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ok. nice to know he's still mooching around someplace

lencho: yeah i agree w/yr assessment on javier's rather radical viewpoint and am gonna give it a shot

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

oops sally saw my original post

this thing is 13 hours long! i'll watch the first chapter and go from there.

you know it's my birthday some time next year, right? (assuming this is on kg already) but jeez 13 hours. i thought out 1 was a slog

it's in 8 chapters so think of it as a mini-series i guess?



early cat sighting, a positive sign1!

super deluxe (thiagarajan kumararaja) for the 2010s poll, but also cuz it looks gorgeous, interesting, and has the dude from maheshinte prathikaaram in it!

thoxans wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:57 pm super deluxe (thiagarajan kumararaja) for the 2010s poll, but also cuz it looks gorgeous, interesting, and has the dude from maheshinte prathikaaram in it!

curious what you'll think. divisive film, to say the least.

soon i'll watch something besides la flor! maybe two more days

Yeah its gonna be longer, I'm in the mf hospital w/kidney stones

ack, is that what long movies do to you? ♥♥♥ get better soon!

rischka wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:40 am I'm in the mf hospital w/kidney stones

hope everything goes ok. kindey stones are awful

Yeah thx u guys. Not currently in pain at least. And tcm has a double feature of red dust and mogambo. It's not all bad!

Both imperialist trash but I find Harlow and Astor worlds more interesting than Gardner and Kelly. Also old gable is gross and kidnaps baby animals

CASINO -- for free on the BFS at the Museum of the Moving image.

don (farhan akhtar) it's dat srk time of the month again y'all!!!

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD -- MOMI again. I'd removed Tarantino from my watch list after BASTERDS, but sometimes you gotta see what your husband wants to see.

THE IRISHMAN -- on the BFS at MOMI, viewing #3. Fingers crossed it still works. Still, can't be worse than the Tarantino shite last Friday....

My wife is insistent on doing a double feature screening of Winter Light and First Reformed for our friends this week. So I think that's going to happen. Should be kind of fun to watch them back to back and see if the reference feels tedious or refreshed when watching so close together.

We'll get to UNCUT GEMS at some point, but that 4k restoration of THE WHITE SHEIK just cannot be denied...

Monsignor Arkadin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 3:32 pm My wife is insistent on doing a double feature screening of Winter Light and First Reformed for our friends this week. So I think that's going to happen. Should be kind of fun to watch them back to back and see if the reference feels tedious or refreshed when watching so close together.

I doubt First Reformed will hold its own against it when viewed back to back, but I need to revisit it. I liked it, but after all the hype I was slightly disappointed.

Rewatched Winter Light in August and was really impressed. I like it more now.

Next film: The Lighthouse

Yes, Winter Light is something that has grown in power for me with each repeated viewing. It's really something special.

Hope you enjoy The Lighthouse. I had pretty with that one overall.

^^Winter Light is one of the greatest examples of film making economy I've ever seen, especially in terms of how dense it is. It covers so much ground in 85 minutes, more than most films twice its length.

Didn't get around to The Lighthouse. Ended up cracking open my Koker Trilogy blu-ray set and watched Where is the Friend's Home? and Life and Nothing More instead.

Hopefully I'll get around to The Lighthouse later tonight.

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:50 am Ended up cracking open my Koker Trilogy blu-ray set and watched Where is the Friend's Home? and Life and Nothing More instead.

Didn't realize Criterion did that, gonna have to revisit this year - I loved those films.

Trying to keep track of newish things I wanna see:

The Lighthouse
The Irishman
A Hidden Life
Uncut Gems
Zama
Top Gun 2
Knives Out

rischka, hope you get all better.
I have so many films I want to watch during the winter break. I know I might not even watch half of them though. However hope I can catch up with the rest of late Ozu's, Bela Tarr, and some of Abel Gance's. Those are the ones I always keep in mind, otherwise I usually decide just few minutes before I watch something.

thx vaka i am fine now. trying to remember to drink water!

i've started watching homeland (iraq year zero) in memory of kanafani. hope you're coming back soon!



opening shot of the film. what could i do. it's around 5 1/2 hours so that's probs it for this week

MEPHISTO restoration at Film Forum sometime this week.

watching joker and it is an absolute delight!

wait i meant to put this in india thread