Films like Football of the Good Old Days.

Football of the Good Old Days (1973) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle hungarian / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Bed and Board (1970) poster
1. Bed and Board1970

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Opera Prima (1980) poster
2. Opera Prima1980

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stolen Kisses (1968) poster
3. Stolen Kisses1968

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Age of Consent (1969) poster
4. Age of Consent1969

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Small Change (1976) poster
5. Small Change1976

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Seclusion Near a Forest (1976) poster
6. Seclusion Near a Forest1976

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wives (1975) poster
7. Wives1975

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Melvin and Howard (1980) poster
8. Melvin and Howard1980

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Men (1972) poster
9. Men1972

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

My Friend, a Rather Unserious Person (1975) poster
10. My Friend, a Rather Unserious Person1975

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Day for Night (1973) poster
11. Day for Night1973

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Attention, Turtle! (1970) poster
12. Attention, Turtle!1970

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a warm emotional register.

These are Football of the Good Old Days’s neighbours — where are yours?

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