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It seems I forgot to post here for a while, so I'll make it three months this time.


September 2022

Taste of Fear (Seth Holt, 1960, UK) [9/10] ♥
The Spider's Web (Godfrey Grayson, 1960, UK) [6/10]
Das Mädchen auf der Treppe "The Girl on the Stairs" (Peter Adam, 1982, West Germany) [9/10] ♥
Plunder & Lightning (Larry Latham/Robert Taylor, 1990, USA) [6/10]
While You Were Sleeping (Jon Turteltaub, 1995, USA) [9/10] ♥
Terminal Velocity (Deran Sarafian, 1994, USA/Canada/Japan) [8/10] ♥
Clock Cleaners (Ben Sharpsteen , 1937, USA) [6/10]
Can’t Buy Me Love (Steve Rash, 1987, USA) [7/10] ♥
The Shaggy Dog (Charles Barton, 1959, USA) [6/10]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fran Rubel Kuzui, 1992, USA) [6/10]
Ladyhawke (Richard Donner, 1985, USA/Italy/UK) [6/10]
Under Siege (Andrew Davis, 1992, USA/France) [7/10] ♥
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (Geoff Murphy, 1995, USA) [7/10] ♥
The Marrying Man (Jerry Rees, 1991, USA)  [6/10]


October 2022

Napoli si ribella "A Man Called Magnum" (Michele Massimo Tarantini, 1977, Italy) [6/10]
Apostle (Gareth Evans, 2018, UK/USA) [9/10] ♥
Omicidio per vocazione "Deadly Inheritance" (Vittorio Sindoni, 1968, Italy) [6/10]
Antebellum (Gerard Bush/Christopher Renz, 2020, USA) [4/10]
Det är aldrig för sent "It’s Never Too Late" (Barbro Boman, 1956, Sweden) [6/10]
La stanza del vescovo "The Bishop's Bedroom" (Dino Risi, 1977, Italy/France) [6/10]
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987, USA/Mexico) [9/10] ♥
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986, USA) [8/10] ♥
The 13th Warrior (Michael Crichton/John McTiernan, 1999, USA) [8/10] ♥
Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987, USA) [5/10]
Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984, USA/Mexico) [8/10] ♥
Medicine Man (John McTiernan, 1992, USA) [6/10]
My Father the Hero (Steve Miner, 1994, USA/France) [5/10]
Frun tillhanda "To Help the Lady of the House" (Gunnar Olsson, 1939, Sweden) [5/10]
The Jewel of the Nile (Lewis Teague, 1985, USA) [5/10]
När mörkret faller "When Darkness Falls" (Arne Mattsson, 1960, Sweden)  [8/10] ♥


November 2022

Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987, USA) [8/10] ♥
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1997/1977, USA) [6/10]
V. I. Warshawski (Jeff Kanew, 1991, USA) [8/10] ♥
Copycat (Jon Amiel, 1995, USA) [6/10]
Le plein de super "Fill ’er Up with Super" (Alain Cavalier, 1976, France) [6/10]
Babes in Toyland (Jack Donohue, 1961, USA) [7/10] ♥
The Shaggy D.A. (Robert Stevenson, 1976, USA) [6/10]
Trick or Treat (Jack Hannah, 1952, USA) [6/10]
Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute (Hans Heinrich, 1949, East Germany)  [7/10]

- November / December -

Armageddon Time (James Gray, 2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022)
Tár (Todd Field, 2022)
The Lady and the Duke (Éric Rohmer, 2001)
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022) ♥
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) ♥
Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer, 2004)
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2022)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022)
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, 2022)
Athena (Romain Gavras, 2022) ♥

2022. 12

The Girl (Marta Meszaros, 1968)
The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso, 1967) ♥
The Witness (Peter Bacso, 1969) ♥
The Fifth Seal (Zoltan Fabri, 1976) ♥
Mephisto (Istvan Szabo, 1981)
What Did the Lady Forget? (Yasujiro Ozu, 1937)
Children in the Wind (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1937) ♥
Woman of the Ganges (Marguerite Duras, 1974)
Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1937)
White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)
Pepe le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937)
Lady Killer (Jean Gremillon, 1937)
The Menu (Mark Mylod, 2022)
The Owl (Ahn Tae-jin, 2022)
Avatar : The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
The Pearls of the Crown (Sacha Guitry, 1937)
Street Angel (Muzhi Yuan, 1937)
The Hurricane (John Ford, 1937)
The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray, 1960)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
Official Competition (Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn, 2021)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson, 2022)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022)
Corsage (Marie Kreutzer, 2022)
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937) ♥
History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage, 1937) ♥
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)
Hommage (Shin Su-won, 2021)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, 2022)
Small Change (Francois Truffaut, 1976)

