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Pyotr Chardynin, {1916} Миражи (Mirages)

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Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent

Pyotr Chardynin Soviet Union, 1918

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“Pikovaya dama” / “Queen of Spades” (Pyotr Chardynin, 1910)

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Vitold Polonsky and Lidya Ryndina

Russian postcard, no. 174. Collection Didier Hanson.

Vitold Polonsky (1879-1919) was one of the most popular actors in pre-Revolutionary Russian cinema.

Russian actress and author Lidya Ryndina (1884-1957) was with Vera Kholodnaya, and Vera Karalli one of the major film divas of the silent cinema of the Russian Empire. Flying the revolution, she moved to Germany where she also made a few silent films during the 1920s.

Lidiya Dmitrievna Ryndina (or Lidiya T. Ryndina according to IMDb ) was born in 1884. She was a daughter of a Russian General. Ryndina started her career as a stage actress in Kiev. Ryndina started her career as a stage actress in Kiev. She later performed at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and the Korsh Theatre and the Nezlobin Theatre in Moscow. In 1913, she started to appear in films for producer Iosif N. Ermoliev. She became known with roles in such silent Russian films as Peterburgskiye trushchobi/The Lower Depths of St. Petersburg (Pyotr Chardynin, Vladimir Gardin, Yakov Protazanov, 1915) with Vladimir Maksimov and Ivan Mozzhukhin, and Nikolay Stavrogin (Yakov Protazanov, 1915) with Ivan Mozzhukhin and Nathalie Lissenko. The latter was based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s story Devils. She worked several times with the most important filmmaker of the early Russian cinema, Yevgeni Bauer. Their films include Lulia Bek (Yevgeni Bauer, 1914), Vozmezdie (Yevgeni Bauer, 1916) with Vitold Polonsky and Vera Karalli, and Lozh (Yevgeni Bauer, 1916). She also co-starred with Vladimir Strizhevsky in Zhizn trekh dney/A life of three days (Gromov, 1917).

Lidiya Ryndina left Russia because after the Russian Revolution. In fact in 1917, there was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. In 1919, Ryndina first went to the Krim, then to Constantinople and from there to Western Europe. In Austria, and later in Germany, she was able to appear in few films during the 1920s. In 1922, she appeared in Der Unbekannte aus Russland/The Unknown from Russia (Hans Otto, 1922), based on a script by Béla Balázs. She also appeared in a supporting part in Der Mann auf dem Kometen/The Man on the Comet (Alfred Halm, 1925) with Luciano Albertini and Maly Delschaft. After the war, she moved to Paris, where she played in Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts. Lidya Ryndina passed away in Paris in 1957. She was married twice, first to a man called Brylkin and later to the Russian poet and publisher Sergey Alexeevich Sokolov-Krechetov.

Source: Čiurlionis, Find A Grave, Ciné-Phil-Azr (French), Wikipedia (Russian) and IMDb.

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Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent 1918

Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent 1918

  Paula is a circus performer married to clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio drinks heavily, and eventually he is critically injured when he performs drunk. The crippled Lorio and Paula are forced to become street musicians. A group of wealthy young men who had previously seen Paula at the circus decide to invite the two to perform at their private “bachelor” party, at which Paula is the main attraction.…

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The Little House in Kolomna (Pyotr Chardynin, 1913)

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Dairy of a Horror Buff 8.19.22

ugh do you ever just feel adrift in a sea unsure of your next move convinced that you will drown horrible???? me neither. idk I'm just in a weird vibe rn it will be alright.

this is the type of fandom bullshit I refuse to engage in.

basically my brain is making the unhappy juice rn. which like I know that my feelings are not accurete to the situration but my brains like what if everything is just the absolute most awful and its times like these that I wish I believed in a higher power because it would be nice to have a sky daddy absolve my tendancy to catastrophize.

Still one of my favorite episodes of futurama.

ok enough sad shit. Lets have fun and watch some horror shorts.

