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oh i'm good thanks, there's that lovely print of nick carter on EYE. just waiting for 1912 to come around again....

L'enfant de Paris
or
Germinal

Atlantis
Der Student von Prag
Fantômas
Ingeborg Holm
Quo Vadis?
Sumerki zhenskoy dushi
Traffic in Souls

Suspense (short)
The Mothering Heart (short)

holy crap.

germinal.

nothing else is even going to come close. might even be the best movie of all the 1910's for me.

Glad to see the Germinal love here. I forgot if it made doubling the canon or not but when I nominated it it was a holdover for like 3 years lol

Pretentious Hipster wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:38 pm Glad to see the Germinal love here. I forgot if it made doubling the canon or not but when I nominated it it was a holdover for like 3 years lol

It made the list last year with just 8 votes. Unfortunately the other great Capellani, L'assommoir (1908), did not have the same luck.

The Suffragette (Urban Gad) - No subs so I just soaked up the vibes.

i have it with subs! do you want them? too late?

am completely baffled by the lack of attention germinal has in general film awareness. perhaps it's because all the techno-eyed film-geeks saw no advancement in technique and so ignored it in their histories. well sod them. being adapted from zola helps give the stereotypes depth and makes the characters more subtle than anything else i've seen from that year, and capellani's composition is lovely. have seen a few mining community films and this one outshines a lot of the talkies, i guess until someone like ford has a bash at it. i even forgot i was watching a silent film i was so invested. (didn't weep as much as i did at ingeborg holm tho)

yes i'm only halfway through but i expect it will be my #1 too. love the anarchist character who keeps rolling his eyes at the camera



seen here with his bunny he's like the journalist character in canoa, commenting on the action from a cynical perspective. i know it's a stage device; still seems postmodern

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:06 am i have it with subs! do you want them? too late?

2 late...I could sort of make out the jist of it with my basic German skills.

am completely baffled by the lack of attention germinal has in general film awareness.

Cinémathèque Française sheds some light on it's early obscurity at least:

It does not seem to have been redistributed after 1918, undoubtedly because of the socio-political context of national union, after the war. Hence its complete disappearance in the tradition of classical historiography of cinema.

woohoo! just logged my 100th 1913 film! (although letterboxd thinks its 101 because it insists ma l'amor mio non muore is 1913 when imdb has that as 1914)

gonna have to start whittling my remaining ones down as not going to get them all in. really like mack sennett but don't like fatty or mabel. anyone recommend some of his from 1913 that don't have those two in?

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:23 pm woohoo! just logged my 100th 1913 film! (although letterboxd thinks its 101 because it insists ma l'amor mio non muore is 1913 when imdb has that as 1914)

You must be second only to PUNQ at this point. The amount of films from this period with only one comment on lboxd, a one star review by PUNQ...kinda feel bad for some of them lol.

Really interesting posts about language! Evelyn, why did you decide to learn Latin? I would badly like to, being an eytmology nut, but not until if/when i become fluent enough to speak with nationals in german and french. I wonder if I'm going about the order wrong lol

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:06 am characters more subtle

I noticed that -- less strongly -- with Life Of Wagner, as well; there were elements in place that still work to create sympathy/identification with the characters, in spite of the archaic factors that inhibit such. My hypothesis... just intuiting,.. was that it was the very length of the movie that contributed most to that, spending two hours with people inherently promotes investment in them.

Glad somebody likes the Sennetts, they've been almost a dead loss for me. Haven't seen any Keystones that weren't Fatty and Mabel, but there's a Thanhauser that's Sennett-adjacent/more sophisticated that you might enjoy, The Farmer's Daughters. Kinda butts up against that 1910 guy we liked, Bennett or w/e his name was.

Sally, I added some more travelogues. 1913 ones:

https://letterboxd.com/film/barnard-cas ... -district/
https://letterboxd.com/film/constantine-1913/
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-lago-ma ... cturesque/
https://letterboxd.com/film/port-of-barcelona/
https://letterboxd.com/film/types-des-i ... de-ceylon/
https://letterboxd.com/film/under-the-basque-sky/

More ones, mostly Eye ones from your list:

https://letterboxd.com/film/budapest-1916/
https://letterboxd.com/film/hawaii-the- ... e-pacific/
https://letterboxd.com/film/hoogstraat/
https://letterboxd.com/film/glimpses-in ... antinople/
https://letterboxd.com/film/palembang-t ... -lematang/
https://letterboxd.com/film/picturesque ... waterways/
https://letterboxd.com/film/sunrise-ove ... y-of-rome/

wow greennui you've been busy! gonna have to try and remember what i've watched now

speaking of travelogues, just watched what may be the epic daddy of them all for 1913, life of the jews in palestine. yes it's propaganda, but could hardly believe it was filmed in 1913 (possible because lack of edwardian style dress) lovely, for all that.

