What I Watched This Month......

[rischka]

the little girl who conquered time (obayashi 1983)
barefoot gen (masaki 1983)
the family game (yoshimitsu 1983)
winners & sinners (sammo 1983)
the keep (mann 1983)
brussels by night (diden 1983) ♥
the last of the mohicans (tourneur/brown 1920)
funny dirty little war (olivera 1983) ♥
the weather forecast (krauze 1983) ♥
monpti (kautner 1957)
address unknown (menzies 1944)
style wars (silver 1983)
bless their little hearts (woodberry 1983)
great expectations (sandberg 1922)
my brother's wedding (burnett 1983)
the weak point (aalami 1983)
il brigante (castellani 1961)
pauline at the beach (rohmer 1983)
the bare-footed kid (to 1993)
legend of the cat-monster (obayashi 1983) ♥
black wax (mugge 1983)
system ohne schatten (thome 1983)
she-wolf (piestrak 1983)
stakeout (nomura 1958)
four hours of terror (kobayashi 1959)
the store (wiseman 1983)
the world, the flesh and the devil (macdougall 1959)
the long wait (saville 1954)
creed II (caple 2018)
wandering with the moon (ekman 1945)
law & order (cahn 1932) ♥
the white cat (ekman 1950)



rewatched romancing in thin air (to 2012) ♥ ♥ seven samurai (kurosawa 1954) ♥ ♥

[Silga]

April 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Ho! (Robert Enrico, 1968) 6
The Brain (Gérard Oury, 1969) 5
Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970) 10
Un flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972) 7
State of Siege (Costa-Gavras, 1972) 8
Going Places (Bertrand Blier, 1974) 8
The French Detective (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1975) 6
The Escape (Gérard Oury, 1978) 8
Serie Noire (Alain Corneau, 1979) 3
I... For Icarus (Henri Verneuil, 1979) 9
Cop or Hood (Georges Lautner, 1979) 3
La Chèvre (Francis Veber, 1981) 7
For a Cop's Hide (Alain Delon, 1981) 8
The Fighter (Alain Delon, 1983) 6
The ComDads (Francis Veber, 1983) 5
The Crimson Rivers (Mathieu Kassovitz, 2000) 5
Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth, 2001) 4
Secret Agents (Frédéric Schoendoerffer, 2004) 6
Until Death (Simon Fellows, 2007) 3
Ghosted (Dexter Fletcher, 2023) 5
Plane (Jean-François Richet, 2023) 4
Murder Mystery 2 (Jeremy Garelick, 2023) 2
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed, 2023) 4

Best: Le Cercle Rouge, I... For Icarus
Worst: Murder Mystery 2, Until Death

[flip]

hard to believe how little i watched this month, nothing i can recommend

No Strings Attached (Ivan Reitman, 2011) - 6/10
Lou (Anna Foerster, 2022) - 5/10
London Has Fallen (Babak Najafi, 2016) - 5/10
Life (Ted Demme, 1999) - 3/10
Sam and Kate (Darren Le Gallo, 2022) - 1/10

[Silga]

May 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

The Raid (Hugo Fregonese, 1954) 7
Riding Shotgun (André De Toth, 1954) 6
Rails Into Laramie (Jesse Hibbs, 1954) 6
The Bounty Hunter (André De Toth, 1954) 7
Ride Clear of Diablo (Jesse Hibbs, 1954) 6
Drums Across the River (Nathan Juran, 1954) 4
Four Guns to the Border (Richard Carlson, 1954) 8
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) 8
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965) 9
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) 9
Scalawag (Kirk Douglas, 1973) 2
Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick, 1994) 8
All the Pretty Horses (Billy Bob Thornton, 2000) 5
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2018) 10
The Old Way (Brett Donowho, 2023) 6

Short:
Your Life As a Spy (Steven Soderbergh, 2019) 7

TV:
The Last Dance (Jason Hehir, 2020) 9

Best: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Worst: Scalawag

[ofrene]

2023. 5

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn, 2023)
Stella Dallas (Henry King, 1925)
The Salvation Hunters (Josef von Sternberg, 1925)
The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1925)
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, 1925) ♥
Master of the House (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1925) ♥
Fast X (Louis Leterrier, 2023)
Tori and Lokita (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2022)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Ostland, 2022)
Tartuffe (F. W. Murnau, 1925) ♥
Variety (E.A. Dupont, 1925)
The Crazy Ray (Paris qui dort) (Rene Clair, 1925)
Whirlpool of Fate (Jean Renoir, 1925)
Don Juan (Serge Bozon, 2022)
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard, 2018)
Kentucky Pride (John Ford, 1925)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925)
The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim, 1925)
Faces of Children (Jacques Feyder, 1925) ♥
Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh, 2020)

