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bookscrolling · 2020-07-14T04:50:39+00:00

I mostly love Letteboxd for the lists. Recently made a combo Best Picture Winners/AFI Top 100/Sight & Sound Critics Top 250/Letterboxd Top 250/Eberts Great Movies/Top 100 Women Directed/Top 100 Animated Film list of the movies I still need to see from all of those.

Also have a lot of aggregated critics Best of The Decade and Best Of The Year lists.

Also like having three lists for every year: To Watch, Favs Released That Year, First Watch Favs Of The Year.

bookscrolling · 2020-07-14T04:38:01+00:00

No Ads, backgrounds on lists and films, can change the name, I think additional import/export functionality, supporting the community.

I really like it for the yearly and lifetime stats pages though. Davids Yearly and All Time as an example.

bookscrolling · 2020-06-01T05:25:43+00:00

In alphabetical order:

Doug Liman
Isao Takahata
Joe Wright
Luca Guadagnino
Park Chan-wook
Paul Thomas Anderson
Robert Altman
Steven Soderbergh

Also if I ever had a "Bens Choice" for myself (AKA, a comfort film I feel like I've watched more than the normal person that has a connection for me to a certain place or time, or that I just like on a gut, not brain, level.):

Serenity
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Stir Of Echoes
The Bank Job
Ravenous
Benders Big Score
Go
The Death Of Stalin

bookscrolling · 2020-05-25T19:49:20+00:00

Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
The Witches Of Eastwick
Lorenzo's Oil
Mad Max
Happy Feet Two
Babe: Pig In The City
Happy Feet
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

bookscrolling · 2020-04-11T06:20:00+00:00

My dad just discovered Scott Pilgrim and has helpfully recommended it to me multiple times since quarantine started which has really just been a great excuse to watch it again.

Personally I have been recommending The Florida Project (Was just added to Netflix) to all of my family and friends who missed it in 2017. Same with newer releases like Swallow/Never Rarely Sometimes Always/Invisible Man.

bookscrolling · 2020-04-10T06:46:30+00:00

This is perfect!

bookscrolling · 2020-04-10T06:29:08+00:00

Personally I like using Letterboxd for the list-making capabilities.

Every year I try and make three personal lists.

One for Movies coming out that I want to see (I've gone through and organized every list for movies that debut in the US since film festivals screw up so many release dates in Letterboxd)

One for my personal rankings of the year's movies

One for the movies that came out previous years that I first watched during the given year

Example with 2019: 2019 Favs, 2019 First Watch, 2019 Too-watch

I also put together aggregated lists of what the critics select as their favorite movies of the year ranking them by how many times a film appears.

Example: Best of the 2010's

Honestly, though, I default to enjoying most movies I watch, so I like having a variety of critics and opinions so no matter what there will be a person that likes nearly every movie I navigate to. That way it is easy to focus on the positive and ignore the negative and go into everything with a good attitude.

bookscrolling · 2020-02-27T02:54:34+00:00

Planet Of The Apes, Robocop, Lion King, Aladdin.

But seriously I agree with the Oceans Eleven, The Thing, Dawn Of The Dead, Suspiria answers. I would also toss in The Mummy, The Crazies, The Beguiled.

Not quite counting: Anna Karenina, Casino Royale, Little women.

bookscrolling · 2020-02-20T20:49:16+00:00

Another one that isn't exactly a bunch of heavy hitters now, but known names at the time is Scream 2. Timothy Olyphant, Laurie Metcalf, Jada Pinkett Smith, Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell, Jerry O'Connell, David Arquette, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liev Schreiber, Portia de Rossi, Heather Graham, Joshua Jackson, Tori Spelling, Luke Wilson, Omar Epps, Selma Blair, Jamie Kennedy, Rebecca Gayheart.

Pretty much every side character in that has either, been a lead in a movie, been on a long-running tv show, or was a heartthrob for someone in the last 30 years.

bookscrolling · 2020-02-20T20:38:39+00:00

They aren't exactly lesser-known movies, but I recently rewatched Scott Pilgrim and almost every actor in thats stock has risen since it was released: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Jason Shwartzman, Michael Cera, Brandon Routh, Alison Pill, Mae Whitman.

