Megalopolis (2024)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Jane Birkin, George Harrison and Ringo Starr at the Cannes Film Festival, 1968.

''Jackie Brown' (1997) is a film so cool & so breezy about middle aged people that feel the clock ticking. It reduces me to tears. I consider Tarantino a peer, but it is a watermark for how to shoot & film a scene with delicacy & compassion.'

--- Paul Thomas Anderson

'For me, film is much closer to music than to literature.'

--- Michael Haneke

'For me, 'Black Narcissus' (1947) is the greatest of Powell & Pressburger’s films. The lipstick, the bell ringing, the repressed sexuality. It’s like a strange, feverish dream.'

--- Andrew Haigh

What is the most iconic 'Kiss' you've ever seen?

I'll begin:

Possession (1981)
Director: Andrzej Żuławski

'From its release until even now, 'Cure' (1997) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been the top Japanese film of our time. No one has developed a character as interesting as Mamiya.'

--- Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Kagemusha (1980) by Akira Kurosawa/

Exhuma (2024) by Jang Jae-hyun

'I loved Volker Schlöndorff's 'The Tin Drum' (1979) very much, but it gave me nightmares for about a month. Nothing overtly scary happens in it, but it’s a film about the war, & there’s just a feeling of terror that pervades it.'

--- Celine Song

Persona (1966)
Director: Ingmar Bergman

The Face of Another (1966)
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Director: Jean Eustache

How Laura Palmer's SCREAM turned out in e02 of 'Twin Peaks: The Return' (2017)

What's your favourite movie based on a Myth/Folklore?

What is the best melancholic movie you've ever seen?

My pick: For now,

Winter Sleep (2014)
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Remembering the great Japanese actor, Chishū Ryū (笠 智衆) on his 120th birthday.

Late Spring (1949)
Director: Yasujirō Ozu

The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos
2015

Harvey Keitel ~ Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore (1974) #botd