Hey #Seattle, Scarecrow Video is trying to raise 1.8 million dollars to stay open. I'd been meaning to visit, and they're amazing! Consider supporting them with a membership if you like physical media. (They also rent by mail.)
for the second time this year i've had the gift of watching a film in love with photography and cinematography
the reviews of alex garland's Civil War have almost obsessively tried to interpret it as some kind of allegory about current american politics and journalistic morality, which distracts from an exquisitely (horrifying) photographic experience
there are moments where it just lets you confront, in a raw and uncompromising manner, the powers of photojournalistic storytelling.
anyone who has held an SLR before and tried to do justice to something they witnessed knows this feeling.
that's what the film does best, and tries to do best. i can't think of another film that pulls off the same without veering into melodrama (e.g. Saving Private Ryan)
@vga256 Yes! I went in expecting a war movie. Which... it is, I guess. I went in expecting a political movie. Which it... really isn't, except in the most loose "we have to pay some lip service to this" way.
What I got was a love letter to the joys and frustrations of photography, and I not only watched it that first time loving it? I immediately, like 2 days later, watched it again to show it to someone else.
Currently lamenting all the dead pilots, half-made miniseries, undistributed films, and productions shelf-locked because of rights disputes/owners that hate each other. An entire universe of lost media.
@thoughtpunks For one brief moment, Tim Burton's "Batman" had cast Willem Dafoe as Batman & Robin Williams as the Joker. It unfortunately fell through. Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson really hit it out of the park, but just imagine what we could have had!
"Big Trouble in Little China" was supposed to be a Western, but they changed it to the modern day to save money on building period sets.
It's like winning a million in the lottery and finding out you were one digit off from winning a billion.
June Squibb gives a performance of endless charm and wit as a loving grandmother who gets scammed and then deliciously, hilariously, and very satisfyingly, gets revenge. #movies#moviereview
Today in Labor History June 21, 1982: John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981. A Few years later (1990), Reagan was found not guilty by reason of dementia, when he said “I don’t recall,” 88 times during the Iran-Contra hearings, a rate of more than 10 per hour. (In 1994, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s). Hinkley said he tried to assassinate Reagan to impress actress Jody Foster, who had played Iris, a twelve-year-old prostitute in the film Taxi Driver. In that film, Robert DeNiro’s character, Travis Bickle, tries to assassinate the president. And from all this came one of the more amusing band names from the classic era of Hardcore Punk, JFA, or Jody Foster’s Army.
#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)