zircona1 wrote:Redline wrote:Rififi (Du Rififi Chez les Hommes) (1956) - Great jewel-heist / gangster film that really delivers with one of the best "break into the building" scenes ever. Heroin is also involved. Top notch.You should watch The Red Circle (Le Cercle Rouge) if you haven't seen it, it's another great crime film and features one of the best jewel heist scenes too. Unfortunately, it's out of print, so I don't know where one could see it for now:https://www.criterion.com/films/628-le-cercle-rougeYeah, I'm hoping it comes in used at the Exclusive Co. in my hood. They have a great Criterion collection section, many times they come in 2nd hand at a better price.

Transit - Christian PetzoldA mystery about refugees, really enigmatic, beautiful and, needless to say, melancholic as fuck.Kiss Me Deadly - Robert AldritchReally solid noir, the turning point in the film is pretty unexpected, still holds up well, burning mannequins and all.Hush..Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Robert AldritchSouthern gothic mystery, wherein Bette Davis lets her inner demons loose to great and hysterical effect. Spectacular hallucination sequences.To Sleep with Anger - Charles Burnett A dreamlike meditation on family, labour, the persistence of past troubles, the slow creeping reach of evil, etc. Danny Glover is magnificent.

Watched The Friends of Eddie Coyle last night for the first time in a while. Still righteous.

A\_Man\_Who\_Tries wrote:Watched The Friends of Eddie Coyle last night for the first time in a while. Still righteous.Must treat myself to this again soon. One of the most melancholic crime films ever. Really good late-career choice for Mitchum.

Started watching Berlin Alexanderplatz again the other night, on the Criterion Channel. Likely thee greatest serial audio-visual experience I've seen. Totally evokes the Weimar era. Sometimes I need to recalibrate and get a heavy dose of the real stuff just to remember why I bother looking at screens in the first place. There's so much life in it. A truly novelistic film experience. Way ahead of its time. Troubling, of course, but never uninteresting.It's very disappointing, however, to visit movie review sites and read what some hack "politically oriented" young reviewers have to say about it. Talk about missing the point, like...completely. It makes me feel hella glad I'm not in academia right now teaching these people.

coming back from living in Colombia for 2 years, I can strongly recommend 2 Colombian films by the same filmmakers:Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente)-- it's about ayahuasca, coca, rubber, colonialism and christianity, the jungle, spiritual adventure, and tripping balls. this film's plot has one of the most fascinating nonlinear structures I have ever seen.Birds of Passage (Pajaros del Verano)-- this presents the "origin story" of the modern Colombian drug trade, specifically the trade in marijuana in the areas of Santa Marta and La Guajira. the cinematography and shots in La Guajira, a desert peninsula populated by the indigenous Wayyu, are absolutely incredible. I've been there and met the Wayyu, and was encouraged to learn that this film was made with their close collaboration, not just with them as the subjects. the film has interesting symbolism throughout, though I'm still trying to decipher the exact significance of that symbolism.

Adam Sr wrote:Good movie. I was born a few years too late to have seen the media circus that was this trial. Didn't know he had groupies, basically.

Normie movie bros on Amazon and elsewhere on the internets seem to be having a tough time with the film High Life, much to my amusement.Gotta hand it to Claire Denis for upsetting the apple cart while still making a good movie.

Midsommar fucking rocked.

Got stoned and watched UNDER THE SILVER LAKE last night and it totally blew me away. I can see how a lot of people hate it, but I was onboard from the first shot.