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These three were all last night.., #1 started out with me reading a magazine article about some transwoman who long ago got arrested in the Sex Pistols boat-on-the-Thames incident, with a real-life transwoman (sex-worker styling) looking over my shoulder and saymg "Oh, I remember her!" I p...

oh No worries, Despel! There's even a plus side, though I don't know what the connection could be -- it's like something flicked a 'record' switch in my bran and I'm remembering dreams again, as vividly as ever before. For sure I'm hoping that continues after the disease fades. I'll try to document...

In September because May 1st is tainted with International Communism, too close to home for libruls like FDR.

Thanks.

I think it's day 7? I'm on the upswing -- 4th day was the worst, progressively better since then. doing airy-fairy meditative stuff to handle the fevers that wouldn't let me sleep.

Somebody put Covid in my drink about a week ago, so FlatOnMyAss time kinda ruined that last-minute rush to see everything. (No Mondo Trasho. Sob.) L'Amour Fou Antonio Das Mortes Boy - Oshima Ma Nuit Chez Maud Medea - Pasolini El Chacal De Nahueltoro The Color Of Pomegranates Eggshells My Wealthy mis...

I experienced sleep paralysis last night for the first time. Scary stuff! Distorted, disembodied voices 'from somewhere' and i felt a hostile presence that I couldn't rouse my faculties to deal with... plus an anamorphic image of myself all panic-ridden, something like the poster for Prince Of Darkn...

Oh, this. This! Death May Be Your Santa Claus (Frankie Dymon, UK.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30BjJEzUME

Ditto!

This year's edition of the festival has some potential whoppers.

https://www.internationale-stummfilmtage.de/en/home-en

Topiltzin (B. Polio, El Salvador, 1975)

sally wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 11:02 am etc....

There's a shot... a whole sequence... that looks a lot like this in a student film from 1959...

Started my 1969 explorations with a rewatch, Chastity (Alessio de Paolo -- pseudonym? Maybe Sonny Bono?) It's one of those monstrous, misshapen, wannabe-youthy trainwreck movies, on a par with Skidoo. Maybe surpassing it. Earnest like you wouldn't believe and ... just... wrong... in every way.

L'Amour Fou is one of the more experimental ones, it's practically Out One.

I'll start wit dese: L'Amour Fou Antonio Das Mortes Boy - Oshima Medea - Pasolini The Wild Bunch Burn El Chacal De Nahueltoro - Littin The Cremator Model Shop The Rain People Destroy, She Said Killed The Family And Went To The Movies - Bressane Medium Cool They Shoot Horses Don't They Venus In Furs ...

El Evangelio De Las Maravillas - Ripstein Flowers Of Shanghai Khrustalyov, My Car! Terminus paradis The Bird People Of China/Chugoku no chojin Day Of The Full Moon A Hero Never Dies - To New Rose Hotel From The Forest Of Tigers And Spirits Inquietude - de Oliveira The Mutilation Man The Sex Theif - ...

Obvs, I was looking for something else, but this is rather nice, if you're a fan of the genre.

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

On a side note... unrelated levity... when Brittney Spears melted down, with the head-shaving and everything, I was hoping she'd go on SNL and do a song that ended with her ripping up a picture of Walt Disney.

"From the Forest of Tigers and Sprits (1998) - English subtitle" Maybe it was the typo that buggered up your search.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-PxojRndq8

There's a rather neat "poet's documentary" on yout about a Hmong tribe in backwoods Thailand called From The Forest Of Tigers And Spirits -- it's sorta like if you assigned an AI the task of making a Weerasethakul movie. Less than an hour...

I can't stand those movies with a Russian narrator overdubbed onto the orig. audio...

Final ballot... The Ball At The Anjo House Encadenada (El Yugo) The Kneeling Goddess Le Tempestaire - Epstein The Lady From Shanghai The Man I Love -- Walsh Record Of A Tenement Gentleman Silence Is Golden - Clair Body And Soul Monsieur Verdoux The Pearl The Red House One Wonderful Sunday - Kurosawa...

Not a good year for me -- all I got:

Flowers Of Shanghai
El Evangelio De Las Maravillas/Divine - Ripstein
Terminus Paradis
Unlucky Monkey
The Mutilation Man
The Hole - Tsai Ming-Liang
Inquietude - de Oliveira
Bajo California: Los Limites Del Tiempo

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn1.cybassets.com%2Fmedia%2FW1siZiIsIjQ5Mi9wcm9kdWN0cy8xNjY2MzUvTU9DRC0xMzI5MF8zMjQuanBlZyJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiNjAweDYwMCJdXQ.jpeg%3Fsha%3D13a64ee1ecf52bb3&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=00240f96ba2796fb5396c21c019964a24619f2c9a87d700a9cad09...

Time for a hate-watch... Thanks, Mario n Sally.

Preliminaria... (bottom tier is more like 'prelimination'...) La Diosa Arrodillada - Gavaldon The Lady From Shanghai Le Tempestaire - Epstein Encadenada (El Yugo) - Victor Urruchua Monsieur Verdoux La Perla - Fernandez Le Silence Est D'Or - Clair Body And Soul - Rossen Dreams That Money Can Buy -- R...

OK, I'm done. I regret sleeping on Paris Qui Dort, but it can't be helped. The Big Parade The Merry Widow The Salvation Hunters Strike! Variety Battleship Potemkin Orochi The Freshman Seven Chances Visages D'Enfants - Feyder Le Diable Dans Le Ville - Dulac Go West The Gold Rush Maciste In Hell The R...

FWIW, Christensen's Diablo En El Cuerpo is a rom-com and doesn't play by any of the generic rules that title would suggest (not noirish nohow. Or nothin'.) I don't see it making anybody's lists, even if they watch it...

Sanity is overrated.

Zynab wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 4:33 am LOVE

Not surprised; there's an Italianate fervor to Laura LaPlante's performance that's pretty grabby. And her eyebrows...