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Daisies is one of the most visually inventive films i've ever seen, and with this release could be seen in HD, plus some scrumptious bonus material extras include: Audio Commentary by Daughters of Darkness Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger - (i ...

The Mother of the Nouvelle Vague Just before her passing in 2019, The Criterion Collection with her involvement released her complete films, in one of the finest Blu-ray sets period. No commentaries though. But what a beaut!! Tonight i'm wat...

This is the zoom film I love to see!

So why is everyone in the world NOT to be trusted unless they make a zoom video of themselves?

WTF?? A deeper question than it might seem....

What i'm watching NOW

There is a hidden reason for the mess here, and i select what i see after aleatorically looking at the options of the 4 stacks on the little shelf, and everytime i actually finish something is proof that something mysterious guided me to it, and this...

As i always say to my folks - Guess what movie i'm watching now?

Dad always says - SUPERNATURAL. hehehaha but seriously folks, seems as y'all are just like family, you get the same treatment, so right now i'm getting to disc 3 of the Joaquim Pedro de Andrade set with *drum roll* CONJUGAL WARFARE a 91...

Whats your go-to movie about America the Beautiful?

Sidney Lumet thinks its "Hoop Dreams"

Tonight's feature presentation

THE DARK KNIGHT Yeah, i don't have this modern hit etched in my soul yet, but i'll get closer by dawn. I like how the aspect ratio shifts when there's a skyline shot. 1st time in HD, looks great. So much bonus material in the tri...

Thoughts on key directors Part 1

Here i would like to reminisce about the filmmakers that shaped my esteem for the art form. Stan Brakhage This man made films totally outside of the mainstream, and that is what i liked most about him. Mostly short films, he had a whole philosop...

Hana-bi (Fireworks) - 1997

There's 3 Kitanos i haven't watched yet, but it's suprasensibly more important for me to let his most acclaimed film soak in more. It is about a cop, played by Kitano, who's wife has some sort of medical condition, and his partn...

DOLLS completes my 12 film collection of TAKESHI KITANO

Tonight's movies

THE BLACK SOCIETY TRILOGY BY TAKASHI MIIKE Shinjuku Triad Society Rainy Dog Ley Lines Takashi started out making what's called V Cinema, straight to video movies. With Shinjuku being the 1st theatrically released. This trilogy isn't a...

Hirokazu Kore-eda

This may be repeating myself, i'm getting old and forgetful, but i don't think i shared a picture yet here of all 12 of the titles i not too long ago snapped up. THE ROAD TO THIS GUY Someone here had mentioned his 2018 film, i had said ...

Ever hear of the Bechdel test?

The Bechdel test (/ˈbɛkdəl/ BEK-dəl), also known as the Bechdel–Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requ...

The World Cinema Project

Hello again, TeaNTea here, giving you more of a taste of the fine stuff in motion pictures. This post will chronicle my going through of the 18 WCP titles in the 3 volumes currently out from CRITERION, maybe a 4th will come later this year, i read so...

12 minutes left in BULLET BALLET

over on Letterboxd, there's a big fan of this Tsukamoto film, who watched it every day for a whole month. What movie would you do that for? For me i think it would have to be something i enjoy but don't fully comprehend yet, maybe Persona...

Random DVD pictures

Welcome to my leisurely account of my extensive DVD collection, which i was buying rabidly from 2003 to late last year before being completely smitten with Blu-ray. The purpose here is to not forget these possessions, and to maybe stir up renewed est...

Tonight's double feature presentation

LIONS, LOVE .... AND LIES & AIR DOLL Started them earlier this afternoon, both 2nd watches, Lions made a huge impact on me first viewing, even though i was distracted throughout, which is the same tale for Air Doll. Lions is a hippie film, ...

The Criterion Collection needs and wants

arranged in Spine Index order *whispers*, some of the best releases don't have spine index numbers 🤫 2 - Seven Samurai 3 - The Lady Vanishes 10 - Walkabout (upgrade) 13 - The Silence of the Lambs 17 - Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (upg...

