A Sunday afternoon movieA modern thriller by a director I can respect as sharing the same name as the director of such mammoth hits as Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Ran. I started this a while ago, and was like, later, and now later might be now!! Directed by Kiyoshi... See More » (1)
Something I realize more clearlyIs that I must see that it is not necessary to post, to think through everything and see how it's from a cup overflowing state that results in sharing, and when that cup hardly has any bubbly in it, it will be tended to, without voice over commentary... See More »
French Poetic Realism is a good thing to be seeing if one loves film noirThere's just such a breathtaking gloomy sensation these have, i'm currently watching Marcel Carne's Les portes de la nuit (The Gates of the Night) from 1946. It was at the time not escapist enough, and to be blunt, when a film hits too close to home... See More »
This afternoon, I saw a high quality drama from SwedenIf I can enjoy The Criterion Channel without too many cases of videos buffering, I will keep the subscription when it'd renew on January 20. This film just had me all the way through, gloomy in a classic way, we follow the backstory on a sad... See More » (1)
I hate war moviesNot every movie that includes a war, there are lots of anti-war movies But War Movies There’s no honor, no good guys, no glory Only death It isn’t fiction The only war movie that comes close to being worth a watch is Glory Probably because... See More »
The Pacino flick Pacino would like to forgetI only have this in my collection because i had a phase where i'd try to get as many of the classic 80s slashers as i could, and this was one of the more infamous ones, that stoked hate in hearts across the nation. I put it on for some light... See More » (1)
Die Zweite Heimat --- a new an exciting long term challengeThis is the continuation of Edgar Reitz' Heimat series in the sense of giving the story of one person that's in Heimat 1 only later, I've had this for YEARS, and have not finished it yet, it's 24 hours or so, just this part of the trilogy, which also... See More »
I just pick things that are immediately visible in the stacked piles, and thankfully i've picked my #1 silent filmThe Passion of Joan of Arc The pinnacle of not only the silent era, but rises above practically all that came after, imo. It was considered lost {I am in error, but a good print was not around till found} until it was found in a mental hospital too,... See More »
