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i feel like holly hunter in this movie all the time. this world is so hard on people who gaf. cried intermittently throughout

love the way this is lit so much. faces engulfed in darkness

my name is the weeknd and women are ruining my life (until i fix them through the power and truth in my music). almost impressive that this is significantly more boring stupid than it is funny stupid given the premise but what else can you expect from the mind behind it comes at night. nearly every formal decision pissed me off; long take, shallow focus, metaphor-laden bullshit. emblematic of all the worst tendencies of modern “arthouse” movies. the ending is so funny it almost saved the movie for me

i teared up at the tony todd scene. just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. and some of it does! two hours is crazy though. the first movie i’ve seen that’s trying to be smile

as brilliant as hong’s huppert films in the way it uses its language barrier for drama, but it’s also firmly rooted in american race and class relations. there are so many unspoken tensions; nearly every conversation has friction and you have to wait to see if it bursts into flames. on things that can’t be said, won’t be said, and have to be said. the rare moments where every obstacle to communication is broken down and real connection forms are so moving. there’s no space between us. captures how major life changes feel like the world is ending when you’re a kid so beautifully. countless perfect grace notes. probably the greatest melodrama of the 2000s after attack of the clones.

so dry and overlong. wilder is sometimes funny in a light chuckle kind of way but rarely more than that. audrey hepburn is so beautiful

a movie where you have to deal with the complexity of human faces

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

i’m so obsessed with budget tom cruise. crazy ending

looks absolutely stunning. shot in vistavision btw

i love being scared so much. i know a lot of people don’t like the monsters, but i think they’re very cool in concept and mostly in execution (i do think they could’ve been used much more sparingly). one of the great filmic locations; it’s perfect for using negative space. no other movie has better articulated the disorienting feeling of trying to look around with a flashlight. its use of darkness is obviously incredible but i also love the garish color grading before they go under. i’m so glad this hasn’t happened to me tbh

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

my five year plan is to become audrey hepburn. a lot of this movie kinda sucks, but the good parts are so good. i need the earrings hepburn wears on the boat so fucking bad

this is going to happen to me #soon. societal pressure to perform disinterest, to hide your love. weirder and much more important to me than i was expecting

a lot less hopeful than sirk’s later melodramas about love and class. transgressing against the upper class will kill you. his blocking and lighting is just so good. he makes you see the light leave a character’s body.

still perfect. bodies as canvases for emotion. dorothy malone’s demeanor breaking down in her final conversation with rock hudson is my favorite detail in a performance ever.

watched the first 40 minutes of this in theaters but i had to walk out because of how bad the crowd was. they were treating it like the room, laughing at every line, mockingly repeating robert stack’s dialogue, adding brilliant and incisive color commentary such as “well that escalated quickly.” melodramas are still formally radical to this day; their depth and beauty will only reveal itself if you open up first.

jesus christ

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

love is stronger than witchcraft….

most of the film is quite dry, but the ending is incredible. the real threat of the nazis break through the artifice of cinema.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

“what got broken here, it doesn’t go back together again”

made a great double feature with matewan: people desperately trying to fight against oppressive systems that want them dead. very few movies better than this one

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

her body was the world

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

windows into other worlds. the motion distracts from the stillness

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

transcendence via biking

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

“we’ve gotta do something”

everyone is desperately trying to tear through their skin into understanding. makes me want to scream

knew i was going to love this as soon as i saw the slide. held together entirely by rhythm

idk if it was a projection issue or the shallow focus but some camera movements gave me vertigo. very fun, loved the gay waiter

the film tries to complicate this but the ending textually ties the entire movie to the description of its production: a veteran commemorating the friends (played by trendy, hot, young actors) he made while killing iraqis. said iraqis are largely shown through scopes, the camera of precision guided missiles, or the flashlight at the end of a gun. garland depicts the horrors of war for the americans in exhaustive detail, while the iraqis are shot at and bombed without ever seeing their faces. the focus on gritty realism and a singular perspective over the larger context works a lot better in civil war than in a real life conflict, especially one that is still largely misrepresented in the popular consciousness.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

