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Just finished Bad Monkey on Apple at lunch today. I'd give it 6.5/10. I was disappointed in the ending, and yeah Vince Vaughn being Vince Vaughn was getting really irritating over the last 3 episodes. Entertaining enough, some funny parts and I'd watch a second season if there was one.
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S2 filming is complete with the majority of the cast back.
 
I saw the Predator:Badlands movie the other day. Was reluctant to see if the theater as it was a PG13 flick, but i gotta say. It was pretty darn good.
 
Using a random number generator, I watched a movie from someone's top 500 films list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/16gz2t0/these_are_the_top_500_movies_of_all_time

I got Time of the Gypsies, which is a 1988 Yugoslav coming-of-age movie about a teenage Romani with some occasional magic. I can't say I loved it, but I did enjoy it.

Afterward, I looked up the main actor, and he met a tragic end. He became a heroin addict and committed suicide at 29.
 
5 Tokyo Story 1953
6 City Lights 1931
8 Citizen Kane 1941
12 Modern Times 1936
14 Sunset Boulevard 1950
15 Singin' in the Rain 1952
16 Spirited Away 2001
17 Ordet 1955
18 Fanny and Alexander 1982
21 Parasite 2019
22 Sherlock Jr. 1924
23 The 400 Blows 1959
27 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
29 Grave of the Fireflies 1988
32 Pather Panchali 1955
33 A Man Escaped 1956
37 Ugetsu 1953
39 All About Eve 1950
41 Children of Paradise 1945
42 Woman in the Dunes 1964
43 Sansho the Bailiff 1954
44 Late Spring 1949
48 Come and See 1985
49 Three Colors: Red 1994
51 Double Indemnity 1944
52 Witness for the Prosecution 1957
55 Andrei Rublev 1966
59 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
60 Satantango 1994
61 I Am Cuba 1964
63 The World of Apu 1959
65 The Kid 1921
67 A Brighter Summer Day 1991
69 Nights of Cabiria 1957
70 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
71 Kes 1969
72 Army of Shadows 1969
73 Le Trou 1960
75 Early Summer 1951
76 It's a Wonderful Life 1946
78 The Apartment 1960
79 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
80 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
81 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
83 A Separation 2011
86 Grand Illusion 1937
88 The Night of the Hunter 1955
89 The Shop Around the Corner 1940
91 The Shop on Main Street 1965
92 The Red Shoes 1948
94 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019
96 Battleship Potemkin 1925
97 The Conformist 1970
99 Umberto D. 1952
101 Ivan's Childhood 1962
104 Persona 1966
106 The General 1926
108 The Last Laugh 1940
110 High and Low 1963
112 Day of Wrath 1943
113 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
115 The Rules of the Game 1939
117 Rififi 1955
118 Sweet Smell of Success 1957
119 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
122 The Grapes of Wrath 1940
123 The Best of Youth 2003
125 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
126 Greed 1924
127 Forbidden Games 1952
128 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels 1975
129 Orpheus 1950
131 The Mother and the Whore 1973
133 Toy Story 3 2010
134 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000
135 Raise the Red Lantern 1991
138 The Heiress 1949
140 L'Atalante 1934
141 PlayTime 1967
143 Aparajito 1956
145 The Phantom Carriage 1921
146 The Last Picture Show 1971
147 Samurai Rebellion 1967
149 The Cameraman 1928
150 Viridiana 1961
151 Oppenheimer 2023
152 Sanjuro 1962
153 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
154 The Circus 1928
155 Notorious 1946
158 Anatomy of a Murder 1959
159 Safety Last! 1923
160 The Crowd 1928
162 The Wages of Fear 1953
164 The Cranes Are Flying 1957
165 Yi Yi 2000
166 Inside Out 2016
168 Through a Glass Darkly 1961
171 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
175 To Be or Not to Be 1942
176 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012
177 Wild Strawberries 1957
178 Mirror 1975
179 The Lion King 1994
181 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
182 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
183 Rosemary's Baby 1968
185 My Neighbor Totoro 1988
186 White Heat 1949
188 An Autumn Afternoon 1962
189 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928
192 Laura 1944
194 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943
195 The Exterminating Angel 1962
196 Napoleon 1927
197 Rio Bravo 1959
199 Wolfwalkers 2020
201 Shoplifters 2018
202 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
204 12 Years a Slave 2013
205 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
206 A Special Day 1977
207 Marketa Lazarová 1967
208 The Philadelphia Story 1940
209 Breathless 1960
210 Stagecoach 1939
211 It Happened One Night 1934
212 Out of the Past 1947
214 Nosferatu 1922
215 Finding Nemo 2003
216 Threads 1984
217 In a Lonely Place 1950
219 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
220 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
221 Unforgiven 1992
222 Up 2009
223 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2013
224 Spotlight 2015
225 Beauty and the Beast 1946
226 A Matter of Life and Death 1946
228 Coco 2017
229 Diabolique 1955
