#pottersville movie

[mrdistracted]

Gay Christmas movies GO!

I've already got Happiest Season and Single All The Way

[baddingtonbitch]

casting agent really said "let's make people feel like they've been drinking paint"

[geekcavepodcast]

Pottersville || You Want Me to Watch WHAT?!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Chad and Justin continue their trek through strange holiday movies with Pottersville, a 2017 comedy film starring Michael Shannon, Judy Greer, Thomas Lennon, Ron Perlman, Christina Hendricks, and Ian McShane!

Download and listen today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, Stitcher, Goodpods, and more of your favorite podcast services! Find more fun at GeekCavePodcast.com! 

[jerichopalms]

#160: Pottersville (2017, dir. by Seth Henrikson)

[rayonthego]

Movie Day

Today was Watch As Many Movies As Possible Day for me. And I took notes when the mood struck me.

Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1

Tom Cruise and his crazy stunts. What the hell...I don't even jump out of bed and he's jumping out of planes. At 60 years of age.

Hayley Atwell. Oh my.

2. Kramer vs. Kramer

Meryl Streep hated (and hates) Dustin Hoffman. Probably helped with the acting.

Jobeth Williams is in this movie. Naked.

70s, 80s, and 90s NYC is in my heart.

The woman gets this kid after leaving the kid in the first place. I dunno. Doesn't seem fair.

3. White Christmas

Bing Crosby. Legend. Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney. Legends.

4. It's A Wonderful Life

George Bailey - born selfless. The dude doesn't think once about what's in it for him. Except for that time, he told his uncle that one of them was going to prison, but it wouldn't be him.

I saw this when I was very young and thought I had dreamed it until I saw it in my teens on PBS.

Potter was born old.

Jimmy Stewart and James Stewart are the same. That's not what I thought when old Jimmy Stewart appeared on The Tonight Show.

Violet. Oh my.

"You were born older." What George's dad tells him. Resonates.

Mary/Donna Reed. Oh my.

An unsecured button that opens the dance floor to the pool is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I always wanted a "George Lassos the Moon" picture to hang on my wall.

Mary is naked in the bushes, and George's dad has a stroke. Talk about bad timing.

Potter actor is the great-uncle of Drew, the talk show host/actress. Barrymore is a hella legendary name in film.

Bedford Falls was cute, but Pottersville was hoppin'.

Life is hard, and it sucks...

...until it doesn't.

[authortobenamedlater]

It’s Christmas Eve so time to get this out of my drafts.

Let me expound on this article and something we don’t appreciate enough about It’s a Wonderful Life.

We can assume that in the Pottersville AU (to borrow some fanfic parlance), Mary Hatch still would have drawn Sam Wainwright’s eye. It’s a natural assumption that in George’s absence, Mary would have married Sam. If you can remember the first time you watched the movie, that’s probably what you expected. Yet she didn’t marry Sam, or anyone. She’s an “old maid.”

This doesn’t look strange to our modern eyes. Women regularly choose not to marry today. My grandmother didn’t get married until she was nearly 40 and used to talk about what an anomaly she was. Remaining single carried stigma and risks for women in the 1940s. So why would Mary choose it over a (materially, at least) comfortable life as Mrs. Wainwright?

Easy: She doesn’t want to be Mrs. Wainwright. All the material possessions in the world aren’t worth that to her. If you watch the movie carefully, there are clues about this throughout. Mary tells George she “didn’t want anyone else in town.” This was no halfhearted comment to appease her discourage husband. It was the truth. Mary didn’t want George over Sam, she never wanted Sam at all. She never wanted anyone but George.

To our minds, Old Maid Mary is easy to shrug off or scorn. “What, Mary is nothing without a man?!” No! Mary is her own person, she does what she wants, no matter what others think of it, even when it’s risky. For its day it was fairly progressive, and we sell It’s a Wonderful Life’s genius short when we don’t see that.

I had a bunch more to add, but it’s late, so maybe next year.

