Film

Ira Cohen's Invasion of the thunderbolt pagoda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hbyW57mSma8

Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures":

http://www.ubu.com/film/smith-jack_flaming.html

Kenneth Anger, Lucifer Rising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVqyx4BvEuc

David Lynch, Lumiere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFGroZJnklY and Alphabet 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxXx5Qf4HA&feature=related , 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRlgPgRDmgk&feature=related and 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSbb_qEs4xc&feature=related

Denys Colomb Daunant, Dream of the Wild Horses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFessUtkjKo

Julien Gracq and Salvador Dali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SkbMnxx4Q

From Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upB35SaMOcU ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6o7W5S8loo&feature=related .

Not really a film per se but this long commercial must have been the
result of some marketing team targetting the Chapel:
http://500bygucci.com/shortvideos/ita/purple.html

Interesting - inspired me to do some research: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/feb/21/turins_history_turns_holy_hellish/?spor...

Inland Empire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBENalLEnSE

How about the new Hunger Games movie? I enjoyed the rendering of The Capitol. Or, as one film reviewer put it, "Nuremberg meets Dubai." A fascinating look at how decadence is depicted in a film aimed at teens. The entire Hunger Games spectacle could also be chalked up to "sacralized depravity": kids killing each other on a reality show to the amusement of jaded plutocrats.

I understand that Jonathan Frid passed on after the filming of Dark Shadows - the series being the coolest soap opera ever. The writers were swarthy-minded and had no regard for our spindly notions of credibility: I thought it was the coolest thing in the world when Quentin (and when I think of him I see Engelbert Humperdinck, for whatever reason) was recast from wraith to werewolf.

In doing some post-posting research I learned I missed an episode: Quentin was also a zombie.

13: The preview for the Tim Burton film looks hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjg9O7ifwM

It seems like Burton may be rekindling his decadent-meets-suburbia trope he did so well with Edward Scissorhands, this time with an undead vampire in 1970s England. Goth meets Mod! It's looks gorgeous and ridiculous. But isn't that the point?

"What manner of sorcery is this? Be gone, tiny songstress!"

Back to 1923 with Nazimova in Salome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDaZNqag8uQ

15: Apparently Nazimova's performances inspired both Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams to become playwrights.

One piece, better copy of Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.
Gregor Samsa meets Frank Capra.

http://videos.nymag.com/video/Short-Film-Franz-Kafkas-Its-a-W#c=788JNP2GZW4FJVM1... Film: 'Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life'

Recently saw The Watcher in the Attic , based on a number of Edogawa Rampo stories, excellent, and definitely recommended to the members of this list.

Thanks - I had never heard of that film. I own, but have never watched the film version of The Blind Beast. That may keep me from the devils for an hour or so this evening.

Sorry to hear that British Underground Film legend Jeff Keen died today. His films are a mind-bending onslaught of cut-up B-Movie SF imagery - extracts can be found on youtube, and there's a great BFI Boxset GAZWRX

Woyzeck by Janos Szasz

Szasz's Opium: Diary of a Madwoman was very good.

So is W. In spite of Kinski's chewing on the scenery, it's much better than Herzog's boring version.

Paul Verhoeven is announcing that he is going to make a film version of the decadent novel Hidden Force by Louis Couperus. It will be out in 2013!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1715325/

Intimate Affairs by Alan Rudolph based on Recherches sur la Sexualite - archives du surrealisme

Monica Cook, animated shorts (thanks, Quixada):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=183mPNosD8Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6pcZoSL0s

Rewatched The Fifth Element by Luc Besson for the first time in years. Wonderfully garish costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier, a techno opera sequence, and Milla Jovovich kicking butt in a non-Resident Evil movie. The plot is a hokey New Agey space fantasy, but it is a great example of fin de siecle cinema of the 1990s.

