!! the essence of Swissness

https://i.imgur.com/5SUynYp.jpeg so as not to be suspected of excessive humbleness (viz another year poll thread) i plainly admit that 1964 marks the peak of my overall subbing efforts (testified by the PM received from a fellow cinephile on 2014-04-29)... https://i.imgur.com/pzpMPRC.png if you ask...

epilogue (all my sighs & pains in full flow)... https://i.imgur.com/bVL69Hu.png SN Retrospective, Pt. 2/2 Men Don't Cry (Sulev Nõmmik, 1968) #CoMoEstonia A group of sleepless nerds should be taken into the sanitarium for hard therapy. https://i.imgur.com/vlHgamK.png They are taken to a lonely is...

nearing the end... https://i.imgur.com/T0i1MYd.png Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno-Ugricarum, Pt. 5/5 Shaman (Lennart Meri, 1997) #CoMoEstonia The Shaman was filmed on July 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam River, concurrently with th...

all the votes/pts so far (CoMoNo35, May 2025): 27,7 pts — New Zealand (02Mar23) 26,4 pts — Argentina (16Nov22) 25,2 pts — Ireland (28Jan23) 25,1 pts — Bolivia (25Dec22) 24,9 pts — Romania (03Aug23) 24,7 pts — Ukraine (25Jul22) 24,2 pts — Poland (24May22) 22,0 pts — Norway (25Jun22) 21,6 pts — Bulga...

0,9 — 0,6 — 0,3 —0,1 boosters & voting for... 3 - Bolivia 2 - Romania 1 - Ukraine all the votes/pts so far (CoMoNo35, May 2025): 26,7 pts — New Zealand (02Mar23) 26,4 pts — Argentina (16Nov22) 25,2 pts — Ireland (28Jan23) 25,1 pts — Bolivia (25Dec22) 24,9 pts — Romania (03Aug23) 24,7 pts — Ukra...

https://vimeo.com/193847279 https://kinometer.com/?list=558 Ouch, My Foot Hurts... (Józef Robakowski, 1990, 3m) About the Tap Who Sang at the Opera (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, 1990, 8m) Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990, 48m) See You in Hell, Friends (Juraj Jakubisko, 1990, 73m) The Ark of Fools ...

https://i.imgur.com/MP8MsZZ.png Arvo Pärt: Even If I Lose Everything (Dorian Supin, 2015) #CoMoEstonia Dorian Supin’s third documentary film of Arvo Pärt 1/ Arvo Pärt — And Then Came the Evening and the Morning (Dorian Supin, 1990) 2/ Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue (Dorian Supin, 2002) The titl...

Firebird (Rein Raamat, 1974, 7m) #CoMoEstonia

A bored future society starts to come alive with the addition of primary colors, as its world gradually becomes a groovy hippy paradise.

The Adventurer AKA Happy-Go-Lucky (Kaljo Kiisk, 1983) #CoMoEstonia based on the novel Toomas Nipernaadi (1928) by August Gailit → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Gailit The title character is quite an iconic fictional figure and has been immortalized in everything from travel agency names to al...

Empty (Veiko Õunpuu, 2006) #CoMoEstonia The young man Mati spends a weekend with his wife Helina and her lover Edouard. https://i.imgur.com/zqVxh2J.png A laconic portrait of love the Estonian way in the style of Aki Kaurismäki or Jim Jarmusch. https://i.imgur.com/jYD6lC5.png long (academic) read → h...

https://www.kinometer.com/?id=173704

originally, the GK Retrospective was not supposed to be a completionist crush BUT because i highly cherished New Satan (viz ↑) and Lapeteus (viz ↑↑), here we come with the completion of GK’s non-extensive (multi-genre) oeuvre — this time dealing with a “proletarian Bond” spy fiction. GK Retrospectiv...

RH Retrospective Papa Carlo's Theatre (Rao Heidmets, 1988, 9m) #CoMoEstonia A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlos a path to the doors of freedom is laid. https://youtu.be/PA7YRi9Ofgo?si=YrwPVqlsi22j-7yf Instinct (Rao Heid...

Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno-Ugricarum, Pt. 4/5 The Sons of Torum (Lennart Meri, 1989) #CoMoEstonia Num-Torum → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Num-Torum Bear worship → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_worship The Khanty and Mansi believe that the bear is a descendant from the suprem...

SN Retrospective, Pt. 1/2 Young Pensioner (Sulev Nõmmik, 1972) #CoMoEstonia humorous aspect of the Soviet-style nihilist society so-so presented in a feel-awkward movie The day has come when the successful and beloved ballet soloist Pukspuu is to be sent into retirement with ceremonial honors. As yo...

BALTIC MODERNIST CINEMA: BETWEEN IMAGINARY AND REAL, Pt. 3/3 The Ideal Landscape (Peeter Simm, 1981) #CoMoEstonia This film takes place during the era of collective farms in Estonia in the 1940s and early 1950s, a dramatic period that followed the mass deportations of March 1949. https://i.imgur.com...

MK Retrospective Labyrinth (Mati Kütt, 1989, 9m) #CoMoEstonia This experimental film, hand-scraped and painted on the film strip, is a unique and expressive vision of a sick society, expressed by the unnatural existence in a labyrinth. The subconsciousness reflects the attack of bureaucrats on the w...

Werewolf (Leida Laius, 1968) #CoMoEstonia https://i.imgur.com/oKmVjoL.png Superstition! Midsummer bonfires! Sexual jealousy in a quasi-incestuous conservative community! https://i.imgur.com/UP6kze7.png She was no werewolf, she just had a jealous step-sister.. https://i.imgur.com/Eii0zbU.png Eastern ...

JP Retrospective, Pt. 3/3 (Dramatic Arts)

Bear Hunt in Pärnu County (Johannes Pääsuke, 1914) #CoMoEstonia

the first Estonian narrative film

wtih Eng subs!

Mass Deportations Special, Pt. 2/2 (1949) Awakening (Jüri Sillart, 1989) #CoMoEstonia Operation Priboi AKA March Deportation of 1949 → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi https://i.imgur.com/JKwQsCZ.png Operation Priboi (Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest ...

Mass Deportations Special, Pt. 1/2 (1941) In the Crosswind (Martti Helde, 2014) #CoMoEstonia June deportation of 1941 → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation The June deportations were part of a much larger history of depopulation. The "Stalin deportations" from 1928-1953 targeted...

Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno-Ugricarum, Pt. 3/5 https://i.imgur.com/89hmcIm.png The Sounds of Kaleva (Lennart Meri, 1986) #CoMoEstonia https://i.imgur.com/Ibsx3hB.png A three-act film essay about memory and the historical-cultural ties of the Finno-Ugric peoples. The first chapter is...

https://i.imgur.com/dE0Kafe.png Year of the Dragon (Andres Sööt, 1989) #CoMoEstonia https://i.imgur.com/fYPTTTA.png it’s always interesting to witness the fall of an empire https://i.imgur.com/qEWX398.png https://i.imgur.com/FtwzcgH.png https://i.imgur.com/c80rMQh.png The year of 1988 in Estonia wa...

GK Retrospective, Pt. 4/5 after a decent sci-fi ↑↑↑, an awful swashbuckler ↑↑, and a hilarious moralist madness ↑, here we come with a remarkable “red noir” (a nocturnal in-and-out tale of the Party’s upper-class underworld) https://i.imgur.com/7mY3stL.png What Happened to Andres Lapeteus? (Grigori ...

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Mar 18, 2025 2:27 am and I'm going to watch jurka too

you won’t be disappointed

The Young Eagles (Theodor Luts, 1927) #CoMoEstonia The film depicts the adventures of three young men (a student, a blacksmith, and a farmhand) who enlist in the war when their small country is invaded by the Russian Bolshevists during the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) → https://en.wikipe...

Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno-Ugricarum, Pt. 2/5 The Winds of the Milky Way (Lennart Meri, 1978) #CoMoEstonia Sequel to the The Waterfowl People. The author interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relationships of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-M...