A ★★★★★ review of The Phantom Carriage (1921) What at treat! What a surpise! What a treasure! Where to start, this one blew my mind. I have to read Selma Lagerløf's book, "Körkarlen" from 1912. Victor Sjöström plays and directs this, I just saw h...

Happy New Year Bluesky!

My last review this year, and the last one I managed to see for my #CriterionChallenge2025, really been binging during the holidays, but I am still two films short.

But what a treat!
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939) A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

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Only Angels Have Wingsn (1939)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Sunday evening flick of the button
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A ★★★★½ review of Seven Samurai (1954) Now, that was an epic! Damn. It's truly amazing how bittersweet that ending scene was. Kurosawa really knew how to pack a pathos punch. Even though I knew there would be deaths, I was so sad every tim...

31/52! 'John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing'

Now, that was an epic! Damn. It's truly amazing how bittersweet that ending scene was. Kurosawa really knew how to pack a pathos punch.

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30/52! '2000s'

I think that was my favourite Wong Kar-Wai. Love him taking care to say in the text that he does not do happy endings, that they're just straight up beyond him lol.

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A ★★★★ review of 3 Women (1977) More like 2.5 women, actually. I don't think Willie was enough of a character to justify the title. Even the poster only has Millie and Pinkie. It's so sad how everyone in Millie's life alienated her-...

29/52! 'Directed by Robert Altman'

More like 2.5 women, actually. I don't think Willie was enough of a character to justify the title. Even the poster only has Millie and Pinkie.

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A ★★★★½ review of The Red Shoes (1948) Bring back Technicolour!!! I don't care what it costs. It looks so gorgeous. Two women ahead of me mentioned Moulin Rouge as the cinema was emptying, and it activated a neurological pathway in my brai...

28/52! '1940s'

Bring back Technicolour!!! I don't care what it costs. It looks so gorgeous.

Two women ahead of me mentioned Moulin Rouge as the cinema was emptying, and it activated a neurological pathway in my brain.

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A ★★★★½ review of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

27/52! 'Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025'

PTA, I apologise. I was not familiar with your game. One unique detail I love is how impactful the three vehicle collisions are, especially the last one.

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A ★★★★½ review of Paris, Texas (1984) My second Wim Wenders. I think I like his style. I'm more partial to the first half of this film because I really loved the depiction of Travis and Walt's paternal relationship as well as the family t...

26/52! 'Great Soundtracks'

I'm more partial to the first half of this film because I really loved the depiction of Travis and Walt's paternal relationship as well as the family trying to see how Travis fit back in with them.

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Bound (1996) Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is imm...

Bound (1996)
DIRECTED BY
Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

21/52 of my Criterion Challenge 2025
Category 49: Female filmmakers

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A ★★★½ review of Videodrome (1983) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

25/52! 'Horror'

You know, I'm beginning to get the impression that this Cronenberg fellow is pretty fascinated with the complex intersection of sex, violence, philosophy, and technology 🤔

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A ★★★★★ review of The Worst Person in the World (2021) Was thrown off by some technical difficulties at the start cutting off the subtitles, but even with that bit of context missing, I still got a great portrait of a serial self-saboteur. I expected more...

24/52! '2020s'

Negl the title had me expecting more heinous behaviour protagonist, but thinking about the different "me"s that I've been, and how I will randomly remember something one of them did and collapse in mortification, I think I get it.

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Rome, Open City (1945) In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due t...

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Rome, Open City [Roma città aperta], 1945
Directed by Roberto Rossellini

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Category 11: 1940’s
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La Ciénaga (2001) The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.

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La Ciénaga [The Swamp] 2001
DIRECTED BY Lucrecia Martel

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19/52 of my Criterion Challenge 2025
Category 34. South American film (Argentina)

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A ★★★ review of Lost Highway (1997) My second Lynch. Didn't like this one as much as Mulholland Dr. His style just might not be for me 🤷🏾‍♀️ I accept that his films are not meant to be straightforward conventional narratives, but I wasn...

23/52! 'Cult Movies'

My second Lynch. Didn't like this one as much as Mulholland Dr. His style just might not be for me 🤷🏾‍♀️ I accept that his films are not meant to be straightforward conventional narratives, but I wasn't vibing with this one.

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All first-time watches for two of the challenges I'm doing. One of which I completed by FINALLY watching Barry Lyndon! #CriterionChallenge2025 #OscarHistoryChallenge2025
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📋My Criterion Challenge 2025✅ My second year! Once again, all first-time watches with most of them being on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list which I'm determined to complete! Thanks to Ben for doing this! Here is the o...