230 L'Avventura 1960
231 Boyhood 2014
234 Rebecca 1940
235 The Wind 1928
237 Where is the Friend's House? 1987
238 Germany Year Zero 1948
241 Cries and Whispers 1972
242 Los Olvidados 1950
243 I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932
245 Secrets & Lies 1996
246 Badlands 1973
247 His Girl Friday 1940
248 The Searchers 1956
249 Red River 1948
250 Autumn Sonata 1978
251 The Big Heat 1953
253 Shadow of a Doubt 1943
255 Day for Night 1973
256 Our Hospitality 1923
258 Time of the Gypsies 1988
259 Marriage Story 2019
260 Sullivan's Travels 1941
261 The Life of Oharu 1952
262 Fireworks 1997
263 Mary and Max 2009
264 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
266 Still Walking 2008
267 Limelight 1952
269 Brief Encounter 1945
272 Aftersun 2022
274 Faust 1926
275 My Darling Clementine 1946
277 A Woman Under the Influence 1974
278 Scenes from a Marriage 1974
279 A Short Film About Love 1988
280 Monsieur Verdoux 1947
282 In the Mood for Love 2000
283 Chimes at Midnight 1965
284 Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
285 Le Cercle Rouge 1970
286 Song of the Sea 2014
288 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
290 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938
294 Close-Up 1990
295 Holiday 1938
296 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953
299 To Live 1994
301 Manchester by the Sea 2016
302 The Killing 1956
303 Strangers on a Train 1951
304 Vagabond 1985
306 Call Me by Your Name 2017
308 A Hard Day's Night 1964
311 The Lady Eve 1941
312 Nobody Knows 2004
313 Your Name 2016
314 Elevator to the Gallows 1958
316 Tampopo 1985
317 Top Hat 1935
318 A City of Sadness 1989
319 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days 2007
322 Toy Story 2 1999
323 A Night at the Opera 1935
325 Room 2015
326 My Fair Lady 1964
327 Ninotchka 1939
328 Inception 2010
329 The Ascent 1977
330 The Lost Weekend 1945
331 La La Land 2016
332 Jean de Florette 1986
334 Days of Heaven 1978
335 The Social Network 2010
336 Z 1969
337 Amour 2012
338 The Servant 1963
339 The Music Room 1958
340 Diary of a Country Priest 1951
342 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947
343 Sleuth 1972
345 Pickpocket 1959
346 Spring in a Small Town 1948
347 Memories of Murder 2003
348 Ashes and Diamonds 1958
349 Intolerance 1916
351 A Short Film About Killing 1988
352 The Conversation 1974
356 El Sur 1983
358 Ernest & Celestine 2012
359 Before Sunset 2004
363 Scarlet Street 1945
365 Before Midnight 2013
366 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
367 Her 2013
368 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003
371 Nashville 1975
372 Red Desert 1964
374 Bringing Up Baby 1938
375 Cria Cuervos 1976
377 Repulsion 1965
378 The Iron Giant 1999
379 The Unknown 1927
380 Poetry 2010
381 Strike 1925
382 Loe and Death 1975
383 The Right Stuff 1983
384 Mon Oncle 1958
385 Wings of Desire 1987
388 And Life Goes On 1992
389 The Straight Story 1999
390 The Twilight Samurai 2002
394 Charulata 1964
395 Soul 2020
396 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
397 The Worst Person in the World 2021
399 Roma 2018
400 The Quiet Girl 2022
402 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958
404 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924
405 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011
406 The Handmaiden 2016
407 The Face of Another 1966
410 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953
412 Nostalghia 1983
414 The Incredibles 2004
415 Paddington 2 2017
416 Winchester '73 1950
417 My Night at Maud's 1969
418 The Killer 1989
419 The Asphalt Jungle 1950
422 The Return 2003
423 The 39 Steps 1935
424 My Life as a Zucchini 2016
425 Belle de Jour 1967
428 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
431 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
432 Purple Noon 1960
433 The Remains of the Day 1993
434 Stroszek 1977
435 Late Autumn 1960
438 Talk to Her 2002
440 Vampyr 1932
441 The Hunt 2012
442 Funeral Parade of Roses 1969
443 Frankenstein 1931
446 The Thin Man 1934
448 A Prophet 2009
449 Maborosi 1995
450 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954
451 The Big Parade 1925
452 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942
453 Masculin Feminin 1966
455 The Artist 2011
456 Past Lives 2023
457 Before Sunrise 1995
459 The Celebration 1998
460 The Triplets of Belleville 2003
461 The Miracle Worker 1962
462 Short Term 12 2013
464 Kings of the Road 1976
465 Great Expectations 1946
466 The Lady Vanishes 1938
467 Only Yesterday 1991
468 Last Year at Marienbad 1961
469 Kiki's Delivery Service 1989
470 Ballad of a Soldier 1959
471 Peeping Tom 1960
472 Él 1953
473 Stray Dog 1949
474 Being There 1979
476 The Killers 1946
477 Little Women 2019
478 Incendies 2010
479 Journey to Italy 1954
480 The Naked Island 1960
481 Kanal 1957
482 L'Eclisse 1962
483 Charade 1963
484 L'Argent 1983
488 I Was Born, But... 1932
489 To Have and Have Not 1944
490 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
492 Almost Famous 2000
494 Vivre Sa Vie 1962
495 Black Narcissus 1947
496 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979
498 Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944
499 The Roaring Twenties 1939
500 Kwaidan 1964


