#anthony waller

[brokehorrorfan]

Mute Witness will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on June 11 via Arrow Video. The 1995 horror-thriller features reversible artwork with the original poster and new art by Adam Rabalais.

Anthony Waller (An American Werewolf in Paris) writes and directs. Alec Guinness, Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, and Oleg Yankovsky star.

Mute Witness has been newly restored in 4K, approved by Waller, wih original lossless stereo audio. A double-sided poster and booklet are included.

Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full packaging.

Special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director Anthony Waller (new)

Audio commentary by production designer Matthias Kammermeier and composer Wilbert Hirsch (new)

The Silent Death - Visual essay by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on snuff films (new)

The Wizard Behind the Curtain - Visual essay by film historian Chris Alexander on the phenomenon of the film-within-a-film (new)

"Snuff Movie" Presentation - Produced to generate interest from investors and distributors, featuring interviews with Anthony Waller and members of the creative team

Location scouting footage

Original Alec Guinness footage, filmed a decade prior to the rest of Mute Witness

Teaser trailer

Trailer

Image gallery

Also included:

Double-sided fold-out poster

Booklet featuring new writing by Michelle Kisner

Billy Hughes (Marina Zudina) is a mute special effects artist working on a low budget American slasher movie being shot in Russia. Accidentally locked in the studio late one night, she stumbles upon two men shooting what appears to be a snuff film. Having borne witness to their victim’s final moments, Billy desperately flees – but this is only the start of a protracted night of terror, drawing her and her friends into a tangled web of intrigue, involving the KGB, the Moscow police… and a mysterious crime kingpin known as The Reaper.

Pre-order Mute Witness.

[adriheavymetal]

nothing better than watching my fav horror movie once again lol #watchingagain #yesterday 🐺🎥💯🐺🌘👌🌔🎥🎃☺🖤🐺🌘👌🔝❤😁 🎥 💙#anamericaninparis

[2ndaryprotocol]

The sort-of sequel, sort-of spin-off, sort-of standalone ‘An American Werewolf In Paris’ stormed theaters this week 25 years ago. 🇫🇷🐺🌑

“𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝. 𝙸 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚞𝚙𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚠, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸'𝚖 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚕𝚏.”

[horrorpatch]

MUTE WITNESS Newly Restored On 4K UHD Blu-ray!

Arrow Video will release the cult horror film MUTE WITNESS in a newly restored 4K UHD Blu-ray Limited Edition! The disc will be released online and in stores beginning on June 11, 2024. Get all the disc details and special features on the other side down below. From The Press Release On June 11th, director Anthony Waller‘s cult horror classic Mute Witness arrives in both 4K UHD and Blu-ray…

[movienized-com]

The Piper (2023)

The Piper (2023) #AnthonyWaller #ElizabethHurley #MiaJenkins #JackStewart #RobertDaws Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 Genre: Fantasy / Horror Regie: Anthony Waller Hauptrollen: Elizabeth Hurley, Mia Jenkins, Jack Stewart, Robert Daws, Tara Fitzgerald, Ieva Aleksandrova-Eklone, Gundars Abolins, Arben Bajraktaraj, Jurijs Djakonovs, Evija Koltone, Elizabete Liepa … Filmbeschreibung: Liz und ihre Tochter Amy ziehen nach Hamelin, wo ein dunkles Geheimnis aus Liz’ Vergangenheit von dem rastlosen Geist…

[longwuzhere]

Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers pt2

Episode 1 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 3 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 4 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 5 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 6 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 7 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here and here

Episode 8 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 9 of My Adventure with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 10 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

(SPOILERS obviously):

An obvious one, but a classic, the "up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" line reference. This one never gets old.

Jimmy next name drops Flamebird. in the comics Nightwing and Flamebird were Kryptonian superheroes adopting their names from a species of Kryptonian birds. This is where Dick Grayson gets his Nightwing identity from. The page here is from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #17 (1986) drawn by Curt Swan and Karl Kesel.

At the climatic battle of part 2 of Adventures of a Normal Man, we see Leslie Willis become blue and look more like her traditional Livewire look. Her first appearance was in Superman the Animated Series, season 2 episode 5 "Livewire" where she was voiced by Lori Petty, a.k.a. Tank Girl. In the show Leslie was a shock jock radio DJ slinging hot takes live on air knocking down Superman a peg or two

Obviously MAwS took Leslie in a whole different direction, design choice, and occupation change, but I am excited to see what happens next for her.

Before we see Clark battle Leslie we see this guy. White hair, wears orange and black, its Slade Wilson a.k.a. Deathstroke. This fool here in like 20 to 25 years will have his life spiral out of control and get his ass kicked by a bunch of colorfully dressed teenagers.

