this flim is 100 flams old

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I've also seen The Hands of Orlac (didn't really like it) and The Iron Horse (not bad but so looooong) from 100 years ago

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hooray. i might watch that too then (unless its like 8 hours or something)

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also from 1924 i have seen one buster keaton flim (sherlock jr - which i'm going to watch again tomorrow), and also this:

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... rcle-1924/

[vom]

ooh nice, I haven't seen any of the early / silent Lubitsch films. that sounds good!

Iron Horse is 2.5 hours I think. It has some good stuff in it but it's very dry

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also from 1924 i have seen one buster keaton flim (sherlock jr - which i'm going to watch again tomorrow)

Here it is

https://accumulationofthings.com/100/20 ... k-jr-1924/

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I think this film might basically be perfect

[vom]

ves

hooray

[An Unicorn]

also the baddie in this was called george brush

BOOM BOOM!

[vom]

I finally watched Dr Mabuse the Gambler over the last week or so (because it's four and a half fucking hours long for some reason). It really didn't need to be that long but it was pretty good, especially the start (a big heist staged to mess up the stock market) and end (the supervillain's plans are in tatters and he is haunted by the ghosts of his victims). I also loved that it has a load of people with really weird faces in it, mostly to represent Mabuse's criminal cohorts.

It is 102 years old.

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i've been neglecting my 100 years old film watching recently i'm afraid

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mainly due to getting a cinema pass thing at the art gallery in colchester, which lets me watch as many films as i like for "free" (£99 for a year).

so i have gone to the cinema more times in the last two months than i've ever been before in total probably

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anyway new films are rubbish and i hate them

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(actually most of them have been quite good)

[vom]

hooray

unlimited cinema is best cinema

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these are the films i have seen so far:

The boy and the heron - wonderful ghibli ultrahorror

Next goal wins - perfectly fine football/comedy feelgood nonsense

Priscilla -not sofia coppola's worst film - due to it not being that utterly terrible bill murray one on on apple tv - but also not particularly good (or particularly bad). it did make elvis look like an absolute arsehole though, of which i heartily approve

Ferrari - adam driver is FERRARI, the owner of FERRARI, which is quite the coincidence. everyone speaks english in comedy italian accents, except for the brief second or so that stirling moss turns up, who speaks with english with a comedy posh english voice insteadshite, really, but the cars looked nice i suppose.

Poor Things - I liked this a lot hooray

Ice Cream Fever - I mentioned this in the book thread I think. this felt very 90s, even though it wasn't 90s at all, it was last year or something. but anyway i liked it quite a bit really. (everybody else in the cinema seemed to hate it)

Killers Of The Flower Moon - actually i didn't see this at the cinema but i could have done so i'm including it here just so i can moan about it being a bit shite (the first two hours were pretty good, and the the last hour or more were just a muddled mess where they appeared to forget what film they were making and why). lily gladstone was very good, though, and it's almost worth watching for that alone i suppose (robert de niro was laughably bad though, and fuck knows what was going on with leonardo dicaprio, who i think was supposed to be playing a man in his 20s even though he's about seven million years old)

The End We Start From - post apocalyptic thing where jodie comer wanders round a wet and miserable looking britain which doesn't really look any more wet and miserable than britain usually looks (especially this year). fine, but nothing particularly special

Samsara - this was filmed in laos and (i think) tanzania, using real people in the real places they lived, doing mostly the things they do, but also with some scripted stuff too. really slow and beautiful looking, with a fifteen minute bit in the middle where you're told to close your eyes and imagine you're dying. this was pretty wonderful and i'm glad i saw it at the cinema (it wouldn't be quite the same watching it on my laptop while i'm eating my lunch, presumably)

Voices In The Wind - impossibly sad film about a girl whose family were killed in the fukushima tsunami but never found. this was great, but spoiled a bit by the cinema's projector/laptop/whatever they were streaming it off breaking down ten minutes from the end, so i had to sit there and wait for 30 minutes before you got to see the (still impossibly sad) end scene. which was annoying

The Holdovers - I didn't really like this as much as some people seemed to, but it was decent enough (just felt a lot like lots of other kind of similar films about posh american schools/universities/ etc, really). the three main actors were all excellent but it all just felt a bit like a mash up of wonder boys and ferris buellers day off at times.

