Jake Gittes

How many lists did you end up getting?

my letterboxd sez 1026 from this decade out of 3310 total.

i think unless this outright bombs at the box office it should have no trouble building some momentum after it's released.

Saw this. Well what do you know, it turns out the real clown was Todd Phillips all along. A man who has nothing to offer here except '70s fetishism, being able to play music really fucking loud, and thinking that character drama = fakeouts and constant victimization (the worst offenders being asshole Wall Street bros who... know Sondheim lyrics by heart) - he even manages to take Phoenix down with him, given that he never seems interested in Arthur as a human being, only as a collection of crude surface tics to be paraded in front of the audience - and yet a man in a world (or should I say a society) where mass film culture has now been sufficiently infantilized that people can look at this rambling one-note Taxi Driver wannabe that pretends it has something to say and seriously take it on its word. Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?

has to be in the screenplay race at least with these raves.

Her character is a maid named [checks] Marta Cabrera so watching the actual movie I imagine you'd have to be pretty dense not to pick up on ethnic/class differences being an important factor here.

Lionsgate be trash

1. Fernando Martinez

Gonna hit an HFR screening Thursday afternoon.

Liked this a lot. Narration didn't bother me at all, although I do think as a whole it's a little too derivative of Apocalypse Now and too heavy-handed at key moments for greatness. Loved the methodical direction/pacing and Pitt's performance, and it was the first new movie in I don't know how long to instill some well-earned peace in me, which I didn't know how much I needed.

Glad Russia picked Beanpole. Rooting for our submission to make it in for the first time since I don't know when. Think its chances are slim though.

It'd be particularly funny/pathetic if Sony took that money from its other holdovers, given that OUATIH, Angry Birds 2 and FFH all collapsed 55-65% this weekend.

Broadway Melody of 1938 is underseen/underrated. One of the better movies with Garland though she's not in a lot of it. Presenting Lily Mars is also fun.

the movie in which Renee sings that she should have won Best Actress for.

something like this 1. Barry Lyndon 2. Chinatown 3. Dog Day Afternoon 4. Cabaret 5. Apocalypse Now 6. Jaws 7. Nashville 8. Taxi Driver 9. Days of Heaven 10. Five Easy Pieces 11. The Sting 12. Star Wars 13. Blue Collar 14. The Duellists 15. Wake in Fright 16. Alien 17. Carrie 18. The Driver 19. The Passenger 20. Charley Varrick 21. The Conformist 22. Saturday Night Fever 23. Picnic at Hanging Rock 24. The Tragedy of Macbeth 25. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 26. Suspiria 27. Manhattan 28. The Godfather 29. California Split 30. Trial on the Road 31. Alice in the Cities 32. Autumn Marathon 33. Assault on Precinct 13 34. Twenty Days Without War 35. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 36. Lenny 37. Sorcerer 38. F for Fake 39. The Devils 40. The Mirror 41. The Ascent 42. Eraserhead 43. Life of Brian 44. Mean Streets 45. Autumn Sonata 46. Last Tango in Paris 47. The Godfather: Part II 48. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 49. The French Connection 50. One Sings, the Other Doesn't 51. Duel 52. Hausu 53. Badlands 54. Dirty Harry 55. The Tenant 56. All That Jazz 57. Claire's Knee 58. The Beguiled 59. Zabriskie Point 60. The Experience 61. Fantastic Planet 62. Le Cercle Rouge 63. Don't Look Now 64. The Deer Hunter 65. The Conversation 66. The Black Stallion 67. New York, New York 68. Beauty and the Beast 69. The Last Picture Show 70. Aloha Bobby and Rose 71. All the President's Men 72. The Castle of Cagliostro 73. Short Night of Glass Dolls 74. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 75. One Hundred Days After Childhood 76. Rocky 77. Frenzy 78. Solaris 79. Stalker 80. Images 81. Martha 82. 3 Women 83. Superman 84. Family Plot 85. Going in Style 86. The Fifth Cord 87. Turkish Delight 88. Daguerréotypes 89. A Long Goodbye 90. Jeremiah Johnson 91. High Plains Drifter 92. The Long Goodbye 93. A Swedish Love Story 94. Lizard in a Woman's Skin 95. St. Michael Had a Rooster 96. The Suspicious Death of a Minor 97. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 98. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 99. Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key 100. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Because they've never seen a non-safe film before.

because it's that time of year.

85.1m if Joker follows Halloween 90m if it follows Venom and Deadpool 2 but has a 40% Sunday drop 92.5m if it follows It 1 94m if it follows It 2 96.6m if it follows Logan with a 40% Sunday drop

Was #7 on my list

'Sall good man don't sweat it.

I just finally saw Dog Day Afternoon for the first time. Might partly be the immediate post-viewing high talking but this is probably one of the 20 or 30 best films I've ever seen. Just stunning.

Can it be kicked out if it was never in