#memory-for-trifles

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I was tagged by @memory-for-trifles for my top first-time watches in 2024 of movies not from 2024, and also by @door for my nine favorite movies of the year, which I am combining to nine non-recent releases. Thank you buddies!!

Also NOT thank you, as it seems I watched 190 new to me, pre-2024 movies last calendar year, and rated fully 45 of them five stars.

....so here is a representative nine categories (blood! tears!!), and then the whole list of older movies that fucking rule.

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Powell & Pressburger: A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Pre-Code: Trouble In Paradise (1932) Screwball: It Happened One Night (1934)

Western: Dead Man (1995) Marty: Mean Streets (1973) Agnès: Le Bonheur (1965)

Historical: The Leopard (1963) Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955) Noir: Out of the Past (1947)

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Top 45 Non-2024 Movies I Watched in 2024 [alphabetical]

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Powell & Pressburger Ace In the Hole (1951), Billy Wilder All About Eve (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) John Sturges Daisies (1966) Věra Chytilová Dead Man (1995) Jim Jarmusch Cat People (1942) Jacques Tourneur It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray La Ronde (1950) Max Ophüls Laura (1944) Otto Preminger Le Bonheur (1965) Agnès Varda Little Women (1994) Gillian Armstrong Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese Metropolitan (1990) Whit Stillman Miracle on 34th Street (1947) George Seaton Nights of Cabiria (1957) Federico Fellini On the Beach (1959) Stanley Kramer Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Howard Hawks Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tourneur Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray Queen Christina (1933) Rouben Mamoulian Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder The Age of Innocence (1993) Martin Scorsese The Awful Truth (1937) Leo McCarey The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler The Big City (1963) Satyajit Ray The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) Karel Zeman The Heiress (1949) William Wyler The Lady Vanishes (1938) Alfred Hitchcock The Leopard (1963) Luchino Visconti The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) Alfred Hitchcock The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer The Philadelphia Story (1940) George Cukor The Red Shoes (1948) Powell & Pressburger The Servant (1963) Joseph Losey The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston The Wind (1928) Victor Sjöström They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (1969) Sydney Pollack To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise (1932) Ernst Lubitsch Ugetsu (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi Wait Until Dark (1967) Terence Young Wings of Desire (1987) Wim Wenders Zodiac (2007) David Fincher

Honorable Mentions

I had technically watched Casablanca (1942) and Brief Encounter (1945) many, many many many years earlier, but I rewatched both of them this past year as an adult, and guess what? Five star films.

Tagging @passingknightly, @knighthooded, @camestela, @bakingblues, @forshesajollygoodfellow, @alpineshepherdlass, @valentinsylve, and anyone else who enjoys a MOVIE

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post “Deep Space Mutant”

This post? Incredible.

that means so much to me coming from you <3

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post “Star Trek: DS9 Notes - S6, Vol. 2”

"He bleeds root beer!!" I am crying, these notes are wonderful. Also I LOVE your Nerys-as-Changeling-Saint theory a LOT.

I AM SO GLAD, IT IS SO WEIRD BUT SO IMPORTANT TO ME

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post “Star Trek: DS9 Notes - S6, Vol. 1”

@rainbowrites I am compiling a Part 2 post of @wellntruly's nicknames for Bashir. It's saved as space fawn.doc.

you are a GEM, I do not know what we would do without you

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15!

15. What is the funniest movie you've seen?

David Lynch's Dune. Admittedly I was with four good friends, which changes things, but we were sobbing. I couldn't breathe. However, while I wouldn't say that movie is not intending to be funny, it's not intending to be that funny, and in quite that way. My real answer is The Emperor's New Groove. Have you all read this by the way.

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post "This is just guys and a chaplain sharing a steak..."

I may never watch MASH but I already know I love glasses chaplain

It is a really important skill to hone to be able to pinpoint which one is Yours in your friends' shows they blog about that you may--and this is key--never see. And I have good news you picked correctly!!!!! (Also my dad's favorite.)

