it's all good

mostly sideblogging

[digitalfossils]

Miffy at the Seaside (1974)

[bongjoonhoe]

M (1931) dir. Fritz Lang

[kino-ani]

Dishonored (1931) Dir. Josef von Sternberg

[phllox]

currently spending a great deal of time with merchant of venice for reasons outside of my personal choice and in this case greater familiarity is not making me like it more

[phllox]

there's a difference between feelings about the play text itself and the actual play in production, too; the tempest is one of my favourite shakespeares to think about and discuss but i've seen some productions of it that did very little for me because it's possible to do it in a way that isn't interesting. conversely while i know othello well i don't know that i "like" it in and of itself but the best shakespeare production i've seen recently was a staging of othello. appreciating how a company has dealt with the flaws of the text and pulled it into coherence is part of the pleasure (that maybe would have been lost if i hadn't read it 100 times and already had my own opinions and could clearly see the decisions they'd made...)

[phllox]

they didn't do iago repressed homoerotic desire btw. which is one of the most interesting parts of the play when i'm working with it and this production didn't do it at all and it was still brilliant. because personal experience with a text and the needs of a live theatre production can be so different

[phllox]

there's a difference between feelings about the play text itself and the actual play in production, too; the tempest is one of my favourite shakespeares to think about and discuss but i've seen some productions of it that did very little for me because it's possible to do it in a way that isn't interesting. conversely while i know othello well i don't know that i "like" it in and of itself but the best shakespeare production i've seen recently was a staging of othello. appreciating how a company has dealt with the flaws of the text and pulled it into coherence is part of the pleasure (that maybe would have been lost if i hadn't read it 100 times and already had my own opinions and could clearly see the decisions they'd made...)

[roycohn]

inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:

what's "your" shakespeare play?

hamlet

macbeth

the tempest

merchant of venice

midsummer night's dream

twelfth night

richard iii

othello

julius caesar

king lear

another not listed (specify in tags) (i really just put my own top 10 here nbd)

i have no particular feelings about any shakespeare play/results tag

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[hyperions-fate]

Fascinated by how Ingmar Bergman invented a fictional land of irredeemable evil and psychic terror as the setting for his films. Fortunately, 'Sweden' isn't real.

[kosmogrl]

I will make a beautiful life for myself no matter how long it takes. I will I will I will

[escuerzoresucitado]

being escorted out of town

[keawi]

I'm learning so much in grad school

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[normasshearer]

FAVORITE CLASSIC FILM PERFORMANCES

Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington in THE LADY EVE (1941) dir. Preston Sturges

You see, Hopsie, you don't know very much about girls. The best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are, and the bad ones aren't as bad. Not nearly as bad.

[heateron]

drew starkey and daniel craig in queer (2024) dir. luca guadagnino

[jbergs]

changed my main blog icon to this handsome fellow btw

likes from phllox are still me i just wanted to give adèle haenel a break

[jbergs]

i'm in love with him

[phllox]

this could be a selfie and no one can fully disprove it

[vizuart]

Charles Howard Davis - Giverny, Harvest Moon (1880s)

[porcelain-dollbones]

it really is kind of interesting how attached people are to the idea of the improvised line and the genuine reaction in film. nearly every single famous moment or line has some sort of claim floating around that it wasn't in the script and was either made up on the spot by an actor or was sprung as a surprise on the actors to get their 'real' reaction. you know, sometimes people do come up with good lines in advance and write them down, and sometimes people can pretend to be have a convincing emotional response on screen