1929 poll 2.0
who what where when WHO!!
?? it's janet gaynor in lucky star ??
you would love it i think
also john barrymore is ruining eternal love
you would love it i think
also john barrymore is ruining eternal love
speaking of lucky star, imagine if the river was 29 eligible, then what a year we'd have had for hot naked dudes
also yeah, i love lubitsch and i love barrymore, but not at the same time, in theoretically the same register, maybe need to rewatch tho
anyway watched hell's heroes and blubbed & it made three godfathers look all shiny and neat & prissy in comparison. all the early wyler films have been visually really good, but i don't remember noticing that so much in his later films, i don't think i've ever got a handle on the man tbh
also watched karl lamac's sins of love and i don't know why i thought it was going to be a comedy. it's not a comedy! (but also of the four czech silents i've seen from 29, it's not going to beat erotikon or the organist at st vitus catherdral)
also speaking of visual flair, silent shimizu is mad, he threw everything at it, his earliest surviving film but the 56th one he directed...
i am still feeling completely overwhelmed by how much 29 stuff there is to see
anyway watched hell's heroes and blubbed & it made three godfathers look all shiny and neat & prissy in comparison. all the early wyler films have been visually really good, but i don't remember noticing that so much in his later films, i don't think i've ever got a handle on the man tbh
also watched karl lamac's sins of love and i don't know why i thought it was going to be a comedy. it's not a comedy! (but also of the four czech silents i've seen from 29, it's not going to beat erotikon or the organist at st vitus catherdral)
also speaking of visual flair, silent shimizu is mad, he threw everything at it, his earliest surviving film but the 56th one he directed...
i am still feeling completely overwhelmed by how much 29 stuff there is to see
i have concluded. 1929 was the best year for british cinema ever. it's all downhill from there (cynically announced by hitch two years earlier) - asquith, piccadilly (& am claiming the way of lost souls as uk, it says it somewhere) and now i have seen robison's the informer to add to this paltry few we can claim were great...
by way of grizzled lars & plague attention....
and via proto-joker
to map country...
which made me remember sadly the cine-tourist, and wondering if he had caught this (not so) led me neatly to this:
(pour vos beaux yeux - henri storck)
https://www.thecinetourist.net/maps-in- ... -1929-asia
which seemed appropriate ♥
by way of grizzled lars & plague attention....
and via proto-joker
to map country...
which made me remember sadly the cine-tourist, and wondering if he had caught this (not so) led me neatly to this:
(pour vos beaux yeux - henri storck)
https://www.thecinetourist.net/maps-in- ... -1929-asia
which seemed appropriate ♥
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I'll make the somewhat odd choice of splitting it in two batches this time. The top 10 (top 12 really) are just too bloody close. All fantastic.
1. Novyy Vavilon / The New Babylon (1929, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg)
2. Arsenal (1929, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
3. Die Büchse der Pandora / Pandora's Box (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
4. Dans la nuit (1929, Charles Vanel)
5. Finis terrae (1929, Jean Epstein)
6. Vesnoy / In Spring (1929, Mikhail Kaufman)
7. Chemi bebia / My Grandmother (1929, Kote Mikaberidze)
8. Zhivoy trup / The Living Corpse (1929, Fyodor Otsep)
9. Gardiens de phare / The Lighthouse Keepers (1929, Jean Grémillon)
10. Histoire de détective (1929, Charles Dekeukeleire)
11. Chelovek s kino-apparatom / The Man with the Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
12. Tagebuch einer Verlorenen / Diary of a Lost Girl (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
13. Rayon de soleil (1929, Jean Gourguet & Georges Péclet)
14. Adieu Mascotte (1929, Wilhelm Thiele)
15. Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü / The White Hell of Piz Palü (1929, Arnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
