1000<400 Challenge (Official, January 2022)

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314

21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277



This deliberately paced drama might have really taken off if given more of a thriller treatment with characters who think that they are being followed and increasing deaths. As the lethargically paced affair that it is though, the film only works in bits and pieces. There is a memorable small turn by Max von Sydow who waxes poetically about what justice means and the final ten minutes are really well done, but any sense of urgency is absent for the most part.

Keeping track:

[ckfilm88]

5.) Blokada (Blockade) (2006) #666

It's incredible that this was released in 2006. Sergey Loznitsa makes it feel like it was released in the 1940s by essentially presenting the footage just as it was in the 1940s. He doesn't add any music or dialogue. It is equal parts fascinating and devastating, showing the brutalities of war with very little intervention from the director.

53/500(+3) & 93/1000(+1)

1.) Blood on the Moon (1948) #575
2.) Das finstere Tal (The Dark Valley) (2014) #153
3.) Landscape Suicide (1987) #254
4.) Original Cast Album: Company (1970) #429

[AB537]

Landscape Suicide is really interesting as a departure from what Benning usually does. It probably appealed to me more overall than his better known films.

I haven't seen any of his other work, so can't comment on that. Landscape Suicide was okay but didn't really do a whole lot for me - probably won't prioritize seeking out his other work.

[sol]

Landscape Suicide is really interesting as a departure from what Benning usually does. It probably appealed to me more overall than his better known films.

I haven't seen any of his other work, so can't comment on that. Landscape Suicide was okay but didn't really do a whole lot for me - probably won't prioritize seeking out his other work.

I think you'd be surprised. Most of Benning's films are documentaries consisting of only a handful of static shots and no interviews or narration.

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277

22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296



Ivan Dixon is exceptionally strong in the lead role here, frequently trying to avoid confrontation but also strong-willed enough to not let all the bigots get the better of him. There is a particularly great scene where he is confronted while pumping gas and manages to keep things under control despite a noticeable fire burning behind his eyes. Outside of Dixon's performance, the film is more of a mixed bag. Subplots come and go - but Abbey Lincoln shines.

Keeping track:

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296

23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377



Alberto Cavalcanti's tribute to the city of Paris, this experimental documentary tries to capture the metropolis as "only a succession of images can bring to life". It is a relatively interesting premise and some of the imagery is downright phenomenal - most notably the iconic shot with all the eyes. Much of the movie though feels random and unfocused, including an elongated sequence in the mix that keeps cutting between still photos of food/wastage.

And yes - I did just go from one Nothing But film to another.

Keeping track:

[gunnar]

6 - Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) - 8/10 - #250 - This documentary covers the trial of a 15 year old black boy who was coerced by police into confessing to the murder of a woman outside a Jacksonville motel early on a Sunday morning. The police did almost no investigating and just picked the boy off the street as he was walking to Blockbuster in hopes of getting a job there. It's a good documentary, but a sad situation and a very bad look for the Jacksonville police.

7 - Muddy River (1981) - 8/10 - #2 - Nobuo is a third grader who lives with his family in their noodle shop by the river in postwar Osaka. He befriends a boy his age named Kiichi who lives in a houseboat with his sister and mother and just arrived in the area. This is a very nice film. It's kind of melancholy overall, but has good performances all around. I think being shot in black and white fits the movie well.

8 - The Visit (1964) - 8/10 - #661 - Ingrid Bergman plays Karla, a self made millionaire who returns to the town that forced her out of town 20 years earlier as a pregnant 17 year old. They think that she is there to be generous to her old hometown, but she is intent on revenge against Serge (Anthony Quinn), the man who fathered her child and then denied it. Nice performances and one that maintains its momentum throughout.

9 - The Promised Land (1975) - 7.5/10 - #47 - Three friends - a Pole, a German, and a Jew - decide to open up a textile factory in 1880s Lodz. The film shows the callous exploitation of labor by the few people with money who controlled businesses. It's a good film and is based on a novel from the late 1890s.

Spoiler

1 - Electric Dragon 80000 V (2001) - 3/10 - #321
2 - None Shall Escape (1944) - 7/10 - #554
3 - The Ninth Circle (1960) - 8/10 - #403
4 - Journey of Hope (1990) - 8/10 - #231
5 - West of Zanzibar (1928) - 6/10 - #590

[zzzorf]

Spoiler

1. Visages d'enfants (1925) - 8/10 #240
2. Beauty and the Beast (1978) - 8/10 #57
3. Garde à vue (1981) - 7/10 #66

4. Umut (1970) - 5/10 #710


Started off pretty poor but it did pick up, never enough for me to fully enjoy it but enough to give it a better rating. Doesn't meet the rating cutoff for my list.


5. Diabel (1972) - 3/10 #50


I don't think I really understood what was going on here and the acting never really helped me at all. Definitely not making my list.


6. Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988) - 7/10 #618


My first Vardas and I found myself really enjoying it. It was a different sort of documentary. Also Jane looks so much like Charlotte, the apple didn't fall far from the tree there. Should make my list.

[tourdesb]

37. Skazka stranstviy (1983, Aleksandr Mitta) #955
38. Na srebrnym globie (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) #118
39. Lepa sela lepo gore (1996, Srdjan Dragojevic) #743
40. Das finstere Tal (2014, Andreas Prochaska) #153
41. Ne me quitte pas (2013, Niels van Koevorden & Sabine Lubbe Bakker) #792

326/500 - 544/1000

1. Kdo chce zabít Jessii? (1966, Václav Vorlícek) #138
2. Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem (1977, Jindrich Polák) #221
3. Milano calibro 9 (1972, Fernando Di Leo) #141
4. La rose de fer (1973, Jean Rollin) #388
5. Rozmarné léto (1968, Jiri Menzel) #978
6. Simone Barbès ou la vertu (1980, Marie -Claude Treilhou) #886
7. Ovoce stromu rajských jíme (1970, Vera Chytilov) #909
8. Poil de carotte (1925, Julien Duvivier) #867
9. Balada o siedmich obesených (1968, Martin Hollý) #907
10. Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (1968, Susumu Hani) #963
11. Kyojin to gangu (1958, Yasuzô Masumura) #717
12. Tobenai chinmoku (1966, Kazuo Kuroki) #641
13. Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965, Kurt Maetzig) #639
14. Yume no ginga (1997, Gakuryu Ishii) #203
15. Himiko (1974, Masahiro Shinoda) #256
16. More (1969, Barbet Schroeder) #732
17. The Incident (1967, Larry Peerce) #15
18. Boxer a smrt (1963, Peter Solan) #262
19. Histórias que Só Existem Quando Lembradas (2011, Júlia Murat) #362
20. Trys dienos (1991, Sharunas Bartas) #227
21. Dni zatmeniya (1988, Aleksandr Sokurov) #177
22. Shunpu den (1965, Seijun Suzuki) #319
23. Mikres Afrodites (1963, Nikos Koundouros) #285
24. Prípad pro zacínajícího kata (1970, Pavel Jurácek) #332
25. Drak sa vracia (1968, Eduard Grecner) #371
26. Ame agaru (1999, Takashi Koizumi) #367
27. La donna del lago (1965, Luigi Bazzoni & Franco Rossellini) #499
28. Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (2010, Jan Svankmajer) #478
29. Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (2006, Jiri Menzel) #469
30. À Flor do Mar (1986, João César Monteiro) #442
31. Deveti krug (1960, France Stiglic) #403
32. Romeo, Julie a tma (1960, Jirí Weiss) #518
33. À l'ombre de la canaille bleue (1986, Pierre Clémenti) #505
34. Crainquebille (1922, Jacques Feyder) #892
35. Le monde vivant (2003, Eugène Green) #558
36. Pisma myortvogo cheloveka (1986, Konstantin Lopushanskiy) #46
37. Skazka stranstviy (1983, Aleksandr Mitta) #955
38. Na srebrnym globie (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) #118
39. Lepa sela lepo gore (1996, Srdjan Dragojevic) #743
40. Das finstere Tal (2014, Andreas Prochaska) #153
41. Ne me quitte pas (2013, Niels van Koevorden & Sabine Lubbe Bakker) #792

[OldAle1]

Late start, and won't be making much of an effort here, but I'll be happy if I end up with at least 10. I was at 409 seen from the whole list at the beginning of the year; would like to hit the bronze on 500<400 this year but...we'll see. It's not gonna happen this month anyway.

1. Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh, 1957) #434



RIP Sidney Poitier. The reviews of this widescreen (1.85) Technicolor WB production often point to Gone With the Wind for comparison, which seems obvious but still a little strange; this is 18 years later, any number of GWTW wannabes had already come and gone in the interim, and it really doesn't seem to even be trying for that "epic" feel (well, maybe just a little). But it's got Clark Gable, and a romance at the heart of things, involves slavery and the Civil War, etc, so I guess that counts for a lot. In any case while this isn't nearly as overtly racist as the 1939 film, and while the performances are generally good (with Poitier probably the standout as an angry slave who hates his master Gable BECAUSE he's been well-treated, though it's a small-ish role) and the production values high, it's really on the whole kind of tedious and seems to be caught in a no-man's land between trying to be just slightly more progressive and also traditional enough that it could still play in the south and outside the big cities. Also the miscegenation & mixed-blood angle - heroine Yvonne DeCarlo is sold into slavery to wealthy Gable after it's found out that she had a black mother, something her planter father forgot to tell her before he died - just never seems very real here; perhaps getting an actress who was at least darker-skinned or (horrors!) actually was mixed-race would have made things more convincing, but I guess even in 1957 Hollywood couldn't do that - not when she has to kiss Gable at one point, and we have to assume they go to bed. Eh. I'm still not as big a Walsh fan as most other people who love the classic era seem to be, and this isn't going to help convince me otherwise.