12/22

harlan county usa (kopple 1976) ♥♥
spider-man: far from home (watts 2019)
young people (toyoda 1937)
song of the flower basket (gosho 1937)
ushidure express (otani 1937)
annapolis salute (cabanne 1937)
tres tristes tigres (ruiz 1968)
spider-man: no way home (watts 2021)
aayirathil oruvan (selvaraghavan 2010) ♥
the invention of morel (bonnardot 1967)
dailogues of the exiles (ruiz 1975)
stolen holiday (curtiz 1937)
confession (may 1937)
mayabazar (reddy 1957) ♥♥
a cock and bull story (winterbottom 2005)
green fields (ulmer 1937) ♥♥
hortobagy (hoellering 1936)
the fabelmans (spielberg 2022)
swing high swing low (leisen 1937)
virtue (buzzell 1932)
the evil eye (dekeukeleire 1937) ♥♥
ningún lugar en ninguna parte (torres leiva 2003)
why is yellow the middle of the rainbow? (tahimik 1994) ♥♥
the road back (whale 1937)
premiere (bolvary 1937)
to new shores (sierck 1937)
benilde or the virgin mother (oliviera 1975) ♥♥
hail mary (godard 1985)
vikram! (rajashekar 1986)
they won't forget (leroy 1937)
shaolin temple (chang 1976) ♥
the story of vernon and irene castle (potter 1939)
the barkleys of broadway (walters 1949)
la morte du cygne (epstein/benoit-levy 1937) ♥♥
killer shark (boetticher 1950)
benediction (davies 2021) ♥

some shorts including entire "why we fight" series on yt and rewatched snow-white, a star athlete and cossacks in exile ♥♥ my christmas plan was too ambitious but this was a great month including some year favorites. my year list https://letterboxd.com/rischka/list/fav ... w-in-2022/

tonight i probably rewatch executioners from shaolin and crippled avengers

December 2022

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986) 6
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Huges, 1986) 9
The Living Daylights (John Glen, 1987) 6
Licence to Kill (John Glen, 1989) 7
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) 9
The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan, 1990) 9
Home Alone 2 (Chris Columbus, 1992) 8
Pickpocket (Jia Zhangke, 1997) 9
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke, 2002) 6
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke, 2010) 8
Ruta (Ronaldas Buožis, Rokas Darulis, 2018) 7
Wood and Water (Jonas Bak, 2021) 6
Italian Studies (Adam Leon, 2021) 7
The Survivor (Barry Levinson, 2021) 6
The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose, 2021) 6
The Forgiven (John Michael McDonagh, 2021) 9
The Real Hunt for Red October (Gary Lang, 2021) 6
Montana Story (Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2021) 8
The Redeem Team (Jon Weinbach, 2022) 6
The Lost City (Aaron Nee, Adam Nee, 2022) 3
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (Rory Kennedy, 2022) 7