Deathstroke makes his first appearance in New Teen Titans #2 (1980) (W: Marv Wolfman and George Perez, P: George Perez, I: Romeo Tanghal, C: Adrienne Roy, L: Ben Oda) where he is hired by H.I.V.E. to kill the Teen Titans. In the comics he's a major piece of shit, but a damn good assassin.

After the fight we see Supes clean up and he picks up a billboard that reads Amazotech.

This is a good reference to Professor Anthony Ivo, a mad scientist of the DC Universe who built the Amazo robot who could adapt and replicate any power that the Justice League has and weaknesses. Both Ivo and the Amazo robot make their first appearances here in Brave and the Bold #30 (1960) with the cover art done by Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson.

At the end of the episode Slade name drops Task Force X better known as the Suicide Squad. The name "Suicide Squad" is from the Brave and the Bold #25 where it was the name of Rick Flag's unit in the military. The Suicide Squad pop culture knows first debuted in Legends #3 (1987) as seen below (W: John Ostrander and Len Wein, P: John Byrne, I: Karl Kesel, C: Tom Ziuko, L: Steve Haynie).

The team at this time was composed of Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Enchantress, and Blockbuster. The team members have changed out with each new Task Force X/Suicide Squad iteration.

Behind Slade, here is Amanda Waller, the most fearsome woman in the DC universe. She's ruthless, politically powerful, and will not hesitate to blow up anyone in the Suicide Squad if they screw up. She makes her first appearance in Legends #1 (1987) same comic series in the previous picture. Very excited to see where My Adventures with Superman goes with this cuz you don't see Superman interact with Deathstroke or Suicide Squad all the often.

Link to Episode 1 of My Adventures of Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 3 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 4 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 5 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 6 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 7 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here and here

Link to Episode 8 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 9 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 10 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

[milesworld96]

I’m losing it, I’m at wits end rn

[denimbex1986]

We are lucky to be alive in the age of Andrew Scott, an actor of extraordinary breadth, skill and sensitivity, who can terrify as Jim Moriarty in Sherlock, make us fall in love (inappropriately) as the hot priest in Fleabag and cry in All of Us Strangers. He can also astonish, last year playing eight parts in a stage adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. He recently became the first actor to win the UK Critics’ Circle awards for best actor on stage and screen in the same year. And his latest project, Ripley, is a beautiful and chilling adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr Ripley, with Scott playing the lead, dominating all eight one-hour episodes. It’s been a wild, crowning year for the 47-year-old Irish actor. But in March his mother, Nora, died of a sudden illness; she is who Scott has credited as being his foremost creative inspiration. His grief is fresh and intense and for the first half of the interview it seems to swim just beneath the surface of our conversation.

“We go through so many different types of emotional weather all the time,” he says. “And even on the saddest day of your life you might be hungry or have a laugh. Life just continues.” We are in a meeting room in his management company’s offices, talking about his ability, in his work, to modulate between emotions, to go from happy to sad, confused to scared, all within a matter of seconds. How does he do it? Scott laughs. “I would say that I have quite a scrutable face — is scrutable a word? — which is good or bad depending on what you are trying to achieve. But my job is to be as truthful as possible in the way that we are, and I don’t think that human beings are just one thing at any particular time. It is rare that we have one pure emotion.”

It’s an approach that is particularly appropriate for the playing of Tom Ripley, an acquisitive chameleon who inveigles his way into the lives of others (in this case Johnny Flynn, as the careless and wealthy Dickie Greenleaf, and his on-off girlfriend Marge, played by Dakota Fanning). “Ripley is witty, he is very talented. That’s gripping, to watch talent. I can’t call him evil — it is very easy to call people who do terrible things evil monsters, but they are not monsters, they are humans who do terrible things. Part of what she [Highsmith] is talking about is that if you dismiss a certain faction of society it has repercussions, and Ripley is someone who is completely unseen, he lives literally among the rats, and then there are these people who are gorgeous and not particularly talented and have the world at their feet but are not able to see the beauty that he can see.”

The show was written and directed by Steven Zaillian, the screenwriter of Schindler’s List. It’s set in Sixties New York and Italy, and filmed entirely in black-and-white, its chiaroscuro aesthetic evoking films of the Sixties — particularly those of Federico Fellini — while also offering an alternative to Anthony Minghella’s saturated late-Nineties iteration that starred Matt Damon and Jude Law. This has a darker flavour. “I found it challenging,” Scott says, “in the sense that he’s a solitary figure and ideologically we are very different. So you have to remove your judgment and try to find something that is vulnerable.”