2. Diabel (Andrzej Żuławski, 1971) #50

Jakub, a young nobleman, is in prison awaiting death during the Prussian invasion of Poland in 1793, when he is rescued, along with a nun, by a stranger - who quickly shows himself to be the Devil of the title, at least in action and personality if not in supernatural powers (though that remains an open question throughout the film). Jakub and the nun escape and travel across country to his estate, where he finds his father dead, his mother a whore, and a great many other disturbances. Always the stranger is near him, to goad him towards violence. This is - like the other two Zulawski films I've seen - a film of madness and chaos and violence, and while it is compulsively watchable and "entertaining" in a certain way, it goes even further than those others (Possession and Na srebrnym globie in it's misanthropy, here tilting into what I would call full-on nihilism, which for me is usually pretty hard to take. I'm fairly misanthropic myself I suppose but this endless parade of unpleasantness that ultimately seems to add up to a notion that nothing matters, that no one can be saved, that the world is in chaos and spinning out of control, is a bit too much. I did quite like the director's use of wide-angle lenses and jagged visuals (lots of nicely done hand-held shots here), and the electric guitar-heavy score by Andrzej Korzynski, and I can't help but to fall into his negative spell much of the time, but I'm not sure it's something I want to experience again anytime soon. A film I really liked then but in it's fairly extreme rejection of the world, perhaps one that I'm scared to like even more

[filmbantha]

I was intending to make this my primary focus for the month but after a relatively disappointing start to the challenge I have wandered astray with my viewings to watch other things instead. Here are a few additions since my last update:

8. The Plumber (1979) 6/10
Peter Weir's made for TV movie, The Plumber, is an intriguing oddity that pitches a young couple (Jill and Brian Cowper) against an eccentric plumber when he visits their apartment block to take a look at their bathroom. The repairs seem to be never ending and the clear class divide between the plumber and the Cowper's gives rise to some uncomfortable situations as Jill believes his intent is sinister. There are many amusing scenes though the horror elements aren't as successful as the black comedy and this holds the film back from being anything more than a mildly entertaining diversion.

9. The Medusa Touch (1978) 5/10
The Medusa Touch takes an exciting concept - a man who believes he has telekinetic powers that are capable of causing fatal disasters - and drains most of the life out of it by giving us a dull investigative drama that lacks tension or intrigue. There are some great ideas within the script and the film boasts an impressive cast of thespians, though their performances are largely lacklustre and this prevents the chilling idea at the heart of the story from having much of an impact.

10. Sunset Song (2015) 6/10
Terence Davies' epic saga about a farmer's daughter coming of age in Scotland during the early 1900s paints a vivid picture of rural life with its stunning cinematography that does an excellent job of transporting you back to the era. The bleak and tragic nature of the story should provide a powerful experience though the film drags in places and lacks the emotional pull for you to connect with the lead character. This is largely due to a shift in tone part way through when a love interest arrives on the scene, as the second half of the film has far less impact than the harrowing opening sequences. Sunset Song is clearly an accomplished work, and its conventionality makes it easier to digest than Terence Davies' more abstract efforts, though its overblown denouement holds it back from living up to the promise set out in its first half.

Fingers crossed I find at least one new addition to my own list before the month is through!

Spoiler

1. Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970) 6/10
2. Ganja & Hess (1973) 5/10
3. Outrage (1950) 6/10
4. The Night Stalker (1972) 5/10
5. The Iron Rose (1973) 5/10
6. Body Melt (1992) 6/10
7. The Grapes of Death (1978) 6/10

[72aicm]

030. #764 Ma jiang (1996)
031. #800 Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001)
032. #902 Sambizanga (1972)
033. #989 Sangailes vasara (2015)

881/1000

#085 Martin Eden (2019)
#229 Simple Men (1992)
#271 Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari (2018) (added to my list)
#301 Halt auf freier Strecke (2011) (added to my list)
#330 Mes petites amoureuses (1974)
#446 La beauté du diable (1950)
#458 Yangguang puzhao (2019)
#489 Vitalina Varela (2019)
#491 Sunshine on Leith (2013) (added to my list)
#496 Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (1946)
#568 Une simple histoire (1959) (added to my list)
#586 Chûshingura (1962)
#598 Sicilia! (1999)
#628 The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
#630 Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (1965)
#655 Tol'able David (1921)
#656 Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (added to my list)
#681 Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
#695 Quest (1984)
#711 This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019)
#722 The Scarlet Letter (1926)
#743 Lepa sela lepo gore (1996)
#750 La Marseillaise (1938)
#764 Ma jiang (1996)
#768 Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
#769 Fountain of Dreams (1984)
#777 Maîtresse (1976) (added to my list)
#790 Underground (1928)
#800 Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001)
#808 Breakaway (1966)
#821 An Optical Poem (1938)
#843 Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta (1971)
#851 Lot in Sodom (1933)
#854 L'enfant de Paris (1913)
#885 Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
#893 Passage à l'acte (1993)
#902 Sambizanga (1972)
#931 The Fountain of Youth (1958)
#979 Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
#989 Sangailes vasara (2015)
#997 Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy (1997)