American Fiction - this was good and funny. I liked this a lot more than the holdovers, and jeffrey wright was brilliant (as always)

Thousand And One Nights - another japanese film, this was also about missing people, but it wasn't as good as the fukushima one.

Mondays! - fun japanese time travel film where everyone's stuck in a groundhog day style time loop in their office, but it takes them ages to notice because all their days are so repetitive already. sort of fizzles out a bit at the end but i liked it anyway

The Zone Of Interest - utterly bleak and horrifying. good, but yeah i'm never going to watch this again, obviously

Hit Me Anyone One More Time - japanese political satire/farce, about the shittest prime minister ever who gets amnesia and suddenly tries to be nice instead. decent enough, but not especially great. also the main actor in this is one of the main characters in yakuza like a dragon (the head gangster man who's the father figure character for the main guy you play), and it shows how weirdly good all the face tech/motion capture/acting animation is these days (or at least is in the yakuza games) that despite only ever having seen him in a computer game before i could recognise him immediately

The Settlers - ultra bleak and brutal chilean western about the horrors of colonialist genocide a hundred years or so ago. not perfect, but very good. i thought this was a much better film than killers of the flower moon on similar subject matter (and also half of the length)

Lonely Castle In The Mirror - pretty good japanese cartoon about a bunch of troubled teens who don't go to school but end up falling through magic mirrors to a castle in the sky. i read the book this was based on last year, and quite enjoyed it, even though at times it had the feel of some sort of very special episode of an america tv show about bullying or something. this still had a touch of that, but also upped the melodrama considerably towards the end, which was basically 30 inutes or so of everyone ivolved trying very hard to make you cry (and mostly succeeding)

The Taste Of Things - Juliette Binoche spends two and half hours making the most impossibly lavish food for a bunch of french aristocrats. mostly good, but also a bit odd towards the end (also it made me very hungry). this was directed by the man that directed norwegian wood, and this was probably kind of similar, in that it's all kind of distant and unemotional even though it feels like it should be the opposite really, all things considered.

Oppenheimer - a bit like killers of the flower moon, in that the first two hours or so are pretty good, and then the last hour is a load of boring courtroom scenes. i'm not sure why

Winny - then again, this was almost ALL courtroom scenes, or if not that scenes in a lawyers office, and i liked it a lot. this was about the man who made winny, some japanese version of bit torrent that i'd never heard of before, and how he was put on trial for making it because the police hated him because it installed a virus on their computers that allowed everyone to see how corrupt they were or something. anyway, it was quite interesting (especially after reading about nintendo doing this recently to some emulator makers - https://www.theverge.com/24098640/ninte ... -aftermath )

and that's all the films (next week i am going to see FOUR more films, including dune 2, and some film where all i know about it is that the poster is a picture of mads mikkelson on a horse)

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£5 per film so far

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hooray

unlimited cinema is best cinema

i looked on the website for that japanese touring film thing, and they only seem to be showing 10 of them here (out of 25 or something). now i feel short changed (out of my free films)

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also i would have seen more films (including the new aki kaursimaki one), but some of their showings are at 11 o clock in the bloody morning. watching films before lunch is immoral and should not be allowed

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Next goal wins - perfectly fine football/comedy feelgood nonsense

I've just been reading up on that, and I'll be checking it out. Ta for the heads up!

[vom]

I loved the documentary version of Next Goal Wins and I'm not really sure I want to see a version turned into an okay comedy

[vom]

I really loved The Holdovers even though it definitely did feel like an idea that had already been done a lot. I kind of hated Zone of Interest and then I kind of hated myself for hating it and that was just a miserable experience all around really

[vom]

hooray

unlimited cinema is best cinema

i looked on the website for that japanese touring film thing, and they only seem to be showing 10 of them here (out of 25 or something). now i feel short changed (out of my free films)

In Derby they showed half of them in February, which I didn't go to because I was writing songs / buying houses, and the other half this weekend

I will probably try to see a couple more today although my cats have woken me up at 6am so I might be too tired

[vom]

the new Aki Kaurismaki film was the best film I saw all of last year but I will concede that I'm absurdly biased in that direction

Also I quite liked the Bill Murray apple Sofia Coppola film, more than The Bling Ring at least. I think Priscilla is on Mubi now so I'll probably watch it on there

Also also Mondays! sounds great

[An Unicorn]

It's about the same i think. Except with a spanish titlecard, which was quite exciting.

