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Really cute but quite disturbing, imbued with the sense that Rivette knew his time was coming to an end. For a film that never got to finish its shoot it feels very final and it's a lovely swan song. Love the circus scenes that replace the usual theatre scenes, they were raucously funny

Here ends the best ever season in my (fuck, now 4) years of hardcore cinemagoing!

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Juliana Hatfield: "a heart that hurts is a heart that works"

So sick of the whole techbro character archetype. Can't turn on your phone without being inundated by the latest on Musk, Zuckerberg and all these other insufferable guys so I really cba with a play about them that has nothing to say

(does have a few funny scenes tho and Jesse gave us peep show, thick of it and succession so he's still a 👑)

If Haut Bas Fragile is Rivette's Wyler and Secret Defense his Hitchcock, this is his Ruiz. Sublime

We are all playing pretend, but it's only actors that are truly honest about it.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Strong candidate for best film ever made

My May has been great so i wasn't really in need of a diversion... this film was fine but pretty plain... will steer clear of late Eastwood for the foreseeable perhaps

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

"If she can shit on one set of friends she will just as easily shit on the next"

Sandrine Bonnaire... just unequivocally outstanding

Looove the vox pop bits

Looks gorgeous (can't the last time I saw a film so stunning) and everything is so well researched and composed

Like others have noted, just so different from all the other joan of arc films - closeups have been done to death!

Only criticism is the scene in the church in reims in part 2 drags but other that it's perfection!

R.I.P. joan of arc you would have loved raven

Everybody's got a hungry heart

Love how each sequel in this series is so different to the last. Tyne Daly is great.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

- So who are you on the rebound from?

- A girl called Pamela. My whole life pivots around Pam and I breaking up.

- When was that?

- 1973, we were eight. I bloody loved that woman! No warning just up, gone, left me for someone else.

- Who?

- Gary Glitter

💀💀💀

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Clint falls in love with Meryl.
Meryl falls in love with Clint.
I fall in love with them both.

Thought this would be perfect as I was at the Crooked Billet pub in Wimbledon with family the other day - my dad mentioned it was one of Oliver Reed's favourite locals and that Imogen Hassall died just down the road... he's also a fan of Hayley Mills (rightly given her superb early films...) but my god this was awful - slight, sexless and bereft of intrigue... thankfully the two leads are perfectly cast and come out with their dignity intact.

Nothing should *ever* be truly off-limit in a narrative, but there is nothing more narratively here than Reed trying to hound Mills into having sex with him for 90 minutes. Needlessly vulgar

A deservedly forgotten film.

Everyone here has the same flaw - they are all obsessed with what others think of them. I suppose most of us have this affliction at some point in our life, usually in our earlier years - or at least in teens and early adulthood - but you cannot live life at 100% until you truly stop caring. It's so freeing but many of us are pathologically impaired by it. This is a beautiful film because it's all about breaking free and learning about what is truly important

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Misleading title

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Haven't seen this since 2004/5, far too young to appreciate it but wow, what a great film. Love the aesthetic, incredible visuals, great performances and a thoroughly moving story. It speaks to us all as we all have the propensity to totally explode and my god does Bruce have reason to be angry given what he's put through

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Has no right to be two and a half hours long - before long I was patiently waiting for the end.

You know that Chantal Akerman interview from the 70s in which she says something to the effect of "I want you to FEEL the time "? This is the converse. Rivette basically just robbed me of 2 hours of my life because it just flew by, was just totally enthralled.

You just had to be there.

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

Geneviève Bujold is probably my biggest blind spot actor - really need to see more of her work asap tbh

Love this film. It really made me feel [REDACTED]

Watched on Monday January 22, 2024.

Key takeaway - we all lose things. Lose sight, lose track, lose our marbles, lose our loved ones, lose connections, lose friends, lose our basic faculties, and some lose the will to live.

A reminder to cherish the limited time we have. It's not always easy but when all you can do is choose to be happy or sad, make the right choice.

