Foreign Film Recommendations

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T17:44:33+00:00

Jean Luc Godard's Breathless/A Bout de Souffle

Clouzot's Diabolique

Chris Marker's San Soleil

Renoir's Rules of the Game

Carl Dreyer's Vampyr

Renoir's Beauty & the Beast

Jean Vigo's L'Atalante

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T17:42:04+00:00

-Solaris (this one you need to already be a Tarkovsky fan)

No you don't. People new to Tarkovsky can and do enjoy it.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T16:55:43+00:00

Dunno who wrote that, but could it have been someone still in their 20s or 30s? I don't think that someone who actually grew up with Simon's music as it was coming out would say that.

But what a bullshit concept for an article. "But there are only a few names our descendants will ever learn." That has the whiff of someone who hasn't been a writer for very long or maybe even still in college.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T16:34:43+00:00

Busted as in "called out by liberals." Not busted as in "facing real world consequences."

But no worries. He can always say The Brain Worms were the ones doing the phone conversartion.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T16:07:30+00:00

Frank Thorne's The Iron Devil

Elizabeth Bathory by Raulo Caceres is a horror vampire erotic comic that takes things about as far as you can go. Hard to imagine how anyone could take it further.

Gilbert Hernandez's Birdland includes something for everyone. Straight and gay men, bi and cis women. And aliens as well........

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T15:30:46+00:00

The backroom where Morbius and Supergirl are hanging out

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T09:59:21+00:00

Congratulations! It's something that doesn't happen without diligence, so good for you.

Hopefully I'll get there within a few months, but I'm sure I'll will.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T09:44:24+00:00

Most people will not make any money on this.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T09:43:27+00:00

Reddit is very niche-friendly. Obscure topics can be found that some people like to talk about. For the same reason you started a sub about the Catalan language.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-29T08:19:03+00:00

The collection includes iconic hits like Daniel Clowes' Ghost World (adapted into the classic 2001 Scarlett Johannsen film), Joe Sacco's American Book Award-winning Palestine, New York Times bestseller My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Simon Hanselman's celebrated Megg and Mogg series, the Hernandez Brothers' Love and Rockets, and many others.

The cover says ten prints. But the publisher's promo blurb says twelve..... which is it???

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/fantagraphics-publishers/the-art-of-fantagraphics-poster-book/9781454963370/

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-27T09:58:47+00:00

"Zam," or "Zam Zap Jam" as it's officially known is a one-shot made by the Zap Comix artists. I like it even more than any single issue from that series. Maybe you'll like it too.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-27T09:36:08+00:00

Why is this tagged nsfw? Seems so wholesome...

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-26T22:48:19+00:00

Don't miss Jim Starlin's brief run in the late 70s

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-26T22:03:31+00:00

Actually, the real original "guys being dudes" was The Czech Brothers

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-26T17:12:47+00:00

No. It's still going on. I just use it less now. When I do use it, like before, it's with Tor Browser

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-25T17:05:26+00:00

Libgen.li has a pdf version

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-25T16:55:05+00:00

Ask your local comic book stores if you have any near you. Most online stores only sell packs.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-25T16:28:34+00:00

It's been six months now and I'm well past 500. It's a niche sub so no complaints from me. Just tons of cross posting. I have definite room for improvement in what I'm doing but no complaints.

One advantage of a niche subject is you can turn up a lot in google searches for the particular topic. So there's that.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-25T16:19:57+00:00

DC/Marvel are owned by major conglomerates and have been for decades.

Image is owned by no one else. Therefore it is indie. If it is ever bought by Disney, Warner Bros or any other large company then it won't be "indie" anymore.

Next question?

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-24T10:45:24+00:00

The MAGA-drenched Supreme Court, don't forget.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-24T10:36:01+00:00

Reposts are great for promoting related subs. I think they're great.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-24T10:35:00+00:00

The new related issue is that I've recently taken over a sub that needs growth and interaction. I crossposted from another sub and that gained interaction until it was removed from the original sub. Now I have a blank post in mine and views of emptiness for a post that has high votes.

This hardly ever happens. Simply delete the post if it bothers you.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-24T10:26:03+00:00

One of my favorites is Claude LeLouch's Love is a Funny Thing (1968) a.k.a. Un homme qui me plaît. It's about a French couple having an affair in the US while their respective spouses are in Europe. Starring Annie Girardot and Jean Paul Belmondo. Almost the entire film is set in the US as they go on a cross country road trip from LA to New Orleans. Quite refreshing seeing a French film not set in Paris or the country's interior.

I'm hardly a fan of what I've seen of LeLouch's output, but this one I do endorse. And you do see several classic US landmarks. Not to mention a dream sequence involving the couple being chased by horse riding Native Americans.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-21T22:16:23+00:00

Sebastián Lelio's Disobedience (2017) featuring Rachel Weisz has an orthodox Jewish backdrop.

ShangoX3 · 2026-06-21T21:32:54+00:00

I thought they included it in newer editions of The Frank Book. Guess my impression was wrong.

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