What I Watched This Month......

[liquidnature]

Everything that I watched this month was good to great. Really liked everything apart from the two Garci's, whose oeuvre I have officially abandoned (his later works devolve into what are essentially slightly artistic soap-operas) unless someday I watch his Holmes and Watson thing.

Smallfoot (2018, Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig) ♥
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg) ♥
The Snowman (1982, Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami) ♥
The Pleasure Garden (1925, Alfred Hitchcock)
Black Panther (2018, Ryan Coogler)
Sesión continua / Double Feature (1984, José Luis Garci)
Asignatura aprobada / Course Completed (1987, José Luis Garci)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
Das Hofkonzert / The Court Concert (1936, Douglas Sirk)
Christopher Robin (2018, Marc Forster)
Fjols til fjells / Fools in the Mountains (1957, Edith Carlmar) ♥♥♥
Winter’s Bone (2010, Debra Granik) (rewatch)
Blade af Satans bog / Leaves from Satan's Book (1920, Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Spoiler!

Pferd und Reiter Springen Über ein Hindernis (1888, Ottomar Anschütz)
Making a Living (1914, Henry Lehrman)
Human Figure in Motion (1884, Eadweard Muybridge)
Le charmeur / The Charmer (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Coves and Caves (1920, Claude Friese-Greene) ♥
Hyde Park Corner (1889, William Friese-Greene)
Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea (1890, William Friese-Greene)
Le courant éléctrique / Electric Current (1906, Segundo de Chomón)
Nude Woman by Waterfall (1920, Claude Friese-Greene)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914, Henry Lehrman)
Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses ... Trotting Horses (1889, William Friese-Greene)
Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914, Mabel Normand)
A Thief Catcher (1914, Ford Sterling)
Le sorcier arabe / The Magician from Arabia (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Le troubadour / The Troubadour (1906, Segundo de Chomón)

[thoxans]

don't go breaking my heart (johnnie to / wai ka-fai)
pilgrimage (john ford)
born reckless (andrew bennison / john ford)
jiro dreams of sushi (david gelb)
bicycle thieves (vittorio de sica)
the reptile (john gilling)
love (gaspar noe)
train to busan (yeon sang-ho)
dog eat dog (paul schrader)
au revoir les enfants (louis malle)
andhadhun (sriram raghavan)
kahaani (sujoy ghosh)
valu: the wild bull (umesh vinayak kulkarni)
a little princess (alfonso cuaron)
the bodyguard (sammo hung)

[Silga]

February 2019

35 Films

In a cinema

Re-watch

***

All This, and Heaven Too (Anatole Litvak, 1940) 7/10
They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh, 1940) 9/10
The Mechanic (Michael Winner, 1972) 4/10
The Couch Trip (Michael Ritchie, 1988) 6/10
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz, 1988) 7/10
Sunset (Blake Edwards, 1988) 4/10
Physical Evidence (Michael Crichton, 1989) 4/10
Next of Kin (John Irvin, 1989) 5/10
The Dream Team (Howard Zieff, 1989) 6/10
The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito, 1989) 7/10
Kingpin (Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly, 1996) 7/10
Robinson Crusoe (Rod Hardy & George Miller, 1997) 5/10
Mickey Blue Eyes (Kelly Makin, 1999) 3/10
Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven, 2000) 6/10
Basic (John McTiernan, 2003) 6/10
Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004) 7/10
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005) 8/10
The Big White (Mark Mylod, 2005) 4/10
The Angels' Share (Ken Loach, 2012) 7/10
War Dogs (Todd Phillips, 2016) 7/10
Going in Style (Zach Braff, 2017) 6/10
Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017) 7/10
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017) 8/10
Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke, 2018) 8/10
Vice (Adam McKay, 2018) 9/10
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) 10/10
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) 6/10
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018) 5/10
Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018) 6/10
A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2018) 9/10
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2018) 10/10
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018) 8/10
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, 2019) 5/10
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez, 2019) 6/10
Serenity (Steven Knight, 2019) 4/10

Best: The Favourite
Worst: Mickey Blue Eyes

[arkheia]

The Sea Seeks Its Own Level (Erin Espelie, 2013)
Champ provençal (Rose Lowder, 1979) ♥
Gallant Journey (William Wellman, 1946) ♥♥
2012 (Takashi Makino, 2013)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1962)
Illuminated Texts (Bruce Elder, 1982)
Holy Flame of the Martial World (Tony Liu Chun-Ku, 1983) ♥
Mojin: The Worm Valley (Xing Fei, 2018)
Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann, 2018)
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal (Eugène Green, 2018)
Coreopsis (Pat O'Neil, 1998)
Tumbbad (Rahi Anil Barve, 2018) ♥
Vever (Deborah Stratman, 2018)
Strong Waters (Mónica Baptista, 2018)
The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa, 1983) ♥♥
Love’s Refrain (Paul Clipson, 2016)


All the films compiled into a list with reviews on Letterboxd here:
https://letterboxd.com/arkheia/list/feb ... ilm-notes/

