#day of the locust

[inthedarktrees]

Karen Black in The Day of the Locust, 1975

[thethirdbear]

[annarosestabler]

Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger, 1975)

[bitter69uk]

Farewell to the great Donald Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024), one of the preeminent actors of “New Hollywood” cinema in the 1970s, starring in the likes of M*A*S*H* (1970), Klute (1971), Don’t Look Now (1973) and Fellini’s Casanova (1976). Funnily enough, just last month at the Lobotomy Room cinema club we screened one of Sutherland’s earliest film roles – as Tallulah Bankhead’s childlike albino handyman in 1965 hagsploitation movie Die! Die! My Darling! My favourite Sutherland movie, though, would have to be Day of the Locust (1975) (pictured) directed by John Schlesinger. I vividly recall seeing this disturbing movie on Canadian TV as a kid and it made a haunting (traumatic?)  impression. The characters are frankly unsympathetic. The tone is cynically downbeat. The ending is absolutely harrowing. Critics judged the film harshly in comparison to the 1939 source novel by Nathanael West. And - clocking in at about 140-minutes - Schlesinger could be accused of self-indulgence. In other words – my idea of bliss! Day of the Locust is widely available to stream now (on platforms like YouTube and Prime Video) and is ripe for reappraisal.

[thoughtportal]

[cinenthusiast]

Day of the Locust (1975, Schlesinger)

[oldshowbiz]

Day of the Locust was shut down after Donald Sutherland walked into a glass door and sliced himself open.

[loureedpiss]

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rules: list your five all time favorite films and have people vote on which one matches your vibe.

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for December 29th. I've got a feeling he's going to wake up from this dream soon, to take a leak. I've had a lot of dreams like this myself.

Of course, smart tumblr users might recognize this as a trace from a certain Simpsons episode:

It's from Season 9, Miracle on Evergreen Terrace. It's a good one. And, it's a Christmas episode, so it fits with the December theme.

I like The Simpsons. There's a novel from the 1930ies called Day of the Locust, and one of the characters is called Homer Simpson. It feels weird that this character from an old book has the same name as our pop culture phenomenon, especially since they have pretty much opposite personalities. But, once you read the book, you'll realize, yeah, Homer Simpson is the perfect name for that character - a repressed, dorky accountant.

[thepresidentofhyperion]

HIS NAME IS TRIP LEROY FRAISCANTE AND HE IS MY WIFE!!!

[swan2swan]

JURASSIC WORLD: CHAOS THEORY

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[moths-daily]

Moth Of The Day #294

Honey Locust Moth

Syssphinx bicolor

From the saturniidae family. They have a wingspan of 47-67 mm. They inhabit woodlands. They can be found in North America.

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[nemfrog]

"Plague of locust scorpions, October 24, 1897, to March 20, 1898." 15 predicted events from 1892 until the end of this age on April 11, 1901. 1887.

Internet Archive

[cryptidwrestling]

✨Merry Christmas to me✨

[red-room-studi0]

Locust

[sofubis]

Ikimono Encyclopedia Advanced Migratory Locust (bandai)