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I saw the Laurel and Hardy film Duck Soup. Once thought lost it was rediscovered and restored as best could be done. This short is basically the sane plot of their later short Another Fine Mess. L&H are vagrants hiding from being conscripted to fight a fire so they hide out in a mansion while the owner is away. They try to rent the house before the real owner shows up and chases them. It was a pretty funny short. I also saw **** for Tat. In this short L&H run a business next to someone from an earlier short who hates them. They get in a gigantic spat after the man accuses Hardy of a "clandestine affair with his wife." It was pretty funny and has a really good Stan Laurel line. "He who filters your good name steals trash!"

Richard Nixon. I'd like to see a nice film version of Nixon in China.

It was nothing important. Nipkow was just mad that they didn't air Hot Spell and he really wants them to.

Yesterday I saw A Man Escaped. A very good film by Bresson about the anti-Fascist struggle during the days of occupation. A man imprisoned by the Nazis makes a daring escape from the prison with a young boy locked up in the same cell. It was a very good film. I also saw Down by Law, a movie about three eccentric inmates making an escape in the Louisiana bayou. Both films were good and I recommend them.

This is coming on tonight. Not often that Jarmusch's movies air on TV. I'll give it a watch.

A few more- Studioul Cinematografic Bucuresti (Romania) WFF Lodz (Poland) Specta Films (France)

From the foreign editions Vredens Dag, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish edition Le Corbeau, Henri-Georges Clouzot, French edition The Voice of the Heart, Dimitris Ionnapoulos, Greek edition The Way You Wanted Me, Teuvo Tulio, Finnish edition White Roses, Hannu Leminen, Finnish edition

I was just going to list them as one film in 1958. If everyone else is listing the first part as 1944 I will edit my list too though.

DEFA (East Germany) Mosfilm (Russia) Toho (Japan) Boyana film (Bulgaria) Sofia Film (Bulgaria) Svensk Filmindstri (Sweden)

My list of favorite foreign films of 1944- 1.) Six P.M., Ivan Pyryev, Russia 2.)Ivan the Terrible, Sergei Eisenstein, Russia 3.) Torment, Alf Sjöberg, Sweden 4.) The Children Are Watching Us, Vittorio De Sica, Italy

I think he really, REALLY wants them to play Hot Spell. LOL

I missed out on the "Golden Age" of AMC too but I do remember them playing the Public Enemy once. That was pretty good.

1.) Day of Wrath (1943) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark 2.) Le Corbeau (1943) Henri-Georges Clouzot, France 3.) I Pagliacci (1943) Giuseppe Fatigati, Italy

Slavoj Zizek tears apart Black Panther in new review. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/quasi-duo-fantasias-straussian-reading-black-panther/#! WE WERE WAITING for a film like Black Panther, but Black Panther is not the film we were waiting for. [1] The first sign of ambiguity is the fact that the movie was enthusiastically received all across the political spectrum: from partisans of black emancipation who see in it the first big Hollywood assertion of black power, through liberals who sympathize with its reasonable solution — education and help, not struggle — up to some representatives of the alt-right, who recognize in the film’s “Wakanda forever” another version of Trump’s “America first” (incidentally, this is why Mugabe, before he lost power, also said some kind words about Trump). When all sides recognize themselves in the same product, we can be sure that the product in question is ideology at its purest — a kind of empty vessel containing antagonistic elements.

Yeah, I could translate quite a bit of what was being said but I definitely noticed the older, faded print. They should have touched it up more.

My list of top foreign films for 1942- 1.) We Make Music, Helmut Kautner, Germany 2.) People on the Mountains, Istvan Szots, Hungary

Monday, 2 am - Walls of Malapaga I've never seen this Gabin movie before and it looks like a TCM premiere. I'll probably catch it and it will probably also be in my 1949 list.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope

I like many different genres. I like horror, drama, westerns and the operetta-style musicals (like the films Jeannette MacDonald and Lyubov Orlova made). Also any movie with Sheryl Lee in it really.

What's so special about this movie that you're completely OBSESSED with it?

Some of my favorites- George Gershwin Leonard Bernstein Kurt Weill Sergei Prokofiev Philip Glass

David Lynch - The Amputee

Amick, Madchen

Yeah, I caught it. It was pretty good. I just didn't like the unrealistic saccharine ending.

March 21st - A Fine Madness Sean Connery is pretty good in this one.