[nrh]

poraali (samuthirikani, 2011)
tumbbad (rahi anil barve, 2018)
vikingo (jose celestino campusano, 2009)
katho upanishad (ashish avikunthak, 2011)
dillagi (basu chatterjee, 1978)
soni (ivan ayr, 2018)
bagh bahadhur (buddhadeb dasgupta, 1989)
money (siva nageshwara rao, 1993)
meendum kokila (g.n. rangarajan, 1981)
is raat ki subhah nahin (sudhir mishra, 1996)
mounam pesiyadhe (ameer sultan, 2002)
a mercedes for ashish (ruchir joshi, 2006)
kalaignan (g.b. vijay, 1993)
sabuj dwiper raja (tapan sinha, 1979)

[therouxxx]

all stuff i endorse..

abhijan, satyajit ray (1962)
love aaj kal, imtiaz ali (2009)
love exposure, sion sono (2008)
maqbool, vishal bhardwaj (2003)
high flying bird, steven soderbergh (2019)
detective dee the four heavenly kings, tsui hark (2018)
tanu weds manu, anand l rai (2011)
tanu weds manu returns, anand l rai (2015)
alita battle angel, robert rodriguez (2019)
aadukalam, vetrimaran (2011)
kabhi kabhie, yash chopra (1976)

[---]

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0219 (XXII, xcii)