“what are the ends?”
“i don’t ”

the only thing american imperialism leaves behind are dead bodies. has the same ending as law and order (1969)

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

lead belly mentioned. love the way this lingers

so fun. the set design is absolutely hideous, i loved it. claudette colbert…..what an actress….

still just so crazy

the revamped canon

• age of Venus
• Monkeyshines, No. 1
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
• The Kiss
• Ocean Studies
• The Unchanging Sea
• Fantômas
• Gertie the Dinosaur
• Judex
• Satan's Rhapsody

...plus 456 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Novelist's Film
2. By the Stream
3. In Our Day
4. In Front of Your Face
5. A Traveler's Needs
6. Introduction
7. In Water
8. Grass
9. Claire's Camera
10. The Day After

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

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
2. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
3. Sleep #2
4. A Film for Friends
5. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
6. Scarred Hearts
7. Eight Postcards from Utopia
8. Aferim!
9. Everybody in Our Family
10. The Happiest Girl in the World

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

the more popular the song and less conventional the film, the better. preferably used as an emotional/poetic device and also are good (at least the needledrop, ideally the film)

• Miami Vice
• Song to Song
• Toni Erdmann
• Somewhere
• The Bling Ring
• Nocturama
• Southland Tales
• The Beast
• Magic Mike XXL
• Spring Breakers

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

made this list from the ground up instead of basing it off previous years so that’s part of why it looks so different

year 1
year 2
year 3

1. Duelle
2. Song to Song
3. Speed Racer
4. Love on the Ground
5. The Visit
6. Magic Mike XXL
7. Céline and Julie Go Boating
8. The Novelist's Film
9. Noroît
10. Written on the Wind

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

films created to mourn a real person

• Twixt
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Artemide’s Knee
• Zack Snyder's Justice League
• Furious 7
• The Matrix Resurrections
• The Shrouds
• Blue
• Exodus: Gods and Kings
• A Couple

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

• The General Line
• Welfare
• Duelle
• Somewhere
• The Novelist's Film
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Mysterious Skin
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Noroît
• October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

please give me recommendations! (also, ik a chunk of these aren't actually giallo, but they are from directors typically associated with the genre)

• Erik the Conqueror
• The Whip and the Body
• Blood and Black Lace
• The Road to Fort Alamo
• Planet of the Vampires
• Kill, Baby... Kill!
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
• Massacre Time
• Danger: Diabolik
• A Quiet Place in the Country

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

a descent into dreaminess for the most magical day of the year <3

1. Basket Case
2. Slugs
3. Let's Scare Jessica to Death
4. White Zombie
5. The Living Dead Girl
6. I Walked with a Zombie
7. Red Spirit Lake
8. The Munsters

• What Time Is It There?
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
• Divorce Italian Style
• Zombieland
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn

movies i will rw every halloween, they capture the season like no other. a list that will hopefully expand (give me recs!!!) :)

• The Munsters
• Halloween
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Hubie Halloween
• Scream
• Coraline

• Sleepy Hollow
• The Crow
• 31
• Ginger Snaps
• Deep Red
• Suspiria
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Beyond
• Vampire's Kiss
• Queen of the Damned

