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My Favorite Music Albums
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Voices from the Lake - s/t (2012)* ...

Voices from the Lake - s/t (2012)*
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3037831625_16.jpg

10th anniversary remastered:...
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My Favorite Music Albums
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Re: My Favorite Music Albums

Ali Hassan Kuban - Walk Like A Nubian (1991)...
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
Re: My Favorite Music Albums

Idoli - Odbrana i poslednji dani (1982)
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2730fa159f2ad33b6cf95bd3e93

Favorite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOg-bn2sWU
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My Favorite Music Albums
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Re: My Favorite Music Albums

Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages (1993)
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/6081dd0e8d6e56e8d5d73dc0/1:1/w_1500,h_1500,c_limit/Sonny%20Sharrock:%20Ask%20the%20Ages.jpeg

Favorite track:...
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
El Polen - Fuera de la Ciudad (1973) ...

El Polen - Fuera de la Ciudad (1973)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2468306904_10.jpg

Favorite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvLeNjLblMk
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My Favorite Music Albums
Posted By Tyler1
My Favorite Music Albums

Unlike movie lists I have done in the past, this is neither definitive nor ranked. I shall simply post the albums which have resonated and left a lasting impression on me. Also, as music is very much...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-19-23
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Mr Minio's Top 300 (2021 ed.)
Posted By Tyler1
Certainly the most tragic and its my 2nd...

Certainly the most tragic and its my 2nd favorite. Late Spring is my no.1.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-19-23
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Mr Minio's Top 300 (2021 ed.)
Posted By Tyler1
Apologies for replying 2 years late. Sansho was...

Apologies for replying 2 years late. Sansho was one of my favorites which I appreciated even more upon rewatch, especially after going through the classics and New Waves etc.. Ugetsu, Oharu and Story...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 04-18-23
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John Wick CHP 4
Posted By Tyler1
Re: John Wick CHP 4

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Last hour or so has some of the finest sequences you will ever get to witness in action cinema.
Forum: Games and Tabs 04-18-23
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Important: Movie Tab II
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Movie Tab II

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - rating_4
Triangle of Sadness (2022) - rating_4
This is not a Burial, it's a Resurrection (2019) - rating_2
Burning (2018) - rating_3
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-20-23
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Stop Worshiping False Idols
Posted By Tyler1
My response was, admittedly, merely reflecting...

My response was, admittedly, merely reflecting our current sentiment and has no meaning outside of the milieu in which it is uttered. Throughout history there have been grand proclamations about the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-19-23
Replies: 43
Stop Worshiping False Idols
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Stop Worshiping False Idols

Cinephilia is the love of the simulacra and its power to simulate. There is no realm of Platonic Forms which give rise to true copies. The false will always return to haunt those who attempt to...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-19-23
Replies: 69
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

I'm an unabashed leftist and I can confirm I love John Ford. What matters most is to read and analyze auteurs/artists/thinkers/writers in new ways which they themselves could not have foreseen. What...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-16-23
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Opinions on BFI 2022 Sight and Sound Poll
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Opinions on BFI 2022 Sight and Sound Poll

Here's my review of the new no. 1 voted film in perhaps the most prestigious film poll. In case anyone is curious to know why I think so highly of Jeanne Dielman, here is my review on letterboxd -...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-16-23
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The Philosophy of Science Fiction
Posted By Tyler1
Re: The Philosophy of Science Fiction

I believe the days of wishful technofascism in which Man masters himself and Nature are long gone. If anything, some of the greatest works of science fiction philosophy are all about the de-centering...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-27-21
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Help me with Foreign (Non-English) Movie Recommendations
Posted By Tyler1
Bunuel's world is a microcosm of how ideology,...

Bunuel's world is a microcosm of how ideology, constituted by the bourgeoisie's linguistic games, has become so far detached from its material conditions. As an allegory of the impotent bourgeois...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-27-21
Replies: 254
Help me with Foreign (Non-English) Movie Recommendations
Posted By Tyler1
A Man Escaped is a pure action film. Pure in this...

A Man Escaped is a pure action film. Pure in this regard - that it shows the conditions of possibility for action rather than the observed outcomes of action. Because of its retrospective nature (the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-27-21
Replies: 254
Help me with Foreign (Non-English) Movie Recommendations
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Help me with Foreign (Non-English) Movie Recommendations

Mr. Minio's answer is pretty spot-on regarding traditional East Asian values about family. Late Spring is the quintessential film about liminality - centered around a period of uncertainty, between...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-24-21
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A personal canon of 100 films (2021 ed.)
Posted By Tyler1
A personal canon of 100 films (2021 ed.)

Inspired by Mr. Minio. No pictures, write-ups, no countdown.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMCdwdqrEpcQtubyZbeEv97cSwXPATxiaiMA&usqp=CAU

Here is the full list in...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-23-21
Replies: 145
Mr Minio's Top 300 (2021 ed.)
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Mr Minio's Top 300 (2021 ed.)

Very surprised to see how much you appreciate Sansho the Bailiff. I older I get the more I seem to appreciate certain films and Sansho would be one of those.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-20-21
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The Loss of Cinema as a Centripetal Force in Culture
Posted By Tyler1
Re: The Loss of Cinema as a Centripetal Force in Culture

Isn't there a hidden assumption behind OP's conjecture that the formation and transmission of culture is not possible without presupposing a clearly defined set of (mainstream/"blockbuster") movies...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-16-21
Replies: 35
Foreign Language Movie Exchange...Recommendations Thread
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Foreign Language Movie Exchange...Recommendations Thread

Latin America:

Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea, 1968)
Black God, White Devil (Rocha, 1964)
Invasión (Santiago, 1969)
Jackal of Nahueltoro (Littín, 1969)
In the Mouth of the Wolf (Lombardi,...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-12-21
Replies: 69
Movie journey with Mr Minio
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Movie journey with Mr Minio

I must admit I am only familiar with his gangster films like The Mission, Exiled and Election. I've always seen any romance threads as peripheral sub-plots in those films. Now I am interested in...
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Rate your last drink
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Rate your last drink

Did a Islay scotch flight and ranked the 6 drams as follows: Laphroaig 10 > Bunnahabhain 12 > Caol Ila 12 > Bowmore 12 > Lagavulin 16 > Ardberg 10
Forum: Movie Reviews 02-26-21
Replies: 7,111
The Movie Forums Top 100 of All-Time Refresh: Countdown
Posted By Tyler1
I concede that it's still extremely popular....

I concede that it's still extremely popular. Actually my issue was less about its placement or ranking in lists but on its reception and justifications for situating it as such. Considering that...

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