My #LastFourWatched-but-make-it-5 for #LetterboxdFriday. Bottom to top:
Belmondo being his smug self;
Van Warmerdam in an early exercise in Dutch absurdism. He'll get there;
Shaw Brothers go Fantomas;
Nora, rock me in star map!;
A love story!
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I haven’t been doing this most weeks, but I wanted to celebrate that I’ve been watching movies for Modular Film Festival.
The Diamond Arm - the Mosfilm YouTube channel calls this a detective comedy, but there’s not a detective and nobody detects anything. Crime comedy would probably be a better category.
West Side Story - beautiful to look at, but I have strong opinions on how to adapt Romeo and Juliet which this doesn’t meet on a story level.
Permanent Vacation - Jarmusch gets better than this later. Feels like a glorified student film, because it kind of is.
AL’S BRAIN: A 3-D Journey through the Human Brain with ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic - Weird Al put this on his YouTube channel and so I watched it. Good fun.
#LastFourWatched #ModularFilmFestival
LA BOLA NEGRA
The line delivered at one of the most emotional moments in the story had everyone laughing out loud in the theatre: “A faggot’s heart is an ocean full of secrets.”
FLOW
Beautiful storytelling without uttering a single homo sapiens word.
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING
Too in-your-face allegory in a picturesque location.
DRIFTER
Berlin queer scene drama.
A LONG WINTER
This had strong moments, but somehow they don’t come together. It’s a hit-and-miss with Andrew Haigh.
LOOK BACK
I liked this adaptation a little bit more than the anime it’s based on. The signature Kore-eda touch elevated the story.
BEHEMOTH!
Pedro Pascal is born for this role. Great casting, and great performance.
CARRIE
Not necessarily doing a spooky season and not a horror fan, yet I watched and enjoyed this. Go girl!
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Keeping the Hoop coming this #FilmFriday 🎃 My #LastFourWatched were a lame thriller, a blueprint of what to come, now thát's what I call horror!, and an elegant noir bathing in colour gels.
![In order of watching from RtL:
Joe D’Amato's Emanuelle e Françoise (Le sorelline) [Emanuelle and Françoise] (1975) 3/5
Tobe Hooper's Down Friday Street (1966) 4/5
Phil van Tongeren & Jan Doense's The Great Rock ’N’ Roll Massacre Parts 1 + 2 (1988) 4/5 🤍
Seijun Suzuki's 穴の牙 [The Fang in the Hole] (1979) 4,5/5](/proxy/post_attachment/436569/54db6007f0.png "In order of watching from RtL:
Joe D’Amato's Emanuelle e Françoise (Le sorelline) [Emanuelle and Françoise] (1975) 3/5
Tobe Hooper's Down Friday Street (1966) 4/5
Phil van Tongeren & Jan Doense's The Great Rock ’N’ Roll Massacre Parts 1 + 2 (1988) 4/5 🤍
Seijun Suzuki's 穴の牙 [The Fang in the Hole] (1979) 4,5/5")
THELMA & LOUISE
First rewatch in ~30 years. So 90s, and so cool. One of the few occasions I find Brad Pitt attractive.
I’VE COME AND I AM GONE
Cute little Turkish short showing a long lost Istanbul from 15 years ago.
NO GOOD MEN
Afghan romance/drama through a woman’s lens, literally.
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Rewatched because why not. One of the best films of recent times.
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