Can't find any films from '98 that excites me, ticking off films that have gathered dust on my harddrive instead. if we're playing the shout at greennui game, he should at least watch https://letterboxd.com/film/haru-island-of-the-solitary/ it's 40 mins of loved up tove jansson and her partner's se...

I can't stand those movies with a Russian narrator overdubbed onto the orig. audio... yes, awful, especially when it's just the same man for every single character in the movie....but the short i posted above, that only has the babble over the credits, then it's armenian voices, no idea what use th...

the mulberry tree - gennadi melkonyan (1980) #ArmenCoMo




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLtp3tZ ... Vi&index=5

would definitely be watching more movies if the insane cretins near my house would stop hammering for one second. that said, I'm more excited about 1969....

finished my skin book so watched something appropriate

the death mask - jay hunt/thomas h ince (1914)

Due to the frequent employment of Armenians as chemists, goldsmiths, and pharmacists, many possessed the skills necessary for photography, in particular a thorough knowledge of the chemical processes used in development. During the late-nineteenth century, some of the principal studios in Constanti...

l'x noir - léonce perret (1916)

good old rambunctious perret, turning a sexy crime drama into a cine-disquisition on the elusiveness of the false image ♥

la femme fatale (1912) exactly as it promises (you've seen this misogynist story a million times before) inc brief courtroom scene, duels, destitution by the seine, apache dances, syphilis etc. but i did appreciate the glorious callousness of this scene where she lights her cigarette with the telegr...

driver dug, falder rim - irene werner stage (1985) Adventure film about a girl who must go out and find the werewolf she has been associated with since she was a child, and redeem it and shoot it. streaming here: https://www.danmarkpaafilm.dk/film/driver-dug-falder-rim just finished the werewolf cha...

epilogue

https://twitter.com/JoBrennanFilm/statu ... 39489?s=19

sevan's fishermen - n. dukor, gurgen marinosyan (1939) #ArmenCoMo no subs but it's your basic soviet propaganda (though in armenia, therefore pretty) so it's easily interpretable good guy/baddie caricatures, with boats :) though i am appreciating all the tough old ladies in these movies https://i.im...

ravished armenia - oscar apfel (1919) #ArmenCoMo hollywood re-enactment of armenian genocide based on memoirs by AND STARRING aurora mardiganian, and the fragment that remains is utterly beautiful in its excess of repetitive horror and tragedy, almost godard-ian in cinematic instruction... but how m...

return of the poet - harutyun khachatryan (2005) #ArmenCoMo A work of tactile sensuality, it nominally depicts the step-by-step creation of a monumental statue of the poet that ends up traveling on the back of a truck through the Armenian countryside. armenia is basically one giant archaeological si...

way more jean-luc nancy, agamben, kristeva, derrida, deleuze etc than i was expecting, but anyway, interesting....

akhtamar - ernest martirosyan, sebouh sargsyan (1969) #ArmenCoMo oh, hello gorgeous armenian short film that doesn't need subtitles (no dialogue virtually) ♥♥♥ According to a tale, an Armenian princess named Tamara lived on the island and was in love with a commoner. This boy would swim from the sho...

girl from moush - gariné torossian (1994) #ArmenCoMo


https://vimeo.com/296698699

the power of evil - mikhail gelovani, patvakan barkhudaryan (1928) #ArmenCoMo another (half) georgian armenian silent :) only a brief flash of ararat to remind you where you are then it's straight in with the madness https://i.imgur.com/CjCRCf6.png https://i.imgur.com/AZiKoOF.png https://i.imgur.com...

3 bulgaria
2 lithuania
1 georgia

armenian churches are cool 8-) thought i'd watched calendar but haven't logged it so may (re)watch.....in the meantime re: for armenian church fanatics :) https://i.imgur.com/iavzwLn.png MUST SEE FOR BIRD VOCALIZATION LOVERS! MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS DESIGNED TO IMITATE BIRDS THE SILENCE OF ANI (Francis...

the father - henrik malyan (1973) #ArmenCoMo just soviet-goodboy patriarch negotiates the claims of the past and modernity but ultimately asserts himself. malyan is a good director (and i did enjoy the scene where papa went to such lengths (heights) to avoid handing over a bribe) and maybe i missed ...

parvana - valentin podpomogov (1970) #ArmenCoMo

magpies!!!!






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3NjbYBlCfI

documentarist - harutyun khachatryan (2003) #ArmenCoMo no idea what was going on here, it was soooooo male (women exist solely to be comfort-bitches of hero-men) maybe some self-pitying self-critique of misery-porn directors? violence of life, violence of filming it? camera analogous to a gun, film ...

this country never appreciated George enough

https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status ... 54722?s=19

oooooh i wanna watch! but hours and hours is a big commitment.... the first days - herbert holba (1971) all silent movies should have prog rock soundtracks (in this case by paternoster who wrote it specially so hippie kids could roll around in the dirt) :) https://i.imgur.com/sc5NDCG.png https://i.i...

anush - ivane perestiani (1931) #ArmenCoMo not sure how a georgian director ended up at armenkino making a film based on an armenian classic by the national poet (hovhannes tumanyan) but he also did a couple of ukrainian films as well so i guess everyone was just pootling around the whole soviet reg...

although if i was dreaming about giant spider men i would be 'describing' it to you via a scream....

this is why you can't leave twitter. george osborne scandal! it's like the old days! i love that guy