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...

ariane - paul czinner okay, czinner is entering my pantheon of absolutely top fave directors. he gets compared to ophüls, but he's lighter, more delicate, less moribund...more mizoguchi, more bauer...and the exact opposite of naruse, czinner is so polite that he lets everyone exit the frame, and pau...

lesbian of course it's a misunderstanding, but in maurice elvey's sally in our alley the chap comes back from the war, thinks his girl is now in an abusive relationship with another woman and he doesn't bat an eyelid, just says 'you've changed' in the least sensational way ever. 30's were wild. als...

the theft of the mona lisa - géza von bolváry

i'm not exactly sure what point was being made here, but i approve:

oh great, barrabas and la flor

Faubourg Montmartre (Raymond Bernard) this was really good...ambiguous, unevenly toned, indistinct....the kind of film i really like, that i always appreciated in, for instance lewis milestone, only this was excessively french - shot through with all the novelistic stereotypes. some weird combinati...

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limite - mário peixoto dracula - tod browning the elf king - marie-louise iribe from saturday to sunday - gustav machatý the thaw - boris barnet the congress dances - erik charell the neighbour's wife and mine - heinosuke gosho autumn fire - herman g. weinberg safe in hell - william a. wellman rich ...

know it's a weird year when i'm sharing faves with lencho la commune - peter watkins love torn in a dream - raúl ruiz snow white - joão césar monteiro the gleaners and i - agnès varda third world hero - mike de leon werckmeister harmonies - béla tarr platform - jia zhangke tuning the instruments - j...

everyone - adelheid is 1969 on imdb

othon - jean-marie straub, danièle huillet hope - yılmaz güney why does herr r. run amok? - rainer werner fassbinder, michael fengler the penal colony - raúl ruiz arcade - tony sinden there once was a singing blackbird - otar iosseliani fruit of paradise -věra chytilová king lear - grigori kozintsev...

baroque statues - maria lassnig (1974) #CoMoÖsterreich In an associative montage statues of saints in rigid and rapt poses are cross cut with those of real actors until the two can no longer be told apart. Gradually the real bodies break away from the constraints of their wooden models through incre...

dirt - paulus manker (1986) #CoMoÖsterreich so after watching this 'magical realist' descent into allegorical insanity i had to check and yes, gerald kargl (of angst) is also austrian as well as manker - there apparently IS an austrian aesthetic (beyond, but connected to seidl/haneke and grandpappy ...

walbrook was austrian? this changes everythiiiiiiing, insanely handsome i watched catherine the last and the white horse inn and concur with jiri, both excellent: after i rewatched harvey earlier this year and now that, definitely think koster needs investigating....and lamac was a truly great comic...

i seriously don't remember a thing about at least half the movies i logged for this year :( the ogre of athens - nikos koundouros dark waters - youssef chahine a man escaped - robert bresson great day in the morning - jacques tourneur child of sorrow - lamberto v. avellana merry-go-round - zoltán fá...

the tied up balloon - binka zhelyazkova the bulgarians seem delightful !! ♥ ♥ ♥ sally thank you for this wonderful discovery this is why you can never never leave :cry: glad you liked it (sorry i am behind here!) watched a few for the poll, although seeing as my isp seems to be preventing me from a...

the tied up balloon - binka zhelyazkova Inesperadamente berlanguiana - as per el perro de goya ...been hoarding this female-directed bulgarian classic to watch for years and yes it was worth it....absolutely my kind of abstract absurdist farce, absolutely making my final ballot this was a mubi fave ...

insane

https://i.imgur.com/gjXuTJO.png the fairy of solbakken - john w brunius (1919) #CoMoSverige is there a silent swedish film that lars hanson ISN'T in? i really had a surfeit of these moralising pastoral purity epics long long ago, but i guess it's inescapable in the 1910's/20s...although i think the...