[rischka]

5/23

the girl from the third row (ekman 1949)
banketten (ekman 1948) ♥♥
le double amour (epstein 1925)
how to blow up a pipeline (goldhaber 2022)
kentucky pride (ford 1925)
the circle (borzage 1925)
the lady (borzage 1925)
moonage daydream (morgen 2022)
the singer not the song (baker 1961)
we still kill the old way (petri 1967)
lady oscar (demy 1979) ♥♥
the ventures: stars on guitars (wilson 2020)
the bear's wedding (eggert/gardin 1925) ♥♥
pica pica (kristersson 1987) ♥♥
dust of angels (hsu 1992)
paths to paradise (badger 1925)
p.p. rider (somai 1983) ♥♥
le jolie mai (marker/lhomme 1963)
fighting elegy (suzuki 1966)
the white buffalo (thompson 1977)

i rewatched creation of the humanoids and john wick 4

i did all right for being in hotel half the month! the americans season 2 is even better than season 1 and nba playoffs starting tmrw so...

[Zynab]

Top 10 fav first-time watches of this month (not ranked):

Chronic (1997, Jennifer Reeves)
The Bear's Wedding (1925, Konstantin Eggert)
Demonlover (2002, Olivier Assayas)
Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Ishii)
Girl Orphee (2001, Isao Yamada)
Juste le temps (1983, Robert Cahen)
Kokain-rusen (1925, Carl Alstrup)
L'etrangleur (1970, Paul Vecchiali)
Mieheke (1936, Valentin Vaala)
Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma (1994, Paul McCarthy)

[flip]

not a productive month, film-wise

long:
Judgment (Tom Topor, 1990) - 7/10
Legalese (Glenn Jordan, 1998) - 5/10
Self/less (Tarsem Singh, 2015) - 5/10
The Fighting Stallion (Robert Emmett Tansey, 1950) - 2/10
Sam and Kate (Darren le Gallo, 2022) - 1/10
The Jane Mysteries: Inheritance Lost (Marco Deufemia, 2023) - 1/10
Unspeakable Acts (Linda Otto, 1990) - 1/10

short:
Not I (Anthony Page/Samuel Beckett, 1973) - 10/10
Black Trip 2 (Aldo Tambellini, 1967) - 8/10
Pieta (Bruce Baillie, 1998) - 7/10
Shift (Ernie Gehr, 1974) - 6/10
Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes (Phil Solomon, 1999) - 6/10
Flying Over Brooklyn (Ernie Gehr, 2020) - 5/10
Tenth Avenue, NYC (Al Brick, 1924) - 5/10
Pot au Feu (Robert Altman, 1964) - 3/10
Split Skyscrapers (Al Brick, 1924) - 3/10
Beautiful Movie (Robert Huot, 1974) - 1/10

[pabs]

April, 2023






May, 2023

[ofrene]

2023. 6

No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh, 2021)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh, 2022)
Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2022)
A Common Sequence (Mike Gibisser, Mary Helena Clark, 2023)
Antoine and Antoinette (Jacques Becker, 1947)
Small, Slow But Steady (Sho Miyake, 2022) ♥
Return to Seoul (Davy Chou, 2022)
Spring Awakens (Mikio Naruse, 1947)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu, 1947) ♥
The Ball at the Anjo House (Kozaburo Yoshimura, 1947) ♥
One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa, 1947)
Snow Trail (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1947)
Extraction 2 (Sam Hargrave, 2023)
The Flash (Andy Muschietti, 2023)
Elemental (Peter Sohn, 2023)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947) ♥
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers, 2023) ♥
Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947) ♥
Brute Force (Jules Dassin, 1947)
T-Men (Anthony Mann, 1947)
Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang, 1947)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, 2023)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh, 1947)

[rischka]

