Just dropping in to say I saw Poolman and was delighted by it. It's a mess as a film but so lovable I was won over. The dialog at the beginning is so full of bizarre non-sequiturs it made me feel like I was stoned!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 01:27 (four months ago) link
Working through the 30 or so films from the S&S top 250 of all time that I've not seen, like the little nerd that I am
GREED (Erich von Stroheim; 1924)L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson; 1983)THE RIVER (Jean Renoir; 1951)North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 08:00 (two months ago) link
I watched Chameleon Street on MUBI yesterday. What a brilliant, angry and witty film. It won Sundance in '89 but never got picked up for distribution - it was deemed "too white for black audiences and too black for white audiences" 🙄
A shame that the director never went on to make any more films.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 11:17 (two months ago) link
About Dry Grasses (Ceylan, 2024)I Saw The TV Glow (Schoenbrun, 2024)Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (Duras, 1976) Woman of the Ganges (Duras, 1974)
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 22 August 2024 09:16 (one month ago) link