To watch:
Palm Springs
Underwater
Bad Boys 4 Life
Zola- moved to 2021
Social Dilemma
Trial of the Chicago 7
One Night In Miami
Wendy
Promising Young Woman
Shirley
Soul
Mank
MAYBE, I need a push:
On The Rocks
The Father
Becky
Wolfwalkers
Acclaimed, but don't really care:
Ammonite
Emma.
French Exit
ADDING:
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Small Axe Anthology - Parts 4 and 5
40 Year Old Version
Bacarau
News of the World
Pieces of a Woman
Judas and the Black Messiah (?)
Wolfwalkers is definitely a must watch. And I'd add La Casa Lobo and I'm No Longer Here. There are also a few anime films I'd say are good to really good.
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Last Seen:
Coyote (K. Jerkovic, 2022) ☆
Uncle from Another World (S. Kawai, 2022-23) ☆
Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!? + OVA (H. Kaneko/T. Tokoro, 2018-19) ☆
The Dangers in My Heart, S2 (H. Akagi, 2024) ☆
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, S1 (K. Saitō, 2023?24) ☆
Knocked Up (J. Apatow, 2007) ☆
Cobra (G. P. Cosmatos, 1986)
Lawless (J. Hillcoat, 2012) ☆
Pantheon, S1 & 2 (C. Silverstein, 2022-23) ☆
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (S. Peckinpah, 1974)
First time ☆
1. A Sun
2. Bacurau
3. Dick Johnson is Dead
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
5. Sound of Metal
6. The Assistant
7. The Forty-Year Old Version
8. Palm Springs
9. Da 5 Bloods
10. Shirley
Others:
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Mank
Trying to catch up on a lot and some things will inevitably fall behind, but Chung Mong-hong's A Sun is deserving of the praise that the Variety writer threw its way when he namechecked it as the year's best film. It operates across multiple registers, as a low-key gangster film, as a family melodrama, and as a study on lower-class life and beliefs in aspiration. It feels like a slice-of-life text, and the comparisons to Lee Chang-dong's scripts is apropos--this Taiwanese film is pretty understated, yet there are echoes and reverberations that feel similar to the way that Lee's Secret Sunshine or Poetry operated, where payoffs on those small moments occur some time later. There are a slew of gorgeous individual shots and moments, from the hotpot visual to the dream sequence to the sequence that gives the film's its English title, to the coda. Just a marvel.
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The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
So.....this went through some changes.Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
1. I'm thinking of ending things
2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
3. Nomadland
4. She Dies Tomorrow
5. Sound of Metal
6. One Night In Miami...
7. Wolfwalkers
8. On The Rocks
9. Soul
10. The Assistant
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
Premieres
Warm
L'Année dernière Ã* Dachau (Mark Rappaport)
Apiyemiyekî? (Ana Vaz)
Mild
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (Mark Rappaport)
La France contre les robots (Jean-Marie Straub)
The Rabbit Hunters (Evan and Galen Johnson/Guy Maddin)
Strasbourg 1518 (Jonathan Glazer)
Stump the Guesser! (Evan and Galen Johnson/Guy Maddin)
Cold
American Murder: The Family Next Door (Jenny Popplewell)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Jason Woliner)
US Theatrical Releases
Spicy
Jinpa (Pema Tseden)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
Warm
I Was at Home, but... (Angela Schanelec)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke)
Mild
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
La Gomera (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Cold
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley)
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
Reviewed in the New York Times
Spicy
Liberté (Albert Serra)
Warm
Le Daim (Quentin Dupieux)
A Girl Missing (Fukada Koji)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sangsoo)
Sibyl (Justine Triet)
To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Yourself and Yours (Hong Sangsoo)
Mild
Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog)
Cold
Fire Will Come (Oliver Laxe)
Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
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Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
2. The Trip to Greece
3. David Byrne's American Utopia
4. The Forty-Year-Old Version
5. The Vast of Night
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7. The Assistant
8. The Wolf House
9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
10. Time
Year's end snapshot.
1. Dick Johnson is Dead
2. Lovers Rock
3. First Cow
4. Wolfwalkers
5. David Byrne's American Utopia
6. Da 5 Bloods
7. Soul
8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
9. A White, White Day
10. Time
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
The year of hot garbage. Not enough quality movies to even make a top 5. I hope they don't make any awards shows for this year.
Only saw 32 films this year, which is not surprising. The top 10 is not good.
https://letterboxd.com/dukefrukem/list/2020/
Best thing I saw all year was Hamilton along with THREE Netflix movies.
1 Hamilton
2. The Vast of Night
3. Palm Springs
4. The Hunt
5. Horse Girl
6. The Haunting of Bly Manor
7. Extraction
8. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
9. Vivarium
10. Color Out of Space
1. Dick Johnson Is Dead
2. The Grand Bizarre
3. The Trip to Greece
4. David Byrne's American Utopia
5. Sound of Metal
6. The Forty-Year-Old Version
7. The Vast of Night
8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
9. The Assistant
10. The Wolf House
Making some movement.
Add Hunter Hunter
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
Neat premise. ADDING.
Making some movement.
Definitely glad I watched On the Rocks despite the low reception to it and the bad trailer.
Came across some clips and stills of I'm Your Woman which now gets added.
Malcolm & Marie is going for awards... Despite it being "2021," I'll be lumping it into 2020 since it's trying to be nominated.
From Letterboxd
From left to right:
Wolfwalkers
Wolf of Snow Hollow
Kajillionaire (80% sure)
Tenet
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Mangrove
Birds of Prey
Palm Springs (? 20% sure - haven’t seen it)
Minari
Nomadland
Sound of Metal
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
I'm not counting any movie released in Jan/Feb for awards as 2020.
The 2020 Matchies are gonna be hard as hell to figure out lol.
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I'm crossing my fingers that Judas and the Black Messiah is as good as I'm hoping, and assuming that majority of us haven't watched Nomadland yet, which are probably two of the bigger ones for Oscars?
I still don't know what those first two are.
Gal with the crossbow is Wolfwalkers
Might second from left be Possessor or Bacurau? I haven't seen either, but it's bothering me we can't figure it out.
Haven't seen it either, but second from left is The Wolf of Snow Hollow.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
And I just watched Wolfwalkers...... Eeep, just didn't see it from the side angle I guess.
Is that Palm Springs for sure too?
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