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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
-----------------
@@ -57,3 +78,28 @@ Bombshell
-------------
This was good. A juicy, buzzy story.
+
+
+--------
+
+- BlacKkKlansman
+- 10 year (HK)
+- Spy Game
+- Contagion
+- uncut gems
+- just mercy
+- the core
+- the killer (1989)
+- plot against america (TV)
+- adaptation
+- mean girls
+- da 5 bloods
+- the craft
+- shadow
+- as tears go by
+- rat film
+- the deuce (tv)
+
+
+next?
+- show me a hero
diff --git a/film/2021.page b/film/2021.page
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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.
+
+Following (1998)
+================
+
+The Thin Man (1934)
+=====================
+
+They Live
+==========
+
+The Blues Brothers (1980)
+==========================
+
+Dead Pigs
+==========
+
+Prisoners (2013)
+=================
+
+Long Day's Journey into Night (2018)
+=====================================
+
+Incendies
+==========
+
+This was very good, though parts of it were so brutal they felt like a stab in
+the back by the directory/screenwriter.
+
+Black Bear
+==========
+
+
+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.
+
+The French Dispatch
+=====================
+
+Don't Look Up
+==============
diff --git a/film/2022.page b/film/2022.page
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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.
+
+
+Force Majure (original)
+=========================
+
+I don't know if I liked this or not.
+
+
+Downfall (Der Untergang, 2004)
+===============================
+
+
+Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
+===============================
+
+Was excited for this, but it was sort of all over the place.
+
+Memoria
+==========
+
+Audio-heavy, with Tilda Swinton. Watched with N, really liked it. Many Great
+scenes. Some later parts were borderline, almost gave up on it, but held it
+together, and I liked it.
+
+Point Break (1991)
+===================
+
+Everything Everywhere All at Once
+===================================
+
+Probably best film i've seen this year.
+
+Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas)
+=====================================
+
+Pretty great!
+
+Kimi
+=======
+
+Licorice Pizza
+================
+
+Life in the Freezer (TV)
+=========================
+
+The Batman (2022)
+==================
+
+Severance, Season One (TV)
+==========================
+
+Started well, has some great twists, and the premise works well. But very
+little gets resolved, feels like a setup for a long series.
+
+The Host
+========
+
+Wrath of Man
+============
+
+Generic action, entertaining.
+
+The Eight Hundred
+=================
+
+Melodramatic Chinese WW2 war film set in a building in Shanghai right next to
+the international quarter. High budget, bloody.
+
+
+Police Story
+============
+
+Light and funny, lots of physical comedy.
+
+
+The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
+==============================================
+
+The "Nick Cage playing Nick Cage" film. Not as good as hoped.
+
+
+Strangers on a Train (1951)
+============================
+
+Not as tight and good as some Hitchcock, but pretty memorable.
+
+
+The Gray Man (2022)
+=====================
+
+Ryan Reynolds, generic action film. Large budget, but didn't feel very
+glamorous. Silly, but also sort of trying too hard.
+
+
+For All Mankind (TV, 2022 Season)
+===================================
+
+Big budget, Apple TV, speculative fiction slash alternate history. Decent
+mainstream TV, mostly character driven.
+
+The Wind Rises (2013)
+=====================
diff --git a/film/to-watch.page b/film/to-watch.page
index 82f9850..d9b4df4 100644
--- a/film/to-watch.page
+++ b/film/to-watch.page
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
Films To Watch
--------------
+ * Red Turtle (Ghibli, 2016)
* Children of Paradise (big budget french occupation carne)
* Brain Candy
* One, Two, Three
@@ -91,8 +92,7 @@ Films To Watch
* City of Women (Felini, 1980)
* Norma Rae
* The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
- * Genesis II (Roddenberry; 1973; Futurama-like plot) (also "The Questor
- Tapes")
+ * 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)
@@ -120,6 +120,59 @@ 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)
+ * Heat
+ * The Shining
+ * The Exorcist
+ * Monsoon Wedding
+ * On the Rocks (2020)
+ * Kingdom of Heaven (2005; extended version)
+ * Unleashed (Jet Li, 2005)
+ * Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg, 2022)
+ * Anarchists (Park Chan-wook, 2000)
+ * Thirst (Park Chan-wook, 2009)
+ * Stoker (Park Chan-wook, 2013)
Documentaries:
@@ -138,7 +191,6 @@ 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)
@@ -147,8 +199,40 @@ 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)
+ * Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
+ * Boys State (2020, government camp)
+
+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)