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Jenny's ongoing list of films watched 2024

February

January list, here.

Inland Empire (2006)*** It took three attempts to get through this long, confusing film. Like Mulholland Drive or the Season Three of Twin Peaks, Lynch films improve on repeat viewings even if meaning remains elusive. That is part of the joy-- sometimes you just vibe with it.

Death of Stalin (2017)**** One of my favorite films of the last two decades. A harried farce with the bloody-mindedness of Macbeth. Like the Scottish Play, we know how its going to come out, but the fun is in watching the articulate villain, played with delicious malice by Simon Russell Beale being outdone by a team of bumbling, petty bureaucrats and one very bad ass soldier. The Boyfriend (1970)*** Ken Russell's surreal tribute to the burlesque musical genre makes the most of its setting in the 1920s by putting his star Twiggy in iconic psychadelic reiterations of the flapper dress. If you opine the fact that drop waist dresses come back into style every 15 years or so, then this movie is as much to blame as anything. Poor Things (2023)*** Emma Stone gives a wild and convincing physical performance as Bella, a baby's brain in the body of her dead mother and Mark Ruffalo as typical 19th Century Rake Getting His Comeupance iscasting I didn't know I needed. I loved the yearning Godwin (Willem Defoe in truly amazing Frankenstein's monster makeup) and though I haven't read the book, I was drawn into the grotesque, ai generated world of the film. The aesthetics of this movie are as engrossing as the story and characters. Adventures of a Dentist (1965)** The Soviet version of the live action Disney comedies of the 70s, where a humble person is given magical power. Here a dentist is given extraordinary, almost magical abilities to perform dentistry without pain. He becomes a celebrity and his fall from grace involves him giving in to the decadent trappings of being a popular dentist. The humor has a darker edge than Disney though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a black comedy. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973)** This Spike Milligan film plays like a double episode of Dad's Army, not least because of the presence of Arthur Lowe who plays practically the same character here as he does on the tv show. That is not the end of the world however and this is easy to like farce with Milligan's ascerbic, anti-authoritarian bent that is grittier than anything on the sitcom. The Master (2012)** I had high hopes for this, one of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's final films and his last collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson is loosely based on the origin story of Scientology. Joaquin Phoenix plays a shell shocked veteran who drifts into the path of the cult leader played by Hoffman. Amy Adams gives a chilling performance as his much younger, controlling wife who is the real power behind the cult. I think I would have an easier time with this film if Anderson hadn't gone around giving interviews saying that Scientology and it's founder L. Ron Hubbard had "helped a lot of people." Of course, this is PTA and Phoenix's character isn't helped at all and he makes the cult worse by being a violent enforcer for the leader's enemies. The levels of whitewashing involved in making a deeply misogynistic cult into a secret matriarchy is just...ugh. However, the homoerotic tension between Hoffman and Phoenix makes the film worth looking out. Murder of Quality (1991)** Made for TV adaptation of John Le Carre's second novel. Denholm Elliott plays Smiley as more doddering and anti-social than Alec Guinness' iconic version of the character. This early Smiley story is more a traditional English village murder mystery, ala Miss Marple, with Glenda Jackson playing Ailsa, Smiley's war buddy that runs a women's magazine. Christian Bale plays one of the students at an elite prep school that forms the economic backbone of the town. Le Carre is merciless in his portrayal of the toxic, petty characters, the wealthy and wannabe wealthy swamp dwellers who run rings around the local constabulary until Smilley steps in and withstands their slings and arrows long enough to solve the case.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)*** Sometimes you sit down to watch a movie with such low expectations that you are pleasantly surprised that it doesn't totally suck. The excitement of things not being as bad as you feared can blot out some of a movie's excesses. At the end of the day this is Billy Wilder, physically incapable of creating a boring movie throwing the whole bag of tricks at this faux biography of Holmes starring Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely. There's farce and physical comedy, verbal gymnastics and exotic locations. Holmes' possible homosexuality is tastefully hinted at and attempts to create a sensationalist account of his drug use, amount to little before the mystery gets rolling. One of the big delights is Christopher Lee as Mycroft whose scenes with Robert Stephens are bitchy queen pissing contests. Genevieve Page does a turn as a would be damsel in distress who turns out to be a worthy opponent to Holmes similar to Irene Adler.

