i can only access this blog through my phone now because i am stupid. i have moved to @fromthecloudstotheresistance if you want to follow me (back). i am still a bit frustrated about it but i guess this could be like a fresh start.
film babe/crusader for international cinema xoxo
Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien, 1988)
Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien, 1988)
imdb top 250 as a whole is extremely Eurocentric and US-centric and has primarily films from imperialist countries (countries that control our access to film and decide the canons of taste) as well as films that could be considered ethnocentric, not to mention misogynistic, racist, etc. and there always seems to be fanboys there to protect this canon and belittle efforts by others to go against the canon. and i, a literal film babe/crusader for international cinema, am the elitist!? okay... :)
i liked Ninotchka until Garbo learned to love America and capitalism. i thought she was already charming before the transition lol. after capitalism, she became humorless.
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009)
i really can’t take being impartial anymore. the lists submitted by my mutuals really go off!! ♥ ♥
film tumblr canon 2016
here are the results for the film tumblr poll i conducted. the results were gathered from 51 lists submitted by tumblr users. thank you so much to the people who submitted their lists!!! any film title submitted four or more times made the cut. the aim was to compile a list of 100+ films representative of film tumblr’s collective/personal taste and sensibilities. if you want to see the list in visual presentation form, i also have the list at mubi (chronological order) and letterboxd (ranked order).
list submitted by anpham for film tumblr poll
- Satan's Rhapsody (Nino Oxilia, 1917)
- Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
- A Woman of Affairs (Clarence Brown, 1928)
- The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938)
- Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1948)
- The Last Stage (Wanda Jakubowska, 1949)
- Portrait of Madame Yuki (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1950)
- Song about a flower (Otar Iosseliani, 1956)
- There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
- Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, 1957)
- The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
- The White-Eyed Bird/Con Chim Vành Khuyên (Nguyễn Văn Thông, 1962)
- The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
- Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
- Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima, 1971)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
- The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1974)
- We'll Be Seeing Us Again (Trần Vũ, 1974)
- Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975)
- The Sealed Soil (Marva Nabili, 1977)
- Himiko (Masahiro Shinoda, 1979)
- Ashes and Embers (Haile Gerima, 1982)
- Farewell (Elem Klimov, 1983)
- My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksei German, 1984)
- The Ruins (Mrinal Sen, 1984)
- Mother (Teguh Karya, 1986)
- The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
- Bashu the Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzai, 1986)
- The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
- Brightness (Souleymane Cissé, 1987)
- Hanoi Through Whose Eyes/Hà Nội Trong Mắt Ai (Trần Văn Thủy, 1987)
- Wedding in Galilee (Michel Khleifi, 1987)
- Where is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
- Looking for Langston (Isacc Julien, 1989)
- Surname Viet Given Name Nam (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989)
- Life (Artavazd Peleshian, 1993)
- Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, 1994)
- Mammo (Shyam Benegal, 1994)
- The Corridor (Sharunas Bartas, 1994)
- The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994)
- Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
- The Road (Darezhan Omirbaev, 2001)
- At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2003)
- Together (Chen Kaige, 2003)
- Satantango (Bela Tarr, 2006)
- Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)
- Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, 2010)
- Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán , 2011)
- The Hidden Half (Tahmineh Milani, 2001)
list submitted by 01sentencereviews for film tumblr poll
- The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
- About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)
- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
- Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
- Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan, 2012)
- Kids (Larry Clark, 1995)
- Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
- Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
- Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2011)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
- Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
- Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
- Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
- Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
- Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)
- The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
- Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
- Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014)
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
- La Jetée (Chris Marker 1962)
- Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
- Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai, 1995)
- Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
- River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)
- Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)
- La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
- The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990)
- Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977)
- Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
- Law of Desire (Pedro Almodóvar, 1987)
- Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988)
- Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015)
- Belly (Hype Williams, 1998)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
- Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
- Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)
- Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
- Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
- Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)
- Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010)
list submitted by rapid-eyes-movement for film tumblr poll
- A Page of madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
- Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1932)
- Meshes of the afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, 1943)
- Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
- Venom and Eternity (Isidore Isou, 1951)
- Il posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
- Knife in the water (Roman Polanski, 1962)
- La jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
- Le feu follet (Louis Malle, 1963)
- Woman in the dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
- Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965)
- Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
- The man who had his hair cut short (André Delvaux, 1966)
- Happy end (Oldrich Lipský, 1967)
- Marat/Sade (Peter Brook, 1967)
- El dependiente (Leonardo Favio, 1969)
- Diary of a shinjuku thief (Nagisa Ôshima, 1969)
- The cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)
- Throw away your books, rally in the streets (Shûji Terayama, 1971)
- La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
- Un homme qui dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
- Agarrando pueblo (Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina, 1977)
- Hausu (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1977)
- A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)
- Martin (George A. Romero, 1977)
- Série noire (Alain Corneau, 1979)
- Altered states (Ken Russell, 1980)
- Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
- Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
- Come and see (Elem Klimov, 1985)
- The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
- The Emperor's naked army marches on (Kazuo Hara, 1987)
- Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989)
- Zamri, umri, voskresni! (Vitali Kanevsky, 1990)
- Jacob's ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990)
- Man bites dog (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, 1992)
- Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992)
- The dark side of the heart (Eliseo Subiela, 1992)
- Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
- The corridor (Sharunas Bartas, 1995)
- Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
- As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
- Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000)
- Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer, 2005)
- Brand upon the brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006)
- Gruz 200 (Aleksey Balabanov, 2007)
- The temptation of St. Tony (Veiko Õunpuu, 2009)
- Zhit (Vasiliy Sigarev, 2012)
- The act of killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, 2012)
list submitted by iknowthefuture for film tumblr poll
- Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami, 1997)
- Melancholia (Diaz, 2008)
- Vive L’Amour (Miang-liang, 1994)
- Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul, 2004)
- My Hustler (Warhol, 1965)
- 11 x 14 (Benning, 1977)
- Ossos (Costa, 1997)
- Hotel Monterey (Akerman, 1972)
- Spring Breakers (Korine, 2012)
- Lucia (Solás, 1974)
- Purple Rain (Magnoli, 1984)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto, 1969)
- La Libertad (Alonso, 2001)
- Chelsea Girls (Warhol, 1966)
- The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowskis, 2003)
- On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Sang-Soo, 2002)
- Reassemblage (Minh-ha, 1982)
- The Cruel Sea (Siddiq, 1972)
- Salaam Bombay (Nair, 1988)
- Touki Bouki (Mambéty, 1973)
- Horse Money (Costa, 2014)
- Wavelength (Snow, 1967)
- Ashes and Embers (Gerima, 1982)
- Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Bing, 2003)
- Star Spangled to Death (Jacobs, 2004)
- The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968)
- Blade (Norrington, 1998)
- Iodo (Ki-Young, 1977)
- Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (Greaves, 1968)
- 35 Shots of Rum (Denis, 2008)
- My Brother’s Wedding (Burnett, 1985)
- Showgirls (Verhoven, 1995)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976)
- Empire of Passion (Oshima, 1978)
- Silent Light (Reygadas, 2007)
- Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)
- Losing Ground (Collins, 1982)
- The Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950)
- Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010)
- Miami Vice (Mann, 2006)
- Damnation (Tarr, 1988)
- Police Story (Chan, 1985)
- Barbarella (Vadim, 1968)
- Ganja and Hess (Gunn, 1973)
- At Sea (Hutton, 2007)
- Three Days (Bartas, 1991)
- Blood on the Moon (Wise, 1948)
- L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
- Angst (Kargl, 1983)
list submitted by betterhavemydonuts for film tumblr poll
- Body and Soul (Oscar Micheaux, 1925)
- Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
- Nagarik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1952)
- The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
- Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
- The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
- La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
- Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
- The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
- High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
- Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
- Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
- Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
- Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
- Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
- Putney Swope (Robert Downey Sr., 1969)
- Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
- Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
- Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
- The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
- The Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
- A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
- Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
- Caligula (Tinto Brass, 1979)
- Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)
- Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
- Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
- The Legend of Drunken Master (Lau Kar-leung & Jackie Chan, 1984)
- Come and See (E. Klimov, 1985)
- The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
- The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
- Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1990)
- Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1991)
- Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
- Fresh (Boaz Yakin, 1994)
- Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2002)
- Japón (Carlos Reygadas, 2002)
- Dogville (Lars Von Trier, 2003)
- Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
- There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
- Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
- A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
- Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)
for some reason, i am too paranoid to answer anon questions about what KG is.
