#reeling international film festival

[wttnblog]

Reeling Film Festival 2024: Mini Reviews and Recaps

For the first time in my reviewing career, I’m attending a film festival! Reeling is a queer international film festival in Chicago that is current in its 42nd year. What started as a small showing of local films has turned into an international celebration of LGBTQ+ filmmakers and stories. This year, there’s over 50 films being shown from September 19th to September 29th. I will be writing some…

[reggieponder]

CineYouth Festival Interview with Celeste Wong

Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic, got a chance to speak with Celeste Wong, Festival Director of CineYouth Festival about the in-person and streaming options in their 18th year Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic speaks with CineYouth Festival Director, Celeste Wong

[disneytva]

The Wonderful World Of Mickey Mouse Sets Series Finale With The Wonderful World Of Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Silly Special

Today, Disney Branded Television,Disney Television Animation and Disney Europe Animation took to the stage at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to announce new projects, debut sneak-peeks, and highlight the expansion of current hit series that are poised to usher in the next century of Disney storytelling.

During the event it was announced that the beloved Emmy Award-winning “The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse” shorts culminate with a final episode titled “Steamboat Silly,”

“Steamboat Silly,” which follows Mickey Mouse and his friends as they must stop hundreds of old film reel versions of Mickey from wreaking havoc all over town. The short will debut July 28 on Disney+ as part of Disney’s 100-year anniversary celebration

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

06/25-26/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Rhys Darby; Vico Ortiz; Samson Kayo; Rachel House; Nathan Foad; Lindsey Cantrell; Articles; Adopt Our Crew Raffle Reminder; Fan Spotlight: Cast Cards; Never Left Podcast; Love Notes; Daily Darby / Today's Taika;

== Rhys Darby ==

Rhys is out helping to advertise Final Fantasy XIV: DawnTrail!

Source: ffxiv Instagram

== David Jenkins ==

Chaos Dad absolutely adores one of the submissions for TealOranges & Garlic Soup week! Shonyadraws made a lovely pixel animation!

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Source: David Jenkins' Twitter

== Vico Ortiz ==

Wow Vico is SO busy. They have been doing drag shows with ThemFataleDragKings and EnbyBruje this past weekend. You can check out more reels and videos on the ThemFataleDragKings IG.

A new episode of The Stars Too Fondly is out, voiced by Vico!

Vico was also recently our at the premier of their film Spark!

Vico will be on with the 25th Anniversary Media Summit this Friday! Learn more on Nalip

Source: Vico Ortiz' Instagram

== Samson Kayo ==

Samson out at the premier of Supacell!

Source: mrmsalami's Instagram

== Nathan Foad ==

Just some lovely Nathan photos!

Source: Nathan Foad's IG

== Linds Cantrell ==

Lindsey's new movie she worked on will be airing at LA Shorts: International Film Festival on July 19th, 7:45 pm! To learn more, visit LA Shorts

Source: Linds Cantrell IG

== Rachel House ==

Rachel has also been very busy! Did you know she's a new member of the Academy?

Source: Rachel House's Instagram

Rachel was also on the For Your Reference Podcast (you'll recognise the interviewer from some of our interviews with Rhys and Taika)!

Source: For Your Reference Podcast Instagram

And finally Rachel was also on The Jess Row Big Talk Show as well! Check her out!

Source: Jess J Rowe's Instagram

== Articles ==

Rhys Darby Hosts Your New Favorite Wildlife Series in 'The Hungry Games: Alaska's Big Bear Challenge' Trailer [Exclusive] (Thank you to Our Flag Means Fanfiction for finding this and sharing it!)

Emmy Contender Music Supervisor Maggie Phillips Talks Music Choices

Source: Adopt Our Crew Twitter

== Adopt Our Crew Raffle Reminder ==

Now it's technically only 2 days left to enter @adoptourcrew's Raffle! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccxjiQiKYZhk7QPeRTk2dn8XQlJ4sZursdlIkYFLXJy3vg4w/viewform

Source: Adopt Our Crew's Tumblr

== Fan Spotlight ==

= Cast Cards =

I am quite behind on @melvisik's Cast Cards tonight so there's 3 tonight! First up is Jack Sainte-Rose, one of the associate producers! Thank you Mel as always!

The next two: Martin D, and Amanda M. were guests at the wedding that Ed and "the Kids" crashed.

Source: @melvisik's Twitter

= Never Left Podcast =

There's a new episode of Never Left out! This week is discussing physical touch! Listen to them on your favorite podcast platform here: https://linktr.ee/neverleftpodcast!

Source: Never Left Podcast Instagram

== Love Notes ==

Hey there lovelies! Thank you for your patience with me. Been a lot going on here at home, and in life. I know there's so much going on for yall as well. Over the past few days we had "EdInASkirt" which I'm so proud of all of you for defending Ed, and Stede in allowing them to wear what they like. I love to watch the electricity of this fandom flow and spark from one thing or another. The reactions of it to events that upset-- you rally together, and you spread love, and you fight back. Standing up for things we love, for the things that bring us joy, are so very important. You make the world a more beautiful place by sharing your passion with it. Thank you for sharing that passion with me, with us, with the fandom. Don't ever lose that spark <3

== Daily Darby / Today's Taika ==

No real theme tonight lovelies just gorgeous gifs of our favorite dudes. Tonight's gifs courtesy of my dear friend @ofmd-ann!

[ofmdrecaps]

08/01-02/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Vico Ortiz; Ruibo Qian; Jes Tom; Rachel House; Minnie Driver; Dominic Burgess; International Clown Week; SMAUgust; WBD Q2 Earnings Call; National Twins Day; Fan Spotlight; Love Notes; Daily Darby / Today's Taika.

