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Robby 👏 Fucking 👏 Müller 👏

Ethan Hunt faces off against his greatest test yet… my patience!

Shout out to the fly that kept landing on the projector

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Some essays are much stronger than others (Kusama, Lowery, Waters) but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t really into this. Some thoughtful and insightful examinations on not just Oz’s influence on one artist, but broader strokes of art in the collective conscious, the myth of originality, and making use of cultural context to strengthen new art (shorthand can be powerful). 

Made me realize, on some deep level, I’m still mourning Lynch. This film makes a strong case for him being possibly the most influential American arthouse director. I’m sure I’m not the only one who started tearing up inexplicably at certain parts of this.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

I can’t believe it’s not French

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Brain rot ass movie

Solid gold ✅

I BLAME SOCIETY

My dumb ass still couldn’t tell them apart

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Knew very early on just how into the concept and approach I would be. Long, meandering shots? Basically no dialogue? Character studies solely based on observation? If you know me you know this is my bag. My knee jerk reaction to these characters was "who are these jokers coming in and out of the theater? What is Tsai trying to say about filmgoers more generally?" I’m not sure I agree with the general sell of this movie being an “ode to moviegoing”. People are more likely to pop in to cruise or get out of the rain and eat some food than engage with the art in front of them. I think this might be a mirror to the kinds of people who refuse to engage with cinema as art, and as a more meta take - people who say this film is too boring. There are pieces that I'm not sure what to make of but are sure to reward on a rewatch and at only 82 minutes I'm sure I'll throw it on again soon enough. Would love to see this in a near empty theater at 9:30pm.

Goated poster. I’m such a sucker for LA neo-noirs. This is up there with the best of them.

this movie rocks so fucking hard it's ridiculous

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Cars 2 Fan Club #30 / “Tease” / Selected by Bill

Well, you eat a lot of red meat

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

You think Tyler Durden has ever gotten barreled?

Look at him go!

Cocaine

At least he failed with soul

If I had hundreds of millions I’d hire Talking Heads and it would probably go exactly like this.

Somehow got me all sentimental in the end. Some glaring shortcomings but undeniably gets to the heart strings. Also need that whole fit Herb borrowed in the beginning of the movie, pronto.

Should’ve been up for best sound design for the nose breathing alone

ALL I NEED ARE SOME TASTY WAVES, A COOL BUZZ, AND I’M FINE

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

A yell at the tv kinda t

The last 10 minutes kinda drop the ball for me, but Todd Field is a very intelligent filmmaker and if this doesn’t capture the human condition at its messiest. The shot-reverse-shot of Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Connelly in bed and their eye lines match so they look like they’re looking at one another and then the tilt up to reveal they were facing opposite directions… gonna have to that one. Reminded me of sprawling suburban dramas like The Ice Storm or American Beauty only Little Children is better for a lot of reasons, chief among them is there’s no Kevin Spacey.

Coogler’s big blank check - some major swings and the allegory might be on the nose at times, but this was really a joy to watch and is loaded with subtext that leaves the audience to chew on. Like, it made me rethink why I like folk music.

Instant classic, I’ve watched this 3 times already and this time around I realized if it’s not on Letterboxd then it should be… so here I am. Skate videos have gotten so dry in the last few years - carbon copy Strobeck zooms and random super8 b-roll, but this was so original and refreshing. Bobby, where you get your threads?

Needs more sauce

Undeniably a hot mess but also endlessly watchable. Altman on full gas with the screwball antics, which most of the time pays off. So many perfectly timed jokes and gags, could've done without the narration. Shelley Duvall had such a presence!

Weird movie!

Pálmason is easily one of my favorite contemporary directors and this is a beautiful and simple short film that is so fine tuned to my sensibilities. Amazing. I want 10 more of these.

Cars 2 Fan Club #29 / “Tease” / Selected by Claire

Morally bankrupt. Did get a few laughs out of me though. Particularly the incredibly bad line delivery of “now THAT’S what I call a book report!” After a batshit scene where our hero (zero) seduces and makes out with his teacher in front of his whole English class. Shoot for the stars. Anything can happen.

Hadn’t watched this in at least 15 years, forgot how incredibly well plotted this thing is and how effective the T Rex scene is, really incredible filmmaking. Late stage capitalism ain’t great, but at least Jeff Goldblum is hot.

Bewildered and vibing

men will literally ________ instead of going to therapy

Blows the first one out of the water it’s not even close. Every chase scene has more weight behind it because we care about the context. Relationships are more important, lore is totally secondary. Seems like Cameron took some of these ideas from his Aliens playbook, it paid off! That dream sequence with the famous skeleton/fence/atom bomb shot is so metal. Some effects and stunts I truly don’t know how they pulled off. The movie was marketed as T2 and I had two cups of tea while watching it thus it was Tea2.

Bill Murray actually whispered “one day Kino Lorber will whiff it big time and this movie will never get a 4k restoration”. Why are they happy about this? I’m not happy about this.

The Bad:
-Jenna Ortega annoying
-Paul Rudd annoying
-Yet another shallow class conscious pandering
-Daytime CGI
-Clunky jokes
-Clunky homages (ET, The Village, Evil Dead, Jurassic Park)
-Dead mom trope to shortcut heartstring pulling
-Vape god

The Good:
-Will Poulter annoying in a good way
-Ketamine horn
-Hard left into a horror movie at midpoint
-Will Poulter being the only one to actually deliver clunky jokes
-“I asked for a mood board, not a shit board”
-NoHo Hank’s face any time he’s working
-Cherry-coloured Funk needle drop
-Googling about unicorns

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

Some serious strokes of genius here. Need to percolate.