Short:
The Hedonists (Jia Zhangke, 2016) 8

Best: Pickpocket
Worst: The Lost City

watched some movies this month for the first time in a while


The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) - 9/10
When We Are All Sleep (Bahram Beizai, 2009) - 8/10
Mirage (Edward Dmytryk, 1965) - 8/10
A Lady Without Passport (Joseph H Lewis, 1950) - 8/10
Jawbreaker (Darren Stein, 1999) - 8/10
The Window (Ted Tetzlaff, 1949) - 7/10
Dying of the Light (Paul Schrader, 2014) - 7/10
Here Comes Mr Jordan (Alexander Hall, 1941) - 7/10
Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford, 2022) - 7/10
The Dresser (Peter Yates, 1983) - 6/10
Bullet Head (Paul Solet, 2017) - 6/10
Wise Guys (Brian De Palma, 1986) - 6/10
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008) - 6/10
A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018) - 5/10
The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2018) - 5/10
Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer, 1949) - 5/10
Light of Day (Paul Schrader, 1987) - 5/10
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022) - 5/10
The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2022) - 5/10
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson, 2022) - 5/10
I Spy (Betty Thomas, 2002) - 5/10
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma, 1990) - 5/10
Spirited (Sean Anders, 2022) - 5/10
Miss Sloane (John Madden, 2016) - 4/10
David Brent: Life on the Road (Ricky Gervais, 2016) - 3/10
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022) - 3/10
GBF (Darren Stein, 2013) - 2/10
Accidental Love (David O Russell, 2015) - 2/10
Altitude (Alex Merkin, 2017) - 1/10
Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012) - 1/10
Black Butterfly (Brian Goodman, 2017) - 1/10
I Believe in Santa (Alex Ranarivelo, 2022) - 0/10

December 2022

Hitler's Madman (Douglas Sirk, 1943, USA) [6/10]
Sujeol "Fidelity" (Gil-jong Ha, 1974, South Korea) [7/10] ♥
Shu jian en chou lu "The Emperor and His Brother" (Yuen Chor, 1981, Hong Kong) [8/10] ♥
Jiao tou "The Kung Fu Instructor" (Chung Sun, 1979, Hong Kong) [7/10] ♥
City of Industry (John Irvin, 1996, USA) [9/10] ♥
Shango, la pistola infallibile "Shango" (Edoardo Mulargia, 1970, Italy) [5/10]
Kingpin (Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly, 1996, USA) [9/10] ♥
The Saint (Phillip Noyce, 1997, USA) [8/10] ♥
Shi zi mo hou shou "Shaolin Handlock" (Meng-Hua Ho, 1978, Hong Kong) [6/10]
The Phantom (Simon Wincer, 1996, USA/Australia) [7/10] ♥
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977, USA) [8/10] ♥
Blindside (Paul Lynch, 1987, Canada) [7/10] ♥
Coco Island (Helmut Metzger, 2021, Germany) [5/10]
The Terror Within (Thierry Notz, 1988, USA) [6/10]
The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles, 1994, USA/Ireland) [9/10] ♥
Été 85 "Summer of 85" (François Ozon, 2020, France) [6/10]
Kaptn Oskar (Tom Lass, 2013, Germany) [8/10] ♥

2023. 1

great start of new year

The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973) *rewatch ♥
Cria cuervos… (Carlos Saura, 1976) ♥
El sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) ♥
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller, 2022)
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Felipe Cazals, 1976) ♥
Here and Elsewhere (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Mieville, 1976)
The Terence Davies Trilogy (Terence Davies, 1976~1983) ♥
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Joel Crawford, 2022)
Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli, 2022)
Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976) ♥
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021) *rewatch ♥
Fate of a Man (Sergey Bondarchuk, 1959)
War and Peace (Sergey Bondarchuk, 1965)
Phantom (Lee Hae-young, 2023)
Mother Land (Park Jae-beom, 2022)
The Point Men (Yim Soon-rye, 2023)
A Wedding Suit (Abbas Kiarostami, 1976)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976) ♥
Todo modo (Elio Petri, 1976)
The Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini, 1976) ♥
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976) ♥
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002)
Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932) ♥
The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze, 1976)
The Line (Ursula Meier, 2022)
Nature (Artavazd Peleshian, 2019)
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976)
I Only Want You to Love Me (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) ♥

