4v291o

Criterion Challenge 22/52: Documentary

Gorgeously shot with some utterly stunning lighting. Every song is one of the best songs you’ve ever heard. I had only ever heard The Weight before seeing this film but every single track had me bopping my head watching some of the coolest looking guys jam out. Loved the interview segments with Levon. His insight on the origins of rock and roll and its ways were just beautiful. The story about the harmonica player floored me. And the edit with the interview segments corresponding to specific songs worked so well. Felt like a Q&A where the interview segments were the questions and the songs were the answers. The title design was also perfect. The dancers swiping across the title gave me a wonderful moment of awe. I need to show this to my dad he’ll love it. And yes I did play it loud the movie asked me to how could I not?

Ending is the only thing keeping this from being my favorite Hitchcock so far. Just sucks away all of the tension instead of reaching a peak. Otherwise absolutely wonderful. Great lead performances. I was saying “girl run. girl RUN” at the screen over and over and over again. Also who was that woman in a SUIT in that one dinner scene like hello 👋. The friend who is a mystery writer inadvertently contributing to the increasing paranoia was a nice touch. I’m so mad about those chairs. Honestly a really good depiction of trying to be with an addict and the mistrust that can engender.

I think this is the oldest depiction of dreams becoming reality I’ve personally seen in film which is so cool. Great composite shot. Love how he keeps jerking around to emphasize yes he is dreaming no he is not dead. And so many good flips and tumbles and booms! And I’m always here for an airship.

I still don’t understand the play.

You can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep.

My mom died when I was 12 and it felt like the world had ended. But everyone kept moving like it hadn’t. I still had to go to school and do homework and go to robotics competitions. She’s not buried anywhere special either. A box of ashes in a closet somewhere or a Tupperware next to an unmarked cactus feel like one and the same. Nothing made sense. I felt myself like I really had seen an alien; I had something that I could not explain to my friends or to anyone, something heavy and secret that demanded to be heard with no one to listen to it. And it festered, unknowable, like a photographic waiting to be developed, like a play not understood. Years ed and now I look back on those days where I was a strange little human cut off from the world and I still don’t understand them. But I keep on living. I keep on making my own story. Just as Jones Hall keeps performing the play even though Conrad is gone for 500+ more performances. Death arrives and makes no sense and life keeps moving. And you’ve got to keep trying in that life, trying to love. As the song in the credits says, you can’t fall in love and land on your feet. There will always be an end. It won’t make sense. You may never see anything like it again. But it’ll be there. And you just have to hope that you can wake up from it if you’re the one left standing. 

All this is to say, Asteroid City is one of the best movies about grief. Thank you Wes for helping us understand the play just a little better.

Criterion Challenge 21/52: 1990s

Wow what a film! It’s so sexy. So stylish. Basically a chamber piece in these two apartments. Really limited scope only two other locations and one exterior area. But they do so much amazing stuff with it. The white paint! It’s a heist and a mafia movie and a lesbian love story all in one what more could you want!!!!!! Happy fucking pride! Caesar you don’t know SHIT!

Wonderful aesthetics and great performances. Pamela Anderson and Bautista were stellar, and I did not expect that amazing performance out of Billie Lourd. There’s a peculiar melancholy to cinema abut something dying. A world that is out of step from reality just a little bit. It was beautiful once and now is tattered. And it was never as perfect as it seemed to be, with trauma left in its glittering wake.

Hi Mr. Dickson!

Really fun idiot plot. Great performances and line deliveries across the board. If one person wasn’t stupid this would all have worked out but no everyone is an idiot. Love that Linda did actually get her surgeries. Good for her.

Beautifully absurd and technically impressive. Also hilarious. Gonna have various segments as earworms for days.

Directors Cut

I loved this. Beautiful imagery. Insane glitter budget. It’s so beautiful to see the origin of huge parts of modern Legend of Zelda lore. Another movie where Tom Cruise is the most beautiful girl in the world. We yelled “go Tom go” during the final fight scene. And all cheered at the end. Seriously how did they get this much glitter?

“How could you come to me now when I’m this?”

Gorgeous animation. Wonderful Grecian chorus style music. Had so much fun watching it with my friends. I pray that that pirate cat is okay.

