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luvinaeverdene · 12 days ago

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M (1931) Directed by Fritz Lang

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strwbryfeels · 3 months ago

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Wild Life (1971)

Mumbo

I don't see any number I don't see an old lady

Bip Bop

Treat me like a good boy Treat me like a man

Love Is Strange

My sweet baby, love is strange Many, many people seem to take it for a game

Wild Life

You're breathing so hot A lot of political nonsense in the air You're making it hard for the people who live in there

Some People Never Know

I'm only a person like you, love And who in the world can be right, all the right time I know I was wrong, make me right

I Am Your Singer

You are my love, you are my song, linger on... You are my one, you are my own melody, You are my song, I am your singer

Tomorrow

Through the week, we beg and steal and borrow Oh, for a chance to get away tomorrow

Dear Friend

Dear friend, throw the wine I'm in love with a friend of mine Really, truly, young and newly wed Are you a fool, or is it true?

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salvadorbonaparte · 20 days ago

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"straight and neurotypical actors shouldn't be in queer and neurodivergent projects" oh so you want Joseph Chang to lose his job???

#sorry but it's soooo funny he's doing So Much #I was really impressed with his work in the Victims Game so I checked out his imdb #and two films sounded really 👀 and they were both gay love triangle coming of age films #and then he was also in a gay TV show #and now I also found out another film with him I really want to watch but can't find anywhere is also queer??#I don't think it's him in that one but he's in the film Somewhere you know #and then he also had a random and extremely gratuitous crossdressing scene in another film #so yeah I've just been trying to watch his entire catalogue #and he's just. everywhere.#and he's also really really good at playing autistic which is super rare #and he's good at sad gay yearning #and some of these Projects are from the early 2000s so that must have taken guts to perform several times as a presumably straight guy

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philiponmycracker · 24 days ago

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The incredibly talented and gorgeous Tom Hulce as Ivan Sanchin, from The Inner Circle (dir. Andrei Konchalovsky, 1991)

#cant describe how much i love this film #Probs my top 3 of Mr Hulce movies after Amadeus and D&E #also this was the first movie watched during my Tom Hulce Filmography Marathon 2024 so it has a special place in my heart #phenomenal masterclass acting #absolutely brilliant performance #But my poor king did not enjoy filming this at all it seems #he said it had been really difficult well it was in Russia in early 90s #almost sounded like this experience helped him move towards his early retirement #i dont know this makes me feel so strange cause #this is an incredible piece of art and Tom is totally in his element here #it is pure theatre work like Forget-me-not Lane #But if this had smthg to do with him quitting acting...?oh I hope not it kills me inside #gorgeous queer king #tom hulce #the inner circle #the inner circle 1991 #filmgifs #moviegifs #thgop #My queer king #I WILL PROTECT YOU MY LIEGE I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU #Ivan sanchin #Ivan sanshin #andrei konchalovsky #I have so many Ivan gif making lined up it ain't even funny

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get-back-homeward · 11 months ago

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Life With The Lennons, Exclusive by Ray Coleman, April 1965 [x]

#john lennon #cynthia lennon #the beatles #ray coleman #kenwood #1965 #wish we had a specific date for this one #given this is around the same time as help! writing and LSD coffee spiking #im not sure ive read another pre-1968 interview that sounds more like bitter 70s john #but some interesting things here #his comments on growing old consider he later called this era his fat elvis period #his game with the press compared to paul #sounding more enthused about films than recording #the guy who told john ab contacts #early glasses johnny #an appearance of nigel the dog #how he uses soft to describe him but then uses it to barrage the idk radio hosts?#i'll follow the sun coming on the radio and the absurdity of saying paul was 10 when he wrote it #(he was 16 at the earliest possibly 17 or 18 and he didnt finish it until he was 22)#they're so weird with referring to their ages in the 60s like j&p just keep saying they met when they were 12 #(they were never 12 at the same time so its either shorthand or some absurd joke)#april 1965 #john speaks #text scans #ad lib club

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cto10121 · 2 months ago

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Me: [bolts awake at 3 a.m., eyes bloodshot] Could it be the Woobie Romeo fanon derives in part to the change from Early Modern Sexy Pirate English to the more elegant but much softer RP (Received Pronunciation)? Because whenever Woobie Romeo pops up, it’s almost always paired with an RP accent, either seriously or as a parody. And in hatefic, Woobie Romeo is consistently RP Romeo-coded.