i've seen the farmer's daughters, watched it ages ago but can't consider it because it's also the name of the first porn i ever saw, on scratchy vhs wrestled triumphantly by a boyfriend from an actual 'dodgy bloke in the pub' and nothing else with the same name is ever going to overlay that experience....(of mainly the horrendous cheesiness of the 1970's)

but i am still intoxicated with the tragic tenor of 'max, toreador'. the farce of the first half against the almost protestingly real max (by all accounts an actual competent bullfighter) of the ending....am haunted by this....

sorry bit late in the day but has anyone been able to source either of the two la dame de monsoreau (the one by tourneur and/or the one by chautard also known as chicot the jester) one of them was on youtube once but isn't any more

Editing stuff on tmdb has become my new fav pastime, been uploading loads of posters for obscure silent films, no complaints yet!

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:25 am Really interesting posts about language! Evelyn, why did you decide to learn Latin? I would badly like to, being an eytmology nut, but not until if/when i become fluent enough to speak with nationals in german and french. I wonder if I'm going about the order wrong lol

A few reasons, but the main one is that for my academic work many of the texts I want to study are originally in Latin. I also figured learning Latin first would lay a good foundation for then learning French and German and other modern European languages that are largely derived from Latin.

Now that I've started, though, it's become an end in itself, rather than a means to reading texts. The biggest thing that keeps me at it is just the pleasure of grammar and etymology - it's been like learning English for the second time at a deeper level, partly because I have a richer understanding of English grammar but especially because so many English words derive from Latin. You begin to see how beneath the garden of everyday language lies a bed of ancient roots (a pretty phrase I'm stealing from Nicola Gardini).

greennui wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:42 am The Suffragette (Urban Gad) - No subs so I just soaked up the vibes.

vibes??? vibes????? argh!!!

consider yourself lucky you didn't have subs, this is the vilest! filth! i've seen on a long time! maybe it's a sick joke? watched the ending with my mouth open. i would have fucking rioted seeing it in 1913 as well. ban this shit.

god i am so mad now, gonna be a looooooong while before asta is in my good books again. jesus.

I had pretty much stopped paying attention towards the end but I glanced at the last couple of seconds of the film and got slightly perplexed , wondering if I should be rewinding it in order to see how it all ended up that way, seems like I'm lucky I didn't!

well it's certainly not making my final list.

but mood much improved by thanhouser's 'lost in fleshpots' tannhäuser

not sure i can recommend tercentenary of the romanov dynasty to anyone but history nuts but i have a few questions



is it always snowing there. also, who the fuck do these people think they are



no soundtrack but tchaikowsky's 1st symphony did nicely

gonna watch that one now

but finally....after a string of pathetic women, pina fabbri not taking any shit in racconto d'inverno ♥

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 4:14 am not sure i can recommend tercentenary of the romanov dynasty to anyone but history nuts but i have a few questions

is it always snowing there. also, who the fuck do these people think they are

same. did the bolsheviks make this? 300 years of bowing & scraping for your visual pleasure. catherine the great didn't even look remotely horny, peter the great's funeral was a boy's snowball fight, and for god sake why is there no footage of rasputin anywhere in existence?

um, capellani's de afwezige is not quite in the same league as germinal, but he throws everything at it (what was the obsession with dutch stuff in this period? i've never seen so many dogs pulling carts) camera moves on three occasions and not being used to that lately it was SO disorientating. but had cute man so i recovered

I just said tercentenary out loud ten times in a row just to see if I could do it.

greennui wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:51 pm I just said tercentenary out loud ten times in a row just to see if I could do it.

and then did rasputin appear?

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:25 pm

greennui wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:51 pm I just said tercentenary out loud ten times in a row just to see if I could do it.

and then did rasputin appear?

Nope, just a dog pulling a cart.

Maybe Rasputin's image didn't register in cameras. Remember how special he was...

Speaking of musicals, like we were, I notice that Der Tangokonigen describes iself as "ein fim mit tanz und musik" -- as if they might have been thinking that the sliding and gliding onscreen with the live performance in the auditorium would do the work of creating the carefree gaiety we associate with musical theatre...

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:25 pm

greennui wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:51 pm I just said tercentenary out loud ten times in a row just to see if I could do it.

and then did rasputin appear?

sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Eo2QzqU4