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Stephen Dwoskin is an undeservedly forgotten avant-garde filmmaker who made 52 films while even walking became difficult for him. "He was born in Brooklyn, he contracted polio at the age of nine and underwent a grueling rehabilitation that entailed confinement in an iron lung, muscle transplants and relearning to walk, painfully, with crutches." It's actually hard to decide between the first 4 films. My fave at the moment is 'Outside In', but it's always changing. ♥️ Laura Mulvey is said to have coined the term 'male gaze' after seeing his art, but in her famous article on the subject she did not use Dwoskin as an example because she felt it did not apply to him, in a paradox way. Dwoskin referred to his own films as 'personal cinema'. He has made honest, raw films about sex, pain, ageing and death, and his art has no taboos, perhaps he was able to express the eroticism of filmmaking in the simplest means and most profoundly, using his camera as an extension of his senses. In America, he was part of Jonas Mekas' circle, he also played later "a role in the founding of 'Other Cinema', one of the most important London venues of the 1970s avant-garde film movement. Dwoskin's work is indelibly marked by the experience of disability and illness, interweaving questions of identity and the physical and professional struggle for independence with a deeply existential exploration of sexuality and sexual difference." His oeuvre, as repetitive as it may seem at first glance, is also varied in its means, even if most of it takes place in a single room, often his own. His camera really did strip everyone, including himself, to the bone, to the soul. In a sense, he made landscape films; the human face was the only landscape for him, where all the pastoral scenes and dramas took place, and all the things of the world that he observed with unremitting ion, with unfailing taste, loyal humility and subtle humour. I would perhaps call his life's work, rich in emotion and observation, independent in the noblest sense of the word, a perpetual experimental cinema of the senses, of love.

"Film is my language and without language I become silent and in my silence I cease to be. Silence can kill you, and to remain silent is literally to close down the sense of one’s humanity. For each and every person the cinema becomes their own thin space, progressing as a polished mirror, with vast potential, capturing and reflecting shadows. I don’t know why but it can often feel like that strange space between being and not being. In that sense forms such as fiction and documentary can be fused together. To document fantasy, or to dramatise a real event, were equally blended in the greater picture of making cinema, or in Brakhage’s famous words, ‘the art of seeing’. Film certainly is a unique place of fascinating mystique, iconography, and social statements, while managing to explore its own structural and material qualities.

I only do what I know. Nothing else. I do it to make films to free myself and, of course, to free others, especially the viewer. I also do it to make films that explore and express the self. To express the self is to also expose the self, but at the same time to allow a dialogue with others. It is not only a dialogue, but a process of investigation and reflection for all, or in Lacanian ‘positive transference’. This forces a type (or style) of filmmaking that is outside or beyond the barriers of conventional ‘storytelling’ (and beyond even voyeurism). There is no precise label for this kind of film (though it has often been called ‘personal’). Because of this absence of classification, or this absence of explanation, the films appear difficult and threatening to some (certainly to the established conventions), haunting and moving to others." S. DW. 2004

Source: wiki, senses of cinema

1. The Sun and the Moon
2. Outside In
3. Behindert
4. Dyn Amo
5. Times For
6. Pain Is...
7. Trying to Kiss the Moon
8. Oblivion
9. Death and Devil
10. Intoxicated By My Illness

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Monkeyshines, No. 1
2. Monkeyshines, No. 2
3. Monkeyshines, No. 3
4. The Haunted Castle
5. The Bewitched Inn
6. The Haunted Castle
7. Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Mk-B7MKP8&list=PL3Irv0VmxP4CdkpqMGAGsmmZeBEhZbzSY&index=24

8. The Mistletoe Bough
9. The Spiritist Faustinus
10. The Haunted Hotel

...plus 324 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the biggest landscape cinema list on LB

🌳 As a film critic for an art magazine specialising in environmentalism and anthropocene aesthetics, I felt it was time to get a comprehensive, historical knowledge of my favourite genre, landscape cinema. 🌳

This list includes mainly landscape films in which the landscape is not a subordinate or mood-setting element, but an entity 'per se', in its own right. In the beginning, this included travel films, anthropological films and melodramas set in exotic locations, as well as genres that describe natural phenomena as spectacle. Today, the boundaries are blurred by slow cinema, Anthropocene, eco-horror, etc. In some cases, I also took the built environment as a landscape and included some slow cinema that was not a landscape film, but landscape-dominated in some way.

The core of this list was once Franki Wals's Landscape Cinema list with about 200 films, which I cloned to avoid having to log every film I saw. Since then, we've developed our lists separately; I deleted from it, and don't adhere to the principle of showing only one film from each filmmaker, so it's a pretty whimsical list. The pre-World War II collection are all based on my own research, and I've seen a lot of silent films for this part of the list. As far as I know, the first truly autonomous landscape film is the 1924 short film 'Cloud Phenomena of Maloja' by Arnold Fanck. The contemporary Anthropocene landscape cinema part is own research too. Thanks to Franki Wals for making my job easier in the beginning. My list now has nearly 1000 items. Links to the early films can be found in the notes.

