50 - Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Couldn’t get me on those rafts! And it was obviously super important to bring the ladies’ sedan chairs through the muddy rainforest and down the river. Procol Harum - Conquistador dot mp3.

49 - Rashomon (1950)

Yes finally lol. Storytelling in a Rashomon style is so common in pop culture, and I’m glad that I’ve at least seen the original now. Everybody’s a liar but one true thing - the wife deserved better.

48 - Night Watch (2004)

The prologue was dubbed in English for some reason. Don’t scare me like that when I’m doing a project like this! But the rest was in Russian, and they had fun with the subtitles too. SMG’s Buffy even has a brief “cameo.”

47 - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013)

The classic ‘give the beautiful girl glasses so we know she’s a nerd and then take them off, wow she’s gorgeous!’ trope. But she puts them back on! I know Indian weddings can be extravagant, but these characters got MONEY (or crushing debt).

46 - Joint Security Area (2000)

We’re ignoring the fact that this movie includes some English because there’s a valid reason for it lol. I learned a lot about the DMZ. It also made me want a Choco Pie. Song Kang-ho really is perfect in everything.

45 - Amarcord (1973)

Certainly a lot of sex, piss, and fart-based humor in this lol, but it’s a charming batch of vignettes following a family and other quirky citizens of an Italian town under Fascism in the 1930s. The pencil-thin 30s brows are not for me.

44 - Godland (2022)

Absolutely adored how this was filmed. That aspect ratio! It made me want to travel to Iceland, although in a pampered tourist way rather than the exhausting journey these characters went on lol. There’s a wonderful dog in this!

43 - Leila and the Wolves (1984)

So glad I took the time to watch both this and Sambizanga this year. Both are directed by women and focus on the lives of women, their often forgotten contributions to resistance against oppressors as well as their unique struggles.

42 - House (1977)

This was WILD! The only movie I’ve seen where someone is murdered by a futon or eaten by a piano. The subtitles called Oshare the lead girl ‘Gorgeous’ and Shiro the cat ‘Blanche,’ so I guess that works lol.

41 - The Devil's Backbone (2001)

You know I had to save Guillermo del Toro for October. Great characters and story. The jar with the dead baby juice was scarier than the ghost tbh. The hot guy villain was a real asshole, but boy was he hot.

40 - The Killer (1989)

Chow Yun-fat is so cool in this. I’m glad I rewatched Le Samourai recently because I can see the inspiration Woo took from it (but this is 1000x more violent lol). Cauterizing a wound with gunpowder and a lit cigarette, good lord. Shrimp Head!

39 - Mirror (1975)

I may not really “get” Tarkovsky, but his films are always visually stunning and that’s been enough for me each time. Sometimes vibes really are enough. This one floats from memory to memory, very nebulous.

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38 - White Material (2009)

During an uprising in an unnamed African country, a white woman refuses to leave her struggling coffee plantation. One of the most stubborn characters I’ve seen in a while and with unsurprising consequences.

37 - When the Tenth Month Comes (1984)

During the Cambodian-Vietnamese war, a wife hides the death of her husband from the rest of her family. The subtitles for this were terrible, which is a shame since it’s such a heartbreaking story with emotional fantasy elements.

36 - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

Girl, the wigs! These were some messy ass women. The characters lounge around in bed or on fugly shag carpet for like 94% of this movie. Marlene’s entire existence was depressing.

35 - Dil To Pagal Hai (1997)

Madhuri Dixit was unreal. Why was SRK driving a Cozy Coupe? The troupe’s house slash dance studio (?) was giving Angel Grove Youth Center. A delightful amount of PPL in this, thank you!

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