Wouldn't have expected you to like Interstella 5555 that much Stan. But I mean, Discovery set to cool anime sci-fi, what's not to like?
Wouldn't have expected you to like Interstella 5555 that much Stan. But I mean, Discovery set to cool anime sci-fi, what's not to like?
Yeah, the story is nothing to write home about, but the art direction is good and the soundtrack is amazing. That's also the reason why I watched, and enjoyed to a minor extent, Tron: Legacy, despite hating the first Tron. Daft Punk are just great; I'm not much of a music lover and they're one of the very few artists that I bothered to listen to their whole discography. It's really a shame they split up.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
1. Till We Meet Again (1944)
2. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
3. The Train (1963)
4. My Darling Clementine (1946)
5. Rome, Open City (1945)
6. Children of Paradise (1945)
7. Late Spring (1949)
8. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
9. Once Upon a Time… This Morning (1994)
10. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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
1. Belle
2. What's Up, Doc?
3. The Mirror
4. Red Rocket
5. Scream
6. What Happened Was...
7. House of Tolerance
8. Written on the Wind
9. Roman Holiday
10. Under the Silver Lake
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> 2. What's Up, Doc?
My favorite comedy ever! Interesting to see Sean Baker say: "Not my cup of tea however..."
1. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945) - ***½
2. The Young One (Buñuel, 1960) - ***½
3. Dumb & Dumber (Farrellys, 1994) - ***½
4. Darkman (Raimi, 1990) - ***½
5. Lenny (Fosse, 1974) - ***½
6. Licorice Pizza (Anderson, 2021) - ***½
7. Dead Man Walking (Robbins, 1995) - ***½
8. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972) - ***½
9. Belle de Jour (Buñuel, 1967) - ***½
10. Interstella 5555 (Takenouchi, 2003) - ***
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- Schlußakkord (Detlef Sierck [Douglas Sirk], 1936)
- Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
- Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967)
- Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985)
- The Stranger (Satyajit Ray, 1991)
- Divorce Iranian Style (Kim Longinotto/Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 1998)
- Bye Bye Africa (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 1999)
- Juke—Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams (Thom Andersen, 2015)
- Undine (Christian Petzold, 2020)
- Unrest (Cyril Schäublin, 2022)
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. Placido (1961, Luis GarcÃ*a Berlanga)
2. The Executioner (1963, Luis GarcÃ*a Berlanga)
3. Cold Water (1994, Olivier Assayas)
4. Experiment in Terror (1962, Blake Edwards)
5. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960, Ritwik Ghatak)
6. Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
7. Polytechnique (2009, Denis Villeneuve)
8. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Mad God (2021, Phil Tippett)
10. The L-Shaped Room (1962, Bryan Forbes)
No change but adding some honorable mentions:
Daughters of Darkness (1971, Harry Kümel)
The Devil’s Harmony (2019, Dylan Holmes Williams)
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye (2016, Francisca Alegria)
1. Belle
2. What's Up, Doc?
3. The Mirror
4. Red Rocket
5. Scream
6. What Happened Was...
7. House of Tolerance
8. Still Walking
9. Rocky
10. Written on the Wind
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Still Walking is so good, probably my favorite Koreeda.Quoting Idioteque Stalker
1. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945) - ***½
2. Breaker Morant (Beresford, 1980) - ***½
3. The Young One (Buñuel, 1960) - ***½
4. Dumb & Dumber (Farrellys, 1994) - ***½
5. Darkman (Raimi, 1990) - ***½
6. 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995) - ***½
7. Lenny (Fosse, 1974) - ***½
8. Licorice Pizza (Anderson, 2021) - ***½
9. Dead Man Walking (Robbins, 1995) - ***½
10. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972) - ***½
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Final update:
1. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945) - ***½
2. Breaker Morant (Beresford, 1980) - ***½
3. The Young One (Buñuel, 1960) - ***½
4. Dumb & Dumber (Farrellys, 1994) - ***½
5. Darkman (Raimi, 1990) - ***½
6. 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995) - ***½
7. Lenny (Fosse, 1974) - ***½
8. Licorice Pizza (Anderson, 2021) - ***½
9. Dead Man Walking (Robbins, 1995) - ***½
10. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972) - ***½
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Top 20 First Watches for 2022:
1. Till We Meet Again (Borzage, 1944)
2. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren & Hammid, 1943)
3. The Train (Frankenheimer, 1963)
4. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
5. Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)
6. Children of Paradise (Carné, 1945)
7. Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
8. The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman, 1942)
9. Once Upon a Time… This Morning (Rittakol, 1994)
10. Arsenic and Old Lace (Capra, 1944)
11. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
12. The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi, 1941)
13. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates, 1973)
14. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
15. The Fallen Idol (Reed, 1948)
16. The Gang’s All Here (Berkely, 1943)
17. The Heiress (Wyler, 1949)
18. Gentleman Jim (Walsh, 1942)
19. The Mortal Storm (Borzage, 1940)
20. The Clock (Minnelli, 1945)
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
1. Belle
2. What's Up, Doc?
3. The Mirror
4. Red Rocket
5. Scream
6. What Happened Was...
7. House of Tolerance
8. Still Walking
9. Rocky
10. Written on the Wind
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- Schlußakkord (Detlef Sierck [Douglas Sirk], 1936)
- Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
- Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967)
- Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph, 1985)
- Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990)
- The Stranger (Satyajit Ray, 1991)
- Divorce Iranian Style (Kim Longinotto/Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 1998)
- Bye Bye Africa (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 1999)
- Undine (Christian Petzold, 2020)
- Unrest (Cyril Schäublin, 2022)
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
End of the year, 277 or 278 viewed, I lost track, don't want to do that again. Going back to normal pre-pandemic watching habits, think I'll also finish going through all my physical media collection.
Movie Log 2022)
1. Stalag 17 (1953, Tubi)
2. Singin' in the Rain (1952, Public Library)
3. The French Dispatch (2021, RedBox DVD)
4. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Tubi)
5. The Gunfighter (1950, Tubi)
6. Licorice Pizza (2021, Theater Viewing)
7. The Cremator (1969, Criterion Blu-ray)
8. Nope (2022, Theater Viewing)
9. Coco (2017, Disney+)
10. The Insider (1999, Hulu)
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And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
I stopped keeping tabs, unfortunately, but here are some of the ones I know I enjoyed from last year/remembered to log:
Encanto
An Officer and a Gentleman
Bullet Train
Knives Out
Kingsman
The Batman
1. The Killing
2. High and Low
3. Demons (1985)
4. The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
5. Petite Maman
6. Cure
7. Everything Everywhere All At Once
8. Barbarian
9. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
10. Martin
Honorable Mentions: Act of Violence, Fallen Angels, Possum, The Steel Helmet, Vigil
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