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OBLIGATORY FILLER MATERIAL – Giving thanks edition: Kickin’ around Caracas, Pt. 5
Continuing… (It's Part 6 in the saga, I fucked up. Sorry.)
So, after a few re-fueling and impromptu cigar-purchasing stops in South and Central America, we wheel up to the deserted jetway at LAX.
“Thought we were going to Elmendorf?” I asked.
“This isn’t it?” the pilot replied, feigning worry.
“No.”, I replied, “Looks like California. Fruits and nuts. All around. What’s going on? One minute we’re off to Texas, then Cali, then Texas again, now we end up here at the California airport of the iconic tower.”
“Yeah, it’s confusing enough haulin’ civilians around. But when we get a call from Virginia, we tend to comply without any questions,” the pilot explains.
“Aw, shit!”, I sort of exclaim, “Rack and Ruin called?”
“Yeah”, the pilot replies, “Figures you’d know these guys. They said they were closer to LAX rather than Texas and had us divert here. In fact, you look over there, see that dark blue Chevy? That’s them; and evidently, your ride.”
I tipped the airman from earlier a couple of cigars as he helped me with my gear off the plane and into the trunk of Rack and Ruin’s plain-Jane blue late modeled Chevy. Had to move the Sidewinder Missiles off to one side, though.
“Most honorable Agents Lack and Luin!” I quipped in my faux-racist greeting. “What the hell, guys? I’ve got to get to Japan and get some newly rigidified digits.”
“Let’s see your hand”, Agent Rack asks. “Nasty.”
“Yeah”, I sigh “And with the medicos in South America and their penchant for plaster, I don’t so much have a left hand as more of an ankylosaur tail.”
“Or Thagomizer”, Agent Ruin tittered. “Anyone gives you grief, and one upside the head should set them right. Or dead.”
“You’re a riot, Ruin.” I replied, “But not entirely incorrect.”
We all agreed that I really didn’t need any extra accouterments to make myself look more dangerous. I mean with my severe haircut, stern beard clip, and perpetual ‘Go fuck yourself’ scowl.
“Yeah”, I replied, stroking the aforementioned beard, “I just can’t get that. I’m such a people person.”
After Agents Rack and Ruin finished drying their eyes from laughing what I thought was en extremis, we finally got down to business.
“So, what’s the skinny, guys”, I asked. “New marching orders?”
“No. Not as such”, Agent Ruin said, still sniggering over my ‘people person’ comment.
I see we’re moving. Agent Rack is just driving casually, like Chewbacca when they were waiting to see if the Empire went for that expensive Bothan code.
“Then, what?” I asked, getting a slight bit piqued.
“Well”, Agent Ruin noted, “When you went to South America, you took some of your artillery collection with, correct?”
“You know I did. You even made some snide comments about my personal choice of sidearms and their ‘excessive’ calibers, if memory serves”, I reiterated.
“And if you are proceeding normally, as you always do, they’re all nestled in the trunk of this very car. All cleaned, quiet, unloaded, and smelling sweetly of Hoppe’s Number 9 and WD 40, correct?” Rack inquired.
“Yes?” I cautiously venture.
“Well, ya’ big dummy, do you think they’re going to let you saunter into Tokyo armed like the Third Fleet?” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Um…well…I do have a Diplomatic Passport.” I ventured.
“That’s not going to work this time.”, Agent Ruin said, shaking his head. “They’re tighter than Dick’s Hatband about sidearms. Want to bring in your Rigby SXS .500 Nitro Express double rifle? Not a problem. Sidearms, especially in your alien hunting calibers, nope.”
Well, that’s just….*dandy!”, I reply, semi-put out. “Now what the hell am I going to do?”
“Ever think that’s why Ruin and I are here, now?”, Rack asks.
“And here I thought it was just so you could bask in the warm glow of my fucking wonderful personality. Or that you actually cared about me as a real goddamn human”, I joshed.
“Ummm…yeah”, Rack replies, “There’s no way we can answer that without going on some Deadpool list. “
I agreed.
“OK, here’s the deal: you get your sidearms, ammunition, speed loaders, brass knuckles, Asp, laser range finders, Sap, Zeiss scopes, Kukri, Wisconsin Cheese Whittler, Buck folding skinner, Marine K-Bar, those two ultra-illegal Cheburkov Cobra titanium switchblades...”
“Three. Olga the KGB lady sent me one for Geologist’s Day.”
“Ahem. Those three ultra-illegal Cheburkov switchblades, that Wyoming Speedholer, your MASER Time-Distance Computer, garrote, pocket rail gun and whatever else lethal you carry and deposit it in the iron box in the trunk. We’ll ensure that it’s delivered to Esme post-haste. And by post-haste I mean one of our guys will deliver it personally.”
“Well…I suppose”, I conceded, “But best send someone who’s been to the house recently. I don’t know how much bigger Khan has grown since I left on this little fantasy trip. Wouldn’t want a star on the wall in Langley for someone eaten by a mastiff. Want to see a picture….Oh, bother. That’s right. My phone’s at the bottom of fucking Lake Maracaibo.”
“Good point”, Ruin interjects, “Guess we’ll do a little road trip and deliver it ourselves. Best call Esme and let her know what’s going on.”
“I have no objections to your proposals. Please give Esme this when you see her. I had some luck in the Calaveras Casino and if I don’t send her some mad money. Ouch. She’ll never forgive me for not taking her along to Japan.” I asked.
“But I thought Esme hated Japan? Too crowded and too ‘fussy’, I believe was her estimation.” Ruin asked.
“Yes, but once she saw the Ginza, all bets were off. Shopping the likes of which even Allah himself hasn’t seen.” I replied, slowly shaking my head.
“I see”, Ruin said, “Well, since you’re off to Sapporo, perhaps you can do a recon for Esme on the shopping there.”
“Not bad. Not bad at all.”, I smiled, “Now I know why I let you guys hang around with me.”
So, as advertised, I am now standing on the tarmac at LAX, basically feeling naked.
“Can’t I keep just one switchblade?” I moaned to Agent Rack.
“Go ahead, if you’re really keen on donating it to Japanese customs”, he replied.
“Fuckbuckets.” I groused.
“There, there now. That’s the usual Dr. Rocknocker of which we’re all so fond.” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Remember, you do have that wallet-sized credit card gizmo from the Company. So you’re not entirely ‘naked’. Think of it as an emergency breechcloth.” He smiled.
“I’d like a larger model if you don’t mind. It’s chilly out here.” I joshed.
After Agents Rack and Ruin stripped me metaphorically naked as they de-weaponized me, they handed me a Business Class ticket to Tokyo, and a pass to the Japan Airlines Hospitality Suite and Lounge.
“So sorry you guys can’t hang around and have a few farewell snorts”, I chided, “But you’ve got a bit of a drive, so best be off before the weather turns to shit.”
“Who says we’re driving?” Agent Rack asked as he hooked a thumb over his shoulder at the ready and waiting C-130 cargo plane currently taxiing slowly in our direction.
“Well, in that case”, I smiled even more broadly, “Let’s invite the flight crew to join us. That’ll make the flight home all that much more interesting.”
After near tear-jerking farewell sentimentalities, i.e., “Piss on you”, “Get stuffed” and “Take a fuckin’ hike”; Agents Rack and Ruin, my weapons and the Agency’s plain-Jane Blue Chevy were all nestled snugger than buggers in ruggers in the belly of the thundering C-130.
Now truly on my own, I trudge the hundred thousand or so centisteps to my departure terminal, make a quick recon that my flight’s still slated to go in a generally westward direction, and hightail it to the nearest courtesy desk to ask for a motorized cart to take me and my remaining luggage to the JAL Hospitality Suite.
Hey. I’m old, infirm, and currently among the walking wounded.
Anyone that disagrees risks an Ankylosaur tail club swat or Thagomizer to the skull.
Finally ensconced in the JAL Hospitality Suite, Polo Lounge of course; I was drinking Tokyo Teas (3 oz. vodka, 2 oz. gin, 2 oz. rum, 1 oz. triple sec, 1 oz. Midori, good splash of lime juice, a slight splash of 7-Up (diet, of course), over ice with a lime wheel) with Pabst Blue Ribbon Extra 1844 chasers and Hangar One’s “Fog Point” vodka on the side, hiding from the brutish realities of this foul year of two thousand and twenty-something, Common Era…
I’ve already called Esme and we’ve had a good, long chat. She still managed to give me her shopping list for whenever I find myself bored on the Ginza.
She’ll be shocked when she learns that I’m not going to be in Tokyo long, but have 1st class tickets on the Bullet Train to Sapporo. Still, I’ll probably find myself in Pole Town or the Stellar Place there, trading piles of US greenbacks for locally produced Japanese curios and clothing.
I can hardly wait.
I order another round of drinks, as the wonderful attendants in the Hospitality Suite were bored out of their skulls because of the COVID-induced drop-in customers flying anywhere that requires a hospitality room stay, and I was virtually the only one around. They tried their level best to outdo each other when it comes to Japanese efficiency and friendliness.
After a couple of hours, they ask if I would like something from the grill, as the day chef had “the COVID” and the night chef just arrived. A quick perusal of the menu and I chose a 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse and another round of drinks.
I usually don’t like to eat too much before I fly, but JAL tells me the flight is going to be virtually empty, something like <121 pax, all told, so restroom availability shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
Plus, who am I to say no to a free, blue 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse?
There was a bit of difficulty conveying to the chef through the intermediaries of the hospitality just how I wanted my steak.
“Blue,” I said.
“Brue?” was the reply.
“Rare. Very, very rare.” I continued.
Look of total bewilderment.
I drag out my Personal Language Pro, speak “Steak, very, very rate” into the infernal gizmo, and hand the contraption to the attendant.
“珍しい、非常に珍しいステーキ?”[ Mezurashī, hijō ni mezurashī sutēki?]
“Raw! Nama!” I say, louder than need be.
They toddle off to find the chef.
“How is it sir, that you would like your steak cooked?” he asks.
“Very rare. Just a minute or two per side. Inside still cold.” I instructed.
All I got for the trouble was a puzzled smile.
“Give me the language gizmo…” I type in a few words…
“お尻を洗い、角をノックオフして、ここから出してください”
[O shiri o arai,-kaku o nokkuofu shite, koko kara dashite kudasai.]
“Wash its ass, knock its horns off, and walk it out here.”
“OH!” as the lightbulb pops. “Rare. Got it! Excellent!” the chef laughs and zips back to the kitchen.
Like I always say, I’m nothing if not the international ambassador of amity and goodwill.
“Crack tubes!”
Dinner was fantastic. I do wish I could have somehow mailed the Porterhouse bone back home for Khan. After that hambone incident, he might even taste it.
Finally on the plane, in an almost empty Business Class, the flight captain informs us that we’re headed to Haneda Airport Tokyo and anyone not headed in that direction better ‘haul ass off’ the flight or forever hold their peace.
Late-night international flights tend to be a bit more wooly than your average Chicago to Omaha gig.
Especially when the flight’s damn near empty and we have the next 12 hours or so to be best friends.
We taxi, turn and head into the wind. I’m doctoring up a couple of dossiers and keeping my personal cabin attendant, Luna since there were two of us in Business and two business flight attendants, busy with her trying to play ‘Stump the Geologist’.
“I’ll bet you never had this before.” She beamed and handed me a tumbler of very dangerous-looking brown liquor.
I cautiously sniff, take a modest gulp, swirl and glug the rest down.
“Ohishi Single Sherry Cask”, I say with a muffled belch. “Light. Fruity. An Englishman’s drink.”
“Oh. You knew. Let me try again.” She smiles beatifically.
“I have no objections to your proposal.” I smile as nicely as this crotchety old Komodo Dragon could.
She returns with another flagon of spirits; it smells of obsidian, leather, and earth.
I just had some of this back in LAX. I take a snort, smile, and shotgun the rest.
“Hibiki Japanese Harmony…lovely stuff.” I smile. “A little light for my jaded palate, but I’d never turn it down if it were free.”