I’m astounded, in awe. That shot in the movie theater with the gun. I literally had to pause this film to draw out how that moved. The colors! Red and green look so good here. That title card hit. The broken eternity of that final sequence. How did he shoot that how. The consistent use of mirrors. So often I would be like wait that’s a window no it’s a mirror. Looking through two windows into a mirror so that reality remains obscured. Utterly stunning and I’m gonna be thinking about this for at least a week. Wow. Just wow. I need to find a way to see this in 3D.

This is a fun comedy. Doesn’t feel uniquely Hitchcock in any way but I had a good time with it. And Carole Lombard is of course gorgeous. Wonderful performances from both leads. Also loved the cat on the table who refused to eat the soup.

So far so good, so far so good, so far so good

The introduction really tells you how to watch the film. Each scene a chance for something to break, something to ignite. A few times something smolders, threatens to explode. And then it lands. And you’ve been thinking “so far so good” for so long that you’re shocked to be shattered across the Parisian concrete. My reaction as the credits rolled was simply: “FUCK”.  Absolutely stunning film. Shot insanely well. Amazing split diopters. The three leads give stellar performances. It’s just perfect.

I love these early silent films where you just watch a stream of people walk by. I love how every person glances at the camera or gives it a little wave. I hope they had a good time in Lyon and took some good pictures.

Saw this with a great crowd and we were all dying laughing. That last glass break was the perfect punchline to the whole film. So awkward. So hilarious. Tim Robinson really commits to the bits like no one else. Kate Mara is glorious. I loved the storytelling they did with her hair. Paul Rudd is such a jerk but also you can’t help but love him. I want to see what Ocean View Dining has in their women’s line those clothes hold up well.

A tragic dark comedy. Astounding debut. We Kee exploiting vulnerable people we keep exploiting vulnerable women and children. What is it about humanity that we keep doing this again and again across the world. My heart hurts. Haunting final shot.

Astounding film especially as a second feature. Fascinating to see how another culture grieves, but what is universal is how death stirs up secrets. How families will keep secret after secret, hurt those who could reveal the truth, just to hide the rot within. Glorious lead performance from Susan Chardy. Also amazed how many women were in this film and how much they were doing for the family and for the grieving process. What were the men even doing?

The sea gradually seeming to get rougher the further out the row and the moment of panic in the waves just as the film ends is truly something beautiful.

Wonderful sweet little film. The pure unflappable desires of a little girl butting up against the realities of the world. She’s so cute! And she got her goldfish!

There’s no jobs, no therapy, no positive community. Just sheep and gradually building anger. This rural area of Ireland becomes a cage where men fight like dogs instead of talking at all and leave so much devastation in their wake.

“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it”

Gorgeous film. Violent film. The times they are a-changin’ and no one can stop it. I’m so curious what the switch was in Chigurh’s brain when his goal stopped being get the money and became. Kill anyone who stopped me from getting the money. It’s still there alongside the river. Someday it will be found by some border patrol agents, someone crossing, some curious kids. And they’ll see a stack of bills missing from the weathered leather case and never know that that money bought the clothes a man died in. A man who came upon a chance to change his life for the better but instead destroyed his whole life, set off a man who is the living embodiment of the captive bolt pistol he carries, leaving destruction in his wake and never a trace of himself. I feel like I’m going to need several watches for this to settle into my mind. It’s dizzying in its violence, in the way its cat and mouse game spirals into viscera on a carpet and a man retiring and waiting to die. The plot doesn’t go the way it should by all standards of genre and convention, but the history of the west didn’t go the way it should either. And that’s if fate had a hand in any of it at all. The coin don’t have no say. It’s just Anton. Just old men.

Slow first hour with too many flashbacks and some weird editing choices but once it hits it HITS. I was reacting so strongly to those set pieces that I was sweating. I’m literally tired now I feel like I just ran a marathon. I cried like 4 or 5 times. How is Tom Cruise still alive?! Amazing ing characters that we meet this film. And the one plot thing I really wanted worked out so honestly I’m really happy with this.

This is a film so good I kept having physical reactions to it. I was fully squirming around in my seat with how tense I was during the train sequence. How the fuck did they film that?! I am so so scared that I’m gonna see Benji die tomorrow please please they can’t hurt my special boy. Truly a film made of beautiful women and beautiful lighting and stunning set pieces and such a bomb score. I adore it.

