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This was an extremely rough year for me, neither' 'highbrow' nor 'lowbrow' products were hitting the mark. I definitely watched too many CGI blockbusters this month. The best I can do: Djinn- Hooper Hard To Be A God Norte, The End Of History - Diaz Nymphomaniac 1/2 P3nd3j05 Prologue to The Great Des...

Has James Franco been cancelled really hard? Cuz I can't think of an other reason why Sam Raimi could do a prequel to Wizard Of Oz... for Disney Studios... and it could sink without a trace. Watching it tonightish.

Greg's a little more active on LB than here, but I haven't seen him there recently either. I'll snoop around some.

That guy on the right, wasn't he in Old Man Drinking A Glass Of Beer?

I try to listen to Trout Mask Replica at least once a year; this year I discovered that it works really well as soundtrack to silent westerns.

All the Griffith Biographs getting renovated.

https://filmpreservationsociety.org/biograph-project

Finally... The Brown Bunny - Gallo Ce Jour La - Ruiz Decasia - Morrison House Of 1000 Corpses - Zombie Los Angeles Plays Itself - Thom Anderson Filme De Amor - Bressane Gozu - Takashi Miike Histoire De Marie Et Julien - Rivette Maqbool -Bhardwaj Moyngo, El Sueno De Maragareum - Txicao Buongiorno, No...

Preliminaries... Djinn- Hooper Hard To Be A God Norte, The End Of History - Diaz Nymphomaniac 1/2 P3nd3j05 Prologue to The Great Desaparecido - Diaz The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears - Thou Gild'st the Even Why Don't you Play In Hell? Aanwar Ka Ajaab Kissa - Dasgupta Abuse Of Weakness - Breilla...

Yeah, I was surprised myself -- general opinion on it doesn't seem that favorable, but it had so much going for it.

EDIT: I guess the nay-sayers are noir fanbros, protecting their franchise.

Singing Behind Screens - Olmi ... if anyone has a woman-pirates itch to scratch. That Day - Ruiz -- one of my five top favorite RR.s? Pretty sure it is, as sure as I can be about anything with Ruiz. Penj E Asr/At Five In The Afternoon - Makhmalbaf -- all about a high school student trying to imagine...

Can't remember a damn thing from last night, but there was a synth duo called Boulez Vous. I thought that was cute.

Welcome aboard, Lumumbista.

sally wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:58 pm ah, that's sad

A deeply marginalized but quite brilliant writer named Nathaxnne disappeared from the site and I was all distraught, assuming that the long-feared worst had actually happened. All that marvelous prose apparently lost forever.

Starting line-up: The Brown Bunny - Gallo Gozu - Takashi Miike Maqbool -Bhardwaj Nat Turner, A Troublesome Property - Burnett and also maybe Coffee And Cigarettes - Jarmusch The Dreamers - Bertolucci Moyngo, El Sueno De Maragareum - Txicao Plastic Tree - Eo Il-Seong The Return - Zvyagintsev The Wait...

La Casa Del Sur Longitud De Guerra Duelle Satansbraten - Fassbinder Taxi Driver Chinese Roulette Jeanne Dielman Keoma The Little Mermaid El Nino Y La Estrella Harlan County USA - Kopple The Last Supper La Marquise d'O News From Home The Wishing Tree Assault On Precinct 13 Heart Of Glass - Herzog The...

Stupidly Freudian last night,but I. Am. Not. Ashamed. I was outdoors somewhere, hilltop vibe, with someone I felt a filial attachment toward... but he disappointed me by putting all is attention toward a mother rabbit and her newborns that he was carrying in a wooden box. Later I was somewhere else,...

sally wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:41 pm szabó

Yeah, Szabo.

I miss Greg's old, old thread dedicated to pictures of people sticking their tongues out.

Colonel Redl (of the 1931 title) was a RW Austrio-Hungarian military commander and big ol' queen; his story was treated more explicitly in the post-60s a least once, though they seemed to muff the actual nature of his gender-nonconformity. One of those movies that Karl liked better than I did -- sha...

I should certainly learn more about the UK branch of the College Du P, big hole in my fanatical Jarryisme.

Tom Verlaine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA

Yours sounds properly scary...

Last night I was piloting a tiny helicopter with four schoolchildren; we drove around the corner of a parking structure and they oohed and ahhed at the view, like it was a spectacular tracking shot.

My God, Satansbraten by Fassbinder! All those people are so horrible, and it's so goddamned funny! I wouldn't be surprised if John Waters took notes o this one for Polyester, but it goes far beyond that in awfulness.

"Sherlock Holmes" was a real narrative trope, wasn't it -- for 1937-poll I watched a German movie about someone impersonating Holmes for fun and profit, and yesterday a Czech silent -- 1923 -- called The Kidnapping Of Fux, The Banker, tat likewise had a Sherlock Holmes trying to track down...

Oh, Greg, I hear you about "sorting" dreams. There's a growing undertone of that in my stuff too; in my case, I think it comes from spending too much time online and conflating experiential narratives with cybernetic data-processing.

My overnight memory has gone fuzzy again, but I captured one fun detail from last night's adventures:

The Marx Brothers buried a coffin full of knives. I think it was a magic ritual of some sort.

Oh yeah, this. That time of year. So

https://letterboxd.com/lencho_o_t_apes/ ... s-of-2022/

Frank McHugh> One Way Passage > Monkey Business > Maurice Chevalier. There's a joke there somewhere.

Was he wearing a straw hat maybe? I don't even remember...