Turns out i actually haven't seen that many of this list. I've deleted the ones i have seen .. the others, either i haven't, or don't remember them well enough.
 
A Bright Summer Day - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brighter_Summer_Day (you gon' need it)

1991 Chinese-language film about life in Taiwan for the families who escaped the purges of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

It's FOUR hours long.

A bunch of young-adult students from Taipei try to show who's toughest to one another, joining some loosely-organized street gangs, with the occasional beating, and the whole affairs seems to go nowhere for about three hours, when suddenly the gang that seemed the least aggressive decides to go full medieval and massacres the previous gang. (special effects are non-existent)

Really would not recommend. Maybe if you were Taiwanese, then sure, because it would then serve the purpose to give you the identity that even the characters in the film's plot are looking for. Which is what this film was designed to do, and for the audience it was designed to entertain.

Which is the problem when your list is based on ratings rather than opinion. *I* can make a list of what's good for ME, and then that list is useful if you agree - and not useful if you disagree. But this film is meaningless to anyone who is not Taiwanese.

6/10 the film's greatest achievement is being in the list.
 
Dead of Winter - 6.5/10

Thriller set deep in the winter of bumfuck nowhere Minnesota. A lady stumbles onto criminal activity and for the next 90minutes its her against them in this snowed in winter wonderland.

It's a good story, there are some plot holes, but its a engaging thriller that doesn't slow down very much and moves along nicely in its 98 minute run time.
 
as i make my way through the list, i have watched the vastly-superior

Soy Cuba! (I Am Cuba) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/reference/

1964 B&W film shot by a Russian director to exalt the motives of the Cuban Revolution.

Four stories of Cuba being shit under Fulgensio Batista, a woman is discovered by her soon-to-be husband to work as a prostitute for rich Americans, a plantation worker burns himself alive when the plantation is sold to United Fruit, a group of students engage in revolutionary activities and are murdered by the police, that sort of stuff.

The film has reeeally good cinematography, with a particularly active camera, some very nice scenes shot with rare infrared military-grade film to show the otherwise-sunny Cuban sun as overcast, a scene where the camera dives underwater (1964 camera!), and has a strong surreal aspect, reminding me of both Simon Del Desierto, and early Orson Wells film for the heavy use of shadow.

The plots themselves are not particularly great, more so today than when it was filmed, but there's some shots that are really fantastic, if you are into this sort of stuff, like a handheld interior camera that somehow manages to *fly*.

Worth it.
7.5/10

i liked it more than i like the new forum.
 
Woman In The Dunes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/reference/

Vaguely Kafkesque B&W japanese film where a school teacher is given hospitality by a group of fishermen, to awake the next day to find he is in a house that sits at the bottom of an enormous hole in the sand. The woman who lives there must work every night to shovel away the sand to not remain buried in it. He tries to escape, but fails.

