@jetsilver

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I was here but I disapear.

My new account is jetsilver@ohai.social.

This is just a heads-up to anyone following me that I've always intended to move to a smaller instance and will probably be moving house to ohai.social pretty soon. If you get unfollowed in the coming days, that's the reason, and hopefully it's temporary. If it isn't rest assured I will eventually refollow you.

If you want to go ahead and follow jetsilver@ohai.social that's fine too, I've unlocked follows to make that easier. Still mainly posting/boosting from this one atm.

I have a lot of thoughts about "Theatre of Blood". I'll stick to noting two major elements most critics missed because they were looking through a dismissive framing.

The class warfare elements went *whoosh* over most of their heads.

There are layers on layers. Edward Lionheart performing for an appreciative audience of derelicts and misfits in an abandoned theater is a poignant, poetic example that got missed by most critics too.

#Letterboxd #Horror #VincentPrice

https://letterboxd.com/iamnumber6/film/theatre-of-blood/

A ★★★★½ diary entry for Theatre of Blood (1973)

#SuperSceneChallenge

July 2nd- Someone flying

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Apprentice witch Eglantine (Angela Lansbury) on her way to help defend Britain from a Nazi invasion.

#BedknobsAndBroomsticks #ClassicDisney #AngelaLansbury

#Bales2023FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon

July 1- Someone tells a joke

Fargo (1996)
Written and Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen

"Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?"

#Fargo #FrancesMcDormand #CoenBrothers

#Bales2023FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon

June 29- Handshake

The Cocoanuts (1929)
Directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Stanley

"The Cocoanuts", an adaptation of the George S. Kaufman musical, was the Marx Brothers' first sound film and is usually referred to as the first Marx Brothers movie (there was also an unreleased 1921 short, "Humor Risk", that is considered lost).

It's stagey/creaky in the way early sound films tend to be but it's still very funny.

#MarxBrothers #TheCocoanuts #PreCode

My first time playing #ThursdayFiveList!

This week's list is #TheVoice

Joe Jones- You Talk Too Much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Eckp2EK58

Dave Edmunds- Girls Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4TzjRFfsJs

Marvin Gaye- Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_PxgSQ9Vf4

Ronnie Spector- She Talks to Rainbows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dakf_hePDss

The Beatles- And Your Bird Can Sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUlbredoUM

Joe Jones - You Talk too Much

YouTube

#Bales2023FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon

June 28- Car Crash in Film

The French Connection (1971)
Directed by William Friedkin

Fans of the movie will already know this but the collision in the picture below was an unplanned one. Many of the near-misses in this sequence were too.

#FrenchConnection #WilliamFriedkin #GreatCarChases

#Bales2023FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon

June 27- Someone proposes marriage

Funny Girl (1968)
Directed by William Wyler

"Where I come from, when two people... well, sort of love each other... oh, never mind."

"Well? What do they do when they 'sort of love each other'?"

"Oh one of them says, 'Why don't we get married?'"

"Is that so?"

"Yeah, and sometimes it's even the man."

#BarbaraStreisand #OmarSharif #WilliamWyler #Musicals #ClassicHollywood

#Bales2023FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon

June 26- Someone named Sarah

Imitation of Life (1959)
Directed by Douglas Sirk

Juanita Moore (right) as Annie and Susan Kohner (left) as Sarah Jane, whose attempts to pass for white and rejection of her darker-skinned mother cause conflict and eventually, tragedy.

#ImitationOfLife #JuanitaMoore #SusanKohner #DouglasSirk #ClassicHollywood

#Bales2023FilmChallenge
#FilmChallenge

June 23rd- Typewriter used in movie

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Directed by Billy Wilder

Joe Gillis (William Holden) types away in Norma Desmond's decaying mansion, valiantly attempting to make something of the rambling, bizarre screenplay she has hired him to help her with.

#BillyWilder #WilliamHolden #SunsetBoulevard #ClassicHollywood