I swear this'll be the last order for awhile

last one, Melville, was pushing it, this here is banging it with a sledgehammer, but i just had to get it, 3 reasons 1. The price was good, for releases like this at this quality, the price is usually much higher. If i would have waited, the price ...

Lusting after box sets post

An ongoing perusal of mouth watering Blu-ray sets to get in the future OUT 1 (The Arrow Academy release might be better for me) JACQUES RIVETTE 3 FILM COLLECTION Noirot, Duelle and Merry Go Round BFI's CARL THEODOR DREYER COLLECTION all ...

30 from the 3 Criterion mega sets for June

BERGMAN 1. The Virgin Spring - June 2 - of all his classics i saw before getting this set, this film moved up the most in my estimation, it is just a darn good well crafted story, inspired Wes Craven's movie i've never seen before, gor...

Now tenuously adhering to a ONE item per month ordering schedule

Just ordered this!! Of the 3 Studio Canal box sets for great auteurs, Jean Pierre Melville stands out as what i want most, i have only 3 by him on DVD this one here collects 6 on stunning Blu-ray and from what i understand lots of supplements. Th...

Mass appeal franchises

Also important to me is seeing those massively popular stuff, that at least have 1 or 2 good movies in them in a handy dandy set in High Definition. So far these which i go through like a tranquilized tortoise 🐢 Alien Terminator Mission: Impossi...

Gonna have to upgrade my Malicks :(

Popped in the Criterion DVD of The Tree of Life, it's like seeing through saran wrap 😭

The Wandering Eternal Canadian

Scratch those other attempts to add slowly to longest posts possible, with each new fresh experience i feel the need to start new. Here i want to not be too ambitious, and just list with some thoughts the next 100 films i watch that strike me as po...

Director focus #5 - Takeshi Kitano

Beat Takeshi is more known in Japan as being a tv comedian, internationally his films made him famous, probably cuz Japanese channels showing him doing his thing are only seen by those with satelite dishes, or i dunno. Anyways, his films are growing ...

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How slow do you like your films?

I've always liked slow cinema, but now more than ever, as i inundate my senses with a Turkish director, i shall take this opportunity to mention and thereby honor some of the notable slow films i've seen GERTRUDE - Carl Dreyer's last...

Hana-bi vs Cure 2 films from Japan in 1997

Have you seen both? Which one would you choose as the better?

Towards a book length rumination on Films

Greetings my fellow SWearthlings, It is my wish to compose something and continually be editing it so as to make it one of the longest posts you'll ever see on this site. I have no delusions about being gifted at all at what i try to say, wh...

The Menu for June, July and August

The following is what will keep me busy for 3 whole months. I could reasonably go a whole year without anymore orders, but i'll get to that later. June, July, and August is the duration of this spiritual period of time where i let the good thin...

Director focus #4 - Hou Hsiao-hsien

There are 2 i'll get next order - Daughter of the Nile and Flowers of Shanghai, i see in the future, releases that will flesh out my HHH collection, one of the supreme living auteurs, also of note his late colleague Edward Yang's 2nd film T...

More goodies in the mail ..... LOOK AT THAT!!! (in a Tuco Salamanca voice)

My first Hou Hsiao-hsien on Blu-ray, and Takeshi Kitano's most acclaimed film, OH YEAH, LOOK AT THAT!! All that's left now is Takeshi's Dolls, and maybe Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman, i think i got a refund for that, but it may ...

i'm gonna party like it's 1999 .....

.... by watching the 1999 Turkish film Clouds of May, Prince would be so proud 🥳

Kasaba - my 3,000th film

Ahhhh this box of Turkish delight is great, watched the first short film and that was superb, a great command of visuals and editing Nuri Bilge Ceylan has, now onto the 8 feature films. 3,000 meaning 3,000 noted as seen on Letterboxd, a fair amount ...

Director focus #3 - Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Today the New Wave Films release of his films came in, the last big item to arrive for a while. I'll take a picture of it later, i'm in the bunker now with a low battery percentage. Yeah, i never heard of this guy from Turkey before, i...

