Fedor Tot

it has been playing continuously here in Brasil since it came out in early November. Local screenings had pootled down to one a day near me but have bumped back up since the Oscar noms. That's how it should be for all films, obviously.

peak 'late style' projects

Honourable mentions
The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer, 2025)
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsey, 2025)
Recife Frio / Cold Tropics (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2009)

A still from The Web, where Vincent Price is holding up a lighter for Ella Raines (black & white)

A still from 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Gordon Liu in the rain on a soundstage practicing.

A still from Dogadjaj, a boy holding an umbrella, a larger man, and a horse, walking away from the camera on a dirty track in the rain and fog.

A still from Lisice, where Fabijan Šovagović and Jagoda Kaloper are dressed in traditional Dalmatian wedding wear, both looking concerned (black & white)

Best 1st watches - Jan 2026
The Web (Michael Gordan, 1947)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kau-leung, 1978)
Dogadjaj / An Event (Vatroslav Mimica, 1969)
Lisice / Handcuffs (Krsto Papić, 1970)

Western leftists just discovering Noah Chomsky a worthless shit eh? Let me get you some rakija and we'll have a chat about that.

me every time i watch a yugoslav black wave film: absolutely fucking miserable, nihilistic, hopeless, has not one positive thought about the fate of the human race, i think i shall give this one five stars

irony of it all is that Barney Greenway could absolutely pass for a Gen-X tech CEO.

my mum, for example, does not know how to forward emails (she's got the replying part sorted and knows not to click "Reply All", thankfully).

Anyway, if you're looking for a film starring a rakish sex symbol of his era as a protagonist who treats everyone like shit might I recommend Zika Pavlovic's When I'm Dead and Pale, which is also only 80 minutes long.

More extensive thoughts here:

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Marty Supreme: a very well-made bad film. Surprised that so few are talking about the frankly shoddy racial politics of this one too.

Illustrious Corpses a real fav of mine!

no other man got fucked so little in life only to get fucked so hard in death

Time to re-release Winners & Sinners

vitoria de nordeste!

we just call him Kleber round these parts.

I just remembered Steve Albini’s Steely Dan tweets and I am now utterly delighted.

A great piece of music criticism as well as great posting. A real one.

you can't convince me there's a difference between a -sson, a -son and a -sen.

Wasn't this the plot of a recent Paul Schrader movie?

Can you use your fake vineyards as fake collateral for raising funds for the next film?

i have a friend who once received a 47 minute voice message. A truly spectacular level of cruelty.

Mark died in 1910.

Shania was born in 1965.

Never the Twain shall meet.

I think I can say with 100% certainty that Yugoslavia in the 60s was a more free and 'democratic' (a word with a slippery meaning at best of times) society than the UK in the past ten years. For one, you wouldn't go to jail for expressing support for Palestine.

don't forget, people elected him, and Tudjman too. The country was fine before we got democracy.

they executed a fair few of those ss men too.

Bela Tarr in a pirated DVD store in Peru posing with the owner and a selection of his films

Béla Tarr visiting a store in Peru selling pirated DVDs and posing with the owner and bootlegs of his own work, one of the realest ones, RIP

That afternoon I went alone, one of I think 5 in the cinema. I'd had a single can of Red Stripe at the Moon beforehand, and I needed to pee about 45 minutes in but held it for the whole film I was so entranced. One of my all-time favourite cinema experiences. Thank you Bela.