Benémathèque

March highlights:

I’M STILL HERE (2024)
THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (1974)
MICKEY 17 (2025)
MOGAMBO (1953)
KANSAS CITY (1996)

The fade-outs on Bowie’s LOW album are criminal. More song. More song!

Same ad twice in the preroll is a jailable offence

a man is standing in front of a blue wall that says internationale internationale berlin ALT: a man is standing in front of a blue wall that says internationale internationale berlin

MICKEY 17 (2025) D: Bong #nowwatching

Everyone mad at Emilia Perez wins…

But me: [Shakes fist] This documentary short win is bullshit!!!

“You brought Joan Baez to life…” lol

February highlights:

INCIDENT (2023)
WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOUL (2024)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (2024)
BLACKMAIL (1929)
THE BRUTALIST (2024)

Episode 1 of REACHER has him unfavorably comparing someone’s dress style to Sherlock Holmes all the while deductively rattling off his marital status, smoking history, preferred breakfast cereal and most recent bowel movement.

Persistent rumors of Conclave 2 impending greenlight.

Caving in and watching REACHER.

I’m a dad… approaching 50… it’s between 11pm and midnight… everyone else is in bed…

Got no choice. Free will is an illusion.

We were down at the beach before sunset waiting for a fireworks show once dark enough.

We’re not often at the beach at sunset and conditions had never been just right before, I guess.

Anyway.. saw it. Got a bit excited. Nobody else saw it. The end.

One of these fellas.

Saw THE GREEN RAY this past New Year’s Eve.

Not the Rohmer film but the actual atmospheric phenomenon that serves as the central metaphor in the film.

Miles Teller in ‘The Gorge’ with Uncle Monty level of cabin invasion as soon as he gets a sniff.

GLADIATOR II (2024) d: Ridley Scott #nowwatching

January highlights:

DREADNAUGHT (1981)
NOSFERATU (2024)
ANORA (2024)
COMPANY LIMITED (1971)
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (2024)

Got so excited when I saw that Kore-eda has a new TV show out. Literally gasped like a teenage girl who just saw Chalamet buying a coffee.

Imagine if he’d ever shared a scene with M Emmet Walsh

When Ani & Vanya are endlessly partying in the club: 😫 Aargh! It’s so dark and loud. Go home! This is exhausting

1 hour later when Ani & Diamond are throwing hands in the same club: 🤔 Hmm, this is truly the cinema of the complexity of people and their contradictory and sometimes paradoxical natures

Dreadnaught such an odd name.

Cracker. What a fun time. Looney Tunes energy to it. Keatonesque physical comedy.

Kicked off 2025 with DREADNAUGHT (1981) d: Yuen Woo Ping

I know, right. Got to pull from the calendar month though. Imagine the horrors that didn’t make list!

December Highlights:

KNEECAP (2024)
SATURDAY NIGHT (2024)
REAR WINDOW (1954)
HIGH AND LOW (1963)
DEATH NOTE (2017)

Saved the day by knocking son's Anko Glider from the clutches of a neighbourhood pine tree using nothing but a cricket ball and brawn. Never felt so alive.

YouTube video by Silver Jews - Topic Rebel Jew

Massive success slipping Rebel Jew into the Enormous Xmas Playlist. Endless versions of Blue Christmas through the day then this feels like 3 minutes of grace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_06D...

And next year gift yourself a wireless headset so you can hear that shit.

Action films are too busy. Stand up specials are perfect.

Christmas Eve, if you’re the half of your relationship that stays up to do the wrapping and in need of brain dead entertainment while you wrap…

Last few days of the calendar year. Time to start gaming those stats to make the ol’ Letterboxd Most Watched Director/Actor look reasonable.