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Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

I am kind of smooth-brained when it comes to Wes, so take my rating with a pinch of salt. I just think he’s neat!

Richard Ayoade being introduced into the fold of his acting troupe is a little too on the nose. As would have been Michael Cera if he wasn’t such a delight in this. Scarlett Johansson, returning for her second stint, already had ‘Resting Wes Anderson Face’ (I suspect some of her section was quite heavily cut).

Haven’t watched a movie for pleasure for a while now, so maybe I am a man dying of thirst making it out of the desert, but still: this is real hoops.

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

We have Jason Bourne in the freezer at home type movie.

Ryan Coogler, welcome back.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Vibe harshener to end the night on. Still fun though

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Very action packed.

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Knew it wouldn’t be very good but TWO Robert De Niros. U cant sniff at that kind of value

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

Everyone wants to be Get Out, no one wants to take the time to plot it all out like Get Out did.

Don’t show Kanye this film.

So so so so goated

Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Did the ‘HOW long is left of this movie’ thing with 40 mins to go.

R Patz and Steven Yeun innocent. Bong in Okja-mode is not the mode for me.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

Movies used to have Gene Hackman playing crooked cops in them

A film that in some regards is quite interesting but also highkey looks like SHIT

In the Cineworld pre-recorded Q&A Pamela Anderson made it quite clear she fired her previous agent for ing on the script

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Timing of the film aside, I have a low pain threshold on the 'isn't it so important to tell stories' (or, get this, how we tell stories) - especially with something so content to have it's cake and eat it too.

All films I have given 5 stars to. I know you can just click and see them all on the side but Pro s give you list stats now and that shit like crack to me

• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
• 8½
• After Hours
• Akira
• Alien
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• All That Jazz
• Alphaville
• Amadeus
• Annie Hall

...plus 178 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Pacifiction
2. Godland
3. One Fine Morning
4. EO
5. Limbo
6. Undine
7. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
8. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
9. First Reformed
10. How Heavy This Hammer

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

• Altered States
• The Annihilation of Fish
• Big Time Gambling Boss
• Charley Varrick
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
• Elephant
• Five Element Ninjas
• Floating Weeds
• FTA
• House of Tolerance

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

• 2046
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Mulholland Drive
• American Psycho
• The Virgin Suicides
• Buffalo '66
• Gummo
• Perfect Blue
• Fallen Angels
• Three Colours: Blue

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Love Lies Bleeding
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Night Courier
• La Chimera
• Origin
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus
• Ninotchka
• Only the River Flows
• Foxy Brown
• The Beast

• Apur Sansar
• Bound
• The Chase
• A City of Sadness
• The Fate of Lee Khan
• The History of the Seattle Mariners
• Johnny Guitar
• Kiss Me Deadly
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Massacre Gun

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

• Abigail's Party
• Aferim!
• Audition
• Bad Black
• Barefoot Gen
• The Beatles: Get Back
• Black Test Car
• Bone
• Brewster McCloud
• Bullitt

...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• To Be or Not to Be

  Week 1: September 4th-10th
  99 Minutes Week

• The Box

  Week 2: September 11th-17th
  Lo-Fi Week

• The Secret of Kells

  Week 3: September 18th-24th
  Letterboxd List Battles!: Litterboxd vs. Letterbarkd

• Marty

  Week 4: September 25th-October 1st
  Palme d'Or Week

• Street of Crocodiles

  Week 5: October 2nd-8th
  Visual Insanity Week

• The Cremator

  Week 6: October 9th-15th
  Art Horror Week

• Dracula
• Possession

  Week 8: October 23rd-29th
  Body Horror Week

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Two Mules for Sister Sara

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Decided to go back and do my end of Halloween Horror referendum. I haven't looked at last years list before making this (I will do so once I have finished), but the fear is that this will be even more normie than last year despite my attempts to get a further grip on the genre. We will see.

