Letterboxd 5019o Dave Parry https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/ Letterboxd - Dave Parry Fractured 492x3p 2019 - ★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/fractured-2019/ letterboxd-review-898295875 Mon, 26 May 2025 10:41:41 +1200 2025-05-25 No Fractured 2019 2.0 568091 <![CDATA[

4v291o

This film is far too pleased with itself with paper-thin twists visible from orbit.

Not sure how they managed to drag this out to 90 mins, it was basically fine.

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47 Ronin 3e324r 2013 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/47-ronin-2013/ letterboxd-review-897141724 Sun, 25 May 2025 10:45:24 +1200 2025-05-24 No 47 Ronin 2013 3.5 64686 <![CDATA[

I’m amazed that there are any Japanese people left after the Shōgun period, when success by any measure resulted in mass suicide.

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Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef 6k511y 2020 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/octonauts-the-great-barrier-reef/ letterboxd-review-890358163 Sat, 17 May 2025 20:52:05 +1200 2025-05-17 No Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef 2020 752885 <![CDATA[

Had Kurosawa had access to CGI, the imagination to create vegimals, and a working knowledge of the threat that Crown of Thorns starfish pose to the Great Barrier Reef, this is the film he would have made.

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Captain America 694p6 Brave New World, 2025 - ★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/captain-america-brave-new-world/ letterboxd-review-877225622 Fri, 2 May 2025 09:41:59 +1200 2025-05-01 No Captain America: Brave New World 2025 1.0 822119 <![CDATA[

Oof a doof, they really needn't have bothered.

The only thing that stops me giving this half a star is that it was so bland it sort of washed over rather than actively aggravated me.

Atrocious dialogue, less compelling than this Cap's TV show, retrospectively ruins the objectively bad hulk films.

Not even Kendrick on the credits can polish this one.

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Barbie 6e3i3o 2023 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/barbie/ letterboxd-review-871880488 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:11:30 +1200 2025-04-15 No Barbie 2023 4.5 346698 <![CDATA[

Yes Barbie, I think about dying a lot.

Great film that's entirely metatextual and self-aware, while still being funny and respectful of the audience. I laughed a lot and just generally had a great time.

I want more Allan.

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Moneyball 6m495n 2011 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/moneyball/ letterboxd-review-869208670 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:20:09 +1200 2025-04-18 No Moneyball 2011 3.5 60308 <![CDATA[

Caring not at all about baseball, I was pleased to see that very little of it was about baseball. Which I think is sort of the point of the film.

A good watch that walks to first base (good).

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Song of the Sea 5n3z3r 2014 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/song-of-the-sea/ letterboxd-review-869206805 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:10:52 +1200 2025-04-21 No Song of the Sea 2014 4.0 110416 <![CDATA[

Beautiful, wonderfully crafted film, rich in Irish folklore.

I really enjoyed the very obvious layering of mythical characters onto the characters onscreen, they were very explicit but all the more enjoyable for it.

I took a punt on watching this with my 3 year old, just because he was enraptured by the animation right away, before I had a chance to cast an eye over the synopsis. I’m glad I did, he loved it and anything too scary or upsetting I was able to paper over pretty easily.

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The Irishman 3f126m 2019 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-irishman-2019/1/ letterboxd-review-845871984 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:55:50 +1300 2025-03-25 Yes The Irishman 2019 4.5 398978 <![CDATA[

My man De Niro looked his maximum age during every scene past and present.

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A Cure for Wellness 1se5r 2016 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/a-cure-for-wellness/ letterboxd-review-830664692 Sun, 9 Mar 2025 11:55:17 +1300 2025-03-08 No A Cure for Wellness 2016 2.5 340837 <![CDATA[

Eels up inside you, finding an entrance where they can.
– The Mighty Boosh

Pretty creepy for the first two thirds, goes off the rails at the end and some of the health spa weirdness starts to evaporate.

It’s ruined my trip to thermae.

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The Two Popes 1d473z 2019 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-two-popes/ letterboxd-review-822884177 Sat, 1 Mar 2025 11:09:11 +1300 2025-02-28 No The Two Popes 2019 4.0 551332 <![CDATA[

The third film in my impromptu Pope Season. Fun watch but with most of the meat of the film based on pure speculation, in a story about the interactions between one real life Pope and the next, I find myself wanting more.

The best part of this film is watching these two veteran actors chew scenery against each other.

If the reputation laundering this film does for an unwilling and undeserving Catholic Church on behalf of Pope Francis, it's undone by witnessing the world writ large during his tenure.

