Jake Gittes

Looks like a return to his slick crime/crime-adjacent dramas with a coat of existentialism like American Gigolo, Light Sleeper and The Walker which I guess was predictable, he wasn't gonna do another First Reformed. Those movies are a mixed bag at best, hopefully this is better than at least some of them. I wonder what would have happened if he'd gotten to make Nine Men from Now instead of this.

Y'all don't know CJohn very well, do you?

This isn't a sequel.

Try some Budd Boetticher joints they're all 75-80 minutes long and well-regarded. The Ox-Bow Incident, too. Anthony Mann's westerns are all 90-100 minutes.

At least this means fewer undeserving Williams scores in the top 10

1. Kiki’s Delivery Service 2. The Emperor’s New Groove 3. The Incredibles 4. Toy Story 5. WALL·E 6. Toy Story 2 7. Waking Life 8. Pinocchio 9. Fantastic Mr. Fox 10. Spirited Away 11. Ratatouille 12. Tower 13. Monsters, Inc. 14. Toy Story 3 15. The Iron Giant 16. Dumbo 17. Wolfwalkers 18. My Neighbor Totoro 19. Castle in the Sky 20. Fantastic Planet 21. Coco 22. Porco Rosso 23. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 24. Cheatin’ 25. The Princess and the Frog 26.

This music is not original to In the Mood for Love, people. (Galasso's is, but it's not his stuff that's played 40 times in the movie and is most associated with it.)

When you need to deal with that one toxic person stinking up the joint

1. Vertigo (1958, Bernard Herrmann) 2. Blade Runner (1982, Vangelis) 3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Ennio Morricone) 4. Chinatown (1974, Jerry Goldsmith) 5. The Third Man (1949, Anton Karas) 6. Days of Heaven (1978, Ennio Morricone) 7. Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Ennio Morricone) 8. Touch of Evil (1958, Henry Mancini) 9. Under the Skin (2013, Mica Levi) 10. Brick (2005, Nathan Johnson) 11. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, John Williams) 12. Star Wars (1977, John Williams) 13. Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Miles Davis)

June aka Animation and Camp Month, thanks chas and Cap *Hoodwinked! - 6/10. This is my preferred version of Rashōmon. X-treme Granny stuff cringy, Patrick Warburton and Japeth the Goat magnificent. *Monster House - 6/10. A pretty fun, these days refreshingly non-patronizing movie very nearly undone by some of the most eye-gouging horribly aged performance capture animation I've ever seen. (Did it ever look good? I don't remember being put off by it in 2006). Kept thinking about how awesome a Henry Selick-style stop-motion version might have looked like and trying not to cry in

FYC

I don't think anyone would argue The Village isn't a good-looking movie. It helps having Deakins at your side.

I'm not sure why this is an argument, I thought it was clear from this scene that The Lion King remake does have live action elements:

May Witness (1985) - 6/10 *The Fast and the Furious (2001) - 6/10 Heat (1963) - 7/10 *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - 9/10 *Chungking Express (1994) - 9/10. Seen on the big screen twice. Don't watch this new Wong "restoration" if you can help it, it has "Dreams" (the Faye Wong song from the home improvement montage and the end credits) play over the earlier scene of Leung slowly drinking coffee which is a George Lucas-fucking-with-the-OT-level offence. You and Me (1971) - 6/10 *The Ascent (1977) - 9/10 Come and See (1985) -