EDIT: So I've got back and checked the wiggle room which is always fun. The Shining moves into top spot after being granted the re-watch that Vampyr was cruelly not afforded. Scream moves up higher after rekindling my love for it earlier this year. Some stuff dropping down or out because I haven't seen in a while - although without a rewatch Cure climbs into the top 10. A testament, I think, to its ability to burrow itself into your brain and not get out.

1. The Shining
2. Vampyr
3. Scream
4. Eraserhead
5. Alien
6. Cure
7. Halloween
8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
9. The Beyond
10. Possession

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Kuroneko
• Pulse
• Cannibal Holocaust
• Killer Nun
• The Hills Have Eyes
• The Old Dark House
• Dawn of the Dead
• Mystery of the Wax Museum
• The Witch Who Came from the Sea
• The Crazies

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

• A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
• The Last Laugh
• Strike
• A Page of Madness
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Man with a Movie Camera
• L'Âge d'or
• City Lights
• Vampyr

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

• The Young Master
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
• In Vanda's Room
• The Hero
• Pulse
• Xala
• Trust
• Blast-Off Girls
• Black Tight Killers

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

Think I'm just gonna re-watch some things for a while

• Badlands
• Days of Heaven
• Mo' Better Blues
• Rashomon
• Tokyo Drifter
• The King of Marvin Gardens
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Polyester
• Head
• Network

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• American Gigolo
• Angel, Angel, Down We Go
• April Fish
• Before Sunrise
• The Brink's Job
• Bullitt
• A Child Is Waiting
• A City of Sadness
• A Day at the Beach
• Face to Face

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

Seems to be the list 'du jour' on Twitter rn so here is what I would throw in the ring, with the limitations of my own watching to be considered.

Hastily ranked but with weighting towards 'Of The Time' mixed with personal preference.

One per director.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Inherent Vice
3. Yi Yi
4. Ocean's Eleven
5. Before Sunset
6. The Turin Horse
7. Cameraperson
8. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
9. Southland Tales
10. Bamboozled

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Real Life

  Albert Brooks

• Modern Romance
• Lost in America
• In Another Country
• Abuse of Weakness
• Things to Come
• Amateur
• Cruel Story of Youth
• Night and Fog in Japan
• Giants and Toys

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Following Cinema Speculation it felt only right to round up my favourite films from the same period.

If a film is too faded from my memory I have decided not to include it without having a refresh. In order to protect myself I will include them below:

The Conformist
Amarcord
Le Cercle Rouge
The Bird With The Crystal Plummage
Cries and Whispers
Aguirre Wrath of God
F for Fake
Day For Night
All The Presidents Men
The American Friend
Days of Heaven
The enger

Unranked. Lots of great stuff left off, I know.

• Gimme Shelter
• Husbands
• Deep End
• Woodstock
• Zabriskie Point
• Dirty Harry
• The Last Movie
• The Devils
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

more as we get it

• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
• Phoenix
• Accident
• Limbo
• Possessor

i am retiring my previous watchlist (hence the absolute blitz i did over some titles the last two days) to do this instead

streamlining my viewing next year, curating personal consumption, focussed exploring, viewing projects abound etc.

Might take a vow to actually do reviews too.

Completed:
'New Hollywood Flops'
'Actually Watching The Apu Trilogy'

• Popeye

  80s Altman:
  O.C and Stiggs
  Tanner '88

• The Marriage of Maria Braun

  Fassbinder & Hanna Schygulla:
  Love Is Colder Than Death
  The Merchant of Four Seasons
  The Third Generation

• The League of Gentlemen

  Basil Dearden:
  Victim
  All Night Long
  Blue Lamp

• Yumeji

  Late-style Suzuki:
  Zigeunerweisen
  Kagero-za

• I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

  Praying for Your Death w/ Sartana

• The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris

  irma vep

• Funny Ha Ha

  Mumblecore:
  Tiny Furniture
  Dance Party USA
  Mutual Appreciation
  Hannah Takes The Stairs

