saba - mikheil chiaureli (1929) #CoMoGeorgia absolutely adore dark, gloomy, relentlessly miserable silents. this one is firmly soviet perils of alcohol, but is terribly let down by the ending where the crushed child lives and the father reforms. https://i.imgur.com/21ms1l4.png https://i.imgur.com/4F...

the most beautiful age - jaroslav papoušek

minor czech new wave film that i won't remember in a month

continuing........ https://i.imgur.com/lY6dgjW.png khareba and gogia - giorgi shengelaia (1987) #CoMoGeorgia https://i.imgur.com/YE9YfDf.png not quite, it's stalker with a moustache... https://i.imgur.com/drxvEyP.png in fact....this film is so much silly shooty shooty bang bang uber-macho nonsense, ...

https://i.imgur.com/qRSLEOe.png i felt this film very strongly ^ (we had like 3 days without rain in july) alaverdoba - giorgi shengelaia (1962) #CoMoGeorgia highly amusing, deeply ironic, gorgeous film from giorgi "pirosmani" shengelaia, with maestro aleqsandre rekhviashvili as DP, about...

familiarities - felipe cazals


yeeeeeeeah....i was totally with this until:



thanks but i think i'll stick to female directed absurd explorations of domestic space from now on....

NW who doesn't love a doomed medieval romance?

maksim maksimich - vladimir barsky (1927) #CoMoGeorgia tying up the trilogy, our lothario is back, but ultimately alone....there's a lot of empty spaces in the shots and isolated figures in the frame.... https://i.imgur.com/NBWVESU.png https://i.imgur.com/Mr85gUG.png https://i.imgur.com/o1qsAvA.png ...

their helicopter - salomé jashi (2006) #CoMoGeorgia watch: https://dafilms.com/film/2275-their-helicopter This is a gentle and slightly absurdist documentary about the Ardoteli family in the mountains of Georgia who discovered that a Chechen helicopter carrying cheese had crashed by their house. htt...

i liked akran too, only these days american movies are hard to watch without subtitles.... anyway, looks like my being pissed off at 60s movies phase is over or i'm just watching nice films: the lady from constantinople - judit elek looooooooooooooved this - a female directed slice of mild old-age c...

bela - vladimir barsky (1927) #CoMoGeorgia part 2 of the lermentov adaptation and this is less psychological depth than flesh, less converging lines of destiny than gushing streams of desire.... https://i.imgur.com/sfZlMyi.png https://i.imgur.com/kopvxfw.png https://i.imgur.com/MxvPgta.png https://i...

the icon stand - todor dinov, christo christov itself a decades-long icon of unattainability (was on youtube, no subs, subs appeared, the film disappeared, till a few years ago it resurfaced, finally complete & watchable) i have at last watched this, which i so longed to do during the period i w...

duchess mary - vladimir barsky (1926) #CoMoGeorgia i do enjoy these classic literature adaptations (this one the first of 3 different parts of lermontov's a hero of our time directed by barsky) since they give the characters a psychological depth missing from the agit-prop... opens with implication ...

the watchers - richard foster (1969)

BFI produced short about crazy girl and UFOs in todmorden (nextdoor to hebden) so i wandered over in an approximate direction before watching the film. watching squared

(added to watchlist for 1959, thanks lencho)

Monsieur Arkadin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2023 7:57 pm My wife is learning Georgian, and so we've already been trying to work through a bunch of Georgian films for the past few months.

ooooh cooool.....any particular reason?

etc....

posting my largely léaud ♥♥♥ appreciation for paul (1969) here.... https://i.imgur.com/q0FGGqT.png https://i.imgur.com/4bqvF8l.png https://i.imgur.com/f6hhCRA.png https://i.imgur.com/0HBxKUU.png https://i.imgur.com/7Szqfeq.png https://i.imgur.com/4YnsKPz.png https://i.imgur.com/cHLXpPd.png

69 was luuuuuuuuuuv!!

dream - temo javakhishvili (1994) #CoMoGeorgia

watch here: https://archive.org/details/temo-javakh ... dream-1994

haven't watched TOTH yet cuz have had the book on the shelf for years.....guess this is a prompt to read and then watch for the poll... but in the meantime.....i also haven't watched this yet, but just had a quick scan through paul (dir. diourka medveczky) and had to had to had to yell with joy at o...

the sixteenth - patvakan barkhudaryan (1929) #ArmenCoMo pretty movie in which pretty boy gets loose lips. love the fact that the key moment of revelation and shame is associated with a camera (and foreshadowed in the film by little brat too) also some cracking #psycho-arborography watch here: https:...

boom - tolomush okeyev

short kyrgyz doc that may be of interest to some in these parts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnjWMV8u7A

nahapet / life triumphs - henrik malyan (1977) #ArmenCoMo

agree, 69 was stellar the color of pomegranates - sergei parajanov the night of counting the years - shadi abdel salam sorrows - gregory j. markopoulos pirosmani - giorgi shengelaia #CoMoGeorgia the dependent - leonardo favio play dirty - andré de toth the hungry wolves - yılmaz güney early works - ...

https://i.imgur.com/voo6Tvw.png khaspush - hamo bek-nazaryan (1928) #ArmenCoMo The film is about the Persian revolutionary movement of the peasants and townspeople against the dominance of the English tobacco monopoly. https://i.imgur.com/n9eHo5a.png https://i.imgur.com/SWjt70U.png https://i.imgur....

the magic carpet - lev atamanov (1948) #ArmenCoMo





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxzmwZrg0HQ

the daughter - hamo bek-nazaryan (1942) #ArmenCoMo

https://kinodaran.com/movie/453

innocent children orphaned by fascists learn to sing patriotic songs