raphael, the gypsy - unknown dir. (1914) i finally watched this today. absolutely loved it. was blown away honestly. zanny petersen being dragged on her ass across the fields tied to a reindeer made my jaw drop. thank you so much for posting about it! i enjoyed reading the book chapter about the ra...

green dolphin street lolll i'm going to watch this soon too (maybe tonight). heroic colonzier films are fascinating to me from a historical standpoint but they can def be hard to stomach watched brian desmond hurst's "the mark of cain" today. absolutely do not recommend. stuffy, tepid, fa...

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FWIW, Christensen's Diablo En El Cuerpo is a rom-com and doesn't play by any of the generic rules that title would suggest (not noirish nohow. Or nothin'.) I don't see it making anybody's lists, even if they watch it... Ah ok; I'll probably save it for towards the end of the month. I love me some C...

my shortlist (not final): black narcissus body and soul born to kill brute force the devil thumbs a ride la diosa arrodillada forever amber the ghost and mrs. muir high tide intohimon vallassa kiss of death the lady from shanghai lady in the lake nightmare alley out of the past possessed the red hou...

Lol if refusing to vote for a candidate chosen by the ruling class is insane, I don't want to be sane! Every American is supposed to have the right to vote for the candidate they feel will best represent them and their values. For me, that's Marianne. The DNC is a cabal of ruling class ghouls who ha...

Top 10 fav first-time watches of this month (not ranked): Chronic (1997, Jennifer Reeves) The Bear's Wedding (1925, Konstantin Eggert) Demonlover (2002, Olivier Assayas) Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Ishii) Girl Orphee (2001, Isao Yamada) Juste le temps (1983, Robert Cahen) Kokain-rusen (1925, Ca...

Battleship Potemkin The Bear’s Wedding Feu Mathias Pascal Stella Dallas Varieté Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ Herr Tartüff Les visages des enfants The Merry Widow The Road to Yesterday Cobra Le double amour The Red Kimona Smouldering Fires Zur Chronik von Grieshuus A Woman of the World Kokain-rusen ...

i straight up won't vote for hillary. i don't regret voting for jill stein instead of her in the 2016 election. she's a ghoul, a war criminal, a terrible person and politician all-around. i don't know any leftists who would give her a vote even with all the lesser evil-ism guilting from the dnc abou...

Feels like they adlibbed most of this It could at least be funny😕 Maybe they're making a statement abt the writers strike 🤔 dammit shiv Yeah!! It felt to me like an ending they had decided on years ago, but when it came for the time to flesh it out and build up to it, they didn't really know how. I...

i really like this movie even though i think everything you are saying about it completely correct. there is something i find deeply fun about roland west, a combination of naive enthusiasm and pretty decent budgets (the sets are always great) and...eccentric ideas about narrative emphasis and pace...

i've enjoyed the last season of succession. one of the weird/interesting aspects of the show is that it has always had trappings of prestige tv serial/soap opera storytelling but on some level has always been closer to something like curb your enthusiasm or jesse armstrong's own peep show/veep/thic...

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and dammit i wish all the italian archives would coalesce in a meaningful way....i have a mariute bookmarked to watch, it's 28 mins compared to above (looks like the above is the last 10 mins of this one) and is much crappier quality and not coloured. maybe i'll watch the crappy version up to the b...

just wanted to say i'm so glad nathaxnne is back. i love her reviews; seriously the best. i'm flattered she followed me back and interacts w me lol. even before i joined letterboxd i would lurk her profile from time to time as my ex bf had enthusiastically showed me some of her reviews. i hope she i...

sally wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 3:32 pm this 1490 manuscript is insane

the red marks represent the wounds of christ and they think the black has been worn off the last page through devotional kissing.

oh wow; this is so beautiful. thanks for sharing. do you know what the manuscript is called / where i can look at more of it?

I'm disappointed that I didn't get any Jaque Catelain performances this year, I was looking forward to that... Smouldering Fires - Clarence Brown I can't think of any other movies in the "lady executive but ohmygodsdhedonothaveaMAN" as early as this one. It goes to unexpected places, and ...

I'm catching up on Succession for the finale; stopped watching this season at ep 5 because I was just so bored and felt the writing was lackluster. The treatment of *****'s death was great but that's been the only thing that grabbed me. I really liked the first two seasons but felt third was uneven ...

Lol I wish I hadn't logged back to discover 1925 was this month's year for the poll so late ;__; I'll try to watch only films from 1925 if I can in these last few days of the month so I can participate. I already know I love Zur Chronik von Grieshuus, Le Double Amour and Wedding of the Bear (the lat...

Wow everyone has been watching so many good silents while I've been gone! I myself recently watched Kult Ciala (1930) which made for a hazily evocative midnight viewing experience, though the rip was quite pixelated and generally of low quality. The love triangle story was very Lubitsch (without the...

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 9:16 am I did a Yvonne Rainer marathon which culminated in this article with write-ups of each of her 7 films:

wonderful reviews st. gloede! i'm planning to watch privilege this week.

the experience was enriched by having read le baphomet and other works of pierre klossowski in recent years. i was compelled to get out my copy of diana at her bath after finishing the movie omg omg omg klossowski (& diana at her bath in particular) is one of my absolute very favourites to the ...

rewatched the hypothesis of the stolen painting for the first time in years last night. it is now cemented as a true all time favorite for me. completely sublime. the experience was enriched by having read le baphomet and other works of pierre klossowski in recent years. i was compelled to get out m...

just watched anatole litvak's tovarich (1937) and i'm kind of gobsmacked. i really didn't expect it to be that good. just for me personally...as far as anti-soviet propaganda emigré comedies go...it is far superior to ninotchka. the script is so smart (ninotchka's is as well but the fact that garbo ...

eh, i've been hanging on to this for ages and not got to it yet, mainly because i'd read pretty much the same assessment as above. i guess koenigsmark suffers from the same problems (altho, since i adore jaque catelain, even in films like this one where he's slightly mis-cast, i still enjoyed it) f...

i agree with rischka. it's funny, i first got into film as a 12 year old kid posting on this forum called golden silents. it was great, except for when certain people would derail threads with bizarre political rants, religious proselytizing, racist comments etc. it eventually ruined the board for f...

love crimes is amazing, even in its compromised form. but i say this as someone who doesn't really like her earlier movies. should say i have no idea why working girls is less famous than born in flames. ooh good to hear! i'll start with that. agree re: working girls. to me it's a feminist / americ...

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Thank you for the push, Working Girls was excellent - slight preference for Born in Flames, but that could change. glad you liked it!! you've articulated what's great about the film so well. oh and! it's the favorite film of a friend of mine who's a sex worker--she also found it realistic, funny, a...

this film (only part of which goes through bosnia) is both one of the most amazing early travelogues i've seen and the most offensive (all the isms) blonde asshole is a total imperialist jerk but the film is a gorgeous, surreal fever dream. (special thumbs up to action priest having the most fun of...