2024. 11
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)
Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler, 2018)
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry, 2018)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) ♥
The Doll (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) ♥
Gladiator II (Ridley Scott, 2024)
The Suspect (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Starring Jerry As Himself (Law Chen, 2023)
Mimang (Kim Tae-yang, 2023)
Gift (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, 2023)
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller, 1959)
Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang, 1944)
Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, 1954)
Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice, 2023) (rewatch) ♥
The Voices of the Silenced (Park Ma-eui, Park Soonam, 2023) ♥
True Heart Susie (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
Wicked (Jon M. Chu, 2024)
The President (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1919)
J’accuse (Abel Gance, 1919) ♥
Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim, 1919)
The Dead (John Huston, 1987)
The Berefts (Jeong Beom, Hur Jang, 2023)
Works and Days (Park Min-soo, Ahn Kearn-hyung, 2024)
Esper’s Light (Jung Jae-hoon, 2024)
The Land of Morning Calm (Park Ri-woong, 2024)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024) ♥
Base Station (Yeon Ye-ji, Park Sye-young, 2024)
What I Watched This Month......
November 2024
rewatch
All ratings out of 10
3 films each from 13 different directors.
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948) 3
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) 5
Trapeze (Carol Reed, 1956) 6
The Gambler (Karel Reisz, 1974) 9
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) 10
Obsession (Brian De Palma, 1976) 6
Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980) 7
Ms .45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981) 8
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Karel Reisz, 1981) 8
Rampage (William Friedkin, 1987) 6
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987) 7
Stormy Monday (Mike Figgis, 1988) 8
Blind Fury (Phillip Noyce, 1989) 4
Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce, 1989) 7
Everybody Wins (Karel Reisz, 1990) 6
Liebestraum (Mike Figgis, 1991) 5
Defenseless (Martin Campbell, 1991) 5
Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen, 1991) 6
Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991) 8
Toys (Barry Levinson, 1992) 3
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992) 8
Sliver (Phillip Noyce, 1993) 6
Jade (William Friedkin, 1995) 5
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, 1995) 9
The Funeral (Abel Ferrara, 1996) 8
Mulholland Falls (Lee Tamahori, 1996) 5
The Edge (Lee Tamahori, 1997) 6
Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997) 8
Forever Mine (Paul Schrader, 1999) 4
Bandits (Barry Levinson, 2001) 7
Along Came a Spider (Lee Tamahori, 2001) 6
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002) 5
Beyond Borders (Martin Campbell, 2003) 4
Mary (Abel Ferrara, 2005) 7
Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski, 2005) 6
Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) 7
Based on a True Story (Roman Polanski, 2017) 7
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021) 9
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader, 2022) 7
Best: Chinatown, Leaving Las Vegas, The Gambler
Worst: Toys, The Fallen Idol, Beyond Borders
rewatch
All ratings out of 10
3 films each from 13 different directors.
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948) 3
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) 5
Trapeze (Carol Reed, 1956) 6
The Gambler (Karel Reisz, 1974) 9
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) 10
Obsession (Brian De Palma, 1976) 6
Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980) 7
Ms .45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981) 8
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Karel Reisz, 1981) 8
Rampage (William Friedkin, 1987) 6
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987) 7
Stormy Monday (Mike Figgis, 1988) 8
Blind Fury (Phillip Noyce, 1989) 4
Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce, 1989) 7
Everybody Wins (Karel Reisz, 1990) 6
Liebestraum (Mike Figgis, 1991) 5
Defenseless (Martin Campbell, 1991) 5
Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen, 1991) 6
Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991) 8
Toys (Barry Levinson, 1992) 3
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992) 8
Sliver (Phillip Noyce, 1993) 6
Jade (William Friedkin, 1995) 5
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, 1995) 9
The Funeral (Abel Ferrara, 1996) 8
Mulholland Falls (Lee Tamahori, 1996) 5
The Edge (Lee Tamahori, 1997) 6
Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997) 8
Forever Mine (Paul Schrader, 1999) 4
Bandits (Barry Levinson, 2001) 7
Along Came a Spider (Lee Tamahori, 2001) 6
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002) 5
Beyond Borders (Martin Campbell, 2003) 4
Mary (Abel Ferrara, 2005) 7
Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski, 2005) 6
Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) 7
Based on a True Story (Roman Polanski, 2017) 7
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021) 9
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader, 2022) 7
Best: Chinatown, Leaving Las Vegas, The Gambler
Worst: Toys, The Fallen Idol, Beyond Borders
noirvember 24
dark command (walsh 1940)
the nickel ride (mulligan 1974)
island of doomed men (barton 1940)
the apprentice (abbasi 2024)
kid from kwangtung (hsu 1982)
andhadhun (raghavan 2018)
guilty bystander (lerner 1950)
mystery street (sturges 1950)
nora prentiss (sherman 1947)
the outfit (flynn 1973) ♥
the trail of the broken blade (cheh 1967)
the railway owner (perego 1919) ♥
the other side of the wind (welles 2018)
the ancestress (flecks 1919)
grass (hong 2018) ♥
hotel by the river (hong 2018) ♥
saturday night (reitman 2024) -- this was terrible worst film of the month
mademoiselle de joncquières/lady j (mouret 2018) ♥
711 ocean drive (newman 1950)
suspense (tuttle 1946) ♥
sleep, my love (sirk 1948)
the undercover man (lewis 1949)
support the girls (bujalski 2018)
song of the scarlet flower (stiller 1919) ♥
machine-gun kelly (corman 1958)
long day's journey into night (bi 2018)
knock on any door (ray 1949)
edge of doom (robson 1950) -- ok this 'priest noir' was pretty bad too
champion (robson 1949)
reason (patwardhan 2018)
manmarziyaan (kashyap 2018)
burning (lee 2018) ♥
ash is purest white (jia 2018)
in my room (kohler 2018)
phantom islands (rashidi 2018) ♥
rewatch - the seventh victim ♥♥♥ i do not care if we go down in history as barbarians -- the unsuspected ♥
dark command (walsh 1940)
the nickel ride (mulligan 1974)
island of doomed men (barton 1940)
the apprentice (abbasi 2024)
kid from kwangtung (hsu 1982)
andhadhun (raghavan 2018)
guilty bystander (lerner 1950)
mystery street (sturges 1950)
nora prentiss (sherman 1947)
the outfit (flynn 1973) ♥
the trail of the broken blade (cheh 1967)
the railway owner (perego 1919) ♥
the other side of the wind (welles 2018)
the ancestress (flecks 1919)
grass (hong 2018) ♥
hotel by the river (hong 2018) ♥
saturday night (reitman 2024) -- this was terrible worst film of the month
mademoiselle de joncquières/lady j (mouret 2018) ♥
711 ocean drive (newman 1950)
suspense (tuttle 1946) ♥
sleep, my love (sirk 1948)
the undercover man (lewis 1949)
support the girls (bujalski 2018)
song of the scarlet flower (stiller 1919) ♥
machine-gun kelly (corman 1958)
long day's journey into night (bi 2018)
knock on any door (ray 1949)
edge of doom (robson 1950) -- ok this 'priest noir' was pretty bad too
champion (robson 1949)
reason (patwardhan 2018)
manmarziyaan (kashyap 2018)
burning (lee 2018) ♥
ash is purest white (jia 2018)
in my room (kohler 2018)
phantom islands (rashidi 2018) ♥
rewatch - the seventh victim ♥♥♥ i do not care if we go down in history as barbarians -- the unsuspected ♥
is it wba who really likes peter hyams? because i watched four hyams films in a row, and yeah, he is a great director (sometimes working with bad material)
besides those, watched several obscure body swap films, most of which were not great
longs
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964) - 8/10
Busting (Peter Hyams, 1974) - 8/10
City Island (Raymond De Felitta, 2009) - 8/10*
If I Were You (Joan Carr-Wiggin, 2012) - 8/10
Colors (Dennis Hopper, 1988) - 8/10*
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, 2014) - 8/10