January 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Vice Versa (Peter Ustinov, 1948) 7
Panic In Year Zero (Ray Milland, 1962) 5
Idaho Transfer (Peter Fonda, 1973) 2
Body of My Enemy (Henri Verneuil, 1976) 9
The Hunter Will Get You (Philippe Labro, 1976) 7
Oh, God! (Carl Reiner, 1977) 7
Human Highway (Dean Stockwell, Neil Young, 1982) 7
A Smoky Mountain Christmas (Henry Winkler, 1986) 5
The Milagro Beanfield War (Robert Redford, 1988) 5
Ghost Dad (Sidney Poitier, 1990) 4
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis, 1992) 6
TekWar (William Shatner, 1994) 3
The Hudsucker Proxy (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 1994) 9
Rainbow (Bob Hoskins, 1995) 3
Charlie's Ghost Story (Anthony Edwards, 1995) 6
The Tin Soldier (Jon Voight, Gregory Gieras, 1995) 2
Matilda (Danny DeVito, 1996) 8
Practical Magic (Griffin Dunne, 1998) 4
The Legend of Bagger Vance (Robert Redford, 2000) 8
Final (Campbell Scott, 2001) 4
Escanaba in da Moonlight (Jeff Daniels, 2001) 6
Dragonfly (Tom Shadyac, 2002) 3
The Red Sneakers (Gregory Hines, 2002) 4
Shortcut to Happiness (Alec Baldwin, 2003) 5
What Is It? (Crispin Glover, 2005) 1
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006) 10
The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti, 2006) 4
Slipstream (Anthony Hopkins, 2007) 7
Knowing (Alex Proyas, 2009) 6
The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson, 2009) 6
Lost River (Ryan Gosling, 2014) 4
Unicorn Store (Brie Larson, 2017) 6
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017) 8
Light of My Life (Casey Affleck, 2019) 7
A Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski, 2020) 7
Notre-Dame de Paris, les secrets des bâtisseurs (Emmanuel Blanchard, 2020) 8
The Generation of Evil (Emilis Velyvis, 2021) 7
Jerry & Marge Go Large (David Frankel, 2022) 6

Best: Body of My Enemy, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Shape of Water
Worst: What Is It, Idaho Transfer, The Tin Soldier

1/23 the year of the whale

la recta provincia (ruiz 2007) ♥
father sergius (protazanov 1918)
illustrious corpses (rosi 1976)
the marquise of o (rohmer 1976)
the smoke (vorel 1991)
larks on a string (menzel 1969) ♥
i start counting (greene 1969)
serail (gregorio 1976) ♥
keoma (castellari 1976)
the leper (hoffman 1976) ♥
prazska 5 (vorel 1989)
chinese roulette (fassbinder 1976)
satan's brew (fassbinder 1976)
jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (tanner 1976) ♥
every secret thing (berg 2014)
big miracle (kwapis 2012)
gideon's day (ford 1958)
aftersun (wells 2022)
nine months (meszaros 1976)
EO (skolimowski 2022) ♥
crimes of the future (cronenberg 2022)
the banshees of inisherin (mcdonagh 2022)
the umbrellas of cherbourg (demy 1964) ♥♥
lola (demy 1961) ♥ - i watched this twice. i wasn't clear on the big & little ceciles but i agree w mom she shouldn't be dating american servicemen

longs
El Sur (Victor Erice, 1983) - 8/10
The Last Boy Scout (Tony Scott, 1991) - 8/10
Cobra (George Cosmatos, 1986) - 8/10
LA Story (Mick Jackson, 1991) - 7/10
Les Sanguinaires (Laurent Cantet, 1997) - 7/10
Scrooged (Richard Donner, 1988) - 7/10
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, 2016) - 7/10
Funny Girl (William Wyler, 1968) - 7/10
The Mask of Dimitrios (Jean Negulesco, 1944) - 7/10
The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019) - 7/10
See How They Run (Tom George, 2022) - 7/10
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (Mick Jackson, 1995) - 7/10
Twister (Jan de Bont, 1996) - 7/10
The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach, 2017) - 7/10
The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006) - 7/10
Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) - 7/10
N a Pris les Des (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1971) - 6/10
Mascots (Christopher Guest, 2016) - 6/10
Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1955) - 6/10
Freaky Friday (Mark Waters, 2003) - 6/10
Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan, 1996) - 6/10
Big Daddy (Dennis Dugan, 1999) - 6/10
Gradiva (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 2006) - 5/10
Freaky (Christopher Landon, 2020) - 5/10
Con Air (Simon West, 1997) - 5/10
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004) - 5/10
The People We Hate at the Wedding (Claire Scanlon, 2022) - 5/10
Minions (Kye Balda/Pierre Coffin, 2015) - 5/10
Mr Deeds (Steven Brill, 2002) - 5/10
Southside 1-1000 (Boris Ingster, 1950) - 4/10
Multiplicity (Harold Ramis, 1996) - 3/10
RRR (SS Rajamouli, 2022) - 3/10
The Waterboy (Frank Coraci, 1998) - 3/10
Blade (Stephen Norrington, 1998) - 3/10
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989) - 3/10
Foodfight! (Lawrence Kasanoff, 2012) - 3/10
The Green Mile (Frank Darabont, 1999) - 2/10
Fatale (Deon Taylor, 2020) - 2/10
50 First Dates (Peter Segal, 2004) - 2/10
Cocoon (Ron Howard, 1985) - 1/10
Bedazzled (Harold Ramis, 2000) - 1/10
Bullet Train (David Leitch, 2022) - 1/10
The Misfits (Renny Harlin, 2021) - 1/10
Dragonball Evolution (James Wong, 2009) - 1/10
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (Camillo Teti, 2000) - 1/10
The Benchwarmers (Dennis Dugan, 2006) - 0/10
Bad People (Alex Petrovitch, 2016) - 0/10
Grown Ups (Dennis Dugan, 2010) - 0/10