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The Pope's Exorcist p6r3x 2023 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-popes-exorcist/ letterboxd-review-821246592 Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:48:29 +1300 2025-02-26 No The Pope's Exorcist 2023 3.0 758323 <![CDATA[

A totally bananas antidote to Conclave in which the Catholic Church operates sometimes like a police precinct. Only one rogue priest is Russell Crowe enough for the job.

Some things of note:
- A of Cardinals demanding whatever the exorcist equivalent of a badge and gun
- Amorth riding his little vespa from The Vatican to Castile, a journey of at least 1,722 km
- A special box with things like spring-loaded holy water
- Throwing and then using a cross like a clip for a handgun
- A scene in the Vatican FBI begging for a sequel

I would watch… five more of these as they circle the drain getting worse and worse.

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Conclave 1l6f3b 2024 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/conclave/ letterboxd-review-820169916 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:06:46 +1300 2025-02-25 No Conclave 2024 4.5 974576 <![CDATA[

From beginning to end, I was struck by the scale of human endeavour by so many people turning every moment of the day to enact such a thing as the Catholic Church. Story aside, Conclave gives a clear-eyed picture of the scale of this faith-based pseudo-state.

A magnificently filmed setting for a gripping thriller of a very specific kind. One in which Raph Feinnes' stress nose-breathing is a perfect leitmotif.

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Renfield 242g1i 2023 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/renfield/ letterboxd-review-819783941 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:46:18 +1300 2025-02-24 No Renfield 2023 4.0 649609 <![CDATA[

What if Renfield was the protagonist actually? What if he was a supernatural antihero able to close plot holes by eating bugs?

Pretty silly conceit somehow made extremely watchable by a perfect cast of cinema misfits. Very funny script, delightful over-the-top gory action with more in common with Evil Dead than any vampire movie. 

Nicolas Cage was born to play Dracula.

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The Dead Don't Die 671h1v 2019 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-dead-dont-die-2019/ letterboxd-review-818518827 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:49:26 +1300 2025-02-23 No The Dead Don't Die 2019 3.0 535581 <![CDATA[

Fun very meta film that gets a bit far into its own supply.

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Ponyo 122h1o 2008 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/ponyo/2/ letterboxd-review-818505136 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:38:19 +1300 2025-02-23 Yes Ponyo 2008 4.5 12429 <![CDATA[

Liam Nielsen as a David Bowie wizard being offended that someone thinks he’s spraying pesticides is the best bit of the English dub for me.

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Shrek 2 481z6x 2004 - ★★★½ Shrek 55291u 2001 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/shrek/ letterboxd-review-810288459 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:33:13 +1300 2025-02-15 Yes Shrek 2001 4.0 808 <![CDATA[

Maximum respect for the writer who got the word ‘fuckwad’ said over and over in a children’s film.

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On the Waterfront 55l15 1954 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/on-the-waterfront/ letterboxd-review-809485098 Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:01:40 +1300 2025-02-14 No On the Waterfront 1954 3.5 654 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
Spine #647

Honestly I was surprised by how well paced this felt. I actually wondered if it could have done with a little more scene setting rather than being quite so in media res, which isn't something I say lightly of a film from the 50s.

Interesting to see Marlon Brando as a young man in a gang, and the hard-ass workers rights priest was a legend.

Lots of derogatory talk of D&D (Deaf and Dumb), which was jarring. Also contained a corrective sexual assault, which loses half a star by default.

Watched at the Internet Archive for free, though with a couple of big annoying watermarks.

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The Circus 446n6d 1928 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-circus/ letterboxd-review-806089003 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:53:55 +1300 2025-02-10 No The Circus 1928 4.5 28978 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
7. 1920s
Spine #996

I've only seen one Chaplain film before – The Great Dictator, a very different and specific satire.

This was an absolute treat, felt like I was watching some foundational text – so much slapstick has aped this over the last 100 years, let alone the references imbued in pop culture.

Chaplain is a fantastic physical comedian, I'm delighted to be discovering this for myself now. Give that man some more ketamine and see what he does.

Watched at the Internet Archive for free, take a look, there's loads of good stuff there – full feature films.

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The Brood 40649 1979 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-brood/ letterboxd-review-802027061 Fri, 7 Feb 2025 11:35:10 +1300 2025-02-06 No The Brood 1979 3.0 28942 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
31. North American film
Spine #777

So David Cronenberg hates his ex-wife and thinks therapy is bullshit, huh?

Honestly, I think I could easily defeat one or two of these little freaks.

Canadian tax write-off nonsense at its finest.

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The Conjuring 2 2n3h64 2016 - ★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-conjuring-2/ letterboxd-review-801134587 Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:52:12 +1300 2025-02-05 No The Conjuring 2 2016 1.0 259693 <![CDATA[

The Warrens are back at it, and by 'it', I mean the grift.

