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there might have been something by gomes up during the smz (rip) days but earliest on kg is portuguese woman uploaded in 2015, so that's probably the earliest anything by her was readily available (if private tracker counts as "readily available"). but definitely an odd career, a decade between first and second features, then a decade between fragil and portuguese with a bunch of odd, small projects in between.

periodic bouts of sleep madness aside there was a period when i used to wake up early to go see pre-noon shows of movies to get discount ticket prices and sit in empty theaters, but i was much younger then and living alone, very pleasant but don't think i could do that now.

ok basic instinct is friggin hilarious. also it's in rosenbaum's list

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damn i could have looked for this house when i was on vacation

Basic Instinct is great, think I gave it a 5 or 6 in DtC.

nrh wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:47 pm there might have been something by gomes up during the smz (rip) days but earliest on kg is portuguese woman uploaded in 2015,

ha! i watched a vingança de uma mulher thanks to smz in december 2015, but i remember now, this was probably the film that catalysed my total contempt for the major film fests and the torture-teasing of showing films that are NEVER available to mere mortals - i saw stills from it in 2012/2013 and just drooled hopelessly - i checked smz for it literally every month after that until it appeared and, for once, it actually lived up to the anticipation - which proved that potentially all the other films that only exist for film critics could be wonderful as well and i so then hated them all, those few lucky bastards that got to watch them.

i'll give it 3-4. would've preferred an alternate ending haha (i hate michael douglas)

I can't even remember the ending lol.

so many fake outs i thought i was watching phenomena and expected a monkey to show up

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'taxi driver/citizen 1' was not too bad

and then i watched Kvedaravicius' Mariupolis (2016) a lovely film ♥ RIP

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oh hi, how did i get into a movie?



although not true, this is mary cleo tarlarini, the queen of 1911: il sogno di un tramonto d'autunno; la madre e la morte; nozze d'oro - just 10 years later in

'la nave' (1921) - dir. mario roncoroni & d'annunzio's son, gabriellino, in clear case of grotesque nepotism cuz direction wasn't particularly noteworthy. they made up for it in sets, staging, sea-shots and death-drive tho!

looking out over the lagoon




the most 'staring the death-skull in the face' femme fatale you ever saw

angel in exile dir. allan dwan & philip ford









inca light dir. robert fulton

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al2qQl_nM-0[/media]

ensayo de un crimen (1955) / the criminal life of archibaldo de la cruz dir. luis bunuel (rewatch)





hospital (1970) dir. frederick wiseman

hey serri ♥ inca light

i watched the batman and it was waaay too long

huh, talk about what we were talking about!

trees, mountains, valleys....to a prog soundtrack! i am relaxed
(also wondering if all swiss directors are mad? clemens klopfenstein, fischli & weiss, peter liechti, the robert walser film...)

watched for DtC:

the legend of the old shepherd xeudi and his friend reimann - hans-jakob siber (1973)

can be viewed here:
https://medienarchiv.zhdk.ch/entries/27 ... 254480306d

Outside of the psychedelic visuals late in the film I thought the music did not work that well with the visuals and that it felt like a not that great music video. That said, it did make me discover The Mandrake Memorial. I believe the soundtrack to this film is just their third album "Puzzle" in its entirety, and it is pretty damn good. Thir first two albums are even better though IMO, very recommended to all fans of Psychedelic Rock.

well...i'm not sure i want to defend it that much, it's not like the best film i've ever seen, but i thought the disconnect between the music and visuals was what created the chasm where the non-real mythical stuff could arise - that's where i drew a parallel with all other insane swiss artists, this journeying outside/into....specifically the terrible rat and bear costumes of fischli & weiss but also maybe even an echo in the alain tanner travelling movies...

think in a lot of swiss art stuff due to being well-educated, well-off & comfortable there's an intense alienation under everything

but mainly it was just nice to sit in front of a wander through the mountains for an hour...

i'm still in escapist mode: watched sammo's millionaire express, a quasi-western. it was fun but not enough fights and too many subplots. i did LOL

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the great yuen biao was criminally underused so then i watched dreadnaught.

all i desire (1953) dir. douglas sirk

a dead man visits the living - huang jian-zhong (1988)

my last watch for DtC and this was so dreamy, mood like a chinese sanatorium pod klepsydrą - how does this even exist???

I put on THE BATMAN the other night, just to see and out of a certain respect for Robert Pattinson. It was business as usual, urban blight urban ugliness violent thugs in clown makeup blah blah blah, and then Pattinson started narrating, and he said, "they say I live in the shadows...." and in the pause that followed I was saying no no no no please please please don't don't say it don't say it and then of course he just had to go the hell ahead and say "I am the shadows" and that was it for me.

oh my heart - from the links lencho posted in 'sites' i ended up at the cinémathèque de bretagne where they basically have what seems like all of france's home movies ever made archived, not just the brittany ones. (also some professional movies too) i stopped bookmarking after 25 1946s...

none for 1921! but to make up for that they have a very sweet one from the genre i call 'avant epstein' the earliest of which i'd previously had was mariaud's 1913 au pays des lits clos. now i can go 3 years earlier for proto-brittany coast loveliness! (it's only 3 mins, but still, it's tinted ♥)

au pays des pêcheurs (1910)

viewable here: https://www.cinematheque-bretagne.bzh/b ... dcd659962f

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well i should have watched this long ago. i have 2 more

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this one not as good but some lovely color scenes. difficult historical subject matter handled about as well as can be expected

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loved this - feels so different from a male director

i'll need to track down - love under the crucifix - a period drama about japanese christians. i'm still angry she was ignored for so long.

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ok it's pretty but all kinds of fucked up, honestly kind of fitting my mood today too

anyaság (1974) dir. ferenc grunwalsky







colorado territory (1949) dir. raoul walsh



la mort en ce jardin (1956) / death in the garden dir. luis buñuel



secret weapons (1972) dir. david cronenberg



modern romance (1981) dir. albert brooks

Sally, did your copy of La Nave have subtitles you could slide under my door? The title cards aren't telling me much.

Btw, Sally, did you ever end up watching Lisbon?

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 4:28 am Sally, did your copy of La Nave have subtitles you could slide under my door? The title cards aren't telling me much.

whacking in the secret cupboard is easier than sliding beneath anyone's 'textnamearea' door in these code-hell times...pls see res

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 7:25 am Btw, Sally, did you ever end up watching Lisbon?

yeah i did! confirmed the sense of his fleshy, material sensuality i'd got from maria...(that recruit peeking under the skirt of the mannequin, lol) but the print i saw was really bad, and it shouldn't affect what i think of films but experience tells me it does...so i still preferred the pure blacks and sky-wide ardent gestures of the ocean melodrama....lisbon was much more frenetic and possible due to the murky print, much more claustrophobic.....(and some of the humour was, um, a bit broad) but since we have completey opposite film tastes, i guess it makes sense you'd prefer lisbon....