Irma La Duce (1963)*** For some reason between this and Poor Things I ended up watching two movies about Parisian brothels this month. Billy Wilder based this pastiche of 1950s travelogue adventure films like To Catch a Thief and Charade on a French stage play. A strange attempt to weld the success of the Apartment with Some Like it Hot, reconfiguring a Marilyn Monroe vehicle as a reunion of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Like the Apartment, Irma LaDuce is tinged with melancholy while avoiding a lot of the cliches about sex work that wind up dating so many films on this topic. The main complaint I have about Irma LaDuce s that it's about 45 minutes too long, a common complaint about many films of this period. (Damn Lawrence of Arabia and all who sail in her).

Witness for the Prosecution (1982)*** A made for tv adaptation of the classic courtroom drama, which credits Billy Wilder's screenplay of his film version. Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr star in this remake and honestly their chemistry is just off the charts and we're left to wonder how they never managed to make a film together before. Wendy Hiller, Diana Rigg and Beau Bridges round out the amazing cast. Lacks the tension and edge of Wilder's film but I'm having too much fun with Ralph to care.

The Major and the Minor (1942)**: Billy Wilder's first film as writer and director has some of the hallmarks of his later, greater works: farce, trains, mistaken identity, and queer themes in the form of a lesbian coded sister of Ginger Roger's romantic rival. That all the fuss is about fairly bland Ray Milland is easy enough to overlook as Wilder makes the film about toying with Rogers image as sophisticated, sexy, dancer. Typical Wilder inside jokes about the film industry abound, such as a craze for Veronica Lake hairdos among the tween set and swipes at Hollywood actors like Charles Boyer Rogers' childish masquerade to avoid paying full adult fare is preceded by a series of calamities where she's pursued and objectified by a lot of nasty older men. Hoping to escape their advances as well as the ignominity of turnstyle jumping, she maintains the charade through a long weekend with a lot of handsy tween boys until Milland's fiancee is discredited as a controlling social climber. There is a bizarre side track into her home town where Rogers also impersonates her mother before revealing her grown adult self to Milland. No one ever accused Billy Wilder of being restrained I guess.

The Children's Hour (1961)**** This classic of queer cinema was necessarily a scorched earth tragedy at the time of its release. William Wyler's dreamy, restless camera drags you into the warm, cozy life of this female partnership between Shirley Maclaine and Audrey Hepburn that seemingly has the potential to be a romantic partnership. When nasty gossips and spoiled children start a rumor that they are a couple, the scandal destroys their business and standing in the community. Terrorized by the homophobic townspeople, they are eventually "cleared" of the crime of being gay for each other, just when Maclaine's character comes to the brutal realization that she really is in love with Audrey Hepburn's character. It's hard to watch her grief and shame as she admits that the bullies have discovered a truth about her that she didn't know herself. A fact so many queer people can find relatable. The film is based on a play by Lilian Hellman which used the topic of homosexuality to expose the cruelty of female narcissists who bully their way into power. There is much in common with Hellman's The Little Foxes in that way, but the film, perhaps owing to Wyler's inherent romanticism has more of a Romeo and Juliet quality than the play. One feels that Audrey Hepburn has perhaps realized the truth in the lie, just a few moments too late.

Sweet Charity (1969)*** Directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine and Sammy Davis Jr and Chita Rivera this classic musical combines the best of Fossee's signature choreography, sixties pop show tunes and the psychadelic aesthetics of the late 60s. This and the Boyfriend have a lot in common, though I think the music in Sweet Charity is more solid and the contemporary setting makes it a tad edgier. MacLaine plays yet another flavor of sex worker, a dancehall hostess and paid companion who seeks to be elevated out of her life into respectability through marriage. The fiancee here is uptight and lacking in appeal and when he finally just flakes out in the final reel it's no great loss to the film.

Thief (1981)** Atypical heist film starring James Caan and Jim Belushi, directed by Miama Vice creator Michael Mann. You can see the beginnings of that iconic 80s TV show, in this movie which favors long scenes of action being edited to music with sparse dialog. Caan squares off against Tom Signorelli a local mob boss who dares to threaten Caan's wife played by Tuesday Weld.