28 A Time for Dying (Budd Boetticher, 1969) -- 3/4
28 "Egyptian Fakir with Dancing Monkey" (A.C. Abadie, 1903) -- 2.5/4
28 "Hammerfest" (Robert W. Paul, 1903) -- 2.5/4
28 "The Unappreciated Joke" (Edwin S. Porter, 1903) -- 2/4
28 "How Monsieur Takes His Bath" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1903) -- 3/4
28 "A Desperate Poaching Affray" (William Haggar, 1903) -- 2/4
28 "The Cheese Mites" (F. Martin Duncan, 1903) -- 3/4
28 "A Daring Daylight Burglary" (Frank S. Mottershaw, 1903) -- 2/4
28 "Rip Van Winkle" (William K.L. Dickson, 1903) -- 1.5/4
28 "Faust in Hell" (Georges Méliès, 1903) -- 2.5/4
28 "The Magic Lantern" (Georges Méliès, 1903) -- 1.5/4
26 Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955) -- 2.5/4
23 "The Enchanted Well" (Georges Méliès, 1903) -- 2/4
23 "An Extraordinary Cab Accident" (Walter R. Booth/Robert W. Paul, 1903) -- 2.5/4
23 "A Chess Dispute" (Robert W. Paul, 1903) -- 2/4
23 "Faust et Méphistophélès" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1903) -- 1/4
23 Woman They Almost Lynched (Allan Dwan, 1953) -- 2.5/4
21 "Felix in Hollywood" (Otto Messmer, 1923) -- 2/4
21 "Feline Follies" (Otto Messmer, 1919) -- 3/4
20 Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954) -- 3/4
20 "Return to Reason" (Man Ray, 1923) -- 2.5/4
20 "Rhythmus 21" (Hans Richter, 1923) -- 2/4
19 Seventh Heaven (Henry King, 1937) -- 3.5/4
19 Bleak Night (Yoon Sung-Hyun, 2010) -- 2.5/4
19 Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) -- 3/4
19 Touched (John Flynn, 1983) -- 2.5/4
19 "Mary Jane's Mishap" (George Albert Smith, 1903) -- 1.5/4
19 "Capital Execution" (Peter Elfelt, 1903) -- 2/4
19 "The Melomaniac" (George Méliès, 1903) -- 2.5/4
19 "The Infernal Cakewalk" (George Méliès, 1903) -- 1.5/4
18 Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2018) -- 3.5/4
18 "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (Friz Freleng, 1944) -- 2/4
18 "Pigs in a Polka" (Friz Freleng, 1943) -- 0.5/4
18 "Three Little Bops" (Friz Freleng, 1957) -- 2.5/4
18 "Bugs and Thugs" (Friz Freleng, 1954) -- 3/4
18 "Baseball Bugs" (Friz Freleng, 1946) -- 3/4
18 "Knighty Knight Bugs" (Friz Freleng, 1958) -- 3/4
18 "Tweety Pie" (Friz Freleng, 1947) -- 1.5/4
17 "Canary Row" (Friz Freleng, 1950) -- 2.5/4
17 "Canned Feud" (Friz Freleng, 1951) -- 2/4
17 "Speedy Gonzales" (Friz Freleng, 1955) -- 2.5/4
17 "Daffy – The Commando" (Friz Freleng, 1943) -- 2/4
17 "Big House Bunny" (Friz Freleng, 1950) -- 2/4
17 "Buccaneer Bunny" (Friz Freleng, 1948) -- 2.5/4
17 "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (Friz Freleng, 1948) -- 2.5/4
16 Do Bigha Zamin (Bimal Roy, 1953) -- 3.5/4
14 Devi (Satyajit Ray, 1960) -- 4/4
13 "WTC Haikus" (Jonas Mekas, 2010) -- 4/4
13 "The Great Train Robbery" (Edwin S. Porter, 1903) -- 3/4
13 "The Gay Shoe Clerk" (Edwin S. Porter, 1903) -- 3/4
13 "The Sick Kitten" (George Albert Smith, 1903) -- 2.5/4
13 "Alice in Wonderland" (Cecil M. Hepworth/Percy Stow, 1903) -- 2/4
13 "The Monster" (Georges Méliès, 1903) -- 1.5/4
13 "The Infernal Cauldron" (Georges Méliès, 1903) -- 2/4
13 "Life of an American Fireman" (George S. Fleming/Edwin S. Porter/James H. White, 1903) -- 2/4
13 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 2018) -- 3.5/4
13 "Williamsburg, Brooklyn" (Jonas Mekas, 2003) -- 3/4
13 "Song of Avignon" (Jonas Mekas, 1998) -- 4/4
12 Aventurera (Alberto Gout, 1950) -- 3.5/4
11 "Imperfect Three-Image Films" (Jonas Mekas, 1995) -- 2.5/4
11 "Quartet Number One" (Jonas Mekas, 1991) -- 2/4
11 The Kneeling Goddess (Roberto Gavaldón, 1947) -- 2.5/4
11 "Burlesque Suicide, no. 2" (Edwin S. Porter/George S. Fleming, 1902) -- 1.5/4
11 "Marvellous Egg Production" (Georges Méliès, 1902) -- 2.5/4
11 "The Shadow-Girl" (Georges Méliès, 1902) -- 1.5/4
11 "The Zoo" (Bert Haanstra, 1962) -- 2.5/4
11 "Glass" (Bert Haanstra, 1958) -- 2.5/4
11 "The Netherlands" (Bert Haanstra, 1983) -- 2.5/4
11 "Mirror of Holland" (Bert Haanstra, 1950) -- 3/4
11 "Face Like a Frog" (Sally Cruikshank, 1988) -- 3.5/4
11 "A Straightforward Boy" (Yasujirō Ozu, 1929) -- 2/4
10 "The Colonel’s Shower Bath" (Georges Méliès, 1902) -- 2/4
10 "An Untimely Intrusion" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1902) -- 2.5/4
10 "An Impossible Balancing Feat" (Georges Méliès, 1902) -- 3/4
10 "Fox Terriers and Rats" (unknown, 1902) -- 3.5/4
10 "The Song of Italy" (Jonas Mekas, 1967) -- 2.5/4
10 "The Song of Stockholm" (Jonas Mekas, 1981) -- 4/4
10 "The Song of Moscow" (Jonas Mekas, 1971) -- 3.5/4
10 "The Song of Avila" (Jonas Mekas, 1967) -- 2/4
10 "The Song of Assisi" (Jonas Mekas, 1967) -- 2.5/4
10 "Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel" (Jonas Mekas, 1968) -- 1/4
10 "Report from Millbrook" (Jonas Mekas, 1966) -- 2.5/4
08 Enamorada (Emilio Fernández, 1946) -- 3/4
08 "Starting a Skyscraper" (Robert K. Bonine, 1902) -- 2.5/4
08 "Scene on Lower Broadway" (Robert K. Bonine, 1902) -- 2/4
08 "Burning of Durland’s Riding Academy" (Edwin S. Porter, 1902) -- 2/4
08 "Tram Ride Into Halifax" (unknown, 1902) -- 2.5/4
08 "How to Stop a Motorcar" (Percy Stow, 1902) -- 4/4
08 "Enfants annamites ramassant des sapèques devant la Pagode des Dames" (Gabriel Veyre, 1902) -- 3/4
07 "Hare Krishna" (Jonas Mekas, 1966) -- 2.5/4
07 "Notes on the Circus" (Jonas Mekas, 1966) -- 2/4
07 "Cassis" (Jonas Mekas, 1966) -- 3/4
07 Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2006) -- 4/4
06 The Open Road (Claude Friese-Greene, 1926) -- 2/4
06 "Coves and Caves" (Claude Friese-Greene, 1920) -- 2/4
05 Love on the Dole (John Baxter, 1941) -- 3.5/4
04 Baron Prásil (Martin Frič, 1940) -- 3.5/4
03 Confucius (Fei Mu, 1940) -- 2.5/4
03 Nobuko (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1940) -- 2/4
03 In the Fields of Dreams (Teuvo Tulio, 1940) -- 2.5/4
02 "Quiet as Kept" (Charles Burnett, 2007) -- 1.5/4
02 "When It Rains" (Charles Burnett, 1995) -- 3/4
02 "Florence" (Peter B. Hutton, 1975) -- 3/4
02 "Midwife to the Upper Classes" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1902) -- 1/4
02 "Fun in a Bakery Shop" (Edwin S. Porter, 1902) -- 3/4
02 "The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique" (Georges Méliès, 1902) -- 2/4
02 "The Treasures of Satan" (Georges Méliès, 1902) -- 2/4
02 "Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants" (Georges Méliès, 1902) -- 2.5/4
02 "Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show" (Edwin S. Porter, 1902) -- 1.5/4
02 El compadre Mendoza (Fernando de Fuentes/Juan Bustillo Oro, 1933) -- 2.5/4
02 "Antoine and Colette" (François Truffaut, 1962) -- 4/4
02 "Les temps morts" (René Laloux, 1965) -- 3/4
02 "Blood of the Beasts" (Georges Franju, 1949) -- 3.5/4
01 "Les mistons" (François Truffaut, 1957) -- 3/4
01 "Toute la memoire du monde" (Alain Resnais, 1956) -- 3/4

