Movies You Watched Today: Youtube VHS Rip - Part 3 of XX

[Father.Torque]

Given the similar way Bruce Willis was deployed as bait in these geezer teasers this just makes me afraid that Mike Madsen has dementia

[HoboSupportAct]

Word has it that Tarantino’s waiting on John Travolta to degenerate to the point where he’ll sign onto doing the Vega Brothers movie

[Felix]

Rebel Ridge very good

[MintyJuffowup]

I have nearly finished watching the top 100 films from the latest Sight & Sound poll. The only film that remains is Tropical Malady and I’m waiting until I can watch it with TooManyCookbooks.

I really enjoyed watching these films, so I have made a ridiculous plan for the movies I want to watch between now and New Years Day 2026. It involves a mixture of films that institutions say are the best, others that SB recommends, and more that I think just look neat.

Behold!

Year	Title	Director
1911	Inferno, L’	Bertolini, Francesco & Adolfo Padovan
1914	Wishing Ring, The	Tourneur, Maurice
1923	Smiling Madame Beudet, The	Dulac, Germaine
1925	Merry Widow, The	von Stroheim, Erich
1929	New Babylon, The	Kozintsev, Grigori & Leonid Trauberg
1932	Island of Lost Souls	Kenton, Erle C.
1933	King Kong	Cooper, Merian C. & Ernest B. Schoedsack
1934	Dos monjes	Bustillo Oro, Juan
1934	Happiness	Medvedkin, Aleksandr
1938	Dybbuk, The	Waszynski, Michal
1940	Espoir, L’	Malraux, André & Boris Peskine
1941	Lady Eve, The	Sturges, Preston
1941	47 Ronin, The	Mizoguchi, Kenji
1944	Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks	Neville, Edgar
1944	Meet Me in St. Louis	Vincente Minnelli
1946	Cluny Brown	Lubitsch, Ernst
1947	Out of the Past	Jacques Tourneur
1947	King-Size Canary	Avery, Tex
1948	Letter from an Unknown Woman	Max Ophuls
1948	Pearl, The	Fernández, Emilio
1949	Sang des bêtes, Le	Franju, Georges
1950	In a Lonely Place	Nicholas Ray
1951	Venom and Eternity	Isou, Isidore
1952	Europa '51	Roberto Rossellini
1952	The Life of Oharu	Kenji Mizoguchi
1952	White Reindeer, The	Blomberg, Erik
1953	Statues Also Die	Cloquet, Ghislain/Chris Marker/Alain Resnais
1954	Godzilla	Honda, Ishiro
1955	Bad Day at Black Rock	Sturges, John
1956	Girl Can’t Help It, The	Tashlin, Frank
1957	Nights of Cabiria	Federico Fellini
1957	Forty Guns	Fuller, Samuel
1958	Man of the West	Mann, Anthony
1960	Rocco and His Brothers	Luchino Visconti
1960	Classe tous risques	Sautet, Claude
1960	Letter Never Sent	Kalatozov, Mikhail
1962	An Autumn Afternoon	Yasujiro Ozu
1962	Sundays and Cybele	Bourguignon, Serge
1963	Jason and the Argonauts	Chaffey, Don
1964	Charulata	Satyajit Ray
1964	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Jacques Demy
1964	I Am Cuba	Mikhail Kalatozov
1964	Zulu	Endfield, Cy
1965	Saragossa Manuscript, The	Has, Wojciech
1966	Mouchette	Robert Bresson
1966	Sword of Doom, The	Okamoto, Kihachi
1967	Les Demoiselles de Rochefort	Jacques Demy
1967	Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One	William Greaves
1967	Chinoise, La	Godard, Jean-Luc
1967	Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator	Makavejev, Dusan
1968	The Colour of Pomegranates	Sergei Paradjanov
1968	Memories of Underdevelopment	Tomas Gutierrez Alea
1968	Death by Hanging	Oshima, Nagisa
1969	Kes	Ken Loach
1969	Army of Shadows	Jean-Pierre Melville
1969	Boy	Oshima, Nagisa
1969	Putney Swope	Downey Sr., Robert
1967-70	Scenes from Under Childhood	Brakhage, Stan
1970	Soleil O	Med Hondo
1970	Brewster McCloud	Altman, Robert
1971	Out 1	Jacques Rivette
1971	Two-Lane Blacktop	Monte Hellman
1971	Godzilla vs. Hedorah	Banno, Yoshimitsu
1971	Punishment Park	Watkins, Peter
1972	Cries and Whispers	Ingmar Bergman
1972	Pink Flamingos	John Waters
1972	Sambizanga	Sarah Maldoror
1972	Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky
1972	Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The	Buñuel, Luis
