#books #reading #literature #libraries #photography #films #kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was only nineteen years old when he took this photograph.
- Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick
9:40 AM Sunday. I'm going back to bed- need more sleep................................

Impressions de la Haute Mongolie

#Movies #Films #1970s #Surrealism #Dalì

The Greatest Someone Something Someone Didn't Something

E.g., The greatest Hitchcock film Hitchcock didn't make.

The greatest Philip K. Dick novel Dick didn't write.

List some more.

#films #novels #songs #etc

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/113307468578952717 FediVideo@social.growyourown.services - As it's #Halloween, you might like to check out the gothic horror film "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925) which is now in the public domain.

Unfortunately its soundtrack isn't in the public domain, so I edited together a new freely available soundtrack from modern creative commons and public domain tracks.

There's a trailer for the Fedi.Video edition of the film at:

➡️ https://fedi.video/w/1SwBmPJaT9TxvxTG6YwrCM

The full length Fedi.Video edition of the film is at:

➡️ https://fedi.video/w/xAuNMvv5h2qVqtLn5b38Vj

#Horror #Films

Hello everyone, I'm #HereRecently. I'm interested in #films, #twilight saga and #series

113 - Les Princes De La Ville - 1999 (ALBUM)
https://piped.video/watch?v=vhIanx96kxE
https://youtu.be/vhIanx96kxE
DJ Mehdi - Made in France (4/6) Le prince de la ville #docu #documentaire #histoire #musique #music
Une série doc sur Arte qui ne doit pas plaire du tout à la "police allemande". Aujourd’hui en reprenant le pouvoir, cela réveil le pire de nos années pétrin.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/119468-004-A/dj-mehdi-made-in-france-4-6/

A voir Lacombe Lucien
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/027777-000-A/lacombe-lucien/
133 min-Disponible jusqu'au 10/11/2024
#Films #Cinéma

En 1944, un jeune fermier entre par hasard dans les rangs de la #Gestapo après avoir été refusé par une cellule de résistants. Parce qu'il tendait le miroir de la #collaboration au public #français, ce grand film sur la versatilité de l'homme suscita un tollé et contraignit Louis Malle à l'exil.

Juin 1944, dans une petite préfecture du #sud-ouest de la France. Lucien Lacombe, 15 ans, travaille dans un hospice. À la faveur d'un congé, il retourne dans sa ferme du village de #Souleillac. Il y découvre que sa mère vit avec un autre homme, alors que son père est prisonnier des Allemands. Il veut gagner le maquis, mais son instituteur, un résistant influent, refuse, l'estimant trop jeune. Le soir, n'ayant pas respecté le #couvre-feu à cause d'un pneu crevé, il est arrêté par la police et fait la rencontre d'un groupe d'auxiliaires français de la Gestapo qui le font boire et parler, puis finissent par l'adopter. Désormais, Lucien a du pouvoir, notamment celui de tuer. Il rencontre Albert Horn, tailleur #juif réputé qui a trouvé refuge en province. Il tombe éperdument amoureux de sa fille, #France, et lui rend visite tous les jours…

La banalité du mal

Avec ce film, #Louis-Malle aborde la collaboration dans une province française sous un angle démystifiant, celui de la "banalité du mal" – théorisée par Hannah Arendt. Il met en relief le caractère grossier et fortuit des motivations personnelles, un paradoxe dans lequel réside toute la tension de la narration. Chez le jeune paysan, en l'absence de conscience #politique, ce sont les ressorts primaires et égoïstes qui jouent (le désir de revanche #sociale, la jouissance du #pouvoir, le besoin de reconnaissance). L'engagement dans la #résistance ou la collaboration tient alors à peu de choses : un pneu crevé, le hasard d'une rencontre, une humiliation, le désœuvrement… Lucien Lacombe est un personnage fascinant et fruste dont la simplicité des émotions, en proie aux faux-semblants, touche et horrifie à la fois. Cinq ans après Le chagrin et la pitié, ce film est la première œuvre de #fiction à éclairer le tabou du #comportement de nombreux Français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Subissant les foudres de l'opinion (autant de l'extrême gauche que de l'extrême droite), Louis Malle a dû s'exiler aux États-Unis pour poursuivre sa carrière.

