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2021. 4

Rue de l’Estrapade (Jacques Becker, 1953)
Little Joe (Jessica Hausner, 2019)
The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker, 1993)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, 1961) ♥
White Shadows in the South Seas (Robert J. Flaherty, W. S. Van Dyke, 1928)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957)
Yellow Ribbon (Ju Hyun-sook, 2019)
Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez, 2020)
Kajillionaire (Miranda July, 2020)
Song Without a Name (Melina Leon, 2019)
Sherpa (Jennifer Peedom, 2015)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998) ♥
Sada (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1998)
Synchronic (Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, 2019)
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller, 2021)
Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 2020)
Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998)
Pickpocket (Jia Zhangke, 1998) ♥
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019)
Les Miserables (Ladj Ly, 2019)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Carnival of Sinners (Maurice Tourneur, 1943)
Air Force (Howard Hawks, 1943)
Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder, 1943)
Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943)
Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang, 1943) ♥
Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson, 1943)
Romance in a Minor Key (Helmut Kautner, 1943) ♥
Quo vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic, 2020)
Self-portrait 2020 (Lee Dong-woo, 2020)
Uptight (Jules Dassin, 1968) ♥
The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969) ♥
Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2021)

April 2021

rewatch


China (John Farrow, 1943) 6/10
The Desperadoes (Charles Vidor, 1943) 7/10
Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder, 1943) 7/10
Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster, 1943) 4/10
Background to Danger (Raoul Walsh, 1943) 6/10
The Spider Woman (Roy William Neill, 1943) 6/10
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) 9/10
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (Roy William Neill, 1943) 5/10
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (Roy William Neill, 1943) 5/10
Framed (Phil Karlson, 1975) 7/10
Capone (Steve Carver, 1975) 4/10
Afonya (Georgiy Daneliya, 1975) 6/10
Breakheart Pass (Tom Gries, 1975) 6/10
Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975) 2/10
Fear Over the City (Henri Verneuil, 1975) 8/10
Assassins (Richard Donner, 1995) 6/10
Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner, 1998) 4/10
Romeo Must Die (Andrzej Bartkowiak, 2000) 5/10
A Man Apart (F. Gary Gray, 2003) 3/10
Appaloosa (Ed Harris, 2008) 6/10
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012) 9/10
A Kind of Murder (Andy Goddard, 2016) 2/10
Only the Brave (Joseph Kosinski, 2017) 6/10
Blockers (Kay Cannon, 2018) 6/10
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet, 2018) 9/10
Second Act (Peter Segal, 2018) 4/10
Spinning Man (Simon Kaijser, 2018) 3/10
Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast, 2018) 4/10
Emma (Autumn de Wilde, 2020) 7/10
Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 2020) 10/10
Freaky (Christopher Landon, 2020) 4/10
Rifkin's Festival (Woody Allen, 2020) 5/10
News of the World (Paul Greengrass, 2020) 7/10
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 2020) 7/10
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke, 2020) 8/10
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller, 2021) 4/10
Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, 2021) 4/10

Shorts:
Dumb-Hounded (Tex Avery, 1943) 9/10
Super-Rabbit (Chuck Jones, 1943) 6/10
Who Killed Who? (Tex Avery, 1943,) 6/10
Wackiki Wabbit (Chuck Jones, 1943) 5/10
Red Hot Riding Hood (Tex Avery, 1943) 9/10
What's Buzzin' Buzzard? (Tex Avery, 1943) 8/10
A Corny Concerto (Robert Clampett, 1943) 7/10
Tortoise Wins by a Hare (Robert Clampett, 1943) 7/10
Baby Puss (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, 1943) 8/10
Sufferin' Cats! (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, 1943) 7/10
The Lonesome Mouse (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, 1943) 7/10
The Yankee Doodle Mouse (Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, 1943) 6/10
The Letter Room (Elvira Lind, 2020) 7/10

Best: Nomadland, I Walked with a Zombie, Vox Lux
Worst: Death Race 2000, A Kind of Murder, Spinning Man

Silga: Assassins would have been better if Banderas and Sly switched roles, and if the writer or director hadn't made the tactical error of focusing on 'silencer' driven gun play. It is an odd film in some ways. Strikes me as a smaller scale film that was blown up when stars signed on.

