nightcrawler (gilroy 2014)
the battle of chile: 1,2,3 (guzman 1975-79)
messalina (cottafavi 1960) ♥
hill of freedom (hong 2014)
the grand bizarre (mack 2018)
his motorbike, her island (obayashi 1986) ♥
threads (jackson 1984)
dva-buldi-dva (kuleshov/agadzhanova 1929) ♥
from what is before (diaz 2014)
adieu a language (godard 2014)
baal (schlondorff 1970)
léon morin, prêtre (melville 1961)
magic mike (soderbergh 2012)
heaven knows what (safdies 2014) ♥
the panic in needle park (schatzberg 1971)
singing behind screens (olmi 2003) ♥
the old man in the cottage (hedenius 1996) ♥
fräulein else (czinner 1929) ♥
en rade (cavalcanti 1927) -- still watching. renoir's crazy looking first wife is in this one. didn't know she was his father's model for years
rewatches
the night of counting the years (abdel salam 1969) ♥♥
band baaja baaraat (sharma 2010) ♥♥♥
Apache (Robert Aldrich, 1954) 6/10
Mackenna's Gold (J. Lee Thompson, 1969) 5/10
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel, 1970) 7/10
Chato's Land (Michael Winner, 1972) 7/10
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973) 6/10
High Rollers (Sergio Corbucci, 1976) 7/10
Victory (John Huston, 1981) 5/10
Missing in Action (Joseph Zito, 1984) 4/10
Prizzi's Honor (John Huston, 1985) 6/10
Firewalker (J. Lee Thompson, 1986) 3/10
Black Eagle (Eric Karson, 1988) 1/10
Always (Steven Spielberg, 1989) 6/10
Bad Boys (Michael Bay, 1995) 5/10 (re-watch)
Wild Bill (Walter Hill, 1995) 4/10
Tommy Boy (Peter Segal, 1995) 6/10
The Quest (Jean-Claude Van Damme, 1996) 3/10
Bad Boys 2 (Michael Bay, 2003) 2/10 (re-watch)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2010) 10/10
Cathedrals of Culture (Wim Wenders, Robert Redford, Michael Madsen, Michael Glawogger, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz, 2014) 8/10
The Connection (Cédric Jimenez, 2014) 7/10
Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan, 2019) 2/10
Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) 8/10
Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton, 2019) 5/10
The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie, 2019) 7/10
Ford v Ferrari (James Mangold, 2019) 8/10
Bad Boys for Life (Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah, 2020) 5/10
Hillary (Nanette Burstein, 2020) 8/10
TV:
Fargo (Season 3) 7/10
Shorts:
Winning Your Wings (John Huston, 1942) 7/10
Censored (Frank Tashlin, 1944) 8/10
San Pietro (John Huston, 1945) 6/10
Murder (Roman Polanski, 1957) 7/10
Teeth Smile (Roman Polanski, 1957) 6/10
Break Up the Dance (Roman Polanski, 1957) 5/10
Two Men and a Wardrobe (Roman Polanski, 1958) 5/10
The Lamp (Roman Polanski, 1959) 8/10
When Angels Fall (Roman Polanski, 1959) 7/10
The Sword and the Flute (James Ivory, 1959) 6/10
The Fat and the Lean (Roman Polanski, 1961) 4/10
Mammals (Roman Polanski, 1962) 3/10
Last Year in Viet Nam (Oliver Stone, 1971) 6/10
Independence (John Huston, 1976) 6/10
Stalk of the Celery Monster (Tim Burton, 1979) 5/10
Doctor of Doom (Tim Burton & Jerry Rees, 1979) 1/10
Luau (Tim Burton & Jerry Rees, 1982) 2/10
Hansel and Gretel (Tim Burton, 1983) 2/10
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (Tim Burton, 1986) 4/10
I Dreamt I Woke Up (John Boorman, 1991) 5/10
The World of Stainboy (Tim Burton, 2000) 6/10
Catastrophe (David Mamet, 2000) 7/10
Human Voice (Edoardo Ponti, 2014) 7/10
Best: The Ghost Writer, Hillary, Knives Out
Worst: Black Eagle, Matthias & Maxime, Doctor of Doom
New Favs
Girlfriends
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Please Give
Elvira Madigan
Happy Here and Now
Waltz with Bashir
Great
A Tale of Winter
The Garage
Desperately Seeking Susan
Big Night
Non-Stop
Knife in the Water
That Thing You Do!
