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June 2020

Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson, 1959) 8/10
On the Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959) 8/10
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959) 6/10
The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves, 1959) 6/10
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi, 1959) 7/10
The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann, 1959) 9/10
Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth, 1959) 8/10
Middle of the Night (Delbert Mann, 1959) 7/10
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller, 1959) 7/10
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) 9/10
Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges, 1959) 8/10
North West Frontier (J. Lee Thompson, 1959) 8/10
No Trees in the Street (J. Lee Thompson, 1959) 4/10
Adam Wants to Be a Man (Vytautas Zalakevicius, 1959) 7/10
Airport 1975 (Jack Smight, 1974) 5/10
The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg, 1974) 5/10
Airport '77 (Jerry Jameson, 1977) 4/10
The Long Riders (Walter Hill, 1980) 7/10
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980) 8/10
Continental Divide (Michael Apted, 1981) 6/10
Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984) 9/10
Crossroads (Walter Hill, 1986) 7/10
Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted, 1988) 7/10
Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme, 1988) 6/10
City Slickers (Ron Underwood, 1991) 6/10
Geronimo (Walter Hill, 1993) 6/10
Supernova (Walter Hill, 2000) 3/10
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton, 2001) 4/10
Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004) 5/10
Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, 2004) 6/10
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme, 2004) 7/10
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson, 2005) 7/10
Chloe (Atom Egoyan, 2009) 7/10
The Good Liar (Bill Condon, 2019) 6/10
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas, 2019) 6/10
Underwater (William Eubank, 2020) 2/10
The Way Back (Gavin O'Connor, 2020) 4/10
The Night Clerk (Michael Cristofer, 2020) 4/10
You Should Have Left (David Koepp, 2020) 5/10
The Last Thing He Wanted (Dee Rees, 2020) 7/10

Shorts:

Apes of Wrath (Friz Freleng, 1959) 6/10
Mexicali Shmoes (Friz Freleng, 1959) 5/10
Wild About Hurry (Chuck Jones, 1959) 6/10
Hot-Rod and Reel! (Chuck Jones, 1959) 6/10
Bonanza Bunny (Robert McKimson, 1959) 6/10
Wild and Woolly Hare (Friz Freleng, 1959) 7/10
Backwoods Bunny (Robert McKimson, 1959) 5/10
A Broken Leghorn (Robert McKimson, 1959) 8/10
People Are Bunny (Robert McKimson, 1959) 7/10
A Witch's Tangled Hare (Abe Levitow, 1959) 7/10
House (Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica, 1959) 4/10
Baton Bunny (Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, 1959) 5/10
Donald in Mathmagic Land (Hamilton Luske, 1959) 6/10
The Mouse That Jack Built (Robert McKimson, 1959) 7/10
The Astronauts (Walerian Borowczyk, Chris Marker, 1959) 4/10
The Searching Eye (Saul Bass, 1964) 7/10
Why Man Creates (Saul Bass, 1968) 8/10
Notes on the Popular Arts (Saul Bass, Elaine Bass, 1978) 6/10
The Solar Film (Saul Bass, Elaine Bass, 1980) 6/10
Quest (Saul Bass, Elaine Bass, 1984) 6/10

Best: North by Northwest, Streets of Fire, The Nun's Story
Worst: Underwater, Supernova

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan, 2017) - 6/10

Jumanji (Joe Johnston, 1995) - 1/10



Seriously? I haven't seen the original since the late 90's but that remake/reboot or whatever it is is one of the laziest Hollywood films of the last few years. The opening 'set up' is pathetic. No drama or intrique at all. Looks like it was shot in one take in post.