Legitimately laughed at this. Those kidnappers really underestimated the whimsy of these kids and now have to buy so many toys for them. Such hardship we must crack down on these whimsical kids.

A collage of a film. The story takes long enough to manifest that I found myself having a lot of time to just think about what I was witnessing. The fact that Jia has the kind of career where he has worked with some of the same actors again and again for so long that he can just. Show them at different times in their lives. Is something wonderful and beautiful that I don’t think many other directors could do. Even the directors with regulars in their films often don’t have a style and tone that blends this seamlessly film to film. The vast amounts of change in China carry everyone through this film. I am most fascinated by the silent character of Qiao Qiao. Initially she frequently covers herself with a mesh jacket, trying but failing to protect her youthful beauty from the sun. As she ages the jacket becomes solid, and now she is protecting herself from the rain, from the sorrows of a love unrealized. And then later in like still she no longer covers her head with a jacket, instead wearing them against the cold as snow falls on her head. I’m really excited to rewatch this once I’ve watched the rest of Jia’s films, and once I know more about China.

JJ Abrams why so many closeups on the faces! That’s too many! PSH is a great villain. I love Julia. Benji really has been directing Ethan’s running remotely this whole time. My GOAT. Also forgot Musgrave was just straight up racist.

Utterly hilarious film. Two asexuals, one a high society obsessed sociopath and the other an autistic who only ever thinks about plants, somehow make it work. And it’s beautiful. I’m gonna be quoting this film for forever I think. And I think I found a new sick day watch. Gotta get this physically. Loved it so much.

I was told it was on the wagon for a month or I have to get a whole new set of organs. And I can’t afford a new set of organs.

Harrowing and surprisingly hilarious. The tenseness of nearly being pushed off of the tower. The plane crash sequence was amazing. Clearly on a soundstage but in several shots I couldn’t tell where the rear projection ended and the real actors began. And very interesting bit of WWII cinema made during the war itself.

Every sequence in this is just perfection. I adore this film. Puts a huge grin on my face every time. Favorite part is always the London chase sequence. Normal people staring at Ethan Hunt like wtf is he doing. Oh wait my favorite part is the helicopter scene where Ethan Hunt has to figure out how to fly a helicopter and can only do so because Tom Cruise learned how to fly a helicopter in a month and a half. He’s insane and he did that for us.

He didn’t even vote. He couldn’t commit to anything or anyone and then pushed everyone in his life away. Also everyone in this film is just. Unimaginably horny. I didn’t know this level of hormones was even possible.

A tragedy of listening to and believing in promises of an idealized better future that doesn’t come in the way you hoped. Love left unrealized. It’s impossible to make a living doing the art you love. Family’s falling apart. You can never go back to that idealism of your youth but did that ideal even exist in the first place?

Wonderful little depiction of a dream

I love this movie. I love Benji being the damsel in distress. I love the Morocco chase sequence. The opera sequence is perfection. It’s got Ilsa Faust. It’s simply peak.

A true idiot plot of a film. Good performances from Marlon Wayans and JK Simmons. Also every scene with the trash barge looked great. The rest of the film though. It took way too long for me to learn how these characters were connected and their true motivations behind doing the robbery remained a mystery to me the entire film. Just couldn’t connect with any character.

The last time I watched this I didn’t know who Lea Seydoux was. Now I do. And Benji I love you. I love seeing him grow across these films.

Criterion Challenge 20/52: Spine Numbers 450-499

I watched this alone at home and I found myself beseeching Jeanne on the screen “who are you? Who are you?!”. Jeanne is a widow and a mother and nothing else cause she doesn’t have the space or the time or the money and it’s terrifying. This feels like the horror film version of Perfect Days. The only thing she does for herself is drink coffee. Everything else is for her son or their mutual survival and honestly even the coffee is for that. When she can’t do part of her routine she just shuts down. Jeanne is empty. She has been running on fumes for decades. Every decision in life has been because it’s what you’re supposed to do. There’s no smiling. No joy. No appreciating the beauty of life. No actual leisure. This is the kind of existence that I think would kill me. It’s no wonder she snapped. It’s no wonder she sat there like all of her strings were cut. But there’s no real freedom after this brief respite for the society that forced her into this position is now the one who must decide her fate. I wonder what the moment Jeanne entered Hell was. When she married? Or somewhere along the line in later years? I wish there had been a way to free her.

