#William McDowell

[brucedinsman]

Music Mix: You are God Alone

Psalm 86 Verse 10. For thou art great. Put this mix in your background for a great spiritual uplift #GIVETHANKS GiveThemJesus #Outreach: That the world may know #Prayer Focus: Pray for Our Prodigals #Praise the Lord Please follow my blog  Guam Christian Blog Please follow my blog Guam Views Blog Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bruce-dinsman Bruce’s Facebook…

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Of all the actors on 1923, Robert Patrick looks the most like he belongs in 1923. In a good way. Like, he just takes to 100 years ago like a duck to water.

[federer7]

At the funeral of the Mississippi bluesman Fred McDowell in 1972

Photo: William Eggleston

[pixel--moon]

[THROWBACK] Bristol-2 2023 Schemes 🏁

6️⃣ Keselowski

9️⃣ Elliott

1️⃣1️⃣ Hamlin

1️⃣2️⃣ Blaney

2️⃣4️⃣ Byron

3️⃣4️⃣ McDowell

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1893, H.G. Wells was showing off his Time Machine that he had constructed to a small group of select friends. What he didn’t realize was that one of the friends was actually Jack the Ripper. When the police came close to capturing the murderer, the killer used Wells’ machine to escape to 1979.(Time After Time, Flm)

[theinfinitedivides]

'can’t we just go back to the way it was before we met that woman?' Ryang Eum angst alert i repeat Ryang Eum part two My Dearest angst alert

[grande-caps]

The Way Home 2.08 - Loose Yourself

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[nnnnoooooooooooo]

Last night, after watching a movie I had recorded, the television defaulted to TCM, which was playing 20th Century Fox's How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford). It was already well into the second half of the film, and I let it play on for 10-15 minutes. During that time, the film brought me to tears four separate times. I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous this was, nothing destroys me like this film.

Normally, I'm not a crier. The exception to that is when I'm watching a movie directed by John Ford, but even by John Ford's standards, this was a lot. When I realized that the film was gearing up for its climax, I made myself get up and turn it off.

It's an adaptation how Richard Llewellyn's novel of the same name, about a Welsh coal-mining community seen through the eyes of the youngest child of the family as he grows up. However, it was adapted into film by John Ford, so the film is altogether an Irish affair. The film has one Welsh actor, Rhys Williams, who plays Dai Bando, a local boxer.

Like the novel, the film is centered around Huw (Roddy McDowell,) the youngest of the Morgans, and the home of his coal-mining family. Seen through the eyes of Huw, the movie depicts a town where nothing ever seems to change, and yet everything is irrevocably lost. It is simultaneously one of the most comforting and devastating films ever made.

Typical of a Ford film, every moment, every gesture, and each beat of stillness are full of meaning. Huw's brothers tower over him, we see the characters from their backs, and their shadows haunt the walls. Each life-changing event in Huw's life is catastrophic in its own way, and yet every time, the following day we see the village restored to normality, as if nothing occurred. People fall away, life changes, and though his entire life is contained in this community, he begins to find himself alone.

Also typical of a Ford film, the film is an exploration of what it means to be a community. In fact, it's a rather damning examination of what it means for a community to remain unchanged, in spite of the world around it, and the lives of those in it. The collateral damage from this stasis manifests itself in the lives of its inhabitants. For the community and the mining corporation to remain the unchanged, its people are made disposable.

Somewhat sadly, the films is mostly remembered today as an answer to a trivia question. How Green Was My Valley won 5 academy awards, with Outstanding Motion Picture (awarded to the producer, Darryl F. Zanuck) and Best Director (awarded to John Ford) among them. Given that these wins came over Citizen Kane, these wins are now perceived somewhat infamously as short-sighted folly. This should not be so. However, How Green Was My Valley remains in high critical esteem, and is well-loved by those who've seen it.

Personally, How Green Was My Valley is my second favourite film of all-time, I believe it to be the finest film John Ford ever made, and John Ford is, in my estimation, the single greatest director to have ever worked in film. If a better film has ever come out of Hollywood, then I haven't seen it.

P.S. I also cried once while looking up these photos, and then once more while reading some of the closing narration of the film. This film is to me as 'Li'l Brudder" is to Homestar Runner. All this, and I didn't say a single word about it's two highest-billed stars, Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon.

[thejaymo]

TABlog 1 | Weeknotes

How many tabs do you have open right now? What are they? And why do you have them open?

Don’t have much to write about this week so I’ve decided to start a new semi regular thing: TABlog How many tabs do you have open right now?

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[brucedinsman]

Daily Service: Jesus is Master

Daily Service: Jesus is Master First in a series – I will include scriptures, references, graphics, and songs also Sources: Lockyer – All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible Matthew 23:8-10 KJV But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called…

[moviehealthcommunity]

Halloween (2007)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Halloween has a few short scenes of moderate to strong strobe lights on police cars at night.

The camera shakes and moves in otherwise disorienting ways during scenes of violence.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 6/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: A child expresses suicidal thoughts, and another character dies off-screen by audible suicide. The opening of this film shows domestic verbal abuse which includes homophobia, transphobia, and threats of violence. There is violence toward animals, which is never shown, but mutilated animal bodies are shown. One person convulses as a result of head trauma. Three teenage characters are shown nude, all played by adult actresses. Multiple scenes feature “slut-shaming.” According to the IMDb Parents’ Guide page, the extended cut includes a long rape scene.

Image ID: A theatrical poster for Halloween (2007)

[90smovies]

[screamscenepodcast]

It's a Tim Burton Christmas with 1993's THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, directed by Henry Selick!

Your hosts cover the life and times of Danny Elfman, the making of NIGHTMARE and even dig into what death of the author actually means.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 50:01; Discussion 56:32

[gyoza-man]

Idea for the next Halloween reboot.