anahit - amo bek-nazaryan getting in some practice for next como by watching something without subtitles, but it's a mythical tale directed by a silent film maestro so i think i got it. (prince meets beautiful girl, she rejects the dilettante until he learns a real trade, he chooses weaving, makes a...

so funny i'm posting it twice

the pride of the circus - alfred lind (1912) not a fan of circus movies so getting round to these slowly, but all the danish stuff is here: girls, gazes, greys, crazy stunts, filth the gazes: https://i.imgur.com/1gRC5R7.png https://i.imgur.com/CSINamC.png https://i.imgur.com/rSYomCh.png https://i.im...

hope this regrettable submersible accident puts an end to libertarian techbro arrogance about safety regulations it probably won't tho. they didn't learn anything from the unsinkable titanic apparently https://gizmodo.com/oceangate-titan-david-lochridge-missing-submarine-1850557931 https://www.yout...

the chips are down - jean delannoy

scripted by sartre, incoherent futility, don't get the love for this film






plus an egregious episode of cat crushing

Amateur Psychoanalytic Society beware! - martin frič, paľo bielik HEY how shall we convey the fact that our movie is about rebirth? how about literal birth canals??? ....from the open, empty skies of native lands.... https://i.imgur.com/ZSQRRg6.png https://i.imgur.com/Gkh23aJ.png and the safe embra...

the cherry tree with gray blossoms (sumiko haneda, 1977) makes a perfect complement to a previously watched laila pakalniņa film (the oak, 1997) seeing as they're practically the same film from different cultural angles (sumiko is poetic, reverent.....laila is funny) https://i.imgur.com/E9Jf5Oc.png ...

oh that's very unusual....

i spoke in jest but ofrene's letterboxd profile has disappeared

the magic skin - richard ridgely (1915) yet more 'girl goes crazy and dies' bullshit, but in this one it's the insufferably dull virgin so i don't care. much more enthusiastic about the slut (sally crute).... https://i.imgur.com/UeMWA78.png https://i.imgur.com/ZZtMBEV.png https://i.imgur.com/g7U6DjU...

song of the cornfields - istván szőts your typical 'weak-willed woman goes crazy' misogyny aside, this is utterly gorgeous, and the prosaic acceptance and non-moralizing depiction of non-marital pregnancy is something you wouldn't see in hollywood for almost 1000 years....plus the very dry humour of...

wikipedia says he moved from new york to california in 1941 but other than that i am going to be convinced that this is adorno, nice catch brian!

is ofrene ok ♥

:D yeah you even see the police turn up to investigate though they didn't seem to do anything. but one couple invited him in, watched tv with him for a while and then went to bed, just left him in their living room, told him to see himself out whenever he wanted. totally crazy. whole film is a very ...

https://i.imgur.com/a4dlIpa.png a man and a camera - guido hendrikx (2021) An enigmatic entity roams the Dutch hinterlands, silently pointing a camera at all that it encounters. Soon it finds itself standing in front of a doorway. Met with an uninvited, inscrutable camera operator, how will the reg...

Zynab wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 2:41 am stuffy, tepid...........british mess.

but that's literally every british melodrama apart from hitch and the archers

that is astonishing

https://i.imgur.com/sR31s7y.png the strike - karel steklý this is the many-times-seen striking miners commie propaganda story, but OH! the cinematography.....straight out of a gorgeous silent movie....by the end i was totally oblivious to the plot lost in the inky delights of the rich black & w...

yay! that's a fab review and of course it's okay to mention me....i'm still slightly amazed at how extreme the action stuff was, you just don't expect it of those refined danes, except that actually they did it often....if these screenscaps are anything to go by.... (can watch it here (and i will so...

satan fait la noce - feuillade (1907)

the testament of caleb meeke - roy spence (1969) the amateurish nature of this film seems to make the extreme hauntology of place driving it all the more appealing. very arthur machen.... watch here: https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/the-testament-of-caleb-meeke/ https://i.imgur.com/J2mcE7L.png https://i....

this is the appropriate attitude towards standing stones, unlike that mayor of carnac!

omg don't people have different responses to film...i thought this was one of the most atrociously awful movies i've seen - like some teen girl unreal fantasy of perfect idealised romance, or something designed to stupefy repressed housewives who, for instance, don't want to deal with the for exampl...

epilogue

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 12:41 pm meanwhile boris is being expelled for attending some parties and lying about it

or i guess they can't expel him cuz he quit?? or something. i don't understand UK politics. LOCK HIM UP

clown show, i'm ignoring it

die kinder des majors (1914) this is pretty forgettable, other than some hilarious histrionics by the youth.....but i think they really had different approaches to romance then.... this is the romantic hero... https://i.imgur.com/pBfB3Ev.png whereas this sexy moustache man is the villain.... https:/...

billyhu85 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:47 am @Sally - Those were the good ol' days! I definitely remember you as well! Did they ever put out an official explanation for why they broke up our community?

P.S. - I'll go vote right now!

no idea why they shut mubi down, i'm still mad at them about it......