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1.    One Battle After Another   ****1/2 [ review ] 2.    Marty Supreme  ****1/2 [ review ] 3.    Eddington   **** [ review )] 4.    Reflection In A Dead Diamond  **** [ review ] 5.    Bugonia   **** [ review ] 6.    Roofman  **** [ review ] 7.    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl  (2024) **** [ review ] 8.    The Phoenician Scheme   ***1/2 [ review ] 9.    The Monkey   ***1/2 [ review ] 10.  The Shrouds  (2024)  ***1/2 [ review ] 11. Caught Stealing  ***1/2 [ review ] 12.  Black Bag   ***1/2 [ review ] 13.  Companion  ***1/2 [ review ] 14.  The Naked Gun   ***1/2 [ review ] 15.  Hard Truths  (2024) ***1/2 [ review ] 16.  Deathstalker   ***1/2 [ review ] 17.  The Running Man  ***1/2 [ review ] 18.  Honey Don’t!  *** [ review ] 19.  The Toxic Avenger ...

Hélène Cattet  and  Bruno Forzani  have done it again, distilling the cinematographic essence and language of  James Bond /Eurospy/ Diabolik / fumetti  into a lean, violent, impressionistic mood piece with a sweet soundtrack of choice cuts.  Reflection In A Dead Diamond (2025) is audiovisual candy for a niche audience. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani Feature Films Ranked

Let The Corpses Tan   (2017),  Hélène Cattet  and  Bruno Forzani 's   avant-garde version of an  Italian Western /robbery/siege film (their third), does not disappoint. It only got better on a second viewing, still sitting comfortably at the number two position on my Top Films Of 2018 (when it was released in the States). Corpses blurs, scratch that, obliterates the line between reality and fantasy. It's pure art, pure cinema—chock-full of the bizarre eroticism, fetishistic close-ups, and over the top violence one expects from this brilliant directing duo, this time primarily featuring a sun-bleached backdrop and a more fleshed out (literally) story. Corpses  is a non-stop assault on the senses—an audio-visual heist (if you'll forgive the pun)—featuring superb sound design, schizophrenic editing, and a perfectly curated soundtrack of Italian cuts (heavy on the Morricone ). Not for everyone, but very much for me.

1.    Mary Poppins Returns   ****1/2 ( Review ) 2.    Let The Corpses Tan  (2017) ****1/2 ( Review ,  Take 2 Review ) 3.    Isle Of Dogs  **** ( Review , Take 2 Review ) 4.    Suspiria  **** ( Review ) 5.    The Favourite  **** ( Review ) 6.    Mandy   **** ( Review , Take 2 Review ) 7.    You Were Never Really Here   (2017) **** ( Review ) 8.    The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs   ***1/2 ( Review ) 9.    The Other Side Of The Wind  ***1/2 ( Review ) 10.  Hold The Dark  ***1/2 ( Review ) 11.  BlacKkKlansman   ***1/2 ( Review ) 12.  Unsane  ***1/2 ( Review ) 13.  Hereditary  ***1/2 ( Review ) 14.  Summer Of 84   ***1/2 ( Review ) 15.  Thoroughbreds   (2017) ***1/2 ( Review ) 16.  Sicario: Day Of The Soldado  ***1/2 ( Review ) 17.  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdo...

Cattet  and Forzani  make their avant-garde version of an Italian Western /robbery/siege film and it does not disappoint. Let The Corpses Tan   (2017) is chock-full of the bizarre fetishistic eroticism and violence one would expect from this brilliant directing duo, this time primarily featuring a sun-bleached backdrop and a more fleshed out story. A non-stop assault on the senses; an audio-visual heist, if you'll forgive the pun.

Back in 2011, I posted about Giallo Films That I Own And Have Seen . Since then I have seen a great many more gialli . Inspired by Ryan 's Giallo Ranking list, I decided it was time that I made my own Letterboxd list. While I don't own all the titles in this list, I have seen them all. Pictured below are my Top 10, but if you'd like to see the complete list (which will be updated as I watch and rewatch titles), you can find my Giallo Feature Films Ranked   here .

Thoughts on my initial viewing here .

The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears  (2013) may well have beaten out The Grand Budapest Hotel  (2014) as my favorite film of the year. I need a second viewing of both though. Even stranger, gorier (some scenes were incredibly intense and uncomfortable) and more Lynch ian than Amer  (2009) (my review here ). Amazingly, I think Amer   actually makes more sense. I can't pretend to have followed the "plot" (which involves a man looking for his missing wife, among lots of other bizarre shit) exactly, but as long as you can buy into art for art's sake, you will love this film. Need I say visually stunning? And just look at the gorgeous poster (which I'm dying to get a print of)!

Recommended if you enjoy hypersensitivity, minimal dialogue, extreme close-ups, over-accentuated sound design,  Mario Bava , close-ups of eyes, absence of narrative,  Gialli , beautiful brunettes, creepy dudes,  Alejandro Jodorowsky , "artsy-fartsy" films, fetishistic close-ups of female anatomy in sundresses,  David Lynch .

I was dying to watch  Amer  (2009) again and finally bought the Blu-ray, thanks to an Amazon gift card from Mum. I love this very cool, very bizarre film. Virtually every single shot is visually interesting and the poster is gorgeous as well. Recommended if you enjoy hypersensitivity, minimal dialogue, extreme close-ups, over-accentuated sound design, Mario Bava , close-ups of eyes, absence of narrative, Gialli , beautiful brunettes, creepy dudes, Alejandro Jodorowsky , "artsy-fartsy" films, fetishistic close-ups of female anatomy in sundresses,  David Lynch .

Very cool. Very bizarre. Virtually every single shot is visually interesting in Amer  (2009). The poster is gorgeous as well. Recommended if you enjoy hypersensitivity, minimal dialogue, extreme close-ups, over-accentuated sound design, Mario Bava , close-ups of eyes, absence of narrative, gialli , beautiful brunettes, creepy dudes, Alejandro Jodorowsky , "artsy-fartsy" films, fetishistic close-ups of female anatomy in sundresses,  David Lynch .