Funny Money (Leslie Greif, 2006) - 7/10
Case for a Rookie Hangman (Pavel Juracek, 1970) - 7/10
Running Scared (Peter Hyams, 1986) - 7/10
A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage, 1932) - 7/10
A Death in Canaan (Tony Richardson, 1978) - 7/10
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930) - 7/10
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1964) - 7/10
Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme, 1988) - 7/10
Evil Under the Sun (Guy Hamilton, 1982) - 7/10
Capricorn One (Peter Hyams, 1977) - 6/10
Johnny English (Peter Howitt, 2003) - 6/10
Ether (Krzysztof Zanussi, 2018) - 6/10
22 Chaser (Rafal Sokolowski, 2018) - 6/10
Liminal Girl (Richard Story, 2024) - 6/10
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou, 1999) - 5/10
Body Swap (Timothy Morton, 2019) - 5/10
Appointment with Death (Michael Winner, 1988) - 5/10
The Assassination Bureau (Basil Dearden, 1969) - 5/10
F/X (Robert Mandel, 1986) - 5/10
The Heckler (Ben Plazzer, 2015) - 5/10
The Assignment (Walter Hill, 2016) - 5/10
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (Sam Weisman, 2001) - 5/10
Timecop (Peter Hyams, 1994) - 4/10
A Christmas Switch (Brian Herzlinger, 2018) - 4/10
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022) - 3/10
The Mirror Crack'd (Guy Hamilton, 1980) - 3/10
The Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens, 1965) - 3/10
ClearMind (Rebecca Eskreis, 2024) - 3/10
FanGirl (Felicia Rivers, 2024) - 2/10
Bridget Jones's Diary (Sharon Maguire, 2001) - 2/10
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan, 2019) - 1/10
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (Charles Herman-Wurfeld, 2003) - 1/10
Clerks III (Kevin Smith, 2022) - 1/10
Dream a Little Dream (Marc Rocco, 1989) - 1/10
Little Nicky (Steven Brill, 2000) - 1/10
DC Down (Geoff Meed, 2023) - 1/10
Women of the Jury (Mark K Buddington, 2023) - 0/10
Legally Blondes (Savage Steve Holland, 2009) - 0/10
shorts
Flame (Sami van Ingen, 2018) - 10/10
Dodo (Eric Leiser, 2023) - 8/10
The Boy Was Found Unharmed (Kalil Haddad, 2024) - 7/10
Dance of Ouled Nail (Segundo de Chomon, 1902) - 7/10
Georgian Ancient Songs (Otar Iosseliani, 1969) - 6/10
* = rewatch
besides those, watched several obscure body swap films, most of which were not great
longs
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964) - 8/10
Busting (Peter Hyams, 1974) - 8/10
City Island (Raymond De Felitta, 2009) - 8/10*
If I Were You (Joan Carr-Wiggin, 2012) - 8/10
Colors (Dennis Hopper, 1988) - 8/10*
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, 2014) - 8/10
Funny Money (Leslie Greif, 2006) - 7/10
Case for a Rookie Hangman (Pavel Juracek, 1970) - 7/10
Running Scared (Peter Hyams, 1986) - 7/10
A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage, 1932) - 7/10
A Death in Canaan (Tony Richardson, 1978) - 7/10
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930) - 7/10
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1964) - 7/10
Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme, 1988) - 7/10
Evil Under the Sun (Guy Hamilton, 1982) - 7/10
Capricorn One (Peter Hyams, 1977) - 6/10
Johnny English (Peter Howitt, 2003) - 6/10
Ether (Krzysztof Zanussi, 2018) - 6/10
22 Chaser (Rafal Sokolowski, 2018) - 6/10
Liminal Girl (Richard Story, 2024) - 6/10
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou, 1999) - 5/10
Body Swap (Timothy Morton, 2019) - 5/10
Appointment with Death (Michael Winner, 1988) - 5/10
The Assassination Bureau (Basil Dearden, 1969) - 5/10
F/X (Robert Mandel, 1986) - 5/10
The Heckler (Ben Plazzer, 2015) - 5/10
The Assignment (Walter Hill, 2016) - 5/10
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (Sam Weisman, 2001) - 5/10
Timecop (Peter Hyams, 1994) - 4/10
A Christmas Switch (Brian Herzlinger, 2018) - 4/10
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022) - 3/10
The Mirror Crack'd (Guy Hamilton, 1980) - 3/10
The Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens, 1965) - 3/10
ClearMind (Rebecca Eskreis, 2024) - 3/10
FanGirl (Felicia Rivers, 2024) - 2/10
Bridget Jones's Diary (Sharon Maguire, 2001) - 2/10
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan, 2019) - 1/10
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (Charles Herman-Wurfeld, 2003) - 1/10
Clerks III (Kevin Smith, 2022) - 1/10
Dream a Little Dream (Marc Rocco, 1989) - 1/10
Little Nicky (Steven Brill, 2000) - 1/10
DC Down (Geoff Meed, 2023) - 1/10
Women of the Jury (Mark K Buddington, 2023) - 0/10
Legally Blondes (Savage Steve Holland, 2009) - 0/10
shorts
Flame (Sami van Ingen, 2018) - 10/10
Dodo (Eric Leiser, 2023) - 8/10
The Boy Was Found Unharmed (Kalil Haddad, 2024) - 7/10
Dance of Ouled Nail (Segundo de Chomon, 1902) - 7/10
Georgian Ancient Songs (Otar Iosseliani, 1969) - 6/10
* = rewatch
November 2024 62 films. 6 foreign. 8 docs, 3 reruns
Slingshot (2024 Mikael Håfström)
Jubal (1956 Delmer Davies) ♥
Alien: Romulus (2024 Fede Álvarez) ♥
Dial 1119 (1950 Gerald Mayer)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007 John Erick Dowdle)
In the Shadow (2012 David Ondříček, Czech) ♥
Confessions of a Hitman (2021 Luc Picard, Quebec)
MaXXXine (2024 Ti West)
Fear No More (1961 Bernard Wiesen)
Dear Brigitte (1965 Henry Koster)
The Dark Past (1948 Rudolph Mate)
Make Haste to Live (1954 William Seiter)
Please Murder Me (1956 Peter Godfrey)
His Kind of Woman (1951 John Farrow/Richard Fleisher)
Shakedown (1950 Joe Pevney)
Grand Exit (1935 Eric Kenton)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946 Lothar Mendes)
Abandoned (1949 Joseph Newman) ♥
The Secret of the Whistler (1946 George Sherman)
Ruthless (1948 Edgar Ulmer) ♥♥♥♥
Blonde for a Day (1946 Sam Newfield)
Clean (2022 Lachlan McLeod) doc ♥
Scene of the Crime (1949 Roy Rowland)
The Mystery Man (1935 Ray McCarey)
Crime Over London (1936 Alfred Zeisler)
Guilty Bystander (1950 Joseph Lerner) ♥
So Dark the Night (1946 Joseph H Lewis)
The Arnelo Affair (1947 Arch Oboler)
Woman on the Run (1950 Norman Foster) ♥♥♥♥
The Naked Runner (1967 Sidney J Furie)
Without Warning! (1952 Arnold Laven )
Lady Scarface (1941 Frank Woodruff)
711 Ocean Drive (1950 Joseph Newman)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1939 William Wellman) rerun ♥
In Search of Doc Holliday (2016 Dana Celeste Robinson) doc
This Is the Zodiac Speaking (2024 Phil Lott & Ari Mark) doc
The Wages of Fear (2024 Julien Leclercq, France)
Jailbreak: Love on the Run (2024 Dan Abrahms)doc
The Lost Children (2024 Orlando von Einsiedel, Jorge Duran & Lali Houghton) doc ♥
Blitz (2024 Steve McQueen)
Interstellar (2014 Christopher Nolan) rerun
The Speedway Murders (2024 Adam Kamien & Luke Rynderman) doc ♥
United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021 Lee Daniels)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023 Martin Scorsese) ♥
Trench 11 (2017 Leo Scherman)
Beetejuice, Beetlejuice (2024 Tim Burton)
The Substance (2024 Coralie Fargeat)
Megalopolis (2024 Francis Ford Coppola)
The Yara Gambirasio Case: Beyond Reasonable Doubt (2024 Gianluca Neri) doc
Till Death (2021 S.K. Dale)
The Weekend Away (2022 Kim Farrant)
Colors of Evil: Red (2024 Adrian Panek, Poland) ♥
Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019 Daniel Calparsoro, Spain)
Dracula Untold (2014 Gary Shore)
Tarot (2024 Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg)
Viking Wolf (2022 Stig Svendsen, Norway)
Blood Red Sky (2021 Peter Thorwarth)
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021 Robert Schwentke)
One Way Street (1950 Hugo Fregonese) rerun ♥
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024 Shawn Levy)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020 Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer) doc ♥
Twisters (2024 Lee Isaac Chung)
Silent Hill (2006 Christophe Gans)
Slingshot (2024 Mikael Håfström)
Jubal (1956 Delmer Davies) ♥
Alien: Romulus (2024 Fede Álvarez) ♥
Dial 1119 (1950 Gerald Mayer)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007 John Erick Dowdle)
In the Shadow (2012 David Ondříček, Czech) ♥
Confessions of a Hitman (2021 Luc Picard, Quebec)
MaXXXine (2024 Ti West)
Fear No More (1961 Bernard Wiesen)
Dear Brigitte (1965 Henry Koster)
The Dark Past (1948 Rudolph Mate)
Make Haste to Live (1954 William Seiter)
Please Murder Me (1956 Peter Godfrey)
His Kind of Woman (1951 John Farrow/Richard Fleisher)
Shakedown (1950 Joe Pevney)
Grand Exit (1935 Eric Kenton)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946 Lothar Mendes)
Abandoned (1949 Joseph Newman) ♥
The Secret of the Whistler (1946 George Sherman)
Ruthless (1948 Edgar Ulmer) ♥♥♥♥
Blonde for a Day (1946 Sam Newfield)
Clean (2022 Lachlan McLeod) doc ♥
Scene of the Crime (1949 Roy Rowland)
