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Monday, November 18/19

4:15 a.m. Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960). Good cast with Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis and an uncredited Oliver Reed!
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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
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Here are our choices for the best of each decade ....
pre 1920
Cabiria (1914) Giovanni Pastrone, Italy (2)
Les Vampires (1915) Louis Feuillade, France (2)
The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) Victor Sjostrom, Sweden
1920’s
Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang, Germany (2)
Mother (1926) V.I. Pudovkin, Russia
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Carl Dreyer, France
1930’s
M (1931) Fritz Lang, Germany (2)
Grand Illusion (1937) Jean Renoir, France (2)
Moscow Laughs (1934) Grigori Aleksandrov, Russia
1940’s
Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, Italy (2)
Ivan the Terrible Part One (1944) Sergei Eisenstein, Russia
Children of Paradise (1945) Marcel Carne, France
Rome, Open City (1945) Roberto Rossellini, Italy
1950’s
Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa, Japan (2)
The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Federico Fellini, Italy
A Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (1956) Robert Bresson, France
The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
1960’s
8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini, Italy (2)
Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia
Fellini Satyricon (1969) Federico Fellini, Italy
Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Jean-Luc Godard, France
Yojimbo (1961) Akira Kurosawa, Japan
1970’s
The Confession (1970) Constantin Costa-Gavras, France
The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy
White Sun of the Desert (1970) Vladimir Motyl, Russia
Cries and Whispers (1972) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Suspiria (1977) Dario Argento, Italy
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany
1980’s
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Ruggero Deodato, Italy
Das Boot (1981) Wolfgang Petersen, Germany
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Godfrey Reggio, USA
Shoah (1985) Claude Lanzman, France
Jean de Florette (1986) Claude Berri, France
1990’s
High Heels (1991) Pedro Almodovar, Spain
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Zhang Yimou, China
Hard Boiled (1992) John Woo, Hong Kong
Run, Lola Run (1998) Tom Tykwer, Germany
Time Regained (1999) Raul Ruiz, France
2000’s
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Julian Schnabel, France
Lust, Caution (2007) Ang Lee, China
Oldboy (2003) Chan-wook Park, South Korea
Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
The Star/Zvezda (2002) Nikolai Lebedev, Russia
2010’s
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) Raoul Ruiz, Portugal/France
The Raid 2 (2011) Gareth Evans, Indonesia
The Skin I Live In (2011) Pedro Almodovar, Spain
Wild Tales (2014) Damian Szifron, Argentina
The Young Karl Marx (2017) Raoul Peck, France
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Sunday, November 17/18

2 a.m. Three Short films by Jane Campion followed by ...
3 a.m. Sweetie (1989). Genevieve Lemon is quite good in this.
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Saturday, November 16

10 a.m. Popeye: It’s the Natural Thing to Do (1939).
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Friday, November 15

10:30 p.m. The Lady Eve (1941). I saw this in the cinema not long ago and it was great. Stanwyck and Coburn are hilarious and Fonda works much better on the big screen.
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My top FF films of the 2010’s ….

