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I agree!

https://www.youtube.com/@armeniancinematiclegacy994

https://twitter.com/carmen_gray/status/1678471510816595984?s=19 I been there! Hey, Sally, this Kinodran you been watching these movies on - it got subs? Cos I'm not seeing any on any of those links you shared. (Apologies for being late to the party after the Armenian CoMo long finished, especially ...

Not one that's mentioned much, but Joe Losey's Neorealist noir from this year is pretty darned good.

contenders: mother (naruse) lightning (naruse) okuni and gohei (naruse) umberto d. (de sica) "slimelight" (chaplin) carmen's innocent love (kinoshita) two cents' worth of hope (castellani) way of a gaucho (tournier) wait till the sun shines, nellie (king) ikiru (kurosawa) the flavor of gre...

larks on a string phantom india nest of gentry to love... the icon stand the toth family the structure of crystal goodbye, gyulsary! the red tent sparkling winds aka the confrontation pirosmani funeral ceremony (sirový) une femme douce goyokin subject for a short story annychka dzhamilya the lady fr...

Watch more of the Reds, Sally: according to LB you ain't seen Nest of Gentry, To Love..., Goodbye Gyulsary!, The Confrontation (one of my favorite Jancsos), Funeral Ceremony, and Subject for a Short Story (this I suspect is right down yr alley).

Nextie?

One of the champers here is too modest perhaps to admit to subtitling a great Czech movie from this year, K. Kachyna's RIDICULOUS GENTLEMAN (aka FUNNY MAN): https://content.filmovyprehled.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/media-id-719-Pan-768x573.jpg (Was any country making better movies in the sixties ...

I agree - great movie!

Good movie, that.

I transcribed the subs for this from a mighty blurry Youtube copy for KG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn3M67yuWOE

This channel has a few GA classics w/ the subs.

THE ECCENTRICS is great, but AN UNUSUAL EXHIBITION is even better.

I'm surprised so many folks have seen THE TOTH FAMILY. Maybe the best comedy ever made about autocracy.

One of the best years in the history of the movies, and one where I'd have to leave off at least a dozen terrific films to keep it to 20. And there are a couple dozen I'd like to see to add to the problem. The contenders: Larks on a String (Menzel) (one of the "banned forever" Czech movies...

Flowers of Shanghai (Hou) Khrustalyov, My Car! (German) Silence (Makhmalbaf) Spring in My Hometown (Lee) (the only film ever made by this director) The Apple (Makhmalbaf) The Power of Kangwon Province (Hou) Common People (Zhou) Cabaret Balkan (Paskaljević) Dr. Akagi (Imamura) The Hole (Tsai) My Name...

Two Russian movies about how awful Russia is. You probably have to have spent some time in the region to fully appreciate 'em, and my Ukrainian better-75% can appreciate both better than I. KHRUSTALYOV, which I've finally seen, is as excellent as everyone says it is. Makes Muratova at her most madca...

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Once hyped by Tony Rayns as the great hope of Chinese film, oft-censored Zhou Xiaowen made a strange but kinda terrific movie this year that only 11 people have seen on Letterboxd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZgWMkw3ths There used to be HD copies of this on Youtube, but they're gone now. KG has...

histoires du cinema is the lousiest "art film" joke i've ever seen, aside from those dirtbags strobhillets' minimalist masterpieces - easy to see why godard and the strobs were so fond of each other. got through two episodes until the mumbling narcissistic third-rate intellectual of that g...

If the ballots ain't yet tallied: ONE WONDERFUL SUNDAY MONSIEUR VERDOUX SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE BALL AT THE ANJO HOUSE OUT OF THE PAST LOVE OF THE ACTRESS SUMAKO THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN BRUTE FORCE VIVERE IN PACE THE DAMNED (Clement) BODY AND SOUL NIGHTMARE ALLEY THE CAPTAI...

Top tier: ONE WONDERFUL SUNDAY THE LOVE OF THE ACTRESS SUMAKO IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE THE BALL AT THE ANJO HOUSE OUT OF THE PAST MONSIEUR VERDOUX THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI BRUTE FORCE RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN Also very much like: VIVERE IN PACE KISS OF DEATH BODY AND SOUL CAPTAIN FROM CASTILLE SECR...

Nostalghia L'argent Sans Soleil Growing Up (Chen) The Boys from Fengkuei El Sur A Nos Amours Dhrupad Ah Fei Farewell (Klimov) Up to a Certain Point (Alea) The Adventurer (Kiisk) A Woman and Her Four Men The Sandwich Man My Memories of Old Beijing Blue Mountains, Or an Unbelievable Story Tough Kids (...

Two 21st cents in a row? Another one I can ignore. Final:

The Immigrant
A Touch of Sin
The Past (Farhadi)
Tokyo Family

I'm an Old Communist Hag
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (I stopped watching Hong's films at around this point)
The Grandmaster
Night Train to Lisbon

Probably final, since I doubt I'll watch any for this one. If I do, I'll edit the following: The Return (Zvyagintsev) Repatriation (Kim) Flashback (Frank) Good Morning, Night (Bellocchio) Memories of Murder (Bong) A Talking Picture (Oliveira) A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im) The Idiot (Bortko) Osama (Barma...

The Fifth Seal (Fábri) Insiang (Brocka) The Wishing Tree (Abuladze) Other People's Letters (Averbakh) A Wedding Suit (Kiarostami) Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven (Loteanu) Three Godless Years (O'Hara) Nobody's Daughter (Ranódy) The White Ship (Shamshiyev) Seclusion Near a Forest (Menzel) Red Apples (T...

Inna Churikova

Who's Michael Snow?

I like: Other People's Letters (Averbakh) Nobody's Daughter (Ranódy) Insiang (Brocka) The Wishing Tree (Abuladze) Mikey and Nicky (May) I Wish to Speak (Panfilov) A Wedding Suit (KIarostami) Red Apples (Tatos) Three Godless Years (O'Hara) The White Ship (Shamshiyev) When the River Kabani Turned Red ...

i can only refer you to this review https://letterboxd.com/lucanus/film/ballerina-1937/ and comments from kg Bessy and Chirat's Histoire du Cinéma Français 1935-1939 diplomatically states: Réalisation, scénario et dialogues: Jean Benoît-Lévy et Marie Epstein, d'après une nouvelle de Paul Morand. Tu...