• Tropical Malady

  My Name Is Joe:

  Unblissfully Yours
  Memoria
  Mysterious Object At Noon

• La Ceremonie

  5 decades of Chabrol:
  les cousins
  les biches
  the butcher
  the story of women

• Topsy-Turvy

  Period Leigh:
  Peterloo
  Mr Turner

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

non-2022 submitted. i won't do a top 10 or 20 for 2022 bc i simply am terrible at keeping up.

there are some 5s missing here but oh well. good year for watching things

• An Autumn Afternoon
• Autumn Sonata
• Bad Black
• The Beyond
• Dead Ringers
• Deep End
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
• Dirty Ho
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
• Flowers of Shanghai

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

• Il Buco
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling
• Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You!
• Father of My Children
• Pulse
• Time and Tide
• Dobermann
• Vive L'Amour
• On Deadly Ground

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

More as I fill this up/notice stuff.

Songs in the description.

• Polyester

  Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches

• Wattstax

  The Cops Shot The Kid - Nas, Come Together - Primal Scream

• The Wild Angels

  Loaded - Primal Scream

• Young Guns

  Regulate - Warren G

• Shaolin and Wu Tang

  Da Mystery of Chessboxin - Wu-Tang Clan

• Eyes Wide Shut

  Lovecrimes - Frank Ocean

• Shaolin vs. Lama

  Shadowboxin’ - GZA

Same rules from previously failed effort apply.

• A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
• The Navigator
• The Blood of a Poet
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• Redes
• I Wake Up Screaming
• This Gun for Hire
• Phantom Lady
• Brighton Rock
• The Silence of the Sea

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

in order

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Dune
• Dune
• Cosmopolis
• White Noise
• Inherent Vice
• Impolex
• Short Cuts
• Magnolia
• Repo Man

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i never complete this but if u want to take part the guide is here: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/bmilot56/list/the-8th-annual-letterboxd-season-challenge/detail/

• The Golden Dream

  Week 1: September 19th-25th
  Central American Independence Week

• Cop Land

  Week 2: September 26th-October 2nd
  ing Ray Week

• Bitter Rice

  Week 3: October 3rd-9th
  Italian Neorealism Week

• Pet Sematary

  Week 4: October 10th-16th
  Fit for a King Week

• A Tale of Two Sisters

  Week 5: October 17th-23rd
  K-Horror Week

• Dead of Night

  Week 6: October 24th-30th
  Top 250 Horror Week

• A Generation

  Week 7: October 31st-November 6th
  LSC 5 Years On: Polish Film School Week

• The Hitch-Hiker
• Bubble Bath

  Week 9: November 14th-20th
  Central/Eastern European Animation Week

• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

  Week 10: November 21st-27th
  A Decade in Black and White Week

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Consider horror films a pretty major blindspot, but i've done some brushing up the last couple weeks. Enough to do a little list that I'll come back to next October maybe.

Top 10 could probably afford to be less normie but there's some fun stuff in here.

1. Vampyr
2. The Shining
3. Eraserhead
4. Alien
5. Suspiria
6. Scream
7. Repulsion
8. Carrie
9. Psycho
10. Rosemary's Baby

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

whilst i do not believe the numerical amount of films watched is tantamount to anything really important, i do like going back and being able to see how taste gets developed over time. something i haven't really done for a while. at 3000 films this seems as good a place to lay one down. so this is a hastily put together top 100 (1 film per director) to refer back to in the future after the next 1000.

if ur favourite film or filmmaker isn't on here it means i just don't like them

• The 400 Blows
• Akira
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• All That Jazz
• Amadeus
• Annie Hall
• The Apartment
• Autumn Sonata
• Bad Black
• The Battle of Algiers

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

*Insert brief paragraph on the agonising nature of only being able to pick 10 in spite of there being an additional 70 years of cinema history since the lists inception*

*Followed by a long list of directors of which I cannot believe I haven’t picked a film from*

