SCFZ

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Dogman (Matteo Garrone, 2018), thanks to DT mentioning it in their monthly seen-list.
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Everybody Knows (Farhadi, 2018)

Haven't seen any scfz opinions on it yet.
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Detour in a new 4k restoration at my local cinematheque. I never saw Detour as a film looking for more k's, now it's got 4.

lol. i remember being actually angry when it got a criterion. they've ruined it!

obtw i'm gonna watch my second zulawski film. ever (my nights are more beautiful than your days)

jacques dutronc!

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:56 pm
obtw i'm gonna watch my second zulawski film. ever (my nights are more beautiful than your days)

jacques dutronc!

I've also got this one lined up.

Dutronc's performance in Zulawski's earlier film That Most Important Thing: Love is one of the main reasons why I wanna watch it.

someone gave me a copy of 'the mule' so i guess i'm watching clint eastwood: breaking bad

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:27 pm someone gave me a copy of 'the mule' so i guess i'm watching clint eastwood: breaking bad

rischka going mainstream I like it.

heh i'm trying to make an effort to see more recent and mainstream films this year. several a month from this century even! we'll see how long i last

edit: omg 88 yr old clint is ADORABLE

I'm gonna watch Detour tomorrow, it's the film of the week in the Criterion Streaming whatever.

Either Destroyer or Woman at War. I hear Jodie Foster is doing a remake of Woman at War.

Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973) on the big screen tonight.

And tomorrow Mambéty's Hyenas (1992).

I just found something on my drive I didn't know I had, R Gavaldon directing in English: The Adventures Of Casanova, starring A de Cordova, Linda Darnell and Turhan Bey (1949). Guess I have to make time for that one real soon, wot? How could I not?

Two films in cinema tonight:

Ether (Krzysztof Zanussi, 2018)
Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2018)

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Every few weeks I get a sudden, inexplicable urge to watch a completely random but very popular film. This is one of those times.

I'm gonna watch The Planet of the Apes (1968) for no reason except that it's there and, well... why not? I'll probably regret this. I usually do.

Nostos Il Ritorno.
Dekalog 7 and onwards.

That's what I have planned so far.

Century of Birthing - Lav Diaz. It's 360 minutes long, so ~75 minutes per day = finish in 5 days

so... i don't remember exactly what year it was i repped uchida in mubi director's cup? 'thoxans' might know

anyway it was frustrating that so many of his films were unsubbed and most intriguing of all was koiya koi nasuna koi "the mad fox" (1962), about a man who unwittingly marries a fox spirit. lo and behold, a few days ago i was notified that eng subs are available and i will watch it tonight





this was a holy grail for me. god bless the internet

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:23 pm'thoxans' might know

2013 i remember uchida's policeman being another one of those hard-to-find flicks

it's starting

equinox flower. i try to ration my ozus. i've seen almost half

sushil majumdar's lal patthar

Seeing PETERLOO at Museum of the Moving Image, with Mike Leigh answering questions afterward.

brian this is a very strange movie

thoxans wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:59 am sushil majumdar's lal patthar

the bengali original or hindi remake?

hindi remake, which i didn’t realize until now. still good tho. some really striking shots at times, persistent twists and turns and melodrama, and a little bit of pygmalion thrown in for good measure. have you seen either/both?

thoxans wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:54 am hindi remake, which i didn’t realize until now. still good tho. some really striking shots at times, persistent twists and turns and melodrama, and a little bit of pygmalion thrown in for good measure. have you seen either/both?

have seen both, the hindi version is much higher budget but suffers from lead actor raaj kumar, who i think is pretty insufferable (despite being in a few truly great films). while bengali version has uttam kumar, one of the kings of melodrama...and i think some of the sheer bleakness of the triangle gets lost a little in the hindi version but that may be more matter of interpretation than anything.

My list goes:

1. Summer Snow (1995)
2. Neecha Nagar (1946)
3. Mon Oncle (1958)

nrh wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:00 ambengali version

i see the bengali version is on tube (2hr 11min, which looks like the correct runtime). i'd like to watch the og, but do you think anything will be lost, since i watched the remake first?

sidenote: agreed about raaj kumar! this is the first time i've seen him, so i couldn't quite put my finger on it; but yeah, he just wasn't very charismatic. the female leads were def the high point of the remake, esp hema malini

MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE -- on Wednesday. Fingers crossed.

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