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hey karl :) yes on kinodaran (quality is much more fabulous than other prints elsewhere, at least for the ones i saw) but alas no subs. doesn't bother me that much for silents if i can read the plot beforehand or it's so stereotyped that they're not necessary - which is the case for some of the soun...

the marriage of mademoiselle beulemans - julien duvivier (1927) #CoMoBelgium minor belgian-set duvivier silent comedy (but minor silent duvivier is still 100 times more gorgeous than post-silent cinema) he throws all his 1927 tricks at it, and the plot is a lot more pleasingly cynical than the genia...

les gestes du repas - luc de heusch (1958) #CoMoBelgium

watched whilst eating my dinner

greennui wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:42 pm

sally wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:30 pm how did you see this greennui? with subtitles?

No subs

thanks

autumn approaching and i have a desire to cosy up with bernhard or other such snuggly austrians but still plodding on with como, so simenon will do

https://i.imgur.com/PuAybUn.png There is a garden in her face. Thomas Campion the street - jef cornelis (1972) #CoMoBelgium love these urban theory docs (see also the social life of small urban spaces dir. william h whyte, and rohmer's changing landscapes ) not so keen on that era's reacting to the...

SUZANNE'S FLING (Jean-Marie Buchet, 1974) #CoMoBelgium this really is a gem that needs to be seen more, eustache came to my mind too (but drier) Francesco Savio: With the imperturbability of a great humorist, he stubbornly adheres to a fixed camera position. Buchet dared to tell a non-story with in...

in slightly too previous anticipation of next como, i marked the potential passage from #CoMoBelgium to lithuania by watching an old bbc favourite, and i'd forgotten just how caustic and interesting his programs could be (i advise using the subtitles option) and for any delicate fish-avoiding consti...

i'm going to shave - alfred machin (1914) #CoMoBelgium

not as interesting as the last one, but machin is still apt with the engagingly grotesque visuals


https://youtu.be/uuWsrCC1ijs?list=PLZCm ... tOzqWCccHs

greennui wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:46 pm Loguivy-de-la-Mer 1952 Directed by Pierre Gout

how did you see this greennui? with subtitles?

3 switzerland
2 iran
1 latvia

also charming

antwerpen in de jaren 10 (1910) #CoMoBelgium


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4GxfO ... 4AtOKTMFBY






post-script:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQPKG1efWGg

monsieur beulemeester, garde civique - alfred machin (1913) #CoMoBelgium this is much more like it. machin gives a fresh take to hackneyed story (over strict buffoon father outwitted by suitor) with nice framing (am more and more fascinated by (fixed) in-frame relations with (limitless) off-screen, ...

down there - chantal akerman (2006) #CoMoBelgium

self-indulgent privileged depressed white woman goes to violently racist country to (poetically, at least there's that) dump her alienation in a (wilfully maintained) bigger one. bye bye chantal, we're done.

the bargee district - edith kiel (1953) #CoMoBelgium

watched this because it's a female directed harbour-side film, but i had absolutely no clue what was going on

magnum begynasium bruxellense - boris lehman (1978) #CoMoBelgium ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a v...

should probably post a bit more before requesting things like this?

i saw those covers, which at least had the advantage of alerting me to the fact that this poor things film that people have been chuntering about in my feed for a while is actually based on alasdair's novel. insane, had no idea. didn't want to see it anyway, but now definitely don't want to...can't ...

oh cool! i wonder who's got the other 298 now

romance on the beach - henri storck (1931) #CoMoBelgium

went looking for this highly obvious on google earth bronze-age urn burial enclosure earlier this week:




from red blob, totally obvious on the ground, right?

yeah they're great, if i was richer, i'd get pretty much everything they publish, they're so pleasantly short

although i read malpertuis via atlas press, now sadly dead

charleroi, the land of 60 mountains - guy-marc hinant (2018) #CoMoBelgium delightful (if slightly portentous) study of belgian grey-scape https://i.imgur.com/nc3Tq1Y.png https://i.imgur.com/xlbtyaa.png https://i.imgur.com/LmNTpUv.png https://i.imgur.com/ZEEx2u4.png https://i.imgur.com/1EfscWO.png

too hot for movies at the minute but I am finding enough riverside shade to at least do some como reading.

so far, this is delightful, in a gloomy surreal way (no surprise, from the country that gave us malpertuis)

this is the funniest thread on the site. makes me chuckle. welcome welcome welcome!

huh did imgur delete the bellybutton



https://twitter.com/PhilKlay/status/169 ... 99672?s=19

rubens - henri storck, paul haesaerts (1948) #CoMoBelgium

the artist as decadent, repellent creep

https://i.imgur.com/XpwNpNo.png a sea change - nina de vroome (2016) #CoMoBelgium taken from this list: milestones in belgian cinema this is a doc about a maritime boarding school in ostend where the main lessons appear to be mostly about different forms of melancholy.... cuz i'm english, am also i...

ah great, how did i miss him!