The Mystery Man (1935 Ray McCarey)
Crime Over London (1936 Alfred Zeisler)
Guilty Bystander (1950 Joseph Lerner) ♥
So Dark the Night (1946 Joseph H Lewis)
The Arnelo Affair (1947 Arch Oboler)
Woman on the Run (1950 Norman Foster) ♥♥♥♥
The Naked Runner (1967 Sidney J Furie)
Without Warning! (1952 Arnold Laven )
Lady Scarface (1941 Frank Woodruff)
711 Ocean Drive (1950 Joseph Newman)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1939 William Wellman) rerun ♥
In Search of Doc Holliday (2016 Dana Celeste Robinson) doc
This Is the Zodiac Speaking (2024 Phil Lott & Ari Mark) doc
The Wages of Fear (2024 Julien Leclercq, France)
Jailbreak: Love on the Run (2024 Dan Abrahms)doc
The Lost Children (2024 Orlando von Einsiedel, Jorge Duran & Lali Houghton) doc ♥
Blitz (2024 Steve McQueen)
Interstellar (2014 Christopher Nolan) rerun
The Speedway Murders (2024 Adam Kamien & Luke Rynderman) doc ♥
United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021 Lee Daniels)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023 Martin Scorsese) ♥
Trench 11 (2017 Leo Scherman)
Beetejuice, Beetlejuice (2024 Tim Burton)
The Substance (2024 Coralie Fargeat)
Megalopolis (2024 Francis Ford Coppola)
The Yara Gambirasio Case: Beyond Reasonable Doubt (2024 Gianluca Neri) doc
Till Death (2021 S.K. Dale)
The Weekend Away (2022 Kim Farrant)
Colors of Evil: Red (2024 Adrian Panek, Poland) ♥
Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019 Daniel Calparsoro, Spain)
Dracula Untold (2014 Gary Shore)
Tarot (2024 Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg)
Viking Wolf (2022 Stig Svendsen, Norway)
Blood Red Sky (2021 Peter Thorwarth)
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021 Robert Schwentke)
One Way Street (1950 Hugo Fregonese) rerun ♥
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024 Shawn Levy)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020 Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer) doc ♥
Twisters (2024 Lee Isaac Chung)
Silent Hill (2006 Christophe Gans)
- November / December -
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)*
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan, 1990)
Mad God (Phil Tippett, 2021)
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)
The Soft Skin (François Truffaut, 1964)
Claudine (John Berry, 1974)
Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2022)
Anora (Sean Baker, 2024)
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Jeff Fowler, 2024)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, 2024)
TV:
30 Rock (seasons 6-7)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)*
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan, 1990)
Mad God (Phil Tippett, 2021)
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)
The Soft Skin (François Truffaut, 1964)
Claudine (John Berry, 1974)
Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2022)
Anora (Sean Baker, 2024)
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Jeff Fowler, 2024)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, 2024)
TV:
30 Rock (seasons 6-7)
2024. 12
There Is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2020)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024)
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984)
King of the Children (Chen Kaige, 1987)
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
House of Games (David Mamet, 1987)
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
Dying (Matthias Glasner, 2024)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants, 2024)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, 2024) ♥
The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino, 1968) ♥
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1987) ♥
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974) ♥
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
Walker (Alex Cox, 1987)
Ishtar (Elaine May, 1987)
Time to Be Strong (Namkoong Sun, 2024)
Paradise Is Burning (Mika Gustafson, 2023)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
Long Arm of the Law (Johnny Mak, 1984)
City on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987) ♥
Prison on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987)
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing, 2024) ♥
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing, 2024) ♥
Harbin (Woo Min-ho, 2024)
The Longest Nite (Patrick Yau Tat-Chi, 1998)
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006)
Matewan (John Sayles, 1987) ♥
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987)
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)
Unknown Pleasure (Jia Zhangke, 2002) ♥
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1991) ♥
Christine (Alan Clarke, 1987) ♥
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987) ♥
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001) *rewatch ♥
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003) *rewatch ♥
There Is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2020)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024)
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984)
King of the Children (Chen Kaige, 1987)
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
House of Games (David Mamet, 1987)
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
Dying (Matthias Glasner, 2024)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants, 2024)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, 2024) ♥
The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino, 1968) ♥
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1987) ♥
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974) ♥
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
Walker (Alex Cox, 1987)
Ishtar (Elaine May, 1987)
Time to Be Strong (Namkoong Sun, 2024)
Paradise Is Burning (Mika Gustafson, 2023)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
Long Arm of the Law (Johnny Mak, 1984)
City on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987) ♥
Prison on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987)
Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing, 2024) ♥
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing, 2024) ♥
Harbin (Woo Min-ho, 2024)
The Longest Nite (Patrick Yau Tat-Chi, 1998)
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006)
Matewan (John Sayles, 1987) ♥
Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987)
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)
Unknown Pleasure (Jia Zhangke, 2002) ♥
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1991) ♥
Christine (Alan Clarke, 1987) ♥
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987) ♥
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001) *rewatch ♥
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003) *rewatch ♥
december 2024
el capitan (padula 1978)
the lost patrol (ford 1934)
merry christmas (raghavan 2024)
the blind owl (ruiz 1987)
china girl (ferrera 1987)
the spiders: pt 1 & pt 2 (lang 1919-20)
the hanging tree (daves 1959)
background to danger (walsh 1943)
the passing of the third floor back (viertel 1935)
the pirate (cheh, etc 1973)
conclave (berger 2024)
mulher de verdade (cavalcanti 1955)
don cesare di bazan (freda 1942) ♥
morning patrol (nikolaidis 1987) ♥
girl's reformatory (shimizu 1956) ♥
anora (baker 2024)
the four assassins (cheh 1975)
l'ami de mon amie (rohmer 1987) ♥
the wife of an important man (khan 1987)
bronze magician (kinugasa 1963)
suzy saxaphone (lamec 1928)
miracle mile (de jarnett 1988)
cinderella (rou/zakharov 1961)
black lizard (chor 1981)
decision before dawn (litvak 1951)
with fire & sword (hoffman 1999)
i'm engrossed in this polish epic of warring cossacks for the duration
rewatches: matrix trilogy ♥♥, the third man ♥♥
el capitan (padula 1978)
the lost patrol (ford 1934)
merry christmas (raghavan 2024)
the blind owl (ruiz 1987)
china girl (ferrera 1987)
the spiders: pt 1 & pt 2 (lang 1919-20)
the hanging tree (daves 1959)
background to danger (walsh 1943)
the passing of the third floor back (viertel 1935)
the pirate (cheh, etc 1973)
conclave (berger 2024)
mulher de verdade (cavalcanti 1955)
don cesare di bazan (freda 1942) ♥
morning patrol (nikolaidis 1987) ♥
girl's reformatory (shimizu 1956) ♥
anora (baker 2024)
the four assassins (cheh 1975)
l'ami de mon amie (rohmer 1987) ♥
the wife of an important man (khan 1987)
bronze magician (kinugasa 1963)
suzy saxaphone (lamec 1928)
miracle mile (de jarnett 1988)
cinderella (rou/zakharov 1961)
black lizard (chor 1981)
decision before dawn (litvak 1951)
with fire & sword (hoffman 1999)
i'm engrossed in this polish epic of warring cossacks for the duration
rewatches: matrix trilogy ♥♥, the third man ♥♥
