2018 Poll

[rischka]

mademoiselle de joncquières (mouret)



this one too ♥ dunno how many more i will get to

[ofrene]

Asako I & II
Dead Souls
La Flor
The Other Side of the Wind
Transit

The Grand Bizarre
Grass
Hotel by the River
Sand
Support the Girls

Kim-Gun
The Nightingale
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Tale
3 Faces

Ash Is Purest White
The Favourite
Leave No Trace
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
The Old Man & the Gun

[rischka]

i watched support the girls and it was pretty good



can't imagine working in such an environment

[rischka]

anand patwardhan's reason - fighting fundamentalism in india





pretty startling how hindutva under modi aligns with white supremacy. they don't call themselves aryans for nothing





like MAGA, they're aggrieved at the rise of the less fortunate (dalits) and feel they are now the oppressed





but there's always common ground hindutva has roots in european fascism. it's a reactionary defense of the caste system deeply engrained in indian society



the sleep of reason produces monsters

https://politicalresearch.org/2024/10/3 ... -far-right

here's an article about this convergence - vivek ramaswami and tulsi gabbard are modi supporters

[karl]

Final:

Roma
Burning
Ayka
Shoplifters

The Public
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
Green Book

[rischka]

loved beoning ♥ i'm still gonna watch ash is purest white

[Silga]

i'm still gonna watch ash is purest white

Great pick! I was about to complain and lament that I don't see enough support for this brilliant film by Jia Zhangke.

[rischka]

she went to prison for 5 yrs and he's all 'what about me'

also our new national anthem YMCA is featured

i missed jia, don't know when i lost track of him. performers, pop songs, 3 gorges, ufos...



i'm really enjoying it

[Silga]

i'm really enjoying it

[rischka]

i love zhao tao but i'd like to see the version where she becomes the mob boss and pushes that guy over a cliff

[Jürka]

i watched these two 1/↓2/↓ too
both going straight to my ballot
thx greennui!

1/

Two Basilicas 2018 Directed by Heinz Emigholz

my favorite architectural detail


ended up searching who did those insane frescos in Orvieto ↓↓
Luca Signorelli is the culprit!

The Preaching of the Antichrist → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preac ... Antichrist


The Damned Cast into Hell


2/

Phantom Islands 2018 Directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi

i got excited...


... and mesmerized...


... by this wordless eloquent film

[pabs]

Burning (Lee)
Shoplifters (Kore-eda)

Leave No Trace (Granik)
Transit (Petzold)

Roma (Cuaron)
Isle of Dogs (Anderson)

Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell)
Capernaum (Labaki)

The Favourite (Lanthimos)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen)

[Angel]

A Quiet Place
Amanda
Bad Samaritan
Ceux qui travaillent (Those Who Work)
Den blomstertid nu kommer (The Unthinkable)
Gräns (Border)
Kona fer í stríð (Woman at War)
Leave No Trace
Lionheart
On the Basis of Sex
Overlord
Private Life
Pupille (In Safe Hands)
Tel Aviv on Fire
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Hate U Give
The Mule
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Wo bu shi yao shen (Dying to Survive)
Zimna wojna (Cold War)

[rischka]

phantom islands was very very funny



i wasn't sure it was the intention. quite unique

[Jürka]

besides having fun as the main characters in someone else's movie, Daniel & Clara made their own short film alongside...

Int. Landscapes (Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais)



plus, they were shooting a video diary throughout the whole year of 2018

Studio Diary Series: Land / Sea / Sky (Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais) → https://vimeo.com/332330878

[Jürka]

https://kinometer.com/?list=546

The Proposal (Jill Magid, 2018, 83m)
The Portuguese Woman (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2018, 136m)
Phantom Islands (Rouzbeh Rashidi, 2018, 86m)
Studio Diary Series: Land / Sea / Sky (Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais, 2018, 21m)
Wittnerchrome Notes I & II (Nick Collins, 2018, 3m & 3m)
Hammam (Nick Collins, 2018, 2m)
Sun King (Albert Serra, 2018, 61m)
My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot (Philip Gröning, 2018, 174m)
The Murer Case (Christian Frosch, 2018, 137m)
Vienna Calling (Petr Šprincl, 2018, 67m)

Insect (Jan Švankmajer, 2018, 98m)
My Unknown Soldier (Anna Kryvenko, 2018, 76m)
The Escape Agents (Scott Calonico, 2018, 5m)
Architecture of Infinity (Christoph Schaub, 2018, 86m)
Two Basilicas (Heinz Emigholz, 2018, 36m)
16 District 16 Floors 16 People (Tatevik Vardanyan, 2018, 20m)
Operation Jane Walk (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, 2018, 16m)
The Babelics (Alessandro Quadretti, 2018, 63m)
Acid Forest (Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, 2018, 63m)
The Edge of Paradise (Robert C. Stone, 2018, 86m)

[Silga]

Final list:

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet)
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)

Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat)
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
Widows (Steve McQueen)
Ramen Shop (Eric Khoo)

Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
Hereditary (Ari Aster)
Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke)
The Hummingbird Project (Kim Nguyen)

Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard)
Tully (Jason Reitman)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
Destination Wedding (Victor Levin)

Vice (Adam McKay)
A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)

[rischka]

transit (petzold)
hotel by the river (hong)
a portuguesa (gomes)
mademoiselle de joncquières (mouret)
la flor (llinas)

burning (lee)
reason (patwardhan)
in my room (kohler)
phantom islands (rashidi)
grass (hong)

andhadhun (raghavan)
manmarziyaan (kashyap)
i do not care if we go down in history as barbarians (jude)
flame (van ingen)
support the girls (bujalski)