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theinternetmoviedataband · 9 months ago

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True Best Movie: Vincente Minnelli

After Howard Hawks' TBM, hop on for Vincente Minnelli's!

Usual Best Movie: An American in Paris (or The Band Wagon) True Best Movie: The Bad and the Beautiful

This one is an odd director I thought I knew well by having watched more than twenty of his movies. Until I read his memoirs ("I Remember it well"). Almost all his movies dealed with creative characters struggling in a world that is not made for them. And I thought that such a consistent body of work spread over more than thirty years of movie directing in Hollywood meant it was a huge topic for him. Well, no. Not at all. As far as I recall, the man started as a costume and set designer in Broadway and he'd rather spend pages in describing the set of his movies better than talking about the actual plots and what they meant to him. Too bad but still, the depth and weight of his movies remain and that's what I like the most about his work. So don't be astonished if I discard his musicals. I think they're pretty good but his "heavy" movies move me even more (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Tea and Sympathy for instance).

That being said, nothing gets me started as much as a movie that deals about the process of making movies. I can relate to the problems that, let's say, a painter or a stage director has to face but I just can't resist to see a screenwriter or a director struggling to get a movie done. It's a neverending pleasure and, in that specific range of movies that tickle me, The Bad and The Beautiful is one of the most incredible I'll ever seen.

#true best movie #vincente minnelli

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troythecatfish · 2 months ago

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 6 months ago

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The boyzzzz...

Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone - The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

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non-un-topo · 7 months ago

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Thinking about Yusuf and Nicolò as young men again

#the old guard #kaysanova #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #siggy draws #it ain't much but it's more than i've drawn in months. i miss this sort of cartoony style. like a dreamworks movie almost lol #my brain conjured an anime ending apparently and i can't explain why #maybe they're too girly looking but i didn't feel like using reference pictures so i guess they're bishounen sdfghfds #ahh i usually have director's commentary in the tags #yusuf is probably around 23-25 and nico is 19-22? though i can't say confidently that yusuf would be able to grow a full beard at 23 #but maybe he can maybe he's just that powerful #they're either very sad and lonely or very pensive. or both. maybe they're longing for something more... maybe a true love #i also dk what these clothes are. yusuf has some good clothes on. is probably flourishing as a merchant but still longs for More #nicolo is wearing... a tunic? but it could be a thin gambeson instead. maybe he's learning how to use a sword #i try to capture their best assets in this doodly style: yusuf's eyelashes and cute ears and weirdly shaped eyebrows #and nicolo's nose and heavy brow and the fact that he has almost no lips from the side lol

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demon-of-the-ancient-world · 6 months ago

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So so insane about just how well the Dune movies walk the line between making Paul sympathetic and making him...uhh.....everything else.

Because it would be easy to tip it too far in either direction and make him out to be either cartoonishly evil or (excuse the term) woobified -- but I think the key to it is that it's never depicted as being a "but" situation and rather always a "yes, and" situation. Yes, Paul is a very young, very deeply alone person who has lost everything and is under the pressure of thousands of years of genetic engineering and religious propaganda and really never stood a chance against all that, and it's a tragic and heartbreaking thing to witness. That is all true. Also, he's using an oppressed group of people for his own political gain and is about to cause both a horrible environmental disaster and a war that will leave countless people dead, among other very very bad things that you are absolutely not supposed to agree with and root for. This is also true. All those things are equally true, and it WILL make you uncomfortable. And you as the viewer are not supposed to choose a side to fall on, you're fully intended to see all of that at once and walk that fine line with the character, and the chaotic and messy experience of having all those things packed together as truth without it being an either/or situation is absolutely the most accurate way of perceiving him.

#dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #not at all as coherent as i would've liked but hey now #like it's not. it's not 'he does all these bad things buuuut he's just a sad little dude'#and it's also not 'yeah ok he's a kid who tried his best but what about All The Bad Stuff'#the bad stuff and the sad stuff are all there all at once that's the point that's the point #and the movies throw all the cards on the table at once which is what i love so much #there's no attempt made to soften either side #this thing is true. this other thing is also true. this story could not exist as it does if they were not the same level of true

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psykopaths · 11 months ago

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Matthew Mcconaughey as Rust Cohle in True Detective.

#the best tv show to ever exist #matthew mcconaughey #rust cohle #blue aesthetic #movie scenes #movie aesthetic #movie art #movie quotes #movie stills #tv series #netflix #amazon prime #true detective #cinephile #cinematography #cinema

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evelina-maar · 3 months ago

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Indulging in the current X-Men renaissance

#x2 best superhero movie so true #logan #wolverine #x men #marvel #mcu #hugh jackman #fanart #drawing #art #digital art #realism #digital painting #illustration #portrait #artwork #artists on tumblr #my art

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coachbeards · 5 months ago

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thinking of this again

#no but also like the idea that beard and roy routinely hang out is so true.#like i think they're each other's number two besties after ted + jamie #best man roy might be cursed but he's still beard's bestie!!!!!!!!!!!!#roy kent #coach beard #their movie nights >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>#roy also invites beard to hang out w the yoga mums at drag shows (after catching beard at a drag show)

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nateezfics · 1 year ago

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he looks so vampy in these photos;; i’m so in love

#looks like a vampire from those early 2000’s vampire movies #y’all know what i’m talking about #hongjoong my gothic vampire lover boy <3 #au in which hongjoong is a very old — like centuries old — vampire that enjoys fine art #and owns his exhibit//gallery that hosts the most prestigious pieces #vampire and human alike go to visit it #he’s an artist himself and has a tendency to become infatuated with humans #has many human muses who end up being his temporary lovers #he’s not set out on killing people but a majority of the time his human lovers do not survive #stops engaging with humans for a while before meeting you #you come into his gallery and ofc he’s immediately infatuated #and in the end he finds more than just a muse in you #but true love #but poor guy is too scared you’ll end up like his past lovers…so he tries so hard to stay away #but duh ofc it doesn’t work out he’s hooked on you <333 #you stay with him in his old gothic victorian style mansion #and the sex omfg #vampire hongjoong = the best lover #hongjoong smut #hongjoong hard thoughts #joongie #☕️

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sadsongsandwaltzes · 8 months ago

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I’m not saying I’ve never done it before, but the “pssshhhhttt that’s not very realistic” arguments in entertainment are so annoying.

No crap. I don’t want to watch a movie about you waking up and scratching your butt and going to sit in your cubicle and coming home and watching The Office reruns while you eat Mexican takeout.

I want stories that are funny, insane, grand. Compelling. It doesn’t have to be “realistic” it just has to make you believe by its own magic. That’s what I want. There’s a reason the oldest stories that have survived time are epics

#like shut up and watch titanic or twister or the mummy and enjoy it dammit #I mean cmon the princess bride is arguably one of the best movies ever made #and it doesn’t have to be all fairytales #when Harry met sally is top notch romance story telling #like bro. true intellectualism requires an appreciation for good storytelling #I cannot stand pseudointellectualism

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louisegluckpdf · 4 days ago

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seeing everything everywhere all at once is on tv and going "oh cool, i'll be able to catch the last 40 minutes!" and then spending those next 40 minutes like this