This doesn't really need an explanation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUPaxgIo98

Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls in its entirety:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCu67dXDwTM

Holy Motors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EULfOYn8-cw

Spring Breakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmImzKiuQ0

Personal fave of mine, the whole film is on youtube. Gotta love Harmony Korine.

http://youtu.be/gtY_545-ST8

Happy Ash Wednesday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeLUi_20Nrg

With his adept demon-fighting skills, is it not apropos to nominate Bruce Campbell for candidacy to lead the Holy See?

ah yes... that explains all the smutty brows today:

Ash-Wednesday
- T. S. Eliot

Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?

Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power
Because I cannot drink
There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again

Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessed face
And renounce the voice
Because I cannot hope to turn again
Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something
Upon which to rejoice

And pray to God to have mercy upon us
And pray that I may forget
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain
Because I do not hope to turn again
Let these words answer
For what is done, not to be done again
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.

Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death
Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

II

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree
In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety
On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained
In the hollow round of my skull. And God said
Shall these bones live? shall these
Bones live? And that which had been contained
In the bones (which were already dry) said chirping:
Because of the goodness of this Lady
And because of her loveliness, and because
She honours the Virgin in meditation,
We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled
Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love
To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
It is this which recovers
My guts the strings of my eyes and the indigestible portions
Which the leopards reject. The Lady is withdrawn
In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown.
Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness.
There is no life in them. As I am forgotten
And would be forgotten, so I would forget
Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. And God said
Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen. And the bones sang chirping
With the burden of the grasshopper, saying

Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied
End of the endless
Journey to no end
Conclusion of all that
Is inconclusible
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.

Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shining
We are glad to be scattered, we did little good to each other,
Under a tree in the cool of the day, with the blessing of sand,
Forgetting themselves and each other, united
In the quiet of the desert. This is the land which ye
Shall divide by lot. And neither division nor unity
Matters. This is the land. We have our inheritance.

III

At the first turning of the second stair
I turned and saw below
The same shape twisted on the banister
Under the vapour in the fetid air
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears
The deceitul face of hope and of despair.

At the second turning of the second stair
I left them twisting, turning below;
There were no more faces and the stair was dark,
Damp, jagged, like an old man's mouth drivelling, beyond repair,
Or the toothed gullet of an aged shark.

At the first turning of the third stair
Was a slotted window bellied like the figs's fruit
And beyond the hawthorn blossom and a pasture scene
The broadbacked figure drest in blue and green
Enchanted the maytime with an antique flute.
Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown,
Lilac and brown hair;
Distraction, music of the flute, stops and steps of the mind over the third stair,
Fading, fading; strength beyond hope and despair
Climbing the third stair.

Lord, I am not worthy
Lord, I am not worthy
but speak the word only.
IV

Who walked between the violet and the violet
Who walked between
The various ranks of varied green
Going in white and blue, in Mary's colour,
Talking of trivial things
In ignorance and knowledge of eternal dolour
Who moved among the others as they walked,
Who then made strong the fountains and made fresh the springs

Made cool the dry rock and made firm the sand
In blue of larkspur, blue of Mary's colour,
Sovegna vos

Here are the years that walk between, bearing
Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring
One who moves in the time between sleep and waking, wearing

White light folded, sheathing about her, folded.
The new years walk, restoring
Through a bright cloud of tears, the years, restoring
With a new verse the ancient rhyme. Redeem
The time. Redeem
The unread vision in the higher dream
While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.

The silent sister veiled in white and blue
Between the yews, behind the garden god,
Whose flute is breathless, bent her head and signed but spoke no word

But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang down
Redeem the time, redeem the dream
The token of the word unheard, unspoken

Till the wind shake a thousand whispers from the yew

And after this our exile

V

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.

O my people, what have I done unto thee.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence
Not on the sea or on the islands, not
On the mainland, in the desert or the rain land,
For those who walk in darkness
Both in the day time and in the night time
The right time and the right place are not here
No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice

Will the veiled sister pray for
Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee,
Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between
Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait
In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray
For children at the gate
Who will not go away and cannot pray:
Pray for those who chose and oppose

O my people, what have I done unto thee.

Will the veiled sister between the slender
Yew trees pray for those who offend her
And are terrified and cannot surrender
And affirm before the world and deny between the rocks
In the last desert before the last blue rocks
The desert in the garden the garden in the desert
Of drouth, spitting from the mouth the withered apple-seed.

