Almost forgot to post my ballot this month! Unranked list of 20 films New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (Ken Jacobs) RR (James Benning) At Sea (Peter Hutton) Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas) Istanbul (Martine Rousset) Pitcher of Colored Light (Robert Beavers) Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John...

Here's my list (nonranked) so far, overwhelmingly Hollywood output of the 30s-50s so hopefully I'll be able to find some more films from other countries too. Moonfleet (Fritz Lang, 1955) Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur, 1951) Madame X - Einee absolute Herrscherin (Ulrike Ottinger, 1978) The Sea...

Love the idea of a pirates/swashbucklers poll!

^ Definitely second this, it's a real gem!

rischka wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 3:18 am yay fellow hajji baba fans. the music is what sold me on it.

Lol, that theme's been drifting in and out of my head now since I rewatched it. I'll post a link in the tree house to the copy I watched for anyone else who might be interested in giving it a look.

That's a great point in your review about the oneiric atmosphere of Hajji Baba. I'd previously found the repetition of the middling Nat King Cole title tune really annoying, but I like it better if I think of it as an incessant lullaby, and my concern about the film's orientalism is also moderated ...

Decided to revisit The Adventures of Hajji Baba and felt a similarly ambivalent appreciation to my first time for its unique artistry. Still definitely recommended though. Also watched the John Brahm horror film The Mad Magician with Vincent Price. Fun enough Price performance but wouldn't add it t...

Provisional ballot, hopeful to find time to catch a few new 1954 films for this month Narrator's voice: He didn't. Brigadoon (Vincent Minnelli) Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini) Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi) The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi) The Love of a Woman (Jean Grémillon) The ...

For my last film of the poll, I decided to revisit Wild Orchids (Sidney Franklin) since I didn't enjoy it too much the first go around. A second viewing improved my opinion of it somewhat; the orientalist ideas and Nils Asther as an exotic Javanese prince are still repellant but the way the film toe...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuSbcsoWgAAFQQs?format=png&name=900x900 Open Mic Solitaire (Julius-Amédée Laou, 1983) LB notes Stark and impassioned, this short film by French filmmaker and playwright Julius-Amédée Laou drives at the urgency of direct antiracist action even when found at odds with ...

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 1:57 am lucky star will probably still be my #1 jus sayin. i might rewatch it to make sure

Yep, it'd probably be near the top of mine too, although I think I'll save myself the difficulty of picking favorites this time around and just not rank my ballot...

Lucky Star was really something else, poignant and emotionally swaying like only Borzage films are. Further notes on LB https://alchetron.com/cdn/lucky-star-1929-film-4107caeb-e1e4-4aeb-8d2b-df412d8c89f-resize-750.jpg Blue Express (Ilya Trauberg) - LB notes Also decided to peep some Soviet-era revol...

Decided to check out Sunny Side Up without really knowing what it was - turns out to be a fairly charming early musical talkie with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Probably not one to make my list but worth a recommendation all the same. Wrote a little bit about it on Letterboxd here https://m.med...

Absolutely massive year, gonna have to try to explore it further Provisional Final Ballot (20 films) decided to bump Sunny Side Up into my list. Lucky Star (Frank Borzage) The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Grémillon) The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch) Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg) Arsenal (Alexander Do...

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Cinema against Spectacle: Technique and Ideology Revisited by Jean-Louis Comolli (reread) Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics and Internationalism 1949–1966 by Jessica Ka Yee Chan Just restarted The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, hopef...

Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 12:30 pm Great to see you again, arkheia !

Thanks!

Final Ballot: The Messiah (Roberto Rossellini) India Song (Marguerite Duras) Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman) Moses and Aaron (Danièle Huillet / Jean-Marie Straub) Numéro deux (Jean-Luc Godard) Welfare (Frederick Wiseman) Far From Home (Sohrab Shahid Saless) Pa...

Hoping to find time to catch up on 1914 films this weekend but just in case I don't, here's my current list. I did find time to check out Lay Down Your Arms! (thanks to Magpies for the link to that wonderful transfer!), an interesting drama with a lot of curious cinematographic choices, i.e. this sh...

xTait At first watch, Bernard seems more interested in the general filmic image itself and the ways one can abstract it while Tait places her images in a more composed (structured in three movements) and illustrative construction. There's a similar curiosity that seems to guide both films, an attemp...

xSolomon Hard vote to cast, I almost went with Island but decided to change my vote for Rehearsals after putting some of my thoughts down in writing. Could almost go either way though for me. Solomon's GTA films are an intriguing development when compared to his earlier experiments with emulsion and...

xSastry Belson's imagery is as enchanting as ever, celestial colors dissolving into one another in a luminous and abstract dance. The gentle accompaniment of Liszt's music blends with the swirling lights into a lovely cinematic synesthsia. However Sastry's free-spirited collage of university studies...

xWilliams Took a few days to give both films an initial look and then rewatched them a few more times today. After a couple viewings of Lubjav, I began to appreciate the way that Gilić builds to the film's moment of intimacy - starting with the enormous scale of the bridge, framed in contrast to the...

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The late silent Orchids and Ermine (1927) proved to be fine Thursday night 'comfort film' viewing, starring the ever impressive Colleen Moore and directed by underrated craftsman Alfred Santell. Pauline Kael nicely described Moore as so - "the best comedienne of the silent flapper period, wore ...

Recent article on Vulture on the under-recognized actor Juano Hernández. I wish it went into more detail analyzing his roles and performances but as a primer on his background, it's well worth the read. https://www.blackpast.org/wp-content/uploads/prodimages/files/blackpast_images/Juano_Hernandez__p...

Oh nice, I watched Air Hostess last year and concur about the artful production design and colors. Even on a faded digital copy, the cinematography is spectacular, it’d be a real treat to see a nice film print or even a restoration someday. The film scholar Hoi Lun Law wrote a loving analysis of the...

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:19 pm Anaarkali of Aarah -- great colors and female empowerment sex positivity and performance by lead actress swara bhaskar!

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^ watchlisted!

All these films sound great. I’m going to have to try to watch North of Hudson Bay - a Tom Mix/John Ford western sounds like just what I need right now.

Might see about rewatching the The Gold Rush this year too, I think it was maybe one of the first Chaplin films I saw as a kid.

I'll go with 40 films in two tiers. There's still lots I need to catch up on so this will leave me with some leeway. Djon Africa (João Miller Guerra / Filipa Reis, 2018) Words of Mercury (Jerome Hiler, 2011) 0.5 mm (Momoko Ando, 2014) Young Pines (Ute Aurand, 2011) O somma luce (Jean-Marie Straub, 2...

Seen 8

India Song (1975)
Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981)
Son Nom de Venise dans Calcutta Désert (1976)
The Lorry (1977)