les misérables - henri fescourt this was gorgeous but it's 6 hours of misery, no idea why middle-class people keep remaking this https://i.imgur.com/vKMURfa.png https://i.imgur.com/GFJ5pxm.png https://i.imgur.com/2sXnGLB.png https://i.imgur.com/gRCbrID.png https://i.imgur.com/r1KXtrt.png https://i.i...

motorway 65 - evi kalogiropoulou (2020) #CoMoΕλλάδα

wooo oooh now it's a scary tree

some classic psycho-arborography in les misérables so far

Wow everyone has been watching so many good silents while I've been gone! I myself recently watched Kult Ciala (1930) which made for a hazily evocative midnight viewing experience, though the rip was quite pixelated and generally of low quality. The love triangle story was very Lubitsch (without th...

coatti - stavros tornes (1977) #CoMoΕλλάδα

whereas this, i loved. late 70s was a great time for greek cinema

oh! i am in caucasian frenzy lately!

3 georgia
2 armenia
1 azerbaijan

chevalier - athina rachel tsangari (2015) #CoMoΕλλάδα

really liked fit, don't remember attenberg, the capsule was a hideous perfume ad and this was a long meh.

aha, uk redeems itself from the ghastly above the pleasure garden - alfred hitchcock (1925) sooooooo hitchcock, right from the start, not sure he even added much else in later movies. but anyway, i don't like the word 'stan' but i'll use it for miles mander, the sleazy delicious shit.... https://i.i...

The Ingmar Heritance (Gustaf Molander, 1925) - Soft 1925 poll start. Don't have much to say about it except that I was surprised to see Conrad Veidt pop up in it. https://i.imgur.com/0Ck0NNM.png yay! another cheerful swedish film! (and another one where i wonder what chloe sevigny (aka jenny hassel...

sons of the sea - h bruce woolfe (1925) if you like watching navy recruitment propaganda about working class kids sacrificing themselves for the upper classes, then this is for you! https://i.imgur.com/rwiAXGJ.png https://i.imgur.com/objqgg9.png https://i.imgur.com/HxGUToQ.png https://i.imgur.com/xu...

even minor epstein is still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the adventures of robert macaire (1925) https://i.imgur.com/rle9PFt.png https://i.imgur.com/lEOu984.png https://i.imgur.com/Hr9CA5D.png https://i.imgur.com/A5bq8qe.png https://i.imgur.com/ejG2mpA.png https://i.imgur.com/R0aSW8C.png https://i.imgur.com/jaWmxRe....

https://i.postimg.cc/150NpJFs/vlcsnap-2023-05-15-15h19m47s081.png https://i.postimg.cc/1X0LnjyT/vlcsnap-2023-05-15-20h50m04s378.png https://i.imgur.com/RWBWnGo.png to the most resting bitch face ever (with spaghetti)...... https://i.imgur.com/tCbNNLb.png the eternal return of antonis paraskevas - e...

oh no, i managed to do it

the wizard of athens - ahilleas madras (1931) #CoMoΕλλάδα omg where to start, fever-dream doesn't do it justice. cottafavi might be addressing the audience in antigone out of intellectual courtesy, but i think back in the 30's the 'wizard' of this movie was actively trying to cast a spell on the vie...

this is very cute, a 1925 homemade advertisement for a novel his wife had written, from emile gaudu, a cine-mad amateur (he has lots more films) based in that most cinematic of 1920s locales, bretagne https://www.cinematheque-bretagne.bzh/base-documentaire-belle-histoire-la-426-20972-0-12.html? http...

ha! i could say i chose it because of reasons discussed in the book below (the film gets its own discussion, as comparison and development to griffith's adventures of dollie = tldr; the early gipsy child-stealing films where the gipsy status is indicated by clothing rather than black-face are much l...

cool, passing on cobra then! one less 1925 bookmark to mull over...



un mariage au revolver - jean durand (1912)

one of durand's less inspired westerns but still nice to see joë hamman here again after last watching him much older in the 1931 erl-king

the eagle - clarence brown (1925) just don't get the adulation of valentino, don't find him attractive at all, not when john gilbert and ronald colman were around instead, madness. and fuck this movie that makes an empress a bitch just cuz hollywood can't handle powerful older women. creepy film. ht...

Hepworth in '25? Wow, I should look into that. it's a 12 min travelogue of shakespeare's birthplace, not sure how interesting that is. the bfi have a digital scan of his 1923 comin' thro' the rye, and 1921 tansy, which were available at certain uk specific sites until covid and now there are 'curre...

kg - cynthia madansky (2018) #CoMoΕλλάδα

Subjectively capturing the spirit of contemporary Athens, Madansky turns to Greek anarchist poet Katerina Gogou as a source of inspiration.

oh walser's robber was written in 1925. no point even doing a further survey (i passed kafka and winked already)

for 1925 poll (given that all but two were published 1925) i'm reading a collection of supernatural short stories written by an australian lady

finally watched andrzej barański's tabu (which turns out to be male fantasy nonsense, surprise surprise) mainly just because i saw this poster years ago but now confused as there isn't a single bird or bird nest in it.... https://polishpostershop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525...

watching some bfi 1925s uti - herbert uzielli unabashed pure colonialist gaze (dead tiger and tuba) https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-uti-1925-1925-online https://i.imgur.com/SDHWCkA.png https://i.imgur.com/LLRAqTv.png the dolgarrog disaster - frank h kenyon welsh dam burst: https://player.b...

not sure if this is some avant-garde political comment or just random old-timey chaos but in amongst this footage #CoMoΕλλάδα of kaiser wilhelm ii visiting greece (unknown vips in Hats, military prancing and local dancing) there's footage in negative of a waterfall. surreal. https://i.imgur.com/4oGz...

the devil in the city - germaine dulac (1925)

with that, i think i've now exhausted all the female directed films of 1925 (this and red kimona) unless anyone knows any others?

o drakos is a masterpiece. this is not

the policeman of the 16th precinct - alekos sakellarios (1959) #CoMoΕλλάδα