Schwing! audie audie audie

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Kinda bleak

I wonder how he dreamt before he was on this path

Killer popcorn flick. This is why I don’t talk to anyone.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible III
8. Mission: Impossible II

Like Jake’s list but with less commitment but with a little more commitment than last year - round 2

1/3 - Breillat
2/3 - Coppola
1/3 - Cronenberg
2/3 - Schrader
1/3 - Tarkovsky
1/3 - Hong
2/3 - Wiseman
0/3 - Weerasethakul
3/3✅ - Brown
1/3 - Kiarostami
0/3 - Ozu
2/3 - Altman (take 2)

• Fat Girl
• Last Summer
• Romance
• The Conversation
• Rumble Fish
• The Godfather Part II
• Crash
• Dead Ringers
• eXistenZ
• Cat People

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

Films in my watchlist that are available for free. Links included, HD at least w English subs. Will cut as I work through.

• California Split

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• In the Realm of the Senses

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• Goodbye, Dragon Inn

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• My Night at Maud's

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• The Face of Another

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• After Life

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• The Heartbreak Kid

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• Elephant

  archive.org/details/elephant.-2003

• Mysterious Skin

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• Twenty Years Later

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

Flicks I own on physical media. Blu-Ray unless specified.

• The Big Lebowski
• Submarine
• Burning
• The Long Goodbye

  Kino

• Columbus
• The Shining

  4k

• Point Break

  4k Shout

• Old Joy

  Cc

• Gummo

  Cc

• The Worst Person in the World

  Cc

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dead Man
2. Down by Law
3. Paterson
4. Stranger Than Paradise
5. Mystery Train
6. Night on Earth
7. Only Lovers Left Alive
8. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
9. The Limits of Control
10. Coffee and Cigarettes

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

1. The Green Ray
2. A Tale of Autumn
3. The Aviator's Wife
4. A Summer's Tale
5. Pauline at the Beach
6. La Collectionneuse
7. Boyfriends and Girlfriends
8. A Tale of Winter
9. Claire's Knee
10. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

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

1. Old Joy
2. First Cow
3. Meek's Cutoff
4. Showing Up
5. Wendy and Lucy
6. Certain Women
7. Night Moves
8. River of Grass

1. The Brutalist
2. Challengers
3. Dune: Part Two
4. I Saw the TV Glow
5. The Sweet East
6. Good One
7. Anora
8. The Substance
9. A Complete Unknown
10. Eno

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

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

1. The Shining
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
5. Paths of Glory
6. Eyes Wide Shut
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. The Killing
9. Lolita
10. Barry Lyndon

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

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
2. Streetwise
3. Time Indefinite
4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
5. Satantango
6. An Elephant Sitting Still
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley
8. A Tale of Autumn
9. Nostalgia
10. Roadkill

Like Jake’s list but with less commitment

3/3✅-Altman
3/3✅-Benning
3/3✅-Akerman
3/3✅-Rohmer
3/3✅-von Trier
2/3-Tarr
3/3✅-Linklater
3/3✅-Wenders

• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Short Cuts
• Nashville
• Deseret
• Ten Skies
• The United States of America
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• News from Home
• The Meetings of Anna
• Claire's Knee

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

1. Perfect Days
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Beau Is Afraid
5. Priscilla
6. Past Lives
7. The Killer
8. Godland
9. The Iron Claw
10. Poor Things

1. Aftersun
2. TÁR
3. Bones and All
4. Memoria
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Triangle of Sadness
7. Nope
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Hannah Ha Ha
10. Babylon

1. Titane
2. Bo Burnham: Inside
3. The Worst Person in the World
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Pig
6. Judas and the Black Messiah
7. Dune
8. Red Rocket
9. Torn
10. C'mon C'mon

1. Sound of Metal
2. Some Kind of Heaven
3. I Know This Much Is True
4. Minari
5. A White, White Day
6. Maybe Next Year
7. Kajillionaire
8. Another Round
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
10. Feels Good Man

1. Parasite
2. The Lighthouse
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
4. Uncut Gems
5. Under the Silver Lake
6. Apollo 11
7. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
8. Little Women
9. Climax
10. Honey Boy

1. Before Sunset
2. Dazed and Confused
3. Before Sunrise
4. Before Midnight
5. Slacker
6. School of Rock
7. Boyhood
8. Waking Life
9. Everybody Wants Some!!
10. Tape

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

films that influenced my first feature

• It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
• 11 x 14
• Stranger Than Paradise
• roughly an hour before
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1. Lessons of Darkness
2. Land of Silence and Darkness
3. Into the Abyss
4. Grizzly Man
5. Fitzcarraldo
6. Encounters at the End of the World
7. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
8. Into the Inferno
9. Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
10. The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

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

1. Perfect Days
2. The American Friend
3. Paris, Texas
4. Wings of Desire
5. Kings of the Road
6. Alice in the Cities
7. Wrong Move
8. Anselm

1. Come and See
2. Orlando
3. The Green Ray
4. Ikiru
5. Wings of Desire
6. Outer Space
7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
8. The Doom Generation
9. Exotica
10. Lost in America

1. Dazed and Confused
2. Possession
3. Old Joy
4. The Long Goodbye
5. Amour
6. Can't Get You Out of My Head
7. Out of the Blue
8. Dont Look Back
9. Casablanca
10. In the Mood for Love

100 films during lockdown (March 20th - May 24th)
Originally ranked, but my silly opinion has changed on a lot of these over time and rewatches

• Mulholland Drive
• The Social Network
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Her
• 12 Angry Men
• A Man Escaped
• Persona
• Magnolia
• Blue Velvet
• Roma

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

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

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

1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Fargo
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. A Serious Man
6. The Hudsucker Proxy
7. Barton Fink
8. True Grit
9. Burn After Reading
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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

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