“Oh, you win again. Wait. One more.” She smiles and skitters off to the galley.
She returns with another soupçon of some more dangerous brown liquor.
“Here, try this. It will make you very popular at social gatherings”. She smiles.
Sniff. “Splendid.” Snort. Swirl. Smile. Shotgun.
“Kanosuke New Born, if I’m not mistaken.” I smile back. “Very nice. I really do like this one.”
“You too good at this. One more!” she stands and stomps off defiantly. She returns in a trice and hands me the glass.
“Hmm…brown. Light notes of earth, leather, dating your daughter, and Kentucky…
“Beam Suntory, right?”
“You know them all!” she says, feigning irritation.
“And I thank you. Those were all excellent. Now, anything in the dangerous clear liquor category? I asked.
Luna smiled as I palmed off a 20k yen tip.
“Oh, no sir. Wait until we land.” She demurred, referring to the gratuity; which is know is not de rigueur in the Orient, but she didn’t seem to mind.
“Just in case we never make it to Tokyo”, I laughed, unknowingly presciently.
We both chuckled about that last line as she tried out various sakes and shōchūs and an actual Japanese ‘White Liquor’ (ホワイトリカー), which were all excellent as was the company.
I tell her that I need to get some work done and could she bring me a tall Rocknocker. After explain the origins and construction of the eponymous drink, she brings me one that must tip the scales at 1 or so liters.
She settles down to an empty seat and I get after the work that I need to finish before we land. I’m about ½ way through my drink when it felt as if the plane hit a brick wall. She quivered and quaked and clutched at herself while I made some comments about the pilot’s mental health.
We dropped like a paralyzed falcon, then just as suddenly, felt like it was an express elevator to Angel’s 11. The plane bucked and shimmied, wickedly. Then we slam-danced right and fell a few more stories. It was like we were in a Mixmaster and the owner was trying out every speed.
The emergency lights in the 777-300ER popped on, and the fasten seat belt sign barked loudly so even sleeping travelers could enjoy the show.
Rinse. Spin. Shudder. Repeat.
Finally, the ride smooths out and we hear the captain on the blower.
“This is your captain speaking…ah, we seem to have hit some uncharted turbulence back there.”
“Thanks, Captain Obvious”, I muttered.
“Everything’s A-OK. “ he reports.
“That’s good”, I note.
“But…”
“There’s always the but…” I groan.
“…we have a couple of warning lights for which we can’t quite account. So to just be safe and certain, we’re going to divert to Hawaii, get a clean bill of health and resume this flight once we make sure everything here is hunky-dory.”
There were scattered groans and applause. Add them together and divide by two and the average response on the flight was “Meh. Whatever.”
Except for the other guy in Business, with whom I hadn’t shared two words. He began to absolutely lose his shit.
“Oh, man! We’re so screwed! Mechanical malfunction? What does that mean?” he positively fizzed with fear.
The flight attendants tried to calm him down, to no avail. They basically gave up and said they’d report his misgivings to the Captain.
I motioned over to my personal flight attendant, Luna, and asked if I could be of service.
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled at me, “If you could speak with him. You are so calm, and he is…”
“Losing his bloody mind”, I chuckled as I finished her sentence for her. “Of course, I’ll take a stab at it.”
So, I grab my drink and ease over to my Business Class partner and introduce myself.
“Hey, pal. How’s it going? I’m Dr. Rock, gentleman, scholar, and connoisseur of cigars and things alcoholic. You doing OK?”
He looks at me with an ashen face and his eyes the size of bloodshot dinner plates.
“Yeah. I’m Todd Schotts. I’m flying to Japan for business.” He mumbles
“No surprise there,” I reply calmly and take a slug of my drink.
“But now we’re all going to die. The plane is busted and we’ll crash…” he started off again.
“So, Todd is it? Good. You drink?” I asked.
“Yeah?”, he stammered back.
I asked Luna to make us a fresh batch of my eponymous cocktails.
“OK, Todd, listen up”, I began after the drinks were served, “I have flown literally millions of miles over the last 4 decades. On Aeroflot when it was still the USSR. On TACA (Take A Chance Airways), on Chalk’s in the Caribbean, on Bob’s Verrifast Plane Company in Rhodesia, on regional carriers that don’t even exist anymore. All over the world. Had some bad experiences flying, and me ol’ mugger, this ain’t one of them. This is nothing more than the glitch for this mission.”
I chuckled lightly and complimented Luna on a fantastic drink.
“Yeah…yeah…yeah…but we have to land and check out some lights…” Todd squealed.
“Well now, Todd. It would be rather difficult to do any external assessment while in flight, don’t you agree?” I asked.
“But we’re diverting. We have to land and that adds more risk. We’re going to crash and die!” he was coming more and more unglued.
“I will bet you every cent you have on your person and home bank accounts that that will not happen”, I chuckled.
That took him by surprise. At least it shut him up for a while.
“Look, Todd. This is Boeing’s latest model. They have the most incredible safety record. And if a little clear air turbulence were to be knocking planes out of the sky, don’t you think we’d hear about it as the press went berserk?” I asked.
“But they don’t know what the lights mean! What if one of the engines’s out? How far can we fly on one engine?” Todd stuttered.
Having my fill of a supposedly grown man with inane childlike fears, I calmly replied,
“All the way to the crash site.”
He went white.
“...hope we hit something hard. I don’t want to limp away from this.”
He went limp.
Then I went to my seat and motioned for Luna to prepare a reload.
Of course, 45 minutes later, we land without incident at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu Hawaii.
We were told to just wait around until they figure out what the problem if any, was.
They had officials waiting at the end of the jetway to check our COVID status and passports before they let us loose in the terminal.
I asked Luna if she knew this airport. She noted that she did.
“Is there a JAL hospitality room here at this airport? I asked.
“Yes, Doctor. It’s the Sakura Lounge. It is located on the third level above The Local, Terminal 2.” She replied.
“Please notify whoever needs to know that that’s where I’ll be for the duration”, I smiled and handed her my business card. “See you soon, I hope.”
“Oh, Dr. Rock”, she replied, “I am sure it is nothing much. We’ll be back in the air within mere hours.”
“Well then”, I smiled, “Guess I’d better get ready to hoof it to the lounge.”
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled, “No rush. I will call for you a courtesy cart. You are injured, you are Business, you are priority.”
“I love that Asian efficiency.” I smiled back and toddled down the jetway.
At the terminus of the jetway, I show my COVID-clear papers, dates and times of my Anti-Virus vaccine administrations, the letter from Virginia clearing me of all detention, and my red Russian diplomatic passport.
While in the cart, whizzing our way to the JAL lounge, the driver said “Man! You must be some kind of VIP. You were through that welcoming committee in less than two minutes!”
“Me? Nah!”, I chuckled, “Just an old phart of a geologist that they didn’t want to mess with. Not on such a bright, sunny day as this.”
“I see you’re not wearing a mask.” The driver quipped.
“Very observant. There are reasons for that.” I replied.
He careens around a corner and if this were a normal pre-Covid day, I’m certain we’d have killed hundreds. However, the airport, as I’ve come to grow accustomed to, was virtually deserted.
“Yeah? Like what?” he asks.
“Well, Scooter, 1. I have an active and hardworking immune system that I let off the chain every once in a while for exercise. Got to let it know what it’s up against, right? 2. I’ve had all my shots and some that were experimental. They seem to have worked. And 3. I find it difficult to drink and smoke cigars while wearing a mask. However, if you’d prefer, I will mask up. No problem, though it still is optional.”
“Nah, man”, he said, “I was just wondering if you were one of those religious idiots or conspiracy nuts.”
Nope”, I smiled back, “Just another geologist out in the world plying his trade for cash. Y’know, whorin’ around for money.”
He laughs aloud as we skid to a stop right in front of Lounge.
I slip the guy a $20 and ask if he’d listen for the JAL flight I was just on. If we’re going on ahead today, I’d need him to scoot by and putt-putt me back to the plane.
He laughs and pockets the $20 as quick as a mink ruts.
“No worries. I’ll just hang around this area. I hear anything about the flight, I’ll come and let you know.” He grins.
“Good man”, I say, as I hand him my card. “I’m Dr. Rocknocker. Call me Rock”.
“And I’m Kapula Mano, call me Kap” he replies.
“Good man”, I say again, “Hope to see you in a while.”
He grins, floors his electric cart, and peels out at speeds approaching 4.5 MPH.
I wander into the lounge, show my credentials, and am escorted to a post up on Mahogany Ridge.
The bar is very quiet. Besides the bartender, I can’t see anyone else in the darkened and Smooth Jazz-infused drinking emporium.
I order a local drink, a Mai Tai, just for the experience and something a bit different.
It’s served in a goldfish bowl on a stem, bedecked with a slice of lime, a sprig of mint, a stick of sugar cane, a polychromatic orchid, and the obligate paper umbrella.
“Ah. Mai Tai. I will enjoy it.” I said to no one in particular.
One was enough, and I decided to go back to the old standard. Once I explained to the bartender what that was, he made them heroic and enthusiastically.
I’m reading up on a random dossier, making notes in a new file, and puffing away on a Fuentes Onyx double Maduro Churchill cigar.
I hear a slight cough coming from my right, and this here lovely lady, she sat to my immediate starboard and looked at me semi-quizzically.
Not in the mood for shenanigans of any stripe, I give her the obligate Baja Canada nod and tilt of the drink. I return to my dossiers and continue to read and take notes.
“Excuse me!” I hear.
Fearing the worst, either the woman is Karen-oid anti-smoking or a religious fruit-and-nutburger, I slowly turn to face her and reply, somewhat glacially, I have to admit.
“What?”
“That cigar…”
“Here we go…” I mutter, eyes rolling northward.
“Smells exquisite. Could you tell me the brand? My husband would enjoy some like that.” She notes.
Instantly my demeanor switches 1800.
“Yes, ma’am. It’s an Arturo Fuentes Onyx. Churchill size, or 60 ring x 7” length, double Maduro. Here, take one for your husband. I have an ample supply.” I smile.
“Oh, no. I couldn’t. Could I?” she asks.
“Please. I insist.” I smile the best I could given the circumstances.
“Thank you. You’re too kind…umm…Mr….?”
“Doctor. Doctor Rocknocker. World traveler, oilman, and international ambassador of amity, good drinks, and fine cigars. Call me Rock” I said.
“Oh! A Doctor?” she brightens.
“Yes, of Petroleum Geology and Engineering. Not medicine.” I chuckle.
She chuckles back.
“And I am Hella Aaberg”, as she offers her hand for a quick shake.
“Interesting name, Hella. Scandinavian or Old German heritage?” I ask.
“On my father’s side. He’s Finnish.” She replies.
“But I’ll wager your mother is not Scandinavian, correct?” I ask.
“She was from Truk, an island…”
“In the South Pacific, Micronesia. Was she from Weno city?” I asked.
“Why yes. How could you possibly know that?” she asked.
“Oh, I’ve been there. Great diving amongst the WWII wrecks. I think it’s actually called ‘Chuuk Lagoon’ or something like that now.” I said.
“That’s right! Amazing. Where else have you been?” she asked.
“Anywhere there’s oil, strife, booze, cigars, heavy explosives and typically long distances from whatever most normal people call civilization,” I replied with a chuckle.
Suddenly, I hear a voice booming out behind me.
“Why don’t you save that rapier-like wit for those musky-fuckers back home, Rocko?”
My expression changes. My eyes pop fully wide open.
“Hella?” I asked.
“Yes?”
“May I ask you a favor?”
“You can ask…”
“Thank you. Now, looking over my shoulder, is there a hulking goon of a person, thin up top, paunchy halfway down with the most ridiculously tiny sized shoes you’ve ever seen for a so-called grown man?” I ask.
“Yes. Yes, there is.” She replies.
“I thought so. Many thanks.”
I spin and launch off my barstool and grab Toivo by the hand. He hadn’t seen my left-hand Thagomizer yet.
“Toivo! You old sumbitch. What the flying fennec fox fuck are you, of all people, doing in Hawaii?” I laughed.
