fickle pickle

traipsing through life one obsession at a time

[animentality]

[jeanne-crains]

A world tour of classic films (pre-1980):

Afghanistan - Like Eagles (1967) no subs

Albania - The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953) Eng subs

Algeria - The Winds of the Aures (1967) no subs

Angola - Sambizanga (1972) Eng subs

Argentina - Black Ermine (1953) Eng subs

Armenia - Zare (1926) no subs

Australia - For the Term of His Natural Life (1929) Eng

Austria - The Hands of Orlac (1924) Eng

Azerbaijan - The Cloth Peddler (1945) Eng subs

Belgium - The Crab w/ the Golden Claws (1947) Eng subs

Brazil - Onde Estás Felicidade (1939) no subs

Bulgaria - Specialist in Everything (1962) no subs

Cambodia - Apsara (1966) no subs

Canada - Back to Gods Country (1919) Eng

Chile - The Lady of Death (1946) no subs

China - Princess Iron Fan (1941) Eng subs

China - Mulan Joins the Army (1939) Eng subs

Columbia - Claws of Gold (1926) no subs

Cuba - The Last Supper (1976) Eng subs

Czechoslovakia - Ecstasy (1933) Eng subs

Denmark - The Abyss (1910) Eng subs

Egypt - Cairo Station (1958) Eng subs

Estonia - Young Eagles (1927) no subs

Finland - The Day the Earth Froze (1959) Eng dub

France - Princess Tam-Tam (1935) Eng subs

Georgia - Saba (1929) no subs

Germany - Metropolis (1927) Eng

Greece - Daphnis and Chloe (1931) no subs

Honduras - My Friend Angel (1962) no subs

Hungary - Little Mother (1935) no subs

India - Aah (1953) Eng subs

Indonesia - Pareh (1935) no subs

Iran - The House is Black (1963) Eng subs

Ireland - Knocknagow (1918) Eng

Israel - The Hero’s Wife (1963) no subs

Italy - Fast and Sexy (1958) Eng version

Jamaica - The Harder They Come (1972) Eng

Japan - Dragnet Girl (1933) Eng subs

Kazakhstan - Amangeldy (1939) no subs

Korea, North - My Home Village (1949) no subs

Korea, South - Viva Freedom! (1946) Eng subs

Latvia - Blow, Wind (1973) Eng subs

Lebanon - The Broken Wings (1962) Eng subs

Lithuania- The Girl and the Echo (1964) no subs

Malaysia - Fate’s Hand (1952) no subs

Malaysia - My Son, Sazali (1956) Eng subs

Mexico - Salón México (1949) Eng subs 

Moldova - Lullaby (1959) no subs

Mongolia - Tsogt Taij (1945) Eng subs

Nepal - Maitighar (1966) no subs

Netherlands - Fanfare (1958) Eng subs

New Zealand - 100 Crowded Years (1941) Eng

Niger - Return of an Adventurer (1966) no subs

Nigeria - Fincho (1957) Eng

North Macedonia - Miss Stone (1958) no subs

Norway - Nine Lives (1957) Eng subs

Pakistan - Doo Aansoo (1950) no subs

Paraguay - The Blood and the Seed (1959) no subs

Peru - No Stars in the Jungle (1967) no subs

Philippines - Pearl of the Pasig (1950) Eng subs

Poland - Black Pearl (1934) Eng subs

Portugal -  Aniki-Bóbó (1942) Eng subs

Romania - The Queen’s Flower (1946) no subs

Russia - The Stone Flower (1946) Eng subs

Senegal - Boro, Sarret (1963) Eng subs

Serbia - Karađorđe (1911) Eng subs

Singapore - Love (1948) Eng subs

Slovenia - Don’t Whisper (1957) no subs

South Africa - Come Back, Africa (1959) Eng

Spain - The Electric Hotel (1908) no subs

Sri Lanka - Kapatikama (1966) no subs

Sudan - The Dislocation of Amber (1975) no subs

Suriname - Wan Pipel (1976) Eng subs

Sweden - It Rains on Our Love (1946) Eng subs

Switzerland - Heidi (1952) Eng dub

Syria - The Dupes (1972) Eng subs

Taiwan - Wave (1973) no subs

Tajikistan -  Rustam and Suhrab (1971) no subs

Thailand - King of the White Elephant (1940) Eng

Thailand - S.T.A.B. (1973) Eng dub

Trinidad and Tobago - Bim (1974) Eng

Tunisia - The Girl from Carthage (1924) no subs

Turkey - The Broken Disc (1959) no subs

Ukraine - Man With a Movie Camera (1929) Eng subs

United Kingdom - It’s Love Again (1936) Eng

United States - Bringing Up Baby (1938) Eng