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

original post

prompts : 
1 - A French Canadian Horror Film
2 - A Horror Film Directed by Todd Sheets
3 - A Horror Film That's a Poltergeist Rip-Off
4 - A Horror Film Shot by Aristide Massaccesi
5 - A 2D Horror Film (Up to interpretation!)
6 - A Horror Film That Includes Time Travel
7 - A Horror Film That Features a Fox Spirit
8 - A Horror Film Shot in South Africa that es it off as America (There's a lot!)
9 - A Black and White Comedic Horror Film that takes place in an Old Dark House
10 - A Horror Film Produced by Debra Dion
11 - A Horror Film That Features Many Tentacles
12 - A Horror Film in which William Shatner appears.
13 - A DTV Horror Sequel released by Dimension Films
14 - A Czech Horror Film
15 - A Horror Film Set in the Fine Art World
16 - A Horror Film That Involves a Killer House Pet
17 - A Horror Film That Takes Place During a Camping Trip
18 - A Horror Film That Features Blood and Stop Motion (No Harryhausen)
19 - A Horror Film with Undead Cowboys and/or Undead Civil War Soldiers
20 - A Horror Film About A Class Reunion Gone Wrong!
21 - A Non-Supernatural Shaw Bros Horror Film
22 - A Horror Film Shot for less than $10,000 (That's not found footage)
23 - A Horror Film That Features Someone That Has Lightning Powers
24 - A Swedish Horror Film
25 - A Horror Film about a Killer Doll (That's not Chucky or the Puppet Masters)
26 - A Horror Film Released by Something Weird on VHS
27 - A Found Footage Horror Film That isn't from America, Japan or the UK.
28 - A Horror Film That Features Helpful Ghosts
29 - A Horror Film That Has Multiple Beheadings
30 - A Horror Film Directed by Koji Shiraishi
31 - A Horror Film that Leaves You With a Smile

1. Mécanix
2. Catacombs
3. Scalps
4. Beyond the Darkness
5. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
6. The Dead Zone
7. Antichrist
8. Slumber Party Massacre
9. The Old Dark House
10. TerrorVision

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

year 1: boxd.it/de0Om
year 3: boxd.it/owAyu

• The Tree of Life
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Speed Racer
• In the Mood for Love
• Mulholland Drive
• Miami Vice
• Crimes of the Future
• It's Such a Beautiful Day
• Stalker
• Love Exposure

I’m going to document my top ten after every year I’ve been in Letterboxd to see how it changes.

year 2: boxd.it/hNFnW
year 3: boxd.it/owAyu

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Tree of Life
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Stalker
6. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
7. Synecdoche, New York
8. 12 Angry Men
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Yi Yi

upping the count to get a better snapshot of my taste

year 1: boxd.it/de0Om
year 2: boxd.it/hNFnW

1. The Visit
2. Speed Racer
3. The Tree of Life
4. Twin Peaks: The Return
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Miami Vice
7. Crimes of the Future
8. A Woman Under the Influence
9. Heat
10. The General Line

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

rip to one of the greatest to ever do it, you will forever be missed <3

1. Déjà Vu
2. Man on Fire
3. Unstoppable
4. Domino
5. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
6. Enemy of the State
7. Crimson Tide
8. The Hunger
9. The Last Boy Scout
10. The Fan

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

the notes are the context they were mentioned in

• Inherit the Wind

  it’s title is written over the theater on the cover

• Wagon Train

  was playing on tv at a place dylan was staying

• La Strada

  both fellini’s played at an arthouse theater near dylan

• La Dolce Vita
• Blonde Cobra

  dylan met the filmmaker 

• The Defiant Ones

  dylan met the star of these two

• Odds Against Tomorrow
• The Maltese Falcon

  dylan said a guy looked like sydney greenstreet in this movie 

• The Grapes of Wrath

  woody guthrie wrote a song after watching this movie

• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

  not mentioned by name but heavily implied when dylan is discussing his early 70’s career

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

1. The Visit
2. The Tree of Life
3. Twin Peaks: The Return
4. Blackhat
5. It's Such a Beautiful Day
6. Local Legends
7. First Reformed
8. Glass
9. Magic Mike XXL
10. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

1. Fast & Furious 6
2. The Fast and the Furious
3. Fast X
4. Fast Five
5. Furious 7
6. Fast & Furious
7. 2 Fast 2 Furious
8. F9
9. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
10. The Fate of the Furious

working towards a complete canon. only counting films containing a song recorded by dylan, no covers allowed. will i watch all of these at some point? probably!