“Just keeping an eye on you, Rock!” he laughed equally as loud.
“No, fucking-A, seriously. What the actual fuck? What are you doing in this actual nice place?” I asked.
“Just headed to Tokyo to conduct a bit of service company business. I walked into the lounge and smelled a foul cigar. I figured it can’t be the venerable Dr. Rocknocker. He’s back at some school up north terrorizing geology and engineering grads and undergrads.” Toivo laughed.
“But there I was. Surprise!”, I laughed and pumped his hand.
“What the fuck, Rock. Now what did you do?” he asks, referring to my Ankylosaur tail club left hand.
“Ah, fuck. Long story. Oh, pardon me. Toivo, this is Hella. We were just talking about the South Seas Islands.” I said.
“Planning on running off together?” Toivo laughs, to the amusement of neither party.
“Oh, and this idiot is Toivo, a man with a congenital foot-in-mouth disorder. He’s mostly harmless.” I noted to Hella.
Greetings were shared all around. Hella made some small excuses and said she needed to depart. I gave her another cigar for her husband, shook her hand, and wished her well.
“Here’s my business card. If your husband has any questions, have him drop me a line.” I noted.
Hella smiled beautifully. She said she would. Then she thanked me shook our hands, and like that, there she was, gone.
“Well Toivo, you old bastard. Don't just stand there in the doorway like some lonesome goddamn mouse shit sheepherder, get your ass over here and have a drink.” I motioned over to my perch on Mahogany Ridge.
“Don’t mind if I do”, he says as he deftly winds his way to a seat to my left, snagging a cigar out of my pocket on the way over.
“You might want these”, I say in an exasperated tone, and hand him my gold Dunhill Hobnail lighter and V-cutter gizmo.
He cuts and fires up his heater.
“What you drinkin’, Rock”, he asks.
“Anything with alcohol, as usual. You know that Toiv.” I reply.
“No. I mean right now.” He clarifies.
“Well, I had a Mai Tai. Very nice if you like fruity, flowery drinks. It’s the locals’ favorite.” I reply.
“Sounds good. I’ll have several. And you?” Toivo asks.
“My usual. The bartender is already apprised of the situation.” I reply.
Toivo smiles the smile of one knowing his sobriety is going to be taken out for a swim. Hell, taken out and tossed into the deep end.
Toivo and I sit there, swapping lies, smoking cigars and sipping at our toddies.
Hell, Toivo was slurping them like a sump-pump during an extra-wet summer.
We chattered about family, work, whether or not Tokyo was going to host the Olympics or if the COVID-boogie man scared everyone off.
Toivo, always one afflicted with TB (“Tiny Bladder”) got up to go to the loo for the third time that hour. He left his pocket organizer on the bar and I swear on a stack of Origins of Species, I didn’t touch it.
I reached over to his vacated seat to retrieve my cigar lighter when I looked down and saw in his organizer a tab that reads “Rack & Ruin”.
“Oh. No. Fucking. Way.” I recoiled as I’d just reached out and petted a 6-foot hungover scorpion.
“One of my best friends? Secretly allied with the Agency? No. Not possible.” I drained my drink and called for another.
“No. No. No. It can’t be. No. No fucking way…” as doubt began to dissolve when I thought back to all those times I had just ‘run into’ Toivo.
“But he’s oil patch as well. That could be chalked up to coincidence.” I ruminated quizzically in my brain.
I quickly reflected back on J.M. Darhower: “Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything that happens is the result of a calculated move that leads us to where we are.”
She may be the author of the execrable New Adult Sempre series, which Esme likes and I loathe, but she might just be right on this occasion.
Toivo return, lighter in the bladder and good sense. He never even noticed he’d left his organizer out in broad bar light for all to see.
“So, Toivo, when’s your flight?” I ask.
“Oh, man. Was I lucky. The JAL flight to Tokyo from Los Angeles had mechanical trouble and had to divert here. I got a ticket on the plane for that flight, when it continues.
“You mean ‘if it continues’,” I replied.
“Yeah. Yeah. That’s what I meant. Hey! Was that your flight?” he asks innocently. He’s really innocent of fieldcraft.
I decide to have some fun at my old friend’s expense.
“Yep. Hit some CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the JAL pilots reported some lighting problem. No apparent ruin to any of the systems. They relay racked their brains to figure it out, but they couldn’t that’s why I here.” I said, waiting for the words to swim upstream in Toivo’s coconut and make some sort of connection.
“Yeah. Double lucky. No problem with the plane and I get to go to Japan early.” Toivo crookedly grins.
“So, no trouble with the plane? Then why haven’t I heard that the flight’s going to resume?” I asked as I pushed a fresh, seriously strong drink to Toivo.
“Oh, must have heard it in the john.” Toivo countered and tried to cover his tracks by taking a huge gulp of his drink and damn near dying coughing.
I pound on Toivo’s back.
“Heimlich time?” I ask.
Toivo signals ‘no’.
“Jesus Christ, Rock. What was that?” he asks.
“Just my usual”, I innocently replied.
“Holy fuck. No wonder you have the reputation of…” Toivo realizes too late that he’s said too much.
“Yeah. They can rack you out. Really ruin a person if they’re not careful.” I reply icily.
“Why, Rock. Whatever do you mean?” Toivo slurred as he realized he’s been caught out.
“The jig is up, you turncoat. You know Agents Rack and Ruin from the agency. Right? You keeping tabs on me for them? You Quisling! You Benedict Arnold!” I almost was on the verge of losing my cool.
“It was nothing. They approached me years ago as I kept being mentioned in your reports. They asked me for some information. One thing leads to another…” Toivo was ready for an Ankylosaur tail club swat to the bean.
“Oh, put your fucking hands down, you asshole.” I smiled and chuckled.
“You’re not mad?” Toivo slurred badly. I had the bartender make him another special drink.
“No, Toivo. Not mad. Just disappointed.” I said, smiling like a Komodo Dragon just finishing up a fortnight-old wildebeest.
Toivo sat there and puzzled and puzzled until his puzzler was sore.
“You’re not going to kill me or anything rude like that?” Toivo asked, half-assedly trying to inject humor into the proceedings.
“Nah. The paperwork’s too ridiculous for me to do another liberation. But, Jesus Fucking Christwagons, Toivo; you could have mentioned it to me. Fuck, I thought we were friends to the end?” I said, dejectedly.
I was really getting through to Toivo. I could tell he was loaded; feeling like shit and massively deplorable.
Great fieldcraft, indeed.
I told him things “are what they are” and that I won’t blow his cover nor his honorarium.
He began to feel better. I often wonder if he was serious about the sanctioning thing.
Then I delivered the strategic missile strike.
“Just remember, Toivo. I wrote your dossier for the Company…”
He swivels to look at me.
“And one for the KGB. Olga says ‘howdy’.” I grin evilly.
Toivo short-circuited at that. Russia is his company’s bread and butter. Now he has the KGB as well as his best buddy looking over his shoulder at every move.
I bought him a few more drinks and continued to needle him about his ’leading a double life’. He was well and truly fuckered when the electric tap-tap driver from before came looking for me to whisk me back to the plane.
Seems it was simply some knocked-out wires on the plane, or slammed bulbs that were generating a false positive, indicating something other than the system that alerts one to something haywire went haywire.
Toivo was pretty much down for the count. I got him sober enough to hand them his ticket and ensure that he was really supposed to be on this flight. Thing was; h e was in Economy, and I was, as always, in Business.
I spoke to Luna, and the plane was going to be even less crowded than previously because some folks could or wouldn’t wait, or didn’t want to go on with the rest of the trip on a ‘damaged’ aircraft, or were just stupid and superstitious.
“Luna, could I pay for the difference between Business and Economy for my less than 100% conscious friend here? He’s had a rough day.” I asked.
“Dr. Rock. Just put him into Business. No one will be the wiser. Luna says so.” As she gave us a grand smile.
“Luna, I owe you. Thanks so much.” I said.
“Now get on board. Your friend looks like he needs all the downtime he can get.”
“Yes, ma’am!” I said and saluted here be best I could which dragging a schnozzled Toivo down the jetway.
I dumped Toivo in a window seat well away from my seat. I know Toivo. He snores like a semi-load of live hogs rocketing downhill locking up the brakes at 88 MPH.
Surprise! There was no one else in Business. Luna looked at me, at Toivo, and gave me a thumbs up.
Whatever I can write to further her career at JAL, she’ll have it before I deplane.
We finally get everyone settled, and with Captain Kangaroo at the helm, we bounced gracelessly off the tarmac, into the warm, tropical Hawaiian air, finally headed for the Land of the Rising Sun.
Toivo was snoring like a chainsaw hitting rusty nails as I worked on the various letters, communiques, and dossiers which needed updating before we reached touchdown. I gave Luna a thick letter with instructions not to open it until we were on the ground and Toivo and I were well off and away into the terminal.
We left Hawaii at 1300 hours, so we should arrive at Tokyo Nareda around 4:00 pm, the previous day. I was so bereft of time and time zones, I couldn’t figure out what time it really was, as judged by my biometric rhythms, so I asked Luna for a stiff drink as I was kicking off my boots and going to attempt to get some kip.
She brought me another liter or so eponymous drink. I was sawing logs by the time I slurped the last swig of that nifty drink.
Suddenly, or later, I have no idea really, some loudmouth drunk asshole from way-the-fuck-back in economy-land toward the ass end of the plane staggered into Business demanding free drinks.
Luna was nothing but civil, and asked him to both shut up and return to his seat. His air cabin hostess, or whatever the fuck they’re calling them these days, will attend to his needs.
“Naw they won’t! They want me to pay for more drinks! I’m broke but I demand more booze! You fucking owe me.” railed the asshole. “I sat at the bar in Hawaii for four hours. Them fuckers charged me an arm and a leg!”
“No, they don’t owe you shit”, I said in a voice that unmistakably loud and clear.
“Fuck you, old man! You stay the fuck out of this!” he bellowed. “Shut up or I’ll do ya’!”
“’Old man’? ‘Do me’? Excuse me. Luna, may I have a word alone with this individual?” I asked sweetly.
Luna shook her head in the affirmative, and I stood up to confront this flagrant asshole.
“Now look, Scooter. You have gone way, way over the fucking line. You are loud. You are abusive. You are obnoxious. And you stink. Plus you insulted a person who is just barely containing his righteous wrath right now. So, I’m giving you one and one only chance to shut up, sit back down before your body spontaneously develops all sort of bruises, contusions, broken bones, and unconsciousness.” I said calmly, evenly, and threateningly.
“What da’ fuck you think you’re going to do…old man?” he screeched, trying to inflate himself into full mammalian threat posture, all 5’ 9” of it.
He didn’t notice Toivo walking up quietly behind him, as Toivo was returning from the head, quiet as a moose.
“Well, Scooter, I am an Air Marshall. Duly appointed, fully trained, and properly pissed off. Right now, I can arrest you, physically detain you, turn this flight around and take you to the Hawaiian police, at your cost for the inconvenience of the entire flight. Or I could arrest you, physically detain you, and turn you over to the Japanese authorities when we land. It’s really your choice. Choose wisely.”
To be continued…⇝
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Dec/29/2020 news: \\ political party law reformed: idea > individual; transparency; female % \\ Pashinyan responds to "not being enough pro-Russian" \\ who owns which business? \\ protests & snap elect. \\ burglary case & HHK MP \\ humanitarian aid for Artsakh \\ Vitalik flexes muscles \\ bills pass
Your 14-minute Tuesday report in 3589 words.
Pashinyan about pre-war negotiations and "avoiding" the war:
The idea that a flexible foreign policy could have avoided this war is being constantly circulated. Those [former officials] who believe in this thesis must answer at least one question: as a result of their "flexible" policy, why was it not possible to avoid the war of 2016, which was preceded by the unprecedented escalation of 2015 and 2014?
The "flexible" policy adopted by Armenia for many years led to the introduction of Russian proposals in January 2016, which proposed the return of 7 territories (5 + 2) without any legal status for Nagorno-Karabakh.