All That Heaven Allows

This was the first Criterion dual format i got ever, and tonight is the first time seeing this classic Douglas Sirk melodrama in high definition. This film was important to Fassbinder, which is mainly why it's important to me, Rainer's Ali:...

The Truth - Kore-eda's French film of 2019

With Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke Minor in Hirokazu's filmography, maybe of the 12 i've collected this would be ranked at the bottom, but it still pretty good, and it's a treat to see the 2 legendary actresses d...

Entertainment dualized

Started a gem of a Taiwanese film on Netflix - A Sun (2019), 2 and a half hours, will definitely be getting back to it during the day, but as the overnight time nears, i must get ready to enjoy da Blu-rays. The duality of film consumption, my dear ...

What the next order could be around August

When i can afford it, my collection shall grow in these regards CRITERION sets 1. The Zatoichi series of 25 films 2. Lone Wolf and Cub 3. Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits Studio Canal sets for 4. Jean Pierre Melville 5. Luis Bunuel 6. Jean L...

Tonight's rewatches

Sonatine - a delectable existential yakuza film where half an hour in most of the action takes place at the beach, where the people waste time playing games and stuff, punctuated by brief moments of gunfire. and Paris, Texas - the largeness of Ame...

Director focus #2 - Ingmar Bergman

Now for a huge one, i might alternate from modern to classic in this director series of mine. Bergman was of the first group of directors i began collecting in 2005, the massive Blu-ray set pictured in the middle below is what caused me to get a Blu...

Director focus #1 - Hirokazu Kore-eda

Here i shall begin a series of posts devoted to the directors i collect, i hope maybe some will find something they enjoy, and value, regardless of how poorly i present things. Modern Japanese cinema has a few stand out names, and Kore-eda is one o...

If anyone needs an action film for this weekend I can recommend 6 Days.

It’s based on the real events of the SAS breaking the Iranian Embassy Hostage crisis in London 1980. Its realistic but moves along at a good pace.

Air Doll is really special, like looking at GOD without special eyeglasses, hence why i'm cavorting here, and pausing alot

It hits so many marks, not feeling real being full of air what being real means needing air to live

Tonight's double feature

UNDER THE SKIN - 2013, seeing it through Amazon Prime, i've been aware of it for awhile but just getting around to it now, I understand now why there was such a buzz with Scarlett, she's fabulous here, hitherto i was just going by Ghost Wor...

The Reckoning (2020)

Movie #2 of the day, late afternoon, witchcraft period piece, looks like a quality piece of work, if i'm gonna get to at least 10,000 films seen in my lifetime, i'll have to watch lots like this. Streaming will never feel like normal to m...

only 1 more Kore-eda on the way to make up 12 in total (Our Little Sister)

The Reflecting Skin (1990)

On a whim i chose the new addition on the Arrow Player, looks good, if Terrence Malick made a vampire film it would be like this. With the wonderous internet i can supplement it with an essay like this https://filmmakermagazine.com/83296-hidden-h...

Gots 2 finish my bleak as heck movie

Tonight's Blu-ray movie was the best boxing flick i've seen

not that i've seen tons of boxing films, the usual, Raging Bull and Rocky, a month ago Tokyo Fist, but tonight - Kids Return, that for me was the best of them all. It was so realistic, and down to earth. About these school drop out kids, one goe...

Streamy Calenderic Film Record

Greetings once again. This list is all about the films i've seen in the streaming format, and the aim is to reach 365 by let's say the end of August, or early September. Behold in stunned disbelief as i melt my tablet into dust watching the...

Nearing the 3,000 mark

The films, release dates and directors, personal thoughts and synopses, an ongoing journey through the globe, the riches of the film medium, reported by TeaNTea Outrage - 2010 - Kateshi Kitano First of a trilogy, endless violence, looks impressive...

Thoughts on 1984's Footloose?

The other week watched it after a long long time, so much fun, and even though noone was around me, countless moments had me cringing and blushing 😳

OUTRAGE TRILOGY

the doorbell just rang, finally the first installment can be seen

THE APU TRILOGY ...... 2NITE

Here's a great little vid that explains what makes this great, it's my duty to keep ALL up to speed on what i watch 12:30am to around 10am, in relaxed 30ish minute segments. PURE BLISS, impeccably restored, big screen, chair centered closel...

