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Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role:

I am worried. It's very worrying. I mean... Losing all my things, everyone's just helping themselves, and... If this goes on much longer, um, I'll be stark naked. And, um, I... I won't be able to tell what time it is.

Anthony Hopkins as Anthony Evans in The Father (2020, dir. Florian Zeller)

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"rebel moon is just a bunch of disjointed character intros with no substance---"

[loud fart noise in your face]

Anyway, what connects all of the characters together is Honor, a major theme of the movie. It's the reason that These People In Particular are all chosen, beyond their reputations or even their skill sets (which are still important).

What does your personal honor look like? How do you uphold it? What do you do when you lose your honor? Can you ever truly regain it once it's lost? Can you find redemption, or is revenge the closest thing you can get? Can revenge and honor ever be the same?

After her indoctrination and service in the Imperium, Kora deserts, but it's for her survival, not the recovery of her honor. That's the journey she's currently on in the defense of her new home and the people there, triggered by the conflict of choosing her personal safety or rescuing Sam from further assault. She found the line of her honor and refused to ignore it any longer.

Gunnar placed personal gain over maintaining a united front about the grain surplus. His dishonorable actions lead to Sindri getting killed and their village placed under the Imperium's thumb. Noble's culpability aside, Gunnar feels responsible for his role in all this and seeks to make amends. It's why he's the only one who jumps in to protect the child from potential collateral damage in Nemesis' fight with Harmada. He is transitioning from being a selfish character to being more selfless, defining what he wants his personal honor to be.

Speaking of Nemesis, she is the most samurai-coded character here, complete with their version of honor. Her failure at being able to protect her children drives her to defend others, and shoulder the burden of killing once a peaceful resolution cannot be reached. It's why she has an entire conversation with Harmada, to understand what drives her, to attempt to find common ground and shared empathy. It's why she fights first with naked steel, to try to convince Harmada to back off, to value her own life, and it's for the lives of others that she finally ignites her blades when she cannot. Nemesis is not an emotionless cyborg who assassinates in cold blood, but one who is deeply attuned to her pain and that of others.

Tarak is a prince, and yet we learn he's nowhere near his home or his people. Whether he's failed them or abandoned them (or feels like he has) is still a mystery, but we still know that he is an honorable man, regarding his servitude to Hickman with utter seriousness. Tarak will honor his word and any agreements once given, including a life debt, and his connection with nature both demonstrates and resonates his nobility. He even has the whole "honor them" speech to Millius, revealing that he knows the guilt of surviving when all the friends you swore to fight beside are now gone.

General Titus fought proudly for the Imperium until his honor wouldn't allow him to stomach their methods. The price for that included his men's lives, his station, and his dignity. Unable to protect any of it including his ideals, he turns to drink and hopes fighting as a gladiator to the death does the rest. And yet, he cannot bring himself to just lay down and die. He dwells on his mistakes but does not succumb to them. The kernel of honor was still within him, and it's no wonder Kora and the other idealists at her back were able to ignite it again.

Jimmy is from an order of robotic knights, who all laid down their arms in dishonor and disgrace when the Imperium's royal family was murdered. He embodies old and forgotten chivalry, and in case you missed that, they got Anthony Hopkins to voice him. These knights haven't fought back since, even when they are attacked---and yet Jimmy retaliates to protect Sam before himself, finding something honorable to fight for again.

Darrian Bloodaxe has his honor as a rebellion leader tested and rightly concludes that the revolution is meaningless if they will not come to the aid of the most defenseless among them. (But he and his men die anyway!) Indeed, that is the point. Hedging your bets and picking your battles might be the smartest option, but it's not the most noble or honorable. Honor, in case you haven't noticed, often demands a choice and a price.

And yes, even our villains share in this theme in their own twisted ways. Kai is a mirror to Gunnar, but where Gunnar is growing into being a less opportunistic person, Kai is deliberately shrouding his true intentions from the get-go. At Kai's betrayal, Kora demands after his honor, to which Kai dryly replies, "What did happen to it." It isn't a question. Kai long ago saw honor as a death sentence and chose survival over everything, and in an ironic twist, is killed once he tries to tempt Gunnar into choosing his own survival over Kora's. Like Kora before him, Gunnar finds his line that he will not cross as well as what he fights for.

Finally, there's Atticus Noble, who wields the honorable memory of the Slain King and his dishonorable death as a blunt weapon against all that isn't the Imperium, much like his cane. The one time the Imperium was gracious, and they were betrayed for it. Never again, and everyone will suffer for this humiliation until the Imperium's honor is restored---and it never will be. Because honor is not the point; conquest and control is. Revenge is the point.

Literally all of this is in the film btw. But then, I wasn't fast-forwarding or looking down at my phone the whole time or playing Paint By Numbers: Star Wars Edition. I was actually watching the goddamn movie and letting it tell me its story. And then I reflected on it afterward. Whooooaaa!

[justforbooks]

With his shrewd eyes and his forks of corn-yellow hair, Julian Sands was a natural choice to play the valiant, romantic George Emerson, who snatches a kiss from Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in a Tuscan poppy field in A Room With a View (1985). “I wanted him to be real, not a two-dimensional minor screen god,” he said. “I liked him in his lighter, sexier moments, less so when he was brooding.”

Sands, who has died aged 65 while hiking in mountains in California, was dashing in that film, but he could also project a dandyish, effete or sinister quality. He was blessed with a mellifluous voice and a lean, youthful, fine-boned face, even if, as a child, his brothers insisted he resembled a horse. (He agreed.) In James Ivory’s film of EM Forster’s novel, he was pure heart-throb material. His participation in the notorious nude bathing scene was no impediment to the picture’s success.

Prior to that, he had played the journalist Jon Swain in The Killing Fields (1984), Roland Joffé’s drama about the bloody rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The picture marked the beginning of his friendship with his co-star John Malkovich. “I’d been cautioned by Roland to keep my distance from John because he was an unstable character,” Sands recalled. “And John had been told by Roland to stay away from me, because I was a refined, sensible person who didn’t want to be distracted. In fact, we bonded instantly.”

Malkovich directed Sands in a one-man show in which he read Harold Pinter’s poetry. First staged in 2011, the production had its origins in an occasion six years earlier when Pinter, suffering from oesophageal cancer, had asked Sands to read in his stead at a benefit event in St Stephen Walbrook church in the City of London. The writer “sat in the front row with his stone basilisk stare”, Sands recalled.

Not all his work was so highfalutin, and a good deal of it fell into the category of boisterous, campy fun. In Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986), he played the poet Shelley, who indulges in sex, drugs and séances with Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and the future Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson), and is prone to recite verse naked in thunderstorms.

In a similar vein but far less deranged was Impromptu (1991), which brought together other notable 19th-century figures including George Sand (Judy Davis) and Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant). Sands, who played Franz Liszt, described it as “Carry On Composer”.