The list was prepared for scientific research.

Csilla Markója

1. The Wave

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5deEwbMVo

2. Rough Sea at Dover

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVKYhR3KQiA

3. Swimming in the Sea

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm9rI_gZTqE

4. A Sea Cave Near Lisbon

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3JrHfKIG24

5. The Sea Lions' Home

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UTrwH1os7o

6. Panorama from Top of a Moving Train
7. View from an Engine Front: Ilfracombe

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSmMb6bCus

8. An Atlantic Voyage: Von Hamburg zu den Niagarafällen mit dem Schnelldampfer Kaiser Wilhelm II

   wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2020/06/27/bonvoyage/

9. Down the Hudson
10. Automobiling Among the Clouds

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=EywE99EnXk0

...plus 1032 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I need this for a job and I'm particularly interested in the evolution of horror dolls from the beginning, with particular reference to the pre-1945 period and the 1970s. Recs welcome.

1. The Artist and the Dummy
2. The Doll's Revenge
3. Pinocchio
4. The Mannequin
5. The Dummy
6. The War and the Dream of Momi
7. A Little Princess
8. The Doll
9. Mannequin
10. The Great Gabbo

...plus 193 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the silent avant-garde films I found, e. g. experimental films of Walther Ruttmann, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Marcel Duchamp, Lois Weber, Germaine Dulac, Viking Eggeling, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren, Fernand Léger, Moholy-Nagy and others, before the WW2. With hidden gems! Including Surrealism, French impressionism, early cityscapes. The list also includes films taught by Stan Brakhage. Mostly (wip) with sources/links in Notes. See my YouTube playlist with a selection here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqdB1dV4IzNjlE2104mqtmakkxUWV-QZS

For educational purposes.

My toplist:

Maya Deren: At Land, Meshes of the Afternoon
Dimitri Kirsanoff: The Fountain of Arethusa (Diana), The Cradles/Les Berceaux (The Sea), Autumn Mist, Ménilmontant
Man Ray: Emak bakia, L'Étoile de Mer, Dance
Charles Dekeukeleire: Impatience, White Flame, A Detective Story, Combat de boxe
Germaine Dulac: The Seashell and Clergyman, Arabesque
Mário Peixoto: Limite
Lois Weber: Suspence, The Rosary, Hypocrites
Bunuel: Un Chien Andalou
Dziga Vertov: Man with Movie Camera
Slavko Vorkapich: The Life an Death of 9413
Herman G. Weinberg: Autumn Fire
Gaston Modot: Cruel Tale
G. W. Pabst - Ernő Metzner: Secrets of a Soul
Hans Richter: Ghosts before Breakfast
Gregory Markopoulos: Lysis, Christmas in U.S.A
Alexander Hammid - Bezucelna Prochazka: Aimless walk
Castleton Knight: Rachmaninoffs Prelude
Jerome Hill: La cartomancienne

See also:
The History of Silent Horror boxd.it/E4eOo
The History of Landscape Cinema boxd.it/lo7ys
Silent Faves and Hidden Gems boxd.it/xPqEQ

Here I would like to thank Zynab for bringing Charles Dekeukeleire's films to my attention! 🌹

1. L'Homme Machine
2. Monkeyshines, No. 1
3. Monkeyshines, No. 2
4. Monkeyshines, No. 3
5. Annabelle Butterfly Dance
6. Dickson Experimental Sound Film
7. Annabelle Serpentine Dance
8. Demolition of a Wall
9. The Last Cartridges
10. Serpentine Dance

...plus 298 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a list of vampire movies I have seen or would like to see, in chronology 🦇 but I think/hope it contains the best of the genre, at least in Drac line

Grails:
The Vampire 1913: exist just in stills on You Tube and one copy in Edward M. Library
Draculas' Death 1921: Hungarian film, lost (?) in World War II, only 3 stills and one script survive

1. The Vampire Dancer

   www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/streaming/film/20140
   the best vampire list on LB:
   letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/themoviearchive/list/vampires-in-cinema/

2. The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVFJ19cDYD0&list=PLi5s3-YiYzffx2ZegeGxyjDUKjGqSKbPP The You Tube list the entire series

3. Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire

   the longest version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kAYjWEpzB8

4. Nosferatu

   Herzog: Nosferatu, az éjszaka fantomja 1979 (magyar szinkron)
   ok.ru/video/1668167371373

   Drakula (magyar szinkron) 1958
   ok.ru/video/3829865056817

   Jess Franco: Drakula gróf Kinskyvel és Christopher Lee-vel
   ok.ru/video/2565320673841

