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boooooooredoooooom...


breeds mischief


man-about-town shoveling manure, soooooo sexy


life up here (in the mountains) has cleansed me of many bad habits (including wearing a bra)





have you gone mad?

the good news is i watched a silent film! the bad news is -- it was greed. i must have seen the 4+ hrs 'reconstructed' version on tcm long ago. this version is a fan edit made to approximate the 2+ hr theater version, disavowed by stroheim. it's quite creepy from the mcteagues first meeting - molestation under ether in the dentists' chair! no wonder this woman has issues! spent most of the time trying to figure out if this is actually her hair or a small animal used as a hat



death valley scenes are all i remembered. i know it's legendary but maybe my least favorite stroheim film

oh my god

den stærkeste / the strongest / vanquished - eduard schnedler-sørensen (1912)

another (abso-fucking-lutely) erotic melodrama from the 1912 danes...the common misogynist (but also damn, it works on me) trope of pretending to ignore a woman so she goes totally nuts in lust, but the interplay between frölich and psilander is mesmerising and so well filmed. i'm delirious about this movie.

https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/str ... staerkeste





HERE IS MY GROIN

and just released by henri

the damnation of cain - luigi maggi (1911)

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/ ... aggi-1911/

sally wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:14 pm i'm delirious

rovastin häämatkat - jaakko korhonen (1931)

very sweet gentle comedy about a vicar with alzheimers from the last moments of silent finland
too difficult to extract screenshots, so here's the professional photos
streaming with eng subs: https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elo ... uva_117495

watched maurice tourneur's the white moth (1924) recently! i was gobsmacked when this famously rare barbara la marr vehicle showed up on youtube in great quality. you just need to see it...

watch here: https://youtu.be/UZBYI0h6kPg

yay welcome back ! im gonna watch that right now ty

visualtraining wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:29 am watched maurice tourneur's the white moth (1924) recently! i was gobsmacked when this famously rare barbara la marr vehicle showed up on youtube in great quality. you just need to see it...

ooooh, thank you so much!

il natale del marinaio (1913)

streaming link via here: https://www.ilcinemamuto.it/betatest/il ... naio-1913/

not much info on this and it's nothing special cinematically for 1913 aside from the mildly insane plot - italian film but it seems to be set in english-speaking world, there's english christmas customs eg mistletoe kisses (tho snipped by the censors here) and it's the frequently-filmed story of two seafaring love rivals going to sea after one of them snags the girl. they go away (here in a scathing geopolitical commentary, on ship called 'smasher' all the way to samoa to murder the (unseen) natives) engaged chap gets wounded presumed dead. rival returns and convinces girl to get engaged to him. she agrees with the stipulation that they wait a year. christmas comes round again, and in the sick twist, first chap reappears and is convinced by parents to reappear to the girl that presumes him dead disguised as santa claus. ho ho ho!

All the Griffith Biographs getting renovated.

https://filmpreservationsociety.org/biograph-project

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:55 am All the Griffith Biographs getting renovated.

https://filmpreservationsociety.org/biograph-project

looks like someone already started

https://twitter.com/TropTotTropTard/sta ... 9266335745

in the shadow of the throne - einar zangenberg (1914)

thought i'd check out a new to me director (except not really cuz i too late discovered that i already saw the firefly which was nice)...anyway disappointing lack of hanky-panky but zangenberg's nuns are luminous, great photography...story involves some poor girl looking sad & longingly for most of it (most of which is done posing bra-less, which is mildly distracting) falls in love with a prince and she only waits 2 weeks for him before deciding it's all off and becoming a nun. at least he arrives to stop her pleasingly just too late....