Born in Otley, West Yorkshire, he was raised in Leeds and Gargrave, near Skipton; he later described his childhood as “part conservative and part Huckleberry Finn”. His mother, Brenda, was a Tory councillor and leading light of the local amateur dramatic society, while his father, William, who left when Julian was three, was a soil analyst. Julian made his acting debut in a local pantomime at the age of eight.

At 13, he won a scholarship to Lord Wandsworth college, Hampshire. He moved to London to study at Central School of Speech and Drama, and while there became friends with Derek Jarman. He played the Devil in an extended promotional video that Jarman directed in 1979 for Marianne Faithfull’s album Broken English. The role had been intended for David Bowie, who dropped out at the eleventh hour. “You’re devilish,” Jarman told Sands. “You can play it.”

The actor’s first film appearance came in an adaptation of Peter Nichols’s stage comedy Privates on Parade (1983), starring John Cleese and Denis Quilley, from which his one line of dialogue was cut. There was more rotten luck when he won the lead in a new Tarzan movie, only for the financing to fall through. It was eventually filmed as Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), with Christopher Lambert donning the hallowed loin-cloth.

On television, he starred with Anthony Hopkins in the miniseries A Married Man (1983). In Oxford Blues (1984), he was a rower butting heads with a Las Vegas parking attendant (Rob Lowe) who has tricked his way into a place at Oriel College. He was in The Doctor and the Devils (1985), inspired by the Burke and Hare case. “I had a roll in the hay with Twiggy which took about 15 takes,” he said.

Following A Room With a View, he agreed to play the lead in Ivory’s next Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987), before abruptly dropping out and fleeing to the US. In the process, he left behind his wife, the journalist Sarah Sands (nee Harvey), who described him as “restless” and “dramatic”, and their son, Henry. “I’m not the first person to create stability and security and then dismantle it even more effectively than I created it,” the actor said.

Once in America he took on an array of film parts. In Warlock (1989), he played the son of Satan, wreaking havoc in modern-day Los Angeles. Investing this pantomime villain with lip-smacking brio, he was likened by the Washington Post to a “hell-bent Peter Pan” and nominated for best actor in the Fangoria Chainsaw awards. He reprised the role in Warlock: The Armageddon (1993).

As an entomologist in Arachnophobia (1990), he was called upon to have as many as a hundred spiders crawling all over his face. Alternating these mainstream projects with arthouse ones, he played a diplomat in pre-war Poland in Krzysztof Zanussi’s Wherever You Are … (1988) and a monk in Night Sun (1990), the Taviani brothers’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s short story Father Sergius.

For the Canadian horror director David Cronenberg, he starred in the warped and witty Naked Lunch (1991), which disproved those who had declared William S Burroughs’s original novel unfilmable. Just as outré but less accomplished was Boxing Helena (1993), directed by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David. Sands played a surgeon who keeps a woman captive by making her a quadruple amputee.

After starring as a young classics teacher in his friend Mike Figgis’s film of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version (1994), Sands worked a further six times with that director, appearing in his movies even when he was an unorthodox choice for the job in hand. One example was the part of a menacing Latvian pimp in Leaving Las Vegas (1996).

Later roles include a mysteriously unblemished Phantom in Dario Argento’s version of The Phantom of the Opera (1998), Louis XIV (whom Sands described as “the first supermodel”) in Joffé’s Vatel (2000), a crime kingpin named Snakehead in the Jackie Chan vehicle The Medallion (2003), a computer security wizard in the comic caper Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), a younger version of the businessman played by Christopher Plummer in David Fincher’s take on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and a sadistic paedophile in the gruelling wartime odyssey The Painted Bird (2019).

On television, he was a Russian entrepreneur in the fifth season of 24 (2006) and the hero’s father, Jor-El, in two episodes of the Superman spin-off Smallville (2009). For the BBC, he played two very different actors in factually based one-off specials: first Laurence Olivier in Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005), then John Le Mesurier in We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story (2015).

His recent work includes Benediction, Terence Davies’s haunting study of Siegfried Sassoon, and the thriller The Survivalist (both 2021), which found him back in the company of Malkovich. One of several titles still awaiting release is the drama Double Soul (2023) starring F Murray Abraham and Paz Vega.

Sands never stopped wandering, walking, running and climbing. “I am on a perpetual Grand Tour,” he said in 2000. Asked in 2018 about his eclectic career, he explained: “I was looking for something exotic, things that took me out of myself. I think I found myself a little boring.”

He was reported missing while out in the San Gabriel mountains, north of Los Angeles, in mid-January 2023. His remains were found in June.

In 1990 he married Evgenia Citkowitz. She survives him, along with their two daughters, Imogen and Natalya, and his son.

🔔 Julian Richard Morley Sands, actor, born 4 January 1958; died circa 13 January 2023

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Thor: The Dark World

Hello I have now seen THOR (COLON) THE DARK WORLD. This film was not as bad as I was expecting it to be, though it also wasn't great so maybe I had just set my bar too low based on how nobody seems to like it that much. I watched this with a visiting friend who had not seen Thor 1 or The Avengers so I did her a Dramatic Presentation beforehand where I explained what had happened in those, except I couldn't really remember what happened in The Avengers so that recap was mostly "then something exploded, I think." So anyway she was a useful non-MCU-person barometer for this one.

Christopher Eccleston is in this yet also he is not, in that we kept forgetting his character existed. He didn't seem to be enjoying himself much either. Which reminds me, this film seemed a bit desaturated in an off-putting way, it was like if you were watching Thor 1 while feeling depressed and the depression had manifested visually instead of just as a metaphor. Because it was a Dark World.

The ending was very confusing, people were jumping in and out of invisible portals (maybe?) and the magic hammer was flying around for a bit like when a plane circles the airport while waiting for a spot to open to use the runway. Stuff was lining up in space except not because we'd have noticed by now if the realms of the gods were that close and it would indeed have a gravitationl effect though not the weirdo ones in this film.

The pacing in this film was pretty poor generally though we felt it did perk up a bit towards the end.

Friend's favourite characters were Erik Selvig and Loki, in that order because Erik is a bit mad in this film (I belatedly explained the mind stone stuff from Avengers 1, having forgotten about that until Erik was in his pants) and goes to Stonehenge (which may be magic or alien or who the fuck knows) to run about naked (and not even at a solstice!!) and then he was in one of those Creepy American Movie Psychiatric Hospitals (or possibly it was a police station in London???) with medication in plastic pill bottles like they don't really do in this country and as mentioned he was in his pants for no real reason and that's all very relatable. So hooray for Erik!