Poppies and Sailboats (Rose Lowder, 2001) - 9/10
Mr Majestyk (Richard Fleischer, 1974) - 7/10
Hang 'em High (Ted Post, 1968) - 7/10
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Peter Hyams, 2009) - 7/10
Harvard Man (James Toback, 2001) - 7/10
UFO (Rhayne Vermette, 2016) - 7/10
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021) - 7/10
Prime Suspect: The Last Witness (Tom Hooper, 2003) - 7/10
Prime Suspect 2 (John Strickland, 1992) - 7/10
Prime Suspect: The Lost Child (John Madden, 1995) - 7/10
Prime Suspect: Price to Pay (Christopher Menaul, 1991) - 7/10
But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999) - 6/10
Leisure, Utopic (Beatrice Gibson, 2024) - 6/10
Death Wish II (Michael Winner, 1982) - 6/10
Cannibal Ferox (Umberto Lenzi, 1981) - 6/10
A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette, 2024) - 6/10
The Art of Self-Defense (Riley Stearns, 2019) - 6/10
Fatman (Eshom and Ian Nelms, 2020) - 6/10
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, 2017) - 6/10
Prime Suspect 3 (David Drury, 1993) - 6/10
Prime Suspect: Inner Circles (Sarah Pia Anderson, 1995) - 6/10
The Day of the Trumpet (Gerardo de Leon/Eddie Romero, 1958) - 5/10
$1000 a Minute (Aubrey Scotto, 1935) - 5/10
Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018) - 5/10
Contract to Kill (Keoni Waxman, 2016) - 5/10
Johnny English Reborn (Oliver Parker, 2011) - 5/10
Prime Suspect 1973 (David Caffrey, 2017) - 5/10
High Lonesome (Alan Le May, 1950) - 4/10
Real Men (Dennis Feldman, 1987) - 4/10
Spread (Ellie Kanner, 2024) - 4/10
Slay (Jem Garrard, 2024) - 4/10
The Collini Case (Marco Kreuzpaintner, 2019)
Prime Suspect: Errors of Judgement (Phil Davis, 1996) - 3/10
Payback (Brian Helgeland, 1999) - 3/10
Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness (Paul Marcus, 1995) - 3/10
School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips, 2006) - 3/10
Final Heist (Ted Campbell, 2024) - 2/10
Tricks (Hype South, 2024) - 2/10
2029 (Jacob Jerome, 2024) - 1/10
10 Minutes Gone (Brian A Miller, 2019) - 0/10
rewatched:
Spring Parade (Henry Koster, 1940) - 10/10
One Hundred Men and a Girl (Henry Koster, 1937) - 8/10
The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason, 1938) - 7/10
First Love (Henry Koster, 1939) - 7/10
Lady on a Train (Charles David, 1945) - 7/10
For the Love of Mary (Frederick de Cordova, 1948) - 2/10
Mr Majestyk (Richard Fleischer, 1974) - 7/10
Hang 'em High (Ted Post, 1968) - 7/10
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Peter Hyams, 2009) - 7/10
Harvard Man (James Toback, 2001) - 7/10
UFO (Rhayne Vermette, 2016) - 7/10
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021) - 7/10
Prime Suspect: The Last Witness (Tom Hooper, 2003) - 7/10
Prime Suspect 2 (John Strickland, 1992) - 7/10
Prime Suspect: The Lost Child (John Madden, 1995) - 7/10
Prime Suspect: Price to Pay (Christopher Menaul, 1991) - 7/10
But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999) - 6/10
Leisure, Utopic (Beatrice Gibson, 2024) - 6/10
Death Wish II (Michael Winner, 1982) - 6/10
Cannibal Ferox (Umberto Lenzi, 1981) - 6/10
A Black Screen Too (Rhayne Vermette, 2024) - 6/10
The Art of Self-Defense (Riley Stearns, 2019) - 6/10
Fatman (Eshom and Ian Nelms, 2020) - 6/10
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, 2017) - 6/10
Prime Suspect 3 (David Drury, 1993) - 6/10
Prime Suspect: Inner Circles (Sarah Pia Anderson, 1995) - 6/10
The Day of the Trumpet (Gerardo de Leon/Eddie Romero, 1958) - 5/10
$1000 a Minute (Aubrey Scotto, 1935) - 5/10
Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018) - 5/10
Contract to Kill (Keoni Waxman, 2016) - 5/10
Johnny English Reborn (Oliver Parker, 2011) - 5/10
Prime Suspect 1973 (David Caffrey, 2017) - 5/10
High Lonesome (Alan Le May, 1950) - 4/10
Real Men (Dennis Feldman, 1987) - 4/10
Spread (Ellie Kanner, 2024) - 4/10
Slay (Jem Garrard, 2024) - 4/10
The Collini Case (Marco Kreuzpaintner, 2019)
Prime Suspect: Errors of Judgement (Phil Davis, 1996) - 3/10
Payback (Brian Helgeland, 1999) - 3/10
Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness (Paul Marcus, 1995) - 3/10
School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips, 2006) - 3/10
Final Heist (Ted Campbell, 2024) - 2/10
Tricks (Hype South, 2024) - 2/10
2029 (Jacob Jerome, 2024) - 1/10
10 Minutes Gone (Brian A Miller, 2019) - 0/10
rewatched:
Spring Parade (Henry Koster, 1940) - 10/10
One Hundred Men and a Girl (Henry Koster, 1937) - 8/10
The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason, 1938) - 7/10
First Love (Henry Koster, 1939) - 7/10
Lady on a Train (Charles David, 1945) - 7/10
For the Love of Mary (Frederick de Cordova, 1948) - 2/10
December 2024 39 film. 2 foreign, 3 docs 5 reruns
The Affair aka The Glass Room ( 2019 Julius Ševčík)
The Black Room (1935 Roy William Neill)
The Truth About Murders (1946 Lew Landers)
Strange on the Prowl (1952 Joseph Losey) ♥
Cover Up (1949 Alfred E Green) ♥
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957 Howard W Koch)
Breakaway (1956 Henry Cass) ♥
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere (2014 Dave Jannetta)
Accused of Murder (1956 Joseph Kane)
Crucible of Terror (1972 Ted Hooker)
Alaska Seas (1954 Jerry Hopper)
Nightmare (1956 Maxwell Shane)
Johnny Apollo (1940 Henry Hathaway)
Wings of Danger (1952 Terence Fisher)
The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949 Seymour Friedman)
The Lost One 1951 Peter Lorre) ♥
Back Street (1932 John M. Stahl) ♥
The Face Behind the Mask (1941 Robert Florey) ♥
Scent of Mystery (1960 Jack Cardiff)
Mr. District Attorney (1941 William Morgan) ♥
I Was an Adventuress (1940 Gregory Ratoff)
Bonhoeffer (2003 Martin Doblmeier) doc
Christmas Holiday (1944 Robert Siodmak) ♥
Fate Is the Hunter (1964 Ralph Nelson)
Girl in the Headlines (1963 Michael Truman) ♥
Sleep, My Love (1948 Douglas Sirk) ♥
Step Down to Terror (1958 Harry Keller)
Man Afraid (1957 Harry Keller)
Spartacus (1960 Stanley Kubrick) rerun
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950 Gordon Douglas)♥
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010 Jalmari Helander) Finland rerun
Gothic (1986 Ken Russell) rerun
Christmas Blood (2017 Reinert Kiil) Norway
ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord (2024 Jon DaY) doc
Walking with the Tall Whites (2020 Emil Marczak) doc
Face the Music aka The Black Glove (1954 Terence Fisher)
Blackout (1954 Terence Fisher)
Martin Luther (1953 Irving Pischel) rerun
Radius (2017 Caroline Labrèche) rerun
AfterDeath (2015 Gez Medinger, Robin Schmidt)
The Affair aka The Glass Room ( 2019 Julius Ševčík)
The Black Room (1935 Roy William Neill)
The Truth About Murders (1946 Lew Landers)
Strange on the Prowl (1952 Joseph Losey) ♥
Cover Up (1949 Alfred E Green) ♥
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957 Howard W Koch)
Breakaway (1956 Henry Cass) ♥
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere (2014 Dave Jannetta)
Accused of Murder (1956 Joseph Kane)
Crucible of Terror (1972 Ted Hooker)
Alaska Seas (1954 Jerry Hopper)
Nightmare (1956 Maxwell Shane)
Johnny Apollo (1940 Henry Hathaway)
Wings of Danger (1952 Terence Fisher)
The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949 Seymour Friedman)
The Lost One 1951 Peter Lorre) ♥
Back Street (1932 John M. Stahl) ♥
The Face Behind the Mask (1941 Robert Florey) ♥
Scent of Mystery (1960 Jack Cardiff)
Mr. District Attorney (1941 William Morgan) ♥
I Was an Adventuress (1940 Gregory Ratoff)
Bonhoeffer (2003 Martin Doblmeier) doc
Christmas Holiday (1944 Robert Siodmak) ♥
Fate Is the Hunter (1964 Ralph Nelson)
Girl in the Headlines (1963 Michael Truman) ♥
Sleep, My Love (1948 Douglas Sirk) ♥
Step Down to Terror (1958 Harry Keller)
Man Afraid (1957 Harry Keller)
Spartacus (1960 Stanley Kubrick) rerun
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950 Gordon Douglas)♥
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010 Jalmari Helander) Finland rerun
Gothic (1986 Ken Russell) rerun
Christmas Blood (2017 Reinert Kiil) Norway
ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord (2024 Jon DaY) doc
Walking with the Tall Whites (2020 Emil Marczak) doc
Face the Music aka The Black Glove (1954 Terence Fisher)
Blackout (1954 Terence Fisher)
Martin Luther (1953 Irving Pischel) rerun
Radius (2017 Caroline Labrèche) rerun
AfterDeath (2015 Gez Medinger, Robin Schmidt)
December, 2024
I finally saw Daïnah la metisse, which was recommended to me by rischka about 100 years ago on The Auteurs forum or whatever it was, a Criterion forum?
I finally saw Daïnah la metisse, which was recommended to me by rischka about 100 years ago on The Auteurs forum or whatever it was, a Criterion forum?