   Lugosi Drakula 1931 (magyarul)
   ok.ru/video/2594607467190

   Murnau: Drakula (magyar felirattal)1922
   ok.ru/video/2316920228401

   Drakula lánya 1936 (magyarul beszél)
   filmy.hu/video/72399

5. Dracula
6. Drácula
7. Vampyr
8. Dracula's Daughter
9. The Return of the Vampire
10. House of Dracula

...plus 106 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

only the existing films 👻🏳️💀 recs welcome

1. A Terrible Night
2. The Vanishing Lady
3. The Haunted Castle
4. A Nightmare
5. The Haunted Castle
6. The Bewitched Inn
7. The Hallucinated Alchemist
8. The X-Ray Fiend
9. The Merry Skeleton
10. The Four Troublesome Heads

...plus 156 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The price of gas has risen tenfold, inflation is 20%, bread costs twice as much, 3 days of rain, winter is coming, and there is a bloody, murderous war raging next door, turning the darkest face of man towards me. I'm not heating or eating much, sitting here wrapped in a blanket, and yet it's one of the best days of my life, the window open, the landscape coming into the room and Scott Barley's magical digital paintings scrolling on the big screen.
Everyone should see them :)

And even the latte is warm!
(😗 to Hutch :)

vimeo.com/scottbarley

• Sleep Has Her House
• A Ladder
• Womb
• Hunter
• Shadows
• Hinterlands
• Closer
• Polytechnique
• The Sadness of the Trees
• The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The best silent films ever, at least imo, lol, a subjective selection with lesser-known gems --- in chronology.

I'd like to think that if you want to see a quality selection from the silent era that includes all the essentials, this list will be helpful --- a careful work for you, partly based of recommendations from my friends. 💖💛💖

For the silent travel films and landscapes see my The History of Landscape Cinema list, the early horrors are collected in my The History of Silent Horror list.

1. The Astronomer's Dream
2. Something Good — Negro Kiss
3. The Merry Skeleton
4. Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat
5. Going to Bed Under Difficulties
6. History of a Crime
7. What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
8. The Flying Train
9. Down the Hudson
10. The Kingdom of the Fairies

...plus 170 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Edit: The first series is over: SUMMER BREAK

Discussion/filmclub first series with reviews by participants in notes (click on the orange 'read notes' button)
representative selection of the cinema of the senses
test for a future university course (MoME PhD doctoral school)
discussions about the film can be found under my reviews

Participants:

Daniel Misota
Steve Garden
Edrick
Mateowah
Hutch
Finn
Calvin Jacob
me

Every Sunday afternoon CET, you post the link to your review of the current film in the comments section of mcsil's review, and then everyone can read it, and we discuss the film and each other's reviews there that day.

Peter Strickland List:
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/list/peter-strickland-ranked-but-why-w-reviews/

• A Lake

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/a-lake/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sjgarden/film/a-lake/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/a-lake/4/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/a-lake/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/a-lake/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/a-lake/

• Sleep Has Her House

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/sleep-has-her-house/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/sleep-has-her-house/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/sleep-has-her-house/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/sleep-has-her-house/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/sleep-has-her-house/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/sleep-has-her-house/

• Uprise

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/uprise/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sjgarden/film/uprise/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/uprise/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/uprise/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/uprise/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/uprise/

• The Duke of Burgundy

  vk.com/search/video?q=duke%20of%20burgundy&z=video583591429_456240400

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/the-duke-of-burgundy/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sjgarden/film/the-duke-of-burgundy/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/the-duke-of-burgundy/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/gsex/film/the-duke-of-burgundy/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/the-duke-of-burgundy/

• Sombre

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/sombre/2/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/sombre/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/sombre/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/sombre/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/sombre/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/gsex/film/sombre/

• Trouble Every Day

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/trouble-every-day/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sjgarden/film/trouble-every-day/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/trouble-every-day/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/trouble-every-day/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/trouble-every-day/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/trouble-every-day/1/

• Mariphasa

  link (temporary) : ok.ru/video/4586539584151

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/mariphasa/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sjgarden/film/mariphasa/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/mariphasa/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/gsex/film/mariphasa/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/mariphasa/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/mariphasa/

• Beyond the Black Rainbow

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/beyond-the-black-rainbow/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/beyond-the-black-rainbow/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/beyond-the-black-rainbow/3/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/beyond-the-black-rainbow/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/gsex/film/beyond-the-black-rainbow/

  
  Link to Cosmatos: ok.ru/video/2360165337791 hd 1080 rip
  vk.com/video/@mcsil?z=video583591429_456240147%2Fpl_752106650_-2 with eng subs

• Post Tenebras Lux

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/post-tenebras-lux/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sjgarden/film/post-tenebras-lux/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/post-tenebras-lux/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/edrick/film/post-tenebras-lux/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/post-tenebras-lux/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/gsex/film/post-tenebras-lux/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/ahutchinson/film/post-tenebras-lux/

  ok.ru/video/3934986963565 (hun subs)
  ok.ru/video/2103094020638 (eng subs)

• Earwig

  ok.ru/video/4130241645134

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/earwig/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sjgarden/film/earwig/1/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/danielmisota/film/earwig/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mateokrygowski/film/earwig/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/caljwel/film/earwig/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/gsex/film/earwig/
  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/ahutchinson/film/earwig/