The thing about Father Mulcahy is that I love him so much, and starting in season 3 I started having a bit of a breakdown about him because I realized it was partly the Plautus Principle. When I was in college some theater friends and I put on a student production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in the drawing room of a big old house turned into college housing, and in that play there is an endearing & inconsequential tortoise called Plautus. We had like $250 so this tortoise was played by an apple-sized, yet realistic, plastic figurine I ordered from a kids science supplier. Quinn, our actor playing Septimus, doted on this miniature plastic tortoise. He would do all this business in scenes, like using my pen knife to cut tiny apple slices and pretend to feed them to him, or affectionately patting his little head before leaving the table. The audience (close and well-lit; this was a living room in afternoon light) was smitten with this. "Everyone loves Plautus," I remarked to our director while we were cleaning up after the second show. He smiled. "Quinn loves Plautus. And we love to watch Quinn love Plautus."

The thing about Father Mulcahy is that I love him so much, but it's not just me, it's not just because of me: the show loves Father Mulcahy so much. And that's remarkable! This is a medical base sitcom about [coping with the horrors of war by] getting very drunk off homemade gin and flirting with whoever walks by while making blackly comic cracks about futility and senselessness, and Father Mulcahy is a true-blue, sweet-as-a-button chaplain, earnest and dorky and sheltered and faithful and kind, and the show is like aahh we love you, and cutting him apple slices. He's so funny. That's how you can really tell. The joke isn't on him, he gets jokes, they're all just perfectly in keeping with the kind of humor a true-blue, sweet-as-a-button chaplain would have. He's just doing his honest best and they love him, the show loves him, our favorite rascal characters love him, and it makes me so happy to see. We love to watch them love Father Mulcahy.

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merchantfan replied to your post "Please watch this scene from Sweet Charity (1969)..."

Sweet Charity is amazing (see also: the rhythm of life which my sister and I were obsessed with the video of as teens) but I am lame and think the alternative happy ending is better. The normal one is just such a downer after a fun rompy musical and kind of slut shamey

The Rhythm of Life!! And see also see also: HEY BIG SPENDER

But no booooo, bittersweet ending all the way! This is the story of someone who just keeps being dealt unlucky turns, but picks herself up and keeps going, and to me the tone of the ending celebrates and cherishes her for that. Honestly I think "thank goodness this wayward lady was saved by finally finding a man to marry her!" could be kinda more of a bummer, messaging-wise! I felt the whole movie was on Charity's side, absolutely, and frames the judgement she receives as just another of the unfair things that befall her. I mean, Robert Bobby Fosse is SURE aware of the gender double standard of sleeping around, that man's entire life as well as his entire filmography is basically about that. Cabaret... All That Jazz... Sweet Charity!

ehonauta replied to your post "Please watch this scene from Sweet Charity (1969)..."

Man I do not understand Fosse's entire thing but I respect the power of the sheer Aesthetic

Oh I am sure I am not getting all of Fosse's thing either, given that, mystifying to consider, as I have often this week, in 2019 I afforded Cabaret a total of two ★★ stars. Who am I? [Ed. note: I have since rewatched Cabaret and have NO idea what I was on about the first time, have you heard of this film Cabaret (1972)? Good movie.]

memory-for-trifles replied to your post "Please watch this scene from Sweet Charity (1969)..."

RICARDO?!

Ricardo!!!! Truly SO cute in this, as fictional fancy actor man "Vittorio"

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memory-for-trifles replied to your post

RUB IT IN.

Watch this will have no effect on my recommended posts at all:

spaceoperetta replied to your post

grantaire looking sadly/homosexually at Enjorlas is pretty typical (but thank you to George blagden for going the extra mile, king choices)

both in onscreen homosexual portrayal and the fact that he did a cover on YouTube of I will follow you into the dark with a rewritten verse about grantaire being in love with enjorlas I was on tumblr then I REMEMBER

Normally enjorlas and Marius would be dramatically singing out to the audience so…close enough

So my answer is “normal”!

Blagden what! Andy Robinson conduct!!! Incredibly good I love him

I have to press on with a follow-up question here about Enjolras & Marius though because "singing out to the audience" together does not entirely follow in my eyes to "mooning after Marius in the Musain," as I might describe Tveit's activities in this film project

I guess this could in general though go hand-in-hand with the development of Marius Of The Musical as being a fairly distinct creature from Marius Of The Book, which admittedly I also read 9 years ago, but where I remember his function within Les Amis as mostly just Courfeyrac's weird little friend who can't read a room.