Recommend a double feature...

Manhattan and Metropolitan


Allen and Stillman beautifully revives the lost generation. Bringing 1925 onto 1979 and 1990. The tender, longingness that I felt watching those 2 films (respective directors' best) is partially dreamy, love-letterish but paints something equally picturesque, without sugarcoating it with romance. Such unique visions of generational explorations.

Metropolitan is also kind of James Joyce like, or maybe double feature with The Dead (1987), but I think it bears lots of similarities to Manhattan as well.

The Hustler & Cool-Hand Luke.
Winter's Bone & Leave no Trace.
The Master & I'm Thinking about Ending Things.

...To reflect on one's loneliness and self-destruction...

Good Time into Buffalo ‘66

I’m not sure why I keep thinking of other things to go with ‘66. This could be incredible as sort of a spiritual sequel type of situation especially since the characters feel very similar and the last shot of Good Time would flow perfectly with ‘66s opening scene

High & Low/Parasite

Oh and tomorrow night on NYE I plan on watching My Cousin Vinny and Death Becomes Her

Captain Obvious here but...

Goodfellas and Casino.

Stand By Me and River's Edge. Coincidentally both released in '86.

Mandy and Pig. Both show just how immense Cage's capacity for portraying grief and loss truly are, and in wildly different but no less pensive and unique ways.

Les mistons (François Truffaut, 1957)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)

All the President Men & Dick.

The Bridesmaid (2004) - Chabrol & Passion (2012) De Palma

I recently called Passion - De Palma's most underrated movie (33% RT - GTFO) but it's also sexy af - particularly Rachel McAdams who is one of the most appealingly unpleasant characters I can think of and also one of the sexiest characters too like irl you'd hate her and want her pretty bad equally........and in one scene in particular - a glorious MORE-bian (not les(s)), arguably homophobic scene where she curses in an aggressively matter of fact way, offensively hot in that way that only the best sexual things can ever be tbh ......

Meanwhile in Chabrol's movie - he manages in so many ways to mock our conceptions of love, fidelity, morality and bonds that the moral line is always fun to assess - where things go from "that was close" to "oh shit"

Two late career movies by masters - that may not be their directors "best" (they're definitely not) but are very much in the style of each director's best.

Also: De Palma must set some kind of record here with oral fixations - sex scenes where people while kissing (or more) react to a camera or other person watching them, taking pills, smoking cigarettes, gulping booze, coffee cups lightly against mouths in the most sensual ways, lipstick applied to yourself or applying it to others, a shower scene where water drips off McAdams mouth (in closeup), several scenes of tongues slightly protruding from lips while being sexy or better yet.......hinting evil......whew

Did a triple feature this weeek mentioned in the October horror thread and it was just great:

Tesis / Thesis (1996), Scream (1996), Censor (2021)

also........

Tár (2022) and There Will Be Blood (2007)

R.M.N. (2022) and The White Ribbon (2009)