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Could have been much longer but does a damn good job of showing how insidious the whole thing was, even if I don’t necessarily dislike the bands.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Oh god, this is quite actively bad. Incredibly lazy screenplay and somehow Jarmusch doesn't make much out of it visually. I think those first three films are defined by how characters interact with their surroundings by trudging through them on foot and the taxi conceit sort of fucks up his whole ethos.

Particularly galling that it's more or less a downward spiral. LA isn't as funny as it thinks it is, New York is decent but should be the weak link in a far better film, Paris never made it past first draft, Rome is insufferable and Helsinki is just a damp squib of an end.

Almost masterpiece-tier but let down by it's final segment.

Jarmusch is so in tune with the contradiction that America is truly the most culturally rich place in the world and also a fucking shithole. I can't think of a filmmaker who mines this tension better. While I'm yet to see a film of his completely cohere into something great, I could watch him film slightly crappy urban landscapes all day.

But yeah, that last third does nothing for me and kind of sinks the whole picture. Like the first act of Down By Law, Jarmusch's take on crime drama is too flat to be exciting and too rote to be challenging. Long live Joe Strummer but he was not secretly a great actor.

Rewatching this masterpiece, it actually is less surprising that Ben Stiller was capable of Severance. One of the greatest comedy directors. Pure cinema.

Looks great. Funny. Great performances.

Doesn’t really add up to much but Jarmusch is a vibe:

Stunning composition and I'm mostly on board with the wry comedy. Feels like a sarcastic answer to 'Bande a part', where the fun of capitalism and the new wave has gone down the drain. Trust a midwestern hipster to love decaying buildings and furnishing as much as this.

If I'm being honest though, could do with a better cast.

They whiffed it.

Look, there's a nobility in failing such an impossible mission, but they still failed. That first 90 minutes (that's a whole fucking movie!) is dire. Long, complex and moody aren't inherently bad but I don't at any point feel like McQuarry is in control of this story. The fever-dream editing suggests that the rough cut of this thing was basically a mini-series and it just frankly shouldn't have been allowed to get to that stage.

And we sit through all this to get to a final which - while being pretty impressive - is really just a rehash of Fallout's more strikingly directed finale.

Remains one of the greatest cinema experiences of my life but I have to it it loses quite a bit at home without the 3D and first time surprise of that brilliant twist.

Stripped of that wonder, this is a perfect FD movie from a directing and gore perspective but maybe has one of the blandest casts? I like that they're avoiding writing outright assholes for you to cheer the demise of but rewatching 2 and 3 reminded me that these films get a lot from having an absolutely cooked ensemble.

Insane movie. Should be absolute dogshit schlock but everyone’s trying harder than they’re expected to. Of course the directing and effects team are having a blast but Mary Elizabeth Winstead giving a performance like this in a mid 2000s franchise filler is one for the ages.

I still think FD is not perfected as a formula until 5, but a big leap is taken here.

Maybe I was too harsh on this? While the opening is pretty dreary, the entity brings a different and more paranoid edge that another rogue nuke never could. As much as I love 4-6, they were basically telling the same stories with different setpieces. They had to do something new.

I retract my my first impression that this merely maintains the quality of Rogue Nation - it is in fact a steep upgrade.

Perfect espionage plot and Henry Cavill finally puts his scummy undertones to good use. And those action scenes border on Fury Road tier.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watch the actual footage of Dylan going electric at Newport.

Watch the people involved dissect it in the documentary No Direction Home.

Watch Todd Haynes reimagine its impact in I’m Not There.

Now tell me one thing Mangold adds to this moment.

This whole movie in a nutshell.

I’m sure this hits harder when you’re yet to see what McQuarrie will do with the franchise. Outside of the great Dubai sequence its largely second tier MI but still fun.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Very mid for Baker although perfectly fun enough.

Fuck it… greatest work of art of my lifetime.

Early American Capitalism Any% Speedrun in 2:01:00

No, this will not be replacing Die Hard in the Christmas marathon.

The Substance wants to pretends its mainly here for vibes; and it indeed its vibes rock. But its all inseperably tethered to one of the most predictable plots I’ve had to sit through 2.5 hours of.

The script editor was cocaine.

Aesthetically/conceptually perfect.

The Buffy intertextually is some of the best I’ve ever seen.

Wanted to love this soooo much but it’s anchored by two incredibly laboured performances that deny any real vulnerability.