More tumblr-esque-ly, friend was like "i can see why people liked this Loki, he's popped in from a better film of his own to bitch about this one" and indeed things do get more interesting when we finally let him out of jail where he is sat being a goth because Angsty because Frigga got fridged. (It feels like there should be a great Frigga/fridged pun but neither of us could think of anything, which was very saddening. Though we did realise that Anthony Hopkins = Welsh Odin = Woden, which is the best we could do for a pun and fuck it it'll do after struggling for at least an entire minute with the fridged-Frigga thing.)

Natalie Portman was in this film.

They were in London for some reason, cannot remember why. Elves, probably. Oh wait was it so they were in the right country to have the Stonehenge bit? Stonehenge is pre-Celtic which means it's also pre-Norse but it was somehow relevant to the elves stuff, as was Snowdon, which isn't that just a mountain? But it was somehow put there by people in The Olden Days or... okay I admit we were lost by that point, but there are stone circles all over Britain, they were very fashionable for a while but nobody really knows why but if you start drawing lines between old rock things here you're bound to come up with proof that a layline runs though the Prime Minister's bathroom or some nonsense like that. I suppose Stonehenge is our Giza Pyramids in that films make up complete shite about it all the time, and so inspired by that popular tumblr post I have just checked where the nearest Pizza Hut is to Stonehenge and it's at "Solstice Park" about 3 kilometres away just off the A303, hope this information is helpful to someone.

Erm. Yeah it turns out I can remember less about this movie than I thought, so this review is lacking and no doubt as disappointing as the fact that you can't see Stonehenge from Pizza Hut :(

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from The Designs of Carrie Robbins by Annie O. Cleveland and M. Barrett Cleveland:

"Front cover: The Tempest. 'Study for Ariel as Harpy,' played by Brent Carver, Mark Taper Forum, 1979. Costume design by Carrie Robins." (4)

A passage from the book (p. 36-37):

The sketch, featured on this book's cover, shows a nearly naked Ariel as his basic look, but also shows his transformation during the masque into a harpy, the half bird and half Amazonian armored warrior. The body suit was sprinkled randomly with translucent aurora borealis flat sequins making it, says Robbins, "way more mysterious than a hunk of sequin cloth." Ariel's wings, crafted by Fred Nihda, creator of the horse heads for Equus and the Tin Man costume for The Wiz, were tiered in multi-colored textures and layers of lightweight silk and chiffon feathering. They expanded when the actor pulled a hidden knob. The drawing also includes thumbnails of both a spiked headpiece with a beaked-shaped half mask and a helmet and full face mask that Robbins cut immediately after drawing them. "One of the advantages of taking the time to draw," says Robbins, "is that you can really see when you are going wrong."

Ariel's wings, constructed by Nihda (from Robbins's website)

Stephanie Zimbalist, Brent Carver, Anthony Hopkins, and Michael Bond in the same production (photo by Jay Thompson)

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Someone who has an impact on my life is Jesus Christ.   Jesus Christ died for my sins as well as the sins of everyone worldwide.   My Great Grandmother made a positive impact on my life because she taught me what Jesus Christ was to her and me.  My youngest grandmother taught me how important it is for a man to work for his own household.   Both of my grandmothers taught me about the importance of Jesus Christ in your life.   My mother taught me how to behave like a man rather than a child.  My mother taught me how to survive in the streets inside of any city worldwide.  My mother taught me how to defend myself and survive in the process.   My two grandfathers taught me how important it was for me to survive in the wilderness and in the streets inside of the United States.   God is responsible for giving me life.  God and Jesus Christ protects me from all harms and dangers.  God knew me when I was inside of my mother's womb.  Jeremiah 1:5 says Before I formed you I knew you.  Before you were born I sanctified you and I have ordained you as a prophet to the nations.  It is God and Jesus Christ who are responsible for giving me the Holy Spirit that is inside of me.  It is God and Jesus Christ who are giving me the Air that I breathe each day.  It is God and Jesus Christ who are doing for me more than I am doing for myself.  Jeremiah 10:23 says O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself.   It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.   This is very serious because God is doing all of the work for mankind.   Jesus Christ is my Personal Savior.   Jesus Christ Loves You and Me.  Therefore, I want to say that everyone that I have been in contact with during my existence has always helped me in a positive way.   I am literally grateful to be clean and sober for 34 years now.   I love Both God and Jesus Christ for keeping me alive each day of my 58 years of existence.   Honestly I don't own anything on earth because I cannot take it with me whenever I permanently leave Planet Earth.  Naked I was born and naked I will return to meet Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is dwelling inside of all of us.  It is Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit that is bearing with our spirit to give us life.  I no longer have a desire to drink alcohol or smoke marijuana whatsoever.   I asked God to remove the desire and the cravings for anything that will destroy our Temple.   1st Corinthians 3:16 says Do you not know that the Temple of God is inside of us and we are not our own?  If anyone destroys the Temple,  God will punish them for destroying Your Temple.  We are the Temple of God.  Which Temple you are?  I am truly grateful to be a Child of the Most High God 🙏.   My name is Anthony Joseph Hopkins and I'm a Grateful Recovering Alcoholic with a daily reprieve and my problem is myself.   I have 34 years clean and sober thanks to the Grace of God today.  It is the Holy Spirit inside of me that is doing all of the work for me.  God & Jesus Christ is doing the work.  Thank you God and Jesus Christ for keeping it real with me and all of us.  God Loves You and So Do I. God Bless All of You!

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Décembre MMXXIII

Films

Chef (2014) de Jon Favreau avec Scarlett Johansson, Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr. et Dustin Hoffman

Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver Hollywood ? (The Naked gun 33⅓: The Final Insult) (1994) de Peter Segal avec Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Fred Ward, O. J. Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, Kathleen Freeman, Ellen Greene et Ed Williams

Quai des Orfèvres (1947) de Henri-Georges Clouzot avec Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Claudine Dupuis, Henri Arius, Charles Blavette, René Blancard et Robert Dalban

Maintenant, on l'appelle Plata (…più forte ragazzi!) (1972) de Giuseppe Colizzi avec Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Cyril Cusack, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Riccardo Pizzuti, Ferdinando Murolo et Marcello Verziera

Moi, Michel G., milliardaire, maître du monde (2011) de Stéphane Kazandjian avec François-Xavier Demaison, Laurent Lafitte, Laurence Arné, Xavier de Guillebon, Guy Bedos, Patrick Bouchitey e Alain Doutey

Noël blanc (White Christmas) (1954) de Michael Curtiz avec Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes et John Bascia

Rendez-vous avec la mort (Appointment with Death) (1988) de Michael Winner avec Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove et David Soul

Bridget Jones : L’Âge de raison (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) (2004) de Beeban Kidron avec Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Jacinda Barrett, Shirley Henderson et Sally Phillips

Les Trois Mousquetaires : Milady (2023) de Martin Bourboulon avec François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Lyna Khoudri et Louis Garrel

Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver le président ? (1991) (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear) de David Zucker avec Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O. J. Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths, Anthony James et Jacqueline Brookes

