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flip wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 10:24 pm

jiri kino ovalis wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:20 pm all these directors' polls go so fast! i am dizzy.

just to explain why things work this way (since i don't think you were around when we started these polls up), they were set up this way on purpose, really -- the original idea was that people probably wouldn't watch films specifically for the directors polls most of the time. they'd just be a fun little exercise that might inspire a bit of conversation about specific directors sometimes. when we started them, we had other major polls running (and we still do, not quite as many of them though) like the year polls and genre polls, and those are left open a lot longer because people often watch a lot of films for them. i didn't want these mini-polls to detract from those bigger polls.

of course when someone does want to explore a director we're polling, i'm happy to leave the poll open. i probably wouldn't want to leave it open more than a week past the original deadline though.

the film is happily forgetting to structure a more consistent and less nonchalant narration - as opposed to "Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent" by Truffaut, clearly the model of this film.

Like Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, Dominik Graf's film Beloved Sisters tells a story of a decades-long love triangle over a backdrop of European turmoil.

jiri kino ovalis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:42 am i watched both Truffaut's films in question relatively recently so i am really curious how this cinematic threesome ("Beloved Sisters", "Jules and Jim" and "Two English Girls") relates or unrelates. if anyone has any links or thoughts about this triangle (if the model for BelSis was Jul&Jim or 2EngGrl or both or none) i will gladly read (and will thus even prolong my viewing)...

nrh wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:06 am "The key points of reference are Truffaut’s Two English Girls, Rohmer’s German-language The Marquise of O, and Wajda’s The Maids of Wilko as well as less well-known films such as Klaus Kirschner’s 1976 Mozart: Recordings of a Youth and Michael Hild’s 1978 Tagebuch des Verführers, both of which informed Graf’s approach to period detail and the era’s fundamentally different sense of time and space."

flip wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:00 pm i'll leave this open until friday, if that's cool with everyone?

Researchers Invent a New Font That Is Scientifically Proven to Help You Retain What You Read

Study of 400 students finds "Sans Forgetica" increases memory.

Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have invented a new font named "Sans Forgetica" that has been demonstrated to increase retention.

Do you sometimes have a hard time remembering something you've read even a day or two after you've read it? Or worse, do you find yourself reading the same article twice, because you didn't remember that you'd read it before? Scientists at RMIT University believe their new font may fix that problem, enabling you to remember what you read.

Sans Forgetica is decidedly odd looking. It slants backward and there are gaps in all of the letters. How does this aid retention? Because it creates a "simple puzzle," for readers, according to Stephen Banham, a typography lecturer at RMIT who helped design the font. This simple puzzle engages the brain, making the text more memorable.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 7:34 pm seen 1, enjoyed it, currently in the process of making subs for it

eine stadt wird erpresst

grabbing a couple more, would be great if you left it open for a bit longer!

brian d wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:25 am ok you win, i'll watch it am i supposed to watch the 3 hour director's cut or the two hour 20 minute other cut?

brian d wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:25 am ok you win, i'll watch it am i supposed to watch the 3 hour director's cut or the two hour 20 minute other cut?

brian d wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:25 am 3 hour director's cut

The music working against the images, not with the images, already in the beginning, Dieter Schleip's atonal sounds, similar to the first scenes of Graf's "Deine besten Jahre" (the two films are part of the same trilogy) once again: a party, a woman who feels rather than knows that something is wrong, that nobody is telling her the truth.

Graf fully indulges his melodramatic tendencies in Bitter Innocence (1999) and Cold Spring (2004), bookends to a trilogy with Your Best Years (1999) that savages the image of the upstanding German family with a causticity worthy of Fassbinder.

remarkable trio of melodramas, Deine besten Jahre (Your Best Years, 1999), Bittere Unschuld (Bitter Innocence, 1999), and Kalter Frühling (Cold Spring, 2003), which all take a cold hard look at the ghostly lives lived in bourgeois living rooms around the turn of the millennium in unified Germany

flip wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 2:56 pm a later study suggested it didn't help with memory/retention