sally wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:40 pm in the shadow of the throne - einar zangenberg (1914)

this looks great sally! i'm definitely going to watch

watched one of my Asta Nielsen holy grails, Laster der Menschheit (1927, Rudolf Meinert). it didn't really live up to my expectations but i'm glad i was finally able to see it

visualtraining wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:26 pm this looks great sally! i'm definitely going to watch

um...don't get too excited about it lol. my posting in this thread is not necessarily a general endorsement given that i'm currently mildly obsessed with the realistic (and occasionally highly erotic) melodramas of the 1910s, with all their many slight variations on stereotyped gestures etc and there's unlikely to be eg much doll action in them, but if there is, i'll yell

i haven't been able to watch asta since i saw her suffragette movie, which is possibly the most ghastly reactionary film i've seen, given that it was made at the height of the suffragette frenzy, and i'm still sulking at her....

anyway, can we call you viz.?

sally wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:34 pm um...don't get too excited about it lol. my posting in this thread is not necessarily a general endorsement given that i'm currently mildly obsessed with the realistic (and occasionally highly erotic) melodramas of the 1910s, with all their many slight variations on stereotyped gestures etc and there's unlikely to be eg much doll action in them, but if there is, i'll yell

i haven't been able to watch asta since i saw her suffragette movie, which is possibly the most ghastly reactionary film i've seen, given that it was made at the height of the suffragette frenzy, and i'm still sulking at her....

anyway, can we call you viz.?

i have a weakness for movies about nuns because i tried to become one in the past, lol. so i'm sure i'll enjoy it regardless. also love 1910s melodramas, though i haven't explored the scandinavian ones much. i haven't seen asta nielsen's suffragette movie; sounds very unfortunate. and yes call me viz

watched leonce perret's la femme nue (1926). it was a real mixed bag...this is a 140 min. film with an extremely thin story (that was apparently filmed 4 times)...a bohemian artist (ivan petrovich) from montmarte (who is supposed to be brilliant but the 2 paintings we see him work on are poorly done popular illustration of women like you would see on a photoplay cover...) has a cute girlfriend named lolette (louise lagrange) who supports him but after he becomes rich and famous (his terrible painting of lolette wins some bourgeois art prize) he falls for nita naldi. she's smoldering in the scenes she has, though she isn't allowed to do much except shoot sinister, seductive looks at people and walk around in heavy jeweled costumes. honestly none of the actors were given space to...act? it's crazy how this movie is so long but the leading lady, lagrange, doesn't have a good scene that adds the slightest bit of dimension to her "scorned woman" character until 2/3 of the way in. petrovich is completely charmless. i'm sure i've seen him in other films before where he was fine/good but in this one, it just doesn't make any sense that two beautiful women would be fighting over him. he isn't given any solo scenes and the character is nakedly spineless and opportunistic. the real star of the film is...the photography of exteriors and two amazing of bal des arts and carnival revels. the carnival scene in particular was remarkable; so anarchically joyful. i can't say i was ever bored while watching this, despite my frustration with the banality of the narrative. there's something about the way perret mixes the documentary-style sweeping exterior scenes with the melodrama that captivated me.

this is the first full length feature i've seen from perret and i'm really intrigued, though la femme nue was a weird viewing experience. i'm thinking of being crazy and watching his 3 hr koenigsmark. i watched a little bit of it on henri (it's available to stream there as part of the cinemode collection) and though the story is completely inane...it does look so beautiful!

eh, i've been hanging on to this for ages and not got to it yet, mainly because i'd read pretty much the same assessment as above. i guess koenigsmark suffers from the same problems (altho, since i adore jaque catelain, even in films like this one where he's slightly mis-cast, i still enjoyed it)

from what i understand perret went to america to make movies and came back having changed his style of movie-making from total control of editing, cinematography, lighting, set design etc to movie-set segmentation where those kind of decisions were delegated to a team...i guess the films lost a lot of his previous intimacy, his unique reflexive style/humour, but gained in spectacle...

