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Re: Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online

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Post by aeontech »

mzs wrote: post #44

They have this nice page* of movies with Ukrainian subtitles. I am teaching English to a family of Ukrainian refugees. Films in English with Ukrainian subtitles would be a fantastic resource. Does anyone know of such a service? * https://35mm.online/kolekcje/dla-ukrainy

FWIW, I highly, highly recommend showing them (simpler) movies with _english_ subtitles.

This helped tremendously when I was going from “school English” to “native English”, because things I couldn’t pick up by ear yet, I could pick up by reading the subtitles.

If you watch it with Ukrainian subtitles, your brain just falls back on what it already knows, and ignores the soundtrack (mostly).

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Post by BryantD »

margoguryan wrote: post #50
BryantD wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counter arguments: While there are a ton of lost movies, we also live in a world in which services like Criterion Channel, Mubi, and Shudder make more film available than ever. The other week, I got curious and watched a movie from Ulrike Ottinger, loved it, and when I get around to it I can watch any of a dozen more of her movies. Likewise, I just bought a boxed set of folk horror movies from Severin Films. I miss g…

What we need are more films in the $30m-$70m region; art-house blockbusters. Superhero fatigue is real - what audiences really want is someone like Michael Mann in the 90s.

Recently:

- Everything Everywhere All at Once - The Black Phone - The Northman - House of Gucci - Knives Out - Little Women - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - The Shape of Water

The blockbusters are such a huge part of the cultural landscape so that it’s easy to miss all the other film out there. But there’s really a lot of it!

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Post by sequoia »

lizardactivist wrote: post #18

We've become so hypnotized and hyped up by spandex-clad super-heroes with bad acting and snappy, pretentious dialogues that we've forgotten what real film and art is like.

Speak for yourself. Sometime one wants their thoughts "provoked," other times one wants to laugh, or relax, or be thrilled by something scary.

I continue to read the somewhat mediocre wheel of time series mostly because it's familiar and thereby comforting, and there's a lot of it. I listened to "parable of the sower" (a more high-brow fiction by Octavia Butler) audiobook recently and while it was more "thought provoking" it was also depressing, and I've got enough stressors in my life right now without spending my leisure time reading about made-up tragedies. So I instead opt for something less mentally challenging when I want to relax.

Most importantly, appreciating "real art" doesn't make you better than someone who likes to binge on MCU movies. It's condescending and superior to call someone "hypnotized" for liking something you don't, and comments like that tell us more about you than the person you're judging.

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Post by deckard1 »

This is an excellent resource. Lots of great films on here. Piotr Szulkin is on here as well, for anyone into sci-fi. I've been looking for some of these films for awhile...

Golem:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080806/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/golem

The War of the Worlds: Next Century:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083335/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/the-war-of-the-worl...

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089714/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/o-bi-o-ba-the-end-o...

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091096/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/ga-ga-glory-to-the-...

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Post by badpun »

crispyambulance wrote: post #51
lnsru wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe overworked and tired population needs spandex instead of Tarkovsky’s movies. After 1,5 hours commuting and 9,5 hours in the office I prefer Netflix’ Red Notice over Stalker. And I guess I am not the only one. On the other hand as non native Polish speaker I will enjoy some evening with some great movie recommended in this thread.

> After 1,5 hours commuting and 9,5 hours in the office I prefer Netflix’ ... I can appreciate that point of view. It's really a matter of what you're receptive to at any given moment. Keep in mind, however, that Tarkovsky and other innovative filmmakers from the Iron Curtain era literally risked their career every time they made a film. They had something to say and took great pains to do it. It just goes to show th…

Try some movies by Andrzej Wajda, he's one of the most accessible directors (while still being great), so it might work well in the post-work time slot. For example "Man of Marble" (https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/czlowiek-z-marmuru). It's about creating myths of superhuman workers in the Stalinist times to get people to work more/harder.

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Post by themodelplumber »

pjc50 wrote: post #54
michaelscott wrote: post #14

This is incredible! Does anyone know of other sites like this for films from other countries? I've been looking to broaden my cinematic horizons a bit, as well as hunting for material to practice language comprehension.

Large amounts of Mosfilm output was available on Youtube, although I think Russian cinema may be an unpopular choice at the moment. A surprising amount of pre-90s film is randomly available on youtube; sometimes with odd choices about dubbing and subtitles.

IDK, I run a pro-Ukraine resource page but I could still go watch films like Moscow - Cassiopeia, or Courier, any day

A lot of the creators behind the various films were pretty nuanced people, too...it shows in the way that they speak a clearly ethical filmic language based in universal ideals.

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Post by rasz »

Wow. This is fully legit:

>In the years 2018-2021, the Polish Film Institute, the Documentary and Feature Film Studios and Studio Filmow Rysunkowych implemented a Project (number POPC.02.03.02-00-0007 / 17), named:

>‘Digital restoration and digitization of Polish feature films, documentaries and animated films in order to ensure access in all fields of distribution (cinema, television, Internet, mobile devices) and to preserve Polish film heritage for future generations’, under Sub-measure 2.3.2 ‘Digital sharing of resources of culture’ for Measure 2.3 ‘Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information’, under the Operational Programme Digital Poland for 2014-2020.

>160 feature films, 71 documentaries, 474 animated films, including 10 full-length animated films have been restored as part of the project.

>The project was co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The total value of the project is PLN 107 292 917,71, the value of the European Union funding is PLN 75 121 952,02. The project was also co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the amount of PLN 13 516 016,95.

Co-funded (75%) by EU, cost $22mil.

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