SCFZ

he did a few horror-ish films in the 70s (morbo, la loba y la paloma, beatriz). they're all pretty decent in quality, more about atmosphere than actual scares. too bad his films after beatriz are all pretty bad...

disappointingly little this month:

welsh stick chairs (john brown) *****
bro (vladimir sorokin) **
the art of joinery (joseph moxon) ***

getting closer to the end of the charterhouse of parma, hopefully i can pick things back up in october.

reason, debate, and a story, where ghatak is really passionate (and drunk), not about conquest or love, but about socialism?

not sure if that's the intellectual angle you're going for or not, but it's a good movie...

For the most part, the human body closes up from the enlightenment and until the twentieth century. There are exceptions of course, the decadentists definitely opened things quite a bit, but even by Voltaire's time, there's a clear rejection of how Rabelais or Shakespeare depicted humans in the worl...

favorite hardy novels: far from the madding crowd, under the greenwood tree right under those: the woodlanders, tess of the d'urbervilles, the return of the native, a pair of blue eyes, a laodicean, the trumpet-major right under those: jude the obscure, the mayor of casterbridge, desperate remedies,...

if you don't like melodrama then you wouldn't like any thomas hardy. if you want bucolic descriptions of nature then under the greenwood tree or far from the madding crowd might have at least some scenes of interest. as far as what he does have to offer, it's a lot of people doing things that aren't...

in the labyrinth (alain robbe-grillet) **** a tour on the prairies (washington irving) [reread] *** envy (yury olesha) *** paradise lost (john milton) [reread] *** philosophical fragments/johannes climacus (søren kierkegaard) **** a woman (sibilla aleramo) *** six characters in search of an author (...

ok so next step is to figure out how admins can delete threads, cause i don't seem to be able to any more...

probably the same list i would have had for the past five or six years... Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, John Blystone, 1923) Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929) The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938) Subida al cielo (Luis Buñuel, 1952) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965...

june: season of migration to the north (tayeb salih) [reread] ***** ice (vladimir sorokin) no clue roanoke island (david stick) *** mirror made of rain (naheed phiroze patel) *** the conquest of bread (pyotr kropotkin) *** july: écue-yamba-ó (alejo carpentier) [reread] **** la rebambaramba (alejo ca...

favorite by far is the man who lies, even more than trans-europ-express which might be the better movie.

and oops, messed up that link, can't edit. but it'll take you there, haha

i haven't made a stick chair yet, but that's the plan for this fall, probably an <a href=https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.lostartpress.com%2F2021%2F02%2F17%2Firish-chair-no-3-by-the-numbers%2F&psig=AOvVaw0UWaOEbjulm926PrF6lY0X&ust=1654218464751000&source=images&...

the sheltering sky (paul bowles) [reread] ***** eternity by the stars (louis-auguste blanqui) *** the mill: a cosmos (bess brenck-kalischer) **** harry potter and the deathly hallows (jk rowling) * the stick chair book (christopher schwarz) ***** don bonifacio (josé milla) *** statism and anarchy (m...

can't reply directly, but for some degree of reference, edition 69 is nowhere near as explicit as bataille's story of the eye (haven't been able to track down a copy of aragon's irene's cunt so no basis for comparison there), but the images they use are definitely explicit. it's a pretty fun set of ...

what is property? (pierre-joseph proudhon) ***** the narrative of arthur gordon pym (edgar allan poe) ***** the name of the rose (umberto eco) ** the wedding of zein and other stories (tayeb salih) [reread] **** acharnians; knights (aristophanes) [reread] ***** moll flanders (daniel defoe) *** editi...

so here are the films that i thought were at least decent. i didn't care too much about whether something was giallo or poliziotteschi or krimi or whatever else, just things that seemed giallo or -adjacent. obviously a lot of these blend together at a certain point, and i can't recall all the detail...

that might be more enjoyable than paying attention to the stories, yep :) i watched 52 of these in one year several years back as a challenge to myself because i never really like gialli movies. i feel the same about them now, but did find a few that weren't bad, so if you want some recommendations ...

that agfacolor film sally posted made me drool. somehow i'm actually watching a movie for the first time in i don't know how long...

i could have posted this on the currently reading thread, but it's the high seas! i got a copy of the narrative of arthur gordon pym, by poe, and it's really bizarre fun. i don't care one way or another about most of his stories, but this is a novel that feels like it's hanging together by a thread,...

twice told tales (nathaniel hawthorne) ** the boy with two mothers (massimo bontempelli) **** the putney debates (various) *** the assistant (robert walser) [reread] **** the life and death of adria and her two children (massimo bontempelli) *** the third book of pantagruel (françois rabelais) *****...

not a novel, but am reading proudhon's what is property, and liked the poetry of this passage: listening to homer sing his verse, i, a simple shepherd, and humble farmer, am nothing in comparison to this sublime genius. indeed, if creation is compared to creation, what are my cheeses and my beans wo...

the ten best books i read in 2022: troubles (jg farrell) renaissance polyphony (fabrice fitch) a gun for sale (graham greene) the word for world is forest (ursula k le guin) sultana's dream (rokeya sakhawat hossain) the narrative of arthur gordon pym of nantucket (edgar allan poe) what is property? ...

renaissance polyphony (fabrice fitch) *****
the true levellers standard advanced and other writings (gerrard winstanley) ****
a storm of swords (george rr martin) ***
harry potter and the order of the phoenix (jk rowling) *
the chess set in the mirror (massimo bontempelli) ***

only seen 1

moontide

i've been stuck on stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan 1842-3 for months! thinking of finally reading pynchon this year lol i've read some of that one! not sure i blame you for not tearing through it :lol: i tried reading the crying of lot 49 once. i didn't finish...

maybe it's time we turn this place into an eclectic book website instead of a movie one?

seen rose hobart, and i liked it

i did a giallo challenge a few years ago and don't torture a duckling was the only true giallo that i ranked very highly (out of 52 watched). but then, i'm not a giallo fan either so no surprise

seen 11

después de la tormenta/after the storm
la diosa arrodillada/the kneeling goddess
macario
la otra
la escondida
en la palma de tu mano