Il deserto rosso
Good
Band of Outsiders
Shakespeare in Love
Rocky
The Pacifist
Eastern Promises
Animals
Foxfire
The Lodger
Autostop rosso sangue
Pieces of April
Four Times That Night
American Factory
Eh
Private Vices, Public Virtues
The Nude Vampire
Blood for Dracula
Guilty Bystander
Successful Alcoholics
Bad
Easy Virtue
Chariots of Fire
Best (and only) rewatch
Shadows in Paradise
First month in years that I've seen more than a feature a day on average, and a pretty good (though tempered by watching mainstream stuff with my family) haul.
features:
Falcons (Istvan Gaal, 1970) - 7/10
The Killer That Stalked New York (Earl McEvoy, 1950) - 7/10
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) - 7/10
The Sleeping City (George Sherman, 1950) - 5/10
The Pacifist (Miklos Jancso, 1970) - 3/10
The Deadly Duo (Chang Cheh, 1971) - 3/10
shorts:
Power (Vlatko Gilic, 1973) - 9/10
Tails (Paul Sharits, 1976) - 8/10
Common Air (Joseph Bernard, 1984) - 8/10
Schwechater (Peter Kubelka, 1958) - 8/10
The Emblazoned Apparitions (Phil Solomon, 2013) - 7/10
620 Commercial (Joseph Bernard, 1980) - 7/10
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Margaret Tait, 1955) - 7/10
Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon, 2007) - 7/10
The Drummer for the Red Cross (Juraj Jakubisko, 1977) - 7/10
70 (Robert Breer, 1970) - 6/10
I Forgot! (Eduardo Williams, 2014) - 6/10
Serious Games 1 (Harun Farocki, 2010) - 6/10
In Continuo (Vlatko Gilic, 1971) - 6/10
All My Life (Bruce Baillie, 1966) - 6/10
I Am Twenty (SNS Sastry, 1967) - 6/10
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc (Owen Land, 1966) - 5/10
Hugh McDiarmid: A Portrait (Margaret Tait, 1964) - 4/10
♥♥♥
Maria no Oyuki / Oyuki the Virgin (1935, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Thief (1981, Michael Mann) (rewatch)
Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann)
♥♥
Murder! (1930, Alfred Hitchcock)
Qing mei zhu ma / Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
Citizenfour (2014, Laura Poitras)
Great
Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard, Rich Moore) (rewatch)
Lu Bian Ye Can / Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
Good
Gion no shimai / Sisters of the Gion (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi) (rewatch)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
Cronaca di un amore / Story of a Love Affair (1950, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Blood on the Moon (1948, Robert Wise)
Rest
The Call of the Wild (2020, Chris Sanders)
Five Graves to Cairo (1943, Billy Wilder)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich)
Notable/Good Shorts:
Synchromy (1971, Norman McLaren)
Project X (2016, Laura Poitras, Henrik Moltke)
Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer / Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1897, Alexandre Promio)
The Great Train Robbery (1903, Edwin S. Porter)
Black and Tan (1929, Dudley Murphy)
Hors-jeu (1977, Georges Schwizgebel) (rewatch)
Pasqua in Sicilia / Easter in Sicily (1955, Vittorio De Seta)
N.U. (1948, Michelangelo Antonioni) (rewatch)
Les berceaux / The Cradles (1931, Jean Epstein)
Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (2014, Sky Hopinka)
Algie, the Miner (1912, Alice Guy-Blaché, Edward Warren, Harry Schenck)
Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza (1903, Segundo de Chomón)
Las Hurdes / Land Without Bread (1933, Luis Buñuel)
April 30th - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975) - 3/5
April 29th - Steel Toes (Mark Adams, David Gow, 2007) - 3/5
April 28th - South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut (Trey Parker, 1999) - 4/5 (5th viewing?)