I’ve defended so many dumb movies with impeccable vibes and this may be the dumbest but almost most impeccable vibes.

Didn’t sit entirely right but also still with me.

Weirdly reminiscent of Scream 3 in themes, narrative logic and relative quality to its predecessors.

As a Scream 3 defender, I’d still wholeheartedly recommend it to the already converted; Ti West is a hell of a director even when his script is falling apart. But this is an unambiguous downgrade on the more or less flawless first two entries.

I am devoid of hot takes. The endless cameos and plot aren’t even that bad.

It’s just… this “comedy” isn’t funny enough.

It was cool that they let Mr Saw use his Saw again.

There is a gem of a movie in here that’s just Glen Powell impersonating off-brand fictional hit men.

Once the actual plot hits it’s just a real drag that’s not really as funny, sexy or dark as it thinks it is or should be.

Watched on Tuesday April 30, 2024.

I think this movie was incredible but could understand about 1/3rd the dialogue so 🤷

Watched on Tuesday February 20, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday February 21, 2024.

I waited a while to log this and digested a lot of the (very well thought out and valid) critiques. But ultimately I found this too frightening and startling to ignore. I don’t know what exactly it opened up for me but it opened up a new angle of horror to the holocaust that I’d never really seen approached in art. It’s a film that deeply scares me but one I want to desperately see again because I think it’s so uniquely insightful.

Looks and feels like TV. Above average TV, but still TV. Like the weird inverse of Scrosese et al making movies for streaming services is that the Palme d’Or winner is basically binging a crime miniseries.

Also I’m surprised how few people are talking about how much of this is a riff on the Michael Peterson case which is an infinitely more interesting mystery and character study.

So close to masterpiece status but the predictable mid-section got seriously hokey at times. The scene with the slums was dire.

Lanthamos is still at the top of his game but he needs to leave McNamara and start writing his own scripts again.

Watched on Saturday December 23, 2023.

Watched on Monday December 18, 2023.

Sometimes the banality of evil can be quite literally banal.

Very weirdly paced film in its own right but a great extended coda to the thrilling violence of Part 1.

Probably Tarantino’s best.

I have absorbed almost all of this through osmosis already. Hell, maybe I’d already seen it.

Anyway, fun as hell.

Fine. Good even but just kind of reheats the past decade or so of trauma horror in not particularly original ways. We need something new.

About an hour of this is genuinely pretty great. In fact Elvis the movie is interesting as long as Elvis the career is culturally relevant.

Baz doesn't really know what to do with the stagnation and wasted potential of Presley's later career. He completely skips over the military service and film career so by the time we get to the comeback special we don't really know what the hell he's coming back from [except for the literal montage of Hendrix/Beatles/Vietnam and the big letters saying "things have changed."]. That comeback sequence does very little for me; it's the most typical biopic fluff Baz relies on. The comeback special is good but it's cultural importance is somewhat oversold and I don't buy it as a fraction of the excitement of those segregation-era concerts.

Once we get to Vegas I suppose some of the darkness is allowed to peak in but it gets back to the central problem; Baz cannot show Elvis as anything other than awesome; these concerts as anything other that amazing. There's no sense of decline; of what Col "Goldmember" Parker and (I shit you not) Dr. Nick has done to their star because the demands of musical spectacle must be met. It just kind of flattens everything into an extended musical performance that's occasionally very exciting.

Schindler's List is two movies.

One is the story of Oskar Schindler. It's a story worth telling; a kind of Laurence of Arabia-esque biopic of whether we can truly trust the ethics of a self-appointed saviour who operates from a position of privelage. Even if Spielberg obviously canonises him by the end it's a story loaded with interesting conflicts.

The second is Spielberg trying to make THE holocaust movie. The most unspeakable horror of history is recreated as realistically as possible with Spielberg's unmistakable Hollywood flair and crisp black and white photography.

These films smashed together is a really strange experience. It means Schindler frequently disappears from his own movie while no Jewish characters really anchors the genocidal violence in a sense of character. It's such a weird experience; the film almost implodes from its own contradictions.

Of course there's a power to a lot of these scenes; particularly the extended ghetto liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. And the black and white cinematography is impeccable. But isn't it kind of weird to mention these things in this context?

To paraphrase Adorno; to compose elegant tracking shots after Auschwitz is barbaric.

[Also the shower scene is in incredibly poor taste. In fact, that that got left in the final cut really proves how tenuous a grasp this movie has on how to approach the subject.]

