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I've posted screenshots of hundreds of movies -- including hidden gems never featured on Twitter before -- plus several video games & their fanmade mods over the years.
Here's a list of titles for you to discover, with relevant links for your convenience:
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This scene also gets that to dance with such unrestricted freedom means to separate oneself from others with these wild, seemingly illogical space-taking movements, too. Something more isolating and unconscious than a communal fashion statement.
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Night and Day (2008)
A petty Korean fugitive in Paris tries to maintain connection with his faraway wife yet is tempted to kindle new romances
Hong Sang-soo shows sensitivity to moments of strength & weakness, the creeping-up of possessive notions & how they can be replaced
From Chance to Deal (2016)
@chrishlynn1 travelogue demonstrating skill to capture both concrete details & abstracted mediums... often within the very same images
Repeated motifs find variation even before video/film switch, no sky or water the same. One of the best of the 2010s
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in true rebellious fashion, instead of dropping a new release for bandcamp friday, y'all are getting a music video instead - soak it in at the link below. ⚱💨
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"Preferred Stock"
Directed by Julia Wagner.
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Toby Dammit (1968)
Terrance Stamp as a compromised yet popular actor who staggers around hollowly accomidating bougie entertainment circles that turn into a demonic Lost Highway nightmare
Spirits of the Dead anthology highlight by Federico Fellini in his most ably diluted form
Stars in my Crown (1950)
Joel McCrea as a pastor employing/deferring to various rhetoric forms to steer a Reconstruction town
Jacques Tourneur delivers a Hollywood sermon with all that entails, manipulation foregrounded as potentially a universal tool & even pleasure in itself
Altisonans (1966)
The title translates to "that which resounds from space" & the form translates animalsong into visuals
Swedish composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl created his singular movie for TV yet held back nothing in making this exquisite display of audiovisualization
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Glider (2001)
Ernie Gehr utilized a large camera obscura -- technology prototypical to usual photographing methods -- to achieve this vision of the coast as curvature
A somewhat nonlinear approach to geometry, space not as straight lines and solid segments but outpouring liquid
The New Flesh (2025)
Before finishing their King's Field tribute, Queen's Domain, indie developer Freshly Baked Games made this ode to Vinny Vinesauce's band Red Vox
Atmospheric exploration microgame visualizing melancholic lyrics & soundscapes in striking detail
Free on Steam
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
A villiage is conflicted by a well-meaning project to replace a field with a community center
Eric Rohmer makes perhaps the greatest political movie of the 90s by considering rhetoric, circumstance, and resulting self-contradiction
Drawings/Lines (1971)
In addition to crafting actual workshop spaces to make movies in, António Palolo also worked with recycled materials that he put his own twist on
This camera-less work scratches film strips, seemingly holding dim sights behind expertly-timed shapeshifting
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Prince of Darkness (1987)
A team of researchers must combat a mysterious substance sealed under a church before it summons evil from a mirror universe
John Carpenter masterclass in (the rate+order of) exposition & macabre imagery complicating/confirming universal assumptions
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Oh wow, neat one
Understandably being buried by that cool Manhunter release, but this is a great film that more people should see, and it's cool to see it getting this treatment
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Now available to preorder from the @VinegarSyndrome website on Blu-ray and shipping after the #BlackFriday #Sale from @OCNDistro #PartnerLabel @Kani_Releasing: #CaponeCriesALot (1985)!
This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 1,500 units
In this underseen late-career masterwork from Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter), Kaeimon (Kenichi Hagiwara), a naniwa-bushi performer, travels to Prohibition-era San Francisco in search of prosperity. Convinced that Al Capone is President of the United States and that he may impress him with his old-fashioned singing, he instead falls in with unsavory Japanese hoteliers, Chinese moneylenders and bootleggin’ Italian-American mafiosos. As surrealistic and elliptical as ever, Suzuki packages his career-long obsessions and slingshots them back towards the USA. Capone Cries a Lot is a boyish gangster film in air quotes: a parodic carnival reflecting on the intersection between American and Japanese imperialism, iconography and power. Shot in Japan, around an abandoned amusement park, Suzuki’s collage-like transplantation of American culture is at once uncomfortable (racist minstrel bands in blackface, the Ku Klux Klan and anti-Japanese sentiment reflect Suzuki's understanding of US politics) and reverential (folding jazz, blues, traditional Japanese performing arts and Charlie Chaplinesque slapstick into one aesthetic continuum). All in, it brings Seijun Suzuki’s “borderless” aesthetic project full circle.
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Director(s): Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Kenichi Hagiwara, Yuko Tanaka, Kenji Sawada, Akira Emoto, Kai Ato, Bengal Hachiro Tako, Mitsuru Hirata, Haruko Kato, Kirin Kiki, Shinji Maki, Toru Minegishi, Nicolo Scorza, Miki Takakura, Fujio Tokita, Tatsuo Umemiya, Chuck Wilson, Shunsuke Kariya, Randy Reyes
Runtime: 128 min
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
Language(s): JPN- Japanese
Sound: DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles: English
Disc Info: Region A Blu-ray
Bonus Content
Commentary by William Carroll (author of Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema)
Booklet with new writing by Filipe Furtado
Trailer: youtu.be/wQkdJ4KJqto
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