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the ancient woods - mindaugas survila (2017) #CoMoLietuva

slow nature doc

well i guess amongst all the deliriums of northern scandi-baltic misery, a lithuanian inflected one is not nuance enough to be interesting for you :D but for me the different ways of defining that misery are art enough..... (although may be fully suicidal by november) anyway something slightly more ...

in memory of the day passed by - šarūnas bartas (1990) #CoMoLietuva


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHltnc8JZ0

ah, your problem is the idea of 'warming'

nothing warm around here

(will attempt to disprove that over coming month, maybe)

https://i.imgur.com/AE3aHZ8.png and we go deeper into the dark......into the mind itself!..... reflections - henrikas šablevičius (1968) #CoMoLietuva In 1968, he made Reflections for Lithuanian television – a philosophically and metaphorically nuanced short, regarded as his greatest work in the poe...

the dupes is 72 on imdb, otherwise i'd have voted for it

waves - patrick carey (25 mins) suitable for the horrorphile poll, this is nature documentary via h p lovecraft (positively eldritch) no idea why all the reviews are like 'blah blah beautiful irish coast', this wet stuff is malevolent and possessed and gave me the heebie-jeebies i think one reason s...

the legend of the old shepherd xeudi and his friend reimann - hans-jakob siber stone wedding - mircea veroiu, dan pița mamad - sjuman djaya the hare census - eduard sachariev the hourglass sanatorium - wojciech jerzy has defying everybody - yurii illienko methods of egg-viewing - yoichi nagata reper...

sooooooo......there's mekas, there's bartas, there's poetic documentary.... there's.........no silent movies???? nooooooooo Cinema, it is generally agreed, arrived in Lithuania in 1909, the year the American Lithuanian Antanas Raciunas, filmed the sights of his native village for fellow Lithuanian i...

cœurs belges - aimée navarra (1923) #CoMoBelgium

truly dreadful, as most patriotic nonsense is

the enemies - hugo claus (1968) #CoMoBelgium

couldn't find one belgian writer-directed movie (toussaint) so settled for another belgian writer-directed movie (hugo claus)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUV-vnwnr58

to the sea - annik leroy (1999) #CoMoBelgium nice cheerful trip along the danube from source to sea. like the claudio magris book without the creepy 'mystery of woman' crap interviews dušan hanák https://i.imgur.com/3QR5QBo.png https://i.imgur.com/QcOs3ki.png https://i.imgur.com/8dH2MTj.png https://...

dock - emile degelin (1955) #CoMoBelgium


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV7DO3YxBvc

cup of tea - jean-marie buchet (2006) #CoMoBelgium





fantasy on the end of the world - jean-marie buchet (2009) #CoMoBelgium

the erasers - lucien deroisy, rené micha (1969) #CoMoBelgium

apparently i've read the robbe-grillet novel this is based on, don't remember a thing (memory is erased) but seems like a minor detective thingy wandering around nice city streets

peasant symphony - henri storck, maurice delattre (1944) #CoMoBelgium don't know when the need to give manual labourers human dignity turned into middle-class filmmakers announcing the inherent dignity in men toiling grimly like beasts, but i hate it, had enough of this twee wholesome patronising no...

axolotl - olivier smolders (2018) #CoMoBelgium

too woo woo for me, but axolotls are so cute

pierre - jan decorte (1977) #CoMoBelgium

belgians are crazy

what can we do on a sunday afternoon, when we don't have a tv? - jean-marie buchet (1964) #CoMoBelgium




horrible - jean-marie buchet (2000) #CoMoBelgium

for 1952 poll, a record of an archaeological dig to greenland, with a slightly more cavalier attitude to human remains than archaeologists have these days.... https://www.danmarkpaafilm.dk/film/groenland-i-ii https://i.imgur.com/i7zTj3E.png https://i.imgur.com/6Pad11M.png https://i.imgur.com/4G52Evd...

i like nooteboom....but it's a mild like, as in i know i'll sort of enjoy it even if i won't remember it again or think it's the greatest book ever written. actually found a nooteboom in a charity shop here last week (minor miracle because even something like nooteboom is too 'difficult' for normal ...

karl wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:29 pm By the way, magpies, you see Malyan's Father with subs or no?

with subs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2R8r9NS7E4

rischka wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:19 pm i read that and adored it. how often do we gals think about ancient rome

ha! seeing as my twitter feed is approx 70% archaeology (tenacious lot, those guys, they remain when everyone else disappears) literally every day

vivement ce soir - patrick van antwerpen (1985) #CoMoBelgium exquisitely observed fictional day in the life at a supermarket. like a belgian kaurismäki in the droll incidents, domestic routine and small rebellions of the menially employed. how humane ♥ https://i.imgur.com/Md42p7I.png https://i.imgur...

continuing belgian theme

had this for years but was always scared a bit by yourcenar's reputation, thought i should have done a classics degree or something to appreciate it. but anyway, foolishness. we'll see...

hey karl :) yes on kinodaran (quality is much more fabulous than other prints elsewhere, at least for the ones i saw) but alas no subs. doesn't bother me that much for silents if i can read the plot beforehand or it's so stereotyped that they're not necessary - which is the case for some of the soun...

the marriage of mademoiselle beulemans - julien duvivier (1927) #CoMoBelgium minor belgian-set duvivier silent comedy (but minor silent duvivier is still 100 times more gorgeous than post-silent cinema) he throws all his 1927 tricks at it, and the plot is a lot more pleasingly cynical than the genia...