#romeo and juliet #rj meta #r&j meta #if so then bring back sexy pirate romeo!!!1!1 #i jest but also i’m dead serious #the globe did it once but as far as i know they never filmed it #i mourn for the things that were and yet never could be #i also want early modern juliet. hell all of them #also a shakespeare biopic with original pronunciation!11!!#reconstructed of course #it’s really not as hard to do as it sounds

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depresseddepot · 4 months ago

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after seeing romulus in theaters twice by myself I am 1000% hooked on going to watch films alone in a theater

#last time i even got to drink a hard cider while i did it. incredible #anyway that tweet abt ''if you're going as an adult to watch the wild robot you're pathetic'' has bewitched me #and therefore i am going as an adult to watch the wild robot alone in a theater lol #it's a closed captions showing too which are my favorite #and ill get nice popcorn and a hard cider and be there disgustingly early #and im very excited lol #tbh the film itself sounds fine. i know the book was really popular and it sounds like itll be a good time #but im more in it for the experience of Going To A Theater #im also using this as an excuse to get out of family plans lol

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greekromann · 1 year ago

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ultimately i do actually enjoy the ghibli films i watch theyre well animated and always have an interesting way of conveying the message theyre trying to convey i just cant stand the fandomification of the films so much that i outright refuse to watch some films on principle

#like yeah the beauty of nature and of the mundane in life IS integral to the films and its important to talk about when you talk about their #meaning but the 'hashtag cottagecore' 'hashtag ghiblicore' 'hashtag i wish someone would look at me like howl looks at sophie' drives me up #the wall can we please talk about anything else. can we please talk about any fucking thing else #i saw the boy and the heron at an early showing and i really enjoyed it but walking out i heard ppl confused about the events or the point #and at the risk of sounding pretentious like. the point was very clear! the themes were very clear! but i think theres this broad idea that #ghibli films are movies you go to to just look at pretty things and turn your brain off and i think that does a major disservice to the #movies themselves. stories have meaning use your brain im begging please god im begging #sorry if this sounds mean im just complaining and being a hater

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pynkhues · 3 months ago

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Why do the movies are so dark nowadays like the lighting in movies and even sometimes in shows are not the best like what happened to really bright, colorful films? Do you agree what do you think? Even costumes cinematography, etc. it seems like an ongoing trend for film to look more gloomy if that makes sense? Like in the trailers of wicked the colors just look off and muted.

It's a combination of things, anon, but it comes down to four big ones:

Movies are often shot digitally now, not on film.

Movies and TV shows are being colour graded by filmmakers on screens that are far, far better quality than any screen you're probably going to be watching them on, so they look better when filmmakers are finishing up the film in post-production.

Streaming simply does not have the same capacity that cinema projectors and blu-ray players have to transmit the visual data of film, so by nature of watching something through streaming, you're getting a low quality version of what you're watching, and

This is the big one - it's just in fashion right now. The aesthetics of filmmaking are always really just about trends, and on the plus side, I do think it's changing - a bunch of films this year from The Substance to Kinds of Kindness to Challengers all felt like a breath of fresh air visually speaking to me, so I'm hoping that we're seeing the fashion change with it. :-)

Cinematographer/Colourist/Director, Devan Scott did a great video on it here, if you're interested:

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#i think you could also maybe argue that it goes back to colour cinema in general #there was actually quite a long transitional period between colour cinema and black and white cinema #where colour cinema was used for musicals romance fantasy films and children's films #where as black and white cinema was kept for 'serious' films really until even the early 1960s #like becky sharp was the first technicolour film in 1935 but think about a film like psycho which came out in 1960 #that's 25 years later!#it was a long process to make colour cinema the norm #unlike sound which killed the silent film pretty quickly #so i do kind of think there is still a bit of an association there for some that grey cinema makes it look more serious #film asks

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aengelren · 2 years ago

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Am I the only one re entering my Aot phase? I genuinely have to strongest urge to rewatch it.

#i think I’m getting that 2020 feeling back #just in general feeling more like myself and wanting to enjoy quality cinema by myself. that idea sounds ao ideal #and my love for the Eren i first learned to love is coming back so strong i just miss the early seasons leading up to an absolute masterp #bro the emotional moments in Aot are STRONG #I can’t wait to rewatch.#i need to experience that divine level of film that gives me goosebumps #eren jaeger #attack on titan #eren #shingeki no kyojin #aot #eren yeager #anime #mikasa ackerman #levi #Armin Arlert

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vimbry-moved · 1 year ago

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having your formative years coincide with when a common style of cinematography in a lot of places was wacky perspective and claustrophobic extreme wide-angle/fisheye lens and being sat down in front of the television a lot was damaging. now look. you've made a person who likes the audiovisual material of they might be giants.

#I just answered an ask on my sideblog. and it got me thinking!#I have a big fondness of that style because it's nostalgic. in a ''feels like coming home'' sort of way?#which probably sounds overly sentimental lol. but it does! early influences are powerful #dude if you've never thought about this before go look at like. commercials. comedy/kid's films and their posters from the '90s/y2k #basically anything designed to be radical or alternative or offbeat. there are are so many tight oblique angles and in-your-face camerawork #oh and Really high saturation!#what Started that?#the best I can find is director hype williams kickstarting the fisheye trend in music videos so? maybe it spread through his influence #(me describing styles any buff would already know about) wowww. fascinating

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mariocki · 7 months ago

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Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates: The Case of the Scarlet Letters (1.3, WGN-TV, 1952)

"Mr. Mullins, I have in my possession sixty-eight letters, none of which has begun to outlive its usefulness. I'm quite prepared to admit that blackmail is risky, but then murder has its disadvantages too - that is why I gave up murder."

