altered states (and probably lair of the white worm too, though i haven't seen it)
― na (NA), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Probably worth scouring 366 Weird Movies for nominees.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
Lair of the White Worm is definitely trippy but also intentionally goofy and camped-up. I watched it not that long ago, don't remember most of it, and yet feel like I'd enjoy watching it again.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
just saw a comedy so brilliant and ahead of its time i was moved to finally write more than a one-liner in a letterb*xd review.
pls like and subscribe.
https://letterboxd.com/daveyshindig/film/mystery-team/
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
h8 to self-promote but i think this movie broke my brain, it was on another level
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
i'm sincerely confused about whether you liked it or not
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
perfect ;p
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link
(i did not)
fr i find it a little depressing to see how many people give 4- and 5-star ratings to so many movies that are objectively terrible
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link
Eh, ratings are personal. There are lots of "objectively terrible" movies I will give high ratings because they're pinnacles of the form!
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 March 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
fair enough. i think some things are just bad period even if plenty of people like them. but my roommate likes that movie and i don't hold it against him
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
Spoken like a true ilxor
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
thank u silby, i like that ilk
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
I went through the two "last x movies" threads, copied everything I posted there since 2012--~1,000 films (there are duplicates)--and I'm making an effort to log them onto Letterboxd. As I think some people said above, I don't like the rating system. I have to go up or down on all the things I rated 6.5 or 7.5 on ILX, both very common ratings for me. Anyway, hope to have them logged in about two weeks. Then I'll start on the films I saw in the first 50 years of my life and never saw again.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
Now that’s a retirement activity if I ever heard one!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Retirement + pandemic + move to small, isolated town: basically, I'm going crazy.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
https://phildellio.tripod.com/letterboxd.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
lol
― Nhex, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
I only recently started using the rating system again after abandoning it about a year ago in favour of either "liking" a film or not. Most of this was motivated by discovering that I have a pretty bad memory even for things that I've watched in the fairly recent past--did I only sorta like The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry when I watched it a few months ago, or did I actually dislike it?--but I kind of like believing that history will care about what I vaguely thought about some second-tier noirs and 80s teen films, so I'll play along.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 April 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
I think of the star ratings as snapshots of how I felt on a certain day and fully expect them to change with every watch.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link
Every movie I see is a five-bagger tbrr
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
yeah but six bags is the highest rating, we talked about this
― davey, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
1950s version, from Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country (which, truthfully, is boring me):
But even more than at the diary, Shimamura was surprised at her statement that she had carefully catalogued every novel and short story she had read since she was fifteen or sixteen. The record already filled ten notebooks.
"You write down your criticisms, do you?"
"I could never do anything like that. I just write down the author and the characters and how they are related to each other. That is about all."
"But what good does it do?"
"None at all."
― clemenza, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
stop yucking her yum, Kawabata
this is pretty self-indulgent but I'm enjoying the "how I letterboxd" profiles, this dude in particular has some great lists:
https://letterboxd.com/crew/story/how-i-letterboxd-justin-laliberty/
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
Blame me, not him--I cut the passage off before this:
He knew well enough for her that it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.
There's a whole ad campaign right there. Letterboxd: distilling and purifying the existences of film lovers since 2011.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
Justin's an interesting dude.
― Nhex, Monday, 12 April 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
https://letterboxd.com/film/may-1-2020/
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
is this a real clusterfuck or a Kauffmanian bit?