Wallace et Gromit : Le Mystère du lapin-garou (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) (2005) de Nick Park et Steve Box avec Jean-Loup Horwitz, Jeanne Savary, Philippe Catoire, Frédérique Cantrel, Patrick Messe et Mireille Delcroix

Rivière sans retour (River of No Return) (1954) de Otto Preminger avec Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Murvyn Vye et Douglas Spencer

L'Ange de Noël (Christmas Magic) (2011) de John Bradshaw avec Lindy Booth, Paul McGillion, Derek McGrath, Kiara Glasco, Teresa Pavlinek et Tricia Braun

Joyeux Noël (2005) de Christian Carion avec Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl, Dany Boon, Lucas Belvaux, Bernard Le Coq et Alex Ferns

L'Assassinat du père Noël (1941) de Christian-Jaque avec Harry Baur, Raymond Rouleau, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Robert Le Vigan, Fernand Ledoux et Jean Brochard

Danse avec les loups (Dances with Wolves) (1990) de et avec Kevin Costner ainsi que Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd Westerman, Jimmy Herman, Nathan Lee, Tantoo Cardinal et Wes Studi

Noël en trois actes (Christmas Encore) (2017) de Bradley Walsh avec Maggie Lawson, Brennan Elliott, Art Hindle, Tracey Hoyt, Mercedes de la Zerda, Mika Amonsen, Sherry Miller, Sabryn Rock, David Tompa et Erin Agostino

La Souffleuse de verre (Die Glasbläserin) (2016) de Christiane Balthasar avec Luise Heyer, Maria Ehrich, Franz Dinda, Dirk Borchardt, Robert Gwisdek, Max Hopp et Ute Willing

Le père Noël est une ordure (1982) de Jean-Marie Poiré avec Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko et Bruno Moynot

Le Lion en hiver (The Lion in Winter) (1968) de Anthony Harvey avec Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow et Nigel Stock

Les Mystères de Paris (1962) d'André Hunebelle avec Jean Marais, Raymond Pellegrin, Jill Haworth, Dany Robin, Pierre Mondy, Georges Chamarat, Noël Roquevert et Jean Le Poulain

Derrick contre Superman (1992) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Patrick Burgel et Évelyne Grandjean

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer, Joël Martineau, Jean-Claude Montalban, Roger Rudel et Gérard Rouzier

La Grande Course autour du monde (The Great Race) (1965) de Blake Edwards avec Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance et Dorothy Provine

Séries

Life on Mars Saison 1, 2

Bienvenue en 73 - La Loi selon mon boss - Le Pari - Corruption - Rouge un jour, rouge toujours - Compte à rebours - Cas de conscience - Mon père - Meurtrier en puissance - La Chasse aux ripoux - Peur sur la ville - Pièges pour jeunes femmes - Kidnapping - Héroïne - Recherche du coupable - La Promesse

Doctor Who

La Créature Stellaire - Wild Blue Yonder - Aux confins de l'univers - Le Fabricant de Jouets - The Snowmen - A Christmas Carol - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe - The Return of Doctor Mysterio - The Church on Ruby Road - Eve of the Daleks

Les Enquêtes de Vera Saison 12

À contre-courant - Un homme d'honneur - Au nom de la loi - Une soirée funeste - Marée montante

Coffre à Catch

#144 : La Draft 2009 : Les bonnes affaires du mercato ! - #145 : La ECW débarque à Londres et l'Undertaker à Strasbourg! (avec Carole) - #146 : Christian enfin champion de la ECW ! - #147 : Un coffret à Noël, ça c'est une idée !

Kaamelott Livre III

Le Jour d’Alexandre - La Cassette II - La Ronde II - Mission - La Baliste - La Baraka - La Veillée - Le Tourment III - La Potion de fécondité II - L’Attaque nocturne - La Restriction II - Les Défis de Merlin II - Saponides et Détergents - Le Justicier - La Crypte maléfique - Arthur in Love II - La Grande Bataille - La Fête de l’hiver II - Sous les verrous II - Le Vulgarisateur - Witness - Le Tribut - Le Culte secret - Le Mangonneau - La Chevalerie - Le Mauvais Augure - Raison d’argent II - Les Auditeurs libres - Le Baiser romain - L’Espion - Alone in the Dark - Le Législateur - L’Insomniaque - L’Étudiant - Le Médiateur - Le Trophée - Hollow Man - La Dispute première partie - La Dispute deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

Gérald Thomassin : l'étrange disparition d'un coupable idéal

Top Gear

Spécial Nativité

La Voie Jackson

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3

Meurtres au paradis

L'étrange Noël de Debbie

Spectacles

Le Muguet de Noël (2021) de Sébastien Blanc et Nicolas Poiret avec Lionnel Astier, Frédéric Bouraly, Jean-Luc Porraz et Alexie Ribes

Sinatra (1969) avec Frank Sinatra, Don Costa & son Orchestre

Le Professeur Rollin a encore quelque chose à dire (2003) de François Rollin

Alain Souchon : J'veux du live au Casino de Paris (2002)

La Bonne Planque (1964) de Michel André avec Bourvil, Pierrette Bruno, Robert Rollis, Roland Bailly, Alix Mahieux, Albert Michel et Max Desrau

André Rieu : White Christmas (2023)

Michael Bublé: Home for Christmas (2011) avec Michael Bublé, Gary Barlow, Gino D'Acampo, Dawn French et Kelly Rowland

Michael Buble's Christmas in the City (2021) avec Michael Bublé, Leon Bridges, Camila Cabello, Jimmy Fallon, Kermit the Frog, Hannah Waddingham, Dallas Grant, Jarrett Johnson, Julianna Layne et Loren Smith

Michael Bublé's 3rd Annual Christmas Special (2013) avec Michael Bublé, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Red Robinson, Jumaane Smith, Patrick Gilmore et Cookie Monster

Un fil à la patte (2005) de Georges Feydeau avec Thierry Beccaro, Marie-Ange Nardi, Valérie Maurice, Églantine Éméyé, Ève Ruggiéri, Tex, David Martin et Patrice Laffont

Vintage Getz (1983) The Stan Getz Quartet live at the Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, California avec Stan Getz, Victor Lewis, Marc Johnson et Jim McNeely

James Brown : Live at Montreux (1981)

Livres

Le seigneur des anneaux, Tome 3 : Le retour du roi de J.R.R. Tolkien

Détective Conan, Tome 18 de Gôshô Aoyama

Lucky Luke, Tome 27 : L'Alibi de Morris et Claude Guylouïs

Détective Conan, Tome 19 de Gôshô Aoyama

[iamanartichoke]

y'all I saw this article on facebook and Christian Bale accidentally joining the MCU, having no idea what he's in for, is probably one of the most Christian Bale-y things to ever Christian Bale.

I'm just getting a huge kick out of this.