All scores out of 10. * = rewatches

Fellini's Roma* - 7.5
Amarcord* (Fellini) - 7
Extreme Prejudice* (Hill) - 5
The Last Blockbuster (no idea) - 4.5
Godzilla vs.Kong (who cares) - 4
Fellini's Casanova* - 8
Brain Donors* (Dugan) - 6
Viy (no idea) - 7
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother* (Wilder) - 5
Artists and Models (Tashlin) - 6
City of Women* (Fellini) - 7.5
Satantango* (Tarr) - 9
Mr.Deeds (Brill) - 4.5
Medea* (Pasolini) - 7
Just Go With It (Dugan) - 5
Spanglish (Brooks) - 5.5
Monster Hunter (Anderson) - 5
Let Him Go (no idea) - 6.5
Point Break* (Bigelow) - 5
The Longest Yard (2005) - 4
Brother* (Kitano) - 7
On Purge Bebe (Renoir) - 6
Mortal Kombat (2021) - 3
Q: The Winged Serpent* (Cohen) - 6

Best: Satantango
Worst: Mortal Kombat (2021)

i liked some recent genre films a lot more than most of letterboxd, saw quite a few good films but didn't see much that was great:

long:
Margin Call (JC Chandor, 2011) - 8/10
Run Hide Fight (Kyle Rankin, 2020) - 8/10
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller, 2021) - 7/10
The Way Home (Lee Jeong-hyang, 2002) - 7/10
Stoker (Chan Wook-park, 2013) - 7/10
The Vault (Jaume Balaguero, 2021) - 7/10
Bodied (Joseph Kahn, 2017) - 7/10
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015) - 7/10
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Mike Newell, 2018) - 7/10
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012) - 6/10
Moxie (Amy Poehler, 2021) - 6/10
Crisis (Nicholas Jarecki, 2021) - 6/10
Deux Remi, Deux (Pierre Leon, 2015) - 5/10
Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema, 1999) - 5/10
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez, 2019) - 4/10
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, 2015) - 3/10
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (David Dobkin, 2020) - 3/10
The Father (Florian Zeller, 2020) - 3/10
Godzilla vs Kong (Adam Wingard, 2021) - 3/10
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum, 2021) - 2/10
Snowpiercer (Joon-ho Bong, 2013) - 1/10
Cosmic Sin (Edward Drake, 2021) - 1/10
Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013) - 1/10
Locked Down (Doug Liman, 2021) - 1/10

short:
The Flying Train (Deutsche Mutoskop/Biograph, 1902) - 8/10
Films to Break Projectors (iloobia, Tim Grabham, 2017) - 6/10
Nursery Rhymes (Tom Noakes, 2018) - 4/10

wonderful new discovery
rewatch
at the cinema
"short film"

0421 (I, i)

14 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, 2020) -- 2.5/4
14 "White Echo" (Chloë Sevigny, 2019) -- 2/4

dw guys in may i'll watch 200 movies and read 90 books

April 40 films. 8 docs. 7 foreign. 1 mini-series.