16. Peau de pêche / Peach Skin (1929, Jean Benoît-Lévy & Marie Epstein)
17. Queen Kelly (1929, Erich von Stroheim)
18. Frau im Mond / Woman in the Moon (1929, Fritz Lang)
19. Drifters (1929, John Grierson)
20. Segodnya / Today (1929, Esfir Shub)
Honorable mentions:
Shkurnyk / The Self Seeker (1929, Nikolai Shpikovsky)
Varhaník u sv. Víta / The Organist of St. Vitus Cathedral (1929, Martin Fric)
Fue no shiratama / Eternal Heart / Undying Pearl (1929, Hiroshi Shimizu)
Prapancha Pash / A Throw of the Dice (1929, Franz Osten)
Khlib / Bread (1929, Nikolai Shpikovsky)
Spite Marriage (1929, Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
Le capitaine Fracasse (1929, Alberto Cavalcanti & Henry Wulschleger)
Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna / The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929, Hanns Schwarz)
Laila (1929, George Schnéevoigt)
Goluboy ekspress / China Express (1929, Ilya Trauberg)
A Dança dos Paroxismos (1929, Jorge Brum do Canto)
Komunaris chibukhi / The Communard's Pipe (1929, Kote Mardjanishvili)
Erotikon (1929, Gustav Machatý)
La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc / Saint Joan the Maid (1929, Marco de Gastyne)
Chiny i lyudi / An Hour with Chekhov / Ranks and People (1929, Mikhail Doller & Yakov Protazanov)
The Manxman (1929, Alfred Hitchcock)
1. Novyy Vavilon / The New Babylon (1929, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg)
2. Arsenal (1929, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
3. Die Büchse der Pandora / Pandora's Box (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
4. Dans la nuit (1929, Charles Vanel)
5. Finis terrae (1929, Jean Epstein)
6. Vesnoy / In Spring (1929, Mikhail Kaufman)
7. Chemi bebia / My Grandmother (1929, Kote Mikaberidze)
8. Zhivoy trup / The Living Corpse (1929, Fyodor Otsep)
9. Gardiens de phare / The Lighthouse Keepers (1929, Jean Grémillon)
10. Histoire de détective (1929, Charles Dekeukeleire)
11. Chelovek s kino-apparatom / The Man with the Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
12. Tagebuch einer Verlorenen / Diary of a Lost Girl (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
13. Rayon de soleil (1929, Jean Gourguet & Georges Péclet)
14. Adieu Mascotte (1929, Wilhelm Thiele)
15. Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü / The White Hell of Piz Palü (1929, Arnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
16. Peau de pêche / Peach Skin (1929, Jean Benoît-Lévy & Marie Epstein)
17. Queen Kelly (1929, Erich von Stroheim)
18. Frau im Mond / Woman in the Moon (1929, Fritz Lang)
19. Drifters (1929, John Grierson)
20. Segodnya / Today (1929, Esfir Shub)
Honorable mentions:
Shkurnyk / The Self Seeker (1929, Nikolai Shpikovsky)
Varhaník u sv. Víta / The Organist of St. Vitus Cathedral (1929, Martin Fric)
Fue no shiratama / Eternal Heart / Undying Pearl (1929, Hiroshi Shimizu)
Prapancha Pash / A Throw of the Dice (1929, Franz Osten)
Khlib / Bread (1929, Nikolai Shpikovsky)
Spite Marriage (1929, Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
Le capitaine Fracasse (1929, Alberto Cavalcanti & Henry Wulschleger)
Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna / The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929, Hanns Schwarz)
Laila (1929, George Schnéevoigt)
Goluboy ekspress / China Express (1929, Ilya Trauberg)
A Dança dos Paroxismos (1929, Jorge Brum do Canto)
Komunaris chibukhi / The Communard's Pipe (1929, Kote Mardjanishvili)
Erotikon (1929, Gustav Machatý)
La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc / Saint Joan the Maid (1929, Marco de Gastyne)
Chiny i lyudi / An Hour with Chekhov / Ranks and People (1929, Mikhail Doller & Yakov Protazanov)
The Manxman (1929, Alfred Hitchcock)
ok ty i was wondering about it!twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:11 pmyou are gonna get to the way of lost souls as well aren't you? best of my new viewings so far along with nina petrovna
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Evelyn Library P.I.
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The Virginian (Victor Fleming, 1929)
The best-remembered film version of Owen Wister's novel. Not really good at all, despite Fleming's solid job of staging, but I do always enjoy seeing Eugene Pallette in western chaps.
