Bogie56

I just wanted to thank everyone who took the time to visit this thread and or contribute to it. I'm off to England quite soon and will not be here for the house wrecking or lease breaking party at the end of the month. Here are a few picks for the remainder of this month. Wednesday, November 9 8 p.m. Young Bess (1953). With Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger. Thursday, November 10/11 1:30 a.m. Lolita (1962). James Mason at his all time best. “the Haze woman …” Friday, November 11/12 4 a.m. Prehistoric Women (1967). I love history films. Friday, November 18 6:30 p.m. Snow Trail (1947). Very good robbers on the run Japanese film with Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. Some exceptional outdoor scenes in the mountains.

My top FF films of all time …. 1. The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy 2. Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa, Japan 3. Children of Paradise (1945) Marcel Carne, France 4. Wild Strawberries (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 5. Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray, India 6. Fellini Satyricon (1969) Federico Fellini, Italy 7. The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 8. Mother (1926) V.I. Pudovkin, Russia 9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Carl Dreyer, France 10. Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Italy

Very much a work in progress. My top FF films of 2022 of the 6 that I have seen are …. 1. Sick of Myself (2022) Kristoffer Borgli, Norway 2. Argentina, 1985 (2022) Santiago Mitre, Argentina 3. Decision to Leave (2022) Park Chan-wook, South Korea 4. Broker (2022) Hirokazu Koreada, South Korea and I’ve also seen … Alcarras (2022) Carla Simon, Spain Eo (2022) Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland - with Isabelle Huppert!

I think this will probably be my last day of posting in this thread. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who have made contributions to it. I have made note of literally hundreds of films and put them on my 'to see' list. And I have been learning quite a bit about the cinema of various countries. Of all the threads that I have started I think this one has become my favourite due to the contributions of everyone. So if Laffite can archive a thread or two I would ask that this be one candidate. There is a lot of valuable information in it. Cheers, everyone!

Tuesday, November 8/9 5 a.m. Tarzan’s Peril (1951). With Lex Barker and Dorothy Dandridge.

The winner of the 2021 Polish Film Best Picture Award was … Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovin The winner of the 2021 Polish Film Awards Best European Film was … Another Round (2020) Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark

The winner of the 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Summer With Hope (2022) Sad Foroughi, Iran

Monday, November 7 5:15 p.m. Stalker (1979). Would make a good double bill with Children of Men.

The 2020 winner of the Japan Blue Ribbon Foreign Film Award was … Parasite (2019) Joon-ho Bong, South Korea

The 2021 Danish Bodil Award for Best Picture went to … Persona non Grata (2021) Lisa Jespersen, Denmark

2011 Sleep Tight (2011) Jaume Balaguero, Spain Luis Tosar is quite good as an apartment concierge who fixates and preys on one of his tenants. The plot has a few twists that elevates it just slightly above the crowd of similar stalker movies. But being from the p.o.v. of the villain certainly is alienating.

1983 and I’ve also seen … The Lift (1983) Dick Maas, Netherlands I suppose if you can have a movie about a supernatural car that becomes a serial killer then why not an elevator. I got a laugh out of how the plot was aligned to your typical police drama where the hero detective/lift repairman is taken off the case by his superior due to political pressure but goes rogue and cracks the case anyway. The Lift has its ups and down but ultimately I gave it a rating of Level P2.

1965 1. The Shop on Main Street (1965) Jan Kadar, Emar Klos, Czechoslovakia After seeing this again I have moved it to number one for 1965. I don’t know what I was thinking when I didn’t rate it all that high when I first saw it in 1977.

Sunday, November 6/7 5 a.m. A Nous La Liberte (1931). I saw this Rene Clair film again recently and really enjoyed it. Replaced in Canada with Todo un Caballero (1947).

The 2021 Broadcast Critics Best Picture and Best Foreign Film …. Drive My Car (2021) Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan **** Flee (2021) Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Denmark The Hand of God (2021) Paolo Sorrentino, Italy A Hero (2021) Asghar Farhadi, Iran The Worst Person In the World (2021) Joachim Trier, Germany