Alright-- so two big posts for 3 days worth of info-- sorry again for the delay all. I do hope my work has finally calmed down enough for me to get back to a normal schedule.

== David Jenkins ==

David put out a lovely shout out to Con since his episode of Time Bandits premiered on the 31st on Apple TV!

Source: David Jenkins Twitter

== Rhys Darby ==

Hey! Did you know there's a new episode of The Cryptid Factor available? It's out on spotify now, and as usual, the video version will be available on their Patreon sometime next week! Check it out below!

Rhys is out in Edinburgh! He's going to be doing The Cryptid Factor Live Aug 3-7th! -- and he's being so incredibly nostalgic, it's so heartwarming <3

Source: Rhys' Instagram

And if that's not enough Rhys for you-- Rhys will be appearing on the "What Lurks in Loch Ness" episode of Expedition X! To learn more, check out the Discovery Channel!

Source: Catski22 on Twitter

== Taika Waititi ==

Another fun shot of Taika behind the scenes at Russell Crowe's concert a couple weeks back!

Source: Instagram

And a shot of Taika, Rita and friends still out in Ibiza!

Source: Instagram

= Vico Ortiz =

Vico's posted another short OFMD BTS video on their Patreon! Here's a sneak peak-- check it out here!

= Lesbophilia Giveaway =

You may remember that Vico's short film Lesbophila will be playing at the HollyShorts Film Festival! Well Lesbophilia is doing a giveaway! Just follow the instructions below and you'll be entered to win some pretty cool (and NSFW) stuff!

Lesbophilia's Instagram

The Post Mentioned

Source: Lesbophilia's Instagram

== Ruibo Qian ==

August 1 was Ruibo's opening night of Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson! Wanna checkout some BTS for the show? Visit the GlobeTheatre's Reels

Source: Ruibo Qian's Instagram / Stories

== Jes Tom ==

Jes Tom was out performing at REDiNK, honoring the late Cecilia Gentili.

Source: Jes Tom's Instagram Stories

== Rachel House ==

So in case you ever wondered whether or not the cast of Time Bandits TV love Rachel House, now you do -- several of the cast members filmed themselves in costume when they found her phone in Lisa Kudrow's chair! It's actually super sweet to watch. I didn't notice any spoilers, but just fyi!

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Source: Rachel House' Instagram

== Minnie Driver ==

A rare sighting of both our murder wives on the same day getting some news-- Minnie Driver was out on @livekellyandmark talking all things Serpent Queen!

Source: Minnie Driver's Instagram

== Dominic Burgess ==

Great news - Dominic's screenplay "OUT OF MIND" has made it to the quarterfinal rounds of the 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowships! Congrats Dominic! He included a description and some more information below!

Source: Dominic Burgess Twitter

== International Clown Week ==

Honk HONK!

Source: ofmd-ann's Tumblr

== National Twins Day ==

Source: NoraKitty9 on Twitter

== WBD Q2 Call ==

Our friends over at @adoptourcrew are reminding everyone of the WBD Q2 earnings call happening Wednesday August 7! Sounds like there may be some fuckeries afoot so stay tuned!

Source: Adopt Our Crew's Tumblr

== SMAUgust ==

It's time for SMAUgust! SMAU aka Social Media Alternate Universe is a genre of fanfiction and now there's a month long celebration! You can follow the official Twitter, run by the absolute legend PogoNR, and Discord below-- there's already been some fantastic recommendations from our fellow crew mates! Feel free to check them out!

OFMD Smau Discord

OFMD Smau Twitter

Source: OFMD Smau's Twitter

== Fan Spotlight ==

= Cast Cards =

More cast cards from our crewmate @melvisik! Alex D. is another action talent according to https://ofmd-crew.com/ and Adam Wheatley is another one of our Production Designers!

= OFMD Colouring Pages =

Our friend @patchworkpiratebear is still putting out some awesome colouring pages! Illustrating more of our darling @denizbevan's fics! There are lots of versions available, so please visit their tumblr for more!

Source: Patchwork Piratebear's Trumblr

== Love Notes ==

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This chapter of my life since I've met you all has been one of the best <3 Thank you lovelies.

== Daily Darby / Today's Taika ==

These two gorgeous buggers and their eyebrows. These gifs courtesy of the lovely @ofmd-ann and @ transjudas!

[armynoonas]

September

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August

Days remaining: 🐨 282 🐱 292 🐿 46 🐥 283 🐻 282 🐰 283 🐹 is home 💜

Week 24 Jin’s Discharge & FESTA Week 28 ARMY Day & Torchbearer Jin Week 29 Torchbearer Jin

Week 36 (02-08)

Highlights: Right People, Wrong Place - World Premiere: Busan International Film Festival, Special Trailer NEVA PLAY (feat. RM) [Official Video] Run Jin - EP.4 | A Dangerous Invitation from Jin Are You Sure?! - Season Poster (Winter ver.)☃️ Jimin The Truth Untold - Exhibition Announcement Tae on Weverse - Post w/Tannie, answering comments Tae on KakaoTalk GC I AM STILL - Preview 1 - Seven, Special Posters, Special Photos, Official Photo 2

Week 37 (09-15)

Highlights: Joon Day - Weverse post, Instagram post 1, post 2, 2024 RM DAY, Joon’s Birthday!! RPWP - Busan Film Fest Run Jin EP.5 - A Dangerous Invitation from Jin 2 Hobi on Instagram Tae on Instagram

Week 38 (16-22)

