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African Cinema Month kicks off with a look at Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973). Also known as The Journey of the Hyena, it’s the story of two young people, Mory (Magaye Niang) and Anta (Myriam Niang), who dream of leaving their Dakar and going to Paris.

Ben Buckingham and Spencer Seams join Mike to discuss Mambety's Touki Bouki and Hyenas (1992).

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Viewed: 2019-02-04

Touki Bouki tells the story of Mory a cow herder and Anta a student trying to get one big hit to make the money to get to Paris.

This movie has been on my list for a while but I was dreading watching it as I expected the editing and photography to be a bit dated. While everything did not age perfectly, it turned out to be an interesting watch.

Story-wise, the main arc of the characters is easy to follow. But the editing plays tricks on your mind by mixing, re-ordering and repeating scenes to blur the line between reality and dreams. A trick that ends up paying off as you grow accustomed to it over the length of the film but that can throw you off in the beginning.

But the real gem in this movie is the photography. Most of the shots belong in a museum and some of them are so iconic that they could probably end up stand-alone pieces of art by themselves.

Add to that mix a musical motif that keeps repeating over the movie and you end up with a very interesting watch.

It may feel a bit long at times and the editing may seem clunky but every other dragging scenes is followed by some really beautiful shot.

7/10

I'm losin' my dang mind over here. The song is soo good, and I can't find anything on it. Wikipedia claims it's called, "Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime", but a search of that yields nothing and also that page claims it is "sung" but there are no words in it. Please help! It's a genuine jam!

Can we discuss Touki Bouki? I recently watched this and want to see more like it if that exists.

For those of you that don't know, Martin Scorsese has been doing Brd's work through the World Cinema Foundation in restoring films from around the world that most people may not get a chance to see otherwise, and several have been uploaded to Hulu Plus' Criterion section. One such film is Touki Bouki, a Senegalese film from 1973. It's a non-linear film that's light on plot and heavy on amazing compositions and layered sound design, giving it a European feel, but one that's also unique and personal in the way it vividly captures 1970's Senegal. If you're unfamiliar with African Cinema, which I for one mostly am, unfortunately, I suggest giving this a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touki_Bouki

PS: I should point out that the movie begins with some very graphic killing of livestock. It didn't feel exploitive, to me anyway, but if you have a problem with that you might want to skip this one.

Best run in terms of anything

Robert Altman: Nashville, MASH, Images, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, Buffalo Bill, Thieves Like Us, California Split, Brewster McCloud, A Wedding, Quintet, and A Perfect Couple.

Hal Ashby: Shampoo, Being There, Coming Home, The Landlord, Bound for Glory, The Last Detail, and Harold and Maude.

Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Boxcar Bertha, New York, New York, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Boy, Italianamerican, and The Last Waltz.

Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.

Steven Spielberg: Duel, Jaws, 1941, Sugarland Express, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Merchant of Four Seasons, Despair, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and His Friends, Satan's Brew, In a Year of 13 Moons, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Germany in Autumn, Chinese Roulette, Shadow of Angels, I Only Want You to Love Me, Martha, Effi Briest, World on a Wire, Rio das Mortes, Mathias Kneissl, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, The American Soldier, and Gods of the Plague.

Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Electric Horseman, and Bobby Deerfield.

Bob Fosse: Cabaret, Lenny, and All That Jazz.

George Lucas: THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars.

Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Interiors, Bananas, Love and Death, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

John Huston: Fat City, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, Independence, The Mackintosh Man, and The Kremlin Letter.

George Roy Hill: The Sting, A Little Romance, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, and Slaughterhouse-Five.

Milos Forman: Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taking Off, and Visions of Eight.

Sidney Lumet: Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Wiz, Equus, Murder on the Orient Express, The Offence, Lovin Molly, The Anderson Tapes, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Child's Play, and King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis.

Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Macbeth, Tess, What?, and The Tenant.

Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Gauntlet, The Eiger Sanction, Breezy, and Play Misty for Me.

Ridley Scott: Alien and The Duellists.

Brian De Palma: Carrie, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, The Fury, Home Movies, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Hi Mom!, and Dionysus in '69.