One of the most crushing final films ever. Do read 'Ma mere rit' if you're into Akerman, it's essentially a companion to this

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

20/35

1. Nashville

   x2 

2. Short Cuts

   x4

3. The Company

   x2

4. 3 Women
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

   x2

6. A Wedding
7. Dr. T & the Women

   x2

8. Cookie's Fortune
9. Gosford Park
10. California Split

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Lone Star

  badlands collective 10 year celebration

• Ferrari

  LFF

  such a sour vibe walking out

• Caligula

  Scala season at BFI - 'ultimate cut'

• Into the Night

  Chosen by the fabulous Steve Care

• Kinds of Kindness

  Sundance London

• Mute Witness

  Curated by the wonderful Chloë - debuting the new 4K restoration!

• Hi, Mom!

  PCC Brian De Palma Mystery all-nighter!

• Carlito's Way
• Body Double
• Dressed to Kill

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1. Margaret
2. Lilya 4-ever

   harrowing.

3. Trust

   The script is perfect

4. Secret Defense
5. Days of Heaven

   lush.

6. Career Girls
7. Spider-Man 2

   2004...

8. Mulholland Drive

   Doppelgänger

9. La Belle Noiseuse

   Rivette-ing 

10. Short Cuts

    Grand.

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The man is a genius.

I am a '' apologist.

1. Calendar
2. The Sweet Hereafter
3. Speaking Parts
4. Exotica
5. The Adjuster
6. A Portrait of Arshile
8. Seven Veils
9. Next of Kin
10. Howard in Particular

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Amateur
2. La Ceremonie
3. The Piano Teacher
4. Elle
5. Madame Bovary
6. The Swindle
7. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
8. Amour
9. Every Man for Himself
10. EO

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Shaun of the Dead

  Edgar Wright

• Madame Bovary

  Isabelle Huppert

• Irreversible

  Gaspar Noé

• Dashcam

  Annie Hardy

• Mysterious Skin

  Gregg Araki

• John Wick: Chapter 4

  Rina Sawayama (and her producer Clarence Clarity)

• Requiem for a Dream

  Darren Aronofsky

• Hereditary

  Ari Aster

• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

  Bryan Cranston (it was at the theatre, and his character came and sat next to me and my friend. He has probably never sat squished between more shaky legs)

• Smosh: The Movie

  Ray William Johnson (my sister and I spotted him at Disneyland, she said 'Ray' and waved and he smiled and waved back)

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Yi Yi
2. A Brighter Summer Day
3. Taipei Story
4. That Day, on the Beach
5. Terrorizers

1. Career Girls

   x2

2. All or Nothing
3. Secrets & Lies
4. Naked
5. Happy-Go-Lucky

   x2

6. Nuts in May
7. Hard Truths
8. Topsy-Turvy
9. Vera Drake
10. Peterloo

1. Annie Hall
2. Love and Death
3. Another Woman
4. Hannah and Her Sisters
5. Sleeper
6. Radio Days
7. Manhattan

• Sweet Movie

1. Making a Splash
2. Windows
3. A Zed & Two Noughts
4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
5. Terence Conran
6. The Pillow Book
7. The Belly of an Architect
8. The Draughtsman's Contract
9. Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
10. The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

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1. Blow Out

   x2

2. Carrie

   x2

3. Phantom of the Paradise

   x2

4. Carlito's Way
5. Hi, Mom!

   x2

6. Mission to Mars
7. Sisters
8. Mission: Impossible
9. Body Double

   x2

10. Snake Eyes

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they be like me fr

• Henry & June
• Tenebre
• Barton Fink
• Before Sunset
• Contempt
• Henry Fool
• Bright Star
• Wilde
• Little Women
• The Hours

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Right Stuff
2. Henry & June
3. Quills
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. The Wanderers

1. Gummo
2. Julien Donkey-Boy
3. The Beach Bum
4. Spring Breakers
5. AGGRO DR1FT
6. Kids

• Coyote Ugly
• Kangaroo Jack
• Lost Highway
• 2046
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Klipperty Klöpp
• Naqoyqatsi
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

1. Mad Max 2
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Mad Max
4. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

1. Black Book
2. The 4th Man
3. Benedetta
4. Elle
5. Total Recall
6. Starship Troopers
7. Showgirls
8. RoboCop
9. Cups of Coffee
10. One Lizard Too Many