1972	Getaway, The	Peckinpah, Sam
1973	Belladonna of Sadness	Yamamoto, Eiichi
1974	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	Tobe Hooper
1974	Reason, Debate and a Story	Ghatak, Ritwik
1974	California Split	Altman, Robert
1975	Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini
1975	India Song	Marguerite Duras
1975	Two Solutions for One Problem	Kiarostami, Abbas
1975	Hedgehog in the Fog	Norshteyn, Yuriy
1976	Harlan County, USA	Barbara Kopple
1976	Robin and Marian	Lester, Richard
1977	Annie Hall	Woody Allen
1977	One Way or Another	Sara Gomez
1977	Martin	Romero, George A.
1978	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino
1978	Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick
1978	Blue Collar	Schrader, Paul
1979	West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty	Med Hondo
1979	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
1979	Manhattan	Allen, Woody
1979	Origins of a Meal	Moullet, Luc
1980	Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind	Tsui Hark
1980	Big Red One, The	Fuller, Samuel
1981	Possession	Andrzej Zulawski
1981	Kagero-za	Suzuki, Seijun
1981	Thief	Mann, Michael
1981-97	Five Year Diary	Robertson, Anne Charlotte
1982	E.T.	Steven Spielberg
1982	Losing Ground	Kathleen Collins
1982	On Top of the Whale	Ruiz, Raúl
1983	Born in Flames	Lizzie Borden
1983	Boxer’s Omen, The	Kuei Chih-Hung
1983	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Oshima, Nagisa
1984	Twenty Years Later	Eduardo Coutinho
1984	Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind	Miyazaki, Hayao
1985	Night on the Galactic Railroad	Sugii, Gisaburo
1985	Explorers	Dante, Joe
1986	The Green Ray	Eric Rohmer
1986	True Stories	Byrne, David
1987	Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders
1987	Ishtar	May, Elaine
1988	Distant Voices, Still Lives	Terence Davies
1988	Grave of the Fireflies	Isao Takahata
1988	High Hopes	Leigh, Mike
1988	Miracle Mile	De Jarnatt, Steve
1989	A City of Sadness	Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1989	Dekalog	Krzystof Kieslowski
1989	Santa Sangre	Jodorowsky, Alejandro
1990	Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
1990	An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Dante, Joe
1991	Story of Ricky	Lam Ngai Choi
1991	Fisher King, The	Gilliam, Terry
1992	Bram Stoker’s Dracula	Coppola, Francis Ford
1993	Blue	Derek Jarman
1993	Patlabor 2: The Movie	Oshii, Mamoru
1994	I Can’t Sleep	Denis, Claire
1994	In the Mouth of Madness	Carpenter, John
1995	Whisper of the Heart	Kondo, Yoshifumi
1996	Crash	David Cronenberg
1996	Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier
1996	Conspirators of Pleasure	Švankmajer, Jan
1996	Scream	Craven, Wes
1997	The Watermelon Woman	Cheryl Dunye
1997	Public Housing	Wiseman, Frederick
1998	Flowers of Shanghai	Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1998	Bird People in China, The	Miike, Takashi
1998	Blade	Norrington, Stephen
1999	Charisma	Kurosawa, Kiyoshi
2000	Werckmeister Harmonies	Bela Tarr
2000	In Vanda’s Room	Pedro Costa
2000	As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Jonas Mekas
2000	Child and the Soldier, The	Mir-Karimi, Seyyed Reza
2000	Mysterious Object at Noon	Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
2000	Songs from the Second Floor	Andersson, Roy
2000	Requiem for a Dream	Aronofsky, Darren
2000	Code Unknown	Haneke, Michael
2000	Dead or Alive 2	Miike, Takashi
2001	Morvern Callar	Lynne Ramsay
2001	All About Lily Chou-Chou	Iwai, Shunji
2001	Ghost World	Zwigoff, Terry
2001	Amélie	Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
2001	Piano Teacher, The	Haneke, Michael
2001	Pistol Opera	Suzuki, Seijun
2002	West of the Tracks	Wang Bing
2002	Road to Perdition	Mendes, Sam
2002	Distant	Ceylan, Nuri Bilge
2002	Blissfully Yours	Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