This review may contain spoilers.

A tapestry of dreams and reality and memories. The maleability of time and memory is a central theme in this poem of a film. Long rotating pan shots place us at the center of a clock during the film’s most grounded section. Weiwei draws clocks which must stay static at one moment. But then once we embark for Zhenyuan time begins to bend. A dream of a car ride carries Chen along his train journey with the memory that he lost the life he once longed to return to. And once he arrives in Dangmai, the present past and future begin to merge. I didn’t even notice that Bi Gan was doing a long take until about 10 minutes in. The 41 minutes of real time following these characters around hides, doesn’t reveal itself until you’re deep into it. I loved how the camera was separated from the characters, darting down an alley to catch up, jumping from person to person with ease. Only once Chen reaches Zhenyuan do we lurch back to a more simple present, but the clocks are then drawn on the train. And now the whole movie could be a loop. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Bi Gan is a singular absolutely riveting director and I’ve got so much to ponder. The use of mirrors in the cinematography of the film and how that connects to the the disco where Chen and Zhang Xi first met. That upside down train overlay shot directly into that reality and dream match cup with Chen’s ear. And of course that long take. This is a rambling review but it’s because I feel like I need to just study this film and it will reveal some aspect of the meaning of life to me. Bi Gan I will watch any film you make this was riveting.

This is a ghost story. I read this book over a dozen years ago and I loving it. But my only clear memories of the plot are the whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo and the images of the beach. An absolutely stunning retelling. It hits me so deeply that our protagonist doesn’t even have a name until she marries, and then it’s a name she has to share with a ghost. With a woman haunting the house with her beauty, with her perfection, with her despair, with her hate. Mandelay is stunning from its portrayal in miniature at the opening of the film to its maze of rooms devoid of warmth, curtains obscuring every truth. The scene of the inferno is amazing I’m so curious how Hitchcock filmed the falling beams. Also dazzling performances from Olivier and Fontaine.

Criterion Challenge 19/52: 1980s

Oh I loved this! There’s something about 1980s fantasy that is just pure magic. The miniature work and composite shots in this are insane. I fully gasped at the reveal of what the ship was. This is pure fun and magic and wonder with just enough darkness lurking around the edges to make it intriguing.

Cute little short. “The world made more sense when I was Pete, and I made more sense in it”

Absolutely stunning film. Best depiction of composers I’ve ever seen cause it actually makes you feel the creation. Feel the obsession. The film is a stunning period piece. And Salieri’s obsessive hatred just keeps coming more and more and more irrational. He believes he is entitled to greatness. But true greatness moves too fast for him. The last sequence is utterly riveting. Glimpsing the complexities within Mozart’s mind. How the pieces are truly just all there in his mind and just need to be written down. At the graveyard scene I was so shocked I gasped and started to cry. Amazing film.

George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones give good performances but I just didn’t quite vibe with this. Did like the animated intro and loved the “my god. You’re exposed” lines.

A fun time. Thrillers stress me out so this film did stress me out. Some cool camera movement and liked the way it did the phone effects. The bartender is a bombshell I need to see her in more things.

Charles Laughton gives a great performance here. Loved the shots of the wreckers trying to get the escapees out of the cave.

Oh this was stunning. Enthralling. Unlike anything I’ve seen before. When it started I was like. Wow this shot is going on a loooong time. And then that was the whole point. The same journey again and again. 11 times up the same mountain. This did not feel 2 hours long at all. I loved the moment just after the hidden cut in the cable station where the silhouettes of the next riders appear and are gradually revealed as the car moves into sunlight. I loved all the different types of people. The glimpses of day to day life we caught in their faces and voices. The liveliest journeys were my favorite but I truly loved them all. How they lead you to ponder a bit about each enger’s life. I’m just amazed. Really need to watch some more films from SEL.

Bi Gan got a significantly better camera omg. Wish I had had access to a better translation for the very poetic dialogue. The lingering shot of the cave was gorgeous. I love the way he filmed the boat. It reminds me of the way Lynch films cars. The lightning representing pain being the only color in the film is something I really need to ponder. So excited to see one of his features Kaili Blues here I come.