[abuddyforeveryseason]

It's May 18th. This is supposed to be a Buddy enamel pin. There are some places who make personalized enamel pins, and I think Buddy would be the just the type of guy who'd love having a pin of himself to wear.

It's Frank Capra's birthday! I watched It's a Wonderful Life for the first time last Christmas. I really liked it, it's almost like a science fiction film, where a time travel mishap leads to the dystopian future of "Pottersville". I love that type of stuff. Some people complain that Mr. Potter himself ended up getting richer by the end of the movie, despite being a thief. I think they're kinda missing the point, but if the movie had been made today, Potter would probably end up in jail by the end.

So, in honor of It's a Wonderful Life, today's Buddy is also from an alternate universe, where Buddy is an enamel pin.

[abrahamshipwreck]

Stole this from @sebastianshaw because I am a lil mmmmmmgremlims

Last Song: probably some Christmas song on the radio. Last song I listened to on purpose was 'Kalibali' from the movie Padmavaat.

Currently Reading: Nothing. (I hate admitting I dont actually READ read I just kinda get books that have piecemeal stuff). Last book I actively read was the Silmarillion

Currently Watching: PNWBC 'Nutcracker'. Just found out Maurice Sendak did the costumes and set and its obvious to me now. Its like a nightmare and I love it. Still having troublr finding the other versions that I like but this is top 3

Last Movie: Pottersville (2017). One of my absolute favorite Christmas movies.

Currently Craving: I just ate but I have been wanting sweets a lot more recently.

Tagging: whoever would like to do it

[scrumptious-finicky-illusion]

This movie is so good and so anti-capitalist. Its a rare portrayal of a guy who's in trouble and reacts in the most human way possible: poorly. We see the nasty side of George Bailey come out when he's put under even more pressure than even he can bear.

I love the that it's snowing in Bedford Falls and not in Pottersville. One person's absence was powerful enough to change the weather.

Please, God, let me live again.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) dir. Frank Capra

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Hotel New Hampshire (Richardson, 1984)

You know, when you have a cute cartoon bear on the poster, I expect some potentially quirky but ultimately wholesome comedy. I do not expect rape and incest, two things which are present in nonzero amounts in this movie. I thought I was watching a Shaun Costello porno, Jesus H. Christ. (And no, I didn’t watch this for Valentine’s Day, I started it last night but was too tired to finish until today, and as a bitter single person all I do to celebrate is mutter under my breath. And even if I did, need I remind everybody that this is a judgment free zone.)

Okay, it isn’t quite that graphic, but it’s still pretty jarring to get those things in a movie I expected to be a lot more inoffensive. I understand this is an adaptation of a novel, and perhaps the mix of dark subject matter and quirky, offbeat tone worked on the page, but it absolutely does not survive onscreen under Tony Richardson’s direction. The results, despite the best efforts of the cast, are almost aggressively irritating, jarring twists in the plot and relationships dived into without any of the necessary emotional groundwork, the movie smirking to itself instead of actually grappling with the contradictions of the material.

I must also note that the bear is not central to the proceedings and is only a supporting character, although the fact that it’s played by Nastassja Kinski offers some comfort. In fact, this might be the closest I’ve seen to onscreen representation for furries other than Pottersville, and offers a much more positive portrayal than that movie. I should also note that the scenes where Kinski makes bedroom eyes with Jodie Foster while wearing the bear suit and where ***SPOILERS*** Kinski attempts to rape Matthew Modine ***SPOILERS*** will probably do a lot for some of you. As I said above, this is a judgement free zone.

[historicsaranaclake]

Dear friends,

With seasons greetings, I am sending along this essay, inspired by a favorite holiday movie. Many friends shared their memories to help me write this back in 2020 -- Chris Brescia, Jan Dudones, Jim Griebsch, Bunk Griffin, Howard Riley, Jim and Keela Rogers, and our dear friend, Natalie Leduc, who, on December 8, 2020 came to the end of her truly wonderful life. We still miss her.

