#true best movie

[theinternetmoviedataband]

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.

[troythecatfish]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

The boyzzzz...

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

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about Yusuf and Nicolò as young men again

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

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.

[psykopaths]

Matthew Mcconaughey as Rust Cohle in True Detective.

[evelina-maar]

Indulging in the current X-Men renaissance

[coachbeards]

thinking of this again

[nateezfics]

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

[louisegluckpdf]

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

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

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

[anonymous-alien2-0]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Maxwell the Magician -

Red Skelton Show; Deadeye and the Magician (1960)

[headlesssamurai]

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[horrorcrypt12]

Woman of the Hour (2024)

Anna Kendrick did a great job not letting the serial killer have the spot light, but instead focused on the women who are dismissed, prayed upon and put in uncomfortable situations.

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

emotional range of a teaspoon