HE STARES INTO YOUR SOUL!
RULES & RESULTS
HE STARES INTO YOUR SOUL!
RULES & RESULTS
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 7.5
Funny Games - 8
The Piano Teacher - 7.5
Cache - 7
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
lists and reviews
The Seventh Continent - 9.0
Benny's Video - 7.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 7.0
The Castle - 7.5
Funny Games - 4.5
Code Unknown - 10.0
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Time of the Wolf - 7.0
Cache - 7.0
Funny Games USA - 4.5
Benny's Video - 4
Funny Games - 9
Code Unknown - 4
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Time of the Wolf - 9
Cache - 8.5
Funny Games USA - 9
The Piano Teacher - 3
Cache - 8
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Benny's Video: 7.0
Funny Games: 8.0
The Piano Teacher: 8.5
Cache: 8.0
Funny Games USA: 7.5
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I'm not much for relegating a film to a numerical score, so I'll just say that Cache and Funny Games are two of the more original films I've seen in recent memory. They're both intriguing, hard-hitting, uncomfortable and especially effective films.
Benny's Video - 7
Funny Games - 10
Code Unknown - 9
The Piano Teacher - 9
Caché - 10
Funny Games U.S. - 10
Funny Games - 5.0
Time of the Wolf - 6.5
Caché - 9.0
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Rather love the psychosexual tensions of The Piano Teacher, and I love the articulateness of the man, but I'm seldom drawn into his work.
Benny's Video - 5
Funny Games - 5
Code Unknown - 6.5
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Cache - 7.5
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Benny's Video (1992) 4.0
Funny Games (1997) 6.0
Code Unknown (2000) 8.5
I'm going to see Cache this week.
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
Benny's Video - 5
Funny Games - 5
The Piano Teacher - 10
Cache - 9
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
Benny's Video- 1
Code Unknown- 9
Funny Games- 8.5
Cache- 8
Funny Games U.S.- 8.5
The Seventh Continent - 9
Benny's Video - 7.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 10
The Castle - 7.5
Funny Games - 10
Code Unknown - 8
The Piano Teacher - 10
Time of the Wolf - 7
Caché - 9.5
Funny Games (2007) - 8
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
The Seventh Continent - 6.5
Code Unknown - 7.5
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Cache - 9
The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer 13) - A
Stranger by the Lake (Giraudie 12) - B
American Hustle (Russell 13) - C+
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese 13) - C+
Passion (De Palma 12) - B
Woops, forgot about this one. Good stuff.Quoting Spinal (view post)
I'm curious to those who score the Funny Games versions differently. WHy?
I would imagine it is hard to watch exactly the same film re-done without anything in the way of substantial change and feel as strongly about it as you do the original.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
The original is in a foreign language; therefore, it gets a ratings bump.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
I'm writing for Slant Magazine now, so check out my list of reviews.
Hopefully I'll have the energy to update my signature soon.
Better cast is the main reason.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
The Seventh Continent - 7.5
Benny's Video - 6.5
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 5
Funny Games - 5.5
Code Unknown - 8.5
The Piano Teacher - 8.5
Time of the Wolf - 6
Cache - 9
Funny Games U.S. - 5.5
It sort of evens out for me. I prefer Watts/Roth to the parents. But I prefer the European villains to the Americans.Quoting Spinal (view post)
The Piano Teacher - 9
Caché - 7
Funny Games (2007) - 7.5
Benny's Video - 7
Funny Games (1997) - 10
Code Unknown - 4
The Piano Teacher - 8
The Time of the Wolf - 8.5
Caché - 8.5
The Seventh Continent - 8
Benny's Video - 9
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance - 7.5
Funny Games - 9
Code Unknown - 9
The Piano Teacher - 7
Time of the Wolf - 9
Cache - 8.5
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
True Mothers (Naomi Kawase, 2020) - 8
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) - 7
Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020) - 7
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) - 9
Don't Look Up - (Adam McKay, 2021) - 4
The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021) - 4.5
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) - 7
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