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3.5 stars - the eggers touch

should i get titanic tattoo? sound off in the comments

Betty Buckley slaps two students about the face. Education standards have really fallen in this country

If I’m taking a sick day, I watch Carrie. Some things are beyond my control

If I knew her I would be like girl get over it

Googled “was kafka gay” and a Guardian article came up with the headline: Kafka's sexual terrors were 'absolutely normal', says biographer

I believe them

Decided when I was in Cannes for 70+ hours without my luggage, and no one could tell me where it was or when it might turn up, that I would rewatch this when I got home to unwind

I’m dropping hints like I went to the Cannes Film Festival / I went to the Cannes Film Festival

Sissy Spacek is so preternaturally talented that it’s ultimately unfair to ask other actors to be in her presence

Pleasurable but it’s like I know the story so well it was hard to give a shit

The guys were so hot tho

This is what it feels like in my emotional landscape on the average day

Overdetermined yet remote, exactly the type of European art film to whip the critics on the croisette into a fervor only for them all to claim they always thought it was mid seven years later

Sound design not uninteresting tho, perhaps predictably given the title

Here (2024, Zemeckis) outsold

When the nerdy older brother yells at his friends “no one lays a hand on my brother he’s still a minor!!” I really got some insight into what it was like for my older siblings when I was a homecoming king twink who would fuck anyone under 70 who had a kind smile

My first ever screening at CANNES OMG😭

The Past is Full of Events

C-3PO acts from a place of fear, while R2-D2 moves from a place of abundance; this is why 3PO is always in distress while R2 is always having fun

Kind of dull but I like when the mice spit rhymes

Cinderella doesn’t have any facial expressions😍

The one gay king is abusive to the other gay king

Vincent Cassel doing iPad in the bathtub

In many senses, the greatest movie I've ever seen.

hayden christiansen vocal FRY💜

Sorry to doxx but someone smelled like literal poop in the theater and it was much more distracting than when the power went out during the second reel and we had an impromptu intermission.

One of maybe ~20 movies that I think would be impossible to oversell to someone who hasn't seen it.

When I tell you I could not stop laughing for the first hour, but in a joyous, celebratory way. I bust a gut!

Basically starts to cook once it really homes in on the romance and almost becomes a two-hander for great stretches (you merely have to endure 90 minutes of Meryl Streep wistfully saying “jambo…” in a Danish accent and getting diagnosed with syphilis first) But even then, every five minutes I was still shaking my head like.. that’s just Out of Africa!

Cried at the end.

What I will say in disagreement with seemingly all of my mutuals who have logged: I was not BORED for a moment. I felt numerous negative emotions throughout, but boredom was never one of them.

The score and the cinematography cannot be oversold imo

Tremendous picture - when Rock Hudson gets wasted and has his head down on the table you can clearly see where his makeup rubbed off onto the tablecloth. Only in the movies…

Ariana DeBose has an Oscar and Kirsten Dunst does not. If memory serves, most of you ed this, celebrated this. I did not

In which Katharine Hepburn slices a green grape in half and eats each half independently. Later she claws sugar out of the bowl for her coffee with her bare fingers.

Perhaps the greatest ensemble of actors ever assembled in the English language, for which the film earns itself an extra half star.

I had literal tears streaming down my face every time Joseph Cotten was onscreen. I've never seen him old and I've never seen him play afraid.

Lee Remick is getting divorced for the fourth time at age 36. I'm 36 now and I've only been in love three times. Though I suppose that has little to do with marriage.

Aspires to Bergman but must ultimately settle for Bergmanesque.

In which a homeless gay guy teaches an unruly young woman how to wash

i've never really given bingley a second thought before but i was quite smitten with him this viewing. life is full of surprises.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

rewatched bc tiktok algorithm said this is my ideal disney prince match. i knew it was right before rewatching (fights dragon, escapes imprisonment to be with me, gets hogtied by a marauding horde of goblins), i just wanted to. the way i am lowkey a disney adult but i am normal about it

like 80% of this movie is like. what if one of the golden girls was a beautiful 16 year old who is unaware she is a literal princess and is just one with the earth. and then the other three golden girls the same (ie the fairies...)

animation genuinely astonishing to look at

sometimes i how much money this movie made at the box office and just have to stop and go "wow!" this is how i spend my time instead of having a boyfriend

i prefer the dress to be blue

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Al’s coat and haircut combo is cunt

Autistic people solving crimes always hits fuck RFK

I relate more to the story of Moses than that of Jesus (haven't been resurrected but I have changed my mind).

Powerful. Exquisite. Staying home on a Saturday night to watch Liza with a Z alone is something that can be so beautiful for a 36 year old.

