filmfileuk , to random
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Which stars normally known for their comedy roles have impressed you the most in more serious parts?

arratoon , to bookstodon group
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Book 14, 2024: Granta - Film. I picked this up in a charity shop last year, mainly because there is a Tessa Hadley story in it, and just got round to reading it. It’s from 2004. There’s a great essay by Thomas Keneally about how he stumbled upon the story of Oskar Schindler, John Fowles writes about the filing of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and Shampa Banerjee writes about having been a child actor in Satyajit Rai’s Panther Panchali. @bookstodon

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Ed Zwick's new memoir seems to be entertaining just from reading the self-deprecating start. I just started reading it, there's verve and panache.

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My notebooks on working fill an entire shelf in my office. On the inside cover of my first one—a black Moleskine, unlined—I wrote “creation is memory.” I think it was Kurosawa who said it, I certainly didn’t make it up, yet in retrospect it begins to explain what I was up to. I couldn’t possibly use what I was witnessing, yet I was desperate to preserve it all, believing that by storing it away it might someday give me a leg up as a filmmaker. I couldn’t have known that the value of these notes would only become clear years later, after a decade of scrambling, scheming, striving, and the repeated humiliation and abject mortification of knowing I was doing mediocre work. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Humiliation and mortification are subjects that will get more than their share of attention in the stories to come.
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    • filmfileuk , to random
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    Which film had the largest impact on you, maybe the one that made you love cinema at a young age, or maybe it was where and who you saw it with that made the viewing special?

    FediVideo , to random
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    "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925) is a classic silent film with a strong Gothic horror romance theme.

    Unfortunately there's no public domain score, so I've edited a new libre soundtrack for the film from existing Creative Commons and public domain music. You can watch this new version at:

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

    Also, in case you missed it, I did a similar thing for the Oscar-winning war/romance film "Wings" (1927):

    ➡️ https://fedi.video/w/mnxJLqxaS9yejUAnZPNYcH

    arratoon , to bookstodon group
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    Book 5, 2024: Every Man for Himself and God Against All - Werner Herzog. Enjoyable autobiography from the filmmaker and artist. Obviously you read it in his wonderful voice. Full f terrific lines. Takes in his childhood, just-do-it attitude to his work, and travels. @bookstodon

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