SCFZ poll: Tod Browning

[Joks Trois]

Seen 10.

Freaks
West Of Zanzibar
Dracula
The Unknown
The Unholy Three

[ofrene]

seen 2

Freaks

[St. Gloede]

Seen 13:

The Unknown
West of Zanzibar
The Unholy Three
The Devil-Doll
Freaks
Dracula
The Show

[sally]

When I re-engage with this'n, I always wait for the armadillos.

oh they were so adorable! what on earth were they doing there? i'm not up on armadillo symbolism apart from 'so sweet'

i guess i really need to see the unknown as well (i can't stand circus movies!)

[Lencho of the Apes]

No idea what they were doing there, it just seems like a huge non sequitur. Anyone else?

[rischka]

That was the great armadillo plague of 1930. Keep filming!

#Children of the night

(i can't stand circus movies!)

you'll hate it. chaney is basically a sad clown in every movie tho

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1396 ... 98405?s=20

[flip]

6,

greennui, you can pick our next director if you want to!

[greennui]

6,

greennui, you can pick our next director if you want to!

Let's check Werner Schroeter. I've got 12.

If he doesn't work then Mark Rappaport. I've got 21.

[flip]

i think i have one of each, but i think both of those directors have admirers in these parts, and i'm almost certain rappaport will work, but let's check both! if anyone has seen several schroeter or rappaport films, please post here

[sally]

4 schroeter 15 rappaport but that's mainly shorts

[nrh]

10 rappaport, 7 schroeter (who was supposed to be one of my big watch and revisit projects for this year that i never actually managed to get around to).

[---]

I didn't know Mark Rappaport directed films as well. I thought he was really funny in those episodes of Friends

[flip]

rappaport definitely works, no need for more replies on him, but let's see if we can get a schroeter poll happening, i think joks might have seen a lot of schroeter films?

[ofrene]

already did Mark Rappaport https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-38/

[wba]

Seen 3 and love 2 (though Mark of the Vampire was also great!):

01. Dracula (1931) - what a masterpiece!
02. Freaks (1932)

Browning seen: 3

[wba]

seen merely 2 by Schroeter

[greennui]

already did Mark Rappaport https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-38/

Shoot. I'll replace him with Jess Franco then, we checked him before and he worked.

[wba]

I'll replace him with Jess Franco then, we checked him before and he worked.

Franco!!!

Only seen 15 of Jesus' 200+ films, but there were already many masterpieces among them. Truly, he was the messiah, the son of the cinema-gods.

[brian d]

i've got over 10 francos

[flip]

ha, i forgot to check if we'd done rappaport, but that sounds familiar now! we haven't done franco, so that will be our next poll unless we get more replies on schroeter in the next few hours

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I didn't know Franco directed his own films as well. I thought he was really good in Guernica

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Edited my ballot to include the just-watched The Wicked Darling, which was quite well-done and a brisk hour.

[flip]

i think i'll start up the franco poll (or schroeter poll if we get more feedback on him) on friday, rather than today, focused on a non-film project right now and want to slow the poll pace a bit

[john ryan]

seen 10

1. Dracula
2. Mark of the Vampire
3. The Unknown
4. The Unholy Three
5. Freaks

[der kulterer]

i have 6 Schroeters and, for the poll, i would watch 2-3 more.

[flip]

i have 6 Schroeters and, for the poll, i would watch 2-3 more.

in that case, i think we can do a schroeter poll! so i'll start that tomorrow, and we'll get to franco a bit later on

and if you'd be willing to vote in the 1975 cannes poll, that would be great - i think you mentioned you'd seen aloise (liliane de kermadec), and we won't get any input about that film otherwise, i don't think: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=740

[der kulterer]

i posted about Aloise here viewtopic.php?p=30797#p30797
i like Aloise's paintings but don't like much the film.
and besides Aloise, i watched only 2 more films from Cannes nominees so i can hardly participate.
the same goes for Tod — i watched only 2 films, i.e. i would vote only for Freaks which is probably pointless.
it is not i would be boycotting (some of) the polls, i only don't have enough viewings to take part.

[flip]

and besides Aloise, i watched only 2 more films from Cannes nominees so i can hardly participate.

i have no wish to try to persuade you to vote if you don't want to, but if you're only considered that you've seen too few films, the voting system is designed so anyone can participate fairly, regardless of how much they've seen

[oscarwerner]

Seen 4.
1.Freaks
2.Dracula
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Freaks is still a scary movie. I doubt somebody can make such today. Such explotation of disability...
I have more then 10 of Jesus Franco.

[sally]

oh i forgot to vote, seen 9 now

mark of the vampire
the devil-doll
west of zanzibar
the show
fast workers

(technically should have gone with white tiger somewhere also but i'm sorry, john gilbert existed)