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Actually one of the most clever and inventive classic noir flicks I've ever seen. The jazz sequence still feels fresh today, like the ones in the Brutalist except this one is way cooler.

Still like it just as much as I did when I first saw it at 16, albeit for different reasons now. The Scarborough Fair loop could go on twice as long and I still wouldn't get bored.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

MAN.... Cinema. Didn't know there were so many different ways dudes could get impaled by arrows. Jaw was on the floor the entire time. Every shot was a painting fr. The fool doing civil servants justice in medieval times.

Really ugly movie that's difficult to watch for long stretches. If you ever thought films like Goodfellas slipped up sometimes when threading the needle where they critique the chauvinism and toxic masculinity under capitalism but, also, say got off a bit on the characters, this is a good antidote to that because my god do these dudes suck and are their lives miserable. There's a lot else going on this movie but that's a good way to jump in.

Definitely one of his lesser sixties films, but still worth watching if you're interested in his intellectual development and work as a director. Probably the first instance of a movie showing a man getting waterboarded in a bathroom while a beautiful woman is reading theory and chain smoking in the living room.

Not all the pieces fit together for me but it was such a thrill to watch i don't care. Most fun I've had at a new movie this year so far. Great soundtrack. Buddy Guy cameo was crazy. Vampire/The Thing/Mississipi Delta Blues vibes are crazy.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Dont think I'm that much of a Truffaut guy. That's okay!

Saw this got added to Criterion so gave it another watch. I mean it's fucking Elliott Smith.

Love his cover of Thirteen by Big Star. Really think hearing him play it acoustically shows how much they influenced the rest of his music. Love getting reminded of trying to learn how to play Angeles on guitar in high school and getting murdered by it.

Pretty effin good

Gorgeous and off-kilter and sometimes dryly funny. Not an original thought but it really does capture the spirit of italian neorealism in Los Angeles. Going to be thinking about the roof jumping scene and all those sheep for a while. Really want to watch more of his movies. COOL STUFF.

American Pierrot Le Fou. Two hot people runaway, get involved in crime, and fuck shit up. 10/10

s if she was Travis Bickle:

"One day, like, metaphorical rain—or maybe actual rain, like a thunderstorm of justice?—is gonna totally show up and just rinse all this gross street-vibe scum energy away. Like, full-on spiritual power-wash."

Joking aside this is actually a very good movie. Easily charmed!

A donkey shits gold, jeanne dielman is a fairy godmother who sings a song about incest, Catherine Deneuve walks around in said rotting donkey carcass for the better half of this movie.

What can I say about this. CINEMA

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Fear and Loathing and Unethical Nonmonogamy in Paris

Really fucking good, the most intense and visceral thriller I've seen this year. Although it's been a while since I saw Parasite, I'd place this a cut above.

Screened at the Revue as part of the Don't Be So Political series; last time I was here was for Rashomon. Don't think it was necessarily the programmer's intent in linking these two directly, but both are masterclasses in showing how truth and memory gets twisted when recalling crimes.

Rear Window/Hitchcock suspense and noir vibes, funny dropkicking idiot cops, all while never downplaying that this was a real, horrifying case.

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Critical for pickle guys

Bad movie fun time in theatre

Saw at imax. Vibes man

Not a good movie but the francois salad scene is pure cinema. Sorry to anyone who heard me cackling in tiff.

Saw this after touring the ruins. Top ten dudes rock movie

1920s comic strip star Everett True should've beat some sense into a lot of the dudes in this movie

Really zany and the breakdowns in reality/narrative are done in a way that whisks you into the flow

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Perfect movie. The beautiful weather today compelled me to watch it again; feeling levels of unrestrained joy and whimsy not known to me in a hot minute.

unfortunately liked watching this quite a bit; YUP, still a pretentious twat

Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.

Lucky to see this again on the big screen.