In their next attempt to foist the Nuniverse onto an unsuspecting public, they rock up, after Forrest Gumping their way through Amityville, in Enfield.

By some s, in reality they turned up as the latest dog and pony show at the semi-detached, floated the prospect of making a bit of cash off the story, then were told to fuck off.

In this telling they were the last and only line of defence the family had against ghosts and demons etc.. Very much a rehash of The Conjuring but with fake cockney accents splashed about.

In fact the scariest thing about the movie was the insane liberties they took with the house itself. A three bed semi council house, expanded ludicrously out to American midwest farmhouse proportions. Two corridors upstairs, a wood burning cooking range. A basement!! Forget a demon, they've had the minotaur from House of Leaves round.

Anyway, it hit the beats, looked fine and was had a couple of predictable jump scares, but hardly the scariest thing to come out of 2016.

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Thawed 1f6z1w 2018 - ★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/thawed/ letterboxd-review-799267459 Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:55:53 +1300 2025-02-03 No Thawed 2018 2.0 1406269 <![CDATA[

A film that could have been a TikTok sketch a year or so later.

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Drive My Car 4z4u 2021 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/drive-my-car/ letterboxd-review-797629205 Sun, 2 Feb 2025 23:08:04 +1300 2025-02-01 No Drive My Car 2021 5.0 758866 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
Spine #1136

I'm empty. There's nothing inside me.

I don't know where to start with this film. I chose this as my theoretical closet pick and I'm glad I did.

From the 40 minute introduction to the main character's backstory, to the moments of pained silence, every moment is a carefully constructed, intricate interaction.

At the two hour mark, I was reflecting on how the lingering shots of life going by and of words unsaid exemplified 間 (ma), the Japanese concept of negative space enhancing the whole. At that moment we get the line 'I'm empty. There's nothing inside me.'. Stunning.

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Cunk on Life 4a2w6n 2024 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/cunk-on-life/ letterboxd-review-796920594 Sun, 2 Feb 2025 10:41:51 +1300 2025-02-01 No Cunk on Life 2024 3.0 1253971 <![CDATA[

what the fuck is this?

I don't know how there isn't a memo going around universities about Cunk. Do they perhaps think they can reason their way around anecdotes about her ex, Sean? Time will never tell.

More of the same as usual, but longer. Like that big Snickers you can't buy any more.

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My Own Private Idaho 2a6g1q 1991 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/my-own-private-idaho/ letterboxd-review-795366163 Sat, 1 Feb 2025 00:46:33 +1300 2025-01-30 No My Own Private Idaho 1991 4.0 468 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
36. AAPI Filmmakers
Spine #277

I'll be flipping through a KS3 copy of Henry IV in search of narcoleptic twink River Phoenix.

On the Ted > Johnny Mnemonic > Neo > John Wick > Johnny Silverhand Reeves timeline, I place this as the transition from Ted to Mnemonic.

I can see why this is a cult classic and enjoyed the dips from Fisher King to modern stage production of Shakespeare. Could have used more of the Dutch boy guy.

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8½ 3y26k 1963 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/8-half/ letterboxd-review-793524487 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:36:21 +1300 2025-01-29 No 1963 4.0 422 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
15. 1960s
Spine #140

This film has to be the most metatextual creation before or after it for quite some time. At some points I tried counting my way out of a given scene, surfacing from the Director's fantasy, through a memory, up into cinematic reality, through the screen and up to Fellini's lived experience. Like a complicated Italian Inception.

Guido is a style icon I will never match, but we do share a talent for almost competitive procrastination.

I know this one is going to be richer on the second watch.

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Risky Business k192u 1983 - ★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/risky-business/ letterboxd-review-786496573 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:18:53 +1300 2025-01-23 No Risky Business 1983 1.0 9346 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
5. Great Soundtracks
Spine #1227

The film that I like to think sank my 2024 challenge. I finished the last 40 minutes months after starting, through gritted teeth.

I had an absolutely miserable time watching this film. The pacing is weird and Cruise is painful to watch.

This bargain-basement Ferris Bueller's Day Off has three redeeming features that have earned it an extra half star:
- A really very good soundtrack
- I now get that bit in Love Actually with the Prime Minister dancing in his pants
- Rebecca De Mornay

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Short Cuts 6m1g65 1993 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/short-cuts/ letterboxd-review-785886302 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:33:56 +1300 2025-01-22 No Short Cuts 1993 2.5 695 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
3. Directed by Robert Altman
Spine #265

So what do you wanna be?
I wanna be nothing.

Quite the parade of irredeemable pieces of shit.

I guess they all sort of intersected but not really in an interesting way, sort of watchable though considering it's nearly 3 hour runtime.

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I Saw the TV Glow 1nz1e 2024 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/i-saw-the-tv-glow/ letterboxd-review-781195258 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:12:23 +1300 2025-01-18 No I Saw the TV Glow 2024 5.0 858017 <![CDATA[

Incredible piece of cinema front to back – unpredictable story, beautifully shot with a great soundtrack.

Certainly a millennial nostalgia kick – I sequestering myself away to watch Buffy, not having a mobile phone, and internalising bigotry for transgressing gender lines.

I think I'm just about the same age as the main character in the timeline, which was probably the most I can, thankfully, relate to.

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Don't Die 6ld The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, 2025 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/dont-die-the-man-who-wants-to-live-forever/ letterboxd-review-777861560 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:32:21 +1300 2025-01-15 No Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever 2025 2.5 1401905 <![CDATA[

While the life this man is absolutely dedicated to extending forever seems completely miserable, I can’t help but feel that given the cohort of divorced online multimillionaires turning into neo-Nazis, this guy is (probably!) harmless.

Deluded and not helpful to anyone else really, but if this is how he chooses to spend his functionally unlimited money: fine.

Documentary competently made if without any personality, viewpoint or flavour.

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Heat 2l5d2z 1995 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/heat-1995/1/ letterboxd-review-776814215 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:44:22 +1300 2025-01-14 Yes Heat 1995 5.0 949 <![CDATA[

Everyone lives in room with interior design more expensive than my house while also looking like shit.

The film? Shakespearean.

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Blue Velvet 3a5d4s 1986 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/blue-velvet/ letterboxd-review-776532709 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:33:39 +1300 2025-01-14 No Blue Velvet 1986 4.0 793 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
2. Watch a film from the year you were born
Spine #977

Frank has the most fucked Spotify Wrapped of 1986.

A unique experience of neither being able to watch nor look away. A horror in the guise of a mystery crime thriller.

This film felt like synthesised psychosis. I loved it.

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Repo Man 6g4q6v 1984 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/repo-man/ letterboxd-review-767321189 Thu, 9 Jan 2025 05:14:34 +1300 2025-01-08 No Repo Man 1984 4.0 13820 <![CDATA[

Criterion Challenge 2025
1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset
Spine #654

"Come on Duke, let's go do those crimes"
"Yeah. Yeah! Let's go get sushi and I'll pay"

The most Cronenberg non-Cronenberg in the Criterion Collection.

Features guy I love to see, Harry Dean Stanton, and some of the best bad script writing I've seen.

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Fantasy Island b4s6n 2020 - ★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/fantasy-island/ letterboxd-review-766429851 Wed, 8 Jan 2025 10:46:27 +1300 2025-01-07 No Fantasy Island 2020 2.0 539537 <![CDATA[

Should have been called Exposition Island.

Some funny lines, which like a dream are difficult to recall, only the way they made me feel remain.

Like someone clomped together every message board fan theory about Lost once some sort of copyright had expired.

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GoodFellas 681h40 1990 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/goodfellas/1/ letterboxd-review-754081028 Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:01:00 +1300 2024-12-28 Yes GoodFellas 1990 5.0 769 <![CDATA[

I’ve learned so many old timey slurs.

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Casino 4q6b27 1995 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/casino/ letterboxd-review-751779805 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 09:48:23 +1300 2024-12-27 No Casino 1995 4.0 524 <![CDATA[

They just made a million of these things after The Godfather, huh? I am not complaining.

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Beauty and the Beast 4i6r67 1991 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/beauty-and-the-beast-1991/ letterboxd-watch-749993634 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:24:14 +1300 2024-12-27 Yes Beauty and the Beast 1991 10020 <![CDATA[

Watched on Friday December 27, 2024.

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The Muppet Christmas Carol 241a8 1992 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-muppet-christmas-carol/3/ letterboxd-review-746814364 Wed, 25 Dec 2024 11:20:25 +1300 2024-12-24 Yes The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 5.0 10437 <![CDATA[

Tiny Tim always loved watching the ducks on the river.

Miss Piggy you have slain me and I sit here, weeping and in shreds.

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Tabby McTat 481n1u 2023 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/tabby-mctat/ letterboxd-review-746298950 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 23:48:28 +1300 2024-12-24 No Tabby McTat 2023 1205520 <![CDATA[

The only Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffer t that doesn't feel like it's going at a snail's (and a whale's?) pace.

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Violent Night 3g3gp 2022 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/violent-night/ letterboxd-review-746296383 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 23:42:06 +1300 2024-12-22 No Violent Night 2022 4.0 899112 <![CDATA[

Surprisingly good fun, Die Hard meets The Santa Clause.

There was one thing that stuck in my throat: The first time we meet our Father Christmas he's in Bristol, England. Nothing about this setting looks at all like Bristol. The bar is American style and populated with Londoners at best. The skyline is anonymous British city, could be London could be Cardiff.

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Shutter 1d4c3c 2008 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/shutter-2008/ letterboxd-review-743660156 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:51:05 +1300 2024-12-21 No Shutter 2008 2.5 10885 <![CDATA[

Someone noticed they called a camera the Polaroid Spectra and just made a whole film about it.

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Scrooged 643043 1988 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/scrooged/ letterboxd-review-743127901 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:12:26 +1300 2024-12-17 No Scrooged 1988 4.0 9647 <![CDATA[

A Christmas film Hollywood made about itself.

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Venom 3n2y69 The Last Dance, 2024 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/venom-the-last-dance/ letterboxd-review-739551303 Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:37:32 +1300 2024-12-16 No Venom: The Last Dance 2024 3.0 912649 <![CDATA[

haha alien horse

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Sister Swap 363z2s A Hometown Holiday, 2021 - ★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/sister-swap-a-hometown-holiday/ letterboxd-review-734246325 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:25:43 +1300 2024-12-07 No Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday 2021 1.0 866665 <![CDATA[

Somehow with the less annoying of the two sisters, this is a worse film. It might be because it's more formulaic, literally the path of least resistance on the Hallmark flowchart: Female -> business owner -> from the big city comes home to -> take a break -> falls for high school flame -> who is a handyman -> they need to renovate -> the local cinema.

Actually I think it's because of the dogged obsession these women and by extension this town, have with Dead Uncle Dave. There are more scenes mentioning his death than there are acknowledging it's Christmas.

At least this one was a bit pacier, but I think I would have preferred to never have watched either.

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Sister Swap 363z2s Christmas in the City, 2021 - ★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/sister-swap-christmas-in-the-city/ letterboxd-review-734240847 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:18:18 +1300 2024-12-08 No Sister Swap: Christmas in the City 2021 1.5 866669 <![CDATA[

A film so smooth and devoid of conflict, or really anything interesting happening it's a form of outsider art.

Without knowing if there was an order to watching these, I saw this one mostly first, stopping 30 mins before the end as I found myself slipping into a coma. I watched the next the next day and finished this one the day after that. Probably the strangest order.

Anyway, as bland a message as it is, it's the signal that interests me. Why were two near identical films produced at the same time? Were they perhaps one big film the producer realised could be split into two? Is there a secret third film we could piece together from the cutting room floor?

All these questions and more kept me distracted from the most annoying of the two sisters. She was a lot and being around these sorts of people is exhausting.

One solid complaint I have about this one in particular, is the role the food bank plays. We never see a single food bank . We never grapple with the fact that their necessity is a travesty. Fuck Frank's magnanimous donation of a publicly announced unspecified amount, tax the fucker.

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Spaceman 264z3z 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/spaceman-2024/ letterboxd-review-734213030 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:41:28 +1300 2024-12-09 No Spaceman 2024 4.0 636706 <![CDATA[

Interstellar for mental illness.

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The Manchurian Candidate 6u4r1x 2004 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-manchurian-candidate-2004/ letterboxd-review-730946305 Fri, 6 Dec 2024 04:35:52 +1300 2024-11-29 No The Manchurian Candidate 2004 3.0 14462 <![CDATA[

I would hate my Manchurian activation phrase to be my name said three times like I'm Beetlejuice.

A lot more sci-fi than I was expecting!

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The Godfather Part III 4n1o6o 1990 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-godfather-part-iii/ letterboxd-review-715424317 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:52:22 +1300 2024-10-28 No The Godfather Part III 1990 4.0 242 <![CDATA[

Godfather: Power creep.

Watched Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

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Ronin 1l6149 1998 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/ronin/ letterboxd-review-712961215 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:51:05 +1300 2024-11-07 No Ronin 1998 3.5 8195 <![CDATA[

More films’ second act should involve a French Warhammer dad.

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The Batman 3d62l 2022 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/film/the-batman/2/ letterboxd-review-706711497 Sun, 3 Nov 2024 10:39:14 +1300 2024-11-02 Yes The Batman 2022 5.0 414906 <![CDATA[

I love the film Batman: Motorcycles (2022).

I really hope Joker 2 didn't fuck it for us to get some more films in this series.

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2025 First Watch 1g3b50 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/2025-first-watch/ letterboxd-list-56869799 Wed, 8 Jan 2025 10:46:50 +1300 <![CDATA[

All the films I’ve seen for the first time, during the year of 2025, ranked by how much I like them, not by how good I think they are.

  1. Drive My Car
  2. I Saw the TV Glow
  3. Conclave
  4. The Circus
  5. Blue Velvet
  6. Renfield
  7. The Two Popes
  8. Repo Man
  9. The Pope's Exorcist

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

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What is this place? 5t566u https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/what-is-this-place/ letterboxd-list-46987653 Mon, 27 May 2024 08:26:41 +1200 <![CDATA[

Films in which someone utters the unnatural line 'What is this place?'

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Not finished 5q1c3w https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/not-finished/ letterboxd-list-40646465 Wed, 3 Jan 2024 19:03:52 +1300 <![CDATA[

Films that I’ve started but haven’t yet finished. Sometimes because they’re bad and I can’t stand any more, more often because I got distracted, or had to stop and forgot to pick it back up.

Mostly added from memory for the above reason.

  1. El Conde
  2. Paddington
  3. Earwig and the Witch
  4. You Were Never Really Here
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  6. 24 Hour Party People
  7. Attack the Block
  8. 10 Cloverfield Lane
  9. Chicken Run
  10. The Rocketeer

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

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Cinema Viewing 5x6ca https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/cinema-viewing/ letterboxd-list-19478772 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:43:44 +1200 <![CDATA[

Films I've seen at the cinema (I think and in retrospect mostly).

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

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Every film I've watched from the Criterion Collection 2r4n6g https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/every-film-ive-watched-from-the-criterion/ letterboxd-list-58619854 Sat, 1 Feb 2025 03:48:11 +1300 <![CDATA[

...plus 173 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Do this 1c2e41 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/do-this/ letterboxd-list-46989069 Mon, 27 May 2024 09:04:09 +1200 <![CDATA[

Films in which someone utters something unnatural along the lines of 'you can do this' or 'don't do this'.

  • X-Men

    ROGUE
    No. Please don't do this. Please.

    Magneto looks up as if suddenly realizing that she's there. He makes his decision.

  • The Conjuring 2

    “I have to do this”

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I wasn’t the same person after watching this 6t3n5t https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/i-wasnt-the-same-person-after-watching-this/ letterboxd-list-57514411 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:18:35 +1300 <![CDATA[

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

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Criterion 2025 Challenge 3h433d https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/criterion-2025-challenge/ letterboxd-list-56344085 Fri, 3 Jan 2025 22:27:34 +1300 <![CDATA[

My list for the Criterion 2025 Challenge

All of these were be a first-time watch from The Criterion Collection.

My lists for 2024, 2023. and 2022.

  • Repo Man

    1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset
    Spine #654
    ed

    Watched 2025-01-08

  • Blue Velvet

    2. Watch a film from the year you were born
    Spine #977
    ed

    Watched 2025-01-14

  • Short Cuts

    3. Directed by Robert Altman
    Spine #265
    ed

    Watched 2025-01-22

  • Drive My Car

    4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
    Spine #1136

  • Risky Business

    5. Great Soundtracks
    Spine #1227
    ed

    Watched 2025-01-23

  • On the Waterfront

    6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
    Spine #647

  • The Circus

    7. 1920s
    Spine #996

  • Godzilla vs. Biollante

    8. Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025
    Spine #1254

  • M

    9. 1930s
    Spine #30

  • Salesman

    10. Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks
    Spine #122

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Top 2000s 175ln https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/top-2000s/ letterboxd-list-57712832 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:29:43 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. Primer
  2. Spirited Away
  3. Howl's Moving Castle
  4. Antichrist
  5. Lady Vengeance
  6. The Dark Knight
  7. Lost in Translation
  8. Moon
  9. Where the Wild Things Are
  10. Punch-Drunk Love
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Top 1960s 721s5o https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/top-1960s/ letterboxd-list-57712356 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:21:34 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. Harakiri
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  4. Charade
  5. Dragon Inn
  6. Easy Rider
  7. Night of the Living Dead
  8. Cléo from 5 to 7
  9. La Jetée
  10. Oliver!
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Top 1970s 1k1423 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/top-1970s/ letterboxd-list-57702501 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 05:15:24 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. The Godfather
  2. Daguerréotypes
  3. Blazing Saddles
  4. Alien
  5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  6. Young Frankenstein
  7. Life of Brian
  8. A Clockwork Orange
  9. Gates of Heaven
  10. Robin Hood
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Top 2010s x3f17 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/top-2010s/ letterboxd-list-57702631 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 05:18:07 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  2. Interstellar
  3. Whiplash
  4. Arrival
  5. Inception
  6. The Death of Stalin
  7. The Handmaiden
  8. I, Daniel Blake
  9. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  10. Under the Skin
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Top 1980s 6y155b https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/top-1980s/ letterboxd-list-29891835 Wed, 4 Jan 2023 10:22:16 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. My Neighbor Totoro
  2. Do the Right Thing
  3. Labyrinth
  4. Blade Runner
  5. Akira
  6. Stop Making Sense
  7. Scanners
  8. Aliens
  9. A Room with a View
  10. A Grand Day Out
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Films where a guy dies in a car and is then propped up on a bench hl47 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/films-where-a-guy-dies-in-a-car-and-is-then/ letterboxd-list-56932435 Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:48:21 +1300 <![CDATA[ ]]> Dave Parry Top 1990s 2c553 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/top-1990s/ letterboxd-list-29891682 Wed, 4 Jan 2023 10:19:12 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. Good Will Hunting
  2. Heat
  3. Rushmore
  4. The Muppet Christmas Carol
  5. The Matrix
  6. The Shawshank Redemption
  7. GoodFellas
  8. Schindler's List
  9. Princess Mononoke
  10. A Brighter Summer Day
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Christmas Films 4mh3j https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/christmas-films/ letterboxd-list-21443352 Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:45:40 +1300 <![CDATA[

Films about or take place around Christmas, added to when seen for the first time after starting this list around any Christmas time.

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

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2024 first watch c464f https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/2024-first-watch/ letterboxd-list-40496329 Tue, 2 Jan 2024 10:40:36 +1300 <![CDATA[

All the films I’ve seen for the first time, during the year of 2024, ranked by how much I like them, not by how good I think they are.

  1. Dune: Part Two
  2. Harakiri
  3. The Godfather
  4. Léon: The Professional
  5. Moonrise Kingdom
  6. Cure
  7. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  8. Punch-Drunk Love
  9. The Godfather Part II
  10. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Criterion 2024 Challenge 585q64 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/criterion-2024-challenge/ letterboxd-list-39952099 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:00:37 +1300 <![CDATA[

My list for the Criterion 2024 Challenge

All of these were be a first-time watch from The Criterion Collection.

Sad to say, I failed this challenge – I got stuck on Tom Cruise's Risky Business – a miserable, twisted Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

My lists for 2023 and 2022.

  • Night on Earth

    1. Spine #351-450
    Spine #401
    Criterion Channel

    Watched on 2024-01-01

  • A Brief History of Time

    2. Spine #601-700
    Spine #699
    Criterion Channel

    Watched on 2024-01-07

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    3. Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher
    Spine #432
    Criterion Channel

    Watched on 2024-01-31

  • La Llorona

    4. First film in your watchlist
    Spine #1156
    Criterion Channel

    Watched on 2024-02-06

  • And Everything Is Going Fine

    5. Most recently added film in your watchlist
    Spine #617
    YouTube

    Watched on 2024-02-07

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    6. Longest runtime in your watchlist
    Spine #804
    Criterion Channel

    Watched on 2024-02-17

  • Moonrise Kingdom

    7. Most popular film in your watchlist
    Spine #776
    Netflix (VPN via South Korea)

    Watched on 2024-03-24

  • Pixote

    8. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
    Spine #1047
    Criterion Channel

  • Police Story

    9. Criterion Staff Picks
    Spine #971
    Criterion Channel

    Watched on 2024-04-05

  • Harakiri

    10. New York Film Festival Favorites
    Spine #302
    Criterion Channel

    Watched on 2024-09-19

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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James Bonds Killed 5h1y46 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/james-bonds-killed/ letterboxd-list-30448950 Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:39:08 +1300 <![CDATA[

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

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Time loop 512n5m https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/time-loop/ letterboxd-list-21985828 Mon, 10 Jan 2022 11:22:05 +1300 <![CDATA[

You’ve seen this list before

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Showdown 5r192l Dystopia https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/showdown-dystopia/ letterboxd-list-47182409 Sat, 1 Jun 2024 19:29:07 +1200 <![CDATA[
  1. Blade Runner
  2. The Road
  3. Akira
  4. Looper
  5. Mad Max: Fury Road
  6. A Clockwork Orange
  7. Battle Royale
  8. Videodrome
  9. Snowpiercer
  10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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

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Owned on DVD y733h https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/owned-on-dvd/ letterboxd-list-47159561 Sat, 1 Jun 2024 05:43:54 +1200 <![CDATA[ ]]> Dave Parry My top 10 Criterion Films 416664 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/my-top-10-criterion-films/ letterboxd-list-46920154 Sat, 25 May 2024 09:04:59 +1200 <![CDATA[
  1. Do the Right Thing

    Incredible film for its cast seemingly before many of them made it big, captures the feeling of a long hot summer in a city. I've seen a lot of thrillers but the twist on this just came absolutely out of nowhere.

  2. Like Someone in Love

    I think about this film a lot. It made me feel more like a voyeur than anything else I've seen. The sort of culture shock Lost in Translation could only dream of.

