I'd have no problem uploading/hosting the film for whomever. I just wanna know what Maiden's limitations are. If she's downloaded from one of us before, then it would seem I'd be free to choose whatever.

Yes. Dropbox would be perfect, but, seriously, don't worry about me. I'll get it somehow, I promise.

I figured as much. I've already got a list I'm gonna float by you guys to get a sense of what you would rather see so as to maximize participation.

Finally put Malina onto my hard drive so I'll watch it soo-oh, you've moved on.

Please watch it! I want to talk about it. And the next thread's not even up yet.

So much Greenaway. <3

Alright, here are the options I've chosen. I'm going to bed right now, so I don't have time to find the KG or IMDb links to each one of these, but here they are (asterisk indicates special interest from me):

The Road (Serif Gören/Yilmaz Güney, 1982)
Bad Luck (Andrzej Munk, 1960)
Snow (Aida Begic, 2008)
Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006)*
Restless Blood (Teuvo Tulio, 1946)
27 Down (Awtar Krishna Kaul, 1973)
The Land (Youssef Chahine, 1969)*
Daughter in Law (Hodzhakuli Narliev, 1972)*

awesome, bry! here's imdb links and basic availability

The Road (Serif Gören/Yilmaz Güney, 1982) | Yol | IMDB on KG
Bad Luck (Andrzej Munk, 1960) | Zezowate szczescie | IMDB on KG, NFdisc
Snow (Aida Begic, 2008) | Snijeg | IMDB on KG
Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006)* | Daratt | IMDB on KG, NFdisc
Restless Blood (Teuvo Tulio, 1946) | Levoton veri | IMDB on KG
27 Down (Awtar Krishna Kaul, 1973) | 27 Down | IMDB on KG
The Land (Youssef Chahine, 1969)* | Al-ard | IMDB on KG
Daughter in Law (Hodzhakuli Narliev, 1972)* | Nevestka on KG

i can't decide which to do but am cool w/ any of them

I've been meaning to watch Yol so I'm up for that

Haven't seen any of the others either although I've seen films by Chahine and Munk before

seen yol, boring

Dry Season and Bad Luck interest me, and I already have Yol on my HD.

Sorry I didn't get around to this last night. I'll have it up soon. Maybe we can make it a Sunday to Sunday thing? Or, well, Monday to Monday? I'd like to hear anyone else's favored film to watch if they have a preference. Since this is about trying to get as many people to participate as possible, I don't want to pick only something I'm really interested in.

We will never forgive you

Just choose something

None of them are canon/popular, so I'm out.

Bry hurry up, goddamnit

Four years later, I'm watching the three Corrie Class Trip films I failed to see at the time. This was one of them, and honestly I hated it - I've seen The Death of Maria Malibran, too, and I didn't like its high-style drag baroque either, but if I had hopes that they'd be more bearable when married to a functioning narrative as opposed to a more experimental set of visual tableaux I was wrong. I know this is some people's idea of a nice aesthetic but I just found it grating, and it's worsened by the pointless chaos of the story, which wants to be Zulawski but isn't. The male leads are duds, the Euro-ness fucking trite (honestly, who writes most of these French movies of this vein) and whew, this might be the only bad Huppert performance I've seen - this kind of balls-to-the-wall melodrama is not what she's suited for at all, forcing her to eschew detail to focus on emotional sound and fury which clashes with her character-focused approach and honestly makes her seem increasingly amateur as the drama gets higher- and higher-pitched. Not my thing, but no one can say Schroeter doesn't try to make things interesting (he just fails at it) so he gets a point for effort.

What does that even mean?

I mean French philosophical film where characters say things like "the door is open, yet I can't pass through it" after pacing around a room in carefully choreographed formations over 5 minutes of long take, characters crying for no reason, small children popping around corners in dark houses holding balloons and shit metaphorically etc

you know,, when a film is "Arty "

Haha. But, where your hypothetical film is using philosophy and psychology, Malina is more like philosophy/psychology using film. It helps that I feel that Schroeter is terribly intelligent (I'm tantalized by the ideas, but don't understand them) and also that the images are rich and thought-provoking (not just baffling or pretentious).

But, I really came in here to say that you've reminded me how much I loved this "class trip" series. Sure, we (I) picked badly at times, but it was a great way to see new things and provoke discussion.

Thank you! Yeah I miss it too. I'd be interested in doing another round but I don't know if there's enough traffic here these days to make it a goer.

Don't know how many people are needed for a class trip but if it matters any I'd be down. (mostly 'cause I haven't heard of a lot of these directors)

I'd totally do this if we can stir up some interest. I even have a film that might be good!

I've got a viewing project planned out through July but if there are enough posters supporting the idea a bit later in the year I'm totally down! We've all surely seen so much in the past four years I'm sure the choices will be verrry esoteric haha

hi longtime lurker here, how bout Sat 8/5/17 for the new class trip series?

snapper, will your project be done by then and can you pick the movie? (loved your response to Malina, disagree with everything you said but laughed in complete understanding of your perspective and peeves )

also in re-reading these threads, it may be beneficial to have a running "scheduling/coordinating/in-out-late" thread for non-discussion and then a thread wholly abt discussion on each movie maybe?

Hey wig, I'd be up for that but maybe a week later in August? I'm hoping to get 20 done by the end of this month and then will only have 6 movies left in my project before I'm free to watch whatever.

ok cool so Sat 8/12/17

sounds good, I'll try to make it as well.

Gotcha! You'll choose the first round, wig?

me?!?!? I have straight up garbage in all my watchlists and was hoping for some tony international arthouse someone else has been keeping up with

do you have anything you've been wanting to get to that your project has kept you from? or does anyone else have anything? Sr Montalvado?

if not I'll scroll through my harddrive but I'm pretty sure it's all nonsense, I want something snooty af

I mean, I can always make a recommendation if you want but I don't know if the stuff I'm familiar with is really all that out-of-left-field.

I too was hoping y'all would bring the snootiness.

I'm going to Speed Racer on the big screen that morning? You got anything snootier than that?

hmm, the point of the project is to choose something that we'd expect few if any corrie members to have seen already, preferably by a director whose work we're unlikely to have touched, so... let me think.

here's some ideas, just from what i have on hand on my computer HD. havent checked to see if there's subs for them but there probably are:

Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995 - Đặng Nhật Minh)
Mossane (1996 - Safi Faye)
La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929 - Marco de Gastyne)
Dragon's Return (1968 - Eduard Grecner)
La maternelle (1933 - Marie Epstein & Jean-Benoît Lévy)

and one i'm excited for but haven't downloaded yet and can probably grab from Avistaz -

Japanese Girls Never Die (2016 - Daigo Matsui)


Faye is probably the best known name here, though I haven't seen any of her films yet. Any other recommendations, hit me! (though I'm out of bonus on KG and the NZ seed-priority thing is still an issue so someone will either have to load me up or dropbox their selection)

let's do La maternelle - Oxnard, will that work?

yeah that will work but I'll need help finding it (I'm not very well-traveled in those corners on the 'Net)

dont worry, we'll corrupt you

I'll make a thread later when I'm not on my phone

Yeah works for me (though I could always use some bonus... hint)

i dont think i can give ratio anymore, im like this:

Share ratio 0.643


gonna make a thread