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I just watched the 50th anniversary cut on the 4k criterion disc of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid and can't stop thinking about it! So i'm looking for recommendations to try scratch the same itch.

- I loved the unique, elegiac quality and heavy use of music

- I love how it feels like some sort of somber reflection both for the characters in the film and the filmmaker himself.

- Doesn't have to be a Western!

recs you can skip: alfredo garcia, wild bunch, the searchers, dollars trilogy, once upon a time in the west, johnny guitar, great silence, the great escape, unforgiven, butch cassidy, no country.

People don't realize how much Obsession borrowed from Hereditary. Obsession is an incredibly made and good horror movie. It hits a nerve with people in a good way. But with Hereditary on the other hand, it is a Greater film from all angles, and it will haunt you for years and years. Obsession is a fast paced half baked movie unlike Hereditary which meticulously carries the theme throughout the movie in a very suspenseful way. I personally figured the whole story of Obsession after the first 20 minutes, while with Hereditary I had to go do futher research and find out about the demon Paimon and what he wanted in that family in Hereditary. Hereditary just carries so much satanic history and weight and context. Hereditary is the benchmark for modern horror, Obsession is a fun summer box office hit.

I watched Abel Gance's 'Napoleon' (1927) on my home projector in my room. I saw the "grande" cut, that has the runtime of 7hrs 7min 54s. I saw the film with absolutely zero interuption. Made my food and water schedule for 2 days to make sure I dont pee or feel hungry in those 7 hours at night. I messaged 17 guys on reddit, one dude replied and emailed me the film (shout out to eladir) The most commonly available version is the brownlow version that is around 5hrs 30min (this version is free is free watch directly on wikipedia).

Is this worth it? FUVK YEAH IT IS! This is now my favorite movie of all time and I think the greatest there is to exist. I saw this 3 days back, took all night. Took me 3 days to fix my sleepy time.

EDIT: Next time I'll try to find the 'apollo cut' which is 9H 30MINS (mwah-ha-ha). I dont think its there online, unless somebody has it, plz dm me (I want to ruin myself please).

2ND EDIT: I have the link, if anyone wants it, DM me.

(PS my first post in this subbredit and in a long time)

My letterboxd link my fellow movie watchers!

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I think David Lean managed to capture the complexity of a man who was extra ordinary but lost in his own legend. Peter O'Toole does an amazing job capturing Lawerence and his love for arabia and changes he goes through while trying to free Arabs. Omar shareef was quite good too. It's a shame they both didn't win oscars that year.

Only issue I had was sometimes he would say he was done for with Arabia but would go back in just a minute without much of a thought going into the process and in the end French and English just kinda say yes in a instant to make Arabia free. Other then that it was quite amazing.

The new restoration (which will show the originally intended cut for the first time) comes out October. I've been getting ads for it on my socials and I'm pretty excited to see it! Looks wild

I don't often give 5 stars (although i do give a lot of 4 or 4,5) but i was mind blown by City of God. On the other hand, i hated Sleeping beauty (2011) with a passion and that's probably the only 0.5 i've given to a movie so far