2002	Blade II	del Toro, Guillermo
2003	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Tsai Ming-liang
2003	Corporation, The	Abbott, Jennifer & Mark Achbar
2003	Animatrix, The	Chung, Peter/Andrew R. Jones/Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Takeshi Koike/Mahiro Maeda/Koji Morimoto/Shin’ichiro Watanabe
2003	Lost in Translation	Coppola, Sofia
2003	Dogville	von Trier, Lars
2003	Elephant	Van Sant, Gus
2003	Matrix Reloaded, The	Wachowski, Lana & Lilly Wachowski
2004	Hidden	Michael Haneke
2004	Tropical Malady	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2004	Nobody Knows	Koreeda, Hirokazu
2004	Primer	Carruth, Shane
2004	Before Sunset	Linklater, Richard
2004	Intruder, The	Denis, Claire
2004	Sideways	Payne, Alexander
2004	Spartan	Mamet, David
2005	Noriko’s Dinner Table	Sono, Sion
2005	Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The	Puiu, Cristi
2005	New World, The	Malick, Terrence
2005	Grizzly Man	Herzog, Werner
2005	Princess Raccoon	Suzuki, Seijun
2006	Syndromes and a Century	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2006	Taxidermia	Pálfi, György
2006	Big Bang Love, Juvenile A	Miike, Takashi
2006	Southland Tales	Kelly, Richard
2006	Lives of Others, The	von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel
2006	Colossal Youth	Costa, Pedro
2006	Domino	Scott, Tony
2007	Silence Before Bach, The	Portabella, Pere
2007	Sun Also Rises, The	Jiang Wen
2008	Sparrow	To, Johnnie
2008	Speed Racer	Wachowski, Lana & Lilly Wachowski
2008	WALL-E	Stanton, Andrew
2008	Synecdoche, New York	Kaufman, Charlie
2008	Hunger	McQueen, Steve
2008	Lac, Un	Grandrieux, Philippe
2009	The White Ribbon	Michael Haneke
2009	Redline	Koike, Takeshi
2009	Serious Man, A	Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen
2009	Prophet, A	Audiard, Jacques
2009	Fish Tank	Arnold, Andrea
2009	Valhalla Rising	Refn, Nicolas Winding
2010	Vapor Trail (Clark)	Gianvito, John
2010	Somewhere	Coppola, Sofia
2010	Man with No Name	Wang Bing
2011	A Separation	Asghar Farhadi
2011	Melancholia	Lars von Trier
2011	Bernie	Linklater, Richard
2011	Turin Horse, The	Tarr, Béla
2011	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Ceylan, Nuri Bilge
2011	Old Dog	Tseden, Pema
2011	Five Broken Cameras	Burnat, Emad & Guy Davidi
2012	Romancing in Thin Air	To, Johnnie
2012	Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning	Hyams, John
2012	Holy Motors	Carax, Leos
2012	Eega	Rajamouli, S.S.
2013	Locke	Knight, Steven
2013	Pain & Gain	Bay, Michael
2013	Great Beauty, The	Sorrentino, Paolo
2013	Blue is the Warmest Colour	Kechiche, Abdellatif
2013	In Bloom	Ekvtimishvili, Nana & Simon Groß
2014	When Marnie Was There	Yonebayashi, Hiromasa
2014	Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang	Salles, Walter
2014	Hill of Freedom	Hong Sang-soo
2015	88:88	Medina, Isiah
2015	Bone Tomahawk	Zahler, S. Craig
2015	Carol	Haynes, Todd
2015	Kill Zone 2	Soi Cheang
2016	Shin Godzilla	Anno, Hideaki
2016	Paterson	Jarmusch, Jim
2016	Toni Erdmann	Ade, Maren
2016	Neon Demon, The	Refn, Nicolas Winding
2016	Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk	Lee, Ang
2017	On the Beach at Night Alone	Hong Sang-soo
2017	24 Frames	Kiarostami, Abbas
2018	Commuter, The	Collet-Serra, Jaume
2018	Roma	Cuarón, Alfonso
2018	Ee.Ma.Yau.	Pellissery, Lijo Jose
2019	Domains	Kusano, Natsuka
2019	Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains	Gu Xiaogang
2019	To the Ends of the Earth	Kurosawa, Kiyoshi
2020	Mandibles	Dupieux, Quentin
2020	Malmkrog	Puiu, Cristi
2021	Petite Maman	Celine Sciamma
2021	Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes	Yamaguchi, Junta
2021	Parallel Mothers	Almodóvar, Pedro
2022	Walk Up	Hong Sang-soo
2023	Samsara	Patiño, Lois
2023	Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell	Pham Thien An

