#steve buscemi 2004

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Steve Buscemi, 2004

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The White Stripes and Steve Buscemi at the Tribeca Film Festival, 2004

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All Due Respect - The Sopranos (2004)

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Bengiyo Queer Cinema Syllabus

Not to sound repetitive but, I had a busy couple weeks, but finally had a second to return to @bengiyo’s queer cinema syllabus. I am currently working my way through Unit 4: Heartbreak Alley, the totally light-hearted, definitely not agonizing section of the syllabus where I get to watch countless acts of violence be committed against queer people. Thank fuck I have Lesbians waiting for me at the end of this unit. The films in Unit 4 are: Bent (1997), Strange Fruit (2004), Boys Don’t Cry (1999), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Parting Glances (1986), Philadelphia (1993), The Living End (1992), Holding the Man (2015), Jeffery (1995), and Boys on the Side (1995).

Today I will be talking about

Parting Glances (1986) dir. Bill Sherwood

[Run Time: 1:30, Available: tubi and fubo, Language: English]

Summary: As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing with their circle of eccentric friends, including Nick, who is living with AIDS.

Cast: 

John Bolger as Robert

Richard Ganoung as Michael 

Steve Buscemi as Nick 

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Well, I have to say this was very much not what I was expecting for the first AIDS related movie of the syllabus. After some pretty hefty violent deaths of queer characters in the first half of Unit 4, I was very much anticipating the heart wrenching tragedies to continue immediately once I hit the AIDS epidemic portion. But Parting Glances very much subverted my expectations of what I was walking in to, because honestly…so much of it was lovely. 

It’s not that tragedy is not a part of this movie, it is, it’s just hidden under the layer of friendship, community, and love that feels like the core theme of the film. I am thinking about the party at Joan’s and how much happiness and celebration was happening there, with community abound, and yet how Michael kept telling people they should call Nick because he would appreciate it, showing just how much Nick has lost of his own community since his HIV/AIDS diagnosis. 

I really loved how real these relationships to one another felt, the way that Michael and Robert were playful with each other, the way that Nick sat on Michael’s lap so casually for a few minutes when Michael cooked him dinner, I loved the conversation Robert had with his ex-girlfriend, the young and hopeful queer boy who wished to live forever. I just loved watching the queer community be a queer community. 

Even in the moments that get a little dour, where Michael gets especially weepy with Nick, those scenes did not make me sad, did not destroy me the way other films in this syllabus have, because that is just grief. Grief is a mighty and terrible thing, but I find beauty in it as well. I find beauty and loveliness in the fact that those tears came from Michael finally admitting to Nick that he loved him, that Nick got to hear himself that he was loved, especially when so many people seemed to have fallen away from him after his diagnosis. I find comfort in the conversations about death that Michael and Joan have together, because those are conversations I’ve had, they feel familiar, they feel like a natural part of life, perhaps they should not have to feel those points so soon, but Nick himself is right, living forever is the only thing none of us can do. 

I really loved that we saw Nick when he was at a stage in his illness where he was simply being careful, but was still full of life, energetic, that he was able to be a support system for Michael and was not only being tended to. We know what is coming, but we are not made to see it. I was really in to what the film did with it’s use of ominous backing track, that Nick could hear it, that it felt like the progression of his illness, that it felt like a sense of impending doom, a cloud that hangs over Nick. 

Throughout a lot of this film I found myself thinking about The Inheritance Part One & Part Two, a play written in 2016 based off of the book Howard’s End by EM Forster. I saw this play a few years back and was lulled in to a false sense of security that this would not be a play about AIDS because it was set in the relatively modern day with a focus on younger queer characters, but ohhhhhhh how wrong I was. Towards the end of the first part, we hear a story from a character named Walter, an older gay man that lived in the same building as the main characters, and he recounts the story of his life, how his husband, Henry, built a farm outside of New York city for the two of them to live in…right around the time that AIDS started decimating the area. How that distance still was not good enough for Henry so he would leave on business trips, because his fear of catching AIDS was so strong. 

Walter tells the story of when he went back in to the city for the first time, and ran in to a friend he used to know, who had acquired AIDS and was on the brink of death. He talks about how when Henry was away, he brought that kid to the farm Henry had built to hide from AIDS, and Walter cared for that boy until he died. Walter talks about doing that again and again and again and again, dozens of times, he would go in to the city, bring a friend back home, and care for them until they passed. 

^[sidebar: I very much do not like Robert]

Part of the play ends with Walter being asked what it was like at that time, Walter asks the main characters to name someone they know, they give a name, he says “they’re dead. Give me another name, he’s dead”. For what felt like minutes, name after name after name is called and name after name after name is dead. When I saw that scene I broke down in the theater, I cried for the entirety of the walk back to the train station, I was brought to the brink of tears at the thought of that scene for a month after I saw the show. 

I mention this because it was all that I could think about while watching Robert and Michael interact with one another, while seeing this plot unfold. Robert fleeing New York while Michael stayed to care for his dying friend. Knowing that Walter and Henry stayed together after all was said and done, after Henry had stopped running from reality, and the death rates had slowed; then seeing Robert decide not to go to Africa, and how Michael did not show any signs of planning to break up with Robert knowing, despite knowing how Robert felt too settled, how Robert had chosen to go, despite knowing that Robert was running from loss, and running from being a support for Michael when the love of his life finally dies. 

So despite the fact that Parting Glances didn’t evoke the same feelings, though I felt like overall it was a relatively upbeat, uptempo, gentle film, the current underneath it all, the dying underneath it all, the tragedy is right there but it is just out of reach. 

Favorite Scene 

I think my favorite scene is when Joan and Michael are laying in bed together, holding stuffed animals at Robert’s going away party while they just casually talk about death and dying. It just felt very much like a conversation I have had with my best friend on multiple occasions, especially lately because we've had a number of deaths happen in our lives recently. And yes, my friend and I both match the type of conversation part this scene, and also the beating each other up with stuffed animals part of this scene.

Obviously we do not spend enough time with the other characters at the party to know exactly what is going on in their lives, and there is not doubt many if not all of them have lost loved ones to AIDS, but we know that Joan and Michael are really the only two people who go and visit Nick, and it feels so symbolic of the weight that they are shouldering caring for their dying friend to have the only two people who have not cut themselves off from Nick be sitting together, in another room away from all the other gay attendees, discussing, speculating, joking about death. 

Favorite Quote

We all know the real right answer is: “Straight men are jerks. Gay men are jerks. Straight women are jerks. That leaves lesbians and they are off in their ivory towers laughing their heads off at the rest of us. I should’ve been a dyke” 

But I am going to go for the more serious:

“...look at the others, waiting, wondering if some innocent moment of pleasure long past can set them up with the ultimate form of [German word my subtitles did not state]...  I’d like to stage a piece in which all of the performers are people who are terminally ill, can you imagine the intensity, the concentration, the purpose”

This is said off-handedly in a conversation between Joan and a heterosexual male artist who was attending the party. I put it here for two reasons: a) the first half is a very succinct commentary on the state of the queer community (at least who were at the party) and feels like general commentary about the movie’s premise as a whole. Especially because Nick talks about how he didn’t realize how long the gestation period of HIV was, and by the time he started taking protective measures it was already too late. b) because the second half is just the most pretentious, absolutely mindless, careless, and shitty thing to say to someone who is actively losing a friend to a terminal illness. This fucking hetero artist came in to a room full of queer people and decided that dying people would be great to put in to his next project for ~The Vibes~ and I love that comment so much because first, it shows how much he Does Not Get It, and second because of how much disgust is baked in to Joan’s “Excuse me” as she leaves before he can finish his thought. 

Because to say that to someone who is watching loved one after loved one after loved one die before their eyes is an absolutely disgusting thing to do (in my opinion). 

Final Score

8/10

Up next, Philadelphia (1993)

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Movies I’ve Watched & Thoroughly Enjoyed

- The Unbelievable Truth (1989) - Dir. Hal Hartley•

- Near Dark (1987) - Dir. Kathryn Bigelow•

- High Plains Drifter (1973) - Dir. Clint Eastwood•

- Crimes of Passion (1984) - Dir. Ken Russel

- The Devils (1971) - Dir. Ken Russel

- True Romance (1993) - Dir. Tony Scott•

- Less Than Zero (1987) - Dir. Marek Kanievska

- Phantom of The Paradise (1974) - Dir. Brian De Palma•

- But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) - Dir. Jamie Babbit

- Sleeper (1973) - Dir. Woody Allen

- Magic in the Moonlight (2014) - Dir. Woody Allen

- Josie and The Pussycats (2001) - Dir. Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, & Marc Webb

- The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) - Dir. Blake Edwards•

- Reality Bites (1994) - Dir. Ben Stiller

- Scream (1996) - Dir. Wes Craven

- Tank Girl (1995) - Dir. Rachel Talalay•

- Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) - Dir. Steven Soderbergh

- The Before Trilogy (1995) (2004) (2013) - Dir. Richard Linklater

- Lady Bird (2017) - Dir. Greta Gerwig

- Jennifer's Body (2009) - Dir. Karyn Kusama

- Muriel's Wedding (1994) - Dir. P.J. Hogan•

- Blue Velvet (1986) - Dir. David Lynch

- Mulholland Drive (2001) - Dir. David Lynch

- Urban Cowboy (1980) - Dir. James Bridges

- Grey Gardens (2009) - Dir. Michael Sucsy

- Opera (1987) - Dir. Dario Argento - The Palm Beach Story (1942) - Dir. Preston Sturges•

- Weird Science (1985) - Dir. John Hughes•

- Election (1999) - Dir. Alexander Payne

- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Dir. Mike Nichols•

- Bottle Rocket (1996) - Dir. Wes Anderson

- Raising Arizona (1987) - Dir. Coen Brothers

- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - Dir. Coen Brothers•

- The Love Witch (2016) - Dir. Anna Biller

- Dream Lover (1993) - Dir. Nicholas Kazan - One From The Heart (1982) - Dir. Francis Ford Coppola•

- Something Wild (1986) - Dir. Jonathan Demme

- Only You (1994) - Dir. Norman Jewison

- Moonstruck (1987) - Dir. Norman Jewison•

- Death Becomes Her (1992) - Dir. Robert Zemeckis

- So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) - Dir. Thomas Schlamme•

- Romeo + Juliet (1996) - Dir. Baz Luhrmann•

- The Craft (1996) - Dir. Andrew Fleming

- Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - Dir. Federico Fellini

- Society (1989) - Dir. Brian Yuzna

- Murder by Death (1976) - Dir. Robert Moore•

- Better Off Dead… (1985) - Dir. Savage Steve Holland - Trees Lounge (1996) - Dir. Steve Buscemi

- 12 Monkeys (1995) - Dir. Terry Gilliam•

- Death Proof (2007) - Dir. Quinton Tarantino

- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Dir. Frank Capra•

- Chef (2014) - Dir. Jon Favreau

- Possession (1981) - Dir. Andrzej Zulawski

- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) - Dir. David Mirkin

- Amélie (2001) - Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

- Night Shift (1982) - Dir. Ron Howard•

- Paris, Texas (1984) - Dir. Wim Wenders

- Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - Dir. John Patrick Shanley•

- The Princess Bride (1987) - Dir. Rob Reiner•

- SLC Punk! (1998) - Dir. James Merendino

- Practical Magic (1998) - Dir. Griffin Dunne

- Foul Play (1978) - Dir. Colin Higgins

- The Crush (1993) - Dir. Alan Shapiro

- Ghost World (2001) - Dir. Terry Zwigoff

- Crash (1996) - Dir. David Cronenberg

- The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - Dir. Robert Fuest

- Can't Buy Me Love (1987) - Dir. Steve Rash

- Cry-Baby (1990) - Dir. John Waters

- Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Dir. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

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(Literary License Podcast)

The Iron Giant is a 1999 American animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Brad Bird in his directorial debut. It is based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United States as The Iron Giant) and was written by Tim McCanlies from a story treatment by Bird. The film stars the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, and M. Emmet Walsh. Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a giant alien robot. With the help of a beatnik artist named Dean McCoppin, Hogarth attempts to prevent the U.S. military and Kent Mansley, a paranoid federal agent, from finding and destroying the Giant.

 Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated haunted house film directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, about a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. The film features the voices of Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara, and Kathleen Turner, as well as human characters being animated using live action motion capture animation, which was previously used in The Polar Express (2004). It was Sony's first computer animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks.

 Opening Credits; Introduction (1.23); Background History (28.13); The Iron Giant (1999) Trailer (30.06); Our Thoughts (32.33); Let's Rate (49.09); Introducing Our Second Feature (53.21); Monster House (2006) Film Trailer (55.09); Lights, Camera, Action (57.33); How Many Stars (1:15.07); End Credits (1:17.50); Closing Credits (1:18.22)

 Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – Copyright . All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  Halloween by Siouxsie and the Banshees.  Taken from the album Juju. Copyright 1981 Polydor Records.

 Incidental Music:  Music from The Iron Giant by Michael Kamen. Taken from the album:  The Iron Giant – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Copyright 1999 Rhino Records.

 Music from Monster House by Douglas Pipes.  Taken from the album:  Monster House – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Copyright 2006 Varese Sarabande

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used by Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

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Roles Christopher Walken almost played

Walken was reportedly considered for the role of Willy Wonka along with several other goofballs, including Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey,  Bill Murray, and Robin Williams. Tim Burton also proposed the role to his friend and frequent collaborator, Johnny Depp, who jumped on the role.  Before settling on the distinctly younger-looking Depp, Pirates producers considered Walken for Jack Sparrow. With Walken in the role, we imagine Sparrow wouldn't have been as much of a sex symbol - though still just as loopy and ambiguously villainous. Walken would have have brought a real edge, added some genuine menace to this character.

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Walken war für die zweite Besetzung von Han Solo im „Krieg der Sterne/Star Wars“ vorgesehen (die Rolle bekam dann bekanntlich Harrison Ford).  Ebenso wurde er für die Ryan O`Neal-Rolle in "Love Story" getestet: "Ich glaube, es ist gut, dass ich die Rolle nicht bekommen habe. Wenn ich den Job angenommen und keine gute Figur gemacht hätte, wäre das das Ende meiner Karriere gewesen. Es ist schon gut so, wie alles gekommen ist." (CW, 2004) Auch wurde er in Betracht gezogen für die Rolle des Jack Sparrow in "Fluch der Karibik", die schließlich Johnny Depp ergatterte... und die des Willy Wonka in "Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik", die ebenfalls Depp bekam. Bevor George Clooney in "From Dusk Till Dawn" engagiert wurde,  waren u.a. John Travolta, Steve Buscemi und Christopher Walken für die Rolle des Seth Gecko im Gespräch. Keiner der Kandidaten hatte Zeit. "Not Starring" Later, 2014, Walken played a Captain (Hook) in Peter Pan Live

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Sam Taylor-Johnson (born London (UK), 1967)
Steve Buscemi, 2004. From the series: Crying Men, 2002-2004. C-Print Courtesy White Cube

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10 Favorite 2000′s horror movies

.....I dont like the horror of the 2000′s.Like I maintain that the 40′s was the worst era for horror ,but the 2000′s for me are pretty close.That said there are some I really like 

I Sell the Dead(2008)

The death row confessions of a graverobber....And his run ins with the supernatural .This film is just fun ,with great performances from Domonic Monaghan,Larry Fessenden,Ron Perlman and Angus Scrimm

Red Eye(2005)

OK a few films on this list I imagine people will argue arent horror movies,this being one of them......The premise of this film is pure horror to me,a woman is on a plane next to a psychopath who is threatening to have her dad killed unless she does what he wants.This film makes you feel trapped ,and Cillian Murphy is utterly terrifying .This is also my favorite Wes Craven movie 

Coraline(2009)

A young girl visits a better version of her own world .....The only requirement is she will have to have buttons sewen onto her eyes .This film is legit horrifying with two headed taffy monsters,a guy made of rats ,and the Beldam who I feel  should be up there with other family movie nightmare fuel villains like the Wicked Witch ,Chernabog,or the Child Catcher 

28 Days Later(2002)

The film focuses on four survivors  of a virus that turns people into zombie like rage monsters.So I kind of avoided this movie for a while ,but I finally saw it last year.....And it’s praised for a reason .I am not the biggest fan of the genre shift near the end but all the acting is fantastic.

The Descent (2005)

A group of women go cave exploring and find an underground race of cannibal monsters .Contender for most nerve wracking film on this list ,this film is claustrophobic ,full of subtlety  and the monsters are legit scary 

Willard(2003)

My favorite film on this list and one of my favorite films period .A rather awkward man befriends an army of rats .This is Crispin Glovers movie  ,he is excelent in this movie ,as is R Lee Ermy as the villainous boss.I also think it’s a remake that is superior to the original 

Repo!The Gentic Opera(2008)

This Rock Opera is about a future where organ failure is rampant,surgery is a fashion statement ,and if you dont make your payments  the Repo Man comes to reclaim your organs.And in this world we have a father with a secret,his sick daughter ,a singer ,three monstrous heirs ,and the richest man in the world who is dying but  has one last act of spite in him that connects all these players .This movie is love it or hate it .....I love it  .The songs are fantastic,the performances especially by Anthony Head ,Paul Sorvino,Bill Moseley,and Sarah Brightman are great ,and I love the films look.I understand the hate ,as this film is very gorey,many of the characters are reprehensible and it’s all around an ugly world ,but I think thats the point .This film will either draw you in or repell you ,and thats OK .This is a movie where I get the praise but also get the backlash 

Shaun of the Dead(2004)

During an outbreak of Zombies,a young man decides to gather up his loved ones and take refuge in a pub .I think most people view this purely as a comedy  but heres the thing:The horror in this movie is played straight ,the humor comes purely from the characters and their reaction to the events .This film not only delivers laughs but has legit heartwarming and even heartbreaking moments.

Murder Party(2007)

A man is invited to  a Halloween party,which turn out to be a set up by some art students who plan on killing him for an art piece .So everyone is an idiot in this movie and I love it  .Usuallly idiocy in horror is annoying but it works for the very dark humor of this movie 

Monster House(2006)

Another animated film ,this time with motion capture (Probabbly the best motion capture movie I have seen) .In this one a house seems to take on a life of it’s own and start eating people .This is a legit scary movie  ,for not only the Monster House itself but Steve Buscemi’s performance as the old man  who owns the house 

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Weekend Top Ten #481

Top Ten Pixar Villains

Those rascals and rapscallions at Pixar are famous for twisting our emotions, aren’t they? Perverse masters at making us cry with sadness or joy, often at the same time (I’m looking at you, Inside Out, with your yellow and blue marbles). Oh yes, they’ll stick the knife in and give it a good old yank, like John Travolta teaches his daughter to do in Face/Off when he’s not really John Travolta and it’s a bit icky but then she stabs him at the end of the film so it’s alright really.

Where was I?

Oh yeah. Pixar, renowned for turning grown men into blubbering messes, mostly because an adult character was convinced to part with old toys he no longer plays with. But I’d argue that one thing they’ve done less well than their parent studio (that’s Disney) is crafting iconic baddies. I mean, we all know the Disney Villains; they’re so iconic and successful as pop culture icons that there’s an entire trilogy of movies based on what would happen if a bunch of them had kids (apparently they’d sing a lot). Pixar baddies though? Hmmm, maybe not quite so iconic. I can’t see someone making a live action prequel movie about Chef Skinner.

But that’s not to say they’re not great; in fact, rather than going down the route of snarling, moustache-twirling villainy, Pixar actually does a great job in creating antagonists instead. Sometimes they’re misunderstood; sometimes they’re not the person you thought they were! Quite often some kind of redemption is offered, and the villains are very, very rarely dropped off something tall. A lot of them aren’t even defeated, so to speak! A good deal of nuance and shade goes into a Pixar villain, and if they haven’t made as many all-time-great iconic ne��er-do-wells, it does seem as if their approach is starting to rub off on Disney mothership (the likes of Frozen II and Moana either don’t have, or at least subvert, the notion of all-powerful bad guys).

So what do we have? Well, hopefully, we’ve got a list of really cool villains from Pixar movies. most of them are presented as the film’s “big bad”, although there are a couple of lesser baddies. And I think we do see the pattern emerging, of more mundane levels of villainy; the selfish and greedy and damaged. It makes for great characterisation and some beautiful storytelling; some complex and pitiable characters. And, yes, a few absolute bastards too. Let’s tut disapprovingly.

Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear (Ned Beatty, Toy Story 3, 2010): a superb performance from Beatty as a seemingly nice, jovial old bear who’s really a manipulative, power-hungry, gaslighting bully. Realistically portrayed as damaged and bitter, he has a tragic backstory that feels real, and a sense of pain and loss that feels earned in this universe. Questions the nature of everything the movies are about, and is a genuine threat in more ways than one. Plus he literally leaves them all to die in the furnace!

Syndrome (Jason Lee, The Incredibles, 2004): Buddy Pine’s backstory is one of belittlement and rejection, so his switch to villainy is as well explored as many a comic book bad guy. But he’s interesting partly in what his character says about Mr. Incredible – in a way justifying the criticisms of superheroes, as Mr. I does ignore the admittedly-annoying Buddy rather than mentoring or respecting him – but also because he prefigures notions of toxic masculinity about a decade or so before they became, well, a threat to global democracy.

Al (Wayne Knight, Toy Story 2, 1999): Like how Lots-o can be seen as a dark examination of toy life (all toys are replaceable, kids don’t really love you, etc), Al also shows us another dark facet of toy-dom: namely the life of a “collectable”. Toys, in this world, want to be played with, preferably by children, so a big ol’ man-child who stores them in boxes or puts them on display is not ideal. It’s an inversion of what a toy is for; an object of joy reduced to a commodity. Is it entertainment versus art? Who can say? Also, he’s really just a massive jerk and a huge slob, so we feel no pity for him once he gets his comeuppance at the end of the film.

Sid Phillips (Erik von Detten, Toy Story, 1995): man, they nailed the Toy Story villains, didn’t they? Maybe there’s even more to come! But right out of the gate, Sid was a classic. An utter sadist in a skull t-shirt, torturing toys for kicks; adults can see the traits of a genuine sociopath (some serial killers start by torturing animals, remember!), and he’s portrayed like a character in a horror movie. Seriously, in 1995, Sid’s room was legitimately disturbing. I’m not sure what moral lessons his actions teach us, but just as a pure article of terror, he’s supreme.

Hopper (Kevin Spacey, A Bug’s Life, 1998): it feels a bit weird, if I’m honest, to celebrate a Spacey performance. But as a character, Hopper is excellent, one of the best things about the generally-overlooked-but-still-a-bit-lesser-Pixar Bug’s Life. Riffing on biker gangs, Hopper’s locust swarm in, revving their wings. Hopper’s a classic tough guy thug, dominating through violence and threat; a creature with a small amount of power determined to hold onto it, and ultimately eaten by a terrifying bird. Just don’t look at the cast list.

Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt, Coco, 2017): after the horror of Sid and the thuggery of Hopper, de la Cruz is a different, more insidious villain. He’s a thief and a betrayer who exploited and murdered his best friend, condemning him not just to death but to a forgotten obsolescence in the afterlife. He’s a perfect example of the gaslighting, friendly-seeming bad guy, more in the mould of Lots-o, but with the world on his side and a sweet guitar. Genuinely hissable.

Stinky Pete (Kelsey Grammar, Toy Story 2, 1999): what, more Toy Story? Well, yeah. Don’t blame me, blame Pixar. And so Stinky Pete; a far more relatable and understandable villain, one driven to desperation through a lifetime of rejection and broken promises. Unlike the Machiavellian, power-hungry Lots-o, Pete just wants everyone to retire quietly together; he can’t accept the risks of freedom and only becomes sneaky and, indeed, violent after all else fails. But he does kinda get a happy ending, even if he doesn’t realise it; this is a villain who I feel could eventually be redeemed.

Randall Boggs (Steve Buscemi, Monsters, Inc., 2001): Waternoose is the real baddy in Monsters, Inc., of course; a conniving capitalist who’s prepared to sacrifice the world’s children to keep his monopoly. But it’s Randy who sticks in the mind; his selfish, vain lackey, a monster with a huge chip on his shoulder. His design – lizard-like, snake-ish, with a huge mouth and invisibility – is seriously disturbing. Hearing Buscemi’s voice come from that form – an aggravated teacher, a furious accountant – adds something special, something darkly hilarious.

Evelyn Deavor (Catherine Keener, Incredibles 2, 2018): visually and conceptually, The Screenslaver (great name) is pretty cool, but when it’s revealed that the Big Bad is really under-appreciated tech genius Evelyn, that’s a great twist. A smart woman propping up her schmoozing brother, her criticisms of the heroes – like Buddy Pine’s – have resonance, although she’s learning the wrong lessons from tragedy. Her relationship with Elastigirl, from friendship to enmity, is very well-written and performed, and her belligerence at the end is a nice touch, denying the heroes of any catharsis from her capture.

Shelby Forthright (Fred Willard, WALL-E, 2008): I was originally going to feature the autopilot, but then I figured, if you can get Fred Willard in your list… and really, who’s the big villain here? It’s us, right? We killed the Earth. But Willard’s smiling, happy CEO is there, encouraging his customers to buy, promising them safety and security, promising them a repaired world… but really he’s shovelling them off the planet, secretly commanding the computer to take humanity far away and never look back. It’s a devious, horrible plan, giving the people unending luxury, making them want for nothing, turning them into fab, soporific blobs, basically because that’s easier than the alternative. It’s a horrible indictment of humanity (also: he’s the CEO of a company, but also – it looks like – that makes him rule the world? Creepy). So, yeah, the autopilot might be a baddun, but it’s the man in charge who’s the real villain of the piece, even hundreds of years later.

Sadly no room for John Lasseter, who may not have tried to enslave humanity or torture children, but still managed to be a huge jerk and a phenomenal disappointment.

[alexlacquemanne]

Juillet MMXXI

Films

Le Colosse de Rhodes (Il colosso di Rodi) (1961) de Sergio Leone avec Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal et Conrado San Martín

Harry Potter �� l'école des sorciers (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) (2001) de Chris Columbus avec Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane et Richard Harris

Black Widow (2021) de Cate Shortland avec Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz et O. T. Fagbenle

Flic ou Voyou (1979) de Georges Lautner avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Michel Galabru, Georges Géret et Jean-François Balmer

Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) (2002) de Chris Columbus avec Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris et Kenneth Branagh

Mort sur le Nil (Death on the Nile) (1978) de John Guillermin avec Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale, David Niven et Maggie Smith

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux (2014) de Louis Clichy et Alexandre Astier avec Roger Carel, Guillaume Briat, Laurent Lafitte, Alexandre Astier et Alain Chabat

Reservoir Dogs (1992) de Quentin Tarantino avec Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn et Lawrence Tierney

Hold-up (1985) de Alexandre Arcady avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand, Jacques Villeret et Jean-Claude de Goros

Mystère à Saint-Tropez (2021) de Nicolas Benamou avec Christian Clavier, Benoît Poelvoorde, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Virginie Hocq, Rossy de Palma, Vincent Desagnat et Jérôme Commandeur

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) (2004) de Alfonso Cuarón avec Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman et David Thewlis

Kaamelott : Premier Volet (2021) d'Alexandre Astier avec Alexandre Astier, Franck Pitiot, Thomas Cousseau, Jean-Christophe Hembert et Anne Girouard

Ouvert la nuit (2016) d'Édouard Baer avec Édouard Baer, Audrey Tautou, Grégory Gadebois, Sabrina Ouazani, Atmen Kélif et Michel Galabru

Sur la piste de la grande caravane (The Hallelujah Trail) (1965) de John Sturges avec Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Brian Keith, Jim Hutton et Pamela Tiffin

Les Grands Ducs (1996) de Patrice Leconte avec Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Catherine Jacob et Michel Blanc

Spectacle

The Doors : Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival (1970)

Simply Red: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2007)

Deux hommes tout nus (2015) de Sébastien Thiéry avec François Berléand, Elise Diamant, Isabelle Gélinas et Sébastien Thiéry

Séries

The Rookie Saison 3

Conséquences - Injustice - La Fiera - Sabotage - Alerte à la bombe - Infiltrées - La Star déchue

Wandavision

Filmé devant public - Ne zappez pas - On passe à la couleur - Interruption du programme - Dans cet épisode très spécial... - Spécial Halloween - Briser le quatrième mur - Précédemment dans... - Le grand final

Nestor Burma Saison 4, 5

Les Paletots sans manches - Nestor Burma en direct - Sortie des artistes

Cat's Eyes Saison 2

Les Cat's Eyes à Paris - Mutation difficile - Ange gardien - Surprise dans le noir - Chambre forte - 107 - Douceur de vivre

Kaamelott Livre II, VI

Le Larcin - La Délégation Maure - L'Ivresse - La Cassette - Le Tourment II - Le Message Codé - Le Poème - Les Classes de Bohort - Feue la vache de Roparzh - Dies irae

Le Coffre à Catch

#32 : Le Père Noël est un Catcheur - #33 : Comment (mal) builder le Royal Rumble - #34 : Bobby Lashley contre….UNDERTAKER ??? - #1 : ECW ONE NIGHT STAND 2006 - #7 : Quand L'UNDERTAKER CRÉE la SURPRISE - #8 : 370KG DE MONSTRES DANS LE RING ! - #35 : ECW Originals vs. New Breed - #9 : BATISTA se fait POURRIR par les fans WWE ! - #10 : KURT ANGLE en mode MASTERCLASS

Loki

Un destin exceptionnel - Le Variant - Lamentis - Le Nexus - Voyage vers le mystère - Pour toujours. À jamais.

Sydney Fox, l'aventurière Saison 1

La Bouche diabolique - Labyrinthe

The Crown Saison 1

Wolferton Splash - Hyde Park Corner - Windsor - Catastrophe naturelle - Poudre aux yeux - Bombe à retardement - Le savoir, c'est le pouvoir - Joie et Fierté - Assassins - Gloriana

Papa a un plan Saison 2

Le Renard argentée - (Re)marié à tout prix - Grève contre grève - Un grand bol d'herbe - La Contremaîtresse - Les Nouveaux Voisins - La Guerre des héros - Maman, j'ai raté l'école - Le Désarmé - L'Homme le plus attentionné au monde - Devine qui vient pour le petit déjeuner, le déjeuner et le dîner - Gagnant gagnant - Crash imminent - Vidéos… et des bas - La Bataille des varices - Tel est pris - Roi d'un jour - La Méthode Burns - On déteste le fric - On a une fille - Entreprise familiale

James May's Cars of the People Saison 1

Gravir l'échelle sociale

Brooklyn Nine Nine Saison 6

Lune de miel - Hitchcock & Scully - Retour au lycée - En quatre mouvements - Un voleur peut en cacher un autre - La Scène de crime - La Taupe modèle - Parole contre parole - Le Chouchou - Gintars - Le Psy - L'Anniversaire de mariage - La Bimbo - Contre la montre - Retour du Roi - Cinco De Mayo - Taré - Suicide Squad

La Cloche

#59: Daniel Bryan Annonce Son Retour!

The Grand Tour Saison 2, 3, 4

Coup de vieux - Mozambique - Spécial Colombie : Partie 1 - Spécial Colombie : Partie 2 - La Loi du plus gros - The Grand Tour présente... Seamen

Top Gear Saison 17

Surfin' USA - Tout doit disparaitre - La Course des Tsars - La fièvre du Vintage

Dark Side Of The Ring Saison 3, 2

Collision en Corée - David Schultz & The Slap Heard Round the World - Brian Pillman Première Partie - Brian Pillman Deuxième Partie - Cocaïne et santiags : l'histoire de Herb Abrams

Livres

Rocketeer de Dave Stevens

La Nuit des Camisards de Lionnel Astier

Marvel - Le côté obscur #1 : Black Widow - Ce qu'ils disent d'elle de Richard K. Morgan et Sean Phillips

La ballade des Dalton de René Goscinny et Morris

Kaamelott : À la table du roi Arthur d'Éric Le Nabour

Drôles de morts de John Garforth

[girlstevebuscemi]

Steve Buscemi and Meryl Streep at The Emmys, 2004

[lescentvisages]

Stanley Tucci

Born : November 11, 1960 (age 60) Peekskill, New York, USA

Occupation : Actor, Writer, Producer, Director

Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, producer, film director and former fashion model. Involved in acting from a young age, he made his film debut in John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor (1985), and continued to play a variety of supporting roles in films such as Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry (1997), Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition (2002) and Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (2004). In 1996, he made his directorial debut with the cult comedy Big Night which he also co-wrote and starred in alongside Tony Shalhoub. He also played Stanley Kubrick in the television film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Tucci is also known for his collaborations with Meryl Streep in films such as The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009). Tucci gained further acclaim and success with such films as Easy A (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Margin Call (2011), The Hunger Games film series (2012-2015), Spotlight (2015), and Beauty and the Beast (2017).He has won three Emmy Awards; one for Winchell (1998), one for a guest appearance on the comedy series Monk, and one for being a producer of the web series Park Bench with Steve Buscemi. Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009). He was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2003),[3] and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for The One and Only Shrek! alongside Meryl Streep.[4]Tucci also starred in numerous television series such as the legal drama Murder One (1995–96), the medical drama 3 lbs (2006), the docudrama Feud (2017) and the drama Limetown (2018). Since 2020, Tucci has voiced Bitsy Brandenham in the animated series Central Park.

[cornerstorebitch]

I know you've done a lot of movie recs in general but do you have any gay movie recs? Can just be subtext

ok! in the interest of not seeming like an insane person i have helpfully divided this monstrously long list into categories.

gay horror:

- picture of dorian gray (1945)

- psycho (1960; one of two hitchcock films on this list. do not be mistaken - this is due to hitchcock having some sort of homophobic fixation that we as gay people are entitled to turn into art.)

- the haunting (1963)

- cruising (1980; everyone should see it at least once.)

- nightmare on elm street 2: freddys revenge (1985; this is THE gay cult horror film. period.)

- fright night (1985)

- the lost boys (1987)

- nightbreed (1990)

- interview with the vampire (1994)

- jennifer’s body (2009)

- all cheerleaders die (2013; this movie is straight up ridiculous watch it.)

i would like to note i absolutely interpret the exorcist as a gay themed horror and WILL write an entire essay defending this position but i did not include it due to some of the subtext being dependent on having read the novel.

gay (male) drama:

- rope (1948)

- the boys in the band (1970; this is hands down the best gay film ever made. bold but true statement.)

- parting glances (1986; yes the steve buscemi one)

- consenting adults (1985; if you only ever watch one classic made-for-tv gay film, watch this one. i believe prayers for bobby is also made-for-tv with sigourney weaver.)

- maurice (1987)

- longtime companion (1990)

- my own private idaho (1991)

- philadelphia (1993)

- wilde (1997)

- mysterious skin (2004; this is one of my top 10 movies ever.)

- brokeback mountain (2005)

- shelter (2007)

- tom at the farm (2013; another of my top 10 movies. i like i killed my mother too but not nearly as much)

- gods own country (2017)

gay comedy

- the birdcage / la cage aux folles (1996/1978)

- in & out (1997; my favorite gay romcom ever.)

- but i’m a cheerleader (1999)

- big eden (2000)

- latter days (2003; i should note this is one leans heavy towards dramedy over romcom but it’s very silly and low budget which affects the tone a lot shall we say lol.)

- DEBS (2004)

- itty bitty titty committee (2007)

- i love you phillip morris (2009)

lesbian movies

- the children’s hour (1961)

- desert hearts (1985)

- fried green tomatoes (1991; the book is also very good.)

- thelma & louise (1991)

- heavenly creatures (1994)

- bound (1996; i know a lot of people dislike this movie but i don’t so sue me i guess.)

- if these walls could talk 2 (2000)

- mulholland drive (2001)

- monster (2003)

- saving face (2004)

OK i’m done. this legitimately took me 45 minutes

[areyouwho-ithinkyouare]

adding breakdancing as an official olympic sport to attract a younger audience in 2024 is so fucking funny bro who has the steve buscemi how do you do fellow kids meme. step up was released in like 2004.

[route22ny]

“In the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, a politically connected mastermind named Nucky Thompson (played by Steve Buscemi) runs 1920s Atlantic City with an iron fist. In reality, Atlantic City was the fiefdom of Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, a Republican party boss who held uncontested control from 1911 to 1941. In 1912, Nucky's beloved wife, Mabel, died, and Johnson -- who previously never touched booze -- became a dedicated drinker

“In 1927, Johnson joined the cabal of East Coast organized-crime bootleggers known as the Combine, which was led by such notorious figures as Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. Johnson became the mastermind of a network of vice industries and publicly flouted the laws of Prohibition.

“In 1941, Johnson was convicted on charges of tax evasion and was sentenced to 10 years in a federal penitentiary. The city went into decline for years, until gambling was legalized in 1976. The Miss America contest left the city in 2004. To many, Atlantic City is now best known as the site for the boardgame Monopoly, first sold by Charles Darrow in 1933.”

Quotes are taken from the above link, which contains a number of photos, many by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1941, with text.