Today's Film Recommendation: Let's Andres Veiel's documentary RIEFENSTAHL be the final word on Leni Riefenstahl and her pathetic justifications for platforming a fascist regime with her work. Catch it on Kanopy.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched More 2025 catch-up and a fun rewatch

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Today's Film Recommendation: You get two because I missed yesterday...both on Tubi 1) HIDDEN FORTRESS, a brilliant Kurosawa epic that was a key inspiration for STAR WARS 2) DISASTER IS MY MUSE, the fascinating and illuminating doc on the great cartoonist Art Spiegelman

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE was simply stunning.

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Today's Film Recommendation: I didn't love THE SHROUDS like a lot of other folks I know, but I'm damn glad that David Cronenberg is still with us and still making movies worth talking about. So go watch this on Kanopy and let's talk.

Today's Film Recommendation: For many reasons, I have fallen out of love with Nick Cave's recent work. I prefer his dopesick, emaciated time leading the Birthday Party. That furious and challenging band is the subject of the documentary MUTINY IN HEAVEN, which you can stream on Tubi and Hoopla.

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Today's Film Recommendation FREMONT, a lovely understated film from 2023 about an Afghan refugee in the US trying to find her place and wrestling with her conscience for leaving friends and family behind in Kabul. Great supporting turns from Gregg Turkington and Jeremy Allen White. On Hoopla.

Thrift Score of the Day: Polish bootleg of the second Sonic Youth album

Watching the final Mission Impossible movie. I'm the better part of an hour into it and nothing has really...happened. A LOT of intense conversations, sure, but little else. And there's still two hours to go.

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Today's Film Recommendation: Somehow, Tubi is the only streaming service offering up SHAMPOO, the brilliant exploration of the death rattle of what was left of the Sixties innocence with never better performances from Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty.

Today's Film Recommendation: PAID, a tart pre-Code drama from 1930 about a woman (played with teeth and edge by Joan Crawford) imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit who, upon her release, seeks revenge on the man who sent her to jail, is now streaming on Tubi.

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Still in 2025 catching up mode. All four are now on my favorites of the year list.

Fanny and Morton Feldman, together at last. At least that's what's happening in today's edition of @vinylcut.net where you'll find my reviews of the new reissues of Fanny's MOTHERS PRIDE and the first recordings of Feldman's "Rothko Chapel" and "For Frank O'Hara." www.vinylcut.net/reviews-mort...

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Today's Film Recommendation: Demian McCarthy's new film HOKUM is hitting theaters in May. You'd do well to catch up with his other work. ODDITY, one of my favorites of '24, is a skincrawling folk horror that features the single creepiest wooden statue I've ever seen. On Hoopla and Kanopy.

Today's Film Recommendation: A batch of early 20th century films popped up on Tubi this week. I would head straight for FEET FIRST, a typically great 1930 comedy from Harold Lloyd that features some truly death-defying stunts and delightful slapstick gags.

Just posted my reviews of new vinyl editions of albums by Tuxedomoon and Six Finger Satellite over at @vinylcut.net www.vinylcut.net/reviews-six-...

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Today's Film Recommendation: BLUE STEEL, a solid thriller about a rookie cop trying to track down a serial killer who is obsessed with her, is on Kanopy, Hoopla, and Tubi. Stars Jamie Lee Curtis but packed with equally great character actors like Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Richard Jenkins, etc.

Today's Thrift Haul

2016: Cameraperson 2006: A Cock and Bull Story 1996: Crash 1986: She's Gotta Have It 1976: In The Realm of the Senses 1966: Persona 1956: The Burmese Harp 1946: La Belle et la Bete 1936: Swing Time 1926: The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Today's Film Recommendation: One of my favorite films of 2024 LOVE LIES BLEEDING Is available to stream on Hoopla. A dark and darkly funny film about the strange relationship between a wannabe bodybuilding star and a small town woman who works at a gym. Goes places I never would have imagined.

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The entirety of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COL. BLIMP (1943) is available on YouTube for free, so you have no excuse not to watch it One of the gayest antifascist stories ever filmed, as well as just one of the best goddamn movies ever made, period Hit that play button, folks!!

Today's Film Recommendation: The nature/nurture debate gets dark in 1948's MOONRISE. The sins of one man's father are thrown in his face by his neighbors, pushing him to his breaking point. An unsettling noir from Frank Borzage. On Kanopy.

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Pleasantly surprised that Armando Iannucci agreed to do Taskmaster. And with Kumail Nanjiani, that's two Oscar nominees in one season. Impressive.

Today's Film Recommendation: A24 or Neon needs to give Ally Sheedy the meaty, award gobbling role she has long deserved. Until then, get caught up with her brilliance in HIGH ART, a dark drama about a young woman's dysfunctional relationship with a drug-addict photographer (Sheedy). On Kanopy.

Have now watched two films in a row wherein a man extracts his own tooth. Should I watch AFFLICTION next and do the trifecta?

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Doing some 2025 catch up work. #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

Today's Film Recommendation: COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN — an underrated Robert Altman gem that provided the first indication that Cher had some acting range and also included a career-best turn by the great Karen Black. On Kanopy.

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With the caveat that there are a bunch of 2025 films that haven't played in Portland yet, here are my favorites of the past year. boxd.it/CgNtw

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