Irma Vep, 1996

Best of 2022 So Far Awards

Halfway through the Year Retrospective

Best Film Drama

Girl Picture

Best Film Comedy

Crush

Best Film Action

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Animated Film

Lightyear

Best TV Series Drama

First Kill

Best TV Series Comedy

Only Murders in the Building

Best Miniseries

Irma Vep

Best Soap Opera or Telenovela

The Young and the Restless

Best Reality or Competition Show

Lovestruck High

Best Animated Series

Harley Quinn Animated Series

Best Video Game

Rune Factory 5

Best Mobile Game

Scripts

Best Book Fiction

Count your Lucky Stars

Best Graphic Novel

DC Pride 2022 Anthology

Best Comic

Poison Ivy

Best Audiobook

The Last Lavender Sister, Melissa Brayden

Best Audio Drama

Star Wars Picard No Man's Land

Best Web Series

Flunk Series

Best Music Album

Hayley Kiyoko Panorama

Best Music Video

I Fucking Love You

Best Online Content Creator

Sofia Gómez, TikTok

Best News Story

Church of Scotland ministers are now permitted to perform same-sex marriages if they choose.

The church’s General Assembly approved an overture that allows parish ministers and deacons to apply for authorization to marry same-sex couples. It passed on Monday by a 274-136 vote.

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What are your all-time favorite movies?

The Handmaiden (2016), Fallen Angels (1995), Moulin Rouge (2001), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Stoker (2013), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Rebecca (1940), Laura (1944), Mulholland Drive (2001), Irma Vep (1996), Carnival of Souls (1962), Suspiria (1977), In the Mood for Love (2000), Amuck (1972), Chinatown (1974), The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), The Love Witch (2016), The Red Shoes (1948), Parasite (2019), On the Beach at Night Alone (2017), Perfect Blue (1997), Rear Window (1954), Rouge (1987), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Romeo & Juliet (1996), Atonement (2007), Chungking Express (1994), Ready or Not (2019), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), La Belle et la Bête (1946), Queen of the Damned (2002), La Reine Margot (1994), The Double Life of Véronique (1991), The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

3, 6, 10, 22, 24, 27, 28

3. Any old school favorites (pre-70s)?

A very broad question. To mention some:

"Shanghai Express" dir. Josef von Sternberg

"The House Is Black" dir. Forough Farrokhzad

"Cléo from 5 to 7" dir. Agnès Varda

"The Trial" dir. Orson Welles

"The Hitch-Hiker" dir. Ida Lupino

"The 400 Blows" dir. François Truffaut

"Rocco and His Brothers" dir. Luchino Visconti

"The Red Shoes" dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

"The Third Man" dir. Carol Reed

"Double Indemnity" dir. Billy Wilder

"Ajantrik" dir. Ritwik Ghatak

"Bicycle Thieves" dir. Vittorio De Sica

"Pather Panchali" dir. Satyajit Ray

"Viridiana" dir. Luis Buñuel

"Accattone" dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

"Black Girl" dir. Ousmane Sembène

"Uski Roti" dir. Mani Kaul

"Black God, White Devil" dir. Glauber Rocha

"I Am Cuba" dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

"The Hand" dir. Jiří Trnka

"The Fireman's Ball" dir. Miloš Forman

"Daisies" dir. Věra Chytilová

"Meditation on Violence" dir. Maya Deren

"The Battle of Algiers" dir. Gillo Pontecorvo

"Andrei Rublev" dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

"Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors" dir. Sergei Parajanov

"Boy" dir. Nagisa Oshima

"Persona" dir. Ingmar Bergman

"Love and Crime" dir. Teruo Ishii

"The Insect Woman" dir. Shōhei Imamura

"La perla" dir. Emilio Fernández

"Cairo Station" dir. Youssef Chahine

"Throne of Blood" dir. Akira Kurosawa

"Touch of Evil" dir. Orson Welles

"Paper Flowers" dir. Guru Dutt

"The Passion of Joan of Arc" dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

"A Page of Madness" dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa

"Tokyo Story" dir. Yasujirō Ozu

"Chikamatsu Monogatari" dir. Kenji Mizoguchi

"Les Enfants du Paradis" dir. Marcel Carné

"La Grande Illusion" dir. Jean Renoir

"Bringing Up Baby" dir. Howard Hawks

"Rome, Open City" dir. Roberto Rossellini

"City Lights" dir. Charlie Chaplin

"Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" dir. Jacques Tati

"Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" dir. Billy Wilder

6. Favorite movie from the 90’s?

Some of them:

"The Apple" dir. Samira Makhmalbaf

"Crows" dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska

"A Moment of Innocence" dir. Mohsen Makhmalba

"And Life Goes On" dir. Abbas Kiarostami

"The Piano" dir. Jane Campion

"Days of Being Wild" dir. Wong Kar-wai

"Irma Vep" dir. Olivier Assayas

"Vive L'Amour" dir. Tsai Ming-liang

"Humanité" dir. Bruno Dumont

"Beau travail" dir. Claire Denis

10. Favorite animated movie?

Already answered this.

22. Favorite Disney movie?

"The Lion King"

24. Movie that makes you cry every time?

"Call Me By Your Name"

"Brokeback Mountain"

"Portrait of a Lady on Fire"

"Aimée & Jaguar"

"The Farewell"

"My Sister's Keeper"

among others.

