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Spurred by the release of NOUVELLE VAGUE today, I've combined the rankings of my viewings at the two film festivals I attend annually. I posted a few thoughts about each choice in earlier fest-related ranking skeets.

Carrying these over from my last road trip for today’s road trip. Which CDs should I subject my passengers - two 17-year-olds and my 85-year-old dad - to?

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched After confessing to a friend that I wasn't really a Panahi fan (bad cinephile!), I watched his Palme d'Or winner and texted the friend, "I'll never say a less-than-glowing thing about Panahi again." A great film.

Might be a worth a rewatch. I’ve never raised my rating - it’s a good film, short of great - but haven’t lowered it. It’s Buddhism for Kids. I’m not a Buddhist, but I like the storybook approach. It’s also beautifully shot by a master cinematographer, and that goes a long way with me.

Forgot that Iris DeMent is on the soundtrack: “Let the Mystery Be”

Watching the 4K now.

Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year A…

Think my college trip tomorrow with my 17 y.o. - my fourth child - will be my last one. Weather’s supposed to be good, and I’m building in a trip to Staunton restaurant I read about in VICTUALS: AN APPALACHIAN JOURNEY. Read it if you haven’t! www.goodreads.com/book/show/28...

The Tin Star (Blu-ray Review) Director Anthony Mann helmed several exceptional film noir in the late-1940s and early- ‘50s, and later directed two of the best epic roadshows of the 1960s, El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire, b...

This Arrow Blu-ray of THE TIN STAR, shot in VistaVision, is gorgeous, but my go-to review sites aren’t as wowed by it as I am. The Digital Bits comes closest: “The video transfer … clearly sourced from the original horizontal camera negative, is flawless.” thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item...

Category fraud is a longstanding tradition! :)

Book delivery day.

If a filmmaker is gonna do one for the money, the high bars are DePalma's The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. Make it so good that it never occurs to anyone to ask about your motivation for making it. So good that they're just grateful it exists.

I own several Manns and am *hoping* to acquire the Ranown set during the current B&N sale.

M. and S. watched THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY when I bought the Kino Lorber 4K a few years ago. They loved it.

I told him after today's request, "We could do a weekly Westerns Night each Sunday if you want." A follow-up to our TWILIGHT ZONE viewings over 3 years, and an excuse for me to rewatch my Western Blu-rays and 4Ks. But also good for him. I think he's interested. Will report back if we follow through.

Looks like the 17-y.o., having completed the Westerns portion of his high-school film class, and having requested that we watch my SHANE 4K (completed Sunday night), now wants to watch my HIGH NOON 4K. This is really all I hope for when I buy these things. It's not all about me. Mostly, but not all.

Holy smokes. Gotta tip the ol' hat to Joyce.

Bryant Street or Crystal City (the latter is technically in Northern Virginia)?:

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Ha ha!

Ryan Lattanzio on "Screen Talk": "I went to see PREDATOR: BADLANDS and it's horrible!" He can't figure out why so many of his colleagues love it. I thought the same of PREY, which was similarly acclaimed, so I'll probably skip this one (unless my boys want to watch it with me).

So I should see the Panahi this morning rather than the Ramsay? Got it.

This is a hilarious thread, but I keep wondering, How did you watch it? Is it on MeTV or something? Roku or LG Channels?

Maybe the movie of the year. DC folks: It’s at Landmark Bethesda, Atlantic Plumbing and a theater in Leesburg, the name of which escapes me.

You’re a tough grader. That’s a good thing.

Another Friday off and I am watching HARD TRUTHS. Remember when Marianne Jean-Baptiste wasn’t even nominated for the Best Actress Oscar?

(replacement post to correct typo) I am now aligned with you on FRANKENSTEIN following a second look at it. But I loved NOUVELLE VAGUE (which I've seen only once). You see it at a fest? It's not yet on Netflix, I don't think.

Ah, haven't seen that Lapid. How'd you view it?

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Took a second look at FRANKENSTEIN on the big screen and lowered my rating a half-star.

You can say that again.

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