Scott Bateman: 5000 Space Aliens

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Best show on TV is back for its season finale tonight!

I forgot to ALT this one:

Poet Mercedes Haflon (in red), surrounded by the crew making the movie outside of Juana Bignozzi’s apaertment building in Buenos Aires.

I mean, I do love me some bad, bad movies, they’re coming!

18. The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi (Mercedes Halfon, Laura Citarella, 2019)

Adrian Zmed with a mullet in a fancy-ass restaurant, looking like a stunned weasel.

17. The Green Fog (Guy Maddin/Galen Johnson/Evan Johnson, 2017).

A wife and husband by their filthy-ass pool, shortly before the famous SCCCCCRRRRRRTTTTTTTTCCCHHHHH shot.

16. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001).

One of Pina Bausch’s dancers is comically jacked.

15. Pina (Wim Wenders, 2011).

Irm Hermann in one of the great wordless performances ever.

14. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972).

That plane took a wrong turn in Albuquerque.

13. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982).

A fun movie to play Slug Bug during!

A young girl and her mother (who, for reasons, are both the same age) look with pride at their fort in the woods.

12. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021).

FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating:

*foreign spies stealing gov’t and trade secrets
*foreign and domestic terrorist threats
*crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others)

Do you feel safer?

At a run-down movie theater, a woman opens a door next to the big screen showing the old Wuxia film Dragon Inn.

11. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003).

The hands of a family making dumplings at the kitchen table. Just making dumplings for 90 minutes. The camera moves eight times. That’s it!

10. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009).

Woman in red behind a window, a hand washing said window in front. Iconic.

9. Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979).

Some crazy-ass Gaudi building.

8. Antonio Gaudí (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1984).

One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later (James Benning, 2005).

Help me reach the stretch goal, less than a week to go. Cool stretch goal reward, cool regular rewards! #filmsky #artsky #directorsky

Daisies (Vera Chytilova, 1966).

The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang Soo, 2022)

The word BLOW on a sign in New York City circa 1970.

Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970).

Not actually on YouTube, sadly.

Céline and Julie Go Boating, now streaming on Criterion Channel. Maybe available on YouTube?

Céline & Julie on the steps of a house, pre-boating.

Céline & Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)

A woman answers three fundamental questions about birds, prior to the Violent Unknown Event.

The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980)

The Four Actresses of La Flor with guns drawn, plus the hostage they are trying to save in part three.

La Flor (Mariano Llinas, 2018):

Once every few seasons, someone wagers $1337 in Final Jeopardy and I’m like YEAH.

Noice!

Text: For every like, I will post one movie that I like. Bottom right: a robot for some reason.

Since I’m procrastinating today, let’s have some fun!

Such a great movie! That whole Val Lewton cycle of ‘40s horror films are The Amazing.