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Allen Leech and Adam John Richardson The Vanishing Triangle 1.03

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THE VANISHING TRIANGLE | S1.E3

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John and Paul moments in Midas Man part 1

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Have you seen this angle yet? I probably haven't...

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Shared by Claybourne Elder on Instagram, December 17th 2023

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Torso will be released on 4K Ultra HD on September 17 via Arrow Video. Adam Rabalais designed the cover art for the 1973 Italian giallo film; the original poster is on the reverse side.

Sergio Martino (All the Colors of the Dark) directs from a script he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Ernesto Gastaldi. Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, and John Richardson star.

Both the 94-minute Italian and 90-minute English cuts have been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision and original lossless mono soundtracks. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by All the Colours of Sergio Martino author Kat Ellinger

Italian and English options for opening titles, closing titles, and insert shots

Interview with director/co-writer Sergio Martino

Interview with actor Luc Merenda

Interview with co-writer Ernesto Gastaldi

Interview with filmmaker Federica Martino, daughter of Sergio Martino

Interview with La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film author Mikel J. Koven

 2017 Abertoir International Horror Festival Q&A with Sergio Martino

Italian and English theatrical trailers

Booklet written by Adrian Smith and Howard Hughes

A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university town’s female students. Alarmed at plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall) and her three friends elope to a secluded country villa – only to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they’ve brought it with them!

Pre-order Torso.

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ONE DAY 2024

I love you, Dex. So much. I just don’t like you anymore. I’m sorry.

[cultfaction]

Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 129: Rollerball (1975)

Norman Jewison’s 1975 dystopian sports thriller Rollerball goes under the spotlight this month. It stars James Caan, John Houseman, Pamela Hensley, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Shane Rimmer, Burt Kwoouk, Robert Ito, and Ralph Richardson. The screenplay was written by William Harrison (an adaption of his own short story “Roller Ball Murder” which had first appeared in the September 1973…

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Bad movie I have Super Fly 1972

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Part 2

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Midas Man actors & real-life counterparts

JACOB FORTUNE-LLOYD as BRIAN EPSTEIN

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LEO HARVEY-ELLEDGE as GEORGE HARRISON

CAMPBELL WALLACE as RINGO STARR

JONAH LEES as JOHN LENNON

BLAKE RICHARDSON as PAUL McCARTNEY

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ADAM LAWRENCE as PETE BEST

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DARCI SHAW as CILLA BLACK

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JORDAN KELLY as GERRY MARSDEN

[?] as BILLY J. KRAMER (can't find the actor's name!!!)

CONOR MEDLOCK as TOMMY QUICKLY

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EDDIE MARSAN as HARRY EPSTEIN

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EMILY WATSON as QUEENIE EPSTEIN

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BILL MILNER as CLIVE EPSTEIN

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[?] as BARBARA EPSTEIN

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CHARLEY PALMER ROTHWELL as GEORGE MARTIN

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JAMIE FINN as MIKE SMITH

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ALEX MACQUEEN as DICK ROWE

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LUKE ALLEN-GALE as SIDNEY BEECHER-STEVENS

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JAY LENO as ED SULLIVAN

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JAMES CORRIGAN as NAT WEISS

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MILO PARKER as ALISTAIR TAYLOR

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CHUKWUMA OMAMBALA as LONNIE TRIMBLE

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JOHN McCAFFREY as MAL EVANS

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EDDIE SUZY IZZARD as ALLAN WILLIAMS

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SHAUN FAGAN as BOB WOOLER

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ALICE MERIVALE as PATRICIA DAVIES

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ALICE MARIE O'HANLON as FREDA KELLY

BONUS: Freda makes a cameo appearance in the film

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 3, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Dec 04, 2024

For an astonishing six hours today, South Korea underwent an attempted self-coup by its unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, only to see the South Korean people force him to back down as they reasserted the strength of their democracy.

In an emergency address at nearly 11:00 last night local time, Yoon announced that he was declaring martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1980, when special forces under a military dictatorship attacked pro-democracy activists in the city of Gwangju, leaving about 200 people dead or missing. South Koreans ended military rule in their country in 1987, writing a new constitution that made South Korea a republic.

Yoon claimed he had to declare martial law because his political opponents were sympathizing with communist North Korea. It was a thin pretext.

A member of the conservative People’s Party, Yoon was elected to a five-year presidential term in 2022 after a misogynistic campaign fueled by young men who saw equal rights for women— whose average monthly wage is 67.7% of that a man, according to the BBC’s Laura Bicker—as reverse discrimination that is taking away their own rights and opportunities.

Before his election, Yoon had no experience in the National Assembly, and once he was in office, his popularity slid to record lows. In legislative elections held last April, voters crushed Yoon’s party, giving opposition parties 192 of 300 seats in the National Assembly. The legislature fought with Yoon over his budget and launched a number of corruption investigations into Yoon’s allies as well as his wife.

And so, Yoon declared martial law, bringing the media under his control and banning political activities, “false propaganda,” “gatherings that incite social unrest,” and strikes. Police officers formed a blockade around the National Assembly, and helicopters landed on the roof to prevent lawmakers from getting inside to overturn Yoon’s declaration.