I will be honest, Minnelli in black and white doesn’t sit quite right with me, but it was still lovely

Several breathtaking shots in the wedding sequence alone, and loved the dream sequence

And twinks abound! When the gay brother Ben prances downstairs like “look at my new tuxedo”

Spencer Tracy lowkey still underrated, despite the acclaim

And Elizabeth Taylor is so beautiful😍 and when contemporary costumes were fashion😍😍

Am  losing. my mind

Just tried to go up on the down escalator typing that out ⬆️

This was cunt asf, and so horny. Awesome. In the first half, Charlton Heston and especially Yul Brenner keep spreading their legs like WHORES

Ed begley jr is really hot in this

Need Laurence Harvey

Multiple scenes set at GAP

Stephen Frears, of Philomena fame—one of the greats!

I think the American cinema could be saved with more movies that utilize the phrases "on the grift," "the rackets," etc

This is a real major motion picture studio film

the score in particular was like. wow!

Bush era Reefer Madness

Sort of Buffycore

One of the best movies I’ve seen with my eyes

In the 90s I thought Bill Pullman was such a Plain Jane but now if such a man came into my life I would fold immediately

You were my ghost😭

A litmus test for whether you place more value on writing/story (ignorant) or visual, spatial, and temporal splendor (Mensa candidate)

I think the best work of Howard Ashman's entire career is:

When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs
Every morning to help me get large
And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a barge

The way everything corky wears is in style rn

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

i like when Leo tucks his hair behind his ears

A great film, not due to any consideration of quality, but because it is a staggering display of mental illness. That’s how art should be made

A squadron of the greatest living british actors and Ben Affleck shouting the most ridiculous dialogue you’ve ever heard for two hours. Not a single change in inflection from anyone for the duration!

• The Bad and the Beautiful
• Duel in the Sun
• The Girl Can't Help It
• Bigger Than Life
• Vertigo
• The Naked Kiss
• Murder by Contract
• The Red House
• The Phenix City Story
• Sullivan's Travels

...plus 100 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Godfather Part II
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Conversation
4. The Godfather
5. Bram Stoker's Dracula
6. Rumble Fish
7. Tetro
8. The Godfather Part III
9. The Rain People
10. Tucker: The Man and His Dream

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

1. A Woman Under the Influence
2. Faces
3. Husbands
4. Minnie and Moskowitz
5. Love Streams
6. Opening Night
7. Shadows
8. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
9. Too Late Blues
10. Gloria

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

1. Naked
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Vera Drake
4. Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Meantime
6. Another Year
7. Mr. Turner
8. Topsy-Turvy
9. Peterloo

1. The Piano
2. Sweetie
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Bright Star
5. In the Cut
6. An Angel at My Table
7. Top of the Lake: China Girl
8. The Portrait of a Lady
9. Holy Smoke
10. Top of the Lake

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

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Mad Max 2
3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
4. Mad Max
5. The Witches of Eastwick
6. Three Thousand Years of Longing
7. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

1. Interstellar
2. Inception
3. The Dark Knight
4. Oppenheimer
5. Dunkirk
6. The Prestige
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Tenet
9. Batman Begins
10. Memento

1. Sophie's Choice
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Norma Rae
4. Cabaret
5. The Lion in Winter
6. of Endearment
7. Annie Hall
8. Darling
9. Klute
10. Moonstruck

...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Blue Velvet
4. Inland Empire
5. Eraserhead
6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
7. Twin Peaks
8. The Straight Story
9. Lost Highway
10. The Elephant Man

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

1. Marie Antoinette
2. Somewhere
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. Lost in Translation
5. The Bling Ring
6. On the Rocks
7. The Beguiled
8. Priscilla

1. Carol
2. Safe
3. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
4. I'm Not There
5. Mildred Pierce
6. Far from Heaven
7. Poison
8. May December
9. Dottie Gets Spanked
10. Velvet Goldmine

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

1. Modern Romance
2. Real Life
3. Lost in America
4. Defending Your Life

1. Nebraska
2. Citizen Ruth
3. Election
4. About Schmidt
5. The Holdovers
6. Sideways
7. The Descendants
8. Downsizing

1. Gone Girl
2. Zodiac
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Se7en
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. The Social Network
7. Panic Room
8. Mank
9. Fight Club
10. The Game

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

1. Happy as Lazzaro
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. The Favourite
4. Burning
5. Let the Sunshine In
6. The Other Side of the Wind
7. You Were Never Really Here
8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
9. Zama
10. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

• Ace in the Hole
• An Affair to
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Avanti!
• The Barefoot Contessa
• The Big Sky
• Bigger Than Life
• The Black Cat
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Broken Blossoms

