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!

oh, don't suppose the guru dutt has appeared somewhere in nice quality???? anyone found a decent version?

hmmm... not many favourites this year in the storm - vatroslav mimica lily of the harbor - yorgos tzavellas nazaré - manuel guimarães il boia di lilla - vittorio cottafavi a woman has killed - vittorio cottafavi the witch - roland af hällström the white reindeer - erik blomberg the overcoat - albert...

Ha, Toussaint! A hero from my youth! I read all of his published novels back then, but haven't revisited anything (or read anything new) in over 20 years. ha, same! loved them when I read them but not revisited since (my fave was television also because that was my first) wonder if I would enjoy th...

gombrowicz via bernanos sounds amazing. am boosting up my reading list! however, since it's belgian month i checked my shelves and on them still unread i have marguerite yourcenar, amélie nothomb, paul willems and luce irigaray so will probably read one of those if i ever finish this interminable kv...

gonna finally steel myself and watch the pig fucking movie notable belgian directors: chantal akerman dardennes charles dekeukeleire andré delvaux henri storck harry kümel marion hänsel emile degelin edith kiel & jan vanderheyden boris lehman thierry zéno olivier smolders eric pauwels jan bucquo...

https://i.imgur.com/eJOk3HV.jpg the michelangelo of belgian cinema - Eric de Kuyper He never seems to have seen a windmill he didn’t want to film, then burn down or blow up. - David Bordwell time to get to grips with alfred machin's belgian interlude - seems he scooted around france, the netherland...

epilogue:


criminal tv - niko tsetskhladze (2008)

https://archive.org/details/niko-tsetsk ... al-tv-2008

final ballot: the color of pomegranates - sergei parajanov the night of counting the years - shadi abdel salam sorrows - gregory j. markopoulos lawale - dore o. pirosmani - giorgi shengelaia the dependent - leonardo favio play dirty - andré de toth the hungry wolves - yılmaz güney early works - želi...

lawale - dore o.


oh........love this too..... will be trying to squeeze 40 into a final 20 ballot

khuti tsuti / 5 minutes - aleksandr balagin, georgi zelondzhev-shipov (1928) #CoMoGeorgia


lenin is dead! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! the world weeps!

(no doubt these film-makers also got sent to the gulag, since there's way too much trotsky footage in this)

i got all my czech recs (though they publish writers from outside czechia as well) from twisted spoon publishers https://www.twistedspoon.com/titles.html so that's basically my reading list.... but more and more intrigued by the early 20th century german language prague authors....(aside from kafka)...