Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

[shakahislop]

the other thing it made me think of was pj harvey let england shake in that it really had the english countryside and an idea of england at it's heart and both the album and the film did this thing of overlaying so many historical events over one another. lots of ww2 but also the intifadas but also abu gahrib

 

[ghost]

Twinless (2025). Dylan O'Brien is a force of nature.

 

[Clinamenic]

Decided to watch IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and it turns out it's seminal. So cleanly cut for a 1934 film. Funny and smart.

Excellent film! Alan Hale singing in the car.

 

[IdleRich]

The worst film I've saw in probably five years, if not more. I remember a certain vibe in the 2000s where pitchfork reading twee cunts would make you watch mumblecore films or juno or faux gregg araki surreal shite

Or you'd go to a festival and be roped into watching Devendra Barnhart with a deeply earnest couple who you had to jettison from the travelling pack at the nearest opportunity

Well it felt like those people became non-binary, watched Twin Peaks and began to misinterpret the direction and intent

Absolute shite. No offence

None taken.

 

[JubeWalrus]

It Follows. One of the best of the new wave of horrors in my opinion. Minimal jump scares, creepy villain and a score that adds to the film.

Someone smarter than me can probably say something about the weird half-70s half modern aesthetic, but I'll leave them to it.

 

[okzharp]

Good film. I saw a Roger Luckhurst lecture on gothic contemporary etc where he basically just talked about this film.

 

[hmg]

It Follows. One of the best of the new wave of horrors in my opinion. Minimal jump scares, creepy villain and a score that adds to the film.

Someone smarter than me can probably say something about the weird half-70s half modern aesthetic, but I'll leave them to it.

The clamshell phones? The woozy camera work. Director threw everything at making it dreamlike, out of time, wrong footing and disorienting with oneiric intent.

 

[kid charlemagne]

@vershy versh can u guess what version classic i will be watching tonight? one ive been saving for a while

 

[Clinamenic]

@vershy versh can u guess what version classic i will be watching tonight? one ive been saving for a while

The Century of the Self ?

 

[kid charlemagne]

The Century of the Self ?

no one knows what that is

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

@vershy versh can u guess what version classic i will be watching tonight? one ive been saving for a while

Saint Jack? The American Friend?

 

[kid charlemagne]

The American Friend?

instant classic..... dennis hopper obscene amount of swag.... better than paris texas..... robby muller's finest work.... bruno ganz perfects the encapsulation of the inherent yearn for greed and the life of crime.... character actor gangsters all played by old directors......... the most understated yet still gripping crime epic ive ever seen.... im tempted to watch it again tonight

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

instant classic..... dennis hopper obscene amount of swag.... better than paris texas..... robby muller's finest work.... bruno ganz perfects the encapsulation of the inherent yearn for greed and the life of crime.... character actor gangsters all played by old directors......... the most understated yet still gripping crime epic ive ever seen.... im tempted to watch it again tonight

Yeah, also the political angle of an American cowboy you're never really sure's friendly turning up in Cold War Europe, living in a big white house and manipulating a local into crime and conspiracy.

Wonder how it would have turned out if Wenders had actually gotten Cassavetes for the Ripley role. I can see him pulling it off, but maybe not to the extent Hopper did. He doesn't have the same presence.

 

[kid charlemagne]

Yeah, also the political angle of an American cowboy you're never really sure's friendly turning up in Cold War Europe, living in a big white house and manipulating a bunch of the locals into various crimes and conspiracies.

Wonder how it would have turned out if Wenders had actually gotten Cassavetes for the Ripley role. I can see him pulling it off, but maybe not to the extent Hopper did. He doesn't have the same presence.

that scene where bruno asks why he spread that rumor is so chilling:
“Why did you spread this rumor that I am with one foot in the grave?”

“Remember that day we were introduced at the auction? You said, "I've heard of you." You said that in a very nasty way.”

“That was all?”

“Isn't that enough?”

 

[kid charlemagne]

hopper says those lines so well with those cold lifeless eyes... i think casavettes could be a great ripley, maybe not in that film

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Hopper reminds me of Burroughs in that one.

 

[luka]

That kind of reptilian post human affect you can get if youvedone too many drugs gone pazt the edge of yourself

 

[woops]

Slacker
Richard Linklater, 1991

A nowhere city provides the backdrop for the transition from one era to another, and with the new age comes a new set of rôle models toward whom those of my generation might aspire, variously "hanging out", "still unemployed", having been "in hospital", and given to a baffling array of style choices, particularly the men. Nor is that the only way the film foreshadows the future - there's a prescience to the profusion of rambling monologue, the espousal of various strands of conspiracy thinking and the near-zero demand on the viewer's attention as one vignette meanders into the next. As in many films that aspire to come across as more stupid than they are, there's a self-referential nod to the process of film-making, and the closing scene is a delirious whirl, characters lost in the simple joy of chronicling one another.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Slacker
Richard Linklater, 1991

A nowhere city provides the backdrop for the transition from one era to another, and with the new age comes a new set of rôle models toward whom those of my generation might aspire, variously "hanging out", "still unemployed", having been "in hospital", and given to a baffling array of style choices, particularly the men. Nor is that the only way the film foreshadows the future - there's a prescience to the profusion of rambling monologue, the espousal of various strands of conspiracy thinking and the near-zero demand on the viewer's attention as one vignette meanders into the next. As in many films that aspire to come across as more stupid than they are, there's a self-referential nod to the process of film-making, and the closing scene is a delirious whirl, characters lost in the simple joy of chronicling one another.

The man with the TVs stood out.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

I've been somewhat obsessed with Hal Hartley films lately... The Henry Fool trilogy...

I watched Fay Grim last night. The change of tone at the end caught me off guard, also seemingly every shot being tilted.