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:05 am Seriously?

no, i was lying.

the first jumanji is a humourless exercise in cacophony where the characters are subjected to calamity upon calamity for no other reason than that some rhyming nonsense from a board game says they should be. it's an endless string of no-stakes deus ex machinae, made even less compelling by the laughable special effects. "our heroes confront 2-dimensional animated piranhas, will they get out alive?" a) who cares and b) they're cartoon fish, you'll be fine. it's like making a rocky movie where at the end he fights q*bert. and if you're going to have poems in your film, at least hire a poet to write the things. that was some of the laziest writing i've heard in a big budget movie in a while.

the reboot is at least moderately successful as entertainment. it doesn't seem much invested in the credibility of its narrative or action sequences, which lets it focus on other things. its po-mo play-with-genre-tropes self awareness may not be anything revolutionary or even interesting, but it gives the film some comedic raw material, and the film is genuinely funny some of the time, and that counts for something for me. bethany in particular (the original, not the jack black substitute) is hilarious.

it's like making a rocky movie where at the end he fights q*bert.

sounds fantastic, where do i sign up?

brief encounter (david lean)
gozu (takashi miike)
ashes and diamonds (andrzej wajda)
c/o kancharapalem (maha venkatesh)
the scarlet empress (josef von sternberg)
the flying guillotine (meng hua ho)
flying guillotine ii (gang cheng / shan hua)
solo con tu pareja (alfonso cuaron)
the outlaw and his wife (victor sjostrom)
the gospel according to matthew (pier paolo pasolini)
countryman (dickie jobson)
the general (clyde bruckman / buster keaton)
the romance of astrea and celadon (eric rohmer)
the river (pare lorentz)
the bridge (bernhard wicki)
the driller killer (abel ferrara)
everybody knows (asghar farhadi)
yankee doodle dandy (michael curtiz)
capricious summer (jiri menzel)
the dragon painter (william worthington)
the sandwich man (hou hsiao-hsien / tseng chuang-hsiang / wan jen)
daughters of the dust (julie dash)
man with a movie camera (dziga vertov)
the children are watching us (vittorio de sica)
the private files of j. edgar hoover (larry cohen)
la chienne (jean renoir)
mickey one (arthur penn)
the wonderful country (robert parrish)
mirai (mamoru hosoda)
homecoming (joe dante)
metropolis (fritz lang)
ghayal (rajkumar santoshi)

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0620 (III, ii)

18 "The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets" (Adam Khalil/Zack Khalil/Jackson Polys, 2018) -- 4/4
17 Brewster's Millions (Walter Hill, 1985) -- 2.5/4
16 Moving (Alan Metter, 1988) -- 2/4
11 "Snack and Drink" (Bob Sabiston, 2000) -- 3.5/4
11 As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997) -- 1.5/4

Top 11 new watches:
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1982)
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959)
The Iron Rose (Jean Rollin, 1973)
Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2006)
A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
Time Stood Still (Ermanno Olmi, 1959)
Tange Sazen and a Pot Worth One Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka, 1935)
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou, 1992)
Der Schöne Tag (Thomas Arslan, 2001)
If I Had Four Dromedaries (Chris Marker, 1966)
HMs: Streets of Fire, Caged Heat, Undertone Overture, Bridges-Go-Round

Top re-watches: La Haine, L'ami de mon amie, Christmas in July

Worst: The Duchess of Langeais, The Brand New Testament

Top first-time watches:

1. Joseph Kilián (Juráček/Schmidt, 1963) 9/10
2. Aashad Ka Ek Din (Kaul, 1971) 8/10
3. Krakatit (Vávra, 1948) 8/10
4. The Plea (Abuladze, 1967) 8/10
5. Bawarchi (Mukherjee, 1972) 8/10
6. Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Diaz, 2016) 8/10

In total I watched 60 films (36 features + 24 shorts). Four of them exceeded 7 hours:

Out 1 (773 mins.)
Evolution of a Filipino Family (625 mins.)
Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (489 mins.)
Melancholia (447 mins.)

I was a bit disappointed by Out 1 (only 7/10, but I expected more). Those endless rehearsal scenes were beyond tedious, even with good actors, although they're much reduced in the later parts.

The Antifa Award for best short film goes to Premios nacionales (Pere Portabella, 1969, 4 minutes), an amazingly clever way of giving Franco the middle finger.

"Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959)"

Have you seen any of his other films? Mother Joan of The Angels is pretty great and Faraon is extremely impressive and criminally underseen.

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:40 am "Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959)"

Have you seen any of his other films? Mother Joan of The Angels is pretty great and Faraon is extremely impressive and criminally underseen.