6/23

la perla (fernandez 1947)
air (affleck 2023)
brawl in cell block 99 (zahler 2017)
hellfire (springsteen 1949) ♥
the golden sword (lo 1969)
the water margin (chang 1972)
reality (satter 2023)
the fugitive (ford 1947)
a photograph (glenister 1977)
a prize of arms (owen 1962) ♥
green dolphin street (savile 1947)
my sin (abbott 1931)
the czech year (trnka 1947) ♥
4 little girls (lee 1997)
repeat performance (werker 1947)
gerry (van sant 2002)
il generale della revere (rossellini 1959)
une chambre en ville (demy 1982)
good news (walters 1947)
soldaten og jenny (jacobsen 1947) ♥

rewatch - the ghost and mrs muir, forever amber ♥, early summer ♥♥, dark passage ♥

[flip]

mainly watched movies that people think are very bad, and it turns out most of them are very bad:

long/mid:
Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood, 2015) - 6/10
Daniel, the Wizard (Ulli Lommel, 2004) - 5/10
Official Secrets (Gavin Hood, 2019) - 5/10
Stan Helsing (Bo Zenga, 2009) - 2/10
Swiped (Ann Deborah Fishman, 2018) - 2/10
Bratz (Sean McNamara, 2007) - 1/10
Pretty Ugly People (Tate Taylor, 2008) - 1/10
What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue! (Everton Rodrigues/Michelle Gabriel, 2009) - 0/10

short
Hardcase (Darren Doane, 1993) - 1/10

[Silga]

June 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis, 1970) 6
The Cheyenne Social Club (Gene Kelly, 1970) 6
Rage (George C. Scott, 1972) 4
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman, 1972) 9
Live and Let Die (Guy Hamilton, 1973) 5
Uptown Saturday Night (Sidney Poitier, 1974) 5
House Calls (Howard Zieff, 1978) 8
Midnight Express (Alan Parker, 1978) 7
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987) 8
Flawless (Michael Radford, 2007) 5
Faces in the Crowd (Julien Magnat, 2011) 3
Burnt (John Wells, 2015) 6
Daft Punk Unchained (Hervé Martin-Delpierre, 2015) 7
Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) 7
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Chad Stahelski, 2019) 9
Black Box (Yann Gozlan, 2021) 6
House of Gucci (Ridley Scott, 2021) 8
Boiling Point (Philip Barantini, 2021) 9
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Anthony Fabian, 2022) 6
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski, 2023) 7
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (Guy Ritchie, 2023) 4

Best: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Boiling Point, John Wick 3
Worst: Faces in the Crowd, Rage, Operation Fortune

[DT.]

- May / June -

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn, 2023)
Wendy (Benh Zeitlin, 2020) ♥
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)
My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, 1974)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)

[ofrene]

2023. 7

Four Moods (King Hu, Li Han-Hsiang, Lee Hsing, Pai Ching-jui, 1970)
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu, 1973) ♥
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (Kier-La Janisse, 2021)
The Blood on Satan’s Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971)
Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)
The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995)
The Artifice Girl (Franklin Ritch, 2022)
Nightsiren (Tereza Nvotova, 2022)
Ennio (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2021)
Farewell to the Summer Light (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1968)
Heroic Purgatory (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970) ♥
Confessions Among Actresses (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1971)
Women in the Mirror (Yoshishige Yoshida, 2002) ♥
Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
The Hill of Secrets (Lee Ji-eun, 2022)
Love Life (Koji Fukada, 2022)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)
Rio, 100 Degrees F. (Nelson Pereira dos Santos. 1955)
The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964) ♥
The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968)
Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1998)
The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998)
Following (Christopher Nolan, 1998)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)
Smugglers (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2023)

[rischka]

7/23

the appointment (vickers 1981)
the ballad of cable hogue (peckinpah 1970)
the missouri breaks (penn 1976)
curse of the undead (dien 1959) ♥
buffalo bill (wellman 1944)
expect the unexpected (yau 1998)
festen (vinterberg 1998)
dutch harbor: where the sea breaks it's back (king/moya 1998) ♥
barrabas (feuillade 1919) ♥♥
calendar (egoyan 1993) ♥
seven thunders (fregonese 1957) ♥
theodora goes wild (boleslawski 1936)
common people (zhou 1998)
flight of the bee (min/usmonov 1998)
bullet ballet (tsukamoto 1998)
el vampiro negro (viñoly barreto 1953)
battle in outer space (honda 1959)
mayrig (verneuil 1991)
invasion of astro-monster (honda 1965) ♥
ghidorah the three-headed monster (honda 1964)
mothra vs godzilla (honda 1964)
destroy all monsters (honda 1968)
khrustalyov, my car! (german 1998) ♥
dogora (honda 1964)
kismet (minelli 1955)
latitude zero (honda 1969)
requiem (tanner 1998)
buffalo '66 (gallo 1998)
stage struck (dwan 1925)
secret defense (rivette 1998) ♥
tower of evil (o'connolly 1972)
reap the wild wind (demille 1942)
day of the full moon (shakhnazarov 1998) ♥
hands on a hardbody (bindler 1997)
bad sister (henley 1931)
perils of the sentimental swordsman (chor 1982)
rapiña (taboada 1975)
clans of intrigue (chor 1977)
legend of the bat (chor 1978)
whity (fassbinder 1971)
barbie (gerwig 2023)
the earth dies screaming (fisher 1964)
city beneath the sea (boetticher 1953)
sign of the pagan (sirk 1954)
time of roses (jarva 1969)
muerte de un ciclista (bardem 1955) - i'm watching this tonight. wow i watched ALOT this month! it's been too hot to go outside!