(cut for RPF-ish fiction, length, and general dumbness)

Taika: "Hey, you wanna be in my movie?" Christian: "Maybe." *reads script, considers, decides it's interesting.* "Okay, yeah, sure." Taika: "Okay, cool, let's talk Gorr." - Later - Marvel execs, all dressed like ninjas except for one (1), who is wearing a trenchcoat and sunglasses in the middle of the night: *break into Christian's home, steal script & replace with redacted version, plant bugs, etc* Snipers: *in position* - Even Later - Taika: "And cut!" Christian: "Okay, so, I have a few questions -" Taika: "Sure, what's up?" Christian: "I'm hearing rumors - " Marvel execs, in the FBI surveillance van: *getting ready to signal the snipers* Christian: " - well, not rumors, but I looked on the Google and, uh, I'm not comfortable wearing a G-string." Chris Hemsworth, nearby, drinking an energy smoothie: *does a spit-take* "What? A G-string?" Marvel execs, holding off the snipers: "False alarm." Taika: "No, no, don't worry, we won't be doing that. This is an interpretation of the comics, we're not following them that closely." Christian: "Oh, okay. But, uh, CGI ...?" Taika: "I promise you, you won't be wearing a G-string or naked or anything. Chris will, though." Chris, who's just taken another sip of his smoothie: *starts coughing* "What?" Taika: "What?" - Later Than That - Christian: "Taika, we need to talk." Taika: "What's up?" Christian: " ... Right, so, okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but weird things have been happening since I signed onto this role -" Chris Hemsworth, nearby, randomly lifting weights: "Stolen scripts?" Natalie Portman, nearby, also randomly lifting weights: "Strange van parked on your road?" Taika, rubbing his temples: "Unexplained bullet whizzing past your head that time you were talking to your wife about the role?" Christian: "Yeah .... yeah, so, um, basically I'm hearing rumors I've joined the MCU? And I'll just come right out and say it - is this a legitimate movie or have I joined a cult? Taika, Chris, and Natalie: Yes. Marvel execs, from the FBI surveillance van: "I think they're onto us." Christian: "So what is the MCU, then?" Natalie: "Dude." Taika, peering out the window: "That's perfect, Christian, just keep that up on the press tour. They stop asking about spoilers if you fuck with them enough." Christian, mostly to himself: "I was, like, genuinely asking, though." Chris, putting aside the weights: "While you're at it, pretend not to know who Thor is." Natalie, sympathetically patting Christian's shoulder: "You're thinking about how you won an Oscar, aren't you?" Christian: "A little bit, yeah." Natalie, Taika, Matt Damon, and the leftover energy of Anthony Hopkins and Cate Blanchett, nodding: "Yeah." - Even Later Than That - Marvel execs, still in the surveillance van, drinking cold coffee and nodding off while listening to Christian, inside his home, talking about Nosferatu: "Anyone checked in on Tom Holland recently?"

[thetigersbride]

stop making me scroll past images of naked anthony hopkins licking that steering wheel 😭😭😭 it is 9 am

[esperwatchesfilms]

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

ESE: 108/100

50 +10 for Anthony Hopkins +10 for Tom Hiddleston +10 for Natalie Portman +10 for Kat Dennings +5 for Stellan Skarsgard +5 for Erik running around Stonehedge naked -10 for scaring the tourists -10 for the intern tossing the keys into the anomaly +5 for Idris Elba -5 for leaving Darcy in the rain +10 for Chris Hemsworth +10 for Frigga’s badassery -5 for Frigga’s death +10 for Stan Lee +10 for brief Chris Evans +5 for slapping Loki for New York +5 for slapping Loki for New York -10  for Loki’s inability to take responsibility -20 for “I don’t trust you”, then getting stabbed +5 for the ruse +5 for the Mew Mew! scene +5 for Loki’s not-dead-ness +3 for post-credit scenes

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Movies I watched this week - 28

3 by Miyazaki:

✳️✳️✳️ Never-Ending Man: Another wonderful NHK documentary about Old Man Hayao Miyazaki after his 2013 retirement, and as he slowly comes around to create one more animation, the short ‘Boro The Caterpillar’. It follows him unobtrusively for a couple of years, walking from his simple house to his office at the studio, drawing drawing, struggling with self doubt and old age, and yes - driving a bit in his old Citroën 2CV.

It’s such a privilege to be so close to a legendary artist and watch him at close range - 8/10.

✳️✳️✳️ Kiki's Delivery Service, one of my most favorite Ghibli masterpieces, about a 13 year old witch, who flies on a broom to a new city in order to build her independence. With a magical score by Joe Hisaishi. 

- Best film of the week!

✳️✳️✳️ Castle in the sky, Miyazaki’s 3rd feature from 1986, an cyberpunk adventure fantasy which contains many of the elements and characters which will show up fully formed in his later films: Sheeta looks like Kiki, Dola behaves like Yubaba, Pazu as a stand in for Haku, etc. I prefer his quieter, more personal, smaller stories.

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Exit Plan (“Suicide Tourist”) is a Danish film about a quiet man with a terminal brain tumor who signs up for an upscale Norwegian hotel specializing in assisted end-of-life fantasies. Starts as a dark existential tale, ends with a kind of ambiguous mystery.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is the guy.

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The Aerial  (”La Antena”) is an innovative Argentinian silent film from 2007,  about a city that had lost its voice, and its only savior, a boy without eyes who is crucified on a Star of David. It’s a surreal allegory in German expressionism style, a weird black & white fantasy about mind control. In short, a unique and inaccessible fairy tale.

“Mommy, are you there?...”

(Photo Above)

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For comparison, I revisited ‘Un Chien Andalou’, Bunuel & Dalí disturbing, groundbreaking masterpiece. Even though every outrageous frame of it is part of history now, the raw imagery is still shocking - Pure id. I can’t imagine being in the room in 1929, and watching it for the first time. No wonder the two surrealists were disappointed at the audience's positive reception.

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2 from French director Mia Hansen-Løve:

✳️✳️✳️ The Future / “Things to come“ from 2016. Isabelle Huppert is a resilient middle-aged philosophy professor whose life suddenly suffers multiple setbacks.

It only has 6 scenes with background music, each punctures the quiet delivery of the story at an emotional peak: A Schubert lieder, a Woodie Guthrie song on the radio, a lullaby...

I loved it!

✳️✳️✳️ Goodbye First Love tells about a romance between a 15 year old and a boy who leaves her, and then comes back 8 years later, after she settles down.

Unhurried, sensitive story-telling, reminisces of Eric Rohmer, with careful use of music and language. It also has a couple of scenes shot here at the Kastrup Sea Baths and on the grounds of Louisiana museum.

Loved it! I’m looking forward to see her new ‘’Bergman Island’.