shorts
Stalk of the Celery Monster (Tim Burton, 1979) - 4/10

January 2023

Drei Männer im Schnee "Three Men in the Snow" (Kurt Hoffmann, 1955, Austria) [8/10] ♥
Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (Curd Jürgens, 1979, West Germany) [9/10] ♥
Ostkreuz "Eastern Cross" (Michael Klier, 1991, Germany) [8/10] ♥

introduction, hong sang-soo 2021
in front of your face, hong sang-soo 2021
the novelist's film, hong sang-soo 2022
all that breathes, shaunak sen 2022
pathaan, sid anand 2023

the heike story, 2022
yurie deco, 2022

a very good month, and start to the year, except for pathaan, which is the first movie i've walked out of as an adult (happy for srk though). all watched in the theater except for the two tv series (yurei deco is good, heike is genuinely great).

edit - i did go see poulenc's dialogues of the carmelites at the met opera.

nrh wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:53 pm a very good month, and start to the year, except for pathaan, which is the first movie i've walked out of as an adult

just saw on the front page (of the webpage) of nyt, that movie is the subject of an article, i guess there's some political controversy surrounding it, didn't read the whole thing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/worl ... -khan.html

that times article is a little right and kind of misleading at the same time.

for the last 5+ years there has been an attempt by india's ascendent far right/hindu nationalist factions to use the hindi/bollywood industry as a soft target for secularist values. so you had a situation in 2017 where right wing activists destroyed sets on bhansali's paadmavat, beat the director and offered rewards for cutting off the nose of deepika padukone; the movie ended up being a hit anyway and ironically as right wing as much of a right wing fantasy as you can get (muslims as debauched invaders, sparkling rajput heroes, hindu women immolating themselves to protect their purity). it all gets really weird with the death by suicide of the young actor sushant singh rajput, which gets turned into a q-anon level complex conspiracy theory about drug use in the hindi film industry that ends in the arrest of srk's son on trumped up drug possession charges (all dismissed).

so all that was brought up again with pathaan, but none of it really seemed to stick, and i think it is a stretch to say that the last dismal few years of failure in the hindi film industry were from right wing boycotts/violence rather than a truly terrible stretch of movies. and the industry has been floundering for years - pathaan's collections should be the minimum for this sort of would be blockbuster, rather than the peak...

edit - it is telling that the ny times ran an anthropological culture trend piece on the movie but hasn't bothered to review it, despite it opening in the us box office top five

December, 2022






January, 2023

- January / February -

White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)
Into the Night (John Landis, 1985)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022)
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lam Nai-choi, 1991)
Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022) ♥♥
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed, 2023)

TV:

The Crown (season 5)
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (season 1)