rewatches! - night editor (levin 1946) ♥ the man from laramie (mann 1955) ♥♥ winchester '73 (mann 1950) ♥♥ the naked spur (mann 1953)

[flip]

as i was watching it, i enjoyed the new wes anderson quite a lot (more than i expected to), but it diminished in my mind on reflection. also watched the new robert rodriguez and damian szifron films, which were both terrible imo

long:
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) - 7/10
Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan, 1984) - 7/10
The Pentagon Wars (Richard Benjamin, 1998) - 7/10
Changing Lanes (Roger Michell, 2002) - 7/10
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023) - 6/10
The Brotherhood of Justice (Charles Braverman, 1986) - 6/10
Silkwood (Mike Nichols, 1983) - 5/10
Tetris (Jon Baird, 2023) - 5/10
Always Outnumbered (Michael Apted, 1998) - 5/10
Willow (Ron Howard, 1988) - 3/10
To Catch a Killer (Damian Szifron, 2023) - 2/10
Alien Conquest (Mario Bonassin, 2021) - 2/10
Hypnotic (Robert Rodriguez, 2023) - 1/10
Young Again (Steven Hilliard Stern, 1986) - 1/10

short:
The Thing About Guitar Lessons (Mila Shah/Lex Halaby, 2015) - 7/10
Third Date (Thomas Moser, 2012) - 6/10

[nrh]

vaguely back to watching movies -

black friday, anurag kashyap 2004
kadal, mani ratnam 2013
maamannan, mari selvaraj 2023
millenium mambo, hou hsiao-hsien 2001
lake of dracula, michio yamamoto 1971
shin kamen rider, hideaki anno 2023
heat, michael mann 1995
the tall t, budd boetticher 1957
cutie honey, hideaki anno 2004
rocky aur rani ki prem kahani, karan johar 2023

[Silga]

July 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

Stereo (David Cronenberg, 1969) 3
Drop Zone (John Badham, 1994) 4
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) 8
It Could Happen to You (Andrew Bergman, 1994) 7
Brother (Takeshi Kitano, 2000) 9
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, 2002) 8
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2002) 8
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou, 2006) 8
Bangkok Dangerous (Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun, 2008) 6
Black Gold (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 2011) 6
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011) 8
The Best Offer (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2013) 7
The Loft (Erik Van Looy, 2014) 5
The Monuments Men (George Clooney, 2014) 8
Frenzy (Emin Alper, 2015) 10
Anthropoid (Sean Ellis, 2016) 6
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, 2016) 9
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016) 8
In the Fade (Fatih Akin, 2017) 7
The Pirates of Somalia (Bryan Buckley, 2017) 3
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017) 6
The Mountain Between Us (Hany Abu-Assad, 2017) 5
Anna (Luc Besson, 2019) 7
Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz, 2019) 9
Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz (Maciej Pieprzyca, 2019) 4
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (Christopher Bird, Simon Lupton, 2019) 7
Riders of Justice (Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020) 7
The Heist of the Century (Ariel Winograd, 2020) 6
No Time to Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021) 5

Best: Frenzy, The Handmaiden
Worst: Stereo, The Pirates of Somalia

[DT.]