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

1. The Turin Horse
2. Satantango
3. Werckmeister Harmonies
4. Damnation
5. Family Nest

• Ace in the Hole
• Bamboozled
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Dogville
• A Face in the Crowd
• Nashville
• Paris Is Burning
• Polyester
• The Searchers
• Showgirls

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

1. Asteroid City
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. The French Dispatch
8. Rushmore
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Bottle Rocket

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

ranked by movie overall, not performance...

by performance top 5 probably:
1. The Music Lovers
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Elizabeth R
4. Women in Love
5. Hedda

1. The Music Lovers
2. Women in Love
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. Elizabeth R
5. Hopscotch
6. Hedda
7. Mary, Queen of Scots
8. Stevie
9. The Maids
10. A Touch of Class

1. Vive L'Amour
2. The River
3. What Time Is It There?
4. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
5. The Hole
6. Days
7. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
8. Stray Dogs
9. Rebels of the Neon God
10. The Wayward Cloud

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

including her rant in the comments of "how could i not include X"

• 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
• The Age of Innocence
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Andy Warhol Screen Tests
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Beau Travail
• Dead Man
• Do the Right Thing
• Far from Heaven
• Histoire(s) du cinéma

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Raging Bull
2. The Age of Innocence
3. Taxi Driver
4. GoodFellas
5. The King of Comedy
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
7. The Irishman
8. The Wolf of Wall Street
9. After Hours
10. New York, New York

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

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Phantom Thread
3. The Master
4. Inherent Vice
5. Licorice Pizza
6. Boogie Nights
7. Magnolia
8. Punch-Drunk Love
9. Hard Eight

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Schindler's List
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Jurassic Park
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
6. The Fabelmans
7. Minority Report
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
9. War Horse
10. The Color Purple

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Vertigo
2. Marnie
3. Psycho
4. Notorious
5. Rear Window
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. Rebecca
8. Strangers on a Train
9. North by Northwest
10. The Birds

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Titanic
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Aliens
4. The Terminator
5. Avatar: The Way of Water
6. True Lies
7. Avatar

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Barton Fink
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Fargo
5. A Serious Man
6. The Big Lebowski
7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
8. Raising Arizona
9. Blood Simple
10. The Hudsucker Proxy

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

1. Jackie Brown
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Django Unchained
9. Death Proof
10. The Hateful Eight

• The Apartment
• Batman Returns
• Carol
• Come to the Stable
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Home Alone
• Home for the Holidays
• The Ice Storm
• It's a Wonderful Life

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

1. Desperate Living
2. Female Trouble
3. Serial Mom
4. Polyester
5. Pink Flamingos
6. Hairspray
7. Multiple Maniacs
8. A Dirty Shame
9. Cry-Baby
10. Cecil B. Demented

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

1. L'Argent
2. The Devil, Probably
3. Four Nights of a Dreamer
4. Au Hasard Balthazar
5. A Man Escaped
6. Pickpocket
7. Diary of a Country Priest
8. Lancelot of the Lake
9. A Gentle Woman
10. The Trial of Joan of Arc

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

1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Every Man for Himself
3. Histoire(s) du cinéma
4. Contempt
5. Breathless
6. First Name: Carmen
7. In Praise of Love
8. A Woman Is a Woman
9. Alphaville
10. Vivre Sa Vie

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

1. American Gigolo
2. Light Sleeper
3. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
4. Blue Collar
5. Hardcore
6. The Card Counter
7. Auto Focus
8. First Reformed
9. Affliction
10. Cat People

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

i just finished the biography

1. The Graduate
2. Angels in America
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Carnal Knowledge
5. The Birdcage
6. Silkwood
7. Postcards from the Edge
8. Working Girl
9. Heartburn
10. Wolf

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

• Beau Travail
• Close-Up
• Do the Right Thing
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• La Dolce Vita
• Marnie
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Raging Bull
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Thin Red Line

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

1. Volver
2. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
3. Talk to Her
4. All About My Mother
5. The Flower of My Secret
6. Pain and Glory
7. Law of Desire
8. Parallel Mothers
9. Live Flesh
10. Julieta

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

1. Dead Ringers
2. The Fly
3. Crash
4. A History of Violence
5. Videodrome
6. Crimes of the Future
7. Spider
8. Eastern Promises
9. Cosmopolis
10. eXistenZ

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

1. Marie Antoinette
2. Volver
3. Inland Empire
4. Down There
5. Old Joy
6. Notes on a Scandal
7. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
8. The Departed
9. Syndromes and a Century
10. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