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (#2) 1962 Kazuo Mori (rerun)
Zatoichi and the Fugitives (#18) 1968 Kimiyoshi Yasuda (rerun)
Samaritan Zatoichi (#19) 1968 Kenji Misumi
The New Mutants 2020 Josh Boone
News of the World 2020 Paul Greengrass
The Father 2020 Florian Zeller
The Dig 2021 Simon Stone
The Seventh Day 2021 Justin P Lange
An Officer and a Spy 2019 Roman Polanski ♥
Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve (rerun)
They Shall Not Grow Old 2018 Peter Jackson ♥
The Devils 1971 Ken Russell ♥ <------- been trying to get a copy of this for sooooooo long. twas worth it.
As the Gods Will 2014 Takashi Miike
Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan (rerun)
Murder by Numbers 2002 Barbet Schroeder
Greyhound 2020 Aaron Schneider
Kikujiro 1999 Takashi Kitano
Official Secrets 2019 Gavin Hood
The Personal History of David Copperfield 2019 Armando Iannucci ♥
The Truth 2019 Hirokazu Koreeda ♥
Three Christs 2017 Jon Avnet
The Hill 1965 Sidney Lumet ♥
My Octopus Teacher 2021 Philippa Echrlich, James Reed
Man with the Iron Heart 2018 Cedric Jimenez
The Grey Zone 2001 Tim Blake Nelson
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax Records 2017 Julia Nash
The Looming Tower (10 eps mini-series) 2018 Craig Zisk
Diplomatic Carrier 1952 Henry Hathaway
Grey Gardens 1976 Maysles Brothers (rerun)
Grey Gardens 2009 Michael Sucsy
No End In Sight 2007 Charles Ferguson
World For Ransom 1954 Robert Aldrich
Someone Up there Likes Me 2019 Mike Figgis
The Watch 2012 Akiva Schaffer
Quartet (4 short stories by W. Somerset Maugham) 1948 Harold French, Arthur Crabtree, Ralph Smart, Ken Annakin
Snowbound 1948 David MacDonald
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me 2012 Drew DeNicola (rerun)
Ghost on the Highway: a portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the Gun Club 2006 Kurt Voss
Breadcrumb Trail 2014 Lance Bangs
The Seventh Veil 1945 Compton Bennett

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 3:26 am Silga: Assassins would have been better if Banderas and Sly switched roles, and if the writer or director hadn't made the tactical error of focusing on 'silencer' driven gun play. It is an odd film in some ways. Strikes me as a smaller scale film that was blown up when stars signed on.

It certainly feels like a film that was in development without these two stars in mind and was later modeled according to Stallone and Banderas typecasting tropes. It was actually first written by The Wachowskis and later, during production, rewritten by Brian Helgeland. I think Sly's role makes sense, considering his screen persona at the time. He played a slightly similar role in The Specialist a year earlier.

stray dogs: panzer cops (mamoru oshii 1990)*
freedom at midnight (tinnu pappachan, 2018)
heaven's story (takahisa zeze, 2010)*
joji (dileesh potha, 2021)
so long at the fair (terence fisher & anthony darnborough, 1950)
yarn (takahisa zeze, 2020)
lootera (vikramaditya motwane, 2013)
gamera: the revenge of iris (shusuke kaneko, 1999)
the cold-blooded trap (takahisa zeze, 1998)*
i hired a contract killer (aki kaurismaki, 1990)*

adding * for rewatches, which kind of dominated the month.

Can't wait for the Heaven's Story monograph

I saw 66 first-time viewings and 7 rewatches in April. The success rate was no

Rewatches

O noapte furtunoasa  / A Stormy Night (1943, Jean Georgescu) 4 --> 5.5
La glace à trois faces (1927, Jean Epstein) 4 --> 7
The 400 Blow (1959, Francois Truffaut) 8.5 --> 8
Happy End (2017, Michael Haneke) 9 --> 9
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, Yorgos Lanthimos) 9.5 --> 9
Estiu 1993 (2017, Carla Simón) 10 --> 9.5
Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais) 9.5 --> 9

Hiroshima mon amour was the "greatest" rewatch here as it had been such a long time. I had entirely forgotten how it essentially starts of as a conceptual/philosophical essay film, pioneering the male and female conversational style before Godard and Miéville made it their clear staple. It is a thoroughly intriguing film from beginning to end, ripe with interpretation and play.

