Ranking every film I watched in January
Re-watches italicized

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. Werckmeister Harmonies
3. RAN
4. Betty Blue
5. The Big Sleep
6. Children of Men
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. The Phantom of Liberty
9. The Fire Within
10. Carlito's Way
11. Girl With Hyacinths
12. Rio Bravo
13. Natural Born Killers
14. Only Angels Have Wings
15. Once Upon a Time in America

i don't get the hype surrounding portrait. would be in the lower half of this list for me even though i liked it.

Werckmeister, Phantom of Liberty, Big Sleep, Rio Bravo tho ❤️

Face/Off on Crit channel been wanting to watch that one for a while

Idk the isolated island setting of Portrait alongside the impending inevitability of separation really gives it a special, tense, distant and depressing feeling. We know hardly anything about the characters and I think that's done on purpose, beautifully. It's like we're invading on the most private of private moments. A taboo relationship on an island in a far distant time period between two strangers that will never meet face to face again, and we know that. Yet here we are, watching the only 2 weeks of their lives together, just as important to their lives as it is meaningless.

I love these guys. I ate up their 3 albums when you put me onto them. This one is really beautiful.

Me neither. I hadn't seen it but was b****ing about the extreme feminist over correction where it was ranked 30th greatest film of all time (and Jeanne Dielman suddenly shot up to #1) on Sight & Sound and my gf was calling me a misogynist lol. then we watched and even she couldn't pretend she wasn't bored as f***

Jeanne Dielman is good at least but when I told her the length and general plot she was out.

Legendary

:datass:

What's this

Jeff Lescher, singer and band leader, has written about the first three albums on RYM

rateyourmusic.com/~jlescher

Real for Betty Blue

RAN, Natural Born Killers & Carlito's Way are all on my upcoming watches too
Hopefully doing RAN or Seven Samurai on a Sunday this month & the other next month

Been out the KTT2 game for a bit but figured I'd come back for a little bit

Locked in the studio really good & overcame a minor health issue too

One of the most intriguing parts of this studio run was the act of replaying old instrumentals that I had been sitting on but hadn't written full lyrics to or recorded more than freestyled verses/hooks over.
There's tracks I was sitting on for 2-4 years that I finally got the vocal ideas down for, felt good
I didn't have writer's block but usually for most of my finished and released tracks I lead with the vocal ideas as opposed to making the instrumental first. Or I at least have them vocal ideas and instrumental ideas at the same time.

Been tryna push myself to write on command better so I can collaborate better, I get ideas for writing all the ideas, but the act of sitting down to write like a scheduled task is usually harder for me. I think Frank said something similar a decade ago.

It's sort of like how I usually start any ableton session for a new idea tbf, I will easily get an idea and run the studio setup, rather than already being there.
Although s/o to the super good days where flow state happens.

Good tip to try also, I'm sure it's obvious though
When you ain't got any ideas, copy/play a basic chord progression and loop it up with some basic accompaniment and let it spark an idea, one of my favourite tracks that I'm gonna rework started off from me hearing a Steve Lacy chord progression and flipping it on its head.
(S/O to Mac Miller, I remember when he said 'them Steve Lacy chords' on the Internet's Apple Music show the week before he passed away)

Might put up a new avi
This one served its time but it's kinda plain, maybe the plain avi is why I got no rep on KTT2 although when I just had the solid colour red avi it was actually way more recognisable (until someone else had one too )
Edit: i did it, the true BRL
Also S/O to the Scammys for giving D'Angelo a dedicated tribute slot, Lucky Daye's performance could've been someone else tho
& props to Lauryn even though I don't mess with her (Miseducation is superb but folks still pedestal her more than she deserves, Erykah will always be the one, hell MeShell deserves them props too)

Also, S/O to y'all for keeping me hot, it feels good to see the meme is eternal & whenever y'all bump that thread

Makes me feel like I actually had some impact during my 13+ years of KTT, even if it feels like I never moved the needle/got any rep on here

This is really good

@Riffwanker that Under Siege 4k from Arrow is sexy

who are you again? you have a new username

Been 1996 BRL for a few years, was 2014 UHD for a couple weeks (not a cole fan admittedly, no Cole hate from me from 2019 onwards though), iamiguel on ktt1
Basically no one

I remember you

I don't think they're a regular itt, just somebody who hops in on occasion to say wassup i recognize the username from years ago

What are your top 10 rap albums i wanna see something

ah i remember you

Hmm at this second I'll say

Aquemini
Mach-Hommy - Haitain Body Odor
Late Reg
Black On Both Sides
Jay E - Act 2: PoN
Hell Hath No Fury
Midnight Marauders
Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis
Ready To Die
... & maybe Zion I - Mind Over Matter

H.M: MF Grimm - Downfall of Ibliys
Q-Tip - Renaissance
De La - Stakes or Buhloone
8Ball & MJG - Comin' Out Hard
Big T - Million Dollar Hooks or 3 Headed Monster
Cee Lo - Soul Machine
Pete Rock & CL Smooth (for the beats, CL Smooth ain't a great rapper)
TM101

Been up from 30hrs & I'm super tired so I might not be thinking straight