• Poor Little Rich Girl
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
• Coming Home
• The Wanderers
• More American Graffiti
• Underground U.S.A.
• Five Corners
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
• New York Stories
• Rude Awakening

...plus 134 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

spiritually speed racer belongs here, but i'm trying to keep it to literal dance. please give me recommendations!!

• Magic Mike XXL
• Gold Diggers of 1933
• All That Jazz
• Moulin Rouge!

in rough order of when they were number one.

• Cars
• Return of the Jedi
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Central Intelligence
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Coraline
• Million Dollar Baby
• The Matrix
• Parasite
• Fight Club

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

1. Crimes of the Future
2. We're All Going to the World's Fair
3. Nope
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
5. The Fabelmans
6. Skinamarink
7. The Munsters
8. RRR
9. TÁR
10. Barbarian

...plus 83 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A Corner in Wheat
2. Fantômas
3. The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
4. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
5. J'accuse
6. Broken Blossoms
7. True Heart Susie
8. The Broken Butterfly
9. One Week
10. Way Down East

...plus 2532 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

let me know if i’m missing anything

• Bringing Up Baby
• The Philadelphia Story
• Holiday
• Sylvia Scarlett

probably not going to watch all of these, just want to compile them somewhere. no makeup nom for crimes of the future and no technical noms for nope, mr. oscar once again proves himself to be a hack fraud

• Aftersun
• The Whale
• Living
• Causeway
• Blonde
• To Leslie
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• The Sea Beast
• All Quiet on the Western Front

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

1. Miami Vice
2. Heat
3. Blackhat
4. Collateral
5. The Insider
6. Thief
7. Manhunter
8. The Keep

• Crimes of the Future
• Ocean's Eleven
• Magic Mike XXL
• Speed Racer
• Coraline
• Annabelle Comes Home
• The Visit
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
• Sleepaway Camp
• Before Sunset

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

1. Speed Racer
2. Death Proof
3. Bride of Frankenstein
4. Psycho II
5. Slumber Party Massacre II
6. Dawn of the Dead
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8. Avengers: Infinity War

i didn’t finish the list last year, so i’m hoping i’ll be able to do it this time

• Eyes Without a Face
• Pulse
• Tenebre
• The Discarnates
• The Wailing
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Frankenstein
• Cat People
• House on Haunted Hill
• The Haunting

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Humanity and Paper Balloons
2. Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
3. I, the Executioner
4. The Discarnates
5. Beijing Watermelon
6. Labyrinth of Cinema
7. Emotion
8. The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
9. Sada
10. Hanagatami

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

1. Drive My Car
2. Old
3. Shiva Baby
4. The French Dispatch
5. Spencer
6. The Worst Person in the World
7. The Green Knight
8. Pig
9. Judas and the Black Messiah
10. Malignant

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Saw VI
• Saw IV
• Spiral: From the Book of Saw
• Saw II
• Saw III
• Saw
• Saw 3D
• Saw V
• Jigsaw

Experimental horror films/shorts that I have seen. Please suggest any that you have and I'll watch to decide whether or not they fit the list.

• Hinterlands
• Womb
• Eraserhead
• Inland Empire
• Ghost
• House
• Possibly in Michigan
• Rabbits
• OPAL
• Unfriended

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

• Light Years
• Puparia
• Jard-sur-Mer: eit fyrtårn får siste ord i skumringa
• Emergence Collapse
• Isle of Flowers
• Hunter
• Womb
• The Green Ray
• The Sadness of the Trees
• Shadows

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

36toesproductions.medium.com/how-to-be-a-well-rounded-cinephile-256726e89beb

• A Woman Under the Influence
• The Act of Killing
• Polyester
• Werckmeister Harmonies
• Rashomon
• PlayTime
• November
• Blow Job
• Taxi Driver
• Holy Motors

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