Finished! 🎉
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A ★★★★★ review of Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Don't ever tell me that the Underground Kingdom wasn't real!! 😭😭 I was shocked to find out just how little screentime the Pale Man has when he occupies so much cultural real estate with respect to thi...

22/52! 'All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks'

Don't ever tell me that the Underground Kingdom wasn't real!! 😭😭

I need to see more del Toro. He perfectly threaded the needle of fantasy/reality and conveyed the brutality of the war with little gore.

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Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing - The Criterion Channel Whether traveling the open roads of his native Germany, the American West, or—as in his acclaimed latest, PERFECT DAYS—the streets of Tokyo, Wim Wenders maps both the inner worlds of wanderers and dre...

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16/52 of my Criterion Challenge 2025
Category 33:
Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing
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A ★★★★★ review of Barry Lyndon (1975) Holy costuming/set design/lighting/cinematography, Batman! Every fucking frame a painting. And the soft glaze look that older films have matched perfectly with this story. It took a lil minute, but on...

21/52! '1970s'

Holy costuming/set design/lighting/cinematography, Batman! Every fucking frame a painting. And the soft glaze look that older films have matched perfectly with this story.

Shoutout to the focus puller, unsung hero of the production.

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Tonight's viewing is Atom Egoyan's Exotica from 1994, part of the #CriterionChallenge2025

A ★★★★ review of Watership Down (1978) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

20/52! 'Ben Wheatley’s Closet Picks'

This film has GOT to occupy pole position in Don Bluth's favourite 4. I was prepared for the violence and struggle. I wasn't prepared for a major plot point to be the fact that the main rabbits were bitchless.

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A ★★★★ review of Birth (2004) "I'm not your stupid son anymore" Eerie as F. "From my Criterion Challenge 2025 no 14/52 14. Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favorites lists

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Birth (2004), Directed by Jonathan Glazer
From my Criterion Challenge 2025 no 14/52
14. Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favorites lists

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9th film on the Criterion Challenge
Category 13. 1950s
Entertaining 50's Film Noir, Marilyn Monroe in a small part.

No boning, please.

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A review of Safety Last! (1923) They were doing it for real in the 20s. Every single stunt was arresting precisely because you know they're fully risking death each time. The last setpiece climb was amazing. Harry Lloyd had to be li...

19/52! '1920s'

They were doing it for real in the 20s. Every single stunt was arresting precisely because you know they're fully risking death each time. The last setpiece climb was amazing. I'm stunned at how well put together it all was.

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A ★★★★ review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Not since Taehyung in the Singularity MV have I seen a man so convincingly act with/against his own arm. It's amazing how little the titular Dr Strangelove appears in the film or even affects the plot...

18/52! 'Dark Comedies'

Not since Taehyung in the Singularity MV have I seen a man so convincingly act with/against his own arm. I did not have any idea Peter Sellers played 3 characters until I looked at Wikipedia. What an actor!

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A ★★★★½ review of Taipei Story (1985) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

17/52! '1980s'

I previously said Max from Sebastian (2024) was king of getting in his own way. He has been dethroned today. Lung reigns supreme.

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A ★★★★½ review of The Parallax View (1974) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

16/52! 'North American film'

Damn, damn, damn! The film leaves just enough on the table to drive you mad, trying to figure out exactly when the second assassination plot started.

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15/52! 'Watch a film from the year you were born'

Man, Wong Kar-Wai really has a knack for creating these striking tableaus out of the most worn down shitholes.

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The Criterion Challenge 2025 Welcome to the fifth annual Criterion Challenge where we celebrate The Criterion Collection! Can you believe it has been HALF A DECADE? When I started this challenge, I never expected it to hit the gr...

🎥 #CriterionChallenge2025 -> watch a film that one hasn't seen before for that week's theme.

Week 14. Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all-time favorites list: Stalker (1979)
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Week 15. 1960s: Festival (1967)
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The Criterion Challenge 2025 Welcome to the fifth annual Criterion Challenge where we celebrate The Criterion Collection! Can you believe it has been HALF A DECADE? When I started this challenge, I never expected it to hit the gr...

🎥 #CriterionChallenge2025 - fun way to watch at least 52 new films (pick a title that one hasn't seen before for that week's theme).

Week 11. 1940s: Rome Open City (1945)
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Week 12. Celine Song's Top 10: The Tin Drum (1979)
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