I'm not sure if Kubrick would have seen The Testament, he was born in '28 so was too young to see it even if it did show in theatres near him, and I'm not sure how hard it would have been to track down the film in those days.

I think it's just two artists happening to do things the same way. (Not the case for PTA / Phantom Thread since he is a Kubrick acolyte at times)

yeah i doubt they were screening alot of German films in Manhattan in the 30's but he was regularly going to the MOMA to see whatever from whenever from the late 40's on and i know Metropolis was one of his favourite films. Definitely could've tracked down all the Fritz he wanted to by the time he was making Clockwork.

Thoughts on this comparison? (Top film is The Passenger by Antonioni)

Yen already queued up ll check the others. The Rise of Barbara

Garbo still just seems like a much weaker Dietrich to me but still

That dream sequence in General Yen they turned him into a straight up Fu Manchu villain caricature before his Kato Yen variant punches him into another dimension

Just watched Ecstasy. Like man Hedy all sexy for this one!

And reading this wiki too
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_(film)?wprov=sfti1

Never heard of Hedy

She was in handful of good films in Hollywood and worked with King Vidor. Interestingly enough that she in her hobby doing radio communications. She was an inventor and invented s*** like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS

Yeah just read about that casual polymath whew

What's this?

shot from Queen Christina where Garbo plays an epic old Swedish queen. Was like a diet Scarlet Empress not bad.

this Little Women is the stagiest movie I've ever seen Katharine Hepburn is funny but screeching like she's trying to make sure the nosebleed section of the theatre can hear her

Laurel and Hardy

Seeing Barbara Stanwyks character decide to discard her humanity after reading Nietzsche hits especially weird in 1933

"studios had always staged the performances of black musical artists in such a way that their routines could be edited out by local censors in southern states without disrupting the continuity of the movie"

holy Bunuel let these idiots have it with Land Without Bread

"the rebellion of the generals aided by Mussolini and Hitler was going to reinstate the peasants houses among the privileges of the large landholders, but Workers and Peasants of Spain will conquer Franco and his accomplices. With the help of the anti-fascists the world over, calm and happiness will take the place of the civil war and eliminate forever the centers of poverty shown to you by this film."

3 French films this week @DELON

I want to join along, where the list ur going from

all in his head

The three-fifths compromise never ended.

The 1945 film Brewster's Millions was banned in Memphis, Tennessee, on the grounds that it was "inimical to the public welfare" because the servant character, played by African American actor Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, had "too familiar a way about him." The Memphis Board of Motion Picture Censors complained that the picture presented "too much social equality and racial mixture" for Southern audiences, and expressed fear that the film would "encourage" racial problems.