film notes updates

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+Encounters At The End Of The World (2007)
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Rewatched with friends.
+
+
+Hard Boiled
+-------------
+
+So good!
+
+
 The Net (1995)
 ----------------
 
+Meh. Very 90s.
+
+
 Subway
 -----------
 
@@ -35,6 +50,12 @@ Pacific Heights is rich and horrible), but Bullitt is much better.
 Those blue McQueen eyes!
 
 
+American Factory
+--------------------
+
+Some memorible bits, but in the end felt sort of aimless.
+
+
 Pain and Glory
 -----------------
 
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+
+Blade Runner 2049
+=================
+
+Re-watched, held up well. Robin Wright and Jared Leto are great.
+
+
+Serenity
+=========
+
+Re-watched, meh.
+
+
+John Wick (1 and 2)
+====================
+
+A tiny bit cheeky, but mostly just high-budget, well-made, generic action.
+Entertaining if you like watching fight scenes. Airplane films.
+
+
+Some Kind of Heaven
+======================
+
+The documentary about "The Villages", a city-sized retirement community in
+Florida. I expected to be a more direct documentary about the place, but this
+ended up being mostly a series of character studies. Some of the scenes and
+interviews were somewhat unbelievable; were they staged? Especially the
+unremorseful and blunt psychonaut husband.
+
+
+Tokyo Story
+============
+
+Watched with L, B, and C on a trip to the Olympic Penninsula. Many classic
+shots. Slow, thoughtful. Apparently the creators didn't think it
+would get much international reception because it was "too Japanese", but I was
+surprised how universal it felt. Also surprised it was able to be produced at
+all in the near post-war period.
+
+
+Sherpa and Fourteen Peaks
+===========================
+
+Two separate documentaries about Himalayan mountaineering, both pretty good.
+The 14 peaks story is almost unbelievable, and feels borderline foolhardy, he
+just climbs so fast and hard and takes risks to meet an arbitrary time limit.
+
+
+Dune (2021)
+============
+
+Very pretty, some nice scenes, characters, costumes, and world-building. In the
+end felt like just eye candy and "entertainment" though, did not add anything
+special or new to the story telling. This is a finely executed and polished
+film, but David Lynch's version brought a lot more to the table.
+
+
+Incendies
+==========
+
+This was very good, though parts of it were so brutal they felt like a stab in
+the back by the directory/screenwriter.
+
+
+No Time to Die
+===============
+
+Bond, not particularly memorable. Airplane film.
+
+
+The Grandmaster
+=================
+
+Will watch Tony Leung in anything. The early scenes were fun. Some characters
+were confusingly just pasted in to the film with no other context. Airplane
+film.
+
+
+Suicide Squad
+===============
+
+L liked this so I gave it a try. Was surprisingly enjoyable, especially the
+first 10-15 minutes.
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+
+Black Mirror: San Junipero
+===========================
+
+Watched because it gets referenced a lot in pop culture. Decent, but I didn't
+like it as much as the similar (to me) episode with the mortal kombat fighting,
+which had a lot of similar themes.
diff --git a/film/to-watch.page b/film/to-watch.page
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@@ -54,10 +54,8 @@ Films To Watch
  * 500 Days of Summer
  * God Bless America
  * The Game (Fincher)
- * American Psycho
  * Network
  * The Tree of Life
- * Glengarry Glen Ross
  * The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Coen Brothers)
  * House of Games
  * We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F)
@@ -72,7 +70,6 @@ Films To Watch
  * Summer Wars (2009, anime)
  * Together (2000, Swedish)
  * A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen)
