1914 Poll

[rischka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNc-mazLcko

[sally]

oh wow. if asta the bandit burst into my bedroom, i would try to snog her too.

loved zapata's gang

[sally]

ah, i found it! it was a mubi directors cup

2011 April 19 – Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days) vs Benjamin Christensen (The Mysterious X) CAT AND KAI WHITE

god i hope i voted for christensen. can't find my comments though to find out.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

oh wow. if asta the bandit burst into my bedroom, i would try to snog her too.

loved zapata's gang

so glad! it charmed me altogether too.

[sally]

AARGH!



i'll forget the film, but this coming after the still living (now dead) communards, was creepy

[rischka]

me and my cat watching cabiria

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

me and my cat watching cabiria

lol

[sally]

this was fun. i think a reel was out of order but this is so much bonkers jules verney i don't think it would make that much more sense even in the right order & with subs. still rollicking, regardless. it had sea. i'm happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ3hIawUglY

[sally]

also because of that i found this amazing site and am now super happy

https://www.thecinetourist.net/

[Lencho of the Apes]

Aargh, and it's signed by Jasset! But Dutch titles.

That's the same bit of Vernerie that was filmed in 1962 as In Search Of The Castaways, with Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier, something I never knew. Thank Heaven for little girls.

[sally]

Aargh, and it's signed by Jasset! But Dutch titles.

That's the same bit of Vernerie that was filmed in 1962 as In Search Of The Castaways, with Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier, something I never knew. Thank Heaven for little girls.

and george sanders! in a disney movie. brain hurts just from watching the trailer.

thing about book adaptations is that you can read extensive plots that make the completely unguessable dutch titles almost unnecessary (although i think i got schipbreuk) - that is unless they mash the reel order up and go from being menaced by a demonic maori tribe in one frame to climbing up a mountain the next, but, it all came good in the end. thank heaven for little boys being carried off by giant vulture puppets.

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Oh my, that cinetourist site is awesome, I mean literally as I am awed by the efforts put in to some of the mapping like in the Irma Vep posts a letter location search. I love that stuff and wish I had more time and resources to do it myself as it can be a fun and rewarding little hobby. I started a brief "deep dive" into Hathaway's Nob Hill (along with Hello Frisco Hello, with which it shared an opening tracking shot and other elements) on a lark cuz someone here was stanning for Hathaway and it got me curious and looking into all the details was nifty for all the history it brought out and the sometimes sly choices made in filming as well. So happy you found that sire magpies!

Oh, and I have a soft spot for In Search of the Castaways as well for being wonderfully excessive and silly in a quite enjoyable way.

[rischka]

cabiria: too long too many characters v confusing in the last half but def looks cool and probs make my list

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

agreed, that Cine-Tourist site is amazing, thanks for sharing such a great find!

[rischka]

me three! wonderful site. deep into the histoire(s) du cinema post alice guy wuz robbed!



i've tweeted about the site wth credit to you for it's discovery @twodeadmagpies

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Well, Les enfants du capitaine Grant indeed made zero sense to me, though maybe just for the Dutch intertitles and a shuffled reel. Some very pretty images of lighting (Jasset is surely the best ever at lighting on film!) and some memorable action images too (a boy racing a train by steed; a boy in the clutches of a vulture, recalling Porter) but it was too much of a mess plot-wise in this state for me to know what to do with it. Haven't read the Verne, mind, so that much is on me . Incidentally, Jasset and a couple other names are listed as directors: it was released in 1914, and Jasset died in mid-1913, so my guess is that Jasset died mid-production and other hands took over the task of completing it, but that's entirely a guess only. Pretty images:

[Lencho of the Apes]

Oh, derpy me; I thought that The Squaw Man was going to be a movie about a berdache. Instead, it's a 1914 version of Axe Cop.

[sally]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sally]

first, sorry evelyn if i made out that there was more to captain grant that just fun adventure (i totally LOL'd at the cow-chase) i just really enjoyed it. (i think it followed the wiki plot summary pretty well, if you went & retrospectively reordered some scenes)

but the main point is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOMAN OF TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i got so excited i had to stop it halfway through to hop around the room, and then went and made some coffee so i could hop some more. NOTHING!!!! has changed 106 years later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! apart from that Иван Мозжухин is dead. he plays the best shit here and tho i previously loved him, i had him down as a continental john barrymore who revelled in his ham. now i am just fantasising about him playing my secret teen love nikolai stavrogin, but anyway and also...

the revelation scene (you know it's coming, no plot spoilers really) had me squealing, with their synchronised gazes moving apart and...is this the same staircase that is soooooooo emotionally loaded (for me, all the spaces & movements in that film are psychologically related to the characters) in bauer's mute witnesses? i almost fainted at the architecture in that, and then it turns up here????

woman of tomorrow:


mute witnesses:


and i don't know the full history of split screen phone conversations other than lois weber the year before, but



guess what, this is making my list. and now i am going to go and calm down. i never got so excited at a staircase.

[sally]

did they ever need to make cinderella again after this one? it's all there. if i was a kid this would give me nightmares.

(but as i'm not, i want to marry the prince that thinks i'm this kind of princess)



and i've still not seen shoes (1916)!

1914 is such fun.

[Lencho of the Apes]

the #1 most luridly awful

exactly the reason i wanted to see it!

I'm not sure I understand the hate -- I hardly felt like the movie approved of Carey's character, much less offered him as a "hero".

Thanks, ELPI, for placing a thing in the place and stuff.

[sally]

oooh, either we're syncing up or running out of films - i was going to watch that today. i am curious about the vehemence of moviessilently's disgust, mainly because i don't often agree with her (apart from her fascination with ivan mosjoukine) but i wanted something longer so instead i watched reign of terror, which is everything i want in a poor-dear-marie-antoinette movie.

and this guy at the back that mostly thinks with what's in his trousers is a total dish


also, just look at the composition of this scene

[Lencho of the Apes]

Is that the Capellani? I have it under a different title, but I'm planning to watch it tomorrow; maybe we are synching up.

Oh, BTW, there was a lot of split-screen telephone action in Mysterious X too. I guess it was a thing...

[sally]

yeah that's the capellani, it's called the reign of terror on letterboxd. nice print too.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

I'm not sure I understand the hate -- I hardly felt like the movie approved of Carey's character, much less offered him as a "hero".

Just watched it and I agree. Obviously nothing approaching anti-colonial or anti-racist, but it seems clear that the movie is positioning Carey as a fallen soul who must be lead back to the right path by love for a white woman. I won't be voting for it, but not as disgusting as all that.

[sally]

okay guys, someone is taking the piss

wrath of the gods:


mcveagh of the south seas:


wrath of the gods:


mcveagh of the south seas:






seeing as that's frank borzage (you can't miss those ears) and he's the central young beau in wrath of the gods, i'd side with carey being slightly economical with his stormy seas, the old rascal.

fwiw i quite enjoyed mcveagh

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

okay guys, someone is taking the piss

these comparisons are even more remarkable than the earlier one of Russian films! great eye, 2DM!

did carey just steal shots from wrath of gods, then?

[sally]

i think so? there's more footage of the storm in the wrath of the gods (sorry, i keep dropping my "the"s lately) but without scrupulously replaying them side by side...i think he just lifted that section and inserted his own titles.

and google is telling me nothing.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Good work, Operative 2!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Good work, Operative 2!

I loled. Cinephiles are rather like detectives at times, aren't we?