you can read my full spoilery review on letterboxd

you can read my full spoilery review on letterboxd

tonight's watch: uzak (2002) dir. nuri bilge ceylan a film that is sadly less than the sum of its parts, or at least it was for me we have masterful acting from our two leads, which rightfully won them awards at cannes (sadly one of which was posthumous) beautiful isolating cinematography

you can read my full review here:

It's been a while since I've posted about my friend Ahmed, but things in Gaza continue to get harder as food and medicine are still hugely overpriced and heavily restricted. Please help the Shaban family out, if you can chuffed.org/project/1508...

oooh, this is cool first time i've ever seen a chinese scholar write on the french wars of religion

tonight's watch: a six hour epic from 1913!! fantômas dir. louis feuillade my thoughts on this are similar in a lot of ways to my thoughts on les vampires (1915), also by louis feuillade this is the worse of the two films though,

doing exercise sure takes it out of you, jeez my muscles better be sitting up and paying attention, i'm exhausting myself for them

you can read my full review here, now, i don't personally think spoilers matter for this film, but you will see them in this review

in addition to being a masterpiece, this happens to be the first bangladeshi film i've seen so let's add that for the count

tonight's watch, a real masterpiece a river called titus (1973) dir. ritwik ghatak a powerful exploration of a dying community, of female solidarity, of the modernising and bourgeois forces trying to kill the community off

got locked out of my gmail account for sending too emailing too many photos to myself (i emailed 350 of them from my phone) now, is that a lot of files, yes, its somewhere around 900 megabytes of photos but also gmail should stop being such a fucking baby, i'm not spamming myself

summary of where i stand with the writing of my six wikipedia articles i've been working on since march as of yesterday 🤓😭🫠🤑🧐

the amount of banger films i've seen this year is astonishing of the 42 films i've watched so far, i've rated 6, six!!! 10/10 another 9 i've rated 9/10 never befre has such a stacked watchlist been devised

schubert kinda went off with the 8th

you can read my review here :) no spoiler guard, cos its a documentary lol

as my first moroccan film, this knocks off another country from my 'world of cinema' project

tonight's watch: trances (1981) dir. ahmed el maanouni i have only watched one musical in my life, and have never seen a concert film before, so this was a very interesting experience and its an interesting concert film to start with as the film is almost entirely devoid of structure

reading the works of pierre champion at the moment, who wrote a lot of books in the 1930s and 1940s about the early french wars of religion and my guy is still fighting the war in these books, he manages to be bigoted against protestantism like, 150 years after it was legalised in france

you can read my full (spoilery) review here letterboxd.com/sovietblobfi...

tonight's watch: barry lyndon i was really looking forward to this film, anticipating it to rank highly in my opinion i was disappointed by what i got, a beautiful package, with stunning lensing and composition, wrapped around a story that did not compel,

going through an a.i art gallery (its only a matter of time) and sneering 'my six year old could write that prompt' at every single piece on the walls

i'm trying to get fit as i am pathetically weak and god, there's nothing like starting to exercise to make you realise how little control of your body you possess

you can read my full review here (i didn't bother to spoiler tag it, due to aforementioned lack of plot)

tonight's watch: the acclaimed mauritanian film 'waiting for happiness' by abderrahmane sissako almost entirely devoid of a plot, we are left to consider themes of identity, community, tradition and emigration, in addition to having much to think about, the film is also pretty and well shot

back baking today, and i produced a nice batch of 16 carta di musica flatbreads :) these always taste great

i have now played the first level of a lot of retro shooters cultic, amid evil, blood: fresh supply, hrot, ultrakill, dusk, wrath aeon of ruin (technically only the first half of this, i'm like 250 kills in and fucking exhausted, i want the level to end already)

when designing a retro shooter your first and most important task is to design a double barrelled shotgun and the foley for the sound of it firing

you can read my full (spoilery) review here :)

tonight's watch: glass onion some strong character work, some good emotional payout, but ultimately its walking the same path knives out did, and the 'mystery' such as it is, is not compelling very interesting use of covid though, rarely see a film where it plays such an important role

goooooood morning america...

you know, when your edit adds 1000 characters to an article, an edit description of 'fixed spelling mistake' is not overly believable

tonight's watch: the love of jeanne ney (1927) damn, first genuine dud i've watched in a while, a real shame cos the direction is great but the story its attached to is so fucking bad lmao

Another genocide...in Sudan www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

brave wikipedia patriots are in control as always 🫡🫡🫡

the trouble with the films i watch is, they're all too good i kind of forget what the average film is like and my rating distribution ends up looking like this

i'm all abuot the world cinema heads, the trouble is locating like minded souls

finally expanding the number of people i follow on letterboxd, only trouble is, your activity timeline includes every review the people you follow like which kind of blots out the sun i just want to see stuff they've reviewed or commented,

you can read my full letterboxd review here :) spoilers naturally, but this is the first review i've written where i didn't even care to hide them as it really doesn't matter

last night's watch (i wanted to review it last night, but it was almost 04:00 by the time the movie finished, i was very sleepy les vampires (1915) i hated this film, for the last 3 of its 8 hours i was begging for it to be over yet, i will rate it 9/10

next week, i'm not watching another film that long, i'll pick a nice tight 90 or something may also have to be on friday too, as i'll be busy on saturday

last night's watch (i wanted to review it last night, but it was almost 04:00 by the time the movie finished, i was very sleepy les vampires (1915) i hated this film, for the last 3 of its 8 hours i was begging for it to be over yet, i will rate it 9/10

cinema before the advent of sound around 1928, and particularly before around 1921ish was so cool and interesting the conventions we are used to today hadn't crystallised yet, so you just get a lot of out there shit like, 10 hour movies, 40 minute movies, funky editing etc.

the new lav diaz film?? is under 3 hours??? what where's the rest of the footage laz...

its 2025 why in gods name are so many blueticks dying on the hill of defending someone who isn't even the democratic candidate yet, and wouldn't be for another year from now even if he wasn't fash and won the dem primary?

if you don't care about spoilers, you can read my full review here:

hahahah letterboxd has these 'nanogenres' and of the films i've watched since i returned to cinema this year, four of my top six genres are 'emotion, storytelling, despair' 'powerful, sadness, despair' 'drama, profound, bleak' and 'touching, profound, suffering'

if you don't care about spoilers, you can read my full review here:

tonight's watch: beanpole (2019) what a fucking movie, jesus christ what cinema watching this made me so uncomfortable, it was so unpleasant, but it was also so beautiful

so, played the first level of a few retro shooters today to get a feel for them impressions hrot: atmospheric and meaty shooter, firm recommend cultic: unnerving and meaty shooter, firm recommend ultrakill: im' sure this is a very good game, but its asking too much of me