April 27th - Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, 2020) - 1.5/5
April 27th - PK (Rajkumar Hirani, 2014) - 2.5/5
April 26th - Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen, 2003) - 1.5/5
April 25th - Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019) - 0/5
April 24th - The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002) - 3.5/5
April 23rd - Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer, 2007) - 1.5/5
April 22nd - Game Night (John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, 2018) - 0.5/5
April 21st - Tag (Jeff Tomsic, 2018) - 3/5
April 20th - Frozen II (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, 2019) - 3/5
April 19th - Nacho Libre (Jared Hess, 2006) - 3/5
April 18th - Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019) - 2/5
April 17th - Kean (Vittorio Gassman, Frencesco Rosi, 1957) - 3.5/5
April 16th - Mysterious Journey (Jordan Belson, 1997) - 1/5 April 15th - Carmen (Francesco Rosi, 1984) - 4/5
April 14th - Neapolitan Diary (Francesco Rosi, 1992) - 3.5/5
April 13th - In Continuo (Vlatko Gilić, 1971) - 3.5/5
April 12th - Man in the Frame (Fyodor Khitruk, 1966) - 3.5/5
April 12th - Infinity Baby (Bob Byington, 2017) - 2/5
April 11th - Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, 2018) - 3/5 April 10th - The Drummer for the Red Cross (Juraj Jakubisko, 1977) - 5/5
April 10th - Waiting for Godot (Juraj Jakubisko, 1966) - 2.5/5
April 10th - Birdies, Orphans, and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969) - 0.5/5
April 9th - Good Morning (Satoshi Kon, 2008) - 3.5/5
April 9th - The Smile (Makoto Shinkai, 2003) - 3/5
April 9th - Other Worlds (Makoto Shinkai, 1999) - 3/5
April 9th - Cross Road (Makoto Shinkai, 2014) - 2.5/5
April 9th - A Gathering of Cats (Makoto Shinkai, 2007) - 2.5/5 April 8th - The Feather Fairy (Juraj Jakubisko, 1985) - 4.5/5 April 7th - Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater, 2019) - 4/5
April 7th - 30/30 VISION (Gregg Araki, 2019) - 2/5
April 6th - The Prime of Life (Juraj Jakubisko, 1967) - 3/5
April 5th - Tora-san, His Tender Love (Azuma Morisaki, 1970) - 2.5/5
April 4th - A Star Athlete (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1937) - 3/5
April 3rd - Tora-san's Cherished Mother (Yoji Yamada, 1969) - 3.5/5
April 3rd - Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp (Yoji Yamada, 1969) - 3/5
April 2nd - Scared Shrekless (Raman Hui, Gary Trousdale, 2010) - 3/5
April 2nd - Major League (David S. Ward, 1989) - 2.5/5
April 2nd - Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (David Soren, 2017) - 2.5/5
April 2nd - A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood (Marielle Heller, 2019) - 3/5 April 1st - Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day (Fyodor Khitruk, Gennadiy Sokolskiy, 1972) - 4/5
April 1st - Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting (Fyodor Khitruk, 1971) - 3.5/5
April 1st - Winnie-the-Pooh (Fyodor Khitruk, 1969) - 3/5
April 1st - G-Funk (Karam Gill, 2017) - 3/5
gun crazy (joseph h. lewis)
tale of cinema (hong sang-soo)
you can't take it with you (frank capra)
drunken angel (akira kurosawa) fingers (james toback) girlfriends (claudia weill) haider (vishal bhardwaj)
the landlord (hal ashby)
highway (imtiaz ali) killing them softly (andrew dominik) the longest nite (johnnie to / patrick yau)
the gladiator (abel ferrara) lone wolf and cub: sword of vengeance (kenji misumi)
lone wolf and cub: baby cart at the river styx (kenji misumi)
lone wolf and cub: baby cart to hades (kenji misumi)
lone wolf and cub: baby cart in peril (buichi saito) targets (peter bogdanovich)
the plow that broke the plains (pare lorentz)
trouble every day (claire denis)
border incident (anthony mann)
Woman Demon Human (Huang Shuqin, 1987) ♥
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) ♥♥♥
Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick, 2016)
The Damned (Joseph Losey, 1962)
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma, 1992)
Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota, 2001) ♥♥
The Death of Maria Malibran (Werner Schroeter, 1972)
Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura, 1969)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (Yves Allégret, 1949)
Leo the Last (John Boorman, 1970)
Under Electric Clouds (Aleksey German Jr., 2015)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)* ♥
Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil, 1967)*
The Wolf House (Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, 2018)
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
Boris Godunov (Andrzej Żuławski, 1989)
Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk, 1971)
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, 2016)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1995) ♥♥
When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh, 1984)
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002)*
California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli, 2015)
The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)
Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau, 2005)
The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999) ♥♥
Rock-a-Bye-Baby (Tashlin) - 5.5
High Sierra (no idea) - 5
Riot In Cell Block 11 (Siegel) - 6.5
Color Out of Space (Stanley) - 6
Cruising* (Friedkin) - 6
Smokey and The Bandit* (who cares) - 5
The Limits of Control* (Jarmusch) - 7
E Il Casanova Di Fellin? (no idea) - 5
Kids Return* (Kitano) - 5.5
ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas (Dunn) - 6
Hardware* (Stanley) - 6.5
Friday The 13th* (2009) - 4
The Nutty Professor* (Lewis) - 7
Cheyenne Autumn (Ford) - 6.5
Phenomena* (Argento) - 6
The Wings of Eagles (Ford) - 5
Itineraire de Jean Bricard (Sraub) - 6.5
Europa 2005 - 27 octobre (Straub) - 5
Cats (Hopper) - 3
Don't Lower The Bridge, Raise The River (Paris) - 5
Dolittle (who cares) - 3
The Family Jewels (Lewis) - 7
The Whispering Star* (Sono) - 7.5
The Front Page* (Wilder) - 6
The Sion Sono (no idea) - 5.5
Who's Minding The Store? (Tashlin) - 6
Doctor Detroit (who cares) - 4
The Crucified Lovers* (Mizoguchi) - 8
Scared Stiff (Marshall) - 5
The Southerner (Renoir) - 7
Best: The Crucified Lovers
Worst: Dolittle/Cats
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Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) ♥
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993)
Twin Peaks : The Return (David Lynch, 2017) ♥
Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954)
Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) ♥
Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957)
Two For the Road (Stanley Donen, 1967) ♥
Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, 2019)
Revenge (Coralie Fargeat, 2017)
Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927) ♥
My Fair Lady (George Cukor, 1964)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) ♥
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann, 1927)
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room, 1927)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch, 1927) ♥
Trial on the Road (Aleksei German, 1971)
Narcissus and Psyche (Gabor Body, 1980)
Supermarket (Roland Klick, 1974)
Ankur (Shyam Benegal, 1974) ♥
Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944) ♥
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) ♥
The Platform (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019)
Bori (Kim Jin-yu, 2018)
Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa, 1975)
Paar (Goutam Ghose, 1984) ♥
Shoah: Four Sisters (Claude Lanzmann, 2017) ♥
The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)
The Three-Sided Mirror (Jean Epstein, 1927)
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)
7th Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927) ♥
Underworld (Josef von Sternberg, 1927) ♥
Women of Ryazan (Ivan Pravov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, 1927) ♥
Take Me Home (Han Jay, 2020)
Isabella (Matias Pineiro, 2020)
Crazy World (Nabwana I.G.G, 2019)
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (Rita Azevedo Gomes, Pierre Léon, Jean Louis Schefer, 2019)
Felix in Wonderland (Marie Losier, 2019)
Force of Habit (Alli Haapasalo, Jenni Toivoniemi, Miia Tervo, Anna Paavilainen, Elli Toivoniemi, Kirsikka Saari, Reetta Aalto, 2019)
Seven Years in May (Affonso Uchoa, 2019)