.. this was not pleasant. The story is extremely dull, and the film seems to want to teach me some moral about existentialism, i.e. "no matter how desperate for freedom a man is, he'll fuck the woman he's trapped with eventually" but never manages to get its point across, if it has one.

Doesn't do great on the surreal side, either. I suspect the novel (published 2 years prior) had deeper content, which didn't come through on the adaptation.

5.5/10 at best for historical reasons.
 
I've seen 53 of the movies on the list.

1 The Godfather 1972
2 Seven Samurai 1954
4 The Godfather: Part II 1974
8 Citizen Kane 1941
11 Casablanca 1942
19 Apocalypse Now 1979
26 Dr. Strangelove: or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
30 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003
34 GoodFellas 1990
38 North by Northwest 1959
40 Lawrence of Arabia 1962
52 Witness for the Prosecution 1957
54 Ran 1985
77 Chinatown 1974
93 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
98 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
107 Saving Private Ryan 1998
109 Star Wars 1977
111 The Silence of the Lambs 1991
136 The Seventh Seal 1957
137 The Empire Strikes Back 1980
139 Back to the Future 1985
161 Cool Hand Luke 1967
163 Gone with the Wind 1939
172 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
174 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
183 Rosemary's Baby 1968
187 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
190 The Wild Bunch 1969
191 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
193 Do the Right Thing 1989
218 The Wizard of Oz 1939
232 The Hidden Fortress 1958
239 Beauty and the Beast 1991
244 Pan's Labyrinth 2006
257 Fantasia 1940
273 The Sting 1973
289 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
297 Platoon 1986
307 High Noon 1952
310 Cinema Paradiso 1988
321 Blade Runner 1982
350 The Man Who Would Be King 1975
360 Pinocchio 1940
369 Brazil 1985
429 Duck Soup 1933
430 Paper Moon 1973
436 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
439 King Kong 1933
443 Frankenstein 1931
474 Being There 1979
475 The Graduate 1967
489 To Have and Have Not 1944
 
sorted by decade by Copilot 🙂

1910s​

  • 349 Intolerance 1916

1920s​

  • 81 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
  • 65 The Kid 1921
  • 214 Nosferatu 1922
  • 159 Safety Last! 1923
  • 256 Our Hospitality 1923
  • 22 Sherlock Jr. 1924
  • 126 Greed 1924
  • 404 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924
  • 96 Battleship Potemkin 1925
  • 381 Strike 1925
  • 451 The Big Parade 1925
  • 106 The General 1926
  • 274 Faust 1926
  • 59 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
  • 196 Napoleon 1927
  • 379 The Unknown 1927
  • 27 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
  • 149 The Cameraman 1928
  • 154 The Circus 1928
  • 160 The Crowd 1928
  • 189 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928
  • 235 The Wind 1928
  • 153 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
  • 6 City Lights 1931
  • 443 Frankenstein 1931
  • 243 I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932
  • 440 Vampyr 1932
  • 488 I Was Born, But... 1932
  • 140 L'Atalante 1934
  • 211 It Happened One Night 1934
  • 446 The Lady Vanishes 1934
  • 264 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
  • 317 Top Hat 1935
  • 323 A Night at the Opera 1935
  • 12 Modern Times 1936
  • 80 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
  • 86 Grand Illusion 1937
  • 290 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938
  • 295 Holiday 1938
  • 374 Bringing Up Baby 1938
  • 466 The Lady Vanishes 1938
  • 115 The Rules of the Game 1939
  • 210 Stagecoach 1939
  • 327 Ninotchka 1939
  • 499 The Roaring Twenties 1939

