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Availability was recently extended to the end of December. I made a Letterboxd list of all their narrative feature films (I haven't had time to include animation, shorts, or documentaries):

https://boxd.it/dYw6o

yea, it is still standing! That's a relief, because when I see a building in black & white alongside other buildings in color, my immediate guess is that no color photos exist because the structure is long gone. and i always loved the (postmodern before it was cool) design of Chicago Tribune To...

Fantastic! Especially the building in the first (b&w) picture. It's still standing, I hope? And I'm even more in love with that streetlamp. I remember that crematorium well from the movie. Nice to connect it with the style I just learned about! The city I grew up in, Chicago, has almost no art n...

Thanks for the pictures and for the architecture lesson! I nearly went into architecture myself (I was accepted at architecture school but decided against it), and I minored in architectural history in college. I hadn't heard of Rondocubism before, and apparently I was mistaken about the building wi...

That's what I love about Prague, its wild variety of architecture with a respectable and intact collection of gothic, baroque, art nouveau, international style, plus a famous deconstructivist building (the "Dancing Houses") and supposedly the only cubist building in existence (although I'm...

If no one's objecting to its use in Lumière d'été then I don't see much reason to discuss it further. If you want to say it's a trope that's vulnerable to misuse I might agree. I've heard that it's common in Spanish cinema as well.

Everything I've said so far relates specifically to French films from 1941-1943, and citing "problematic" examples from other countries and other times (mostly later) risks doing an injustice to Grémillon's film. I certainly would not say that personifying a country in a woman is NEVER unj...

Are you really outraged, or just unwilling to elaborate on an assumption you think is self-evident? I can only conclude that you're confusing me with someone else. Yes, I have a male point of view, but believe it or not I'm interested in trying to see things through other points of view as best I ca...

If an allegory is any good, as I believe Lumière d'été is, its characters can be human and something else at the same time. And I'm not ready to agree with the 99%. Where did you get that?

i am definitely interested! i like 3 settings, 3 suitors, etc. elaborations. more of this, please. Okay, I'll try and see how it goes! I'm not really a historian, though my father is a professor of medieval history. Even a small effort to capture the zeitgeist should go a long way. Great idea all o...

i guess everyone has already seen lumière d'été. well i hadn't. and that was dumb, cuz this movie was made for me like nothing else in 43 (so far) i ♥ his silent movies, but aside from remorques hadn't had much luck with the sound ones, but he crams everything into this. (when he cut from her to a ...

Heh, I can see how that would work. Unfortunately for me though I can't trust my youthful impressions. A lot of great films didn't look so great on my first viewing (and vice-versa).

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:01 amumbugbene how come you didn't rate some you've seen?

I've only recorded my ratings since 2008. Before that I only ranked my highest-rated films (9 or 10/10), and my memory's fuzzy for much of the rest.

Sent my ballot just now. I've seen 326 of the nominees, of which I've rated 228.

haha, well, i guess not everyone would agree... Height with a certain Grace does bend, But low Things clownishly ascend. - Andrew Marvell Every time I read Karl's signature I'm bemused at how opposite it is to the spirit of Tarkovsky, whom I know Karl respects. But in nearly every Tarkovsky film ch...

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:15 pm

Umbugbene wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:47 pm Thanks for running this, Thox! Great year to start it off with. My list includes no fewer than 7 pro-Resistance French allegories. Rischka, let me know if you want to read my analysis of Goupi mains rouges... it's a great Antifa film.

yes please

PM sent.

My second-to-last European vacation was to Serbia and Romania, and Croatia is next on my wish list. Also eager to see Albania. Don't forget Macedonia... Skopje is one of the weirdest places on earth, these years That's on my radar too. My dad took a trip to Bulgaria and (now North) Macedonia a few ...

Angel wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:30 pm https://letterboxd.com/angelg/list/doub ... -nominees/

Many thanks Angel! Besides making my ballot a breeze to fill out, this will also help me find available/interesting nominations to watch.

I forgot to mention an even bigger advantage to a lbxd list -- you wouldn't need to look up your own ratings separately for each film you've seen.

My second-to-last European vacation was to Serbia and Romania, and Croatia is next on my wish list. Also eager to see Albania.

Since IMDb URLs are available, you can easily create the list, can't you? I can, but I doubt I'll have the time unless there's a quick shortcut. I was offering a suggestion in case you want to get maximum participation. Filling out the ballot is a real chore if I have to look up every title that I ...

Does the ballot exist as a Letterboxd list? That would make it vastly easier to fill out. Instead of stopping laboriously at each line to think whether I've seen the movie or not, I could simply filter the list and then, on the ballot, go straight to each movie I've seen to enter its rating. I'm sur...

I almost always try to watch in one sitting, but if I get sleepy I'd rather pause for a nap than continue watching with reduced attention. One of my peculiarities is that I always aim to finish a film within a single calendar day, because it keeps my diary spreadsheet neater. And yes, this means mid...

Thanks for running this, Thox! Great year to start it off with. My list includes no fewer than 7 pro-Resistance French allegories. Rischka, let me know if you want to read my analysis of Goupi mains rouges ... it's a great Antifa film. 1. I Walked with a Zombie 2. Day of Wrath 3. Shadow of a Doubt 4...

I haven't shared anything in Kinoeye Quotidian since I moved to the Philippines. Here are a few shots from recent walks: https://i.imgur.com/fAR3ZE8.jpg Looking out over the jungle https://i.imgur.com/ju20TnV.jpg Bamboo canopy over the road https://i.imgur.com/RPFwRKO.jpg A café for mountain bikers....

SMH... How could I overlook Alfred Hitchcock - SCFZ Directors Poll #81 ... https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-81/

Top 100 UK Films – SCFZ Poll https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-100-uk-films-scfz-poll/ There are a few missing here: Michael Anderson - SCFZ Directors Poll #110 ... https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/michael-anderson-scfz-directors-poll-110/ Terence Fisher - SCFZ Directors Poll #235 ...

I wouldn't suggest that a movie should be reduced to a single meaning, but rather that finding clear meaning(s) in it expands the movie, making it more than what it appears to be. And yes, that can and often should mean seeing it more than one way. But I'd rather talk about seeing it multiple ways a...

I'm completely over it as being only marginally connected to aesthetics. Paying close attention to detail is great, reading for one true "secret" meaning is folly. I find myself largely agreeing with many of the comments here. My main problem with Bordwell/Thompson is that their approach ...

cool! let's all of us watch/hear the film then. :) i liked it! https://letterboxd.com/film/the-sadness-will-not-last-forever/ The most beautiful paintings are those which you dream about when you lie in bed smoking a pipe, but which you never paint. https://vimeo.com/144268990 At 8 minutes, why not...