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm afraid of horror films. I'm afraid of everything. That's the basis. While I've seen some really good horror (Mandy, Suspiria, Succubus, Mad God, Despite the Night, Sombre, Trouble Every Day, Berberian, Knife and Heart, Nocturne, Mermaid Legend, Begotten, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Beyond, etc.) --- question what else I SHOULD definitely see. (Updated 2024 --- watched: 51 %) The list is open-ended --- will be a delicate selection of 'light' or art horrors for beginners as I am:), recs welcome. I don't plan to watch these in this LB horror season --- I think I'd die :) I don't like the 2024 arthouse post-horror crop, so Longlegs, Maxxxine ( the whole Ti West trilogy), In a Violent Nature, Strange Darling etc. are deliberately absent from the list.

1. The Old Dark House
2. Island of Lost Souls
3. I Walked with a Zombie
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
5. The Damned
6. Kwaidan
7. Seconds
8. The Face of Another
9. Kuroneko
10. Succubus

...plus 133 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

LB horror season 2024 --- Work in progress --- a selection, focus on the 2020s, and the basics. Reverse chronology.

The term 'new French extremity' was first coined by critic James Quandt in 2004 in a deeply critical piece in Artforum, complaining about the violent turn that French filmmaking appeared to have take in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

1. The Substance
2. Dragon Dilatation
3. The Empire
4. Maldoror
5. Drone
6. The ion According to Béatrice
7. Serpent's Path
8. Beating Hearts
9. Eat the Night
10. To Die or Not to Die

...plus 153 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I would be happy if Peter Strickland could be called a British-Hungarian director, because many of his works were made with Hungarian collaborators, on Hungarian inspirations, of Hungarian landscapes, and he spent a lot of time with us. But as in love, you can't own anyone. It's pretty stupid to rank his works, which are incomparable in of genre too, but that's the way it is, we want to own and rank :). 💛

My revs about Strickland:
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/the-duke-of-burgundy/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/katalin-varga/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/berberian-sound-studio/2/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/guo4/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/cold-meridian/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/in-fabric/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/blank-narcissus-ion-of-the-swamp/1/

• The Duke of Burgundy

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/the-duke-of-burgundy/

• Berberian Sound Studio

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/berberian-sound-studio/2/

• Katalin Varga

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/katalin-varga/

• In Fabric

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/in-fabric/

• Blank Narcissus (ion of the Swamp)

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/blank-narcissus-ion-of-the-swamp/1/

• Cold Meridian

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/cold-meridian/

• GUO4

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/guo4/

• Flux Gourmet

Tsai Ming-liang, the director who made me a fan of slow cinema. 🐌 My Tsai reviews, so far in Notes.

• Abiding Nowhere
• Xining Public Housing
• Yilan
• Strolling Around
• Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/where-do-you-stand-tsai-ming-liang/1/

• Where
• Wandering
• The Moon and the Tree
• The Night

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/the-night-2021-3/2/

• Days

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/days-2020/1/

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The First and Original Capybara Protest List. Enjoy our movement!

DON'T DELETE CAPYBARA WALKING/MUYBRIDGE AGAIN
Literature: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/cineanalyst/film/exposing-muybridge/

UPDATE: Despite protests, the Letterboxd Crew has removed Muybridge's popular film Capybara Walking from its database, erasing Muybridge's oeuvre from the most active platform in film history memory. You can see the deleted reviews here: boxd.it/nfBlS

The Muybridge film Capybara Walking is regularly deleted by LB mods, and has disappeared from my list four times so far.
No comment.
See Capybara Walking here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhs99-qPmy8

🐾MAKE YOUR OWN CAPYBARA PROTEST LIST OR REVIEW!🐾

Protest Lists and Protest Reviews:
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/list/capybara-goes-to-the-cinema-20-protest-list/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/cineanalyst/film/homage-to-eadward-muybridge/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/yarb/list/man-the-capybaracades/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/yarb/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/sky3088/list/capybara-protest-list/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mrbalihai/list/first-tmdb-came-for-the-capybaras-and-i-said/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mrbalihai/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/abyrne/list/capybara-walks-forever/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/rkivd/list/capybara-protest/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/charmingpotato/list/where-the-capybara-protest-walks-there-walk/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/a_human_person/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/dmccuistion/list/erasing-muybridge-capybara-protest-list/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mindespair/list/capybara-protest-list/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/natelight/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/nightblade/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/bitchworth/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/0goodideas/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/canardmallard/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/zepfanman/list/protest-bring-capybara-and-other-muybridge/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/carlinmack/film/capybara-walking/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/carlinmack/film/capybara-walking/

Supplementary literature:
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/cineanalyst/film/sallie-gardner-at-a-gallop/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/cineanalyst/film/muybridges-strings/1/