27. Top 5 actors?

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Shahab Hosseini

Marcello Mastroianni

Song Kang-ho

Jean-Louis Trintignant

28. Top 5 actresses?

Cruel question, but I'll go with:

Isabelle Huppert

Setsuko Hara

Smita Patil

Anna Magnani

Hedieh Tehrani

Movies I watched this Week #107 (Year 3 / Week 3):

It looked like Cataz was disappearing from the internet’s faceless face, so I started using Squeezebox, a new scraper as a replacement. So far it looks clean. 

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Maggie Cheung in 1996 X 2:

🍿 Comrades, Almost a love story, a magical, under-rated romantic story about yearning from Hong Kong with Maggie Cheung. Before she became magnificently glamorous, she was so peachy, seeing her makes me cry. So sweet that I wanted to watch it very slowly and took frequent stops all evening to savor it longer. The first half of two people trying not to fall in love was comparable to ‘In the mood for love’ which came four years later, but unfortunately Leon Lai was no match to the iconic Tony Leung and the story got sappier during the second half. 7/10.

Now I’m listening to Teresa Young singing Tian Mi Mi...

🍿 Irma Vep, my 5th by Olivier Assayas, from the short period when Maggie Cheung was his wife, the lucky bastard. She plays a fictional version of herself, as “Maggie Cheung, a Chinese actress” who’s acting in a French movie in Paris. It’s a blatant showcase of her radiant cat-woman face, but the story is impressionistic, unfocused and confused ‘Filming of a film’ process, reminiscent of Truffault’s much better ‘Day for night’, down to the casting of Jean-Pierre Léaud. 4/10.

With my favorite Ali Farka Touré’s Soukora on the soundtrack!

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I loved Cristin Milioti as Sarah Wilder in ‘Palm Spring’ so much that I saw it about 10 times. So as soon as I heard that she stars in The Resort, a new TV-series, created by Andy Siara who was the writer for ‘Palm Spring’, I dropped everything to binge on its 8 episodes.

It started unexpectedly well with a couple who arrive at a Yucatan resort to celebrate their 10th anniversary. But the wife is obviously unhappy, and their relationship is missing something serious. Then she finds an old phone in the jungle, and unspools a mystery of two teens who disappeared there 15 years before. The couple start detectiving, but are soon being pulled into a complex metaphysical plot of ‘Time Portals’ and ‘Suspended conscientious’ and ‘Memory Leakage’ and what have you.

I wanted to like it, but every episode became stupider and more outrageous than the previous one. I did love though the many times when Cristin Milioti repeats the exact same speech intonations and voice mannerism from ‘Palm Spring’. 5/10.  

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3 Polish masterpieces, 2 with the extraordinary Joanna Kulig:

🍿 “..[My father] mistook me for my mother, so I used a knife to show him the difference...”

It’s been a year and a half since I discovered Cold war, Paweł Pawlikowski’s devastating masterpiece, and this is the first time that I’ve watched it since. I’m surprised to realize that it’s so much shorter (88 minutes), simpler and straight-forward. I remembered it as intricate, over-layered and complex. But the tragically-restrained love story is still sublime, breathtakingly melancholic and epic, one of the most lyrical romances I’ve ever seen.

How Zula sings ‘Two hearts, four eyes’ differently each time. 10/10.

🍿 In the controversial Clegy, Joanna Kulig plays a completely different character, that of a pregnant housekeeper with no agency. The story is about the utter debasement of the Catholic church, as exemplified by three priest friends. God’s servants are sinners and criminals, hypocritical, potty-mouth, abusive, transgressive alcoholics. And this is before they get into the systematic child-abuse story that engulfs all ranks, from the cynically corrupt Bishop to the local country priest. Shocking, angry, and unforgiving. 9/10. 🍿 Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest, EO, the story of a lowly donkey’s dreams and adventures. Not as spiritual as Bresson’s ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’, it’s still deeply humane. Films about sufferings, whether people or animals, whether abused or just neglected, are tough to sit through. But not this one: It’s simple but not obvious, full of surprises and heart. The protagonist was played by 6 different real-life donkeys.

These 3 were my best film events of the week!

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Jonathan Mehring’s short Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying follows two young Palestinians who have found freedom in skateboarding while surrounded by walls & barbed wire and facing harassment from the fascist Israeli occupation as well as their own communities. Please don’t get me started...

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Bad words, Jason Bateman’s politically-incorrect directorial debut. A black comedy about a 40-year-old unsympathetic asshole with photographic memory who discovers a legal loophole in the rules of the National Spelling Bee, so they have no choice but allowing him to participate in it. 4/10.

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7 more marijuana films (none of which I saw before):

🍿 It started innocently enough with a random pick, Tim Blake Nelson’s dark & funny Leaves of grass (one of the four feature films he had written and directed). Ivy League professor Edward Norton gets tricked into going back to Tulsa, Oklahoma by his twin brother the pot farmer, and gets tangled in his brother’s scheme to take down a Jewish drug lord. It starts with a fake lecture about the philosophy of Socrates and, like a Coen Brother plot, changes its tone to black comedy, to deadly action, to dreamy romance and other surprises. Susan Sarandon plays again the estranged pothead mom (like she did in ‘Ride the eagle’). 6/10.  

🍿 Reefer Madness (Originally called ‘Tell your children’) the maniacal cult classic, a piece of anti-marihuana propaganda of North Korean magnitude. “Women cry for it - Man die for it!”. The beginning of the century-long racist “War on drugs”. What a horrible, destructive misdirection that cost so much since. Psychedelically-colorized.

🍿 Ice Cube’s hood masterpiece, Friday about two friends sitting on the front porch in South Central, getting stoned and talking shit. Unabashedly funny. “Bye, Felicia”. 7/10.