1940s​

  • 89 The Shop Around the Corner 1940
  • 108 The Last Laugh 1940
  • 122 The Grapes of Wrath 1940
  • 208 The Philadelphia Story 1940
  • 247 His Girl Friday 1940
  • 260 Sullivan's Travels 1941
  • 311 The Lady Eve 1941
  • 175 To Be or Not to Be 1942
  • 452 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942
  • 112 Day of Wrath 1943
  • 194 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943
  • 253 Shadow of a Doubt 1943
  • 192 Laura 1944
  • 431 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
  • 489 To Have and Have Not 1944
  • 51 Double Indemnity 1944
  • 363 Scarlet Street 1945
  • 330 The Lost Weekend 1945
  • 269 Brief Encounter 1945
  • 41 Children of Paradise 1945
  • 225 Beauty and the Beast 1946
  • 171 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
  • 155 Notorious 1946
  • 465 Great Expectations 1946
  • 476 The Killers 1946
  • 212 Out of the Past 1947
  • 495 Black Narcissus 1947
  • 280 Monsieur Verdoux 1947
  • 219 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
  • 238 Germany Year Zero 1948
  • 249 Red River 1948
  • 92 The Red Shoes 1948
  • 44 Late Spring 1949
  • 125 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
  • 186 White Heat 1949
  • 473 Stray Dog 1949

1950s​

  • 14 Sunset Boulevard 1950
  • 39 All About Eve 1950
  • 129 Orpheus 1950
  • 217 In a Lonely Place 1950
  • 416 Winchester '73 1950
  • 242 Los Olvidados 1950
  • 75 Early Summer 1951
  • 182 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
  • 340 Diary of a Country Priest 1951
  • 15 Singin' in the Rain 1952
  • 99 Umberto D. 1952
  • 127 Forbidden Games 1952
  • 261 The Life of Oharu 1952
  • 267 Limelight 1952
  • 5 Tokyo Story 1953
  • 37 Ugetsu 1953
  • 162 The Wages of Fear 1953
  • 251 The Big Heat 1953
  • 296 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953
  • 410 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953
  • 43 Sansho the Bailiff 1954
  • 450 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954
  • 479 Journey to Italy 1954
  • 17 Ordet 1955
  • 32 Pather Panchali 1955
  • 117 Rififi 1955
  • 88 The Night of the Hunter 1955
  • 33 A Man Escaped 1956
  • 143 Aparajito 1956
  • 302 The Killing 1956
  • 481 Kanal 1957
  • 118 Sweet Smell of Success 1957
  • 69 Nights of Cabiria 1957
  • 164 The Cranes Are Flying 1957
  • 52 Witness for the Prosecution 1957
  • 177 Wild Strawberries 1957
  • 314 Elevator to the Gallows 1958
  • 339 The Music Room 1958
  • 348 Ashes and Diamonds 1958
  • 402 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958
  • 158 Anatomy of a Murder 1959
  • 63 The World of Apu 1959
  • 220 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
  • 197 Rio Bravo 1959
  • 345 Pickpocket 1959
  • 470 Ballad of a Soldier 1959

1960s​

  • 73 Le Trou 1960
  • 78 The Apartment 1960
  • 209 Breathless 1960
  • 230 L'Avventura 1960
  • 432 Purple Noon 1960
  • 435 Late Autumn 1960
  • 471 Peeping Tom 1960
  • 150 Viridiana 1961
  • 168 Through a Glass Darkly 1961
  • 468 Last Year at Marienbad 1961
  • 101 Ivan's Childhood 1962
  • 152 Sanjuro 1962
  • 195 The Exterminating Angel 1962
  • 284 Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
  • 494 Vivre Sa Vie 1962
  • 181 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
  • 338 The Servant 1963
  • 483 Charade 1963
  • 110 High and Low 1963
  • 372 Red Desert 1964
  • 308 A Hard Day's Night 1964
  • 490 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
  • 394 Charulata 1964
  • 91 The Shop on Main Street 1965
  • 283 Chimes at Midnight 1965
  • 377 Repulsion 1965
  • 55 Andrei Rublev 1966
  • 104 Persona 1966
  • 113 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
  • 453 Masculin Feminin 1966
  • 141 PlayTime 1967
  • 147 Samurai Rebellion 1967
  • 207 Marketa Lazarová 1967
  • 425 Belle de Jour 1967
  • 131 The Mother and the Whore 1973
  • 70 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
  • 285 Le Cercle Rouge 1970
  • 97 The Conformist 1970
  • 146 The Last Picture Show 1971
  • 202 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
  • 241 Cries and Whispers 1972
  • 343 Sleuth 1972
  • 246 Badlands 1973
  • 255 Day for Night 1973
  • 288 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
  • 352 The Conversation 1974
  • 277 A Woman Under the Influence 1974
  • 278 Scenes from a Marriage 1974
  • 428 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
  • 178 Mirror 1975
  • 371 Nashville 1975
  • 382 Loe and Death 1975
  • 375 Cria Cuervos 1976
  • 464 Kings of the Road 1976
  • 206 A Special Day 1977
  • 329 The Ascent 1977
  • 434 Stroszek 1977
  • 250 Autumn Sonata 1978
  • 334 Days of Heaven 1978
  • 474 Being There 1979
  • 496 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979

