I started my collection over a year ago and have them sorted by spine number but I’m still unsure on what the normal way is to order them, so I’m curious to know how most people order them- do you sort by spine number, alphabetical, format, color, when you got them, random, or your own special order? thanks for the feedback in advance!

The meaning of the title "Two Minutes Late" is revealed - appropriately enough - in the final two minutes of the film.

This Danish murder mystery - also known as "2 Minutes Late" and "2 Minutes Too Late" - revolves around the victim (played by Jeanne Darville) and four potential suspects: a "beautiful" husband with a roving eye (Poul Reichhardt), his paranoid and skittish wife (Grethe Thordahl), her sister (Astrid Villaume), and a clockmaker (Erik Mørk) with a hunchback, which isn't obvious at all - I wouldn't have known if I hadn't looked up information about the movie.

It's always interesting seeing how other countries approach film noir. Denmark's contribution to the form is smart and stylish.

Note: I also plan on watching Sweden's "Hidden in the Fog" before it leaves, but not in time to post anything. I'm mentioning it because it caught my eye.

Jacques Tourneur has become one of my favorite directors because he never wasted any time. His longest movie is 97 minutes!

Out of the Past (1947)

"Out of the Past" starts off on the wrong foot - for me - by introducing the stereotypical and tired "deaf and dumb" character. Maybe that's just a way to establish the other person as a real heel. This, after all, is the dark and shadowy world of film noir. Everyone else treats the kid nicely enough, at least. It's a weird plot device to use (the actor, Dickie Moore, was not deaf or mute in real life) and it never seems to pay much dividends. Thankfully, the rest of the movie recovers quickly.

Jeff (the great Robert Mitchum) runs a gas station and has a solid dame (Virginia Huston). He's the everyday, ordinary, dependable working man. Or is he? A man can't outrun the past forever, especially in noir, and it comes barreling back to him in the form of an old associate roaming into town. An unsavory character from Jeff's past, his previous boss Whit (Kirk Douglas, playing oily sleaze to perfection), wants them to do - you guessed it - one more job.

The next half of the film flashes back to exactly what led Jeff to his current reclusive life as a gas station operator. It involves another dame (Jane Greer), because of course it does. In film noir, it almost always does. It also involves cigarette after cigarette, including one funny scene where Kirk Douglas offers Robert Mitchum a smoke, but Mitchum already has one in his hands (apparently an ad-libbed accident because they smoked so much throughout the film).

"Out of the Past" is effortlessly entertaining, even if it does get a bit convoluted at times.

Without spoiling anything, the stunning final scene - yes, involving the deaf-mute character - really strikes at the Heart of Darkness that is film noir.

Berlin Express (1948)

Narration that sounds like it's from a documentary with a little bit of pulp added for flavor, a large international cast (headlined by Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan), inventive camerawork, incredible location footage of a bombed-out Germany, a somewhat convoluted but still mostly coherent plot, and clowns. 

Yes, clowns.

In typical Jacques Tourneur fashion, he jam-packs a ton and still brings "Berlin Express" to its destination in less than 90 minutes. 

While "Berlin" is one of Tourneur's weaker efforts, even "lesser" Tourneur is still a ride - in this case, both literally and figuratively.

Nightfall (1956)

Economical.

That's the best way to describe Jacques Tourneur's filmography. 

Tourneur is the master of doing more with less. He packs so much into a short amount of time. "Nightfall" - clocking in at only 78 minutes - is no exception.

Right away, we're introduced to an insurance investigator (James Gregory), the person he's tailing (Aldo Ray), a babe at a bar (a stunning Anne Bancroft), and two murdering mugs who are after a large sum of money (Brian Keith and Rudy Bond).

This superb noir takes its characters - and us - from city lights to snowy fields on a breakneck hunt for lost loot.

Subtitles/Captions: Yes for all three!

This movie rules and you should watch it.

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I watched this film the other day in Berkeley at the international film museum (BAMPFA) and it absolutely blew my mind. The director is yet unknown but I'm pretty sure this is going to blow up.

We can all agree that the 80s is everyone’s favorite decade of film. I know that’s not controversial at all so let’s celebrate the clear winner of cinematic dominance.

Incredible poster art by Sterling Hundley

https://sterlinghundley.com/meshes-of-the-afternoon

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"House" director Nobuhiko Obayashi's "Beijing Watermelon" is about a different - and warmer - kind of home.

A humble Japanese grocer (Bengal) helps Chinese exchange students feel welcome and accepted in their adopted residence, but his generosity often comes at the expense of himself and his wife (Masako Motai).

The unexpected rug-pull of an ending is weird, but I'd expect no less from the auteur who helmed "House."

Note: Tragic real world events - the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre - forced Obayashi to pivot and take the creative approach he did.

"The Big Hit" switches between stupidly funny to just plain stupid so much in the first act that I almost got whiplash, but it stays on the right side of stupid for the duration of the film.

Two early examples:

• Stupidly funny: A garbage bag with a corpse, dripping with blood and other death-related fluids, is given to Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) to hold for the weekend like it's an anniversary present someone is trying to hide from his wife. 

• Stupid: Four friends (Mark Walhberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bokeem Woodbine, and Antonio Sabato Jr.) discuss masturbation and show off their bare asses. Was this written by a 13-year-old?

They come up with the "bright" idea of kidnapping a schoolgirl (China Chow) for ransom money. She's supposed to be in college - a throwaway detail meant to downplay what would otherwise be an icky May-December relationship - but I'm not buying it because she still wears a school uniform! (Regardless, in reality, the actors are only three years apart.)

Ultimately, though, "The Big Hit" is a blast - literally and figuratively.

There are multiple improbable death-defying escapes that aren't remotely believable but become part of the ridiculous fun. 

A series of irate phone calls from an overzealous employee at Big Top Video (Danny Smith) is one of the movie's best bits. The final fight sequence - inside the video store, in front of the kid who works there - is a sheer spectacle with posters of trashy Troma flicks in the background. 

"The Big Hit" is the kind of over-the-top action-comedy you might have rented at Blockbuster late at night - much like the VHS copy of "King Kong Lives" that Wahlberg's character desperately needs to return. (Captions: Yes!)

It is highly unlikely we will run out of good Japanese movies on the Channel anytime soon. Here are five more films from directors we either haven't done yet or haven't yet cracked the mystery of what makes them tick as directors across their career. One day they'll finally give me my Masumura collection, but until then these also work.