Great first-time viewings:

9
Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc / Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021, Radu Jude)
La vie nouvelle (2002, Philippe Grandrieux)

8.5
À tout prendre / Take It All (1963, Claude Jutra)
Le tout nouveau testament / The Brand New Testament (2015, Jaco Van Dormael)

8
Fuoco! / Fire! (1968, Gian Vittorio Baldi)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020, Charlie Kaufman)
La vie à l'envers / Life Upside Down (1964, Alain Jessua)
Dorogie tovarishchi / Dear Comrades (2020, Andrey Konchalovskiy)
Wilder Urlaub / The Deserter (1943, Franz Schnyder)
Pytel blech / A Bag of Fleas (1962, Vera Chytilová)
Tux and Fanny (2019, Albert Birney)
Princes et princesses / Princes and Princesses (2000, Michel Ocelot)
Last Letter (2020, Shunji Iwai)

April, 2021

starting tmr i will not be using the gregorian calendar, so technically this is the last day of may 2021 for me

0521 (I, v)

07 Red Shift (Gunvor Nelson, 1984) -- 3/4
07 "The Land of the People" (Artavazd Peleshyan, 1966) -- 2.5/4
07 "Mountain Vigil" (Artavazd Peleshyan, 1964) -- 2.5/4
03 "End" (Artavazd Peleshyan, 1992) -- 3.5/4
03 "Life" (Artavazd Peleshyan, 1993) -- 3.5/4
01 "Betty Tells Her Story" (Liane Brandon, 1972) -- 4/4

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 7:02 am starting tmr i will not be using the gregorian calendar, so technically this is the last day of may 2021 for me

Which calendar are you switching too?

My own. I'm so fed up with 7 day weeks and other stupidity

I discovered recently that summer/fall are actually about 93 days each in a regular yr (spring and especially winter shorter) which is why February is weird but that doesn't excuse how stupid it is.

So yrs start/end at the winter solstice. Maybe first day of spring, still thinking about this, would love feedback. But that doesn't hugely matter. Fuck months, we have 4 seasons. Each season has 9 weeks of 10 days (in non-leap year winter the last week has 9; in summer/fall the 1st/4th/7th weeks have 11)

1 year is 4 seasons
1 season is 9 weeks
1 week is 10 days

No "months" but there are naturally trimesters of each season. But those are aligned with seasons

Considering "assigning" names to the days of the week but that sorta goes against why I'm doing this. I realized that work weeks don't work for me, labouring for 5 days straight is such bullshit. So I want this to be as flexible as possible

I am working on a grand unified theory of how to reorganize society as essentially anarchic, from a dual communal/global perspective. I don't think it's for me to say how anyone else arranges their time, but I should note that in a 10 day week u can have 0xx0xx0xx0, where 0 is a day of no labour. You still labour 60% of days but never 3 days consecutively, and you still regularly get 2 straight labourless days. I might go with that for my own life as I begin this project/experience

It was a bit kismit, I was on shrooms last night when I realized this week bullshit wasn't working for me. Coincidentally, today is the first day of the 7th week (out of 9) of spring, so I've got exactly 1/3 of spring left right now

Generally speaking I've long thought that human activity should be more in line with the seasons, thus starting with spring I've for how called them Lernen (learn), Spielen (play), Langsamen (slow down) and Ruhen (rest)

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 3:54 pm Maybe first day of spring, still thinking about this, would love feedback.

(physically) i was born on autumnal equinox and, as the start of the new year, i (subjectively) perceive spring equinox.
i always try to ignore the so-called "New Year's Eve".
"Lernen (learn), Spielen (play), Langsamen (slow down) and Ruhen (rest)" sounds cool!

thanks!

in a brief moment of sobriety i realized that making the seasons different lengths is actually peak paleopagan bullshit, the exact sort of thinking that got us stuck with this ridiculous february in the first place. every season has gotta be 91 or 92 days, no question

btw. if one is born on the autumnal equinox, at first glimpse it might seem cool that one's birth occurred "when the plane of Earth's equator passed through the geometric center of the Sun's disk". however, once taking into consideration the average duration of pregnancy, suddenly it's not possible to get rid of the odd (nagging) thought that one's parents might have fornicated under the Xmas tree. fortunately enough, i was a dumb kid and didn't realize "autumnal equinox minus 9 = Xmas". thus i had a happy (innocent) childhood. only later, i started to perceive Xmas as something kinky & weird.