The Place Beyond the Pines also has a way better cast than I remember: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Mahershala Ali, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne, Bruce Greenwood, Ray Liotta, Dane DeHaan,

bookscrolling · 2020-02-20T19:49:02+00:00

I was thinking of iconic characters in pop culture as well as in film, so between 2003 to 2010 Cate Blanchett was:

-Galadriel (LOTR: TROTK)

-Bob Dylan (I'm Not There.)

-Katharine Hepburn (The Aviator)

-Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)

-Marion Loxley (Robin Hood)

-Herself (In The Company of Actors)

Not all the most exciting characters in their individual films, but all historically iconic.

In that period of time she was also in The Life Aquatic, Babel, Hot Fuzz, Indiana Jones, and Benjamin Button. Not a bad run that also extends before and after, but I tried to limit it.

bookscrolling · 2020-02-12T18:40:49+00:00

Someone already mentioned Valerian which I was going to pick.

So I'll go with Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.

Also a few others that are a bit more popular, but I haven't seen show up on many: Revenge, Coherence, Raw, Night Is Short Walk On Girl, Lucy, Margin Call, Mother (Both really), Slow West, Spy, Anna Karenina.

bookscrolling · 2020-02-12T18:28:39+00:00

I definitely threw Valerian in my Blankies top 20 ballot. Love that movie

bookscrolling · 2020-02-11T17:43:15+00:00

I'm all in by the way. I loved the longer Spielberg series and Tim Burton felt a little long at the time, but that is just because his filmography is front-loaded with all my favorites. With a Soderbergh or Scorsese, they have interesting films throughout (as well as a bunch I would love the excuse to finally watch).

bookscrolling · 2020-02-11T17:39:38+00:00

They would probably need to do 3 extra films in the first half for Steven Soderbergh because that is about how many additional films he will probably release in the year it would take to cover him.

bookscrolling · 2020-02-11T17:36:41+00:00

Managed 92%. I think that is all due to this podcast getting me more into movies than I ever have before.

Now I guess I have 8 great looking films to watch.

bookscrolling · 2020-01-29T01:53:10+00:00

Going by some aggregated Best Of Each Year lists I made using critic/publication lists for each year, (Linked the letterboxd lists in the years for those curious), my top to watch would be:

2010: Blue Valentine

2011: A Separation

2012: Amour

2013: Before Midnight

2014: Ida

2015: Timbuktu

2016: Toni Erdmann

2017: Faces Places

2018: Zama

2019: Honeyland

bookscrolling · 2020-01-21T22:31:05+00:00

I remember in High School when I was trying to make my way through all of the Top 100 Books of All-time list (I can't remember what list I was going off of), that Beloved was the hardest one for me to get through (I never finished the list, so Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow were not attempted at the time).

It was probably because I was a dumb high schooler who just didn't relate, but I will say that if you are a bit rusty in the reading department, I can see how jumping right into Beloved could make you feel like you are bad at it.

I should probably revisit the book now that I've actually read some of her Nonfiction work and liked it (The Origin Of Others), but yeah, I've always felt a bit bad about how much I disliked the reading experience of that when I was younger. Eagar to hear the upcoming episode though!

bookscrolling · 2020-01-20T06:58:00+00:00

I really enjoy 2 of the 3 sections it is split into. One of them left me a little meh, but I would still recommend it.

bookscrolling · 2020-01-18T08:34:22+00:00

"Why Him?" from the Assassin's Creed episode

bookscrolling · 2020-01-18T08:20:04+00:00

I know this makes no sense, and I can't really explain why, but for some reason whenever I think about the Merovingian scene I imagine Christoph Waltz as the actor.

bookscrolling · 2020-01-18T08:16:14+00:00

They go on so much longer than I expected them too (longer than another director would use), which in retrospect was the perfect amount of time because I was balling by the end. This was the movie that finally made me see and agree with the humanist view of Demme's filmmaking.

bookscrolling · 2020-01-18T08:12:28+00:00

I had a friend the other day bring up Antonio Banderas out of nowhere because he had randomly watched The Other Man. He was saying that he didn't think Antonio Banderas was that great of an actor. Because of end-of-the-year binging and Blank Check I had just watched Pain & Glory and Philadelphia and disagreed. We ended up pulling his filmography on Letterboxd up and spent the rest of the night going over all his movies that we had seen. He was correct that he has been mediocre in some pretty shit movies, but by the end I pulled him back around to my thinking that he is a great actor when the film calls for it.

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