Not yet! Looks like I have three films by Polish directors in my top 6, so I'm on a kick at the moment. Will definitely check those out for my EU thread, need to revive it. Also wanna watch Birth Certificate, Nobody's Calling, and Passenger, and some Wajda stuff...

June, 2020



First list without a documentary in a very long time.

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:10 am Pabs: 2 for that Jancso? Seriously?
Is Wba the only member who rates that film other than me? heh.

I was completely bored by it. Sorry.

next level
Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann) (rewatch)
Heat (1995, Michael Mann) (rewatch)

amazing
The Raid (1954, Hugo Fregonese)
The Insider (1999, Michael Mann) (rewatch)

very good / enjoyed a lot
The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)
The 13th Letter (1951, Otto Preminger)
Tih Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade)
I Passed for White (1960, Fred M. Wilcox)
Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941, Edward Dmytryk) (Boston Blackie)
The Chance of a Lifetime (1943, William Castle) (Boston Blackie)
Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007, Brad Isaacs)

the rest
Ali (2001, Michael Mann)
Little Caesar (1931, Mervyn LeRoy)
Run All Night (2015, Jaume Collet-Serra)
The Post (2017, Steven Spielberg)

Starting a new format, because I always hated my new one, but only now just realised that change is possible




June 2020 (21)



5/5

4.5/5

Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai, 2019)

4/5

The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks, 1970)
Free Solo (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, 2018)
Take Me Away! (Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, 1978)
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1982)
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (Kim Do-young, 2019)

3.5/5

Manglehorn (David Gordon Green, 2014)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery, 1977)
Life Stinks (Mel Brooks, 1991)
Finding Big Country (Kathleen S. Jayme, 2018)

3/5

Unbowed (Chung Ji-young, 2012)
Cash Calls Hell (Hideo Gosha, 1966)
Samurai Wolf I (Hideo Gosha, 1966)
Samurai Wolf II (Hideo Gosha, 1967)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Mel Brooks, 1995)

2.5/5

The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995)
Samurai Town Story Part 1 (Masahiro Makino, 1928)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, 1990)

2/5

1.5/5

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Vince Gilligan, 2019)

1/5

Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack, 2013)

0.5/5

Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012)

0/5

* = rewatches. All scores out of 10.


The Nutty Professor 2* (who cares) - 4.5
Family Romance, LLC (Herzog ) - 7
The Last Hurrah* (Ford) - 7.5
Hurlyburly* (no idea) - 6
Seduced and Abandoned (Toback) - 6.5
The Three Amigos* (Landis) - 6
How High* (no idea) - 6
The Cable Guy* (Stiller) - 6.5
Billy Madison* (Davis) - 6.5
Men In Black* (Sonnenfeld) - 5.5
Liar Liar* (who cares) - 4.5
Vampire in Brooklyn* (Craven) - 4.5
Big Daddy* (who cares) - 4
Holy Man* (who cares) - 3.5
Showtime (who cares) - 4.5
The Haunted Mansion (who cares) - 4.5
Phantasm IV: Oblivion* (Coscarelli) - 5.5
Men In Black 2 (Sonnenfeld) - 4.5
Hook Line and Sinker (Marshall) - 4
Find Me Guilty* (Lumet) - 6
The Expendables* (Stallone) - 4.5
Escape From LA* (Carpenter) - 7
Boomerang* (Hudlin) - 5
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford) - 7
The End of Summer* (Ozu) - 6.5
The Expendables 2* (West) - 5
Dr.Dolittle* (Thomas) - 4
Paradise Alley (Stallone) - 5
Super Size Me 2 (Spurlock) - 5.5

July 2020

Re-watch

Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945) 9/10
Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972) 7/10
The Midnight Man (Roland Kibbee, Burt Lancaster, 1974) 5/10
Cabo Blanco (J. Lee Thompson, 1980) 2/10
Borderline (Jerrold Freedman, 1980) 4/10
The Blue Lagoon (Randal Kleiser, 1980) 4/10
The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980) 7/10
The Mirror Crack'd (Guy Hamilton, 1980) 3/10
Any Which Way You Can (Buddy Van Horn, 1980) 3/10
The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski, 1999) 6/10
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002) 9/10
The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004) 8/10
13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick, 2004) 5/10
Along Came Polly (John Hamburg, 2004) 5/10
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006) 10/10
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007) 9/10
The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy, 2012) 7/10
Knock Knock (Eli Roth, 2015) 2/10
Why Him? (John Hamburg, 2016) 5/10
Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass, 2016) 6/10
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet, 2018) 9/10
Dumbo (Tim Burton, 2019) 6/10
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, 2019) 8/10
Palm Springs (Max Barbakow, 2020) 7/10
Greyhound (Aaron Schneider, 2020) 6/10