[toromash]

Keeping it real as a 500<400 challenge

1. The Inhuman Woman (Marcel L'Herbier 1924) #112 8.2/10

2. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer 1987) 8/10 #167
What a delightful collection of short stories, though centered on the same two girls from the title. The best one is the third, where they begin an argument of morality, justice, and motive in the perspective of crime. I begin to find it funny that all the female characters are some student with a humanistic background (this time ethnology and an painter). Like why has there never been any female nurse in a Rohmer film. His films are probably just stories about all his ex girlfriends throughout the time, and they never age.

[jdidaco]

5. Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber, 1933) 9/10 (RV) (27 min) (#851), Thunder (Takashi Ito, 1982) 8/10 (RV) (5 min) (#165), Ghost (Takashi Ito, 1984) 8.5/10 (RV) (6 min) (#643), Quest (Saul Bass & Elaine Bass, 1984) 8/10 (30 min) (#695), Passage à l'acte (Martin Arnold, 1993) 9/10 (RV) (12 min) (#893) (Total: 80 min)
6. Sto dney posle detstva (One Hundred Days After Childhood, Sergey Solovyov, 1975) 10/10 (#789)

Spoiler

1. Foxfur (Damon Packard, 2012) 4.5/10 (#914)
2. Der Nachtmahr (The Nightmare, Achim Bornhak (AKIZ), 2015) 5.5/10 (#533)
3. S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (Paul Sharits, 1971) 9/10 (#904)
4. The Medusa Touch (Jack Gold, 1978) 7.5/10 (#766)

[sol]

8 - The Visit (1964) - 8/10 - #661 - Ingrid Bergman plays Karla, a self made millionaire who returns to the town that forced her out of town 20 years earlier as a pregnant 17 year old. They think that she is there to be generous to her old hometown, but she is intent on revenge against Serge (Anthony Quinn), the man who fathered her child and then denied it. Nice performances and one that maintains its momentum throughout.

I'm big into paranoia thrillers, so I absolutely loved this one too. Hopefully it will get a bit more momentum with the Cup this month.

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296
23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377

24. Enchanted Desna (1964) #357



This has been described as an "abstract depiction of the childhood of Aleksandr Dovzhenko". Given his importance in cinema history, a biography of Dovzhenko's adult life may have been more interesting, which is not to say that this is boring, but it is very all-over-the-place. Graphic war scenes are interspersed with boys running through bright green fields, while voiceover narration comes and goes and odd fantastical touches abound (talking horses).

Keeping track:

[ororama]

5. Ikarie XB 1 (1963) * 86 min. #768

Spoiler

1. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) * 101 min.  #600
2. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001) * 54 min.  #321
3. Landscape Suicide (1986) * 95 min.  #254
4. The Flying Luna Clipper (1987) * 55 min.  #409

*First time viewing

[AB537]

6. What Happened Was ... (Tom Noonan, 1994) 6.5/10 ... #378

[72aicm]

034. #689 Choose Me (1984)
035. #767 Qiu Jue (1972)

883/1000

#085 Martin Eden (2019)
#229 Simple Men (1992)
#271 Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari (2018) (added to my list)
#301 Halt auf freier Strecke (2011) (added to my list)
#330 Mes petites amoureuses (1974)
#446 La beauté du diable (1950)
#458 Yangguang puzhao (2019)
#489 Vitalina Varela (2019)
#491 Sunshine on Leith (2013) (added to my list)
#496 Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (1946)
#568 Une simple histoire (1959) (added to my list)
#586 Chûshingura (1962)
#598 Sicilia! (1999)
#628 The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
#630 Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (1965)
#655 Tol'able David (1921)
#656 Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (added to my list)
#681 Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
#689 Choose Me (1984)
#695 Quest (1984)
#711 This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019)
#722 The Scarlet Letter (1926)
#743 Lepa sela lepo gore (1996)
#750 La Marseillaise (1938)
#764 Ma jiang (1996)
#767 Qiu Jue (1972)
#768 Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
#769 Fountain of Dreams (1984)
#777 Maîtresse (1976) (added to my list)
#790 Underground (1928)
#800 Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001)
#808 Breakaway (1966)
#821 An Optical Poem (1938)
#843 Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta (1971)
#851 Lot in Sodom (1933)
#854 L'enfant de Paris (1913)
#885 Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
#893 Passage à l'acte (1993)
#902 Sambizanga (1972)
#931 The Fountain of Youth (1958)
#979 Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
#989 Sangailes vasara (2015)
#997 Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy (1997)

[AB537]

7. Série noire (Alain Corneau, 1979) 7/10 ... #288

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296
23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377
24. Enchanted Desna (1964) #357

25. The Sun In A Net (1963) #281



The plot of this Slovak drama is so disjointed that it is often hard to follow with parallel plotlines occurring at the same and interspersed with scenes that are possibly flashbacks. Fortunately the film is so gorgeous to look at that the plot fuzziness is only an occasional nuisance. The whole thing is shot with a healthy variety of high and low camera angles, high contrast is used well and there are some great shots of things only seen reflected in sunglasses.