Why did Russia make such an offer? For one simple reason, as a result of Armenia's "flexible" policy, the Madrid process had come to a standstill because Artsakh could receive a Status outside Azerbaijan only with the consent of Azerbaijan.
It was obvious to Russia and everyone else that Azerbaijan would not agree to this, so it was necessary to find ways to break the deadlock.
And, by the way, if certain people claim that Armenia's foreign policy after 2018 was not sufficiently pro-Russian and this was the reason for the war, then why in the conditions of the "sufficiently pro-Russian" policy of 2016 were Russian proposals born and why did the April war take place?
There was only one way to prevent this war: return the regions and forget about Artsakh's legal status. Now, after the war is over and we know the outcome, the number of supporters of [giveaway of 7 regions] is growing. What they forget is that if we gave away the lands to avoid the war, we would have the same situation in Syunik borders. They used to accuse us of "selling lands" [he means the contradictory statements like Nikol sold the lands, and why didn't Nikol sell the lands earlier to avoid the war].
The biggest failure by the supporters of the "flexible policies" is that they spent years trying to avoid a war instead of preparing for it. Our biggest failure is that we weren't able to recover enough embezzled public property in the past 2.5 years to help us better prepare for the war.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039231.html businesses owned by opposition leaders
What are the known businesses owned by some of the famous people you might have seen in the public square lately?
Vazgen Manukyan
20% share in
Lorva Amrots Ltd which plans to operate two hydro-power plants on Dzoraget river. Manukyan purchased the shares in 2011 after being appointed by Serj as the head of the Public Council.
In 2015-2016, he owned 30% shares in
Vanavka Group. In 2015-2017 he had 30% shares in
Jermakunq Group. These companies extracted and bottled water. At the time, the director of these companies was charged with illegal bottling and causing ֏55 million in damages to the state. The corruption case was sent to the IRS, which terminated the investigation after "not finding a crime". The companies export the products mostly to Russia.
Arthur Vanetsyan
Vanetsyan is a poor boy, according to the public declarations database. But if you have time,
take a look at the investigative report I covered in Ap29/2020 news, according to which Vanetsyan's family allegedly used offshore firms and owns mining shares.
More on that here. Here is a
Hetq investigative report.
Vanetsyan's father owns
AV Group flower importing business. About a year ago, the police investigated several flower sellers near a stadium. An opposition outlet claimed that the sellers were "beaten and forced" to testify that Vanetsyan's father was running an underground business. This was never properly proven and the opposition's claim that Vanetsyan was about to be charged did not happen. The police confirmed that there was an investigation against several flower sellers. These flower sellers ended up hiring Vanetsyan's co-party-creator Arsen Babayan as a lawyer.
Vanetsyan's father owns 50% shares of
A B Export oil import company that began operating in 2017. It was a minor player that quit the market in 2019. Vanetsyan's father also owns 60% of
A B Trans transportation company.
In Nov/2019,
CivilNet wrote about Arthur Vanetsyan's cousins' possible involvement with Zangezur Copper factory
(massive business). The same offshore firm in Cyprus, which purchased Zangezur shares, was tied to Vanetsyan's cousins' another business in the same offshore.
Vanetsyan's cousins also own a Switzerland-based
Exoil wholesale cooking oil and shipping company. In 2019 it had a revenue of $148 million
(11 billion Rubles). The cousins don't do this business in Armenia.
Per 2019 registration, Arthur Vanetsyan himself owns one apartment, $10,000, and ֏1 million.
Media reported in May/2020 that Vanetsyan's cousin purchased a ֏300 million mansion in Yerevan, which was donated to then-new political party "Hayreniq", co-founded by Arthur Vanetsyan and Arsen Babayan
(the guy who is accused of helping HHK to fabricate documents in 2018 to hijack the Constitutional Court by appointing HHK MP Hrayr Tovmasyan as a judge).
Arthur Vanetsyan's mother served as the chief of the personnel-management department in Serj and Pashinyan administrations, before quitting and working as Serj's aide.
Vanetsyan's wife owns
Villa Montessori preschool in Yerevan. She also runs the
Young Education Center Ltd.
ARF Ishkhan Saghatelyan
Pashinyan appointed Saghatelyan as Gegharquniq governor for a brief period after the 2018 revolution, when Pashinyan created a unity-government, represented by all political parties. The honeymoon soon ended and each party went their way.
Saghatelyan owns shares in
i-mega Service Ltd. It's a tourism agency founded in 2006. It operates in Armenia, Artsakh, and Georgia.
Saghatelyan founded
Navasar company and serves as director. It's owned by his father.
Saghatelyan family owns the
Tsovasar hotel complex on Lake Sevan shores. It's 10,000 m
2 (a hectare?).
As of 2018, Saghatelyan declared ownership of 8 pieces of land, 2 apartments, ֏18.5 million, $45,000, and €15,000.
Saghatelyan's father is the mayor of Gegharquniq's Geghamavan settlement. This municipality had recently sent a letter demanding Pashinyan's resignation.
Saghatelyan used to be a shareholder of
Shiman Ltd which is no longer active.
BHK leader Gagik "dodi gago" Tsarukyan
BUCKLE UP, KIDS! Overall, Tsarukyan runs 54 companies.
Студент, комсомолец, спортсмен, u наконец, он просто красавиц. His business empire was covered in details
here. Textile, gas stations, malls, Multi Group empire, Shangri-La Casino, Ararat Cognac & Wine Factory, BMW official office Euromotors (also Hyundai, Gazel, Niva), Multi Motors, Magas Invest, Multi Wellness, Olimpavan sports complex, Kotayk beer factory, TechnAlyumin door & window factory, Multi Rest House hotel chain, Paravon luxury restaurant, Onira Club, Zvartnot's airport's upper-level service company Avia Service, Farm Adama, Multi Pharm pharmacy, Multi Leon gas stations, Multi Solar solar panels.
He owns shares in Frank Mueller Yerevan watch company, Fortsa, Multi Gold, Multi Diamond jewelry firms, several fish-breeding businesses.
He also runs businesses in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Czechia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia.
Per official declaration, he owns $168 million, €29 million, ֏675 million, 14 pieces of land, 6 houses, 2 public buildings, 1 apartment.
Details for BHK MP Mikael Melkumyan and HHK Vahram Baghdasaryan in the link below.
https://fip.am/14388 https://hetq.am/hy/article/88755 https://www.reddit.com/armenia/comments/gagkyp/apr292020_wednesday_news_armenia_being_sued_fo?
www.civilnet.am/news/2019/11/01/Զանգեզուրի-պղնձամոլիբդենային-Մաքսիմ-Հակոբյանի-ու-նրա-որդու-փոխարեն-նոր-բաժնետերեր-Ժնևից-և-Աջափնյակից/369792 www.1lurer.am/hy/2020/01/29/Բենզինի-շուկա-Արթուր-Վանեցյանի-հայրը-դուրս-է-եկել-ոլորտից-Միքայել-Մինասյանի-մերձավորը՝-խոշորների-մա/182670 opposition continues the demonstrations
The street demonstrations, organized by the former regime and its allies, continue. They demand Pashinyan's resignation and the appointment of their candidate Vazgen Manukyan as the Prime Minister for the duration of a year, after which they agree to hold new elections.
ARF leader Artsvik Minasyan said they don't plan to discuss snap elections with Pashinyan.
"Right now, our only demand is Pashinyan's resignation. We demand SIS to immediately hold every criminal accountable". The demonstrators gathered in front of the SIS building to present the demands.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039316.html Pashinyan meets leaders of several opposition parties
QP leader Lilith: there is a possibility there will be a meeting between Pashinyan and the three Parliamentary political parties. They could discuss snap elections. The impression is that politicians who demand Pashinyan's resignation do not want snap elections in an attempt to bypass the citizen's right to form a government. Our political team reaffirms the position that none of us is clinging on seats. //
LHK MP Gorgisyan: we cannot hold snap elections now, under this chaotic situation. We will discuss snap elections if Pashinyan discusses his resignation and transfer of power.
(LHK wants its leader Marukyan to be elected as Prime Minister by a Parliamentary vote) //
Pashinyan met BHK leader Tsarukyan. The latter is against holding snap elections unless Pashinyan resigns now, and presumably, he wants Vazgen Manukyan appointed as PM.
LHK leader Marukyan also wants Pashinyan to resign now so a new Prime Minister can form a new government cabinet "consisted of experts".
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039261.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039268.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039299.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039322.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039323.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039327.html felony case: ex-HHK MP charged with armed attack on ex-IRS official
In August of this year, Russia extradited a former HHK MP Alraghatsi Lyovik to Armenia. He was wanted for allegedly burglarizing and shooting at a senior IRS official a decade ago. At the time, his case was "frozen". It was relaunched in 2018.
(magic wand) NSS says: suspect Lyovik, with the help of citizens AK and AN, organized an armed burglary against IRS Chief (?) Avetisyan in 2008.
AK was in the United States. In 2004, he stole $150,000 from jewelry shops in Los Angeles. He got caught but managed to flee to Armenia.
Once in Armenia, AK colluded with policeman AN to organize a similar criminal ring in Armenia.
[MP] Lyovik personally knew AK, and learned about their burglaries. Since Lyovik had bad relations with the IRS chief
(victim), he decided to punish the victim by urging AK to burglarize his house. Lyovik revealed the plot to his brother-in-law, who happened to be the victim's personal aide. The latter gave all the personal habits and details about the victim to the burglars.
[read the article for the full story, or wait for a Hollywood movie in theaters near you]
The burglars and organizers are charged with felonies.
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/203835 ,
https://youtu.be/brdozVbwQ6A ,
https://factor.am/274836.html ,
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/183522 ,
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/203835 ,
Russian Orthodox chapel will be built
... in the Armenian settlement near Nakhijevan where Azerbaijan had earlier shut down a Russian helicopter, which killed and wounded Russian pilots. It'll be on a hill in Yeraskh. Construction starts on January 6th.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039259.html Russian peacekeepers conducted training
... to stay in shape. A report by WarGonzo's Semyon Pegovn who returned to Artsakh to meet the New Year there.
https://youtu.be/-c1BSTkC-a8 Russia and Turkey comment
Russian MFA: The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh should not be used for the infiltration of foreign mercenaries into the region. Here we have exactly the same position as our Turkish partners.
Turkish MFA: we see that a ceasefire has been established. We hope to establish the joint RU-TR monitoring center soon.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039281.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039282.html Vitalik Balasanyan will return the lands, kicks junkies, and restrict Facebook
Artsakh President Arayik earlier announced that he will allow his opponents to take jobs in the new coalition government. Kocharyan-ally Vitali Balasanyan became the Security Council chief.
Vitalik: we will return Hadrut and Askeran region with the help of Russian and Armenian military-political efforts. We are in a better situation now to solve territorial issues.
We will soon create border guard forces. It will report to MoD, which will report to the Security Council
(his office).
Drugs have no place in Artsakh. Drug users must quit or leave Artsakh now.
We need to return to traditional values of giving women as wives after asking if the man had served in the army.
No public official will be allowed to use Facebook during work.
More:
https://youtu.be/DceHyi4AB5g https://www.panarmenian.net/arm/news/289056/ search operations are paused / the "welcome to Azerbaijan" sign
Azerbaijan received criticism for refusing to allow search teams to enter the Hadrut region yesterday. They also prevented UNESCO from checking the status of several Armenian cultural sights, after complaining that UNESCO was "biased" against Azerbaijan during the war.
HR Ombudsman: Any untrue information can not be a reason to disrupt the humanitarian process [referring to unconfirmed rumors on social media that Armenians opened fire at Azeris in Hadrut. An unofficial Iranian social media channel claims 3 Azeris were killed but due to an internal fight.]