Réalisation - Louis Malle
Année -1974

#facho #anti-fa #milice-police #Arte

Last day of Love and Anarchy film festival for me! Was a good bunch of films and documentaries. Many of them sad stories, of places and people with little hope for a future. It's important to see these kind of stories to remind oneself of how a privileged life one is living.

Tatami

Leila is a judoka in the Iran national team, participating in the Judo world championships in Georgia. Everything starts going out well and it looks like there is a strong chance for a gold medal. When there is a possibility she will have to face an athlete from Israel in the final, politics comes into play and things start going wrong.

A touching story of willpower and fighting for your rights as a human being. Includes lots of tatami action.

The Shameless

After killing a police chief customer in a Delhi brothel she works at, Renuka is forced to flee to a smaller town. There in a community of sex workers she meets 17 year old girl Devika, who has yet to have been initiated into the trade. They fall in love, fighting both against Devika's family but also the patriarchy which not only wont accept them, but wants to destroy them.

To a land unknown

Two Palestinian migrants on their way to Germany end up stuck in Athens after their smuggler ripped them off. Needing money for passports, they steal, rob and eventually end up in more and more dangerous schemes.

A story of struggling to keep your humanity when all has been taken away from you.

#hiff #films #judo #iran #sexwork #india #migrants #athens

Today two productions at Love and Anarchy.

Limbo

Detective Travis Hurley gets sent to evaluate reopening of an old case in a small mining town in the outback of Australia. The old disappearance of Charlotte takes us through the town, slowly building the story of families torn apart in a town plagued by racial injustice. A broken detective may not be able to solve the old case, but will it be possible to heal the old wounds and bring families back together?

The film features and endless amount of bare dry scenery in and around the old opal mining town. Shooting it fully in gray scale brings a nice touch that blends everything into the background, stripping away all the colour, all the joy taken away, just like from the townsfolk and the detective themselves.

No other land

A documentary by four activists, Palestinian and Israeli, filming the torment of the Palestinian population of "Masafer Yatta" [1] in the West Bank by the Israeli military and settlers. Lands forcefully confiscated by Israel to make space for their own settlers in the region. Houses are demolished, only to be rebuilt in secret during the night. Power generators are confiscated and wells filled in with concrete, all to force the villagers to leave the area. When you resist, you are shot. What ends up being more dangerous to the villagers are the armed Israeli settlers who do attacks against the Palestinians, with the Israeli forces watching by.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafer_Yatta

I can't say this more clearly: Fuck the Israel terrorist state.

#hiff #films #palestine #israel #terrorism

Not only is the #workingclass the most powerful group in the world, it also has by far the best music! (The #Commitments is definitely one of the better #music #films) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2sSzneWYg

Today I saw two Love and Anarchy films, and they were both seriously weird. It's great when you walk out of the movie theater into the street and for a while just forget all about the ugliness of society around you, your mind processing all that audiovisual information you were just blasted with. I love this festival.

La bête (The beast)

I don't know what to think of this film. There was a lot of trying to figure out what exactly is happening, and more importantly when. As if in a dream, the film jumped (or did it?) between time, connecting two people, Gabrielle and Louis, wrapping them in a deep love story over space and time. In constant fear of tragedy just around the corner, never quite becoming the love story that you are constantly waiting to happen.

Beautiful filming, great screenplay and lots of mind warping jumps in the story, including some jump scares to keep the audience from getting too comfortable.