🍿 “That is where corn chips come from!”

Smiley Face, my first by Gregg Araki. An unusual stoner comedy, because it’s about a spaced out female pothead. She is such an uninhibited toker, that the story turns unbearably paranoiac, as she stumbles from one train rack to another, until the hilarious last 10 minutes. 4/10.

🍿 The X-rated Paddington, Seth MacFarlane’s directional debut Ted. A cute and often funny fairy tale about a friendship between two lazy slackers, one a grown up slacker and one a party-hardy, raunchy pothead/alcoholic teddy bear. Not exactly Disney stuff. With Norah Jones as the bear’s old lover, and Giovanni Ribisi in his scariest role. (Photo Above). 7/10.

🍿 Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the ‘classic’ coming of age in Southern California mall life. I always thought it was a about the always-stoned Jeff Spicoli surfer dude, but actually it was about high-school kids searching for love and sex. Many early roles for young actors who later went to bigger (and better) things, Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh. 3/10.

🍿 And finally, not a movie, but the full recording of The Marijuana-logues (sound only) from their 2004 show. I saw Doug Benson and friends performing it life at a comedy club in Rancho Cucamonga, and loved it.

High-ku’s like: “My girlfriend thinks that I smoke too much pot. I, on the other hand, don’t think I smoke enough pot, because if I did, I’d be finished. And I’m not. Look, we all have our vices: I like to smoke a little weed; she likes to feed the baby. Different strokes for different folks”...

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Ahmad rolled us a really strong joint, then he rolled his first sushi ever, and then we stone-watched the epic Goodfellas again. Deservedly and still one of the finest American movies of all time, and the most recent of the BBC top 20. It’s a rich, frenzy saga, with exhilarating direction, editing, cinematography, soundtrack and depth.

Also a terrific cast that includes bits by Billy Batts’ Frank Vincent, Samuel L. Jackson as Stacks Edwards, Michael Imperioli as ‘Spider’, Mike Starr, Illeana Douglas, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kevin Corrigan, Etc. Also, Scorsese’s real dad & mom (and her famous painting of John Weaving and his two river dogs). 9/10

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Un-related, Jefferson Airplane’s Triad from their ‘Crown of Creation’, an old favorite. I just learned that David Crosby “gave it to them”. RIP, David Crosby.

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Throw-back to the art project:

Jefferson Airplane Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

Organized Crime Ring / Community Harassment / Targeted Harassment in Astoria, NY neighborhood under jurisdiction of 114th Precinct where I have been harassed since Summer 2016 by mostly Muslim and Latino people in the community

As I stated previously, it came to my realization that illegal audio and video surveillance has been directed at and inside my residence since 2016, most likely before this, this is just when I became acutely aware of this possibility.

I am watching Irma Vep, episode 5 where they are discussing a scene in movie being shot that could be viewed as rape. During this specific dialogue, the Muslim neighbor upstairs who drags heavy furniture across his floor everyday, multiple times a day, dragged furniture across floor at the exact moment of scene where this dialogue was spoken "...when abused women were forced to shut up?..."

As I stated previously, I have a theory as to why this was done to me originally, however since I started talking about what has been done to me and continues to be done to me, it looks like a cover up simply, the city of NY is covering up for most likely the employee who hacked my personal, private, and confidential data and leaked medical information (HPV diagnosis in 2008, strains that can cause cervical cancer and Abortion in 2004), and other personal information. This is obvious HIPAA violations which could mean a fine or uo to 10 year sentence since this is a violation of federal law.

This man who lives above me could not inflict real time harassment unless he has access to illegal surveillance directed at and inside my apartment also potential access to personal internet and personal devices, via hacking and cloning, etc

And to cover up for all the measures put in place to silence me, and damage my credibility by making me look crazy, attempting to fabricate situations where I might get into legal trouble, also to damage my credibility so that no one would believe the truth of what has been done to me, all to cover up for someone who is a criminal deviant and needs to be placed in jail and receive immediate mental health help.

Instead of leaving me alone, these animals are hell bent on killing me basically to keep their crimes covered up. I have been going through this targeted harassment in my community since Summer 2016. They are the ones who did the wrong thing, committed crimes against me, I did nothing to anyone for this to happen to me, best explanation is a mentally ill stalker type with an unhealthy interest in me and issues with relating to strong, independent women who knows how to say no unapologetically. I did nothing wrong here, I want to be left alone. The person(s) who did this to me have sever mental health issues that need to be addresed instead of messing with my life because of what they did. They chose to commit a crime, they should suffer the consequences, not me.

They would rather destroy my life and lie about me then face their severe mental health issues and the crimes they have committed against me because I started putting things together and simply won't shut up. I never will either until the persons responsible for this are penalized in some way or until I'm dead or injuring and can no longer communicate regarding the psychological harm, abuse, and torture that has been done to me because of someone's severe mental health issues. That person(s) should not be able to get away with what they have done, they are a danger to society and need help so they dont harm somebody else in such a severe, permanent way for no reason except their problems because the obvious smear campaign that has been put out there regarding myself is a bunch of lies to cover up criminal activity by various NYC and NYS government agencies

In addition to covering up crimes committed against me, I think some of the people harassing me on a daily basis are extreme misogynists, religious nuts, or prejudiced against black people, or a combination of two or more, they simply enjoy and have become addicted to abusing me because I am a black woman and my life has no value to them and I am viewed as not human

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tvrundown USA 2022.06.06

Monday, June 6th:

