Not exactly a classic (it’s from the 1980s) but if you’re learning German there’s a wonderful movie called “Das Schreckliche Mädchen” 9"The Nasty Girl”), about a young woman who goes nosing around after she suspects that some of the people in her peaceful, prosperous small German city might not have had the squeaky…

It’s capitalized though. And has an Eszett. Sorry. #Muttersprachlerin.

“Les Diaboliques” has been mentioned. “Bicycle Thieves”. “Nights Of Cabiria”. “Jules Et Jim”. “Breathless”. “The 400 Blows.” “Marriage Italian Style”. “8 1/2.” “La Dolce Vita.” They’re all considered required viewing. There’s a Japanese film called “High And Low” I saw recently that was very good. Although I’m…

La Haine (Hate) was one the first subtitled films I ever watched, and it blew me away with a view of France I had no idea existed. Stars a very young Vincent Cassel, and very relevant to current events.

Oh my god yes

It’s really funny how it became this wonderfully sad film. The studio sent the director this memo where they said; “You can’t have animal mutilation because that will distribution in England. You can’t have mad scientists cause that will hurt distribution in German. etc.” And so they had to completely shift things…

We’ll all have to keep our eyes peeled for Octopusesarethespidersofthesea in the next couple days.

I love “I served the king of England” and “Closely watched trains”, both Czech movies. Plus a Hungarian one called “Kontroll” which was even better once I went to Budapest and found the metro kinda scary.

It truly only came to my attention like a month ago. Some folks started a ClashTalk thread called the ‘Men of Jezebel’ calling out a lot of it which I was shocked to read because I too feel like I read Jezebel a lot (possibly a little obsessively tbh) and am active in the comments but never saw it. But yeah I kept an…

I dont know. Someone upthread (or downthread?) linked to another account where the same situation played out. I am really grossed out at the icky display of emotional manipulation and, what seems to me, using mental illness as a way to excuse heinous behavior. It doesn’t make me mad it makes me sad.

How is that account not getting blocked? With this kind of history?

I thought I read Jez a lot, including the comments, but I missed a lot of threads where all this went down. I’m kinda shocked - had no idea this lunacy went on.

I am seconding this. That was fucked up level of emotional hostage-ing. And it was so early in the goddamn morning.

If you enjoy Les Diaboliques you might want to give Eyes Without a Face a shot. Assuming you’ve not seen it before.

It’s another classic French film. I even think the same script writing team, Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, adapted Les Diaboliques and Eyes Without a Face from their source material (they also…

I love The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I’m a bit of a silents buff. I also love to search TCM for pre-Code movies.

I was like

Ha! It did work! For a fucking wonder. I was really upset by the whole thing actually. I do love the comments here, and waking up to the “typing thru tears” stunt this morning really was a bummer.

Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. So, so funny!

See you tomorrow!