#Best of Film 2024

[thereclusiveblogger]

AFI FEST 2024: Interview With The Cast & Director of Color Book

One of the best conversations I had at this year’s AFI Film Fest for this film didn’t physically happen at the festival and revolved around the stunning feature film Color Book. The movie, ironically enough, is filmed in gorgeous black and white and tells the story of love, grief, and particularly the bond between a Black father and his son going through the loss of a dear loved one. The film’s…

[bebx]

crying over this Longlegs promo poster and the fact it’s official.

“After Despicable Me 4” 😭😭😭

[starfall-xo]

2024 Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees as VHS tapes by @ShawnMansfield

[celine-song]

HEATHERS (1989) dir. Michael Lehmann

[lilianhuas]

[breakbleheavens]

It was the end of an era, but the start of an age.

[gael-garcia]

Girls Will Be Girls (2024 🇮🇳), directed by Shuchi Talati

[preacherboyd]

[dreamlandgirlie]

i just saw a post that said mike faist has a typecast and it’s ambiguously bisexual characters in homoerotic movies 😭

[secondbeatsongs]

RIP to cohost, but more importantly, RIP to the best post on cohost:

[baxterbella24]

"As long as I breathe"

"I'm no Messiah, I'm a Fedaykin of Sietch Tabr"

Paul Usul Muad'Dib Atreides, Dune: Part 2 (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

[the-crooked-library]

opened tiktok (mistake number one, i know) and immediately saw someone saying that Thomas Hutter subverts the "disbelieving husband" trope which... listen i love a thoroughly pathetic mess of a man myself and i get that Ellen's other option is a 400yo evil corpse, but can we please not give him credit for things he didn't do?..

the literal inciting incident of the story is that Thomas DOESN'T listen to Ellen. he doesn't believe her. she tells him that she's got a bad feeling about this trip, begs him not to go, tells him about her nightmare - and what does he do? he calls it a childish fantasy, tells her to stop worrying, and implies that she would benefit from talking to a doctor. saying shit softly doesn't make it any less dismissive or insulting, like i'm sorry but this is peak Disbelieving Husband in a Horror Movie behaviour. he only changed his mind once Orlok put him through the horrors himself, which is also a perfectly standard thing for a Disbelieving Husband to do in the second act. furthermore, from the beginning of the film, he neglects Ellen's emotional needs, is uncomfortable with her abnormalities, and doesn't even really know what sort of gifts she likes - and again, these are all standard flaws for a Disbelieving Husband to exhibit. they're indicative of a disconnect between him and his wife that he continuously refuses to bridge.

caring for someone doesn't mean you can't neglect or harm them, and that applies to everyone - including Normal People like Thomas, like Harding, like Sievers, like the viewer; and that's the point of the film

[jupteur]

CONCLAVE (2024) dir. edward berger

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The Breath of God (or gushing about sound design in Conclave for a bit)

It wasn't until the end game of Conclave that I realised just how little natural sound there is in the movie.

The soundscape of the movie exists in such a heightened state of presentation (much like the papacy itself, if it isn't too on the nose to say), that the first time you hear the sound of the natural world, I gasped out loud in the cinema.

Because when the tension of the movie isn't being pushed forward by the gorgeous and propulsive soundtrack, it's being driven by the unsettlingly amplified noises of anxious breathing or the lofty sound of people speaking and moving through vaulted rooms. The sound of a world cut off from everyone else.

Listen, I'm not religious person, but when you for the first time hear the sound of the wind in Conclave - the sound of the real world rushing in - I think the movie made me understand the feeling of being moved by the holy spirit. Just for a second. It felt like I was listening to God breathing.

Worth noting is that the only other instance you hear natural sound in the movie (that I remember), is in the closing frames. I'm not going to say what it is, because, y'know, it feels like spoiling a significant point of the movie. It is clearly not a coincidence.

[danielcraigupd]

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey at W Magazines Annual Best Performance Party at Chateau Marmont on 4 January 2025 in Los Angeles.

[lilianhuas]