• Do the Right Thing
• I Am Cuba
• Killer of Sheep
• Easy Rider
• The Devils
• Ocean's Eleven
• Harlan County U.S.A.
• The Captive
• Pierrot le Fou
• Late Spring

• Down by Law
• Dead Man
• Night on Earth
• Paterson
• Mystery Train
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Coffee and Cigarettes
• The Limits of Control
• Stranger Than Paradise
• Only Lovers Left Alive

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

• Trances
• Wattstax
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Soul Power
• Soul to Soul
• The Revolution Won't Be Televised
• The Concert for Bangladesh
• Gimme Shelter
• Woodstock

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(mostly) first watches for the both of us - so potential nudges in a certain directions is welcome

• Another Round
• Zola
• Flee
• The Lost Daughter
• Education
• Small Axe
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
• Rocks
• Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
• Bacurau

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Prince: Sign O' the Times
• I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
• Young Mr. Lincoln
• Rapture
• French Cancan
• SubUrbia
• The Headless Woman
• Soul Power
• Trouble in Paradise
• The Whole Shootin' Match

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

Stopped at 1950 bc the choices started to be less interesting.

The eagle eyed amongst you will notice the only actors to feature twice are Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington and...Jack Black.

• Licorice Pizza

  Alana Haim & Cooper Hoffman

• Da 5 Bloods

  Delroy Lindo

• Us

  Lupita Nyongo'o

• Cold War

  Joanna Kulig

• Summer 1993

  Laia Artigas

• Moonlight

  Mahershala Ali

• Mistress America

  Greta Gerwig

• The Grand Budapest Hotel

  Ralph Fiennes

• Inside Llewyn Davis

  Oscar Isaacs

• The Master

  Phillip Seymour Hoffman

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

As per this list here: faroutmagazine.co.uk/chantal-akerman-45-favourite-films/?fbclid=IwAR1lAvPPJIj-0utYlbaKqlqnRwki5cHZThmFehNRS62uv3sDlY-ofCK4A_8

I just want to close the tab that has that open on my computer.

EDIT: 44?! I think I have missed one but cba going back to find out which one

• Vertigo
• Mamma Roma
• Rear Window
• The Trial of Joan of Arc
• A Room in Town
• Pickpocket
• Gertrud
• Entire Days in the Trees
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• For Ever Mozart

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• To Sleep with Anger
• The Firemen's Ball
• Topsy-Turvy
• The Captive
• The Only Son
• Too Late Blues
• Matinee
• Harlan County U.S.A.
• Le Doulos
• Bless Their Little Hearts

Non-2021 releases.

Made without restraint nor refinement. Gives a nice spread of the year though.

• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Only Son
• You Only Live Once
• Make Way for Tomorrow
• How Green Was My Valley
• Ministry of Fear
• Mildred Pierce
• Gilda
• Paisan
• Samson and Delilah

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Taking another L from last year. A much closer L than previous efforts, but an L nonetheless. I was going to add some criteria in to spice this up more, but to be honest I think I need to just focus on completing it before I can do that.
(Edit: Okay, 1 film per director)

• The Kid
• Nanook of the North
• Return to Reason
• The Hands of Orlac
• Go West
• A Page of Madness
• Piccadilly
• Morocco
• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
• The Mummy

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Snake Eyes

  Week 1: September 6th-12th
  Lucky Seven Week

• My Winnipeg

  Week 2: September 13th-19th
  Northern Exposure: Guy Maddin Week

• The Brood

  Week 3: September 20th-26th
  Two Old Queens Week

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  Week 4: September 27th-October 3rd
  Romanian New Wave

• The Invisible Man
• Inferno

  Week 6: October 11th-17th
  Video Nasty Week

• End of Days

  Week 7: October 18th-24th
  Hades' Choice Week

• Ring

  Week 8: October 25th-31st
  J-Horror Week

• Gate of Flesh

  Week 9: November 1st-7th
  Leftover Candy Week

• Judas and the Black Messiah

  Week 10: November 8th-14th
  Contemporary Performers: LaKeith Stanfield Week

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

• The Last Movie
• Secrets & Lies
• Dogville
• 3 Women
• Rocco and His Brothers
• Late Spring
• Bay of Angels
• Lenny Cooke
• Mur Murs
• High Hopes

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For when I finish the other one in like December? January? February? All I know is that this is premature.

