What's the latest movie that struck you?

[Alvin]

I watched Woody Allen's Manhatten last night, absolutely brilliant.

Almost as good as Annie Hall, and Annie Hall is in my top 10 of all time.

He’s cancelled though (I still watch).

*Finally* watched Eraserhead. Sad it took me so long to get to it, what a film!

I’m trying to grow my hair Eraserhead/Lynch style now that it is going white.

[turquoise70]

I have a funny feeling I might be the only one here who feels this way (though I'd love to be wrong) but I've been excessively hyperfixated on Zootopia 2 ever since I saw it..... three times in theaters.

I have drawn

SO MUCH

gosh dang fan art of those gosh dang lynxes.

[akirako]

Oh, a lot of them. But I wanted to say I wish BoC were more open because a collaboration between them and Panos Cosmatos would be incredible.

[akirako]

btw Possession and The Brood are the two most extremely divorced films in all of horror and they're both incredible

[jcnporter]

Oh man, I loved Backrooms.

[Cupz]

[turquoise70]

Still Zootopia 2 I stan the murder cat boy

[akirako]

What are your favourite films? I've been thinking about it because I want to know a bit about what I like and the kind of direction I'd like to go in with music and writing, but it's surprisingly difficult to narrow it down to a few picks.

I like Bergman's Persona because it's super fascinating and also super violent and tense in a way that's hard to pin down to any single editing/acting/photography technique in particular.

Akira and Beyond the Black Rainbow, they've come up in other threads.

Possession, the way everything goes from collapsing to seriously collapsing is incredible.

Mulholland Drive of course? I've never been to the US but this and Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon is fully what I expect Los Angeles to be like.

Suspiria and Inferno. I think Inferno is really underrated, besides the visual candy it's very interesting in how it casually shifts from one character to another. I also like the vaguely futuristic vibes in Tenebrae, there's something Ballardian about it.

I'm a big fan of David Cronenberg but I don't know which of his films I'd pick as "an influence". Videodrome and The Brood are really cool and Scanners is one of the ultimate autistic films, but I think Crimes of the Future is the one I'm the most fascinated with?

Tetsuo for sure, I also really really like that kind of low budget artsiness, it's very inventively filmed. I also like Gerorisuto because I love how it's performance-driven whilst having some sort of vaguely coherent horror concept.

Bara no Souretsu

I'm a huge fan of Takashi Ito, I think Grim and Ghost might be my favourite shorts by him? But I really really like Thunder, and Devil's Circuit, and Spacy, and Dizziness too.

Dizziness kind of reminds me of Ooshima's The Man Who Left His Will on Film (actual Japanese title is closer to "secret chronicle of the post-Tokyo War era", the Tokyo War being the 1968 communist/anarchist/student movement, which I think is a far better title for it). I'm kind of obsessed with this idea of life as a ghost after defeat, and of the ghosts of failed revolutions looming over us. I know there was a "landscape theory" in Japan at the time and that Ooshima was involved but I have to actually read about it (I'm kind of afraid to because my Japanese is not "60's political/art theory essay" good but I definitely want to look into it)

Antonioni's L'Eclisse, I just like how she shoots people wandering around modernist cities

Bertolucci The Spider's Stratagem feels surreal and I loved the plot

Alien 1!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks great and has fascinating vibes but the psychosexual tension is crazy

Greenaway's The Falls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cat People, so shockingly modern

Deborah Stratman's In Order Not to Be Here