- July / August -

Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, 2004)
20,000 Species of Bees (Estíbaliz Urresola, 2023)
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) ♥
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
The Flash (Andy Muschietti, 2023)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, 1992)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)
BlackBerry (Matt Johnson, 2023)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999)

[greennui]

First time in a while I can post a rather long list of likes

Ludwig II 1955 ‘Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs’ Directed by Helmut Käutner
Private Property 1960 Directed by Leslie Stevens
Excursion 1966 ‘Ekdromi’ Directed by Takis Kanellopoulos
The Wild Pussycat 1969 ‘Καυτή εκδίκηση’ Directed by Dimis Dadiras
Moses and Aaron 1975 ‘Moses und Aron’ Directed by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Riddles of the Sphinx 1977 Directed by Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey
Nobody’s Business 1996 Directed by Alan Berliner
Heimat Is a Space in Time 2019 ‘Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit’ Directed by Thomas Heise

[ofrene]

2023. 8

Lions Love (Agnes Varda, 1969)
Model Shop (Jacques Demy, 1969)
A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson, 1969) ♥
Le Grand Amour (Pierre Etaix, 1969)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls, 1969) ♥
Chronicle of a Summer (Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch, 1961) ♥
Salesman (Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles, 1969) ♥
Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman, 1969) ♥
Concrete Utopia (Um Tae-hwa, 2023)
The Last Day of Summer (Tadeusz Konwicki, 1958)
Dry Summer (Metin Erksan, 1963)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969) ♥
Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) ♥
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
Hail to Hell (Lim Oh-jeong, 2022)
Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964) ♥
Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003)
Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1969) ♥
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
Goyokin (Hideo Gosha, 1969)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An, 2023)
The Mind Game (Eefje Blankevoort, Els van Driel, Sajid Khan Nasiri, 2023)
Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969) ♥
Apolonia, Apolonia (Lea Glob, 2022)
Totem (Lila Aviles, 2023)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Anna Hints, 2023)
Music (Angela Schanelec, 2023)
Milisuthando (Milisuthando Bongela, 2023)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2022) ♥
Captain Volkonogov Escaped (Alexey Chupov, Natalya Merkulova, 2021)
The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969) ♥
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman, 1969)
A Man (Kei Ishikawa, 2022)

[rischka]

8/23

we are our mountains - malyan 1969 ♥
akran - myers 1969
salome - karolnik 1969 ♥
a walk with love and death - huston 1969 ♥
four of the apocalypse - fulci 1975
prague nights - brdecka, makovec, schorm 1969
that cold day in the park - altman 1969
valparaiso mi amor - francia 1969 ♥
high school confidential! - arnold 1958
take a letter, darling - leisen 1942
apache - aldrich 1954
across the wide missouri - wellman 1951
diary of a shinjuku thief - oshima 1969
the lady from constantinople - elek 1969 ♥
the icon stand - dinov, christov 1969
a ridiculous gentleman - kachyna 1969
de cierta manera - gomez 1975
yama - attack to attack - sato, yamaoka 1985
law & order - wiseman 1969
monsieur hawarden - kumel 1968
bruder - hochbaum 1929 ♥
the territory - ruiz 1981 ♥
the battle wizard - pao 1977
the day the world ended - corman 1955
the state of things - wenders 1982
most dangerous man alive - dwan 1961
hookers on davie - dale, cole 1984 ♥
leben - BRD - farocki 1990
against all flags - sherman 1952





rewatches: army of shadows ♥, after hours, the wild bunch ♥, random harvest ♥♥♥

[Silga]

August 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (William Wyler, 1944) 7
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) 8
La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) 6
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957) 8
That Man from Rio (Philippe de Broca, 1964) 6
Up to His Ears (Philippe de Broca, 1965) 5
How to Steal a Million (William Wyler, 1966) 8
The Troubles of Alfred (Pierre Richard, 1972) 6
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) 9
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973) 7
I'm Losing My Temper (Claude Zidi, 1974) 7
The Wing or The Thigh? (Claude Zidi, 1976) 5
Animal (Claude Zidi, 1977) 6
Jupiter’s Thigh (Philippe de Broca, 1980) 6
It’s Not Me, It’s Him (Pierre Richard, 1980) 4
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984) 6
Subway (Luc Besson, 1985) 9
Mister Johnson (Bruce Beresford, 1990) 7
The Hairdresser’s Husband (Patrice Leconte, 1990) 9
Black Robe (Bruce Beresford, 1991) 8
The Last Boy Scout (Tony Scott, 1991) 7
One Can Always Dream (Pierre Richard, 1991) 4
In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen, 1993) 8
Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995) 8
Crimson Tide (Tony Scott, 1995) 8
Con Air (Simon West, 1997) 7
Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) 4
Les Misérables (Bille August, 1998) 6
Half a Chance (Patrice Leconte, 1998) 7
Enemy of the State (Tony Scott, 1998) 6
Double Jeopardy (Bruce Beresford, 1999) 6
Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte, 1999) 7
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Luc Besson, 1999) 7
The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen, 2000) 6
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004) 8
36th Precinct (Olivier Marchal, 2004) 8
9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom, 2004) 2
Angel-A (Luc Besson, 2005) 5
When a Stranger Calls (Simon West, 2006) 3
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (Michel Hazanavicius, 2006) 4
Goodbye Bafana (Bille August, 2007) 5
MR 73 (Olivier Marchal, 2008) 7
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (Michel Hazanavicius, 2009) 6
On Tour (Mathieu Amalric, 2010) 7
Les Lyonnais (Olivier Marchal, 2011) 6
Trishna (Michael Winterbottom, 2011) 7
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011) 8
Night Train to Lisbon (Bille August, 2013) 6
The Trip to Italy (Michael Winterbottom, 2014) 9
Gun Shy (Simon West, 2017) 4
Barbara (Mathieu Amalric, 2017) 8
Hold Me Tight (Mathieu Amalric, 2021) 8

