Looking For Langston? Or maybe Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter ?

The fewer rules the better, if you ask me. The worst that can happen is they cancel each other out.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what a 1939 beatnik looks like.

Blizzard, eh? It's super-cold and super-cloudy here too, prime snow-threat weather; we might actually get us some.

Introductory notes from the year managers for each movie used to be part of the game -- are we no longer doing that?

One thing Bure didn't mention when outlining the game-plan … and that no-one mentioned when talking about manager's strategies for choosing films... is that the less well-liked movie in any pair-up recives a black mark that contributes toward that manager being eliminated rom the game. So it's "...

Sounds good.

I feel like if we have a cup running, Movie Club is superfluous, it would just be duplicating the same dynamic of "one person chooses a movie, a group of people watch it."

^The Covered Wagon was high-canon for a long time (or at least seemed that way to me) so I was surprised at not seeing it getting much attention here and now. I look forward to watching it.

Warning: the high-glam restoration of Black Oxen (Frank Lloyd, USA) with the big damn watermark kicks out after 23 minutes and there ain't no more. Minutes 23 - 58 (of 70) can be watched on a crap-looking TV rip (best option seems to b the 1.27.40 version) but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. 3 ...

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:39 pm bloody lillian saintly virginal anti-womanflesh-hood child-eyed all suffering gish

The patron saint of anorexia.

Watching Rosita tonight.

I was so taken with the shot/reverse shot that I didn't think about anything else. But in any case the (ostensible?) back story is something I wasn't aware of; I read it as unmotivated mischief identical to Arroseur Arrose.

https://pics.filmaffinity.com/cendrillon_s-757549703-large.jpg 1 Cendrillon - 2 La petite fille et son chat - Lumiere 3 Kiss In The Tunnel - Smith reveil chrysis 5 Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris - Lumiere Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (Booth) Wonderful Absinthe - Guy 8 &qu...

Poll closes in about half an hour.

Final list:

Wonderful Absinth - Guy

Cendrillon -
Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris - Lumiere
Ilusioniste fin de siecle - Melies
Kiss In The Tunnel - Smith
Ladies' Skirts nailed To A Fence -
La petite fille et son chat - Lumiere
reveil chrysis
Summoning The Spirits - Melies

Broken Hearts Of Broadway - Irving Cummings, USA. Missing link between deMille's jazz-age moral recalibrations and the Busby Berkeley musicals from Warners, but Colleen Moore instead of Joan Blondell. Nedbrudte Nerver/The Hill Park Mystery A.W. Sandberg, Denmark Strong Hollywood vibe to this one, a...

Salome is 1922 on imdb.

[b[Soak The Rich[/b] - Been Hecht, Charles McArthur, 1936 Plutocrat gets all in a kerfuffle over FDR's proposal to implement really high marginal-tax rates. Subject matter couldn't be more timely, but the execution is terribly weak; compared to Spectre Of The Rose or even Angels Over Broadway, Hecht...

Adam's Rib - de Mille, USA

Thematics familiar from other de Mille rom-coms, but there's a proto-Bringing Up Baby subplot that's pretty thrilling in it's prototypicality.

Watched last year's Yemaali (in Tamil, dir. by V Z Durai) and hated it so much... Facebook crises among young people launch a cyberstalking incel breakdown that escalates into "she blocked my calls, I have to kill her now." It's kinda comforting to know that South Asia sometimes makes bad ...

1 the shop around the corner (lubitsch) 2 his girl friday (hawks) 3 rebecca (hitchcock) 4 the long voyage home (ford) 5 The grapes of wrath (ford) 6 Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock) 7 The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin) night train to munich (reed) remember the night (leisen) They Drive by ...

The never-ending watchlist, titles added as they come available. I hope to note substandard print quality when appropriate, but I haven't done it yet in more than one or two cases. Adam's Rib - de Mille Alma De Dios - Anna Christie Ashes Of Vengeance L'Auberge Rouge Barsoum Looking For A Job - Black...

Choose your favorite films from 1923 (according to IMDb). – Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites. – Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.. Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soo...

Some personal faves for the year

Cendrillon -
Dreyfus 1-8 - Melies
Ilusioniste fin de siecle - Melies
King John
Kiss In The Tunnel - Smith
Ladis' Skirts nailed To A Fence -
Summoning The Spirits - Melies
Tenderloin At Night
Upside-Down, the human flies -
Wondrful Absinth - Guy

Choose your favorite films from 1899 (according to IMDb). – Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites. – Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.. Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soo...

Voting closes in about four hours.

greg x wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:02 pm really?

Aw, shucks. I heard it wrong, I'm sorry. "We could maybe have steak for a change." My bad. "Have sex" didn't seem like a year-appropriate turn of phrase in the first place...

Strange Cargo - Borzage Angels Over Broadway Baron Prasil - Fric Battement De Coeur - Decoin The Blue Bird - W. Lang L'espoir Foreign Correspondent Grapes Of Wrath Los De Abajo - Urueta Menaces (Edmond T. Gréville) Paradis Perdu/Four Flights To Heaven - Gance The Philadelphia Story Rebecca - Hitchc...

You Can't Fool Your Wife - Ray McCarey, USA Things you don't expect to hear in 1940: Lucille Ball : "everything's fallen into a routine -- laundry on Monday, ironing on Tuesday, on Wednesday we go to the movies. It's all planned in advance, and there are never any surprises…" James Elliso...

Me, I consider everything that was produced in those territories before the Union (SSR) dissolved to be Soviet, although "Soviet (region)" may be a meaningful distinction to make in many cases. Anything (f.e.) Belorus-derived in the content or pedigree of a 1962 movie is still going to be ...