O my people.
VI

Although I do not hope to turn again
Although I do not hope
Although I do not hope to turn

Wavering between the profit and the loss
In this brief transit where the dreams cross
The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
(Bless me father) though I do not wish to wish these things
From the wide window towards the granite shore
The white sails still fly seaward, seaward flying
Unbroken wings

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices
In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices
And the weak spirit quickens to rebel
For the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell
Quickens to recover
The cry of quail and the whirling plover
And the blind eye creates
The empty forms between the ivory gates
And smell renews the salt savour of the sandy earth This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross Between blue rocks But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away Let the other yew be shaken and reply.

Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
And even among these rocks
Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated

And let my cry come unto Thee.

First time i have read this since turning 40.
Now it makes more sense, so one more good thing about getting older, maybe. Did you have to type this whole thing out, good work if so.

Staying with the theme, but cheating.... http://youtu.be/JAO3QTU4PzY

Oh god no. I'm a devout flunky of the lord of thieves.

36: Then we should nominate you, Msgr. Waugh, as Bishop of Rome and Plenipotentiary of the Holy See. The Vatican could do a lot worse, what with their epistolary pimpery under the John Paul II and Benedict XVI caporegimes.

I understand that as part of of a "thinking outside of the (jewel-encrusted) box" modernization strategy, the conclave decided to have one of the younger cardinals put out a video ad, to draw the right sort of candidates toward the position. Filmed at the Vatican (or a temple near you):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUY_zpPeab0

The Blood Spattered Bride

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/94017353

Spartacus, Starz tv series, a poor-man's Rome (HBO) sword-and-sandal soap opera with non-stop sex and gore.

I hope you all are watching Borgia and The Borgias (HBO and Showtime? Not certain - no TV). I saw season I1 of Borgia on Netflix some while back. Good fun - and to the occasion.

Game of Thrones, HBO tv series, 2nd season, available from netflix based on George R. R. Martin fantasy novels.

Intriguing film about Edvard Munch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ5Ui8rlttM

"The Damned" by Visconti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRZZ2k2iGk

Another reason why I hate cats - "The Cat with Hands", a short film by Robert Morgan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjxpfwjBtw

MORE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNiZCrdTnUM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YamOuTXywy0

45 - out of curiosity, how many reasons have you got Ben?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_KKMSfufA

One more ;)

Querelle: the movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54bU7nWrmFY

A little levity from the abyss...

Bill Hicks Agent Of Evolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HIXQd4AYLU

The Union - The Business Behind Getting High

http://www.librarything.com/work/13881385/98465235

How Weed Won the West

http://www.librarything.com/work/13877416/98430169

"Bitchin Camaro" by the Dead Milkman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3CzvQ9e_w

Jodorowsky, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3joYVNyyi5w

All That Jazz, by Bob Fosse:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/all-that-jazz-was-bob-fosses-portrait-of-the-arti...

I love how the film transforms itself from a biopic about a coked-out womanizing choreographer into a decadent fever dream.

>54 kswolff: Great film!

Malpertuis
(The Legend of Doom House)

http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Malpertuis-Disc-1/70072998?trkid=226871

Looks interesting, so, to the top of the queue. 1971 tv series with Orson Welles
based on Jean Ray novel.

> 56

I followed the link. "Foreign" is a genre?

This is actually that rare beast, a Belgian feature film; specifically it's Harry Kümel's follow-up to "Daughters of Darkness". It exists in two versions, one seen at Cannes in 1972, and a "Director's Cut" (with a Dutch soundtrack) released the next year, and about 20 minutes longer.

By pure coincidence, I watched it this evening.

Malpertuis is one of my favorite films. The Belgian Film Institute DVD has both cuts, the director's cut being substantially different and superior, not just a matter of a few added scenes. A unique movie, and well worth hunting down.

A trailer for the upcoming Chris Evans actioner, Snowpiercer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX5PwfEMBM0

Of note are the snippets of decadence of those who live in "the front." And Tilda Swinton as a Margaret Thatcher-esque Iron Lady who runs the train's cod-fascist dictatorship.

