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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - Today at 07:21:38 PM"Circle Jerks: My Career as a Jerk" (2012)
Documentary about the long and often volatile history of the Circle Jerks, the L.A. punk band made up of ex members of Black Flag and Redd Kross. Over the years, dozens of members came and went (ex Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland even filled in on bass for a tour in the mid 80s!) but vocalist Keith Morris and guitarist Greg Hetson were the band's backbone through the decades. Lots of good stories and intense live footage make for a punk-as-f**k viewing experience.
Documentary about the long and often volatile history of the Circle Jerks, the L.A. punk band made up of ex members of Black Flag and Redd Kross. Over the years, dozens of members came and went (ex Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland even filled in on bass for a tour in the mid 80s!) but vocalist Keith Morris and guitarist Greg Hetson were the band's backbone through the decades. Lots of good stories and intense live footage make for a punk-as-f**k viewing experience.
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Entertainment / Re: New! Reading Anything Thre...
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 06:24:57 PMREGIME CHANGE: INSIDE THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swann
It is very difficult to write history as it happens, but I will give full props to these two NYT journalists for trying to keep their narrative as balanced and fair as their chaotic subject allows. Interviewing dozens of White House insiders - with some of their accounts so accurate they left the President's staff scrambling to find who leaked what - they take us from the inauguration through the events of March, following the Trump administration as it dished out tariffs left and right, sought vengeance on all the President's perceived enemies, tried to defer the release and limit the fallout from the Epstein files, negotiate an end to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and cut deals left and right that seemed far more designed to line the pockets of Trump's family than to advance America's national interests. Fans of the President will regard it as a hack-written attack piece; his more inveterate enemies will say it was too soft on his criminality and utter lack of ethics, but overall, this is a fascinating account from inside the White House of the most controversial President in American history. Highly recommended!
It is very difficult to write history as it happens, but I will give full props to these two NYT journalists for trying to keep their narrative as balanced and fair as their chaotic subject allows. Interviewing dozens of White House insiders - with some of their accounts so accurate they left the President's staff scrambling to find who leaked what - they take us from the inauguration through the events of March, following the Trump administration as it dished out tariffs left and right, sought vengeance on all the President's perceived enemies, tried to defer the release and limit the fallout from the Epstein files, negotiate an end to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and cut deals left and right that seemed far more designed to line the pockets of Trump's family than to advance America's national interests. Fans of the President will regard it as a hack-written attack piece; his more inveterate enemies will say it was too soft on his criminality and utter lack of ethics, but overall, this is a fascinating account from inside the White House of the most controversial President in American history. Highly recommended!
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 05:34:44 PM80. DEATH DIMENSION (1978)
(I messed up putting SEVEN SAMURAI at 77, didn't notice we'd already had it. have deleted my reply)
(I messed up putting SEVEN SAMURAI at 77, didn't notice we'd already had it. have deleted my reply)
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 05:17:34 PMA FOOL AND HIS MONEY (1912):
This 15-minute silent is often called history's first film w/ an all black (in this case, specifically African-American) cast and was directed by Alice Guy-Blanche, who is often cited as history's first female filmmaker. I must've known these facts when I DL'd it in the unspecific past but I forgot it when I watched it... thus I insist immunity on any accusations of "virtue signaling"
when I proclaim that I thought A FOOL AND HIS MONEY was a real gem.
James Russell (who has only two other credits on Letterboxd) plays a lovestruck dude who keeps getting kicked out of his paramour's parlor by her dad in order for her to make eyes at another dude who's got money. Fortunately Russell comes by a larger amount of money, though through less than upstanding means, which allows him to turn the tables for awhile... until he's finally hoist by his own petard. Really there are no "jokes" in A FOOL AND HIS MONEY, but the whole thing is enjoyable and I laughed out loud three separate times. Why? Well, Guy-Blanche knows a trick in 1912 that Charlie Chaplain, Mabel Norman, Mack Sennett, and Mack Swain didn't know in 1914 (as evidenced by the dire FATAL MALLET) and the generally extremely funny Roscoe Arbuckle didn't know around the same time (when he started directing and starring in shorts which wouldn't get really good for about 3 years), and which I often don't think Keaton and Lloyd knew even in many of their films in the 20s.