• Homage to Eadward Muybridge

• Caught by the Tides

  cannes

• Baby Invasion
• ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
• The Women by the Lake
• La Cocina
• The Hyperboreans
• Breathless
• The Brutalist
• Eno
• Subject: Filmmaking

...plus 156 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Philippe Grandrieux is my favorite director at the moment (of course Lav Diaz and Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang and Apichatpong and many others are close behind :)) so it's very strange to have this list that makes me say my favorite director didn't make my favorite film, in fact I feel he didn't perform the miracle his wonderful tools allowed him to. Even the almost flawless Sombre was a bit romantic, not for my taste but for its own inherent potential, A Lake, which is close to my heart for personal reasons (epilepsy), overdid the play of hands, A New Life became too convoluted, and Despite the Night piled on older motifs to the point of mannerism. But even stranger, if I had seen the films from the end and ended up with Sombre, I would have perceived the series as an upward trajectory --- because if Despite the Night had been the first film I saw, it would have been beaten to the ground with its novelty, and Sombre would have balanced form and content. But since the debut film seems to be the best, one has the oppressive feeling of having witnessed a deconstruction process in which the director has dismantled his own tools, disrupted the narrative order, and finally abandoned the 16 mm aesthetic in order to assemble something new and innovatively stylized in his last film --- but in this case, as almost always with Grandrieux, one waits for the next, the better, the result. Yet these films are so subversive, so novel, so beautiful, so bold in every particle, that this whole train of thought seems utterly meaningless in relation to the volume: that Grandrieux has irrevocably changed film history with his "cinema of the senses," his film phenomenology seems to be the most significant theoretical and practical paradigm shift of recent times, setting in motion a series of eruptive changes --- and who knows where that turn will lead. Perhaps it is not the film, but the novelty of the process and the approach, the thousands of sensory details, the new means --- and the courage with which Grandrieux has embarked on his path, which, although it should not end with just four feature films, is the key.

My revs on Grandrieux:
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/sombre/2/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/sombre/1/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/a-lake/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/a-new-life/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/white-epilepsy/1/
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/despite-the-night/

1. La peinture cubiste

   ok.ru/video/2378357803546

   vk.com/search/video?q=grandrieux&z=video108547305_456239543

2. A Generation

   vk.com/search/video?q=grandrieux&z=video-213169476_456239027

3. Le Labyrinthe - le temps, la memoire, les images

   ok.ru/video/1831768099354

4. Back to Sarajevo

   ok.ru/video/5752581458618

5. Sombre

   ok.ru/video/1236879411810 engsub

6. A New Life

   vk.com/video/@mcsil?z=video384390463_456239126%2Fpl_752106650_-2

7. Late Season

   vk.com/search/video?q=grandrieux&z=video169605502_456239080

8. A Lake

   vk.com/video/@mcsil?z=video2583141_162201168%2Fpl_752106650_-2

9. It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi
10. White Epilepsy

    vk.com/video/@mcsil?z=video384390463_456239154%2Fpl_752106650_-2

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

✨ Summary of the Year 2024 ✨ Ranked list + text

(2023 see here: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/list/2023-new-releases-ranked-w-summary-of-the/ )

While 2023 was so wonderfully rich that its review was worth publishing in print: www.academia.edu/121795878/, and the list has only grown with the addition of 2023 films released this year, 2024 has so far been -- without exaggeration -- a disaster, imo :).

I have to reluctantly it that 'The Substance', ended up being a better film for me than my review maybe predicted, although I agree with all the negative critique, and it says a lot about the year that there are hardly any 3.5 star films on this list. While the new films by Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang, my fave directors certainly represent a more sophisticated, innovative concept/filmmaking, they still somehow fit too much into their creators' oeuvre, besides quiet and legitimate celebration. The former is a subtle, lyrical assemblage in the Deleuzian sense, while the latter is part of an ascetic project begun in 2012 that explores the extreme limits of slow cinema with the patience and barely perceptible shifts it deserves, making it almost impossible to compare with Fargeat's explosively powerful and, in its narrow monotony, rather divisive satire. It deserves its good place, however, bc it was the only film that was able to use 'emptiness' as a conscious means of expression in a thoughtful way, and to convey the critical content to a wider audience with effective and sophisticated visual means, while most films are unaware of their own hollowness. And the end of the film, for those who recognise in Elisamonstro the eternal girl in the blue tulle dress who reclaims her right to love, will certainly remain unforgettably moving.

Sorry, but I am completely unimpressed by this year's post-horror output, which I find to be, for better or worse, pastiches with an almost obligatory politically correct thread woven in, but in many cases done so mechanically that it almost achieves the opposite effect (see the demonisation of mental illness in Longlegs, or the character of the black android in Alien: Romulus, etc.). ), and as a woman I'm particularly annoyed by the misguided quasi-feminist discourses of female liberation (in a hypersexualised but absolutely non-erotic form in Nosferatu, in a queer frame in Love Lies Bleeding, and within the revenge genre I think Maxxxine and Strange Darling are the negative examples). Slasher is not my fave genre, but I forced myself to watch 'The Violent Nature' --- despite the fascinating theoretical discourse that can be attributed to it (on the contemporary revival of mannerisms and the slow slasher), I found it a completely empty and rather clumsy stylistic attempt.

