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THE GODFATHER 1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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When Harry Met Sally… 1989, dir. Rob Reiner

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THE SANTA CLAUSE dir. John Pasquin, 1994

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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) dir. Bill Melendez

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HOME ALONE dir. Chris Columbus, 1990

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NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1989

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Ted Lasso + The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz (1939) // Wicked (2024)

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Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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Did you get carried away blasting stormtroopers?

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HOME ALONE — 1990, dir. Chris Columbus

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The French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop has been described as “African film royalty.” Her mother was born in Paris, and worked as a photographer—and once as a Sahara guide—before pursuing a career in advertising as an art director. Her father is a guitarist and composer who emigrated from Dakar to Paris; his jazz-rock fusion band helped to establish the city’s world-music scene. And, if that wasn’t enough, her uncle is the legendary Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty—who earned a permanent place in the pantheon of world cinema with “Touki Bouki.”

At first, Diop wanted to become a singer-songwriter, training her voice on Aaliyah songs and learning bass in emulation of Meshell Ndegeocello. But by 18 she was thinking about becoming a director. One source of inspiration was a scene of Gena Rowlands dancing in John Cassavetes’s “A Woman Under the Influence,” which showed her how camerawork could expand a performer’s range of self-expression. “I was moved by the space that was made for that woman to be,” Diop told Julian Lucas.

With her début feature, “Atlantics”—a gothic romance, a political fable about labor and migration, and an homage to Dakar, Senegal—Diop won international renown. But she passed on big-budget Hollywood projects (including “The Woman King”) before making her latest film, a fantastical documentary about art restitution. “Dahomey,” which chronicles the repatriation of 26 royal treasures from France’s Musée du Quai Branly to Benin, has reignited a moribund international debate about art restitution and transformed Diop into a French media fixture. “I wanted to make a film that would restore our desire for ourselves,” she said. Read Lucas’s profile of the filmmaker: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Vx_yXq

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#This is so funny 😂

The scene:

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ao3 turns 15 today

reblog if youre older than ao3

(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)

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DEATH BECOMES HER dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1992