Swinton as Thatcher would be pure genius.

Just saw Snowpiercer and it was really great. Propulsive action, really dark, and highly entertaining. Excellent set design, costuming, and script. And an unrecognizable Chris Evans as the Big Damn Hero. Swinton is marvelous. It's her year, between this and the Jim Jarmusch vampire movie (not to mention the David Bowie video).

And both films also including John Hurt..

Also with Hurt, The Hit by Stephen Frears.

Saw John Hurt in the film version of Contact as the Billionaire Eccentric Cancer Victim. For a more decadence themed film, Hurt shines in Love and Death on Long Island and his cameo as The Countess in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

I first saw him years ago in a PBS aired Crime and Punishment - as Rodion Raskolnikov. He's also in the John Hillcoat/Nick Cave film, The Proposition as an (appropriately whiskey soaked) English bounty hunter in the Australian outback. This film also features Guy Pearce, whose creepy brilliance shines in anything he turns up in (His Fernand made a sappy version of The Count of Monte Cristo watchable).

I first saw John Hurt as Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant - a mid-afternoon reshowing of the TV play in 1976, by my reckoning.

At the sci fi convention I attended last weekend, three comedians took down the classic roller disco film, Xanadu It's decadent and ridiculous at the same time. Well, just look at this visual:

http://uncoolkids.com/buffy/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/dancinfinalebig.jpg

The Addiction (1995) featuring Chris Walken and Lili Taylor http://youtu.be/l00zIVTBr3g
Liquid Sky (1982)

I loved Liquid Sky.

"This pussy has teeth..."

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's two part TV miniseries adaptation of Simulacron 3 by Daniel F. Galouye. Unseen for over 3 decades. Now available for free.

World on a Wire.

http://youtu.be/jfXtzBRX3sg

http://youtu.be/JOe0sggQfF4

>70 DavidX: A superior piece of SF. Over and above the story, an amazing piece of cyberpunk before the term was thought of, Fassbinder makes amazingly stylish use of limited resources. Characters are dressed in retro 40's outfits and placed in an environment of 70's high modernism. I'd guess this is the influence of Godard's Alphaville, but the lurid colours evoke Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and Roxy Music's contemporary retrofuturism. You feel Kraftwerk must be just out of shot in the bar scenes, quietly sipping mineral water.

I am obsessed and have watched this many times now. Now I'm reading the novel. The juxtaposition of the 1940's "simulation" and the ultramod 1970's "reality" is really stunning.

The inspired decadence of Walter Murch's Return to Oz:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdr7cf5OzB1qiceiuo1_1280.jpg

The Emerald City as petrified ruin.

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131210043246/oz_/images/b/bc/Return-to-OZ-r...

And more decadent opulence.

A new documentary about that puckish optimist HR Giger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MXYaQA04U

A little hump-day Satanism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzO8uZCdODU

Lucifer Rising:

http://youtu.be/-uUB20FwlqA

Music by Bobby Beausoleil.

A friend of mine loaned me the Magic Lantern collection for my holiday viewing. If I had seen this films before Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, etc., my Christmas morning sense of wonder at those films might seriously have been blunted.

Mimsy Farmer Tribute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25j_Bv53-Os

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Farmer

Finally saw the Grand Budapest Hotel, a fun homage to the writing of Stefan Zweig The movie captured the spirit of decadence in central Europe prior to the rise of Fascism.

A fascinating adaptation of Swinburne's dramatic fragment Pasiphae by Mary Reid Kelly:

http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/a-wandering-will-mary-reid-kelley-discusses-swi...

Thank you for that! In looking through my books to see if that piece was to be found, I came across this:

http://swinburnearchive.indiana.edu/swinburne/view#docId=swinburne/acs0000001-01...

I have two collections of poetry by Swinburne, I'll have to check if Pasiphae is in there. The combination of sexual excess and mannered dramatic prose was headspinning.

