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Communion (1976) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Communion
7.3 (15 ratings) director: 阿尔弗雷德·索莱 actor: 琳达·米勒 / Mildred Clinton …
other title: 甜美爱丽丝 / Alice, Sweet Alice …
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
Aug. 12, 2025 watched
Had a great time watching a family being torn apart by a terror of a gal.
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The Warriors (1979) IMDb Eggplant.place Douban TMDB WikiData
The Warriors
7.8 (19 ratings) director: 沃尔特·希尔 actor: 迈克尔·贝克 / 詹姆斯·瑞马尔 …
other title: 워리어 / ウォリアーズ …
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
June 17, 2025 watched
A great movie about an eclectic group of individuals who attended a general assembly that was dissolved prematurely by an act of violence that one group was framed for (also the cops, of course). That group was then split up and had their own crazy odysseys when trying to just make their way back home.
An engaging tale oozing with really great style.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
director: Richard Brooks actor: 黛安·基顿 / 塔斯黛·韦尔德 …
other title: 寻找顾巴先生 / 欲海花 …
Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations at odds with her daytime commitment to her children.
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) IMDb Douban Eggplant.place TMDB WikiData
To Live and Die in L.A.
7.2 (18 ratings) director: 威廉·弗莱德金 actor: 威廉·彼德森 / 威廉·达福 …
other title: 威猛奇兵 / 洛城生死斗 …
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.
May 20, 2025 watched
A beautifully shot movie with a great score about a cop that's not very good at his job going after a counterfeiter-killer-artist-dance appreciator that's quite competent at his. Also, there's a really good car chase.
I liked this a lot.
Does Friedkin have any misses?
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Sneakers (1992) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Sneakers
6.9 (16 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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Stingray 2 Netherlands (video box title) (1981) Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Los violadores
director: Paul Grau actor: José Gras ... Hal (as Robert O'Neil) / Laura Prennica …
other title: 叛逆者 / Los violadores …
The story about a man who has a run-in with a vicious biker gang and chooses to fight back. Only, the fight escalates to epic proportions as he calls in friends, and neither side will allow the battle to end while the other side is still standing.
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April Fool's Day (1986) Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
April Fool's Day
7.1 (8 ratings) director: 弗雷德·沃尔顿 actor: 杰伊·贝克 / Pat Barlow …
other title: 恐怖愚人节 / 哧难懵 …
As soon as Muffy St. John and her college friends arrive on her parents' secluded island, someone starts trimming the guest list... one murder at a time.
April 8, 2025 watched
A fun romp right from the jump!
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Days of Heaven (1978) TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Days of Heaven
7.7 (117 ratings) director: 泰伦斯·马力克 actor: 理查·基尔 / 布鲁克·亚当斯 …
other title: 천국의 나날들 / 天国の日々 …
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
March 18, 2025 watched
A beautifully filmed, mildly biblical, lightly epic dream of a movie.
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Cruising (1980) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Cruising
6.5 (20 ratings) director: 威廉·弗莱德金 actor: 阿尔·帕西诺 / 保罗·索维诺 …
other title: 虎口巡航 / 광란자 …
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
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The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015) Douban TMDB Skybridge IMDb WikiData
The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
7.4 (315 ratings) director: 罗伯特·艾格斯 actor: 安雅·泰勒-乔伊 / 拉尔夫·伊内森 …
other title: 女巫 / 巫魍之灾(港) …
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
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Mark of the Devil (1970) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält
director: Michael Armstrong actor: Herbert Lom / Udo Kier
other title: 魔鬼记号 / Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält …
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
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Southern Comfort (1981) IMDb Douban TMDB Eggplant.place WikiData
Southern Comfort
director: 沃尔特·希尔 actor: 基思·拉丁 / 鲍尔斯·布特 …
other title: 서던 컴포트 / Die letzten Amerikaner …
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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The Keep (1983) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Keep
director: 迈克尔·曼 actor: 斯科特·格伦 / 伊恩·麦克莱恩 …
other title: 魔鬼战士堡 / 天魔劫 …
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.
Sept. 17, 2025 watched
Half-star bump up on rewatch.

An honestly fascinating follow-up to the precision of Thief, and it's too bad that we never got more supernatural/sci-fi from Mann after this because I'd love to see what else he's got in that dept.

There's an idea in my head that's been ruminating for a while now that I haven't found the time or've been able to put into words; an exploration of the Jewish experience as it relates to a physical place/space (the Keep in The Keep, the Van Buren Institute community center in The Brutalist, the idyllic home next to Auschwitz in Zone of Interest).

(Maybe there isn't anything there, but if there is and you're smarter/more capable than me (likely!) and want to take a crack at it, just give me thanks when you win an award for it.)
Jan. 22, 2025 Review Initial Review - a review of The Keep
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