#movie posts

[lesbiancolumbo]

re: your last post about eastern european/turkish/etc films do you have any specific recommendations 👀

hell yes i do, i have a lot, and i'm gonna open this up to a wider net of countries in europe that i think just aren't getting enough attention when it comes to their cinema. i'm also keeping this limited to contemporary cinema.

romania: the films of cristian mungiu are all amazing, especially 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days and beyond the hills (i'm watching his latest effort and that's what inspired that post btw). i also recommend tuesday, after christmas, and the death of mr. lazarescu. i haven't seen this next title but it comes highly recommended and looks amazing: collective, a documentary that is high on my list.

bulgaria: viktoria. watch viktoria. it's on kanopy and i think it is a movie that is so beautiful and moving and challenging and it has just stuck with me since i saw it almost a decade ago. i miss maya vitkova so much, i want another film from her asap. another film i enjoyed was glory (2016), which i don't think anyone else i know has seen, but i saw it for a film festival i was working for at the time, and while we didn't program it, i vouched for it.

serbia: no one's child, which is a film i saw at a festival as screening duty for the same festival i was working for when i watched glory. i fell in love with this film's uncompromising vision and recommended it, we programmed it, and it actually won our jury prize that year. so maybe i have taste.

bosnia/herzegovina: watch quo vadis, aida? and never look back. best movie of 2020 (i got the year wrong in my last post, apologies)

hungary: i am probably most excited to see what hungarian cinema is gonna look like after the last few years. a film i really liked recently is preparations to be together for an unknown period of time. there was a sweet little film that was at last year's sundance that was called gentle, and another sundance watch, a documentary from 2017 called a woman captured that made me sob. there's also son of saul, which is A Brutal Watch, be warned and read the imdb summary before you go into that one. also a really exciting filmmaker coming out of hungary is Ildikó Enyedi and her film on body and soul is really interesting.

turkey: the film i mentioned in my other post was between two dawns, which is fascinating and heartbreaking. another one that i love is mustang (when i saw deniz's name on several episodes of perry mason i cheered lol).

lithuania: lastly i wanted to give two films a shoutout from lithuania - the summer of sangaille, a visually beautiful film about two girls falling in love, and one of the most interesting films i saw at this year's sundance, slow, which is a gorgeous and unique love story.

i will leave you all with these -- i realized in consulting my lists that i don't have anything contemporary from czechia, which is embarrassing because that's my people lol, but i digress. feel free to continue recommending stuff in the comments - let's spread some love for world cinema!

[belltaviasbff]

“ah yes, my therapist”

- me, as i put on the hunger games: catching fire (2013, dir. francis lawrence)

[photo-roulette-wheel]

parody movies

[that-strangetown-kid]

Me using the color wheel in the sims 3 for the first time:

[babybluebitchface-blog]

those fuck ass animatronics would not have stood a chance against this absolute god

[r0semultiverse]

Like music to my ears

[envelopandkissme]

this fucks

[spongebobssquarepants]

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

Go watch it!

Edit: It isn't a rickroll guys 😭 idk why some of you think that 😭

EDIT 2: THE YOUTUBE VIDEO WILL ONLY BE UP FOR A WEEK! WATCH IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!

[t4tadrienette]

[shayneysides]

hobie: kill yourself

pavitr: WHAT THE HELL BRO WHAT DID I DO

original format from @ha-youwish in this post!

[lesbiancolumbo]

Let’s say I have never seen a movie made before 1965. Is there a list of Baby’s First Classic Movies?

this is actually a tough question! but fun of course. i've made a list about the 20s/30s but if you wanted like, a quick syllabus spanning all those decades and genres... well, i am up for the task. note that these are not always my favorite films (though i would never recommend a film i don't love or at least appreciate greatly) but like. if you wanted me to say these are the 10-15 films you should start with, well,

sherlock jr. citizen kane jewel robbery his girl friday singin' in the rain bride of frankenstein (this was, in fact, the first film i ever watched on tcm) the ox-bow incident double indemnity and/or out of the past now voyager rear window

films like these get tossed around a lot because they are, for better or worse (better! it's for better!) blueprints. i tossed a couple sydney favorites in there just because, but now i'm gonna give you a list of some counter-programming so to speak. honestly wouldn't those be some fun double features.

show people sweet smell of success mandalay the rules of the game the pajama game or bells are ringing the night of the hunter westward the women in a lonely place magnificent obsession bad day at black rock

let me know if you end up watching any of these and what you think!

[captainsaltypear]

this. this is what happened in that scene right

[nosleep83]

So I just watched the fnaf movie

[frostedpuffs]

HAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them