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Sneakers (1992) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Eggplant.place Skybridge
Sneakers
6.9 (17 ratings) director: 菲尔·奥尔登·罗宾森 actor: Jo Marr / 加里·赫什伯格 …
other title: 스니커즈 / スニーカーズ …
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
May 18, 2025 watched
Eleven year-old me looooooved this movie so much.
Forty-four year-old me still does, and can still recite most of it, too.
Great to hangout with this old friend and in 4k now to boot.
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Thieves Like Us (1974) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Thieves Like Us
director: 罗伯特·奥特曼 actor: 基思·卡拉丹 / 谢莉·杜瓦尔 …
other title: 没有明天的人 / 像我们一样的强盗 …
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways.
May 11, 2025 watched
So much of this worked for me and I love it.
A lot of environmental storytelling with the radio that I found delightful.
The camaradarie of the guys was great.
Did Mia Goth pull from Shelley Duvall to bring Pearl to life?
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
8.0 (50 ratings) director: 米奇·科斯汀 actor: 埃里克·阿达尔 / Ioan Allen …
other title: 制作音效：电影声音的艺术 / 荷里活音效大师班(港) …
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
May 3, 2025 watched
Pretty good doc about sound in film, and then out of nowhere I got emotional about it and cried at the end.
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The Wicker Man
7.9 (178 ratings) director: Robin Hardy actor: Edward Woodward / Christopher Lee …
other title: 위커맨 / ウィッカーマン …
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
May 2, 2025 watched
I get now why this is so beloved, because it's really frickin' good.
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The Shrouds (2024) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
The Shrouds
6.0 (25 ratings) director: 大卫·柯南伯格 actor: 文森特·卡塞尔 / 黛安·克鲁格 …
other title: 裹尸布 / 더 슈라우드 …
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.
April 30, 2025 watched
Love, loss, grief, multinational techno-conspiracies, longing, desire, dreams.
Kind of a lot to digest, and I look forward to another viewing at some point.
"*I'm a non-practicing atheist."*
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The Order (2024) IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB Skybridge
The Order
5.5 (13 ratings) director: 贾斯汀·库泽尔 actor: 裘德·洛 / 尼古拉斯·霍尔特 …
other title: 教团 / 秩序信条 …
A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads a veteran FBI agent into a domestic terrorist plot to overthrow the federal government.
April 25, 2025 watched
Jude Law IS Gene Hackman AS Terry Husk.
Pretty good looking movie about a group of terrible people barely being stopped once by marginally better people who all appear to be much worse shots.
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The Ugly Stepsister (2025) IMDb Douban TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Den stygge stesøsteren
7.2 (83 ratings) director: Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt actor: Lea Mathilde Skar-Myren / 安妮·达尔·托普 …
other title: Den stygge stesøsteren / 어글리 스텝시스터 …
Combining comedy and horror, the film is a daring and unexpected take on the world-famous tale, seen through the eyes of the Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira. The gory film follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business. She will go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.
April 23, 2025 watched
A fun retelling of the Cinderella fairytale, but with a little body horror, a touch of *The Substance*, a dash of *Pearl*, and also the occasional penis.
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Robin Redbreast (1970) TMDB IMDb
Robin Redbreast
director: James MacTaggart actor: Anna Cropper / 伯纳德·赫普顿 …
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.
April 18, 2025 watched
YES! To renovating and keeping the cottage in a remote village.
YES! To weird village folk sticking their noses in your business.
YES! To things going terribly awry.
YES! To all of this.
A pretty great one to go out on in the *All the Haunted Be Ours Vol. 1* box, but now I'm sad and lost. What now?
(*Vol. 2*, yes yes, but not soon enough!)
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The Pledge (1982) IMDb TMDB
The Pledge
director: Digby Rumsey actor: Glenn Cunningham / Ronald Forfar …
Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.
April 18, 2025 watched
Much like the skeleton of the hanged man swaying in the wind, there's not much meat on these bones.
Also, I think the song in this score is called "Many Key Changes For Burying the Remains of Your Dead Friend To".
