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Forum: Movie Reviews 08-06-21
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Thanks once again to Thursday, Yoda, Miss Vicky,...

Thanks once again to Thursday, Yoda, Miss Vicky, and everyone else whose efforts have given us such a great list. Maybe the least contentious list we've done yet, which is nice.

Now onto my...
Forum: Movie Reviews 08-04-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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The Seventh Seal was my #15. A medieval folktale that manages to be both starkly nightmarish and comically absurdist, all while meditating on what a higher power truly means (whether it be God or...
Forum: Movie Reviews 08-03-21
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Spirited Away was my #12. I've obviously given the edge to Mononoke already, but there's no denying how much of a classic this is (even if it is arguably the most accessible entry point for...
Forum: Movie Reviews 08-02-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Stalker was my #2. Easy enough canonical pick but as someone whose tastes skew pretty hard towards science fiction, it's hard to disregard one of the true greats in the genre (and yet no Solaris on...
Forum: Movie Reviews 08-01-21
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8½ was my #16. Maybe the best movie about movies ever made and one of the better films I've seen that deal in artistically-minded self-consciousness.

I've seen Pan's Labyrinth at least a couple...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-29-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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City of God made it onto my first top 100 all the way back in 2005, but then again so did Superman II and Revenge of the Sith. I rewatched it earlier this year and honestly don't think it holds up as...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-28-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Aguirre was my #5. Herzog has obviously gone bigger and weirder over the years, but him doing his own take on a conquistador biopic by using guerrilla tactics and a stolen camera is the kind of...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-27-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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"I'm better than all the plebs who don't watch...

"I'm better than all the plebs who don't watch black-and-white movies, also I can't tell the difference between a silent film and a talkie."

Anyway, I haven't seen Amelie in ages and have no idea...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-26-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Ran was my #7. A truly astonishing epic of such remarkable scale and vivacity that never loses touch with the human element underneath. Sorely tempted to start watching it now even though it's about...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-25-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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No votes. Woman in the Dunes was very close, just one of the most starkly desperate and fascinating films ever made. Oldboy, like many a film that too easily gets lumped into the "film bro" canon, is...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-25-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Excellent films, but I didn't vote for either. Definitely owe Andrei Rublev a revisit, at least.
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-24-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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No votes. I've seen Late Spring once and liked it, definitely been meaning to rewatch it. I've seen Das Boot a couple of times and thought it was astonishing both times - still meaning to watch the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-22-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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I've seen La Dolce Vita once and liked it, should really revisit it to see how it holds up for me. Haven't seen The Cranes Are Flying.
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-22-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Akira was my #1. I've written enough about it on here over the years so I'll just let the ranking speak for itself.

Le Samourai did not make my list, but I did revisit it earlier this year and...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-21-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Wings of Desire was my #19. A charmingly...

Wings of Desire was my #19. A charmingly existential and humanist exercise in romantic fantasy that could be trite and gimmicky in the wrong hands (especially with how it intersperses the angels'...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-19-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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In the Mood for Love was my #11. I rewatched a bunch of WKW earlier this year so that might account for why both it and Chungking took such respectable places in my ballot, but that doesn't make them...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-18-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Both excellent, voted for neither.
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-17-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Fanny and Alexander was my #18. Definitely one of the best Bergman films (if not the best) - will get around to the TV version one of these days but the theatrical version is still an excellent...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-16-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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I've seen Yojimbo a few times now and High and Low for the first time recently, but I find both excellent. Didn't put either on my list, though.
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-14-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Have not seen La Strada. Grave of the Fireflies is as good as its reputation suggests, still don't consider it a top-tier favourite though.
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-14-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
Posted By Iroquois
Forget it, Keyser. It's matt72582.

Forget it, Keyser. It's matt72582.
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-13-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Princess Mononoke was my #4. Peak Ghibli/Miyazaki for me, which puts it very high in my all-time estimation.

While I recognise Tati's importance as an artist, none of his work had really had much...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-12-21
Replies: 2,033
The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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No votes. I kept nodding off during the time I attended a rep screening of Close-Up but between the fact that I've liked every other Kiarostami I've seen and how he is one of those filmmakers who...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-11-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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Whatever, man, it's been a long season. ...

Whatever, man, it's been a long season.

Anyway, didn't vote for this latest pair. I've only seen Sansho the once (kind of an unofficial rule that I didn't vote for anything I'd only seen once) but...
Forum: Movie Reviews 07-11-21
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The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown
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45/50

No votes for any of the latest batch, though they are all very good. Tokyo Story is probably my favourite of the bunch, kind of surprised it didn't crack the top half of the list at least...

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