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Love in the afternoon, the last of Eric Rohmer’s ‘6 Moral Tales’. Exploration of sexual and spiritual virtues in 1972 Paris, by a traditional married man who carries on a platonic love affair with an old flame.

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The White Ribbon - Austrian Michael Haneke’s dark, multi-layered tragedy. In 1913, a series of upsetting events occur in a small German village. A horse trips on a wire and injures its rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents bully their children; a man torments his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear.

Relentless inquiry into abuse, cruelty and despair. Shot in gorgeous Bergmansk black & white.

(This is an Italian speaking copy). 8/10

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2 more from 1973:

✳️✳️✳️ First watch - Soylent Green, a pessimistic science fiction story happening in 2022. Very prescient in its dystopian prediction of global warming, over population, resource depletion and income equality.

The 2 minutes opening montage was paced brilliantly. 7/10

✳️✳️✳️ In Scarecrow, Gene Hackman and Al Pacino are two drifters who becomes friends as they hitchhike from California to Pittsburgh. 6/10

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In Pig, Nicholas Cage is a reclusive mountain man, living out in the woods outside Portland, OR, gathering truffles with a female pig, who is his only friend. One night, some tweakers attack him and kidnap the pig. His journey to bring her back takes him on a surprising and completely unexpected places. 

Very un-American!

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“… and Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln”

6 episodes of the 1982 TV series Police Squad!,  a spoof of police procedurals - shorter and funnier than the Naked Gun movies which it later spawned. Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production.

“Who are you? And how did you get in here?

- "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith”

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“Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'”

Every time I watch Hot Fuzz, it gets better. "Not just one of the best comedies of all time, it’s one of the best movies of all time", for sure.

Editor Tony Zhou, of ‘Every Frame A Painting’, shot an excellent video essay ‘How to do visual comedy’ about Edgar Wright.

Jim Broadbent as Inspector Frank Butterman: “He had one thing you haven't got... A great, big, bushy beard! “

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Re-watch: Wag the Dog, blackest of black comedies, utterly cynical, nihilistic view of politics. Americans can always be distracted, can always be manipulated, and can always be led to believe anything the powers-to-be needs them to. You can fool all of the people all of the time. 

“Look, look, look. He's fine as long as he gets his medications...”

Amazingly, it premiered one month BEFORE the Lewinsky scandal!

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The Invisible Guest, a forgettable and predictable Spanish murder-mystery thriller from 2016. Best part was the soft, minimalist European style score (or am I just going deaf?)

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How to Become a Tyrant, a new docu-series narrated by Peter Dinklage. 6 short episodes about Hitler, Stalin, Gaddafi, Kim Il-sung, Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein. (Mao is referred to, but doesn’t get his own chapter).

And it doesn’t mention trump, even as a Wanna be Dictator - probably because he didn’t succeed in his (first) attempt.

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Seaspiracy, the most depressing documentary I’ve ever seen. Ali Tabrizi starts investigating plastic pollution in the ocean, and quickly realizes that it is commercial fishing that is the bane of our existence. Basically all fishing must be banned, as there will be no more live fish in the seas in 2048. There were some ‘controversies’ about the claims the movie makes, but they came from mainstream entities, who support incremental change.

Utterly disgusting: We deserve all that befall us.

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A colorful and dramatic Vatican drama, The Two Popes, with excellent ‘Odd Couple’ performances by Anthony Hopkins as the first Pope in 700 years to step down and by Jonathan Pryce who doesn’t want to succeed him. Re-watch.

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Throw-back to the art project:

Salvador Dali Adora.

Kiki Delivery Service Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

[hannibal-obsessed]

30 REASONS WHY THE LAMBS ARE STILL SCREAMING!!!

- Celebrating 30 years of The Silence of the Lambs Movie -

The Silence of the Lambs is a pop culture phenomenon, who’s influence is still being felt today. It is considered one of the best horror/terror/thriller movies of all time!

Released in 1991 on February 14th, The Silence of the Lambs evoked a blood curdling Valentine’s Day scream!

Happy Valentine’s Day

1991-2021

Author – Harris worked the cop beat for a Texas newspaper and had an interest in the macabre, often freelancing for Men’s Magazines (Argosy, True), writing about some of the most gruesome stories.

1. Thomas Harris – As the author of The Silence of the Lambs and creator of Hannibal Lecter, none of this would be possible without Harris. He’s an impeccable researcher, studying the cases of the most notorious serial killers at the time. Harris was seen at parts of Ted Bundy’s Chi Omega trial taking notes.

Actors

2. Jodie Foster – Foster’s portrayal of rookie FBI in training agent Clarice Starling, is a spot on performance. Foster shows Starling’s vulnerability and how her abandonment issues and need to advance in the FBI, bring her under Lecter’s spell.

3. Anthony Hopkins – Hopkins portrayal of Hannibal Lecter left an indelible mark that still haunts us 30 years later. Thomas Harris wrote Lecter...Hopkins brought him to life. The duality of Lecter, which Hopkins plays to perfection, leads you into a false sense of security...that perhaps he’s not that bad...until he lets loose on the police officers during his escape from custody.

4. Scott Glenn – Glenn plays the head of the Behavioural Science Unit at Quantico, Jack Crawford aka the Guru by his agents. Crawford uses his father like status to entice Starling to interview Lecter thus hopefully gaining access, which Lecter had denied other agents.

5. Ted Levine – Levine‘s portrayal of Buffalo Bill has a creep factor that is impossible to put out of your mind, especially when the song Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus plays...and he dances...

6. Anthony Heald – Heald’s portrayal of Dr. Frederick Chilton oozes contempt and arrogance, which doesn’t make you feel a bit sorry him when he becomes Lecter’s meal.

7. Brooke Smith – The all American girl who’s kidnapped by Buffalo Bill and held in a pit for the harvesting of her skin. Catherine Martin is a clever one though and hatches a plan to escape using Precious the dog as a hostage.

8. Frankie Faison – The only actor to appear in 4 of the 5 Hannibal Lecter movies. Barney Matthews survives Lecter with his politeness as Lecter abhors rudeness. Lecter believes whenever feasible, one should eat the rude.

Art/Symbols/Theme

9. Basements – The basement is an underlying theme in The Silence of the Lambs: The BSU of the FBI work out of the basement at Quantico; Hannibal Lecter is kept in the basement of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and Buffalo Bill’s sanctuary is the basement of the former Mrs. Lippman's house.

10. Death Head Hawk Moth/Transformation – The theme throughout The Silence of the Lambs is transformation. The Moth represents Buffalo Bill’s transformation from a pupae/chrysalis/cocoon into a beautiful butterfly.

11. Salvador Dali/Philippe Halsman – In Voluptas Mors/Voluptuous Death (1951), the most scandalous photo of it’s time was the brainchild of Dali and Halsman. Dali arranged seven naked women into a macabre skull. This skull is used as the marking for the Death Head Hawk Moth on the poster for The Silence of the Lambs, which has become synonymous with the movie.

