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still coming down from my wuxia high and i see there are two films from 1980 called virus. and that i have one of them (fukasaku's aka day of resurrection per imdb)

ok this is a go wish glenn ford was our president



not terrible for a mainstream blockbuster with international cast (including chuck conners playing a british guy) most of the dialogue is in english but in quite a wide variety of accents. corny melodramatic music etc. reeeeally fake hollywood ending. made me briefly think that things could be a teeeeny bit worse here so i guess mission accomplished

hopelessly sidetracked by recent events but sticking with 1980 -- crazy thunder road is some crazy anarchist shit

and now i wanna watch dangerous encounters of the first kind again

i've haven't looked too hard for simone barbes before now because i kinda thought i'd hate it (given that, with everyone involved -a foolish assumption of incestuous too-cool cynical sidewinks of a pre-bozon school - i should love it) but guess what. i loved it.

Sadly folks an imminent departure on long journey shall terminate my moviewatching, for which shall be substituted foreign cities and landscapes and faces (far preferable to moviewatching to my mind) for foreseeable future. So here's my final year poll for awhile. Peace:

A Distant Cry from Spring (Yamada Yoji)

The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi)
Build a House, Plant a Tree (Juraj Jakubisko)
Who's Singing over There? (Slobodan Šijan)
Bálint Fábián Meets God (Zoltán Fábri) - my one really excellent saw-for-the-poll
Sunday Daughters (János Rózsa)
Mavka: Song of the Forest (Yuri Ilyenko)
A Strip of Uncut Wildflowers (Ilyenko)
Confidence (Istvan Szabo)
Little Tragedies (Mikhail Shveitser)
Céleste (Percy Adlon)
A Bad Son (Claude Sautet)
Oblomov (Nikita Mikhalkov)
The Beads of One Rosary (Kazimierz Kutz)
Times, Waters (Branko Gapo)
Petria's Wreath (Srđan Karanović)
Pursuit of Death (Im Kwon-taek)
Evening Rain (Wu Yonggang & Wu Yigong)
Gently Was Anastasia Passing (Alexandru Tatos)
A Fox Hunt (Vadim Abdrashitov)

it's always great to have you karl. enjoy your wandering. i'm going to watch a distant cry from spring in your honor and also the wildflowers.

currently watching zigeunerweisen. it's difficult to follow over 2.5 hrs and i'm starting to think it's not meant to be 'followed' lol. been awhile since i saw branded to kill.

this dude makes me think of young christoper lee. kind of hot but evil



it's like im kwon-taek's mandala if one of the monks was a complete bastard and possibly a serial killer. very mysterious

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:47 am zigeunerweisen

I've got this one and Killer Constable cued up for later rather than sooner, but I'm pretty sure I'll get to both of them. You made KC sound right appealing.

I might regret it later, but this is one of those years where I'm catching up on mainstream blockbusters that I'm not always sure if I've seen and others I know I haven't. I'll be watching Friday The 13th before the year's Ruiz. And three (3) that I picked out of thoxan's rec.s, which I think is a first.

karl wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:12 am Sadly folks an imminent departure on long journey shall terminate my moviewatching, for which shall be substituted foreign cities and landscapes and faces (far preferable to moviewatching to my mind) for foreseeable future.

have a great trip karl, and good to see you again! and if you have a top 50 film list lying around, i'd love to count it as part of our annual scfz top 100 films poll: https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 2&start=30

hope you'll be back someday, i've discovered a lot of great films from your lists.

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:15 amwhich I think is a first

probs. doubt three of my recs sum total have been taken in the x number of years we've been champing. hoping christmas evil is one of them tho. soft focus finally used for the right purpose

also, have watched bat without wings, borderline, hopscotch, kagemusha, and khubsoorat so far for tha poll. a few should make my final list

i'm thinking of watching the big red one. love fuller and marvin but mark hamill? uh??

edit: i see lencho is ahead of me on this one ps lencho did you watch the 'reconstructed' version? does it matter?

checked ICM: 10 official lists jesus christ ok

thoxans we appreciate you ♥

edit2: i must have the reconstruction it's 3 hrs long...but in 3 parts, convenient to when i fall asleep 1 hour in

karl wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:12 am Sadly folks an imminent departure on long journey shall terminate my moviewatching, for which shall be substituted foreign cities and landscapes and faces (far preferable to moviewatching to my mind) for foreseeable future. So here's my final year poll for awhile. Peace:

All the best in your next travels, and sorry we won't be neighbors in this region anymore. I hope you'll keep your Letterboxd open, it's a gold mine of reliable recommendations.

thoxans wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 3:14 pmdoubt three of my recs sum total have been taken in the x number of years we've been champing.

