Danny (Hong Sang-soo mode)

best february first timers:
The Insect Woman (Imamura)
Sea of Vapors
Cityscape
The Secret Agent
Magellan
Jesus Trilogy and Coda
Nightcats

fat choi spirit!!!

crazy how much i tend to gravitate towards “gold soundz is the best pavement song,” a thing that never held true when i listened to a normal or even initially obscene amount of pavement

for maximum benefit of the doubt they really are going to have to figure out some way to concede a normal number of goals to eberechi eze

hmmm i think spurs may have gotten *lightly* hosed there

hey bees. about time to start getting real, bees

bodø/glimt is my favorite sports team

FUCK rip tom noonan. you’re gonna hear everyone talk about manhunter of course but sometimes someone does work so massive there’s nothing wrong with that being what they’re known for. my god is that one of the greatest performances in american cinema

is “eusebio played here five decades ago” a good excuse for being racist do we think. i think perhaps it is not

this is the one i wonder if i’ll ever get around to, frankly. i don’t think i have particularly delicate sensibilities or anything i just cannot see it being worth my time

dogville the comp for sure, film about which i feel very similar. a lot to love but ultimately i think beefs it hard. norte’s highs higher though

i just can’t get with where it goes (or moreso how it goes there). for a second (again, a full three hours) there, though, it’s all-time favorite level

the goodwill lav diaz earned from being the first guy to teach me about ely buendia has not worn off, though, i'll tell you what

anyway i loved magellan. i'm just still shaking off how good the first three hours of norte are and how terrible the last hour of norte is

it is crazy that lav diaz is the best filmmaker in the whole world when he’s not being von trier and also it’s so crazy that he loves to be von trier

robert duvall was, simply, perhaps my first favorite actor i really recognized as such. there is no movie without his tom hagen. you could watch him in every scene and learn something new about a movie that has been ripped to shreds to such an absurd degree

two in the same day SUCKS it SUCKS. wiseman has always struck me as one of the true elder statesmen of film art and a consummate ambassador for everything beautiful about that. i have seen far too few of his films but what exposure i have had was revelatory.

oh no

ok it was funny when it was palace but this macclesfield thing is on the verge of going way too far

more than half of the persians, lovesong, chinese series, seasons, stan's window & work in progress, micro garden; i haven't seen any panels for the walls of heaven or the god of day or so many others but i'd have to imagine those also qualify

it is completely insane how many of the best films of the 21st century were made by stan brakhage

this is now the ninth year i’ve made myself watch every bp nominee and i do not think i’ve ever seen a movie even close to as good of the ones i probably wouldn’t have seen had they not been nominated. buzzing!

i liked this one to a degree i’m *shocked* by. absolutely zero sense of it going in, didn’t super care about bacurau, had an absolute blast

the secret agent: it’s the pynchon oscars baby!!!!!

bees take a point against the top team in the league, UCL happening and i refuse to believe otherwise

aw man rip bud cort :/. go watch Brewster McCloud, maybe my favorite altman movie, mounted on a performance of such totally singular energy

booooooo

if west ham can hold on here (and oh my god did they almost just beef it) we would be closer to the “spurs demoted bees in europe” agenda than ever before. thomas who

RULES. but one of the most surreal things i’ve ever seen

sam darnold super bowl champion does not make sense in my mind