Infinite summer

Filmed in beautiful Estonia the film follows two teenagers as they spend their summer holiday at a cottage, catching up on their friendship and the challenges growing up causes. Feeling a loss of connection one of them connects to "Doctor Mindfulness", through an enhanced reality dating app. What they get is not quite what the scruffy mind expanding doctor promised.

There are several layers to this film, and I'm happy I stuck around for the director Q&A to get those clarified. On the one hand we have a teenager growth story, on the other hand we have a scare story of technology going horribly wrong. Or are things going wrong? Or is this a growth story of humanity as well, transcending into something else. Maybe not better, maybe not worse, but different. We are not told, and there probably is no answer.

#hiff #films #scifi #weird

Kneecap

First Love and Anarchy festival film for me this year, a part of the "Spotlight Selection". And I can see why. I think this film will easily go into the top list of films I've seen in recent years.

Telling the story of "Kneecap" [1], a real world hip-hop trio who rhyme in a mixture of Irish and English, acted by the band members, but in a fictional way. Based on Wikipedia there are many elements of the film that borrow from their real world journey. Whether this includes the outlandish drug use or being in the middle of republican militants and British imperialist police forces I can't say based on the article. However, it is all put together really well, conveying the most important message of all: fuck both of them. Humour is a central building block while tackling a difficult subject.

The Irish language and the right to use it is a central carrying theme through the film. Thanks to British imperialism the language only received official status in Northern Ireland in 2022. The film ends with a sad reminder that every 40 days an indigenous language dies [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecap_(band)
[2] https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/climate-change-languages/

#hiff #films #music #languages #irish

EmphaseBonjour tout le monde, je suis #nouveauici. Mes centres d'intérêt sont #animaux, #bible, #cavalierkingcharles, #chantchrétienévangélique, #chien, #films, #siamois et #vidéos.

The headline is #DailyBeast clickbait, but the text quite readable, for a change:

The Shocking Truth Is Revealed About Hitler’s Go-To Filmmaker

#movies #films #Nazis #Riefenstahl

#AlainDelon, étoile du cinéma français, s'est éteint à l'âge de 88 ans, ce dimanche 18 août 2024. Magnétique, il aiguise au fil de rôles complexes son mythe éternel. Le 7ème art perd aujourd'hui l'une de ses plus grandes légendes. Vogue lui rend hommage.

#AlainDelon #cinéma #films #France #art #culture

Just came back from watching #AlienRomulus. Without giving away any spoilers, I think it's a creditable addition to the canon and tries to tie in most of the films made before it. There are also a couple of interesting "guest" appearances. It's not really horror like the 1979 original, just a few minor jump scares and some gore; I'd say it's more an action film.

#Films #SciFi

Coquelicots rouges sur les murs #films #artetv #histoire #Noir&Blanc #antifascisme

Favorite German-language Films

I have seen very few of these. What others should I try to see?

Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)

directed by Tom Tykwer

This is so clever and inventive, it's hard not to enjoy.

Das Boot (The Boat)

directed by Wolfgang Petersen

The greatest submarine movie ever made. I'm convinced that this is what diesel boats were like in WWII, and I'm glad I never set foot in one.

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Favorite Japanese-language Films

I've seen many more of these.

大病人 (Daibyonin or The Last Dance)

directed by 伊丹 十三 (Juzo Itami)

This was the first film I saw in Japan where I got the gist of every conversation. It gave me more confidence in my Japanese. Then I saw お葬式 (The Funeral) by the same director and was completely lost. I think that was due to the Kansai dialect. The film is about the last year in the life of an old actor dying of cancer. It's about telling patients the truth about their illnesses, which was not always done in Japan at the time.

天空の城ラピュタ (Laputa, Castle in the Sky)

directed by 宮崎 駿 (Hayao Miyazaki)

In the film, Jonathan Swift's Laputa is a real place. A castle floating in the air. Some international intrigue results in some young people actually going to it. Miyazaki has made several very good films, but this is still my favorite of all of them.

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What about the rest of you? Any good films in a language other than your first that made a big impression?

