NEXT MONTH our presentation at
@ThePCCLondon
will be William Wyler’s groundbreaking melodrama THE CHILDREN’S HOUR, starring Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine as schoolteachers accused of lesbianism.
Tues 13th of Aug, 18.15
🎟️TICKETS🎟️
No respect for celebrities anymore. Constant debasement. If you’d asked Robert Mitchum to say this on a red carpet he would’ve (rightly) gotten violent
In 1975 a movie with “mass market appeal” could be a character study about an insane man ineptly robbing a bank to pay for his transsexual girlfriend’s bottom surgery. It could happen again
Some of you need to hear this:
If Marvel fails, or when Marvel is done with films, movie theaters are not going to suddenly shift into arthouse fare or period dramas or character studies or anything that doesn't have mass market appeal.
It's been that way since Jaws.
Still gobsmacked by Lubitsch’s I Don’t Want to Be a Man. This is a film from 1918 about a young lady discovering the joys of being a guy, getting drunk with your bro and being gay with him
Ushered There Will Be Blood last night and was so fascinated by the way you get so used to Daniel Plainview and then all of a sudden Anderson will put him in a room with a normal person for maximum impact. And you’re like “oh right, this guy isn’t just ‘old-timey’, he’s a freak”
Kevin Smith's crowning achievement is that it's virtually impossible begrudge or resent him. "Well at least he's having fun" is really the only response
It’s funny the way Agnès Varda has been memeified as this quirky, cuddly grandma figure when her films are often really confrontational - Le Bonheur and Vagabond are two of the bleakest films I’ve ever seen
Fritz the Cat made $90 million dollars in 1972 money. It’s abrasive, angry, it’s furry Zabriskie Point. Sure, cartoons fucking and swearing was the big draw, but it’s so bleak and uncompromising, and it was at the centre of pop culture
Sure, it’s neat the director of Barbie is currently namedropping The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at press junkets. It’s novel, wouldn’t have happened 15 years ago. But they put Jacques Demy movies on moodboards for Stella Artois adverts too. Let’s not lose all sense of proportion!
Thinking particularly of the “I’ll cut your throat” bit and the oil exec is just like “why are you being weird” lmao. Anderson is one of the best at making a period setting believable but he also uses our preconceived notions of period in so many interesting ways
Jimmy Fallon scolded a crew member during a taping with Jerry Seinfeld which got so uncomfortable that Seinfeld told Fallon to apologize.
Fallon’s criticism to employees was often insults like ‘Ugh, lame. What is going on? You’ve outdone yourself’
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Obvs our cultural landscape has changed since then. Film distribution as it currently stands will probably be prohibitive to anything quite like New Hollywood happening again, at least on that scale. But must we be SO grim about it? Public appetites will inevitably change
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) visibly draws inspiration from German Expressionism, Powell & Pressburger and Ingmar Bergman. These references lend this sweet, dopey film some flair and visual variety. However, they do not make it any less inconsequential or crassly commercial
At work and this Brian Cox lookalike asked me what In the Mood for Love was about. I said “a man and a woman in 60s Hong Kong that can’t admit their feelings for each other” and he looked at me like I’d just told him his daughter had died
RIP Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel. Here’s his hauntingly pretty glam ballad Tumbling Down in Velvet Goldmine. Not a dry eye in the house for this last week
The article is honestly so depressing too. It’s very “don’t worry folks, he’s a family man, he knows it’s hip to be square, he’s all grown up now.” AIDS epidemic Reaganite homophobia writ large
What’s your favourite type of specialty shot that a director is known for? ie: De Palma’s split diopter, a long Godard’s Weekend type tracking shot, Wes Anderson’s overhead, Tarantino’s trunk, obvious one but Hitchcock’s vertigo…..
My latest contribution to
@LWLies
, a reflection on Hawks and his women. We all love Old Hollywood but we also want it to give us things that it can’t - that’s what I was trying to get at here 👯♀️
I love him, brilliant and humane, eminently literate as only British people can be, don’t care if his aesthetic is cringe, have a strong feeling we are meant to cross paths, as I had with certain others that it ended up happening with
I remember my parents coming home buzzing from a Jane Birkin concert when I was a kid. “She came into the audience with an umbrella covered in fairy lights!”, “she was so beautiful!” I’ll treasure that memory and her voice will haunt me forever. RIP.
To focus on the joy she brought: SOPHIE released the Ponyboy video during a particularly bleak spot in my life and it would bring such elation to my dingy little flat - it was so funny and sexy and scary, and so much of what I wanted to embody. A perfect thing
@col_janus
Idk, it’s a very long shot. But I’m heartened by the notion that the pre-1960s Old Hollywood hegemony must’ve felt pretty immovable when it was at its peak
When I was a gorehound teen I thought Jeffery Combs as Herbert West was one of the greatest performances in all of cinema. Now I’m an adult and I’ve seen a bunch of highbrow arthouse films and stuff and yeah he’s still right up there
Happy birthday to dearest Jeffrey Combs. For the moment I can’t post any pictures of us from a movie. But you all know his legacy, his wily charm, his command of every moment he’s on screen. He’s a mercurial and forever interesting performer and a dear friend…🎂
So much culture has its root in Lou Reed thinking trans women were hot. It’s the primary antecedent of glam rock and everything that would come in its wake. Some of my parents’ favourite records exist because of girls like me, yet I still threw them for a loop
@Beach19thSt
It’s different strokes for different folks I think - I’m sure Scorsese could rattle off 29+ titles he’d been thinking about during the during the conception, shooting and completion of Killers of the Flower Moon for example
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
I am beyond thrilled to say that
@tgirlsonfilm
and I will be presenting a very special 70th anniversary screening of Ed Wood's GLEN OR GLENDA at
@ThePCCLondon
on Tuesday the 9th of May, 6.15pm 🐉👚🏳️⚧️
🎟Grab tickets here:
Whenever there’s a new horror film I’m meant be paying attention to it always turns out to be some great treatise on trauma, grief or bigotry. I really like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), a film about how scary it would be if people tried to eat you
Couldn’t believe this happened 45 minutes into the movie. Barbie has effectively learned her lesson - it’s beautiful to be mortal and flawed - with over an hour of movie left
#Barbie
director Greta Gerwig held her ground against studio executives and refused to cut a scene where Barbie meets an elderly woman, as they believed it was unimportant:
“To me, this is the heart of the movie. If I cut that scene, I don’t know why I’m making this movie. If I