Every time a joke's cracked or someone opens their heart, you get slammed crashing back to the cruel and careless emptiness of the road Gelsomina and Zampanò, a world-class piece of shit, are strung along on. I think on second viewing what really stands out to me is just that emptiness. Joy and love make themselves noticed, but no one touches it. One of the best to do it.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Couldn't get past how much the husband looked like Benjamin netanyahu
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I mean, still processing this. Genuinely has some of the most unsettling nightmare scenes I've ever seen, and some of them are beautiful as well which makes it extra disturbing. I don't think this totally works as a movie though. Anyways, good way to spend a Saturday.

Stop watching parker posey with the posers and have little caesars with the geezers

VERY CHARMING AND TENDER

Watched on Tuesday March 18, 2025.

Óró sé do bheatha abhaile

Best Irish film about the revolution; part of what makes it so great is that it doesn't try to be the definitive authority on the moment --- it just shows a small group of revolutionaries who get torn apart in the ensuing Irish Civil War. Excellent sense of time and place. Since it's directed by Ken Loach, he also shows the aspirational free staters as socialists opposed to a la-dee-da changing of the guards.

Crazy style

This really is just one of the best animated sci-fi movies of all time. Completely indecipherable without watching the show, but damn.

This was light years beyond what I thought Tim Burton was capable of tbh. I love Ed Wood's fucked up chosen family of misfits committed to making the worst movies imaginable with a washed up Bela Lugosi just hanging around, periodically calling Ed Wood late at night and going "I VANT TO KILL MYSELF". Made me nostalgic for watching Plan 9 From Outer Space with my mom as a kid.

Still unfortunately relevant insofar as capturing the hangover of a radical political movement that never got off the ground

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

There's a talking balloon that Bulgarian farmers chase around for 90 minutes. Eastern bloc excellence

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Blow-Up if it wasn't mid

Still goes crazy style

Christ almighty

full stop one of the most disturbing things I've ever watched

Didn't like this nearly as much as Young Girls of Rochefort but still think this is pretty sick in its own right.

I finally got around to finishing the Agnes Varda biography today by Carrie Rickey I got for Christmas. Although she avoids autobiographical interpretation of her and Demy's work, and stresses their art is separate from their personal lives, I think you could mine a lot/interpret Catherine Deneuvue's character being forced to marry off in relation to Demy. Especially since this came out within a year of Varda's Le Bonheur.

I don't know! Just thinking and throwing things out there.

10 Favorite Films from the French New Wave in no order.

• Breathless
• The 400 Blows
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Vivre Sa Vie
• Alphaville
• Pierrot le Fou
• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• Céline and Julie Go Boating
• Le Bonheur
• The Green Ray

Wasn't my favorite year for movies but these are the ones I liked. I haven't seen Seed of the Sacred Fig, I'm Still here, or Nickel Boys, although I want to check those out at some point.

1. Anora
2. Universal Language
3. Oh, Canada
4. The Wolves Always Come at Night
5. Nosferatu
6. Twisters
7. Dune: Part Two
8. Kinds of Kindness
9. I Saw the TV Glow
10. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

List of "feel good" movies. Will update as I recall more.

• Amélie
• Whisper of the Heart
• The Green Ray
• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• Modern Times
• Good Morning
• The Last Days of Disco
• Robot Dreams
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Before Sunrise

Watched a LOT of movies this year. Anyways, these are the ones that stood out to me the most / I still think about

• High and Low
• Fanny and Alexander
• The Thing
• F for Fake
• The Godfather Part II
• Yi Yi
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Long Goodbye
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Le Bonheur

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• High and Low
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Tokyo Story
• Blade Runner
• Alphaville
• La Strada
• Princess Mononoke
• Blue Velvet
• The Last Days of Disco
• Dont Look Back

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. May December
3. Perfect Days
4. Anatomy of a Fall
5. Barbie
6. Godzilla Minus One
7. The Zone of Interest
8. Asteroid City
9. The Boy and the Heron
10. Razing Liberty Square