Ingmar Bergman: The Touch, Cries

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Best Picture

1. The Exorcist

2. The Sting

3. Paper Moon

4. American Graffiti

5. Badlands

6. Serpico

6. The Wicker Man

8. Mean Streets

9. Day for Night

10. The Long Goodbye

Best Director

1. William Friedkin for The Exorcist
2. Terrence Malick for Badlands
3. François Truffaut for Day for Night
4. George Lucas for American Graffiti
5. George Roy Hill for The Sting

Best Lead Actor

1. Al Pacino as Frank Serpico in Serpico

2. Jack Nicholson as Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky in The Last Detail

3. Marlon Brando as Paul in Last Tango in Paris

3. Robert Redford as Johnny "Kelly" Hooker in The Sting

5. Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye

Best Lead Actress

1. Tatum O’Neal as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon
2. Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist
3. Sissy Spacek as Holly Sargis in Badlands
4. Julie Christie as Laura Baxter in Don’t Look Now
5. Maria Schneider as Jeanne in Last Tango in Paris

Best Supporting Actor

1. Max von Sydow as Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist
2. Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man
3. Robert De Niro as John "Johnny Boy" Civello in Mean Streets
4. Jason Miller as Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist
5. Randy Quaid as Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows in The Last Detail

Best Supporting Actress

1. Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist
2. Valentina Cortese as Séverine in Day for Night
3. Madeline Kahn as Trixie Delight in Paper Moon
4. Mackenzie Phillips as Carol Morrison in American Graffiti
5. Candy Clark as Debbie Dunham in American Graffiti

Best Original Screenplay

1. The Sting
2. American Graffiti
3. Mean Streets
4. Day for Night
5. Badlands

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. The Exorcist

2. Paper Moon

3. Serpico

4. The Last Detail

4. The Long Goodbye

Best Animated Film

1. Fantastic Planet
2. Robin Hood
3. Belladonna of Sadness

Best Non-English Language Film

1. Day for Night

2. Amarcord

3. Enter the Dragon

4. Fantastic Planet

4. The Holy Mountain

6. The Spirit of the Beehive

**Best D

For the upcoming Barnes and Noble sale I’ve decided to break up my haul into different categories (French New Wave, African Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Silent films, etc…) with the intent of purchasing one or two from each to get an eclectic group of films.

With there being a small amount of films from Africa in the collection I was wondering what people thought between getting Mandabi or Touki Bouki?

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I've been really interested in world cinema. I've watched films from America, Europe and Asia but I haven't really heard of any films from Africa and Australia aside from Touki Bouki and the Mad Max series (I may have heard of/watched some other but can't really think of any). What are some African and Australian films that you would recommend?

(MON FEB 01)

(12:00am) The Battleship Potemkin (1925/1h 10m/Sergei M. Eisenstein) (silent-epic)

(2:00am) Live Flesh (1997/1h 40m/Pedro Almodóvar) (comedy)

(4:00am) All About My Mother (1999/1h 41m/Pedro Almodóvar) (comedy)

(6:00am) Never Let Me Go (1953/1h 9m/Delmer Daves) (romance)

(7:15am) Key To The City (1950/1h 39m/George Sidney) (comedy)

(9:00am) After Office Hours (1935/1h 15m/Robert Z. Leonard) (suspense-mystery)

(10:00am) San Francisco (1936/1h 55m/Major W.S. Van Dyke II) (epic)

(12:30pm) Saratoga (1937/1h 34m/Jack Conway) (comedy)

(2:15pm) Test Pilot (1938/1h 58m/Victor Fleming) (adventure)

(4:30pm) Forsaking All Others (1934/1h 24m/Major W.S. Van Dyke II) (romance)

(6:00pm) Strange Cargo (1940/1h 45m/Frank Borzage) (drama)

(8:00pm) Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959/1h 19m/Edward D. Wood, Jr.) (science-fiction)

(9:30pm) The Swarm (1978/1h 56m/Irwin Allen) (horror)

(11:45pm) The Conqueror (1956/1h 51m/Dick Powell) (drama-adventure-historical-war-period)

(TUES FEB 02)

(1:45am) Change Of Habit (1969/1h 33m/William Graham) (musical)

(3:30am) The Food of the Gods (1976y/1h 28m/Bert I. Gordon) (fantasy-sci-fi)

