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DO NOT DISTURB - 2022 film

December 15th, 2023

366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links.DIRECTED BY: John AinslieFEATURING: Kimberly LaFerrière, Rogan ChristopherPLOT: Their relationship on the verge of collapse, Chloë and Jack honeymoon in Miami—and ingest a lot of peyote in their hotel room.COMMENTS: John Ainslie’s evidences certainty as a director in how he orchestrates his main characters’ indecision so convincingly. At one moment—well, at plenty of moments—the audience really, really dislikes Ja...

Falling Star

December 15th, 2023

The story shares similarities with the hero tales of cultures around the world as it focuses on a central character of supernatural origin who is raised far from home and comes to the people in a time of need to save them from danger or destruction or to offer them the promise of renewal and redemption. In this version of the hero tale, the main character's mother is a young Cheyenne maiden who falls in love with Brightest-Star (the evening and morning star) and marries him, joining him in hi...

Love Story 1970 - A Timeless Tale of Love and Loss

December 11th, 2023

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. It tells the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy Harvard University student, and Jenny Cavilleri, a working-class Radcliffe College student, who fall deeply in love despite their contrasting backgrounds.Oliver, heir to a prominent family fortune, is expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and attend law school. He plays hockey for the university team and leads a privile...

Midsommar Movie Ending and Themes Explained

December 1st, 2023

Midsommar (2019) Movie Ending and Themes Explained: Ari Aster is one of the most exciting figures in modern Hollywood. The director is part of a new generation of American filmmakers who are taking creative risks and reinvigorating the horror genre in interesting ways. Though he’s only directed three feature films and a collection of short movies, Aster has already made his mark on the industry with his oeuvre. His hard-hitting horror films, which are known for their shocking violence, unnerv...

CinemArchetype 28 - The Elemental

November 30th, 2023

Getting into the pagan dark magic of the earth, air, fire, and water is as easy as doing almost nothing.... and as hard as doing less. Just like the truth about alien involvement in our evolution is--despite the mountains of evidence (19 seasons of the History Channel's Ancient Aliens and counting--is almost impossible to fully accept consciously, our do nothing unconscious won't let go of it. That's because our unconscious--the basement of our mind--has connections... to the anima mundi. J...

Golf comms

November 17th, 2023

Golf/Gold, Arnold Palmer, Spalding, Tembo, Macho Man, Tiger Woods, Objectivity, Little League, Bosco, Moonwalker, UpdatesThe biggest stories right now are connected in a way you may not have noticed.06/10/2023 Trump looming indictment for handling of Classified docs at his Bedminster Golf resort.06/11/2023 Saudi Arabia Completes Its Hostile Takeover of U.S. GolfWhy Golf?Time to decode Pro Golf!GOLF = ?This takeover by Saudi Arabia is something Donald Trump has supported!PGA tour cancelled Tru...

Great Power, Great Diversity Across the Spider-Verse

November 10th, 2023

Film & TVSubmitted by tara on Thu, 11/09/2023 - 10:35 2023’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the successful follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s a film that has been praised by audiences and critics alike with its undeniably flashy and original artistic style, as well as its captivating storytelling. However, one of the most compelling aspects of the film is its surprisingly rich subtext. Aside from the more obvious themes of inclusivity and diversity, something wh...

Sculptures in Time

November 8th, 2023

The veteran filmmaker Heinz Emigholz is probably best known for his one hundred architectural films without people or voices. In The Last City (2020), he returns to narrative filmmaking after twenty-five years. The result is an irreverent mix of the casual and perfectionist, the absurd and the confessional, a handmade, queer set of collisions. The film starts with an archaeologist and a weapons designer – who, in a prior life, knew each other as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst – meeting at an...

Reviewing AI’s starring role in cinema - ITWeb

October 27th, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has always sparked storytellers' imaginations, bringing them into new, imaginative worlds. Movies, as a strong storytelling medium, provide us a peek into the future possibilities of AI and the impacts it might have on existence.Earlier films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Terminator" depicted AI and robots as entities that develop self-awareness and, consequently, a desire to overthrow or harm their human creators.HAL 9000, the intelligent computer in "...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (thing) by uucp - Everything2.com

October 24th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Fast Times at Ridgemont High (thing) See all of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by uucp Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:10:13 Originally a series of articles written by Cameron Crowe for Rolling Stone Magazine. Crowe went back to high school undercover, after graduating college, and wrote about the kids. Actually, he had attended the University of San Diego High School, which was a boring Catholic school,...

Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television

October 20th, 2023

Fully:Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope?by Ralph DumainGenerally when I look at American culture these days I see little but degeneracy. I am rarely heartened even by the obvious sophistication that our society has achieved in certain respects over the past two decades, because it is so heavily counterbalanced by increased fragmentation, intellectual laziness, dehumanization, and superficiality. The sophistication that we do have is not so much a...