Uruguay - Souls on the Coast (1923) no subs

Uzbekistan - Delighted by You (1958) no subs

Venezuela - Light in the High Plains (1953) no subs

Vietnam - Together on the Same River (1959) no subs

Zimbabwe - Shangani Patrol (1970) Eng

***All these links are for YouTube and are watchable as of October 2021. Since this list is for classic films it includes some countries that no longer exist. Not every country is included here because not every country had a film industry or has films available on YouTube. A few countries have two films listed because I couldn’t pick between the two. I recommend looking up any film on here that you watch as a lot of them have very interesting backstories. “No subs” means no English subtitles. They may have subtitles in other languages.

Please don’t let a lack of subtitles stop you from trying a movie from another country. Movies, especially silent ones, can be understood and enjoyed regardless of language barriers! <3

[xenasaur]

they weren't lying that alcohol can and does strip away your inhibitions

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

and how's it coming vis a vis the rain on your skin

[xenasaur]

not feeling it rn. could someone else feel it for me? :/

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

NO

[transheadcrab]

why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

[khamingbird-blog]

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

[transheadcrab]

th

the what

[transheadcrab]

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

[punkrorschach]

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

[transheadcrab]

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

[bomberqueen17]

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs. 

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”

[antiocheanism]

happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

lesson learned: never ask for help

[libraford]

Possible explanations for the forever babyface I have:

-I dont drink much, I dont smoke

-I moisturize, wear sunscreen

-the hysterectomy reduced my stress by a lot so now there's less cortisol in my everywhere.

-Keanu Reeves bit me once.

-I eat foods with a variety of fats and oils.

-my very active job requires me to hydrate regularly.

-made a pact with the devil once while I was sleepwalking.

-not worrying about wrinkles means I don't get them as much

-theres a painting of me in an attic somewhere thats rapidly aging.

-no one really knows what 40 year olds are supposed to look like because TV keeps casting 30 year old to play teens.

[preacherboyd]

Half Man | 1x04

[littlestpersimmon]

The Sea Foam Dragon

[littlestpersimmon]

cave angel fish

[hopeless-eccentric]

humiliating to be attracted to a conventionally attractive person. I thought I was a more sensitive and refined pervert than this

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[rainbowsky]

Light traces the outline of his profile, while shadow conceals his true nature. What cannot be illuminated or fully understood are the hidden depths within Ren Shaobai, played by Xiao Zhan.

#Youku2026Lineup#

[sayhellotokathy]

I lived through the swine flu, Y2K, first black president, 9/11, a royal wedding, the death of Michael Jackson, Osama's death & now 8/23/11 eastcoast earthquake. My life is fucking swag bro.

2012 I’m fucking ready…come at me!!!

[saintjosie]

this post has aged like justin bieber

[bmasiac]

Richard Nadler

[noxexistant]

thinking about the bed, 1892 by henri de toulouse-lautrec featured on the wikipedia page for “blanket”

[x-heesy]

Doorknobs

[dduane]

…or sometimes, doorknockers.

[cair--paravel]

Opal and glass gold-mounted pendant by René Lalique, c. 1900.