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Watched on Friday March 22, 2024.

Watched on Saturday October 21, 2023.

Watched on Saturday October 7, 2023.

Watched on Saturday October 7, 2023.

Watched on Thursday March 24, 2022.

Powerhouse of a film. I feel alive again. The title refers to my reaction @ ending.

the film is garbage tier but thank the gods for patts' jawline

Such a delightful movie

more like chutiyaapo ki gehraiyaan

a nationwide catharsis

It's perfectly good and David Ehrlich is a fucking idiot. With a book so belligerently anti cinematic though, there are some (expected) limitations. But what an irable, irable effort !

Watched on Sunday June 27, 2021.

Watched on Sunday June 20, 2021.

moments of humanity shimmer amidst non stop brutality. will pair this up with scorsese's silence one day, and like the latter, this had me floored too

i hate to be the person who says "just watch seinfeld", but just watch seinfeld / iasip/ community / peep show / blackadder please

one of the most important movies of our time. excellent visuals, excellent use of motifs, even tho it's bogged down by its masala elements at times (in form only though, not content)

*classical music stops*

Watched on Saturday May 1, 2021.

they didn't even kiss

Watched on Friday March 5, 2021.

Watched on Monday March 1, 2021.

Watched on Friday February 5, 2021.

haneke's take on industrial society and its' future

the disionate oppression of day to day, gelid, neutrality.

"Ellie Ellie Ellie Ellie Ellie Ellie Ellie Ellie Ellie"

identities melt down a spiral of symbiotic psychosis. jeremy irons' performance is out of this world and really takes the incredibly twisted central dynamic to another fucking level. probably my favourite discomfort movie.

There was a time when this used to be among my favorites. While that is no longer true I still love it immensely and fuck me if this ain't another gem from the slew of filthy, down-and-dirty films that came in the 70s. A booze-dust-sweat-slaked odyssey of moral degradation in an anarchic environment - a film which literally sweats on you through the screen - so raw and scathing in its depiction of hypermasculinity that it sometimes makes Scorsese look like Wes Anderson. There is no escape from these rituals of virility, just give in to the madness already (no spoilers but there is a point where the discomfiture this film carries throughout blows up into sheer, otherworldly terror) this is a nightmare captured on film. And of course, bonus points for being counter Aussie propaganda.

repressed ions amidst mundanity. pretty much one of the oldest themes in art. the problem here is that madhabi mukherjee is so goddamn good and the male actors are mostly like confused puppies in comparison that the moments looking for emotion in nuance ring a bit hollow. ray in cruise control, formally, though, as usual, and that ending is brilliant - but overall a slightly underwhelming movie given that a lot of people consider this his best. still has its moments tho - i mean a ray film cannot possibly not have moments lol

ray's take on civilization is every bit as interesting as his other movies though he does give himself the occasional pat on the back but let's be honest here, if you were satyajit ray, wouldn't you?

the killer inside me more like "the killer of a masterpiece of a novel inside michael winterbottom"

edgy men grinding it out in the city is my favourite genre of movies and this film just reinforces that. probably ray at his most experimental.

also there's an incident worth mentioning. i first saw pather panchali in a film festival in delhi (one of my most cherished experiences at the mobies) when they were doing a ray retrospective. the screening was preceded by a discussion in which a ist said that ray's films are not political. now i'm just going to have to assume that he didn't see this one because there is no other way you could come out of this movie and call it apolitical lol (there is a literal scene where our protagonist says the vietnam war was more significant than the moon landing lmao). it's ray's look at the social unrest in calcutta of the late 60s and it fucking rocks.

clear influence on taxi driver though the latter is easily the better film.

I find it unfair that this is not unequivocally hailed as Ray's crowning achievement. It's also hard to explain why I love this so much so yea lol. Maybe it's the desolate hypnotic descent into decadent solitude that is always underpinning the tone of the movie. Maybe it's the sublime use of visual motifs - from insects to animals to mirrors to chandeliers to hookah pipes (the shot of Roy in the mirror standing drunk and broken beneath his ancestor's portraits is just unreal). Maybe it's the fact that this is Ray's meditation on an era long gone - an era which feels distant but at the same time real. Maybe it's the overarching theme of moral decay which I have always appreciated in my favorite films. Maybe it's the fact that how beautifully this film presents the clash between tradition and modernity. Maybe it's the fact that I feel Ray is at the top of his game, formally speaking too, I mean the compositions are just straight up unreal. Maybe it's how this film presents nostalgia as a veil, a mirage, which tricks you into thinking that you were happy in the past when as a matter of fact, you weren't. Maybe it's the fact that its a paean to a certain deadly freedom and free will - ion triumphing over reason and the association of harmonious rhythms to social status - praise of the ostensibly beautiful things in life you're clinging on to desperately hindering your coming to with a modern and soulless world. Maybe - wait no maybes here - this film really is one of the greatest I've seen.

oh to be reflecting surfaces in a Ray movie!

"Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon" - Kurosawa

Nothing to see here just a king appreciating another king

Watched on Sunday January 3, 2021.

Nice and decent for the most part but slightly undermined by the ending. Also please stop giving harshvardhan Kapoor more movies Motwane ffs

really good anti-thriller which hones in on characters and the emotional detritus rather than out and out physical violence. use of natural sounds to put you in the headspace of characters is excellent - so is the meditation on grief, guilt, and forgiveness. obvious haneke influence is obvious too.

Unbelievably tense throughout for a premise so simple. This delicate dance of characters with preoccupations so massively internalised that they don't see what's blindingly obvious. It's all in Nina Hoss' empty glances, delicate trembling gestures, all of it building up to a perfectly executed ending. The allegorical relationship never feels overbearing. Like idk man it's all so fucking well done. Forgetfulness is a strong urge, but the first step towards making sense of the past is to face it unclouded.

Watched on Monday December 28, 2020.

The perfect movie to watch while sitting still on a calm beach with a bottle of wine doing nothing but sitting still, fine-grained shales beside you doing nothing but sitting still, shades of blue that drown your surroundings doing nothing but sitting still, the weightless, contemplative serenity of the sea reflecting all the love and beauty you find yourself swimming in, in life, paired with a bittersweet melancholy - doing nothing but sitting still.

A meditation on life, death, and everything in between punctuated by bursts of violence - like an elegy written in a splash of blood.

Watched on Thursday December 24, 2020.

Still cool but definitely not the masterpiece it is touted to be lol. I think the acclaim it gets can be adjusted by ing for its' fanbase's average mental age and the fact that it won people over based on a standout presentation of one of pop culture's most iconic villains. Has its' moments but largely, this is just wannabe Michael Mann (Heat) with none of the visual poetry, thematic depth, and soul, and it's high time people realize the same.

Excellent ideas but garbage tier execution. Already riffs off the stale James Bond formula which I'm not a fan of and the execution of the same is even more uninspired. Writing is cringe as usual - literally feels like a self parody at times - probably that's the only way it can be watched. The only redeeming aspect here is the R Patts and John David Washington bromance hot damn son. Elizabeth Debicki is great but when has Nolan ever written an actually good female character? Music choices range from disorienting to purely nonsensical. I mean this belaboured exposition of a movie is a failure at even technical levels - which is something Nolan is usually good at. Huuge disappointment.

A crazy hallucination with a semblance of a plot running through it. Pure stylistic bliss pervades a stream of consciousness narrative with bodies falling in and out of the frame every second, punctuated with some sleazeball comedy and weird aphrodisiacs. Works fine in the dream logic this film operates imo. I think this is the equivalent of what most people mean by 'great entertainment' to me.

THIS. IS. HOW. YOU. MAKE. A. FUCKING. EPIC. MAN.

Genuinely one of the greatest films I've ever seen

Watched on Saturday December 12, 2020.

using the missing child both literally and metaphorically to convey the parents' self absorption is such a masterstroke goddamn. and of course it's filled with classic zvyagintsev jibes on russian society and culture - a culture so self absorbed, cold that it has lost empathy at its' core - and that is what the missing child ultimately stands for. another brilliant film. zvyagintsev don't miss.

@its kinda wholesome if you ignore the incest

For real though, pure visual poetry, you'll literally want to hang some frames in your room. Wished the relationship at core felt endearing (which seems to be the general consensus so not sure what I'm missing) rather than straight up making me uncomfortable

An industrial
Ruin of despondency
A tragic debut

fine feel good comedy but hits every cliche in the book when it tries to be a drama

Beautifully shot, tender, and serene but a bit too laborious for my taste - laying down every one of its visual and narrative strategies through the dialogue. A warm hug - but one that feels a fraction too tight. A movie that feels a fraction too self conscious. Still a solid debut and worth a watch

Watched on Thursday November 19, 2020.

I'm the only one left. The storm, took them all

Any film which I rated >=4 is on this list. No TV. No shorts.

RANKINGS VERY LOOSE

Last Update: 04/01/2021

1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Ran
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Blade Runner
5. Seven Samurai
6. A Separation
7. Casablanca
8. Taxi Driver
9. Solaris
10. Army of Shadows

...plus 152 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Thing
2. Alien
3. Dead Ringers
4. Cure
5. Wake in Fright
6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
7. Pulse
8. Jaws
9. House
10. The Vanishing

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

"Life is a clay urn on the mantle"

1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. Grizzly Man
4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
5. La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
6. Encounters at the End of the World
7. Lessons of Darkness
8. Into the Inferno
9. Stroszek

"Closed forever is the door to your room
but inside there, there's a sound"

1. Solaris

   10/10

2. Stalker

   9.5

3. Andrei Rublev

   9.5

4. Mirror

   8.5

5. Nostalgia

   8.5

6. Ivan's Childhood

   8.5

7. The Sacrifice

   9

"Far away
Across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell"
I mean it just goes on to show how good he is given how there is not a single film on this list that I dislike! and there are 16!

