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Die Schulung AKA Indoctrination (1987, Harun Farocki) https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmfVK8kn9ktvFp6jWw7TGpFoK936XdrUwj4tF53EnA7hA8/img84_8389_capture8dx6.jpg After writing up my thoughts on The Re-Education I could not help myself from jumping back to Farocki's first exploration of corporate seminar...

2 Great & Forgotten Films from Harun Farocki (including 1 new favourite) https://miro.medium.com/max/644/0*BofgTraVX5lxaR7S.jpg Exciting to see two films from very different parts of Harun Farocki's career and both revealed a new side of him that I had not previously seen. Having progressed thr...

Seen 16:

Souls at Sea (1937)
Garden of Evil (1954)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
True Grit (1969)

Seen 9, though none are fresh in mind:

The Cincinnati Kid
In the Heat of the Night
...and justice for all.

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:26 am

hilarious bergman joke in tarkovsky's the sacrifice

I just rewatched this today and somehow didn't catch it.

(Also, with Nykvist on board (shot both films) + Erland Josephson on screen, it was hard not comparing it to Bergman throughout)

Fällan / The Trap (1975) is a really good film, though not quite great. Has anyone seen Fritänkaren (1994), it has a similar profile to Edward Munch. His short The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959) has also a decent amount of buzz, and was chosen by TimeOut Magazine as one of the 1,000 greatest fil...

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:26 am sarraounia is a total badass

If you haven't be sure to check out Hondo's earlier West Indies. Very different, but absolutely incredible.

Seen 9:

La commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Aftenlandet / Evening Land (1977)
Punishment Park (1971)
Edvard Munch (1974)

I'll mess up the results a little. Seen 8: Battleship Potemkin Aleksandr Nevskiy Ivan the Terrible, Part I Que Viva Mexico (While Ivan the Terrible, Part I is a favourite I was severely disappointed by part 2. This is mainly as I found the impromptu singing and the colour scene entirely out of place)

1986 was an excellent year for cinema, and as it appears from my list, a very strong year for French-language cinema: À l'ombre de la canaille bleue / In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986, Pierre Clémenti) Le rayon vert / The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer) Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch) Thérèse (1...

Seen 8:

Night and the City
Rififi
He Who Must Die
The Naked City

Seen 8:

Adalen 31
Man on the Roof

The rest are in the very good, but not great camp for me.

Only seen 5:

Warlock
The Caine Mutiny

I'll go with the 4/4/4/4/4 system once again: Tier 1 Die Parallelstrasse / The Parallel Street (1962, Ferdinand Khittl) El Ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Bunuel) Le Procès / The Trial (1962, Orson Welles) Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962, Jean-Luc Godard) Tier 2 Mamma Roma (1962, Pier Paol...

Seen 8:

The French Connection
Killer Joe
The Exorcist
To Live and Die in L.A.

Seen 6:

Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein

Seen 9:

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Front
The Great White Hope
Hud
Hombre

Seen 9:

The Stolen Airship (1967)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978)
A Treasure on Bird Island (1952)

Seen 12:

The Cremator (1969)
Morgiana (1972)
Pasáz / Passage (1997)
Beauty and the Beast (1978)
Ferat Vampire (1982)
The Night Overtake Me (1987)

HM:

Day for My Love (1977)
Sweet Games of Last Summer (1970)

Reading the 82-page platform, which is missing a lot of clear details and indicating the direction they want to go in and initiatives they want to do, rather than the extent, the exact tax brackets, fees, investment, etc. but this is for the final budget negotiations as well as later - there is actu...

The negotiations between the Labour Party and the Centre Party are complete and they have revealed the baseline of their shared platform. There will be adjustments here, as they need The Socialist Left to get their budget approved, and with this there will be concessions. These are broad strokes hig...

Thanks. Cut.

Hmmmm, ok, so my PMs office is slightly, erm ...

I have to admit, 1993 is one of the years that makes me miss the old system with the undisputed number 1 - which is almost ever the case - but everything else falls far, far behind Hélas pour moi. Oh well - I'll go with the 4/4/4/4/4 system for maximum payout - and highlight the excellent and overlo...

Seen 5:

The Tempest

I see I didn't vote here, but also wouldn't have had anything to vote for. Given him 3 chances so far, with Der Tod der Maria Malibran, Willow Springs and Der Bomberpilot. Found all rather repellent and not in a good way. I could appreciate certain visual touches, and can see a kinship with von Syde...

Seen 6:

Le roman de Renard / The Story of the Fox (1930-1937)
The Magical Clock, or The Little Girl Who Wanted to Be a Princess (1928)
Mest kinematograficheskogo operator / The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

Alain Robbe-Grillet is one of my all-time favourite directors, coupling stunning visuals with consistently intriguing and often even startling surrealism - and beyond, playing with structure and form in ways that almost match my all-time favourite film - Last Year at Marienbad - of which Robbe-Grill...

Seen 11:

The Omen
The Goonies

Decent news from Norway. The Centre party conceded and each MP voted to start deliberations with the Socialist Left - meaning we are quite likely getting the most left-leaning government we could expect based on the results. The alternative is a Labour/Centre Party minority government collaborating ...