#Best of the Month

[harrison-p-d-m]

Best of July:

Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)

Le Bal (Ettore Scola, 1983)

Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch, 1980)

Dusty and Sweets McGee (Floyd Mutrux, 1971)

Bush Mama (Haile Gerima, 1979)

The Dream [المنام] (Mohammad Malas, 1987)

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)

Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, 2007)

The Clone Returns Home (Kanji Nakajima, 2008)

A Man (Kei Ishikawa, 2022)

Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)

The Enemy (Živojin Pavlović, 1965)

How to Be Loved (Wojciech Jerzy Has, 1963)

Waiter (Alex van Warmerdam, 2006)

El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983)

Les rives du fleuve (Eric Pauwels, 1991)

Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman, 1954)

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (Wojciech Jerzy Has, 1988)

Black Sabbath (Mario Bava 1963)

It Is Good to Live (Fumio Kamei, 1956)

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, (Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson 1995)

The Great Buster: A Celebration (Peter Bogdanovich, 2018)

The Dark Side of the Heart (Eliseo Subiela, 1992)

Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

The Cool World (Shirley Clarke, 1963)

Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry, 1983)

The Tree of Guernica (Fernando Arrabal, 1975)

Memoirs of a Sinner (Wojciech Jerzy Has, 1986)

La Vie de Jésus (Bruno Dumont, 1997)

Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Shūji Terayama, 1971)

Fando y Lis (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1968)

Wham! (Chris Smith, 2023)

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Best of December 2022

Best Discovery: The Sweet Hereafter

           Runners Up: Comet in Moominland, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Best Rewatch: Fantasia

           Close Second: Mulholland Drive

           Runners Up: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Blues Brothers, Cruising, The Parallax View, The Sound of Music

Most Enjoyable Fluff: Haul Out the Holly

           Runners Up: The Iron Lady, Malice, The Nine Kittens of Christmas, The Nine Lives of Christmas, One for the Money, Three Wise Men and a Baby

Oddity of the Month: Five Corners

Best Male Performance: Al Pacino in Cruising

           Runners Up: Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in The Blues Brothers, Ian Holm in The Sweet Hereafter, Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music

Best Female Performance: Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive

           Runners Up: Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, Laura Harring in Mulholland Drive, Debra Winger in A Dangerous Woman

Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Angelo Badalamenti in Mulholland Drive

           Runners Up: James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Charles Napier in The Blues Brothers, Patrick Fischler, Monty Montgomery and Justin Theroux in Mulholland Drive, John Lazar and Duncan McLeod in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Most Enjoyable Ham: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady

           Runners Up: Ambrose the Dapper Cat in The Nine Lives of Christmas, Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, Wes Brown and Lacey Chabert in Haul Out the Holly, Katherine Heigl in One for the Money, Tyler Hynes in Three Wise Men and a Baby, Dolly Read and Edy Williams in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Best Mise-en-scène: Fantasia

           Runners Up: Comet in Moominland, Cruising, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Mulholland Drive, The Parallax View, The Sound of Music

Best Locations: Mulholland Drive (Hollywood Hills, 'Winkie's Diner', 'Sierra Bonita' cottage complex)

           Runners Up: The Blues Brothers (various cozy Chicago locations), The Parallax View (Gorge Dam, futuristic mirrored-glass tower, cold, dark interiors)

Best Score: Mulholland Drive (Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch)

           Runners Up: Cruising (Jack Nitzsche, Egberto Gismonti), The Parallax View (Michael Small)

Best Cartoon: Shiver Me Timbers!

Best Leading Hunk: Ross Jirgl in Love at the Christmas Contest

           Runners Up: Alec Baldwin in Malice, Jon Hamm in Confess, Fletch, David Harbour in Violent Night, Tyler Hynes in Three Wise Men and a Baby, Niall Matter in When I Think of Christmas

Best Supporting Hunk: David Flick in One for the Money

           Runners Up: Bouncer in Cruising, Matt Hamilton in Three Wise Men and a Baby, Duncan McLeod in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Mark Pellegrino in Mulholland Drive, Jarrod Phillips in Christmas Land, Daniel Truhitte in The Sound of Music

Assorted Pleasures:

- Desolate, painterly hellscapes in Hellbound: Hellraiser II

- Tantalizingly brief Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies in Three Wise Men and a Baby

- Seedy gay underworld bathed in blue light in Cruising

- Diaphanous textures, subtly shifting color palettes, dramatic use of light and shadow, dazzling background art and effects animation in Fantasia

[the-real-google]

To celebrate pride month I've decided to make a part 2 of the killing transphobes post since it was given a community warning. (🚗🔨⚒️���)

LIMITED TIME OFFER:

For every note this gets I will kill one (1) acephobe AND one (1) arophobe with my bare hands.

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[rendevok]

Happy pride to sexy lawyer enjoyers everywhere

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[blueskittlesart]

Open your eyes...

[skellydun]

why is it when people ask me what i want as a gift i immediately become someone who enjoys nothing at all and has never wanted anything a day in their life.

[stil-lindigo]

lighthearted.

if this comic resonated with you, please consider donating to this palestinian escape fund (vetted by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein) as it is less than $7,000 away from it's goal.

i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

[deskatt]

kids

[thewriterwithout]

[chloesimaginationthings]

William Afton winning that “idgaf” award in FNAF

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Best of March 2024

Best Rewatch: The Devils

Runners Up: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Chinese Roulette

Most Enjoyable Fluff: Scissors

Runner Up: Deceiver

Best Leading Performance: Margit Carstensen in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Runners Up: Margit Carstensen and Andrea Schober in Chinese Roulette, Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils

Best Supporting Performance: Irm Hermann in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Runners Up: Graham Armitage in The Devils, Brigitte Mira in Chinese Roulette

Most Enjoyable Ham: Sharon Stone in Scissors

Best Mise-en-scène:The Devils

Runners Up: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Chinese Roulette, Island of Lost Souls, Poor Things, The Zone of Interest

Best Score: The Devils (Peter Maxwell Davies)

Runner Up: Chinese Roulette (Peer Raben)

Coziest Film: The Illustrated Man

Runners Up: Brainstorm, Colossus: The Forbin Project

Best Leading Hunk: Oliver Reed in The Devils

Runner Up: Oliver Reed in The Hunting Party and The Trap

Best Supporting Hunk: Jack Warden in 12 Angry Men

Runner Up: Mitchell Ryan in The Hunting Party

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

I am such a big Werewolf Stan advocate I had to jump on this particular train 🙏 (but I didn't really wanna commit to full line art, you guys understand)

Oh, and you guys aren't gonna believe this, but here's part two 🙌

[edalynn-ink]

This came to me in a dream