Highlights: 2024 Chuseok Greeting Joon on Weverse - part 1, part 2 Jin Weverse Live Run Jin - EP.6 - The Prince of Tennis Jin x Fred Jewellery, reel 1, reel 2, photos 1, photos 2 Hobi on Weverse - Chuseok Greetings Hobi on Instagram - stories w/Tae, IU concert story 1, story 2, story 3, story 4 Are You Sure?! - PHOTOBOOK Visualizer, Episode Highlights, Preview in USA🗽, Preview in Jeju🏝️, Preview in Sapporo⛄️ Tae on Instagram - stories, IU concert JK on Weverse - Chuseok Greetings JUNG KOOK: I AM STILL

Milan Fashion Week: Jin on Weverse, Jin on Instagram, Jin on Instagram (afterparty) W Korea reel 1, reel 2 Madame FIGARO reel 1, reel 2, photos VOGUE Taiwan reel VOGUE India reel Cosmopolitan Korea reel 1, reel 2 Esquire Korea reel 1, reel 2 L'Officiel Singapore reel BAZAAR Taiwan reel marie claire reel 1, reel 2 WWD Japan reel eyesmag reel Gucci on Twitter

Week 39 (23-29)

Highlights: Coldplay on Twitter - My Universe Anniversary Busan Film Festival on Instagram - RM:RPWP 2024 UK Music Video Awards Jin on Weverse Run Jin EP.7 | The New Channel Owner Hobi on Instagram - post, stories Jimin Exhibition ��The Truth Untold : 전하지 못한 진심’ Teaser Video ✨ Ma Sunho on Instagram - new Tae pic JUNG KOOK: I AM STILL - Official Photo 4

[tina-aumont]

The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946.

Twenty-one countries presented their films at the "First Cannes International Film Festival", which took place at the former Casino of Cannes. Only one year after the end of World War II, most of the films were about the war. There arose several technical issues, such as the tarpauline cover blowing away in a storm on the day before the winners were to be announced, the reels of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious shown in reverse order, and Miguel M. Delgado’s The Three Musketeers projected upside-down.

During the first festival, the jury was made up of one representative per country, with French historian Georges Huisman as the Jury President. With more emphasis on creativity than in competitiveness, eighteen nations presented their films. Eleven of them tied for the first Grand Prix of the International Festival.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing this beautiful photo and the videos.

[film-classics]

Bette Davis - The First Lady of the American Screen

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (born in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 5, 1908) was an American actress who is one of the most prominent of the 20th century, making her "The First Lady of the American Screen."

Coming from an English family, Davis got a part as a chorus girl and made her Broadway debut in 1929 after graduating from Cushing Academy. One year later, moved to Hollywood to test for Universal. She got a contract, but her first films were unsuccessful.

She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and had her breakthrough in Of Human Bondage (1934). Even after losing a legal case to cancel her contract, she became a celebrated leading lady. A period of decline in the 1940s was redeemed with her role in All About Eve (1950), often cited as her best. Her final years were marred by ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France at 81.

Legacy:

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: Dangerous (1936) and Jezebel (1939)

Was the 1st person to have 10 Oscar nominations for acting and set a record for the most consecutive with five

Nominated for three Golden Globe Best Actress: 1951, 1962, and 1963, and the Primetime Emmy Award in 1979 and nominated in 1980 and 1983

Nominated for the 1959 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress

Won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1937 Venice Film Festival

Won the National Board of Review Best Acting twice in 1939 and 1942

Won the Photoplay Awards - Best Performances of the Month in Jul 1939 and Dec 1950 and the 1963 Most Popular Female Star

Listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America’s top-10 box office draws in 1939 to 1941 and 1944

Co-founded the Hollywood Canteen in 1941

Elected as 1st female president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1941

Won Best Actress for at the 1945 Picturegoer Awards

Awarded a Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1946 and a Distinguished Civilian Service Medal by the Defense Department in 1983

Won the Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actress in 1941 and 1963 and Life Achievement Award in 1983

Won Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Critics Circle, and Nastro d'Argento for All About Eve (1951)

Honored with a block in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in 1950

Won the Golden Laurel for Top Female Dramatic Performance for Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Received the Craft of Cinema Award at the 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival and a special 20th Anniversary Award for All About Eve at the 1973 Sarah Siddons Awards

Gifted personal memorabilia to form the Bette Davis Collection at the Boston University since 1968

Co-wrote 2 autobiographies: The Lonely Life (1962) and This 'n That (1987)

Appeared in John Springer's "Legendary Ladies" series at The Town Hall in 1973

Presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1974 Golden Globe Awards

Won the 1976 Saturn Award Best Supporting Actress

Is the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 1977

Received the 1980 Outstanding Mother of the Year Award from Woman's Day, the 1982 Award of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board, the Golden Reel Award from the National Film Society Artistry in Cinema, the Rudolph Valentino Award for Actress of the Year in 1982, the 1983 Charles Chaplin Award by UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the 1983 Women in Film Crystal Award

Received Life Achievement Awards from American Theater Arts in 1982, Boston Theater District in 1983, Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1986, and American Cinema Awards in 1989

Featured in songs, including Kim Carnes' Grammy-winning "Bette Davis Eyes" (1981)

Won the Golden Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)

Awarded an Honorary César, appointed commander of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986, and granted a Fellowship by the British Film Institute and a Legion of Honour at Deauville Film Festival in 1987

Was the recipient of the 1987 Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award

Granted the 1988 Merit of Achievement by the Campione d'Italia and the 1989 Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival

Has had a memorial plaque in her birth home in Lowell since 1988

Honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1989

Featured in the 1989 book Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud, the basis for the 2017 show Feud: Bette and Joan

