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Marketa Lazarová (1967)
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Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967)
#Magda Vásáryová#marketa lazarova#frantisek vlacil#czech cinema#czechoslovakia#criterion collection#favorite movies
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“No matter what horrors are haunting her mind, she shall get better…”
- ‘Marketa Lazarovа’ by Vladislav Vanсura
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"Those who do not suffer cannot experience delight. Life has no value without pain."
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Song and video editing by EKA - Subtitled w/ lyrics. Footage from "Marketa Lazarová" directed by František Vláčil (1967) https://ekaterinaspalace.bandcamp.com/album/zauberberg *************************************************************************
There is a strange glow beyond the clouds, I feel estranged from sorrow while birds fly south. Every change of season paints us in gray and gives birth to the phantoms of life decay. Меня теснят такие странные мысли (Strange thoughts haunt me) такие темные ощущения (Such a dark feeling) ни хотения, ни силы (Neither desire nor strength)...выйти из ночи (Come out of the night)
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Marketa Lazarová (1967, dir. František Vláčil)
Marketa Lazarová (1967, dir. František Vláčil)
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Do you have any folk horror recs for someone who’s just getting into horror? Midsommar’s the only one I’ve seen and I loved it
blood on satan’s claw, the conquerors worm, haxan, viy, eve’s bayou, witchhammer, the devil rides out, the white reindeer, captain clegg, robin redbreast, marketa lazarova, the city of the dead, tumbbad, a field in england, the ritual, onibaba, kwaidan, apostle, picnic at hanging rock, kuroneko, the wicker man, and the wailing!
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MARKETA LAZAROVA SENTENCE STARTERS
Sentences were taken from a book "Marketa Lazarova" ( 1931 ) by Vladislav Vanсura and depict hatred, love, mercy, loyalty, death, battle in a medieval setting. Translated from Czech, with slight changes for rp needs. Feel free to change tenses / pronouns as you see fitting.
[ art credit: Marketa Lazarova, a collage by @museissick ]
“Is it even allowed to accept mercy and kindness?”
“Will I grow more rich, if I destroy him?”
“Leave him be, let him crawl away and die.”
“So much blood and strong bones were given to me not in vain.”
“Why didn’t you fight better, with more luck on your side?”
“An ill beginning doesn’t inspire the spirit.”
“The frost and the strategic error - the realization of the error - drive [me] mad.”
“God decided to spring the brigands’ minds with a drop of mercy.”
“Say goodbye to your gold.”
“The bright, elevating, reckless feeling that brings one close to heaven - love.”
“Maybe these howling beauties are destined for heaven, instead of us, with souls of ink.”
“[She] can’t be helped in any way; it’s a sure sign of love.”
“Servants should share the hatred of their masters.”
“I want it - and that’s it!”
“Let [him] ride with us!”
“In [their] shared suffering, [they] begin to love each other as passionately as [they] have hated each other once.”
“Longing doesn’t leave [me] even in the hour of death.”
“Here comes the death [I] myself have called for.”
“Bad examples are contagious.”
“How I wish the night to return, how I wish us to be chained together, how I wish this captivity to last eternally!”
“[Her] gaze is like a hunter’s snare.”
“Have you got infected by [his] fervor and [his] rage?”
“I deserve the ruination and I weep.”
“I was allowed to see the stars, dancing like little pendulums, up above.”
“I am ready to bear any tribulations to escape.”
“[His] lips, curved like the wings of a dove.”
“[These] lips are the only bit of beauty on the face of a predator.”
“Just a little bit more, and I shall shake off the burden of time.”
“The king is our lord and master, yet war is the lord even over kings.”
“Everything that is mortal and created by human hands is destined to destruction.”
“War sows death, because it is begotten by the prince of death.”
“The one who holds the sword, dies by the sword.”
“Everything shall be as the winner wills it.”
“Don’t be more arrogant than befits a hostage.”
“I may be defeated and killed, but I know what lies ahead.”
“Despair and bliss tremble inside [my] soul, like two children in a dark dungeon.”
“[Her] love has the scowl of the ruler of the underworld.”
“Between [her] sweet lips flashes the fangs of a beast.”
“This story was composed without rhyme or reason.”