2023. 2

Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022)
Elegy of the North (Heinosuke Gosho, 1957)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) ♥
The Heart (Kon Ichikawa, 1955)
Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon, 2003)
No Rest for the Brave (Alain Guiraudie, 2003)
Fire Dedicated to Ozu (Abbas Kiarostami, 2003)
The Crossing (Florence Miailhe, 2021)
À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983) *rewatch (mubi) ♥
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003) ♥
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi, 2022)
The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade, 2003)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
Lost in Translation (Sopia Coppola, 2003)
Next Sohee (July Jung, 2022)
TÁR (Todd Field, 2022)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) ♥
Putney Swope (Robert Downey Sr., 1969)
My Brother’s Wedding (Charles Burnett, 1983)
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)
Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991) ♥
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed, 2023)
The Seventh Companion (Aleksey German, Grigoriy Aronov, 1967)
Twenty Days Without War (Aleksey German, 1977)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksey German, 1985) ♥
Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksey German, 1998)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
Mandabi (Ousmane Sembene, 1968)
Soleil O (Med Hondo, 1967)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1973) ♥
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003)
Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1930)
The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) ♥
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) ♥
Close (Lukas Dhont, 2022)

2/23

les demoiselles de rochefort (demy 1967) ♥♥♥
batang west side (diaz 2001)
three godless years (o'hara 1976)
riotsville USA (pettingill 2022)
himala (bernal 1982) ♥
weighed but found wanting (brocka 1974)
the return of frank james (lang 1940)
monrovia, indiana (wiseman 2018)
imburnal (sanchez 2008)
maqbool (bhardwaj 2003)
a wanderer's notebook (naruse 1962)
la libertad del diablo (gonzalez 2017)
fior di male (gallone 1915) ♥
the brown bunny (gallo 2003)
telefon (siegel 1977)
that day (ruiz 2003) ♥
the walking hills (sturges 1949)
the return (zvyagintsev 2003)
nightmare alley (del toro 2021) ♥
ingrid goes west (spicer 2017)
histoire de marie et julien (rivette 2003) ♥
django (corbucci 1966)
sazen tange and the secret of the urn (gosha 1966)
bayaning 3rd world (de leon 2000)
smithereens (seidelman 1982)
the tale of zatoichi continues (mori 1962)
new tale of zatoichi (tanaka 1963)

rw los hermanos del hierro (rodriguez 1961) ♥ the tale of zatoichi (misumi 1962) ♥

February 2023

Meine Freundin Barbara "My Friend Barbara" (Fritz Kirchhoff, 1937, Germany) [9/10] ♥
Half Moon Street (Bob Swaim, 1986, USA/UK) [7/10]
Fallguy (Donn Harling, 1962, USA) [4/10]
Die Macht der Liebe "The Power of Love" (Ferdinand Diehl, 1935, Germany) [7/10] ♥
Le monte-charge "Paris Pick-Up" (Marcel Bluwal, 1962, France/Italy) [9/10] ♥
Koi yamabiko "Echo in the Mountains" (Masahiro Makino, 1959, Japan) [8/10] ♥
Marte, dio della guerra "Mars, God of War" (Marcello Baldi, 1962, Italy) [8/10] ♥

February 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Mostly just catching up with new releases as I always do this time of year.

Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, 1984) 6
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (Tony Scott, 1987) 6
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) 8
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster, 2008) 7
The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010) 9
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012) 10
Spectre (Sam Mendes, 2015) 8
Victoria & Abdul (Stephen Frears, 2017) 7
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022) 6
Bullet Train (David Leitch, 2022) 7
The Batman (Matt Reeves, 2022) 8
Poker Face (Russell Crowe, 2022) 4
Lucy and Desi (Amy Poehler, 2022) 9
Amsterdam (David O. Russell, 2022) 3
Empire of Light (Sam Mendes, 2022) 8
Paradise Highway (Anna Gutto, 2022) 4
Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre, 2022) 8
Black Adam (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2022) 3
Dog (Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, 2022) 6
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022) 6
Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh, 2022) 4
Thor: Love and Thunder (Taika Waititi, 2022) 6
Jurassic World Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, 2022) 5
Where the Crawdads Sing (Olivia Newman, 2022) 7
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022) 4
When You Finish Saving the World (Jesse Eisenberg, 2022) 3
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi, 2022) 4
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (David Yates, 2022) 7

February, 2023

also mostly catching up on 2022 film right now

Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Ostlund, 2022) - 8/10
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Eric Appel, 2022) - 8/10
Outbreak (Wolfgang Petersen, 1995) - 7/10
Tar (Todd Field, 2022) - 7/10
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001) - 7/10 (rewatch)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Ron Howard, 2000) - 7/10
Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004) - 7/10
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) - 6/10
To Leslie (Michael Morris, 2022) - 5/10
Stars at Noon (Claire Denis, 2022) - 5/10
Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022) - 5/10
The Menu (Mark Mylod, 2022) - 5/10
Jumper (Doug Liman, 2004) - 3/10
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Anthony Fabian, 2022) - 3/10
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Steve Carr, 2009) - 2/10
Your Place or Mine (Aline Brosh McKenna, 2023) - 1/10

Busier month than usual because of a film festival. Saw some great films there and at home.

