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Remember that all suffering is made up by your & others' heads ("pain is inevitable, suffering is optional"). Remember that state of serenity on Oct 22-23, 2019 as a truly healthy state. And gently steer yourself into doing 3/3/3+1 with curiosity, self-compassion, mindfulness, the learning-goals approach instead of the performance-goals approach where possible (Er. S.' stuff helps!)

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2015:

  • Joy (2015, USA, David O. Russell), Dec 30
  • (rewatch) My Worst Nightmare / Mon pire cauchemar (2011, France, that comedy with Isabelle Huppert) with skipping, Dec 26
  • The Brand New Testament / Le Tout Nouveau Testament (2015, France) with skipping, Dec 26
  • The Lobster (2015, UK, by dir. Yorgos Lanthimos), Dec 23
  • Carol (2015, USA), Dec 18
  • (f) If I Were You (2012, USA, with Marcia Gay Harden), with a bit of skipping, Nov 24/25
  • Man Up (2015, UK) with skipping, Nov 22
  • Youth (2015, Italy, dir. Paolo Sorrentino), Nov 21?
  • Love at First Fight / Les Combattants (France, 2014) with Adèle Haenel, on Oct 18 or sth like that
  • (rewatched since 2008/2009) I've loved you so long/ Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (France, 2008), Oct 8
  • Ashby (2015, USA), Sep 27 or 28
  • Stations Of The Cross (Germany), Sep 28
  • The Invisible Woman (2013), Sep 20
  • Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014, France), Sep 20
  • The Overnight (2015, USA), Sep 9
  • HairBrained (2013, USA), Sep 8
  • The Dirty Weekend (2015, USA) with skipping, Sep 8
  • Vacation (2015, USA) with skipping, Sep 8
  • American Ultra (2015, USA) with skipping, Sep 7
  • The Duff (USA), with skipping
  • Three Night Stand (2013, USA) with skipping, Sep 3
  • Learning to Drive (2015, USA) with plenty of skipping
  • She's Funny That Way (2015, USA, Peter Bogdanovich) with skipping and in a non-linear way, Aug 12.
  • Spy (2015, USA; with Melissa McCarthy & Miranda Hart), with skipping, Aug 9
  • Phoenix (II) (2014, Germany) by Chr. Petzold - watched in a non-linear way, Aug 7-8
  • Reaching For The Moon (2013) - was able to watch only with lots of skipping. A weak movie, but it has two meaningful/comforting (for me) scenes.
  • Welcome to Me (2015, USA) with Kristen Wiig, May 13. A one-trick pony, the screenplay is too formula-driven; an insult to the viewers' intelligence.
  • (f) 52 Tuesdays (2013, Australia, dir. Sophie Hyde) - non-perfect, but "worked" for me, was nurturing for the soul
  • (TV) Penny Dreadful, season 2, May4 +the next 2 episodes. Turned into a disaster. Disrespects the audience' intelligence.
  • (f) (TV/web series) LSB The Series, season 2 (somewhere in April-beginning of May)
  • (TV) Penny Dreadful, season 1, Apr 4 — the very last scene of the last episode is most useful, but in the context of havign seen the whole season of course
  • (f) (TV) Transparent, season 1, Mar 10-12
  • (rediscovery) Meet Joe Black (1998, USA), Feb 21+
  • Samba (2014, France), Feb 18 - without translation, and not fully.
  • The Wedding Ringer (2015, USA), Feb 6 (with some skipping)
  • The Way He Looks (Brazil, 2014), Jan 27 - a very simple, non-sophisticated movie, but somehow cute (in a good way) & kind of healing
  • Whiplash (USA) - meeeh, Jan 21
  • (f) Appropriate Behavior (2014, USA), Jan 19
  • (TV) Broadchurch (UK) - Olivia Colman! - in 1 day, all 10 episodes that were available, and continued watching new ones, but they turned out to be a disappointment.
  • The Fault in Our Stars (USA) - 50-60%, with skipping, Jan 7, first hours of it
  • Men, Women & Children (USA, Reitman Jr.), Jan 6
  • Still Alice (USA), Jan 6
  • Hotel Grand Budapest (USA), Jan 3 or 4?
  • (f) (TV) Olive Kitteridge (USA), Jan 3 - TV mini-series, 4 episodes, with Francis McDormand

2014:

(doesn't inlcude the ones watched with skipping)

  • The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012, Belgium), Dec 27 (1am)
  • Grand Central (2014, Rebecca Zlotowski), Dec 25 (2-4am)
  • The Skeleton Twins (2014), first hours of Dec 25
  • Laggies (2014), Dec 24
  • Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), Dec 23. Should definitely rewatch to notice/understand all the stuff
  • Boyhood (2014), Dec 23
  • Ida (2013, Pawlikowski), Dec 21-22 (midnight)
  • Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg), Dec 21
  • Magic in the Moonlight (2014, Woody Allen), Nov 23.
  • Violette (2013), Sept 14 (fully). The movie is absorbing (watched all 2.12 straight), but shallow. Also, the pauses weren't long enough to be able to enjoy Devos' comedic twitching - everything there is about dynamic storytelling, huh.
  • 20 ans d'ecart (2013), Sept 15 (and almost fully on Sept 14)
  • Two Night Stand (2014)
  • Lifeguard (2013) (with omitting the beginning, a bit of skipping, and then watching some of it with skipping)
  • Classification used before late summer:
    • Perfect/almost perfect filmmaking/writing or/and were really important to me
    • rewatched
      • Juno (2007)
      • (except for the bad beginning) Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
    • (mostly or totally) smoothly made & also gives sth to the mind or/and I'm interested in it enough to learn filmmaking stuff from it
      • Merci pur le chocolat (2000, Claude Chabrol)
      • Jeune & Jolie (2013, F. Ozon)
      • Sara Prefers to Run / Sarah préfère la course (2013)
    • Has individuality & some fun/great scenes, but filmmaking/script is too flawed
      • Novo (2002, Jean-Pierre Limosin; Christophe Honoré as a co-writer), watched in a non-linear way
    • too much mess
      • (watched 70-90%, some of it in a non-linear way) Me and You / Io es te (2012, Bertolucci)
      • (animation) Frozen (2013)
      • On My Way (2013)
      • A Simple Heart (2008)
    • Nothing for the heart & eyes & maybe even mind
      • A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) (perfect casting of Sarah Silverman & her "boyfriend" though)
      • I Give It a Year (2013)
      • (smoothly made though) The Ghost Writer / The Ghost (2010, Roman Polanski)
    • Cheesy movies which - if seen at the right moment - can do some good
      • A Thousand Words (2012) (perfect casting of Clark Duke and Allison Janney), June
jan 3 2014 ∞
jun 13 2016 +