2021. 5

Trans-Continental-Railway (Jung Jae-hoon, 2021)
The Witches of the Orient (Julien Faraut, 2021)
Two Forgotten Boxes (Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli, 2020)
Taking Back the Legislature (Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers, 2020) ♥
Inside the Red Brick Wall (Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers, 2020) ♥
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) ♥
Vicenta (Darío Doria, 2020)
Splinters (Natalia Garayalde, 2020)
Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan, 2021)
Landscapes of Resistance (Marta Popivoda, 2021)
Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette, 2021)
Radiograph of a Family (Firouzeh Khosrovani, 2020)
War and Peace (Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti, 2020)
Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw, 2021)
What Will Summer Bring (Ignacio Ceroi, 2021)
Red Moon Tide (Lois Patino, 2020)
Liebelei (Max Ophuls, 1933) ♥
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933) ♥
Becoming Astrid (Pernille Fischer Christensen, 2018)
Shall Cuckoo Sing at Night (Jung Jin-woo, 1981)
The Underground Railroad (Barry Jenkins, 2021) *mini-series
Daguerreotypes (Agnes Varda, 1975)
Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1975) ♥
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975) ♥
F9 (Justin Lin, 2021)
Aloners (Hong Sung-eun, 2021)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2021)
Is This Fate? (Helga Reidemeister, 1979) ♥
Army of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2021)
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975) ♥
Minamata: The Victims and Their World (Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1971) ♥
The Shiranui Sea (Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1975) ♥
The Messiah (Roberto Rossellini, 1975) ♥
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) ♥
Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) ♥
Cruella (Craig Gillespie, 2021)
Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975) ♥
Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmuller, 1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Nishant (Shyam Benegal, 1975)
Bhumika (Shyam Benegal, 1977)
Mandi (Shyam Benegal, 1983) ♥
Apples (Christos Nikou, 2020)
Małni – Towards The Ocean, Towards The Shore (Sky Hopinka, 2020)

- May -

Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaia, 1969)
Frantz (François Ozon, 2016)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006)
Electra, My Love (Miklós Jancsó, 1974)
This Transient Life (Akio Jissoji, 1970)
The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur, 1950)
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (David Mamet, 1996)
Jupiter’s Moon (Kornél Mundruczó, 2017)
Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano, 1995) ♥♥
The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley, 1943) ♥♥
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
The Dream of Eleuteria (Remton Siega Zuasola, 2010)
L’Iceberg (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy, 2005)

TV:

Nathan for You (season 3) ♥
The Queen’s Gambit (season 1)

This was not a particularly strong month for me, with only 11 standout films out of 64 first-time viewings.

9/10
Promising Young Woman (2020, Emerald Fennell)

8.5/10
Khorshid / Sun Children (2020, Majid Majidi)

8/10
Otac / Father (2020, Srdan Golubovic)
The Father (2020, Florian Zeller)
Lovers Rock (2020, Steve McQueen)
Shonben raidâ / P. P. Rider (1983, Shinji Sômai)
Rent-a-Pal (2020, Jon Stevenson)
Nova Lituania (2019, Karolis Kaupinis)
Sharasôju / Shara (2003, Naomi Kawase)
Hana to Arisu satsujin jiken / The Murder Case of Hana & Alice (2015, Shunji Iwai)
A Long Way Down (2014, Pascal Chaumeil)

-

Rewatches

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) 7 --> 8
For a Few Dollars More (1965) 9.5 --> 8
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) 10 --> 8.5
Yojimbo (1961) 9 --> 8
Spirited Away (2001) 9 --> 8.5

ickykino tweeovalis wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 10:17 pm btw. if one is born on the autumnal equinox, at first glimpse it might seem cool that one's birth occurred "when the plane of Earth's equator passed through the geometric center of the Sun's disk". however, once taking into consideration the average duration of pregnancy, suddenly it's not possible to get rid of the odd (nagging) thought that one's parents might have fornicated under the Xmas tree. fortunately enough, i was a dumb kid and didn't realize "autumnal equinox minus 9 = Xmas". thus i had a happy (innocent) childhood. only later, i started to perceive Xmas as something kinky & weird.

This is a great story!!