Keeping track:

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296
23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377
24. Enchanted Desna (1964) #357
25. The Sun In A Net (1963) #281

26. The Warped Ones (1960) #107



The protagonist here is quite a horrid individual and this would be a downbeat watch were it not for some kinetic editing, plenty of jazzy music and much mobile camerawork, all of which combine to make this quite an electric ride. The film has been compared to A Clockwork Orange and this especially comes through in the final fifteen minutes of near-comeuppance. This of course predated ACO, though Akira here is sadly less complex than Kubrick's Alex.

Keeping track:

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296
23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377
24. Enchanted Desna (1964) #357
25. The Sun In A Net (1963) #281
26. The Warped Ones (1960) #107

27. The White Dove (1960) #745



a dreamlike early feature from František Vláčil. The plot is very elusive with the film constantly going back and forth in time and replaying events from different angles and perspectives, but while baffling at its weakest, this is enchanting at its best - which is very often. The voyeuristic camerawork throughout is breathtaking, while the stark black and white tones lead to some simply magical nighttime scenes - most notably walking on water.

Keeping track:

[hurluberlu]

3. Daughter of the Nile / Ni luo he nu er (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 1987) [#653] 8-
4. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (Gakuryû Ishii, 2001) [#321] 7
5. Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh, 1957) [#434] 5

Spoiler

1. My Golden Days / Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (Arnaud Desplechin, 2015) [Rewatch] [#644] 9
2. Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper, 2017) [#369] 6-

[klaus78]

Spoiler

1. #95 Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza...' [Love & Anarchy] (1973) 7/10
2. #97 Khrustalyov, mashinu! [Khrustalyov, My Car!] (1998) 8/10
3. #109 Yoru wa mijikashi aruke yo otome [The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl] (2017) 6/10
4. #114 La jaula de oro [The Golden Dream] (2013) 8/10
5.-9. #457 Acht Stunden sind kein Tag [Eight Hours Don't Make a Day] (1972) 6/10

10. #115 Streetwise (1984) 7/10
11. #130 Kladivo na carodejnice [Witchhammer] (1970) 7/10
12. #137 Le dossier 51 (1978) 6/10

[72aicm]

036. #891 Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
037. #930 Krzyzacy (1960)
038. #967 Mandingo (1975) (added to my list)

886/1000

#085 Martin Eden (2019)
#229 Simple Men (1992)
#271 Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari (2018) (added to my list)
#301 Halt auf freier Strecke (2011) (added to my list)
#330 Mes petites amoureuses (1974)
#446 La beauté du diable (1950)
#458 Yangguang puzhao (2019)
#489 Vitalina Varela (2019)
#491 Sunshine on Leith (2013) (added to my list)
#496 Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (1946)
#568 Une simple histoire (1959) (added to my list)
#586 Chûshingura (1962)
#598 Sicilia! (1999)
#628 The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
#630 Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (1965)
#655 Tol'able David (1921)
#656 Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (added to my list)
#681 Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
#689 Choose Me (1984)
#695 Quest (1984)
#711 This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019)
#722 The Scarlet Letter (1926)
#743 Lepa sela lepo gore (1996)
#750 La Marseillaise (1938)
#764 Ma jiang (1996)
#767 Qiu Jue (1972)
#768 Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
#769 Fountain of Dreams (1984)
#777 Maîtresse (1976) (added to my list)
#790 Underground (1928)
#800 Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001)
#808 Breakaway (1966)
#821 An Optical Poem (1938)
#843 Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta (1971)
#851 Lot in Sodom (1933)
#854 L'enfant de Paris (1913)
#885 Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
#891 Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
#893 Passage à l'acte (1993)
#902 Sambizanga (1972)
#930 Krzyzacy (1960)
#931 The Fountain of Youth (1958)
#967 Mandingo (1975) (added to my list)
#979 Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
#989 Sangailes vasara (2015)
#997 Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy (1997)

[AB537]

8. Systemsprenger - System Crasher (Nora Fingscheit, 2019) 6.5/10 ... #259 ... I found this to be a stressful film to watch

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296
23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377
24. Enchanted Desna (1964) #357
25. The Sun In A Net (1963) #281
26. The Warped Ones (1960) #107
27. The White Dove (1960) #745

28. The Wolf House (2018) #238



By all accounts, this film works better with historical knowledge, but even entered into with limited background, this is amply weird and unique. The story is pretty strange, involving a girl befriending a couple of pigs and playing a game in which she makes them human, or something like that. The real treat though is the animation style, which varies from painted sets blending together to papier-mâché stop motion animation, images bleeding into each other.