#sentence starters#rp starters#rp meme#rp sentence starters#feel free to reblog#medieval starters#🩸katakankollector: rp memes
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better late than never amirite
i think i haven't posted july (cause I thought global would have released TBC by now...) or october (commission) on here/twitter hopefully i remember to sometime this year
bonus chen edition because well i guess she is my cringefail girlboss blorbo
bonus chenswire edition
bonus bonus extremely boring stuff
films i watched in 2022 (tragedy of macbeth out of picture because it was on the next row)
top 10 (in watched order not a 1-10 ranking)
Marketa Lazarova (1967) Friend was streaming it, liked the script so much I asked my friend for the srt file after
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) Rocks
Petite Maman (2021) Personal Attack
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) :)
My Life as a Zucchini (2016) Celine Sciamma truly don't miss
Saturday Fiction (2019) It's not a 5/5 movie but...the soul... the period noir...
Nope (2022) The Spectacle dot jpg
Hands Over The City (1963) yes i watched this just before il siracusano
Decision To Leave (2022) yuriyaoi straight romance can't elaborate
Puss In Boots (2022) i'm so glad i didn't watch this as a kid i would have nightmares, but as an adult i got to see my traumas on the big screen yippee!!!
missed a local screening of My Broken Mariko because it only happened for ONE DAY fucking insane (I recommend reading the original manga it's so good)
Speaking of books hmm
Swordspoint yuriyaoi...
Invisible Ink reread. and I think I need to reread again
Fire & Blood read it after watching hotd ep 1 pretty good series btw dare i say even ...the best on-screen yaoiyuri of the year...
Eagle Shooting/Condor Heroes Book 1 Not bad
Water Margin Didn't I write a angry rant on this. rite of passage i guess......
How to Keep House While Drowning its funny because i WILL do chores......still good though
What My Bones Know - insane how trauma can be so isolating yet universal lol
A Wizard of Earthsea if only i read this instead of harry potter back then lmao wow
you can now basically psychoanalyse my issues from the last three books I think
Uhhhhhhh what else am I missing - oh yeah I did 3 gamejams this year (Art/Design and a liiiiiitle bit of trying to do the UI in Unity myself instead of giving the pngs to my friends)
my abysmal steam stats told me i only played 5 games this year so I need to get back my gamer license, backlog is like 75% VNs though what's up with that (there's only 4 games but. well)
had a really long blogpost (basically a 'look at all the things you did this year you didnt waste it' thing thus the above lists) but i think i'll just keep it to my notion notes lest this post becomes a traumadumping ground ecks dee tl;dr failed a Very Important (to me) Thing early 2022 that kind of shattered any crumb of self-esteem i had and made me question everything i did onwards (especially in regards to doujin stuff) and then basically physical health issues affecting mental health and vice versa which is fun but fuck it we ball.....(try)
don't really have any solid 'resolutions' (that i would remember to do) other than to 'live' more than just 'survive' as edgy as that sounds 🥴oh wait oc zine yea yea and go into illustration full time h-haha........... should really get around to making a patreon/fanbox but i really hate the idea of paywalling
also signed up for a AK doujin event in Nagoya in March so I now have a very heavy motivation to finish the second half of my LGD doujin and hopefully I get to table at AX too dot dot dot
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What's your favorite blonde redhead song I need to know. And xiu xiu. You know who I am you just said anons so. Also what's the worst movie you've seen recently and why
Omg hi anon who is not Josef. My favorite blonde redhead songs are girl boy and a cure I can't decide between them and for xiu xiu fuck it's so hard... Jenny gogo maybe but botanica de los angeles deserves a shoutout.
The worst movie I saw recently was saw X it wasn't terrible but it was a bit of a letdown compared to the other saw films. I haven't seen any good ones but I have a break until January so I'm going to watch a bunch soon probably. Maybe finish Marketa Lazarova.