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (Raul Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento, 2020)
The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (Pushpendra Singh, 2020)
Eurydice BA 2037 (Nikos Nikolaidis, Greece, 1975) 9/10
Time Walks Through the City (Almantas Grikevičius, Soviet Union / Lithuania, 1966) 8 or 9/10
Ten Thousand Suns (Ferenc Kósa, Hungary, 1967) 8 or 9/10
Antigravitation (Audrius Stonys, Lithuania, 1995) 8 or 9/10
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1935) 8/10
Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, USA, 1926) 8/10
La vie (Alexandre Astruc, France, 1958) 8/10
watched a lot this month, and saw several great things, happy all those hungarian films are available, will definitely watch more fabri. also watched several eps of poirot, trying to study mystery writing a bit, might watch some marple this month
feature lengths:
The Toth Family (Zoltan Fabri, 1969) - 9/10
The Well (Russell Rouse, 1951) - 9/10
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (Eldar Shengelaya, 1983) - 9/10
One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning, 1977) - 9/10
Mad About Music (Norman Taurog, 1938) - 9/10
Oleanna (David Mamet, 1994) - 8/10
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948) - 8/10
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991) - 8/10
The Hunt (Craig Zobel, 2020) - 8/10
Ten Thousand Suns (Ferenc Kosa, 1967) - 7/10
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, 1960) - 7/10
The Adventures of Picasso (Tage Danielsson, 1978) - 7/10
The Corporal and the Others (Marton Keleti, 1965) - 7/10
A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano, 1991) - 7/10
Trapped (Richard Fleischer, 1949) - 7/10
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931) - 7/10
Looking for His Murderer (Robert Siodmak, 1931) - 7/10
Tower Heist (Brett Ratner, 2011) - 7/10
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) - 7/10
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018) - 6/10
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998) - 6/10
If... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968) - 6/10
Dancing Feet (Joseph Santley, 1936) - 6/10
Bad Trip (Kitao Sakurai, 2020) - 6/10
When Knighthood Was in Flower (Robert Vignola, 1922) - 6/10
Up in Central Park (William Seiter, 1948) - 6/10
Escape from Pretoria (Francis Annan, 2020) - 6/10
Swallowtail Butterfly (Shunji Iwai, 1996) - 5/10
Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974) - 5/10
About Last Night (Steve Pink, 2014) - 5/10
Because of Him (Richard Wallace, 1946) - 5/10
Poirot: Death in the Clouds (Stephen Whittaker, 1992) - 5/10
Extraction (Sam Hargrave, 2020) - 5/10
Poirot: Peril at End House (Renny Rye, 1990) - 4/10
Bureau of Missing Persons (Roy Del Ruth, 1933) - 3/10
The Maiden Heist (Peter Hewitt, 2009) - 3/10
For the Love of Mary (Frederick de Cordova, 1948) - 2/10
About Last Night... (Edward Zwick, 1986) - 2/10
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek (Martin Wood, 2020) - 2/10
The Sun Sets at Dawn (Paul Sloane, 1950) - 2/10
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (JJ Abrams, 2019) - 2/10
Spenser Confidential (Peter Berg, 2020) - 2/10
The First Legion (Douglas Sirk, 1951) - 1/10
Never on Sunday (Jules Dassin, 1960) - 1/10
Love on a Leash (Fen Tian, 2011) - 1/10
Girl Walk // All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011) - 1/10
The Wrong Missy (Tyler Spindel, 2020) - 1/10
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (James Nguyen, 2010) - 0/10
shorts:
Figures de Cire (Maurice Tourneur, 1914) - 7/10
Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, 1926) - 7/10
Two Painters (David Mamet, 2010) - 7/10
Les Berceaux (Jean Epstein, 1931) - 6/10
Lifeline (Victor Erice, 2002) - 6/10
Catastrophe (David Mamet, 2000) - 6/10
Inside the Actor's Workshop (David Mamet, 2010) - 6/10
Coffee and Cigarettes I (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) - 5/10
Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (David Mamet, 2010) - 5/10
The Peanut Vendor (Len Lye, 1933) - 5/10
Themes of Inspiration (Charles Dekeukeleire, 1938) - 5/10