1980s​

  • 18 Fanny and Alexander 1982
  • 48 Come and See 1985
  • 304 Vagabond 1985
  • 216 Threads 1984
  • 356 El Sur 1983
  • 412 Nostalghia 1983
  • 484 L'Argent 1983
  • 29 Grave of the Fireflies 1988
  • 185 My Neighbor Totoro 1988
  • 258 Time of the Gypsies 1988
  • 279 A Short Film About Love 1988
  • 351 A Short Film About Killing 1988
  • 318 A City of Sadness 1989
  • 469 Kiki's Delivery Service 1989
  • 418 The Killer 1989

1990s​

  • 294 Close-Up 1990
  • 467 Only Yesterday 1991
  • 135 Raise the Red Lantern 1991
  • 388 And Life Goes On 1992
  • 433 The Remains of the Day 1993
  • 299 To Live 1994
  • 179 The Lion King 1994
  • 60 Satantango 1994
  • 49 Three Colors: Red 1994
  • 245 Secrets & Lies 1996
  • 262 Fireworks 1997
  • 459 The Celebration 1998
  • 322 Toy Story 2 1999
  • 378 The Iron Giant 1999
  • 389 The Straight Story 1999

2000s​

  • 134 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000
  • 165 Yi Yi 2000
  • 492 Almost Famous 2000
  • 282 In the Mood for Love 2000
  • 16 Spirited Away 2001
  • 390 The Twilight Samurai 2002
  • 438 Talk to Her 2002
  • 215 Finding Nemo 2003
  • 347 Memories of Murder 2003
  • 123 The Best of Youth 2003
  • 460 The Triplets of Belleville 2003
  • 205 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
  • 312 Nobody Knows 2004
  • 359 Before Sunset 2004
  • 319 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days 2007
  • 366 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
  • 266 Still Walking 2008

2010s​

  • 133 Toy Story 3 2010
  • 328 Inception 2010
  • 478 Incendies 2010
  • 380 Poetry 2010
  • 83 A Separation 2011
  • 405 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011
  • 358 Ernest & Celestine 2012
  • 337 Amour 2012
  • 176 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012
  • 441 The Hunt 2012
  • 204 12 Years a Slave 2013
  • 223 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2013
  • 365 Before Midnight 2013
  • 367 Her 2013
  • 231 Boyhood 2014
  • 286 Song of the Sea 2014
  • 325 Room 2015
  • 224 Spotlight 2015
  • 166 Inside Out 2016
  • 301 Manchester by the Sea 2016
  • 313 Your Name 2016
  • 331 La La Land 2016
  • 406 The Handmaiden 2016
  • 228 Coco 2017
  • 306 Call Me by Your Name 2017
  • 415 Paddington 2 2017
  • 119 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
  • 21 Parasite 2019
  • 477 Little Women 2019

2020s​

  • 395 Soul 2020
  • 397 The Worst Person in the World 2021
  • 272 Aftersun 2022
  • 400 The Quiet Girl 2022
  • 79 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
 
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looks like i had missed a few, Tampopo (one of my favourite films of all time), Jean le Florette (but they don't have the better first episode Manon de la Source?), Unforgiven ..
Some i have already seen, but couldn't really tell you much about the film, so i'm keeping them for a rewatch.
.. i mean .. i remember trying to watch Fanny & Alexander, or Smultronstället, and being super-fucking-bored, so not really something i'm looking forward to. But, art, amirite?
 
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Cabin Boy - 5.5/10

1994 film starring Chris Elliott in a film he wrote with his buddy who also directed it, Adam Resnick. Produced by Tim Burton.

The premise is a rich private school kid hops on the wrong boat "The Filthy Whore", a fishing ship, instead of his luxury liner and goes on a journey.

Its weird, its nonsensical, the jokes are too often not funny and the visual effects are laughably bad. The weird mythical figures, the strange love relationship, the insane set pieces, the gross humor... Oh and did I mention the cameos by David Letterman & Andy Richter.

What a strange flick!

