#karl-bertil

[flurgerbla]

i work at the post office beating the shit out of your fragile package

[sgtprophet]

ser vi svenskar fram emot att få se sveriges första cottagecore trans socialist igen? (karl bertil jonsson)

[pojkflata]

"Luigi Mangione is rich tho" do you even read theory? There exists a very celebrated socialist hero who, much like Luigi, came from wealth and did his work during Christmas season

[whywalkwhenyoucanride]

A classic animated Christmas film from 1975, about a young man's attempt to spread some joy across class boundaries in an anachronistic Stockholm, inspired by his hero Robin Hood. In Swedish, with English subtitles.

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Going through my letterboxd movies 2024 and seeing if there is a pattern here

I watched the Mean Girls musical movie and then went home and watched Bottoms the same day. It was really fun day.

I SWEAR I did watch movies in february and march too - I think this list only includes the ones I wrote reviews for, because there was a movie I know I watched that didn’t show up here. This same thing applies to the other months where it appears that there is nothing.

April: Ronja was airing on tv so I watched it. Just like when I was a kid I found myself thinking it was quite long and I lost focus at times. Great music tho!

May: I remember my specific review was ”wow I have watched like 4 sapphic films about two best friends being chaotic and either one of them is a lesbian or both of them are” (the other I can recount rn being Booksmart and Bottoms, ik I’ve also seen another one). I like this trend in the 2020s to do movies with that plot it’s hilarious. This one was a little more meh though

June: I rewatched Terkel in Trouble out of boredom and it was just as hilarious as always. It’s peak late millenial/early gen z humor

Oh and Inside Out 2 came out!

August: I had a watched the Revolutionary girl Utena movie and then discovered they also had THE SHOW on letterboxd so I decided to review both lmao

October: Laughing at the contrast here. I rewatched It chapter 2 after not having watched it for years and it was funnier than I remember.

Pippi on the run was airing on TV and I was like ”oh fuck yeah I love this movie”

November: I was on an Astrid Lindgren movies rewatch spree! Decided to rewatch a lot from my childhood. Lots of them held up. With the Pippi movie I more appreciate the runaway movie, I never liked the pirates movie as much. But it was fun rewatching it nonetheless as I hadn’t seen it since I was like 7.

Oh, and then I watched Wicked! So it’s a super fun contrast 😅

December: Every Christmas they air a short cartoon about a boy who takes christmas gifts from the rich and gives to poor. It is a super fun special, and then they made a feature film about it some years ago. It was also fun, although I think I preffered the short.

Then I rewatched another Astrid Lindgren movie, one of my ULTIMATE FAVES <3 I also DID watch another Emil film but it didn’t show up because I just rated it, didn’t write a review

Baccano! is in January but I really watched it december 31st. My friend really wanted to show it to us, and I was surprised how much I enjoyed it! I have never been too much into immortality plots, but this show did it really well!

In 2025 I hope to watch more movies and also review them, even if it’s a rewatch of something I might have seen before

[gae-ta]

Actually i think i'd like all of you to have a shot at watching Karl-Bertil Jonsson--- here it is with english subs... a true swedish x-mas classic:

The story of 14 year old boy whose greatest idol is Robin Hood-- and boy does it show!

Err... quick warning before hitting play though, this short movie has two scenes i feel deserve a trigger warning, please read those below before pressing play to avoid any unpleasant surprises-- and if this makes makes you too uncomfortable, then please do not press play at all

tw: at the 20:22 mark there's a second of lots of different flags depicted.. one of them the nazi germany flag--- this is not to glorify something awful.. but rather to depict the 1930/40 as it actually were... warts and all one can also read it as a jab at the 'neutrality' of my country at the time... but that's another can of worms

tw: at the 17:31 mark there's a split second of a lady with her tits out... and believe it or not that's still shown on tv for millions of viewers every xmas in sweden. culture shocks am i right?? got censored in britain apparently

🎄God Jul🎄

[notsureifyoureablogoragirl]

[imaginationshow]

Today is a sad, sad day. Animator Per Åhlin has passed away, 91 years old. He was Sweden’s own Miazaki and his 1989 The Journey to Melonia should be on the watchlist of anyone with an interest in animation.

He gained his place in the heart of most Swedes with an animated short, Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton, shown on Christmas Eve each year sins 1975.

I once met him in a local store and got the opportunity to tell him how much his work has meant to me - in a rather incoherent way I’m afraid.

The picture is an homage to his style I did as a reaction of getting the news a few hours ago.

[pepaldi]

We have lost a great Swedish artist.

Vila i Frid Per.

Tack för alla underbara verk.

❤️

[randomisedmongoose]

Sweblr varför är vi inte galna över spelfilmsversionen av Karl-Bertil Jonsson? Det var tammefan det finaste jag sett sen originalet! Feta pluspoäng för att inkludera Tage Danielssons sannolikhetsmonolog i slutet dessutom.

[4mandalii4rt]

A quick collage and my Vildvittra again in honor of Per Åhlin. May his films traumatise and radicalize many generations to come.

[thekittyfox2999]

I think every Swedes mind would explode if Sällskapsresan was turned into a cartoon.

But I would 10000% watch it, enjoy it, and talk about it constantly

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

[sgtprophet]

jag har inte kunnat sluta kolla på det här klippet det är så jävla roligt

[pojkflata]

>american asks me to watch christmas special for its leftist themes

>ask them if the media is anti-capitalist or anti-consumerist

>they don't understand

>i pull out illustrated diagram explaining what makes a piece of christmas media properly anti-capitalist as opposed to religiously anti-consumerist because consumerism distracts from jesus

>they laugh and say "it's a wholesome leftist message sir"

>watch special

>it's anti-consumerist

[kajhustle]

Julen i TV2 (1975)

Julen -75 var det premiär för både Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton och Kalles Klätterträd. Sådana här små reklamfilmer är verkligen kulturskatter i sin egen rätt, och jag är så glad att de finns bevarade på youtube :)

(Extra roligt att Gula hund gick i repris också, det visste jag inte sen innan)

[theverycoolfish]

I apologize for well Europeans as an European myself.

my only advice is to BE CAREFUL posting about holiday traditions around europeans. you'll post something casual like "anyone else watch the old Grinch movie every year? what a classic" and a european will appear as if summoned and say some shit like "funny how USAmericans always CONVENIENTLY forget that Not Everyone On Earth is from The USA…….. no of COURSE we dont watch 'the grunch' or whatever the fuck that is…. our tradition is to attend a community showing of Glummdorf the Racial Stereotype"