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The Ninth Heart (1979) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Deváté srdce
director: 尤拉伊·赫兹 actor: 奥德·帕夫尔卡 / Anna Malová …
other title: 第九心脏 / Deváté srdce …
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Aug. 18, 2026 watched
The beauty of this film is that it looks and feels like a child dreaming up a fairy tale and then explaining it to an adult. It's a very lush word and I mostly enjoyed it.

The biggest issue for me might be that, not unlike the first time I watched Born of Fire (1987), I was actually pretty tired and fairly comfy and the movie is a little slower and so I could feel myself dozing off to a dreamland of my own.

A rewatch in a more awakened state is in order.
Aug. 19, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of The Ninth Heart
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Dogtooth (2009) IMDb Douban TMDB Fantastika Skybridge WikiData
Κυνόδοντας
7.5 (224 ratings) director: 欧格斯·兰斯莫斯 actor: 赫里斯托斯·斯泰尔伊约格卢 / 米歇尔·瓦利 …
other title: 狗牙 / Κυνόδοντας …
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
Aug. 3, 2026 watched
Half-star bump up on rewatch.

I forgot how entirely messed up this is.
Aug. 3, 2026 Review Two Reviews - a review of Dogtooth
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Stop Making Sense (1984) Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Stop Making Sense
9.2 (41 ratings) director: 乔纳森·戴米 actor: 大卫·伯恩
other title: 别假正经 / 別假正經 …
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
Aug. 9, 2026 watched
Total, unbridled joy. An amazing performance that feels both big and intimate.
Aug. 10, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of Stop Making Sense
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Videodrome (1983) Douban WikiData Eggplant.place IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Videodrome
7.7 (169 ratings) director: 大卫·柯南伯格 actor: 詹姆斯·伍兹 / 索尼娅·史密茨 …
other title: Experiência Alucinante / Vidéodrome …
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
July 28, 2026 watched
A movie just bursting at the seams (metaphorically, but also kinda physically) with so many ideas about so many things - most of which aren't answered and only bring about more questions - and done so spectacularly well. Despite the leap in technology between what we have today and what's on display here, things grappled with 43 years ago (crazy!) feel just as fresh and relevant in the here and now.

And a beautiful 4K transfer from Criterion makes it just so easy to see how the screen truly is the retina of the mind's eye.
July 28, 2026 Review "Initial" Review - a review of Videodrome
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Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic (2024) TMDB IMDb
Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic
director: David Gregory actor: Suzzanna / Joko Anwar …
other title: 苏珊娜：降头女王
A documentary about Suzzanna, "the Queen of Indonesian horror" - an actress who starred in many of the country's most iconic and beloved horror pictures.
July 20, 2026 watched
A well done doc that's 70% about Suzzanna, famed actress of many an Indonesian film (including Sundel Bolong), 15% about Indonesia proper and 15% about its film industry.

I think the 30% not about Suzzanna was actually quite informative and I really appreciate its inclusion.

And it turns out that Suzzanna had quite a life, so that was great to learn about as well.
July 20, 2026 Review Initial Review - a review of Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic
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White Song (2006) IMDb TMDB
White Song
director: Katrina Irawati Graham
The most famous of Indonesian ghosts, the Kuntil Anak, tells the story of Raesita, the batik artist, whose heavy grief after the death of her husband draws the ghost to her. They seduce each other into a deadly dream world. Raesita's own desire for oblivion moulds perfectly to the Kuntil Anak's desire to save her from the pain of life. But it is Raesita's unborn child, and its desire to live, that the Kuntil Anak has not counted upon.
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Sundel Bolong (1981) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Sundel Bolong
director: Sisworo Gautama Putra actor: Suzzanna / Rudy Salam …
other title: 黑发幽灵
1981 film by Sisworo Gautama Putra
July 17, 2026 watched
This movie is a bit of a mess. There's melodrama, there's a shape-shifting ghost (the titular Sundel Bolong) involved with the main rape-revenge plot, there's light police work being performed to bring the bad guys to justice while said bad guys attempt to exorcise a grave to prevent the remaining jerks from being killed off. There are a lot of cool moments, but everything is handled with all the seriousness required to create an episode of Scooby-Doo, and I never found myself sure of what I should be feeling.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) IMDb TMDB Min reol Skybridge WikiData Eggplant.place Douban
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
9.2 (584 ratings) director: Sergio Leone actor: Clint Eastwood / Eli Wallach …
other title: 黄金三镖客 / Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. …
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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Nang Nak (2000) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
นางนาก
5.9 (9 ratings) director: 朗斯·尼美毕达 actor: 因泰拉·贾龙珀拉 / Winai Kraibutr …
other title: 鬼妻 / นางนาก …
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
July 3, 2026 watched
I wish I liked this one more. The premise is sound and there's some really great cinematography (and a few shots that aren't so hot), but I found myself bored throughout most of it.
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Man-eater Mountain (2008) Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
灰土警部の事件簿 人喰山
director: 新谷尚之 actor: にいやなおゆき
other title: 灰土警部の事件簿 人喰山 / Man-Eater Mountain
Naoyuki Niiya throws in every influence ranging from pre-war kamishibai to Edogawa Rampo and creates a hilariously horrible and exciting tale of an inspector, who gets lost on a mountain.
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The Cursed Pond (1968) Douban IMDb TMDB
怪猫 呪いの沼
director: 石川义宽 actor: 内田良平 / 里见浩太朗 …
other title: 怪猫 呪いの沼 / Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit …
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
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O.C. and Stiggs (1987) TMDB IMDb WikiData
O.C. and Stiggs
director: 罗伯特·奥特曼 actor: Daniel H. Jenkins / Neill Barry …
other title: 突撃! O・Cとスティッグス/お笑い黙示録 / Black Cats …
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek revenge against the upper-middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: excess.
June 20, 2026 watched
Good luck trying to convince me that this truly anarchic, iconoclastic, anti-everything manifesto of an 80's "teen comedy" isn't an unofficial sequel to *Nashville* (1975).
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For a Few Dollars More (1965) TMDB Douban IMDb KevGa-NeoDB Skybridge WikiData
Per qualche dollaro in più
8.5 (313 ratings) director: 赛尔乔·莱昂内 actor: 克林特·伊斯特伍德 / 李·范·克里夫 …
other title: 석양의 건맨 / 夕陽のガンマン …
Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
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A Fistful of Dollars (1964) TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Per un pugno di dollari
7.9 (431 ratings) director: 赛尔乔·莱昂内 actor: 克林特·伊斯特伍德 / 吉安·玛丽亚·沃隆特 …
other title: 荒野大镖客 / Per un pugno di dollari …
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
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The Goonies (1985) Douban IMDb Min reol Skybridge WikiData TMDB
The Goonies
6.7 (37 ratings) director: 理查德·唐纳 actor: 西恩·奥斯汀 / 乔什·布洛林 …
other title: 구니스 / グーニーズ …
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.