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no reviews this week
here are the by the numbers
74) The Bird People of China
75) In a Lonely Place
76) Underground
I wish I had updated last night before I got to be in a sucky mood. And I was on such a streak, I absolutely adored everything from Loves of a Blonde up until Underground, which my whole reaction to can be summed up as such: what ( Read more... ) -
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68) Distant (Uzak) - To be perfectly honest, I am wary about the transition from film to digital. However, while I did not love this film, it does give me hope that living, breathing compositions can be made in the video format. The story concerns two distant relatives and their inability to communicate on any meaningful level, the "distance" ( Read more... ) -
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63) The Saddest Music in the World - As it turns out I had actually watched a movie by Guy Maddin last year without knowing it called The Heart of the World and while that was an amazing short film, this one was entertaining but not great. It was really funny, sometimes touching, but while the style worked really well in the short film, it was ( Read more... ) -
Top Whatever List
I also put all the films I've watched since I started this crazy experiment in my preferential order and divided them into neat categories:
Bad, OK, Pretty Good, Real Good, Awesome, Holy Shit, and Get the Fuck Out
which go from worst to best
Here it is. I am prepared for people to yell at me a lot based on this order:
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So I guess as it turns out, going over my list, I noticed that I never listed Videodrome, which I watched.
So...
57) Videodrome - In my opinion, this was more along the lines of what I want David Lynch to be. I can't put my finger on what exactly the difference is, but I find Cronenberg's creepiness to be considerably more creepy than Lynch's. ( Read more... ) -
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53) Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain - Everyone needs a little kung fu in their life. This movie is just a lot of fun to watch. I need to see more kung fu/wuxia because it's just pure entertainment.
54) Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders is just amazing. I wasn't as in love with this as Wings of Desire, but this film was gorgeous and heart-breaking ( Read more... ) -
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47) Humanity & Paper Balloons - As if I needed more convincing that Japanese people were master filmmakers. The first 20 minutes of this 1937 film are the liveliest I've seen of that time. It starts off in such a joyous way that I have honestly not seen any film from around this period that was as immediately engrossing. Then there is a long ( Read more... ) -
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40) Stolen Kisses - This is the second perfect Truffaut film for me. I honestly give it a 10.0, and I don't give that out very often (Wings of Desire, Ran, Ikiru, and The Straight Story are the only 10.0s that I can think of off hand). It was very refreshing to watch a film that was both perfect and charming. My only possible complaint could be ( Read more... )