Also, Swiburne wrote a scholarly monograph on William Blake. And for those who like steampunk, Swinburne and Captain Sir Richard Burton team up to take down Lovecraftian baddies in the Swinburne & Burton series by Mark Hodder.

Cremaster 5 by Matthew Barney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcmhLiATpcc

"Year of the Jellyfish", directed by Christopher Frank (from his novel), reviewed by Janet Maslin for the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B0DEFD71530F937A15757C0A961948260

Nico Icon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjPZbigB4NA

Polanski's Venus in Fur. A very metatextual adaptation of Sacher-Masoch. The best movie Polanski has done in years, I think.

"Sicario," a look at the grimdark present of Mexican drug cartels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR0SDT2GeFg

Kwaidan, now on DVD:

http://www.avclub.com/review/japanese-horror-anthology-kwaidan-low-frights-very-...

kswolff, Kwaidan is one of my favorite films for this time of year, along with total camp like Daughters of Darkness and Cemetery Man.

Happy Halloween!

She Killed in Ecstasy(1971) d. Jesus Franco

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJi3rdv73ik

kind of reminds me of Kwaidan on steroids!

Painted Skin: The Resurrection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tio9jRE3XxY

Started reading Massive Pissed Love by Richard Hell. There's some great film reviews in there, including his love for Robert Bresson and hatred of Larry Clark

Despair, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on the 1930s novel by Vladimir Nabokov:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFx8uptm37w

Happiness by Todd Solondz is an offbeat portrait of suburban woe. It's a dark, dark, dark comedy. The laughter is mostly nerves. I like movies that unsettle me though.

The Brothers Quay, collected films on DVD!

http://www.avclub.com/review/new-blu-ray-anthology-showcases-quay-brothers-baff-...

A primer to the twisty, melodramatic cinema of Pedro Almodovar:

http://www.avclub.com/article/beginners-guide-twisty-melodrama-pedro-almodovar-2...

Peter Greenaway:

Darwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxyoLTs_Nk8

Zed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A41X-a_Rb8w

Tulse Luper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWSZ08ocpM

Ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous Steven Arnold!

http://stevenarnoldarchive.com/

And his masterpiece Luminous Procuress in full:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gL1OfzJCL18

Cremaster 1 by Matthew Barney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0eHHJzk1uo

A look at "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" and the subsequent sequels:

http://www.avclub.com/article/one-sickest-exploitation-films-ever-somehow-spawne...

L'invitation au voyage (1927):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKzlYMkpxvI

I have a new article published on the woefully overlooked Finnish film Sauna. I think this movie will appeal the most of the readership of this forum. Its a unique cross section of Machen, MR James, and Gnostic horror. I hope you enjoy - the film can be seen on itunes, netflix, and shudder.

http://www.dirgemag.com/gnostic-horror-sauna/

That is an excellent review - and thank you for alerting me to this film!

Yes, youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnq5mudug4Q

Merry Little Christmas, by Ignacio Martín Lerma (2010)

Under Milk Wood (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GwcvhZOwXM

Thomas Kuntz: Une Saison en Enfer, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqL-w3sQhEU&sns=em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkDzDMclCBU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drofW-ELc-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V254bLx8TUA

Talking hotdogs are REAL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i-3gjWTxW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuOOy3qlV9Q

I've got to see 'spring awakening' based on Wedekind. It would be x rated if uncensored. eta

Weimar-era film masterpieces showcased at 68th Berlinale

http://p.dw.com/p/2svo1

Matthew Barney, Cremaster Cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWtS9HsP4U

109: "But Barney’s world is also quite insular. There’s a preponderance of small, claustrophobic spaces. Spent, febrile, or hapless heroes go through absurd motions. Some tunnel or climb; others dance or simply sit. Cloistered, all seem focused on some single activity. Roland Barthes wrote about the “ceaseless action of secluding oneself”; Edmond de Goncourt about “subtle and elegant depravity.” All this links Barney to the languorous realm imagined by J.K. Huysmans in Against Nature, with its sapped, isolated protagonist, and his visions of the female genitalia as a Venus flytrap." -- "Swept Away" by Jerry Saltz; review in The Village Voice

Thank you for that. I will dig that article up. I only recently discovered Barney's films (my researches into video culture have fallen off considerably since the 90's) after a rigorous course of idling in internet alam al-mithal.