1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. The Irishman
4. Silence
5. GoodFellas
6. The Age of Innocence
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. The King of Comedy
9. The Last Temptation of Christ
10. Mean Streets

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating joy of life
Still a lot of acclaimed films left to watch so definitely not a final list
Most represented directors:
Villeneuve - 3
Martin Scorsese - 3
P.T. Anderson -3

1. A Separation

   Also favourite film of the 21st century

2. The Act of Killing
3. Upstream Color
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. The Handmaiden
6. Incendies
7. Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1
8. The Irishman
9. Parasite
10. Burning

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"And one day
I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction"


Like all my ratings this ranking is also purely subjective, no need to get mad

1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Phantom Thread
4. The Master
5. Junun

   Some experiences shouldn't be scored

6. Inherent Vice
7. Boogie Nights
8. Punch-Drunk Love

Except the top 3 which are also just solid, none of these are even worth watching

1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Iron Man
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
5. Thor: Ragnarok
6. Captain America: Civil War
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Guardians of the Galaxy
9. The Avengers
10. Black Panther

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. Once Upon a Time in America
4. For a Few Dollars More
5. A Fistful of Dollars

Top 3 (each year) starting from 1998 to 2019.

No shorts. No Tv.

Sorry guys I'm bored and I'm just ing some time XD

• The Truman Show
• The Thin Red Line
• Dil Se..
• The Insider
• Magnolia
• Election
• In the Mood for Love
• American Psycho
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Millennium Actress

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Hopefully I'll follow this!

Feel free to suggest additions.

• Awaara
• Shyamchi Aai
• Mirza Ghalib
• Jagte Raho
• Mayabazar
• Kabuliwala
• The Music Room
• Kaagaz Ke Phool
• The Holy Island
• The Cloud-Capped Star

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

A new kind of water, a new way of breathing

1. Army of Shadows
2. Le Samouraï
3. Le Cercle Rouge
4. Le Doulos
5. The Silence of the Sea
6. A Cop
7. Bob le Flambeur

A change of speed, a change of style
A change of scene, with no regrets
A chance to watch, ire the distance
Still occupied, though you forget

1. Paths of Glory
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Barry Lyndon
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Shining
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. A Clockwork Orange

.....It was Coney Island. They called Coney Island, "the playground of the world"

• Lawrence of Arabia

  10

• Brief Encounter

  9.5

• The Bridge on the River Kwai

  8.5

• Doctor Zhivago

  7
  
  My man Omar Sharif acted his heart out again <3

"Lot of rich people in Birmingham
Lot of ghosts in a lot of houses"

1. The Insider

   10

2. Heat

   9

3. Thief

   8.5

4. Miami Vice

   8

5. Manhunter

   8

6. Collateral

   7.5

7. The Last of the Mohicans

   7

8. Public Enemies

   4

9. Blackhat

   4

Some directors whose work I have liked and whose filmography I'd love to complete + some directors who I would like to get into / give another chance. SEE NOTES

• Ikiru

  Kurosawa. Probably my favourite at the moment (although I don't wanna say that since I've hardly completed any major filmographies). Anyway two 10s (High and Low and Ran). So obviously super excited to check out his other work 

• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

  Scorsese - TD is a 10 and Raging Bull is god tier too. Also banger core cinema at it's finest

• Andrei Rublev

  Tarkovsky. Solaris alone would have been enough to make me excited and on top of that he has 3 more amazing films. Obviously pumped

• Fitzcarraldo

  Aguirre is probably my favourite film at the moment. Herzog was involved in Act of Killing too. Another 10. No reason not to pursue his work

• Miami Vice

  Mann. Master of the "city core" aesthetic. Have watched 3. That number will increase. 

• Kwaidan

  Kobayashi. Harakiri instant 10. Looking forward

• Ugetsu

  Mizoguchi. Never watched any. That will change

• Days of Heaven

  Malick. Hated Tree of Life. Badlands wasn't bad though but I wasn't wowed. More importantly this was 1.5-2 years back. Wanna give him another shot. Also because it's time to get into poetry core cinema now that I'm a fair bit into banger core cinema

• The Salesman

  Farhadi. A Separation is another 10. About Elly was absolutely brilliant. Gotta watch em all

• Rumble Fish

  Coppola's later stuff. Tied best American director imo. 

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Burning
2. First Reformed
3. The Death of Stalin
4. Shoplifters
5. The Favourite
6. The Rider
7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
8. Hereditary
9. Annihilation
10. First Man

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.