• Blood Simple
• Yojimbo
• Vivre Sa Vie
• Eraserhead
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Viridiana
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Beauty and the Beast
• Nosferatu
• The Gold Rush

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Element of Crime
• Sanshiro Sugata
• All the Boys Are Called Patrick
• Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
• Carnival of Souls
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Nocturna
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
• Chocolat
• Pandora's Box

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

• Umberto D.

  mon

• Whisky Galore!

  mon

• Night and Fog in Japan

  mon

• Pépé le Moko
• Homework

  tue

• Pandora's Box

  wed

• My Lucky Stars

  wed

• Happiness

  thurs

• Putney Swope

  thurs

• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

  fri

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

• Rehana Maryam Noor

  23

• Nanook of the North

  24

• Clash by Night

  24

• Night Tide
• California Split

  24

• Nostalgia for the Light
• Spartacus

  25

• The Garden of Words

  26

• Pickpocket

  26

• A Report on the Party and the Guests

• La Ronde

  16th

• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

  16th

• Cowards Bend the Knee

  16th

• 25th Hour

  16th

• Odds Against Tomorrow

  17th

• The Set-Up

  17th

• Scarface

  17th

• Body Double

  17th

• Obsession

  18th

• On Dangerous Ground

  18th

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

• The Hit
• Non-Fiction

  9th

• Female Trouble

  10th

• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

  10th

• Body Heat

  10th

• Wolf

  10th

• Blow Out

  10th

• Popeye

  11th

• Manhunter

  11th

• Lilith

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Bad Day at Black Rock

   1st

2. Cruising

   1st

3. Last Year at Marienbad

   2nd

4. Mona Lisa

   2nd

5. Tout Va Bien

   2nd

6. Cecil B. Demented

   3rd

7. Head

   3rd

8. Shiva Baby

   3rd

9. Go West

   4th

10. Female Trouble

    4th

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

• Five
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Panic in Year Zero!
• Godzilla
• Them!
• The Toxic Avenger
• Class of Nuke 'Em High
• Repo Man
• WarGames
• Miracle Mile

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

a desperate bid to stop me from relentlessly scrolling instead of...just...picking...something

• Memories of Underdevelopment

  Sun

• Lourdes

  Mon

• El Sur

  Mon

• River's Edge

  Tues

• An Autumn Afternoon

  wed

• Born in Flames

  thurs

• Shaft

  fri

• Cruising
• Minnie and Moskowitz

  sun

Okay. So I tried this earlier, and got bored. The trick I think is not to set things out from the start, but to let fill as it goes. So, what I've done is fill them up from the start of 2020. For 1 films from each year 1920 to 2020. Try to watch one from each year. I think it will work this time.

• An Eastern Westerner
• The Phantom Carriage
• Häxan
• The Last Laugh
• Strike
• L'Âge d'or
• The Public Enemy
• Grand Hotel
• A Night at the Opera
• My Man Godfrey

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Songs My Brothers Taught Me

  Nov 1st Mubi US

• Taipei Story

  Nov 4th Mubi

• Pandora's Box

  Mubi GER 6th

• The Selfish Giant

  Nov 6th Mubi UK

• The Magician

  Mubi GER 10th

• Westfront 1918

  13th Mubi GER

• The Skin I Live In

  Nov 16th Mubi UK

• Winter Light

  18th Mubi GER

• Wuthering Heights

  Nov 21st Mubi UK

• In the Realm of the Senses

  Nov 22nd Mubi

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