Theory of Sets (Chris Marker, 1991) - 4/10
Our Valley (David Mamet, 2010) - 3/10
The Dippy Dentist (Alfred J Goulding, 1920) - 1/10
midlength tv:
Poirot: The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim (1990) - 7/10
Poirot: Jewel Robbery at Grand Metropolitan (1993) - 7/10
Poirot: The Yellow Iris (1993) - 6/10
Poirot: Triangle at Rhodes (1989) - 6/10
Poirot: Problem at Sea (1989) - 5/10
Poirot: The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (1990) - 5/10
Poirot: The Third Floor Flat (1989) - 4/10
Poirot: The Incredible Theft (1989) - 4/10
Poirot: The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (1991) - 4/10
Poirot: The Kidnapped Prime Minister (1990) - 4/10
Poirot: How Does Your Garden Grow? (1991) - 2/10
Across the Pacific (John Huston, 1942) 7/10
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975) 5/10
Phobia (John Huston, 1980) 2/10
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) 9/10 (rewatch)
Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood, 1983) 5/10 (rewatch)
The Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984) 5/10 (rewatch)
Things Change (David Mamet, 1988) 8/10
The Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989) 8/10 (rewatch)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990) 10/10 (rewatch)
HouseSitter (Frank Oz, 1992) 5/10
In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen, 1993) 8/10 (rewatch)
The Shadow (Russell Mulcahy, 1994) 3/10
The River Wild (Curtis Hanson, 1994) 6/10
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995) 4/10
Deep Impact (Mimi Leder, 1998) 5/10 (rewatch)
Exorcist: The Beginning (Renny Harlin, 2004) 1/10
Antarctica: A Year on Ice (Anthony Powell, 2013) 7/10
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) 10/10
Geostorm (Dean Devlin, 2017) 1/10
Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi, 2018) 6/10
Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood (Robert de Young & Stephan Wellink, 2018) 6/10
Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, 2019) 4/10
The Informer (Andrea Di Stefano, 2019) 4/10
TV:
The Great (Season 1, 2020) 9/10
Short:
Nimic (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2019) 7/10
Best: Wild at Heart, Phantom Thread, The Great
Worst: Geostorm, Phobia, Exorcist: The Beginning
bisbee '17 - greene 2018
the love of jeanne ney - pabst 1927 ♥
oktyabr - eisenstein 1927
east side west side - dwan 1927
from caligari to hitler - suchsland 2014
warlock - dmytryk 1959
the alligator people - del ruth 1959
the private affairs of bel ami - lewin 1947
dead souls - bing 2018
the eternal breasts - tanaka 1955
the gaucho - jones 1927
the fall of the romanov dynasty - shub 1927
fan - sharma 2016
the structure of crystals - zanussi 1969 ♥
goff in the desert - emigholz 2003
opfergang - harlan 1944
dva dnya - stabovoy 1927 ♥
rewatches: le doulos, le cercle rouge ♥ three crowns of the sailor ♥ spione ♥
two of these didn't quite live up to memory and two improved vastly. you never watch the same film twice
Best
Once Upon a Time in America (re-watch)
Broadcast News (re-watch)
Walking from Munich to Berlin
Courage for Every Day
Nadja in Paris
Hill of Freedom
Other Dope Shit
Love Serenade
Night Moves
Daughters of Darkness
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (re-watch)
Window Water Baby Moving
Devil's Doorway
La Belle Époque
Judgement
The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann
Very Good
The Scenic Route
Purple Noon
8 1/2
Broken Down Film
The Man Without a Past
Cry of the City
Good
Lady Killer
Stand By Me
Atlantics
And the Dogs Were Silent
The Grand Bizarre
Non-Fiction
Oldboy
American Factory
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Eh
Bandidos
The Hitch-Hiker
The Suspect
Long-Haired Hare
Monangambeee
The Laundromat
One of the Worst Films I've Ever Seen, Don't Ask Me Why
Never Been Kissed
♥♥♥
Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (1938, Marcel Carné)
♥
Ocean’s Twelve (2004, Steven Soderbergh) (rewatch)
Bucking Broadway (1917, John Ford)
good
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock) (rewatch)
Ocean's Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh) (rewatch)
fun
Air Hawks (1935, Albert S. Rogell)
Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937, George Marshall, Otto Preminger)
Ocean’s Thirteen (2007, Steven Soderbergh) (rewatch)
Easy Virtue (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)
Baby Driver (2017, Edgar Wright)
not so good
Ocean's Eleven (1960, Lewis Milestone)
Landstormens lilla Lotta (1939, Weyler Hildebrand)
Counsel for Crime (1937, John Brahm)
Ocean's Eight (2018, Gary Ross)
Notable Shorts:
Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929, Marcel Carné, Michel Sanvoisin)
Pass the Gravy (1928, Fred Guiol, Leo McCarey)
Regen / Rain (1929, Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken)
Ganjine-haye gohar / The Crown Jewels of Iran (1965, Ebrahim Golestan)
Les flammes diaboliques / Wonderful Flames (1907, Segundo de Chomón)
The '?' Motorist (1906, Walter R. Booth)
Every Sunday (1936, Felix E. Feist)
Entr'acte (1924, René Clair)
Yûkoku / Patriotism (1966, Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima)
the river (tsai ming-liang) jennifer on my mind (noel black) scary movie (daniel erickson)
detective dee and the mystery of the phantom flame (tsui hark) woman of the year (george stevens)
i shot jesse james (samuel fuller) come and see (elem klimov)
he who gets slapped (victor sjostrom)
the tall target (anthony mann) ringo and his golden pistol (sergio corbucci)
the interview (evan goldberg / seth rogen)
get the gringo (adrian grunberg) detective dee: the four heavenly kingdoms (tsui hark)
les enfants terribles (jean-pierre melville)
nanook of the north (robert j. flaherty)
brawl in cell block 99 (s. craig zahler) the perfection (richard shepard) green snake (tsui hark)
dark water (hideo nakata) bone tomahawk (s. craig zahler) cutter's way (ivan passer)
uncut gems (benny safdie / josh safdie)
the philadelphia story (george cukor)
babette's feast (gabriel axel)
it came from outer space (jack arnold)
welcome to sajjanpur (shyam benegal)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
Life Is a Miracle (Emir Kusturica, 2004)* ♥
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953)
Krakatit (Otakar Vávra, 1948)
Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg, 1970) ♥
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1952)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980)
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)
Alyonka (Boris Barnet, 1962)
Naukri (Bimal Roy, 1954) ♥♥
King and Country (Joseph Losey, 1964)
Bait (Mark Jenkin, 2019)
Harley Queen (Carolina Adriazola, Jose Luis Sepulveda, 2019)
Daldongne 33 Up (Cho Uhn, 2020)
Comfort (Emmanuel Moonchil Park, 2020)
Bora Bora (Kim Do-joon, Kim Mi-young, Kim Seung-hwa, 2020)
One in a Thousand (Clarisa Navas, 2020)
Mom’s Song (Shin Dong-min, 2020)
A French Woman (Kim Hee-jung, 2019)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan, 2018)
This Magnificent Cake! (Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels, 2018)
Picnic on the Grass (Jean Renoir, 1959) ♥
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959) ♥
Domino (Brian De Palma, 2019)
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020)
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) ♥
A Room with a View (James Ivory, 1985)
Marona's Fantastic Tale (Anca Damian, 2019)
Nazarin (Luis Bunuel, 1959) ♥
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigoriy Chukhray, 1959)
Me and Me (Jung Jin-young, 2020)
Onward (Dan Scanlon, 2020)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) ♥
Baseball Girl (Choi Yun-tae, 2019)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) ♥
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Chloe Zhao, 2015)
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang, 1959)
The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang, 1959)
India (Roberto Rossellini, 1959) ♥
Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth, 1959) ♥
the end of st petersburg (pudovkin 1927)
running out of time 2 (to 2001) ♥
la caida (torre nilsson 1959)
air hostess (yang 1959)
the murder of fred hampton (alk 1971)
time stood still (olmi 1959) ♥
tiger of eschnapur (lang 1959)
the indian tomb (lang 1959)
knives of the avenger (bava 1966)
holy flame of the martial world (liu chun-ku 1983)
