sent $30 via paypal (hopefully in the right direction... lol)

a long time ago, i watched “The Song of the Scarlet Flower” (Teuvo Tulio, 1938). thus, for CoMoFinland, i wanted some nice timber rafting still from that film. among all the googled images, there was a very nice one of this kind from “Song of the Scarlet Flower” (Mauritz Stiller, 1919). that still w...

according to the “Very British Problems” Brits giving glowing reviews : “I didn't mind it” “Not too bad at all” “Did the trick” “Yeah, pretty good” “Better than expected” “Fine overall” “Better than a kick in the teeth” “Decent” “I’ve seen worse” “It was alright” “No real complaints” “I ate most of ...

thanks, Karl, for mentioning Kalik in this thread and for making the subs! To Love... (Mikhail Kalik, Inna Tumanyan, 1968) #CoMoMoldova this film is a lucky mixture of dramatic art (acted short stories) and documentary (street interviews) and thus even if the topic of "love" inevitably gen...

all the votes/pts so far (CoMoNo30, December 2024): 29,0 pts — Mexico (01Sep22) 26,1 pts — Mongolia (02May22) 22,7 pts — Switzerland (02May23) 21,9 pts — Argentina (16Nov22) 21,8 pts — Estonia (28Sep22) 21,5 pts — France (12Jan24) 19,7 pts — Poland (24May22) 19,2 pts — Ukraine (25Jul22), New Zealan...

i find bluesky pretty useful, just learned a new word (a political term) there
→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

Neptune (Adéla Babanová, 2018) This black-and-white film combines re-enactments with original footage from Operation Neptune, one of the Czechoslovak secret police’s first attempts at media manipulation, during which a group of reporters comes across secret Nazi documents at the bottom of a lake. Th...

https://i.postimg.cc/59C27JpW/vlcsnap-2024-11-16-20h39m44s227.png https://i.postimg.cc/50ZN4K4r/vlcsnap-2024-11-16-20h38m25s374.png Meyer from Berlin Filmed after "Carmen" (1918), the big budget costume film production that gave Herr Lubitsch world fame and reputation outside Germany, &qu...

The Shooting Party AKA My Tender and Affectionate Beast (Emil Loteanu, 1978) #CoMoMoldova https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4336579/?ref_=tturv_perm_4 THE SHOOTING PARTY, aka. A HUNTING ACCIDENT is Soviet filmmaker Emil Loteanu's cinematic interpretation of Chekhov's only full-length, eponymous novel, a...

let me paint another film review https://i.postimg.cc/Njqb6P3g/vlcsnap-2024-11-14-21h01m43s468.png omg https://i.postimg.cc/LsmT7g4w/vlcsnap-2024-11-14-20h22m28s902.png Man of Gold (Alexander Korda) a certain complicated course of actions leads to a happy end, taking place exactly in the middle of t...

3 short cinematic anecdotes (with English subs)... the last one obviously dedicated to the aforementioned (viz one of the previous posts) Vladimir Voronin When the Lights Go Out (Igor Cobileanski, 2006) #CoMoMoldova In a poor country obsessed with making easy money, 100 bucks are enough to lose your...

ooooo, thank you, rischka!

it's probably well-known trivia that this region's main language/political split is between Moldova (Romanian-speaking & Romania-leaning) and Transnistria (Russian-speaking & Russia-leaning). but besides this main dichotomy, there is a (Turkic&Russian-speaking & Russia-leaning) auto...

W16 1919 poll Different from the Others (Richard Oswald) 1919 progressive didactic film demonstrating the blunder of conversion therapy (and campaigning against the Paragraph 175) https://i.postimg.cc/yYRVdpGP/vlcsnap-2024-11-07-21h04m20s344.png https://i.postimg.cc/13ZyNchZ/vlcsnap-2024-11-07-21h0...