Ranked #38 in Empire’s Top 100 Movie Stars in 1997

Has the Bette Davis Foundation established in her honor in 1997 to award scholarships at Boston University

Listed 10th in Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 1998

Named the 5th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999 by the American Film Institute

Inducted in the Online Film and Television Association Hall of Fame in 1999

Ranked #2 in Premiere's 50 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 2005 and #5 in 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006 for All About Eve (1950)

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for April 2008 and November 2019

Honored by US Postal Service with a postage stamp in 2008

Has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6225 Hollywood Blvd for motion picture and 6233 Hollywood Blvd for TV

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Tatiana Huezo

Director and screenwriter Tatiana Huezo was born in 1972 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Huezo first garnered international attention for her 2011 debut documentary film, The Tiniest Place, which was screened at over 80 film festivals globally and won the Grand Prix for Best Feature-length film at Visions du Reel. Her film Tempestad, which follows the stories of two women affected by human trafficking, won Best Documentary at the 2016 Fenix Awards, and four Ariel Awards. Huezo's first fictional feature, Prayers for the Stolen, received a Special Mention from the jury at Cannes.

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

Eddie talked about his harrowing ballooning experience in the film THE AERONAUTS at the Chicago International Film Festival! -October 23, 2019-

🎥 Source : Reel Honest Reviews on Facebook

#my screenshots

[brian-in-finance]

Video 📹 clip from Instagram Reel

Karla Welch MasterClass

Some 2022 Karla Welch - Caitríona Balfe styling

Screen Actors Guild Awards, 27 February 2022, Santa Monica

Santa Barbara International Film Festival - Virtuosos Awards, 5 March 2022, Santa Barbara

EE British Academy Film Awards Nominees’ Reception, 12 March 2022, London

British Vogue and Tiffany & Co Celebrate Fashion and Film Party / Critics Choice Awards, 13 March 2022, London

EE British Academy Film Awards, 13 March 2022, London

Academy Awards, 27 March 2022, Los Angeles

Vanity Fair Oscar Party, 27 March 2022, Los Angeles

BAFTA Scotland Awards, 20 November 2022, Glasgow

Remember… risk-taking is the fun of it all. — Karla Welch

[canmom]

L’Aventure de Canmom à Annecy - Dimanche/Lundi

Bonsoir mes amis!

I am in Annecy, the unreasonably picturesque home of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival! I have discovered that the Annecy International Animated Film Festival involves a lot more standing in long queues in the hot sun than I expected! Nevertheless, I’m here and making the best of it.

So.

dimanche - le voyage à annecy

First of all, Sunday! I set off at 3am on Sunday morning, taking a bus, followed by two tubes, followed by another bus to the airport. The last bus was late. I met a couple of nice PhD students on their way to the same airport, and they were gonna get all of us an uber, but then the bus showed up after all.

At the airport, security threw away my 200ml bottle of sunblock. Can never be too careful I guess >< Inevitably, Richard Dawkins and his little pot of honey leapt unbidden into my brain. I promise I did not call anyone a “dundridge”.

The flight itself was uneventful! I was behind three other Annecy-goers, a very sweet gay couple and their friend... we hit it off pretty well but they were on a later bus and I haven’t seen them since I got here ^^’ Once I landed in Geneva I was racing across the city to try to get to the Annecy bus in time (I left myself an hour, which turned out to be way too little time to get through customs, out the airport, onto the train etc.) Trains in Switzerland are nuts, some of them are split across multiple levels and even the ones that aren’t have like, steep steps to get aboard.

Like “fuck you if you’re in a wheelchair” I guess.

Luckily the bus to Annecy was late! So by midday on Sunday I was in Annecy!

I ran into a group of Swiss animation students who were happy to let me tag along for a while. They just finished their graduation films and they were terribly excited about Spider-Verse. They ended up arranging to meet a couple of animators at Cartoon Saloon so I ended up witnessing some honest to god Networking. The imposter syndrome kicked in about when they were showing the cartoon saloon animators clips from their demo reels. I didn’t even have business cards. Apparently that’s a thing people bring???

pictured: swiss animation students approaching Lake Annecy.

Anyway my legs got really tired from standing up and no sleep. I bought myself an expensive crêpe and sat down on the floor to eat it. No films were due to start for hours.

I went down to a comic book shop in Bonlieu. French comic book shops are fucking insane. All the books are enormous glossy hardbacks that cost like 50+ euros. I could totally walk away with the complete works of Moebius or Enki Bilal if things like ‘money’ and ‘getting through the airport’ and ‘not reading French’ weren’t factors. But equally there’s so much stuff that I’ve just plain never heard of. I could spend a month in this one shop easy.

At 3am my hotel checkin opened! Though in French you don’t say ‘check in’, you say j’ai un reservation. By this point I had been awake for more than 24 hours so I decided to go have a nap and eat the falafels I brought with me (very good idea, would recommend having a snack) and wake up for the opening ceremony.

Hotel comments: It’s pretty comfy! Nothing super fancy but I don’t need super fancy. The breakfast is kind of crazy expensive. I had a bit of a scare when it turned out that they hadn’t charged me when I booked the room, and wanted payment now, but thankfully I have a job now so I could take that in stride ^^’

At this point I discovered my plug adapter supports the US, Australia, New Zealand and Japan... but not Europe. Fortunately I had a power bank with me so I could keep my phone alive (its battery is pretty shot) so I resolved to buy a new adapter on Monday.

I woke up shortly before the opening ceremony and quickly concluded that there was no way I was going to be making it down to the opening ceremony and went back to sleep. I slept a really long time. But I think I needed it. Shame to miss the ceremony but odds are I probably wouldn’t have even been able to get in, someone else said she’d queued for two hours.

lundi - les files d'attente 

(lmao is that really the french for ‘queues’? ‘files d’attente’?)

