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https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/113675831569266450 globalmuseum@mastodon.online - NEWS: The @LibnOfCongress
has announced the annual selection of 25 films to be inducted into the #NatFilmRegistry. Each was chosen for its cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage.
I add my recommendation to this one.
♲ Stix - 2024-12-04 03:02:51 GMT
"The Piano Lesson", currently streaming on #Netflix is a masterful rendering of August Wilson's play. Directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, both sons of Denzel, it's clear we have a new creative family dynasty in Hollywood. Fabulous cast, wonderful performances in this family legacy tale. Recommend. 🎦 #Movies
And now the important business of Gladiator II.
https://decoherency.blogspot.com/2024/11/review-gladiiator.html
I'm finally listening to the Stargate Episode of Historians at the Movies. I've always loved the movie for the language aspects of it. I love learning how much went into that. This prodded me to rewatch the movie and finally start watching the TV shows #movies #history podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/…
So Kangua is real DMK movie. Joked a bad movie grossing 1000Cr must be from DMK, was stunned to learn it's true.
So may be from now on the strategy is a movie should be so bad that none sees it, but it amasses 1000's of crores. 👌
#India #politics #moneylaundering #DMK #movies #Tamil #TamilFilms #TamilMovies
The 4th Doctor and Nostradamus' wife approves.
#WittyLittleKnitter
♲ consumableJoy - 2024-11-16 17:28:12 GMT
That new (extremely ridiculous) Xmas romantic comedy on Netflix— Hot Frosty — has some handknits. The snowman comes to life with the help of a magical scarf (“is that a seed stitch or a rib stitch?”) and the main character Kathy wears knitted hats including this multicolored cable one. #knitting #movies #holidaymoviesReplica scarf pattern linked
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Second day of "Night Visions" festival movies. Spoilers due.
Invention (2024)
A daughter arrives to a small town to handle matters after her fathers death. They clearly have not been close and the life the father has been living quickly uncovers to be different than she expected, after endless interviews of the townsfolk and people he had surrounded himself with. A kind of TV miracle doctor, inventor of the "healing machine".
Does the machine actually do anything? Was the doctor a swindler or did he genuinely help people? Did big pharma "off" him?
I think the movie was trying to portrait the grief of a woman who lost their father. I couldn't really tie the whole healing machine and the loss of the father together, there seemed to be two different focuses going on.
Fight another day (2024)
In a dystopian future, the boss of a pharmaceutics company invents a time machine. What does he use it for? The benefit of humanity? No, lets make a TV show, pulling warriors (like, err, a cop) from history just before their death, giving them a second chance in life - that is if they survive a brutal arena where the historical combatants battle to the death using weapons of their era.
The idea is very interesting, though the background story of the world is somewhat weak like Israel at a human rights conference. There is a kind of story, albeit not a very interesting one. What the movie excels at are the combat scenes, warriors of different times facing each other in very, very brutal combat. Like I'm not sure how well I will sleep tonight kind of gore. I think the story was just pieced on top to somehow tie together lots of fight scenes. And based on the ending they kind of just gave up in the end.
"Night Visions" is a movie festival I've long wanted to participate in, but somehow have never done. I think originally I tended to look at it and see it focus too much on horror movies (which I do not like), but it clearly, at least these days, is not just that, having a load of fantasy, scifi and plain weird stuff. This year it fell on a kid free week, so bought tickets for 7 films, yay!
Today, two films. What follows may contain plot spoilers.
A samurai in time (2023)
It's the end of the Edo period in Japan, with clans opposing and supporting the Shogun happily warring away. During a stormy night, two samurais supporting the Shogun prepare to take on a ronin from the opposing side. During the battle, lightning strikes, transporting our samurai to another time. Through hilarious turns of events the samurai finally adjusts to his new surroundings as part of a stunt man on jidaigeki TV productions. But was he the only one transported through time?
I think this is probably the most goodwill samurai film I have ever seen. Really enjoyable film, lots of well written comedy, mixed with the grief of a samurai who lost their time and purpose. At times things stand still a bit and the plot doesn't have too many surprises, but overall a very enjoyable film.
Starcrash (1978)
What do you get when Star Wars has just blown out across the world and an Italian scifi fan writer and director wants to create a film with all the cool stuff he liked as a kid? Starcrash! This movie has everything, from the many clear Star Wars rip offs no one is trying to hide, space Amazons (with a freakin' huge metal robot), a Dracula influenced villain, a godlike alien that apparently dies when wounded on his arm, troglodytes, a somewhat Roman influenced emperor, a space smuggler, the planet Arrakis, silly space battles - and of course David Hasselhoff!
There is little point in worrying too much about the plot, this is a movie where you just sit back, enjoy the silliness and the various references to many other scifi/fantasy works, and of course the late 70's special effects that don't quite reach Star Wars levels. As the director present at the screening said, "no one had done this in Italy at the time".
The ratings on IMDb really don't give this the credit it deserves.
#movies #charlie #chan
When taking a break from work on Saturday, I watched Charlie Chan movies and my SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES also featured more of Charlie Chan.
Film Noir. Charlie Chan. Sidney Toler and Warner Oland. Both actors and the stories are fantastic (to me).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan
https://mastodonapp.uk/@davidallan/113414643898523700 davidallan@mastodonapp.uk - The iconic Grade I listed High Level Bridge above the River Tyne links Newcastle with Gateshead. The Tyneside landmark has frequently featured as a location in films and TV dramas, probably most memorably recalled in the movie 'Get Carter', starring Michael Caine.
In one scene, the main character, Carter, is filmed vaulting over the walkway off to the right and onto the roof of a garage below.
Finishing off the Halloween season with my first viewing of the British classic horror movie The Wicker Man. It was the subject of the Lives Less Ordinary BBC podcast last week. #halloween #horror #movies themoviedb.org/movie/16307-the…
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More Halloween movies: The original Poltergeist. I don't recall ever seeing this before so it might as well be a first for me. The Hitchcockesque stuff still works great. Many of the special effects didn't hold up but it's been over 40 years so grade on a curve. #movies #horror themoviedb.org/movie/609-polte…