The best-remembered film version of Owen Wister's novel. Not really good at all, despite Fleming's solid job of staging, but I do always enjoy seeing Eugene Pallette in western chaps.
the kingdom of rye was quite good. as usual they could avoid two hours of bull shit by listening to the
sluts forever! at least they didn't burn her
sluts forever!
at least they didn't burn heri watched "the living corpse", loved it! what great shots of bells and seats + seated ppl. i will add it to my list
watched the white hell of pitz palu - how the hell did they film that without anyone dying? amazing + slightly terrifying. gustav diessl is so hot (i have a signed photo of him) pls don't tell me he was a nazi like that evil bitch acting along side him
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Lencho of the Apes
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I haven't been doing much here to talk about movies watched; am I mistaken in thinking that anyone who cares is following along on LB already? Anyway, a bunch of thumbnails:
Man With A Movie Camera: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
Red Heroine: Roots of wuxia. Some of it is primitive at the Segundo de Chomon level, some of it is more up-to-date.
Applause: These proto musicals feel a lot like cabareteras, this one's like Salon Mexico. On Broadway.
Astero: Greek-landscapin' pictorial values ill-served by shoddy state of preservation. Not much more there, for me. Is this the play Angelopoulos' Traveling Players were performing?
Blackmail: lesser.
Alibi: lesser. The Bat Whispers director, Roland West... but without 70mm filmstock and wagonloads of money he didn't amount to much.
The Hole In The Wall: I loved seeing Robert Florey drop Edward G Robinson into a bunch of outtakes from Caligari. One of those movies like Detour that almost benefits from being unrestored and craplooking. I think I took a screencap from this, I'll put it at the end.
Diary Of A Lost Girl: didn't grab me like Abwege did, I hope and trust Pandora will outshine it in every way.
Hvertets Triumf: meh
Eternal Love: TFW you guess 'Ford' but it's Lubitsch. I wish I could call this "Ernst's western"... but it's a mountain film.
Piccadilly: peak late-silent pictorialism, yay!
Broadway: Another cabaretera. Showgirls and gangsters.
Man With A Movie Camera: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
Red Heroine: Roots of wuxia. Some of it is primitive at the Segundo de Chomon level, some of it is more up-to-date.
Applause: These proto musicals feel a lot like cabareteras, this one's like Salon Mexico. On Broadway.
Astero: Greek-landscapin' pictorial values ill-served by shoddy state of preservation. Not much more there, for me. Is this the play Angelopoulos' Traveling Players were performing?
Blackmail: lesser.
Alibi: lesser. The Bat Whispers director, Roland West... but without 70mm filmstock and wagonloads of money he didn't amount to much.
The Hole In The Wall: I loved seeing Robert Florey drop Edward G Robinson into a bunch of outtakes from Caligari. One of those movies like Detour that almost benefits from being unrestored and craplooking. I think I took a screencap from this, I'll put it at the end.
Diary Of A Lost Girl: didn't grab me like Abwege did, I hope and trust Pandora will outshine it in every way.
Hvertets Triumf: meh
Eternal Love: TFW you guess 'Ford' but it's Lubitsch. I wish I could call this "Ernst's western"... but it's a mountain film.
Piccadilly: peak late-silent pictorialism, yay!
Broadway: Another cabaretera. Showgirls and gangsters.
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The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
i trust you'll be rewarded. pandora is on another level imoDiary Of A Lost Girl: didn't grab me like Abwege did, I hope and trust Pandora will outshine it in every way.
I want to review something but I'm just too damn lazy these days.
Linda (Dorothy Davenport) - I've got nothing.
The Gypsy Charmer (Valentin Vaala) - Tulio a contender for a potential future scfz most handsome directors poll??
Linda (Dorothy Davenport) - I've got nothing.
The Gypsy Charmer (Valentin Vaala) - Tulio a contender for a potential future scfz most handsome directors poll??
imagine the big charming grin on his face when he's directing sensuela 
♥♥♥
just sat thru 3.5 hours of a monte cristo that a) wasn't john gilbert (auto-demerit) and b) had all the learnt-from caboodle (shwishpers of l'herbier, a napoleon hat to make you long for gance) of late silent schtick, and yet....it was flat and boring and this was the only point when i went hello:
♥♥♥just sat thru 3.5 hours of a monte cristo that a) wasn't john gilbert (auto-demerit) and b) had all the learnt-from caboodle (shwishpers of l'herbier, a napoleon hat to make you long for gance) of late silent schtick, and yet....it was flat and boring and this was the only point when i went hello:
can anyone check kg for me and see if there's subs for durchs brandenburger tor? there's a nice copy on EFG without subs which i guess i could attempt but it's nearly two hours long and i'd prefer them
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Holdrüholoheuho
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there is only (small) subs pot that nobody has claimed yet.
fucks sake renoir, i go in prepared for some jingoistic colonialist nonsense from le bled, and i bet algeria never looked as amazing anywhere else in 1929, but an actual scene celebrating the army invading??? fuck off. and the falcons didn't even make their trumpeted appearance until a whole hour in
(and five minutes later his shirt had fallen completely off!)