Similarly, I found the most hyped of the films, Eggers' spectacular but, in my opinion, bland Gothic postcard of visual clichés, Nosferatu, and the conservative narrative epic megamovie, The Brutalist, anachronistic in its very existence, utterly empty. I don't know how to describe two perfectly well-intentioned but somehow misguided works as disappointing: Coppola's strange, naive, didactic, sometimes silly and yet somehow very unique vision, Megalopolis, and I Saw the TV Glow, which despite its highly topical subject matter and retro approach, its social and queer sensibility, also somehow managed to be too didactic and clumsy. To be honest, despite their low scores, I found the latter two films somehow more interesting than the calculated, lifeless perfectionism and empty formalism of Nosferatu or The Brutalist.

The only positive thing about this year's list is that, just as one of last year's greatest cinematic experiences came from an indie filmmaker and from my circle of friends at LB, this year's list includes several such films, especially in the landscape cinema or experimental categories, I would highlight the promising work of Mateo Krygowski aka Mateowah (, Through the Night Softly, On the Wounded, The Saviour's Witness).

Hong Sang-soo's films or Leos Carax's Godard homage essay film is certainly worth mentioning, but this year's big film experiences were mostly two films that slipped into this year from previous years: the work of my fave directors Sandro Aguilar and Lav Diaz again did not disappoint me.

This list only shows the watched films signed with 2024 in databases, with two justified exceptions (late distribution). The list also includes this year's films by my LB friends. I would like to thank everyone 🧡 for taking the time to read my silly reviews, with special thanks to Steve Garden, Daniel Misota, Edrick, Calvin Jacob, Hutch, Finn and Mateowah for 2024's memorable film club discussions (films by Grandrieux, Aguilar, Strickland, Cosmatos, Reygadas, etc., see here: boxd.it/vwL1Y ), which were test material for the PhD film course to be held at MoME University in the spring semester of 2025. They helped me and Dani a lot in our preparation, big thanks for the discussions and our film archive, Steve !Happy New Year for all the LB friends!
✨🎉🥳🥂👻🍾💫 xo Csil

1. Armour
2. Caught by the Tides
3. Essential Truths of the Lake
4. Abiding Nowhere
5. FKA twigs: THE BODY IS ART
6. The Substance
7. It's Not Me
8. By the Stream
9. A Traveler's Needs
10. Dahomey

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

✨ Summary of the Year (2023) ✨
(2024 see here: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/list/mcsils-2024-new-releases-ranked-list-with/ )

Without a doubt, the most amazing experience this year was Taylor Mac's 24-hour drag queen performance, in which she articulated a critique of the underlying ideologies through a sung history of American popular music --- all with so much charm, so much visual spectacle, so much elemental kindness, so many welcoming gestures, so much positive energy, that there is no question that I should have put this movie to the first place.
Saltburn's first place is my lil protest vote, bc actually the top 20-25 are all great films that I can't really rank bc they're all very important to me for different reasons --- but the fact that Saltburn is so divisive was quite a surprise to me, as was the Oppenheimer hype too, which movie is not only aesthetically or historically, but also morally dubious, with the sad fact that Nolan, despite his treatment of women and Japanese victims, managed to get crowds of people to rush to IMAX theatres to enjoy a --- nuclear bomb. So with Oppenheimer's last place, I want to protest against the dream factory's hesitant, half-hearted attempts at redemption: Obviously it's not enough to change the point of view against a global visual regime that has so long dictated for our gaze and which force us overlook the embarrassment of depicting the genocide of the Osage people in a Godfather-like gangster film genre as a white duo's exclusive chamber drama --- they would have to be able to shift paradigms, but Hollywood is not up to the task this year. The toxic masculinity that should be expressed in relation to Oppenheimer is instead voiced in relation to Poor Things, whose feminist critics often forget that it is a satire set in the Victorian era, whose inherent devices include reduction, exaggeration, distortion and the Frankensteinian deconstruction of parts. This year was also the year of A24's pop arthouse aesthetic, full of comfort films that were quite problematic from a critical point of view. The most controversial case is Glazer's Zone of Interest, the content of which can be summed up in a single sentence, and that sentence, unfortunately, can hardly be expanded. Rather than creating new metaphors, the visualisation of old ones is what emerges in this new illustrative trend. To return to Saltburn, many see it as a superficial critique of class, with gratuitously disgusting, self-serving sex scenes and a misguided (because nihilistic?) ending. The very fact that Fennell succeeds in freeing the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy from the paradigm of good/evil suggests that the class opposition is merely a narrative framework used here to highlight what we are capable of just to get into the circle, to get love/privilege, and the depth of Fennell's portrayal shows that the two cannot be separated --- but at the same time what we are capable of doing to protect our power. Felix-Elordi's empty beauty and Saltburn's infantile aristocracy, however, found a challenger in Keoghan's satyr/vampire, and all the sex scenes billed as scandalous were in the service of a microrealist psychological portrayal of their strange relationship and were reminiscent of gothic horror and the mythological connections of the satyr/faun to blood/fertility --- and Fennell even managed to go beyond the PYW's revenge in the depths of Saltburn's labyrinth, to present a Dionysian sacrifice before the statue of the half-Minotaur, half-Silenus creature, pushing the film beyond its psychological and socio-critical dimensions into a global critique of civilisation, where the naked dance of the faun/satyr in the corridors of Saltburn is already a triumph of something profoundly inhuman. I'd like to focus on the archetypal/mythological interpretation, which opens up both an individual dimension (you can't make the other your own) and a global dimension (you can't make nature/the earth your own).