Shorts:
That Mothers Might Live (Fred Zinnemann, 1938) 5/10
The Old South (Fred Zinnemann, 1940) 3/10
Forbidden Passage (Fred Zinnemann, 1941) 6/10

Best: Miami Vice, Brief Encounter, The Bourne Identity
Worst: Knock Knock, Cabo Blanco, The Mirror Crack'd

- July -

Requiem from Java (Garin Nugroho, 2006)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993) ♥♥
The Great Sacrifice (Veit Harlan, 1944)
The Executioner (Luis García Berlanga, 1963) ♥
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978)
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971)
The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 2017)
Aferim! (Radu Jude, 2015)
Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968)
Office (Johnnie To, 2015)
An Independent Life (Vitali Kanevsky, 1992)
Je t’aime, je t’aime (Alain Resnais, 1968)

TV:

American Horror Story (season 9) ♥
Watchmen (season 1) ♥♥♥

clan of the white lotus
return to the 36th chamber
snake in the eagle's shadow
return of the sentimental swordsman
killer constable
bat w/o wings ♥
virus (1980)
crazy thunder road ♥
zigeunerweisen
the big red one
evening rain
alias nick beal
arising from the surface
thunder on the hill
woman from the sea
simone barbes or virtue
c'est la vie! ♥
a distant cry from spring
the last witness
legend of tianyun mountain

rewatched:
daïnah la métisse ♥
dangerous encounters of the first kind
monkey business ♥

2020. 7

Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988) ♥
The Idiots (Lars von Trier, 1998)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
Tell Me (Chantal Akerman, 1980)
Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980)
Bombshell (Jay Roach, 2019)
Ride Your Wave (Masaaki Yuasa, 2019)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018) *rewatch ♥
Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980)
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (Alexandre O. Philippe, 2019)
The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin, 2019)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986) ♥
Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020)
Last and First Man (Johann Johannsson, 2020)
Better Days (Derek Tsang, 2019)
The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson, 2019)
Oh Mercy (Arnaud Desplechin, 2019)
A Girl Missing (Koji Fukada, 2019)
Peninsula (Yeon Sang-ho, 2020)
Alexander the Great (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1980)
Touch (Sai Paranjape, 1980)
Killer Constable (Kuei Chih-Hung, 1980) ♥
Blue Hour (Hakota Yuko, 2019)
Gloria (John Cassavetes, 1980)
Getting to Know the Big Wide World (Kira Muratova, 1980)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980) ♥
Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan, 2019)
The Son (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2002) ♥
Simone Barbes or Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou, 1980) ♥
Who’s Singin’ Over There? (Slobodan Sijan, 1980)
Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard, 1980)
The Last Witness (Lee Doo-yong, 1980) ♥
Young Ahmed (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2019)
Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki, 1980)
Summit: Steel Rain (Yang Woo-seok, 2020)
My American Uncle (Alain Resnais, 1980)
Confidence (Istvan Szabo, 1980) ♥

Memorable:

Donovan’s Reef (John Ford, 1963)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964)
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972)
What’s Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972)
Inferno (Stanislav Barabáš, 1973)
C’est la vie! (Paul Vecchiali, 1980)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
The Pelvis of J.W. (João César Monteiro, 1997)
Sada (Nobuhiko Ōbayashi1998)

Worst movie: Permanent Green Light. Kind of obscene and ridiculous
Best movie: Nothing crazy good this month. Desire was great.

I rewatched Blackhat, which I liked slightly more this time.

