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Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947Morbsies #106Sight & Sound Critics #169
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 December 2023 22:17 (one year ago)
Sausages!
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 December 2023 22:35 (one year ago)
one of my top 3 Archers, i guess, as if that meant anything. suitably gothic too
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 December 2023 22:42 (one year ago)
Believe this was Jean Simmons’s follow-up role to Estella in Great Expectations. #onethread. What a one-two punch!
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 December 2023 23:28 (one year ago)
Guess something called Hungry Hill was in between.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 December 2023 23:30 (one year ago)
I could not believe this film when I saw it first! So lurid! I love it! The absolute number one sex-mad nun movie imo.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 2 December 2023 00:56 (one year ago)
I still find it slightly odd that people were shocked by peeping Tom after this
― plax (ico), Saturday, 2 December 2023 00:57 (one year ago)
I'm literally shocked just thinking about the scene with the lipstick. Shocked!
― plax (ico), Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:06 (one year ago)
And stunned as well, no doubt.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:56 (one year ago)
― plax (ico), Saturday, 2 December 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Yes, it was there all along.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 December 2023 12:36 (one year ago)
le peeping Tom c'est moi
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 December 2023 12:42 (one year ago)
I’ve long assumed that the ending influenced Vertigo but I don’t know if Hitchcock ever said as much.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 2 December 2023 14:24 (one year ago)
never thought of that but very reminiscent I agree!
― plax (ico), Saturday, 2 December 2023 16:47 (one year ago)
Whole thing is on youtube and in good quality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDm7GEnhh0I
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 December 2023 22:23 (one year ago)
Good point about Vertigo. Never thought about it consciously but feels like I felt it before.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 December 2023 05:17 (one year ago)
I recently revisited the somewhat famous exchange when Truffaut poses a question that is a variant of his “British cinema is an oxymoron” hobby horse and Hitchcock’s response is quite cagey. He sort of dances around it and doesn’t agree necessarily but he doesn’t put forth any counterexamples either.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 December 2023 05:21 (one year ago)
Black Narcissus was excellent, the minor quibbles I had with Colonel Blimp and Matter of Life & Death entirely resolved, such a beautiful film, so full of unspoken subtext and ambivalence about any western morality. And astonishing what Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron can do with just a look.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:24 (one year ago)
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Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica, 1948
Morbsies #200Sight & Sound Critics #41Sight & Sound Directors #20
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 December 2023 12:27 (one year ago)
stressful
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 12:30 (one year ago)
not bad iirc
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 12:32 (one year ago)
Love it. One of the greatest for a good reason.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:45 (one year ago)
I owe it a rewatch, but there are so many Rossellini movies I still would rather see first
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Friday, 15 December 2023 15:47 (one year ago)
i don't really get it. the moral circle is too neat and i would prefer to watch literally any rossellini movie but also i want him to get the bike back.
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 15:57 (one year ago)
The Bergman collaborations were eye-openers for me about a decade ago, so it's hard for me to return to what was for decades readily available.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:01 (one year ago)
I liked this film a lot better when I saw the original ending, where he and his son team up to burn down the entire neighbourhood of the real bicycle thief.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 15 December 2023 16:22 (one year ago)
No need to critique Bicycle Thieves in comparison to Rossellini. Italian neo-realism has stood up v well.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 December 2023 12:08 (one year ago)
I watched:
Napoleon (Gance, 1927)Daughters of the Dust (Dash, 1991) - find that early 90s soundtrack score has dated badly but otherwise there are some beautiful images. This was through MUBI so needs a proper big screen watch.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 December 2023 12:12 (one year ago)
The best observation in Mark Cousins’ History of Cinema series is when he points out a moment in the Bicycle Thieves where the little boy nearly gets run over while crossing a busy road - you don’t get much more realist than that, but De Sica doesn’t make a big deal of such a happy near accident.
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 16 December 2023 13:27 (one year ago)
not making a big deal out of almost getting run over is the minimum bar for realism if a movie's supposed to be set in Rome
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 December 2023 16:02 (one year ago)
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984). Pretty successful translation of his road movie schtick to the US, with an excellent cast and score.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:32 (one year ago)
Let's get this restarted
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 20:54 (one year ago)
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The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948Morbsies #282Sight & Sound Critics #67Sight & Sound Directors #72
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 20:57 (one year ago)
Love it, tho I haven't seen it in years. Not my favorite Archers film — a bit portentous iirc — but beautiful to watch.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 21:22 (one year ago)
Haven't seen it yet but it was the favourite film of a prick I used to share a house with, called Jacques. Will try not to hold this against it.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 21:26 (one year ago)
Not my favorite Archers film — a bit portentous iirc
That's my conclusion
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 21:28 (one year ago)
Any P&P from this run is a candidate for "best British movie ever," basically. But this one is the one I feel the most strongly about, and I can't imagine that changing as I get older.
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 21:29 (one year ago)
it definitely sometimes is my favourite P&P
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 21:32 (one year ago)
As with the other P&Ps, the criterion remaster is up in full on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fmI_8MwNeI
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 21:36 (one year ago)
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 2, 2024 4:28 PM (two hours ago)
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― rob, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 00:24 (one year ago)
i don't really get this film. the shoes are red am i missing something else.
every time i read something about how good it is its like 'its in technicolor'
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:57 (one year ago)
The Archers stumble a bit in this when they try to make overarching commentary on what it means to be an artist. I also have the same issue with Powell's Peeping Tom.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:01 (one year ago)
i love peeping tom. the artist as pervert is a much more fun analogy
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:04 (one year ago)
i always think about the line about 'the blind live in the rooms upstairs' when my neighbours are making noise although this is probably quite ableist
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:06 (one year ago)
plax otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:38 (one year ago)
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― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 23:35 (one year ago)
I absolutely love the Kate Bush song this film inspired
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 23:36 (one year ago)
Wow Lermontov and Craster are both fucking dicks.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:04 (one year ago)
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Late Spring, Yasujirō Ozu, 1949Morbsies #39Sight & Sound Critics #21Sight & Sound Directors 62
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 January 2024 22:19 (one year ago)
THE GREATEST
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 January 2024 22:35 (one year ago)
I may lean a tiny bit more toward An Autumn Afternoon these days, but that's just because I'm getting really flipping old now
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 January 2024 22:37 (one year ago)