Keeping track:

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296
23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377
24. Enchanted Desna (1964) #357
25. The Sun In A Net (1963) #281
26. The Warped Ones (1960) #107
27. The White Dove (1960) #745
28. The Wolf House (2018) #238

29. The Dark Valley (2014) #153



This has scattered memorable moments (nails to the eyes; forced coin eating) but constantly feels like it would have worked better as a briskly paced thriller. Tension rarely ever builds with some much time elapsing between the plot highlights, and as the filmmakers resort to including slow motion in some of the shootouts towards the end, the movie ultimately feels much longer than it is. The final scene with the family patriarch is certainly worth it though.

Keeping track:

[hurluberlu]

6. The Visit (Bernhard Wicki, 1964) [#661] 7+
7. No Name on the Bullet (Jack Arnold, 1959) [#173] [Rewatch] 8

Was quite interesting to watch these two with such a commonality in the plot, ie a character coming to town to execute a revenge and exacerbating the morale corruption of locals, albeit complete different settings.

Spoiler

1. My Golden Days / Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (Arnaud Desplechin, 2015) [Rewatch] [#644] 9
2. Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper, 2017) [#369] 6-
3. Daughter of the Nile / Ni luo he nu er (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 1987) [#653] 8-
4. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (Gakuryû Ishii, 2001) [#321] 7
5. Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh, 1957) [#434] 5

[tourdesb]

42. Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968, Yuri Ilyenko) #91
43. De laatste dagen van Emma Blank (2009, Alex Van Wamerdam) #942
44. Les raisins de la mort (1978, Jean Rollin) #943
45. Krzyzacy (1960, Aleksander Ford) #930
46. La mala ordina (1972, Fernando Di Leo) #918

327/500 - 549/1000

1. Kdo chce zabít Jessii? (1966, Václav Vorlícek) #138
2. Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem (1977, Jindrich Polák) #221
3. Milano calibro 9 (1972, Fernando Di Leo) #141
4. La rose de fer (1973, Jean Rollin) #388
5. Rozmarné léto (1968, Jiri Menzel) #978
6. Simone Barbès ou la vertu (1980, Marie -Claude Treilhou) #886
7. Ovoce stromu rajských jíme (1970, Vera Chytilov) #909
8. Poil de carotte (1925, Julien Duvivier) #867
9. Balada o siedmich obesených (1968, Martin Hollý) #907
10. Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (1968, Susumu Hani) #963
11. Kyojin to gangu (1958, Yasuzô Masumura) #717
12. Tobenai chinmoku (1966, Kazuo Kuroki) #641
13. Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965, Kurt Maetzig) #639
14. Yume no ginga (1997, Gakuryu Ishii) #203
15. Himiko (1974, Masahiro Shinoda) #256
16. More (1969, Barbet Schroeder) #732
17. The Incident (1967, Larry Peerce) #15
18. Boxer a smrt (1963, Peter Solan) #262
19. Histórias que Só Existem Quando Lembradas (2011, Júlia Murat) #362
20. Trys dienos (1991, Sharunas Bartas) #227
21. Dni zatmeniya (1988, Aleksandr Sokurov) #177
22. Shunpu den (1965, Seijun Suzuki) #319
23. Mikres Afrodites (1963, Nikos Koundouros) #285
24. Prípad pro zacínajícího kata (1970, Pavel Jurácek) #332
25. Drak sa vracia (1968, Eduard Grecner) #371
26. Ame agaru (1999, Takashi Koizumi) #367
27. La donna del lago (1965, Luigi Bazzoni & Franco Rossellini) #499
28. Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (2010, Jan Svankmajer) #478
29. Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (2006, Jiri Menzel) #469
30. À Flor do Mar (1986, João César Monteiro) #442
31. Deveti krug (1960, France Stiglic) #403
32. Romeo, Julie a tma (1960, Jirí Weiss) #518
33. À l'ombre de la canaille bleue (1986, Pierre Clémenti) #505
34. Crainquebille (1922, Jacques Feyder) #892
35. Le monde vivant (2003, Eugène Green) #558
36. Pisma myortvogo cheloveka (1986, Konstantin Lopushanskiy) #46
37. Skazka stranstviy (1983, Aleksandr Mitta) #955
38. Na srebrnym globie (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) #118
39. Lepa sela lepo gore (1996, Srdjan Dragojevic) #743
40. Das finstere Tal (2014, Andreas Prochaska) #153
41. Ne me quitte pas (2013, Niels van Koevorden & Sabine Lubbe Bakker) #792
42. Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968, Yuri Ilyenko) #91
43. De laatste dagen van Emma Blank (2009, Alex Van Wamerdam) #942
44. Les raisins de la mort (1978, Jean Rollin) #943
45. Krzyzacy (1960, Aleksander Ford) #930
46. La mala ordina (1972, Fernando Di Leo) #918

