#hat films music

[elinordash]

FILM & TV YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW: Day 2 – Genre ⟶ Musical Films

On the streets you hear the voices / Lost children, crocodiles / You're not into / Making choices, wicked witches / Poppy fields, or men behind the curtain / Tiger lilies, ruby slippers / Clock is ticking, that's for certain!

[playlist]

[clarulitas]

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers for TOP HAT (1935) dir. Mark Sandrich

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Black and White October

Easter Parade / Ann Miller as Nadine Hale

Nadine apparently has tons of dogs and coordinates them with her outfits as extra accessories. Here's what she wears with a pair of borzois.

This costume only appears for a few seconds--the gif above represents about half its total screentime--but it's memorable nonetheless. It's one of the most historically accurate costumes in the film, for a start (this parade sequence takes place in 1912 or 1913). I like the addition of the feather spray on the hat, as compared to the design sketch. The effect of the crossed scarf is interesting too.

[iffeelscouldkill]

Singing the Honor Among Thieves drinking song ("No fortune found, nor faith divine, come close to toping the juice of the vine...") to myself and feeling a Yearning

I would love a movie-esque version of this to listen to. There's a lovely version by Daniel Kelly Folk Music played on a homemade lyre (with two additional verses he wrote himself!), but it has a slightly different tune. I would love a version that had a lute or some flute instrumentals, maybe leaning into an Irish folk music sound 🪈🎶

It doesn't have to be an official version but it would be great if they released one, I think everyone who's been going feral over that song since the film came out would love it xD

[ulrichgebert]

Fred Astaire setzt seinen Zylinderhut (leider nicht im Bild, ist schön) auf, bindet die weiße Fliege und bürstet den Frack auf. Das ist doch eine würdige Art, seinen 125. Geburtstag zu begehen, obwohl ich mich mit der Erschießung der Herren in der Chorus Line immer etwas unwohl fühle. Und nicht vergessen: Ginger kann das alles auch, rückwärts und in Stöckelschuhen!

[historical-hollywood]

Betty Grable wearing a striped and ruffled and bow-bedecked confection of an ensemble in Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)

[atna2-34-75]

Top Hat, Mark Sandrich, 1935

[fiofo]

Got the boiks to the top of my most played! <3

[ncutii-gatwa]

alex smith showcasing once again why he’s a very important part of hat films

[mercedes-lenz]

eine serie über goethe aber in jeder folge geht es um eine beziehung zwischen goethe und einer anderen person aus seinem leben weil niemand wirklich wusste wer er war und er selbst nicht wusste wer er war und man ihn eigentlich nur durch seine interaktionen mit anderen charakterisieren kann aber jede dieser interaktionen ist anders eingefärbt weil die personen jeweils ein anderes bild von ihm hatten und er sich an dieses bild angepasst statt seine wahren gedanken und gefühle zu zeigen und ja

[here-a-lee-there-a-lee]

he just rlly likes hats

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Black and White October

Cover Girl / Rita Hayworth as Rusty Parker

Here we have a very smart 1940s houndstooth coat with black lapel facings two large buttons, and no visible pockets. It is worn over what appears to be a black skirt, white blouse, and mustard-yellow vest or jacket. Accessories include a large black shoulderbag, black pumps, black gloves, and a positively swashbuckling hat with a long pheasant feather.

Also notice the seams up the backs of her stockings!

[sonixis]

Here's another record sleeve. Yup, I'm watching One Piece 😁 I hope you like it!

[greensparty]

Remembering Steve Harwell 1967-2023

After a few days of reports of singer Steve Harwell being in hospice, he has now died at 56. He co-founded the band Smash Mouth in 1994 and was in the band until 2021. They were edgy enough for alt-rock radio (elements of ska and punk), but catchy enough for Top 40 radio. The band was known for their hits "Walking on the Sun" and "All Star", which was the Song of Summer of 1999.

They were a very popular band on movie soundtracks, notably the Shrek movies which featured "All Star" and their cover of The Monkees' "I'm a Believer" and The Cat in the Hat which featured their cover of The Beatles' "Getting Better" with composer David Newman (side note: they appeared on quite a few Mike Myers soundtracks). But my favorite song of theirs was their cover of ? and the Mysterians' "Can't Get Enough of You, Baby" for the Can't Hardly Wait soundtrack.

Smash Mouth's Harwell (pink hair) with Jennifer Love Hewitt in the "Can't Get Enough of You Baby" music video

In the last few years, Harwell was in the news for controversies. In Summer 2020 they headlined a big concert that became a superspreader event at that point in the Pandemic (before vaccines, etc). For a singer with health issues, that was a little surprising to say the least. After a viral video surfaced in 2021 of his erratic behavior at a concert, he announced he was retiring. Smash Mouth has since carried on with a new singer.

The link above is the obit from Entertainment Weekly.

[audiovisualrecall]

Finally watched Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny and I really enjoyed it, I wish we had done some snacks likened necessarily popcorn bc thats a bad idea, but movie snacks, and lowered the light more to get the feeling of being in a theater at least..., and I kind of wish the last scene was a little longer to really let us sit and enjoy the happiness for the characters.... and i wish we had sat around and talked about the movie for a bit longer.... Also how tf did they clear up the whole accused of murder thing, while indie was unconscious, or???