12. Cannibalism – Lecter doesn’t keep trophies in the usual sense, he eats his victims ensuring they will be part of him forever and leaving no evidence behind.

13. Sketches – Hannibal Lecter is a gifted artist and uses his talent to escape the confining basement walls of The Baltimore State Hospital with sketches of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo as seen from the Belvedere in Florence.

14. Music – Hannibal Lecter has an appreciation for the finer things in life like classical music in particular Goldberg’s Variations Aria. Catherine Martin rocks out to Tom Petty’s American Girl and Buffalo Bill dances to Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus.

Behavioural Science Unit – It was a new age of criminal behaviour which needed a new type of agent...a profiler.

15. FBI – The Federal Bureau Of Investigation was formed to combat the criminal Mob element by J. Edgar Hoover. It was only upon Hoover’s death that the FBI started exploring other avenues to catch a new type of killer, the serial killer. After Hoover’s death the FBI would start to hire female agents, which would spur Harris to write a story about an up and coming female agent in training.

16. John E. Douglas – Douglas is the real Jack Crawford, an agent who helped in the development of Behavioural Sciences to catch the newly ordained serial killer. Douglas was a consultant for The Silence of the Lambs movie and is an author of many serial killer/profiling books.

17. Robert Ressler – Crawford is also based on Ressler who was in charge of developing the BSU and was instrumental in the creation of profiling serial killers by interviewing them behind bars. Ressler is responsible for writing some of the best profiling books.

Production

18. Jonathan Demme – It’s Demme’s vision as Director of The Silence of the Lambs which is the magic that has cemented The Silence of the Lambs in the minds of all who watch and re-watch and re-watch...

19. Orion Pictures – The little studio that took a big chance. Unfortunately The Silence of the Lambs wouldn’t save Orion from bankruptcy and they’d be bought out by MGM, who would acquire their movie catalogue.

20. Ted Tally – The man who would turn Harris’ novel into a great screenplay, hitting all the major marks. Tally would pass on the Hannibal screenplay; being lured back for the Red Dragon screenplay.

21. Dino De Laurentiis – If not for De Laurentiis passing on the movie rights to Harris’ novel, The Silence of the Lambs, after the bad box office return of Manhunter, and for allowing Demme to use Hannibal Lecter, we wouldn’t even be discussing this 30 years later.

Quotes – The Silence of the Lambs gave us a few extremely recognizable quotes!

22. Chianti and Fava Beans – “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

- Hannibal Lecter

23. Lotion – “It rubs the lotion on it’s skin or else it gets the hose again.”

- Buffalo Bill

24. Friendship – “I’m having an old friend for dinner.”

- Hannibal Lecter

Serial Killers – Harris based Lecter and Buffalo Bill on some very real killers...

25. Ed Gein – Buffalo Bill is part Gein for without the crimes of Ed Gein, Buffalo Bill wouldn’t exist. It was Gein’s skinning of corpses and his two murder victims that would inspire Buffalo Bill...

26. Gary Heideck – If Buffalo Bill is part Gein, he’s also part Heideck, who’d kidnap women and then tortured them in a pit in his basement.

27. Ted Bundy – Buffalo is also part Ted Bundy, who would lure his victims with injuries like an arm in a cast; he would seem vulnerable seeking help with books or a canoe and in Buffalo Bill’s case a chair.

28. Ed Kemper – What do Hannibal Lecter and Ed Kemper have in common? A high IQ., a fondness of co-eds and a love of cars.

29. Alfredo Balli Trevino – Harris met Trevino in a Mexican prison, mistaking him for a doctor who worked in the prison; Trevino was actually an inmate working in the prison.

Trevino was convicted of murdering then dismembering his lover. It was this encounter that would set the tone for Lecter.

30. Alonzo Robinson – Lecter has been compared to many serial killers over the decades, many of who’s crimes are too late to be included in The Silence of the Lambs novel (1988). It was most likely the story of Alonzo Robinson/James Coyner/William Coyner that planted the seeds of a cannibal killer in the young mind of Thomas Harris.

Influence – Every Serial Killer book written after The Silence of the Lambs was released in theatres, has a reference to it...even BTK referenced Buffalo Bill in his essay to FBI Profiler, John E. Douglas, among an impressive list of serial killers...Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, Ed Kemper, Steven Pennell and Gary Heideck.

Conclusion: Thomas Harris’ first Lecter novel, Red Dragon, turns 40 in October, so Hannibal Lecter has been part of our literary world for 40 years. Although Manhunter was released in 1986 as the first film featuring Lektor (spelling in the movie), it was Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs that will be remembered as bringing Lecter to the masses. Even though Hopkins would play Lecter two more times in Hannibal (2001) and in the remake of Manhunter, Red Dragon (2002), it’s Hopkins Oscar winning portrayal in The Silence of the Lambs that we will always remember and keep the lambs screaming...

Shannon L. Christie

[kevrocksicehouse]

After……Taxi Driver.

44 years ago Taxi Driver won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, jumpstarting more than a few careers. Here are some movies featuring the films alumni.

Albert Brooks – Real Life D: Albert Brooks (1979). The great postmodern comic played the Ralph-Bellamy type who becomes Travis Bickle’s imaginary romantic rival. Two years later he directed himself (playing a director and using his own name) in a  satire of PBS’s An American Family providing an even more prescient look at what reality TV would become. As his clueless narcissism derails the project and destroys the family he films, we realize that De Niro wasn’t the only cast member in touch with madness.

Peter Boyle – Jack McDermott in The Dream Team. D: Howard Zieff. (1989). Boyle played “Wizard” the wise old cowboy who didn’t know nothin’ about nothin’ (“It ain’t Bertrand Russell but what do ya want?”). In Zieff’s movie Boyle is a former adman who thinks that he’s Jesus Christ and that he gives better sermon’s when he is stripped naked. A nutball tour de force.

Cybill Shepherd – Jacy Farrow in Texasville. D: Peter Bogdanovich (1990).  Shepherd was Betsy the golden-haired beauty that Bickle briefly connected with – at least until he took her to a Times Square porn theater for their first date. In this sequel to The Last Picture Show which trades autumnal regret for screwball comedy, she plays the kind of woman who would have told Bickle, “I’ll get the tickets if you buy the popcorn.”

Harvey Keitel – The Lieutenant in Bad Lieutenant. D: Abel Ferrara (1992). Keitel plays The Lieutenant as if Sport, Taxi Driver’s child-pimping lowlife hustler survived the earlier film’s climax, switched sides to become a cop and rose through the ranks without ever pointing his moral compass anywhere close to north.