#movies #movie #film #films #cinema #deutsche-sprache #deutsche #german #german-language #japanese-language #japanese #日本語 #日本製 #日本作品 #映画 #kino

#roses #films
The Flower of June ~ The Rose
The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness
From ~ The Thief of Bagdad

5 films 'écolos' à voir ou à revoir.

Le site ID propose de (re)découvrir plusieurs films placés sous le signe de l’écologie.
Mais la liste n'est pas exhaustive.
...

Ci-dessous les bandes-annonces via Invidious :
— La panthère des neiges, docu de Marie Amiguet.
Location ou achat en VOD sur plusieurs plateformes, en streaming sur Netflix, en DVD et Blu-Ray.

— Le règne animal, de Thomas Cailley.
Location ou achat en VOD sur plusieurs plateformes, en streaming sur Canal+, en DVD et Blu-Ray.

— Don't look up, d’Adam McKay.
En streaming sur Netflix et Canal+, en DVD et Blu-Ray.

— Les algues vertes, de Pierre Jolivet.
Au cinéma à Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, Strasbourg, Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse, Jard-sur-Mer.
Location ou achat en VOD sur plusieurs plateformes, en streaming sur Canal+, en DVD et Blu-Ray.

— Acide, de Just Philippot.
Location ou achat en VOD sur plusieurs plateformes, en SVOD sur Canal+, en DVD et Blu-Ray.

#écologie #environnement #fiction #réalité #films #cinéma

Great Films You Can Watch for Free

on YouTube (perhaps using yt-dlp, MPV, or Invidious)

All these films should have articles on Wikipedia. I've seen all of these except Jamaica Inn, which I'm downloading now. I recommend all the films in this list.

You can also watch them in your browser without looking at a YouTube page by replacing watch?v= with embed/. E.g., https://www.youtube.com/embed/yrFGw4vj9d4. This makes them full-page in your browser.

Ball of Fire | Full Classic Movie | WATCH FOR FREE (includes Gene Krupa and his band, including Roy Eldridge)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrFGw4vj9d4

The Front Page (1931) Comedy, Crime, Drama Full Length Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS2Kezl0EZ4

Jamaica Inn (1939) Alfred Hitchcock | Adventure, Crime | Full Length Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Th0XniKSAs

Alfred Hitchcock | The 39 Steps (1935) Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim | Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmSdum4BMqI

Sabotage 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka | Film-Noir | Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aJ5j8HH46w

Hitchcock | Young and Innocent (1937) Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUkE_v8l4K4

The Lady Vanishes | Full Classic Movie In HD | Mystery Thriller | Alfred Hitchcock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9HYSeKzyg

The Bishop's Wife | Full Classic Movie | Cary Grant, Loretta Young | WATCH FOR FREE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9SskdQWzw

The Brother from Another Planet 1984 | Joe Morton, Rosanna Carter (Sci-Fi, Comedy) Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVLozNYJAc

Bringing Up Baby | Comedy | Full movie in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE1O9SwwB1c

Meet John Doe (1941) Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck | Romance Comedy | Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZOV4YhquXI

Angel on my shoulder (Film-Noir, 1946) Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains | Full Movie, Subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISjbjHfqC8

Life with Father (1947) Elizabeth Taylor, William Powell | Comedy, Family | Subtitled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc3Vrz4OnY4

Woman on the Run 1950 | Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sheridan | Film-Noir, Thriller | Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GymxBdEEKlM

The Stranger (1946) Orson Welles | Film-Noir, Crime, Mystery | Full Length Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-iglYhLl-8

Suddenly (1954) Frank Sinatra | Film-Noir, Crime Drama | Full Length Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiCbaTkdEGM

He Walked by Night (1948) Crime Thriller, Film-Noir | Full Length Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKfw_nwyvGM

#video #film #films #movie #movies #classic-films #great-films #great-movies #noir #comedy #crime-drama