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Li’l Quinquin (2014 | dir. Bruno Dumont)

Is this a better television program than Twin Peaks? Yes. Is it a better film than Mulholland Drive? No. But it is without a doubt one of the most beautiful films I’ve seen in years.

The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970 | dir. Luciano Ercoli)

What do you get when you cross a Raymond Chandler pot-boiler with a 70s sexploitation flic? This. Oh and the double, double-cross in the end? Beautiful.

Beatriz at Dinner (2017 | dir. Miguel Arteta)

Meh.

Humanite (1999 | dir. Bruno Dumont) Has there ever been a film that captures loss and the off-handed brutality of life in such a realistic way? A woman peels vegetables, a dead body, a deep sense of loss and disconnection. And so it goes.

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Liebelei (1933) Max Ophuls

My wife, who normally hates any black & white movie, and who detests talkies, loved this story. This story is about youth, but it’s not a happy film. What is youth if not that period before death is allowed to consume our consciousness. There is middle aged fear and impotence and there is everything that came before. That is what it means to be young. And when it’s over there is no going back.

Breaking News (2004) Dir. Johnnie To

Those who control the media control the state, at least according to this subversive crime drama from the 00s.

Fulltime Killer (2001) Dir. Johhnie To and Ka-Fai Wai

I want to believe that each of the dual protagonists’ stories was directed by the respective directors. I watched this a few months back. It was worth re watching.

Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)

Amazing title, meh Giallo flic. But there is Edwidge Fenech...

Miami Connection (1987)

You’ve got ninjas, you’ve got rock bands, you’ve got drug gangs, but what if you had dueling ninja-rock band-drug gangs living in Miami? That would be wicked ass right? Right?

#miami connection

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1974 | Sam Fuller)

I love Fuller, but I hadn’t even heard of this little gem until a few days ago. It’s not your typical ham fisted social commentary/crime film. In fact it’s more than a little convoluted as to what the crime/intrigue is even about. Perhaps it was the zeitgeist of the period but this film and Fassbinder’s World on a Wire came out in the same year. Fuller almost channels Fassbinder here, as Fassbinder channels Fuller in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

#dead pigeon on beethoven street #sam fuller