The problem with old silent films is a combination of old terrible film being transferred to old terrible video being transferred to old terrible internet video means everything becomes a hellish conglomerate of a trillion different types of compression artefects, and by the time you try and watch it on some 80th iteration on youtube half of everyones faces have been erased and its impossible to see what anything is at all

This is a very excellent breakdown

[Pual]

I watched Damsel on Netflix which had the utterly original idea of the princess not being a damsel that absolutely nobody has done before.

Starring the girl from stranger things who for some reason is Ray Winston’s daughter.

[Pual]

I thought it would be funny but it was played absolutely straight and actually I quite liked it.

[endar]

i saw a bit of Ferrari round my parents

the cars did indeed look very nice

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I will probably try to see a couple more today although my cats have woken me up at 6am so I might be too tired

Hooray I managed to see two more and they were both good. Yoko (ultra depressing movie about Rinko Kikuchi hitchhiking to a funeral) and Sabakan (basically a Japanese Stand by Me)

All four of these seemed to want to break my heart in one way or another. Not sure if that was common to the whole programme

[blombluss]

I thought the Ferrari film was about radio gobshite Nick Ferrari? I wondered why there were so many cars in it.

[blombluss]

The computre and videotronic gaem The Sims is going to be truned into a film:
https://kotaku.com/sims-movie-margot-ro ... 1851355482

A film adaptation of Boulderdash can now only be a matter of time.

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these are the films i have seen so far:

The boy and the heron - wonderful ghibli ultrahorror

Next goal wins - perfectly fine football/comedy feelgood nonsense

Priscilla -not sofia coppola's worst film - due to it not being that utterly terrible bill murray one on on apple tv - but also not particularly good (or particularly bad). it did make elvis look like an absolute arsehole though, of which i heartily approve

Ferrari - adam driver is FERRARI, the owner of FERRARI, which is quite the coincidence. everyone speaks english in comedy italian accents, except for the brief second or so that stirling moss turns up, who speaks with english with a comedy posh english voice insteadshite, really, but the cars looked nice i suppose.

Poor Things - I liked this a lot hooray

Ice Cream Fever - I mentioned this in the book thread I think. this felt very 90s, even though it wasn't 90s at all, it was last year or something. but anyway i liked it quite a bit really. (everybody else in the cinema seemed to hate it)

Killers Of The Flower Moon - actually i didn't see this at the cinema but i could have done so i'm including it here just so i can moan about it being a bit shite (the first two hours were pretty good, and the the last hour or more were just a muddled mess where they appeared to forget what film they were making and why). lily gladstone was very good, though, and it's almost worth watching for that alone i suppose (robert de niro was laughably bad though, and fuck knows what was going on with leonardo dicaprio, who i think was supposed to be playing a man in his 20s even though he's about seven million years old)

The End We Start From - post apocalyptic thing where jodie comer wanders round a wet and miserable looking britain which doesn't really look any more wet and miserable than britain usually looks (especially this year). fine, but nothing particularly special

Samsara - this was filmed in laos and (i think) tanzania, using real people in the real places they lived, doing mostly the things they do, but also with some scripted stuff too. really slow and beautiful looking, with a fifteen minute bit in the middle where you're told to close your eyes and imagine you're dying. this was pretty wonderful and i'm glad i saw it at the cinema (it wouldn't be quite the same watching it on my laptop while i'm eating my lunch, presumably)

Voices In The Wind - impossibly sad film about a girl whose family were killed in the fukushima tsunami but never found. this was great, but spoiled a bit by the cinema's projector/laptop/whatever they were streaming it off breaking down ten minutes from the end, so i had to sit there and wait for 30 minutes before you got to see the (still impossibly sad) end scene. which was annoying

The Holdovers - I didn't really like this as much as some people seemed to, but it was decent enough (just felt a lot like lots of other kind of similar films about posh american schools/universities/ etc, really). the three main actors were all excellent but it all just felt a bit like a mash up of wonder boys and ferris buellers day off at times.