This film is utterly gorgeous. That one shot in the interrogation room with the cone of light. The execution room. So glad it was in black and white this would not have worked as well in color. Billy Bob Thornton stuns as a man who feels like he is going through the motions in life and then takes action in a devious way that makes everything crumble down. He’s a man who hasn’t been here for a long time. I love the alien abduction imagery. Feeling like you’re out of step with the entire world. You know something they don’t. You’ve been somewhere they haven’t. I don’t know if he’s just depressed or so deep in the closet that he doesn’t even know there’s a door but Crane is such a tragic figure. He really is the modern American man. Every human connection he has is built on him being so empty and so lonely. The Coens did some amazing stuff here.

I adore obsessive ride or die relationships in fiction and this was a wonderful one of those. And every character is so messy and it was so fun to see it all coalesce. SIS is an instrument and this couple is playing it beautifully. They basically run the place from their bedroom which is so iconic. My favorite shot is the one when Stokes goes out on the boat and the camera is just below the water line cause we’re dipping just under the surface into what is really going on.

Criterion Challenge 18/52: William Friedkin’s Closet Picks
This was so sad. I’m so mad at that landlady. A man driven to desperation by circumstances out of his control. We are still doing this to so many people. So little has changed. Flike I love you.

Progress: 22/52

Categories:

1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset
2. Watch a film from the year you were born
3. Directed by Robert Altman
4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
5. Great Soundtracks
6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
7. 1920s
8. Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025
9. 1930s
10. Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks
11. 1940s
12. Celine Song’s Top 10
13. 1950s
14. Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favorites lists
15. 1960s
16. Watch a film that is currently out of print from the physical collection
17. 1970s
18. William Friedkin’s Closet Picks
19. 1980s
20. Spine #451-499
21. 1990s
22. Documentary
23. 2000s
24. Janus Contemporaries
25. 2010s
26. Bill Hader’s Second Closet Picks
27. 2020s
28. Noir and Neonoir
29. All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks
30. Criterion Releases Never Picked in the Closet
31. North American film
32. Ayo Edebiri’s Closet Picks
33. Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing
34. South American film
35. Random Number Generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
36. AAPI Filmmakers
37. Watch a film shorter than 80 minutes
38. European film
39. Cult Movies
40. Isabella Rossellini’s Adventures in Moviegoing
41. Winona Ryder’s Closet Picks
42. African film
43. John Carpenter’s Top 10
44. Horror
45. Asian film
46. Dark Comedies
47. Rachel Kushner’s Adventures in Moviegoing
48. Australian film
49. Female Filmmakers
50. Ben Wheatley’s Closet Picks
51. A film by a director whose work you have not seen before
52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist

1. All That Jazz
2. After Life
3. The Player
4. Fantastic Planet
5. Blue Velvet
6. The Lady Eve
7. The ion of Joan of Arc
8. The Wages of Fear
9. Design for Living
10. Tampopo

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Progress: 52/104

Hitchcock’s filmography along with the Scorcese movies I still need to watch along with the Coen Brothers filmography along with Paul Thomas Anderson’s filmography along with David Fincher’s filmography. I may be insane.

• The Pleasure Garden
• The Aviator
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• New York, New York
• Downhill
• The Color of Money
• The Ring
• Cape Fear
• Cape Fear
• The Farmer's Wife

...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Rebecca
2. Sabotage
3. Suspicion
4. The Lady Vanishes
5. The 39 Steps
6. Foreign Correspondent
7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
8. Blackmail
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much
10. Jamaica Inn

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

Films where any character watches a movie on screen. Including editing booth scenes and home movie scenes with projectors.

• 8½
• After Life
• All That Jazz
• All We Imagine as Light
• Anuja
• The Aviator
• Barton Fink
• Black Bag
• Breathless
• The Brutalist

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In order of anticipated release.

