Dulian

You should watch Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man)

I mean, really, I could just keep quoting the novel all day. Here's Slothrop, after visiting the grave of Dr. Jamf, one of the novel's great villians, looking over the Alps.

ansiosissimo.

Usually Pynchon's novels send me off on weird tangents about some strange obscure subjects, but so far Vineland is making me want to watch the original Hawaii Five-O more than anything else lol

The (anti) climax (eheh) shot and scored like a spaghetti western stand off was pretty genius too.
Great way to start my spooky season, this kicked ass. Some unexpected good feminist politics too for the time

Also, Dagmar Lassander's beauty is timeless

still from The Laughing Woman

Leprosy

The Laughing Woman (1969): owning a collection of paintings depicting diseases like leprosy of cholera seen under the microscope is a neat way to characterize your villain lol

John Carpenter made the movies he made because he was a fan of Howard Hawks, westerns, science fiction, gothic horror, noir...while all the people who try to imitate him are just fans of John Carpenter movies.

Juliette Binoche | Trois Couleurs : Bleu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1993.

You got such a kick ass taste. One of my favorite people to follow here and what this place needs more of

He was incredible in the best Homicide episode "Three Men and Adena"

E.T

E.T drinking a beer

First look at Bob Ferguson in One Battle After Another sequel

YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect Sidney Lumet interview on "Making Movies" (1995)

So many great quotable lines about cinema, about life really, in just 20 minutes. Lumet was above all a great craftsman but also seemed to have a deep understanding of actors and people

Afternoons of Solitude (2024; Albert Serra)

One cool easter egg in the even better than you've heard @onebattlemovie: the grocery store Bob grabs his sunglasses from is in Trinidad, CA, one time home of Thomas Pynchon. (I'm familiar with it for the obvious reason.)

The Perfect Human - Jørgen Leth (1937 – 2025)

a few small beers

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski
1991

Gian Maria Volontè in We Still Kill the Old Way

Gian Maria Volontè in We Still Kill the Old Way

We Still Kill the Old Way (1967): I always love stories about ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances, trying to do the right thing.
Gian Maria Volontè is one of the GOATs and if you want to watch some great political films you definitely have to look at Elio Petri's work

Barbara Steele (and her canine companions) in Mario Bava's Black Sunday standing in the archway of a crypt wearing a black cape and a dour expression

Brigitte Lahaie stands atop stone stairs in a sheer white nightgown flanked by two large dogs in Rollin's The Grapes of Death

Haunting and misty mirage of a young girl (Gloria Bozzola) standing by the water with a greyhound in Liberatore's gothic masterpiece Damned in Venice

Cinzia Monreale and her seeing eye dog Dickie in Fulci's The Beyond standing ominously in the middle of the road

just me and my dog and an impossible view

Black Sunday (1960), Mario Bava // The Grapes of Death (1978), Jean Rollin // Damned in Venice (1978), Ugo Liberatore // The Beyond (1981), Lucio Fulci

#sidebyside #filmsky #horrorsky #me&mydog 🐾

I just ran One Battle After Another on 70mm and in case it's not common knowledge I want to make sure audiences know that those reels are fucking HUGE and HEAVY (like 40-50 lbs) and we have to lift them over our heads and angle them onto a thin shaft without dropping them on ourselves/the projector

He asked her what book she was reading. "The Idiot. Do you know it?" "No. What's it about?" "It's a novel." "I'd rather read the truth," he said. "It is the truth."

Great response to people who don’t read fiction

(from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)

Among all the great things its got going on, Decision to Leave is film in which modern technologies for once organically blend with the plot and their use doesn't fell forced or hacky. Can't wait to see what he cooked for No Other Choice

Shu Qi on Crafting Her Directorial Debut Girl and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Influence While preparing her feature-directing debut, Taiwanese actor Shu Qi was working on a screenplay that troubled and confused her. "I got stuck," she said at a Busan International Film Festival press con...

“The difference between acting and directing is that when I’m acting, I get to wear beautiful clothes and don’t have to think that much."

Shu Qi discusses her directorial debut while at Busan 2025:

"You had the guy 4 fucking days. 4 dayys! You could've walked him backwards and not fucking blown it! But you blew it!

This movie is such a blast and Pantoliano delivers my favorite performance in a movie full of great performances

Midnight Run - Martin Brest

GREEN: Shades of reflection. 🟢

YouTube video by Calypso 8 ½ - Fellini - Claudia / Guido - "Perché non sa voler bene"

Ah Claudia😢a luminous presence in some of the very best movies of all time. This scene is unforgettable

"Because he doesn't know how to love"

Breaking the Waves of course. In a interview he did a couple years ago he said that only recently he got into classics like Thomas Mann and Tolstoy, so it's unlikely he read this one in the late 90s, but who knows. He's one of my fav and i'm always looking for similar works or inspirations

Probably the real inspiration for it was Barry Lyndon, a favorite of his, but in my recent rewatch of Dogville what struck me was how much the John Hurt narration sounded coming straight out of a 19th century novel. Dickens, Twain, Thackeray... Now that you said this i'll have to check The Mill

Willem Dafoe holding a Piano Teacher DVD in the criterion closet with the captions "Piano Teacher! We love Isabelle, we love her so much"

Vive L'Amour film poster

Grand Tour film poster

Whatever this is, it's the best style of cover