https://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=1423 About the “insane horizon” of cinema By Philippe Grandrieux “A segment has been cut out of the back of his head. The sun, and the whole world with it, peep in. It makes him nervous, it distracts him from his work, and moreover it irritates him that just he sh...

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Dear SCFZ cup folk. I apologize for not being more involved in the wonderful films being presented. I have a physical thing going on and I just can't concentrate. Hopefully, it's a short term thing. All best, BD.

x1939

x1965, Yes Rischka, I agree about the creepiness of Sundays and Cybele, but we can't blame films on actors involvements can we? If we can, I'll reminisce of Dean Stockwell as The Boy with the Green Hair, which was a revelation to the young Brotherdeacon--realizing I wasn't the only freak kid in a co...

x1965 I tried to write why I voted this way, but was thwarted twice. No big deal, but I'm not going to try another time.

x1939. I wasn't enthralled with either one, but did find the rapport among the sales girls in Grandi Magazzini rather dear and appealing. The men were all foolish in just about every quality which was featured. OK by me, though it did leave the last scene with all the lovers looking at the window di...

Oops, I'm inconsistent sometimes. 2 very good films.

x1966 Two impressive films. Difficult to vote for one over the other (yes, I see others have the same dilemma--but what a pleasurable dilemma to have for film addicts). And though it's silly to say Meanders is better than A Cuban Fight Against Demons, I can vote for its wonderful experimental-ish ca...

x1939 Drums Along the Mohawk Hey Evelyn, nice blurb. In 1939 Ford was feeling his American oats, but like that other Ford in 1939, at least he wasn't discounting trucks to the Nazi military. John Ford was a marvel really. Sure he injected hero worship for breakfast, but when I think of his career, h...

I can't vote on this card, I don't care more for one than the other. Both have strengths, both deserve watching, neither is great. FOAS is a renowned Soviet WWII film from Georgian director Rezo Chkheidze, released in 1964. It relies on a simple, sympathetic story, and a memorable acting performance...

Favorite films of 1958: Lonelyhearts (V.J. Donehue) The Adulteress AKA Night Drum (Imai) Moi, un noir (Rouch) Cairo Station (Chahine) Some Came Running (V. Minnelli) The Music Room (Ray) Conflagration (Kon Ichikawa) Big Deal on Madonna St. (Monicelli) Run Silent, Run Deep (R. Wise) Eroica (Munk) Th...

x1966 Being somewhat cowardly, I'll merely ditto Karl's two cents (or 3 cents). I preferred The Feverish Years (1966) by quite a margin, due largely to its formal camera and editing usage, but even more so by its silence instead of rhetorical justifications for actions or even lack of actions during...

x1962. I admire very little of the Quebecois comedic romp, True Nature of Bernadette (1972, AKA The Birds and the Beads) whereas the František Vláčil debut of his Medieval trilogy, The Devil's Trap, is strong and mysterious throughout, shrewdly using Bohemian history of the Counter-Reformation's lat...

x1966. McNamara should have been tried for crimes against humanity. To see Erroll Morris throw puff-balls was worse than shallow film-making, it was ethical complicity. Knight Without Armor captured lively youth with scenes and humorous montages which any viewer may reminisce alongside, no matter ho...

x1983 Two very good films, both at almost polar opposites of the narrative range of drama. Rod Sterling's screenplay is deservedly the stuff of TV legend, but I think Ichikawa's Sisters was something only a great director could have pulled-off from a 500 plus page novel--certainly one of the greates...

x1972, Nancy was cute for about half an hour then slid into repetition, trops and less-funny gags, making me wonder if Scooby Doo borrowed these 1939 ND plotlines? However, I did like how she dressed and dominated everyone by any means possible. Maybe Todd Solondz should remake. Streer Patra's socia...

bure420:
"Anyone have Battement de Coeur subs? They're not on KG!"

*** OKRU has it with hard-matted Eng subs--it's fun! BD

Thanks Lencho and all. I have plenty of 1940 to catch up on . . . plenty.

Final List 1940: The Stars Look Down (Carol Reed) His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks) Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage) Der Postmeister (Gustav Ucicky) The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford) Menaces (Edmund T. Grèville) Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard) Nobuko (Hiroshi Shimizu) Northwest Passage (King Vidor) ...

Dead Birds, I'm with you all the way on Strange Cargo. Joan Crawford surprised me--though both the Cargo and the Strange belong (like a Bresson) to the director.

Films rather than the AFI bunch: Regeneration (1915, Raoul Walsh) Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919) Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922) The Wind (Victor Sjostrom, 1924) The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924) He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjostrom, 1924) Lazybones (Frank Borzage, 1925) The Gen...

Top 100 SCFZ American movies, based on letterboxd ratings: Thanks Kanafani, interesting list. Trying to form some patent on SFCZ taste is a bit like solving a zen koan in some places and becomes a lesson in the heart-breaking fickleness of statistics in others. We love our Wiseman docs, the Ernst L...

Favorites watched in 2018: The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat, 1974) Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-so, 2014) Portrait of Madame Yuki (Mizoguchi, 1950) Liverpool (Lisandro Alonzo, 2008) Spring Night, Summer Night (J.L. Anderson, 1967) The Dependent (Leonardo Favio, 1969) Meteors (Gurcan Keltek, 2017) Kodi...

kanafani wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 6:54 pm How about something from Zoom In Sex Apartments?

Yes, Funny but I thought about that too, but only in a delusional kinda way--history of odd scfz and all that. I like Rischka's Godard banner, last one with SCFZ on left. Awesome work by all.

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Mon Dec 17, 2018 6:09 pm We like the bound dead woman? Figures.

Yes, but she's not naked and bleeding--we're progressing.

I like everything except cats, maybe I lean a little more toward an experimental film tie-in rather than film-festival winner stuff. Like the color-blind font and pantone. To quote Jesus on his little donkey, "Hell, I like everything."

Thanks All.

Just finished Manthan, a Shyam Benegal film from the 70's about Milk Cooperatives in the boonies of Gujurat--animosities due to caste, politics, gender, etc.
Pretty good, not really new terrain even in the 70's, but Smita Patil is formidable.

I don't know where I am, but everyone seems happy. Hello friends