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  1. Thread: Top 10 of 2024

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    1. Challengers 2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 3....

    1. Challengers
    2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    3. The Count of Monte Cristo
    4. Anora
    5. Dune: Part Two
    6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
    7. Chime
    8. A Different Man
    9. Flow...
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    1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the...

    1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
    2. Blue Thunder (1983)
    3. Court (2014)
    4. Tenebre (1982)
    5. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
    6. Color Out of Space (2019)
    7. The...
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    1. The Florida Project (2017) 2. Batman Begins...

    1. The Florida Project (2017)
    2. Batman Begins (2005)
    3. Hot Fuzz (2007)
    4. In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
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    Poll: Tricky for this kind of story to balance between...

    Tricky for this kind of story to balance between internal logic of its horror happenings and the character behaviors that become illogical as a result of the former's supernatural power, and the...
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    Poll: Haven't caught up with Sheridan since 2017's Wind...

    Haven't caught up with Sheridan since 2017's Wind River and was surprised to find all-around perfunctory plot, dialogue, and characters from such a writer-first filmmaker. Only remotely fun as ...
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    1. Batman Begins (2005) 2. In Search of a...

    1. Batman Begins (2005)
    2. In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
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    Top 20 First Watches for 2024: 1. Outer Space...

    Top 20 First Watches for 2024:

    1. Outer Space (1999, Peter Tscherkassky)
    2. The Last Command (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
    3. Bullet in the Head (1990, John Woo)
    4. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou...
  8. Thread: Top 10 of 2024

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    Year-end snapshot Top 10, far from final: 1....

    Year-end snapshot Top 10, far from final:

    1. Challengers
    2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    3. Anora
    4. Dune: Part Two
    5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
    6. Chime
    7. A Different...
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    Last update for the year: 1. Giovanni's Room...

    Last update for the year:

    1. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
    2. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez)
    3. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer...
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    Well, 5 years later I finally read Dune Messiah. ...

    Well, 5 years later I finally read Dune Messiah. I've seen a few complaints about Herbert's writing in this forum, but for me it doesn't impede Dune much, where as this one though I feel it more...
  11. Thread: Top 10 of 2024

    by Peng
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    1. Challengers 2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 3....

    1. Challengers
    2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    3. Anora
    4. Dune: Part Two
    5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
    6. Chime
    7. Hundreds of Beavers
    8. The Substance
    9. Rebel Ridge
    10....
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    1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 2. Call Me by Your...

    1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    2. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
    3. The Apartment (1960)
    4. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
    5. Children of Men (2006)
    6. One Week (1920)
    7. PlayTime (1967)
    8. Lawrence of Arabia...
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    Six years after watching Avatar (and a global...

    Six years after watching Avatar (and a global pandemic) later, I finally started this show (and skipped over this thread's last two pages as it catched up into the future seasons). I liked it better...
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    Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen) - 3.5/5 Not ...

    Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen) - 3.5/5

    Not surprised to read afterwards that Austen wrote this over some years, since while reading I sometimes had trouble reconciling the lead in the Bath...
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    Poll: Similar throwback exercise as The House of the...

    Similar throwback exercise as The House of the Devil, but I prefer this over that more acclaimed one. West's earlier film feels so hermetically sealed in its style to me somehow, to the ...
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    Poll: Several dents here: even as a non-book reader, I...

    Several dents here: even as a non-book reader, I can tell there's some wobbly adapting job going on during third act; the theatrical conceit is inconsistently employed; Aaron fuckin'...
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    1. Outer Space (1999) 2. The Last Command (1928)...

    1. Outer Space (1999)
    2. The Last Command (1928)
    3. Bullet in the Head (1990)
    4. A City of Sadness (1989)
    5. The Docks of New York (1928)
    6. Butterfly and Flowers (1985)
    7. Die Nibelungen...
  18. Thread: Top 10 of 2024

    by Peng
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    1. Challengers 2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 3....

    1. Challengers
    2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    3. Dune: Part Two
    4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
    5. Hundreds of Beavers
    6. The Substance
    7. Rebel Ridge
    8. The Beast
    9....
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    1. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin) 2. American...

    1. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
    2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin)
    3. Time (Chart Korbjitti)
    4. Emma (Jane Austen)
    5....
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    Poll: Johnnie To's interconnected-narrative film, and...

    Johnnie To's interconnected-narrative film, and if it's obvious and blunt all the way about the financial crisis plot element that affects each storyline, To's touch is also fleeter than someone...
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    Poll: Coming backwards from Laudenbach's second film...

    Coming backwards from Laudenbach's second film Chicken for Linda to his debut here, it confirms what I vaguely suspected after watching that film that I find his particular animated style more...
  22. Thread: Gretel & Hansel

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    Poll: I find this right in the middle of the pack in...

    I find this right in the middle of the pack in term of Osgood Perkins' first three films. Not so much "elevated horror", more Perkins using his style to take this tale to its Grimm root, even with...
  23. Poll: Out of Osgood Perkins' first three films, this...

    Out of Osgood Perkins' first three films, this has the lowest average letterboxd score, so I hope it's not too pretentious to say that what makes it my favorite is precisely how it feels like the...
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    1. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin) 2. American...

    1. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
    2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin)
    3. Time (Chart Korbjitti)
    4. Emma (Jane Austen)
    5....
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    Poor Things (Alasdair Gray) - 4/5 Coming to...

    Poor Things (Alasdair Gray) - 4/5

    Coming to this after the film has me appreciate how each work is so very much of its own medium, with the book so chockful of Scottish historical/political...
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