just cause of this my LB wrap-up at the end of the year gonna be

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done France won

also feels like Japans golden age was about to start in the 30's before s*** went sideways and delayed it till the 50's

this scene goes too hard costumes and set are amazing, music and atmosphere so grim can feel the influence on s*** like the og Conan and those costumes are pure Orc armour from Lord Of The Rings

hopping into 1938 knowing full well what the FOTY is @sace

Angels?

Couldnt get into Star Is Born or Stella Dallas tbh. Left em unfinished

Yep. All timer imo

havent seen it in like a decade pretty excited to revisit

What do ya hear? what do ya say?

my physicals for '38

take your W you f***in francophile @DELON

la bête humaine, baker's wife and lady vanishes
lady vanishes and foreign correspondent are tied for favorite hitchcock, i think it slightly edges FC out

LA FRANCE PREVAILS

dont really count Passion Of Joan as French so its their first W from me probably won't be getting many

havent seen Lady Vanishes or Human Beast in eons and just got Bakers Wife in the mail today looking forward to seeing Orson's favourite actor oat

where did l'atalante (one of the greatest films ever) fall? if it's not in at least top 5 (or top 3 depending on how many films you saw) of ´34 you tweakin gramps

raimu is an absolute specimen

didn't you watch any of the marseille trilogy films? raimu's in all three

its in the top 3 very magical film and you know I love Michel Simon

you can alway just check my op

even more of a specimen than Michel Simon?

and no you dropped the ball on making me watch those

possibly, i'd say that it's slightly unfair comparison due to simon being in cinema so much longer than him while raimu sort of favored the stage slightly more and did s*** movies for a pay check during the occupation. his 30s run is great though

unrelated but sort of not

finally watching another sternberg next week. lets see if this f***er can wow me with his talkies because so far im not impressed at all. docks of new york and underworld are still his best films. dishonored, blau engel and morocco were ok to good

they're screening shanghai express and my old prof picked the movie, good old boy with a dead kennedys sticker on his computer

if you dont dig it yet im afraid his faux exoticism just isn't for you but then you still havent seen his two best films yet. those silents were incredible but hard to compare to queen Marlene era.