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 1:51 pm Nova Lituania (2019, Karolis Kaupinis)

I haven't seen it yet, but last week Nova Lituania won 9 awards at National Lithuanian Film Awards, including best film, director, cinematography, etc. I expect the film will be re-released now that cinemas have finally reopened.

May 2021

rewatch


Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Alan J. Pakula, 1973) 4/10
Posse (Kirk Douglas, 1975) 3/10
Zorro (Duccio Tessari, 1975) 4/10
Flic Story (Jacques Deray, 1975) 7/10
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975) 9/10
Race with the Devil (Jack Starrett, 1975) 6/10
White Line Fever (Jonathan Kaplan, 1975) 4/10
Aloha, Bobby and Rose (Floyd Mutrux, 1975) 6/10
The Drowning Pool (Stuart Rosenberg, 1975) 5/10
Report to the Commissioner (Milton Katselas, 1975) 8/10
The French Detective (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1975) 6/10
Orphans (Alan J. Pakula, 1987) 5/10
The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, 1996) 8/10
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2000) 9/10
The Ladykillers (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2004) 8/10
24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008) 7/10
Delivery Man (Ken Scott, 2013) 4/10
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013) 9/10
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, 2015) 8/10
Kursk (Thomas Vinterberg, 2018) 5/10
Looking Glass (Tim Hunter, 2018) 5/10
Hotel Mumbai (Anthony Maras, 2018) 6/10
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018) 8/10)
Running with the Devil (Jason Cabell, 2019) 4/10
My Spy (Peter Segal, 2020) 6/10
The Postcard Killings (Danis Tanovic, 2020) 2/10
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (David Dobkin, 2020) 5/10
Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie, 2021) 6/10
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz, 2021) 2/10
Mortal Kombat (Simon McQuoid, 2021) 2/10
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima, 2021) 3/10

TV:
Tokyo Phoenix (Olivier Julien, 2017) 7/10

Shorts:
Life Story (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1975) 8/10
Who's Out There? (Robert Drew & Anne Drew, 1975) 6/10
Lick the Star (Sofia Coppola, 1998) 7/10
The Dark of Night (Robin Wright, 2017) 4/10
The Force Awakens from Its Nap (David Silverman, 2021) 6/10

Best: A Touch of Sin, Night Moves, O Brother Where Art Thou
Worst: Mortal Kombat, The Marksman, The Postcard Killings

ALOT of '75s!

criminally insane - millard 75
milestones - kramer 75
dokkoi!! songs from the bottom - ogawa 75
anwar ka ajab kissa - dasgupta 2013
that most important thing: love - zulawski 75 ♥
innocents with dirty hands - chabrol 75
psychic killer - danton 75
wolf song - fleming 1929
red army/PFLP declaration of world war - wakamatsu & adachi 1971
united red army - wakamatsu 2007 ♥♥
the captivating star of happiness - motyl 75
the day of the locust - schlesinger 75
man follows birds - khamraev 1971
disciples of shaolin - chang 75
deewaar - chopra 75 ♥♥
dancing girl - shimizu 1957
winstanley - brownlow 75 ♥♥
under the blossoming cherry trees - shinoda 75
la bete - borowczyk 75
the wicked darling - browning 1919
outside the law - browning 1920
after the rain - koizumi 1999
eurydice BA 2037 - nikolaidis 75 ♥
dersu uzala - kurosawa 75
three poplars on plyuschikha street - lioznova 1968 ♥♥
pleasure party - chabrol 75
kicma - gilic 75
switchblade sisters - hill 75
flic story - deray 75
the death of maria malibran - schroeter 1972 ♥♥

