#integral film

[semi-interestingphotography]

Benny (BennyNikole)

Polaroid "Originals" monochrome

[welcometomyislandbitch]

Winchell's Donuts by Nick Leonard Via Flickr: Polaroid SX-70 Sonar Land Camera, Impossible Project PX 680 CP film. Las Vegas, NV. www.nickleonardphoto.com | nickleonard.tumblr.com

[simonh]

Untitled by Analog Kyle Via Flickr: MINT SLR670s | Polaroid 600

[spocksjuul]

star trek: the motion picture is one of my favorite movies ever but it’s such a hard sell Like ok yes it’s way too long and everyone is wearing jammies and the main villain is a cloud. But you don’t understand at the end they save the world with the power of love and it’s great. where are you going

[djservo]

HOMO-WEEN ISNT OVER @gunthermunch DREW THE BROS À LA FUNNY GAMES THIS IS NOT A DRILL THEY ARE WEARING SHORT SHORTS AND POLITELY TORTURING A RICH FAMILY AS WE SPEAK!!!! DO NOT LET THESE NASTY SKANK BITCHES INTO UR HOME ESPECIALLY IF THEY ASK TO BORROW EGGS IT'S A TRAP!!!! 🚨🚨🚨

[almaville]

possession (1981)

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

[horrorcitos]

my life’s mission is to personally fight osgood perkins for continually making horror movies that are so close to being spectacular but never quite make it there. nothing on earth is as frustrating as almost

[mistyheartrbs]

another thing about i saw the tv glow that fascinates me is the like...movement (transgression?) across mediums in that to begin with it's a theatrical feature film about a tv show. and when you think about it, while there are lots of tv shows about tv (30 rock, showtime's episodes) and lots of movies about the movies (singin' in the rain, la la land) there isn't as much crossover between the two as you would expect - few if any tv shows about movies, even less in the realm of movies about tv.

when isttvg came out in theaters, brigette lundy-paine made an instagram post with this caption:

which is a direct reference to a line their character says in the film - that the pink opaque airs on the young adult network right before they switch over to black and white movies for old people. (i'll have to double check if maddy says "movies" or "reruns" in the actual scene; i remember it as "movies" EDIT: it's reruns but my point still stands) and, for much of isttvg's runtime, it both operates in tandem with and against this notion - it's a cinematic spectacle, visually gorgeous to be sure, but the scale is very small, almost claustrophobic at times, in a way that says that the experience of watching this movie wouldn't be incredibly diminished if you played it on a boxy television in the middle of the night on basic cable (so long as you had somebody to watch it with)

but maddy's line is said with a surprising and youthful sort of disdain - the pink opaque is so different from the dumb nostalgia of their forebearers (with the same winking-at-the-camera irony with which a comic period piece notes the record-breakingly fast ten-mile-an-hour horse carriage or what have you - what they see as progress already obsolete in the eye of the modern viewer), and moreover it's in the exact medium it's meant to be viewed in. it's a tv show they're watching on tv (and in fact the impetus for owen and maddy to grow closer is owen specifically saying "i want to watch it live") - versus black and white movies, the original filmic spectacle, being thusly reduced to something smaller and lesser than they were meant to be. but of course that would never happen to our favorite Brand New television show, the pink opaque, which is super cool and is going to be relevant forever! nothing like that stuff for "old people." it's indicative of how prickly maddy is but it's one of the least sentimental sentiments of what is otherwise very much a love letter to the screen. it stands out!

(and we get even more of that with the streaming version of tpo later, but i'm getting ahead of myself here)

and it's further complicated by the fact that owen views the majority of the show via home-recorded vhs tapes, handmade gifts from maddy, forbidden things. the way you watch it matters too. the way you construct your relationship with this story. which in a way queers the viewing model too; he's literally watching the show out of order!

and now getting back into the horrendously depressing streaming scene, in which schoenbrun does the impossible and makes the phrase "soup party" upsetting, the convenience is what makes it wrong. transgression in the wrong direction. anybody can watch it. you don't even need a disc, owen/isabel says in voiceover, numbly. but instead of maddy's tapes, born out of connection/love (to a degree that neither of them even fully recognize yet), this version of non-normative/alternative access is something dictated by capitalism (it's also worth noting that the streaming scene is the only moment of overt product placement in the whole film, with the new flatscreen with the LG logo all but shoved in front of the viewer). owen/isabel flicks through the episodes lazily and languidly, landing in the middle on the mr. sprinkly episode. there is no effort involved anymore, none of the personal element present in maddy's handwritten notes ("season 2 finale: guaranteed to make you cry!"), just picking and choosing.

all this culminating in a movie about television, with a pseudo-wide release and enough buzz that it did moderately well as far as indie flicks go.

yet - inserting myself into the supposedly distant third-person analytical essay, as queer theorists are wont to do - i don't really think i would have been nearly as affected by this movie if i'd just watched it on like. netflix. if it'd had commercial breaks on late-night cable ("past curfew," as owen's parents repeatedly note) that's one thing, but the modern streaming paradigm doesn't really allow for that. seeing this movie in theaters forces you to go to the theaters. it forces you to sit with other people and view it together/separately. to walk out mid-credits and talk it through with your friend and look at each other and joke "(gasp)............we're secretly in another world where that dunkin donuts is two blocks away!" when the google maps app glitches out. you have to sit with it. you can't not sit with it. it took effort to get here, and you cannot so easily get it out of your head. it's a movie about tv. the medium doesn't fit like a glove. it barely fits at all. and you are left feeling like it's been much longer than a hundred minutes.

(i'd love to see if a24 has fun with merchandising once it gets a home release - if they sell a novelty vhs tape or what)

i think a lot of that is really something to look at. much like the film itself i do not have a conclusion to this essay.

[jdmorganz]

JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as The Police Chief in The Integrity of Joseph Chambers (2023)

[tales-from-the-frame]

Soul Eater by Takuya Igarashi / Atsushi Ōkubo (2003-2013)

[thestarlightforge]

I cannot f—ing believe the TVA kidnapped Deadpool.

The TVA

tried to PRUNE

DEADPOOL

[simonh]

Untitled by Analog Kyle Via Flickr: MINT SLR670s | Polaroid 600

[crookedfandomquill]

Hey, do y’all remember that girl who snapped her retainer thirsting over Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther? Well, I had a similar experience watching Dev Patel in Monkey Man, because I spent the whole movie unconsciously clenching my thighs and created enough friction that by the time I left the theater they were unspeakably chaffed.

[lonestardust]

I CAN'T get enough of tk beaming with happiness on his wedding day like that 🥹 HIS SMILES ARE TO DIE FOR (will leave that to carlos reyes) he's so blissed and happy and smiley and he will NOT waste a moment not having as much fun as he can, dragging his friends to the dance floor and all

[traces-to-nowhere]

12 months and 50+ films later, the great Conrad Veidt experiment of 2023 - 2024 has done nothing but made me more feral for that old man.