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mariocki · 1 year

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Chaim Topol (9.9.1935 - 9.3.2023)

"What kind of advice can I give [young performers]? Someone sent me a quote that persistence wins. I have to disagree with this. It is an important ingredient. I don't think that there are any rules. Be persistent, be talented, work hard, but ninety-five percent is luck - so be lucky!"

#topol #chaim topol #haym topol #may his memory be a blessing #death ment tw #icons #fiddler on the roof #tevye #flash gordon #follow me #for your eyes only #galileo #american film theater #the house on garibaldi street #the winds of war #tales of the unexpected #war and remembrance #cast a giant shadow #is there a musical theatre lead more closely identified with a single performer than Tevye? i don't think so #whilst his screen career was comparatively modest‚ there's no doubt of the influence Topol had nor the impact of his version of Fiddler #his later work as a character actor on tv and film is full of small but superbly realised parts‚ but he was always and remained primarily a #stage actor. Fiddler was the first musical I ever loved and Topol's the first performance I ever heard (I still have the ost in fairly #heavy rotation). the sheer range of emotion and performance he goes through not just in the play but sometimes in one song #i mean If I were a Rich Man is a sort of pop culture behemoth that has a life beyond the play‚ but if you listen to it it's a man #expressing his wants and desires and then redefining them further and further to the realisation that his faith is most important to him #and that really he knows his faith is not predicated on any kind of wealth; and Topol sells every moment‚ the gradual adjustment from #flights of fancy and wild dreams of riches‚ to more modest comforts for his family and loved ones‚ to finally a simple wish to spend less #time working and more in devotion to g-d. it's a beautiful performance by a beautiful performer and one of the true greats of the stage

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of-fear-and-love · 3 months

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Hero (2002)

#as per wikipedia:#Miramax acquired American market distribution rights but delayed the release for nearly two years (...)#(...) Quentin Tarantino eventually convinced Miramax to open the film in American theaters on 27 August 2004.#hence why IIRC it's listed as 2004 in some places #hero 2002 #zhang yimou #hero #2002 #2000s film #2000s movies #screencaps #colors #cinematography

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adaptationsvs-polls · 26 days

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Which version of this do you prefer?

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everydaym0nstrosity · 2 months

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Vintage Drive in & Newspaper adverts for Peopletoys (1974) as well as under its alternate titles Devil Times Five, The Horrible House on The Hill, in addition to an even more rare title 5 OClock Killers. Also featuring The Night God Screamed (1971), Snuff (1976), Sleuth (1972), Kid Blue (1973), Arnold (1973), Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969), Scorpio (1973), Jeremy (1973), Cops And Robbers (1973), The Babysitter (1969), The Teacher (1974), The Stepmother (1972), as well as lastly, William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973).

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lonely-dog-song · 5 months

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oh wow i am not gonna find any posts about this movie am i

ok well, i watched Amulet (Оберег) from 1991 :•) i wish there was more werewolfin', but i still thought what was there was interesting. but sometimes the shots were so dark, I couldn't tell what i was looking at... so that was sad... some shots were rly nice tho. & i rly liked the ghostly presence of Andrey's brother (? friend?). & the makeup! YEAH

marvin cone-ass shot (cone's art is on the right for reference)

#lonely dog speaks #film diary #womp womp #it did remind me of An american werewolf in London but at that point it was because he was werewolfin it up in a theater #but also a guy's friend mysteriously dies and is left with some kind of curse.....? 🤔#'mysterious' i mean the cause of death is pretty obvious but there is like. more to it...#i didnt know how those 2 guys were related cuz in the movie it seems no one ever calls them brothers. they were 'like twins' ?#maybe in the book they're brothers

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stinkrascal · 10 months

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i really do not understand the barbie oppenheimer memes at all idek what an oppenheimer is. am i even spelling that right i dont know

#im sorry in advanced for this take but i honestly do not care about the barbie movie at all #i hope u guys like the movie and it is everything u wanted etc #but also thats a baby movie. for babies. and i dont watch baby movies #i go to the theater to watch grown movies for grownups. like. like. one piece film red. the most grown up movie ever #if they turned the barbie movie into an animated film id be on that. i just love animation so much #live action movies have to be created by dirs i care about otherwise im not paying attention #but anyyyyyy animated film in theaters is a must see for me simply bc animation is my fav medium #i really hope theres a massive animation resurgence!!! the new spiderman movie definitely helps w legitimizing animation #ofc it has always been a legitimate medium but americans are still under the idea that animation = baby movies or anime for teen boys #and it isnt!! theres so much potential!!! therefore i will always support animated endeavors

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schlock-luster-video · 19 days

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On April 11, 1999, Soultaker was riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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film-classics · 3 months

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Helen Hayes - First Lady of American Theater

Helen Hayes MacArthur (born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress of Irish, Dutch, and English descent whose career spanned eighty-two years and regarded as the "First Lady of American Theatre."

