz (Tosca Looby, 2019) 7/10

Shorts:
Peace on Earth (Hugh Harman, 1939) 8/10
Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1980) 7/10
The Living Sea (Greg MacGillivray, 1995) 6/10
Khaite FW21 (Sean Baker, 2021) 5/10

Best: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Twilight's Kiss, Apples
Worst: New Order, Saint-Narcisse, Coming 2 America

[Searchlike]

Best: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Yay!

[flip]

watched a lot of 2019-2021 stuff for the end of year and oscar polls, not much of that was great but saw some other great things

longs:
Lost in Munich (Petr Zelenka, 2015) - 10/10
Earth Light (Guy Gilles, 1970) - 9/10
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, 2020) - 9/10
Keep an Eye Out (Quentin Dupieux, 2018) - 9/10
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 2021) - 8/10
Emma. (Autumn de Wilde, 2020) - 8/10
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming! (Norman Jewison, 1966) - 8/10
Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) - 8/10
Voices in the Wind (Nobuhiro Suwa, 2020) - 7/10
Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979) - 7/10
Absurdistan (Veit Helmer, 2008) - 7/10
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin, 2020) - 7/10
Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, 2004) - 7/10
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (George Wolfe, 2020) - 7/10
Side Street (Anthony Mann, 1950) - 7/10
News of the World (Paul Greengrass, 2020) - 7/10
Hillbilly Elegy (Ron Howard, 2020) - 7/10
The Ring Road (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, 1985) - 6/10
Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995) - 6/10
Pinocchio (Matteo Garrone, 2019) - 6/10
The Mauritanian (Kevin Macdonald, 2021) - 6/10
The Little Things (John Lee Hancock, 2021) - 6/10
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 2020) - 5/10
Silent Souls (Aleksey Fedorchenko, 2010) - 5/10
Atarrabi and Mikelats (Eugene Green, 2020) - 5/10
The Desperate Hours (William Wyler, 1955) - 5/10
Suspense (Frank Tuttle, 1946) - 5/10
Monster Hunter (Paul WS Anderson, 2020) - 5/10
Palm Springs (Max Barbakow, 2020) - 5/10
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020) - 5/10
Freaky Friday (Gary Nelson, 1976) - 5/10
Mulan (Niki Caro, 2020) - 5/10
Soho Incident (Vernon Sewell, 1956) - 4/10
The Cat in the Hat (Bo Welch, 2003) - 4/10
PIeces of a Woman (Kondrel Mundruczo, 2020) - 4/10
Samui Song (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2017) - 3/10
The United States vs Billie Holiday (Lee Daniels, 2021) - 3/10
Mank (David Fincher, 2020) - 3/10
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Wollner, 2020) - 3/10
Nightmare (Maxwell Shane, 1956) - 2/10
One Night in Miami (Regina King, 2020) - 2/10
Sound of Metal (Darius Marder, 2019) - 2/10
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020) - 2/10
Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 2020) - 1/10
Chi-raq (Spike Lee, 2015) - 1/10
The Prom (Ryan Murphy, 2020) - 1/10

shorts:
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now (Fred Schepisi, 1968) - 9/10
Somebody (Miranda July, 2014) - 8/10
Open to the World (Miranda July, 2020) - 6/10
Hidden (Jafar Panahi, 2020) - 6/10

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1377 ... 76450?s=20

adding a tange sazen rewatch. mifune spent his career copying this guy

[thoxans]

cousin, cousine (jean-charles tacchella)
the trial (orson welles)
fleshpot on 42nd street (andy milligan)
the outlaw josey wales (clint eastwood)
the freshman (andrew bergman)

[nrh]

pandemic (takahisa zeze, 2009)
life back then (takahisa zeze, 2011)
the eight-year engagement (takahisa zeze, 2017)
garm wars: the last druid (mamoru oshiii, 2014)
the promised land (takahisa zeze, 2019)
the lowlife (takahisa zeze, 2017)
l'enfer (claude chabrol, 1994)
tokyo x erotica (takahisa zeze, 2001)
no good men (takahisa zeze, 1995)
nenjam marappathilai (selvaraghavan, 2016 but released 2021)
saheber cutlet (anjan dutt, 2020)
the red spectacles (mamoru oshii, 1987)

[roujin]

lord forgive me but it's time to go back to the old me!!!

[St. Gloede]

I had quite the month, courtesy of a few nicely placed vacation days leaving me with a stunning 77 films, 23 shorts and 2 mini-series seen for the first time, as well as 9 rewatches, which may just be a personal best in a single month, to push them out first they were:

India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras) 7/10 --> 9/10
Sedmikrásky / Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilová) 8 --> 8.5
Western (2017, Valeska Grisebach) 9 --> 9
-
Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda) 8.5 --> 8.5
Les créatures / The Creature (1966, Agnès Varda) 7 --> 8
Daguerreotypes (1975, Agnès Varda) 5 --> 6
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / Gleaners & I (2000, Agnès Varda) 9 --> 9
Les plages d'Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès (2008, Agnès Varda) 9 --> 9.5
Visages, Villages / Faces, Places (2017, Agnès Varda) 9.5 --> 9.5

The highlight was obviously the series of Agnès Varda rewatches, along with completing her available feature-length documentaries (1 remaining without subtitles) and a wonderful set of shorts - as well as Agnès Varda: From Here to There.

The second highlight, at least in long time coming, was that I finally watched Godard and Miéville's 6/12 part mini-series "Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication", which was quite the relation and anyone who is a fan of their work should seek it out. This also led me to explore Miéville's 4 solo films, which, along with her co-directed efforts with JLG shot her into my top 100 directors.

Anyhow, here's the top first-time viewings of the month:

9.5
Innocence (2004, Lucile Hadzihalilovic)

9s
Après la réconciliation / After the Reconciliation (2000, Anne-Marie Miéville)
Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu onboro no Seikatsu / History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970, Shohei Imamura)

8.5s
Pre istine / Before the Truth (1967, Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac)
Zazidani / The Walled In (1969, Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac)
Nous sommes tous encore ici / We're Still Here (1997, Anne-Marie Miéville)
Praznik / The Feast (1967, Djordje Kadijevic)

8s
Nemirni / The Naughty Ones (1968, Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac)
La niña santa / The Holy Girl (2004,Lucrecia Martel)
Kad budem mrtav i beo / When I Am Dead and Gone (1967, Zivojin Pavlovic)
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication / 6x2/Over and Under the Media (1976, Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard) -
Agnès de ci de là Varda / Agnes Varda: From Here to There (2011, Agnès Varda)
La bouche de Jean-Pierre / Mimi / Parental Guidance (1996, Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
Quo vadis, Aida? (2020, Jasmila Zbanic)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, Jean-Marc Vallée)
Naissance des pieuvres / Water Lilies (2007, Céline Sciamma)
Druk / Another Round (2020, Thomas Vinterberg)
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999, Shane Meadows)
Lou n'a pas dit non / Lou Didn't Say No (1994, Anne-Marie Miéville)
The Kid Detective (2020, Evan Morgan)
L'homme atlantique (1981, Marguerite Duras)
Bice skoro propast sveta / It Rains in My Village (1968, Aleksandar Petrović)

Great Shorts

Du côté de la côte / Along the Coast (1958, Agnès Varda) 9/10
7p., cuis., s. de b., ... à saisir (1984, Agnès Varda) 8/10
Salut les Cubains (1964, Agnès Varda)
O saisons, ô châteaux / O Seasons, O Castles (1958, Agnès Varda)
L'opéra-mouffe / Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958, Agnès Varda)
Crni film / Black Film (1971,Zelimir Zilnik)
Les dites cariatides / The So-called Caryatids (1984, Agnès Varda)
Oncle Yanco (1967, Agnès Varda)
Black Panthers (1968, Agnès Varda)
I Miss Sonia Henie (1971, Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Tinto Brass, Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic, Milos Forman, Buck Henry, Dusan Makavejev, Paul Morrissey, Frederick Wisemam)
Hommage à Zgougou (et salut à Sabine Mamou) / Homage to Zgougou the Cat (2002, Agnès Varda)

[---]

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0321 (IV, ii)

26 Hammett (Wim Wenders, 1982) -- 2.5/4
15 A Bagful of Fleas (Věra Chytilová, 1962) -- 2.5/4
14 The Ceiling (Věra Chytilová, 1962) -- 2.5/4
13 Singles (Cameron Crowe, 1992) -- 2.5/4
12 "The Bridge" (Joris Ivens, 1929) -- 2.5/4
12 "Rain" (Joris Ivens/Mannus Franken, 1929) -- 3/4

[pabs]

March, 2021

[cinesmith]

March. 30 films. 4 docs 17 foreign 3 were mini-series.

Florence Foster Jenkins 2014 Stephen Frears
The Lady and The Dale 2021 Nick Cammilleri & Zackary Drucker
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind 2018 Marina Zenavich
Allen vs Farrow (4 part doc) 2021 Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (#11) 1965 Kazuo Mor (rerun)
Zatoichi Challenged (#17) 1967 Kenji Misumi
Zatoichi's Vengeance (#13) 1966 Tokuzō Tanaka (rerun)
Sunset 2018 Laslos Zemes
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (#14) 1966 Kazuo Ikehiro
Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg (rerun)
Zappa 2020 Alex Winter
The Pacific (mini-series) 10 episodes 2010 Tim Van Patton
Band of Brothers (mini-series) 10 episodes 2001
The Investigation (mini-series) 6 episodes 2020 Tobias Lindholm
The Priests 2015 Jae-hyun Jang
Ammonite 2020 Francis Lee
The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci (rerun)
Zatoichi’s Revenge (#10) 1965 Akira Inoue
The Master and Margaret 1972 Aleksandar Petrović <---- *Best find of the month!!
Zatoichi the Fugitive (#4) 1963 Tokuzō Tanaka
Good Sam 1948 Leo McCarey
My Son John 1952 Leo McCarey
Hi Diddle-Diddle 1943 Andrew L Stone
New Tale of Zatoichi (#3) 1963 Tokuzō Tanaka (rerun)
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (#6) 1964 Kazuo Ikehiro (rerun)
Satan Never Sleeps 1962 Leo McCarey
Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Céline Sciamma
Another Round 2020 Thomas Vinterberg
The Tale of Zatoichi (#1) 1962 Kenji Misumi (rerun)
Five Men of Edo 1951 Daisuke Itō

[DT.]

- April -

Heli (Amat Escalante, 2013)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)*
Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2021)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013) ♥
Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder, 1935)
Easy Living (Jacques Tourneur, 1949) ♥
I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993) ♥
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Roberto Minervini, 2018)
Saturday Fiction (Lou Ye, 2019)
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)

TV:

The Crown (season 4) ♥♥
Nathan for You (seasons 1-2)

[rischka]

Algol - Tragödie der Macht (werckmeister 1920)
Voyage sans espoir (christian-jaque 1943)
Douce (autant-lara 1943)
Skazka Stranstviy (mitta 1983)
Goupi mains rouges (becker 1943)
The Seventh Bullet (kamraev 1972)
Ursula (gunther 1978)
The Bodyguard (kamraev 1979)
Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (kuleshov 1924)
Blondie of the Follies (goulding 1932)
Lumière d'Été (grémillon 1943) ♥
Mank (fincher 2020)
Drift (Wittman 2017) ♥
Nomadland (zhao 2020)
Bloody nose, Empty pockets (ross bros 2020)
Seine Frau, die Unbekannte (christensen 1923)

rewatches

The Tall T ♥♥♥
Seven Men from Now ♥♥
Legend of the Mountain ♥♥♥♥
Una Donna LIbera ♥♥