#inspector morley late of scotland yard investigates #inspector morley late of scotland yard #(there's some confusion about the correct title of this series; it appears onscreen with 'investigates' but many online sources omit the #final word and it wouldn't be unique in having a title screen that differed slightly from the official name of the show; either way it's a #hell of an unwieldy name for your programme.....)#classic tv #1952 #john gilling #victor m. gover #tod slaughter #patrick barr #tucker mcguire #leonard sharp #another rediscovered gem made available by the good folks at kaleidoscope #oof. ok. so the story of Inspector Morley is complicated and still semi mysterious (the show is 70 years old after all‚ there's precious #little surviving documentation). as far as it goes‚ this was a UK production intended for sale to the BBC (there existing no independent tv #company in 1952). the beeb‚ for whatever reason‚ passed on the series. 13 episodes had been made and of these about seven were cobbled #together into feature films to recoup some of the costs; those survived and saw occasional outings on rainy afternoon tv schedules here #it was thought that the remainder were junked‚ but research (not my own i hasten to add) has revealed that the whole series was in fact sol #to the US where it was shown on WGN (a Chicago based station i believe). when kaleidoscope recovered this particular episode some 6 or 7 #years ago‚ it was thought to be the sole surviving episode‚ at least in its original format (ie. not edited into a feature). actually it #sounds like they might all exist and a few are even on youtube (including this one). this is very early detective tv and it shows its age #not just in its ropey visuals (it's all quite soft and fuzzy) but in its very old fashioned shape and design‚ which is closer to mid #century film than what television would shortly become. that sensation is only furthered by the presence of the immortal Tod Slaughter‚ a #bastion of early british cinema and one of the first horror icons the uk ever produced. unusually‚ it seems like he starred in most (if not #all) of the episodes of the series; unusual bc he plays the villain‚ opposite Barr's staunch ex copper Morley. having a recurring villain #must certainly have helped when editing the shows into films for cinema release but it was quite a strange choice for tv #tho perhaps a set cast reduced costs (this was clearly a budget production‚ tho it does feature some impressive early location shooting)#Slaughter is great fun‚ in full scenery chewing mode as the wicked and unrepentant mastermind behind all sorts of crimes #Barr even has personal beef with him‚ though it would require seeing the other eps to fully understand it i suspect

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leafatlaw · 7 months ago

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surely surely someone has written an essay on how the slenderwpverse and co treat mental illness, cmon it’s like a main theme in all these series

#It’s not great #but I think most of that is a result of these coming out in like early 2010s #There’s alot of loaded words and badely understood issues #I believe that’s part of the intent though #These are everyday 20 somethings of course they’re going to be really abelist #I really want to state though I am not knocking the series #I am just trying to think if there’s a way to separate these themes from the slender mythos #And sigh idk maybe maybe having the “mentally ill” character almost kill someone is not great #But see he’s only like mentally ill coded ? That sounds awful but I don’t know how else to describe it #You guys know those stupid thriller films where a women sees like a murder happen or something and then the rest of the story is everyone #Telling her she’s crazy ? But she’s eventually proven right #Idk it’s weird #I’ll give more thoughts if I attempt to watch another series

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troublewithangels · 1 year ago

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"this film is so stagey because they just filmed a theater production. and therefore it doesn't hold up well today" like do you hear yourselves right now. it's as if u guys understand what a filmed play is and at the same time you really really don't. you know it's not the same as a tv drama. right. you know it's supposed to set in one stage with actors acting larger than what you're used to in cinematic films or modern tv bc they need to project to the back of the house. right.

#also a guy will watch an early 1960s tv production and be like. the static camerawork 🤮🤮🤮🤮#sorry but what do you want them to do about that. it's a bit like complaining why doesn't a silent film have sound

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eternalstateofoctober · 2 years ago

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i dont know if i made a mistake but i’m so stressed out right now damn it

#there’s the most beautiful sounding queer early 1900s love story set in the countryside filming in early august and they’re looking for a co #stumer with the costume design being done already and i just asked about it because i’ve just been so interested in that project from afar s #ince i heard the pitch and my thinking is since the project i’ve already attached myself to is planning filming for november - i have good t #ime until this new one starts filming where i dont yet have to so urgently be working on the nov. one #AND even after filming this new one if i do it i’ll still have good-ish time. i think. maybe. so yeah.#because my biggest nightmare is doing two things at the same time even the slightest so #and like to reiterate: this new one already has the planning done so i’d only have to source the costumes and do the fittings + filming and.#get this. WITH NOT ONE BUT TWO ASSISTANTS which is also a luxury i have NEVER had during all of school #so like??#idfk but i’m anxious as hell now #and absolutely won’t be sad if i dont get it lmao #it talks #janna’s film school diaries #idk which way i want this to go but at least i won’t have to regret not making a move which i was a little. so now i’m equally as happy with #any outcome

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luvinaeverdene · 10 days ago

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City Lights (1931) Directed by Charlie Chaplin

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