Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

I am so glad I came into this movie knowing nothing more than the fact that is was about Japanese drag queens. I feel like it happens far too often that I come into a film with a set of expectations about it--like with Safe, I knew a lot and so I was consistently comparing my actual viewing experience with my initial expectations. But with this, I knew nothing, so there were tons of great surprises and discoveries and the ending was completely shocking and amazing. I feel like I can't talk too much about this in case...anyone ever looks at this blog, ha, and I don't want to spoil anything. I will say that this was wonderfully complex and fragmented and layered and it all comes together in the end. This is probably my favourite thing I've watched lately.

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

These screencaps still give me chills.

Two for the Road (1967)

These two screencaps completely represent this movie.

Persona (1966)

I'm intimidated by this film.

La Jetée (1962)

I watched La Jetée recently.
Beautiful and creepy--a very good combination. I was reading something about it, I don't remember where, that attributed the fact that it was in still images to the idea that we don't really remember things in moving "video" form--we remember still frames, like this film.
(Also, KAT YOU NEED TO SEE THIS. I still have it on my computer. So you will be able to.)