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Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Hayden Panettiere
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 12:53:11 AM
#22
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 12:47:05 AMCircle Jerks was the first "show" I ever saw. My lasting memory though is of the local opening band Slapshot, whose singer carried a sawed off hockey stick and who were terrifying. I was 12.
#23
Press Releases and Film News / Re: RIP Hayden Panettiere
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 12:42:50 AM #24
Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by bob - August 16, 2026, 11:22:17 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on August 16, 2026, 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)
No worries 🙂
#25
Press Releases and Film News / RIP Hayden Panettiere
Last post by Alex - August 16, 2026, 11:13:31 PMJust saw on BBC news that the Heroes actress has died at the age of 36.
#26
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - August 16, 2026, 08:47:30 PMTonight's Stinker
A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity(1972)
https://youtu.be/VLVTonRRwaQ?si=g2rOyEOJToDsMjq4
A gunfighter rides into town, Remembers how his newlywed brother was murdered, finds the killer, & shoots him...
Six years later, he rides back into town, finds out about the hardships his wife & kids went through after he left, then kills the killer's three friends....
He rides back to his old home in hopes of winning back his wife & kids, & promises not to use a gun again...
Unfortunately, he has to deal with a group of thugs working for a local landgrabber, while Klaus Kinski shows up as a bounty hunter who spends most of his time standing around & watching....
Supposed to be a sequel to an identical film, but really not that original to begin with, just tries to stay sappy most of the time.....
A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity(1972)
https://youtu.be/VLVTonRRwaQ?si=g2rOyEOJToDsMjq4
A gunfighter rides into town, Remembers how his newlywed brother was murdered, finds the killer, & shoots him...
Six years later, he rides back into town, finds out about the hardships his wife & kids went through after he left, then kills the killer's three friends....
He rides back to his old home in hopes of winning back his wife & kids, & promises not to use a gun again...
Unfortunately, he has to deal with a group of thugs working for a local landgrabber, while Klaus Kinski shows up as a bounty hunter who spends most of his time standing around & watching....
Supposed to be a sequel to an identical film, but really not that original to begin with, just tries to stay sappy most of the time.....
#27
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - August 16, 2026, 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 - August 16, 2026, 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!
#29
Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...
Last post by zombie no.one - August 16, 2026, 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)
#30
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - August 16, 2026, 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