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Shoplifters - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8075192/reference/

You've seen Parasite, remove all the core of the plot, and extend the first few minutes to the runtime of a full film, and you got Shoplifters.

A family of poor people in Japan is poor and does poor people things, like Shoplifting; the older girls strip at the peep show, the younger kid learns to steal.

And that's it. There is no real arc, save a last minute change of heart of one of them to take the fall and save a family member from jail. But nothing really happens.
You might argue that, "poor people are not bad people, deep inside", and if you're content with that being the plot, then this film is for you.

The photography is fantastic, though it is all rather close and indoors shots, but i wouldn't recommend it just for that.

6/10
 
Marriage Story -https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7653254/reference/

good good, what a slog.

Veeery traditional film about a couple who are divorcing. The script is an exercise in acting and the story is irrelevant. Excellent Adam Driver and Scarlett Jo, and i think i saw Laura Dern as well, and maybe the Sicilian from Princess Bride?

Both Driver and Johansson love these quasi-theater scripts, and, i don't. I've seen them act this well in other films that have far more entertaining stories. Look guys, i believe you, you can act; now do something fun, please?

My vote: 6.5/10 - not my thing.
 
on the other hand, i very much enjoyed

Roma - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/reference/

Spanish-language, B&W film (modern production), hyperrealistic style, describing in meticulous detail life in Mexico during 1971.

.. it took me a while to get into it. At first i was again thinking, a film without a story, but as it went on i understood that the story isn't really that important. The characters, too, are secondary. You really need to notice the sets, the incredible reconstruction of life fifty years ago, the cars, the posters, the telephones, the GODDAMN ASHTRAYS, clothing, furniture, and the Black&White really does help.

It might not be for you, but i liked it.

7-7.5/10 depending on how much of a film production maniac you are.
 
Smokey and the Bandit - 8/10
Smokey and the Bandit II - 4/10

I saw these when I was a kid, but it was a long time ago and it has always been the TV version. The first one is fun and brings back a lot of memories. I didn't remember a lot of the plot - the idea that they're doing all of this for Coors beer is hilarious today. They're horrible at locations, all the states have Georgia road signs, but it's fun. Obviously Jackie Gleason makes the movie.

The second one... eh. Cheap money grab. Having lived right next to both sides of the Texas/Louisiana border, having it look like Nevada was fun. Otherwise it was low effort. The pack I got contains the third one, but I've heard it makes the second look like The Godfather, so I'll probably pass.
 
The Crow - 1994

Of course visually, it can feel a little dated, but what a fantastic movie. The only downside is that it only makes sense if you read a quick blurb about its history.

Brandon Lee was the son of kung fu legend, Bruce Lee. Who? Mmm, your kung fu not strong.,

Also, he was killed by a pretty bizarre but allegedly "accidental" firearm discharge.,

There's a bit more, but you need to know at least that much.

I love the composition of the scenes and how understated but elegant the presentation is.

I sort of wonder if I might have some subliminal affinity for the 90s and that's leaking out but I really, really don't believe that. The 90s can never be left far enough behind.
 
MY HEART CANNOT

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I watched my first Tarantino film, Django Unchained. The last half hour dropped it from decent to fine for me. But I'm not a big fan of spaghetti westerns, so "fine" is still a compliment from me.
 
For Sama (PBS Frontline Documentary, 2019) 8/10

This is not for everyone, for sure. It's shocking. The violence of war, the injustice of military action suffered by the innocent, children, women.

I got a dose of eye-opening info about what it can be like to live in a country dominated by brutal dictatorship last night:

I watched this 95 minute, 2019, PBS Frontline documentary, "For Sama," last night. It was filmed and produced by the woman protagonist. It's sort of a filmed-autobiographical account of her, her husband M.D. (who establishes and runs hospitals) and their newborn's (Sama) life and the world surrounding them in Aleppo, Syria for ~5 years during which was a siege by brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime from ~2013 to 2019. Bombs (cluster and otherwise), missiles, tanks, chlorine gas, nothing was off the table, and the airstrikes were by Assad's ally, Russia.

This is by far the most heartrending and brutal portrayal of wartime conditions amidst civilian population I have ever seen. Scores of corpses are seen, you see dying people, people on the doorstep of death (some saved!), anguish, children dying, children in endless traumatic circumstances. You are witness to the resilience (and joy!) of the population, these were rebels, wanting to escape the repression of Assad's dynastic regime, which had gone on for decades.
 
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