Travelling Actors (Mikio Naruse, 1940)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, 2019)
Dark Waters (Todd Haynes, 2019)
Swamp Water (Jean Renoir, 1941)
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014) - rewatch
Security Unlimited (Michael Hui, 1981)
The Company's in Love (Max Ophüls, 1932)
Peoples House (Andrew Bujalski, 2007)
In the Street (James Agee, Helen Levitt, 1948)
Desire (Frank Borzage, 1936)
Tati vs. Bresson: the Gag (Mark Rappaport, 2016)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal, 2013)
Point Blank (Fred Cavayé, 2010)
The Bandit (Alberto Lattuada, 1946)
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan, 2017)
The Last of the Fast Guns (George Sherman, 1958)
Midway (Roland Emmerich, 2019)
Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon, 2017)
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015) - rewatch
Alive in France (Abel Ferrara, 2017)
The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2019)
True Lies (James Cameron, 1994) - rewatch
Conrad Veidt – My Life (Mark Rappaport, 2019)
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Cathy Yan, 2020)
Permanent Green Light (Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley, 2018)
Mercuriales (Virgil Vernier, 2014)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)
Polizeiruf 110: Tatorte (Christian Petzold, 2018)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Joachim Rønning, 2019)
The Bowery (Sara Driver, 1994)
Darkness and Light (Chang Tso-chi, 1999)
The Finest Hours (Craig Gillespie, 2016)
Beirut (Brad Anderson, 2018)
Tommaso (Abel Ferrara, 2019)
Into the Ashes (Aaron Harvey, 2019)

I managed 70 movies last month, including at least one feature-length film each day, which I hadn't accomplished in years. Full list here; here are the highlights:

1. Antareen (Mrinal Sen)
2. Twilight (György Fehér)
3. Nainsukh (Amit Dutta)
4. La cina è vicina (Marco Bellocchio)
5. The Corporal and the Others (Márton Keleti)
6. Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
7. Monpti (Helmut Käutner)
8. Transit (Christian Petzold)
9. Virus Tropical (Santiago Caicedo)
10. 27 Down (Awtar Krishna Kaul)
11. Who's Singin' Over There? (Slobodan Šijan)

I also watched The Blues Brothers for the first time in July. It's pretty rare for anyone who grew up in Chicago in my generation, much less a hard-core cinephile, not to have seen it, but I usually can't abide that kind of movie. The first hour confirmed my worst fears, but the second half was good enough to push the film to a 5/10.

Also in the camp category, last night I watched The Room (Tommy Wiseau), probably the most polarizing movie on Letterboxd if you judge by the ratings, though I suspect its enthusiasts are fully aware of its shortcomings. I gave it a generous 3/10.

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 5:00 pm 1. Antareen (Mrinal Sen)
5. The Corporal and the Others (Márton Keleti)
11. Who's Singin' Over There? (Slobodan Šijan)

ha, i watched the corporal and the others (very good) and who's singin' over there (loved it) a month or two ago. also watched a different mrinal sen film, also with less than 100 imdb views, just yesterday, interesting film but didn't quite work for me, will watch more of his films for sure though

Am I the only one who still might watch another movie (or read another book) or two before the month is over? It's July 31

(Of course, if you're in an Asian timezone or whatnot, yadda yadda...)

It's three hours into August here already But I feel the same way, the month isn't over til it's over, and I might feel the urge to squeeze in another film at 10 pm.

I saw four Mrinal Sens last month, all good, but Antareen stood out. The first two were set in middle-class Kolkata homes, and I noticed the telephone was always a bit sinister. Then Antareen comes along, and a telephone drives the whole plot. My fourth Sen was In Search of Famine, which has no telephones at all.

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:33 pmMy fourth Sen was In Search of Famine, which has no telephones at all.

and now everyone knows that they do find famine... it's called a spoiler alert, bro. might wanna use it in the future, just sayin /s

mrinal sen's almost obsessive desire to experiment throughout his career (he never really settles down to a style or set of strategies over several prolific decades), and willingness to welcome error and accident, make going through his work totally fascinating but can also be more than a little frustrating.

antareen is somehow very divisive for some reason, i do think having to dub over dimple's performance is part of that, but it's one of my favorites. the overlapping of sadat hasan manto and tagore's short stories is brilliant, and like all of his domestic chamber pieces there's just an amazing sense of place.

