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in-love-with-movies · 1 year

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Nightmare Alley (2021)

#Nightmare Alley #filmedit #Bradley Cooper #Cate Blanchett #Toni Collette #Rooney Mara #Willem Dafoe #Guillermo del Toro #William Lindsay Gresham #my gifs #movie gifs

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guillotineman · 2 years

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Nightmare Alley (1947, dir. Edmund Goulding)

Nightmare Alley (2021, dir. Guillermo del Toro)

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r-e-c-o-g-n-i-z-e-r · 1 year

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Nightmare Alley (2021)

#Nightmare Alley #Guillermo del Toro #William Lindsay Gresham #Bradley Cooper

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schlock-luster-video · 1 year

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On April 23, 1948, Nightmare Alley debuted in Finland.

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ashtrayfloors · 2 years

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Dust when it was dry. Mud when it was rainy. Swearing, steaming, sweating, scheming, bribing, bellowing, cheating, the carny went its way. It came like a pillar of fire by night, bringing excitement and new things into the drowsy towns—lights and noise and the chance to win an Indian blanket, to ride on the ferris wheel, to see the wild man who fondles those rep-tiles as a mother would fondle her babes. Then it vanished in the night, leaving the trodden grass of the field and the debris of popcorn boxes and rusting tin ice-cream spoons to show where it had been.

William Lindsay Gresham, from Nightmare Alley

#william lindsay gresham #nightmare alley #quotations #recently read #carnival #sideshow #i wanna go

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xjmlm · 2 years

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Business cards found in the pockets of author William Lindsay Gresham, a suicide in a one-night hotel room in 1962

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giffingthingsss · 3 months

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the death of a marriage

Skimming through Joy's letters to Bill.

One major theme is money, or lack thereof. You can sense the weariness. It's one thing to go through a period where he can't come up with money, but there's always some excuse. For years. She's really being quite accommodating while also trying not to starve to death. One letter she's like, 'listen honey, I'm as tired of harping on this as you are of hearing it' lol. 'but we can't live on air.' She often couches things with humor.

There's the recurrence of old problems, an anger that flares up from time to time, a general feeling of 'handling' him, trying to keep him in a good mood and earning money so he has it to send to his kids, etc...

He definitely stressed her out and it's a relief to have him gone. In the beginning she was sensitive to his threats of suicide and the like and worried about him, etc... but over time begins to see it as gaslighting and manipulation. It's why she just kind of sighs when her cousin starts falling for the same lines but is like... 'whatever. good luck.'

I'm fine with attempts to round out the breakup of the Greshams rather than showing the kind of lopsided Shadowlands version of events where Bill's problems are the only ones mentioned (in one letter she tells him to tell her family that she is a third responsible for everything, as evidently family members had begun taking sides). But Santamaria's biography goes too far back the other way.

She's obviously influenced by talking to Bill's family and is eager to balance the record, but it gets ridiculous. 'yeah he drank but he was a happy drunk. yeah he would smash furniture but it was for attention. yeah he shot a gun in the living room once but it's cuz it accidentally went off.'

As if you shouldn't throw a guy out of your house immediately if he fires a gun in your living room, whether accidental or not. Good grief. 'Joy wanted them to fall in love so she could dissolve the marriage'. as if Bill and Renee weren't grown ass adults who made their own decisions.

Another guy says that Renee (Joy's cousin that Bill later married) told him the gun going off was actually a suicide attempt. I can't buy the book to look that up myself because that particular book only had like 500 copies made and sells for approximately $500. But that's what a journal article said.

If the suicide attempt is true, then my theory would be it wasn't a genuine attempt. More of a 'go my way or I'll kill myself' thing and then the gun accidentally went off. In one letter Joy wrote -

All through our marriage you used to argue that you must get your own way in everything or else a) you would kill yourself, b) you would get drunk, c) you would go on strike and not support the family. I have no doubt your anxiety was partly genuine, but the use you made of it was not. If I feel uncertain of your good intentions now, it is simply because of the record.

Anyway, that just kind of gives you an idea of what a crazy household it could be.

But there's a genuine old affection that comes out from time to time and they can often chat like old friends. Things are never simple or completely cut and dry.

Maybe someday I'll do a more comprehensive thing, but I'll leave it with this letter from Joy -

It must be a great surprise to you that I now have such powers of resisting your commands and persuasions. Throughout our marriage you could always make me knuckle under one way or another, and I’m sure you find difficulty in understanding that them days are gone forever. You mistook my submissiveness for the weakness of a self-effacing neurotic. But, as I told you, it is not inherently part of my character, and I shall never practice it again.

#william lindsay gresham #joy davidman #lewis things

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cinesludge · 5 months

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Movie #92 of 2023: Nightmare Alley

#nightmare alley #guillermo del toro #crime #drama #thriller #film noir #kim morgan #william lindsay gresham #nathan johnson #dan laustsen #Cam McLauchlin #english #french #arri alexa 65 #arri alexa lf #arri alexa mini lf #2021 #92

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movie-titlecards · 1 year

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Nightmare Alley (2021)

My rating: 5/10

Del Toro is always kind of hit or miss for me, and I'm afraid that this neo-noir biography of a fictional con artist, that - true to its genre - absolutely revels in its misery and unpleasantness, is a miss. This is, to paraphrase some post I vaguely remember from social media somewhere, a really rather well crafted movie, and I did not enjoy it very much at all.