2025. 1
Tokyo Heaven (Shinji Somai, 1990) ♥
Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024)
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora’s Box (Jeffrey Lau, 1995)
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (Jeffrey Lau, 1995)
The Monk and the Gun (Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2023)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichard, 2022) *rewatch ♥
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, 2024)
Daughters (Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, 2024)
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Benjamin Ree, 2024)
The Nun (Jacques Rivette, 1966) ♥
Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum, 2024)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (Johan Grimonprez, 2024)
Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024)
The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao, 2024)
Ferrari (Michael Mann, 2023)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024)
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)
Thelma (Josh Margolin, 2024)
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024)
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922) ♥
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Haxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
Dr. Jack (Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer, 1922)
Phantom (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Memory (Michel Franco, 2023)
The Animal Kingdom (Thomas Cailley, 2023)
Heritage (Lee Jong-su, 2023)
Ripples (Naoko Ogigami, 2023)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) *rewatch ♥
Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette, 1981) ♥
Love on the Ground (Jacques Rivette, 1984) ♥
Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette, 1985) *rewatch
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, 1989) ♥
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman (Claire Denis, Serge Daney, 1990)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991) *rewatch ♥
Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (Jacques Rivette, 2001) *extended version ♥
Tokyo Heaven (Shinji Somai, 1990) ♥
Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024)
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora’s Box (Jeffrey Lau, 1995)
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (Jeffrey Lau, 1995)
The Monk and the Gun (Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2023)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichard, 2022) *rewatch ♥
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, 2024)
Daughters (Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, 2024)
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Benjamin Ree, 2024)
The Nun (Jacques Rivette, 1966) ♥
Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum, 2024)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (Johan Grimonprez, 2024)
Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024)
The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao, 2024)
Ferrari (Michael Mann, 2023)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024)
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)
Thelma (Josh Margolin, 2024)
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024)
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922) ♥
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Haxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
Dr. Jack (Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer, 1922)
Phantom (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Memory (Michel Franco, 2023)
The Animal Kingdom (Thomas Cailley, 2023)
Heritage (Lee Jong-su, 2023)
Ripples (Naoko Ogigami, 2023)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) *rewatch ♥
Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette, 1981) ♥
Love on the Ground (Jacques Rivette, 1984) ♥
Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette, 1985) *rewatch
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, 1989) ♥
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman (Claire Denis, Serge Daney, 1990)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991) *rewatch ♥
Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (Jacques Rivette, 2001) *extended version ♥
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1/25
the devil queen (da fontoura 1974)
kingdom of the planet of the apes (ball 2024)
soundtrack to a coup d'etat (grimonprez 2024) ♥
horizons west (boetticher 1952)
hells angels on wheels (rush 1967)
microcosmos (nuridsany/perennou 1996) ♥
kal ho naa ho (advani 2003)
public deb #1 (ratoff 1940)
mr lucky (potter 1943)
the odd one dies (yau/to 1997) ♥
his birthright (worthington 1918)
the sons of great bear (mach 1966)
sunset in naples (brignone 1956) ♥
megalopolis (coppola 2024)
juror #2 (eastwood 2024)
route one/USA (kramer 1989) ♥♥
a sixth part of the world (vertov 1926)
who invented the yoyo? who invented the moon buggy? (tahimik 1979)
the romance of book and sword (hui 1987)
showdown (springsteen 1963) ♥
alien: romulus (alvarez 2024)
a real pain (eisenberg 2024)
the spanish main (borzage 1945)
the deluge (hoffman 1974) ♥
love and greed (masumura 1964)
bluesky blocked my post as 'graphic media'
rewatch: carefree (sandrich 1938) to watch today: cash calls hell (gosha 1966)
the devil queen (da fontoura 1974)
kingdom of the planet of the apes (ball 2024)
soundtrack to a coup d'etat (grimonprez 2024) ♥
horizons west (boetticher 1952)
hells angels on wheels (rush 1967)
microcosmos (nuridsany/perennou 1996) ♥
kal ho naa ho (advani 2003)
public deb #1 (ratoff 1940)
mr lucky (potter 1943)
the odd one dies (yau/to 1997) ♥
his birthright (worthington 1918)
the sons of great bear (mach 1966)
sunset in naples (brignone 1956) ♥
megalopolis (coppola 2024)
juror #2 (eastwood 2024)
route one/USA (kramer 1989) ♥♥
a sixth part of the world (vertov 1926)
who invented the yoyo? who invented the moon buggy? (tahimik 1979)
the romance of book and sword (hui 1987)
showdown (springsteen 1963) ♥
alien: romulus (alvarez 2024)
a real pain (eisenberg 2024)
the spanish main (borzage 1945)
the deluge (hoffman 1974) ♥
love and greed (masumura 1964)
bluesky blocked my post as 'graphic media'
rewatch: carefree (sandrich 1938) to watch today: cash calls hell (gosha 1966)
spent most of the month either watching 2024 films, or watching 2010-2020s american (some british) films i found on tubi by well-known directors.
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010) - 9/10
Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, 2024) - 8/10
The Order (Justin Kurzel, 2024) - 7/10
Twelve (Joel Schumacher, 2010) - 7/10
Saturday Night (Jason Reitman, 2024) - 7/10
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024) - 7/10
Anora (Sean Baker, 2024) - 7/10
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, 2024) - 6/10
Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson, 2015) - 6/10
Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen, 2014) - 6/10
The Program (Stephen Frears, 2015) - 6/10
To Rome With Love (Woody Allen, 2012) - 6/10
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024) - 5/10
Thelma (Josh Margolin, 2024) - 5/10
Contract to Kill (Keoni Waxman, 2016) - 5/10
Greedy People (Potsy Ponciroli, 2024) - 5/10
Hijack 1971 (Kim Sung-han, 2024) - 4/10
Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard, 2024) - 4/10
Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024) - 4/10
The Humbling (Barry Levinson, 2014) - 3/10
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024) - 3/10
School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips, 2006) - 3/10
Madso's War (Walter Hill, 2010) - 3/10
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) - 3/10
Coup de Chance (Woody Allen, 2023) - 3/10
Domino (Brian De Palma, 2019) - 2/10
Irrational Man (Woody Allen, 2015) - 2/10
Wicked (Jon Chu, 2024) - 2/10
Enemies Closer (Peter Hyams, 2013) - 1/10
Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears, 2010) - 1/10
short:
The Adventures of Alan R (David Lynch, 2020) - 7/10
The Story of a Small Bug (David Lynch, 2020 - 5/10
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010) - 9/10
Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, 2024) - 8/10
The Order (Justin Kurzel, 2024) - 7/10
Twelve (Joel Schumacher, 2010) - 7/10
Saturday Night (Jason Reitman, 2024) - 7/10
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024) - 7/10
Anora (Sean Baker, 2024) - 7/10
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, 2024) - 6/10
Rock the Kasbah (Barry Levinson, 2015) - 6/10
Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen, 2014) - 6/10
The Program (Stephen Frears, 2015) - 6/10
To Rome With Love (Woody Allen, 2012) - 6/10
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024) - 5/10
Thelma (Josh Margolin, 2024) - 5/10
Contract to Kill (Keoni Waxman, 2016) - 5/10
Greedy People (Potsy Ponciroli, 2024) - 5/10
Hijack 1971 (Kim Sung-han, 2024) - 4/10
Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard, 2024) - 4/10
Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024) - 4/10
The Humbling (Barry Levinson, 2014) - 3/10
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024) - 3/10
School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips, 2006) - 3/10
Madso's War (Walter Hill, 2010) - 3/10
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) - 3/10
Coup de Chance (Woody Allen, 2023) - 3/10
Domino (Brian De Palma, 2019) - 2/10
Irrational Man (Woody Allen, 2015) - 2/10
Wicked (Jon Chu, 2024) - 2/10
Enemies Closer (Peter Hyams, 2013) - 1/10
Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears, 2010) - 1/10
short:
The Adventures of Alan R (David Lynch, 2020) - 7/10
The Story of a Small Bug (David Lynch, 2020 - 5/10
January 2025 35 films. 6 foreign, 2 docs, 10 reruns
Nosferatu (2024 Robert Eggers)
Cleopatra (1963 Joseph Mankiewitz)
Suspense (1946 Frank Tuttle)
A Day at the Races (1937 Sam Wood) rerun
Cocoanuts (1929 Robert Florey) rerun
The Man They Couldn’t Hang (1939 Nick Grinde)
The Devil Commands (1941 Edward Dmytryk) rerun
Doctor Faustus (1967 Richard Burton)
The Man Inside (1958 John Gilling)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959 Riccardo Freda/Mario Bava Italy)
Wonka (2023 Paul King)
Beyond the Rocks (1922 Sam Wood) ♥
Der brennende Acker aka The Burning Soil (1922 F W Murnau Germany)
Thunder in the Night (1935 George Archainbaud) rerun
The Thicket (2024 Elliot Ledter) ♥
Dead for a Dollar (2022 Walter Hill)
Sunrise (2024 Andrew Baird)
The Echo Murders (1945 John Harlow) rerun
The Brutalist (2024 Bradley Corbet) ♥
The Horizon (2024 Kevin Costner)
Of Human Bondage (1934 John Cromwell) ♥
Inferno (1980 Dario Argento) rerun
The Mother of Tears (2007 Dario Argento) rerun
Dachra (2018 Abdelhamid Bouchnak Tanzania)
The Bohemian aka IL Boemo (2022 Petr Václav Czech) ♥
Secretary (2002 Steven Shainberg) rerun
Saturday Night (2024 Jason Reitman)
Number 24 (2024 John Andreas Andersen Norway) ♥
Carry-On (2024 Jaume Collet-Serra)
Black Mass (2015 Scott Cooper) rerun
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014 Joe Berlinger) doc rerun
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever (2025 Chris Smith) doc
Lost Girls (2020 Liz Garbus)
Madame Web (2024 S J Clarkson)
Forgotten Love (2024 Michał Gazda Poland) ♥
Nosferatu (2024 Robert Eggers)
Cleopatra (1963 Joseph Mankiewitz)
Suspense (1946 Frank Tuttle)
A Day at the Races (1937 Sam Wood) rerun
Cocoanuts (1929 Robert Florey) rerun
The Man They Couldn’t Hang (1939 Nick Grinde)
The Devil Commands (1941 Edward Dmytryk) rerun
Doctor Faustus (1967 Richard Burton)
The Man Inside (1958 John Gilling)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959 Riccardo Freda/Mario Bava Italy)
Wonka (2023 Paul King)
Beyond the Rocks (1922 Sam Wood) ♥
Der brennende Acker aka The Burning Soil (1922 F W Murnau Germany)
Thunder in the Night (1935 George Archainbaud) rerun
The Thicket (2024 Elliot Ledter) ♥
Dead for a Dollar (2022 Walter Hill)
Sunrise (2024 Andrew Baird)
The Echo Murders (1945 John Harlow) rerun
The Brutalist (2024 Bradley Corbet) ♥
The Horizon (2024 Kevin Costner)
Of Human Bondage (1934 John Cromwell) ♥
Inferno (1980 Dario Argento) rerun
The Mother of Tears (2007 Dario Argento) rerun
Dachra (2018 Abdelhamid Bouchnak Tanzania)
The Bohemian aka IL Boemo (2022 Petr Václav Czech) ♥