[72aicm]

039. #631 Opfergang (1944)
040. #693 Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979)
041. #865 The Other Side of the Underneath (1972)
042. #980 Anne of the Indies (1951)

890/1000

#085 Martin Eden (2019)
#229 Simple Men (1992)
#271 Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari (2018) (added to my list)
#301 Halt auf freier Strecke (2011) (added to my list)
#330 Mes petites amoureuses (1974)
#446 La beauté du diable (1950)
#458 Yangguang puzhao (2019)
#489 Vitalina Varela (2019)
#491 Sunshine on Leith (2013) (added to my list)
#496 Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (1946)
#568 Une simple histoire (1959) (added to my list)
#586 Chûshingura (1962)
#598 Sicilia! (1999)
#628 The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
#630 Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (1965)
#631 Opfergang (1944)
#655 Tol'able David (1921)
#656 Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (added to my list)
#681 Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
#689 Choose Me (1984)
#693 Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979)
#695 Quest (1984)
#711 This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019)
#722 The Scarlet Letter (1926)
#743 Lepa sela lepo gore (1996)
#750 La Marseillaise (1938)
#764 Ma jiang (1996)
#767 Qiu Jue (1972)
#768 Ikarie XB 1 (1963)
#769 Fountain of Dreams (1984)
#777 Maîtresse (1976) (added to my list)
#790 Underground (1928)
#800 Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (2001)
#808 Breakaway (1966)
#821 An Optical Poem (1938)
#843 Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta (1971)
#851 Lot in Sodom (1933)
#854 L'enfant de Paris (1913)
#865 The Other Side of the Underneath (1972)
#885 Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
#891 Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
#893 Passage à l'acte (1993)
#902 Sambizanga (1972)
#930 Krzyzacy (1960)
#931 The Fountain of Youth (1958)
#967 Mandingo (1975) (added to my list)
#979 Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
#980 Anne of the Indies (1951)
#989 Sangailes vasara (2015)
#997 Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy (1997)

[zzzorf]

Spoiler

1. Visages d'enfants (1925) - 8/10 #240
2. Beauty and the Beast (1978) - 8/10 #57
3. Garde à vue (1981) - 7/10 #66
4. Umut (1970) - 5/10 #710
5. Diabel (1972) - 3/10 #50
6. Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988) - 7/10 #618

7. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) - 4/10 #991


This had its moments but overall I didn't enjoy the jumping from scene to scene very much, just seemed a bit disjointed. Won't qualify for my list.

[DudeLanez]

6. Die Parallelstrasse (The Parallel Street, 1962, Khittl) 7/10 #14
7. Systemsprenger (System Crasher, 2019, Fingscheidt) 6,5/10 #259

Spoiler

1. Opfergang (The Great Sacrifice, 1944, Harlan) 6/10 #631
2. Der Samurai (2014, Kleinert) 6,5/10 #928
3. Der Fan (The Fan, 1982, Schmidt) 5/10 #340
4. Morgen beginnt das Leben (Life Begins Tomorrow, 1933, Hochbaum) 6,5/10 #906
5. Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999, Thorwarth) 5/10 #830
6. Die Parallelstrasse (The Parallel Street, 1962, Khittl) 7/10 #14
7. Systemsprenger (System Crasher, 2019, Fingscheidt) 6,5/10 #259

[AB537]

9. Der amerikanische Soldat - The American Soldier (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970) 6/10 ... #589
10-13. Show Me a Hero (Paul Haggis/HBO, 2015, 6 episode miniseries) 7.5/10 ... #364 ... 38 minutes carried over

[sol]

Spoiler

1. Rewind This! (2013) #958
2. Deep Water (2006) #712
3. Diabel (1972) #50
4. Foxfur (2012) #914
5. Mandingo (1975) #967
6. Sweetgrass (2009) #563
7. Der Samurai (2014) #928
8. The Wise Kids (2011) #975
9. Sleeping Giant (2015) #845
10. Sennentuntschi (2010) #844
11. The Color Wheel (2011) #825
12. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) #649
13. Helter Skelter (2012) #341
14. Larks on a String (1969) #381
15. The Green Years (1963) #497
16. Carnival of Sinners (1943) #106
17. My Brother's Wedding (1983) #392
18. Paraguayan Hammock (2006) #796
19. House On Trubnaya (1928) #343
20. Peppermint Frappé (1967) #314
21. Illustrious Corpses (1976) #277
22. Nothing But a Man (1964) #296
23. Nothing But Time (1926) #377
24. Enchanted Desna (1964) #357
25. The Sun In A Net (1963) #281
26. The Warped Ones (1960) #107
27. The White Dove (1960) #745
28. The Wolf House (2018) #238
29. The Dark Valley (2014) #153

30. Daguerreotypes (1975) #490



Agnès Varda interviews and observes various local shopkeepers from her hometown in this documentary. It is fairly dull at first, but things massively pick up when a local magician enters the picture around halfway in. He is the clear highlight of the project, fascinating the locals with his tricks and sometimes even explaining how certain illusions (like a knife through the arm) are done. Unfortunately though, he is never really the focus of the project.