(5:15am) The Silver Chalice (1954/2h 24m/Victor Saville) (epic)

(7:45am) Avalanche Express (1979/1h 28m/Mark Robson) (spy)

(9:30am) The White Tower (1950/1h 38m/Ted Tetzlaff) (adventure)

(11:15am) Snowed Under (1936/1h 3m/Raymond Enright) (comedy)

(2:15pm) Snow Birds (1932/10m/Jules White) (documentary short)

(2:30pm) Spring Madness (1938/1h 6m/S. Sylvan Simon) (comedy)

(3:45pm) Sunkist Stars At Palm Springs (1936/19m/Roy Rowland) (musical short)

(4:15pm) Palm Springs (1963/1h 40m/Norman Taurog) (comedy)

(6:00pm) Where The Boys Are (1960/1h 39m/Henry Levin) (comedy)

(8:00pm) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946/1h 51m/Tay Garnett) (film-noir-crime)

(10:00pm) Force Of Evil (1949/1h 28m/Abraham Polonsky) (crime)

(11:45pm) He Ran All The Way (1951/1h 17m/John Berry) (supense-mystery)

(WED FEB 03)

(1:15am) Nobody Lives Forever (1946/1h 40m/Jean Negulesco) (romance)

(3:00am) East Of The River (1940/1h 13m/Alfred E. Green) (crime)

(4:30am) Out Of The Fog (1941/1h 33m/Anatole Litvak) (crime)

(6:15am) **Blackwell’s Islan

I'm looking to get one of them during the Flash Sale. I haven't seen many people talking about volume 3 yet I guess cause most of us are waiting for sale time. And I know 2 is notable for Taipei Story so that's the one I'm leaning but my OCD says buy volume 1 first. Thoughts?

Edit: I have updated the list with the movies suggested in the comments. Thank you every one who helped!

South America

Argentina: The Secret in their Eyes, Wild Tales, Extraordinary Stories, The Official Story, The Aura, Nine Queens, Pizza, Beer and Cigarettes, The Distinguished Citizen, The Dark Side of The Heart, El Angel

Brazil: City of God, Bacurau, Pixote, Invisible Life, A Wolf at the Door, Elite Squad 1 & 2, Central Station, The Movie of my Life, Boy and the world, Estomago, Cold Tropics, Aquarius, Neighboring Sounds

Colombia: Birds of Passage, Embrace of the Serpent, The Rose Seller, Maria Full of Grace, Monos

Chile: The Battle of Chile I & II, Machuca, Neruda, No, The Club, A Fantastic Woman

Paraguay: The Heiresses

Uruguay: 23 Seconds, Life Beyond Me, Whisky, Mr. Kaplan, Clever

Caribbean

Cuba: I am Cuba, Habana Blues, The King of Havana

Dominican Republic: The Projectionist

Jamaica: The Harder They Come

North America

Canada: Videodrone, C.R.A.Z.Y., Crash, Scanners, Incendies, Polytechnique, Atanarjuat, The Sweet Hereafter, Jesus of Montreal, Enemy, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Mommy, Existenz, I killed my mother, Laurence Anyways

Mexico: The Young and the Damned, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Roma, Amores Perros, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, El Topo, El Norte, The thin yellow line, Duck Season

Oceania

Australia: Mad Max Series, Shine, The Babadook, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Muriel’s Wedding, Flirting, The Rover, The Castle, Chopper

New Zealand: Boy, What We do in Shadows, Hunt for the Wilder People, The Dark Horse, The Quiet Earth, An Angel at my Table, The Piano

Asia

Afganistan: Osama, The Breadwinner

Bangladesh: A River called Titas

China: House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Aftershock, Raise the Red Lantern, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, An Elephant Sitting Still, Fearless, A touch of Sin, Platform, Still Life, Pickpocket, The World, 24 City, Unknown Pleasures, Ash is the Purest White, Mountains May Depart, To live, Not One Less, Shadow

Hong Kong: In the Mood for Love,Infernal Affairs, Chungking Express, Kungfu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, 2046, Still Human, The Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, The Killer, Hard-Boiled, A Better Tomorrow, Fallen Angels

