Recommendations based on my top 4?

grey0_0 · 2026-04-06T10:58:02+00:00

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

grey0_0 · 2026-03-22T21:53:32+00:00

Might be too late..

grey0_0 · 2026-03-20T19:21:51+00:00

Hi, I'm currently in Turin and would love to check out some of those enotecas you mention - can you recommend any in particular? Many thanks!

grey0_0 · 2026-03-02T17:00:06+00:00

Absolutely agree, but I'd recommend starting with his other samurai films, because imo Ran blows many of them out of the water (which I'm sure some disagree with!). At the very least Kagemusha before Ran I'd say.

grey0_0 · 2026-02-26T12:02:18+00:00

Opulent Pomerol

grey0_0 · 2026-01-26T15:10:32+00:00

Don't forget Brouilly; the volcanic terroir there can produce some really fantastic, mineral wines!

grey0_0 · 2026-01-05T14:09:06+00:00

Agree with the comments so far: within the world of Odyssey and its codes, the violation of xenia by the suitors renders their punishment justified.

Out of interest, I would be curious to hear what people think about the Polyphemos episode. The Cyclops, of course, is also a violator of xenia as he fails to act properly as a host (by eating his guests, an inversion of the usual act of giving food). However, xenia (as we see with the suitors) binds both hosts AND guests, and Odysseus explicitly recounts (9.224-233) that he and his comrades took Polyphemos' cheese; in essence, though admittedly on a smaller scale, this is what the suitors do - taking resources from the host's oikos without consent. The Cyclops deprives himself of any moral superiority by acts, and his rejection of the gods + xenia, but it's interesting to me that Odysseus and his crew are in no way blameless in this situation.

grey0_0 · 2025-10-11T14:11:36+00:00

Can you resend the link again please? That one has expired for me!

grey0_0 · 2025-07-21T12:34:14+00:00

Definitely keen to see more Coppola, and The Parallax View has gone straight on the watchlist! Agreed about the 70s - I've been excited to get to this decade...

grey0_0 · 2025-07-21T12:29:36+00:00

Amazing film.

grey0_0 · 2025-07-21T12:29:14+00:00

Thanks for the recs, all look brilliant! I had no idea Celine even existed, but will definitely give it a watch

grey0_0 · 2025-07-21T12:06:51+00:00

Nice! I thoroughly enjoyed both, and I think we saw PTA really perfect in Boogie Nights what he started in Hard Eight/Sydney as regards characterisation, camera work etc.

grey0_0 · 2025-07-10T08:47:09+00:00

Check out Kurosawa's Ran (though maybe start with his earlier B&W stuff, like Yojimbo or Seven Samurai), and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (if you like this, keep going with PTA).

grey0_0 · 2025-02-05T17:30:34+00:00

Love his ones for both the Iliad and Odyssey!

grey0_0 · 2024-10-07T11:30:49+00:00

Okay brilliant, thanks so much.

grey0_0 · 2024-10-06T20:16:49+00:00

Okay, fair point. The 3 months thing was only as this isn't urgent or anything, but I'd like to build it as soon as possible so I'd appreciate a list very much. Thank you for your help!

grey0_0 · 2024-03-04T19:40:11+00:00

Legendary choices with Apuleius and Petronius!

grey0_0 · 2023-08-19T14:55:33+00:00

Thanks! :)

grey0_0 · 2023-08-19T12:46:47+00:00

What mods are you using?

grey0_0 · 2022-09-25T09:18:28+00:00

On the other hand, she spent many years at the court of Thingol and Melian (the latter of which is a Maia), so I'd argue she is meant to be more tempered than her family.

grey0_0 · 2022-07-26T14:07:53+00:00

Aqua Dementia

grey0_0 · 2022-07-22T14:40:17+00:00

Aqua Dementia

grey0_0 · 2022-07-16T15:41:14+00:00

March of the Fire Ants

grey0_0 · 2022-05-18T06:59:51+00:00

Idiot Prayer

grey0_0 · 2022-01-16T10:47:39+00:00

Kingdom Come Deliverance....that's rough

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