- * I Am Love (Tilda Swinton)
  * Margin Call
  * The Listening (2006)
  * Pather Panchali (1955)
@@ -94,15 +91,11 @@ Films To Watch
  * The Untouchables (1987)
  * City of Women (Felini, 1980)
  * Norma Rae
- * Subway (Luc Besson)
  * The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
- * Genesis II (Roddenberry; 1973; Futurama-like plot) (also "The Questor
-   Tapes")
- * Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
+ * Genesis II (Roddenberry; 1973; Futurama-like plot) (also "The Questor Tapes")
  * Hard to Be a God (2014)
  * Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
  * Downfall (2004)
- * Inside Llewyn Davis
  * Cache (2005, Haneke)
  * Volver
  * Talk To Her
@@ -114,8 +107,6 @@ Films To Watch
  * Arabian Nights (2015, Gomes, 3 parts)
  * Knight of Cups (2015)
  * Titus (1999; Shakespearean)
- * Agora (Library of Alexandria, 2009)
- * Only God Forgives (Bangkok Ryan Gosling, 2013)
  * Daisies (Czech new wave, 1966, Věra Chytilová)
  * Woman on Top (Penelope Cruz romcom, 2000)
  * Okja (2017)
@@ -129,6 +120,45 @@ Films To Watch
  * Hunger (2008, McQueen)
  * Adults in the Room (2019; Yanis Varofakis)
  * Virtuosity (1995)
+ * Black is King (Beyonce, 2020)
+ * Lucky Grandma (2020)
+ * She's Gotta Have It
+ * 25th Hour
+ * Police Story (Jackie Chan)
+ * Cameraperson (2016)
+ * Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
+ * The Master (2012)
+ * Magic Mike (2012)
+ * Shadow (2019)
+ * Princess of the Row (2020)
+ * The Public (2018)
+ * Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
+ * Redefining the Anti-War Film (long essay)
+ * Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (?)
+ * A Star Is Born
+ * Three Days of the Condor
+ * 1900
+ * Mank (December 2020)
+ * Force Majeure
+ * Judas and the Black Messiah
+ * Black Bear
+ * Family Romance, LLC (2019, Herzog)
+ * Psycho Goreman
+ * Nomadland
+ * Widows (2018)
+ * The Ipcress File (1965)
+ * Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
+ * King of New York (1990)
+ * Last and First Men (2020)
+ * Victoria (2015)
+ * The Parallax View (1974; Seattle)
+ * Stolen Kisses (Godard)
+ * On the Waterfront
+ * Contempt (Godard)
+ * The Harder They Fall (2021; netflix)
+ * Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
+ * Reds (1981)
+ * Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  * Your Name (2016, animated; maybe?)
  * Boyz n the Hood (1991)
  * Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
@@ -150,7 +180,6 @@ Documentaries:
  * October Sky
  * Road House (1989)
  * Maidentrip (around the world solo teen)
- * Only God Forgives (Bangkok Ryan Gosling, 2013)
  * Lo and Behold (Herzog Internet)
  * Last Days in Vietnam
  * National Bird (drones, 2016)
@@ -159,8 +188,38 @@ Documentaries:
  * Ex Libris (NYC Library)
  * Sinai Field Mission
  * The Art of the Steal (2009; art collection)
+ * Titicut Follies
+ * High School (doc)
+ * The Bunker Films (2020)
+ * The Pruitt-Igo Myth (2012)
+ * What is Democracy (Astra Taylor)
+ * Dead Slow Ahead (2015; marine shipping)
+
+Anime:
+
+ * Deca-Dence
+ * Patlabor (robot anime)
+ * Knights of Sidonia (anime, TV series)
+ * Dorohedoro
+ * Great Pretender (TV series)
+ * No Guns Life
+ * The Sky Crawlers (2008, anime)
+ * Space Runaway Ideon (series, and film; Evangelion-like?)
+ * Belladonna
 
 Other Lists:
 
  * ["15 Great Films That You Never Hear About on r/movies"](http://imgur.com/a/BwuZY)
  * [Full Films on Youtube](http://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube)
+
+Via L:
+
+ * Sherpa (2015, documentary)
+ * An Elephant Sitting Still (2017; Chinese; very long)
+ * The Running Man (1987; Arnold)
+ * Following (1998; Christopher Nolan)
+ * Long Day's Journey into Night (2018; Chinese)
+ * Incendies (2010; Denis Villeneuve)
+ * Prisoners (2013; Denis Villeneuve)
+ * Strangers on a Train (1951; Hitchcock)
+ * Collectiv (2019)