John Lithgow, you absolute legend

close enough, welcome back Vanilla Sky x Rez by Underworld. #Eusexua

just watched the apprentice & liked it a lot more than I would've expected and it's all down to Sebastian Stan's performance (Strong & Bakalova also great). but what a year he's having... also watched A Different Man earlier this week - scratched my Charlie Kaufman itch, one of my favs of the year

Red Rooms, what a movie. I can't recommend it highly enough, and go into it without knowing absolutely anything about it like I did. ideal 3am viewing

~ I need to change all my passwords tf

Jauja (2014) dir. Lisandro Alonso

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Mood:

#LastFourWatched

My review of Hanami (2024) dir. Denise Fernandes is up on Substack
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#RSIFF24 #Hanami

Born on this day in 1903 - legendary director Yasujirô Ozu. He also died on the same day he was born. #botd

Aki Kaurismäki on Talking with Ozu

Ya this still rips. Such a ridiculous cast, I barely felt the time. Michael Mann also made a surprise appearance pre screening at #RedSeaFilmFestival ( I wasn't aware the cafe where Pacino/De Niro meet is the same one from Thief)

Also Amy Brenneman with the most devastating face in all of cinema

still obsessed with Delphine Seyrig's line delivery in this scene - "the light hurts my eyes." - one of the all time great vampire portrayals, also sumptuous production design throughout

Daughters of Darkness open.substack.com/pub/bandamla...

Most recent addition to my physical media collection, #JackieBrown soundtrack CD (already had the vinyl)

also one of my favorite tunes on there, Natural High by Bloodstone (has the most euphoric outro ever & its not available on streaming, neither are the interludes)
Physical media >>

just watched Gladiator II, it's just fine. Denzel Washington (unsurprisingly) comes out unscathed. thought Paul Mescal was miscast

Blast of Silence [1961] dir. and starring Allen Baron
#Noirvember
"You don’t have to know a man to live with him. But you have to know a man
like a brother to kill him."

#Anora is great, not my fav Sean Baker by any stretch ... still goes to Red Rocket and Tangerine. But this was above all hilarious, the Armenian henchmen had me in stitches. Mikey Madison is excellent, but the big surpriseis Yura Borisov who plays Igor so pitch perfect that it makes the movie work.

50c DVDs we are so back, the one on the bottom left is a Josh Hartnett, Lent classic 40 days and 40 nights

I rewatched Paris, Texas (in newly restored 4K) at the incredible Cinema Modernissimo of Cineteca di Bologna. I hadn't seen it in a very long time... it really just washes over you. It made me emotional by the end. A perfect, crushing film. Robby Müller's cinematography god-tier

wrote about one of my favorite films of the year, Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera on my substack. Read, Subscribe
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