[thoxans]

detective dee the four heavenly kings, tsui hark (2018)

quick q: do i need to have seen the previous detective dee flicks to get the gist of this particular entry?

[nrh]

detective dee the four heavenly kings, tsui hark (2018)

quick q: do i need to have seen the previous detective dee flicks to get the gist of this particular entry?

it gains a lot of resonance if you've seen the two other ones. young detective dee is his rise to fame in the court, phantom flame has him getting out of prison. this one is right in between and has him protecting the empire that we know will later imprison him. the first one is probably my favorite of the three for what it's worth.

[therouxxx]

detective dee the four heavenly kings, tsui hark (2018)

quick q: do i need to have seen the previous detective dee flicks to get the gist of this particular entry?

i haven't seen them. i did miss a little in terms of narrative, but the cgi/visuals are strong to the point where it's not really a concern.

[Joks Trois]

Starting early this month. As usual, ratings are out of 10 and * = rewatch

Toys* (Levinson) - 4
So Much For Justice (Jancso) - 6
The Battle of Mohacs (Jancso) - 5
The Mighty Ducks* (who cares) - 4.5
Colors* (Hopper) - 6.5
Leviathan (2012) - 7.5 (probably one of the best pure digital films I've ever seen. Shits on Godard's recent work)
Kuffs* (who cares) - 4.5
Honey I Blew Up The Kid* (who cares) - 4.5
Knock Off* (Hark) - 3.5
The Whispering Star (Sono) - 7.5 (His best work and underrated as hell due to the fact that he made it. If Tsai made it people would claim it was a masterpiece)
Poison Ivy* (who cares) - 4.5
Hook* (Spielberg) - 4.5
Rocky II* (Stallone) - 7
Die Nacht (Syberberg) - 8.5
Rocky 3* (Stallone) - 5
Pinocchio (Benigni) - 4.5
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach* (Straub-Huillet) - 8 (English dub,which is less effective than the German language one)
Rocky 4* (Stallone) - 3.5
Rocky 5* (Avildsen) - 4
Hudson Hawk* (Lehman) - 5.5
Hard To Kill* (who cares) - 4.5
Dead Presidents* (The Hughes Brothers) - 7
Rocky Balboa* (Stallone) - 6.5
A Perfect Couple (Altman) - 5
Rambo IV* (Stallone) - 6.5
Death In Venice* (Visconti) - 8
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story* (who cares) - 4.5
Shaoh (Lanzmann) - 8.5
Sailor Made Man (Newmeyer) - 5
Secret Honor* (Altman) - 6
Why Worry?* (Newmeyer/Taylor) - 6
Starship Troopers* (Verhoeven) - 8
Light of Day* (Schrader) - 4.5
Touch* (Schrader) - 4.5
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr (Morris) - 7.5
Tag (Sono) - 5.5
Detour (Ulmer) - 6
Dance of Reality (Jodorowsky) - 6.5
Umiliati (Straub-Huillet) -6
Dumbo (1941) - 7


Best: Shoah/Die Nacht

Worst: Knock Off

[rischka]

l'auberge rouge (epstein 1923)
esthappan (aravindan 1980) ♥
a city of sadness (hou 1989) ♥
es nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (zulawski 1989)
all about ah-long (to 1989)
fjolls til fjells (carlmar 1957) ♥
marriage of the blessed (makhmalbaf 1989)
yaaba (ouedraogo 1989)
journey to the west: conquering the demons (kwok/chow 2013)
a visitor to a museum (lopushanskiy 1989)
the bravados (king 1958)
the mule (eastwood 2018)
perdues dans new york (rollin 1989) ♥
near death (wiseman 1989) ♥♥
nostos: il ritorno (piavoli 1989) ♥
the mad fox (uchida 1962) ♥
it happened in broad daylight (vajda 1958)
hakuja den (okabe/yabushita 1958)



probs watch some shorts for 1906 then i plan to get to karl's quebecois film for the match. i keep forgetting there's a cup

[liquidnature]

tier 1
Marketa Lazarová (1967, Frantisek Vlácil)
Brouillard: Passage #14 (2014, Alexandre Larose)
Mulan (1998, Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook) (rewatch)

tier 2
Корова / Korova / The Cow (1989, Aleksandr Petrov)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927, Alfred Hitchcock) (rewatch)
Teresa Venerdì (1941, Vittorio De Sica)
Pekin no suika / Beijing Watermelon (1989, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)
Ville Marie - A (2009, Alexandre Larose)
Moscou sous la neige / Moscow Clad in Snow (1909, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller)
J. (2009, Alexandre Larose, Solomon Nagler)

tier 3
The Dark Corner (1946, Henry Hathaway)
Maddalena... zero in condotta (1940, Vittorio De Sica)
A Film Johnnie (1914, George Nichols)
Bataille de boules de neige (1897, Louis Lumière)
Le bailleur / The Yawner (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Le sculpteur express / The Express Sculptor (1907, Segundo de Chomón)

the rest
Ilha das Flores / Isle of Flowers (1989, Jorge Furtado)
Artifices #1 (2007, Alexandre Larose)
En avant la musique / Music, Forward! (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Marriage du roi d'espagne (1906, Segundo de Chomón)
La Grande Dame (étude) (2011, Alexandre Larose)
Le pied de mouton / The Talisman (1907, Albert Capellani)
Das wandernde Bild / The Wandering Image (1920, Fritz Lang)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018, Peyton Reed)
The Foreigner (2017, Martin Campbell)
930 (2006, Alexandre Larose)
Le corps humain (2006, Alexandre Larose)
Les roses magiques / Magic Roses (1906, Segundo de Chomón)
La fée des roches noires / The Fairy of the Black Rocks (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
La maison ensorcelée / The House of Ghosts (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Les tulipes / The Tulips (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Les débuts d'un patineur / Max Learns to Skate (1907, Louis J. Gasnier)
Between Showers (1914, Henry Lehrman)
Les cent trucs / A Hundred Tricks (1906, Segundo de Chomón)
L'obsession de l'or (1906, Segundo de Chomón)
Les glaces merveilleuses / The Magic Mirror (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
La boîte à cigares / The Cigar Box (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Les oeufs de Pâques / Easter Eggs (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Kørsel med Grønlandske hunde / Driving with Greenland Dogs (1897, Peter Elfelt)
Le spectre rouge (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
Les verres enchantés / Enchanted Glasses (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
L'étang enchanté / The Enchanted Pond (1907, Segundo de Chomón)

[greennui]

Peau de pêche (Jean Benoît-Lévy/Marie Epstein, 1929)
The Only Son (Yasujirō Ozu, 1936)
Je t'attendrai (Léonide Moguy, 1939)
Panique (Julien Duvivier, 1946)
Maya (Raymond Bernard, 1949)
L'air de Paris (Marcel Carné, 1954)
Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman, 1954)
Viele kamen vorbei (Peter Pewas, 1956)
Mikres Afrodites (Nikos Koundouros, 1963)
Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
Irezumi (Yasuzô Masumura, 1966)
Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968)
Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980)
Personal Problems (Bill Gunn, 1980)
To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990)
The Blackout (Abel Ferrara, 1997)

[thoxans]

The Blackout (Abel Ferrara, 1997)

aka the badass. might be sneakily sneaking up as my fav ferrara

[arkheia]

Interesting month overall, not too many things I was crazy for but a decent variety all the same.
Full List with Notes and Screenshots


The Red Sea (Michael Maziere, 1992)


The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Nathan Juran, 1958)


八兩金 [Eight Taels of Gold] (Mabel Cheung, 1989)


Before My Eyes (मणि कौल [Mani Kaul], 1989)


Le fils de Gascogne [The Son of Gascogne] (Pascal Aubier, 1995)


Рицар без броня [Knight Without Armour] (Борислав Шаралиев [Borislav Sharaliev], 1966)


The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris, 2003)


மன்னன் [Mannan] (P. Vasu, 1992)


The Slender Thread (Sydney Pollack, 1965)


Domain of Murder (Hiroshi Morioka, Iku Suzuki, 1992)


The Star Chamber (Peter Hyams, 1983)


Incognito (Julie Dash, 1999)


Keeper of the City (Bobby Roth, 1991)

Running Film (Chris Welsby, 1972)

Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)

A Small Place (Greta Snider, 2018)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974)

[rischka]

hey you've been on tumblr nearly as long as me, how come i wasn't following you glad all the cool people haven't abandoned the place. i just can't leave my screenshots

[greennui]

The Blackout (Abel Ferrara, 1997)

aka the badass. might be sneakily sneaking up as my fav ferrara

same here!

[flip]

The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008) - 9/10
Hell Harbor (Henry King, 1930) - 8/10
Le Garde-Meubles Automatique (Romeo Bosetti, 1912) - 8/10
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013) - 7/10
Lloyd's of London (Henry King, 1936) - 7/10
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) - 7/10
The Black Swan (Henry King, 1942) - 7/10
The Automatic Moving Company (Emile Cohl, 1910) - 7/10
Friday (F Gary Gray, 1995) - 6/10
The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011) - 5/10
The Rajah's Casket (Gaston Velle, 1906) - 5/10
Eurotrip (Jeff Schaffer, 2004) - 5/10
Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For (Don McCutcheon, 2019) - 4/10
Blackbeard, The Pirate (Raoul Walsh, 1952) - 4/10
Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, 1989) - 3/10
Hunting the Panther (Alfred Machin, 1909) - 3/10
Isn't It Romantic (Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2019) - 2/10
Polar (Jonas Akerlund, 2019) - 0/10

[therouxxx]

may watch another this evening, but overall another strong month. all the stuff i really liked:

blackhat, michael mann (2015) rewatch
sonchiriya, abhishek chaubey (2019)
krishna gaadi veera prema gaadha, hanu raghavapudi (2016)
aranyer din ratri, satyajit ray (1970)
nathicharami, mansore (2019)
yamadonga, s.s. rajamouli (2007)
magadheera, s.s. rajamouli (2009)
jeans, s. shankar (1998)
peranbu, ram (2019)

jeans is probably the standout for me. a delightful comedy that defuses its central romantic conflict with unexpected grace. also there's a sequence where aishwarya dances with her hologram double! really excited to see more from shankar, particularly indian and 2.0 when that drops on prime

[arkheia]

hey you've been on tumblr nearly as long as me, how come i wasn't following you glad all the cool people haven't abandoned the place. i just can't leave my screenshots

Same! I like that it's easy enough to use and keep a repository for screengrabs but I'm a little worried they'll go away completely at some point and all the photos will be lost

[wigwam]

2019_03_
02 Grass (2018) - MP4 - LOVED
02 Black Swan - H.264 - REWATCH STILL LOVE
02 Vox Lux - MKV - REWATCH STILL LOVE
03 The Childhood of a Leader - MKV - LIKED
03 High Flying Bird (2019) - H.264 - LIKED
08 Greta (2018) - 4K - INDIFFERENT
10 Big Fish rewatch - VOD - STILL DISLIKE
10 White Zombie - DVR - FELL ASLEEP
15 Átame! - 35mm - REWATCH NOW LOVE
16 Corpse Bride - VOD - INDIFFERENT
16 Hable con ella - DVD - REWATCH (COMMENTARY)
17 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - VOD - LIKED
17 Kika - DVD - REWATCH STILL LOVE
18 Five Feet Apart (2019) - 4K - INDIFFERENT
20 La mala educación - DVD - REWATCH (COMMENTARY)
21 All About My Mother- DVD - REWATCH STILL LIKE
23 Us (2019) - 4K - LIKED
23 I'm So Excited - BR - REWATCH STILL LOVE
24 Labrynths of Passion - AVI - REWATCH STILL LOVE
24 Novitiate (2017) - Cable - PATRIAL/LIKED
25 Dark Habits - DVD - REWATCH STILL LIKE
28 The Beach Bum (2019) - 4K - LOVED
30 Pepi Luci Bom - MKV - REWATCH STILL INDIFFERENT
30 Die Fälschung - MKV - LIKED
31 Il Decameron - MKV - INDIFFERENT
31 I racconti di Canterbury - MKV - DISLIKED
31 Il fiore delle mille e una notte - MKV - TURNED OFF
31 The Dirt (2019) - H.264 - INDIFFERENT
31 Bohemian Rhaposdy - MP4 - TBD

[Silga]

March 2019

64 Films

In a cinema

Re-watch

***

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) 8/10
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948) 6/10
Border Incident (Anthony Mann, 1949) 4/10
Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958) 5/10
Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis, 1958) 7/10
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) 9/10
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973) 7/10
The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) 8/10
Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979) 9/10
Shakedown (James Glickenhaus, 1988) 3/10
The 'Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989) 6/10
Family Business (Sidney Lumet, 1989) 5/10
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill, 1989) 6/10
Major League (David S. Ward, 1989) 4/10
Parents (Bob Balaban, 1989) 2/10
For All Mankind (Al Reinert, 1989) 8/10
Music Box (Costa-Gavras, 1989) 9/10
Disorganized Crime (Jim Kouf, 1989) 4/10
Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, 1989) 8/10
Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara, 1989) 5/10
We're No Angels (Neil Jordan, 1989) 4/10
Jacknife (David Hugh Jones, 1989) 7/10
Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, 1989) 6/10
Fat Man and Little Boy (Roland Joffé, 1989) 5/10
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992) 10/10
Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995) 8/10
Mission: Impossible II (John Woo, 2000) 6/10
I Spy (Betty Thomas, 2002) 1/10
Secret Agents (Frédéric Schoendoerffer, 2004) 5/10
The Kingdom (Peter Berg, 2007) 6/10
Resurrecting the Champ (Rod Lurie, 2007) 4/10
Jack Reacher (Christopher McQuarrie, 2012) 4/10
Morgan (Luke Scott, 2016) 6/10
In a Valley of Violence (Ti West, 2016) 4/10
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Edward Zwick, 2016) 5/10
The Lost City of Z (James Gray, 2016) 9/10
Thank You for Your Service (Jason Hall, 2017) 5/10
Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard, 2018) 8/10
Hunter Killer (Donovan Marsh, 2018) 4/10
King of Thieves (James Marsh, 2018) 3/10
A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2018) 9/10
Angelo (Markus Schleinzer, 2018) 6/10
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018) 8/10
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018) 9/10
The Great Darkened Days (Maxime Giroux, 2018) 3/10
High Life (Claire Denis, 2018) 2/10
High Flying Bird (Steven soderbergh, 2019) 8/10
Ether (Krzysztof Zanussi, 2018) 7/10
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2018) 8/10
Close Enemies (David Oelhoffen, 2018) 6/10
The World is Yours (Romain Gavras, 2018) 4/10
The Angel (Luis Ortega, 2018) 6/10
Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat, 2018) 8/10
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018) 6/10
Joy (Sudabeh Mortezai, 2018) 6/10
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018) 7/10
Before the Frost (Michael Noer, 2018) 6/10
Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen, 2018) 1/10
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky & Nicholas de Pencier, 2018) 6/10
Velvet Buzzsaw (Dan Gilroy, 2019) 6/10
The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019) 9/10
Queen of Hearts (May el-Toukhy, 2019) 5/10
Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2019) 7/10
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019) 6/10

Best: Hyenas, The Beach Bum
Worst: I Spy, Beautiful Boy

[kanafani]

Best of the month: Lothringen! (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1994)
Worst of the month: My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Andrzej Żuławski, 1989)

Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016)
The Devil's Trap (František Vláčil, 1962)
The True Nature of Bernadette (Gilles Carle, 1972)
Century of Birthing (Lav Diaz, 2011)
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003)
The Downfall of Osen (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1935)
Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 2018)
Lost in New York (Jean Rollin, 1989)
Overlord (Julius Avery, 2018)
The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen, 1984)
Black Mother (Khalik Allah, 2018)
Creed II (Steven Caple Jr., 2018)
The Kidnapping (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1934)♥
Dirty Ho (Liu Chia-Liang, 1979)♥
The Razor's Edge (Jocelyne Saab, 1985)
May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) (Sylvain George, 2010)♥
Beijing Watermelon (Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, 1989)
Armourless Knight (Borislav Sharaliev, 1966)
Frameup (Jon Jost, 1993)
Spy Kids (Robert Rodriguez, 2001)
Alyonka (Boris Barnet, 1962)
Brouillard: Passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, 2013)
J. (Alexandre Larose, 2008)
La Grande Dame (Alexandre Larose, 2011)
ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose, 2007)
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Andrzej Żuławski, 1989)
Skagafjördur (Peter B. Hutton, 2004)
Lothringen! (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1994)♥
Grass (Hong Sang-soo, 2018)
Jumanji (Joe Johnston, 1995)
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (Tsui Hark, 1989)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
Wolff Von Amerongen: Did He Commit Bancruptcy Offences? (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl, 2004)
Sergei/Sir Gay (Mark Rappaport, 2017)
State Legislature (Frederick Wiseman, 2007)
Altiplano (Malena Szlam, 2018)
My Heart Beats Only for Her (Mohamed Soueid, 2009)♥
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)
The Imp (Dennis Yu, 1981)
Absence (Mohamed Soueid, 1990)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler, 2017)
Amateur (Hal Hartley, 1994)
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2014)

[ofrene]

2019. 3

(except rewatch)

Captain Marvel (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 2019)
A Resistance (Joe Min-ho, 2019)
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2015)
A Story Written with Water (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1965)
Woman of the Lake (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1966) ♥
My Twentieth Century (Ildiko Enyedi, 1989)
Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke, 2018)
Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
Pomegranate and Cane / Nar-o-nay (Saeed Ebrahimifar. 1989) ♥
Idol (Lee Su-jin, 2019)
I Dream in Another Language (Ernesto Contreras, 2017)
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung, 1989)
Grandmother / Yaaba (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989)
A Visiter to a Museum (Konstantin Lopushanskiy, 1989)
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura, 1989)
The Mule (Clint Eastwood, 2018)
Birthday (Lee Jong-un, 2019)
Emergency Kisses (Philippe Garrel, 1989) ♥
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) ♥
Beijing Watermelon (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1989)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai, 1989)
Eight Taels of Gold (Mabel Cheung, 1989) ♥
How to Stop Being Korean (Ahn Kearn-hyung, 2019)
12 and 24 (Kim Nam-suk, 2018)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948) ♥
Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
The Man from Laramic (Anthony Mann, 1955)
Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958) ♥
Nostos : The Return (Franco Piavoli, 1989) ♥
Diary of a Pregnant Woman (Agnes Varda, 1958)
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
Hotel by the River (Hong Sang Soo, 2018)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962) ♥

[pabs]

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March, 2019

Scores /10



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[Joks Trois]

Lothringen! (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1994)♥

Do you mind telling me where (or how) you saw this?

Thanks!

[thoxans]

lost horizon (capracorn)
elephant (alan clarke)
the naked city (jules dassin)
the battle of algiers (gillo pontecorvo)
look out, officer! (lau sze-yue)
love on delivery (stephen chow / lee lik-chi)
maheshinte prathikaaram (dileesh pothan)
don't go breaking my heart 2 (johnnie to)
shaolin soccer (stephen chow)
the ballad of buster scruggs (coen bros)
paris is burning (jennie livingston)
school for postmen (jacques tati)
dinner at eight (george cukor)
jour de fete (jacques tati)
the bitter tea of general yen (capracorn)
trafic (jacques tati)
the red shoes (powell / pressburger)
virginia city (michael curtiz)
return to glennascaul: a story that is told in dublin (hilton edwards)
3:10 to yuma (delmer daves)
kabhi haan kabhi naa (kundan shah)
doubles cause troubles (wong jing)
the son of joseph (eugene green)
tees maar khan (farah khan)
farewell to dream (keisuke kinoshita)
the blue gardenia (fritz lang)
the sea hawk (michael curtiz)
l'aîné des ferchaux (jean-pierre melville)
the founder (john lee hancock)
the bund (chiu chun-keung)

[---]

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0319 (IX, xxx)

31 "Arnulf Rainer" (Peter Kubelka, 1960) -- 2.5/4
31 "A Touch" (Barbara Meter, 2008) -- 2.5/4
31 "A Day in Venice" (James A. FitzPatrick, 1933) -- 2.5/4
31 "Siam to Korea" (James A. FitzPatrick, 1931) -- 3/4
30 "31/75: Asylum" (Kurt Kren, 1975) -- 4/4
30 "Copenhagen" (James A. FitzPatrick, 1937) -- 2.5/4
29 "Les horizons morts" (Jacques Demy, 1951) -- 2.5/4
29 "Sailing with Bushnell Keeler" (David Lynch, 1967) -- 1.5/4
29 "Film-Tract n° 1968" (Jean-Luc Godard/Gérard Fromanger, 1968) -- 2.5/4
29 "Gonzales’ Tamales" (Friz Freleng, 1957) -- 2/4
24 The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003) -- 3/4
24 "The Kingdom of Fairies" (Georges Méliès, 1903) -- 3/4
24 "The Last Cartridges" (Georges Méliès, 1897) -- 2.5/4
24 "Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak" (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1898) -- 2/4
24 "The Launch of H.M.S. Albion" (Robert W. Paul, 1898) -- 1/4
23 "15/67: TV" (Kurt Kren, 1967) -- 3/4
23 "Red Hot Mamma" (Dave Fleischer, 1934) -- 3/4
23 "Stadt in Flammen" (Schmelzdahin, 1984) -- 3/4
23 "All My Life" (Bruce Baillie, 1966) -- 3/4
23 "München-Berlin Wanderung" (Oskar Fischinger, 1927) -- 2/4
23 "Hollywood Handicap" (Buster Keaton, 1938) -- 2.5/4
23 "The Gold Ghost" (Charles Lamont/Buster Keaton, 1934) -- 2.5/4
22 "Character Studies" (Carter DeHaven, 1927) -- 2/4
22 "The Iron Mule" (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Grover Jones, 1925) -- 1.5/4
21 "Golf Antics" (Buster Keaton, 1920) -- 2/4
21 "The Rough House" (Buster Keaton/Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, 1917) -- 1.5/4
19 When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner, 1989) -- 3/4
18 The Day After Trinity (Jon H. Else, 1981) -- 3/4
15 Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002) -- 4/4
14 Nancy Drew… Reporter (William Clemens, 1939) -- 3/4
07 Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer, 1949) -- 2.5/4
05 The Man from Colorado (Henry Levin, 1949) -- 2.5/4
04 Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018) -- 3.5/4
01 "Study of a River" (Peter B. Hutton, 1997) -- 2.5/4
01 "Broadway by Light" (William Klein, 1958) -- 2/4
01 "H is for House" (Peter Greenaway, 1973) -- 2.5/4
01 "Sorrows" (Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1969) -- 1.5/4
01 "Ouvriers réparant un trottoir en bitume" (Louis Lumière/Auguste Lumière, 1898) -- 2.5/4
01 Mistaken for Strangers (Tom Berninger, 2013) -- 3/4

[DT.]

- March -

Bellissima (Luchino Visconti, 1951)
Our Time (Carlos Reygadas, 2018)
Eréndira (Ruy Guerra, 1983)
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2018)
Captain Marvel (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2019)
Man of Flowers (Paul Cox, 1983)
The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura, 1966) ♥
Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985)
The Arch (Tang Shu Shuen, 1968)
A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shûji Terayama, 1971)
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)
By the Grace of God (François Ozon, 2019) ♥
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019) ♥

TV:

The Leftovers (season 1)