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:33 pm It's three hours into August here already

very cool location to be in! would love to spend time in almost every country around there. (and then i too can post my 'last month' lists on the 20th of the month)

pretty good month overall

Who's Singin' Over There? (Slobodan Sijan, 1980) - 9/10
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, 1949) - 9/10
Play (Gholam Reza Ramezani, 2005) - 8/10
Wanderers of the Desert (Nacer Khemir, 1984) - 8/10
Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (Dileesh Pothan, 2017) - 8/10
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969) - 8/10
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: I Saw the Whole Thing (Alfred Hitchcock, 1962) - 8/10
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948) - 8/10
The Boot (Mohammad-Ali Talebi, 1993) - 7/10
Indiscreet (Stanley Donen, 1958) - 7/10
Showdown at Abilene (Charles Haas, 1956) - 7/10
My Six Convicts (Hugo Fregonese, 1952) - 7/10
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992) - 7/10
Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder, 1964) - 7/10
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Black Curtain (Sydney Pollack, 1962) - 7/10
Kaleidoscope (Mrinal Sen, 1981) - 6/10
Trapped (Parviz Shahbazi, 2013) - 6/10
The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924) - 6/10
Street of Chance (Jack Hively, 1942) - 6/10
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Don't Look Behind You (John Brahm, 1962) - 6/10
Redes (Fred Zinnemann/Emilio Gomez Muriel, 1936) - 6/10
The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks, 1970) - 6/10
I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1945) - 6/10
Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (Dan Zeff, 2007) - 6/10
Poirot: Hallowe'en Party (Charlie Palmer, 2010) - 6/10
Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley (John McGonagle, 1965) - 6/10
Sunshine in a Net (Stefan Uher, 1962) - 5/10
He Ran All the Way (John Berry, 1951) - 5/10
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Diagnosis: Danger (Sydney Pollack, 1963) - 5/10
Marple: Towards Zero (Nicolas Winding Refn/David Grinding, 2008) - 5/10
Poirot: Taken at the Flood (Andy Wilson, 2006) - 5/10
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) - 5/10
Poirot: Three Act Tragedy (Ashley Pearce, 2010) - 5/10
Irresistible (Jon Stewart, 2020) - 5/10
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (Koji Wakamatsu/Masao Adachi, 1971) - 4/10
17 Again (Burr Steers, 2009) - 2/10
I Am Not Salvador (Manouchehr Hadi, 2016) - 2/10
Dirty Weekend (Michael Winner, 1993) - 1/10
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (Ron Satlof, 1986) - 1/10

shorts:
The Adventurer (Charlie Chaplin, 1917) - 8/10
A Loaf of Bread (Jan Nemec, 1960) - 7/10
School (Walerian Borowczyk, 1958) - 7/10
The Hand of the Artist (Walter Booth, 1906) - 7/10
Czech Rhapsody (Vojtech Jasny, 1970) - 6/10
Recess (Abbas Kiarostami, 1972) - 6/10
Jumping the Blanket (Louis Lumiere, 1895) - 5/10
Unaccustomed As We Are (Lewis Foster/Hal Roach, 1929) - 4/10
Old Chums (Mike Leigh, 1982) - 4/10

thoxans wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:11 pm

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:33 pmMy fourth Sen was In Search of Famine, which has no telephones at all.

and now everyone knows that they do find famine... it's called a spoiler alert, bro. might wanna use it in the future, just sayin /s

Haha, my bad!

nrh wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:20 pmantareen is somehow very divisive for some reason, i do think having to dub over dimple's performance is part of that, but it's one of my favorites. the overlapping of sadat hasan manto and tagore's short stories is brilliant, and like all of his domestic chamber pieces there's just an amazing sense of place.

I didn't realize she was dubbed. I liked her voice! And yeah, an amazing sense of place... I appreciated the contrast between the modern luxury apartment and the decaying palace. The palace reminded me of Jalsaghar, and I think the lizard on the portrait was probably a conscious allusion.

Holymanm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:34 pm

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:33 pm It's three hours into August here already

very cool location to be in! would love to spend time in almost every country around there. (and then i too can post my 'last month' lists on the 20th of the month)