(and five minutes later his shirt had fallen completely off!)
sorry am halfway thru the kingdom of rye and this intertitle doesn't have a subtitle. is she devastated because the implication is that her boyfriend just shagged a pig? normal.
still scratching my head over the infamy of the slow-acted swine-fucker....
but....sprengbagger 1010!!!
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S!! son-of-a-chemist-director making a semi-self-loathing industrial porn vs nature film to almost das stahltier proportions (without the excessive eroticism).....soviet montage meets german cinematography! (could hardly take a screenshot because nothing ever stopped moving) just lush. (also a rare film where i find the woman more attractive than the man, that nerd lady loved blowing stuff up! wheeeee)
and a burning mill! classic! (it's rohmer's changing landscapes 35 years in advance)
but....sprengbagger 1010!!!
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S!! son-of-a-chemist-director making a semi-self-loathing industrial porn vs nature film to almost das stahltier proportions (without the excessive eroticism).....soviet montage meets german cinematography! (could hardly take a screenshot because nothing ever stopped moving) just lush. (also a rare film where i find the woman more attractive than the man, that nerd lady loved blowing stuff up! wheeeee)
and a burning mill! classic! (it's rohmer's changing landscapes 35 years in advance)
the great gabbo - this was bizarre. von stroheim (ker-rayzee ham) with a talking doll that everyone treats as perfectly normal. i read the film as some kind of allusion somehow to this new fangled sound cinema. which, compared to all the insanely beautiful silent films still being made, is not compensated by the creaky (i detest them! detest them! oh yeah and clowns, no more goddamn clowns) song and dance numbers which my blind disgust & boredom at meant i didn't really understand what the hell the film is about and anyway i'm not going to watch any more sound films for 29 if i can help it. unless it has sea or ocean in it.
kaufman's in spring, on the other hand, is absolutely my shit.
kaufman's in spring, on the other hand, is absolutely my shit.
are there any usa social realist/kammerspiel/normal people/documentary type films for 1929? (soooooo many sodding whiny irritating showgirls) anyone come across any?
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Evelyn Library P.I.
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There's a few 1929 US docs here https://www.filmpreservation.org/preser ... ng#/browse
Zora Neale Hurston's Ethnographic Films are pretty swell too (see place).
Zora Neale Hurston's Ethnographic Films are pretty swell too (see place).
Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:32 pm There's a few 1929 US docs here https://www.filmpreservation.org/preser ... ng#/browse
Zora Neale Hurston's Ethnographic Films are pretty swell too (see place).
oooh thank you!
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Holdrüholoheuho
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ballot...
Laila (George Schnéevoigt)
The Pearl (Henri d' Ursel)
Spring in Subcarpathian Ruthenia (Karel Plicka)
Two Pence Magic (Hans Richter)
The Gypsy Charmer (Valentin Vaala)
For Your Beautiful Eyes (Henri Storck)
White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, G. W. Pabst)
The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Grémillon)
Autumn Mists (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
Impressions of the Old Harbor of Marseilles (Vieux Port) (László Moholy-Nagy)
Skyscraper Symphony (Robert Florey)
Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque (Germaine Dulac)
H2O (Ralph Steiner)
Tusalava (Len Lye)
An Andalusian Dog (Luis Buñuel)
Eternal Love (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Organist at St. Vitus’ Cathedral (Martin Frič)
The Sins of Love (Karel Lamač)
Erotikon (Gustav Machatý)
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (Hanns Schwarz)
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honorable/deplorable mention...
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith) ... I CAN'T STAND THIS MOVIE!!! THE HERO & HEROINE OF THIS FILM ARE DESPICABLE CHARACTERS!!!
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fiasco!
i didn't watch a single film for this poll yet.
hopefully, gonna watch at least some shorts (from the watchlist below) to (possibly) reach the ballot of 20 entries.
however, substantial investigation of the year 1929 i have to postpone till the upcoming "1929 poll 3.0".
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watchlist...