It was a tough shoot, taking a year and filmed during lockdown. Scott was exhausted at the end of it and had intended to take a three-month break, but delays meant that he went straight from Ripley into All of Us Strangers. “Even though I was genuinely exhausted, it was energising because I was back in London, I was getting the Tube to work, there was sunshine,” he says. “I found it incredibly heartful, that film, there were so many different versions of love … I feel that all stories are love stories.”

All of Us Strangers, directed by Andrew Haigh, is about a screenwriter examining memories of his parents who died when he was 12. In it Scott’s character, Adam, returns to his family home, where his parents are still alive and as they were back in the Eighties. Adam is able to walk into the memory and to come out to his parents, finding the words that were unavailable to him as a boy. Some of it was filmed in Haigh’s childhood home, and there was a strong biographical element for him and his lead. Homosexuality was illegal in the Republic of Ireland until 1993, when Scott was 16. He did not come out to his parents until he was in his early twenties. I ask if he was working with his own childhood experiences in the film. “Of course, so in a sense it was painful, to a degree, but it was cathartic because you are doing it with people that you absolutely love and trust. I felt that it was going to be of use to people and I was right, it has been. The reaction to the movie has been genuinely extraordinary — it makes people feel and see things, and that isn’t an easy thing to achieve.”

The film is also a tender and erotic love story between Scott’s character and Harry, played by the Irish actor Paul Mescal. The two found a real-life kinship that made them a delight to watch on screen and off it, as a double act on the awards circuit. “I adore Paul, he’s so, so … continues to be …” Scott pauses. “Obviously it’s been a tough time recently and he just continues to be a wonderful friend. It’s everything. The more I work in the industry, I realise, you make some stuff that people love and you make some stuff that people don’t like, and all really that you are left with is the relationships that you make. I love him dearly.”

Scott and Mescal were also both notable on the red carpet for being extraordinarily well dressed. Scott loves fashion and has a big, well-organised wardrobe that he admits is in need of a cull. “I don’t like having too much stuff. I really believe that everything we have is borrowed — our stuff, our houses, we are borrowing it for a time. So I am trying to think of people who are the same size as me so I can give some of it away, and that’s a great thing to be able to do.” One of his favourite labels is Simone Rocha. “I love a bit of Simone Rocha. What a kind, glorious person she is. I just went to her show.” Fashion, he says, is in his DNA. “My mother was an art teacher, she was obsessed with all sorts of design. She loved jewellery and jewellery design. Anything that is visual, tactile, painting, drawing, is a big passion of mine, so I have tremendous respect for the creativity of designers.”

Today Scott is wearing Louis Vuitton trousers and a cropped Prada jacket, dressed up because he is collecting his Critics’ Circle award for best stage actor for Vanya. I ask how it feels to have won the double, a historic achievement. “Ah …” he says, looking at the table, going silent, having just been so voluble. “I’m sorry …” His voice cracks a little. “It’s bittersweet.”

At the ceremony Scott dedicated the award to his mother, saying of her “she was the source of practically every joyful thing in my life”. Is it difficult for him to carry on working in the circumstances, I wonder. “Well, you know, you have to — life goes on, you manage it day by day. It’s very recent, but I certainly can say that so much of it is surprising and unique, and there is so much that I will be able to speak about at some point.”

He is looking forward, he says, once promotion for Ripley is over, to taking some time off, going on holiday, going back to Ireland for a bit. He has homes in London and Dublin. To relax he walks his dog, a Boston terrier, dressed down in jeans and a hoodie “like a 12-year-old, skulking around the city” or goes to art galleries on the South Bank — he was considering a career as an artist until he was 17 and got a part in the Irish film Korea. He goes to the gym every day, “not, you know, to get …” he says, flexing his biceps. “More that it’s good for the head.” He is social, likes friends, likes a party. When I ask if he gave up drinking while doing Vanya, which required him to be on stage, alone, every night for almost two hours, he looks horrified. “Oh God, no! Easy tiger! Jesus … Although I didn’t drink much, I did have to look after myself. But we had a room downstairs in the theatre, a little buzzy bar, because otherwise I wouldn’t see anybody, so I was delighted to have people come down.”

Scott was formerly in a relationship with the screenwriter and playwright Stephen Beresford and is currently single, although this is not the sort of thing he likes to talk about. He is protective of his privacy, not wanting to reveal where he lives in London, or indeed the name of his dog — but he swerves such questions with a gentle good humour.

