• Synecdoche, New York
  • The Wind Rises
  • Werckmeister Harmonies
  • The Double Life of Véronique
  • Children of Men
  • Phantom Thread
  • Seven Samurai
  • The Florida Project
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • Get Out

Director Rankings - Master List

Finally, a place where all my director lists can be found. I might mention that one mustn't care too much…

  • Dead Souls
  • An Elephant Sitting Still
  • The Wild Pear Tree
  • L. Cohen
  • 24 Frames
  • Good Luck
  • Mrs. Fang
  • Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  • The Ancient Woods
  • Makala

Tentative Chronology for (BROAD) Contemplative Cinema

7 sub-families of C.C.C. (Contemporary Contemplative Cinema)

A - Contemplative Documentary --> (Lumière-Sokurov-Benning) B - Non-Actors --> (Flaherty-Costa) C -…

  • SHC: Freak Accident
  • Haunted house killed YouTuber.
  • V/H/S/85
  • Nightmare
  • Deadware
  • Trash Humpers
  • V/H/S/94
  • WNUF Halloween Special
  • Ghostwatch
  • I see are seeing me
  • Persona
  • Mirror
  • Werckmeister Harmonies
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • Kamome Diner
  • Glasses
  • Paris, Texas
  • Wings of Desire
  • Cries and Whispers
  • The Double Life of Véronique

CCC or Slow Cinema

Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema film-making that emphasizes long takes, and is often minimalist, observational, and with…

  • L'Avventura
  • Marketa Lazarová
  • Private Vices, Public Virtues
  • Hard to Be a God
  • Lourdes
  • A Visitor to a Museum
  • The Hole
  • From the East
  • Khrustalyov, My Car!
  • Wavelength

Slow Cinema

A few exceptional semi-slow entries and films with heightened slow-cinema elements also included

  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • La Promesse
  • Taipei Story
  • Exotica
  • Ossos
  • Kes
  • For All Mankind
  • A Well Spent Life
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
  • L'Atalante

The Criterion Challenge 2023

Welcome to the third annual "Criterion Challenge" where we celebrate The Criterion Collection. It's round three and I think there…

  • When the Screaming Starts
  • Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
  • Mad God
  • What Josiah Saw
  • The Menu
  • Saloum
  • Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes
  • Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
  • Strawberry Mansion
  • She Will

Rank: 2022 Horror Films

Here's how I rank horror (& adjacent) films released in 2022, based on US release date. Other genre films might…

  • Woodshock
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Slice
  • The Hole in the Ground
  • Climax
  • Low Tide
  • The Lighthouse
  • The Kill Team
  • In Fabric
  • Saint Maud
  • The Exorcist
  • Psycho
  • Ring
  • Don't Look Now
  • Halloween
  • Inside
  • Get Out
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Hereditary

Rolling Stone’s 101 Best Horror Movies of All Time

Published October 28, 2022.

From Rolling Stone:

“DO YOU LIKE scary movies?

Of course you do! Freaking out with your…

  • Perfect Blue
  • The Thing
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Psycho
  • The Cremator
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Cure
  • Alien
  • The Shining

Letterboxd's Top 250 Horror Films

An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. These are the horror films on…

  • Black Mirror: San Junipero
  • Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie
  • Black Mirror: Nosedive
  • Black Mirror: White Christmas
  • Black Mirror: Eulogy
  • Black Mirror: Hang the DJ
  • Black Mirror: Shut Up and Dance
  • Black Mirror: Playtest
  • Black Mirror: Black Museum
  • Black Mirror: Common People

Black Mirror; Episodes Ranked

This show centers around the idea of a near-future world where a piece of technology runs either run amok or…

  • Dumbo
  • Street of Shame
  • The War Game
  • Africa Addio
  • Titicut Follies
  • Goodbye Uncle Tom
  • Punishment Park
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Serial Rapist
  • To Be Twenty

Movies that make me want to curl up and die

Here's a list of nihilistic, sickening, and/or generally harrowing movies that have made me hate the world and want to…