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what can we do on a sunday afternoon, when we don't have a tv? - jean-marie buchet (1964) #CoMoBelgium




horrible - jean-marie buchet (2000) #CoMoBelgium

for 1952 poll, a record of an archaeological dig to greenland, with a slightly more cavalier attitude to human remains than archaeologists have these days.... https://www.danmarkpaafilm.dk/film/groenland-i-ii https://i.imgur.com/i7zTj3E.png https://i.imgur.com/6Pad11M.png https://i.imgur.com/4G52Evd...

i like nooteboom....but it's a mild like, as in i know i'll sort of enjoy it even if i won't remember it again or think it's the greatest book ever written. actually found a nooteboom in a charity shop here last week (minor miracle because even something like nooteboom is too 'difficult' for normal ...

karl wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:29 pm By the way, magpies, you see Malyan's Father with subs or no?

with subs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2R8r9NS7E4

rischka wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:19 pm i read that and adored it. how often do we gals think about ancient rome

ha! seeing as my twitter feed is approx 70% archaeology (tenacious lot, those guys, they remain when everyone else disappears) literally every day

vivement ce soir - patrick van antwerpen (1985) #CoMoBelgium exquisitely observed fictional day in the life at a supermarket. like a belgian kaurismäki in the droll incidents, domestic routine and small rebellions of the menially employed. how humane ♥ https://i.imgur.com/Md42p7I.png https://i.imgur...

continuing belgian theme

had this for years but was always scared a bit by yourcenar's reputation, thought i should have done a classics degree or something to appreciate it. but anyway, foolishness. we'll see...

hey karl :) yes on kinodaran (quality is much more fabulous than other prints elsewhere, at least for the ones i saw) but alas no subs. doesn't bother me that much for silents if i can read the plot beforehand or it's so stereotyped that they're not necessary - which is the case for some of the soun...

the marriage of mademoiselle beulemans - julien duvivier (1927) #CoMoBelgium minor belgian-set duvivier silent comedy (but minor silent duvivier is still 100 times more gorgeous than post-silent cinema) he throws all his 1927 tricks at it, and the plot is a lot more pleasingly cynical than the genia...

les gestes du repas - luc de heusch (1958) #CoMoBelgium

watched whilst eating my dinner

greennui wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:42 pm

sally wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:30 pm how did you see this greennui? with subtitles?

No subs

thanks

autumn approaching and i have a desire to cosy up with bernhard or other such snuggly austrians but still plodding on with como, so simenon will do

https://i.imgur.com/PuAybUn.png There is a garden in her face. Thomas Campion the street - jef cornelis (1972) #CoMoBelgium love these urban theory docs (see also the social life of small urban spaces dir. william h whyte, and rohmer's changing landscapes ) not so keen on that era's reacting to the...

SUZANNE'S FLING (Jean-Marie Buchet, 1974) #CoMoBelgium this really is a gem that needs to be seen more, eustache came to my mind too (but drier) Francesco Savio: With the imperturbability of a great humorist, he stubbornly adheres to a fixed camera position. Buchet dared to tell a non-story with in...

in slightly too previous anticipation of next como, i marked the potential passage from #CoMoBelgium to lithuania by watching an old bbc favourite, and i'd forgotten just how caustic and interesting his programs could be (i advise using the subtitles option) and for any delicate fish-avoiding consti...

i'm going to shave - alfred machin (1914) #CoMoBelgium

not as interesting as the last one, but machin is still apt with the engagingly grotesque visuals


https://youtu.be/uuWsrCC1ijs?list=PLZCm ... tOzqWCccHs

greennui wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:46 pm Loguivy-de-la-Mer 1952 Directed by Pierre Gout

how did you see this greennui? with subtitles?

3 switzerland
2 iran
1 latvia

also charming

antwerpen in de jaren 10 (1910) #CoMoBelgium


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4GxfO ... 4AtOKTMFBY






post-script:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQPKG1efWGg

monsieur beulemeester, garde civique - alfred machin (1913) #CoMoBelgium this is much more like it. machin gives a fresh take to hackneyed story (over strict buffoon father outwitted by suitor) with nice framing (am more and more fascinated by (fixed) in-frame relations with (limitless) off-screen, ...

down there - chantal akerman (2006) #CoMoBelgium

self-indulgent privileged depressed white woman goes to violently racist country to (poetically, at least there's that) dump her alienation in a (wilfully maintained) bigger one. bye bye chantal, we're done.

the bargee district - edith kiel (1953) #CoMoBelgium

watched this because it's a female directed harbour-side film, but i had absolutely no clue what was going on

magnum begynasium bruxellense - boris lehman (1978) #CoMoBelgium ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a v...

should probably post a bit more before requesting things like this?

i saw those covers, which at least had the advantage of alerting me to the fact that this poor things film that people have been chuntering about in my feed for a while is actually based on alasdair's novel. insane, had no idea. didn't want to see it anyway, but now definitely don't want to...can't ...

oh cool! i wonder who's got the other 298 now

romance on the beach - henri storck (1931) #CoMoBelgium

went looking for this highly obvious on google earth bronze-age urn burial enclosure earlier this week:




from red blob, totally obvious on the ground, right?

yeah they're great, if i was richer, i'd get pretty much everything they publish, they're so pleasantly short

although i read malpertuis via atlas press, now sadly dead