Best: Amarcord, Subway, The Trip to Italy
Worst: 9 Songs, When a Stranger Calls

[savannah]

rewatch

birds, orphans and fools (1969) 7/10
the mysterious castle in the carpathians (1981) 6/10
under electric clouds (2015) 6/10
aelita: queen of mars (1924) 7/10
the wild boys (2017) 9/10 ♥
“the infernal cauldron” (1903) 8/10 ♥
m (1931) 8/10
a hole in the head (1998) 4/10
nostos: the return (1989) 7/10
whiplash (2014) 7/10
west of zanzibar (1928) 8/10 ♥
forbidden sun aka the bulldance (1988) 7/10
paranoid park (2007) 6/10
after hours (1985) 8/10 ♥
kokomo city (2023) 7/10
medusa deluxe (2022) 7/10
men in black (1997) 5/10
legally blonde (2001) 5/10
detective pikachu (2019) 4/10
nothing sacred (1937) 7/10
level five (1997) 6/10
someone behind the door (1971) 5/10
piccadilly (1928) 7/10
passages (2023) 4/10
freeway (1996) 7/10
suburbia (1983) 6/10
clementine (2019) 6/10
clando (1996) 7/10
the ice storm (1997) 6/10
l'inhumaine (1924) 9/10 ♥
she and he (1963) 8/10 ♥
beyond the rising moon aka outerworld (1988) 5/10
destroy, she said (1969) 5/10
"dissolutions" (2001) 8/10 ♥
"ritual" (1979) 5/10
"night mix" (1982) 8/10 ♥
limite (1931) 7/10
"florence" (1975) 8/10 ♥
the rocking horse winner (1949) 6/10
raining stones (1993) 6/10
"breathought" (2005) 4/10
the baker's wife (1938) 6/10
lapsis (2020) 6/10
trouble in paradise (1932) 7/10
white light (1991) 5/10

[Curtis, baby]