The Signal-man (1976) dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark

Ok so this one is the first movie in this series that wasn't written by M.R.James it was written by Charles Dickens of All People.

Same Bitch.

this one is definetly a different vibe. So know stuffy libraries or catholics this story follows Bernard Lloyd, (who is like kinda a DILF), chatting up this signalman whose one of those people that helps trains navigate.

FUN FACT: One of my great grandfathers also did that type of thing and he died horribly. Anyway.

well it turns out that this ghost is not

A HORRID SHADE HERE TO HARINGE YOU FOR YOUR CRIMES!!!!!

but rather a harbringer. an omen of death that warns the signelman of when there will be an accident on the line. This film is pretty decent its gothic, has this fun vibe, and has just really nice flowing dialogue even if I don't catch onto it all.

The Queen of Spades (1910) dir. Pyotr Chardynin

OK so I am absolutely livid that they would put that gorgous dress on the front cover and never have it in the actually movie. So heres whats up bascially this is a silent film, (one of many mind you), inspired by a story by Alexander Pushkin.

some dudes like wow wish I could play money playing everyones favorite card game Faro but I'm bad at this.

Hark whats this some old countess knows the secret to beat this game. Bet. let me go seduce her daughter to get access to this old crone and then threaten her. well she straight up dies. She starts haunting his ass and is like oh sure heres the secret and then he goes to the gambling house and loses all of his fucking money. then the old lady ghost shows up to laugh at him which like good for her.

I warned you about that bridge playing bro, i warned you.

yeah this movie was kinda bad not gonna lie.

Prelude (1927) dir. Castleton Knight

ok so I loved this. its spooky it has these amazing effects to it and the music is just fucking on point. I am obsessed with this. this is now my favorite silent era horror film.

Out of the Inkwell: The Ouija Board dir. Max Fleischer

ok so if you don't know out of the inkwell was a series of shorts that combined live action with animated sequences and there generally pretty cool. This one features fleischer just chilling drawing koko the clown when oh no his coworker and the janitor our playing with a ouija board wooowowowowoowowowow.

Theres some animated shananigans and then koko jumps out of the painting and starts moving the planchette to spoop um. Koko says something on the ouija board that I couldn't make out but its the 1920's so i'm just gonna assume it was racist or something.

more shenanigans happens and koko proceeds to just kill himself by smashing his little ink body into fleischer freshly laundered shirt.

clowns.

Danse Macabre (1922) dir. Dudley Murphy

ok so this is one of those films that gives morality play vibes I mean the three main characters are literally named death, hope, and love.

it starts out with one of those cool animated title sequences and proceeds to play the entirity of Danse Macabre.

The rest of the film is a really beautifly filmed ballet. The action is captured perfectly there is some amazing lighting and they intermingle some animated sequences in really well.

I just unironically loved this fantastic.

Betty Boop - Is My Palm Read (1933) dir. Dave Fleischer

now this is were we get to the good good animation. The last couple of Fleischer films were kind of middling but this one has everything we need. visual gags the way that everything is personified. Betty boop just being the absolute most. Also what feels like a lot of culteral appropriation. oof thats a lot of culteral appropriation.

also for some reason I swore this was the short that they copied Cagneys Carnation from but I must be mistaken.

Bimbo's Initiation (1931) dir. Dave Fleischer

damn those cultists are kinda thicc.

so this short is proababaly one of the most fucked up ones. Bimbo falls into a sewer grate and gets as you can imagine initiated into a cult but not until he goes through like 65 saw traps including a butt slapping machine.

also this appears to be one of those fleischer cartoons where betty boop is still like half dog half human all sex symbol.

B00! (1932) dir. Albert DeMond

ok this was fantastic. This was just a guy shitposting over 1930s movies and I love that this exists. Like you could have posted this on 2008 youtube and it would fit in.

Danemon Ban: The Monster Exterminator (1935) dir. Yoshitaro Kataoka

Ok idkw but I absolutely love that trope were they have this grizzled samari with a full beard because its like the hottest fucking thing.