Felt like taking a pic of some of my most prized Blu-rays from the peerless folks at Criterion

in a week CC will announce upcoming titles, please intercede to the great Projector in the sky for a Complete collection for another great director like Kurosawa, Fassbinder, Godard, Tarkovsky or someone like them. Thank you ✌️

Yumeji paused #2

Yumeji moment paused

My pic here doesn't quite retain the color that well (reds are redder than captured here), but i had to share one of the striking images this film has, here these two are sort of "dancing" for about 10 seconds, odd body movements

Profound Desires of the Gods - Shohei Imamura (1968)

Yesterday listened to Jasper Sharp's superb commentary on Imamura's Palm d'or winning Ballad of Narayama, and he kept mentioning this one in such glowing terms. Supposedly it was expensive to make and didn't do well at the box off...

The epic month of April

Blu ray purchases of last month, some still on the way. I went into debt with the following, and will be paying it off for the next 3 months 1. World of Wong Kar Wai 7 rapturously beautiful films by the maestro of Hong Kong 2. Joaquim Pedro de A...

Audition (1999) & I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore (2017)

Welcome y'all to my inaugural post about the films i watch, i think it would be good to devote each post to 2 films each, thus encouraging comparative thoughts and the notion of those double features the elderly here will feel nostalgic about. ...

Rank the James Bond actors according to your preferences

Mine: 1. Sean Connery 2. Timothy Dalton 3. Daniel Craig 4. Pierce Brosnan 5. George Lazenby 6. Roger Moore. Partly this is due to my reading of how Fleming presents Bond e.g. in the novel of "Goldfinger" which the film was a fairly faithf...

Which film do you consider to be a masterpiece?

I've seen thousands of films but there are only two that I might consider masterpieces, both directed by Hitchcock: "Vertigo" and "Rear Window". They aren't my only favourites by him, but they're two that at might c...

If you do not get moved by this scene that reasonably makes you having been cast in plaster of paris. Such a touching scene made of vulnerability and of strenghth.

Something tells me that Richard Linklater's Before trilogy is great, has anyone here seen it?

The Girl in the Spider’s Web - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I saw this film today. I have never seen the first film (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), but I still recommend it as a film to watch.

One of those legendary underground films of the 60's i've read about and wanted to see but haven't been able to yet is called The Illiac Passion by Gregory Markopoulos, so far in my dvd collection i just have one little short film of h...

One of the most extensive and expensive box sets i ever got was the complete works of Alexander Kluge from edition filmmuseum, 30 discs, the first 14 or so feature the movies, and the rest a bunch of short films that usually are like television inter...

In my opinion what Fassbinder was for Germany, and Jarman for England, Pier Paolo Pasolini was for Italy, as all 3 courted controversy, and had a certain organic tragic feeling. An overview and appreciation instead of sleep sounds ok to me then........

Tilda Swinton talks about Derek Jarman and a great scene from my favorite Jarman scene, as it is an experimental film i don't see how it could spoil it .....:)

Next film to get has to be Boom! John Waters sold me on it long ago, very glad to see it available recently ....:)

One great auteur i never tire of heralding is Werner Schroeter, i cannot put into words why, for one needs to see it to believe it, i can however point to what i think is most important, and i shall do that now before hitting the hay. My appreciation...

This looks and sounds interesting, a G W Pabst film Paracelsus, with music by Herbert Windt, who did the tunes for some Leni Riefenstahl (1943)

Has anyone seen Three Billboards? Is it any good?

Has anyone seen the Big Sick? I thought it was really good.

Vagabond - Agnes Varda, perhaps her finest film, and there are a few doozies she made including Happiness (Le bonheur), but Vagabond is perfect!!! :)

Films i need to remember to get #1 The Panic in Needle Park, Al Pacino's first role as a drug addict.

