oh goodness, despite only having been logged by 10 people on letterboxd, it seems that some people are aware that raphael the gypsy exists (can only conclude that film academia is so partitioned and white-towered as to be absolutely invisible to people who merely enjoy watching movies....) there's a...

sans soleil - chris marker dans la ville blanche - alain tanner l'argent - robert bresson brussels by night - marc didden norwood - patrick keiller the return of a library lover - raúl ruiz der rechte weg - fischli/weiss the gold diggers - sally potter city of pirates - raúl ruiz hajji washington - ...

raphael, the gypsy - unknown dir. (1914) holy shit this is crazy. typical plot, gypsies steal aristocratic child that just happens to have a mark that identifies him later....but the stunts! stars zanny petersen aka marble statue lady, looking as human as i've ever seen her, and after this i begin t...

ty greennui ♥

haven't read anything swedish for ages. so far the guy is drunk and wishes he was dead. checks out

flying a kite - passmore family seeing new york by yacht - frederick s. armitage, a.e. weed orphans in the surf - billy bitzer, a.c. abadie the execution - peter elfelt living sculptures: film study for screen artist - oskar messter don quichotte - ferdinand zecca, lucien nonguet le portrait spiritu...

well, dafilms was down for a while so i guess i'm pretty much done (have lost the film bug a little at the mo) story of my death - albert serra hard to be a god - aleksey german the parrot and the swan - alejo moguillansky love songs - bohdan karásek incident urbain - john lalor if i were a thief......

oOgiandujaOo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 7:22 pm Interesting investigations from sally, would like to see that Lehman film, even if it's a lot of blah, those filmmakers are pretty chill.

well to be fair to boris, that's how he himself described it it got more playful as it went on...

the experience was enriched by having read le baphomet and other works of pierre klossowski in recent years. i was compelled to get out my copy of diana at her bath after finishing the movie omg omg omg klossowski (& diana at her bath in particular) is one of my absolute very favourites to the ...

non puke-inducing (though now i think somewhat discredited) discussion of genuine spiritual journeys in specific landscapes (and yes! archaeology!)

lacrau - joão vladimiro oh my god. the images in this were totally gorgeous but i almost got hives from how repulsive the hippie 'spiritual journey' horseshit was. (as if capital-n Nature wasn't just as much an anthropomorphised artificial human construction as what it's opposed to, as if there's so...

think it's been mentioned before, but a nice caturday film with the (weirdly bird tolerant) cats of lisbon. even a nod to weber's suspense :) cats - manuel luís vieira (1933) here: http://www.cinemateca.pt/Cinemateca-Digital/Ficha.aspx?obraid=3137&type=Video https://i.imgur.com/fmfsN8K.png https...

controfigura / the stand-in - rä di martino (2017) contrary to my usual habit (of documenting appropriately the experiences of a visual medium with at least some visual reflection of it eg screenshot) because i watched this yesterday and am both too lazy to go back and screengrab and too compelled b...

Greg's fine on twitter as of a few hours ago. I guess he prefers arguing with strangers about contemporary reception of mainstreamish movies than he does talking insubstantial nonsense with old friends

la meridiana del convento - eleuterio rodolfi (1917) gloriously chaotic absolutely in love with these girls (and always surprised to see them in trouser-style pajamas but i guess it was pretty common) https://i.imgur.com/9RzqMn5.png https://i.imgur.com/mzymnNj.png https://i.imgur.com/qSqCGjv.png htt...

omg the world's first cameo

and further south to petticoat lane in london....love seeing all the smiling laughing faces when they catch the camera and such people...there's a tilt-hatted man straight out of gangster 1920s on the left and a dickens character on the right... https://i.imgur.com/wAKzJwO.png https://i.imgur.com/xY...

bootle may day demonstration and crowning of the may queen pretty long (18 mins) footage of enjoyably bleak and grim northern england wickerman shit - presume cameraman ran out of film for the child sacrifice. carriage driver is so so tired of all this nonsense https://i.imgur.com/3VsoT2e.png https:...

well, it's only 8 mins but watched a couple of other italian shorts from 1912 at the same time and this one was leagues above...

una partita a scacchi - luigi maggi (1912) link to movie in the chess thread maggi is so good. superbly well-made little sunday viewing. chess-obsessed madman escapes from the (charmingly portrayed) nuthouse, boards a train and forces his victim to play to the death! adorable. https://i.imgur.com/CT...

chess fever italian style!

https://vimeo.com/155357957

and from the first intimacy to the avant-garde....this is gorgeous seeing new york harbor by yacht - armitage/weed watch: https://lightcone.org/en/film-10376-seeing-new-york-harbor-by-yacht Manhattan appears from a moving boat, but the time-lapse mechanism misregistered, creating a fuzzy, impression...

my conversations on film - boris lehman 6.5 hours of blah blah blah lightened only by the sweet heart of dwoskin, the gestures of serge ouakine and the mischievous impishness of the two ancients rouch & mekas...(was robert kramer very very high or did he always talk like that?) https://i.imgur.c...

i've been watching a few of these, instantly forgotten so should have documented them... there's a few films on bfi player (so geoblocked) - the passmore family were one of the first in the uk to get a camera for making home movies and the 1903 ones are brief but joyous (two beach scenes and a kite ...

eh, i've been hanging on to this for ages and not got to it yet, mainly because i'd read pretty much the same assessment as above. i guess koenigsmark suffers from the same problems (altho, since i adore jaque catelain, even in films like this one where he's slightly mis-cast, i still enjoyed it) fr...

nrh wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:53 pm of course it has hot serge bozon

hi, i am always interested in exploring more female directors do you have this available to share?

https://i.imgur.com/yOHx9ZU.png kalabaka (the secrets of unknown europe) - fred von bohlen (1928) #CoMoHerBo this film (only part of which goes through bosnia) is both one of the most amazing early travelogues i've seen and the most offensive (all the isms) blonde asshole is a total imperialist jer...

this looks great sally! i'm definitely going to watch um...don't get too excited about it lol. my posting in this thread is not necessarily a general endorsement given that i'm currently mildly obsessed with the realistic (and occasionally highly erotic) melodramas of the 1910s, with all their many...