In so much as one can condense the cruelty, violence and banal mechanics of the holocaust into thirty minutes; this is it.

Top shelf Bergman. Those uncomfortable Persona-esque close ups and perfectly staged flashbacks give a very conventional familial spat an incredibly haunted feeling. More crushing and macabre than Bergman’s ‘grander’ films.

An incredibly hokey storm of cliches and sentimentality. 

I can charitably see this working as a kind of Capra-esque fairytale (as per Darabonts intentions) but it’s too stuck in middlebrow 90s prestige mode for me to buy that.

But it’s very nicely shot and never really boring.

• In a Year with 13 Moons
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• Fox and His Friends
• Beware of a Holy Whore
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• World on a Wire
• The Merchant of Four Seasons
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
• Lili Marleen
• Katzelmacher

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Spider-Man 2
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Spider-Man 3
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• The Amazing Spider-Man

Well we're at another Avengers already. Let's put em all together again.

1. Thor: Ragnarok

   More witty than Guardians. More radical than Black Panther. More charisma than Iron Man. Better team up than the Avengers.

2. Captain America: Civil War

   “I don’t care. He killed my mom.”

3. WandaVision
4. Black Panther
5. The Avengers

   Joss Whedon just makes sure we're constantly excited by everyone appearing together. Some may think it's handed to him on a platter but it takes skill. Just strip down everything to the barest elements and make sure they're all perfect. A few could learn.

6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

   Chris Evans is more comfortable in the role, the narrative feels consequential and commits to its reveals and the ing characters are given a good amount to do. The Russos never get the wow moments Whedon does but they shoot action sequences with a nice sense of old school clarity.

7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Iron Man 3

   Shane Black gives the Shane Black treatment to superhero films. Packed with pisstakes of quasi-political action films like the Dark Knight Rises, Marvel's own legacy of racial caricatures and mass marketed terrorism. The satire and the PTSD angle never even come close to swamping the fun of the rest of the film.

9. Avengers: Endgame
10. Spider-Man: No Way Home

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Make Way for Tomorrow
• To Be or Not to Be
• Brief Encounter
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• In a Lonely Place
• All About Eve
• The Young and the Damned
• Ace in the Hole

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Meshes of the Afternoon
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• The Apartment
• Black Girl
• Daisies
• Wanda
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Céline and Julie Go Boating
• News from Home
• Killer of Sheep

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

Hooptober actually got me watching this so I'm trying to do one of these again.

Original list: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/malucomastodon/list/scavenger-hunt-92-november-2022/

• In the Mouth of Madness
• Election
• The Invisible Man
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Malignant
• Ganja & Hess
• After Hours
• All the President's Men
• Good Will Hunting
• We're All Going to the World's Fair

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

UPDATE: I FINISHED IT!!!!!

I swear I'll do it this time

USA

The Unknown
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Alice Sweet Alice
The Funhouse
Fright Night
Blood Harvest
The Return Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Existenz
X
Pearl
It Chapter 2
The Fly
Halloween Ends

UK

Curse of Frankenstein
Dracula
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Frenzy

Faust
The Wolf House
Nosferatu: The Vampyre

Italy

Opera
Phenomena
Tenbebre

Japan

Tetsuo The Iron Man
Shin Godzilla
Ichi The Killer

Titane
Martyrs
Inside

2 insect centered films: The Fly, Phenomena

1 horror film set in space or the future: Existenz

2 animated films: Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, The Wolf House

1 bloodthirsty old person/people film: Halloween Ends (lol)

2 1970s regional US films: The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Alice Sweet Alice

The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

1 German Silent: Faust

5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr. : X, Pearl, The Fly, Blood Harvest, Existenz

2 Christopher Lee films: Dracula, Fright Night

1 film with a musician or band in it (A real life musician or band): Opera

1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around: It Chapter 2

1 Lon Chaney film. (NOT JR): The Unknown

Tobe Hooper: The Funhouse

1920s
1950s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s

1. Opera
2. Pearl
3. The Fly
4. Shin Godzilla
5. X
6. Faust
7. An American Werewolf in London
8. Barbarian
9. Fright Night
10. Phenomena

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Häxan
• Our Hospitality
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
• The Gold Rush
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• The Man Who Laughs
• Blackmail
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

...plus 92 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

LETS DO THIS MICHAEL

1. Halloween
2. Halloween II
3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
4. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
5. Halloween Ends
6. Halloween Kills
7. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
8. Halloween II
9. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
10. Halloween