A beautiful morning in Annecy! I walked over to the supermarché and got myself some pasta ingredients and a ‘veggie dog’ (falafels in a baguette) from a French bakery. I learned just how limited my French vocab is. But it’s a little reassuring to find French people who speak about as much English as I speak French. (Have not yet tried to speak Japanese to any French person but it will probably happen.)

Anyway. Films time, at last!

So the way Annecy works is, you get a certain number of reservations per day depending on your ticket type. If you don’t have a reservation you can optimistically show up at the theatre anyway, and whatever seats they have left go to the line. From the website it sounded like you’d have a pretty good chance to get in.

My friends. That is a lie.

To get in to a popular non-reserved screening you have to turn up basically hours in advance. Otherwise you arrive at the back of a queue like this, stand in line for a while, and then someone in a red shirt comes out and tells you you’re too late and you go find something else to do.

I have already become very familiar with this particular stretch of ground outside Cinema Pathé. That said, the queues are a good chance to meet people! So I ended up making a couple of connections, mostly with animation students from various places. It turns out a ‘Grand Public’ ticket is a bit of an odd duck.

As you can see in that picture, a lot of people had umbrellas. This is something I neglected, and had to use my bag instead, like so:

Guess where I got sunburned.

One of those something elses I did was walk into the VR films room. This runs on its own reservation system, with each film having somewhere between 2 and 6 headsets, which get sanitised between viewings. The whole room looks kinda scifi with its cables dangling from the ceiling...

The only VR film available when I arrived was called Black Hole Museum + Body Browser by Su Wen-Chi from Taiwan. This was very demoscene, with a lot of particles flying around under force fields in a black and white space; the second part involved a dancer who’d been photoscanned somehow and was displayed using waves of particles. It was neat, but I can’t say I was hugely moved? The display device was a Quest 2, but I’m not sure if it was running the particle sim on Quest 2 hardware. If it was, I’m impressed.

The other VR films were all but fully booked so I resolved to come back another day.

I tried to get into the anime film The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes. Predictably, I was too late. However, the next queue over was for a Spanish film called Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow, and, wanting to see at least one film I hopped onto that queue and found myself inside the cinema in short order.

The auditorium was packed and I got to witness firsthand such Annecy traditions as throwing paper aeroplanes at the screen, shouting ‘Lapin!’ whenever a rabbit appears onscreen, and making a weird popping sound with your mouth while waiting for the film to start (??? it sounded like frogs ig???). The movie itself was greeted with excitement but honestly? It was pretty eh, which is a shame since the idea of a world of bugs is a fun one! The story concerns a bumbling spider detective, his aspiring sidekick spider, and his feud with the leader of a locust underworld, playing out on a seaplane en route to San Francisco. The characters are all very one-note archetypes, and the dialogue felt like it was trying way too hard to be funny quippy movie dialogue... only to land on the painfully obvious. A big shame.

But what’s worse is that I had spent my one daily reservation on Mars Express by Jérémie Périn at 4:30 and I’d completely lost track of time. By the time I walked out of Inspector Sun my phone was almost dead (see above about the adapter) so I popped into a French electronics store and bought a couple of EU adapters and set off to charge my phone. But then on the bus I thought, hold on a minute, when is Mars Express, I have like an hour right---oh fuck. Well fine it’s at Bonlieu right? I can just walk there? ...it’s at Le Mikado Novel? Where the fuck is that? Half an hour away?

...so to make a long story short I got off the bus, walked down the street, my phone died, there was no way I could find my way to Le Mikado in time to get in even with my reservation, so I had to go back to my hotel and waste my precious reservation. And I hear the film was great. Sob.

There are a bunch of other screenings this week but they’re all packed so who knows if I’ll get to see this movie.

Despite this big oof I charged up my phone and headed back to meet up with my friend (hi to my friend!) who was in the queue for Production I.G.’s new film The Concierge. My friend was more than an hour early, so we thought we had a pretty good chance... lol nope. After standing in line for 45 minutes we were informed the cinema is full and had to leave.

It wasn’t a complete waste though. We met up with another friend and had a little picnic of bagels. Unfortunately the bagel I got was not the bagel I thought I was getting (idk what happened) but even so, it was nice to meet two online friends who by bizarre coincidence both turned out to be from Singapore.

To close the night I decided to take one more shot at getting in to see a movie, and went for a late showing of The Sacred Cave, a movie from Cameroon. Which is pretty neat, it’s not every day you see a movie from Cameroon. This one was... well, technically it’s definitely rough, but I don’t wanna be hard on it. The story is a fairy tale: a traditional healer is called in to attempt to save a dying king, and he dispatches his son on a mission to retrieve special medicine alongside the Prince.

On the way the son encounters a weird forest wizard, then a princess of a neighbouring clan who’s been turned into an anthro frog by an evil wizard; as he tries to head back with the medicine, he’s captured by said clan and almost executed, but because of his pure nature he alone can draw the special magic sword, and using this power he helps his captors overcome the evil wizard’s raiding party. But on the way home he gets betrayed by the Prince! A whole lot of betraying unfolds, killing off the old seer, and it turns out that our boy is actually the true son of the King. Despite the whole ‘executing his adoptive father on spurious charges’ thing, it all shakes out; the baddies are driven off, the princess unfrogged, and our very special good boy is rewarded.