(exclusive): London Kills (AcornTV, season 3 available, all 5 eps), Bill Burr Presents: "Friends Who Kill" (netflix, comedy special), Action Pack (netflix, animated season 2 available, all 6 eps)

(streaming weekly): Welcome to Wedding Hell (netflix), Murdoch Mysteries (AcornTV, reairs continue)

(hour 1): Roswell NM (theCW, final season 4 opener), Don't Forget the Lyrics! (FOX), American Ninja Warrior (NBC, season 14 opener, 2hrs), "Elizabeth" (Smithsonian, 2hrs)

(hour 2): In The Dark (theCW, final season 4 opener, new night), Beat Shazam (FOX), American Ninja Warrior (NBC, contd), Irma Vep (HBO, limited series premiere), BBQ Brawl (FOOD), "Elizabeth" (Smithsonian, contd, series finale), "The American Presidency" (HIST, regular timeslot, 2hrs)

(hour 3): Breeders (FX), Weakest Link (NBC, season 2 resumes, new time), Gentleman Jack (HBO), "The American Presidency" (HIST, contd) 

[PREVIEW 2022] Nos albums et films les plus attendus de 2022 ! 💿🎬✨ ALBUMS : JANVIER 15/01 : Molly Nilsson - Extreme 21/01 : Boy Harsher - The Runner OST 28/01 : Beirut - Artifacts QuinzeQuinze - Vārua EP FÉVRIER 04/02 :  Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There Animal Collective - Time Skiffs Mitski - Laurel Hell Los Bitchos - Let The Festivities Begin! Cate Le Bon - Pompeii 11/02 : Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You 18/02 : Beach House - Once Twice Melody Metronomy - Small World Blue Hawaii - My Bestfriend’s House EP 25/02 : caroline - caroline MARS 04/03 : Nilüfer Yanya - Painless 18/03 : Yumi Zouma - Present Tense 25/03 : Aldous Harding - Warm Chris Barrie - Barbara AVRIL 08/04 : Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century Wet Leg - Wet Leg Et ceux bientôt annoncés de : Arcade Fire, Desire, Fishbach, Foals, Frank Ocean, Moodoïd, Mount Kimbie, Muddy Monk, Phoenix, Romy, Saint DX, Sinead O’Brien, Tess Roby, Toro y Moi, Vampire Weekend, Warpaint, Jimmy Whispers, The xx… EXCLU : Interview de Black Country, New Road à venir ! 🌟 FILMS : Sous réserve de changements : JANVIER 03/01 : ‘The Green Knight’ de David Lowery (Amazon Prime Video) 05/01 : ‘Licorice Pizza’ de Paul Thomas Anderson ‘Mes frères et moi’ de Yohan Manca 12/01 : ‘Ouistreham’ d’Emmanuel Carrière ‘Vitalina Varela’ de Pedro Costa ‘Jane par Charlotte’ de Charlotte Gainsbourg 14/01 : ‘The Tragedy of MacBeth’ de Joel Coen (Apple TV+) 17/01 : ‘Spencer’ de Pablo Larraín (Amazon Prime Video) 19/01 : ‘Nightmare Alley’ de Guillermo del Toro 26/01 : ‘Un monde’ de Laura Wandel ‘Nos âmes d'enfants’ de Mike Mills ‘Une jeune fille qui va bien’ de Sandrine Kiberlain ‘Adieu Paris’ d’Edouard Baer FÉVRIER 02/02 : ‘The Souvenir Part I’ et ‘The Souvenir Part II’ de Joanna Hogg ‘Red Rocket’ de Sean Baker ‘Introduction’ de Hong Sang-Soo ‘Arthur Rambo’ de Laurent Cantet ‘H6’ de Ye Ye 09/02 : ‘Great Freedom’ de Sebastian Meise ‘The Innocents’ d’Eskil Vogt ‘Vous ne désirez que moi’ de Claire Simon 11/02 : ‘Bigbug’ de Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Netflix) 16/02 : ‘Un autre monde’ de Stéphane Brizé ‘Piccolo Corpo’ de Laura Samani ‘After Blue (Paradis sale)’ de Bertrand Mandico 23/02 : ‘Les Poings desserrés’ de Kira Kovalenko ‘Ils sont vivants’ de Jérémie Elkaïm MARS 02/03 : ‘Rien à foutre’ d’Emmanuel Marre ‘Viens je t’emmène’ d’Alain Giraudie 09/03 : ‘Petite Nature’ de Samuel Theis ‘Soy Libre’ de Laure Portier 16/03 : ‘L'Histoire de ma femme’ d’Ildiko Enyedi ‘Moneyboys’ de C.B. Yi ‘Medusa’ d’Anita Rocha da Silveira ‘A plein temps’ d’Eric Gravel 23/03 : ‘De nos frères blessés’ de Hélier Cisterne ‘Plumes’ d’Omar El Zohairy 30/03 : ‘Retour à Reims (Fragments)’ de Jean-Gabriel Périot AVRIL 06/04 : ‘Contes du hasard et autres fantaisies’ de Ryusuke Hamaguchi ‘Employé / patron’ de Manolo Nieto ‘Libertad’ de Clara Roquet 13/04 : ‘Et il y eut un matin’ d’Eran Kolirin ‘Face à la mer’ d’Ely Dagher ‘Toute une nuit sans savoir’ de Payal Kapadia ‘Le Dernier Piano’ de Jimmy Keyrouz ‘Apples’ de Christos Nikou 20/04 : ‘Murina’ d’Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic ‘Qui à part nous’ de Jonás Trueba 27/04 : ‘Hit the Road’ de Panah Panahi MAI 04/05 : ‘Nitram’ de Justin Kurzel 11/05 : ‘The Northman’ de Robert Eggers ‘Suis-moi, je te fuis’ de Koji Fukada 18/05 : ‘Fuis-moi, je te suis’ de Koji Fukada 25/05 : ‘Clara Sola’ de Nathalie Álvarez Mesén JUIN 15/06 : ‘Sweat’ de Magnus Von Horn ‘Jusqu’ici tout va bien’ de Quentin Dupieux JUILLET 20/07 :  ‘L'Année du requin’ de Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma AOÛT 03/08 : ‘Nope’ de Jordan Peele SEPTEMBRE 14/09 : ‘Chronique d'une liaison passagère’ d’Emmanuel Mouret DÉCEMBRE  14/12 : ‘Avatar 2’ de James Cameron Et ceux bientôt annoncés : ‘Eureka’ de Lisandro Alonso ‘Asteroid City’ de Wes Anderson ‘Cow’ d’Andrea Arnold ‘The Whale’ de Darren Aronofsky ‘Disappointment Blvd.’ d’Ari Aster ‘Irma Vep’ (série) d’Olivier Assayas ‘The Last of Us’ (pilote de série) et ‘Monica’ de Kantemir Balagov ‘White Noise’ de Noah Baumbach ‘Les Herbes sèches’ de Nuri Bilge Ceylan ‘Coma’ et ‘La Bête’ de Bertrand Bonello ‘Don Juan’ de Serge Bozon ‘Ecole de l’air’ de Robin Campillo ‘Decision to Leave’ et ‘The Sympathizer’ (série) de Park Chan-wook ‘Babylon’ de Damien Chazelle ‘The Brutalist’ de Brady Corbet ‘Infinity Pool’ de Brandon Cronenberg ‘Humane’ de Caitlin Cronenberg ‘Crimes of the Future’ de David Cronenberg ‘Disclaimer’ (série) d’Alfonso Cuarón ‘Tori et Lokita’ de Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne ‘Avec amour et acharnement’ et ‘The Stars at Noon’ de Claire Denis ‘Pinocchio’ et ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ (série) de Guillermo del Toro ‘Frère et sœur’ d’Arnaud Desplechin ‘La Nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé’ (série) de Xavier Dolan ‘Blonde’ d’Andrew Dominik ‘Stranger Things 4’ (série) de Matt & Ross Duffer ‘Incroyable mais vrai’ et ‘Fumer fait tousser’ de Quentin Dupieux ‘Second Tour’ d’Albert Dupontel ‘Tár’ de Todd Field ‘The Killer’ de David Fincher ‘Men’ d’Alex Garland ‘L’Innocent’ de Louis Garrel ‘La Lune crevée’ de Philippe Garrel et Jean-Claude Carrière ‘Moussa’ de Romain Gavras ‘Barbie’ de Greta Gerwig ‘La Zone d’intérêt’ de Jonathan Glazer ‘Savagery’ de Miguel Gomes ‘Armaggedon Time’ de James Gray ‘Bones and All’ de Luca Guadagnino ‘Earwig’ de Lucile Hadzihalilovic ‘Shining Sex’ de Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Sion Sono, Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Bertrand Mandico et Kleber Mendonça Filho ‘Un beau matin’ de Mia Hansen-Løve ‘Where to Land’ de Hal Hartley ‘May December’ de Todd Haynes ‘The Lost Daughter’ de Joanna Hogg ‘Le Lycéen’ de Christophe Honoré ‘Twisted Strings’ (série) de Hou Hsiao-Hsien ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ de Tatiana Huezo ‘Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)’ d’Alejandro González Iñárritu ‘The Actor’ de Duke Johnson ‘Blossoms Shangai’ (pilote de série) de Wong Kar-Wai ‘Memory Police’ et ‘lQ83’ (série) de Charlie Kaufman ‘Mektoub My Love : Intermezzo’ et ‘Mektoub My Love : Canto Due’ d’Abdellatif Kechiche ‘Broker’ de Hirokazu Kore-Eda ‘Poor Things’ et ‘Pop. 1280’ de Yorgos Lánthimos ‘Apollo 10 ½’ de Richard Linklater ‘The Way of the Wind’ de Terrence Malick ‘Conan La Barbare’ de Bertrand Mandico ‘Ferrari’ et ‘Tokyo Vice’ (série - pilote) de Michael Mann ‘L’Envol’ de Pietro Marcello ‘La Favorite’ de Maïwenn ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ de Martin McDonagh ‘Occupied City’ de Steve McQueen ‘Empire of Light’ de Sam Mendes ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ de George Miller ‘To the Edge of Sorrow’ de Christian Mungiu ‘Les Cinq diables’ de Léa Mysius ‘The Orphan’ de László Nemes ‘Kock at the door’ de M. Night Shyamalan (prévu pour 2023) ‘Molly in the Darknet’ de Gaspar Noé ‘Oppenheimer’ de Christoher Nolan (prévu pour 2023) ‘The End’ de Joshua Oppenheimer ‘Triangle of Sadness’ de Ruben Östlund ‘Peter von Kant’ de François Ozon ‘Die Glücklichen’ de Christian Petzold ‘Acide’ de Just Philippot ‘Flee’ de Jonas Poher Rasmussen ‘Le temps d’aimer’ de Katell Quillévéré ‘Polaris’ de Lynne Ramsay ‘Showing Up’ de Kelly Reichardt ‘La Chimera’ d’Alice Rohrwacher ‘The Dark Half’ d’Alex Ross Perry ‘Passages’ d’Ira Sachs ‘The Curse’ (série) de Benny Safdie et Nathan Fielder ‘In Front of Your Face’ de Hong Sang-Soo ‘Master Gardener’ de Paul Schrader ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ de Martin Scorsese ‘Kitbag’ de Ridley Scott ‘Un petit frère’ de Leonor Séraille ‘Bora Bora’ d’Albert Serra ‘Limbo’ de Ben Sharrock ‘La Colline parfumée’ d’Aberrahmane Sissako ‘Kimi’ et ‘Full Circle’ (série) de Steven Soderbergh ‘The Fabelmans’ de Steven Spielberg (prévu pour 2023) ‘Flux Gourmet’ de Peter Strickland ‘Women Talking’ de Miriam Toews ‘Anatomie d’une chute’ de Justine Triet ‘Young Sinner’ de Paul Verhoeven ‘Dune : Partie 2’ de Denis Villeneuve (prévu pour 2023) ‘Families Like Ours’ (série) de Thomas Vinterbeg ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ (série) de Lars Von Trier ‘Ripples of Life’ et ‘Mr Crane Is Back’ de Shujun Wei ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ de Helena Whittmann ‘Revoir Paris’ d’Alice Winocour ‘I Am Going to Kill You’ de Nicolas Winding Refn ‘The Son’ de Florian Zeller ‘What Happens’ d’Andrey Zvyagintsev EXCLU : Interviews de Joanna Hogg et Shujun Wei à venir ! 🌟 A&B

