#moviegoing

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Get To Know Me ✧ Favorite Horror Films ↳ MIDSOMMAR - Dir. Ari Aster (2019)

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Excerpt from A MOTION PLAY PRIMER THAT IS ON THE SQUARE, by Harvey Peake

Motion Picture Magazine (Aug. 1915)

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New York Movie, 1939 by Edward Hopper

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One could say that movie showings have begun for the first time to be habitually attended by an audience, I mean by people who arrive and depart at the same time, as at a play. When moviegoing was casual and we entered at no matter what point in the proceedings (during the news or short subject or somewhere in the feature—enjoying the recognition, later, of the return of the exact moment at which one entered, and from then on feeling free to decide when to leave, or whether to see the familiar part through again), we took our fantasies and companions and anonymity inside and left with them intact. Now that there is an audience, a claim is made upon my privacy, so it matters to me that our responses to the film are not really shared. At the same time that the mere fact of an audience makes this claim upon me, it feels as if the old casualness of moviegoing has been replaced by a casualness of movie-viewing, which I interpret as an inability to tolerate our own fantasies, let alone those of others—an attitude that equally I cannot share. I feel I am present at a cult whose members have nothing in common but their presence in the same place. Matters are otherwise—not necessarily pleasanter—if the film is already part of history and is itself something around which a transient cult has formed. I suppose that the old casualness harbored the value of illicitness that from the beginning was part of moviegoing. But the strictures of the new audience do not dispel illicitness or make it unnecessary; the audience is not a gathering of citizens for honest confession and acceptance of one another. The new need for the gathering is as mysterious as the old need for privacy; so the demand that I forgo privacy is as illicit as my requirement to preserve it.

Stanley Cavell • The World Viewed

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saw cocaine bear, it was actually amazing. total sleeper agent of a film lol

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Also idk maybe it was too subtle but. when oppenheimers wife takes him by the shoulders and says, “stop trying to make people pity you for the sins you committed” like. I just kind of figured that was a pretty explicit indictment of his actions and makes me struggle to take the “Oppenheimer is just a movie about a sad white mans feelings” arguments in good faith.

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The world of books and music and art and ideas opened up before her. - Walker Percy

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Audience Reviews of Opus

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JIMMY "B-RABBIT" AND ALEX 8 Mile (2002) dir. Curtis Hanson

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Apollo was right

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night time prowl >:333

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Dedication page of The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. 1960.

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rewatched the rosguil movie adaptation for the first time in years and was flabbergasted at how many of my favorite moments that establish ros and guil's relationship weren't included, so i've assembled this collection for my viewing pleasure.

bonus what's in my opinion the biggest shame to exclude on an existential and sincere level:

along with this gut-wrenching glimpse of their final stage directions without which their deaths don't hit half as hard:

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i dont even like amy that much (IM SORRY WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) but its still a crime that she isnt in movie 3. i kind of understand why theyd be hesitant about rouge (her hungolomghnonoloughongous) but sonic prime of all things addressed that "problem" gracefully imo. like you can still include rouge. just have her zip up her suit. its literally fine