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Penda's Fen (1974) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Penda’s Fen
7.4 (5 ratings) director: 阿兰·克拉克 actor: Spencer Banks / John Atkinson …
other title: 彭达的沼泽 / Penda’s Fen
Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.
April 16, 2025 watched
There's a stream of consciousness-iness to this that I found enjoyable, but as I wrote elsewhere, I don't think I'm British enough to fully connect with it.
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Anchoress (1993) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Anchoress
director: Chris Newby actor: Natalie Morse / 吉恩·伯沃茨 …
other title: 女隐士 / 女隱士
In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.
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A Field in England (2013) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
A Field in England
5.7 (6 ratings) director: 本·维特利 actor: 迈克尔·史麦利 / 朱利安·巴拉特 …
other title: 英格兰的田野 / 腐国恶土 …
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
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A Different Man
7.0 (29 ratings) director: 亚伦·施密伯格 actor: 塞巴斯蒂安·斯坦 / 雷娜特·赖因斯夫 …
other title: 어 디프런트 맨 / 非常男人 …
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
April 5, 2025 watched
The three leads - Sebastian, Renate, and Adam - are really terrific and elevate what is on its own a pretty compelling exploration of change and personality and confidence and self. Really enjoyable!
*People change
But you know some people never do
You know when people change
They gain a face, but they lose one too*
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Dark Waters (1993) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Мёртвые воды
5.6 (9 ratings) director: 马里亚诺·巴伊诺 actor: Louise Salter / Venera Simmons …
other title: 暗水深处 / Мёртвые воды …
A young Englishwoman is drawn to an island in the Black Sea in an attempt to discover her mysterious connection to a remove convent--a crumbling edifice that has been constructed over a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors.
April 1, 2025 watched
To get to the really great last 10 minutes, one must endure the 79 minutes that came before. There are a few cool moments sprinkled throughout, but it's a bit of a slog and a bit of a mess.
Me saying it's like bad *Suspiria* with bedevilled nuns instead of bewitched dance instructors makes it sound a lot better than it is, because this...is not that good.
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The Demon (1967) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Il demonio
director: Brunello Rondi actor: Daliah Lavi / Frank Wolff …
other title: 恶魔 / Il demonio …
Highly unusual, powerful and tragic horror film, which shows ignorance and superstitions of Italian province. A girl is believed to be possessed by the devil and the cause of the tragic events that occur in the small town where she lives. Israeli actress Daliah Lavi (who the same year plays in Mario Bava's "Whip and the Body") portrays young, ignorant country girl named Purificazione, who herself convinced that she is really responsible for all misfortunes. Director Rondi was acclaimed Italian screenwriter, who works with many great Italian directors, including Fellini, Rosselini, De Sica. "Il Demonio" was based on true facts.
March 29, 2025 watched
I started at a 3, but worked up to a 3.5 after sleeping on it, and having given myself a few days, I might even be closer to a 4.
Regardless, Daliah Lavi gives a delightfully devilish performance that really keeps the whole thing afloat.
Sticking with a 3.5 for now, but we'll see what happens on a rewatch in the future.
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KIMI (2022) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Kimi
6.5 (43 ratings) director: 史蒂文·索德伯格 actor: 佐伊·克罗维兹 / 丽塔·威尔逊 …
other title: Kimi / 冷酷不够热 …
2022 film directed by Steven Soderbergh
March 24, 2025 watched
Decent techno-*Rear Window*, but what's really great are all the faces that pop up for two minutes at a time; I half-expected Michaels Showalter and Ian Black to be goons or neighbors or patrons at the food truck.
Zoe Kravitz is really good, and I hope Derek DelGaudio does more stuff.
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The Social Network (2010) TMDB Douban Min reol IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Social Network
8.1 (1873 ratings) director: 大卫·芬奇 actor: 杰西·艾森伯格 / 安德鲁·加菲尔德 …
other title: 소셜 네트워크 / ソーシャル・ネットワーク …
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
March 23, 2025 watched
Still mostly holds up.
I forgot that Dakota Johnson is in this. That was a nice surprise.
Put Reznor in front of a piano and - make no mistake about it - he *will* play the same song 18 different ways.
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