#Bales2023FilmChallenge by @bales1181
April 20, 2023: Auction in movie
“First Wives Club” (1996)
“Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.” (from IMDB)
#FirstWivesClub #GoldieHawn #BetteMidler #DianeKeaton #Auction #Auctioneer #NationalAuctioneersDay #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge Today, April 20 is SOLD! on #NationalAuctioneersDay
Werner #Herzog travels to New Holland, #Pennsylvania to witness the 1976 World #Livestock Auctioneer Championship. #Cattle is weighed and paraded in front of the buyers, and the 53 contestants have a few minutes to auction the animals off to the highest bidder. We see glimpses of the audience. New Holland is the land of the money-eschewing #Amish, descendants of German-speaking Swiss, whose dress, ways and speech found an ideal state in an increasingly convoluted world. While money rolls, the Amish hand out their home-baked pies to the Championship onlookers. To German-as-Apfeltorte Herzog, the auction is bewildering, the “last #poetry possible, the poetry of #capitalism”. In keeping with Herzog's poetic, ecstatic truth, Bruno S. too travels to America and encounters the auctioneers in Stroszek (1977).
#film #cinema #WernerHerzog #WestGermany #Americana #documentary #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/
The kids in the Fediverse are playing a game. Find the rules at the clubhouse and play along! Coming up in April: 21 Fiddler Playing in Movie 22 Lots of Rain in Movie 23 Scene in a Laboratory 24 Someone Screaming in Movie 25 License Plate Seen in Movie 26 Main Actor/Actress is Australian 27 Morse Code Heard in Movie 28 Comedy You Can Watch With Kids 29 Someone Looking Through a Telescope 30 Someone with a Wild Hairdo
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