This was my reaction to it as well. In one ear and out the other.
2015 poll
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My today's dosage of 2015 was full of surreal animations.
In general, I have an affinity for surreal but I don't think any of the short (dreamlike) films I watched today will stay for a long within my memory (as the dreams, soon, they will be forgotten).
Tho I don't regret becoming exposed to any of them.
Maybe someone will find something interesting below.
If not, it will be neither the first nor the last pointless post in this thread specifically or in this forum universally.
So, here is another bit to the 2015 mosaic (my 2015 poll viewings No14-21).
First, I randomly picked LIMBO LIMBO TRAVEL (Zsuzsanna Kreif, Borbála Zétényi).
Stereotypes in gender relations, depicted in this film, might be perceived as chauvinistic, if the film was made by males.
It was made by two girls, so the possibilities of interpretation are more complex and diverse (ofc at the condition that the directors' names are not feminine nicks of two males).
https://vimeo.com/390960545
Then, I (again randomly) picked THE SLEEPWALKER (Theodore Ushev).
It is an adaptation of the poem "Romance Sonámbulo" by Federico García Lorca https://poets.org/poem/romance-sonambulo
and it borrows the visual vocabulary from Joan Miró.
https://vimeo.com/111910724
My third pick was semi-random.
I randomly glanced on POSTINDUSTRIAL but then, when i noticed it is also an adaptation of a poem, i thought, "Ha, here, I am dealing with a pattern — it can't be a chance two different animators were urged to adapt poetry in 2015" and I started to investigate what's going on here?!
I discovered POSTINDUSTRIAL is a part of an anthology of 6 short films called in sum MARK AND VERSE (each segment is an adaptation of contemporary Bulgarian poetry). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5353090/
POSTINDUSTRIAL (Boris Pramatarov)
https://vimeo.com/118120669
A PETTY MORNING CRIME (Asparuh Petrov)
https://vimeo.com/118120670
MILKMAID (Ivan Bogdanov)
https://vimeo.com/118400366
NATURAL NOVEL IN 8 CHAPTERS (Milen Vitanov)
https://vimeo.com/118257747
100% MOOD (Dmitry Yagodin)
https://vimeo.com/118392379
ODEON (Boris Despodov)
Visuals inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's film "Une femme Mariée".
https://vimeo.com/118120668
In general, I have an affinity for surreal but I don't think any of the short (dreamlike) films I watched today will stay for a long within my memory (as the dreams, soon, they will be forgotten).
Tho I don't regret becoming exposed to any of them.
Maybe someone will find something interesting below.
If not, it will be neither the first nor the last pointless post in this thread specifically or in this forum universally.
So, here is another bit to the 2015 mosaic (my 2015 poll viewings No14-21).
First, I randomly picked LIMBO LIMBO TRAVEL (Zsuzsanna Kreif, Borbála Zétényi).
Stereotypes in gender relations, depicted in this film, might be perceived as chauvinistic, if the film was made by males.
It was made by two girls, so the possibilities of interpretation are more complex and diverse (ofc at the condition that the directors' names are not feminine nicks of two males).
https://vimeo.com/390960545
Then, I (again randomly) picked THE SLEEPWALKER (Theodore Ushev).
It is an adaptation of the poem "Romance Sonámbulo" by Federico García Lorca https://poets.org/poem/romance-sonambulo
and it borrows the visual vocabulary from Joan Miró.
https://vimeo.com/111910724
My third pick was semi-random.
I randomly glanced on POSTINDUSTRIAL but then, when i noticed it is also an adaptation of a poem, i thought, "Ha, here, I am dealing with a pattern — it can't be a chance two different animators were urged to adapt poetry in 2015" and I started to investigate what's going on here?!
I discovered POSTINDUSTRIAL is a part of an anthology of 6 short films called in sum MARK AND VERSE (each segment is an adaptation of contemporary Bulgarian poetry). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5353090/
POSTINDUSTRIAL (Boris Pramatarov)
https://vimeo.com/118120669
A PETTY MORNING CRIME (Asparuh Petrov)
https://vimeo.com/118120670
MILKMAID (Ivan Bogdanov)
https://vimeo.com/118400366
NATURAL NOVEL IN 8 CHAPTERS (Milen Vitanov)
https://vimeo.com/118257747
100% MOOD (Dmitry Yagodin)
https://vimeo.com/118392379
ODEON (Boris Despodov)
Visuals inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's film "Une femme Mariée".
https://vimeo.com/118120668
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blasphemy!
it is like saying CEOL (RUINSONG) can't get any better even if turned upside-down.
it is like saying CEOL (RUINSONG) can't get any better even if turned upside-down.