[Rudie]

That’s a lot of movies.

[MintyJuffowup]

I like watching them.

[OneSecondBefore]

Oh baby, what a list! I need to watch Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One again, because it totally blew my mind, but I saw it when I was like 15 and not prepared to fully get it.

[wourme]

@Felix

Rebel Ridge very good

I watched this tonight and I concur.

[thecatamites]

watched la chimera in a theater a few days back, the etruscan graverobbing one, i liked it a lot - it starts off with this tone where it seems equally likely to turn into either gently humane indie slice of life thing OR startling crime movie and rides that tension longer than you’d expect, to fun effect - it feels like every scene has some kind of curveball in there, like in terms of the character relationships or some odd imagery or just a matter of fact depiction of some very specific activity. made me reconsider my feelings about the triangle (musical instrument) AND has someone playing a jews harp into a mic. some of the more mystical/symbolic stuff slid off me but still thinking abt it

also watched amsterdamned last night, the amsterdam-themed scuba giallo with a delightful and dispropotionate amount of vehicle chase scenes thrown into the mix… truly part of the fun of watching is wondering if this used up the entire dutch film industry’s stunt budget for a few years. has a fun credits music video where you get to see huub stapel play 80s cop movie sax on a prop bridge

- YouTube

[Rudie]

I watched Box Man last week and it was good even if I have a dozen little complaints. The arthouse trash theater was very nice.

Today I saw Chungking Express in the chain-theater and it was slightly worse but the movie is probably my favorite. This was the 4K and WKW changed the music in one scene in like a George Lucas level way and I almost screamed why.

Part of why I love Chungking is how everything is so lived and how everything everyone is doing is the most comfortable you’ve ever seen it. Watching Kaneshiro eat pineapple out of can while on a bar stool in his cramped apartment. Is perfectly fitting Levis and loose button up shirt. They way Tony Leung has a conversation with a dish rag. The Faye Wong looks over her glasses. I love how often the shots are double framed that there is an exterior and interior environment. It feels alive and breathing in a way that uh someone living in Urban Texan surrounded by strip malls could be envious of.

Kaneshiro and Tony really love being sad about their girlfriends. Maggie is well…not having a fun time about anything but is a prepared killer buried in this love story. Faye seems to enjoy being completely outside society even when she’s panicing because society asks her without judgment “what are you doing?” The owner of the restaurant has seen this all before and feels comfortable in his life and skin.

I still don’t know what a Chef’s Salad at Chungking Express even is for a movie I have watched at least 20 times.