have to admit I still haven't found the attention span to read a whole nathaxnne review
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 07:40 (three years ago) link
Last December, we followed each other on @letterboxd after posting five-star reviews of Mank. Five months later after 900 miles apart, we finally met up. Thank you Letterboxd and David Fincher! pic.twitter.com/xOuPUuPAa4— Ben Crew - Muppets Great Gatsby (@BenjaminCrew1) May 3, 2021
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
it's nice that the only two Mank lovers found each other
I want to say that's better than coming together via their shared enthusiasm for Zodiac, but it's not.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
If it was Zodiac that would be... ok, not awesome, but a lot better.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Everyone knows that true love can only bloom via a shared passion for Benjamin Button.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
Love, forged through the fires of having endured The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo together.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
I'd like to think I live in a world where nathaxnne is getting paid to write but I suspect that this world is not that world: https://letterboxd.com/unawarewolf/film/religulous/
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 May 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
good horror thesis here: https://letterboxd.com/mmmonty/film/friday-the-13th-the-final-chapter/
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
imo nathaxnne is low key doing her best work rn
https://letterboxd.com/unawarewolf/film/elvira-mistress-of-the-dark/https://letterboxd.com/unawarewolf/film/desperately-seeking-susan/
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
I don't know that I've ever watched an 80s slasher and thought "these teens are cool"
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 11 June 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
I think the "paradox" in that Friday the 13th review is also just the hypocrisy at the heart of so much grindhouse entertainment, from slashers to gangster films to sexploitation: the viewer gets their vicarious kicks from characters breaking norms in ways they secretly would want to but also gets to see bourgeois morality win out in the end as the characters are punished for their infractions.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 12 June 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link
eh i personally do not think most of the villains in slasher films represent bourgeois morality
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 June 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
or that that’s even the dominating view of the filmmakers
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 June 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
No of course not, they represent the horrible forces of the id that bourgeois morality manages to oppress unleashed by the hedonistic behaviour of the sex crazed teens.
I don't think it's a "dominating view" in that I don't think most directors in the genre necessairly believe that, it's just a trope that's taken on a life of its own, which doesn't mean it doesn't reinforce that worldview.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 12 June 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
more Acid Horror...
extremely deep (and short) cuts recommended as "acid horror" by the most dedicated (and intimidatingly knowledgeable) film nerd i know, V. Bercasi.
"It Has to Be Lived Once and Dreamed Twice," by Rainer Kohlberger, in the very new genre/movement of noise film:info | interview | on ltrbxd
"Ms Hillsonga," by Arthur Jafa, a piece of 4 minutes' duration, soundtracked by Jeff Mills' "Medicine Man":essay/critique | on ltrbxd | video
i tried to find any host for the first of those two. if someone more resourceful than i am could find a way to see it anywhere or how, i'd be thankful to know. Bercasi t*rrents them raw-dog via public trackers. also, because wow, here is his canon, the one accomplishment he's proud of on ltrbxd. i've seen 0% of it so far: baby's on fire.
― davey, Monday, 14 June 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
i like LB but two things i find funny/annoying on there are
1. people who give a thorough breakdown of what their rating mean, like i know what five stars "means" dude2. i would like it if there were some way to distinguish between between actually useful lists (if i see that a film is on a list called "acid horror" i know what that means and i can look at that list to find other films that have certain qualities in common with it) and ones that are entitled things like "makes u think" "films that just hit different" or whatever (which all seem to share about 80% of films in common). i also have a certain beef with the way that there are dozens of 'directed by women' lists, which just clogs up any film that is directed by a woman and can make it hard to wade through all that to find out more about it
― dogs, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
the jafa film is on ubuweb
― dogs, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
yeah as a new LB user, the proliferation of comprehensive lists like "every film that features a book" or "all european movies" or w/e has given me a pretty low appetite for spending time trawling through to find useful/interesting lists. would be nice if there was a way to filter lists by size, to avoid being shown lists w/more than 1000 entries or something
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 14 June 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Has anyone made one of those lists along the lines of "movies with scenes inside a classroom"? And if so, can you drop a link here?
― clemenza, Monday, 14 June 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
Some great short Acid Horror here, https://letterboxd.com/film/autoscopy/
well worth tracking down.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 14 June 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
There's so many lists, there's really no need to hunt them down on your own. Just follow enough people and they'll show up organically in your feed.
― Nhex, Monday, 14 June 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
clem: Movies Featuring Royal Dano as a Country Bumpkin Befuddled by an Invasion of Ridiculous Aliens
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link