I cannot recommend Phoenix highly enough -- it's got one of the most shattering endings I've seen in any films in recent memory.

Yeah, that was an amazing scene.

FYI, I haven't watched it yet, but Diamantino is streaming on Criterion.

I have heard about this movie but the clips of this flick on the video are WHACK. All I know is that there is a footballer and what looks like a weird furry fantasy.

I think I'm gonna catch up with Atlantics (streaming on Netflix) and Her Smell first and maybe save that one for a late night viewing with booze.

Transit is currently #3 on my Top 25 of 2019

Neat site! Looks so much nicer than lists you can make at letterboxd. Also, Parasite for #1 film of the year solidarity! *fist-pump*

Neat site! Looks so much nicer than lists you can make at letterboxd.

Yes, I barely use Letterboxd anymore since I hate the UI so much. I think you can use the lists feature for free on mubi? (I actually have a streaming account so I'm not sure what you can access without one. Mubi is great for independent and foreign films. Also, I trust their review scores more than anything else.)

Also, Parasite for #1 film of the year solidarity! *fist-pump*

I still have so much to watch, but it will be hard to knock that one off. The rest of the list is subject to radical overhaul at any time.

Went and saw Knives Out again with mom. Rewarding second viewing, even missing the first 20ish minutes - we got to the theater a little late and then they couldn't make change when my mom bought her ticket so we had to wait for cash to get moved around, but we were early enough for what we did see to make sense.

Also a test run of my shiny new Regal Unlimited pass. That was pretty easy. Probably 90% of the movies I see are at this theater, it's the only one less than 20 miles from my house, so I think this pass thing will work out. It'll be nice not to always be trying to get to a matinee or figure out which Tuesdaynight showings are cut-rate.

So, my family watch all three Lord of the Rings movies on the day after Christmas.

I would like to institute a similar tradition at my household, but it will likely need to be with different movies.

I've gotten suggestions from local friends, but they all seem to be missing the idea that while, yes, these are big Hollywood movies, they also have a sense of mythicness, that it feels reasonable to have them be the closing of the holiday rush. So, like, Die Hard isn't going to cut it.

Any ideas for 8-12 hours of movie that might fill that? Like, were I just choosing for me, Hogfather might well be my cornerstone, but I don't think I can get buy-in, especially not with my in-laws here this year.

The first two Godfathers? That's almost 8 hours, and no one needs to see the third.

Any ideas for 8-12 hours of movie that might fill that?

Harry Potter? I associate those with LotR and xmas since I spent those holiday breaks with Emmett watching both HP and LotR movies.

Also, there's a big cozy factor with the Harry Potter movies.

Matilda and I are working our way through Miyazaki movies right now and those would also qualify, I think.

We just watched Howl's Moving Castle last week and it was just as splendid and beautiful as always.

Both mythic and cozy.

I second the Miyazaki movies. We just watched Porco Rosso last week. This week we're bingeing Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, which is not Ghibli, but is as beautiful, and has a woman protagonist.

The first season of Avatar, maybe?

Being in a callous and strange frame of mind, I would binge Cowboy Bebop over the holidays. Suits my quirk. I seem incapable of investing in live action or anything new, at the moment.

The original Star Wars trilogy was always mine. Harry Potter would be excellent.