#filmwatching

[sugurugetos]

Humans only have one ending. Ideas live forever.

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[dandelionjack]

the navidson record btw

[doublism]

my 2024 resolutions:

read 5-10 books (this is a low number but i have a hard time with reading and struggle to finish books so i'm hoping that keeping my goal small will help!)

watch 12 movies i haven't seen before (similarly to books i have fallen off my movie grind severely so i think a movie a month is a reasonable and achievable goal to help me find my filmwatching groove again)

get a cheap guitar and practice once a week

host gatherings, dinners, parties etc at my house

meet new people and make new friends, get to know my housemates better, expand my social circle, spend lots of time with friends overall

get out of the house every day (i'm taking a remote wfh job so this will have to be a conscious effort)

travel to another state

see more live music

take more pictures (i am so bad at this and it makes me sad that i don't have many photos of friends events places experiences etc)

keep up with journaling

:-)

[thealmightyemprex]

I think the smartest thing one can do when they are called an expert is acknowledge they arent simply cause you can always learn more

People call me a movie expert .I hate that cause I AM NOT .Cause theres so much I DONT know about and one thing I adore is broadening my filmwatching horizions .I just really really really am enthusiastic about cinema

@piterelizabethdevries @themousefromfantasyland @angelixgutz@theancientvaleofsoulmaking @ariel-seagull-wings

@amalthea9 @the-blue-fairie @filmcityworld1 @countesspetofi @princesssarisa

[bodylockerz]

pinned / intro

bay it/she filmwatcher extraordinaire

(more under the cut)

fave interests/stuff to post about are currently dawn of the dead (and the other films in the trilogy), effects (1979), martin (1977), and whatever other stuff ive been watching lately :O)

check out my letterboxd and my fav films list if you want! you can also see my filmblog here (where i basically just post more stuff about films im obsessed with). you can see my art here too :O)

[earthdoves]

i bring a sort of ‘discomforting family dysfunction dramas’ vibe to the watch party that the other filmwatchers don’t really want to have....

[mino2aur]

my filmwatching associates were more freaked out by fucking mother! than skinamarink

oh boo hoo theres people in her house. my boy kevin had no people in his house and shit went so much worse for him

[rencontresinfidelesch]

FilmWatch Weekly: Lea Seydoux shines in 'One Fine Morning ... - Oregon ArtsWatch

FilmWatch Weekly: Lea Seydoux shines in 'One Fine Morning ...  Oregon ArtsWatch http://dlvr.it/SkDHQ1

[picklejuice-666-blog]

Pickle Juice’s Bay Street Video issue cover illustration. 

[thefeministbibliothecary]

I've been trying to watch more films in a variety of languages, and these are some of the things I've watched recently that aren't in English. Clockwise. Godzilla (1954, dir. Ishiro Honda, Japanese) My first time watching any Godzilla movie. The action scenes were cheesy, as was the acting, but it was still a lot of fun. I really liked the anti weapons of mass destruction statements that it had to make, which added a lot of nuance to what is otherwise pretty standard for classic monster movies. Also watched the Americanized version from '56 and it was truly terrible. Kung Fu Hustle (2004, dir. Stephen Chow, Cantonese) The story in this was really enjoyable, even if it was a bit on the wacky side, and the humour was genuinely quite funny. Not a perfect movie but a genuinely good time that was a fun and funny watching experience. Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, German) A rare vampire classic based on Carmilla instead of Dracula, this is an interesting viewing experience. I feel like this movie had an amazing tone and atmospheric, with some fascinating stuff in the story and a change of pace for vampire classics, but I also didn't completely love it. I saw the Passion of Joan or Arc earlier this year as well and in my opinion it is a much stronger example of Dreyer's work. The Platform (2019, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, Spanish) This one is a really interesting critique of prisons, capitalism, and artificial scarcity. It is absolutely brutal but highly enjoyable as a critique and as a bloody thriller, and the acting is top notch. #films #filmwatching #filmposting #classicfilm #movies #moviewatching https://www.instagram.com/p/CT_etaHrrn-/?utm_medium=tumblr

[rainonsand]

Anthony Mackie filmwatch

I recently decided to go back and watch some of Anthony Mackie’s filmography that I haven’t seen before.

