Daliás Idők (Heroic Times) (Hungary, Based on an epic narrative poem by 19 th century Hungarian writer János Arany)
Gaadi: Children of the Sun (on Kanopy!)
Ilya Muromets
Kin Dza-Dza!
Prague Nights
Sampo - Aleksandr Ptushko (Story of the Kalevala!!!)
The Assasin of the Tsar
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians - (Based on 1892 Jules Verne novel The Carpathian Castle) (Gadgetry by Jan Svankmajer)
The Pied Piper
The Son of the Stars
Ilya Muromets (The Sword and The Dragon) - Aleksandr Ptushko
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Aleksandr Ptushko)
The Time Bending Mysteries of Shahram Mokri
Time of Roses (Finnish)
Visitors from the Arcana Galaxy
World War III
Zerograd
Related
EXCALIBUR - John Boorman
Toldi - Marcell Jankovics (2022) (based on same Toldi trilogy by János Arany as Heroic Times)
Son of the White Mare - Marcell Jankovics
Netflix
Copenhagen Cowboy - NWR
Horror / Thriller
Beyond The Black Rainbow
The Visitor
The Crescent
The Void
Anime
★ Millenium Actress
Night on the Galactic Railroad
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind
Galaxy Express 999
Whisper of the Heart
Lily C.A.T.
Golgo 13: The Professional
Black Jack: The Movie
Arcadia of My Youth
A Wind Named Amnesia - Kazuo Yamazaki
Fire and Ice
Wizards
Dragon’s Heaven
Terror on Rezonance (Zankyou no terror)
Shows to Watch/Finish
Onimusha (w Toshiro Mifune)
The Kingdom - Lars Von Trier
Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre - Claude Barma, 1927 novel by Arthur Bernède
Too Old To Die Young - NWR
Copenhagen Cowboy - NWR
Neon Genesis Evangelion:
Original Anime
End of Evangelion
The rebuilds in order (1.11, 2.22, 3.33, 3.0+1.0)
Ergo Proxy
The Sinner
That animated one with bob odenkirk in texas
Made for Love
Michiko to Hatchin
Iria: Zeiram the Animation
One-Shot No Cuts
Real
Victoria (2015)
Utøya (2018)
Timecode (2000)
Russian Ark
Iravin Nizhal
Hojoom/Invasion
Boiling Point
Fake
Rope (1948)
Birdman
Charlie Work (IASIP Episode)
Just Scenes
Tony Jaa’s Protector 2, for the one take Pagoda section
By Year
2018
Thoroughbreds
Disobedience
Searching
Blindspotting
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Read the book first!)
Leave No Trace
Unsane
Bomb City
Upgrade
2019
Under the Silver Lake
The Lighthouse
1917
Nimic - Yorgos Lanthimos
2020 / Unreleased
Innocence
Colour Out of Space - Richard Stanley, starring Nicholas Cage, story by Lovecraft
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Assistant
The Wave
Peninsula - Yeon Sang-ho
Upgrade
Wind Princess (live-action tribute to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hiyao Miyazaki)
2021 / Unreleased
Seed in the Sand - Christiane Cegavske - Support the Patreon!
Phil Tippett’s Mad God
The Girl from the Other Side
Stray - Elizabeth Lo
Faya Dayi - Jessica Beshir
2022 / Unreleased
Suzume no Tojimari
Three Thousand Years Of Longing
Emily the Criminal
See How They Run
Amsterdam
Spin Me Round
The Menu
Joyride
The Banshees Of Inisherin
Decision to Leave - Park Chan Wook
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman - Pierre Foldes
2023 / Unreleased
Copenhagen Cowboy (show) - NWR
Mickey7 - Bong Joon-Ho
Suzume - Makoto Shinkai
Operation Fortune
Fool’s Paradise - Charlie Day
Hardcore Never Dies
Godland - Hlynur Pálmason
A White, White Day - Hlynur Pálmason
Afire - Christian Petzold
2024 / Unreleased
The Peasants
The Teacher’s Lounge
Zone of Interest
Perfect Days - Wim Wenders
Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismäki
Dune (Part 2)
The Taste of Things
Monkey Man (Dev Patel)
Wildcat (About Flannery O’Connor)
Ronja The Robber’s Daughter
Kin-Dza-Dza (Deaf Crocodile)
The Outcasts (Restored) - Robert Wynne-Simmons (Deaf Crocodile?)
The Savage Hunt of King Stakh (Restored) - Valeri Rubinchik (Deaf Crocodile)
C’est Pas Moi - Leos Carax
Scavenger’s Reign
The Restoration - David M. Mateo
Early 1900s films:
Cabiria (1910) first historical epic film
The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)
Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, from 1923
Directors / Movements
Alain Resnais
Je t’aime, je t’aime
Hiroshima mon amour
Muriel
The War Is Over
Stavisky
Providence
My American Uncle
Life is a Bed of Roses
Love Unto Death
Mélo
I Want to Go Home
Smoking/No Smoking
Same Old Song
Not on the Lips
Coers / Private Fears in Public Places
Wild Grass
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!
