bamboo banger

Blond Venus leaves me in bigger shambles than any other Sternberg hits the same "protect the children" note as Night Of The Hunter

Dreyer easily takes it again with Browning and Sternberg tying it up for 2nd place. Something truly unsettling captured with Vampyr.

For '33 planning on watching Testament of Dr Mabuse sometime next week, will report back.

Didn't realize you were this much of "Lubitche touch" type guy

Picking your own preferred poster arts pays off here

I'm a purist.

Regarding Lubitsche or the posters?

The posters. I don’t like em blank with only just a title.

Me neither clutter that s*** up with credits and slogans. Changed all of them.

It should’ve been a free feature tbh

"The elimination of the cinema orchestras was first of all the social tragedy. In the 1920s the cinema had become the world's largest employer of musicians. Thousands of musicians were sacked while many vaudeville artists lost an important source of employment. The wholesale dismissal could not have come into worse time since it coincided with the outbreak of The Depression and the spread of unemployment."

I mean basic picks but King Kong and The Invisible Man.

You should check out Testament of Dr Mabuse. Langs very hardcore interpretation of society and the rise of Adolf.

"The instability of the film industry adapting to sound was increased by the language barrier. A silent picture could be exhibited in all countries of the world. A talking picture, however, became the prisoner of its own language. A translation technique did not yet exist and it would take some years before dubbing was developed and generally adopted. Moreover, most pictures were English speaking, and this hurt the self-respect of audiences in non-American countries, and aroused nationalist feelings. Italy banned talking pictures that use languages other than Italian, and Spain, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary took similar protectionist measures.

It should be noted that the protest against foreign languages were not directly exclusively against American pictures. Czech audiences for example, got very annoyed about the glut of German talking pictures in 1930. Demonstrations reached such magnitude that the Czech government installed a temporary ban on German films (it has been rumored that the American film companies instigated the protest actions to harm the German competition) retaliation was inevitable, and the German theaters began a boycott against Czech playwrights, while German radio refuse to broadcast Czech music. It was clear that the world needed translation techniques urgently, but it took several years before this subtitling and dubbing were universally accepted as standard solutions."

Sheesh

Hey @sace

yo

what's on

just only seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) this morning Kenneth Anger debatably was in that film.

I couldn't find a good gif of that one you think Kubrick was thinking of Lang or it's just an aesthetic coincidence? Observed a lot of driving scenes and none of them look quite like that

You already crush a bunch for '33? Got any recs?

• Dragnet Girl
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen
• Wild Boys of the Road
• Pilgrimage
• Baby Face