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Film list for a while:
Ashes and Snow
A Time to Live A Time to Die
Strangers In Good Company
Borom Sarat
Dead Man's Letter's
Killer of Sheep
Still Life
The Fifth Seal - Az ötödik pecsét (Dir: Zoltán Fábri)
The House Is Black - Owl ol db (Dir: Forough Farrokhzad)
Tie Xi Qu: West of The Tracks - ** 7 X (Dir: Wang Bing)
//As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Dir: Jonas Mekas)
The Enclosed Valley - La vallée close (Dir: Jean-Claude Rousseau
Pastoral: To Die in the Country - ElSE • (Dir: Shüji Terayama)
Punishment Park (Dir: Peter Watkins)
//The Cremator - Spalova¿ mrtvol (Dir: Juraj Herz)
0 Pagador de Promessas (Dir: Anselmo Duarte)
Lucifer Rising
//An Elephant Sitting Still
Marketa Lazarova
White Noise
//Platform
The Burmese Harp
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"Our mechanical absence from the film goes some way towards exonerating us – not all the way. The on-screen animal is there for our sake, after all, in a visible and specific way that the depersonalised flesh on our plate can’t lay claim to. Does the moral outrage of the meat-eating audience when faced with the dead cow belong to the sudden shock of revelation, or is it translated rage – a dogged belief in our right not to see these things? Or even simpler: we are ethically paralysed when it comes to the semi-hidden fact of animal suffering in our day to day lives, and thus the performance of outrage when confronted with the explicit suffering of animals on screen is half-way towards absolution; the alleviation of guilt through the performance of care. In the preface to The World Viewed, Cavell describes Rousseau’s obsession with ‘seeing’ – “with our going to the theatre in order to be seen and not to be seen, with our use of tears there to excuse our blindness and coldness to the same situation in the world outside”.¹³ Animal suffering in film highlights our ethical hypocrisy, or cognitive dissonance – the extent to which we ignore other types of animal suffering. Burt points this out when he observes that “A cultural oversensitivity to the treatment of animals on screen appears to sit at odds with a culture that is also heavily dependent on animal exploitation”.¹⁴ I think about the seven times I watched Marketa Lazarová without seeing the mouse as a mouse, and then, of all the other animals that I’ve not seen but who have been there all along – in my food and clothes, in my make-up, too, and in the cheap red wine we drink that evening."
"The question of the animal in our era is particularly pressing, as many contemporary animal theorists observe – our screens teem with representations of animal life at the precise moment that the real world is rapidly emptying of them; as the Anthropocene hurries in the sixth mass extinction event of global life. And although the way that we treat animals on-screen has undoubtedly improved, thanks to animal cruelty laws, the improved techniques of the filmic medium, cinematographic trickery, and the intense realism of computer-generated-imagery, our relationship towards other forms of life is more difficult than ever."
"...the suffering of Micur, fictional, is painful, but it’s the frightened look of the real cat filling in for her that leaps through the screen and implicates us, the audience, transforming our mechanical helplessness into an active withholding of help, as the particular suffering of a particular cat for a particular film reminds us of an infinity of other, unseen pain – the suffering that takes place in our name; our uneasy, guilty nature as human."
(Warning: the article describes several instances of real-world animal abuse and death, and briefly mentions a fictional incest.)
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i oughta give marketa lazarova another shot, i tried watching a few years ago and stopped partway through like "this shit is too grim even for me"
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My top ten films with a historical setting - I
Last time I produced my list of favourite films based on real historical events or people. However far more films have a historical setting than have strict intentions to convey ‘reality’ . The following films are imaginative in concept, yet convey something meaningful about their historical period. As there were so many films in this category I’ve divided it into two and will list films set after World War One separately. Films which have any sort of literary origin will go in the category of ‘Literary Adaptions set in the past’. Both lists to follow. You’ll find here a mix of great films everyone’s heard of to others that reflect my passion for the obscure. In chronological order by historical setting.
Gladiator (2000), Ridley Scott
What’s not to love about this? Ridley Scott is known as the production designer’s director; Russell Crowe is in monumental mode, and it is a great revenge story (if playing a bit fast and loose with the historical facts). The music is great too.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Terry Jones
First seen at about the age of thirteen with my Australian friend Brigitte and never forgotten. I was hooked from the Swedish subtitles and the unexpected intervention of a moose. I don’t need to sell this to you: the snotty French knight, scientific discussions about the weight of an African swallow, the Knights who say Nee, peasants discussing Marxist theory, the knight losing all his limbs in turn each with a great spurt of comically fake blood. With its plague and witchcraft scenes, this looks more genuinely medieval than many much more serious historical films, thanks perhaps to two of the team being history graduates: Michael Palin and director Terry Jones, who afterwards wrote on medieval history including this short film on the Magna Carta which is as clear and succinct as anything I’ve seen. I suspect they may also have seen and been influenced by the films of Frantisek Vlacil, including this next one:
The Valley of the Bees (1968), Frantisek Vlacil
Cloak from the Deutschordensmuseum, a museum of the Order of the Teutonic knights, located in the castle of Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
Now we get on to the more obscure stuff. I’m a huge fan of Frantisek Vlacil, whose most famous film Marketa Lazarova (1967) the Czechs rate as their greatest film of all time. This film is all about the conflict between religious obsession and the pleasures of the flesh. Ondřej is sent to join the Teutonic Order but it is all a bit too extreme so he flees and returns home, where he falls in love with his father’s very young widow. Violent retribution is exacted.
