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1. Batman Begins (2005)
2. In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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'...

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. 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....

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....

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...

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 ...