'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...

nrh wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 2:09 pm an interesting essay on nitrate picture show (and il cinema ritrovato) from this weekend - https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the- ... -s-dilemma

Lovely!

Just catching up with this recap now. Thanks for this. So interesting, and so envious of getting to see all of these vintage nitrate prints! I'll have to go one day...

Can we set up an 'I am not a robot' thing for the signup? Might help.

Final Ballot ** = watched or re-watched for poll Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli) The Searchers (John Ford) Toute La Memoire du Monde (Alain Resnais) There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk) Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher) A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald) Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan) Writt...

But to me it's not the "special" or outstanding films and directors that define an era, but the general quality of films. And I also think the studio era of the 30s, 40s and 50s in France was generally speaking great (same as in Hollywood or Germany or Japan or Italy, etc.). The young fil...

I'm sorry, I don't mean to nitpick, but where on earth did you get 200k killed from? The real number is horrible enough without having to make one up. I believe that's from a claim made in a letter in the Lancet. The claim is not that 200k people have in fact at present died; the claim is that that...

sally wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 9:40 am walbrook was austrian? this changes everythiiiiiiing, insanely handsome

Marie-Antoinette, reine de france (Jean Delannoy) A textbook example of the tradition de la qualitie that Truffaut opposed in his famous '54 article. It's far more artistically interesting than the Cahiers crowd would have you believe. It's well-staged by Delannoy; the visuals are clearly and appro...

wba wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 12:07 pm One of my favorite Cormans, one of my favorite Westerns, and a masterpiece in my book.

How many masterpieces are in your book? I'm curious. Between you and Lencho (6 5-star ratings) we get the full-range....

Five Guns West (Roger Corman, American Releasing Corporation [soon AIP], 1955) Started off my Complete Corman Retrospective (1 movie a week for a year), accompanied by James Ursini and Alain Silver's retrospective book, with a bang! I'd seen this one before, but really underrated it. Clearly, I don...

The Terrornauts (Montgomery Tully, Amicus Productions) [UK] Brim-filled with neat mid-century modern tech contraptions, which are showcased in the distinctive Eastmancolor process. Among the most Mélièsian of sound films. https://thumbs4.imagebam.com/ad/4e/a3/METWAWD_t.png https://thumbs4.imagebam....

Delightful list. Highlighted, for me, by Mad About Music at 262!

What a delightful poll! Thank you for it, flip. Not sure about the '20s, maybe Finis Terræ? or a Keaton, say Our Hospitality? Limite would have been my guess for the #1 overall film based on how often it was showing up. (Still haven't seen it.) But since it's probably a film from the '60s, '70s, or ...

flip wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 10:51 pm done! still don't think it will be close to the top 100, but it's ahead of gone with the wind and lawrence of arabia now, which makes me happy

I may just do a complete chronological retrospective of Corman movies now... The last of the old masters.