Apocalypto (2006), Mel Gibson
Image of human sacrifice from a silver church decoration in the Museum of the Americas, Madrid.
Mel Gibson may now be persona non grata in Hollywood and dwelling on Mayan human sacrifice seen as somewhat politically incorrect. However there is plenty of contemporary evidence that human sacrifice did take place in central and South America by deeply shocked Europeans who encountered it. Against this we have a film that uses indigenous people and language in an attempt to steep itself in the atmosphere of a period and setting less often explored in cinema. Whatever its underlying pro-Catholic agenda, this is basically a very exciting yarn about escape from violent death against seemingly impossible odds, ending ominously with the sighting of the first Spanish ships as an indicator that a new era is dawning that will upend all existing certainties (and bring disease killing off far more of the population than any amount of human sacrifice).
The Parson’s Widow (1920), Carl Theodor Dreyer
I discovered this recently reading an interview with Kevin Brownlow about the silent films which influenced his film-making in Winstanley. In 17th century Sweden, three candidates compete to become parson in a small village. The winner disrupts the sermons of his rivals to obtain his object, hoping thus to be able to marry his sweet-heart. He is dismayed to find that the prize comes with a catch - the winner must marry, and live with, the very ancient thrice-widowed widow of the previous parson. He goes through with the bargain, comically devising stratagems to get together with his real love, and impatiently biding his time until the old woman dies. Eventually he starts to relate to her, and becomes a better human being in the process.
Carnival in Flanders [La Kermesse héroïque] (1935), Jacques Feyder
This is a real gem, a comic feminist fable with an outstanding performance by Feyder’s wife Françoise Rosay as Cornelia, the wife of the burgomaster of a small Flemish town in the early 17th century. The townspeople of Boom are preparing for a carnival when the occupying Spanish army announce they are coming to town. Fearing rape and pillage, the burgomaster takes fright and decides his only course is to pretend to be dead. The women of the town, led by his wife, La Kermesse héroïque, take charge and entertain the army in style. A very beautiful film, intentionally styled after the Flemish Old Masters, including a subplot in which the burgomaster’s daughter marries a young painter called Brueghel, instead of the butcher her father had planned for her.
Wolfwalkers, (2020), Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
The Secret of Kells team take on Cromwell’s occupation of Ireland in the third and best of their Irish folklore trilogy. Apparently Cromwell did try to clear Ireland of wolves, which had been eliminated in England since the middle ages. Here they are symbolic of the attempt to impose English ‘civilisation’ on an Irish people who didn’t want to be tamed. OK, Cromwell didn’t really fall to his death down a waterfall, but this is a fantasy that manages to tell us something profoundly meaningful about the relationship between Britain and Ireland. With Simon McBurney as the voice of a very scary Cromwell riding a monumentally heavy charger, and stunning animation contrasting the square structures of the English town with the sweeping curves of wild Ireland.
Glory (1989), Edward Zwick
A stirring film about the first African-American regiment’s struggle for acceptance by their own side in the Civil War, with cast including then rising star Denzel Washington. OK, as this was based on a real regiment it probably belongs in a previous category, but the characters were fictionalised, and otherwise my numbers wouldn’t add up!
Fanny and Alexander (1982), Ingmar Bergman
Bergman may have been a terrible person, but he did make some great historical (and other) films. This is a visually stunning film set at the start of the twentieth century about two children who come into the clutches of a harsh stepfather - includes sumptuous scenes of Swedish Christmas festivities.
The White Ribbon (2009), Michael Haneke
Continuing the theme of harsh upbringing, this film, shot in black and white, describes a series of strange events involving the children of a Prussian Village just before World War One The director has said that the film is an attempt to explain the roots of evil, with the children of the generation that would grow up to support the Nazis. The film is all about authority and repression, the sense that the increasingly brutal behaviour of the children is a product of much more awful things taking place behind closed doors.
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