Sukhov

General Leone from Many Wars Ago. What a proto-Fascist bastard. Easy to send your men to death when you don't do the fighting.

1. My Beautiful Country, Michaela Kezele, Serbia 2. Amour, Michael Haneke, France 3. Wadjda, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia 4. The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, UK I've also seen... Agent Vinod, Sriram Raghavan, India Meet in Pyongyang, Kim Hyan Choi, Xierzhati Yahefu, China

I love that one. Very funny film. One of Fellini's best. This scene and "want women" are my favorites.

I hope they don't cancel Dark. They can get rid of the rest for all I care though.

Absolutely agree about Umbrellas and most Demy films in general. Way too saccharine and cute. 🤮

How about foreign classics? Stars of Eger is frequently listed as one of Hungary's best/ most important films and I thought it was one of the worst films I've ever seen.

Hollywood (1980) Cinema Europe: the Other Hollywood (1995) Moguls and Movie Stars (2010) Story of Film: an Odyssey (2015) - first few episodes

I have to definitely disagree here. I love these two. Some of the best in their genre imo.

I think the Schwanzschwulens are a bit uh... odd too but this discussion is best suited for the Off Topic forum.

I've already mentioned it but I don't care for Sound of Music either but I absolutely love the "reimagining." Seriously, probably my favorite album. Along with the Thing, it is one of the rare times where the "remake" blows the original out of the water.

Films like that which are half silent and half talkie are known as "goat gland" films too. It was named after an old-timey cure for impotence though I don't really see what it has to do with impotence exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_gland_(filmmaking)

Life With Father Lassie series Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Umbrellas of Cherbourg The Music Man The French Connection Bullitt

Your dad looks like a slightly thinner Harry Langdon to me.

I think this one is in Quantum Leap when Al leaps into the 40s.

He looks drunk in this shot. Everyone on TYT looks drunk though.

I was just thinking that Criterion should do a release of a Serbian Film. It doesn't even have a good, hi-def English subtitled release in the US or UK. I'd much rather see that in the collection than Tiny Furniture or WC Fields or any of their other "iffy" choices. Any movies you guys want to see get released by them?

From the foreign editions- Polisse, Maïwenn, French edition

1. Lessons of a Dream, Sebastian Grobler, Germany 2. The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar, Spain 3. Untouchable, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France 4. Dom Vetra, Vyacheslav Zlatopolskiy, Russia 5. The Butcher of Prague, Petr Nikolaev, Czech Republic 6. Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki, France 7. A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, Iran I've also seen... The Turin Horse, Bela Tarr, Hungary

https://movieweb.com/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-4-hour-cut-netflix/ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4-Hour Cut May Be Heading to Netflix There's a decent chance we're going to see a much longer cut of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Recently, a rumor popped up, via entertainment reporter Kyle Buchanon, that stated the director was planning on releasing a longer cut for Netflix, much like he did with The Hateful Eight, which would be cut into episodes. Buchanon, taking to Twitter, had this to say.

"We're in the money" was reused in a few films and cartoons, particularly scenes where characters suddenly acquired money.

La Notte was a real snore fest. His worst film.

I am reading some of Nietzsche's work on Einsamkeit/ solitude and quite liking it. Very relatable to in our modern era of disgusting mass culture and collective thinking.

Yeah, I was about to mention that one. It shows up in a ton from the 1930s, usually in instrumental form.

Stars of Eger (1968) has to take the cake for worst war film for me. Unresolved plot points (hero's father is stuck in a Turkish prison and they just sail away and leave him there?) and terrible action scenes/ stuntwork (stuntmen jump from ladders looking down to find the mat as they are being toppled over the castle wall). The movie also moves on at a snails' pace and goes on way too long. The first half is so boring and leads nowhere so they should have just cut it from the film. The second half has some battle scenes so they should have just made that into a cheesy war film about the Siege of Eger and it would have been a much better (but still bad) film.