In AFAHM, Russell and the other actors are clearly acting out the entire scenario for Guy-Blanche's MOS camera - which means that they are obviously saying dialogue in character, based on a general scenario though in lieu of a script, as latter-day improv inventors like Viola Spolin and Del Close would do decades later. Therefore every performance in this film is highly specific - sometimes exaggerated, though often realistic - and thus at nearly every single moment, you know exactly what every character is thinking and even (more or less) saying, in spite of their being very few intertitles. Thus the acting is what makes this film work - and what makes the situations very funny at times. I see Conrad Veidt doing acting like this in the late teens, though the famous white comedians of the era almost never do this - they just mug and gesticulate, refusing to acknowledge that real people (even in silent movies) actually have conversations with one another.
Guy-Blanche wasn't black but rather a white (French) woman who'd been making films for 15 years by the time she made this one. She has a huge resume yet most of her catalog is (of course) apparently lost. That's an almost criminal shame - she really knew how to direct actors! 4/5
This 15-minute silent is often called history's first film w/ an all black (in this case, specifically African-American) cast and was directed by Alice Guy-Blanche, who is often cited as history's first female filmmaker. I must've known these facts when I DL'd it in the unspecific past but I forgot it when I watched it... thus I insist immunity on any accusations of "virtue signaling"
when I proclaim that I thought A FOOL AND HIS MONEY was a real gem.James Russell (who has only two other credits on Letterboxd) plays a lovestruck dude who keeps getting kicked out of his paramour's parlor by her dad in order for her to make eyes at another dude who's got money. Fortunately Russell comes by a larger amount of money, though through less than upstanding means, which allows him to turn the tables for awhile... until he's finally hoist by his own petard. Really there are no "jokes" in A FOOL AND HIS MONEY, but the whole thing is enjoyable and I laughed out loud three separate times. Why? Well, Guy-Blanche knows a trick in 1912 that Charlie Chaplain, Mabel Norman, Mack Sennett, and Mack Swain didn't know in 1914 (as evidenced by the dire FATAL MALLET) and the generally extremely funny Roscoe Arbuckle didn't know around the same time (when he started directing and starring in shorts which wouldn't get really good for about 3 years), and which I often don't think Keaton and Lloyd knew even in many of their films in the 20s.
In AFAHM, Russell and the other actors are clearly acting out the entire scenario for Guy-Blanche's MOS camera - which means that they are obviously saying dialogue in character, based on a general scenario though in lieu of a script, as latter-day improv inventors like Viola Spolin and Del Close would do decades later. Therefore every performance in this film is highly specific - sometimes exaggerated, though often realistic - and thus at nearly every single moment, you know exactly what every character is thinking and even (more or less) saying, in spite of their being very few intertitles. Thus the acting is what makes this film work - and what makes the situations very funny at times. I see Conrad Veidt doing acting like this in the late teens, though the famous white comedians of the era almost never do this - they just mug and gesticulate, refusing to acknowledge that real people (even in silent movies) actually have conversations with one another.
Guy-Blanche wasn't black but rather a white (French) woman who'd been making films for 15 years by the time she made this one. She has a huge resume yet most of her catalog is (of course) apparently lost. That's an almost criminal shame - she really knew how to direct actors! 4/5
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Television / Re: tv series with no story ar...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 01:31:50 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 11:31:18 AMQuote from: Trevor on Today at 02:22:14 AMa Trevor clone running around with a machine pistol. 😳
terrifying thought
😄🤣
Just Google Christopher Sean and you will see what I mean. He is so unthreatening looking, he makes me look like Negan 😳😏😉🐢
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 12:39:58 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on Today at 12:19:50 PM77?. The Seventh Seal
77.1 ? The Seventh Sign(1988)?
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by claws - Today at 12:37:29 PM78. Dr. Detroit (1983)
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - Today at 12:28:38 PMThe Big Deal on Madonna Street
Why is the stove on?
Why is the stove on?
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 12:19:50 PM77?. The Seventh Seal