American Fiction - this was good and funny. I liked this a lot more than the holdovers, and jeffrey wright was brilliant (as always)

Thousand And One Nights - another japanese film, this was also about missing people, but it wasn't as good as the fukushima one.

Mondays! - fun japanese time travel film where everyone's stuck in a groundhog day style time loop in their office, but it takes them ages to notice because all their days are so repetitive already. sort of fizzles out a bit at the end but i liked it anyway

The Zone Of Interest - utterly bleak and horrifying. good, but yeah i'm never going to watch this again, obviously

Hit Me Anyone One More Time - japanese political satire/farce, about the shittest prime minister ever who gets amnesia and suddenly tries to be nice instead. decent enough, but not especially great. also the main actor in this is one of the main characters in yakuza like a dragon (the head gangster man who's the father figure character for the main guy you play), and it shows how weirdly good all the face tech/motion capture/acting animation is these days (or at least is in the yakuza games) that despite only ever having seen him in a computer game before i could recognise him immediately

The Settlers - ultra bleak and brutal chilean western about the horrors of colonialist genocide a hundred years or so ago. not perfect, but very good. i thought this was a much better film than killers of the flower moon on similar subject matter (and also half of the length)

Lonely Castle In The Mirror - pretty good japanese cartoon about a bunch of troubled teens who don't go to school but end up falling through magic mirrors to a castle in the sky. i read the book this was based on last year, and quite enjoyed it, even though at times it had the feel of some sort of very special episode of an america tv show about bullying or something. this still had a touch of that, but also upped the melodrama considerably towards the end, which was basically 30 inutes or so of everyone ivolved trying very hard to make you cry (and mostly succeeding)

The Taste Of Things - Juliette Binoche spends two and half hours making the most impossibly lavish food for a bunch of french aristocrats. mostly good, but also a bit odd towards the end (also it made me very hungry). this was directed by the man that directed norwegian wood, and this was probably kind of similar, in that it's all kind of distant and unemotional even though it feels like it should be the opposite really, all things considered.

Oppenheimer - a bit like killers of the flower moon, in that the first two hours or so are pretty good, and then the last hour is a load of boring courtroom scenes. i'm not sure why

Winny - then again, this was almost ALL courtroom scenes, or if not that scenes in a lawyers office, and i liked it a lot. this was about the man who made winny, some japanese version of bit torrent that i'd never heard of before, and how he was put on trial for making it because the police hated him because it installed a virus on their computers that allowed everyone to see how corrupt they were or something. anyway, it was quite interesting (especially after reading about nintendo doing this recently to some emulator makers - https://www.theverge.com/24098640/ninte ... -aftermath )

and that's all the films (next week i am going to see FOUR more films, including dune 2, and some film where all i know about it is that the poster is a picture of mads mikkelson on a horse)

i still haven't watched any more 100 year old films but i have still been going to the cinema on my free pass thing and these are what i watched:

The Promised Land - Mads Mikkelsen rides a horse (this was quite good, and all about a man growing potatoes)

Perfect Days - a wim wenders film that is about a japanese man who cleans public toilets in tokyo and the toilets are utterly amazing. i wondered after watching it if maybe this was funded by the japanese toilet association or something and then it turned out it was (sort of). anyway this was really great, basically Paterson but in Japan. Which was nice, because paterson is pretty much the best film ever (and so was this)

Dune Part Two - meh

Sabakan - absolutely wonderful film about two bullied boys in 1980s japan becoming friends and going on an adventure (cycling across town to see some dolphins off the coast). i loved this

Red Island - this was (i think) basically the film directors autobiographical recreation of his childhood growing up on a french army base on madagascar. it was (mostly) pretty good