The Human Rights Ombudsman also criticized the Azeri troops for installing a provocative "welcome to Azerbaijan" sign on part of a road that went under Azeri control near Syunik borders. The Ombudsman says it's meant to intimidate the locals.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039233.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039237.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039244.html ,
https://factor.am/325511.html Parliament votes: BHK MP Naira Zohrabyan's chairmanship
Context: BHK MP Naira Zohrabyan referred to the majority of Armenian voters as human trash *(or as she says: impure), and called for the establishment of forced re-education camps so people won't vote for a "wrong party" again. The ruling QP party launched a process to terminate her chairmanship in Parliamentary Human Rights Committee.
Read yesterday's thread for more details.*
QP MP Arthur: the law states that the Parliament can appoint and terminate the chairman. The termination of this seat does not require the same procedures as in the case of MPs and Judges. Armenian Constitution states that in Armenia, human beings are of the highest value, and inalienable human dignity is the inseparable basis of their rights and freedoms. MP Zohrabyan's public conduct is against it. //
The law gives the second-largest political party the mandate to appoint the chairman of this particular Committee. BHK, being the second-largest party, said they wouldn't appoint a replacement if Zohrabyan is voted out.
QP MP Arthur: per rules, if BHK refuses to appoint a new candidate, the largest (QP) party will receive the mandate. //
Parliament voted 78-4 to terminate Zohrabyan's chairmanship. BHK and LHK did not vote.
BHK MP Zohrabyan: this termination was a Constitutional crime.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039245.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039264.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039304.html ,
https://factor.am/325132.html Parliament votes: registering parties becomes easier / ideology instead of person / financial transparency
The goal of this reform is to have political parties that are more about ideology and less about an individual. The reform will boost internal democracy within parties; it will expand the powers of the Party Assembly.
Parties will be required to add more anonymous voting mechanisms.
The law also requires more financial transparency.
The required membership to register a party is lowered from 800 to 300.
Some of the public funding given to political parties will depend on the % of female members in the administrative boards.
Parliament voted 99-1 to approve it.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039270.html ,
https://youtu.be/bPuZViCCCxo Parliament votes: monthly fees towards soldiers' recovery are raised
Most workers pay a monthly 1000 Dram towards the Soldiers' Fund, which takes care of wounded soldiers and families of those who died. The govt found it necessary to raise the fee to cover thousands of new recipients. Here are the new fees and salary brackets:
֏1,500 for < ֏100k/month
֏3,000 for < ֏200k
֏5,500 for < ֏500k
֏8,500 for < ֏1 million
֏15,000 for > ֏1 million
Parliament voted 89-0 to approve it.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039296.html Parliament votes: ban on public smoking is delayed until 2022
The govt had adopted a law to ban smoking in public cafes and the public display of cigarettes in grocery shops. The ruling party wanted to delay parts of the bill that were set to go into effect in January, citing possible financial issues for businesses caused by the pandemic.
QP MP: the cigarette industry pays $383 million to state coffers.
Healthcare Ministry: it will be a mistake if you delay this bill for the sake of $10 million in tax revenues.
Parliament voted 86-0 to delay the anti-smoking bill until 2022.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039295.html Parliament votes: no tax on goods donated to Armenia
QP MP: When you donate a charitable product to the Republic of Armenia, you are exempt from customs duties and other tax payments, except for one payment, which we are trying to exempt with this bill as well. //
Parliament voted 80-0 to approve it.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039297.html how is the Judicial Branch doing?
The Supreme Court protects or punishes judges. It also handles complaints. It's separate from the Constitutional Court.
bad boys 19 complaints against judges were heard, 14 of which were petitioned by Justice Ministry and 4 by Judicial Ethics Board. 10 judges ended up receiving disciplinary penalties, 3 received a warning, 3 were reprimanded, 2 were terminated, 4 were cleared.
the system is overloaded 61 judges are handling 6470 felony cases.
86 judges handle 175,940 civil cases.
24 judges handle 17,390 administrative cases.
The number of Arbitration cases rose from 3100 to 9900.
finances This year, Supremes appointed 20 new judges. Supreme's budget remained the same this year. They returned ֏607 million in savings back to state coffers.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039249.html ,
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039284.html anti-corruption: SIS busts an IRS agent
SIS says: IRS border inspector took a bribe from a citizen to help him avoid paying Millions of ֏ in import taxes by splitting a large load into smaller pieces, so each piece would fall below the taxable threshold.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039293.html IRS wants you to file less paperwork
IRS says the latest reforms will help the exporters and simplify the process in which Armenia is used as a transit country for trade. Some tasks can be done online.
More:
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039247.html update: electricity prices
...won't go up for low-income families or those using less than 400 kWh. That's 90% of consumers. The rest will pay 3 Drams more. The rates are presented (6-10¢):
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039285.html police to guard Lake Sevan against poachers
Police and Nature Ministry have set up additional checkpoints as part of measures against whitefish poaching in Sevan. 24/7 monitoring on all alleys leading to the lake. They will also travel across markets to catch contraband whitefish.
Why? It's the egg-laying season. Fishing is banned for now. The legally-allowed fishing tools were temporarily removed from the lake.
https://youtu.be/8ZyRGpEazMQ https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039339.html rare Caucasus Leopard is spotted by cameras again
https://youtu.be/2nidC5QJaIg "only 10% of villagers should do agriculture"
...the rest should have access to other jobs. There is an opportunity now because many businesses operate remotely. Call Center workers don't have to visit an office. Businesses would rather pay less to hire a rural remote worker than more to hire someone in a Yerevan office.
The High Tech Ministry has an ongoing program to teach IT to 5,000 citizens. We must help workers to expand their skillset. We're working on a program to allow a worker to quit the job, not worry about the food on the table, and have enough time for education and learning new skills.
The villagers should ideally lease their smaller lands to large agricultural producers," said Economy Minister Qerobyan.
Full interview:
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039319.html State regulators bust another price-fixing ring: fruit mafia
Yesterday, the Economic Competition Committee busted the egg industry's alleged price-fixing and anti-competitive practices. Today they say a similar collision was observed in the orange, mandarin, kiwi, lemon industry.
The companies Best Fruits, Art-Fruits, and Promout were slapped with a ֏39 million in penalties for colluding to raise the prices for the products that had an increased demand during the pandemic period.
http://www.competition.am/.../resources/Vo370_17_12_2020.pdf https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039269.html Lenovo slapped for "anti-competitive practice"
The Economic Competition Committee heard a petition filed by
Oazis Computer company against Lenovo. The latter was issued a warning for anti-competitive behavior.
Public Regulator: "Lenovo" company had the ability to influence the process of importing Lenovo computers to Armenia from non-EAEU trade bloc countries. "Lenovo" took steps to reduce the import of Lenovo computers from non-EAEU states, by discriminating against
Oazis Computer importer. Lenovo is given a month to correct the issue and fix the requirement and standards related paperwork.
(Facebook next?) https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039333.html Artsakh will also increase childbirth benefits
First child: ֏300k instead of ֏100k
Second child: ֏300k instead of ֏200k
(or ֏500k if one parent is disabled)
As for monthly child care subsidy payments, it goes from ֏15k to ֏27k until the child turns 2.
https://factor.am/325487.html year wrap-up: births in capital Yerevan
girls 2019: 10173
girls 2020: 10489
boys 2019: 11251
boys 2020: 11430
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039278.html year wrap-up: tax revenues
2018: ֏1.257 trillion
2019: ֏1.458 trillion
2020: ֏1.379 trillion
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/203846 COVID stats
+2483 tested. +348 infected. +22 deaths. +1267 healed. 13881 active.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039240.html chess news
Levon Aronyan has advanced to the
Airthings Masters quarter-finals where he will play against Hikaru Nakamura. He is 1pt behind the leaders. The winner receives a $60,000 prize.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/airthings-masters-chess-day-4 https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039228.html French city of Valence to name a street
... after Artsakh capital Stenapakert. It already had Ijevan Park, Armenia Street, and Yerevan Street. Stepanakert Street will be located in a newly built district. There will be Toros Street as well.
https://youtu.be/EuQV5bt4Ytc https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/203833 Italian city of di Lovere has officially recognized the Artsakh Republic
https://www.facebook.com/HayastaniDespanutyun/posts/3499573803472410 https://factor.am/325379.html Kapan Medical Center has a new CT scanner
... thanks to generous diasporan donors like you. The first one was installed during the war in Goris city.
https://factor.am/325090.html Artsakh children receive New Years' gifts
Focus on Children Now charity organization distributed gifts to hundreds of Artsakh kids residing in Gegharquniq province. Backpacks, clothing, items of basic necessity, money, and postcards written by kids living in the United States.
https://www.focusonchildrennow.org/ https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039302.html Himnadram donates to refugee families
700 Artsakh families continue to live in 40 settlements of Gegharquniq province. The All Armenia Fund (HimnaDram.org) has provided food and household items to 241 families ahead of New Year.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1039313.html daily life in Syunik bordering villages Shurnukh and Vorotan
https://youtu.be/E1UJd4NtLLs https://www.civilnet.am/news/2020/12/29/Շուռնուխ-Որոտան․-կյանքը-անկոչ-հարևանների-հետ/414772 donations for Artsakh & recovering soldiers
www.1000plus.am (recovering soldiers & their families)
www.HimnaDram.org (for Artsakh & Armenia)
www.ArmeniaFund.org (U.S. tax-deductible)
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A Cinematic Guide to The Weeknd: Pt 3. My Dear Melancholy and After Hours
| My Dear Melancholy Gaspar Noe/Cannes Film Festival The My Dear Melancholy era notable for being a time when The Weeknd was in proximity to a lot of serious directors. While he’s had a foot in Hollywood for awhile, 2017 through 2019 he was actively engaging with filmmakers like the Safdies Brothers, Gaspar Noe, and Claire Denis, amongst others. While he had been actively courting the Safdies since Good Time was released, he attended the 2018 Cannes Film Festival where he crossed paths Noe, whose film Climax took home a number awards at Cannes. Noe’s Enter the Void had previously served as an inspiration for Kiss Land, and for MDM (and later After Hours) seem to call back to Noe’s other films, like Irreversible and Love, which are both twisted depictions of heartbreak. On the other hand, Climax is about a French dance troupe who accidentally take LSD, and according to Noe is not a “message” movie. It is an audacious psychedelic technical exercise, with numerous long takes and highly choreographed set pieces. The idea for Noe, who had previously captured the feeling of drugs in previous films, was to do the opposite, and present the objectively reality of drugs, watching people high from a sober perspective. Noe is a rather strong advocate of film, and the opening scene of Climax features VHS boxes of a number of films that have influenced his filmmaking. Two of note are Schizophrenia, otherwise known as Angst, one of Noe’s favorite films which The Weeknd name checked to the Safdies, and Possession, which would go on to be an influence on After Hours (more on this later). He is also said to have sat next to Benicio Del Toro at Cannes, which means he likely caught some of the Un Certain Regard section, where Del Toro served as a jury member. Outside of that section, there were a few other films of interest such as The House That Jack Built from Lars Von Trier (The Weeknd has previously expressed affection for Von Trier’s Antichrist), Mandy from Pastos Costamos, and music video director Romain Gavras’s The World Is Yours, as well as a restoration of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Noe has referred to as the film that got him into filmmaking. https://preview.redd.it/qga7a3l8ct261.png?width=910&format=png&auto=webp&s=371cf20d42ee8783cc23bfe7f2cfa16a0a927a0e Asian Cinema Later in 2018, The Weeknd continued his globetrotting with a tour of Asia. He once claimed in an interview that whenever visiting a foreign country he only watches films from there. I’ve previously written about the influence of Asian cinema on Kiss Land, and there’s not enough work from the MDM era to glean anything cinematically adjacent to this, but now would be a good time to mention that the "Call Out My Name" video was heavily inspired by the work of famed Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The Asian tour poster seems to be a reference to Ichi the Killer, which leads us to Takashi Miike. Though he is notoriously prolific across a number of genres, his most popular works internationally are genre melding blends of horror, comedy and crime, most notably Audition, Ichi the Killer and Gozu. Another film worth mentioning is Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon’s masterwork about a pop star’s mysterious stalker that The Weeknd posted about on Instagram before. Bloody and haunting, the film was a major influence on Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream. In Interviews he has also mentioned a number of Korean films, such as The Wailing, I Saw the Devil and Oldboy. While Wong Kar Wai was previously mentioned as an influence on Beauty Behind the Madness, also worth mentioning is the work of John Woo, specifically A Better Tomorrow, well known for the shot of smoking a cigar off money, and Infernal Affairs, Andrew Lau’s crime classic which served has the basis for Scorsese’s The Departed. https://preview.redd.it/fx7o9s2bct261.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=0fec2f841e9d3b09104238d0f89595daa6140faa https://preview.redd.it/n4x7fiy9ct261.png?width=1316&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a9650263272518216fc5f36913e80a10d2b0a8e After Hours Martin Scorsese While After Hours more so than any other Weeknd album is bursting at the seams with cinematic references, the influence of Martin Scorsese stands above all. Similar to The Weeknd’s body of work, many Scorsese’s are explorations of violence and masculinity, investigating them from a perspective that depending on who you ask (and how they’re feeling) glamorizes, condemns or just simply presents the reality of characters on the fringes of society. While there are direct references to a number of prominent Scorsese films, what’s interesting is that his influence also reverberates in other films/filmmakers that influence After Hours. Todd Phillips’s Joker is in effect an homage to Scorsese’s loner-centric New York films, and the Safdie Brothers have been putting their own millennial spin on the type of 70s gritty thriller that Scorsese trafficked in (Scorsese was also a producer on Uncut Gems). Specific Scorsese works will be discussed more in depth in the requisite sections, but it is worth mentioning upfront what a prominent role that Scorsese plays in the nucleus of After Hours. https://preview.redd.it/wcds9qpdct261.png?width=1196&format=png&auto=webp&s=246c560c72340782e26ad03b8ff63367999eaadd Urban HorroIsolation With After Hours, The Weeknd departs from the slicker sounds and influences that permeated Starboy and returns to the cinematic grittiness of Beauty Behind the Madness. While urban horror is a theme that permeates throughout The Weeknd as a project overall, there is a thorough line to be drawn here that follows a number of 70s and 80s cinematic and aesthetic references. For one thing, while the initial bandaged nose was a reference to Chinatown (previously, The Weeknd has a Kiss Land demo titled "Roman Polanski"), the full bandaged face that is so prominently featured throughout the After Hours era is a classic cinematic visual trope that was especially prominent throughout 60s and 80s, though it saw a slight re-emergence in the 2010s. The fully bandaged face is often used to remake someone in the image of another, usually against their will ( The Skin I Live In, Eyes Without Face), or as a case of mistaken identity and doppelgängers ( Good Night Mommy, Scalpel), themes present throughout much of After Hours. The "Too Late" video acknowledges these references, but instead presents the bandages on two Los Angeles models recovering from plastic surgery, in a nod to a famous Steven Meisel’s photoshoot for Vogue Italia. https://preview.redd.it/dtbxjc3ict261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=66a98cc3cba73d502f8586a215a65cc41c5408a1 The “masks” people wear is another horror trope that is featured prominently on After Hours, and this is best seen in the red suit character. One important reference in the film is to Brian De Palma’s Dressed To Kill, where a serial killer is targeting the patients of a psychiatrist (any more on this film will veer towards spoiler territory). The Weeknd is on the record as saying Jim Carrey’s The Mask as being a large influence on the Red Suit character, it being one of the first film’s he watched in theaters. One of the more complex references would be to Joker. While it sort of an in-joke that the character of the Joker is commonly overanalyzed and misinterpreted, referencing Todd Phillips’s Joker is more nuanced because it is in essence a full on homage to Martin Scorsese’s New York films, most notably Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, which focus on eccentric loners, and can both be seen as cautionary tale of urban isolation, a theme explored perhaps in songs like "Faith." The King of Comedy revolves around a would be obsessive stand up Rupert Pupkin haggling his way to perform on late night TV, with The Weeknd’s talk show appearances being a prominent part of the early After Hours marketing, most notably in the “short film”. This idea of isolated and compressed urbanites recurs throughout After Hours and it’s films. https://preview.redd.it/egap17ttdt261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=1aab204ac0845a7df74ceeff6d1f714274f9ace0 The idea of urban repression is in the subway scene of the After Hours short film. The entire film itself is something of a reference to the subway scene to Possession (another Gaspar Noe favorite), mimicking the (also subway set) scene in which Isabelle Adjani’s Anna convulses on the subway due to a miscarriage, as well as Jacob’s Ladder, a 90s cult classic horror film starring Tim Robbins as a Vietnam vet (like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle) who is experiencing demonic hallucinations, encountering them in the subway and later at a party he attends, splitting the scene into two. https://preview.redd.it/g53copgmct261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d29e368ae695d295b36039e86125ccfd7b4eb88 Las Vegas As always, The Weeknd once again