thank you for all the ruin suggestions in the kinoeye one and this one! i'll put together a letterboxd list at some point. (i want to watch half of the suggestions first)
until then....this started out as ruin porn and turned into a surprise 2015 viewing!
https://dafilms.com/film/9691-cbds-czec ... ce-society
until then....this started out as ruin porn and turned into a surprise 2015 viewing!
https://dafilms.com/film/9691-cbds-czec ... ce-society
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Some quick notes on 2015 watches; nothing has really blown me apart, but these were watchable:
Diary Of A Chambermaid - Benoit Jacquot. Period drama, Merchant-Ivory style, but it engages with class issues and gender parity in ways that M&I aren't usually interested in doing.To judge by LB, I seem to be the only person that liked this movie at all...
The Virgin Psychics- Sion Sono. Mocking and endorsing manga-geek-incel culture at the same time. Not sophisticated, the biggest running joke is the instantaneous BOING of teenboy erections at inappropriate times. I dunno, I thought it was funny. ///// Maybe overthinking here, but it also seemed like a parody of the Evangelion series, creating an elaborate cosmology out of pubescent sexual anxieties.
Baires - (who cares?)
Corazon Muerto/Dead Heart - (who cares?) : Genre-driven Argentine pop movies. Meh.
Ana Maria In Novela Land - Georgina Riedel Pop-comedy with flashes of 'downtown' in its cultural DNA; I want to compare it to Desperately Seeking Susan, but no have seen. Big IdPol brownie points for latina hipsters representing... but I fear I may be endorsin something that is at core pretty basic,.
Diary Of A Chambermaid - Benoit Jacquot. Period drama, Merchant-Ivory style, but it engages with class issues and gender parity in ways that M&I aren't usually interested in doing.To judge by LB, I seem to be the only person that liked this movie at all...
The Virgin Psychics- Sion Sono. Mocking and endorsing manga-geek-incel culture at the same time. Not sophisticated, the biggest running joke is the instantaneous BOING of teenboy erections at inappropriate times. I dunno, I thought it was funny. ///// Maybe overthinking here, but it also seemed like a parody of the Evangelion series, creating an elaborate cosmology out of pubescent sexual anxieties.
Baires - (who cares?)
Corazon Muerto/Dead Heart - (who cares?) : Genre-driven Argentine pop movies. Meh.
Ana Maria In Novela Land - Georgina Riedel Pop-comedy with flashes of 'downtown' in its cultural DNA; I want to compare it to Desperately Seeking Susan, but no have seen. Big IdPol brownie points for latina hipsters representing... but I fear I may be endorsin something that is at core pretty basic,.
The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
thank you! this one hadn't appeared on my radar at all...and vincent lindon is so hot in anythingLencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:29 pm
Diary Of A Chambermaid - Benoit Jacquot. Period drama, Merchant-Ivory style, but it engages with class issues and gender parity in ways that M&I aren't usually interested in doing.To judge by LB, I seem to be the only person that liked this movie at all...
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I had no clue about this 2015 film. (thx!)
No wonder I write ridiculous things in this forum when my countrymen are such nuts!
Btw. those bunkers are occasionally for sale.
There is a local architect who bought one and put on top his weekend house.
https://www.jantyrpekl.com/utulna
Tho local (understandable) fear in the 1930s (that was so stimulating to building bunkers) is nothing compared to post-WW2 paranoia in Albania.
Albanians (under Enver Hoxha) were the real bunker maniacs!
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2018 ... -a-country
No wonder I write ridiculous things in this forum when my countrymen are such nuts!
Btw. those bunkers are occasionally for sale.
There is a local architect who bought one and put on top his weekend house.
https://www.jantyrpekl.com/utulna
Tho local (understandable) fear in the 1930s (that was so stimulating to building bunkers) is nothing compared to post-WW2 paranoia in Albania.
Albanians (under Enver Hoxha) were the real bunker maniacs!
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2018 ... -a-country
The bunkers were the brainchild of Enver Hoxha, a former partisan who ruled post-war Albania for 40 years under a regime both brutal and surreal. Convinced that everyone from neighbouring Yugoslavia to Greece, Nato and even his former allies in the Soviet Union wanted to invade his country, Hoxha embarked on a bunker-building programme of titanic proportions.
couple more 2015 viewings:
deux rémi, deux - ♥♥♥♥ thankyou nrh so much! looooved it! more of these irritatingly precocious, breezily charming french movies please! also hairy serge reading in bed in heavily accented english *faints*
(+duetting with jackie raynal.....so....bleurgh....hip)
hail arcadia - bloody hell, the narrator never shuts up. despite the archaeology, and the landscape (okay fine i will absolutely go there on holiday one day) way too much high-falutin awe-eyed waffle and ugh, noble peasants. (astonishing, some of the ancient farmers i knew growing up were complete wife-beating ignorant bastards, how did the rural gods let such things occur?)
