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Berlin and Opus I-IV (1920’s, Walter Ruttmann)

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) Opens with exciting abstractions, sunrise and shapes seen through blinds, then we catch a train into Berlin and it chills out for a while, the depopulated city...

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Storm Over Asia (1928, Vsevolod Pudovkin)

On to the early Soviet Revolutionary chapter in the Vogel book, characterized in form by “an aggressive rejection of conventional methods and systems and a profound concern with the theory and language...

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By Brakhage, Volume 2, Program 4 (1989-1990)

Visions in Meditation #1 Uniquely wonderful experience watching this with Marvin Pontiac’s Asylum Tapes in the headphones, though it’s more of a vocal album than I was expecting and probably distracted...

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The Spiders (1919-1920, Fritz Lang)

Part 1: The Golden Sea I watched this in college on bootleg VHS for an ill-fated report on Lang’s cinema, and remembered pretty much nothing. A story in two parts, initially set in America with rival...

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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Buster Keaton)

Rewatched this to celebrate my finishing the great Dana Stevens book. Katy, uninterested, missed most of the hurricane finale.

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Hotel X plays City Symphonies

We went out to see three short “city symphony” docs with live music from Hotel X, part of the James River Film Fest. Joris Ivens’ Rain was pretty chill and rainy, the music wandering about aimlessly...

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Clive Barker’s early shorts

Salome (1973) Girl finds a mostly-nude boy in the catacombs, they start making out but he strangles her. The vibe is a murkier, cultier Jean Rollin, with light and fog effects so heavy they turn the...

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No One Will Save You (2023, Brian Duffield)

AKA Kimmy Schmidt’s War of the Worlds. Aliens invade Earth in search of the prettiest, perkiest girl with the most terrible trauma, and they find Kaitlyn Dever (the one who isn’t Beanie in Booksmart)....

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Piccadilly (1929, EA Dupont)

Our second Dupont movie after Variety. Rather than Anvil/Alloy we went with the music on the blu-ray, which was fine. After a talkie introduction scene, simply terrible, awkwardly tacked on (starring...

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Five by Tod Browning (1919-1927)

Katy’s out of town and there’s a new Criterion blu-ray, so we’re having a Tod Browning Halloween. – The Exquisite Thief (1919) Fragment of a lost film, found in Dawson City. A carnival barker turned...

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