sort of a weird month

Semiotics of the Kitchen (Martha Rosler, 1975) - 10/10
She's Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich, 2014) - 7/10
Bowfinger (Frank Oz, 1999) - 7/10
Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence, 2007) - 7/10
They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey, 1971) - 7/10
Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich, 1974) - 7/10
Mission: Impossible III (JJ Abrams, 2006) - 7/10
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996) - 7/10
Clockwise (Christopher Morahan, 1986) - 6/10
Sniffer (Buddhadev Dasgupta, 2013) - 6/10
In and Out (Frank Oz, 1997) - 6/10
Illegally Yours (Peter Bogdanovich, 1988) - 6/10
13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick, 2004) - 6/10
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981) - 5/10
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (Shinji Aoyama, 2005) - 5/10
Nine Lives (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2016) - 5/10
Death at a Funeral (Frank Oz, 2007) - 5/10
The Score (Frank Oz, 2001) - 5/10
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997) - 5/10
Arbitrage (Nicholas Jarecki, 2012) - 4/10
Dutchman (Anthony Harvey, 1967) - 3/10
Get Over It (Tommy O'Haver, 2001) - 3/10
Housesitter (Frank Oz, 1992) - 3/10
Riders of Justice (Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020) - 2/10
Mission: Impossible II (John Woo, 2000) - 2/10

njan steve lopez (rajeev ravi, 2014)
the eight-year engagement (takahisa zeze, 2017)*
agent vinod (sriram raghavan, 2012)*
ayan (k.v. anand, 2009)
karnan (mari selvaraj, 2021)
pandemic (takahisa zeze, 2009)*
forbidden tales of two cities (li han-hsiang, 1975)
africa's light (tatsumi kumashiro, 1975)
black rose ascension (tatsumi kumashiro, 1975)

* are rewatches. barely anything for this month...

May, 2021

All scores out of 10. * = rewatches.


Stars In My Crown (Tourneur) - 7.5
Love and Death* (Allen) - 7.5
Buffalo Bill and the Indians* (Altman) - 6.5
Bad Medicine (who cares) - 4
Sleeper* (Allen) - 7
Let it Ride* (no idea) - 6.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (1990) - 5.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (no idea) - 5
The Big Mouth (Lewis) - 5
Casa de Lava* (Costa) - 7
Foxy Brown* (Hill) - 6
Coffy (Hill) - 6.5
The Purple Rose of Cairo* (Allen) - 7
The Super Cops (Parks) - 5.5
Black Mama White Mama (no idea) - 4.5
The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years* (Spheeris) - 7
Being a Human Person (no idea) - 5.5
Carny (no idea) - 5.5
Pirosmani (don't recall) - 7
Sportin Life (Ferrara) - 4

Best: Stars In My Crown
Worst: Bad Medicine

(1.91) violent saturday // dir. richard fleischer, 1955 // 91m, .mkv
(1.89) inhabitants // dir. artavazd peleshyan, 1970 // 9m, .avi
(1.89) us // dir. artavazd peleshyan, 1975 // 24m, .avi
(1.86) life on earth // dir. abderrahmane sissako, 1998 // 63m, .mkv
(1.85) the living corpse // dir. fyodor otsep, 1929 // 120m, .avi
(1.84) the blackbird // dir. tod browning, 1926 // 86m, .avi
(1.84) outside the law // dir. tod browning, 1920 // 76m, .avi
(1.78) greetings from africa // dir. cheryl dunye, 1995 // 10m, .mkv
(1.78) the potluck and the passion // dir. cheryl dunye, 1993 // 22m, .mkv
(1.78) an untitled portrait // dir. cheryl dunye, 1993 // 4m, .mkv
(1.78) vanilla sex // dir. cheryl dunye, 1992 // 4m, .mkv
(1.78) she don't fade // dir. cheryl dunye, 1991 // 24m, .mkv
(1.78) janine // dir. cheryl dunye, 1990 // 10m, .mkv
(1.74) the horse // dir. charles burnett, 1973 // 14m, .avi
(1.72) several friends // dir. charles burnett, 1969 // 22m, .avi
(1.72) the kreutzer sonata // dir. gustav machatý, 1926 // 69m, .avi
(1.71) seasons of the year // dir. artavazd peleshyan, 1975 // 28m, .avi
*(1.70) slacker // dir. richard linklater, 1991 // 97m, YouTube
(1.66) the plea // dir. tengiz abuladze, 1967 // 76m, .mkv
*(1.63) snack and drink // dir. bob sabiston, 2000 // 4m, YouTube
(1.61) beginning // dir. artavazd peleshyan, 1967 // 10m, .avi