i suppose i'll watch it one day (cool to see that it was produced by pornographer natan, who i'm watching a doc about for 2013 poll) but in the meantime i'm still working my way through these (charming, but no english subtitles)

https://twitter.com/segobrigense/status ... 7619865602

sally wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:56 am eh, i've been hanging on to this for ages and not got to it yet, mainly because i'd read pretty much the same assessment as above. i guess koenigsmark suffers from the same problems (altho, since i adore jaque catelain, even in films like this one where he's slightly mis-cast, i still enjoyed it)

from what i understand perret went to america to make movies and came back having changed his style of movie-making from total control of editing, cinematography, lighting, set design etc to movie-set segmentation where those kind of decisions were delegated to a team...i guess the films lost a lot of his previous intimacy, his unique reflexive style/humour, but gained in spectacle...

i suppose i'll watch it one day (cool to see that it was produced by pornographer natan, who i'm watching a doc about for 2013 poll) but in the meantime i'm still working my way through these (charming, but no english subtitles)

omg i didn't realize jaque catelain was in koenigsmark. i adore him too (how can one not?) and that's really interesting to hear re: perret and america. forgot he did those pictures with mae murray and gloria swanson. i've loved his earlier shorts i've seen and thought the huge change in style was just it being...the 20s lol. i think as far as his longer features go i'm going to watch koenigsmark, l'enfant de paris, and le danseuse orchidee (in that order)...my curiosity about koenigsmark is just too great lol (i also have interest in antique/vintage clothing and i'm dazzled by the fact that all the costumes are by the boué souers). thank you so much for the link to all those perret films! downloading now

una partita a scacchi - luigi maggi (1912)

link to movie in the chess thread

maggi is so good. superbly well-made little sunday viewing. chess-obsessed madman escapes from the (charmingly portrayed) nuthouse, boards a train and forces his victim to play to the death! adorable.

OMG This sounds like a must-see. How have I never heard of it?

well, it's only 8 mins but watched a couple of other italian shorts from 1912 at the same time and this one was leagues above...

la meridiana del convento - eleuterio rodolfi (1917)

gloriously chaotic

absolutely in love with these girls

(and always surprised to see them in trouser-style pajamas but i guess it was pretty common)

think it's been mentioned before, but a nice caturday film with the (weirdly bird tolerant) cats of lisbon. even a nod to weber's suspense

cats - manuel luís vieira (1933)

here: http://www.cinemateca.pt/Cinemateca-Dig ... type=Video

B. Morrison remix

https://uloz.to/file/yTNYqh1daeJQ/her-v ... uOA2AyBD==

ty greennui ♥

raphael, the gypsy - unknown dir. (1914)

holy shit this is crazy. typical plot, gypsies steal aristocratic child that just happens to have a mark that identifies him later....but the stunts! stars zanny petersen aka marble statue lady, looking as human as i've ever seen her, and after this i begin to understand why she took the more static roles, she went through the wringer in this film. usual danish lustiness present also but here less gazes than very immediate physical ickiness

altho obviously i am on the side of insane jealous bitch rather than innocent virgin















hello, would you like to stroke my antlers










reindeer is like - you have got to be kidding me

oh goodness, despite only having been logged by 10 people on letterboxd, it seems that some people are aware that raphael the gypsy exists (can only conclude that film academia is so partitioned and white-towered as to be absolutely invisible to people who merely enjoy watching movies....)

there's a proper discussion in this book and it even made the cover photo! ♥

Without doubt, Zigeuneren Raphael is a work of remarkable artistry.

link to chapter (pg 62): https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/reader/ ... 220506.pdf

betta the gypsy - charles raymond (1918)

watch here: https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/08623/13025

seeming much more stuffier, more static, less sophisticated than the danish gypsy film made four years earlier, this (one of two british gypsy films made in 1918 - something something the war?) still has it's charms (and plenty of those phallic knives)....

for instance...actress marga rubia levy....who ranges from bouncy/gutsy to looking like my childhood welsh best friend, to pola negri impressions...












and there is nice use of scenery...to the point where the gushing water is directly representing the torrents of emotion...












but this film also occasioned an actual whoop, cuz i actually recognised a location straight away....devils bridge falls (first 12th century, 2nd 1753, third 1901) in aberystwyth