however, there was this, which seems somehow....relevant:
that is a magpie, in case you're bird-blind
deux rémi, deux - ♥♥♥♥ thankyou nrh so much! looooved it! more of these irritatingly precocious, breezily charming french movies please! also hairy serge reading in bed in heavily accented english *faints*
(+duetting with jackie raynal.....so....bleurgh....hip)
hail arcadia - bloody hell, the narrator never shuts up. despite the archaeology, and the landscape (okay fine i will absolutely go there on holiday one day) way too much high-falutin awe-eyed waffle and ugh, noble peasants. (astonishing, some of the ancient farmers i knew growing up were complete wife-beating ignorant bastards, how did the rural gods let such things occur?)
however, there was this, which seems somehow....relevant:
that is a magpie, in case you're bird-blind
the academy of muses.
skin-crawling. guerin finally displays some sense of awareness (but not, i think, still nearly enough) over his creepy attitude to women and it. is. horrible.
skin-crawling. guerin finally displays some sense of awareness (but not, i think, still nearly enough) over his creepy attitude to women and it. is. horrible.
Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (Evangelia Kranioti) - The shots! Makes a good companion piece to Dead Slow Ahead.
Knight of Cups
Bulanti
Nightlife
Night Without Distance
American Reflexx
Carol
The Assassin
[…] Craving for Narrative
Field Niggas
Greetings to the Ancestors
The VVitch
Tangerine
Blackhat
Bulanti
Nightlife
Night Without Distance
American Reflexx
Carol
The Assassin
[…] Craving for Narrative
Field Niggas
Greetings to the Ancestors
The VVitch
Tangerine
Blackhat
Very! I love Lois Patiño his work. Didn't get to his feature from last year yet, but his shorts 'Night Without Distance', 'Fajr' and 'Mountain in Shadow' are all amazing.
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2015 poll viewing No29:
DREAM ENGLISH KID 1964-1999 AD (Mark Leckey)
https://letterboxd.com/film/dream-engli ... 4-1999-ad/
DREAM ENGLISH KID 1964-1999 AD (Mark Leckey)
https://letterboxd.com/film/dream-engli ... 4-1999-ad/
https://vimeo.com/144790614Dream English Kid is a collage of what Leckey calls ‘found memories’ made from sources such as adverts, TV programmes and music as well as reconstructions using props and models. He made the film after he found a recording on YouTube of a Joy Division concert he attended as a teenager and realised that many of our personal memories can now be found online. While acting as a form of self–portrait for the artist, the film also seeks to connect us all through shared memory and experience.
I'm digging Romanian western Aferim!
I've only seen one Radu Jude film (I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians) and that one def screamed 'rischka will dig this'.
LOL i'll have to check it out then. why is my taste so obvious 
BAAHUBALI: The Beginning (S.S. Rajamouli)
arabian nights (miguel gomes)*
the assassin (hou hsiao-hsien)
blackhat (michael mann)
haraamkhor (shlok sharma)
journey to the shore (kiyoshi kurosawa)
ok kanmani (mani ratnam)
right now, wrong then (hong sang-soo)
spl ii: a time for consequences, aka, kill zone 2 (soi cheang)
thithi (raam reddy)
visaranai (vetrimaaran)
*counting the three volumes (the restless one, the desolate one, and the enchanted one) as a single film
**pretty boring list, i know; but beyond that, it was late 2017/early 2018 that i first started watching indian movies (i.e. everything not satyajit ray), so a lot of my first watches were indian flicks from '15; seen quite a few other films from this year, but i wasn't that big on a lot of the 'important' stuff, 45 years was an arthouse lifetime movie that left absolutely no impression on me whatsoever, which was surprising given how 'emotionally devastating' it was so oft-described as at the time of its release; carol was kinda sorta disappointing in that it's fine and all, but that's it, it's not great, it's just fine; francofonia seemed pointless; knight of cups was unsurprisingly insufferable; mad max: fury road was ok for a mainstream hollywood action movie, but it has no rewatch value at all; the revenant was self-important torture porn; sicario has absolutely no blood whatsoever running through its veins; son of saul was fine as a dardennes knockoff until it devolved into out-of-place allegory as it went on; also, let it be said, not that they're 'important' movies in the slightest, but fifty shades of grey really isn't all that bad, while trainwreck is seriously one of the absolute worst things i've ever sat through
arabian nights (miguel gomes)*
the assassin (hou hsiao-hsien)
blackhat (michael mann)
haraamkhor (shlok sharma)
journey to the shore (kiyoshi kurosawa)
ok kanmani (mani ratnam)
right now, wrong then (hong sang-soo)
spl ii: a time for consequences, aka, kill zone 2 (soi cheang)
thithi (raam reddy)
visaranai (vetrimaaran)
*counting the three volumes (the restless one, the desolate one, and the enchanted one) as a single film
**pretty boring list, i know; but beyond that, it was late 2017/early 2018 that i first started watching indian movies (i.e. everything not satyajit ray), so a lot of my first watches were indian flicks from '15; seen quite a few other films from this year, but i wasn't that big on a lot of the 'important' stuff, 45 years was an arthouse lifetime movie that left absolutely no impression on me whatsoever, which was surprising given how 'emotionally devastating' it was so oft-described as at the time of its release; carol was kinda sorta disappointing in that it's fine and all, but that's it, it's not great, it's just fine; francofonia seemed pointless; knight of cups was unsurprisingly insufferable; mad max: fury road was ok for a mainstream hollywood action movie, but it has no rewatch value at all; the revenant was self-important torture porn; sicario has absolutely no blood whatsoever running through its veins; son of saul was fine as a dardennes knockoff until it devolved into out-of-place allegory as it went on; also, let it be said, not that they're 'important' movies in the slightest, but fifty shades of grey really isn't all that bad, while trainwreck is seriously one of the absolute worst things i've ever sat through
Best description of this movie. Completely agree.
is her taste so obvious? not to me...how can you tell? madam never rates her movies
(neither do i)
(neither do i)
Idk really, kinda hard describe, guess it's down to liking a lot of the same stuff?twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:43 pm is her taste so obvious? not to me...how can you tell? madam never rates her movies
Yes, you do! or did rather...I often see a vast array of stars from you on letterboxd pages.(neither do i)
oh those are ratings from a long time ago, they don't stand anymore, unless they're 0.5 or 5, i've probably not changed that much.
i'm trying to get through no home movie, meanwhile my mother is in hospital assuring me she's dying again. i pity those nurses
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I loved Crumbs (Miguel Llanso) last night, apparently not seen by anyone here but mesnalty and Javier. Post-apocalyptic fantasy like a Los Bros Hernandez remix of Horse Money.
The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
A Perfect Day*
Beterang (Veteran)
Blackhat
Bone Tomahawk
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Caprice
Ce sentiment de l'été (This Summer Feeling)
Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer (The People Vs. Fritz Bauer)
Dheepan
En man som heter Ove (A Man Called Ove)
Fúsi (Virgin Mountain)
Lao pao er (Mr. Six)
Magallanes
Miekkailija (The Fencer)
Much Loved
Shan he gu ren (Mountains May Depart)
Taxi
Tharlo*
Umimachi Diary (Our Little Sister)
*My DtC picks
Deliberately excluded (IMDb top 500 /TSPDT 21st Century top 100)
Bãhubali: The Beginning
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Carol
Ci ke Nie Yin Niang
Drishyam
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
Spotlight
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Talvar
The Martian
The Revenant
To see before the deadline
DtC nominees
Wanted
Dau Huduni Methai
Beterang (Veteran)
Blackhat
Bone Tomahawk
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Caprice
Ce sentiment de l'été (This Summer Feeling)
Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer (The People Vs. Fritz Bauer)
Dheepan
En man som heter Ove (A Man Called Ove)
Fúsi (Virgin Mountain)
Lao pao er (Mr. Six)
Magallanes
Miekkailija (The Fencer)
Much Loved
Shan he gu ren (Mountains May Depart)
Taxi
Tharlo*
Umimachi Diary (Our Little Sister)
*My DtC picks
Deliberately excluded (IMDb top 500 /TSPDT 21st Century top 100)
Bãhubali: The Beginning
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Carol
Ci ke Nie Yin Niang
Drishyam
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
Spotlight
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Talvar
The Martian
The Revenant
To see before the deadline
DtC nominees
Wanted
Dau Huduni Methai
wonderful, a million more movies to try and see 
i found crumbs and some others but i can't track caprice down and i really want to see that. can anyone help?
i found crumbs and some others but i can't track caprice down and i really want to see that. can anyone help?
fucking hell the world is full of coincidencesjiri kino ovalis wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:03 pm and to make this entreé into the world of "cinema & bird's poo" complete...
i just watched laila pakalniņa's ausma (which i loved, as i love all her other work - people if you liked kurpe, or are missing aleksei german (snr) in 2015, then watch this. she's wonderful with children, and i don't even like children) and anyway, this was the last shot. chickens eating horse shit