*=rewatch

*(2.72) do the right thing // dir. spike lee, 1989 // 120m, DCP (VCT)
(2.72) a walk // dir. jorge honik, 1969 // 3m [YouTube]
(2.72) komik // dir. jorge honik, 1969 // 2m [YouTube]
(2.72) clouds // dir. jorge honik, 1969 // 3m [YouTube]
(2.70) willy wonka & the chocolate factory // dir. mel stuart, 1971 // 100m, .mp4
(2.69) the exiles // dir. kent mackenzie, 1961 // 72m, .mkv
(2.69) cat listening to music // dir. chris marker, 1990 // 3m [YouTube]
(2.68) barbie // dir. greta gerwig, 2023 // 114m, DCP (5th)
*(2.66) carmen from kawachi // dir. seijun suzuki, 1966 // 89m, 35mm (PCP)
(2.65) the land of steady habits // dir. nicole holofcener, 2018 // 98m [Netflix]
(2.64) cyrus // dir. jay duplass, mark duplass, 2010 // 91m [Netflix]
(2.63) finding dory // dir. andrew stanton, 2016 // 97m [Disney]
(2.62) pictures of the old world // dir. dušan hanák, 1972 // 64m, .mkv
(2.61) black mirror: beyond the sea // dir. john crowley, 2023 // 80m, .mkv
(2.60) love letter // dir. seijun suzuki, 1959 // 40m, 35mm (PCP)
(2.60) satan's town // dir. seijun suzuki, 1956 // 79m, 35mm (PCP)
(2.59) hollywood shuffle // dir. robert townsend, 1987 // 81m, DCP (VCT)
(2.58) grasshopper // dir. bob sabiston, 2004 // 15m [Veoh]
*(2.58) snack and drink // dir. bob sabiston, 2000 // 4m [Vimeo]
(2.56) trainwreck // dir. judd apatow, 2015 // 125m, .mp4
*(2.54) shadow of a doubt // dir. alfred hitchcock, 1943 // 108m, DCP (PCP)
*(2.54) the killing // dir. stanley kubrick, 1956 // 85m, DCP (PCP)
(2.53) outside in // dir. lynn shelton, 2017 // 110m [Netflix]
*(2.52) dream story // saul levine, 2001 // 5m [Vimeo]
(2.49) malcolm x // dir. spike lee, 1992 // 202m, .mp4
(2.48) the karnival kid // dir. ub iwerks, walt disney, 1929 // 8m [YouTube]
(2.48) steamboat willie // dir. ub iwerks, 1928 // 8m [YouTube]
(2.47) between two ferns: the movie // dir. scott aukerman, 2019 // 83m [Netflix]
(2.47) shiva baby // dir. emma seligman, 2020 // 78m [Netflix]
(2.46) secret beyond the door // dir. fritz lang, 1947 // 95m, .avi
*(2.46) the big heat // dir. fritz lang, 1953 // 90m, DCP (PCP)
(2.44) mirage // dir. chris gallagher, 1983 // 7m, .mkv
(2.44) seeing in the rain // dir. chris gallagher, 1981 // 11m, .mkv
(2.43) bill reid remembers // dir. alanis obomsawin, 2021 // 24m, DCP (PCP)
(2.43) now is the time // dir. christopher auchter, 2019 // 16m, DCP (PCP)
(2.42) asteroid city // dir. wes anderson, 2023 // 105m, DCP (IV/TT)

[flip]

watched a lot of conventional movies i had never seen before, might try to make september a more interesting month

long
Miracle Mile (Steve de Jarnatt, 1988) - 10/10
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (John Cameron Mitchell, 2017) - 8/10
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005) - 8/10
The Firm (Sydney Pollack, 1993) - 8/10
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019) - 7/10
Good Burger (Brian Robbins, 1996) - 7/10
Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985) - 7/10
Glass (M Night Shyamalan, 2019) - 7/10
PCU (Hart Bochner, 1994) - 7/10
The Client (Joel Schumacher, 1994) - 7/10
The Fourth Protocol (John Mackenzie, 1987) - 7/10
Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer, 2017) - 6/10
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, 2013) - 6/10
Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon/Will Speck, 2007) - 6/10
Tangled (Nathan Greno/Byron Howard, 2010) - 6/10
The Covenant (Guy Ritchie, 2023) - 6/10
Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994) - 5/10
Very Bad Things (Peter Berg, 1998) - 5/10
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008) - 5/10
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006) - 5/10
Executive Decision (Stuart Baird, 1996) - 5/10
Plane (Jean-Francois Richet, 2023) - 5/10
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright, 2021) - 5/10
Real Steel (Shawn Levy, 2011) - 5/10
The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997) - 4/10
Oscar (John Landis, 1991) - 4/10
The Hangover Part II (Todd Phillips, 2011) - 4/10
Pendulum (George Schaefer, 1969) - 3/10
Other People's Money (Norman Jewison, 1991) - 3/10
No Hard Feelings (Gene Stupnitsky, 2023) - 2/10
Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996) - 2/10
Hijacked (Brandon Nutt, 2012) - 1/10
You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron, 1998) - 1/10
Midnight Sun (Scott Speer, 2018) - 1/10
Bad President (Param Gill, 2020) - 0/10
Pledge This! (William Heins, 2006) - 0/10

short
Necktie (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2013) - 6/10

[jal90]

This was a messy month, not so much for the amount but the irregular pace, but could fit some great stuff in:

