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by niminy-piminy
Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:22 am
Forum: Polls/Surveys/Lists
Topic: New(ish) Films you've seen in 2020
Replies: 23
Views: 1980

Re: New(ish) Films you've seen in 2020

the other (besides the above), at least one hour long (regardless of genre), made in last 10 yrs, watched in 2020... Communism and the Net Or the End of Representive Democracy (Karel Vachek, 2020) Last and First Men (Jóhann Jóhannsson, 2020) I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec, 2019) Prélude (Sa...
by niminy-piminy
Fri Sep 18, 2020 12:19 pm
Forum: Polls/Surveys/Lists
Topic: New(ish) Films you've seen in 2020
Replies: 23
Views: 1980

Re: New(ish) Films you've seen in 2020

watching a newish...
post-modern comedy in pink and blue
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Das melancholische Mädchen (Susanne Heinrich, 2019)
by niminy-piminy
Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:13 am
Forum: Director Poll Archive
Topic: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil
Replies: 59
Views: 3314

Re: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil

The partnership between director František Vláčil and screenwriter Vladimír Körner yielded films including Adelheid (Adelheid, 1969), Pověst o stříbrné jedli (The Legend of the Silver Fir, 1973) and Stín kapradiny (The Shadow of a Ferns, 1984). But it is the historical drama Údolí včel (The Valley ...
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:49 pm
Forum: Director Poll Archive
Topic: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil
Replies: 59
Views: 3314

Re: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil

errata: i overlooked the yt video of "Clouds of Glass" (Skleněná oblaka) is only the snippet (it has 18 min in full). if there is anyone desperately wanting to watch it (after seeing the yt fragment) with no access to KG, i am willing to upload it on wetransfer and post a link here (making...
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:27 pm
Forum: Director Poll Archive
Topic: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil
Replies: 59
Views: 3314

Re: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil

FV: Art Nouveau's Prague (no English subs)
https://youtu.be/CdSvR5Yy18c
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:57 pm
Forum: Director Poll Archive
Topic: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil
Replies: 59
Views: 3314

Re: SCFZ poll: Frantisek Vlacil

seen 14... The White Dove Clouds of Glass Adelheid Markéta Lazarová Valley of the Bees Chase (No Entrance) Shadows of a Hot Summer ----------- notes... 1/ the first film of FV i remember watching was "Shadows of a Hot Summer". i watched it on TV and i was still an infant. and as a result i...
by niminy-piminy
Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:32 am
Forum: Non-Film Discussion
Topic: History of SCFZ
Replies: 132
Views: 9015

Re: History of SCFZ

but I always flattered myself that Jiri-Lencho-WBA were an affinity group that formed one of the circles in the Venn diagram of overlapping aesthetic positions omg, now i even feel guilty of my absence here. as if Saturn or Uranus would go astray from its orbit for a while. fortunately enough the s...
by niminy-piminy
Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:29 am
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

i saw something in club de femmes that reminded me of you
which reminds me of you once saying...
Apr 25, 2014, jiri's knitting circle is the most popular thread on the forum!!
i still nurture my pride and self-esteem from this memorable claim!
by niminy-piminy
Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:02 am
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

Máj / May (E.F. Burian, Čeněk Zahradníček) made in Bohemia in 1936 (silent, no dialogue)... https://youtu.be/sg3caRJCaQs (May was filmed as a backdrop to part of a theatre performance D36-D37 under the E. F. Burian's lead inspired by the classic Czech poem of the same name by Karel Hynek Macha.) May...
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:41 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

there is one specific peculiar detail i (somehow) noticed while watching films from 1936 which (somewhat) bothers my mind :?: :?: :?: why such unrelated characters like the caricature of Edna May Oliver in "The CooCoo Nut Grove" and Mickey's rival in "Mickey's Rival" indulge in t...
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:27 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

Here's a sort of similar short by Walter Ruttmann from 1931.
great! thx.
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:07 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

seems like a lot of dancing was captured on the film stock in 1936...

https://youtu.be/WbGGReyRxh0
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:02 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

do you know of any earlier examples of films that do this, or was it something kirsanoff seems to have been playing with on his own? i only know "the cradles" (1935) https://letterboxd.com/film/the-cradles/ is part of the "trilogy". otherwise, it is a poll-related fresh-new disc...
by niminy-piminy
Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:21 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

Choose your favorite films from 1936 (according to IMDb). are the following two films out of the poll even though IMDb dates (2000, 1940) are obviously nonsensical? https://letterboxd.com/film/jeune-fille-au-jardin/ (1936) vs. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233977/ (2000) https://letterboxd.com/film...
by niminy-piminy
Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:48 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

by niminy-piminy
Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:21 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936) A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, 'Mae West' , Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Ga...
by niminy-piminy
Wed Sep 09, 2020 7:46 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

Little Rascals Bored Of Education (1936)
https://youtu.be/pX14hhX7L3Q
Reefer Madness / Tell Your Children (1936)
https://youtu.be/aYHDzrdXHEA
by niminy-piminy
Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:47 am
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

does it count as nazi if it's reinhold schunzel? i guess, the film counts in the broad category of "nazi melodrama", tho half-jewish "honorary aryan" reinhold schunzel was not a nazi symphatizer and spent WW2 in U.S. - "The son of a German father and a Jewish mother" -...
by niminy-piminy
Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:05 pm
Forum: Year Poll Archive
Topic: 1936 poll
Replies: 194
Views: 14579

Re: 1936 poll

1. May / Máj (E.F. Burian, Čeněk Zahradníček) The Girl Irene / Das Mädchen Irene (Reinhold Schünzel) Burgtheater (Willi Forst) "He comes, rehearses, performs and leaves. Always alone. An eccentric par excellence!" Jánošík (Martin Frič) Black and White Rhapsody / Černobílá rapsodie (Martin ...
by niminy-piminy
Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:17 pm
Forum: Non-Film Discussion
Topic: History of SCFZ
Replies: 132
Views: 9015

Re: History of SCFZ

i will provide abridged account of this thread to Rapciune, so she would know what to expect in moors.
BY is half-russian long-time resident of new york city.
by niminy-piminy
Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:40 am
Forum: Non-Film Discussion
Topic: History of SCFZ
Replies: 132
Views: 9015

Re: History of SCFZ

hello everyone! special salute to Rischka! i would like to contribute to the search of lost time by shedding some light on two Mubians (one already mentioned, one not yet) whom i met in person in real life. i met on various occasions "Eva of various names" and maybe Sally will be intereste...