I did not win an Edgar last week, but I can say with 100 percent certainty is really was very cool to be nominated.

Here are this week’s stories:

MONDAY The White House Correspondent’s Dinner Shows How You Handle Jokes (Medium)

TUESDAY Baseball’s Unwritten Rules Are Pretend Excuses to Be Meatheads (New York) The Seven Currently Most Fascinating Players in Baseball (MLB.com)

WEDNESDAY The Thirty: Every Team’s MVP So Far (MLB.com) Untitled Medium Piece (Medium)

THURSDAY Untitled MLB Piece (MLB.com)

FRIDAY Your Friday Five (Medium)

(Sorry I do these so early anymore, it’s an organizational device.)

PODCASTS

The Long Game With LZ and Leitch (subscribe in iTunes) It’s a good show! We look at NFL stuff, the NBA Playoffs and talk unwritten rules with the Cardinals’ Jack Flaherty.

Grierson & Leitch (subscribe in iTunes) We discussed “Vortex,” “Hatching” and “Irma Vep.”

Seeing Red (subscribe in iTunes) Bernie Miklasz and I talked about the Cardinals’ lack of hitting.

Waitin’ Since Last Saturday (subscribe in iTunes) No show this week.

The book is ALMOST done. I swear. Have a great week(end) all, and remember: When Ethan performs the rather private act of pleasuring himself in the car's front seat, it's not funny, but when the dog is inspired to copy him, it is. No matter how much I think, I can't decide whether training a dog to do that is cruelty to an animal. 

moe's mega-sync content list : 2022 !

Credit is appreciated but not necessary ✨

book / media links : one |

[ LIVE ACTION ]

SOLO FILMS : blood the last vampire (2009) | la riffa (1991) | suspiria (1977/2018) | The Caller (2011) | Benedetta (2021) | Camille Claudel | Carole Matthieu | Ganja and Hess | Gothika | High Life | Midsommar | Passing 2021 | The Untouchables | The Green Knight | The Story of Adele (1957) | Secret Beyond The Door | Hellboy II : The Golden Army | Let The Right One In | The Autopsy Of Jane Doe | The Handmaiden

TV SHOWS : game of thrones | hannibal | the fall | legend of the blue sea | magnificent century S04 | starz' power | secret forest | sleepless society : insomnia | spartacus | the nanny | wonder woman (1975) | scenes from a marriage | juvenile justice | house of the dragon | rings of power | devil in ohio

FILM SERIES: lady snowblood (1 and 2) | female prisoner (1-4) |

[ ANIMATED ]

SOLO FILMS : stan lee's mosaic | swan princess | Tangled | Mulan I and II | The Little Mermaid | blood the last vampire (2000) | frozen I and II |

ANIME : bloodplus | castlevania | ghost in the shell : sac | kakegurui (S01 / S02) | michiko e hatchin |

CARTOONS : justice league unlimited | teen titans (spanish) | the hollow | w.i.t.c.h | gargoyles | sym bionic titan | samurai jack

ADULT ANIMATION : seis manos | trese (2021) | spawn | american dad (season 1 - 19) | little demon | rick and morty |

[ SORTED BY ACTORS ]

AISHWARYA RAI : Aa Ab Laut Chalen | Aur Pyar Ho Gaya | Bride and Prejudice | Devdas | Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke | Guru | Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam | Provoked

AUBREY HEPBURN : Roman Holiday | Funny Face | Sabrina

AVA GARDNER : 55 days at Peking | At The Beach | Pandora and The Flying Dutchman | Priest Of Love | Seven Days In May | The Barefoot Countessa | The Killers

BAE DOONA : secret forest | the silent sea

ELIZABETH OLSEN : captain america : winter soldier | avengers : age of ultron | captain america : civil war | avengers : infinity war | avengers : endgame | wandavision | doctor strange : multiverse of madness | Sorry For Your Loss (S1-2)

EMILY BROWNING : The Uninvited | Sucker Punch

FAN BINGBING: empress of china | lady of the dynasty

GAL GADOT : Batman V Superman | Justice League Snyder Cut | Wonder Woman | Wonder Woman 1984 | Keeping Up With The Joneses

