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so i wanna say this was crazy romantic but ofc i've never had an actually healthy relationship lol. i liked it a lot and i will try to check out more zulawskis in future. In the end yeah a horror movie. But I feel lucky to have experienced that amour fou without being literally dragged to my death? Survivor guilt tho...

Makhmalbaf's Marriage of the Blessed, now available "at the place".

rischka wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:13 am so i wanna say this was crazy romantic but ofc i've never had an actually healthy relationship lol. i liked it a lot and i will try to check out more zulawskis in future. In the end yeah a horror movie. But I feel lucky to have experienced that amour fou without being literally dragged to my death?

Wait ‘til you see L’Amour Braque.

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I started watching L'Amour braque a few years ago, but, I'm almost ashamed to admit, it was just too confusing for me. I couldn't follow what was going on, so I had to stop 45 mins in.
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Pet Sematary was really dumb.
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All I know is I don't wanna be buried in a pet sematary

DT. wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:20 am

rischka wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:13 am so i wanna say this was crazy romantic but ofc i've never had an actually healthy relationship lol. i liked it a lot and i will try to check out more zulawskis in future. In the end yeah a horror movie. But I feel lucky to have experienced that amour fou without being literally dragged to my death?

Wait ‘til you see L’Amour Braque.

you're scaring me

I watched all about ah long and enjoyed it too but...

beijing watermelon - beautiful and totally unexpected film from nobuhiko obayashi. a japanese greengrocer becomes an unlikely patron of a small generation of chinese exchange students in japan, and the film unfolds in slow and surprising ways, following the lives of his family, the students, the shop, the neighborhood, in crowded compositions in depth and dense, overlapping dialogue. until of course the weight of history slams into the film, the style splinters and we are left somewhere ineffably tragic.

evan's review gets it best - https://letterboxd.com/evan_morgan/film ... ermelon/1/

and film is up in the usual spot.

The wife and I agree that Sitting on a Branch Enjoying Myself (Juraj Jakubisko) is a li'l ole masterpiece, but it doesn't get terrifically high ratings from most folk at the usual spots so perhaps one must have a taste for this kind of thing, East European carnival set in disastrous days: lotta drinking, music, sex and clowning, but there's bitterness in the laughter. If such stuff's up yr alley, this one's a real gem.

Beijing Watermelon may be one of the most wonderful films I've seen in a while. Lest that make it sound like a cute film, it's not that at all. It's sad and very complicated. Does really dense frames with layers with a real sensibility and meaning. Interesting that it released the same year as City of Sadness which is a film I am very fond of but it's at least equally great an achievement imo and almost no one seems to have seen it? Anyway, I made a clip that is all to reminiscent of conversations I have had with friends and family.
https://youtu.be/BIp4jYaAQiw

nrh wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:09 pm
and film is up in the usual spot.

How can I access..?? I don't know Resources' passwords...

i'll send you it

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:05 pmi'll send you it

Thank you so much!!

My 20 favorite films of 1989:
My top hit - Dekalog-(Krzysztof Kieslowski)
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and other 19 in random order:
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1. Batman - (Tim Burton)
2. Dead Poets Society - (Peter Weir)
3. When Harry Met Sally... -(Rob Reiner)
4. Jésus de Montréal - (Denys Arcand)
5. A City of Sadness -(Hou Hsiao-hsien)
6. Drugstore Cowboy - (Gus van Sant)
7. Sex, Lies, and Videotape - (Steven Soderbergh)
8. Do the Right Thing -(Spike Lee)
9. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover -(Peter Greenaway)
10. Freedom Is Paradise -(Sergei Bodrov)
11. Glory -(Edward Zwick)
12. Henry V -(Kenneth Branagh)
13. Casualties of War -(Brian De Palma)
14. Santa Sangre- (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
15. Interrogation - (Ryszard Bugajski)
16. Homework-(Abbas Kiarostami)
17. And Then There Was Light -(Otar Iosseliani)
18. War Requiem -(Derek Jarman)
19. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! - (Pedro Almodóvar)

Watched half of the zulawski. Off the cuff reaction: Tedious faux-mania, quite insufferable in the way it is oh so pleased with its verbal pyrotechnics, self-indulgent and quite off-putting in the misanthropic way it dispatches side characters as superficial buffoons. I seem to have had a strong allergic reaction to this. I do not know if I am going to finish.

kanafani wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:25 pm Watched half of the zulawski. Off the cuff reaction: Tedious faux-mania, quite insufferable in the way it is oh so pleased with its verbal pyrotechnics, self-indulgent and quite off-putting in the misanthropic way it dispatches side characters as superficial buffoons. I seem to have had a strong allergic reaction to this. I do not know if I am going to finish.

sounds like my reaction to possession

yeah, possession is one of his worst. not sure why it gets so much love (isabelle adjani freaking out in the subway cant be all there is to it, right?).

