Film Trivia, Inspiration, and Appreciation

"Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates" - Werner Herzog Cinephiles welcome! I tag specific movies, film analysis, film theory, crew, directors, actors, scriptwriting, and my personal favorite films (under fave). Feel free to request a tag, or just start a discussion about film!

[vintage-every-day]

The split screen bathtub scene with Doris Day and Rock Hudson from 𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌 (1959) is still one of the best Hays Code cheats I’ve ever seen.

[gael-garcia]

Is God Is (2026), dir. Aleshea Harris

[bongjoonhoe]

All That Jazz (1979) dir. Bob Fosse

[filmap]

The Terminator James Cameron. 1984

Underpass Lower Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90071, USA See in map

See in imdb

[rasputinaillyanna]

The Bride! (2026) dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[rogerdeakinsdp]

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) dir. Beeban Kidron

[dykerory]

inspired by @9cbffs here is my movie grid

I didn't put a best 3hr+ movie because I don't know that I've ever watched one that I can genuinely recommend. Like I guess probably extended edition Lord of the Rings? But I don't care about them THAT much. Felt dishonest to put anything, so I left it blank. Everything else is self-explanatory.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

wow we've watch SO MANY of these together :)

[didanagy]

FANTASIA (1940)

dir. ben sharpsteen, david hand, hamilton luske, wilfred jackson

[brandonlees]

SLEEPING BEAUTY 1959, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark

[buckineddie]

INCEPTION (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan

Remember, you are the dreamer. You build this world.

[tribeca]

“You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don’t back down because you think it’s nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.”

—

Josephine Decker

We talk to the filmmaker behind Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely about her truly unique rise. 

[tr-shb-g]

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

[madeline-kahn]

Music in Film: Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[vardapilled]

"This film was an incredible opportunity for me. And more than anything, I thought it was an opportunity for me to write a love letter to cinema, to all the things I love about going to the movies. [...] In many ways it's most important movie I've made, straight from me to all of you." - Ryan Coogler

SINNERS (2025) BEHIND THE SCENES (1/2) Dir. Ryan Coogler

[alchemyfreak123]

Women of Sinners - Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler