#standard+film

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R1-09844-017A by Ilya Kazarinov Via Flickr: Novoross' 21

[bubzys-bubabalooza]

One of the most interesting details in The Substance to me, that I don't see anyone talking about is that the person who introduces Elizabeth to the Substance program, the person who pulls her into a living nightmare under the pretence of helping her, was not only a man, but one also using the substance and hating it too. To me this felt like a really smart way to acknowledge that yes, men are absolutely affected by unfair body standards to some degree, but those same men are more likely to be apathetic to the issues women face and enforce those same body standards they pretend to care about.

[u-n-c-o-m-m-o-n]

The Substance (2024) Directed by Coralie Fargeat.

[forecast0ctopus]

it’s a scream, baby!

[just-french-me-up]

So my partner and I are rewatching supernatural from season 4 on for nostalgia's sake

And my partner has never been involved in any fandom space, he knows some basic stuff but he's pretty much free of fanon and fandom consensus of any kind

And as we were watching he said:

"Damn I didn't remember how intense Dean and Castiel's relationship was back then. They're shooting this like a romance or something with all the close-ups."

And then, the KICKER :

"Must be a fic or two about that, right?"

Oh BUDDY. Oh PAL. YOU JUST. You have NO IDEA DO YOU

[drrav3nb]

SUMMERTIME (1955) (dir. David Lean)

I was thinking of the first evening I came here. First time I saw you, you were wearing that yellow tie. I don't want to forget any of it. Not a single moment. I don't think I ever shall.

[turtleblogatlast]

I really like how Donnie and Mikey having the shortest mask tails makes so much sense in regard to them being an inventor and an artist/cook respectively. If their mask tails were longer, it could be dangerous and/or get in the way of what they were trying to do.

Meanwhile Raph is large enough that his longer mask tails wouldn’t be easily used against him in fighting or sparring, plus the longer tails definitely make for a more standard hero/ninja look which would make him lean into it more.

Leo likes long mask tails because he can flip them.

[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée Chalamet is set to receive the Chairman’s Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his performance in ‘A Complete Unknown.’

​​Chalamet has been recognized at the festival before. In 2018, he received the Rising Star Award for “Call Me By Your Name,” and the following year, he received the Spotlight Award for “Beautiful Boy.”

“Timothée showcases both his physical and vocal talents as he brings depth and nuance to this role that is certain to receive award recognition. It is our honor to recognize Timothée, one of the most respected actors of his generation, with the Chairman’s Award.”

-Nachhattar Singh Chandi, PSIFF Chairman

[katerinaaqu]

When people create movies: We must be very careful! We need to be respectful as possible. We shall cast very specifically people who have descent from that area or that look like their parts. What do you mean it is just a cartoon? OF COURSE it matters! And we shall also brag about how ethnically correct our voice actors are. And of course it doesn't matter it is fiction because culture behind fiction is important and it needs to be properly featured. Oh no we shall not feature the diversity we know by evidence it existed in the area because we need to focus on the ethnic identity of the indigenous populations

When people create movies featuring ancient Europe: We cast everything because we need diversity on every corner of Europe! What? What do you mean you have objections because the area did not look like this? Racist! Shut the fuck up is just a movie and the cast is very talented! They need empowering and you don't know what you are saying! It IS accurately depicted you just don't know shit! Aww the movie features myths but you have problem with the inaccurate ethnicity? Racist! It is just fiction! It doesn't matter! Your stories don't matter. They are mainstream anyways so who the fuck cares about something that happened thousands of years ago? No one would understand it anyways.

Me: Incredible! And you manage to fuck both of the above examples up because the "ethnically correct" movies are totally stripped of essence and do not give the real powerful cultures that they represent and the second...there ARE amazing examples that are unknown to the public that wait to be explored that involve both cultural diversity AND amazing stories and yet...yeah...

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

what are your favorite horror films?

Hmm this changes, but atm probably:

Savageland— Mockumentary about the disappearance of a small Texas town. It’s an indie film with no budget, but they make the most of it. It features some very harrowing and spooky photographs.

Lake Mungo— Mockumentary about the disappearance of a teenage girl in Australia. This has very strong Twin Peaks influence. Love what it does with the concept of ghosts, and being haunted by your own fate.

Hell House LLC— Another mockumentary/found footage investigating mysterious deaths at a haunted house attraction on opening night. Really inventive use of jump scares, and I love how the subsequent films expand on the lore.

Ghostwatch— BBC horror broadcast from the 70s, this one was insaaaane because they essentially War of the Worlds-ed it. It looked like a genuine Halloween news segment, using like the actual regular anchors at the time. The plot takes a lot from the Amityville Horror iirc?

The Strangers— Home invasion movie. Incredible slow burn so there’s no horror for a solid 30 minutes or more, there’s instead a ton of character building. It’s so stressful to watch! The subsequent movies aren’t as good, but the first one is really well done.

Ravenous— Cannibalism as a metaphor for colonialism! So iconic. It lifts a bit from the Donner Party, but goes places with it. This movie, and its central dynamic, is everything NBC Hannibal wishes it was.

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ballerina by Ilya Kazarinov Via Flickr: Ulan-Ude '19

[a-la-recherche]

From the archive

Rolleiflex Old standard, Kodak Portra 400

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The Substance (2024) Directed by Coralie Fargeat.

[onefootin1941]

[apilgrimpassingby]

So, I recently saw an atheist meme that went "Imagine if all the money spent on religion went to science and medicine. This is the world religion took from us."

This is dumb for a lot of reasons - for starters, the first public hospitals (at least in the Western world) were founded by Christians. But there's another one I thought of in church this morning. There's a lot of money spent on blockbuster films, which they don't object to.

So, I looked up the twenty-five highest-grossing films of the 21st century and added their box office grosses and budgets (the latter found on Wikipedia; if there was a budget range I took the lowest one). This is, of course, only a fraction of the actual money spent on these films (producers spend a lot on advertising while customers spend a lot on merch, DVD, Blu-Ray and streaming), which is in turn only a fraction of the total film market, or even the total bl. But it's still a decent slice of the film market, and so it's useful.

The combined budget and box-office gross of the twenty-five highest-grossing films of the 21st century is $46,113,000,000.

To give some idea of what you could do with just a slice of the blockbuster market, the average federal student loan debt in the USA is $37,853. With 46 billion dollars, you could pay off 1.2 million student loans.

Or for another metric, raising a child in a single-income home from the crib to the age of 17 with a before-tax income of less than $40,000 will cost a total of $157,410. With 46 billion dollars, you could pay for the rearing of 293,000 children from lower-income families from birth to the age of seventeen.

This is the world blockbuster movies took from us.

[tay-russell]

Taylor Russell photographed by Nikolai von Bismarck for Evening Standard, 24 November 2023.