Maybe you're only referring to the year polls, but I took a lot more than three from you at the India thread

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:19 pm 'reconstructed'

Nah, just the standard-issue theatrical release. If the revised version is special, you'll tell us about it, yes?

thoxans wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 3:14 pm christmas evil is one of them

karl wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:12 am Sadly folks an imminent departure

Hope you can still pop in sometimes with recommendations. Every one you've given me so far was great. Happy travels!

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:00 am

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:19 pm 'reconstructed'

Nah, just the standard-issue theatrical release. If the revised version is special, you'll tell us about it, yes?

had its' moments but in the end it was just ok. lee marvin helps a lot obviously



watching dangerous encounters restored now -- i'm sure i'd only seen the theatrical cut. did not remember the gruesome animal torture

The Elephant Man

American Gigolo
Cruising
Dressed to Kill
Gadające głowy / Talking Heads
Gloria
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Ko to tamo peva / Who's That Singing Over There?
Majstori, majstori / Handymen, Handymen
Moskva slezam ne verit / Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón / Pepi, Luci, Bom
Petrijin venac / Petria's Wreath
Raging Bull
Spetters
The Blues Brothers
The Changeling
The Shining

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:19 pmwe appreciate you

except when i rec films titled barfi!

LMAO

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:26 pmbut

was just jk. tbh tho 99.9% of my indian film recs are secondhand from nrh. the other 00.1% would be andhadhun, which came from my boy at the corner store where i used to live who always used to have on indian flicks in the background whenever i was respectably purchasing a tall boy and blunt papers (also jk, but not really, but kinda, but nah, but you know...)

thoxans wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:58 pm not really, but kinda, but nah, but you know...

"Of course, that was more than seven years ago" is my usual disclaimer on stuff like this.Covers a multitude of sins.

Tian yun shan chuan qi (Legend of Tianyun Mountain)

Aakrosh (Cry of the Wounded)
Atlantic City, USA
Ba shan ye yu (Evening Rain)
Brubaker
City After Dark
Haruka naru yama no yobigoe (A Distant Cry from Spring)
Jagko (Pursuit of Death)
Ko to tamo peva (Who's Singin' Over There?)
La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (The Truth on the Savolta Affair)
Moskva slezam ne verit (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears)
Petrijin venac (Petria's Wreath)
Resurrection
The Big Red One
The Changeling
The Final Countdown
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Long Good Friday
The Stunt Man
Un mauvais fils (A Bad Son)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Heaven's Gate
Kagemusha
Raging Bull
The Blues Brothers
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining

To see before the deadline
Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde
Honeysuckle Rose
Las grandes aguas
Manhã Submersa
Ming jian
Notre fille
Paciorki jednego rózanca

Wanted
Giselle
The Club

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:57 ammy usual disclaimer

def marking this a 'job interview pro tip'

according to lencho bona is on YT. but i cant find it. can anyone pm me a link to a non shitty version with subs? but only if it's easy, no bother uploading stuff, i've got enough to watch as it is, but...if it's just obvious and i'm missing it...

instead i have a ryazanov (who made office romance, my fave romantic comedy)

also i've decided along with sea movies i really like movies about postal workers/mail. nothing to do with the bottom stamping scene in closely watched trains/he jianjun's postman. anything spring to mind for 1980???

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:07 pm according to lencho bona is on YT. but i cant find it. can anyone pm me a link to a non shitty version with subs? but only if it's easy, no bother uploading stuff, i've got enough to watch as it is, but...if it's just obvious and i'm missing it...

I tried searching for it now, it shows up if you search for it on youtube but not if you search for it via google search. The quality isn't that great though and it's got French hardcoded subs.

ah yeah, i see.oh well. thanks for looking.

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:47 am zigeunerweisen

Just watched the other Suzuki for the year, Kagero-Za,and it's almost certain to take my #1 spot. Ruiz, Rollin et Mishima en mash is my idea of a good time.

that looks wild. i actually think it's a trilogy? didn't realize they were from the same year. i'll have to look for it now

Angel wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 9:38 am Las grandes aguas

There's likely to be some kind of passable tv rip available, but I wouldn't say it was worth the trouble, even if it is Servando Gonzalez.The only thing I remember about the movie is that it had wild chimpanzees living in the Chiapas rain forest. Typical late-seventies failing-industry "churro."

Kagero-Za is 1981 stuff (according to IMDB)

ofrene wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:50 am stuff

Bugger and blast. Thank you.