But more important to me were the miracles of this year. The fact that I could love a Schanelec film that transcended the Straub-Huillet school and not only came up with an astonishing post-post interpretation of the Orpheus myth, but also a wonderfully visual language, where every word fascinated me, creating a new syntax of non-narrative slow cinema in touch with the philosophy of language. Or the fact that I have seen a few films this year that have managed to use landscape cinema not as an illustration of philosophical reflections, but as an equal companion within an experimental cinematic framework, fe Kyle Faulkner's beautiful, moving, thoughtful funeral mass and hymn to women, Letters to Irigaray, and Lois Patino"s Samsara). Kitty Green, after a serious true-crime critique (Casting JonBenet), has come up with a genuine microrealist wonder about the dynamics of violence against women in the Australian desert, The Royal Hotel, and I have read dozens of reviews of Todd Haynes' May December, but no two were alike, a clear indication of the complexity and richness of the questions Haynes has presented us with in his iridescent, filtered, veiled images. Not only about sin, but about its knowability, about the potential for thought on the subject of communicability, artistic processability and appearance itself, while mixing comic and dramatic elements in his characteristic way - I was delighted to see a multitude of essay-butterflies emerge from the monarch larvae reared in Joe's cage, the film formally covered with Maja's pastel rainbow veil, a rare example of form and content in perfect harmony.
Oc, there were also some unintentional fakes that looked like good films this year: Wim Wenders made a deceptively spectacular and humanist but actually unbearably sentimental kitsch by appropriating Asian slow cinema, while Petzold's Afire is, imo, a typical intellectual misconception, a kind of Rohmerian reminiscence, with a fake drama and a too much Anthropocene environmental forest fire at the end: lazy students in a rural writing seminar in a lazy film.
I think 2023 was already a good year for cinema, given that I've only seen 20 percent of this year's watchlist: mostly indie films won out for me. It is (very! :)) possible that you will disagree with me on a lot of things, but if you find just one thing in it thought-provoking, I have not written this in vain and at least I'll that I was so critical this year --- lots of disappointments, quite a depression, but still, still, always a hint of light. Hooray for my new heroine, Emerald Fennell, and HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉✨🥂

1. Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music
2. Music
3. Saltburn
4. Letter to Irigaray
5. May December
6. The Curse
7. The Royal Hotel
8. Samsara
9. The Human Surge 3
10. The Boy and the Heron

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The complete filmography of Australian indie filmmaker Kyle Faulkner, with my reviews written on lb (in the notes) and in journals and magazines. KF's films are freely available via his website: www.phorse.film/

About Street: Kyle Faulkner's 'STREET' and the ethics of true crime (ENG)
www.academia.edu/126522163/

About: Letter to Irigaray:
www.academia.edu/121795878/FILM_VS_FINE_ART_2023_The_Year_of_the_Cinema_of_Perception_a_Critical_Overview
(review, in English)

About Spectre:
vulkanfolyoirat.hu/markoja-csilla-darkness-darkness-burning-bright/ (mention, HU)

Measure and Order --- Questions of the film canon n: in: Filmvilág, 2024 )mention) (HU)
www.academia.edu/123688180/A_m%C3%A9rt%C3%A9k_%C3%A9s_a_rend_A_kanoniz%C3%A1ci%C3%B3_k%C3%A9rd%C3%A9sei_k%C3%B6rk%C3%A9rd%C3%A9s_Measure_and_order_Questions_of_the_film_canon

About Hitokara:
vulkanfolyoirat.hu/markoja-csilla-hitokara/ (review with ill., HU)

----------- reviews on letterboxd ----------

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/letter-to-irigaray/1/

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/spectre-2022/

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/street-2022/2/

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/sangha-2020/1/

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/hitokara/1/

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/film:465092/

• Letter to Irigaray

  www.academia.edu/121795878/FILM_VS_FINE_ART_2023_The_Year_of_the_Cinema_of_Perception_a_Critical_Overview

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/letter-to-irigaray/1/

• Spectre

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/spectre-2022/

  in Hungarian (mention):
  vulkanfolyoirat.hu/markoja-csilla-darkness-darkness-burning-bright/

• Street

  Kyle Faulkner's 'STREET' and the ethics of true crime (ENG)
  www.academia.edu/126522163/

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/street-2022/2/

• Sangha

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/sangha-2020/1/

• Wabi Sabi
• Hitokara ヒトカラ

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/hitokara/1/

  more in Hugarian w/ illustrations:
  vulkanfolyoirat.hu/markoja-csilla-hitokara/

• ________

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/film:465092/

These are the films that represent Hungarian cinema well, in my opinion. More of a must-see list than a fave list.