[Rudie]

@Rudie

WKW changed the music in one scene in like a George Lucas level way and I almost screamed why.

https://youtu.be/xLpnleQbsHY?si=y3ENbC9mLeqVk3S0

for god knows what reason he put Faye Wong’s song over this scene, you know before she dances around the apartment to it. Even without knowledge of the original it feels out of place and arbtitrary.

like a George Lucas Decision.

[parker]

takeshi kitano’s kubi has this subplot where this endless succession of body doubles for that wiley raccoon tokugawa ieyasu just keep getting killed each looking less like the guy than the one before, like five of these guys get killed

but what the hell why didn’t this movie have the office kitano boot up logo??

[thecatamites]

watched Bad Ben, an extremely z-grade found footage horror movie with a few fun moments - like when the guy finds an old toy music box on a tiny grave in the backyard of the house he bought to flip from sherriff’s auction and he immediately picks it up and goes That’s Goin’ On Ebay or when he finds a giant old bible on entering the house and immediately throws it in the wheelie bin while saying “sorry, that’s just the day and age we live in” (he fishes it out later - - boooooo!!!). it did make me think that background evangelical radiation has done so much damage to horror movies like it feels like every time i watch one from the usa it ends up being about SATANISM and it’s the corniest thing. if satanism didn’t exist these guys would invent it just to have some extremely visually unimaginative guys in robes they could bring out during the climax. it’s too phoned in here to make a difference either way but it really dragged down the Hell House LLC movies esp that one with the bizarre religious allegory about a ceo who becomes an angel after getting into a car accident and conducts holy war on satanic ghosts by, like, turning their place into a Punchdrunk immersive theater play for some reason.

anyway there are apparently like 20 more Bad Ben movies and also a videogame made by one of the haunted ps1 guys where the director/star of the films voices himself, and i’m mostly posting abt it because i found this screenshot very charming. the cultural communication you love to see.

[Felix]

vinegar syndrome put out some new transfers of chinese torture chamber story and all I can say is wow

if you ever wanted to see some exploitation-heavy softcore wuxia… I think there was about a five year window during which anyone on the planet could or would have made these movies and I think it’s fair to say they got it right the first time

the first film ends with a guy being dosed with too many aphrodisiacs and his dick exploding, after the heroine admirably tries to get him off to save his life… but he’s just too swollen by then, it’s hopeless

[daphaknee]

KINDS OF KINDNESS WOOOOOOO. I know I’ve been an annoying yorgos stan since dogtooth, but I like that he was like ‘okay I did my award bait movies I’m gonna be fucking WEIRD AS HELL AGAIN’

the constant dafoe (literal) dick teases were amazing. in the last vignette I made a joke that this is angela and jamie from xiu xiu in 20 years, just something about his uneven eyeliner and their performance art over the hot tub

so much bad skin so much awkward dialogue and I got to see Billy Lynn do something other than a long halftime walk!! I think this is my fave of his after dogtooth actually now that I think about it

[vodselbt]

So interested in it. Have been shocked that everyone I know has been so down about it for whatever reason. I was wondering if it was like especially especially mean or fucked up, like early Yorgos x3 or something.

[Felix]

it’s pretty drawn out and grim. took me 3 days to get through 2 hours of it and I deleted the file after that and gave up. it played in theaters here a really abnormally long time too, they really dined out on the favorite and poor things. but his pre-tony mcnamara scripts were all about that off-putting, just not quite this indulgent

I would watch hong chau in anything though, I adore her

[daphaknee]

I thoguht it was super breezy because it’s in three parts and like, there’s no happy endings but it was never a downer cuz it’s silly and funny. ema stones little victory dance. I liked all the bright solid colors everyone was wearing but I also might not be used to my nice TV yet. there should have absolutely been an intermission, I needed to pee twice during this so I’m glad I didn’t see it in theatres

[daphaknee]

she was really good at licking people, I think I’ve only seen her in inherent vice before

[Father.Torque]

Watched Smile and Hereditary and though these movies are coming in at two distinct levels of artsiness my impression of both was pretty similar, in that while they have a couple standout scenes, neither is as scary as it thinks it is and neither pays off as well as they think they do.