Golgotha of Bessarabia (Ion Chistruga, Alina Ciutac, 2010) #CoMoMoldova a film essay with a suggestive voiceover (& explicit imagery) that raises a valid critique of Soviet/Stalinist imperialism (& points out related atrocities), while also slipping into the pathetic claro-fascist tirades, o...

https://i.postimg.cc/tJTNFwPY/vlcsnap-2024-11-06-23h19m58s907.png Letter from Moldova (Joanne Richardson, 2009) #CoMoMoldova Joanne Richardson was born in Bucharest, Romania, and emigrated with her family to New York when she was nine years old. In 2000 she quit her PhD studies and returned to Roma...

https://i.postimg.cc/XJRc4fnH/vlcsnap-2024-11-06-14h12m28s197.png now, when the fascist moron was (most probably) democratically raised to the rotten pedestal, let's recall brighter times, i.e. the moment when the Holy Soviet Empire semi-crumbled (full dissolution is yet to come) https://i.postimg....

well, the inhabitants of the fascist states are still not deprived of the liberty to vote for the next CoMo.
i admit it's rather pointless but i count all votes diligently and i can guarantee no electoral fraud!

obviously, the majority appreciates vulgarity, so don't constraint yourself and go foulmouthed to your heart's content

J'accuse a fetish altar in a WW1 trench

Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose) A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks. https://i.postimg.cc/HnJngw5c/vlcsnap-2024-11-02-22h40m20s577.png https://i.postimg.cc/WzQ3bd69/vlcsnap-2024-11-02-22h41m20s712...

the last bit... https://i.postimg.cc/Hss8SMVg/vlcsnap-2024-10-09-16h39m09s066.png Beirut: The Last Home Movie (Jennifer Fox, 1987) #CoMoLebanon the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie amid the civil war. https://i.postimg.cc/rsg0VVZ3/vlcsnap-2024-10-20-17h12m05s821.png Beirut: The Last Home Movie is a...

Fatal Flight of an Aeroplane under a Prague Bridge (produced by Degl Brothers) A flight under Prague’s Railway Bridge in July 1919 and its tragic consequences: the death of the director of the cinematographic department of the YMCA in Prague. unfortunately, it's only with Czech intertitles but they ...

unfortunately, there are still some films left i intended to watch but (since the month is already over) i am going to finish only one more (besides this one) and the rest have to wait (for some indefinite future). in any case, Borhane Alaouié is (for now) my favorite Lebanese filmmaker and i am cer...

The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat, 2007) while watching this film i experienced an uncanny moment of being mirrored on the screen https://i.postimg.cc/nhRXXNP6/vlcsnap-2024-11-01-23h12m44s732.png i usually watch the films in the same pose this lady assumed while listening to a young libertine te...

the pic above is from the only film (relevant to this CoMo) i watched "recently"... Fortress (Klára Tasovská, Lukáš Kokeš, 2012) → https://letterboxd.com/film/fortress-2013/ → https://english.radio.cz/film-about-transnistria-wins-top-czech-documentary-award-8549896 so, i will exploit a lot...

https://i.postimg.cc/Qt7N1ssn/vlcsnap-2024-11-01-17h50m41s319.png i am a latecomer to "The Oyster Princess" party https://i.postimg.cc/V6X15RBx/vlcsnap-2024-11-01-17h40m54s862.png https://i.postimg.cc/vHcqzmCB/vlcsnap-2024-11-01-17h43m01s077.png no clue what made me wait so long https://i...

https://kinometer.com/?list=545 Out of the Way! (Stones Fall Here) (Mikheil Chiaureli, 1931, 63m) Pigs Are Always Pigs (Khanan Shmain, 1931, 58m) Magic Myxies (Mary Field, F. Percy Smith, 1931, 10m) Tree Games (Émile Malespine, 1931, 5m) The Erl King (Marie-Louise Iribe, 1931, 46m) In Adam’s Dress A...

i had all the good intentions to watch...

I'll Be Alone After Midnight (Jacques de Baroncelli)

... but i (more or less) just slept through it

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:36 pm myriad links!!

thx for your link (bookmarked the channel)