grounds After Hours with a strong sense of place, this time setting the album against a nocturnal odyssey through Las Vegas. One of the most prominent films is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book. This is directly referenced in the "Heartless" video, which sees The Weeknd and Metro Boomin in the Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro roles as they tumble through a Las Vegas casino. The Weeknd has gone on the record to state that the famous red suit character was influenced by Sammy Davis Jr.’s character in the film Poor Devil. However, similar red suit has also been sported by a number of Vegas characters, most notably Richard Pryor and Robert De Niro’s Sam Rothstein in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. With the red suit, The Weeknd seems to be playing with the idea of a devil-ish other, another side of his personality that emerges in Las Vegas. https://preview.redd.it/gjow6hq2dt261.png?width=1992&format=png&auto=webp&s=10a379bc26df54af88064bf64813d5cdd29775d9 While the city lights are the oft discussed part of part of Las Vegas, it should be noted that similar to Beauty Behind the Madness, the desert that surrounds Las Vegas is just as important to the juxtaposition of its beauty. The "Until I Bleed Out" video ends/"Snowchild" video in the desert, similar to the confrontation between Robert De Niro’s and Joe Pesci’s showdown in the desert in Casino, as well as Joe Pesci's death in Goodfellas. The idea of a hedonistic desert playground also bears semblance to Westworld, both the film and the TV show. The desert seems to represent some sort of freedom to The Weeknd, as the "Snowchild" video portrays the desert as a pensive location for reflection, as well as the "In Your Eyes" video showing the girl prominently dancing with the dismembered head out in the open, in reference to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, another prominent desert film. https://preview.redd.it/98ec10wxct261.png?width=1168&format=png&auto=webp&s=45e29aa361fa41ff74e2a6017e203015bdcbc6c3 New York/The Safdies Despite it’s Las Vegas setting, After Hours also takes a good amount from films set in New York, most notably Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film After Hours. Besides the title, After Hours is similarly about a twisting and turning nighttime odyssey. The film stars Griffin Dunne as Paul, a working class stiff who heads downtown to rendezvous with a woman he met at a diner earlier that night. Of course, things don’t turn out the way they should, chaos ensues, and Paul is set on a dangerous trek back uptown. Like the film, the album After Hours is set off by a woman (though the album takes more stock in romantic endeavors), seems to be set over a single night (or at least a condensed period of time), and involves similar chaos and misadventures (sirens at night at the end of Faith). Tonally, After Hours the film is more comedic perhaps than After Hours the album, however The Weeknd is on the record as having said that "Heartless" and "Blinding Lights" placement on the album is intended to be somewhat comedic, reflecting exaggerated machismo and ecstasy, respectively (to comedic effect). https://preview.redd.it/f3w7yz4pdt261.png?width=1346&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe7e4f003987fd843020a42a5b53f94092984267 Another of the most prominent filmmakers of After Hours are the Safdies, who featured The Weeknd in Uncut Gems. They also served as a link to Oneohtrix Point Never, who scored their last two films and later worked After Hours. I believe there are three major film tropes (not genres) that inspired After Hours, all of which the Safdies’s have engaged with. There is the one-long-night films, in which a character spends one-long-night on the run from whatever chaos and forces may be that they left in their path. This can be seen in the Good Time, as well as After Hours (the movie). Then, there is the descent-into-madness type, where a character slowly loses grip with reality and ends up in over their head (something like Scarface or Breaking Bad, but for our purposes Jacob’s Ladder can be categorized here as well), which the Safdies did with Uncut Gems. Lastly, but maybe most importantly, the Safdies also explored toxic romance (more on this later) in their less seen film Heaven Knows What, about two heroin addicts and the destructiveness their love brings out in each other, an idea that recurs throughout After Hours on songs like "Until I Bleed Out" and "Nothing Compares." A recurring song throughout Heaven Knows What is Isao Tomita’s synth version of Debussy’s "Claire De Lune", which is featured in some episodes of Memento Mori and bears some resemblance to the start of "Alone Again". https://preview.redd.it/em255b5qdt261.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5226c9496d0ae5c14b6d6c05e16f5ea18678a9a Obsession/Toxic Romance While love and lust and the ups and downs with it have been a formative part of The Weeknd’s ideology and themes, I don’t think it would be remiss to say that After Hours is perhaps his most outwardly romantic album. Despite this, one of the major arcs of the album is toxicity that comes with it, which a number of already mentioned films deal with. While "In Your Eyes" is one of the more romantic and accessible songs on the album, a re-assessment of it Ala Sting’s “Every Breathe You Take” could frame it as lonely obsessing, such as Travis Bickle’s infatuation with Jodie Foster’s teenage prostitute Iris, Joker's fixation on Murray Franklin, Rupert Pupkin’s obsession with Jerry Langford. Casino also deals with toxic romance, another prominent theme in After Hours, best seen in the love triangle that forms between Sam, his partner Nicky and his wife Ginger, played by Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone respectively. https://preview.redd.it/eq1ioijvdt261.png?width=898&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9e4b781ee60762ae767c4dbd92066357ebc24b0 In almost all of the After Hours’s video content, The Weeknd seems to constantly meet his demise at the hands of women. Another interesting reference that may be something of a reach is to Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about Reynolds Woodcock, a couture dressmaker loosely based on Cristobal Balenciaga and his muse Alma, played by Daniel Day Lewis and Vicky Krieps, respectively. The film delves into their dysfunctional relationship, with Woodcock berating her and Alma poisoning his tea to keep him dependent on her. One of the highpoint of the film is a New Years Eve Party that bears strong resemblance to the "Until I Bleed Out" video. While the balloons may just be a callback to his earlier work, there is something about the color grading/temperature and the production design of the "Until I Bleed Out" video (as well as parts of the "Blinding Lights" video) that made me immediately think of Phantom Thread. A similar relationship is seen in the German horror film Der Fan, which The Weeknd has mentioned in a recent interview. In Der Fan, a young girl Simone spends her days obsessing over popstar R, until she finally encounters him outside his studio. The film is similar to the aforementioned Takashi Miike’s Audition in its exploration of obsession and idealization. In the film, an older man puts up a fake casting call to search for the perfect girlfriend. While Audition explores these themes from an Eastern perspective of societal pressure, Der Fan explores it through a Western lens of pop idolization and idealization. Both films deal with the idea that despite outward appearances, the perfect partner does not exist, and anyone that claims to be (or has the expectations put on them) is not who they seem. https://preview.redd.it/3m661q62et261.png?width=1342&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9377018cb53f67cf7ce95b24392afb471e4aec1 One film he has spoken at length about is Trouble Everyday, Claire Denis’s arthouse vampire movie. The film stars Vincent Gallo as Shane, a scientist who travels to Paris under the guise of his honeymoon to track down core, a woman who he was once obsessed with who has now become a vampire. Core is locked up in a basement but sometimes sneaks out to seduce and consume unwilling victims. This seems to be where some of the bloody face stuff comes from, but I believe it’s influence is a little more conceptual. To me, a good companion film to Trouble Everyday is American Psycho, which seems to also have been a thematic influence on After Hours. Both films concern idealized version of masculinity and femininity, both very sexual and physical, but hostile as well. American Psycho ends with Patrick Bateman confessing to the killing of a prostitute, but no one believe him. Trouble Everyday ends with Shane killing Core, but Shane is unable to arouse himself after that except through violence. Koji Wakamatsu, a former Yakuza turned prominent extreme Japanese filmmaker (and a major influence on Gaspar Noe) is quoted as saying “For me, violence, the body and sex are an integral part of life.” Despite being hollow, idealized impressions of the self, a vampire and as a banker (cold, seductive bloodsuckers = monsters), Patrick Bateman and Core represent the Frankenstein-ian relationship between sexuality and violence, which I believe is the main theme of After Hours. Truly, we hurt the ones we love. https://preview.redd.it/zfllbd83et261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c048ee98d86d7bbb9db67fa8302d34c36214c4f Postscript To cap things off, I would just like to illuminate some key takeaways. As a filmmaker myself, this has been an extremely helpful exercise in understanding other artists process and ideas. Steeped in the history of the medium… It’s clear that The Weeknd is not your typical “I’m influenced by cinema” artist but an extremely legit film buff with serious credentials. The Weeknd’s film taste leans towards 70s-00s genre works, mostly horror, drama and thriller, and is well versed in the classics but also has the nose to sniff out deeper cuts and obscurities. The mantra of “good artists borrow, great artists steal” works even better if not many people know where you’re stealing from! What is impressive to me is that he is not just versed in “mainstream” obscurities, but also serious deep cuts. Films like Possession and Phantom of the Paradise may not stick out to the average person on the street but are well known in most film circles. Films like Inland Empire and New Rose Hotel ( Der Fan was especially impressive to me, it is one of my favorite films) however are not as well known and it is very impressive to me that he can come across films like that, and really get enough out of it to bring into his own work. …is able to interpolate contemporary/mainstream films… This perhaps is one of the most impressive aspects of his integration of film into The Weeknd’s work. It is very easy for film buffs to get lost within their own obscure taste, living in a world where everyone is an idiot for not knowing who Shinya Tsukamoto. Trilogy and Kiss Land had a lot of contemporary obscurities, like Stalker, David Lynch etc., well known but they still existed as artifacts, not of the time we live in. However, perhaps picking something from his work on Fifty Shades of Grey, of late he has kept his finger on the zeitgeist and anticipated/integrated what the filmmakers of today are doing, such as his work on Black Panther and Game of Thrones, general appreciation of Tarantino, the works of Nicolas Winding Refn in Starboy, and his use of the Joker and Uncut Gems on After Hours, both of which came out just a few months before the album. It feels Jackson-esque, and I believe this is one thing that will help him further in his quest for pop stardom. …while also being fully in tune to the works of modern transgressive auteurs… In addition to keeping up with the mainstream is in touch with, The Weeknd also makes it a point to seek out and learn from the cutting edge filmmakers of today. While the Safdies were always going to blow up, I don’t doubt that a Weeknd co-sign accelerated their rise. Gaspar Noe is one thing, Enter the Void and Irreversible exist as masterpieces of the mainstream obscurities I’ve been mentioning, but he really truly tries to understand the heart of Noe’s work, even going so far back as to understand Noe’s influences (I sincerely hope he is tuned in to the work of Koji Wakamatsu). But most of all, to be a fan of Claire Denis is one thing, but to seek her out and make her an offer that she ACCEPTED is absolutely astounding to me. Just spitballing but it would be like if Michael Jackson shot a music video with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who I’d bet good money that The Weeknd was put on to by Noe). We can only PRAY that one day we will be blessed with a David Lynch Weeknd video. --------------------------- …and that just about does it. Hope you enjoyed this and thanks for being patient with me. I got quite busy after the first two and had my own projects/work going that kept me occupied. As we’re still technically in the After Hours era, I also wanted to wait until a few more videos and interviews came out to aid me in my research. I also wanted to find enough time to make the Letterboxd for this. I personally don’t love Letterboxd culture, I find the popular culture surrounding the site a bit snobbish and exclusive, but I’ve gotten a number of requests for one and you gotta give the people what they want. Throughout the list are a few films that he hasn’t mentioned but are some of my personal favorites and I believe Weeknd fans will like, I encourage you to accidentally stumble upon things on it. Don't overthink, just pick something and watch! If you’d like to follow me further, you can find me on Instagram here, where I post about film reviews Letterboxd style. I prefer Instagram so that more average people see it instead of an echo chamber of film snobs. I am also a filmmaker myself, I just recently wrapped this short film and am currently in the process of putting together my next project. The main reason I did this however, besides a general appreciation of The Weeknd’s work, was to put more people on to the beautiful art form that is cinema. One thing I learned from Scorsese is that one must be an advocate and truly champion your medium. I hope that this encourages to check out more interesting movies than they wouldn’t normally come across, and I hope this will inspire more people to create more as well, whether it be to write, make films, music, anything. If even one person picks up a pencil, a camera or a keyboard because of these posts, I will be satisfied. Thanks all! submitted by eve_salmon to TheWeeknd [link] [comments] |
By combining the average scores from IMDb, Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic, and then fine-tuning the results with data from Letterboxd, iCheckMovies, TSPDT?, TMDb and IMDb, I was able to come up with the 1001 'GREATEST' MOVIES OF ALL TIME.
In 2015, I created a list titled, “Top10ner’s 1001 'Greatest' Movies of All Time” and many of you seemed to enjoy it and still use it today so I thought it was about time that I updated it..
The original 2015 thread can be found
here as well as the initial
update for those curious about the algorithm.
Basically I started off by gathering ratings from
IMDB (UseCritic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average) & (Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). Each site’s average rating was then weighted so that no site’s ratings were favoured above the rest. The next step was to make sure that each film was treated equally. Rather than eliminating films that had little votes, I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it.
I then finally put the list through a final adjustment, where I applied aspects such as critical reception (# of official lists movie is in), audience reception and overall likability/popularity. These figures were determined using sources such as iCheckmovies, Letterboxd and TSPDT?.
I've created the following lists for both Letterboxd and iCheckMovies, as well as a Google spreadsheet where you can check out the
full list and search for particular films easier.
Letterboxd - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time IMDb - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time iCheckMovies - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time Google Spreadsheet - 2020 Edition: Top10ner’s 1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time ANYWAY, here is the
1001 ‘Greatest’ Movies of All Time. Enjoy! (NOTE: Could only include the first 750 movies due character limit)
RANK | TITLE | YEAR | DIRECTOR |
1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
3 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
4 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
5 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet |
6 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
7 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
8 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
9 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
10 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese |
11 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean |
12 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone |
13 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly |
14 | City Lights | 1931 | Charlie Chaplin |
15 | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
16 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
17 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
18 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
19 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner |
20 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
21 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
22 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
23 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Miloš Forman |
24 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
25 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
26 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
27 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin |
28 | Star Wars - A New Hope | 1977 | George Lucas |
29 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick |
30 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
31 | Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica |
32 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
33 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra |
34 | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa |
35 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone |
36 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
37 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa |
38 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang |
39 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
40 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott |
41 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed |
42 | All About Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
43 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman |
44 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
45 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund |
46 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
47 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
48 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg |
49 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
50 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
51 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi |
52 | Parasite | 2019 | Bong Joon-ho |
53 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson |
54 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut |
55 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
56 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
57 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
58 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
59 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa |
60 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
61 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson |
62 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
63 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi |
64 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata |
65 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
66 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
67 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry |
68 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis |
69 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
70 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter |
71 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese |
72 | 8½ (Eight and a Half) | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
73 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
74 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan |
75 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
76 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
77 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin |
78 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn… |
79 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
80 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar-wai |
81 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey… |
82 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston |
83 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
84 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson |
85 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
86 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton |
87 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin |
88 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
89 | WALL-E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton |
90 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron |
91 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
92 | Paris Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders |
93 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
94 | La Grande Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir |
95 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
96 | Amadeus | 1984 | Miloš Forman |
97 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen |
98 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle |
99 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
100 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
101 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra |
102 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean |
103 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
104 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron |
105 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott |
106 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa |
107 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
108 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino |
109 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan |
110 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki |
111 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller |
112 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
113 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders |
114 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene |
115 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler |
116 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan |
117 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones |
118 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
119 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini |
120 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park |
121 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini |
122 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich |
123 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
124 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming,George Cukor... |
125 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg |
126 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen |
127 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
128 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
129 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
130 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood |
131 | Amelie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
132 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki |
133 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick |
134 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
135 | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
136 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch |
137 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
138 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
139 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich |
140 | Your Name. | 2016 | Makoto Shinkai |
141 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher |
142 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston |
143 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin |
144 | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
145 | Se7en | 1995 | David Fincher |
146 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee |
147 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
148 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
149 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford |
150 | La Haine | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz |
151 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone |
152 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa |
153 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
154 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick |
155 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
156 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg |
157 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski |
158 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater |
159 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff |
160 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater |
161 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock |
162 | La strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini |
163 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey |
164 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino |
165 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
166 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor |
167 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford |
168 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan |
169 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam |
170 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
171 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese |
172 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
173 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich |
174 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini |
175 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter & Bob Peterson |
176 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner |
177 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
178 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet |
179 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer |
180 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan |
181 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Wong Kar-wai |
182 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
183 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks |
184 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick |
185 | The Handmaiden | 2016 | Chan-wook Park |
186 | A Matter of Life and Death | 1946 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
187 | A Woman Under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
188 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula |
189 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 2019 | Céline Sciamma |
190 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lilly & Lana Wachowski |
191 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen |
192 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean |
193 | Shoplifters | 2018 | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
194 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes |
195 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks |
196 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
197 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
198 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
199 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon-ho |
200 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack |
201 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter |
202 | Yi yi | 2000 | Edward Yang |
203 | Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 | Zhang Yimou |
204 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin |
205 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch |
206 | Army of Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
207 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner |
208 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
209 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder |
210 | Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
211 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock |
212 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
213 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
214 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau |
215 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet |
216 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen |
217 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel |
218 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick |
219 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich |
220 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann |
221 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges |
222 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
223 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
224 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill |
225 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero |
226 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter |
227 | Mulholland Drive | 2001 | David Lynch |
228 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
229 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson |
230 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang |
231 | Monty Python's Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones |
232 | Umberto D. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica |
233 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols |
234 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford |
235 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise |
236 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks |
237 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino |
238 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel |
239 | Incendies | 2010 | Denis Villeneuve |
240 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron |
241 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale |
242 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
243 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
244 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
245 | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni |
246 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill |
247 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen |
248 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle |
249 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone |
250 | The Young and the Damned | 1950 | Luis Buñuel |
251 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch |
252 | All About My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar |
253 | Le Trou | 1960 | Jacques Becker |
254 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti |
255 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger |
256 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock |
257 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra |
258 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais |
259 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
260 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur |
261 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
262 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee |
263 | L'avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
264 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau |
265 | The Hunt | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg |
266 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis |
267 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder |
268 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirō Ozu |
269 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg |
270 | Au Revoir Les Enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle |
271 | Spotlight | 2015 | Tom McCarthy |
272 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler |
273 | Amour | 2012 | Michael Haneke |
274 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
275 | Paddington 2 | 2017 | Paul King |
276 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
277 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin |
278 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |
279 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann |
280 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Otomo |
281 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 2007 | Cristian Mungiu |
282 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler |
283 | Let the Right One In | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson |
284 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman |
285 | Room | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson |
286 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz & William Keighley |
287 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut |
288 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant |
289 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks |
290 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh |
291 | Short Term 12 | 2013 | Destin Cretton |
292 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick |
293 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray |
294 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale |
295 | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | Mike Leigh |
296 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino |
297 | Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino |
298 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
299 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby |
300 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer |
301 | Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
302 | The Shop Around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch |
303 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter |
304 | The World of Apu | 1959 | Satyajit Ray |
305 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk |
306 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo |
307 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird |
308 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin |
309 | Amores Perros | 2000 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
310 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles |
311 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn |
312 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi |
313 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana |
314 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
315 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras |
316 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica |
317 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo |
318 | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach |
319 | Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins |
320 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki |
321 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze |
322 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky |
323 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir |
324 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird |
325 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman |
326 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
327 | Before Midnight | 2013 | Richard Linklater |
328 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis |
329 | Little Women | 2019 | Greta Gerwig |
330 | The Social Network | 2010 | David Fincher |
331 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman |
332 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele |
333 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt |
334 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
335 | Fantasia | 1940 | Samuel Armstrong, James Algar... |
336 | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
337 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger |
338 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón |
339 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg |
340 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter |
341 | Leon: The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson |
342 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse |
343 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel |
344 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird |
345 | The Cranes Are Flying | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
346 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut |
347 | Withnail & I | 1987 | Bruce Robinson |
348 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor |
349 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy |
350 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright |
351 | Song of the Sea | 2014 | Tomm Moore |
352 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma |
353 | Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby |
354 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
355 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick |
356 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg |
357 | Talk to Her | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar |
358 | Wild Tales | 2014 | Damián Szifrón |
359 | Close-Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami |
360 | Time of the Gypsies | 1988 | Emir Kusturica |
361 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot |
362 | The Return | 2003 | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
363 | Logan | 2017 | James Mangold |
364 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone |
365 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard |
366 | La La Land | 2016 | Damien Chazelle |
367 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise |
368 | The King of Comedy | 1982 | Martin Scorsese |
369 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang |
370 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison |
371 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini |
372 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood |
373 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski |
374 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning |
375 | Au Hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
376 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
377 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola |
378 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel |
379 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich |
380 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin |
381 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois |
382 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen |
383 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier |
384 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee |
385 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner |
386 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky |
387 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim |
388 | Roma | 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón |
389 | Make Way for Tomorrow | 1937 | Leo McCarey |
390 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
391 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch |
392 | Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion | 1997 | Kazuya Tsurumaki & Hideaki Anno |
393 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg |
394 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell |
395 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella |
396 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
397 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements & John Musker |
398 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti |
399 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Woody Allen |
400 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford |
401 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Joe & Anthony Russo |
402 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Alan Mak & Andrew Lau |
403 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
404 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson |
405 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter |
406 | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | 2016 | Taika Waititi |
407 | Children of Heaven | 1997 | Majid Majidi |
408 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais |
409 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
410 | 1917 | 2019 | Sam Mendes |
411 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | Joe & Anthony Russo |
412 | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | 2013 | Isao Takahata |
413 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Martin McDonagh |
414 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman |
415 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke |
416 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye |
417 | Knives Out | 2019 | Rian Johnson |
418 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau |
419 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi |
420 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jim Abrahams, Jerry & David Zucker |
421 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson |
422 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock |
423 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón |
424 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood |
425 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
426 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze |
427 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick |
428 | Satantango | 1994 | Béla Tarr |
429 | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo |
430 | Naked | 1993 | Mike Leigh |
431 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
432 | Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve |
433 | Rushmore | 1998 | Wes Anderson |
434 | Sing Street | 2016 | John Carney |
435 | Rebel Without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray |
436 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock |
437 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau |
438 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont |
439 | Vivre Sa Vie | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard |
440 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick |
441 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester |
442 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman |
443 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman |
444 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa |
445 | Capernaum | 2018 | Nadine Labaki |
446 | Mommy | 2014 | Xavier Dolan |
447 | Le Cercle Rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
448 | Down by Law | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch |
449 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
450 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater |
451 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch |
452 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer |
453 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese |
454 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman |
455 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan |
456 | The Irishman | 2019 | Martin Scorsese |
457 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve |
458 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau |
459 | Marriage Story | 2019 | Noah Baumbach |
460 | Fireworks | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano |
461 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand |
462 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki |
463 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton |
464 | Gangs of Wasseypur | 2012 | Anurag Kashyap |
465 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand |
466 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel |
467 | Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich |
468 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper |
469 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Chen Kaige |
470 | The Breakfast Club | 1985 | John Hughes |
471 | Wolf Children | 2012 | Mamoru Hosoda |
472 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |
473 | Boyz n the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton |
474 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan |
475 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott |
476 | The Phantom Carriage | 1921 | Victor Sjöström |
477 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir |
478 | What We Do in the Shadows | 2014 | Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi |
479 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock |
480 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson |
481 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone |
482 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino |
483 | Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan |
484 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis |
485 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe |
486 | Lady Bird | 2017 | Greta Gerwig |
487 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks |
488 | Kiki's Delivery Service | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki |
489 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino |
490 | Eyes Without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju |
491 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks |
492 | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
493 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock |
494 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly |
495 | Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher |
496 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch |
497 | Hero | 2002 | Zhang Yimou |
498 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii |
499 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
500 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli |
501 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean |
502 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard |
503 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks |
504 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
505 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan |
506 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman |
507 | Zootopia | 2016 | Byron Howard |
508 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
509 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog |
510 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise |
511 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse |
512 | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki |
513 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa |
514 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese |
515 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor |
516 | Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan |
517 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn |
518 | The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder |
519 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache |
520 | Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy |
521 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman |
522 | A Silent Voice | 2016 | Naoko Yamada |
523 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton |
524 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
525 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese |
526 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen |
527 | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
528 | 3-Iron | 2004 | Kim Ki-duk |
529 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel |
530 | Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller |
531 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor |
532 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet |
533 | Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky |
534 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati |
535 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion |
536 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton |
537 | Head-On | 2004 | Fatih Akin |
538 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón |
539 | The Insider | 1999 | Michael Mann |
540 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément |
541 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates |
542 | When Harry Met Sally... | 1989 | Rob Reiner |
543 | The Wrestler | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky |
544 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman |
545 | Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
546 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
547 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory |
548 | The Man Who Would Be King | 1975 | John Huston |
549 | The Florida Project | 2017 | Sean Baker |
550 | Napoleon | 1927 | Abel Gance |
551 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento |
552 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn |
553 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks |
554 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel |
555 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | 1976 | Clint Eastwood |
556 | Klaus | 2019 | Sergio Pablos |
557 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston |
558 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch |
559 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle |
560 | My Man Godfrey | 1936 | Gregory La Cava |
561 | Dangal | 2016 | Nitesh Tiwari |
562 | Blood Simple. | 1984 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
563 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan |
564 | About Elly | 2009 | Asghar Farhadi |
565 | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright |
566 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray |
567 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
568 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford |
569 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson |
570 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell |
571 | Monsieur Hulot's Holiday | 1953 | Jacques Tati |
572 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze |
573 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas |
574 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel & Ethan Coen |
575 | Tampopo | 1985 | Juzo Itami |
576 | Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris |
577 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton |
578 | The Earrings of Madame de… | 1953 | Max Ophüls |
579 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra |
580 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean |
581 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman |
582 | Jean de Florette | 1986 | Claude Berri |
583 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher |
584 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray |
585 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston |
586 | Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland |
587 | The Favourite | 2018 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
588 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson |
589 | The Twilight Samurai | 2002 | Yôji Yamada |
590 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
591 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise |
592 | Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse |
593 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan |
594 | Hell or High Water | 2016 | David Mackenzie |
595 | Dersu Uzala | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa |
596 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls |
597 | Sleuth | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
598 | Whisper of the Heart | 1995 | Yoshifumi Kondô |
599 | Nobody Knows | 2004 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
600 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley |
601 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier |
602 | Nine Queens | 2000 | Fabián Bielinsky |
603 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
604 | Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater |
605 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott |
606 | The Great Beauty | 2013 | Paolo Sorrentino |
607 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard |
608 | Eighth Grade | 2018 | Bo Burnham |
609 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé |
610 | Once | 2007 | John Carney |
611 | The Artist | 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius |
612 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton |
613 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes |
614 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
615 | The Farewell | 2019 | Lulu Wang |
616 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin |
617 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
618 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve |
619 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz |
620 | Kubo and the Two Strings | 2016 | Travis Knight |
621 | Winter Sleep | 2014 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
622 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell |
623 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich |
624 | Pride | 2014 | Matthew Warchus |
625 | After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese |
626 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan |
627 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | 2018 | Christopher McQuarrie |
628 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
629 | Perfect Blue | 1997 | Satoshi Kon |
630 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis |
631 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle |
632 | Pain and Glory | 2019 | Pedro Almodóvar |
633 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis |
634 | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer |
635 | Hidden Figures | 2016 | Theodore Melfi |
636 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone |
637 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier |
638 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg |
639 | Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | Jean-Marc Vallée |
640 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George |
641 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee |
642 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon |
643 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
644 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam |
645 | Rain Man | 1988 | Barry Levinson |
646 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen |
647 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke |
648 | Zelig | 1983 | Woody Allen |
649 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles & Fred Fleck |
650 | Stranger Than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
651 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir |
652 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani |
653 | Phantom Thread | 2017 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
654 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
655 | Birdman | 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
656 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
657 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper |
658 | Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman |
659 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough |
660 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor |
661 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh |
662 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | 2005 | Jean-Marc Vallée |
663 | To Live | 1994 | Zhang Yimou |
664 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg |
665 | The Lego Movie | 2014 | Phil Lord & Christopher Miller |
666 | Volver | 2006 | Pedro Almodóvar |
667 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick |
668 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton |
669 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
670 | The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
671 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee |
672 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan |
673 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen |
674 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson |
675 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey |
676 | A Short Film About Killing | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
677 | Black Cat, White Cat | 1998 | Emir Kusturica |
678 | Mother | 2009 | Bong Joon-ho |
679 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie |
680 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson |
681 | Toy Story 4 | 2019 | John Lasseter |
682 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda |
683 | A Short Film About Love | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
684 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | 1916 | D.W. Griffith |
685 | Carol | 2015 | Todd Haynes |
686 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood |
687 | Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Norman Jewison |
688 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones |
689 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
690 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet |
691 | Porco Rosso | 1992 | Hayao Miyazaki |
692 | The Heiress | 1949 | William Wyler |
693 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
694 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
695 | Elite Squad: The Enemy Within | 2010 | José Padilha |
696 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento |
697 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1942 | William A. Wellman |
698 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright |
699 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
700 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar |
701 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
702 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick |
703 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards |
704 | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker |
705 | Baby Driver | 2017 | Edgar Wright |
706 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau |
707 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton |
708 | The Martian | 2015 | Ridley Scott |
709 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass |
710 | Thor: Ragnarok | 2017 | Taika Waititi |
711 | Burning | 2018 | Lee Chang-dong |
712 | The Wind Rises | 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki |
713 | Jojo Rabbit | 2019 | Taika Waititi |
714 | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 | 2013 | Jay Oliva |
715 | Cache (Hidden) | 2005 | Michael Haneke |
716 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro |
717 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart |
718 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson |
719 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark |
720 | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
721 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | G.W. Pabst |
722 | Five Easy Pieces | 1970 | Bob Rafelson |
723 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott |
724 | Andhadhun | 2018 | Sriram Raghavan |
725 | The Big Sick | 2017 | Michael Showalter |
726 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor |
727 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler |
728 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche |
729 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven |
730 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens |
731 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan |
732 | Moana | 2016 | Ron Clements & John Musker |
733 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck |
734 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón |
735 | BlacKkKlansman | 2018 | Spike Lee |
736 | I Am a Fugitive from the Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy |
737 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges |
738 | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer |
739 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor |
740 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood |
741 | Brooklyn | 2015 | John Crowley |
742 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille |
743 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton |
744 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn |
745 | This Is England | 2006 | Shane Meadows |
746 | Love and Death | 1975 | Woody Allen |
747 | Mustang | 2015 | Deniz Gamze Ergüven |
748 | Departures | 2008 | Yojiro Takita |
749 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams |
750 | Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay |
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