SCFZ

The final installment in the seasonal threads.

Fall can def supply a really moody setting. Some autumnal films:

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
Images (Robert Altman, 1972)
Late Autumn (Yasujirō Ozu, 1960)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirō Ozu, 1962)

Symptoms (Jose Ramon Larraz, 1974) has got a major autumnal vibe:

THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY and FAR FROM HEAVEN get some autumn action going,too.

yay. Excited for this season, but not quite ready just yet. Still finishing off some summer vibes/events where I'm at.

Def gonna try to watch Wooden Clogs this year.

I can't think of many movies more autumnaceous than Written On The Wind --falling leaves are a design element.

Iosselianis falling leaves (giorgobitsve 1966) and in fact a few of his films have an autumnal quality

rischka wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:32 pm Iosselianis falling leaves (giorgobitsve 1966) and in fact a few of his films have an autumnal quality

Do you get any descending leaves in the desert?

most desert trees have tiny leaves but we've got big cottonwood and sycamore near waterways here and they shed leaves. not much color except at higher elevation (like aspens)

not sure i knew what these were called but they're pretty cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrean_Sky_Islands however these are mainly coniferous forests. thinking of heading to chiricahua in early november if there's no snow (i can't drive in snow). need to hide out from the apocalypse

That chiricahua national monument looks really neat and scenic, would make a nice backdrop for a western.

found a lodge that doesn't even have cell service, you have to email them sounds perfect

i'm really bad at these season surveys. if it doesn't have snow in it, i can't come up with anything. or doesn't have something relevant in the title like kirsanoffs autumn mists

um don't look now?

i finally found some relevant autumn stuff!

https://twitter.com/tosilentfilm/status ... 4234408969

watching ophuls' lola montes, and while it has nothing to do with fall (so far), the colours are as absolutely stunning as i'd always heard!

Love sweaters, sadly my kitties ruined my favourite one a few days ago. It's really cool and unique and vintage, and thus irreplaceable but what can you do

bure wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:39 pmbut what can you do

hit 'em! hit 'em!!! even though kitties aren't as fun to hit as doggies...

I love em too much lol. They're my lil babies!!

Discovery in a Landscape 1970 Directed by Leo Hurwitz

https://leohurwitz.com/movie/discovery-in-a-landscape/

ok i'll watch cheyenne autumn. probably tmrw. it even smells like fall here and it's not my scented candle

Ford used Navajo people to portray the Cheyenne. Dialogue that is supposed to be in the "Cheyenne language" is actually Navajo. This made little difference to white audiences, but for Navajo communities the film became very popular because the Navajo actors were openly using ribald and crude language that had nothing to do with the film. For example, during the scene where the treaty is signed, the chief's solemn speech just pokes fun at the size of the colonel's penis. Some academics now consider this an important moment in the development of Native Americans' identity because they are able to mock Hollywood's historical interpretation of the American West

i'll have to ask some Diné abt this

curiously cheyenne travelling from oklahoma to montana mostly travel through monument valley this is a somewhat painful watch - i investigated the real story enough to discover little wolf lived to be 82 and died at home in the powder river country - also dolores del rio's character's name is 'spanish woman' - so i'm over my snit about her being credited that way. terror of savage 'others' sadly still common in our racist republic



i get what ford tried to do here but not even respecting the difference between tribes is egregious imo. the navajo had their own journey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Walk_of_the_Navajo



can't complain about seeing these two again but seems like they belong to a different movie



white man speak with forked tongue

Javor a Juliana d. Štefan Uher (1973) - a slovakian fairy tale

a trio of travelling musicians cut a maple tree into instruments. how could they know it's actually an enchanted woman???



until the instruments start speaking and make them famous. they play weddings throughout the land



but curious and deadly things keep happening. they try to get rid of the instruments... to no avail









reckon it's autumnal enough for this thread. also spooky and from 1973!!

autumn snow - valdas navasaitis (1992) #CoMoLietuva

rewatched this most perfect film poem again, streaming with subs here: http://www.sinemateka.lt/en/documentary#autumn-snow