Secretary (2002 Steven Shainberg) rerun
Saturday Night (2024 Jason Reitman)
Number 24 (2024 John Andreas Andersen Norway) ♥
Carry-On (2024 Jaume Collet-Serra)
Black Mass (2015 Scott Cooper) rerun
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014 Joe Berlinger) doc rerun
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever (2025 Chris Smith) doc
Lost Girls (2020 Liz Garbus)
Madame Web (2024 S J Clarkson)
Forgotten Love (2024 Michał Gazda Poland) ♥
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2025. 2
The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973) *rewatch ♥
This Happy Breed (David Lean, 1944)
A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1944)
Port of Freedom (Helmut Käutner, 1944) ♥
The Woman Who Dared (Jean Grémillon, 1944) ♥
The Sunchaser (Michael Cimino, 1996)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992) *rewatch ♥
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001) *rewatch ♥
September 5 (Tim Fehlbaum, 2024)
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024)
No Other Land (Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, 2024)
Sugarcane (Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat, 2024)
Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah, 2025)
Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024)
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2023)
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944) ♥
Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944) ♥
O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) (mini-series) ♥
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978) ♥
Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005)
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, 2024)
The Law (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1990)
Cooley High (Michael Schultz, 1975)
George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973) *rewatch ♥
This Happy Breed (David Lean, 1944)
A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1944)
Port of Freedom (Helmut Käutner, 1944) ♥
The Woman Who Dared (Jean Grémillon, 1944) ♥
The Sunchaser (Michael Cimino, 1996)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992) *rewatch ♥
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001) *rewatch ♥
September 5 (Tim Fehlbaum, 2024)
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024)
No Other Land (Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, 2024)
Sugarcane (Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat, 2024)
Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah, 2025)
Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024)
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2023)
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944) ♥
Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944) ♥
O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) (mini-series) ♥
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978) ♥
Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005)
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, 2024)
The Law (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1990)
Cooley High (Michael Schultz, 1975)
George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)
not too many
colonel wolodyjowski - hoffman 1969
all we imagine as light - kapadia 2024
le triangle de feu - greville 1932
los tarantos - rovira beleta 1963
trap - shyamalan 2024
back to black - taylor-johnson 2024
the enchanted day - pewas 1944
premier de cordee - daquin 1944 ♥
rewatches - laura ♥ moulin rouge ♥ the godfather ♥ probably watch godfather 2 today
colonel wolodyjowski - hoffman 1969
all we imagine as light - kapadia 2024
le triangle de feu - greville 1932
los tarantos - rovira beleta 1963
trap - shyamalan 2024
back to black - taylor-johnson 2024
the enchanted day - pewas 1944
premier de cordee - daquin 1944 ♥
rewatches - laura ♥ moulin rouge ♥ the godfather ♥ probably watch godfather 2 today
- January / February -
Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024)
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2024)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)*
Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)*
The Long Gray Line (John Ford, 1955)
Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976)
Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah, 2025)
TV:
Arcane (season 2) ♥♥
Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024)
The End (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2024)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)*
Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)*
The Long Gray Line (John Ford, 1955)
Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976)
Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah, 2025)
TV:
Arcane (season 2) ♥♥
February 2025
rewatch
All ratings out of 10
La Poison (Sacha Guitry, 1951) 8
Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné, 1953) 9
The Night Affair (Gilles Grangier, 1958) 7
The Seventh Juror (Georges Lautner, 1962) 8
Any Number Can Win (Henri Verneuil, 1963) 6
Pasha (Georges Lautner, 1968) 8
The Burglars (Henri Verneuil, 1971) 7
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (Bertrand Tavernier, 1974) 8
Dossier 51 (Michel Deville, 1978) 6
I… For Icarus (Henri Verneuil, 1979) 9
Garde à vue (Claude Miller, 1981) 9
Deadly Circuit (Claude Miller, 1983) 5
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983) 8
Ménage (Bertrand Blier, 1986) 6
Sea of Love (Harold Becker, 1989) 8
Dr. Petiot (Christian de Chalonge, 1990) 6
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991) 10
Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995) 8
Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen, 2000) 7
Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte, 2002) 8
Ruby & Quentin (Francis Veber, 2003) 7
Anthony Zimmer (Jérôme Salle, 2005) 6
Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) 8
Kill the Irishman (Jonathan Hensleigh, 2011) 5
Masterminds (Jared Hess, 2016) 5
The Trouble with You (Pierre Salvadori, 2018) 6
The Kitchen (Andrea Berloff, 2019) 4
Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega, 2024) 7
Best: Thelma & Louise
Worst: The Kitchen
rewatch
All ratings out of 10
La Poison (Sacha Guitry, 1951) 8
Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné, 1953) 9
The Night Affair (Gilles Grangier, 1958) 7
The Seventh Juror (Georges Lautner, 1962) 8
Any Number Can Win (Henri Verneuil, 1963) 6
Pasha (Georges Lautner, 1968) 8
The Burglars (Henri Verneuil, 1971) 7
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (Bertrand Tavernier, 1974) 8
Dossier 51 (Michel Deville, 1978) 6
I… For Icarus (Henri Verneuil, 1979) 9
Garde à vue (Claude Miller, 1981) 9
Deadly Circuit (Claude Miller, 1983) 5
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983) 8
Ménage (Bertrand Blier, 1986) 6
Sea of Love (Harold Becker, 1989) 8
Dr. Petiot (Christian de Chalonge, 1990) 6
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991) 10
Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995) 8
Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen, 2000) 7
Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte, 2002) 8
Ruby & Quentin (Francis Veber, 2003) 7
Anthony Zimmer (Jérôme Salle, 2005) 6
Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) 8
Kill the Irishman (Jonathan Hensleigh, 2011) 5
Masterminds (Jared Hess, 2016) 5
The Trouble with You (Pierre Salvadori, 2018) 6
The Kitchen (Andrea Berloff, 2019) 4
Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega, 2024) 7
Best: Thelma & Louise
Worst: The Kitchen
exclusively watched 2024 films this month:
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams, 2024) -10/10
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024) - 8/10
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024) - 7/10
Santosh (Sandhrya Suri, 2024) - 7/10
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024) - 7/10
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024) - 7/10
The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux, 2024) - 7/10
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024) - 7/10
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, 2024) - 7/10
A House on Fire (Dani de la Orden, 2024) - 7/10
Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024) - 6/10
One More Shot (James Nunn, 2024) - 6/10
The Dead Don't Hurt (Viggo Mortensen, 2024) - 6/10
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024) - 6/10
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, 2024) - 6/10
Alien: Romulus (Fede Alvarez, 2024) - 6/10
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024) - 6/10
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2024) - 5/10
Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024) - 5/10
Crossing (Levan Akin, 2024) - 4/10
Joy (Ben Taylor, 2024) - 4/10
Maria (Pablo Larrain, 2024) - 3/10
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024) - 3/10
Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann, 2024) - 3/10
My First Film (Zia Anger, 2024) - 2/10
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024) - 2/10
The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders, 2024) - 2/10
Young Woman and the Sea (Joachim Ronning, 2024) - 2/10
Teasing Master Takagi-san (Rikiya Imaizumi, 2024) - 1/10
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams, 2024) -10/10
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024) - 8/10
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024) - 7/10
Santosh (Sandhrya Suri, 2024) - 7/10
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024) - 7/10
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024) - 7/10
The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux, 2024) - 7/10
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024) - 7/10
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, 2024) - 7/10
A House on Fire (Dani de la Orden, 2024) - 7/10
Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024) - 6/10
One More Shot (James Nunn, 2024) - 6/10
The Dead Don't Hurt (Viggo Mortensen, 2024) - 6/10
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024) - 6/10
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, 2024) - 6/10
Alien: Romulus (Fede Alvarez, 2024) - 6/10
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024) - 6/10
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2024) - 5/10
Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024) - 5/10
Crossing (Levan Akin, 2024) - 4/10
Joy (Ben Taylor, 2024) - 4/10
Maria (Pablo Larrain, 2024) - 3/10
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024) - 3/10
Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann, 2024) - 3/10
My First Film (Zia Anger, 2024) - 2/10
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024) - 2/10
The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders, 2024) - 2/10
Young Woman and the Sea (Joachim Ronning, 2024) - 2/10
Teasing Master Takagi-san (Rikiya Imaizumi, 2024) - 1/10
February 2025 27 films. 4 foreign, 2 docs, 4 reruns... 9 of these starred Warren William
Biggest Heist Ever (Chris Smith 2024) doc
Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy (Nic Stacey 2024) doc
The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah 2018) rerun
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audriard 2024 Mexico)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn 2022)
Hoodlum Empire (Joseph Kane 1952)
City That Never Sleeps (John H Auer 1953)
The Lost Tribe (William Berke 1949) <-- Probably one of the dumbest things ever made.. part of the Jungle Jim series....woof!
Charley’s Aunt (Archie Mayo 1941) ♥ Never thought I'd see Jack Benny do so much physical comedy like this one.
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (Sidney Salkow 1940)
Freaks Out (Gabriele Mainetti 2021 Italy) ♥
The Case of the Howling Dog (Alan Crosland 1934)
The Case of the Lucky Legs (Archie Mayo 1935)
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (Sidney Salkow 1940)
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (Sidney Salkow 1941)
The Unknown (Tod Browning 1927) RESTORED 35mm print!!! ♥♥♥♥
The Case of the Curious Bride (Michael Curtiz 1935) contains a silent cameo by Errol Flynn
Counter-Espionage (Edward Dmytryk 1942)
One Dangerous Night (Michael Gordon 1943)
Wives Under Suspicion (James Whale 1938) Best ironic line, " What do you take me for? Some kind of monster?"
