Top30 Favorite Film Discoveries of 2013
I took a look at my IMDb whack history to see how many actual new-to-me films I had caught this past 2013, and made up a list of thirty films I loved seeing for the first time.
I took a look at my IMDb whack history to see how many actual new-to-me films I had caught this past 2013, and made up a list of thirty films I loved seeing for the first time.
YES! I did it. It’s been sitting on my To Do List for over two years, but I finally did it.
It’s been… maybe three months since I started out with Jenna’s Beginner’s Guide to Indian Cinema. What’s the journey been like?
By the time I got to watch my second Bhansali movie, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of his picture frames, and how the aesthetics in his work enhanced my movie experience. Seriously, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam has got to be the most beautiful movie EVER to include a fart joke in it.
The music video for Mon Pote was directed by Francis Cutter, who put Flynt and Orelsan in contemporary (classic) movies like La Haine, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction and Fight Club.
Beck’s 1999 album Midnite Vultures is many things. An underrated installment in the Beck Hansen discography. One of the last great albums of the 20th century. It’s also queer, queer in the sense of both sound and sex.
Since I haven’t done personal lists like many YAM regulars, I’ll just go and do a general list of 100 things I love.
To the holder of this letter, my commendations.