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uh oh. Sounds like it's gonna be another ordeal for me of the Amour braque kind. No thanks.
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this one’s not nearly as dark as l’amour braque, but it's kind of the same story in certain ways, just a bit less convoluted (and no gangsters or shootouts, and no one seems like they’re on coke here). but if you don’t generally like zuławski, then yeah, this one’s probably not for you either.

brian d wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:54 am yeah, possession is one of his worst. not sure why it gets so much love (isabelle adjani freaking out in the subway cant be all there is to it, right?).

if i remember correctly possession was widely marketed to the american dvd crowd as a midnight movie horror type film; it was even sold in a two-for-one dvd pack with mario bava's shock, as a kind of possession movie double feature. so i think for years the film built a reputation with a certain portion of the audience that wouldn't otherwise seek out his work (and count me in among folks who can't stand it...).

Bashu, The Little Stranger - Bahram Beizei

This one's not widely seen, but the same director/actress as Yazdgerd and Ballad Of Tara seems like it should draw some scfz attention. Working a Truffautsy humanist vein, PTSD kid fleeing a war zone... It's not showy, but it works.

Save And Protect - A. Sokurov

Sokurov's Bovary; Emma's copelessness is uniquely depressing, and it's unusually close to the source material, but it's all expressed with imagery that often skews oblique, Konchalovsky on drugs.

Coming up next:
Bagh Bahadur - Dasgupta
Boris Godunov - Zulawski
Society - Yuzna
All About Ah-Long - To

For All Mankind is the Movie of the Week on the Criterion Channel this week. Probably won't be on my list, but it is pretty good, and it's got some stunning footage.

mesnalty wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 6:17 pm For All Mankind is the Movie of the Week on the Criterion Channel this week. Probably won't be on my list, but it is pretty good, and it's got some stunning footage.

It's got a memorable Brian Eno score as well, but yeah, good but not that good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkLhtXM0go

mesnalty wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 6:17 pm For All Mankind is the Movie of the Week on the Criterion Channel this week. Probably won't be on my list, but it is pretty good, and it's got some stunning footage.

I've watched For All Mankind for this poll and it will most likely end up on my final list. May not be a brilliant doc, but nevertheless an interesting one.

Although in 2017 there were two great docs on space exploration: The Farthest and Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo.

Other highlights of watching for 1989 poll:

Music Box (Costa-Gavras)
Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy)
Jacknife (David Hugh Jones)
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill)

and was kind of disappointed by Ferrara's Cat Chaser. Expected more from his pairing with Elmore Leonard.

Silga wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:51 pm and was kind of disappointed by Ferrara's Cat Chaser. Expected more from his pairing with Elmore Leonard.

it's not a bad film as is but it was recut by the studio without ferrara's involvement. ferrara has a single copy of his own cut that he's shown a few times here and there but as far as i know not available anywhere outside of his garage.

nrh wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:58 pm it's not a bad film as is but it was recut by the studio without ferrara's involvement. ferrara has a single copy of his own cut that he's shown a few times here and there but as far as i know not available anywhere outside of his garage.

It's by no means a bad film. I rated it 5/10. However that could partially be a result of how much I wanted to like this film.

And I actually got a sense that something was messed up during editing. Would love to see Ferrara's own cut of this.

Lots of interesting gems from this year.

Nostros: Il ritorno (Franco Piavoli)

The Khayal Sage (Kumar Shanai)
O sangue (Pedro Costa)
Remains to be Seen (Phil Solomon)
Sati (Aparna Sen)
Les baisers de secours (Philippe Garrel)
Breaking In (Bill Forsyth)
Cipher (Tsueno Tominaga)
The Exquisite Hour (Phil Solomon)
Impresiones en la alta atmósfera (José Antonio Sistiaga)
Shocker (Wes Craven)
Surname Viet Given Name Nam (Trịnh Thị Minh Hà)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
Eight Taels of Gold (Mabel Chung)

Hope to get around to watching:

a better tomorrow III
rumpelstilzschen
black sin
rosa de areia
komitas
all about ah-long
pedicab driver
revenge
geethanjali
water and power

i prefer my ferrara cuts butchered by heroin. not by some studio