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aaaaaargh this is bliss conte cruel - gaston modot (1930) i always had the hots for modot and thrilled to see i'm justified cuz he can direct as well.....this is bresson avant bresson, fused with dreyer and the avant-garde....and i am completely on board with the parallel that the notes on henri dra...

how do you pick an ozu or a ford, i gave up

my ballot, unranked The Mill (Alfred Machin, 1909) The Modern Girl (Eduard Schnedler-Sorensen, 1912) Fantomas (Louis Feuillade, 1913) The Precipice (Pyotr Chardynin, 1913) Germinal (Albert Capellani, 1913) Silent Witnesses (Yevgeni Bauer, 1914) Blue Blood (Nino Oxilia, 1914) The Coward (Reginald Bar...

wandering with the moon - hasse ekman for all the adorably cute bad boy glint in ekman's progressive eye when he's talking about sex....he's throwing too much at this so it all comes out as a bit chaotic.... ....all the repeated references to doubles, falsity, acting, homunculus(!), pretence, and th...

are we getting the year from letterboxd or imdb? there's a lot of variation between the two for some films

une autre vie - emmanuel mouret (2013) been having a minor mouret retrospective and i'm fully in love with him....he's so good.... eg for instance here the left wall inscriptions commenting on the conversation they're having as they head down towards it. his films are chock full of such things.... h...

sorry, i'm really grumpy with movies at the minute

brief encounter - david lean
dark is the night - boris barnet
they were expendable - john ford

haven't watched the ulmer so might remedy that, and if ekman's moon has subs would watch that

did 'we'?

ok fine, my fault for not nominating anything and everyone else's fault who didn't know to check lencho's wall to find out a discord even existed

i rewatched the harvey bunny movie lately.....are there any critical writings about it? it was a much better film than i remember, it has a pleasingly odd tone at times....and it's pretty unique so thought someone somewhere might have written something more on it other than 'huh who are the crazy on...

Angel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:09 am

The results are in! Thanks to all who contributed!

what film is that?

i guess we missed the nominations part cuz the site was down

helen of troy - manfred noa (1924) #CoMoGermany this was fun, gorgeous and sod all those naysayers that are putting it down https://i.imgur.com/bQcSkDI.png https://i.imgur.com/qNQqkoj.png https://i.imgur.com/NLulWyU.png https://i.imgur.com/nYGUJCj.png https://i.imgur.com/UM3oMcq.png https://i.imgur....

mädi macht krieg - oskar einstein (1917)

horrific short combining two ghastly things, children and war


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yT0bP2uO7Y

punq yeah i literally just take the opposite of what punq says :D although sometimes i wonder if after seeing so many films, he does have the experience and my viewings are the less aware....but i don't wonder that much... der schein trügt (1914) minor comic short where the husband is a conceited p...

arme lena - otto rippert (1918) punq, as ever, is totally wrong, this was totally charming, so much more light and effortless than the last two 24's i watched. it's a shame not more of his stuff is available, at least in decent quality, this had an almost lubitsch energy to it, and ressel orla is ad...

watched a couple of films, both pretty bad vedi napoli e poi muori - eugenio perego this is sugary emigration trauma wish fulfilment, and leda gys is too pickford (US colonialism of film industry, ironically) when she should be magnani....but the neo-realist shots of naples were nice. and it was ver...

cinesmith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:55 pm WOW. This was spectacular.

yes. yes it is!

ilse and her three suitors - gustav trautschold (1913) one of those little short seemingly facile (not amazingly directed) comedies with a lot more going on if you care to look (tho you probably won't given how average the film is)....eg...the false deceptions of art allows the lovers to triumph... ...

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:15 pm

sally wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:26 pm pierrot, pierrette - louis feuillade

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! So glad you found that!

do you need it lencho? it's been here forever:
https://archive.org/details/silent-pierrot-pierrette

there are subs as well: https://we.tl/t-PseHqp8xSC

THE CABINET OF DR. LARIFARI is actually the title of a wonderful German comedy from 1930 (which is imo also better than the great film by Wiene): https://letterboxd.com/film/the-cabinet-of-dr-larifari/ Highly recommended, if you can get your hands on it. oh this sounds great! and :( waiting endless...

pierrot, pierrette - louis feuillade effectively feuillade's last film this is a bittersweet, explicit handover to the next more corporate, more bourgeois, filmmaking generation....it's gentle but there are barbs, humour and poetry in some of the framing, and it's the self-referential turning into a...

reading (loving) very slowly (due to mild ecstatic faints) pascal quignard's hatred of music. i too fucking hate music (noise) right now. this guy has a 100% hit rate of making me delirious (have read one other book by him)

der totentanz - urban gad (1911)

still haven't forgiven asta for the suffragette, but this one is so well staged....(love the way she keeps 'accidentally' bashing her injured husband's impotent 'leg' when she wants to go off gallivanting)

the diary of dr hart - paul leni (1918)

it was nice but suffers all the patriotic insufferableness that all the war films do

karl wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:25 pm Don Quixote (Lauritzen)

is 26 on imdb

but omg when did that baroncelli become available? yes yes yes yes exciting

:newyear: Happy 100th anniversary viewing!! :newyear: ♥♥♥♥♥♥ i will actually be watching some but it's such a great year (as were all the 20s, and earlier) the lion of the moguls - jean epstein kean - alexandre volkoff the marriage circle - ernst lubitsch he who gets slapped - victor sjöström the f...

provocation!

can't summon the mood for sleep has her house i gave up after 10 mins but i'll try again...someday! omg, me too, I've tried about 6 times and I just can't stay awake...was gonna try again for the poll but he posted something idiotic about AI on twitter, so now I'm questioning his artistic understan...