It’s animated largely in Flash, and it has the feel of an online Flash video. All the same, I believe this is the first feature-length animated film from Cameroon. Bootstrapping an animation industry capable of putting together a coherent film is a hell of a feat, and must take an enormous degree of passion and dedication to make that happen. (Also not to put too fine a point on it but there are certain historical reasons why France has a much more developed animation industry than the country it had colonised until 1971.) Anyway, although principally made in Cameroon, the credits name a whole bunch of different countries, mostly in West Africa. Probably it would make sense to compare it to Princess Iron Fan or something like that, and I’m excited to see what comes down the line. And it was a very sincere movie, the setting presented with a great deal of love, especially when it came to costumes. I’m glad to have seen it.

Tomorrow morning Im gonna get up very early and take another shot at The Concierge, and try and plan better around the queuing system to try to make the best of it and catch more of the short films. It’s definitely not been the day of back to back films I was expecting, but honestly despite all that I’m having a good time just being in Annecy and the week is yet young...

good god is it expensive here though

[power-chords]

Michael Mann brings his astonishing command of technique and storytelling to bear on this emotional, elegantly crafted dramatization of the life of the legendary race car manufacturer and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari at a professional and personal fulcrum. It’s 1957, and the marriage of Enzo (Adam Driver, in an artfully internalized performance) and Laura (Penélope Cruz, a ferocious revelation) has begun to irrevocably fracture as a result of his philandering and the tragic recent death of their young son. Their unsettled domestic world is on a collision course with his work life as Enzo faces a pair of major turning points: financial pressure to increase productivity, which means going against his long-standing desire to only produce race cars, and preparations for the treacherous cross-country open-road Mille Miglia race. Dovetailing these narrative strands, Mann effortlessly shifts gears between elegiac and spectacular, climaxing in an exhilarating and terrifying race across the Northern Italian landscape—a visual and aural wonder of revving machinery against bucolic splendor—that ranks with the greatest set pieces of the director’s career. Aided by a magnificent cast, which also includes Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Patrick Dempsey, and Jack O’Connell, and glorious on-location shooting in Ferrari’s hometown of Modena, Mann has constructed a marvel of classical cinema.

[perfectlyyoungtimetravel]

Film Fridays

Today I drew Charles Burnett, whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the African American experience. He was born on April 13th on 1944 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. In 1947. His family moved to Watts, South LA. He was interested in expressing himself through art when he was younger but because of economic pressure, he chose to study electronics at Los Angeles City College instead, but then he took writing classes and even earned BA in writing and languages at the University of California, LA. Watts really really influenced his movies because of violent riots on 1965. And protest against police brutality committed on Rodney King on 1992. In fact his first feature film was set there. And he said in an interview for Cahiers du Cinéma 'I always felt like an outside, an observer who wasn't able to participate because I couldn't speak very well. So this inability to communicate must have led me...to find some other means to express myself...I really liked a lot of the kids I grew up with. I felt an obligation to write something about them, to explain what went wrong with them. I think that's the reason I started to make these movies.'. He continued his education at the UCLA film school, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater arts and film, which really had an influence on him as well because of his friends, classmates and mentors. On 1967. And 1968. The turbulent social events that was vital in establishing the UCLA filmmaking movement and that Charles Burnett was involved in was the 'Black Independent Movement' their films were very relevant to the politics and culture of the 1960s. Their characters were shifting from the middle class to working class to highlight the tension caused by class conflict within the African American families. The independent writers and directors stayed away from the mainstream and they have won critical approval for remaining faithful to African American history. They also created the Third World Film Club to break the American boycott banning all forms of cultural exchange with Cuba. 'Black Independent Movement' also considered to respond to Hollywood and Blaxploitation films that were popular around the time. His first films with friends were 'Several Friends (1969)' and 'The Horse (1973)'. His famous movies were 'Killer of Sheep (1978)', 'My Brother's Wedding (1983)', 'To sleep with Anger (1990)', ' The Glass Shield' and 'Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)'. Including some documentaries such as 'Nat Turner: A Troublesome property (2003 Which won a Cinematography Award from the Long Beach International Film Festival)', 'America Becoming (1991)', 'Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland (1998)', ' For Reel? (2003)' and 'Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)'. He earned:

MacArthur Fellowship

The Freedom in Film Award from The First Amendment Center and the Nashville Independent Film Festival

Honors from The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Human Rights Watch International Film Film Festival

The prestigious Howard's University's Paul Robenson Award

Governors Award

[blueiscoool]

Lonesome Cowboys Andy Warhol, 1968

A set of original 16mm presentation reels of the film that sparked the “Stonewall of the South.” Six 35mm film reels housed in 2 metal flight cases. Movielab, New York, pritned ca. 1969.

On the evening of 5 August 1969, a small crowd of seventy settled in to view Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys at the recently opened art cinema at the Ansley Mall in Atlanta. About fifteen minutes into the homoerotic underground spoof on westerns featuring Warhol stars Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Eric Emerson, Meade, and Tom Hompertz, the film suddenly stopped, and the house lights went up. The police, some in uniform, others in plainclothes, were everywhere, some with cameras taking photographs of the startled movie-goers still in their seats. Those who attempted to depart quickly were blocked at the door and they too were photographed and questioned by Atlanta police officers. Other officers headed upstairs to the projection room to seize the film reels and arrest James Russ, the manager of the Ansley Mini-Cinema. The police mounted the raid not only to enforce local obscenity laws but identify “known homosexuals,” part of a pattern of harassment that members of Atlanta’s gay Midtown neighborhood routinely endured. Abby Drue, a noted LBGTQ activist, was in the audience that night. “They had everybody get up and line up,” she recalled. “We had popcorn in our mouths. I think I had a submarine sandwich I was in the middle of eating. That’s how absurd it was.”