Jodie Foster – Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs. D. Jonathan Demme. Foster won an Oscar for this performance as an ambitious and needy FBI agent that is still undervalued and overshadowed by Anthony Hopkins iconic villain Hannibal Lecter (who, without Foster’s empathetic rapport would be the worst kind of cartoon boogeyman). Iris, the preteen prostitute could have told Starling what it’s like to be the object of a psychopath’s twisted savior complex.

Robert De Niro – Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy. D: Martin Scorcese (1983).  Taxi Driver is the story of a man so profoundly alienated from everyone he encounters that he ultimately has no medium of connection save violence. You can imagine Scorcese and De Niro brainstorming on how to top it. “Now” one would say to the other, “Imagine if he tried stand-up comedy….”

[firelightmystic]

Tag game!

I was tagged by @whenas-in-silks

Rules: Tag 9 people you'd like to get to know better

Top 3 ships:

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark - Marvel (Dude, I was shipping this way back when the MCU was a speck in Marvel's eye and 616-Avengers were the B-stringers. These two drama-llamas, I swear…)

Phèdre nó Delaunay/Joscelin Verreuil - Kushiel's Legacy (My most favorite book series, with a well-done, complicated main pairing that works)

Spike/Drusilla - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (It's an old/defunct fandom now and was a hot mess by the final season, but this was actually one of my very first ships and first fandoms, and I miss their antics??) 

Lipstick or chapstick: Chapstick is way too greasy, and i think there's crack in it. I used it four days straight during a bad winter, and honestly fiended for it the next day when I forgot to apply it. Not my jam. But lipstick??? Holy fuck. Oh shit, I love lipstick so much. I wear it at work, when I go out, when I stay in. I've even deliberately worn it to sleep--and I mean actual sleep, not just Smutty Fun Times with an SO. I have over 30 shades that I wear, mostly very dark mattes in wine reds or purples, or greens and blues that I can mix with black for ombre effects. This is my top beauty splurge (excepting eye shadow), and I only really wear two brands: Urban Decay or Too Faced because they have such great pigmentation and last the longest without caking up on my lips. If I dont have on lipstick (and earrings), I feel naked. I want to put some on now and play with designs…

Last song: "Innovation" by David Garrett

Last movie: Titus Andronicus (The Anthony Hopkins version, which omfg, what a spectacle)

Reading: How To by Randall Munroe (technically it's listening because I'm traveling and Audible packs lighter. If it doesn't count, then Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey 😁)

Tagging: @festiveferret @sineala @viudanegraaa @blossomsinthemist @isozyme @ironlawyer @nigmuff @wilmakins @capnstars

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TV Guide, March 18-31

Cover: Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory 

Page 2: Contents, Editor’s Letter

Page 4: Ask Matt -- The Neighborhood, Counterpart, Your Feedback, TV Guide’s April 1 issue will cover Game of Thrones 

Page 6: Tributes -- Luke Perry, 90210 gets a reboot 

Page 7: Tributes -- Katherine Helmond 

Page 10: Alex Trebek battles cancer 

Page 11: The finale of The Masked Singer gets big ratings, Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart starring Lori Loughlin (pictured...oops) Season 6 premiere was its biggest opener to date 

Page 12: The Roush Review -- What We Do in the Shadows starring Kayvan Novak 

Page 13: Mrs. Wilson starring Ruth Wilson, The Act starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, Shrill starring Aidy Bryant 

Page 14: Cover Story -- The Big Farewell to The Big Bang Theory 

Page 20: History channel retools Knightfall starring Mark Hamill 

Page 22: Bill Hader on season 2 of Barry

Page 23: Barry’s best baddie Noho Hank played by Anthony Carrigan 

Page 25: What’s Worth Watching Week 1 -- American Housewife starring Katy Mixon and Diedrich Bader

Page 26: Monday, March 18 -- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, The Fix, 9-1-1, Beauty and the Beast, Mental Samurai, Restored by the Fords 

Page 27: Tuesday, March 19 -- The Village starring Frankie Faison and Lorraine Toussaint, If Loving You Is Wrong, The Rookie, Lost Gold of World War II, One of a Kind, The Jim Jefferies Show 

Page 28: Wednesday, March 20 -- Buble star Michael Buble, Let’s Make a Deal, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, SEAL Team, Figure Skating 

Page 29: Thursday, March 21 -- Will & Grace starring Megan Mullally and Samira Wiley, Journalism in the Movies, Gotham, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Law & Order: SVU, College Basketball 

Page 30: Friday, March 22 -- Nightmare Tenant starring Lauralee Bell and Heather Hopkins, Last Man Standing, Animal Cribs, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, Proven Innocent 

Page 32: Saturday, March 23 -- Alpha starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Meg, Saturday Stack: Grateful Dead, Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards, Love to the Rescue, The Atlanta Child Murders, Jesse Stone: Stone Cold

Page 33: Sunday, March 24 -- The Monkees, Prince Charles at 70, Epic Yellowstone, Mission Declassified, Into the Badlands, Black Monday starring Andrew Rannells and Casey Wilson 

Page 53: Stream It! 

Page 54: Netflix -- The Highwaymen starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson and Thomas Mann, The Dirt starring Daniel Webber and Douglas Booth as Motley Crue 

Page 55: Arrested Development, Santa Clarita Diet, Amy Schumer Growing, The Legend of Cocaine Island, Abducted in Plain Sight, Evil Genius, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, Holy Hell 

Page 56: Hulu -- Patricia Arquette in The Act 

Page 58: Prime Video -- Catastrophe, Hanna 

Page 59: Little House on the Prairie, streaming searches made easy 

Page 60: Comprehensive guide to films coming and good 

Page 63: What’s Worth Watching Week 2 -- Major League Baseball 

Page 64: Monday, March 25 -- Jesus: His Life, According to Jim, One Nation Under Stress, Bull, Treasures from the Disney Vault 

Page 65: Tuesday, March 26 -- MasterChef Junior with Aaron Sanchez’s adobo recipe, The Young and the Restless, The Kids Are Alright, black-ish, Miracle Workers, Juliet, Naked 

Page 66: Wednesday, March 27 -- Jane the Virgin, Million Dollar Mile, What We Do in the Shadows, Happy!, Documentary Now! 

Page 67: Thursday, March 28 -- Abby’s, College Basketball, Flip or Flop Vegas, Tacoma FD, Friday, March 29 -- The Blacklist, Strike Back, Kin 

Page 68: Saturday, March 30 -- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, The Killer Next Door, A Brush With Love, Animal ER Live, NAACP Image Awards, Tigerland 

Page 70: Sunday, March 31 -- Veep, The Spy Who Dumped Me 

Page 71: Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, American Idol, The Simpsons, Call the Midwife, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Masterpiece: Mrs. Wilson, Madam Secretary, Major League Baseball 

Page 96: Cheers & Jeers -- Cheers to John Mulaney, Grey’s Anatomy, Suits, Project Blue Blook, Jeers to MTV, off-camera chaos, American Idol