GENE TIERNEY : Leave Her To Heaven | Laura | On The Riviera | The Ghost Of Mrs. Muir |

GIANNA JUN : blood: the last vampire | legend of the blue sea

GILLIAN ANDERSON : the fall | hannibal

GRACE KELLY : Dial M for Murder | Mogambo | The Country Girl | To Catch A Thief | High Society | Rear Window

HEDY LAMARR : Her Highness and The Bellboy | Ziegfeld Girl | Come Live With Me |

ISABELLE ADJANI : le reine margot | possession | nosferatu

ISABELLE FURHMAN : Orphan / Orphan : First Kill

JESSICA CHASTAIN : ava | the forgiven | scenes from a marriage | the 355

JULIE DELPY : Before (Midnight, Sunrise, Sunset)

MEGAN FOX : Jennifer's body | till death

MERVE BOLUGAR : Magnificent Century ( Season 4 )

MAGGIE CHEUNG : In The Mood For Love | Hero | Irma Vep

MONICA BELLUCCI : La Riffa

MARILYN MONROE : bus stop | don't bother to knock | gentlemen prefer blondes | how to marry a millionaire | let's make love | river of no return | the misfits | there's no business like show business | Niagara | The Seven Year Itch | some like it hot | ladies of the chorus | the prince and the showgirl

MICHIEL HUISMAN : The Age Of Adaline | A Boy Named Christmas

NADINE NASSIB NJEIM : Al Hayba | Cello | Nos Youm

NAOMI WATTS : (coming soon) the ring | the ring two | king kong | luce | the watcher | shut in | boss level | birdman | eastern promises | funny games | mulholland drive | the desperate hour |

REBECCA FERGUSON : the white queen | the girl on the train

REKHA GANESAN : Aastha | Bahurani | Baseraa | Daasi | Mother | Silsila | Suhaag | Umrao Jaan | Vladyka

VIVIAN LEIGH : Anna Karenina | Waterloo Bridge | Gone With The Wind | Heaven Can Wait |

The end of 2017 is rapidly approaching so let’s share some of the good things we discovered about silent films this year.

I reviewed seventy-four silent films in 2017 bringing my total to 374 individual reviews. This is eleven more films than I reviewed in 2016, so I’m pretty happy about that. I also was generally happier with my selections this year than I was last year, as the length of my “favorites” list will probably indicate.

Favorite Silent Films

These are the silent films that I enjoyed the most AND reviewed in 2017. Some were new to me, some were not. They are listed in order of when the review was published. To read my review of the film, click on the title.

Aelita (1924)

Profoundly, gloriously strange and with science fiction design to kill for, Aelita is a mashup of a modern story and a Martian one.

Tiger Rose (1923)

This Canadian-set romance is such a blast thanks to its snappy pace, charismatic cast and on-location photography.

The Flying Ace (1926)

The only complete surviving Richard Norman feature film is also a ton of fun in the pulpy action tradition. Don’t miss it.

Blue Beard (1901)

Melies goes dark in this nightmarish fairy tale and I personally can’t get enough.

The Big Swallow (1901)

Closeups and cannibalism add spice to this imaginative British comedy short.

The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922)

Brilliant examination of a talented woman trapped in a marriage to a buffoon and the extreme measures she is driven to.

The Nose (1963)

Pinscreen animated version of Gogol’s gloriously strange short story, absolutely delightful.

Rescued by Rover (1905)

One of the first genius dog pictures, this film benefits from its charismatic canine star and its real English scenery.

South (1919)

Real footage from Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to cross the South Pole and his heroic efforts to bring his crew back alive.

Crazy Like a Fox (1926)

This has long been my favorite Charley Chase short, it’s laugh-out-loud funny in the splendid Hal Roach style.

Falling Leaves (1912)

Alice Guy’s lyrical film about a child dealing with her sister’s illness. Have your hankies ready.

Sold at Auction (1923)

Snub Pollard is a delight in this strange little comedy about an auctioneer’s assistant who sells the contents of the wrong house.

Habeas Corpus (1928)

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy go dark when they decide to become grave robbers. Great stuff!

The Black Pirate (1926)

Douglas Fairbanks tackled color and piracy and ended up with a mammoth hit. The film plays just as well to modern viewers.

The Last Warning (1929)

Paul Leni’s brilliant direction turns this murder mystery into an event. The perfect merging of German and American film.

Three Million Dollars (1911)

An amiable western rom-com shot outside San Diego, this film is a featherweight delight.

Straight Shooting (1917)

John Ford’s first feature includes plenty of, well, shooting and some lovely glowering from Harry Carey.

Limite (1931)

This independent Brazilian picture has been praised as one of the greatest movies ever made. All that praise is deserved.

Skinner’s Dress Suit (1926)

This examination of 1920s consumerism is all heart and sweetness. Reginald Denny and Laura La Plante are simply divine.

The Strong Man (1926)

  Best Actress

Even though the serial itself is not my favorite, I have to give top honors to Musidora in Les Vampires. She thoroughly steals the show as the treacherous Irma Vep, which is not easy to do in a six hour plus movie.

Honorable Mention: Laura La Plante in Skinner’s Dress Suit, Clara Bow in IT, Germaine Dermoz in The Smiling Madame Beudet, Gertrude Astor in The Strong Man.

Best Actor

Harry Langdon’s performance in The Strong Man is a master class in comedy. He charms, tickles our funnybones and tugs at our heartstrings. Such layering deserves recognition.