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell 2020) Liked 'Saltburn' more
The Black Hole (Gary Nelson 1979) rerun
Kate (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan 2021)
The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson 2002) rerun
WILL (Tim Mielants 2023 Netherlands)
The Forgotten Battle (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. 2020 Netherlands) rerun
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein 2023)
Biggest Heist Ever (Chris Smith 2024) doc
Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy (Nic Stacey 2024) doc
The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah 2018) rerun
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audriard 2024 Mexico)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn 2022)
Hoodlum Empire (Joseph Kane 1952)
City That Never Sleeps (John H Auer 1953)
The Lost Tribe (William Berke 1949) <-- Probably one of the dumbest things ever made.. part of the Jungle Jim series....woof!
Charley’s Aunt (Archie Mayo 1941) ♥ Never thought I'd see Jack Benny do so much physical comedy like this one.
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (Sidney Salkow 1940)
Freaks Out (Gabriele Mainetti 2021 Italy) ♥
The Case of the Howling Dog (Alan Crosland 1934)
The Case of the Lucky Legs (Archie Mayo 1935)
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (Sidney Salkow 1940)
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (Sidney Salkow 1941)
The Unknown (Tod Browning 1927) RESTORED 35mm print!!! ♥♥♥♥
The Case of the Curious Bride (Michael Curtiz 1935) contains a silent cameo by Errol Flynn
Counter-Espionage (Edward Dmytryk 1942)
One Dangerous Night (Michael Gordon 1943)
Wives Under Suspicion (James Whale 1938) Best ironic line, " What do you take me for? Some kind of monster?"
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell 2020) Liked 'Saltburn' more
The Black Hole (Gary Nelson 1979) rerun
Kate (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan 2021)
The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson 2002) rerun
WILL (Tim Mielants 2023 Netherlands)
The Forgotten Battle (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. 2020 Netherlands) rerun
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein 2023)
2025. 3
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho, 2000)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho, 2025)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) *rewatch ♥
Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie, 1972)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese, 2005)
Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2000)
Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)
American Dream (Barbara Kopple, 1990)
The Edge of the World (Michael Powell, 1937) ♥
Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland, 1990)
Germany Pale Mother (Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980) ♥
An Autumn’s Tale (Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting, 1987)
Song of the Exile (Ann Hui, 1990) ♥
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)
Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990) ♥
The Golden Boat (Raúl Ruiz, 1990)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1990)
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, 2025)
Vengeance Is Mine (Shōhei Imamura, 1979) *rewatch ♥
The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 1979)
The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim, 1928) ♥
A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1975) ♥
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani, 1968)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shūji Terayama, 1971) *rewatch
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shūji Terayama, 1974)
Mathilukal (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1990)
The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1990)
Freeze, Die, Come to Life (Vitali Kanevsky, 1990) ♥
Innisfree (José Luis Guerín, 1990) ♥
The Company of Strangers (Cynthia Scott, 1990) ♥
Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996) *rewatch ♥
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
Takeshi: Childhood Days (Masahiro Shinoda, 1990) ♥
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, 2024)
Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990) ♥
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho, 2000)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho, 2025)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) *rewatch ♥
Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie, 1972)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese, 2005)
Love & Basketball (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2000)
Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)
American Dream (Barbara Kopple, 1990)
The Edge of the World (Michael Powell, 1937) ♥
Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland, 1990)
Germany Pale Mother (Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980) ♥
An Autumn’s Tale (Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting, 1987)
Song of the Exile (Ann Hui, 1990) ♥
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)
Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990) ♥
The Golden Boat (Raúl Ruiz, 1990)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1990)
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, 2025)
Vengeance Is Mine (Shōhei Imamura, 1979) *rewatch ♥
The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 1979)
The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim, 1928) ♥
A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1975) ♥
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani, 1968)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shūji Terayama, 1971) *rewatch
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shūji Terayama, 1974)
Mathilukal (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1990)
The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1990)
Freeze, Die, Come to Life (Vitali Kanevsky, 1990) ♥
Innisfree (José Luis Guerín, 1990) ♥
The Company of Strangers (Cynthia Scott, 1990) ♥
Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996) *rewatch ♥
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
Takeshi: Childhood Days (Masahiro Shinoda, 1990) ♥
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, 2024)
Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990) ♥
March 2025
rewatch
All ratings out of 10
Watched more than usual thanks to Vilnius Film Festival. This year's edition had a great lineup. I particularly enjoyed two older films on a big screen. A captivating rewatch of Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love and a wonderful first time viewing of rich, cinematic Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999) 8
Loser (Amy Heckerling, 2000) 4
Committed (Lisa Krueger, 2000) 5
Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt, 2000) 5
The Way Home (Lee Jeong-hyang, 2002) 7
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke, 2003) 6
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004) 9
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh, 2011) 8
Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Mann, 2011) 3
Red Riding Hood (Catherine Hardwicke, 2011) 4
Winter’s Tale (Akiva Goldsman, 2014) 4
Dalida (Lisa Azuelos, 2016) 5
The BFG (Steven Spielberg, 2016) 7
The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017) 6
Little Forest (Yim Soon-rye, 2018) 8
Voice of Silence (Hong Eui-jeong, 2020) 5
Deserted (Kadri Kõusaar, 2021) 3
The Mad Women’s Ball (Mélanie Laurent, 2021) 7
Black Site (Sophia Banks, 2022) 5
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) 6
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022) 8
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2023) 9
Rosalie (Stéphanie Di Giusto, 2023) 6
Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024) 4
Meat (Dimitris Nakos, 2024) 7
Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, 2024) 3
Santosh (Sandhya Suri, 2024) 6
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024) 10
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, 2024) 5
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024) 6
Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024) 8
Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, 2024) 8
Witches (Elizabeth Sankey, 2024) 7
Peacock (Bernhard Wenger, 2024) 6
Hanami (Denise Fernandes, 2024) 5
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2024) 8
Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito, 2024) 6
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024) 9
I’m Still Here (Walter Salles, 2024) 10
The Outrun (Nora Fingscheidt, 2024) 7
Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2024) 6
Wishing on a Star (Peter Kerekes, 2024) 7
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024) 7
Under the Volcano (Damian Kocur, 2024) 5
Three Friends (Emmanuel Mouret, 2024) 5
Armand (Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, 2024) 3
Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang, 2024) 6
To a Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel, 2024) 6
Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine, 2024) 7
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) 5
Travel Essentials (Kamila Tarabura, 2024) 4
Back to Black (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2024) 6
Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo Van Dijl, 2024) 6
The Quiet Ones (Frederik Louis Hviid, 2024) 5
The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba, 2024) 4
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024) 8
The Marching Band (Emmanuel Courcol, 2024) 7
Songs of Slow Burning Earth (Olha Zhurba, 2024) 7
Grand Theft Hamlet (Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, 2024) 7
As Silence Passes By (Sandra Romero Acevedo, 2024) 2
Ghost Cat Anzu (Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2024) 6
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024) 6
A New Kind of Wilderness (Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, 2024) 7
Eight Postcards from Utopia (Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, 2024) 6
Short film:
If Anything Happens I Love You (Michael Govier, Will McCormack, 2020) 7
TV:
Nine Perfect Strangers (Jonathan Levine, 2021) 6
Best: I’m Still Here, Flow, The Brutalist
Worst: As Silence Passes By, Armand, Texas Killing Fields
rewatch
All ratings out of 10
Watched more than usual thanks to Vilnius Film Festival. This year's edition had a great lineup. I particularly enjoyed two older films on a big screen. A captivating rewatch of Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love and a wonderful first time viewing of rich, cinematic Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999) 8
Loser (Amy Heckerling, 2000) 4
Committed (Lisa Krueger, 2000) 5
Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt, 2000) 5
The Way Home (Lee Jeong-hyang, 2002) 7
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke, 2003) 6
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004) 9
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh, 2011) 8
Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Mann, 2011) 3
Red Riding Hood (Catherine Hardwicke, 2011) 4
Winter’s Tale (Akiva Goldsman, 2014) 4
Dalida (Lisa Azuelos, 2016) 5
The BFG (Steven Spielberg, 2016) 7
The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017) 6
Little Forest (Yim Soon-rye, 2018) 8
Voice of Silence (Hong Eui-jeong, 2020) 5
Deserted (Kadri Kõusaar, 2021) 3
