loin de manhattan - jean-claude biette (1982)

why do i get the feeling he agonised over every shot

souris d'hôtel - adelqui migliar (1929) #CoMoFrancePartDeux

terrible film

barrabas - feuillade (1919)

the problem with watching feuillade serials is that afterwards you have one less feuillade serial to watch

also got mildly less interested after laugier shaved off his mustache

https://i.postimg.cc/d3t9Dy3x/image.png love at sea - guy gilles (1965) #CoMoFrancePartDeux this was totally infuriating, everything i despise (sad penis hero, obsession with travails of youth) but also a sumptuous feast for the eyes, fantastic use of colour vs b&w, and a cameo by the emissary ...

Shackles AKA The Rope AKA The Little Thief From Ulan Bator (Nansalmaagin Uranchimeg, 1993) #CoMoMongolia if you want to watch a Mongolian film that’s “proto-new-wavy” in feel, then this is the right option! Reminiscent of Italian neorealism it MIGHT be because i'm currently reading c s lewis' study...

my plan is to randomly watch some of the 100gb+ french films that have lurked with me for years (the actually brilliant IT guys at work retrieved the vast majority of films from my laptop that died, yay!) https://i.imgur.com/GXu63Ve.png la valse des médias - luc moullet (1987) #CoMoFrancePartDeux ht...

um.....

the way you wanted me - tulio
summer storm - sirk
days of glory - tourneur
the tower of the seven hunchbacks - neville
bluebeard - ulmer

l’arlésienne - andré antoine Where oh where did you find this? Everything I've read about it says it's a masterpiece (and Antoine's last film) and yet there's so many remakes of it. oh sorry! i watched it online during covid ----> https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/larlesienne/ it ...

Insignia, including burial crowns for the tombs of the Lithuanian and Polish rulers Alexander, Elizabeth, and Barbara were discovered in the crypts of Vilnius Cathedral. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2453837/burial-crowns-of-lithuanian-polish-rulers-discovered-in-vilnius-cathedral exciti...

oh and i watched all 6 hours of emanuel gregers' japhet - mildly lost with the lack of subs so skim-read the novel in one night only to find that the films introduced non-existent (and silly) side-plots, to use up, i'm assuming, some budget on maritime ships and pointless racist depictions of native...

Watched Timeglasset . Found it a slog, and eventually stopped caring about getting AI to translate the Danish intertitles for me. Anyone know the story of director Fritz Magnussen? He died in April 1920 but there were still four feature films to come under his name, two from 1921 and this last one ...

the white desert - ernst wendt

highly tense due to constant risk of death to the men and constant risk of rape to the women (1920s did NOT sugarcoat that stuff)

along with borzage's valley of silent men, that makes a snowy trilogy today

have been googling a while but can't really find any writing about the implications of internal eye-contact on filmic space, anyone suggest anything? was thinking in terms of space because after rewatching nosferatu, i watched adrian martin and cristina álvarez lópez's essay on murnau's 'wishful spa...

the hourglass - fritz magnussen

always enjoy seeing olaf fønss ham it up, there's tons of lovely snowy scenes, and i'd forgotten how great the danes are at eye-contact

l’arlésienne - andré antoine foolish wives - erich von stroheim the lighthouse keepers - maurice mariaud the woman from nowhere - louis delluc the suram fortress - ivane perestiani jocelyn - léon poirier 'a santanotte - elvira notari cainà - gennaro righelli la casa sotto la neve - gennaro righelli ...

the mongolian steppe was my fantasy holiday destination when i was a teen (subsequently realised this is probably because i had decided that it's largely empty of other people and thus you feel the deluded aggrandizement of a god surveying the vast territory that your eyes might be the only ones pos...

okay i'm up for rewatching the quiet man

3 - ireland
2 - china
1 - the isle of lesbos (or whatever other geographical territory denotes women's queer space)

final ballot the ants - rosemarie blank valtos - patrick keillor landscape (for manon) - peter hutton keep in touch - jean-claude rousseau the death of empedocles - jean-marie straub, danièle huillet the black tower - john smith where is the friend's house? - abbas kiarostami strawman - wang tung un...

oh, i realised that i didn't post my 1987 ballot yet but now of course i'm distracted by the next poll. found this great list: https://letterboxd.com/flolefou12/list/films-available-at-bundesarchivs-digitaler/detail/ and the first 1922 film i clicked on, the very first screenshot suggests it will be...

watched this too, with some dread, another swedish rural melodrama, but it turns that it's actually THE rural melodrama, possibly my fave that i've seen and definitely somewhere near the top of my unranked ballot now, i even liked lars hanson in it

oh! well done everyone, that was faaaaast

l'engrenage - louis feuillade

it's minor for him, tho there's still his touches, but i got so excited by what for me is the earliest intentional shot of poo in a film that i've seen, that the rest of the movie was a bit of a let down

part ... in the occasional series of 'bells ringing in silent movies' https://i.imgur.com/awWiGKw.png a rosa do adro - georges pallu the idyllic beauty of early film.... https://i.imgur.com/i2yEh5H.png https://i.imgur.com/IVJPD91.png https://i.imgur.com/gLIbxFj.png ....that's ultimately stunned sens...

i feel that the end-by-clunky-poem-intertitle slightly let j'accuse down (unless it was explained by the comment earlier in the film that some things couldn't be shown in images as "the eyes are too far from the heart", but dunno still seems like a cop out, why make a visual film at all th...

the portuguese woman - rita azevedo gomes classical period - ted fendt how fernando pessoa saved portugal - eugène green lady j - emmanuel mouret belmonte - federico veiroj operation: jane walk - leonhard müllner, robin klengel grass - hong sang-soo hotel by the river - hong sang-soo black pond - je...

what the hell was in lubitsch's water in 1919 (they're both great but meyer (aka SALLY Meyer) from berlin works as a total parody of blind husbands) blind husbands - erich von stroheim meyer from berlin - ernst lubistch the oyster princess - ernst lubistch the doll - ernst lubistch the sultan of lov...

i've still got films to watch that i downloaded over 15 years ago, we'll never really scratch the surface - plenty of discoveries to be made! and even the films that do get remembered don't often get the viewers they deserve (i'm gonna stop reading letterboxd reviews) anyway, i tried watching anothe...