Here's the trailer for Matthew Barney's latest cinematic spectacle, River of Fundament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyiQXG7GlY

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - All Succubi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgD-PQGtu80

virtual reality porn is next! ;-)

let's explore hell!

Agony Gameplay - Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93Mzpob2Mo

And UbuWeb's vast film archive:

http://www.ubu.com/film/

hot succubus in hell, anyone?

AGONY - Succubus Mode Walkthrough Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z745POclHxM

Hey! Is that Scott Thompson! (aka "Buddy Cole"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIjbzU6F1M

From "Super 8 1/2" by Bruce LaBruce

Indeed it is. And so is this:

https://vimeo.com/78558321

The best dressed character in Pacific Rim, namely Hannibal Chau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln09TEzlPOU

Jean-Luc Godard at it again:

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/01/26/godards-conflagration-of-images/

"Where the young Godard of Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), and Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) was the first and greatest of post-modern filmmakers, the old, irascible, stogie-chomping Godard is akin to the encyclopedic high modernists (Joyce, Pound, Pessoa, Benjamin), shoring up fragments against his ruin. He’s also sui generis, a solitary cosmonaut broken free from the Earth’s gravity and sending back intriguingly garbled transmissions from the edge of the solar system."

Expressionist films (several with Conrad Veidt):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aimAeeDx2p4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7NdMu4ZvvY&list=PL96jMyxWk42qKgmCMkcWkF1-Xs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf9PKWJlzzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD4Q998DxNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a7YJi_gvzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaEqSwe8SU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ENQibFW9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgc40jgLGag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC6jFoYm3xs

Hey now! Nice list.

Veidt fans are also warmly invited to join our cult thread here:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/271081

Maison Close, excellent french tv series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521186/

Kwaidan - Ghost Story of the Snow Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf3LEegIOa0
all-time great film

"Way Out", a serious of fantastic and macabre shorts hosted by Raold Dahl in 1961:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOCK84JJch2tBpnwvYpmqQ/videos

forget academy award crap, this is the best film of the last couple years!
Lost Illusions
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10505316/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

>126 Randy_Hierodule: I remember watching this! great stuff, Randy! ;-)

The Nose ( Le Nez ) Alexander Alexeïeff Claire Parker 1963 Animated short

a classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZYV49ekeOY

Eroticism, death and the devil - How Gothic art captivates us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UT889YeCuo

The Lovers of Teruel (Les amants de Teruel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlFgSSmrnw

I saw this film in'62 at a small foreign film theater. It's an all-time favorite, unfortunately it was never shown again after it's first release. Too bad because the 35mm print was very beautiful compared to the small low-res version.

great film noir
The Breaking Point

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042281/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_8_nm_0_q_breaking%252...

He Ran All The Way 1951 Film Noir - John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, John Berry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-jsTbdLGTI

a great film noir, do yourself a favor and read the Horace McCoy novel.
James Cagney "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" (1950) Full Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk2sYJqLYDE

another noir film from an even better novel by James Hadley Chase, more wise cracks than Groucho!
No Orchids for Miss Blandish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s5nrPix9Jc

>135 tros: My holiday itinerary nearly complete. Gracias!

>136 Randy_Hierodule: por nada!
also check out Woman in the Window, Fritz Lang and The Breaking Point Michael Curtiz.

Maigret

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15074312/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_maigret

Rowan Atkinson is excellent in a beautiful film, the best Maigret ever!

Maigret

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167644/?ref_=ttep_ov

I'm watching dvds from the lib but also streams from mhzchoice,com

The Last Post

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5133742/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%2520last...

another great bbc movie

just watched phantom lady for the first time, great noir cinematography based on Cornell Woolrich novel

Phantom Lady

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036260/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_phantom%2520...

The Story of Temple Drake

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024617/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_story%2520of...

1933 film based on william faulkner novel 'sanctuary' that was banned in several states and brought on film censorship.