1. Wild Tales (2014) Damian Szifron, Argentina
2. The Salesman (2016) Asghar Farhadi, Iran
3. Everybody Knows (2018) Asghar Farhadi, Spain
4. Capernaum (2018) Nadine Labaki, Lebanon
5. 13 Assassins (2010) Takashi Miike, Japan
6. The Hunt (2012) Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark
7. The Handmaiden (2016) Chan-wook Park, South Korea
8. Amour (2012) Michael Haneke, France
9. Metro Manila (2013) Sean Ellis, Philippines
10. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013) Abdellatif Kechiche, France
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Here were our number one choices for this decade ...
13 Assassins (2010) Takashi Miike, Japan (2)
Identity Card (2010) Ondrej Trojan, Czech Republic
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) Raoul Ruiz, Portugal/France
On the Path (2010) Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Faust (2011) Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia
Hasta la Vista/Come As You Are (2011) Geoffrey Enthoven, Belgium
Lessons of a Dream (2011) Sebastian Grobler, Germany
The Raid: Redemption (2011) Gareth Evans, Indonesia
The Skin I Live In (2011) Pedro Almodovar, Spain
The Hunt (2012) Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark (2)
Holy Motors (2012) Leos Carax, France
My Beautiful Country (2012) Michaela Kezele, Serbia
A Royal Affair (2012) Nikolaj Arcel, Denmark
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013) Abdellatif Kechiche, France
Hard to Be a God (2013) Aleksey German, Russia
Metro Manila (2013) Sean Ellis, Philippines
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013) Isao Takahata, Japan
We Are the Best! (2013) Lukas Moodysson, Sweden
The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) Han-min Kim, South Korea
Phoenix (2014) Christian Petzold, Germany
The Raid 2 (2011) Gareth Evans, Indonesia
Two Days, One Night (2014) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium
Wild Tales (2014) Damian Szifron, Argentina
Dheepan (2015) Jacques Audiard, France
Francofonia (2015) Alexander Sokurov, Russia
Look Who’s Back (2015) David Wnendt, Germany
The Lure (2015) Agnieszka Smoczynska, Poland
Victoria (2015) Sebastian Schipper, Germany
The Handmaiden (2016) Chan-wook Park, South Korea (2)
The Salesman (2016) Asghar Farhadi, Iran (2)
Train to Busan (2016) Sang-ho Yeon, South Korea
Loveless (2017) Andrey Zvyaginstev, Russia
November (2017) Rainer Warnet, Estonia
On Body and Soul (2017) Ildiko Envedi, Hungary
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) Issa Lopez, Mexico
The Young Karl Marx (2017) Raoul Peck, France
Burning (2018) Chang-dong Lee, South Korea
Decision: Liquidation (2018) Aleksandr Aravin, Russia
Everybody Knows (2018) Asghar Farhadi, Spain
Transit (2018) Christian Petzold, Germany
Utoya: July 22 (2018) Erik Poppe, Norway
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) Chiwetel Eijofor, UK
First Love (2019) Takashi Miike, Japan
The Wolf’s Call (2019) Antonin Baudry, France
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Thursday, November 14

6:15 p.m. Murder, My Sweet (1944). Dick Powell’s re-invents himself as hard-nosed Philip Marlowe and does a pretty good job of it too. But are those lifts by any chance?
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The winner of the 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival Best Picture Award was …
Uncle (2019) Frelle Petersen, Denmark
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The winner of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Picture Award was …

The Father (2019) Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria
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The 2019 winner of the Ghent International Film Festival Best Picture Award was …

Ondog (2019) Quan’an Wang, China
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The winner of the 2019 Sweden’s Goteborg International Film Festival Best Picture Award was …

Queen of Hearts (2019) May el-Toukhy, Denmark
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The 2019 winner of Norway’s Amanda Award for Best Picture went to ….

Out Stealing Horses (2019) Hans Petter Moland, Norway
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The winner of the 2019 Nederlands Film Festival Best Picture Award …

Dirty God (2019) Sacha Polak, the Netherlands
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Wednesday, November 13
It’s difficult to single out any one of today’s films and I’ve seen them all quite a few times now. I’ll just have to go with my favourite of the bunch…

10:30 p.m. Dr. Strangelove (1964).
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This film won the Best Canadian Film Award at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival …

Antigone (2019) Sophie Deraspe, Canada
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This foreign language film won the 2019 San Sebastian Film Festival …

Pacified (2019) Paxton Winters, Brazil
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The 2019 Locarno International Film Festival foreign film winner was …

Vitalina Varela (2019) Pedro Costa, Portugal
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The winners of the 2019 Venice Film Festival included ….

Atlantis (2019) Valentyn Vasyanovych, Ukraine
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The 2019 Chicago International Film Festival’s Best Picture Award went to this foreign language film …

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Celine Sciamma, France
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The winner of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival was this foreign language film …

Parasite (2019) Joon-ho Bong, South Korea
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Tuesday, November 12

8 p.m. Jezebel (1938). Bette Davis is terrific in this.
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The Winner of the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival was this foreign film …

Synonyms (2019) Nadav Lapid, France
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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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If you see his early work in Great Britain you may feel differently. While they may not be great films, Reed is magnetic. For one, he was one of the greatest technical actors of his generation. His ability to re-record his performance in the studio was phenomenal.