Watching another rDrama-recommended film, Taxi Driver, which I'm told is like Drive, which was shit

Yojimbo is my top 5 of samurai films. I am literally him (I wish). I've seen it at least once every two years over the past 20.

The director, Akira Kurosawa, is a groundbreaker in modern film. One of his best is Seven Samurai, which the Magnificent Seven (both of them) are built on but lack character development. That one is in my top 20. Quinten Tarantino and all sorts of Ameristrags have built their films around his.

But look, my negro. It's a 1960s black-and-white Japanese film. You grab some sake, sit down, and enjoy the film. No r-slurs allowed.

Seventh Seal is a classic, with that knight playing chess with death. It's Swedish, and it's old, so lower your expectations. It's a slow and amusing film by another excellent director.

Except for Syndedoche, the rest are okay.

!kino, fight me.

Other than Synochdeche New York and Suspiria 2018, these are all (with the possible exception of Kaili Blues, The Sound of My Voice and Shadow, which I've not seen) pretty good, if not great movies.

I'm a massive fan of the original Suspiria and thought the remake was too much pretentious nonsense and not enough creepiness & horror, tho I'll concede it has some of the best non-nude dance scenes I've ever seen.

Jan Svenkmejer's Alice is great. You have to watch it at least once when on drugs.

The only criticism I have of The Seventh Seal (one of my favourite films of all time) is the fact that there's not one but at least three breathtakingly beautiful women on screen for most of the movie, which tends to distract a bit from other elements of the film, so multiple viewings are essential.

!kino thoughts

Melancholia

Utterly irredeemable trash. The only good bit was right at the end when every miserable c*nt character in that wretched piece of shit garbage "film" was fricking obliterated.

Based on that list, I'll make a recommendation that I'm sure you haven't seen:

https://archive.org/details/yuke.yuke.nidome.no.shojo.aka.go.go.second.time.virgin.koji.wakamatsu.1969

One of my favorite movies (and one of the only ones that perfectly aligns with what you would expect me to like) is the 1969 Japanese arthouse classic Go Go Second Time Virgin, an ultra-bleak, ultra-artsy, and hyper-stylized tour de force about the doomed bond that forms between two sexually abused teenagers who live in a squalid, violent apartment complex. A film that perfectly embodies the aesthetics of the Japanese New Wave (my personal favorite of all the cinematic New Waves), it's the only film I've seen that manages to be relentlessly visceral, nihilistic, and misanthropic, yet tender, poignant, and humane at the same time. A one-of-a-kind, unforgettable, and genuinely moving mini-masterpiece of the sort that only a Japanese filmmaker could pull off. The film is exceptionally graphic even by today's standards (let alone by 1969 standards), but it never feels the slightest bit mean-spirited or exploitative, and director Koji Wakamatsu makes you genuinely care about the lost souls that he focuses on. Even when rubbing your face in all manner of ugliness and turpitude, the film is filled with genuine pathos and sympathy. Like the lives of its two protagonists, it is short and brutal, clocking in at just 65 minutes. The last scene - where our two tragic heroes join hands, smile at each other, and then jump off of the roof together (after going on a bloody killing rampage) - is one that really sticks with you. This film is certainly not for everyone (and it's certainly not for anyone who can't handle extremely graphic and prolonged depictions of sexual violence), but I would consider it to be one of the best movies I've ever seen.

I've never even heard of any of this except like fight club an maybe good bad the ugly neither of which I've watched

and I am a better person for it

youtube slop is just more compelling

Have you seen Nightcrawler?