#the film stage

[pablolf]

I started to think it could be something very rich––to use the summer, the young people. Instead of all these coming-of-age things where they have to find a profession and earn money, just to have them waste their youth, to laugh, to hurt, to be hurt. To leave parents or to find a way back to them. This is summer, and it’s a genre which is, in Germany, not so popular now because it doesn’t exist here. In Germany we have regressive summer movies about young people who study in Berlin and come back to their parents for the summer and say “Mama, I’m homosexual.” The whole movie is about this. Or the father and mother want to divorce and the 31-year-old son is getting depressed. I mean, this is not a story.

I like that in French and American movies, the summer is not only a season––it’s something where you learn something about yourself. In many of these movies, bad things can happen, but the movies themselves are like summer. It’s the wind, the water, the bodies. It’s light, and they are light and elegant. This: this I like.

Christian Petzold on Afire, Subverting the Summer Movie

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Berlin Atonal festival Sergey Skip

[elliesgaymachete]

the wicked movie was so long because they added so many longing looks and lingering hand holding shots

[mysharona1987]

[namchyoon]

day 311/547 until joon returns cr. jung-koook

[tinyfantasminha]

Who is your favorite fearless hero 🐱

Guys im being so serious Puss in Boots the Last Wish became one of my comfort movies so fast SOBS I could easily picture Grim in Puss' position through the whole movie so I had this idea! It's just perfect lol. And who else could Death/Lobo be. You had it coming (And an actor AU as a complementary:)

[kimseokjinn]

The fake maknae line

[freckleslikestars]

Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime.

25 films for 25 years {6/25} THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004) dir. Joel Schumacher

plot description from IMdB, [insp: ☆★☆★ ]

[pablolf]

So it was fun, in a way, to vent about that, but it’s not my sensibility because I really appreciate things that… the movie doesn’t point toward anything in particular, but I just want something to show the human life of that stuff. I don’t respond to things that take on a system and point at it, or even just a character and say “look at this asshole.” I did a film club over the pandemic and we would talk about the look-at-this-asshole factor. Any time any character’s dealt with that––or, for that matter, any type of person in any system who’s acting like this way––it’s just so two-dimensional and sucks the life out of it. And if you really hate that, it’s much more useful to understand what’s happening inside the people who are a part of that. You know? Matt Gaetz makes me sick. But if I’m just going to paint the cartoon of him with his dumb hair and his dumb look, that’s not going to help me understand why a human being like that ends up that way. And so, in the same sense, it’s just trying to have what feels, sometimes, like a slightly old-fashioned sense of, I don’t know, goodwill towards the human beings involved in these things. That’s always, like, what I respond to. It’s not for everybody, but…

Alden Ehrenreich on His Directing Debut, Francis Ford Coppola’s Wisdom, and a Filmmaking Ethos

[mendelsohnben]

Stage Door (1937) dir. Gregory La Cava

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Berlin Atonal festival Sergey Skip

[luhvrlis]