RAIN (Joris Ivens)
EVERYTHING TURNS, EVERYTHING REVOLVES (Hans Richter)
IMPRESSIONS OF THE OLD HARBOR OF MARSEILLES (VIEUX PORT) (László Moholy-Nagy)
H2O (Ralph Steiner)
AUTUMN MISTS (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
NOGENT, SUNDAY'S ELDORADO (Marcel Carné, Michel Sanvoisin)
THE PEARL (Henri d' Ursel)
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE CHATEAU DE DE (Man Ray)
SEA URCHINS (Jean Painlevé)
STICKELBACK EGGS (Jean Painlevé)
HYAS AND STENORHYNCHUS, MARINE CRUSTACEANS (Jean Painlevé)
DAPHNIA (Jean Painlevé)
EVERYDAY (Hans Richter)
Laila (George Schnéevoigt)
The Pearl (Henri d' Ursel)
Spring in Subcarpathian Ruthenia (Karel Plicka)
Two Pence Magic (Hans Richter)
The Gypsy Charmer (Valentin Vaala)
For Your Beautiful Eyes (Henri Storck)
White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, G. W. Pabst)
The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Grémillon)
Autumn Mists (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
Impressions of the Old Harbor of Marseilles (Vieux Port) (László Moholy-Nagy)
Skyscraper Symphony (Robert Florey)
Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque (Germaine Dulac)
H2O (Ralph Steiner)
Tusalava (Len Lye)
An Andalusian Dog (Luis Buñuel)
Eternal Love (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Organist at St. Vitus’ Cathedral (Martin Frič)
The Sins of Love (Karel Lamač)
Erotikon (Gustav Machatý)
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (Hanns Schwarz)
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honorable/deplorable mention...
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith) ... I CAN'T STAND THIS MOVIE!!! THE HERO & HEROINE OF THIS FILM ARE DESPICABLE CHARACTERS!!!
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fiasco!
i didn't watch a single film for this poll yet.
hopefully, gonna watch at least some shorts (from the watchlist below) to (possibly) reach the ballot of 20 entries.
however, substantial investigation of the year 1929 i have to postpone till the upcoming "1929 poll 3.0".
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watchlist...
RAIN (Joris Ivens)
EVERYTHING TURNS, EVERYTHING REVOLVES (Hans Richter)
IMPRESSIONS OF THE OLD HARBOR OF MARSEILLES (VIEUX PORT) (László Moholy-Nagy)
H2O (Ralph Steiner)
AUTUMN MISTS (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
NOGENT, SUNDAY'S ELDORADO (Marcel Carné, Michel Sanvoisin)
THE PEARL (Henri d' Ursel)
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE CHATEAU DE DE (Man Ray)
SEA URCHINS (Jean Painlevé)
STICKELBACK EGGS (Jean Painlevé)
HYAS AND STENORHYNCHUS, MARINE CRUSTACEANS (Jean Painlevé)
DAPHNIA (Jean Painlevé)
EVERYDAY (Hans Richter)
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Holdrüholoheuho
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1929 poll No3:
IMPRESSIONS OF THE OLD HARBOR OF MARSEILLES (VIEUX PORT) (László Moholy-Nagy)
i like to watch city symphonies.
it is my favorite genre.
however, it is somewhat disturbing many early city symphonies burst with deluding optimism.
urban development is often viewed via a poetic lens and technological progress (electrification) is often glamorized.
usually, not many traces of early environmental grief in early city symphonies.
so, it was great to see there is an early city symphony with an explicit shit vibe.
IMPRESSIONS OF THE OLD HARBOR OF MARSEILLES (VIEUX PORT) (László Moholy-Nagy)
i like to watch city symphonies.
it is my favorite genre.
however, it is somewhat disturbing many early city symphonies burst with deluding optimism.
urban development is often viewed via a poetic lens and technological progress (electrification) is often glamorized.
usually, not many traces of early environmental grief in early city symphonies.
so, it was great to see there is an early city symphony with an explicit shit vibe.
b b b b but she's called sally!ickykino tweeovalis wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:37 pm A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith) ... I CAN'T STAND THIS MOVIE!!! THE HERO & HEROINE OF THIS FILM ARE DESPICABLE CHARACTERS!!!
anyway i have just watched wolf song and it is ASTONISHING. i am so glad this film exists. it's PURE TEENAGE GIRL FANTASY. coop is meat. JUST MEAT. just meat for the girls to play with HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
even the intertitles must have been written with a horny 12 year old in mind. astonishing.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA