I really liked The Valley of Silent Men . Shot on location in Alberta's national park with Hearst's money. Unfortunately, only five of seven reels survive, but what remains is pure Borzage. I took so many screenshots, it looks amazing: https://i.ibb.co/rcw5DYd/vlcsnap-2025-01-14-00h34m22s229.png htt...

Evelyn Library P.I., I'm so glad you feel the same way! I keep making exasperated attempts at using star ratings, but I'm gradually realizing I am not cut out for it, at least unless it utterly strikes me out of the blue. During those attempts, I find myself watching movies with stars in my eyes (n...

Yes, and a staggering number of lost films or partially surviving or survives in an archive but not available.

Also more general updates on my viewings: I've realized that I've properly speaking seen woefully few movies of the '10s and '20s. My tallies don't look terrible when shorts are included, but I'd seen something like 5 or fewer features from 1922 prior to the poll. As someone who aspires to know a th...

Finally watched a Von Stroheim. Foolish Wives , wow! Is this the origin of the idea of the director as auteur? I think so... The production is the first big case I can think of director artist vs. studio, and the movie itself is a text that's almost impossible to approach as anything other than an E...

Your point that " i've felt that star ratings often muddle fruitful, personal engagement with art, turning capsules/reviews/write-ups into expository defenses for the rating rather than personal, subjective, constructive expressions that exist alongside the work" resonates with me and why ...

Well, if I can still be trusted, here's a B comedy from 1940 that I think at least Lencho and maybe others (Gusottertrout whereareya?) may be curious to see. I doubt you'll like it , but I'd be surprised if it doesn't engage ya. Public Deb No. 1 (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940) — A screwball comedy of ...

I was just thinking 'Gee, I loved Lindsay, and Lindsay and Bellamy had such chemistry, I wonder if they got together in real life and I wonder if they made more movies together'. Great news on both fronts: turns out, Universal also thought they had chemistry because they made the Ellery Queen series...

Watched Timeglasset . Found it a slog, and eventually stopped caring about getting AI to translate the Danish intertitles for me. Anyone know the story of director Fritz Magnussen? He died in April 1920 but there were still four feature films to come under his name, two from 1921 and this last one f...

Ah pity, you weren't squealing when he kisses her deeply and she's out of breath and says "No brother ever kissed a sister like that before?" And he says "Oh, I'm a bad boy"? Or when he pulls a gun on her and orders her to take off her dress and get in bed, and then ties her up? ...

Revisited a couple of Keatons. Cops is not a favourite, but gee whiz ain't The Electric House a hoot!

sally wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:00 pm the hourglass - fritz magnussen

always enjoy seeing olaf fønss ham it up, there's tons of lovely snowy scenes, and i'd forgotten how great the danes are at eye-contact

Looks great, thanks!

movie tickets forger wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:31 pm

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 6:46 pm 'my new year's resolutions'

do that! one should step into the new year with a clear plan

you're delightful, Jiri!

A recommendation of a Universal B for fans of vintage trash! Meet the Wildcat (Arthur Lubin, 1940) Fun little mystery set in Mexico City, elevated by a romance between Margaret Lindsay and Ralph Bellamy that's pretty delightfully kinky (from the writer of Susan Slept Here ). https://thumbs4.imagebam...

'Noirs' 100-95 are from the 80s ands 90s

Really don't dig this list, but it inspires me to watch more noirs! Noirvember is a great season...

My post mortem I don't know why he won. We don't know why Mussolini and Hitler got into power--know in the strong, counterfactual sense of knowing 'if X opposition party had done Y thing then they wouldn't have succeeded'--and I'm not sure we'll ever know in that strong sense with Trump either. Sin...

der kulterer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 5:33 pm it's so good in so many ways

It's a comfort food movie to me! My favourite silent Lubitsch & favourite movie of 1919.

I won't have time to get to another, so: Working Girls (Dorothy Arzner) Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan) The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch) Dracula (Tod Browning) Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy) Night Nurse (William A. Wellman) Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman) Der Kongress tanzt (Eric Charell)...

I've watched two movies for the 1931 poll so far, and they may be my two new favourite movies of 1931 (quite the feat!), each deeply lesbian, and deeply about being lesbian in oppressive cishet-normative worlds, but in different ways. Whereas Madchen in Uniform takes place in a schematic all-female ...

I gotcha: so close, so far.

Even when Lencho gives out a rare 4-star review (as for Limite), it reads like he hated it - I love it !!

1 down, 4 to go on the watchlist: I finally grew up and watched Mädchen in Uniform. Is this the greatest movie ever made? (Opinions from non-lesbians will be discounted ) Certainly, my new favourite of '31.

Watchlist (pray heaven I can find time to watch at least these 5!)

Bad Company (Tay Garnett)
Le Million (Rene Clair)
Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich)
Svengali (Archie Mayo)
Working Girls (Dorothy Arzner)

One of the greatest years in film history, obviously. Ballot for now, b/c I might not get a chance to watch anything for the poll: The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch) Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy) Dracula (Tod Browning) Night Nurse (William A. Wellman) Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman) Der Kongre...

I like it!

cuteness overload vehicle for ginger rogers called 'professional sweetheart' (seiter 1938) it's not what you're thinking. ginger is followed everywhere by advertising men to protect her 'wholesome' image. by no means a great movie but a wonderful selection of character actors. Oh, it's 1933 actuall...

One of my favourite Letterboxd reviews: "It's a shame [that] Alain Delon is alive and fascist when he could be sexy and dead."

Hopefully I'll get to watch some, although my ability to DL might be in limbo for a bit as I move. I watched two 1970 movies a couple of days ago, both by British horror director Freddie Francis. Naturally, I loved the one everyone hates and hated the one everyone loves: (1) the cult fav Mumsy, Nann...

Thanks for posting that article. I missed it! I take a bit of umbrage with this line: Though there were many attendees in their 20s and early 30s, it’s disappointing that there were no teens or families in attendance and that most seemed to have come from out of town maybe because it feels personal...