The filmography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with some brief comments. I might do this sort of thing for other directors, but if i don't, it'll be good just doing this guy's amazing 14 year run of workaholic excellence ....:) 1. Thi...

8. The Hunters - Theo Angelopoulos - 1977 - 143 minutes Follow up to The Travelling Players, and is every bit as great, maybe even better, but that one is more famous, has some of the longest, most complex shots, seeing The Hunters for the first tim...

7. Multiple Maniacs - John Waters - 1970 - 96 minutes In my previous post i made known blatantly my desire for wackiness, so thankfully i had this within arm's reach in this messy environment to pop in. I remember the day this came in the mai...

6. Baal - Alan Clarke - 1982 - 64 minutes I've had this for close to a year now, and am ready to watch it, and see if it comes close to the Volker Schlondorff version, which is very dear to me. Volker's version took liberties with the s...

5. The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorwsky - 1973 - 113 minutes This seems to be a perfect follow up to the silly Russ Meyer flick earlier, this is real cinematic art, and Alejandro's most sacrilegious picture. I love the soundtrack, someti...

4. Supervixens- Russ Meyer- 1975 - 106 minutes A bit more funny on a re-watch, i like the ultra violent scene with the bad cop, some think Russ went too far there, and having that air of potential erroneousness improves the viewing experience for ...

3. The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks - 1946 - 116 minutes This is famous for being slightly confusing, which is perfect, i think for playing while browsing around the site, sippin' the fire water .....;) Bogart and Bacall had such chemistry

2. The White Sheik - Federico Fellini - 1952 - 86 minutes The plot: The first two days of a marriage. Ivan, a punctilious clerk brings his virginal bride to Rome for a honeymoon, an audience with the Pope, and to present her to his uncle. They ar...

FILM DIARY November 13 1. The Flowers of St. Francis - Roberto Rossellini - 1950 - 87 minutes - my last dvd order i went overboard with Doctor Who, getting 22 stories, after watching 5, i am dying for some CINEMA, so using an aleatorical method c...

Recently the good folks at Criterion went all wacky and released a huge box set for sports stuff, as far as i can fathom only about 3 of these are extremely noteworthy, Tokyo Olympiad being one of them, too steep of a purchase for just that, but my c...

A Halloween film choice - Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Guy re-imagines the whole thing as a ballet, it is beautiful to behold, this is a nice scene from it ....:)

Hello all you Similar people! I just thought i'd write a little bit about what i've been watching lately .... I pause right now in the midst of a Robert Allen Schnitzer student film - Terminal Point, i like it a lot, despite the fact that i...

Volga-Volga, one of Joseph Stalin's favorite movies from 1938, looks like a fun picture!! Love the opening song too. 💂 I love the lead actress Lubov Orlova, anyone who has seen Dusan Makavejev's Innocence Unprotected will recognize this ...

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, an amazing film, so beautiful to look at, this here is the soundtrack, which is nice too. This is a film that works with almost any kind of soundtrack too, just watch with your favorite music, .... ain't it the b...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975 - this is as good as it gets for movies to do with insanity, last viewing was very emotional, and i feel the need to see it again looming over ahead, and that brings a smile to my face ...:)

The Parallel Bars - this was supposed to be a 20 minute short film but was i guess unfinished, still pretty neat, based on themes in a Pierre Klossowski book.

Le Tempestaire - Jean Epstein, my thoughts are drawn to horror recently and i want to call attention to older stuff that may need more attention than they currently do, this little gem has such a delicious flavour of what horror is about, a subtle ...

But ya are Blanch, ya are.

Satyricon from 1969, the one not directed by Federico Fellini,but by Gian Luigi Polidoro. The song at the beginning is catchy! Lacks the visual flair of Fellini though, but it might stick closer to the Petronius material, which is good 👍

Bye Bye Monkey, a good ole Marco Ferreri picture, a subtle unease throughout with comedic moments, love the sombre organ music used sparingly. I find it better than his other english language movie that i've seen: Tales of Ordinary Madness. Wh...

Ask Yourself, one of many North Korean films on youtube, i like the beginning ....:)

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