#Nightmare Alley #Guillermo del Toro #Kim Morgan #William Lindsay Gresham #Bradley Cooper #Cate Blanchett #Toni Collette #Youtube

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abs0luteb4stard · 2 years

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W A T C H E D

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travsd · 2 years

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William Lindsay Gresham: Took Us To "Nightmare Alley"

William Lindsay Gresham: Took Us To “Nightmare Alley”

Having already written posts about the original 1947 Nightmare Alley film as well as the 2021 remake, you might think yet a third post related to the sordid tale a bit much, but the author of the book William Lindsay Gresham (1909-1962) proves to be about as fascinating as his most famous story. (How perfect is it, by the way that he is born on the same day as horror scribe H.P. Lovecraft and…

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#alcoholic #author #Nightmare Alley #suicide #true crime #William Lindsay Gresham

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laszonasabisales · 2 years

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William Lindsay Gresham - El callejón de las almas perdidas

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readwatchseedo · 2 years

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Nightmare Alley

Read after seeing the movie.

Published in 1946, and has that kind of tight, punchy prose that I think critics describe as “muscular”. As with the movie, it’s about the rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle against a backdrop of carnivals and sideshows, high society and aloof femme fatales.

A decent, engagingly-written read with more depth than the movie (not surprisingly) and less obvious signposting, but at the end of the day not enough about the main character resonated with me to leave a lasting impression. Good if you like those “hard boiled” types of novels with damaged men losing their way in life. I just couldn’t help wondering why he couldn’t have made some better choices towards the end, and I feel the book never really explains this adequately except, “because”.

#books #nightmare alley #william lindsay gresham

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schlock-luster-video · 10 months

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On July 18, 1949, Nightmare Alley debuted in Portugal.

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do you have any book recommendations for us :D

MAYBE SO.......!!!! u know i love talkin abt books!!!

well, ok since ive posted about most of the books ive been reading recently MAYBE i can also post about some that i ordered and am waiting to arrive??? because all of these sounded very interesting to me!!!

SO books i have coming in the mail:

surrealist novels:

the woman in the dunes by kobo abe

the hearing trumpet by leonora carrington

the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai:

the third policeman by flann o'brien

nadja by andre breton

(been really into surrealism lately if it isn't apparent. most excited for melancholy of resistance i think)

horror, gothic, etc:

bruges-la-morte by georges rodenbach

the damned (la-bas) by joris-karl huysmans

floating dragon by peter straub

classics, short stories, etc:

french decadent tales (oxford world's classics) by stephen romer

in watermelon sugar by richard brautigan

swann's way (in search of lost time, #1) by marcel proust

selected short stories by balzac

icefields by thomas wharton

some ive picked up recently & stoked to read:

ada, or ardor by nabokov (my most beloved author of all time)

carmilla by le fanu

nightmare alley by william lindsay gresham

a king alone by jean giono

twilight of the idols by nietzsche

transparent things by nabokov

dark water by koji suzuki

selected poems by jorge luis borges (also beloved)

trolled my goodreads for more recs

books ive read & enjoyed so far this year:

the iliac crest by cristina rivera garza

the tenant by roland topor (FAV!!! huge fav)

crimson labyrinth by yusuke kishi

pedro paramo by juan rulfo

carolina ghost woods by judy jordan

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera

in the lake of the woods by tim o'brien

disgrace by j m coetzee

goth by otsuichi

books i enjoyed from last year:

the lottery & other stories by shirley jackson

the vegetarian by han kang

rosemary's baby by ira levin

piercing by ryu murakami (an all time fav)

the bloody chamber by angela carter (fav)

starve acre by andrew michael hurley (also a fav)

the glassy, burning floor of hell by brian evenson

the devil's larder by jim crace

monstrilio by gerardo samano cordova

and as a bonus, literally anything by nabokov. i have a big book of his short fiction that ive been reading slowly for a long while. despair by him is my fav book of all time, hands down. he is a master of absurdism (and a master of every language he writes in).

ALSO!!!! if youre into poetry, anything and every single thing by: t.s. eliot, baudelaire, rimbaud, borges. i also love neruda's poetry but i have heard he was an awful man so keep that in mind

#thotbox #thotmail #talky cherub #library cherub #i buy 95% of my books secondhand #i have something of a problem but i figure books are not the worst addiction one can have.....OOPS

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southwarkfair · 2 months

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paint a lady - susan christie // carnivalesque - timothy hyman and roger malbert // rigoletto - paula rego // the carny - nick cave and the bad seeds // the fight between carnival and lent - pieter brueghel the elder // my name is carnival - jackson c. frank // le monde renverse - unknown (dated 1842) // circus - tom waits // nightmare alley - william lindsay gresham

#webweave #domestic abuse mention //#carnival

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