The police raid in Atlanta occurred a little more than a month after the Stonewall riots in New York, and for many members of the city’s burgeoning LGBTQ community, the raid on the Ansley Mini-Cinema was the final straw. Several days after the raid, a group of protesters were pepper-sprayed and some arrested. These events compelled Atlanta’s LGBTQ community to form the Georgia Gay Liberation Front. That organization would mount Atlanta’s first Pride march in 1971 — an unsanctioned march in which many of participants wore paper bags over their heads to protect their identities — starkly demonstrating the risk of physical harm that was an ever-present threat. Despite local hostility, the marches continued, and Atlanta’s LBGTQ community began flourishing over the ensuing decades becoming strong and vibrant. Today, the raid has been dubbed, “The Stonewall of the South.”

Yet the Atlanta police were not the only law enforcement agency to take interest in Lonesome Cowboys. The FBI had been monitoring the film soon after it was filmed in a single day a dude ranch near Tucson, Arizona on 28 January 1968. A Special Agent was dispatched to Arizona to interview witnesses to support a potential charge of “interstate transportation of obscene matter.” The investigation had been prompted by a complaint received at the Pinal County Sherriff, that “some guests at the Rancho Linda Vista Guest Ranch were making an obscene film.” Sherriff’s deputies arrived at the ranch on the afternoon of the 28th and ordered that the filming be halted immediately. The FBI kept a copiously detailed dossier on the film’s production based on eyewitness accounts that offer a window into the chaos of the film’s production covering all aspects from various “unnatural sexual acts” to details on the license plate numbers (redacted) of those on set. One eyewitness recalled that “The movie seemed to have no plot and the actors just said anything that came into their minds.” (Vincent Canby and other critics would take a similar view.) The FBI continued to monitor the film’s production and distribution, noting that Warhol had intended it to be premiered at the Hudson Theatre in New York in late April 1968, but editing was taking longer than planned. Then in early June, Warhol fell victim to an assassination attempt, further delaying production. It finally premiered at the San Francicso International Film Festival on 1 November 1968, and FBI agents were there collecting further evidence.

Meanwhile in Atlanta, the question of whether the film could be considered obscene landed in the courts. Ultimately, Lewis Slayton, the Fulton County District Attorney, allowed the film to be shown after Cradock Films, who held the rights to distribute the film in Georgia, agreed to edit out what the county considered objectionable. By early January 1970, the Ansley Mini-Cinema was once again presenting Lonesome Cowboys. As far as the FBI’s investigation into Warhol’s activities was concerned, federal prosecutors in Arizona, San Francisco and New York ultimately declined to pursue the charges in court, as the film was not considered “obscene within the definition of that word as defined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”

The present copy is believed to have been printed as early as 1969, but no earlier. According to the FBI report on the film’s screening in San Francisco in November 1968, the film opened with “the woman [Viva] and her male nurse [Taylor Meade] on a street in the town,” but the present copy, opens with a sex scene between Viva and Tom Hompert which appears to be consistent with the currently-known copies. The markings found on the paper sleeves include a red stamp for “INTERNATIONAL AMUSEMENT CORP,” a short-lived distribution and production company based in North Carolina established in 1974. This would suggest this film was in circulation in various art houses up until at least the mid to late 1970s.

The current number of original copies used during the film’s showings in 1969 and 1970 is unclear, but the present set of reels is marked as “Print No. 10” on each of the surviving paper sleeves. Original reels of the film are known to have survived including a master print at the Andy Warhol museum and copies at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is not clear if other copies survive in any private collections.

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Holidays 3.5

Holidays

Act Goofy Day

Alimony Equality Day

Anthass Day (Kerala, Fans of Indian actor Mukesh)

Arivee de l’Evangile (Gospel Day; French Polynesia)

Babysitter Safety Day

Boston Massacre Day (Massachusetts)

Brain Injury Awareness Day

Charity Day (Iran)

Children’s Day (New Zealand)

Cinco de Marcho

Cincomarzada

Crispus Attucks Day

Custom Chief’s Day (Vanuatu)

Day of Physical Culture and Women in Engineering & Technology begins

Dr. Doolittle Day

Erotic World Book Day

Excited Insects (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Goat Day (French Republic)

Green Hellebore Day

Hula Hoop Day

International CVS Awareness Day

International Day for Disarmament & Non-Proliferation Awareness (UN)

International Day of Energy Efficiency

International Day of the Seal

Judiciary Employee Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Katyn Massacre Day

Learn from Lei Feng Day (China)

Madison Beer Day

Mother-in-Law's Day

Multiple Personalities Day

National Dissociative Identity Disorder Day

National Emetophobia Awareness Day (UK)

National Industrial Design Day

National Journalist Day (Thailand)

National Kalpak Day (a.k.a. Hat Day; Kyrgyzstan)

National MAR5 Day

National Potty Dance Day

National R&B Music Day

National Scott Day

National Tree Planting Day (Iran)

Panchayati Raj Divas (Odisha, India)

Reel Film Day

Running of the Reindeer (Alaska)

Say Hi to Mom Day

Scouts’ Day (Taiwan)

Spread the Word to End the Word Day

Stapler Day

Stop the Clocks Day

Temperance Day

305 Day

World Sustainable Energy Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Absinthe Day

National Cheese Doodle Day

National Mobile Food Vendors Day

National Pasty Day (UK)

National Poutine Day

Ramen Noodles Day

1st Tuesday in March

Cotton Carnival (Memphis, Tennessee) [1st Tuesday, Lasts 5 Days]

Football Day (England) [1st Tuesday]

National Sportsmanship Day [1st Tuesday]