• Paddington in Peru
• Presence
• The Colors Within
• Companion
• Love Hurts
• Armand
• Universal Language
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
• Last Breath
• The Legend of Ochi

...plus 202 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Progress: 18/56

Films from the 5th year of every decade to watch in 2025 (4 films per year for the aesthetics of the list. Except for 1885 and 1895 due to the length and the lack of films from 1885)

• L'Homme Machine
• Annabelle Serpentine Dance
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
• The Sprinkler Sprinkled
• Baby's Meal
• The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
• Boat Leaving the Port
• The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
• The Black Imp
• Rescued by Rover

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

• City Lights
• Sherlock Jr.
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley
• A Corner in Wheat
• Un Chien Andalou
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Phantom Carriage
• Battleship Potemkin
• Metropolis
• Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blue Velvet
2. Tampopo
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
4. River
5. A New Leaf
6. Twin Peaks
7. Design for Living
8. Cure
9. Kaili Blues
10. True Stories

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

1. Sinners
2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
3. Caught by the Tides
4. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
5. Friendship
6. Black Bag
7. Mickey 17
8. Bring Them Down
9. The Last Showgirl
10. Drop

Progress: 30/56

Since I didn’t do on the #s for these years this is giving me one film from the first 4 years of each decade

• Dickson Greeting
• Poor Pierrot
• Blacksmithing Scene
• Dickson Experimental Sound Film
• The Man with the Rubber Head
• Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
• The Great Train Robbery
• The Impossible Voyage
• Dante's Inferno
• Falling Leaves

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

1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Fargo
4. Barton Fink
5. The Hudsucker Proxy
6. Raising Arizona
7. The Big Lebowski
8. Miller's Crossing
9. Blood Simple
10. The Man Who Wasn't There

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

• Days of Heaven
• Perfect Days
• Chungking Express
• The Fall
• Blue Velvet
• Stop Making Sense
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• RRR
• The Grand Budapest Hotel

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sometimes this makes me go YEAH sometimes this makes me cry

• RRR
• Hundreds of Beavers
• Drive My Car
• Long Day's Journey into Night

• God's Gift
• Black Girl
• Moolaadé
• Mandabi
• Xala
• The Wagoner
• Outsiders
• Emitaï
• Camp de Thiaroye
• Faat Kiné

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

1. Friendship
2. Caught by the Tides

Repeat watches:
Oppenheimer x2
RRR x3
Sinners x3
Moana x2
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again x2
Conclave x2

• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Curious George
• Cars
• Night at the Museum
• Over the Hedge
• WALL·E
• The Tale of Despereaux
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year
• Bolt
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua

...plus 141 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Musicals mentioned in The Movie Musical! by Jeanine Basinger

• Swing Time
• Oklahoma!
• Love Me Tonight
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Calamity Jane
• Red Garters
• Madam Satan
• Murder at the Vanities
• The Artist
• The Jazz Singer

...plus 150 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Piano Lesson
• Ghostlight
• Aattam
• The People's Joker
• Daughters
• Gladiator II
• Road House
• Turtles All the Way Down
• Drive-Away Dolls
• Love Lies Bleeding

...plus 169 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A Straightforward Boy
2. I Graduated, But...

• Walk Cheerfully
• I Flunked, But...
• That Night's Wife
• The Lady and the Beard
• Tokyo Chorus
• I Was Born, But...
• Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
• Woman of Tokyo
• Dragnet Girl
• ing Fancy

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• River
• Run Lola Run
• True Stories
• Dekalog
• The Tree of Life
• Cure
• The Night of the Hunter
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Cleaners
• A New Leaf

• 12 Angry Men
• 20,000 Species of Bees
• The 400 Blows
• 8½
• After Hours
• After Life
• Alice in the Cities
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• All That Jazz
• Anatomy of a Fall

...plus 184 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Comfort movies for sick days, rainy days, when I need to just smile.

• Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Meet the Robinsons
• Imagine Me & You
• Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
• The Nice Guys
• Hot Fuzz
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Moana
• RRR

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

• Judy
• The Odyssey
• Dune: Part Three
• The Bride!
• Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
• Fjord
• 28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple
• Mercy
• Send Help
• The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender

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

• Drive My Car
• Perfect Days
• The Taste of Things
• Chungking Express
• In the Mood for Love
• A Short Story
• Paris, Texas
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Kaili Blues
• Wendy and Lucy

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

1. A Short Story
2. The Snails
3. A Trip to the Moon
4. At Land
5. Daybreak Express
6. Ice Merchants
7. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
8. The Boxing Cats
9. Nest
10. A Camel

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

• Problemista
• Vanilla Sky
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Films where Matt Damon is on a boat at some point in the film

• The Bourne Identity
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The Odyssey

• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• The Seventh Seal
• Wild at Heart
• The Night of the Hunter
• Paris, Texas
• The Green Knight
• Badlands
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Io Capitano
• The Darjeeling Limited

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

Movies where pie is featured in a position of honor

• Waitress
• Hit Man
• Riddle of Fire
• Twin Peaks
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
• Waitress: The Musical
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?