Guys: I have just noticed Anthony Mackie’s filmpgraphy is nuts.

I’ve done a filmpgraphy deep dive from time to time with actors like Charlize Theron, Chadwick Boseman, and Karl Urban: maybe I’ve seen them in a bunch of stuff over the years and maybe they only just caught my eye, but something changes and I get the impulse to see more of their work, sometimes exhaustively. I’ll go find and watch as much of their work as I can find available on streamers without an individual paywall. Usually I start with their most popular or critically acclaimed stuff (that I haven’t seen) and then get more obscure until it peters out. Sometimes I can stop myself before I’m watching a random tv episode that they had a 3 minute guest spot on in their early career, sometimes I can pace myself (which is far better for me in many ways) but especially earlier in my life it could become a pretty strong fixation, and I would binge someone’s films/tv across consecutive weekends, 48 hrs at a time, until I ran out of content. These days I’m much better at pacing myself and after an initial binge I try to string out the back half of films over weeks or even months (I’m still rationing out the last of Chadwick Boseman’s films). I’ve done this many, many times before.

All this to say that I’ve seen a lot of IMDB pages with meticulous consideration, gone through my share of deep dives on people’s filmographies, and I have never quite seen something like Anthony Mackie’s.

Usually when someone “makes it big” as a star, if you go back before that you’ll find a few big films they were in, in smaller or non-lead roles, and maybe some smaller or more obscure films that they were the lead of. That’s what I’d expect from someone who *knew* they were lead actor material but who needed the popular name recognition to be given the lead of a popular film.

But either way, once someone starts to make it big they’re in 1, maybe 2 films a year. Before that it’s more hit and miss- maybe no films one year, maybe 3 in another. This might be reflective of gaps in working, which comes with the industry, but it is more likely to be just the variation in how quickly or delayed a film’s release is. Someone could be acting in 2 film a year for 3 years, and have 3 years where first 2 films comes out, then none, then 4 in the third year.  But look at Anthony Mackie’s imdb page. You have him in 3 movies one year, 4 the next, then 3, then 5. It’s insane. I decided to tally the numbers: Mackie was in 60 films between 2002 and 2020, averaging more than 3 a year. Specifically 3 1/3 per year, or 10 films ever 3 years. FOR 18 YEARS. That’s not counting the tv projects he’s done like Altered Carbon, or a tv documentary he was the narrator for, and other miscellany.

This man got famous from the first film he was ever in, was cast as a lead by his third, and was regularly in oscar nominated projects (some say giving the same level of great performance as his white costars who were nominated while he was not) and though he’s been Marvel-famous for more than 8 years he still works like a jobbing actor. He is regularly a film lead, regularly carries movies, and even then still working in 3 to 4 films a year. He could choose to say no to projects unless he’s a lead, a co lead, or a heavily featured part, but he still takes small parts, even bit roles, as recently as 2019.

The only years he hasn’t been in at least 2 films were the ones he was in a long term tv project like Altered Carbon or (so far this year anyway) The Falcon And The Winter Soldier.

So it turns out I have a lot of movies to go through. Even if I only did the ones where he was a lead or colead, I’d have a lot ahead of me. I’ve already started, and I can’t wait.

[sugurugetos]

Come on, Chef. I thought tonight was a night of hard home truths. This is one of them. You cook with obsession, not love. Even your hot dishes are cold. You're a chef. Your single purpose on this Earth is to serve people food that they might actually like, and you have failed. You've failed. And you've bored me. And the worst part is I'm still fucking hungry.