Life of Riley
Béla Tarr
Családi tűzfészek / Family Nest (1979)
Szabadgyalog / The Outsider (1981)
Panelkapcsolat / The Prefab People (1982)
Macbeth (1982)
Őszi almanach / Almanac of Fall (1984)
Kárhozat / Damnation (1988) - Screenplay, novel by László Krasznahorkai
Sátántangó / Satan’s Tango (1994) - Screenplay, novel by László Krasznahorkai
Werckmeister harmóniák / Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Screenplay, novel by László Krasznahorkai (The Melancholy of Resistance)
A londoni férfi / The Man from London (2007) - Screenplay by László Krasznahorkai, novel by Georges Simenon
A torinói ló / The Turin Horse (2011) - Screenplay by László Krasznahorkai
Bertrand Bonello
Zombi Child
Saint Laurent
Nocturama
The Beast (Lea Seydoux, Based on Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle)
Andrzej Wajda
Three War Films
A Generation
Kanal
Ashes and Diamonds
Werner Herzog
Signs of Life (1968)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Stroszek (1977)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Cobra Verde (1987)
Scream of Stone (1991)
Invincible (2001)
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)
Queen of the Desert (2015)
Salt and Fire (2016)
Family Romance, LLC. (2019)
Val Lewton
Cat People
Curse of the Cat People
I Walked With a Zombie
The Seventh Victim
Ghost Ship
Nagisa Oshima
Pleasures of the Flesh
Violence at Noon
Sing a Song of Sex
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Three Drunkards Resurrected
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Death by Hanging
Empire of Passion
In the Realm of the Senses
Terrence Malick
The New World
Lindsay Anderson
Mick Travis Trilogy with Malcom McDowell:
IF…
O LUCY MAN
BRITANNIA HOSPITAL
Chloé Zhao
The Rider
Nomadland
Eternals
Dracula
Berlin School
Christian Petzold
Angela Shanelec
Thomas Arslen
Film Noir, Neo-noir
Detour - Edgar G. Ulmer
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart
Hangmen Also Die! - Fritz Lang
Rogue Cop - Roy Rowland
Get Carter - Mike Hodges
The French Connection
The Italian Job
Charlie Varick
The Outfit
Prime Cut
Night Moves
Framed
Japanese
Stray Dog (1949)
Black River (1956)
I Am Waiting (1957)
Stakeout (1958)
Rusty Knife (1958)
Take Aim At The Police Van (1960)
The Bad Sleep well (1960)
Intimidation (1960)
Zero Focus (1961)
Pigs And Battleships (1962)
Youth Of The Beast (1963)
High And Low (1963)
Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Pale Flower (1964)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
Branded To Kill (1967)
Cult, 70’s, 80s, etc.
The Craft
Johnny Mnemonic
Silent Running
Logan’s Run
Damnation Alley
Soylent Green
Teen Wolf
Forbidden World
Deathstalker
Sorceress
Scifi, Fantasy
Fantastic Planet
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Trip To The Moon
Planet of The Apes
Metropolis
Fahrenheit 451
Tron
THX 1138 (George Lucas’ first film)
The Lost World
Soylent Green
Dr. Strangelove
The War of the Worlds
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Contact (with Jodie Foster)
Silent Running
Logan’s Run
The Running Man
Demolition Man
Westworld
Fantastic Voyage
Planet Terror
Death Race 2000
Face/Off
Lifeforce
Gamer
The Host (Korean)
Dark Star
The Fountain
Primer
Cloud Atlas
Pi
Solaris
Interstellar
Alphaville
New Total Recall
Cinéma D’Look
Betty Blue - Jean-Jacques Beineix
Chinese
Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Bi Gan
Kaili Blues - Bi Gan
Japanese
Love Exposure - Sion Sono
Recs
Tegan
The Girl and The Spider
The Strange Little Cat
The Loves of Anaïs
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter
Alec
No One Will Save You
John
The Summit of the Gods
Terry Gilliam - Don Quixote movie
Cyberpunk show
Meredith
Ya No Estoy Aquí
Maggie
The Favorite
Shirlee (about Shirlee Jackson)
Quinn
Galaxy of Terror
Fantastic Planet
Black Hole
Stargate
Zardos
Tales of Arcadia
Archenemy
Psycho Goreman
The Craft
Sunny
Otisanek
The Social Dilemma
Kyla
Under/Behind The Shadow (Iranian)
Roma
Under the Shadow
Fred
Tàr
Blowout
Heat
Ben
A Whisker Away (NF)
Barbarian
New Nosfwratu remake
Nate
Tower Heist
The Running Man
Freddy Got Fingered
90s Mario Movie
New Spiderverse
Damsel
The Gentlemen (movie)
The Gentlemen (show)
Jack
Gentlemen Broncos
Return to Oz
Gozu
Happiness of the Katakuris
Murder by Death
Primer
Looper
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Trail of the Screaming Forehead
Vanessa
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Peter Greenaway, starring Helen Mirren
The Quiet
The Commitments
Waking Ned Devine
Local Hero
YT
Mauvais Sang (AKA The Night is Young) - Leos Carax
Trust - Hal Hartley
The Unbelievable Truth - Hal Hartley
Medianeras - Gustavo Taretto
Career Opportunities - Bryan Gordon
Happy Birthday to John
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography
Roller Boogie
To The Wonder
Sangaïlé
The Dissident
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Endless Love (1981)
The Dreamers (2003)
Paranoid Park (2007)
La Chinoise (1967)
The Duelist
River’s Edge (1986) (with Keanu)
Miami Vice
Knight Rider
Cannonball Run
Cannonball Run II
Against All Odds
New Old (1979)
The Saragossa Manuscript - Wojciech Has
The Hourglass Sanatorium - Wojciech Has
I Believe In Unicorns (2014)
Other
Bednobs and Broomsticks
Film Ideas
Film where random crow in the background represents ‘toxic masculinity’ (yes this is a joke)
Lull
Film called “Lull”, all audio in film is just the song “Lull” off of Jessica Pavone’s album, “Lull”. 11:51 long. Have it be pretty concrete with a whole story, with emotional ups and downs to match the song.