Understand that I'm just describing Hiroyuki Sanada who is literally so fucking hot.

yeah so this monster hunter dude walks into a haunted house sees a hot lady who oh know turns into an evil spirit who would have seen that coming?????

then they tie him up and theres a bunch of tunukis but like they also don't have big balls so whats the point????

overall nothing really happens but it was cool to see such an early example of anime.

Betty Boop - Minnie The Moocher (1932) dir. Dave Fleischer

ok to be honest I just wanted to listen to this song but also who doesn't like Minnie the Moocher.

Betty Betty tell me why won't you eat your Hasenpfeffer.

dear god do I want hasenpfeffer now. rabbit is so good.

yeah so basically betty boop sick of her strict emigrant parents who are mad that she doesn't want to eat her rabbit stew and not that she literally walk around in a slip and is dating a literally dog.

anyway a couple of minutes they walk into a cave and listen to a rendition of Cab Calloway's Iconic Minnie the Moocher.

To be honest I don't quite honestly love this version but it has some pretty crazy imagedry.

I don't have anything funny to say this is just a clip from it.

A Night on Bald Mountain (1933) dir. Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker

oh wow was this cool. A Night on Bald Mountain is a piece by russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. Its a tone poem meant to evoke the idea of a witches sabbeth on a stormy mountaintop. The animation itself is in a style called Pinscreen which is where they take a board with a bunch of tiny pins in and project light through. Essentially creating an animation style that can utilize Chiaroscuro. The animation in this is insane for something created in 1933, some segments feel like there pen and ink but the vast majority of the sequences seem almost photo realistic or early 3d renderings. Its hard to process the concept that this isn't a 90s digitially animated film but something that was hand animated using a fucking pinboard.

ok thats enough out of me today. Thanks for hanging out with me and watching some really cool cinema with me.

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Happy New Year, Here’s Every Movie I Watched In 2017!