Wara wara (José María Velasco Maidana, 1930) - 7/10
Les gaz mortels (Abel Gance, 1916) - 7/10
Nyonin aishû (Mikio Naruse, 1937) - 8/10
Resurrectio (Alessandro Blasetti, 1931) - 9/10
Marijka nevernice (Vladislav Vancura, 1934) - 7/10
Bialy slad (Adam Krzeptowski, 1932) - 7/10
Lyubov i nenavist (Albert Gendelshtein & P. Kolomytsev, 1935) - 5/10
Apaches (Romain Quirot, 2023) - 6/10
La gravité (Cédric Ido, 2022) - 7/10
La quinta calumnia (Adelqui Migliar, 1941) - 6/10
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (Marshall Neilan, 1918) - 7/10
Magdala (Damien Manivel, 2022) - 7/10
Den flyvende cirkus (Alfred Lind, 1912) - 6/10
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) [Rewatch] - 10/10
Janvaris (Viesturs Kairiss, 2022) - 5/10
20.000 especies de abejas (Estíbaliz Urresola, 2023) - 8/10
Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) - 6/10
Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001) - 7/10
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001) - 8/10
Cleopatra (Charles L. Gaskill, 1912) - 4/10
1812 (Various directors, 1912) - 5/10
Isabella: O caso Nardoni (Cláudio Manoel & Micael Langer, 2023) - 4/10
The house (Various directors, 2022) - 8/10
Home, sweet home (D.W. Griffith, 1914) - 5/10
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) - 7/10
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! (Pedro Almodóvar, 1984) - 8/10
1 (Paul Crowder, 2013) - 6/10

Counting mid to feature length films only. This month is not the case, but I tend to watch a lot of early shorts in between, which are as easy to watch as boring to track here.

[Silga]

September 2023

rewatch

All ratings out of 10

The Return of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1975) 3
Evil Under the Sun (Guy Hamilton, 1982) 8
Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman, 1986) 5
Crocodile Dundee II (John Cornell, 1988) 4
Bedazzled (Harold Ramis, 2000) 4
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004) 7
Æon Flux (Karyn Kusama, 2005) 5
Keeping Mum (Niall Johnson, 2005) 8
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (Adrian Shergold, 2005) 7
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006) 9
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, 2011) 1
Quartet (Dustin Hoffman, 2012) 5
One Chance (David Frankel, 2013) 6
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener, 2013) 8
Amongst Bees (Ian Sbf, 2015) 4
Victor Frankenstein (Paul McGuigan, 2015) 4
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (Mario Van Peebles, 2016) 5
Arsenal (Steven C. Miller, 2017) 2
Tulip Fever (Justin Chadwick, 2017) 6
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan, 2017) 4
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi, 2018) 6
Kill Chain (Ken Sanzel, 2019) 5
Grand Isle (Stephen S. Campanelli, 2019) 2
Jumanji: The Next Level (Jake Kasdan, 2019) 6
Ammonite (Francis Lee, 2020) 6
Ennio (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2021) 9
The Ice Road (Jonathan Hensleigh, 2021) 3
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Will Sharpe, 2021) 7
Bandit (Allan Ungar, 2022) 6
Fast X (Louis Leterrier, 2023) 3
Retribution (Nimród Antal, 2023) 2
Heart of Stone (Tom Harper, 2023) 2
No Hard Feelings (Gene Stupnitsky, 2023) 5
Sympathy for the Devil (Yuval Adler, 2023) 4

Best: Notes on a Scandal, Ennio
Worst: Ghost Rider 2, Arsenal, Grand Isle

[ofrene]

2023. 9

Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978) ♥
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Ermanno Olmi, 1988)
Afire (Christian Petzold, 2023)
Sleep (Jason Yu, 2023)
Bend of the River (Anthony Mann, 1952)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2022)
Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952) ♥
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952) ♥
Her Man (Tay Garnett, 1930)
The Big Sky (Howard Hawks, 1952) ♥
Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, 1952)
20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, 2023)
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams, 2023)
Gush (Fox Maxy, 2023)
Our Body (Claire Simon, 2023)
Obscure Night-Goodbye Here, Anywhere (Sylvain George, 2023)
Anhell69 (Theo Montoya, 2022)
The Worst Ones (Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, 2022)
Kim’s Video (David Redmon, Ashley Sabin, 2023)
Knit's Island (Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h, 2023)
Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam, 2023)
Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952) ♥
Forbidden Games (Rene Clement, 1952)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) ♥
Europe ’51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952) ♥
Okuni and Gohei (Mikio Naruse, 1952)
The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952) ♥
The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi, 2023)
Scrapper (Charlotte Regan, 2023)
A Lonely Island in the Distant Sea (Kim Mi-young, 2021)
The Eight Mountain (Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2022)
Cobweb (Kim Jee-woon, 2023)
The Citizen (Ritwik Ghatak, 1952)
Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray, 1973)
A River Called Titas (Ritwik Ghatak, 1973) ♥