The South Korean people reacted immediately. Reporting from Seoul, John Yoon of the New York Times recounted the story of a real estate agent who watched President Yoon’s speech, got in his car, and drove for an hour to get to the National Assembly. The man told journalist Yoon, “I thought, ‘The end has come,’ so I came out. The president of a country has exerted his power by force, and its people have come out to protest that. We have to remove him from power from this point on. He’s in a position where he has to come down.”

Editor of The Verge Sarah Jeong, who works out of the U.S. and does not cover South Korean politics, happened to be working in Seoul this week and was on site after a night of drinking, giving an informed and honest account of what she was seeing. “[T]he crowd is a pretty even mix of young people and the older folks (mostly men) who would have been young during the dictatorship…. I heard tanks were here but I haven't seen one yet. [O]ld men swearing "how dare the military come here.”

Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post Tokyo/Seoul bureau chief, reported that the National Assembly managed to pull together a majority of its members—190 of 300—in about two and a half hours to participate in a unanimous vote to overturn Yoon’s emergency declaration of martial law. That vote included members of his own party.

Political commentator Adam Schwartz shared a video taken by the leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, as he climbed over the wall of the National Assembly to vote against Yoon’s martial law declaration. Other videos showed people in the streets boosting legislators over the walls for the vote.

Yet another video showed South Korean soldiers trying to get into the National Assembly during the voting thwarted by people wielding a fire extinguisher and flashes from cameras.

While the law said Yoon had to abide by the legislators’ vote, it was not clear whether Yoon would do as the law required. About six hours after he had declared martial law, Yoon bowed to the National Assembly and the popular will and lifted his declaration.

Yoon has been widely condemned, and South Koreans from all parties, including his own, are calling for his resignation or impeachment. Raphael Rashid of The Guardian reported today that on the morning after the attempted coup, South Koreans are bewildered and sad. “For the older generation who fought on the streets against military dictatorships, martial law equals dictatorship, not 21st century Korea. The younger generation is embarrassed that he has ruined their country’s reputation. People are baffled.”

For the rest of the world, though, South Koreans’ immediate and aggressive response to a man trying to take away their democratic rights is an inspiration. Among other things, it illustrates that for all the claims that autocracy can react to events more quickly than democracy can, in fact autocrats are brittle. It is democracy that is determined and resilient.

The events in Seoul also cemented the shift in social media from X to Bluesky, where news was breaking faster than anywhere else, in a way that echoed what Twitter used to be. Since Twitter was a key site of democratic organizing until Elon Musk bought it and renamed it X, that shift is significant.

And finally, the events in South Korea emphasize that for all people often look to larger-than-life figures to define our nations, our history is in fact made up of regular people doing the best they can. Journalist Sarah Jeong found herself entirely unexpectedly in the middle of a coup and, recognizing that she was in a historic moment, snapped to work to do all she could to keep the rest of us informed. “I’m f*cking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour,” she wrote on Bluesky. “[S]o it goes.”

When she finally went home, Jeong wrote: “I expensed my cab ride home. I’m tired so I put ‘korea coup’ down in the expense code field.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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THE VANISHING TRIANGLE | S1.E3

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IT'S TIME FOR THE MAKE OVER MONTAGE

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New Six-Part, 12-Hour Series Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and Written by Geoffrey Ward

PBS to Launch Largest Outreach Effort in Network’s History, with Filmmaker Events in 25-plus Markets, Station Engagement Across the Country, Extensive Educational Materials, and Partnerships with Leading National and Local Organizations

Washington, DC – January 9, 2025 – THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding and its eight-year War for Independence, will premiere on Sunday, November 16 and air for six consecutive nights through Friday, November 21st at 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS. The full series will be available to stream beginning Sunday, November 16 at PBS.org and on the PBS App.

The much-anticipated series, which has been in production for eight years, was directed and produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by long-time collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward. The filmmakers and PBS scheduled the broadcast for 2025, the 250th anniversary of the start of the war, which began in the spring of 1775, more than a year before the Declaration of Independence.

The film, narrated by Peter Coyote, includes the first-person voices of nearly 200 individual historic figures, read by a cast of actors, including Adam Arkin, Jeremiah Bitsui, Corbin Bleu, Kenneth Branagh, Josh Brolin, Bill Camp, Tantoo Cardinal, Josh Charles, Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Keith David, Hope Davis, Marcus Davis-Orrom, Bruce Davison, Leon Dische Becker, Alden Ehrenreich, Craig Ferguson, Morgan Freeman, Christian Friedel, Paul Giamatti, Domhnall Gleeson, Amanda Gorman, Michael Greyeyes, Jonathan Groff, Charlotte Hacke, Tom Hanks, Ethan Hawke, Maya Hawke, Lucas Hedges, Josh Hutcherson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Gene Jones, Michael Keaton, Joe Keery, Joel Kinnaman, Tracy Letts, Damian Lewis, Laura Linney, Josh Lucas, Michael Mando, Carolyn McCormick, Lindsay Mendez, Tobias Menzies, Joe Morton, Edward Norton, David Oyelowo, Mandy Patinkin, Wendell Pierce, John Proudstar, Matthew Rhys, Liev Schreiber, Chaske Spencer, Dan Stevens, and Meryl Streep, among others.

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The White Rabbit by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope // Watership Down by Richard Adams // Boy and Rabbit by Sir Henry Raeburn // The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams // Rabbits Tapestry by Alfred Richardson Barber // The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

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