#LetterboxdFriday THE PASSION OF ANNA - 🇸🇪 Ingmar Bergman. Sven Nykvist. Max von Sydow. Liv Ullmann. Bibi Andersson. Never goes too far wrong, does it? NOROI: THE CURSE - 🇯🇵 A journalist investigates paranormal events that (I don't think it's a spoiler) all turn out to be linked. Nicely woven found footage folk horror 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST - 🇷🇴 At 12:08pm on the 22nd of December 1989 Nicolae Ceaușescu fled Bucharest. Dry comedy mostly focused around a TV debate about whether this particular town had a revolution or if people waited to take to the streets until 12:09. THE LONG FAREWELL - 🇺🇦 [USSR, actually] So stylistically odd, the Soviets didn't let director Kira Muratova make another film for seven years despite it not being narratively troubling. Say what you will about them, but those Stalinists knew genuine subversion when they saw it. All films this week get ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #LastFourWatched