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“creation myth” - Thursday, July 20

Author: howldean ( @howldean​​ ) Artist:  angel ( @dustghoul​ ) Rating: Teen and Up Featured characters: Castiel, Benjamin, Benjamin's Vessel, Jesse Turner Featured relationships:  Benjamin/Benjamin's Vessel, Adam Milligan/Michael (mentioned), Dean Winchester/Castiel (implied) Length: 7,500 words Tags: Post-Canon, Castiel's True Form (Supernatural), do angels have midlife crises, Angst

Summary:  Escaping from the Eternal Empty isn't an option, not this time. But an unconventional rescue poses its own problems when Castiel finds himself in a form he hasn't held in a long time. Struggling with his sense of identity and fearing he's losing his humanity, he visits old haunts and gains guidance. Willing to do anything to be with the people he loves, Castiel finds himself again.

Excerpt:

“Wake up.”

Creation is an interesting thing. A unique concept. The existence of a creation myth, though rarely cohesive, is a constant in nearly every religion and faith in recorded human history. A collective desperation to know where it is you came from. From whom. How. The way that each person exists as they do now in the world that now exists. Their planet. Their universe. Our collective existence. As though it’s maddening to not know the answer.

 Some fabrication of a birth not remembered nor comprehensible.

Castiel is being born.

Creation feels…

Well, it feels. It’s been a long time since that notion passed. It’s been a long time since thoughts could turn to feelings could turn to actions. It’s been a long time since thinking at all. 

Now it comes too quickly.

First comes awareness, the inherent knowledge of existence. As Descartes phrased first in Latin, divine language as it was ’cogito, ergo sum’ which is to say, as reiterated by alt-pop icon Billie Eilish ‘I think, therefore I am’. In knowing you exist, you allow yourself to exist. This will be forgotten time and time again.

Right now he remembers.

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From the Archives 1972: Some Lamington Paza

“It’s a good thing that kids aren’t allowed into the show.” But, you know, even though I expected to hate this movie, I didn’t. It’s funny in spots, so weird in others, and downright sick at one point that I suggest you keep your eyes off the screen. You know what’s coming, anyway. The film stars Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Dick Bentley (not much of it), Paul Bertram, Mary Ann Severn, Maria O’Brien, and Dennis Price. Directed by Bruce Beresford, produced by Philip Adams, the film has a crack in everyone. He sets off in Aussies and Poms, and sends out the “iconic” of the alternate society. (Cop it!) Anyway, you get some laughs from it, though, as the filmmakers try to be clever, and fall back on a few references to Radclyffe Hall and Stockhausen, thinking we’ll never know, whether these peanuts are dead or alive. We do. loading With its rudeness and humor (a word that Aunt Edna would use), the movie sometimes comes with ‘daring’. So instead of giving her a whole bunch of clowns, I’ll just hand one over to Barry Humphries, and give a consolation prize out of a plate of lamingtons to fellow Bazza. The rest of the splint can contain gifts of meat extract and mouthwash. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

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[hunteredit]

ADAM MILLIGAN ICONS

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jake abel rp icons

#232 rp icons from his roles as adam / michael in supernatural (15.08)

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[nikadd]

well. they might not have casted THEE biblical abel but they sure did cast jake THEE abel

[scarecrowmax]

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[adammilligan]

nothing is funnier than adam getting the meanest fucking look in the diner and sounding so so fucking bitter when the topic of the winchesters come up and then actually coming face to face with them in the bunker and being like :D heyyyyy girlies!!!!! what’s up!!!!!!! like go king repress those emotions

[jewishadammilligan]

happy holidays enjoy some icons >:)

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trans flag color picked from dirty midwest boy adam milligan

[ID: Two square images. The first is the trans flag color picked from a photo of Adam Milligan from Supernatural. The second is the same flag but with a cutout of Adam on it. Adam has dirt all over his hair, face, and clothes and looks confused. He is shown from the shoulders up and has a dark jacket on. END ID]

[eunoiastarz]

A solidarity post <3

[aznisure]

me expecting michael to come out of the cage with minus zero sanity and adam almost completely burnout vs them coming out married

[rundannrun]

adam and michael icons. like/rb if you use.

[hunteredit]

ADAM X MICHAEL ICONS

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[freetobeafcknriot]

jake your adam is showing