Peace Corps Day [1st Tuesday]

Peace Day (Jamaica) [1st Tuesday]

Town Meeting Day (Vermont) [1st Tuesday]

Unique Names Day [Tuesday of Name Week]

Independence & Related Days

Rebellion Anniversary Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Trujillo Anniversary Day (Peru)

Festivals Beginning March 5, 2024

CinemAsia Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [thru 3.10]

Heritage Miami: Wine and Food Experience (Miami, Florida)

Research Chefs Association Culinary Expo (Quincy, Massachusetts) [thru 3.7]

World Championship Cheese Contest (Madison, Wisconsin) [thru 3.7]

Feast Days

Adrian and Eubulus of Palestine (Christian; Martyrs)

Blessing of the Fleet by Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Ciarán of Saigir (a.k.a. Kiaran of Ireland; Celtic & Christian; Saint)

Clive Cahuenga (Muppetism)

Diasia (Festival of Zeus Meilikhios; Ancient Greece)

Eusebius of Cremona (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Orthodoxy (Greek Orthodox) [1st Sunday in Great Lent; 2023]

Feast of Saint Piran (Cornwall)

George Carlin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Gerasimus (Christian; Saint)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Artology)

Howard Pyle (Artology)

John Joseph of the Cross (Christian; Saint)

Momfuku Ando Day (Pastafarian)

Navigum Isidis (Blessing of the Vessel of Isis; Ancient Egypt; Everyday Wicca)

Navigum Isis (a.k.a. Ploiaphaesia; Poseidon’s Day; The Festival of Navigation; Ancient Rome)

Orthodox Sunday (Orthodox Christian) [1st Sunday in Great Lent; 2021]

Phocas of Antioch (Christian; Martyr)

Piran (Christian; Saint) [Cornwall]

Roger (Christian; Saint)

Serpent Mother Day (Ancient Minoa; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Solon (Positivist; Saint)

Symphony No. 7, The “Leningrad Symphony,” in C Major, by Dmitri Shostakovich (Symphony; 1942)

Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea (Christian; Saint)

Thietmar of Minden (Christian; Saint)

Virgil of Arles (Christian; Saint)

Wedding of the March Dryads (Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Stalin's birthday.)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [17 of 57]

Premieres

Airport (Film; 1970)

Alice in Wonderland (Film; 2010)

Amos & Andrew (Film; 1993)

Analyze This (Film; 1999)

The Ant and the Aardvark (Ant and the Aardvark Cartoon; 1969)

The Ballad of Nessie (Disney Cartoon; 2011)

Barnyard Blackout (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

Big-Hearted Bosko (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)

Bongo Boris or The Hep Rat (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 103; 1961)

Coming 2 America (Film; 2021)

Cruel Intentions (Film; 1999)

Diner (Film; 1982)

Donald’s Diary (Disney Cartoon; 1954)

Down pin the Levee (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Drip Dippy Donald (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Evil Under the Sun (Film; 1982)

Fire! Fire! (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1932)

For Your Love, by The Yardbirds (Song; 1965)

Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco (Novel; 1988)

Human’s Lib, by Howard Jones (Album; 1984)

Kindly Scram (Phantasies Cartoon; 1943)

The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Novel; 1969)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Film; 1999)

The Mad Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Mad Dog and Glory (Film; 1993)

Neon Bible, by Arcade Fire (Album; 2007)

The Railway Children, by Edith Nesbit (Novel; 1905)

Raya and the Last Dragon (Animated Film; 2021)

Red Hot Music (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Rival Romeos (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek (Political Theory; 1944)

Room and Bored (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1962)

Run Baby Run, by Nicky Cruz (Novel; 1969)

The Saint to the Rescue, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1959) [Saint #35]

The Secret of Kells (Animated Film; 2010)

Shaun the Sheep (Animated TV Series; 2007)

Songs For Swinging’ Lovers!, by Frank Sinatra (Album; 1956)

The Spies of Life or When a Fella Needs a Fiend (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 104; 1961)

Stairway to Heaven, 1st performed live by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1971)

Swing Kids (Film; 1993)

Us Again (Disney Cartoon; 2021)

Where Do Teenagers Come From? (DePatie-Freleng Animated TV Special; 1980)

Today’s Name Days

Dietmar, Jeremia, Olivia (Austria)

Hadrijan, Lucije, Teofil, Vedran (Croatia)

Kazimír (Czech Republic)

Theophillus (Denmark)

Laila, Laili, Leila, Leili (Estonia)

Laila, Leila (Finland)

Olive, Olivia (France)

Gerda, Dietmar, Olivia, Tim (Germany)

Arhelaos, Evlogios, Konon (Greece)

Adorján, Adrián (Hungary)

Adriano, Foca, Giovanni, Giuseppe, Virgilio (Italy)

Aurēlija, Aurora, Austra (Latvia)

Giedrė, Klemensas, Virgilijus, Vydotas (Lithuania)

Patricia, Patrick (Norway)

Adrian, Adrianna, Fryderyk, Jan, Pakosław, Pakosz, Wacław, Wacława (Poland)

Conon (Romania)

Fridrich (Slovakia)

Adrián, Adriano, Eusebio (Spain)

Tora, Tove (Sweden)

Ciara, Ciera, Cierra, Keren Keri, Kerri, Kerrie, Kerry, Kiara, Kiera, Kieran, Kierra, Sierra (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 65 of 2024; 301 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 10 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 25 (Wu-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 25 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 24 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 5 Green; Fryday [5 of 30]

Julian: 21 February 2024

Moon: 29%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 9 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Xenophanes]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 76 of 89)

Week: 1st Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 16 of 30)