14 lists about #film

gifts for the horror fan who already owns everything scary

• 01Rosemary's Baby (Criterion Collection, spine #630)
• 02Halloween (2018) score, 2xLP on Waxwork Records↗
• 03John Carpenter's The Fog, vinyl on Waxwork Records↗
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anime scores that work with zero context

• 01Spirited Away - Joe Hisaishi
• 02Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Yoko Kanno
• 03A Silent Voice (A Shape of Light) - Kensuke Ushio↗
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films where the rewatch tax is worth paying

movie night marathons that survive round two

• 01set a runtime budget before you pick anything
• 02pick films that share a mood, not a director or a decade
• 03shortest film goes first, save the slow burn for right after food
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criterion blind buys (graded honestly)

• 01House (1977) - Spine #539↗
• 02In the Mood for Love - Spine #147
• 03The Killer (1989) - Spine #8
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letterboxd rating scale and jargon, explained for normal people

• 01★★★★★ (5 stars)
• 02half stars (the .5s)
• 03Diary
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things film people say that mean nothing to anyone else

• 01"unlikeable characters were the point"
• 02"this lives rent free"
• 03"I need to sit with this one"
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non-ghibli anime that deserves the same hype

• 01Perfect Blue (dir. Satoshi Kon, 1997)
• 02Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon, 2006)
• 03Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
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pay the rewatch tax

the ten films Barack Obama listed as favorites of 2024

• 01All We Imagine as Light (2024)
• 02Conclave (2024)
• 03The Piano Lesson (2024)
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satoshi kon's four films, in order of how much they wrecked me

• 01Paprika (2006)↗
• 02Perfect Blue (1997)↗
• 03Millennium Actress (2001)
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following a festival lineup from your couch

• 01mark the fest's actual start/end dates, not just the days everyone's posting
• 02check if it has a public streaming arm (Sundance runs one some years, Cannes never has)
• 03follow trade press (Variety, Screen Daily, IndieWire), not just film twitter
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anime for the friend who swears they don't watch anime

• 01Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• 02In This Corner of the World (2016)
• 035 Centimeters per Second (2007)
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Rainy Sunday films