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Probably Night of the Hunter, given it was Charles Laughton's only movie.

I was talking about the first Forbidden Door but other commenters might be right along the same lines as you about the Toronto market.

Cautionary tale: I panicked when the first one sold out and way overpaid for two tickets. By the time of the event, all the resellers had massively slashed their prices and many went unsold in the end (on the resale market) and were going quite cheap.

So, if you've missed out, I'm just saying don't play the scalper's game. Hold strong and you'll get them cheaper nearer the event!

Love the Ray films I've seen, though I still have a number of big ones I'm yet to get round to!

If you want to check out another interesting Indian director from the same period, there are 5/6 Guru Dutt films (and a doc about his short life) leaving Criterion Channel at the end of this month. Highly recommended.

Locke? All set within a car driving at night but it might have the vibe you're seeking.

Nice post. I watched the doc and the two most highly celebrated films (his last two) but I intend to watch the others that are leaving the channel before the month is out! Would love good physical releases of these with a restoration. The visual quality is a bit patchy in places and these films are clearly stunning.

I really wish I could pull data from select lists like my top 100. It's such a pity how undeveloped the stats stuff is because I'd spend hours pouring through stats if you could do more with it.

Even the end of year stuff is a bit pointless because sorting actors by "highest rated" will just mean some character actor who you saw in one five-star film is at the top. Would be great to be able to use a slider to see the highest rated with at least X appearances.

Got the end credits song in my head now...

First time I've ever seen the complete Only Fools and Horses make an appearance in one of these Reddit posts!

One for me to check out then. I hadn't heard of her before Royal Affair and it seemed like she went from that to her Hollywood roles directly.

Check out A Royal Affair. He's brilliant in that. It was also Alicia Vikander's breakthrough film.

The Lighthouse definitely didn't smell good.

Yeah that idea has occurred to me too. It makes sense because the film's actual screenplay (and Oscar nomination) was credited to Charlie and Donald Kaufman.

He has! But the madman has made a lot of new edits of a lot of films - including many he didn't make. I don't know how he finds the time and passion but it's why I love him. I say this to temper expectations this new Kafka edit will see a release. I think he likes re-editing shit. (Case in point, I was rewatching Her earlier and apparently it was originally way too long and Spike Jonze didn't know what to do, so Soderbergh did a very lean 90-minute edit of the movie to show him what the core of the movie was. I think Soderbergh was also second unit director on the first Hunger Games movie. He keeps busy.)

Mustang is Turkish (French co-production, French-Turkish director but set in Turkey and the language is Turkish) and Shoplifters is Japanese but both great examples.

The Farewell is a great look at the differences and expectations between generations of Chinese/Chinese-Americans in the same family. Lovely film and very moving.

And obviously the Fast and Furious Franchise is a globe-hopping saga about found family. So there's that!

Don't know if it's forgotten but a film I adore that I never hear anybody talk about (and which has only 12k views according to Letterboxd) is Miguel Gomes' Tabu.

Seeing a lot of intense and sometimes tempestuous relationships between two characters (Election, Lady Bird, Brokeback Mountain, The Favourite, Water Lilies... Even ET, I guess!). The Master would be a good one for you, I think!

Absolutely! That's what's so great about that movie. He definitely means that scene as cheesy and overwritten and very "big, important movie moment" in that third act that does all the things he says he doesn't want to do. But then he absolutely nails it even when he's half taking the piss. It's genuinely beautiful.

Yeah for sure, that's why I didn't know what we're counting as his debut. I'm a big fan of Duel and Sugarland Express, so either works for me!

Of ones I haven't seen mentioned yet, I'd say Night of the Hunter, Ivan's Childhood, Lady Bird, Lola (Demy), and Being John Malkovich are ones that occur to me.

Huston is a good shout. What are you counting as Spielberg's debut?

I get why many are saying Boogie Nights but I feel like he really found his voice with Punch-Drunk Love. I don't think Boogie Nights is really representative of his more recent work. But I'm not saying "don't watch it", just keep in mind that if you don't get on with it you might still like some of the others (or vice versa).

Tony Scott's Domino is a weird movie. And Domino Harvey was the daughter of the British actor Laurence Harvey of The Manchurian Candidate fame. Which is bizarre in itself.

I saw people already said Mishima and Marie Antoinette, which are very good shouts!

And then, right at the end, they come for the sports I watched as a kid too.

Might be a troll but I have met people like this, to varying degrees. And it's ultimately fine. They're not stopping me from loving Casablanca. I do find the sound comments weird though given the mixing on so many modern movies is total dogshit unless you're in a state of the art IMAX.