Bold = First Viewing

Dracula (1958, dir. Terence Fisher) Hot Fuzz (2007, dir. Edgar Wright) Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986, dir. John Heyn & Jeff Krulik) Obvious Child (2014, dir. Gillian Robespierre) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979, dir. Robert Wise) Barbarella (1968, dir. Roger Vadim) Kagemusha (1980, dir. Akira Kurosawa) The Last Samurai (2003, dir. Edward Zwick) Red Desert (1964, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) 07/27/1978 (2017, dir. lasagnacat) The Mind’s Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey (1990, dir. Jan Nickman) Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993, dir. Takao Okawara) Captain America: Civil War (2016, dir. Anthony & Joe Russo) The Secret Life of Pets (2016, dir. Chris Renaud & Yarrow Cheney) Godzilla Vs. Spacegodzilla (1994, dir. Kensho Yamashita) Zaat (1971, dir. Don Barton) Legend of the Drunken Master (1994, dir. Lau Kar-leung & Jackie Chan) Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016, dir. Jake Szymanski) Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster (1964, dir. Ishiro Honda) Ikiru (1952, dir. Akira Kurosawa) Get Out (2017, dir. Jordan Peele) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour) Silent Running (1972, dir. Douglas Trumbull) Heavy Metal Picnic (2010, dir. Jeff Krulik) Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986, dir. John Heyn & Jeff Krulik) Deadpool (2016, dir. Tim Miller) Keanu (2016, dir. Peter Atencio) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, dir. Jim Sharman) Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah (1995, dir. Takao Okawara) Doctor Strange (2016, dir. Scott Derrickson) Independence Day (1996, dir. Roland Emmerich) Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954, dir. Jack Arnold) Star Trek Beyond (2016, dir. Justin Lin) The Heat (2013, dir. Paul Feig) The Exorcist (1973, dir. William Peter Blatty) Godzilla (1998, dir. Roland Emmerich) Day of the Dead (1985, dir. George Romero) Ashik Kerib (1988, dir. Sergei Parajanov) Eyes Without A Face (1959, dir. Georges Franju) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones) Versus (2000, dir. Ryuhei Kitamura) Godzilla 2000 (1999, dir. Takao Okawara) Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965, dir. Ishiro Honda) Stenka Razin (1908, dir. Vladimir Romashkov) Queen of Spades (1910, dir. Pyotr Chardynin) Airplane! (1980, dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, dir. Nicholas Meyer) The Big Sick (2017, dir. Michael Showalter) Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus (2000, dir. Masaaki Tezuka) Steamboat Willie (1928, dir. Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks) Stalker (1979, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene) The Wizard of Oz (1939, dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, and Norman Taurog) Final Destination (2000, dir. James Wong) Final Destination 2 (2003, dir. David Ellis) Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998, dir. Tom Ellery & Bradley Raymond) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Special Edition w/ Red Letter Media Commentary Track (1977, dir. George Lucas) Scream (1996, dir. Wes Craven) Hellraiser (1987, dir. Clive Barker) Logan (2017, dir. James Mangold) The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999, dir. Katt Shea) Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola) Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001, dir. Shusuke Kaneko) Popstar: Never Stop Stopping (2016, dir. Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone) Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali) Screwed (2000, dir. Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski) The Ascent (1977, dir. Larisa Shepitko) Landline (2017, dir. Gillian Robespierre) Get Smart (2008, dir. Peter Segal) Chemicals Like God (2017, dir. Matthew Roe & Kat Parker) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, dir. Gore Verbinski) Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002, dir. Masaaki Tezuka) Lady Bird (2017, dir. Greta Gerwig) The Giant Claw (1957, dir. Fred F. Sears) The Stranger (1946, dir. Orson Welles) The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1896, dir. Auguste Lumière & Louis Lumière) Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986, dir. Daisuke Nishio) Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace w/ Rifftrax Commentary Track (1999, dir. George Lucas) Primary (1960, dir. Robert Drew) Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017, dir. Josh Greenbaum) 12 Dates of Christmas (2011, dir. James Hayman) Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015, dir. J.J. Abrams) Adventures on the New Frontier (1961, dir. Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, & Kenneth Stilson) A Christmas Prince (2017, dir. Alex Zamm) Christmas Inheritance (2017, dir. Ernie Barbarash) La Chambre (1972, dir. Chantal Akerman) Hotel Monterey (1972, dir. Chantal Akerman) Pearls of the Deep (1966, dir. Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, & Jaromil Jireš) Catch Me If You Can (2002, dir. Steven Spielberg) News From Home (1976, dir. Chantal Akerman) Daisies (1966, dir. Věra Chytilová)

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Iakov Protazanov - The Queen of Spades (1916) This was the second film adaptation of Aleksandr Pushkin’s short story - the first was a short made by Pyotr Chardynin in 1910, more closely following the plot of Tchaikovsky’s libretto. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest (surviving) works of pre-revolutionary Russian cinema, noted both for Ivan Mosjoukine’s deeply psychological portrayal of German, and for the quality of its cinematography, with some beautiful double exposure and several impressive jump cuts.

Protazanov was one of the few film directors to successfully straddle the pre- and post-revolutionary eras, making a striking contribution to the USSR’s fertile 1920s avant-garde cinema with Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924), a comic drama about a Soviet colony on the planet, famed for its Constructivist sets and costumes.

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Yevgeni Bauer & Pyotr Chardynin, {1913} Дядюшкина квартира (Uncle's apartment)

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The Peasants’ Lot 1912

The Peasants’ Lot 1912

  A melodramatic story of young Russians in love. This movie once again illustrates the superior artistry and emotional power of Russian film in the pre revolution era The Peasants’ Lot “, 1912, directed by Vasily Goncharov , is one of old Russian cinema’s masterpieces. An original view of the country and a movie closed to the . Stars Alexander Goncharov, Iwan Mosschuchin, Peter Chardynin , Pyotr…

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Zhenshchina zavtrashevo dnya (Pyotr Chardynin, 1914)

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