Containing Russia

October 16th, 2023

Alexander Kluge, Russia Container, trans. Alexander Booth (Chicago: Seagull Books, 2022). 392pp., £27.50 hb., 978 1 80309 065 8Russia Container is not a book about Russia. It’s about the images and stories that East Germans had of Soviet Russia before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and after. Alexander Kluge wrote it ‘on commission’ by his sister Alexandra Kluge, who, unlike her brother, lived in the German Democratic Republic after the separation of their parents. There Alexandra learnt...

Hollywood Studio System

October 13th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Hollywood Studio System (thing) See all of Hollywood Studio System, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by mustard_monkey Tue Nov 19 2002 at 20:34:32 "The American Cinema is a classical art so why not admire what is most admirable. Not only the talent of this or that film maker but the genius of the system" The Hollywood Studio System 1930-59 The studio system had an equilibrium of components that is rare in the film industr...

New Thriller by Amazon - Wilderness - needs more camp

October 4th, 2023

Stefania Rosini/Prime VIdeo By Valerie Ettenhofer · Published on October 4th, 2023 Welcome to Up Next, a recurring column keeping an eye on what’s new in TV. This week, TV critic Valerie Ettenhofer checks in with a review of the new Amazon Prime show Wilderness.For a few years roughly a decade ago, nearly every mystery or thriller novel to hit shelves was dubbed "the next Gone Girl." In the wake of the success of Gillian Flynn’s dark, twisty novel about an acrid marriage that turned potential...

Hal Foster - We are our apps

October 4th, 2023

Art history was shaken in the 1970s and 1980s, and the epicentre was 19th-century art. Emboldened by the resurgent Marxism and feminism of the 1960s, engaged scholars including T.J. Clark, Thomas Crow, Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock asked difficult questions about class, audience, gender and sexuality, questions that were soon rumbling through other fields as well.Yet disruptive though these inquiries were, they mostly continued to insist on the centrality of the French avant-garde. Even...

Pickpocket

October 3rd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Pickpocket (thing) See all of Pickpocket, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by ellF Fri Dec 06 2002 at 8:10:40 Title: Pickpocket Color: Black and white Country: France Director: Robert Bresson Release: 1959 Language: French, with English subtitles Runtime: 75 minutes Starring: Martin LaSalle as Michel, Marika Green as Jane Synopsis: Often viewed as Bresson's strongest film, Pickpocket is the story of a masterful Parisian thi...

Vision - Marvel

October 3rd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 vision (person) See all of vision, there are 6 more in this node. (person) by Habakkuk Thu May 10 2001 at 15:26:45 A member of the super-hero team the Avengers published by Marvel Comics. The Vision is a synthetic man or android, often referred to as a "synthezoid." He was created by Ultron 5, to attack its foes, the Avengers. Using parts left from the lab of Professor Phineas Horton, the creator of the original Human Torch. Ul...

Last House on the Left

October 3rd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Last House on the Left (review) See all of The Last House on the Left, there is 1 more in this node. (review) by JD Sat Oct 03 2009 at 18:00:16 To avoid fainting, keep repeating "It's only a movie... It's only a movie...." A pair of teenage girls encounters a group of brutal, sadistic killers, led by a maniac named Krug.1 After Krug and his deranged band torture, molest, dismember, and kill the girls, they take refuge in the t...

Inception

October 3rd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Inception (review) See all of Inception, there are 4 more in this node. (review) by O-Swirl Mon Jul 26 2010 at 20:54:05 "Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange." ~Cobb This movie is 2 hours and 28 minutes long and was directed by Christopher Nolan. The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cill...

On Peter Pan

October 2nd, 2023

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

Beautiful and Pointless

September 27th, 2023

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September 25th, 2023

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sequence

September 24th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 sequence (thing) See all of sequence, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by Sarcasmo Wed Sep 20 2000 at 16:06:26 Let me clear some film terminology up. In film, "sequence" is used very specifically for reasons that are the result of lack of specifics. Let me define a bit here. A sequence can be: A series of shots. A series of scenes. A series of events that are not a particular scene or shot. A way of describing a nebula in...

Only Murders in the Building S3 - Title Clues Reveal Murderer

September 23rd, 2023

This articlecontains plot recap and minor spoilers regarding Only Murders in the Building season 3.It wouldn’t feel like late summer transitioning into the crispness of fall if there wasn’t another season of the perennial comedic murder-mystery Only Murders in the Building. Co-creators Steve Martin and John Hoffman’s New York seems to hone in on the magic of the Big Apple, wrapping you in colorful cardigans, raining orange leaves upon you, and allowing you to curl up and enjoy witty one-liner...

Gyges ring

September 19th, 2023

Gyges ring From wavelength.ai Plato's ring of Gyges is a concept described in his work "The Republic." According to the story, Gyges, a shepherd, discovers a magical ring that grants him the power of invisibility. With this newfound ability, Gyges is able to commit immoral acts without fear of being caught or punished. The story raises questions about the nature of morality and whether people would act morally if they could avoid the consequences of their actions. It serves as a thought e...

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