• Django Unchained
• The Hateful Eight
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Power of the Dog
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Hell or High Water
• True Grit
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Unforgiven
• A Fistful of Dollars

...plus 75 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Clearcut
• Blood Quantum
• La Llorona
• Prey
• Slash/Back
• Whale Rider
• Roma
• Boy
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Frybread Face and Me

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Hudsucker Proxy
• Singin' in the Rain
• All That Jazz
• The Big Lebowski
• Om Shanti Om

The grit gets under your skin but there’s magic on the wind

• La Chimera
• Bird
• Riddle of Fire

• Twin Peaks
• Princess Mononoke
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Riddle of Fire

Films that examine how making art can help us process our emotions and trauma and move forward in our lives.

• Asteroid City
• Look Back
• Drive My Car
• The Fall
• Sing Sing
• Fireworks

• The Nice Guys
• Hot Fuzz
• Badlands
• True Stories

I’m unsure where to rank Megalopolis

1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Look Back
5. Nickel Boys
6. No Other Land
7. I'm Still Here
8. La Chimera
9. Hundreds of Beavers
10. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

...plus 74 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The ion of Joan of Arc
2. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
3. The Snails
4. A Trip to the Moon
5. At Land

One of the filmmakers who taught me how to love pictures. Thank you Marty

1. GoodFellas
2. Raging Bull
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. After Hours
5. The Irishman
6. The Departed
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Casino
9. Silence
10. The King of Comedy

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

I want to do a streak of as many films as I can that start with the letter M this is the list for that

• The Maltese Falcon
• My Own Private Idaho
• The Matrix Resurrections
• M
• Metropolis
• My Neighbors the Yamadas
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley
• My Life as a Zucchini
• Murder at the Vanities
• My Best Friend's Wedding

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

I know this because I’m autistic and I say so. I make the rules now.

• Matilda
• Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Rushmore
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Hot Fuzz

  Nicholas Angel is a cop for the most autistic reason (strong sense of Justice, being sure of right and wrong) and in the most autistic way (following all the rules, doing all the paperwork, mimicking action movies once he’s seen them). And like. ACAB. But if you’re gonna be a cop either be Kim Kitsuragi or be Nicholas Angel (but with less arresting random underage drinkers).

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

  Xenk the Paladin is so autistic that he walks over a boulder cause it’s part of his straight line

• Sherlock Holmes
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

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

• Chungking Express
• Perfect Days
• Days of Heaven
• The Fall
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Jurassic Park
• Drive My Car
• The Godfather
• Clue
• Om Shanti Om

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

Films I’ve seen that use the beautiful lost art of film tinting

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed
• Nosferatu
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• The Pleasure Garden

• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• Shoot the Piano Player
• The 400 Blows
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Pierrot le Fou
• Stolen Kisses
• Love on the Run
• Vivre Sa Vie
• Contempt

• Sholay
• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
• Om Shanti Om
• Awaara
• Pyaasa
• Mughal-e-Azam
• Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
• Dil Chahta Hai
• 3 Idiots
• Bāhubali: The Beginning

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I wasn’t expecting that!

• I Saw the TV Glow
• Monkey Man
• The Northman

• The Holdovers
• It's a Wonderful Life
• White Christmas
• The Green Knight
• Klaus
• The Holiday

• Sanshiro Sugata
• The Most Beautiful
• Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
• The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
• No Regrets for Our Youth
• One Wonderful Sunday
• Drunken Angel
• The Quiet Duel
• Stray Dog
• Scandal

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

Every film I know of that features the transparent floor shot from below trick shot.

• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• Challengers
• Robot Dreams
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
• Megalopolis
• The Teacher from Vigevano