Best wishes from all of us at Historic Saranac Lake.

Amy Catania

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It's a Wonderful Life, Tony Anderson by Amy Catania

"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole.” — It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946

This is a good time of year to watch It’s a Wonderful Life. Bedford Falls brings to mind Saranac Lake, and George Bailey reminds us of the wonderful lives of Saranac Lakers from the past like Alton “Tony” Anderson.

Tony Anderson fell ill with tuberculosis while working as a toolmaker in Southington, Connecticut. As a member of the Masons, he received financial help to come to Saranac Lake for treatment in 1919.

“I came here to die,” Tony used to say. Facing death, Tony received a gift, a chance to imagine the world without him. He made his home here and dedicated his life to giving back. He served as village mayor for nine terms. He worked as a volunteer ambulance driver and a plane spotter on top of the Hotel Saranac during the war. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Elks Club, the Rotary, the Boat and Waterway Club, the hospital board, and the blood bank.

Each afternoon, Tony went home to his modest house on South Hope Street and sat on his porch in a cure chair. “Best seat in the house,” he called it. After his afternoon rest, he would go back to the theater for the shows.

Saranac Lake in the 1950s was a picture postcard of Bedford Falls. Everyone knew each other. Kids played together outside through all seasons. Downtown shops bustled year-round. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise was five times thicker than it is today. The theater, the radio station, civic organizations, and places of worship knitted the community together. Like the shadow of death cast by tuberculosis, the horrors of WWII inspired an appreciation for life and a sense of civic responsibility.

But forces were afoot that were beginning to devastate small towns around the country. Everywhere, industry and manufacturing were closing up shop. In Saranac Lake, the TB business came to an end. Jobs dried up and families left. Across America, suburban development was eroding downtown retail. Television offered solitary entertainment that took the place of public activities like going to the movies.

By the late 1960s, Tony Anderson’s beloved theater had fallen on hard times. The impeccably dressed ushers were gone, and, much to Tony’s chagrin, on Wednesday nights the Pontiac was showing titillating foreign films that reflected changing social mores. It seemed that only the bars were prospering. More and more, town was looking like Pottersville, Bedford Falls’ evil twin in the movie. Then, on December 19, 1978, a massive fire devastated the Pontiac Theater. Three years after the fire, Saranac Lake’s longest serving mayor died at the age of 82.

It’s a sad ending to Tony’s story. Real life usually doesn’t get a Hollywood ending. Saranac Lake will always have plenty in common with Bedford Falls and Pottersville. And unlike George Bailey, most of us won’t ever meet our guardian angel.

But “It’s a Wonderful Life” reminds us that, even in the midst of regret and loss, we can find beauty and purpose in daily life. This is one of the most important things we do at Historic Saranac Lake, we honor the lives of the regular people who came before us. We pay attention to people like George, Ernie, Bert, Mary, Mr. Gower, Martini, Harry, the woman at the bank who asks for only $17.50, and even Mr. Potter. We remember Natalie Leduc, Mary Hotaling, Andy Rawdon, Jane and Walter Webb, and Tony Anderson.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! Happy Holidays, Saranac Lake!

Saranac Lake students presented about Tony Anderson at his grave in Pine Ridge Cemetery in 2019, part of Historic Saranac Lake’s annual 5th grade history tour. 

[wanipiece]

2020.

[jada-b]

This movie is very stupid and cheesy.

I give it a 10/10

Highly recommend it.

[that90ssmshow]

Jack & Henry’s Non-Denominational Holiday Special

Seasons greetings, true believers!

This year we wanted to give you all a festive treat with our holiday special, where we talk about our favourite holiday movies and TV episodes. Not everybody can celebrate this time of year in the way that they want to – but that doesn’t mean we can’t still have some fun and create new traditions! Stay safe y’all.

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[abrahamshipwreck]

Almost missed my fave Christmas movie Pottersville