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MARTIN SCORSESE and Leonardo DiCaprio are reigniting efforts to adapt Erik Larson’s 2003 nonfiction book “The Devil in the White City” into a feature film...
The project, which has been in various stages of development for over two decades, is now moving forward under 20th Century Studios.....
For the iconic writer-director, who was diagnosed with emphysema before his death last week at 78, cigarettes were more than a habit—they were a form of meditation, a symbol of the art life, and an endless source of visual poetry. In Lynch’s work, they were the only totem more omnipresent than coffe...
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead
David Lynch Dies: 'Twin Peaks', 'Blue Velvet' & 'Elephant Man' Visionary Was 78
David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominee behind ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘The Elephant Man’ who also created TV's ‘Twin Peaks,’ has died at 78.
One of Hollywood’s worst weeks in just got worse. David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and others who also created the Showtime drama Twin Peaks, has died at 78. His family posted the news on social media.
When it comes to the literature of addiction, Burroughs stands as one of the most controversial and upsetting of its figures.
Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work.
Die Hard is one of the most reactionary movies ever made
An Honest Ghost: Kurosawa's “Cloud” reviewed
The cinema of homo economicus ends where it began: in a hell of our own making.
Rear projection is much older than cinema. Beginning in the late eighteenth century and reaching a peak of immense popularity in the nineteenth—the era of early industrialization—rear projection, in the form of the magic lantern, was used to display moving images of demons, monsters and ghosts, in evening presentations called phantasmagorias. When Marx wrote of a “phantasmagoric form,” this was the reference he was conjuring. His metaphor therefore linked the dark illusions of cinema’s prehistory to the dark operations capitalism was carrying out on the relations between men. With Kurosawa’s film, the metaphor comes full circle. The cinema of homo economicus ends where it began: in a hell of our own making.
A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.
'Beetlejuice 2' Trailer: Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega Star in New Beetlejuice Sequel
Warner Bros. has unveiled a new trailer for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," the sequel to the 1988 comedy-horror hit. In the trailer, the Deetz family moves back
The Shawshank Redemption is to prison as Pretty Woman is to prostitution.
Tell me why I'm wrong, and if not, repudiate this maudlin, caricatured, two-dimensional, simplistic, cliched, sappy, melodramatic, piece of cinematic legend.
The Bad Batch season 3 finale
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2434741
Couldn't find a "TV" or "television" comm (which we need).
What did everyone think of the finale? I liked it! Finally, a good ending for once. Great stuff, good ending. Just what I wanted.
And it ended logically too.
Of course, this is a later set-up for Thrawn.
We got no Palpatine in the end there.
Lots of impressive shots from the cinematography. Well-done angles there.
Glad Omega became a pilot for the Rebel Allliance.
At least some people get their happy ending in the end in this galaxy.
Too much war and too much "dark times."
We need good stuff happening for once, otherwise what they fight for is worthless.
Star Wars is FINALLY Fixing This...
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2396953
Check it out.
The Green Knight
I can see why some people didn't get into The Green Knight but I love it. I also love The Canterbury Tales and of course A Knight's Tale.
I donno if anyone else got this out of the film but I saw it as a portrayal of the other side of the Golden Rule that I feel that philosophies and society fail to acknowledge.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
Should you expect to be treated as you have done unto others?
The green scarf is defying that expectation.
I watched The Zone of Interest (2023), dir. by Jonathan Glazer (Pluto: Very topical film title, if you look into it enough). What movies did you watch recently?
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2127047
Good stuff. Well, not really. Heavy subject matter, if anything. And the retching sound at the end was all too real for me (as someone that once went through an OD).
Honestly, I do like the subject matter of fascism (and especially neo-fascism nowadays). There's the pre-fascist era, when it was just being developed, from the 1890s onward, and then there's when it was actually coined by Benito Mussolini onward. And then there's post-1945. Operation Paperclip, the rise of the white power movement in the 1980s and the terrorist attacks of the 1990s. And not to mention the "fourth empire" of the Ku Klux Klan during the Obama years.
I live in Virginia and that's where the fiasco at Charlottesville happened with people invoking the "great replacement theory" meme, and you can connect that to "white extinction anxiety" during the late 1800s to 20th century.
The movie evoked all these thoughts for me and the normalization o