March 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926) 7
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950) 10
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) 8
Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972) 7
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) 8
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994) 6
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994) 8
Out to Sea (Martha Coolidge, 1997) 5
The Peacemaker (Mimi Leder, 1997) 6
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Joan Chen, 1998) 9
Beautiful (Sally Field, 2000) 6
The Tigger Movie (Jun Falkenstein, 2000) 5
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) 9
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (Sam Weisman, 2001) 5
LolliLove (Jenna Fischer, 2004) 7
The Human Contract (Jada Pinkett Smith, 2008) 5
Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009) 6
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh, 2011) 8
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019) 8
Tár (Todd Field, 2022) 10
Love Life (Koji Fukada, 2022) 9
Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022) 7
Ramona (Andrea Bagney, 2022) 6
Living (Oliver Hermanus, 2022) 8
Burning Days (Emin Alper, 2022) 4
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022) 6
Mack & Rita (Katie Aselton, 2022) 3
Stars at Noon (Claire Denis, 2022) 5
Women Talking (Sarah Polley, 2022) 9
Blanquita (Fernando Guzzoni, 2022) 5
Black Stone (Spiros Jacovides, 2022) 7
Alone Together (Katie Holmes, 2022) 6
L'immensità (Emanuele Crialese, 2022) 5
Medusa Deluxe (Thomas Hardiman, 2022) 6
The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo, 2022) 6
The Rite of Spring (Fernando Franco, 2022) 6
Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis, 2022) 7
Nothing Compares (Kathryn Ferguson, 2022) 8
Forever Young (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, 2022) 5
War Pony (Riley Keough, Gina Gammell, 2022) 6
Other People's Children (Rebecca Zlotowski, 2022) 9
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022) 8
A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On (Gentian Koçi, 2022) 8
The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen, 2022) 9
Tótem (Lila Avilés, 2023) 7
20,000 Species of Bees (Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, 2023) 3

Best: Sunset Boulevard, Tár, La Ciénaga
Worst: Mack & Rita, 20,000 Species of Bees

2023. 3

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965) ♥
Sayat Nova / The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
The Legend of Suram Fortress (Sergei Parajanov, 1985)
Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov, 1988)
The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairead, 2022)
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022) *rewatch
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella, 2022) ♥
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen, 2021)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007) ♥ *rewatch
Suzume (Makoto Shinkai, 2022)
The Story of Yonosuke (Shuichi Okita, 2013)
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann, 2013)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) ♥
Tangerines (Zaza Urushadze, 2013)
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaia, 1969) ♥
Dzhamilya (Irina Poplavskaya, 1969)
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Georgiy Daneliya, 1964) ♥
A Hero (Asghar Farhadi, 2021)
The Sky on Location (Babette Mangolte, 1983) ♥
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
Loving Couples (Mai Zetterling, 1964)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999) ♥
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard, 2013)
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (David Lowery, 2013)
An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990) ♥
Be Pretty and Shut Up! (Delphine Seyrig, 1981)
Documenteur (Agnes Varda, 1981) ♥
Mur Murs (Agnes Varda, 1981)
Papicha (Mounia Meddour, 2019)
Rocks (Sarah Gavron, 2019)
Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman, 2020)
Slalom (Charlene Favier, 2020)
Kill Boksoon (Byun Sung-hyun, 2023)