Keeping track:

[tourdesb]

47. Morgen beginnt das Leben (1933, Werner Hochbaum) #906
48. Sacco e Vanzetti (1971, Giuliano Montaldo) #891
49. Zugvögel - ... einmal nach Inari (1998, Peter Lichtefeld) #588
50. Chûshingura (1962, Hiroshi Inagaki) #586

327/500 - 553/1000

1. Kdo chce zabít Jessii? (1966, Václav Vorlícek) #138
2. Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem (1977, Jindrich Polák) #221
3. Milano calibro 9 (1972, Fernando Di Leo) #141
4. La rose de fer (1973, Jean Rollin) #388
5. Rozmarné léto (1968, Jiri Menzel) #978
6. Simone Barbès ou la vertu (1980, Marie -Claude Treilhou) #886
7. Ovoce stromu rajských jíme (1970, Vera Chytilov) #909
8. Poil de carotte (1925, Julien Duvivier) #867
9. Balada o siedmich obesených (1968, Martin Hollý) #907
10. Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (1968, Susumu Hani) #963
11. Kyojin to gangu (1958, Yasuzô Masumura) #717
12. Tobenai chinmoku (1966, Kazuo Kuroki) #641
13. Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965, Kurt Maetzig) #639
14. Yume no ginga (1997, Gakuryu Ishii) #203
15. Himiko (1974, Masahiro Shinoda) #256
16. More (1969, Barbet Schroeder) #732
17. The Incident (1967, Larry Peerce) #15
18. Boxer a smrt (1963, Peter Solan) #262
19. Histórias que Só Existem Quando Lembradas (2011, Júlia Murat) #362
20. Trys dienos (1991, Sharunas Bartas) #227
21. Dni zatmeniya (1988, Aleksandr Sokurov) #177
22. Shunpu den (1965, Seijun Suzuki) #319
23. Mikres Afrodites (1963, Nikos Koundouros) #285
24. Prípad pro zacínajícího kata (1970, Pavel Jurácek) #332
25. Drak sa vracia (1968, Eduard Grecner) #371
26. Ame agaru (1999, Takashi Koizumi) #367
27. La donna del lago (1965, Luigi Bazzoni & Franco Rossellini) #499
28. Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (2010, Jan Svankmajer) #478
29. Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (2006, Jiri Menzel) #469
30. À Flor do Mar (1986, João César Monteiro) #442
31. Deveti krug (1960, France Stiglic) #403
32. Romeo, Julie a tma (1960, Jirí Weiss) #518
33. À l'ombre de la canaille bleue (1986, Pierre Clémenti) #505
34. Crainquebille (1922, Jacques Feyder) #892
35. Le monde vivant (2003, Eugène Green) #558
36. Pisma myortvogo cheloveka (1986, Konstantin Lopushanskiy) #46
37. Skazka stranstviy (1983, Aleksandr Mitta) #955
38. Na srebrnym globie (1988, Andrzej Zulawski) #118
39. Lepa sela lepo gore (1996, Srdjan Dragojevic) #743
40. Das finstere Tal (2014, Andreas Prochaska) #153
41. Ne me quitte pas (2013, Niels van Koevorden & Sabine Lubbe Bakker) #792
42. Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968, Yuri Ilyenko) #91
43. De laatste dagen van Emma Blank (2009, Alex Van Wamerdam) #942
44. Les raisins de la mort (1978, Jean Rollin) #943
45. Krzyzacy (1960, Aleksander Ford) #930
46. La mala ordina (1972, Fernando Di Leo) #918
47. Morgen beginnt das Leben (1933, Werner Hochbaum) #906
48. Sacco e Vanzetti (1971, Giuliano Montaldo) #891
49. Zugvögel - ... einmal nach Inari (1998, Peter Lichtefeld) #588
50. Chûshingura (1962, Hiroshi Inagaki) #586

[hurluberlu]

50. Chûshingura (1962, Hiroshi Inagaki) #586

Is it good ? Has been on my watchlist for a while.

[ororama]

6. Intimate Lighting (1965) * 73 min. #368
I've wanted to watch this for a very long time. Funny but melancholy, like several other Czechoslovak New Wave movies.

Spoiler

1. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) * 101 min.  #600
2. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001) * 54 min.  #321
3. Landscape Suicide (1986) * 95 min.  #254
4. The Flying Luna Clipper (1987) * 55 min.  #409
5. Ikarie XB 1 (1963) * 86 min.  #768

*First time viewing

[tourdesb]

50. Chûshingura (1962, Hiroshi Inagaki) #586

Is it good ? Has been on my watchlist for a while.

The film has great visual and costumes, but for some reason I didn't feel thrilled.
I would have probably enjoyed it better if I hadn't seen the Mizoguchi before.