The Mad Women’s Ball (Mélanie Laurent, 2021) 7
Black Site (Sophia Banks, 2022) 5
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) 6
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022) 8
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2023) 9
Rosalie (Stéphanie Di Giusto, 2023) 6
Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024) 4
Meat (Dimitris Nakos, 2024) 7
Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, 2024) 3
Santosh (Sandhya Suri, 2024) 6
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024) 10
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, 2024) 5
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024) 6
Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024) 8
Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, 2024) 8
Witches (Elizabeth Sankey, 2024) 7
Peacock (Bernhard Wenger, 2024) 6
Hanami (Denise Fernandes, 2024) 5
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2024) 8
Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito, 2024) 6
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024) 9
I’m Still Here (Walter Salles, 2024) 10
The Outrun (Nora Fingscheidt, 2024) 7
Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2024) 6
Wishing on a Star (Peter Kerekes, 2024) 7
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024) 7
Under the Volcano (Damian Kocur, 2024) 5
Three Friends (Emmanuel Mouret, 2024) 5
Armand (Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, 2024) 3
Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang, 2024) 6
To a Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel, 2024) 6
Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine, 2024) 7
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) 5
Travel Essentials (Kamila Tarabura, 2024) 4
Back to Black (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2024) 6
Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo Van Dijl, 2024) 6
The Quiet Ones (Frederik Louis Hviid, 2024) 5
The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba, 2024) 4
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024) 8
The Marching Band (Emmanuel Courcol, 2024) 7
Songs of Slow Burning Earth (Olha Zhurba, 2024) 7
Grand Theft Hamlet (Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, 2024) 7
As Silence Passes By (Sandra Romero Acevedo, 2024) 2
Ghost Cat Anzu (Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2024) 6
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024) 6
A New Kind of Wilderness (Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, 2024) 7
Eight Postcards from Utopia (Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, 2024) 6
Short film:
If Anything Happens I Love You (Michael Govier, Will McCormack, 2020) 7
TV:
Nine Perfect Strangers (Jonathan Levine, 2021) 6
Best: I’m Still Here, Flow, The Brutalist
Worst: As Silence Passes By, Armand, Texas Killing Fields
start of the month i watched several 2025 films, most years i do that and everything i see is absolutely horrible but this year there were a few decent-to-good watches along with some dreck, so a promising start to the year... mid-month watched random stuff... end of the month, i watched a run of older best pic nominees i had never seen, a couple of surprises but a lot of bland best picture material too
Souleymane's Story (Boris Lojkine, 2024) - 9/10
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971) - 8/10
The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958) - 8/10
Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky, 1998) - 7/10
Fight or Flight (James Madigan, 2025) - 7/10
Obaltan (Yu Hyun-mok. 1961) - 7/10
Gunman in the Streets (Frank Tuttle, 1950) - 7/10
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford, 1983) - 7/10
Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012) - 7/10
The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer, 1958) - 7/10
Delicious (Nele Mueller-Stofen, 2025) - 6/10
Lilies of the Field (Ralph Nelson, 1963) - 6/10
Leviathan (George Cosmatos, 1989) - 6/10
Howards End (James Ivory, 1992) - 6/10
The Parenting (Craig Johnson, 2025) - 6/10
Counterattack (Chava Cartas, 2025) - 5/10
Back in Action (Seth Gordon, 2025) - 5/10
Sniper: The Last Stand (Danishka Esterhazy, 2025) - 5/10
Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990) - 5/10
I'm Still Here (Walter Salles, 2024) - 5/10
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011) - 5/10
Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1987) - 3/10
The Electric State (Russo Brothers, 2025) - 2/10
Alarum (Michael Polish, 2025) - 1/10
Cold Wallet (Cutter Hodierne, 2025) - 1/10
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981) - 1/10
Souleymane's Story (Boris Lojkine, 2024) - 9/10
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971) - 8/10
The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958) - 8/10
Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky, 1998) - 7/10
Fight or Flight (James Madigan, 2025) - 7/10
Obaltan (Yu Hyun-mok. 1961) - 7/10
Gunman in the Streets (Frank Tuttle, 1950) - 7/10
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford, 1983) - 7/10
Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012) - 7/10
The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer, 1958) - 7/10
Delicious (Nele Mueller-Stofen, 2025) - 6/10
Lilies of the Field (Ralph Nelson, 1963) - 6/10
Leviathan (George Cosmatos, 1989) - 6/10
Howards End (James Ivory, 1992) - 6/10
The Parenting (Craig Johnson, 2025) - 6/10
Counterattack (Chava Cartas, 2025) - 5/10
Back in Action (Seth Gordon, 2025) - 5/10
Sniper: The Last Stand (Danishka Esterhazy, 2025) - 5/10
Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990) - 5/10
I'm Still Here (Walter Salles, 2024) - 5/10
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011) - 5/10
Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1987) - 3/10
The Electric State (Russo Brothers, 2025) - 2/10
Alarum (Michael Polish, 2025) - 1/10
Cold Wallet (Cutter Hodierne, 2025) - 1/10
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981) - 1/10
i watched a lot of things!
flow (zibalodis 2024)
a complete unknown (mangold 2024)
meet the wildcat (lubin 1940)
black rose is an emblem of sorrow,... (solovyov 1990)
she shoots straight (yuen 1990)
song of the exile (hui 1990) ♥
nickel boys (ross 2024)
the guardian angel (ostend 1990) ♥
the fun, the luck & the tycoon (to 1990)
teorema (pasolini 1968)
8 million ways to die (ashby 1986)
the new devil of hells bottom (kromanov/muur 1964) ♥
the royal family of broadway (cukor/gardner 1930)
captain carey USA (leisen 1949)
the lonely man (levin 1957)
angela goes on... (bratu 1982) ♥
three women (melnyk 2022)
no other land (szor, ballal,... 2024)
orao/eagle (tadic 1990)
downhill (hitchcock 1927)
pathaan (anand 2023)
as you desire me (fitzmaurice 1932)
signale: a space adventure (kolditz 1970)
in the dust of the stars (kolditz 1976)
love me and the world is mine (dupont 1927)
wicked (chu 2024)
children of the great buddha (simizu 1956) ♥
zig zig (szabo 1975)
tokyo heaven (somai 1990)
goodbye, boys! (kalik 1964)
the two-headed spy (de toth 1958)
rewatches: godfather 2 ♥ godfather 3 (coda), a room with a view ♥♥♥
goodbye, boys! had some really lovely cinematography (and cats)
flow (zibalodis 2024)
a complete unknown (mangold 2024)
meet the wildcat (lubin 1940)
black rose is an emblem of sorrow,... (solovyov 1990)
she shoots straight (yuen 1990)
song of the exile (hui 1990) ♥
nickel boys (ross 2024)
the guardian angel (ostend 1990) ♥
the fun, the luck & the tycoon (to 1990)
teorema (pasolini 1968)
8 million ways to die (ashby 1986)
the new devil of hells bottom (kromanov/muur 1964) ♥
the royal family of broadway (cukor/gardner 1930)
captain carey USA (leisen 1949)
the lonely man (levin 1957)
angela goes on... (bratu 1982) ♥
three women (melnyk 2022)
no other land (szor, ballal,... 2024)
orao/eagle (tadic 1990)
downhill (hitchcock 1927)
pathaan (anand 2023)
as you desire me (fitzmaurice 1932)
signale: a space adventure (kolditz 1970)
in the dust of the stars (kolditz 1976)
love me and the world is mine (dupont 1927)
wicked (chu 2024)
children of the great buddha (simizu 1956) ♥
zig zig (szabo 1975)
tokyo heaven (somai 1990)
goodbye, boys! (kalik 1964)
the two-headed spy (de toth 1958)
rewatches: godfather 2 ♥ godfather 3 (coda), a room with a view ♥♥♥
goodbye, boys! had some really lovely cinematography (and cats)
March 2025 28 films. 1 foreign, 14 docs, 5 reruns
The Bubble (2022 Judd Apatow)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 David Fincher) rerun
War of the Worlds (2005 Steven Spielberg) rerun
World War Z (2013 Marc Forster) rerun
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023 Adam Sigal)
No One Lives (2012 Ryûhei Kitamura) *worst*
The Master of Ballantrae (1953 William Keighley)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 Anthony Kimmins)
The Drum (1938 Zoltran Korda)
Ten Tall Men (1951 Willis Goldbeck)
The Pig Farm (2011 Christine Nielsen) doc
Colt .45 (1950 Edwin L Marin)
The Nevadan (1950 Gordon Douglas)
The Cariboo Trail (1950 Edwin L Marin)
Pollock (2000 Ed Harris) rerun
The Green Girl (2014 George A. Pappy Jr.) doc
Hitchcock Confidential (2019 Laurent Herbiet) doc
Shadowman (2017 Oren Jacoby) doc
Dirty Pictures (2010 Étienne Sauret) doc
Water Lilies by Monet (2018 Giovanni Troilo) doc ♥
Witkin & Witkin (2017 Trisha Ziff) doc
The Secret Life of Lance Letscher (2017 Sandra Adair) doc
The Cardboard Bernini (2012 Olympia Stone) doc
Women of the World (1963 Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti) doc
The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963 Pasquale Prunas) doc
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018 Kuba Mikurda) doc
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police (2012 Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin) doc
Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection (2022 Kelvin Mao) doc
The Five Days (1973 Dario Argento, Italy)
Legally Blonde (2001 Robert Luketic) rerun
The Bubble (2022 Judd Apatow)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 David Fincher) rerun
War of the Worlds (2005 Steven Spielberg) rerun
World War Z (2013 Marc Forster) rerun
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023 Adam Sigal)
No One Lives (2012 Ryûhei Kitamura) *worst*
The Master of Ballantrae (1953 William Keighley)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 Anthony Kimmins)
The Drum (1938 Zoltran Korda)
Ten Tall Men (1951 Willis Goldbeck)
The Pig Farm (2011 Christine Nielsen) doc
Colt .45 (1950 Edwin L Marin)
The Nevadan (1950 Gordon Douglas)
The Cariboo Trail (1950 Edwin L Marin)
Pollock (2000 Ed Harris) rerun
The Green Girl (2014 George A. Pappy Jr.) doc
Hitchcock Confidential (2019 Laurent Herbiet) doc
Shadowman (2017 Oren Jacoby) doc
Dirty Pictures (2010 Étienne Sauret) doc
Water Lilies by Monet (2018 Giovanni Troilo) doc ♥
Witkin & Witkin (2017 Trisha Ziff) doc
The Secret Life of Lance Letscher (2017 Sandra Adair) doc
The Cardboard Bernini (2012 Olympia Stone) doc
Women of the World (1963 Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti) doc
The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963 Pasquale Prunas) doc
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018 Kuba Mikurda) doc
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police (2012 Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin) doc
Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection (2022 Kelvin Mao) doc
The Five Days (1973 Dario Argento, Italy)
Legally Blonde (2001 Robert Luketic) rerun