Lonely-looking man walking around, anxiously looks at text messages from family or therapist or girlfriend who broke up with him. Then sees a lost dog poster, then sees the dog. Chases it all around, events happen, dog almost gets hit by car, say, or man and dog get chased through field by farmer with shotgun, etc. He chases dog for an entire day or afternoon, sun is setting, finally catches up to it at its owners house. She’s there, they meet and smile, Fin.
Man is drinking at home, runs out of beers. Goes to drive. Drives to Liquer store. It’s closed. Drives to Alsups. Gets more beer. Cracks one in the car. Driving around more. Almost hits a cat or something. Crashes car into a ditch. Starts walking. Etc.
Teen walking in forest starts pretending they have powers, gestures towards a tree or a rock, and it actually works. Tree limb shoots off, or rock flies forward. Film goes from there as teen expirements, and as night slowly falls in the woods.
Man goofing around on the internet finds link to mysterious old irc channel. Starts with him setting ‘Lull’ playing via mpv on riced-out system. In IRC he asks if anyone is there. Then mysterious user responds and they start conversing. User, D3Lph1 or the like, starts telling man all about his own life, asking personal questions, even stuff he’s never told anyone. He reacts accordingly, with wtf, etc. Then D3lph1 starts giving him instructions that seem completely illogical, like go to gas station and buy these random things, etc. He follows the steps, comes back, receives more instructions, repeat. Then it acts as some sort of cheat-code or spell. He checks his bank account at the end and has $999999.99 or something. Or he suddenly realizes he can speak and write fluent japanese, or read peoples’ minds, or easily do tons of push-ups or jump really high or punch through things, or something like that, or he goes outside and there’s a nice-ass car in the driveway.
Naked man removes monk’s or priest’s raiments, leaves on gold cross (i.e. he’s from hundreds of years past), perhaps european explorer lost in the U.S., conducts ritual in lake, swims down down down, camera angle flips upside down, and he is now swimming down to the surface, swims out and resurfaces, and he’s suddenly in the future (i.e. now). Walks around city, lost and bewildered by everything, the cars, the signs, the sounds, the clothes, the people, bikes, the buildings, etc. (This one could be called Ingot and have The slightly more brash ‘Ingot’ as the soundtrack, 8:09 length, or Midmost at 12:38.) Perhaps instead he comes out somewhere like William’s Lake. Some tourists give him a blanket or jacket to wear. Then they take him down with them, drive down out of the ski valley, down into town, and he is bewildered by the car, the houses, etc.. They try to speak to him but he only speaks (old old) Spanish.
Viewers
Two Mages alternately watch each other through enchanted fountains/bird-baths or the like, and when it’s showing what each sees, it’s very hazy, pinhole-camera like. Eventually, we realize that our view as the audience is the view of a third, more powerful mage, perhaps a sorceress the two where fighting over, and she’s set them against each other. But each mage learns to reach through the view and do damage to the other, so at the end the one triumphant one suddenly reaches into our view to attack the sorceress and that’s where it ends. Also: Image of hand reaching up out of the fountain/bird-bath the other is bent over peering into, attempting to strangle him or suchlike.
Fireside
Dude goes to backpack for a night somewhere on the continental divide trail, up in the mountains, camps in a clearing. Still day out but very cold so he gathers a bit of wood and lights a fire. Goes to gather more wood. Comes back and there is another person at the fire. Suggested they were perhaps hiking the CDT so he asks which way they’re heading, etc. Other person doesn’t have any gear with them perhaps. Eventually he goes to get more firewood, perhaps on the other person’s prompting. Comes back and there are more people. This sort of process continues and the people grow more outlandish. Eventually there are musicians, and people dancing and whirling about, and dogs.
Soundtrack: Mostly northern/eastern-european melodic and rhythmic folk style chanting and drums, in weird tempos and polyrythms, layered, some light guitar or harp accompaniment. Towards the end of the film some john-carpenter style thicc square-wave synths break in with arpeggiation, and the drumming and chanting match with them soaring up into dreadful heights.