floating weeds (ozu 1959) ♥♥
hannibal (bragaglia/ulmer 1959)
the king and four queens (walsh 1956)
da 5 bloods (lee 2020)
snow flurry (kinoshita 1959)
let the bullets fly (jiang wen 2010)
sombra verde (gavaldón 1954)
foma gordeev (donskoy 1959) ♥
the giant gila monster (kellogg 1959)
good morning (ozu 1959) ♥
la nuit fantastique (l'herbier 1942)
rewatch of shanghai blues (hark tsui 1984) ♥♥
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The Crucified Lovers* (Mizoguchi) - 8
Forest of Love: extended cut (Sono) - 7
Double Impact* (Lettich) - 5
The Company of Strangers (Schrader) - 5
The Whole Town is Talking (Ford) - 6.5
Fists In The Pocket (Bellocchio) - 6
The Long Gray Line* (Ford) - 7.5
Omen IV* (who cares) - 3.5
Minnie and Moskowitz* (Casavettes) - 6.5
Vampire's Kiss* (no idea) - 7
A Comedy of Terrors (Tourneur) - 4.5
The Hills Have Eyes 2* (Craven) - 3
A Fistful of Dynamite* (Leone) - 8
Glengarry Glen Ross* (Foley) - 8
Blue In The Face* (Wang) - 5
Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (Renour) - 6
Spies Like Us* (Landis) - 4
Smoke* (Wang) - 6.5
Wichita (Tourneur) - 5
Elena and Her Men (Renoir) - 6.5
Woman On The Beach (Renoir) - 6
Gideon's Day (Ford) - 6
Starcrash (Lenzi) - 4.5
A Fistful of Dollars*(Leone) - 6.5
Da 5 Bloods (Lee) - 5.5
Trading Places* (Landis) - 6.5
A Bronx Tale * (Deniro) - 7
features:
Why Does Herr R Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970) - 9/10
Professor Hannibal (Zoltan Fabri, 1956) - 8/10
The Cat (Dominik Graf, 1988) - 8/10
The Round-Up (Miklos Jancso, 1966) - 8/10
The Guns (Ruy Guerra, 1964) - 8/10
When Strangers Marry (William Castle, 1944) - 8/10
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport, 1995) - 8/10
Special Bulletin (Edward Zwick, 1983) - 7/10
Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark, 1984) - 7/10
Sweet Anna (Zoltan Fabri, 1958) - 7/10
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) - 7/10
J Edgar (Clint Eastwood, 2011) - 7/10
Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, 2018) - 7/10
Poirot: Hickory Dickory Dock (Andrew Grieve, 1995) - 7/10
Odds and Evens (Bakhtiar Khoudoynazarov, 1993) - 6/10
Spite Marriage (Buster Keaton/Edward Sedgwick, 1929) - 6/10
The Lovebirds (Michael Showalter, 2020) - 6/10
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984) - 6/10
A Fistful of Dynamite (Sergio Leone, 1971) - 6/10
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan, 2017) - 6/10
13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016) - 6/10
Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Andrew Grieve, 2000) - 6/10
Escape in the Fog (Budd Boetticher, 1945) - 5/10
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room, 1927) - 5/10
Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015) - 5/10
Nothing But the Truth (Elliott Nugent, 1941) - 5/10
Red Light (Roy Del Ruth, 1949) - 4/10
Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (Paul Unwin, 2006) - 4/10
The Visitor in the Eye (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) - 4/10
Just My Type (Paul Ziller, 2020) - 3/10
Marple: Sleeping Murder (Edward Hall, 2006) - 3/10
Popstar (Richard Gabai, 2005) - 3/10
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020) - 2/10
Poirot: Dumb Witness (Edward Bennett, 1996) - 2/10
Kindergarten Cop (Ivan Reitman, 1990) - 2/10
Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, 2020) - 2/10
Double Down (Neil Breen, 2005) - 1/10
Jumanji (Joe Johnston, 1995) - 1/10
Dolittle (Stephen Gaghan, 2020) - 1/10
Disaster Movie (Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer, 2008) - 0/10
shorts:
Wasteland No 1: Ardent Verdant (Jodie Mack, 2017) - 8/10
Posthaste Perennial Pattern (Jodie Mack, 2010) - 8/10
Safeguarding Military Information (Preston Sturges, 1941) - 7/10
Wasteland No 2: Hardy, Hearty (Jodie Mack, 2019) - 7/10
August Song (Jodie Mack, 2011) - 7/10
Florence (Peter Hutton, 1975) - 6/10
Some of These Days (Jorn Donner, 1955) - 6/10
Le Rembrandt de la rue Lepic (Jean Durand, 1910) - 6/10
Point de Gaze (Jodie Mack, 2012) - 5/10
All Stars (Jodie Mack, 2006) - 5/10
Baby's Meal (Louis Lumiere, 1895) - 5/10
Dance in the Sun (Shirley Clarke, 1953) - 4/10
