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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Gertrud

Think I would've done well if I hadn't chosen an Akerman film for the Varda spot. lol.

The Notebook

I have should have never started dating.

Akerman +6
Toute une Nuit
News from Home
John Ryan
Rischka

Not seen much, but I adored these two:

1. Syndromes and a Century
2. Tropical Malady

I like that idea, sure. Not sure how much Straub you've seen, but they almost all end on a punchline of sorts, i.e. cutting to black at the moment the last word is uttered. Normally Straub(/Huillet) choose those words very carefully and for melodramatic effect. My own experience was that this was a ...

Greg: I am deliberately completely disregarding the content here - I'm no expert in the Algerian conflict either. My point is that the film seems to advocate such a stance by means of its almost absurdly compact way of presentation. For me, the film becomes form alone, pure gesture; when compression...

Commando, what else?

Are we interested in something like this? https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... &t=2397266 I want to be able to like Rischka's cat pictures lol...

So I guess this post arises from the fact that a feeling I had immediately upon watching Straub's la guerre d'Algérie for the first time, having now watched it for the umpteenth time, still won't go away. If it's fair to say that cinema lives according to its temporal nature and is thus made by stra...

Surprisingly little love for Clockwork.

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. 2001
3. Barry Lyndon

Three all-time faves:

1. A Nos Amours
2. La maison des bois
3. We Won't Grow Old Together

Well, let's distinguish the data from the inferences made from the data, and the appeal of art from the measure of art. The field of aesthetics ask: With what accuracy can we ask how a change X in the artwork leads to a change Y in the spectator's experience? The fact that new methods has arrived to...

Seen 6

L'enfant secret
I can no longer hear the guitar

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also the fears that I do not have. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, not even a great mistake, a...

I'm sure he could do a good job on the next Bond with Daniel Craig as a now age-old, deeply depressed good-for-nothing who must convince the world of his extreme nihilism by means of smoothly delivering high-octane one-liners.

Marathon screening of Chris Marker's The Owl's Legacy. So many articulate people with so such time to discuss the double-edged sword that is the heritage of anscient Greece. Also been on a Demirkubuz run. One of the few writers who can pull off high-octane, slick dialogue without the slightest of pr...

Detour in a new 4k restoration at my local cinematheque. I never saw Detour as a film looking for more k's, now it's got 4.

Perhaps the one director to succeed in being unashamedly creative in his framings and compositions without it ever feeling forced.

1. Coup d'Etat
2. Heroic Purgatory
3. Confessions Among Actresses
4. Eros + Massacre

Permanent Objections (Krolikiewicz, 1975)

I had almost forgotten how much I enjoy Krolikiewicz' camerawork. Quite furious indeed.

What incredible sadness. "I have never been able really to gure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out. What it’s all about, what it all means. So when I began now to put all these rolls of film together, to string them together, the first...

Well, that had the most jumpcuts of any pre-60's film I've seen, perhaps excepting Jeanne d'Arc. And oh yeah, the lady who introduced the film carefully, if not demonstratively, explained the entire plot, as if under the impression that what she was being paid for was to maximally ruin the experienc...

My local cinematheque is showing every Becker this month. Watching Casque d'Or tonight. Will be my first from this gentleman.

Burning - Chang-dong From Letterboxd: The dissolve used as the proper form of relating the theme of the film to the mode of narrative cinema as that form of exposition in which forward momentum always has the tendency and ability to wipe out the past and make a clean slate. "You don't have to i...

I now realize my request was somewhat redundant, thoxan's post being practically similar lol.

And yet it gathered two answers! Thanks

I still miss the old upper left column as it appeared in the Zetaboards format, where the latest post in the latest topic would appear. It is well known that human eyes tend to always glance at the upper left corner of a screen first. Am I the only one who miss this feature? And if not, is it possib...

Non-fundable Cronenberg should start a podcast. His voice is more interesting and less vulgar than his films anyway.

The Brood
Videodrome

Heh. Not that anyone cares, but I'm Danish, so: 'Fart' means 'speed', alternatively 'vitality' or 'life.' The original bit of the mistranslated 'has fart and Fart over' reads: 'har faaet Fart" - which when properly translated approx. means 'have given life to.' Google translate doesn't know how...

Seen 11.

1. Lancelot du Lac
2. L'Argent
3. The Devil, Probably
4. Balthazar
5. Pickpocket

Of those I've seen, there's the Straub, which I liked, the Strickland, which I too liked, and the Godard, which IMO is his best in a long while. There's also Sono's Tokyo Vampire Hotel, which was a beast when it didn't spend its time showcasing that it was made as a series. Of those I'm looking forw...