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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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. PlayTime (1967)
7. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
8. The...

Funny how we turn out to get a semi-version of this in Furiosa, ha.

Fifth time, but first post-Furiosa. A film this elementally direct already doesn't need any other feature supporting it, but I'm glad that we get one this year that doesn't detract from, but...

A Small Town in Germany (John le Carr?) - 3/5

The book's wiki has the background that at the time of writing this book, John le Carr? was going through a nervous breakdown (from marriage ...

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. Problemista
7. Hit Man
8. Evil Does Not Exist
9....

1. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
2. The Apartment (1960)
3. Children of Men (2006)
4. PlayTime (1967)
5. The Remains of the Day (1993)
6. Dogtooth (2009)
7. The General (1926)
8. Moonlight...

1. Outer Space (1999)
2. The Last Command (1928)
3. The Docks of New York (1928)
4. Butterfly and Flowers (1985)
5. Robin and Marian (1976)
6. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
7. The...

Finally watched the theatrical version, as 1) it was leaving Thai Netflix (and the only one easily streamable to me at the moment), 2) the receptions to truncated theatrical one vs the full two...

Same star rating, but my personal score slightly drops (from 7.5 to 7), as the third act is even more of a wet blanket on this second go. The tonal shift from An Event could have worked in theory,...

Ranking:

1. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - 9
2. PlayTime - 9
3. Jour de Fete - 8
4. Mon Oncle - 7.5
5. Trafic - 7.5
6. School for Postmen - 7
7. Parade - 6.5

This works much better when its supernatural imagery relates to the family drama than when it relates to horror, the latter leaving me cold despite that usually being the aspect in which even...

With Absentia and Before I Wake watched this year, I watched all the Mike Flanagan projects I was interested in so far. My ranking:

1. Midnight Mass (2021)
2. The Haunting of Hill House (2018)...

1. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin)
2. Emma (Jane Austen)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the...

The People in the Trees (Hanya Yanagihara) - 4/5

Not sure if my slight ambivalence to this is from coming to it after A Little Life. Largely different story, but there are more than a few traces...

Rewatch since it was leaving Thai Netflix. Upgraded score from 7.5 to 8 because knowing the full story beforehand now makes me appreciate the tonal and plotting balance act Baker pulls off here even...

More premise than film, to the point that it feels like Lanthimos thought up "inverse Dogtooth" and then used its first treatment draft instantly to filming. And this is the kind of story that...

1. Outer Space (1999)
2. The Last Command (1928)
3. The Docks of New York (1928)
4. Butterfly and Flowers (1985)
5. Robin and Marian (1976)
6. The Straight Story (1999)
7. El Sur (1983)
8. Bed...

1. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
2. The Apartment (1960)
3. Children of Men (2006)
4. The Remains of the Day (1993)
5. Dogtooth (2009)
6. The General (1926)
7. Moonlight (2016)
8. sex, lies, and...

1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Hundreds of Beavers
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. Evil Does Not Exist
7. Girls State
8. The Goldman...