How was eyes of my mother? I was thinking about watching that one

I liked it a lot. Go for it!

It's getting touted from others as well. I'll give it a go in the next week or so...

do it, you won't regret it!

It was great... 8/10 or so. I wasn't sure what to expect and I was quite pleased with what I saw: demented, sad, somewhat graphic and def. twisted. And I found that I had the odd appreciation of it being less than 80 minutes long. Windbags and editors that don't know the value of editing their own product are among my (very minor) grievances in cinema.

happy to hear that! thought some of the unusual shots were well executed & the use of sound was very effective. Also liked the way it's a subtle re imagining of the Ed Gein story again, sort of, bit like Psycho or TCM

The Black Pit of Dr. M(1958) FTV+2 points=3points
Maniac(1934) FTV+4 points =5 points
Dead Men Walk(1943) FTV+3 points= 4 points
Nightmare Castle(1965) FTV+1 point= 2 points
Nosferatu(1922) 5 points
The Bat(1926) 5 points
The Queen of Spades (1949) FTV+3points= 4points
=28 points

My spot

A month of black & white delights. Looking forward to it!

Scoring guide:
1960s and onwards - 1 point
1950s - 2 points
1940s - 3 points
1930s - 4 points
1920s and earlier - 5 points
FTV - 1 point
Films over 40 minutes

Week 1 (partial):
'Raffles' (1930, George Fitzmaurice) - 7/10 (5 points)
'Awara' (1951, Raj Kapoor) - 10/10 (3 points)
'Os Verdes Anos' (1963, Paulo Rocha) - 10/10 (2 points)
Week 1 total: 10 points

Week 2:
'Bulldog Drummond' (1929, F. Richard Jones) - 6.5 or 7/10 (6 points)
'Maskerade' (1934, Willi Forst) - 10/10 (4 points)
'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers' (1946, Lewis Milestone) - 8/10 (3 points)
'Senza pieta' (1948, Alberto Lattuada) - 10/10 (4 points)
'La minute de vérité' (1952, Jean Delannoy) - 9/10 (3 points)
'Time Table' (1956, Mark Stevens) - 6.5/10 (3 points)
'Anari' (1959, Hrishikesh Mukherjee) - 10/10 (3 points)
'Jigsaw' (1962, Val Guest) - 9/10 (1 point)
'Bandini' (1963, Bimal Roy) - 9/10 (2 points)
Week 2 total: 29 points

Week 3:
'Baryshnya i khuligan' (1918, Yevgeni Slavinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky) - 6/10 (6 points)
'Konets Sankt-Peterburga' (1927, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller) - 9/10 (6 points)
'The Devil to Pay!' (1930, George Fitzmaurice) - 9/10 (5 points)
'What Men Live By' (1938, Vernon Sewell) - 6 or 6.5/10 (5 points)
'Fregola' (1948, Harald Robbeling) - 6 or 6.5/10 (4 points)
'Snowbound' (1948, David MacDonald) - 6/10 (4 points)
'Paying Guest' (1957, Subodh Mukerji) - 7/10 (3 points)
'The Vicious Circle' (1957, Gerald Thomas) - 6/10 (3 points)
'L'eau a la bouche' (1960, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) - 7 or 7.5/10 (2 points)
'Vo chong a phu' (1961, Loc Mai) - 8.5/10 (2 points)
'Le vice et la vertu' (1963, Roger Vadim) - 6.5 or 7/10 (2 points)
'Szerelem' (1971, Károly Makk) - 10/10 (2 points)
'Les amants réguliers' (2005, Philippe Garrel) - 7.5/10 (2 points)
Week 3 total: 46 points

Weeks 4 and 5: 86 points

I typed out 90% of what I saw these last two weeks and then I stupidly and inadvertently clicked 'back' and lost what I'd typed. I'm yawning and don't feel up to typing everything up again. I've calculated my scores from my progress posts over on Johan's alternative B&W Challenge on The Horror Board and hope that suffices. I've of course used the score parameters you outline here and omitted from my calculations any of the shorts under 40 minutes in length. Sorry for my laziness. Great challenge. Thanks for hosting and keeping the tradition alive! It was a fantastic month!

Final total: 171 points

What is everyone's favorite film so far? We're almost halfway through this thing, after all...

Horrors Of Spider Island. One of my favorite B&W bad movies. I usually end up watching it every year. The Eyes Of My Mother would be a close second.

I'll probably watch Eyes of my Mother when I get back after my holiday trip...
Mr Sardonicus is my fav FTV so far.

Favorite rewatch - Nosferatu (1922). I just never get tired of it.

Favorite FTVs - the three silents I watched by Ernst Lubitsch, particularly The Doll (1919) and I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918) - both funny and very sexy for a silent from the teens.

Favorite Horror FTV - The Queen of Spades (1949) - great performances, atmosphere & story. I rated it an 8 but still might change it to a 9.

Queen of Spades was good but a bit too slow for my tastes. I remember Dan loving that one a lot. There is a few 40s movies I like much more such as Cat People and The Beast with Five Fingers (1946). Not sure why the latter is rather obscure.

Yeah, I love The Beast with Five Fingers - ever since seeing it as a kid. There was probably a forty year period where I didn't see it but still remembered it fondly. When I bought the DVD a few years ago I was very pleased to see how well it held up. Robert Florey and Peter Lorre intended the entire film to be a lot more like the long nightmarish scene with Lorre attacked by the hand - closer to hallucination than realism - but the studio had other ideas and they grudgingly complied.

So far only 1 re-watch which was also the best movie I have seen atm: The Raven (1935)

Best FTV's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and Cinderella (1914). I still prefer the silent version of Jekyll and Hyde though. The 1931 was (as we discussed before) went a bit overboard on dialogue. Not as atmospheric as other Universal's from a few years later (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Raven, Mad Love). Still nice transformation scenes (good effects and make-up) and a subtle level of eroticism (pre Hayes Code for sure) with a seductive Miriam Hopkins. Cinderella I found fun, short (around 50 minutes) and to the point with some 'magic' effects Mélies style. Seems I'm a fan of movies with a shorter duration than average.

pre Hayes Code for sure

Nice! was not a fan of the effect of the HC on general cinema...

And with Foz convincing me to watch Flesh Eaters together that one is now my best view overall, I already liked it a lot on FTV so matching it will be very hard

of the FTVs probably Nebraska, had no idea what to expect & it was both touching and hilarious, with a fantastic performance by Bruce Dern.

Tzamtei is a favourite of mine, starts off pretty quaint but quickly descends into a tense nightmare