1. Hit Man
2. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
3. Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
4. Anatomy of a Fall
5. Poor Things
6. Oppenheimer
7. The Sweet East
8. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. How to Have Sex

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12/13

1. Trust
2. Amateur
3. Surviving Desire
4. The Unbelievable Truth
5. Henry Fool
6. The Book of Life
7. Opera No. 1
8. Ned Rifle
9. Simple Men
10. Theory of Achievement

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1. Stroszek
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God

   (German version)

3. La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
4. Fitzcarraldo

   (german version)

5. Encounters at the End of the World
6. Grizzly Man
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
8. My Best Fiend
9. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
10. Family Romance, LLC

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• The Curse
• My Name
• Queen Margot
• Trouble in Mind
• On the Run
• An Amazing Couple
• After Life
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Devil
• The Public Woman

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And when I fell in love with them!! I was born in 2000 so it’s pretty easy to figure out how old I was

• Finding Nemo

  2003

  probably the first film I saw in the cinema 

• Spider-Man 2

  2004

  didn't get to see it at the cinema but got the dvd for Christmas that year!

• Shaun of the Dead

  2012

• Twin Peaks

  2014... I that spring so vividly

• Dazed and Confused

  2015

• Mulholland Drive

  2017

• Lilya 4-ever

  2019

• Secret Defense

  2023

• Margaret

  2023

• The Portrait of a Lady
• The Dreamers
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Right Stuff
• The Piano Teacher
• The Innocents
• Quartet
• Short Cuts
• The Sweet Hereafter
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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1. The Piano Teacher
2. Amour
3. Code Unknown
4. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
5. The White Ribbon
6. Time of the Wolf
7. Happy End

1. Bringing Out the Dead
2. After Hours
3. Taxi Driver
4. Cape Fear
5. The King of Comedy
6. Killers of the Flower Moon
7. The Age of Innocence
8. GoodFellas
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

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1. Twin Peaks

   x3
   (have yet to see the extended VHS Euro pilot)

2. Mulholland Drive

   x4

3. The Straight Story
4. Wild at Heart

   x2

5. Blue Velvet

   x2

6. Twin Peaks: The Return
7. Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
9. Eraserhead
10. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

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fallen behind on them lately but I’d like to watch them all one day

1. Monsters, Inc.
2. Toy Story 2
3. The Incredibles
4. Toy Story
5. Finding Nemo
6. Up
7. WALL·E
8. Toy Story 3
9. Ratatouille
10. A Bug's Life

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• The Portrait of a Lady

  whole cast

• L'Eclisse

  Monica Vitti

• Leave Her to Heaven

  Gene Tierney

• Barbie

  both leads

• Blow Out

  Travolta, Allen, Lithgow

• The Dreamers

  whole cast

• Stealing Beauty

  whole cast

• The Bronte Sisters

  both Isabelles and Marie-

• Before Sunrise

  both leads

• Antichrist

  both leads

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1. Mistress America
2. The Squid and the Whale
3. Greenberg
4. De Palma
5. White Noise
6. s Ha
7. Kicking and Screaming

1. I’m Going Home
2. Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
3. Benilde or the Virgin Mother
4. Voyage to the Beginning of the World
5. Working on the Douro River
6. Belle Toujours

1. Contempt
2. Band of Outsiders
3. Every Man for Himself
4. Pierrot le Fou
5. Breathless
6. King Lear
7. Weekend
8. Godard's ion
9. Histoire(s) du cinéma
10. La Chinoise

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need to rewatch Henry Fool trilogy

1. Amateur
2. Henry Fool
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Opera No. 1
5. Iris
6. Ned Rifle
7. Kicking and Screaming
8. Waiting for Guffman
9. The Doom Generation
10. Fay Grim

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not all are explicitly about gay or bi people, some just have gay vibes

gay is OK!