He is famous on set for being friendly and welcoming, for looking after other people. “The product is very important, but most of my time is spent in the process, so I want that to be as pleasant and kind as possible. I feel like it is possible to do that, that it is an honourable goal.” He is comfortable around people, with an easy charm — no one I have interviewed before has said my name so many times. And although when we talk he sometimes seems reflective or so very sad, there are also moments when he is exuberant, silly, putting on accents. “I feel like, as a person, I am quite near my emotions. I cry easily and I laugh easily, and there is nothing more pleasurable to me than laughing.”

Scott was raised a Catholic and is no longer practising, but says his view about religion is “ever changing — I definitely have a faith in things that cannot be proved”. When he was younger and felt overwhelmed, just before or after an audition, he would go to the Quaker Meeting House in central London and sit in silence, something that made its way into the second series of Fleabag, in which Scott’s priest takes Waller-Bridge’s character to that same meeting house. “It’s just around here,” he says, standing up, looking out of the window at Charing Cross Road. “When Phoebe and I first talked, we met at the Soho Theatre. We talked about love and religion, we walked all around here. And I said, ‘This is a place I go,’ so we called in and there was no one there, so we sat in there and we talked. It was a really magical day.”

Scott says he sees all the different characters that he has played as versions of himself. “It’s like, ‘What would this version of me look like?’ rather than, ‘Oh, I’m going to be somebody else.’ You filter it through you, and you discover more about yourself. I think that is a very lucky thing to be able to do, to find out more about yourself in the short time that we are here.”

[potpourri-of-ecclecticism]

- Kate’s not a lesbian. And she doesn’t want to break up. But... - What? Just say it. - Okay. What should I do? Should I get back with her? Or…

CRASHING (2016) | Episode 6 dir. George Kane

[artblooger19moon]

My Adventures with Superman

Season 1 : June 4 - June 24 2024

Season 2 : July 18 - July 22 2024

[risetherivermoon]

ok finished listening to the recent teen talk- so excited for wills new dm project as well as s3! i think itll be interesting to get to see a longer campaign with him dming, as well as anthony as a player, and i absolutely love the call of cthulu system, very hyped to see where it goes!

[glittter-skeleton]

You don’t understand everyone in Crashing (2016) hates themselves (except melody) and lies to themselves (except melody, she just lies the others)

Sam is living a lie, he’s literally a realtor. He lie about his wants, he hides away in his asshole persona because that lifts the burden of being able to Actually trust others as well as even the slightest chance of being known, of anyone finding out the truth.

Fred is great, the only one I can believe actually going to therapy in this show but there is a literal self-harm threat made by him in the show and his relationship with Sam is an extent of that. He doesn’t realise how much his way of going about life is hurting him.

Kate is so anal, she doesn’t love her fiancé, she doesn’t orgasm, she’s deeply unhappy but that’s the life she set out to have for herself. And she Knows Anthony does not love her but maybe that’s what makes it so comfortable, maybe she even chose him specifically for that (she knows of Lulu at the start of the show and she’s not an idiot). She chose a life full of people who don’t love her and partys she can’t have fun at (because she always knows where the treasure is, there’s probably a metaphor there for someone smarter to figure out).

Anthony is childish and aimless, comfortable in the mundane. That’s why him and Lulu get along so well, they’re both stuck in their childhood jokes and pranks with the constant motif of bullshitting even though they’re supposed to be the two people who know each other best in the world. His most telling scene is asking Lulu to tell him what to do because that’s what he wants most. He wants to be told how to live his life. Maybe because he’s just like that, maybe because he’s missing half of his heart (Lulu has been gone for a long long time). That’s definitely why he picked Kate, at first glance a woman with a plan, who has her shit together, who is more comfortable doing everything herself and that’s why he tries to make it work with her so badly. He picked the easy way out, the non-choice, the just leave it be and let others decide and that’s what makes him so miserable.

Lulu is on the path to self distruction from the moment we meet her. Yes, she didn’t move to London to break up Anthony and Kate but she did stay to hurt herself. She loves him so much it hurts and the worst part is that they are perfect for each other they just can’t do anything about that. So she fucks Sam and gets drunk all the time and can’t think of a future for herself. Because the only person who truly loves being around her is Anthony and he’s engaged. And she has to bullshit her way out of every situation, can’t hear a honest conversation even though that’s what she craves most, truth (like the songs)

I love how at no point in time though out the whole show I had literally any idea what happens next and yet any action a character takes fits perfectly within their motivations. (Yes even the crying kink). God, I love this show

[kal8elle]

[2ndaryprotocol]

#NowWatching Mute Witness (1995) 💄🔪🤐

“𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚔𝚑𝚘𝚟. 𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛. 𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚖. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚋𝚎𝚍. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚒𝚎.”

[duruto]

Mostly unfinished stuff

[camyfilms]

SOLO 2018

You need an incredibly fast ship, and a brilliant pilot.