zatoichi's flashing sword (kazuo ikehiro 1964) ♥
fight zatoichi fight (kenji misumi 1964)
adventures of zatoichi (kimiyoshi yasuda 1964)
zatoichi's pilgrimage (kazuo ikehiro 1966)
zatoichi challenged (kenji misumi 1967) ♥
samaritan zatoichi (kenji misumi 1968)
zatoichi goes to the fire festival (kenji misumi 1970)
zatoichi: darkness is his ally (shintaro katsu 1989)
orders to kill (anthony asquith 1958)
hard to be a god (aleksey german 2013)
motsurave (irakli kivirikadze 1981)
the heroic ones (chang cheh 1970)
the miracle fighters (yuen woo-ping 1982)
detective dee and the mystery of the phantom flame (tsui hark 2010)
top gun: maverick (joseph kosinski 2022)
the white moth (maurice tourneur 1924)
young detective dee: rise of the sea dragon (tsui hark 2013) ♥
detective dee: the four heavenly kings (tsui hark 2018)
dragon (peter chan 2011)
if i were a thief...i'd steal (paulo rocha 2013)
the green years (paulo rocha 1963)
life is elsewhere (nicolas sanchez 2013)
swarnakamalam (k viswanath 1988)
if i were king (frank lloyd 1938)
burning paradise (ringo lam 1994)
prison on fire (ringo lam 1987)
at berkeley (joseph wiseman 2013)
john wick: chapter 4 (chad stahelski 2023)
sambizanga (sarah maldoror 1972)
le ciel est a vous (jean gremillon 1944)
the last run (fleischer 1971)

+ a bunch of shorts

rw: greed (stroheim 1924), city on fire (lam 1987)

long
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022) - 8/10
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022) - 8/10
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger, 2022) - 8/10
The Good Boss (Fernando Leon de Aranoa, 2021) - 7/10
Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2014)* - 7/10
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022) - 7/10
By Dawn's Early Light (Jack Sholder, 1990) - 7/10
Blast (Albert Pyun, 1997) - 6/10
The Second Civil War (Joe Dante, 1997) - 6/10
Women Talking (Sarah Polley, 2022) - 6/10
Living (Oliver Hermanus, 2022) - 6/10
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015) - 6/10
The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairead, 2022) - 5/10
We Have a Ghost (Christopher Landon, 2023) - 5/10
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012) - 5/10
My Octopus Teacher (Phillipa Ehrlich/James Reed, 2020) - 5/10
French Exit (Azazel Jacobs, 2020) - 4/10
Die Hart (Eric Appel, 2023) - 3/10
Flight 1942 (Emile Edwin Smith, 2015) - 3/10
Shotgun Wedding (Jason Moore, 2022) - 3/10
The Batman (Matt Reeves, 2022) - 3/10
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022) - 2/10
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022) - 1/10
Mistaken (Alfred Robbins, 2017) - 1/10

short
The Flying Sailor (Amanda Forbis/Wendy Tilby, 2022) - 8/10
Happy Toy (Walerian Borowczyk, 1979 ) - 5/10
Building no 7 (Steven Soderbergh, 2006) - 4/10

* = rewatch

March, 2023

- March / April -

All the Beauty and Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022)
Woman in Chains (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968)
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, 2020)
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, 2023)
The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1972)
The Millionaires' Express (Sammo Hung, 1986)
Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)

TV:

The Mandalorian (season 3)

2023. 4

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, 2023)
Sura: A Love Song (Hwang Yoon, 2022)
a Wild Roomer (Lee Jeong-hong, 2022)
Air: Courting a Legend (Ben Affleck, 2023)
Rye Lane (Raine Allen-Miller, 2023)
Copilot (Anne Zohra Berrached, 2021)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp, 2021)
First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard, 1983)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) ♥
In the White City (Alain Tanner, 1983)
The Talent Show (Lee So-hyun, 2022)
SAGAL: Snake and Scorpion (Lee Dong-woo, 2022)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski, 2023)
The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983) ♥
Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
in water (Hong Sang-soo, 2023)
The Village of Mist (Im Kwon-taek, 1983)
The Surrogate Woman (Im Kwon-taek, 1987)
El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983)
Dhrupad (Mani Kaul, 1983)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Ōshima, 1983)
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1983)
Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim, 2022)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman, 2016)
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983)
Samsara (Lois Patiño, 2023)
Peter Pan & Wendy (David Lowery, 2023)
Breaking Away (Peter Yates, 1979)