THE MENU (2022) dir. Mark Mylod

[khingnush]

Saw #captainmarvel tonight - a fun movie, with great music choices and even better placements of those choices, and the best use of a cat character in a movie yet. Not without its drawbacks - a somewhat clunky plot, and a deadpan lead actress - but overall, it was pretty great. 🙂 #fronds #frondship #frondexcursion #filmwatching #cinema #ritzrandwick #ritzcinema #mcu #goosethecat #marvelcinematicuniverse #marvelstudios #marvelfilm #marvelcomics #superherofilm #comicbookfilm #thislife (at The Ritz Cinema) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwJ21khGer/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v52zasxzpptk

[doodlemeimpressed]

If I was Dean Winchester, I would simply abstain from Thai food one year, every year, after that whole Amazon warriors murdering men thing

[leonardcohenofficial]

1971 !

a clockwork orange (stanley kubrick) i am once again showing my apparent film bro tendencies but i think a clockwork orange is kubrick’s finest work; its exploration of violence and pleasure (especially how and why they intersect/what happens both in universe and to the audience when they do) remains relevant, wendy carlos’s score is truly unmatched, malcolm mcdowell gives an incredible performance as alex, it’s legitimately horrifying and hard to watch and important to consider as a response to real-world violence, also i just think it’s one of the most important movies of the twentieth century, without exaggeration

harold and maude (hal ashby) i wish i had anything new or insightful to say about this film that hasn’t already been said by people more articulate and generally smarter than i am but i have never fallen in love with a film (or a world of a film) more than i have with harold and maude; maude’s approach to life, the amazing cat stevens soundtrack, the black humor, the growing ridiculousness of harold’s stunts, the ending— all of it may feel overly quirky/trite because so many filmmakers try and recreate aspects of than in ways that feel overdone, but harold and maude remains both fresh and relevant in a really unique way

willy wonka and the chocolate factory (mel stuart) i’m throwing in willy wonka because it’s such a beautiful and heartwarming film that i only love more and more each time i rewatch it; i love the score (all of the music from the movie is truly so beautiful minus “cheer up charlie” which i do fast forward through but anyways), gene wilder’s performance is legitimately award-worthy, i have a lot of general nostalgia for the film, it’s a fun watch, and the ending makes me sob, so i definitely couldn’t leave it off the list

[billieliar]

Last Month Tonight in 1992: Rock-a-Doodle! What to say about Rock-a-Doodle? No, really, I’m asking. I put this project on hiatus because trying to write this plus the aftershock from Folks was just too much.  So, I am left with this single, most daunting task: describing a pretty average kids’ movie. That’s right folks, I’ve been to the bottom of the lowest point in film I’ve yet to encounter and it’s this mediocre children’s movie that has destroyed me. Was it the timing that made me so disinterested in this movie? Maybe it was. Regardless, the reality stands: Rock-a-Doodle is a “meh” movie. It’s a musical with no good music, an adventure with no major challenge, and a character-driven plot with utterly forgettable characters. This is the only Bluth film I hadn’t previously seen. I have a massive fondness for his works, but that could be at least partially due to nostalgia. Still, you shouldn’t need nostalgia to enjoy a movie, and I typically find that I like most childrens’ films more as an adult. This one I forgot I watched it within an hour of watching it, and that’s just disappointing. Still, it blemishes nothing. So what? It was mediocre. Every creator has a flop, and that’s okay. Honestly, the folly here was probably pinning all the aesthetic on a Rooster version of Elvis.  You know what? I really wish I’d seen this as a kid. I probably would have at least liked it despite its lack of a decent bop. Plus the villain was SO EXTRA and I loved him. The colors and fluidity of the animation were (as they always are in Bluth films) wonderful. At the end of the day, no crimes were done here, and I now have seen every Bluth film! Isn’t that cool? And missing 1 out of god-only-knows-how-many will forever be more of a success than 98% of other makers have accomplished. So, sorry I didn’t love this one Mr. Bluth, but thanks anyway and I still love you. 3/10 +1 for the sexy pheasant and for Mr. Bluth’s eternal love of oversharing his fetishes. (4/10) Would not recommend Would not watch again #DonBluth #RockaDoodle #Film #FilmWatch #FilmWatch1992 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4L7J6rH-84/?igshid=h2dni497i847