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the tied up balloon - binka zhelyazkova Inesperadamente berlanguiana - as per el perro de goya ...been hoarding this female-directed bulgarian classic to watch for years and yes it was worth it....absolutely my kind of abstract absurdist farce, absolutely making my final ballot this was a mubi fave ...

insane

https://i.imgur.com/gjXuTJO.png the fairy of solbakken - john w brunius (1919) #CoMoSverige is there a silent swedish film that lars hanson ISN'T in? i really had a surfeit of these moralising pastoral purity epics long long ago, but i guess it's inescapable in the 1910's/20s...although i think the...

https://i.imgur.com/Cpp2rqY.png girl with hyacinths - hasse ekman (1950) #CoMoSverige oh look, a lesbian drama written and directed by a man. tbf to ekman it's progressive for the time and he is certainly an adept student of noir tropes and lighting, but still......not quite the same feminist liber...

sad penis hero on a virgin-whore kick in a cat snuff movie

NO, HASSE

directors i am *planning* to watch georg af klercker john w brunius mauritz stiller victor sjöström gustaf molander edvard persson hasse ekman arne sucksdorff arne mattsson alf sjöberg tage danielsson jan troell bo widerberg vilgot sjöman mai zetterling gunvor nelson nina hedenius susan sontag peter...

this is totally czechoslovakia's year, could have easily done a top 20 with just them alone the plea - tengiz abuladze skinny and others - henryk kluba heraclitus the dark - patrick deval passing the meridian - josé maría arzuaga bullets don't come back - nikos foskolos homebound - lee man-hee hotel...

fully intended to watch la muralla verde etc at least a decade after angel first promoted it, but it is still in the exact same shit quality it was when i first found i couldn't watch, sorry armando!

hurrah for angel! (cuz there's at least 20 films on his that i had on mine and agonizingly removed in favour of cute hot men (which is also important aspect of cinema) which was my version of dice-toss deciding between entrants)

antigone - jean-marie straub, danièle huillet never sleep again - pia frankenberg traces of smoke - frans van de staak dream of light - víctor erice (when the fuck did the title change to this on letterboxd and imdb? i'm scandalised) earth of the blind - audrius stonys videograms of a revolution - h...

aaaaaargh this is bliss conte cruel - gaston modot (1930) i always had the hots for modot and thrilled to see i'm justified cuz he can direct as well.....this is bresson avant bresson, fused with dreyer and the avant-garde....and i am completely on board with the parallel that the notes on henri dra...

how do you pick an ozu or a ford, i gave up

my ballot, unranked The Mill (Alfred Machin, 1909) The Modern Girl (Eduard Schnedler-Sorensen, 1912) Fantomas (Louis Feuillade, 1913) The Precipice (Pyotr Chardynin, 1913) Germinal (Albert Capellani, 1913) Silent Witnesses (Yevgeni Bauer, 1914) Blue Blood (Nino Oxilia, 1914) The Coward (Reginald Bar...

wandering with the moon - hasse ekman for all the adorably cute bad boy glint in ekman's progressive eye when he's talking about sex....he's throwing too much at this so it all comes out as a bit chaotic.... ....all the repeated references to doubles, falsity, acting, homunculus(!), pretence, and th...

are we getting the year from letterboxd or imdb? there's a lot of variation between the two for some films

une autre vie - emmanuel mouret (2013) been having a minor mouret retrospective and i'm fully in love with him....he's so good.... eg for instance here the left wall inscriptions commenting on the conversation they're having as they head down towards it. his films are chock full of such things.... h...

sorry, i'm really grumpy with movies at the minute

brief encounter - david lean
dark is the night - boris barnet
they were expendable - john ford

haven't watched the ulmer so might remedy that, and if ekman's moon has subs would watch that

did 'we'?

ok fine, my fault for not nominating anything and everyone else's fault who didn't know to check lencho's wall to find out a discord even existed

i rewatched the harvey bunny movie lately.....are there any critical writings about it? it was a much better film than i remember, it has a pleasingly odd tone at times....and it's pretty unique so thought someone somewhere might have written something more on it other than 'huh who are the crazy on...

Angel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:09 am

The results are in! Thanks to all who contributed!

what film is that?

i guess we missed the nominations part cuz the site was down

helen of troy - manfred noa (1924) #CoMoGermany this was fun, gorgeous and sod all those naysayers that are putting it down https://i.imgur.com/bQcSkDI.png https://i.imgur.com/qNQqkoj.png https://i.imgur.com/NLulWyU.png https://i.imgur.com/nYGUJCj.png https://i.imgur.com/UM3oMcq.png https://i.imgur....

mädi macht krieg - oskar einstein (1917)

horrific short combining two ghastly things, children and war


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yT0bP2uO7Y

punq yeah i literally just take the opposite of what punq says :D although sometimes i wonder if after seeing so many films, he does have the experience and my viewings are the less aware....but i don't wonder that much... der schein trügt (1914) minor comic short where the husband is a conceited p...

arme lena - otto rippert (1918) punq, as ever, is totally wrong, this was totally charming, so much more light and effortless than the last two 24's i watched. it's a shame not more of his stuff is available, at least in decent quality, this had an almost lubitsch energy to it, and ressel orla is ad...

watched a couple of films, both pretty bad vedi napoli e poi muori - eugenio perego this is sugary emigration trauma wish fulfilment, and leda gys is too pickford (US colonialism of film industry, ironically) when she should be magnani....but the neo-realist shots of naples were nice. and it was ver...

cinesmith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:55 pm WOW. This was spectacular.

yes. yes it is!

ilse and her three suitors - gustav trautschold (1913) one of those little short seemingly facile (not amazingly directed) comedies with a lot more going on if you care to look (tho you probably won't given how average the film is)....eg...the false deceptions of art allows the lovers to triumph... ...