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[rischka]

this is good stuff



can't decide if i love or hate the piano theme

OMG IT'S MICHEL LEGRAND'S THEME FOR THE GO-BETWEEN

it's kind of perfect. ok the butterfly thing was a LITTLE obvious :p

[greennui]

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

Bit of a snooze when Tarzan and Jane aren't together on the screen being all pre-code chummy and half naked. That loincloth in the second film was quite outrageous, hard to focus on anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAJKHTRDc0o

[rischka]

i finally watched the driver (1978)!! so fun!!



bruce dern what a weirdo





that guy was an excellent driver

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i rewatched ABSOLUTE GIGANTEN three times in 24 hours - first in german, then in english, then in german again - for language studies. here is my review written in basic and presumably flawed and/or goofy-sounding german:

ich lerne Deutsch. um fließender zu werden, werde ich mir manchmal meine Lieblingsfilme aus Deutschland mit deutschen Untertitel einschauen. in diesen Fällen, nehme ich in deutsche meine Gedanken auf

ich habe diesen Film 2014 zuerst gesehen. es hat mir sofort gefallen. für einen Traurigjungen wie ich, der Film perfekt ist. gar nichts könnte verbessert sein. jeder Moment berührt mich. floyd bin ich. seine Unruhe ist ein Gefühl das ich seit meinen ersten Tagen hatte

jetzt bin ich älter. meine Tage von Notaufnahmen und schwarzen Augen und jugendliche Dummheit sind vorbei. aber das Gefühl ist immer noch da. und doch, es ist irgendwie auch verlasst. es ist genau da, aber es ist in der Vergangenheit. ich versuchte mich die momente zu erinnern. zu wiederholen, wie floyd es tut

sondern letztlich, das Lied weiterläuft. ich weiß das. und ich weiß jetzt auch dass, es irgendwann enden wird. es muss. ich werde immer noch die Momente zu festhalten versuchen

what google says i said:

I'm learning German. to become more fluent, I will sometimes watch my favorite German films with German subtitles. in these cases, I record my thoughts in German

I first saw this film in 2014. I liked it immediately. for a sad boy like me, the film is perfect. nothing could be improved. every moment touches me. Floyd is me. his restlessness is a feeling I have had since my first days

now I'm older. my days of emergency room visits and black eyes and teenage stupidity are over. but the feeling is still there. and yet, it is somehow also abandoned. it's right there, but it's in the past. I tried to remember the moments. to repeat as Floyd does

but ultimately, the song continues. I know that. and I also know now that it will end at some point. it must. I will still try to capture the moments

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it might actually be my favourite movie

i know the movie is about MaLe FrIeNdShIp or whatever, but i actually think the floyd/telsa relationship is the glue of the film and in some ways its most integral. god, that scene in the elevator. i weep endlessly for them both

[rischka]

great work curtis - i'll never get that far on duolingo

my current favorite german word is funf. i wish i had named my cat this

also i love that the word for hiking is 'wandern'

[pabs]

The actress is brilliant and I can't believe a monologue can keep me riveted to my seat for the whole duration!

Basically it's the story about this female public defence lawyer from a humble working-class background and how she's raped by an office colleague, a lawyer from a privileged background, and how his fellow upper-class colleagues at work close ranks to ruin her life.

[rischka]

pabs you forgot to tell the name of the film (i have also done this)

rio, zona norte (nelson pereira dos santos 1957)





espirito broke my heart. what a great film ♥♥♥

[Roscoe]

SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, Roy Andersson's masterwork beheld on the big screen at the Museum of the Moving Image, and as relevant and powerful as ever. MOMI is running a complete Andersson retrospective, including the elusive GILIAP which bad boy I'll be damn sure to not get away from me. Alas, some of the screenings will be held in the miniscule Bartos Screening Room, which means I might as well trot out the Blu-Rays and watch them on TV. Still, an Andersson retrospective is a gift that I'm not gonna look in the mouth.

[pabs]

pabs you forgot to tell the name of the film (i have also done this)

You certainly have! haha Several times I've had to ask you.

PRIMA FACIE (2022) is the film. National Theatre Live.

[greennui]

Flame 2018 ‘Polte’ Directed by Sami van Ingen

Bill Morrison type remix of a lost Tulio film, only a 20 min fragment has survived.






The fragment is available to watch here: https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elo ... uva_118048

[greennui]

Aniara 1960 Directed by Arne Arnbom

A space opera, literally.

[rischka]

i went to see godzilla minus 1. impressed that a movie with subtitles played here. the cgi looks fantastic and there's some real spielbergian family drama (if you like that sort of thing)

[rischka]

john frankenheimer's seven days in may (1964) w a script by rod serling



clean marine kirk douglas uncovers a plot by his boss



head of the joint chiefs burt lancaster wants to overthrow president frederic march because he signed a disarmament treaty with the soviets



kirk doesn't like it either but he swore an oath to defend the constitution



lots of great actors here, nearly all male (ava gardner gets a bit part as burt's former mistress), well paced and never boring



a fun watch from a time when things were less complicated. apparently now seditionists get a do over

[raini]

It was my birthday yesterday and as such I convinced my found-family (my partner, my metamour, and their two long-term housemates) to watch The Shop Around the Corner with me which is one of my favourite films I'd watched for the first time this year when I first saw it a few months ago. It not only held up to my memory of it but everyone loved it, people even clapped after it finished and my partner said they need to actually watch more old movies with me. I've been getting my metamour into art films this past year, but if we're ever watching something as the five of us all together it normally just ends up being some blockbuster or whatever...so convincing people to watch something much older and much more my speed and everyone loving it made me very happy.

[flip]

happy birthday raini and rischka!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

First movie of the year was Monkey Business (1931) off TCM. What do people make of the Marx Brothers round here? I've never found my way into appreciating their work much, but I wonder if I'll be able to now. In any case, this was the first time a viewing of a Marx Brothers movie has really clicked for me from start to finish.

[rischka]

that's my favorite one for sure

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Ah, then perhaps the other ones will continue to not fully click for me. Oh well.

[flip]

they're very hit and miss for me, that's actually not one that worked for me, night at the opera does though, and i liked horse feathers well enough

[Lencho of the Apes]

Horse Feathers, Duck Soup and Monkey Business for me.

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1. animal crackers
2. a day at the races
3. duck soup
4. a night at the opera
5. the cocoanuts

not particularly into their others...

[greennui]

Divá Bára 1949 Directed by Vladimír Čech

Vlasta Fialová literal goddess

[rischka]

suzuki's final film w zhang ziyi as tanuki princess



it's wild!



shoulda had a wild double feature w uchida's mad fox!!

[rischka]

i haven't finished this yet but i'm loving all the film posters









it's funny to see finland rated the happiest country on earth when my primary exposure has been aki's movies

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

it's funny to see finland rated the happiest country on earth when my primary exposure has been aki's movies

Yes! I took a course on Finnish Cinema over a decade ago, and the teacher showed all and only the most depressing movies. Eventually, we started to ask for an explanation, and she indicated that it was just a part of Finnish culture to love depressing movies (whether true or not, I don't know—it's not as if there aren't Finnish comedies, she just didn't show them).

[greennui]

Need to watch Fallen Leaves somehow, getting peppered with high ratings on my letterboxd feed every day now.

[pabs]

I'm itching to see it too, but have to wait another 4 weeks for its cinema release here.

[rischka]

huh..i know y'all are on kg

[cinesmith]

Estonian film but shot in Finland.