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Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

There's been a little slit in my heart where the presence of a living and breathing Elliott Smith should have been, since I was 13 years old in the late 2000s and first heard his songwriting. This film stuck a knife in that slit and turned it into a massive gash </3 Ok maybe not the best metaphor since that's how he literally died but anyway this made me cry like a baby.

I really loved this. I could feel that The Runner truly came from Amir Naderi’s heart. I found out right after watching that the film was actually based on his own childhood as an orphan who worked odd jobs to survive. The main character, Amiro, is so ambitious and hopeful and doesn’t let anyone stop him from ascending. The story is real, balancing the pain of poverty with the universal joys that kids anywhere experience— the joy of riding on the back of your friend’s bicycle, the joy of looking at pictures in your favorite books or magazines, the joy of licking a cold piece of ice on a hot day. The joy you feel when you can sound out a word for the first time, because literacy is power !! The film is pensive and at times melancholic but more than that, it’s sweet, comionate, and bursting with energy. And it’s poetically shot. I will never forget the shot of Amiro holding the block of ice in the air with fire fiercely blazing behind him. I understand why some people consider this to be one of the greatest post-revolutionary Iranian films and/or one of the greatest neorealist films ever, its status as either one is fully deserved.

Surrey with the Fringe on top had no business being such a banger......

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Dreamy and poetic yet so violent. Rare film that left me speechless. Leaving this here as a placeholder to remind myself to come back and give this a more thorough review later

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Style over substance but there's so much style, is the substance really necessary? Normally I'd say yes, there can generally never be enough substance, but in this case I actually think the answer is no. Who cares. It's so fun to watch and every shot is perfect.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Only truly noteworthy thing about World's Fair is that the jump from this to TV Glow is very linear and it's clear that World's Fair *had* to be made in order for TV Glow to exist and that alone makes it worth it

Aside from that, this didn't make me feel much. I enjoyed the build up but ultimately it kinda built up to nothing

Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Would have been perfect if he wasn't a confederate

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Route66maxxing
HenryFondamaxxing
JohnSteinbeckmaxxing
+ communist propaganda
I'm a Ma Joad stan

Just found out that Tatum O'Neal is still, to this day, the youngest Academy Award winner for her role in Paper Moon. So deserved. I'm harsh on child actors (sorry) but she was incredible! Maybe the greatest daughter-father duo in a film together ever. Beautiful story. Fun camera work. And so smart and funny. Legendary for a reason.

Watched the recobbled cut. Richard Williams really was his own worst enemy

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Another man in a Godard film being an emotional terrorist :(

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watching Au hasard Balthazar and EO one after the other (which is exactly what I did) makes for more persuasive animal rights propaganda than any PETA ad

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

I watched this after having a magical time at the film's namesake. Last week, I was driving through Newberry Springs, CA and stopped at Bagdad Cafe. Upon walking inside, I saw an older woman in a red dress sitting upright at one of the tables. She was wearing a sash and tiara that said "ROUTE", and she was so beautiful that I thought she was a mannequin, until she turned her head and made eye with me. Standing behind her was another woman, also wearing a sash and a tiara atop her cowboy hat. And on the other side of the room were 3 local teenage pageant princesses. I asked all of them if I could take their photograph, did an impromptu photoshoot, and then had lunch with them while they told me about themselves and the history of the cafe and the history of the town. We exchanged social media handles and I left Newberry Springs that day with new friends.

So obviously I had to watch this film that takes place at the cafe, which was as charming as my own experience there. A German woman gets into a fight with her husband while on a road trip, gets out of the car, and ends up staying at the motel next door to the cafe indefinitely while befriending locals and ersby. At the center of this film is her friendship with the woman who runs the place and over time they soften up to each other and earn each other's trust and develop a love and understanding for one another. I love a film that takes place in a small town and I love a film that's all about women's friendships with each other even more and this was both. This was a really sweet and wholesome watch :')

He sacrificed himself so that she could be an artist... men like this don't exist anymore (probably never did)

Watched this after spending the day at Petrified Forest National Park

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Jane Fonda's striptease out of a spacesuit followed by her taking a zoom call fully naked >>>

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

I just started driving Route 66 so this was the first thing I watched :)

I don't understand why people think this is so vague and hard to understand... I feel like David Lynch laid everything out for us pretty clearly....

Sooo weird and committed to the bit that I simply have no choice but to respect it

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Logging the first time I watched Asako I & II (October 12 2018 at New York Film Festival) which I have come back to several times over the years since I was able to find the date (I didn't use Letterboxd back then). One of my all time favs for a reason. It's just so beautiful and romantic and then anti-romance and strange and sickening and everything I love. This was my first introduction to Hamaguchi and he was there for a live Q&A and everything he said (via a translator) I was in awe. Been a stan ever since

As most of my friends on here know, my goal for 2025 was to watch a minimum of one film per day. I finally broke my streak this past weekend, two days in a row. On Saturday I did not watch a film because I went to Las Vegas to see Dita Von Teese's residency at the Venetian, so I watched something at least. On Sunday I did not watch a film because I was in Death Valley with no phone service, no wifi, no way to stream anything, and no movie theater.

While in Death Valley, I spent a night at the Amargosa Opera House. It was founded in the late 1960s by Marta Becket, a ballet dancer from New York City, after her car got a flat tire in Death Valley Junction, a ghost town, while she was on tour. She saw the building across the street from the garage— an abandoned hotel that formerly housed miners and their families up until the nearby railroad got torn up during WWII, giving locals very little reason to stay. She decided to rent the building, relocated from NYC to this town with a population of only 10 people, and turned the hotel into the Amargosa Opera House, which she performed at herself every night for over 40 years, whether or not she had an audience.

In the lobby at the opera house was a poster for this documentary. So I decided to watch it after spending a night there. For a documentary that was made about such an eccentric artist I wish the way this was directed, shot, and edited was more artistic or experimental to match how interesting its subject is but this was made for TV and very much feels like it. Which isn't a bad thing— it makes it more accessible— but I personally wanted more. Despite that, it's about a fun topic, it's informative, and super straightforward. Can't complain much.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

i <3 short films

• Inspiration
• La Jetée
• Sunday in Peking
• Black Panthers
• Duck Amuck
• 79 Springs
• A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief
• The House Is Black
• Meshes of the Afternoon
• Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

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

my favs ever. in rough order, emphasis on rough.

• Dog Day Afternoon
• Stalker
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Angel's Egg
• Persona
• A Single Man
• Drive My Car
• The Beast
• Titane
• Birth

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

• Shinjuku Boys
• The Gleaners and I
• The House Is Black
• Sunday in Peking
• News from Home
• The Battle of Chile: Part I
• The Battle of Chile: Part II
• The Battle of Chile: Part III
• 79 Springs
• Paris Is Burning

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

political films— specifically narrative, no documentaries, there are plenty of lists for those already— that are left-leaning and include anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, or anti-fascist themes, stories about workers rights or class conflict.

• One Way or Another
• Circus
• The Host
• Parasite
• Downsizing
• La Chinoise
• The Land
• Mababangong Bangungot
• Mandabi
• Black Girl

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

ideal pairs due to thematic or visual similarities

• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Shinjuku Boys
• The Tales of Hoffmann
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Babette's Feast
• The Taste of Things
• Beauty and the Beast
• Donkey Skin
• Jean de Florette
• Manon of the Spring

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

the most visually striking films, including pretty cinematography, set design, etc... in my opinion... but what do i know

• Daisies
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• The Color of Pomegranates
• Tears of the Black Tiger
• A Single Man
• Angel's Egg
• Fire of Love
• The Tales of Hoffmann
• PlayTime
• The Young Girls of Rochefort

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