For a list of all Hungarian films on letterboxd, see here:
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/loonaur/list/hungarian/

• Merry-Go-Round
• The House Under the Rocks
• Summer Rain
• Skylark
• Current
• Twenty Hours
• The Round-Up
• Elegy
• Cold Days
• Hello, Vera

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Of course, there is nothing better than Hayao Miyazaki and Totoro / Spirited Away. But there are still some nice planets beyond the familiar universe, at least for me: The Cat Returns with its prequel Whisper of the Heart, Arrietty and Marnie.

1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Spirited Away
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
5. Kiki's Delivery Service
6. The Cat Returns
7. The Wind Rises
8. When Marnie Was There
9. Ponyo
10. Castle in the Sky

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Actually, nothing is certain except the first and last place :) I feel that 2nd, 3rd, 4th are interchangeable. So this list is just for fun.

• The Lobster
• Dogtooth
• Poor Things
• The Favourite
• Kinds of Kindness
• Alps
• Nimic
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer

These are the most important films, so a shortlist that was created in the second half of 2023. Blockbuster bullshit avoided.
If, based on the character of this list or your knowledge of my tastes, you feel I've missed something, please let me know!

• Essential Truths of the Lake
• Slow
• The Human Surge 3
• The Daughters of Fire
• The Boy and the Heron
• Poor Things
• Allensworth
• Samsara
• The Royal Hotel
• About Dry Grasses

...plus 102 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are the films I loved the most this year, a large part of which I discovered through LB friends. (Among others: Hutch, Kyle Faulkner, JWinston) Grateful thanks to them! 💚

Films by Apichatpong, Lav Diaz, Sandro Aguilar, Peter Strickland, Philippe Grandrieux, Panos Cosmatos, Carlos Reygadas, Kyle Faulkner, Bill Morrison, Peter Tscherkasky, Scott Barley, Hong Sangsoo, Hamaguchi, Stan Brakhage, Pablo Lamar, Hal Hartley, Cristóbal León, Joaquin Cocina, Zheng Lu Xinyuan, Satoshi Uemine, Bi Gan, Jonás Trueba, Mariya Saakian.

(With a bit of cheating, because there are a few that I've seen before, but since I wrote about, they've taken on a new life. Asian Rohmerian/'talking' and Thai and Taiwan's slow/contemplative cinema were undeservedly under-represented on the list, but I also had other strong sensual impressions this year and gave them priority...)

• Uprise
• The Duke of Burgundy
• Kaili Blues
• The Mammals of Victoria
• Japón
• Spectre
• Sea of Tranquility
• Genus Pan
• A Lake
• Memoria

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Youth (Spring)

  vk

• Return to Dust

  cinemax

• B for Busy
• One and Four
• Fire on the Plain
• Streetwise

  cinemax

• Are You Lonesome Tonight?
• Manchurian Tiger
• Sister
• Tracing Her Shadow

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The complete filmography of the excellent Spanish experimental filmmaker, not including his video installations, which you can find on vimeo: vimeo.com/loispatino.
Almost all the films are easily available on Lois Patiño's website www.loispatino.es, and on MUBI. I have not yet seen the last 5 films on the list. I have not yet been able to log his early documentary stuff, but I am working on it. Reviews in the notes.

• Red Moon Tide

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/red-moon-tide/

• Coast of Death
• Night Without Distance

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/night-without-distance/

• Fajr
• Mountain in Shadow
• Strata of the Image

  letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/mcsil/film/strata-of-the-image/2/

• Duration-Landscape: River
• Sycorax
• Red Sun
• In Landscape's Movement

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A canon of German expressionist films from Lotte H. Eisner

The Golden Age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary Expressionism, and the innovations of the theatre directors of this period.

1. The Student of Prague
2. The Golem
3. Homunculus
4. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
6. Madame DuBarry
7. The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
8. The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
9. Sumurun
10. Anna Boleyn

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Máté Konkol's list of Hungarian films dealing with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, that (the first 14) he used for his own montage film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO5wwT2GBN4
developed by mcsil.
to log: Dreams die at down /Hajnalban meghalnak az álmok, 1961, Torn of the Flag/A lyukas zászló, 2007

• Whooping Cough
• Diary for My Father and My Mother
• Father
• The Sun Street Boys
• Dialogue
• The Midas Touch
• The Other Person
• Yesterday
• Virrad
• Hungarian Requiem

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.