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

1. Dead Ringers
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
3. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives
5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
6. Dangerous Liaisons
7. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
8. Story of Women
9. Chocolat
10. Akira

1. All About Eve
2. A Letter to Three Wives
3. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
4. Suddenly, Last Summer
5. Guys and Dolls
6. The Barefoot Contessa
7. House of Strangers
8. People Will Talk
9. 5 Fingers
10. Cleopatra

1. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
2. The Gospel According to Matthew
3. The Decameron
4. Theorem
5. The Canterbury Tales
6. Arabian Nights
7. Mamma Roma

1. The Power of the Dog
2. Annette
3. Memoria
4. Days
5. The Matrix Resurrections
6. All Light, Everywhere
7. Dune
8. Bergman Island
9. Atlantis
10. Just Don't Think I'll Scream

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Welcome to the first annual "The Criterion Challenge" where we celebrate The Criterion Collection.

There are 52 categories - one for each week. Watch any Criterion related film released on Laserdisc, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, or on The Criterion Channel between 1/1/21-12/31/21. The films can be watched daily, weekly, or monthly, and in any order! I would like for all picks to be first time watches but will leave that up to you.

Helpful links to view the entire Criterion Collection: The Complete Criterion Collection and Criterion Collection by Spine Number

Categories:

1. 1984 - watch a film released the year of Criterion's inception.
2. Directed by Akira Kurosawa
3. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
4. Horror
5. Released on Laserdisc (Criterion Collection Laserdisc Titles)
6. Made in Spain
7. Wes Anderson's Top 10 (Wes Anderson’s Top 10)
8. Romance
9. A silent film
10. 1920s
11. 1930s
12. 1940s
13. 1950s
14. 1960s
15. 1970s
16. 1980s
17. 1990s
18. 2000s
19. 2010s
20. Directed by a woman
21. A film featured in the "Pioneers of African American Cinema" series (Pioneers of African American Cinema)
22. Documentary
23. Comedy
24. Any film on The Criterion Channel (Every Film Available on The Criterion Channel & Secondary List - if you don’t have this service then just choose any film featured on this list and watch however you please. Some may even be on other streaming services or available for rent.)
25. Martin Scorsese's Top 10 (Martin Scorsese’s Top 10)
26. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
27. Directed by Federico Fellini
28. The Merchant Ivory Collection (Merchant Ivory Collection)
29. Oscar Winners (Oscar Winners)
30. Black and white
31. Directed by Charlie Chaplin
32. Watch any film featured in the Godzilla Boxset
33. Western
34. Made in Italy
35. Made in the Soviet Union
36. Made in India
37. A film from the Eclipse series (The Criterion Collection: Eclipse)
38. Kelly Reichardt's Top 10 (Kelly Reichardt’s Top 10)
39. Directed by John Cassavetes
40. Watch a film between spine #100-200
41. Film Noir
42. Samurai
43. A film featured in the "Queersighted: Queer Fear" series (Queersighted: Queer Fear)
44. A film featured in the "New Korean Cinema" series (New Korean Cinema)
45. Directed by Ingmar Bergman
46. Directed by Agnes Varda
47. Based on a book (Criterion Films Based on a Book)
48. Foreign-Language Oscar Winners (Criterion Collection: Foreign-Language Oscar Winners)
49. Josh and Benny Safdie's Closet Picks (Josh and Benny Safdie’s Closet Picks)
50. Watch a film with spine #1000 or higher
51. Watch a film featured in "Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits" (The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, Game of Death)
52. Any Criterion film on your watchlist

Please use the tags "cc2021" and “criterion challenge 2021” so that we can keep track of everything, and link your lists in the comments below. Have fun!

Started: 1/4/21
Progress: 31/52

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

  1984

• Kagemusha

  akira kurosawa

• Tout Va Bien

  jean-luc godard

• Sisters

  horror

• Last Tango in Paris

  laserdisc

• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

  spain

• The Earrings of Madame de...

  wes anderson’s top ten

• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

  romance

• I Was Born, But...

  silent

• The Kid

  1920s

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

• Eyes Wide Shut
• Michael Clayton

• Drive My Car
• The Power of the Dog
• West Side Story

numbers 11-24 are more or less interchangeable who gives a fuck

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. Casino Royale
3. GoldenEye
4. From Russia with Love
5. Goldfinger
6. No Time to Die
7. Moonraker
8. A View to a Kill
9. Skyfall
10. Dr. No

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

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

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

1. The Village
2. Unbreakable
3. The Sixth Sense
4. Old
5. Glass
6. Split
7. Signs
8. Lady in the Water
9. The Visit
10. The Happening

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