India: The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar), Terrorism Trilogy (Roja, Bombay, Dil Se) , Elements Trilogy (Fire, Water, Earth) , Sh

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life

https://www.criterion.com/films/29202-secrets-lies

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai

https://www.criterion.com/films/29639-c-line-and-julie-go-boating

https://www.criterion.com/films/28412-touki-bouki

I'm really looking forward to Defending Your Life getting a Criterion release.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Best Picture

1. The Exorcist

2. The Sting

3. Paper Moon

4. American Graffiti

5. Badlands

6. Serpico

6. The Wicker Man

8. Mean Streets

9. Day for Night

10. The Long Goodbye

Best Director

1. William Friedkin for The Exorcist
2. Terrence Malick for Badlands
3. François Truffaut for Day for Night
4. George Lucas for American Graffiti
5. George Roy Hill for The Sting

Best Lead Actor

1. Al Pacino as Frank Serpico in Serpico

2. Jack Nicholson as Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky in The Last Detail

3. Marlon Brando as Paul in Last Tango in Paris

3. Robert Redford as Johnny "Kelly" Hooker in The Sting

5. Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye

Best Lead Actress

1. Tatum O’Neal as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon
2. Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist
3. Sissy Spacek as Holly Sargis in Badlands
4. Julie Christie as Laura Baxter in Don’t Look Now
5. Maria Schneider as Jeanne in Last Tango in Paris

Best Supporting Actor

1. Max von Sydow as Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist
2. Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man
3. Robert De Niro as John "Johnny Boy" Civello in Mean Streets
4. Jason Miller as Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist
5. Randy Quaid as Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows in The Last Detail

Best Supporting Actress

1. Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist
2. Valentina Cortese as Séverine in Day for Night
3. Madeline Kahn as Trixie Delight in Paper Moon
4. Mackenzie Phillips as Carol Morrison in American Graffiti
5. Candy Clark as Debbie Dunham in American Graffiti

Best Original Screenplay

1. The Sting
2. American Graffiti
3. Mean Streets
4. Day for Night
5. Badlands

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. The Exorcist

2. Paper Moon

3. Serpico

4. The Last Detail

4. The Long Goodbye

Best Animated Film

1. Fantastic Planet
2. Robin Hood
3. Belladonna of Sadness

Best Non-English Language Film

1. Day for Night

2. Amarcord

3. Enter the Dragon

4. Fantastic Planet

4. The Holy Mountain

6. The Spirit of the Beehive

**Best D

Best run in terms of anything

Robert Altman: Nashville, MASH, Images, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, Buffalo Bill, Thieves Like Us, California Split, Brewster McCloud, A Wedding, Quintet, and A Perfect Couple.

Hal Ashby: Shampoo, Being There, Coming Home, The Landlord, Bound for Glory, The Last Detail, and Harold and Maude.

Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Boxcar Bertha, New York, New York, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Boy,Italianamerican, The Last Waltz.

Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.

Steven Spielberg: Duel, Jaws, 1941, Sugarland Express, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Arabian Nights, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Merchant of Four Seasons, Despair, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and His Friends, Satan's Brew, In a Year of 13 Moons, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Germany in Autumn, Chinese Roulette, Shadow of Angels, I Only Want You to Love Me, Martha, Effi Briest, World on a Wire, Rio das Mortes, Mathias Kneissl, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, The American Soldier, and Gods of the Plague.

Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Electric Horseman, and Bobby Deerfield.

Bob Fosse: Cabaret, Lenny, and All That Jazz.

George Lucas: THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars.

Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Interiors, Bananas, Love and Death, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

John Huston: Fat City, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, Independence, The Mackintosh Man, and The Kremlin Letter.

George Roy Hill: The Sting, A Little Romance, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, and Slaughterhouse-Five.

Milos Forman: Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taking Off, and Visions of Eight.

Sidney Lumet: Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Wiz, Equus, Murder on the Orient Express, The Offence, Lovin Molly, The Anderson Tapes, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Child's Play, and King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis.

Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Macbeth, Tess, What?, and The Tenant.

Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Gauntlet, The Eiger Sanction, Breezy, and Play Misty for Me.

Ridley Scott: Alien and The Duellists.

Brian De Palma: Carrie, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, The