list submitted by bastet-rising for film tumblr poll
- Wanderers of the Desert (Nacer Khemir, 1984)
- Damnation (Béla Tarr, 1988)
- The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
- Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov, 1988)
- Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
- The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
- Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
- The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
- The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1963)
- The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
- Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1960)
- Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)
- Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
- Sleepless (Salah Abu Seif, 1958)
- Umrao Jaan (Muzaffar Ali, 1981)
- A River Called Titas (Ritwik Ghatak, 1973)
- Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
- House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
- Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985)
- A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
- Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
- The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969)
- Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
- Oh, Sun (Med Hondo, 1967)
- The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
- The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatil, 1994)
- The Time that Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009)
- They Do Not Exist (Mustafa Abu Ali, 1974)
- The Color of Paradise ( Majid Majidi, 1999)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
- Ivan’s Childhood ( Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
- A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
- Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
- Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi, 1972)
- The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
- The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009)
- The Dove’s Lost Necklace (Nacer Khemir, 1991)
- Bab’aziz (Nacer Khemir, 2005)
- I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
- Marketa Lazarova (František Vláčil, 1967)
- The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando E. Solanas & Octavio Getino, 1968)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
- Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
- Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)
- The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
- Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, 1997)
- Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
- Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
- Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
list submitted by dongkelley for film tumblr poll
- orpheus (jean cocteau, 1950)
- rebel without a cause (nicholas ray, 1955)
- all that heaven allows (douglas sirk, 1955)
- the 400 blows (francois truffaut, 1959)
- the naked island (kaneto shindo, 1960)
- the housemaid (kim ki-young, 1960)
- the aimless bullet (yu hyun-mok, 1961)
- cleo from 5 to 7 (agnes varda, 1962)
- black girl (ousmane sembene, 1966)
- kes (ken loach, 1969)
- ali: fear eats the soul (rainer werner fassbinder, 1974)
- extreme private eros: love song 1974 (kazuo hara, 1974)
- a woman under the influence (john cassavetes, 1974)
- insiang (lino brocka, 1976)
- killer of sheep (charles burnett, 1978)
- revenge (ermek shinarbaev, 1989)
- a brighter summer day (edward yang, 1991)
- hyenas (djibril diop mambety, 1992)
- safe (todd haynes, 1995)
- happy together (wong kar-wai, 1997)
- ossos (pedro costa, 1997)
- peppermint candy (lee chang-dong, 1999)
- ratcatcher (lynne ramsay, 1999)
- the vertical ray of the sun (tran anh hung, 2000)
- yi yi: a one and a two (edward yang, 2000)
- all about lily chou-chou (shunji iwai, 2001)
- take care of my cat (jeong jae-eun, 2001)
- what time is it there? (tsai ming-liang, 2001)
- camel(s) (park ki-yong, 2002)
- better luck tomorrow (justin lin, 2003)
- save the green planet! (jang jun-hwan, 2003)
- 3-iron (kim ki-duk, 2004)
- tropical malady (apichatpong weerasethakul, 2004)
- oxhide (liu jiayin, 2005)
- tale of cinema (hong sang-soo, 2005)
- bamako (abderrahmane sissako, 2006)
- in between days (so yong kim, 2006)
- breathless (yang ik-june, 2008)
- hunger (steve mcqueen, 2008)
- thirst (park chan-wook, 2009)
- white material (claire denis, 2009)
- poetry (lee chang-dong, 2010)
- boy (taika waititi, 2010)
- attack the block (joe cornish, 2011)
- wuthering heights (andrea arnold, 2011)
- 12 years a slave (steve mcqueen, 2013)
- jiseul (o muel, 2013)
- a girl walks home alone at night (ana lily amirpour, 2014)
- selma (ava duvernay, 2014)
- tangerine (sean baker, 2015)