#reading cinemas

[alanaartdream]

Was looking into my local cinema before I head off to work today because tomorrow when I have the time I plan to go see the teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem movie and I just love the movie posters for TmNT movie and the up and coming dreamworks trolls band together movie

(( this is in Australia 🇦🇺 reading cinemas so not sure everyone has same movie posters in their cinemas so thought be cool to share))

[learnelle]

Obsessed with this bookshop-cinema hybrid in Florence! During the day you can even sit upstairs and watch people choose their books downstairs 💛

[choccy-milky]

part 3 to my modern AU 💞🍺 (part 1 / part 2)

[saintatreidess]

(MINOR) SPOILERS FOR BOTH NOSFERATU (2024) & THE NOVEL DRACULA AHEAD!

modernity in nosferatu (2024) & dracula

it’s been almost 24 hours since i saw robert eggers’ nosferatu and i’m still in shock by how well crafted this film is. all my expectations for a dracula adaptation have been met. it’s obviously not a faithful adaptation of the novel. but we’ve seen that even adaptations that claim faithfulness end up fumbling what the story is about (cough, cough, bram stoker’s dracula (1992)). so, with that in mind, i think it’s better for a movie to do its own thing as long as it includes the themes at the core of dracula. and this is what nosferatu (2024) does really well.

what i want to talk about here is the topic of modernity in the story. it’s a central theme in the novel. there are a lot of references to late 19th century technological & scientific innovation. the count dracula is wary of modernity. he doesn’t understand it so he almost fears it. there is an opposition between modernity and old/paganism. this opposition can also be interpreted as "west v east".

this is referenced a lot in robert eggers’ nosferatu. when thomas hutter arrives at count orlok’s castle he asks his host about the local population’s superstitions. this angers the count who calls said superstitions idiotic (or something like this, i don’t remember the exact quote). obviously in the movie the main reason orlok goes to the west (germany in the movie, england in the novel) is to get to ellen. but there’s another reason, which is that in the 19th century western world (at least in the cities) pagan beliefs are practically gone. it’s a "modern" world in which people are no longer superstitious. they don’t believe in the supernatural, in vampires.

in his home country, orlok is threatened by pagan beliefs. by moving west, he can claim victims and get away with it because he’s protected by the upholding of modern science and rational thinking, which replaced superstition long ago. in the movie, the germans think that the doings of orlok are the plague. the existence of a blood-thirsty demon is ridiculous to them. this idea is represented by the character of herr harding (aaron taylor-johnson), whose rational mind ends up costing him the loss of his family and his own life.

that being said, in the novel, what ends up causing count dracula’s downfall is his weariness of modernity that i mentioned above. he uses "archaic" means of transportation to escape the hunting team made of van helsing, dr seward, mina & jonathan harker etc. he travels by sail instead of steamboat, carriage instead of steam train, the list goes on. but what allows the count’s foes to defeat him is in fact the belief that modernity/science and superstition are complementary and not opposite. van helsing uses both a scientific and pagan approach to eventually kill the vampire. so, don’t get it twisted, the novel doesn’t try to say that "modernity = good & superstition = bad" or vice versa. rather i think it offers a more nuanced take, suggesting that one doesn’t necessarily have to cancel out the other.

gif credits: junkfoodcinemas

[renatapatata]

as soon as i added a very vague letterbox review for this film some guy from work texted me and it took me .5 seconds to realize he had no idea what the plot was actually about… certified ‘bruh’ moment lads

[idliketobeatree]

dead boy detectives contrapuntal poems — 3 — (1) (2) (4)

[opera-ghost]

the managers' plotline: we need a safety pin to solve the mystery of how the opera ghost keeps stealing our money!

christine's plotline:

[sentaluise]

i have been laughing about this fucking headline for three minutes

[blond1ebombshell]

love this movie<3

[metamatar]

hello do u have any fav books about south asian history, culture, and politics that u could recommend?

this is such a broad remit so i forgot everything i'd ever read, but here are books that influenced my thinking –

ambedkar's annihilation of caste because he is india's foremost intellectual and understanding caste is central to indian society, sumit guha's beyond caste to understand the historical record on the question, amartya sen's the argumentative indian on the history of ancient indian heterodox philosophy, nandini sundar's the burning forest on the war in bastar, aijaz ahmed's in theory on postcolonial literature, nivedita majumdar's the world in a grain of sand for more on subaltern studies intersection with that.

[majunju]

fave isekai webtoons 🎤

a transmigrator's privilege

...that's it

[brujaluas]

What character would you be if you were in a movie/series/book?

pile 1

you would be a badass person, you recognize and know your values, your limits, everything that happens and doesn't happen, you remind me in a way of hippies, you would definitely have that vibe, of being those good vibes friends who never seem like they are in a wrong frequency because they already understand what life wants but with a roguish smile they carry that secret in their pocket.

pile 2

bridget jones, yes, you have that vibe, or something similar, in some way you would be starring in a romantic film or series or about overcoming a relationship, one of those stories where the person is completely devastated at having ended the relationship but discovers in the end that all along she just needed to give herself a chance.

pile 3

look, it would be something related to a journey of self-discovery, you feel lost with life, or something that you thought would be right for you turns out not to be putting all your beliefs into a thoughtful mode, you would travel to somewhere far away and relax and maybe discover something new from you, it reminds me of one of my favorite films that I love most in the world, eat pray love.

[chronophotographic-gun]

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

[queeraskae]

I'm still so grateful for that one friend that randomly said "hey, I loved the Sonic 3 movie, and I kinda wanna watch 1 & 2 again. You haven't seen them yet wanna watch them together for our movie night?"

And since I know her recommendations are usually good, and I wanted to indulge her in her hyperfixation, I said yes.

The SECOND Stone and Robotnik appeared on screen she leaned in to me (not the other friends, me, because she knows I'm a damn disaster) and said "yooo these two are shipped by a lot of people".

...

I haven't been the same person since🙈❤️❤️❤️

[annasellheim]

Last part

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

🎬 Les Cousins (1959)