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Still has to be updated with some 30+ films, but here it is:
https://letterboxd.com/wba/list/2023-favorites/

Listened to it today. Pretty great! https://i.discogs.com/mkx6fAy7lbNNiPRVxXlVpxf_l7795etES97rlLE666w/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg2MzIz/MTktMTY2MTI4ODAw/Ny03NTA1LmpwZWc.jpeg Saw her live a few months ago on the 25th anniversary tour. The sound mixing an...

Listened to it today. Pretty great!

November 2023 Alye parusa “Das Purpursegel. Eine Feerie“ [translated by L. Klementinowskaja] (Alexander Grin / 1923 / Soviet Union / Russian / German) ♥ L’autre “Der Andere“ [translated by Gerhard Heller] (Julien Green / 1971 / France / French / German) Odin den' Ivana Denisoviča “Ein Tag des Iwan ...

Funny idea. I'll do it with ratings. I've seen 5: Manta Manta - Zwoter Teil "Manta, Manta: Legacy" (Til Schweiger, Germany) [10/10] Miraculous - le film "Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie" (Jeremy Zag, France) [8/10] Jean-Claude Van Damme, coup sur coup "Jean-Cla...

Seen merely 40+ films from this year... These are the masterpieces. Final List 4 tiers Michelangelo (Curt Oertel, Germany/Switzerland) Anna Favetti (Erich Waschneck, Germany) Verwehte Spuren "Covered Tracks" (Veit Harlan, Germany) Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, USA) Mannesmann (Walter Rut...

sent 10

Another Sociopath. What else is new? It looks like people just loooveve fascists and love voting them into power so that the fascists can then punish them. Seems masochism is alive and well around the globe. I personall believe that's mainly a religious thing, where people also want to be constantly...

Well, if you want to draw a parallel, it's Hitler - Hamas obviously. Both want to exterminate all Jews. I don't like Hamas. But they're a liberation party. And to ignore the colonial context of Israel is intellectual malpractice. Well, if I look at some of the goals of Hamas, they don't sound like ...

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-771991 yeah the netanyahu quote is real for sure, it's the hitler quote that i can't find anywhere. and to be clear, i'm obv not defending israel, they've been guilty of crimes against humanity for years, but back when damian was comparing them to nazis, ...

Ah, ok.

what happened?

rischka wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 3:29 am A.I. IS A HORROR MOVIE

Absolutely!

Haven't seen it since its original cinema release.

Hmm, somewhat difficult year for me. I've seen a lot (about 150 films), but it's mostly been 20 years ago... Ok, I've watched Metropolis and The Majestic this year, and both were outstanding. Especially The Majestic was a fucking masterpiece!!! And Arslan's ONE FINE DAY some two or three years ago -...

October 2023 Die silberne Windfahne (Kurt Kluge / 1934 / Germany / German / German) ♥ »Also dann in Berlin ...« (Alice Brauner, Heike Gronemeier / 2021 / Germany / German / German) Croire aux fauves “An das Wilde glauben“ [translated by Claudia Kalscheuer] (Nastassja Martin / 2019 / France / French...

Here's my list: https://letterboxd.com/wba/list/beyond-the-sight-and-sound-canon/ Compiling it proved to be no problem at all. From my personal Top 100 very few films had already been mentioned (about 10) or were not eligible (about 5) - I mean, not even Hayao Miyazaki's or Kar-wai Wong's best film...

Here's my list: https://letterboxd.com/wba/list/beyond-the-sight-and-sound-canon/ Compiling it proved to be no problem at all. From my personal Top 100 very few films had already been mentioned (about 10) or were not eligible (about 5) - I mean, not even Hayao Miyazaki's or Kar-wai Wong's best films...

September 2023 All Passion Spent (Vita Sackville-West / 1931 / UK / English / English) ♥ Hier geht’s lang! Mit Büchern von Frauen durchs Leben (Elke Heidenreich / 2021 / Germany / German / German) ♥ Honjin satsujin jiken “Die rätselhaften Honjin-Morde“ [translated by Ursula Gräfe] (Seishi Yokomizo ...

i'm still tryna learn german but i can't get the gendered articles down. so sexist :? The articles aren't exactly sexist per se, as you have three available: gender fluid, female and male. But yes, they cannot be used as one would like to use them, so this might seem sexist. On the other hand, some...

Films seen: 90+ Final list 5 tiers Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya “Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable” (Shun'ya Itô, Japan) La polizia incrimina la legge assolve “High Crime” (Enzo G. Castellari, Italy/Spain/France) Yaadon Ki Baaraat “Procession of Memories” (Nasir Hussain, India) Shurayukihime “Lad...

Halfway through Kurt Kluge's - yes, he's related to Alexander - DIE SILBERNE WINDFAHNE (1934), and it's great!
I'll try to read more by this author in the future.

Just finished my first Cees Nooteboom, PHILIP AND THE OTHERS from 1954, which he wrote when he was 20, and it was a chore and took me some time (even if the novel is just a bit over 100 pages long). It's really a collection of short vignettes, rather than a "novel", and it seems that he wr...

I'm reading another novel by Günther Birkenfeld, this time from 1930, called "Liebesferne". Nowhere as good as his "Dritter Hof links", from the previous year. In fact, if I didn't know this was the same writer, I'd never assume it. "Liebesferne" reads much like an earl...

https://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/65/65999/65999452z.jpg Published in 1929, it's about Berlin at the end of the 1920s (before the Great Depression), and how it was to live in poverty in a big city, written from the perspective of a mother and her kids (15, 17 and 20). Birkenfeld should be much bet...

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 3:15 am

penalosa forever in our hearts ♥ why is this the only film where rory calhoun is hot. or even memorable

Rory Calhoun is always hot and always memorable. One of the great actors of his generation.

Currently reading https://images.thalia.media/00/-/364c4d976a7a4de3a4c647b192608b23/all-passion-spent-taschenbuch-vita-sackville-west-englisch.jpeg Never read anything by Vita before, but this one is excellent, so far. Exactly what it promises on the back cover: every page is a deligh! And it often ...

I finally found it!!! Having over 3000 books crammed into one single room without any principle of arranging them, let alone having them all stacked in shelves (I wish I had this much shelf space...) it can seem like trying to find a needle in a haystack when searching for a specific book. That's th...

Limelight (Charles Chaplin, USA) Illusion in Moll "Illusion in a Minor Key" (Rudolf Jugert, West Germany) Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, Italy) Bis wir uns wiedersehn "Until we meet again" (Gustav Ucicky, West Germany) The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (Ken Annakin, USA/U...

I didn't know Toussaint was a filmmaker as well! :o His (partial) filmography (the first three films are based on his novels): 1989: La salle de bain (screenplay) 1990: Monsieur (screenplay, + director) 1992: La Sevillane (screenplay + director) 1998: La Patinoire (screenplay + director) Well, Belgi...

Checking up on Toussaint, I've read: La salle de bain (1985) - my favorite (and my first by him, so maybe that's why) Monsieur (1986) L'appareil-photo (1988) La réticence (1991) La télévision (1997) Autoportrait (à l´Étranger) [1999] And I seem to recall that I actually bought a translation of "...