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Come and See
• Harakiri
• The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
• Paris Is Burning
• Night and Fog
• Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
• Streetwise
• Woman in the Dunes
• Paris, Texas

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

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Another Round
• Zola
• Spree
• Possessor
• Licorice Pizza
• Last Night in Soho
• The Green Knight
• Spencer
• Drive My Car

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

• New Nightmare
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• Adaptation.
• Inland Empire
• The Matrix Resurrections
• The Shining
• Sunset Boulevard
• 8½
• Three Colours: Red
• The Act of Killing

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Spider-Man 2
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Man 3
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2

So to be clear the ranking here is the best first entry, the best second etc.

1. Halloween
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Friday the 13th
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
5. Halloween II
6. Friday the 13th Part 2
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
8. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
9. Friday the 13th Part III
10. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. New Nightmare
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
6. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

• The Exorcist
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Jaws
• The Omen
• Exorcist II: The Heretic
• Jaws 2
• The Amityville Horror
• The Shining
• An American Werewolf in London
• Poltergeist

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Le Bonheur
• Vagabond
• The Gleaners and I
• Good Morning
• An Autumn Afternoon
• Floating Weeds
• Late Autumn
• Safe
• Velvet Goldmine

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I’ve tried many variations of a favourite movie list. But I know a “favourite movie” when I see one and I wanted throw them al together.

• Mulholland Drive
• The Shining
• Caché
• Persona
• Close-Up
• Mirror
• The Godfather Part II
• Midsommar
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Moonlight

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Fallen Angels
3. The Grandmaster
4. Days of Being Wild
5. Chungking Express
6. 2046
7. As Tears Go By
8. Happy Together

Films referenced by Todd Haynes.

• All That Heaven Allows
• Imitation of Life
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Dont Look Back
• A Hard Day's Night
• 8½
• Days of Heaven
• Citizen Kane
• Querelle
• A Face in the Crowd

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

100 films I haven’t seen over 100 years.

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Phantom Carriage
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Safety Last!
• The Last Laugh
• Seven Chances
• A Page of Madness
• Napoleon
• The Cameraman
• Pandora's Box

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Rosemary's Baby
• Midnight Cowboy
• The Wild Bunch
• Five Easy Pieces
• The Anderson Tapes
• Klute
• The Godfather
• The Last Picture Show
• Mean Streets
• Badlands

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Florida Project
• Psycho
• Scream
• Carrie
• The Birds
• House
• Mirror
• Imitation of Life
• Boyhood
• The Piano Teacher

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

In which I ask the question, are these the greatest films of all time?

• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

  Soon as they like you, make em unlike you
  Cause kissin people’s ass is so unlike you

• Sherlock Jr.

  I just shot an amateur video, I think I should go pro

• Greed

  Now I ain’t saying she a gold digger...

• Battleship Potemkin

  I'ma rock the boat
  Work the middle 'til it hurt a little

• The General

  Probably.

  Not Keaton at his funniest but maybe his greatest achievement in filmmaking? The set-pieces and stunts are really engaging and ahead of there time but it's not a total shock this was rejected upon release.

• Metropolis
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

  Let's break out of this fake ass party
  Turn this into a classic night
  If we die in each other's arms
  Still get laid in that afterlife

• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Man with a Movie Camera
• Un Chien Andalou

  No one knows what it means, but it's provocative.
  It gets the people going.

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Snowpiercer
• The Anderson Tapes
• Where Is the Friend's House?
• Mother
• Life, and Nothing More…
• Girlhood
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Taste of Cherry
• Through the Olive Trees
• Gaslight

...plus 159 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some films that may be all timers but I want to rewatch.

• Tokyo Twilight
• The Florida Project
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• A Matter of Life and Death
• In a Year with 13 Moons
• The Lighthouse
• Raw
• Do the Right Thing
• American Honey
• Inferno

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• J'accuse
• Nosferatu
• Sherlock Jr.
• Greed
• Metropolis
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Man with a Movie Camera
• M
• The Rules of the Game
• A Matter of Life and Death

...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Only putting films I saw in adulthood after years of being told these movies are masterpieces.

• The Third Man
• Citizen Kane
• Persona
• Apocalypse Now
• M
• Sunset Boulevard
• 8½

Relationships gone teeeeeerribly wrong.

• Midsommar
• The Room
• The Lobster
• Vertigo
• Blue Valentine
• Solaris
• The Piano Teacher
• 45 Years
• Le Bonheur
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Tokyo Story
2. Imitation of Life
3. The Rules of the Game
4. The ion of Joan of Arc
5. Ugetsu
6. Sherlock Jr.
7. The Third Man
8. M
9. Man with a Movie Camera
10. Sunset Boulevard

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

To fight off the realisation that I’m fundamentally indifferent to love stories on film I’ve tried to make a list of films centred on relationships that actually move me.

Tragedies romances don’t count.

• In the Mood for Love
• Moonlight
• Amour
• A Matter of Life and Death
• Her
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Phantom Thread
• Carol

• The Brood
• Child's Play 2
• Diabolique
• Don't Look Now
• Child's Play
• A Quiet Place
• Castle Freak
• Dracula
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Daughters of Darkness

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

.

• The General
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Autumn Sonata
• Dekalog
• On the Town
• The Wind Will Carry Us
• Inferno
• mother!
• Chimes at Midnight
• Through a Glass Darkly

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Don't be a tourist! An extra film from the director of each entry on BFI's Top 50.

• Battleship Potemkin
• Strike
• The General
• Sherlock Jr.
• Metropolis
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Faust
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Master of the House

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Still Life
• Life, and Nothing More…
• The Brick and the Mirror
• The Apple
• The House Is Black
• Rome, Open City

Keeping ourselves sane every Saturday.

• Fail Safe
• Vagabond
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• The Ascent
• Memories of Murder
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Weekend
• Fat Girl
• Certified Copy
• Water Lilies

1. Parasite
2. Midsommar
3. The Irishman
4. The Lighthouse
5. Us
6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
7. Uncut Gems
8. Knives Out
9. Hustlers
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Have a guess how I put this together....

• The Shawshank Redemption
• 12 Angry Men
• Schindler's List
• Forrest Gump
• Joker
• Life Is Beautiful
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Green Mile
• American History X
• The Intouchables

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Fine I won’t include Twin Peaks...

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Moonlight
• It Follows
• Amour
• The Act of Killing
• Parasite
• The Neon Demon
• Holy Motors
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• The Florida Project

• It Follows
• Suspiria
• Midsommar
• Us
• Get Out
• Hereditary
• The Neon Demon
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Raw
• Sinister

All other opinions are wrong....

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
4. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
8. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
9. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

These movies redefine forgettable. I forget them quickly. I stand by nothing in this list.

• Friday the 13th Part 2
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Friday the 13th
• Jason X
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Freddy vs. Jason
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
• Friday the 13th Part III
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Agnes Varda
Kenji Mizoguchi
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Yasijuro Ozu
Ingmar Bergman

• La Pointe Courte
• Le Bonheur
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Vagabond
• Uncle Yanco
• Late Spring
• An Autumn Afternoon
• Early Summer
• Good Morning
• Floating Weeds

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Man this got arbitrary after about five but it was fun at least.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Shining
3. Caché
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Three Colours: Red
6. GoodFellas
7. High and Low
8. The ion of Joan of Arc
9. Close-Up
10. Ugetsu

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

• Harakiri
• Come and See
• Stalker
• The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
• Ikiru
• Fanny and Alexander
• Woman in the Dunes
• Night and Fog
• Paths of Glory
• Ordet

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• In a Year with 13 Moons
• Fox and His Friends
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Beware of a Holy Whore
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• World on a Wire
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
• The Merchant of Four Seasons
• Lili Marleen

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

• The American Soldier
• My Name Is Julia Ross
• Beware of a Holy Whore
• World on a Wire
• Le Bonheur
• La Pointe Courte
• Cléo from 5 to 7

Lynch is weird. Let him be weird. None of this "Elephant Man is better than Lost Highway" bullshit.

A few rewatches needed to fill it all out.

*Am counting the totality of Lynch directed episodes from original Twin Peaks for the purposes of this.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Twin Peaks
4. Inland Empire
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
6. Lost Highway
7. Blue Velvet
8. Eraserhead
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

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A belated as fuck list...

1. Moonlight
2. The Neon Demon
3. Elle
4. American Honey
5. Nocturnal Animals
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey

1. Blood and Black Lace
2. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
3. Torso
4. Deep Red
5. What Have You Done to Solange?
6. A Bay of Blood
7. Five Dolls for an August Moon
8. The Suspicious Death of a Minor