  3. Close-Up

    Explaining this tightly knotted film to anyone, as I have tried to do, is near impossible to do justice to it. Where film becomes reality becomes film.

  4. Seven Samurai

    The best action film before the 80s, hands down.

  5. Daguerréotypes

    Agnès Varda became a hero to me about 10 minutes into this film. I felt like a fly on a wall transported to a time and a place I could never have expected to love so much.

  6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  7. 12 Angry Men
  8. I, Daniel Blake
  9. Chungking Express
  10. A Room with a View
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My 2023 first watch list 545r4x https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/my-2023-first-watch-list/ letterboxd-list-29431474 Sun, 1 Jan 2023 12:45:45 +1300 <![CDATA[

All the films I’ve watched for the first time, in order of how much I liked them.

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Criterion 2022 Challenge 1wf3f https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/criterion-2022-challenge/ letterboxd-list-21300363 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:09:00 +1300 <![CDATA[

First time taking part in a Letterboxd challenge! All of these were a first-time watch from The Criterion Collection.

Completed 2022-12-31.

Criterion 2022 Challenge

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

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Criterion 2023 Challenge 466b2y https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/criterion-2023-challenge/ letterboxd-list-28708822 Tue, 6 Dec 2022 01:12:10 +1300 <![CDATA[

My list for the Criterion 2023 Challenge.

All of these were a first-time watch from The Criterion Collection.

I took part last year too.

Started: 2023-01-02
Completed: 2023-12-28

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

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We live in a society 66o2c https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/we-live-in-a-society/ letterboxd-list-15795310 Sat, 2 Jan 2021 13:14:50 +1300 <![CDATA[ ]]> Dave Parry The first time is going to be better than the fiftieth 3x4by https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/the-first-time-is-going-to-be-better-than/ letterboxd-list-21300262 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:01:45 +1300 <![CDATA[

These are all films that I’ve yet to see, but am saving to watch with my son. I expect that he’ll want to watch them all many, many times.

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

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My 2022 first watch list 262z1d https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/my-2022-first-watch-list/ letterboxd-list-21681374 Sun, 2 Jan 2022 01:16:06 +1300 <![CDATA[

All the films I’ve watched for the first time, in order of how much I liked them.

  1. Arrival
  2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  3. Do the Right Thing
  4. Ex Machina
  5. I, Daniel Blake
  6. Citizen Kane
  7. Alien
  8. Dead Poets Society
  9. Antichrist
  10. GoodFellas

...plus 153 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Buzzing UIs 4vlv https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/buzzing-uis/ letterboxd-list-22925456 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:55:31 +1300 <![CDATA[ ]]> Dave Parry Ranked Anderson 3z3k12 https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/ranked-anderson/ letterboxd-list-29431035 Sun, 1 Jan 2023 12:34:48 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  2. The French Dispatch
  3. Isle of Dogs
  4. Rushmore
  5. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
  7. The Royal Tenenbaums
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My 2021 watchlist 1p5s2v https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/my-2021-watchlist/ letterboxd-list-15945489 Sat, 9 Jan 2021 01:05:33 +1300 <![CDATA[

Films watched for the first time, ranked.

  1. Whiplash
  2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  3. Feels Good Man
  4. The Handmaiden
  5. Bo Burnham: Inside
  6. Dune
  7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  8. Heat
  9. Rushmore
  10. Dave Made a Maze

...plus 145 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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I’ve read that book! 5lf4p https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/ive-read-that-book/ letterboxd-list-15876741 Tue, 5 Jan 2021 07:41:32 +1300 <![CDATA[

Sometimes I read books and those books get turned into films.

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

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Ghibli films ranked 3s6e5u https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/ghibli-films-ranked/ letterboxd-list-15930275 Fri, 8 Jan 2021 03:10:36 +1300 <![CDATA[

Everyone has a different rank, this one is mine.

  1. Spirited Away
  2. Howl's Moving Castle
  3. Castle in the Sky
  4. Princess Mononoke
  5. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  6. My Neighbor Totoro
  7. Ponyo
  8. When Marnie Was There
  9. Porco Rosso
  10. Pom Poko

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

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World Cinema Challenge 4l191u https://letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dvprry/list/world-cinema-challenge/ letterboxd-list-16480228 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:20:23 +1300 <![CDATA[

One of the least prominent features of Letterboxd is the world map showing you the distribution of production across the world for the films you’ve watched. 

Embarrassingly there are nearly 1,000 of my films produced in the US and none in say, Cambodia – which is why I have Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider in my watchlist now.


Films picked generally for their availability to stream on services I already subscribe to, so British Netflix or Mubi. 

My map won’t be filled in with at least one film per country any time soon, but in the meantime I’ve found a cool looking Mongolian film about a young girl who hunts with eagles.

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

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