Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This was my first criterion watch!!!!! I’ve been wanting some forever, so god damn expensive though - just happened to reload marketplace at the right moment to see someone selling 5 (Rashomon, Until the End of the World, Notorious, Blow Out, and this) for the price of one! It looked sooo beautiful in this quality, that grain is fantastic.
Anyway, it’s always interesting to me to see an artist’s proclivity get expanded and molded over time. Lynch had a real…
Just an absolute fuckin classic baby. All these still look beautiful, aged amazingly, and anything that doesn’t just adds to the charm for me. Extended editions for all of them, of course, I have never seen these in non-extended version, and I’m never gonna there’s no point. Everything feels necessary, it doesn’t even feel that long since it’s so fantastically paced. Best personal lil winter tradition for me, lookin forward to next timeee.
Alright, Leone’s definitely improving as we go along. Still not good by far, but we had a lot of fun with it for sure, and it was definitely thanks to an increased pace to get to what you’re actually watching these for. “Fuck them kids and fuck my baby dad” - Madi.
Felt that itch for this, and also happened to recently see a post about how Nicholson looks into the camera often throughout the movie (which is something I never really noticed aside the bar scenes), so had to boot up, and yea he definitely does - that’s so fucking good. Real quick too, enough to make you think huh did he just - and yea, he did.
I could write a whole ass essay on this movie and I might…