#robert burke

[archiveofaffinities]

Robert Burke, Lighthouse Car

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

The Hal Hartley collection

The Unbelievable Truth (1989)

Adrienne Shelly and Robert Burke

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The local people soaked the seeds overnight to leach a toxin, but Burke and Wills ignored this process and suffered because of it.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

[thefirsthogokage]

From the NY Picket Lines...

[Image ID: A tweet from Inside Oz Podcast (@insideozpodcast) from July 25th, 2023 that reads:

Just a few of the Oz Fam taking to the picket line in the ongoing #SAGAFTRAstrike

Top: @Chris_Meloni, @kathryn_erbe, @BobbyBurke and Robert Clohessy

Bottom: @stevenwishnoff and @kirkacevedo

You have our total support guys!

/End ID]

And of course this matters to me because we get to see Chris Meloni and Kathryn Erbe together! A slightly blurry push in on the two of them below:

[strathshepard]

Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)

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Dust Devil

Is Richard Stanley’s DUST DEVIL (1992, Criterion Channel) an art film with horror elements or a horror film pretending to be an art film? It’s hard to tell. The print showing on Criterion Channel is nine minutes shorter than the version released as “The Final Cut” and 18 minutes shorter than the director’s cut released in England. Stanley has said the material cut from the first act helps the film make more sense, and certainly the version I saw doesn’t hold together logically. A hunky Texan (Robert Burke) possessed by the Nhadiep, a South African serial killer, wanders Namibia looking for people who want to die, which is basically anybody who offers him a ride (hey, we were warned not to pick up hitchhikers). After killing a lonely married woman he’s seduced and a young man (there’s no footage to suggest there was a seduction there), he encounters a woman (Chelsea Field) fleeing her abusive husband (Rufus Swart), At the same time, a local police detective (Zakes Mokae) is trying to solve the murders. The film is visually and aurally compelling, with beautiful location photography by Steven Chivers and a persuasive score by Simon Boswell. It’s particularly powerful in the first sequence involving the married woman, which plays almost silently. But then people start talking, and even Mokae is saddled with dialogue that just doesn’t sound natural. The mystical narration by a local healer (John Matshikiza) seems to be treating the story as some great myth at first, but after a while it just sounds absurd, like something you’d hear in a bad folklore paper. At least Matshikiza delivers his line with some spirit. Burke, who did good work in a recurring role on LAW AND ORDER: SVU, is directed to delivers his lines in a monotone, so when he starts waxing poetic you may want to take up smoking for an excuse to step out. After a while you’re waiting for Matshikiza and Mokae to show up and bring some life to the poetry, but even they can’t bring sense to a plot that goes all over the place. And there are no rules to Burke’s supernatural character, Halfway through the film, we learn he has the power to control the elements. And he can appear and vanish freely, which makes one wonder why he has to chase Field when she tries to run away from him. There are suggestions that the film is an allegory for Namibia’s bloody battle for independence from South Africa, but with no logic to hold on to, that just seems like an empty embellishment, a garnish you’re not supposed to eat.

[lootwijk]

Make a movie with Hal!

Hal Hartley, the kind, thoughtful creator of odd adventures (Henry Fool, Simple men, Trust, Surviving desire) is going for his second attempt at making Where to land (the first collided with the, you know, 2020 thing).

You can help out and you should. Go here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260302407/where-to-land-again

[mistressofthemacabresworld]

[hjellacott]

Robin Ellacott tucking her BAAABEE in:

Robin Ellacott imagining having breakfast every day with her man:

Cormoran Strike being sexy in the mornings:

When some other guy calls the woman you love:

The "In Therapy For Life" club:

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Strike: The Ink Black Heart | Official Trailer - BBC

[sesiondemadrugada]

Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951).

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

The Hal Hartley collection

The Unbelievable Truth (1989)

Adrienne Shelly and Robert Burke

[khakilike]

I completely forgot the new series of Strike came out in December! Even with Silo, When the Phone Rings, and Skeleton Crew all starting at about the same time (and Squid Game 2 a little later), I still should have remembered.

I'm kinda sad that I blew through the whole series in one day, but I just couldn't stop watching.

[eccentricallygothic]

I don't get why people shit on mustaches because I am the ultimate 'stache whore. They're so fuckin' sexy. Like. A man who looks stern and intimidating in THAT kinda way??? Pull me over your knee, sir. Thank you very much.

[emzy-caskett]

Petition to have The Running Grave as 6 episodes please…!? 🙏🏻✍🏻🤞🏻

[cinemacouture]

Dust Devil (1992, Richard Stanley)