A Weary Director

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Le pupille / The Pupils Alice Rohrwacher. 2022

Stairs Via di San Luca, 40135 Bologna BO, Italy See in map

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The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022)  

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Monica Vitti su drammaticità e comicità

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Era la n.1. Punto ed a capo

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ANA DE ARMAS & RYAN GOSLING arrives at the World Premiere Of Netflix’s “The Gray Man” | July 13, 2022

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DANA’S 4K CELEBRATION: Lady Bird + Timestamp Roulette (for @thebeautifulfantastic) (want one?)

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Blue Velvet // David Lynch // 1986

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“So it would be a real good time for you to come back.” INTERSTELLAR (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan

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emperor kuzco was clearly gay

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hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

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Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

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In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

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holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

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This is fucking insane

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I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

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You know it happened so flawlessly I never questionned it.

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You know it happened

so flawlessly I never

questionned it.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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His smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life. It seemed to understand you and believe in you just as you would like to be understood and believed in.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in THE GREAT GATSBY (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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SUBLIME CINEMA #395 - LA LA LAND

This is a movie born out of a passion for old musicals, with hints of Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Singing in the Rain and many others. I adored Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, and though La La Land was more divisive (some hated this film), it comes from a place of love and of his own musical background. He’s one of the most interesting young directors around. Cinematographer Linus Sandgren brings the lush images to life, inspired by the vibrant Technicolor of previous eras. 

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The Age of Adaline (2015)

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“We are The Muses. Goddesses of the arts, and proclaimers of heroes.”

The Muses are presented in Hercules as five goddesses who narrate the movie. Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry, Clio is the Muse of history, Thalia is the Muse of comedy, Terpsichore is the Muse of dance, and Melpomene is the Muse of tragedy. There are actually nine major Greek Muses, and the ones that weren’t included in the film are Erato (the Muse of love poetry), Polyhymnia (the Muse of sacred poetry), Euterpe (the Muse of music and sound), and Urania (the Muse of astronomy).

Songwriter Alan Menken originally wanted The Spice Girls to voice the Muses, but scheduling difficulties prevented the collaboration from happening. Instead, they are voiced by Lillias White, Cheryl Freeman, LaChanze, Roz Ryan, and Vanéese Y. Thomas.

HERCULES (1997)

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god i love letterboxd

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Dawn of The Dead (1978) dir. George Romero

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Frida (2002) dir. Julie Taymor

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JENNIFER’S BODY 2009, dir. Karyn Kusama

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A smile finally breaks onto DANI’s face. She has surrendered to a joy known only by the insane. She has lost herself completely, and she is finally free. It is horrible and it is beautiful. — MIDSOMMAR (2019)

But the lady in the lake was different now. The lady in the lake was also DANI. Years would go by, and as she slept underneath the water, [her] memories would fade. More time will pass, and the water will wash away the delicate features of her. Of her beautiful, perfect face. But she won’t be hollow, nor empty. — THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR (2020)