Honorable Mention: Reginald Denny in Skinner’s Dress Suit, Harry Carey in Straight Shooting, Carlos Villatoro in The Ghost Train, Raymond Griffith in You’d Be Surprised and Hands Up, Paul Robeson in Body and Soul, Forrest Stanley in Tiger Rose.

Best Director

I went back and forth between Paul Leni (The Last Warning) and Mario Peixoto (Limite) and simply could not come to a decision. Therefore, these two worthy gentlemen share the best director honor for the year. Both created stylish and thrilling films, one from within the Hollywood system and the other as a total independent. Both accomplishments deserve celebration.

Honorable Mention: Frank Capra for The Strong Man, Germaine Dulac for The Smiling Madame Beudet, Alice Guy for Falling Leaves, Yakov Protazanov for Aelita.

Favorite Groundbreakers

Claws of Gold is not shy.

The filmmakers of Latin America. The sheer determination of these independent filmmakers is impressive and their imaginative, daring films continue to enchant audiences. From the confident artistry of Limite to the bold political stance of Claws of Gold, Latin American silent films are a treasure trove for any film buff.

We must also tip our hats to Oscar Micheaux, who created a film career for himself with determination and a lot of hard work. His films continue to astonish audiences and give us the perspective of a black American filmmaker during a time when mainstream Hollywood was completely ignoring African-American voices. (Not that Hollywood gets any prizes on that front in the modern era either.) I reviewed Body and Soul.

Honorable mention must also go to Cecil Hepworth for Rescued by Rover, an early international blockbuster and a great example of the charm of British silent film.

Best Design

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Could I possibly have chosen anything besides Aelita? This film practically invented the sci-fi aesthetic.

Honorable Mention: Warning Shadows, The Last Warning, Blue Beard, Les Vampires, The Nose, Falling Leaves, Blackmail.

Top New Reviews

Blackmail (1929)

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Blackmail

Aelita

Body and Soul

Les Vampires

Duck Soup

Top Oldie-but-Goodie Reviews

A Trip to the Moon

The Captive

Ben-Hur

The Gold Rush

The Great Train Robbery

Phew! Big list this year. I hope everybody else’s viewing was a successful. What were some of your favorite silent film discoveries this year? Be sure to share!

The Best of 2017: Favorite Silent Films, Reviews, Performances and More! The end of 2017 is rapidly approaching so let's share some of the good things we discovered about silent films this year.

Les Vampires (1915) Dir. Louis Feuillade

http://www.blackcoatpress.com/new-releases-december-2017-tales-of-the-shadowmen-14-coup-de-grace.html

TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 14: COUP DE GRACE edited by J-M. & R. Lofficier

cover by Florine Rétoré US$23.95/GBP 14.99 - 6x9 tpb, 300 p. - ISBN-13: 978-1-61227696-0

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Matthew Baugh: The Lights on Haint Mountain (starring Silver John, Madame Atomos)

Adam Mudman Bezecny: The Curse of Orlac (starring Orlac, Sar Dubnotal)

Nathan Cabaniss: Hero of Two Worlds (starring the Marquis de Lafayette)

Matthew Dennion: A Case of Mistaken Identity (starring Tedduy Verano, the Highlander)

Brian Gallagher: The Death of Von Bork (starring Captain Vampire, Irma Vep)

John Gallagher: Princes of the Universe (starring Solomon Kane)

Martin Gately: Rouletabille at the Old Bailey (starring Rouletabille)

Micah S. Harris: Beneath the Mount of Divination (starring Aramis, Brom Cromwell)

Travis Hiltz: The Case of the Remains to be seen (starring Spiridon, Prof. Brainerd)

Paul Hugli: The Night of the Dazzling Sun (starring Honey West, Tom Wills, The Nyctalope)

Matthew Ilseman: Guided Tours of Famous Secret Places (starring Haunted Places of Paris)

Rick Lai: Phantom Masquerade (starring Fantômas)

Nigel Malcolm: Tomorrow belongs to the Nyctalope (starring The Nyctalope, Stalker)

Christofer Nigro: Kindred Beasts (starring Judex, Felifax)

Frank Schildiner: Dice, Pearl and Sword (starring Rocambole, Zatoichi)

Michel Stéphan: The Odyssey of Madame Atomos (starring Madame Atomos)

Artikel Unbekannt: The Yellow Peril (starring The Yellow Shadow)

David L. Vineyard: The Third Eye of Osiris (starring Arsene Lupin, Fu Manchu)

Coup de grâce – the ultimate blow, the final strike in the merciless battle that pits good vs evil, heroes vs villains! But does it signal the triumph of order or the victory of chaos? In this fourteenth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, the Marquis de Lafayette finds himself transported to Mars while Silver John runs afoul of Madame Atomos. Captain Vampire is plagued by Irma Vep. The Highlander challenges the leader of the Black Coats. Rouletabille appears at the Old Bailey. Aramis clashes with the unearthly presence of Baal. Rocambole meets Zatoichi, Honey West teams up with the Nyctalope, and Fantômas pays his debt to the King in Yellow.

Also starring Arsène Lupin, Felifax, Sâr Dubnotal, Harry Dickson, Teddy Verano, and many more. Tales of the Shadowmen is the only anthology dedicated to the international heroes and villains of pulp literature, where writers from all over the world pay homage to those great champions and master criminals who enchanted our adolescence.

I wasn’t able to contribute this year.  Part because of writers block, and partly because the artistic inspiration I have had has been more Anime inspired and so not really fitting the theme of this anthology anymore. 

But I do want to keep spreading awareness of this series and this Publisher in general.