Robot Dreams - a pretty charming and almost entirely dialogue free cartoon set in 80s New York about a dog who builds himself a robot best friend (basically Bender). pretty good. at one point the dog has a bag with naranjito the 1982 world cup mascot orange and i wondered why anyone in america would even have ever heard of naranjito the 1982 world cup mascot orange, but then it turned out the film was spanish, so that was why etc etc (also it turned out I'd seen another film by this director, and that was also a silent movie for some reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancanieves )

Do Unto Others - a nurse kills off dementia patients that he's supposed to be caring for and then you spend the whole film finding out why he's "justified" in doing this (or thinks he is anyway). i probably shouldn't have watched this, as it was absolutely harrowing, and also anything about dementia makes me feel absolutely distraught, due to five years spend looking after my nan that i never recovered from and never will

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus - Ryuichi Sakamoto plays the paiano for the very last time before he died last year, in an entirely empty room, and all filmed by his son. this was good (presuming you like ryuichi sakamoto, pianos, etc). which obviously you should. here's the final song from the film which for some reason was put up on youtube a year before the film came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tECKZ60zk anyway its lovely (it was all lovely)

Late Night With The Devil - a 1970s talkshow about ghosts becomes haunted by ghosts! basically an episode of inside number 9, but stretched out to 90 minutes, and also it forgets its conceit of being the actual broadcats pretty early on. also contains some ropey cgi blood/bile/bits of sick that looks out of place and would have been better done as cheap 70s looking practical effects really. but also this was pretty good fun really, and david dastmalchian was really good as the talk show host man

The Delinquents - Argentinian crime thing. The first half (90 minutes long) is a fairly traditional crime film, wher ethe protagonist steal loads of money from a bank they work at and it's all about whether they will get away with it, or whatever, and then the second half (another fucking 90 minutes) is a load of meandering old bollocks that just goes on and on and then has possibly the most pointless non ending ending in the history of three hour long crime dramas that probably aren't even crime dramas anyway who knows. just totally exasperating, basically

Monster - two japanese boys get bullied at school in 2020s japan and its not heartwarming or wonderful at all really this time unlike sabakan, and instead its just mostly depressing, like you'd expect

Evil Does Not Exist - this was by the man that directed drive my car (and a few other films that I liked), and it was mostly good. also taught me that the japanese word for "glamping" is "glamping" even though "glamping" is the worst word ever, in any language

mothers instinct - this was genuinely one of the very worst films i have ever seen. just absolute piss from beginning to end. the poster had a quote describing it as a hitchcockian thriller, but presumably only in a universe where hitchcock didn't know how to make films even slightly. complete shit

Io Capitano - two teenage boys from senegal make the utterly harrowing trip from there to europe, nearly dying repeatedly for two whole hours. very good but also kind of overwhelming at times (as it should be, really).

Disco Boy - this was a bit weird, about a guy from belarus sneaking into the eu and joining the french foreign legion so he could get french citizenship. it looked nice, and had some good scenes, and wasn't boring, but i didn't actually quite get what it was about (i mean, symbolicly or whatever, as I understood the actual plot).

The Teachers Lounge - a nice german school teacher accuses one of the other staff members of stealing from her, and this leads to everyone hating absolutely everyone else, students and teachers a like. This was pretty good (and also wow german schools look really nice and clean and well built and everything british schools never look, ever).

Monkey Man - dev patel goes on a murderous rampage of righteous revenge against fascist cops and religious nationalist politicians. also on his days off he's a bare knuckle boxer who wears a monkey mask for some reason. this was wonderful and i loved it.

(and that's all the films i have watched at the cinema this last momnth or two)

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i also had mubi for a bit and on there i watched fallen leaves, finally, and it was brilliant, hooray

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i also watched come drink with me, a shaw bros martial arts film which is basically the bits of crouching tiger hidden dragon where zhang ziyi pretends to be a man and beats everyone up in the pub, but its filmed in the 60s and she's played by the old woman who's her evil master in crouching tiger hidden dragon instead. (i loved this)

then i watched dirty ho, which was another shaw bros martial arts film that made no fucking sense whatsoever. i don't even know why it was called dirty ho, considering no one in the entire film was called ho at all. anyway, this had some of the best fights ever in it to make up for the fact that they forget to write a story that wasn't completely incomprehensible nonsensical gibberish. (hooray!)