• The Opposite of Sex
• Phantom of the Paradise
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Wilde
• Peter von Kant

  prefer it to the original

• Shiva Baby
• Paris Is Burning
• Mulholland Drive
• Cecil B. Demented
• Mysterious Skin

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  + Angel

• Veronica Mars
• Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
• Twin Peaks
• Æon Flux

  some asshole keeps removing the TV series

• Tapping the Wire
• The Many Saints of Newark

  this film was a shambles tho

• Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Succession
• Barry

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

See notes for where a song was recorded specially for a film, and the three films he wrote the score for.

Missing from LB: according to IMDB, a song appears in Matthew Bright's Schwaz, which was never properly released and doesn't even have a page here. I'm doubtful it exists...

Isn't he just the best?

• Beach Ball
• Deadlier Than the Male

  Sang theme song

• Cemetery Without Crosses

  Sang theme song

• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• Toxic Affair

  Sang and wrote lyrics for new song Man From Reno, his seventh and final solo single. Also wrote lyrics for B-side.

• David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise

  Wrote 'Nite Flights', which Bowie covered

• Meeting People Is Easy
• Final Rinse
• Pola X

  Composed score, and features existing songs, such as The Cockfighter

• The World Is Not Enough

  CUT.
  Sang 'Only Myself To Blame', written by David Arnold and Don Black, which was intended to play over the end credits, but director Michael Apted decided against it. It does appear on the OST CD however. Instrumental variations are featured in the final cut.
  youtu.be/zCt8-KIDSIk

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Smoke

  Innocent When You Dream

• Basquiat

  Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)

• 25th Hour
• She Hate Me
• BlacKkKlansman
• Da 5 Bloods

• M*A*S*H
• Nashville
• A Wedding
• HealtH
• Streamers
• Short Cuts
• Prêt-à-Porter
• Dr. T & the Women
• Gosford Park
• A Prairie Home Companion

• The Piano Teacher
• Time of the Wolf
• Amour
• Happy End

• Violette Nozière
• Story of Women
• Madame Bovary
• La Ceremonie
• The Swindle
• Nightcap
• Comedy of Power

• The Day I Became a Woman
• The Circle
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
• Together
• Dr. T & the Women
• Requiem for a Dream
• Mission: Impossible II
• Dude, Where's My Car?
• Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
• Billy Elliot

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A History of Violence
2. Videodrome
3. Dead Ringers
4. Crimes of the Future
5. Crash
6. Scanners
7. Rabid

Namely, writer Mike WHITE and actor Jack BLACK

• Orange County
• School of Rock
• Nacho Libre

1. The Story of Adele H.
2. Ishtar
3. Possession
4. One Deadly Summer
5. Peter von Kant
6. The Driver

A literal genius. Blessed that I got to see her live :)
Note: 'Blood Keeper' is reputed to have been recorded for Scream 2, but not used in the final film, though this has never been officially confirmed.

• Amateur
• Higher Learning

  Original song 'Don't Have Time'

• Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits

  Cover of 'The Tra La La Song'

• My Teacher's Wife

  Cover of 'Turning Japanese' with Material Issue

• Stealing Beauty

  Original song 'Rocket Boy'

• Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
• Walking and Talking
• Chasing Amy
• First Love, Last Rites

  Original song 'Erecting a Movie Star'

• The Horse Whisperer

  Two characters try to sing 'Chopsticks', apparently.

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

+ Jennifer Lawrence and Noah Baumbach talks

• Coma
• Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
• White Noise
• EO
• Peter von Kant
• The Whale
• The Kingdom: Exodus
• Meet Me in the Bathroom

1. The Story of Adele H.
2. Bed and Board
3. The 400 Blows
4. The Bride Wore Black
5. Love on the Run
6. Antoine and Colette
7. Stolen Kisses
8. Jules and Jim

He shows up everywhere.

Can't complain, he's great.

1. Trust
2. Amateur
3. Surviving Desire
4. The Portrait of a Lady
5. Malcolm X
6. The Opposite of Sex
7. The Book of Life
8. Simple Men
9. Ned Rifle
10. Insomnia

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

8/10

1. Days of Heaven

   cinema is art.

2. The Tree of Life
3. A Hidden Life
4. The Thin Red Line

   Moving

5. To the Wonder
6. The New World
7. Badlands

   overrated

8. Song to Song

   nice cameos though