Hayes made her stage debut at the age of five with her mother's encouragement. At age nine, she made her Broadway debut, and a year later, she was cast in the one-reel Vitagraph film.

She moved to Hollywood in 1931 when her husband became a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she also became a contract player. She made her film debut in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), for which she received an Academy Award. Although she made a number of later films, within four years she returned to Broadway for the greatest success of her career: Gilbert Miller's production of Victoria Regina.

Hayes would return intermittently to Hollywood with featured roles in films, television, and radio, including a film comeback in disaster film Airport (1970), earning her a second Oscar. She retired in 1985 and spent her remaining years in her longtime home of Pretty Penny, in Nyack, New York, where she died of congestive heart failure at 92.

Legacy:

Was the first woman and second person to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (an EGOT).

Was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting - the highest awards recognized in American film, television, and theater

Won two Academy Awards: Best Actress for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Best Supporting Actress for Airport (1970)

Won one Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress in 1953 and nominated for for nine more

Has three Tony Awards: two for Best Actress in a Play for Happy Birthday (1947) and Time Remembered (1958); and the Lawrence Langer Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre

Won the Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album for Great American Documents (1977)

Won the Distinguished Performance Award from the Drama League of New York Awards in 1936

Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan in 1986

Selected as one of 10 artists to be commemorated with the American Arts Commemorative Series gold medallions issued by the Treasury Department in 1980

Awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1988

Is one of the original inductees in the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972

Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1972

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973

Won the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, given annually by Jefferson Awards, in 1983

Honored with a US postage stamp in 2011

Has a Broadway theatre named after her: the Helen Hayes Theatre on 44th Street

Is the namesake for the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which has recognized excellence in professional theatre in Washington, D.C. since 1984

Served for 49 years on the Board of Visitors for the Helen Hayes Hospital, a physical rehabilitation hospital

Is a founding member of the Board of Advisors of the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City in 1981

Co-founded the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 with Lady Bird Johnson

Wrote three memoirs: A Gift of Joy, On Reflection: An Autobiography, and My Life in Three Acts

Has had two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1960: for motion pictures at 6258 Hollywood Boulevard, and for radio at 6549 Hollywood Boulevard

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crodfoller-t-rhubarb · 3 months

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John, we need you back in front of the camera.

#john waters #american cinema #there is no “smoking” in this theater #which I think is one of the most ri-DICK-ulous things I've ever heard of in my life #how can ANYONE sit through the length #of a film #especially a EUROPEAN film #no smoking #landmark theatres #1982 #psa #public service announcement #iykyk #no employment for the youth of today #at the movies

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kecobe · 2 years

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42nd Street, 1954 William Klein (American; 1928–2022) Gelatin silver print (printed 1977) Christie’s, London

Signed and dated in pencil (verso)

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singing-not-sleeping-beauty · 1 year

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something I had not anticipated in the summer of 2021 when I applied to work at a Vermont movie theater was my developing love of Bollywood films

#there's an active indian american community near us that puts in a lot of requests #we started following through #and now half the staff went to see Bhediya this weekend #bollywood #hindi films #movie theater #via rambles #brahmastra #bheydia #rrr #laal singh chaddha #ponniyin selvan

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from-beyond · 1 year

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Huh. Was An American Werewolf in London the first horror film to have a sudden ending before immediately transitioning to an incongruous, upbeat 50s/60s pop song over the credits? Barbarian had it, Hereditary had it (not as sharp a cut between the finale and the credits, but still counts I think), and I know I've seen it in a couple other recent films.

That’s an interesting question! I’m not sure, but I’ve definitely seen that trend in recent horror movies too (I haven’t seen Barbarian yet but it’s on my list). I kind of love it, but it always catches me off guard.

#answered #its-happy-for-deep-people #if anyone knows if American Werewolf was the first lmk!#I feel like a lot of older films had songs over the credits that didn’t fit the vibe of the movie #maybe to cut some of the tension so the audience doesn’t walk out of the theater feeling creeped out #idk! I like movies that force you to sit with the feeling as the credits roll #but I also love the contrast of a sudden ending and an upbeat song

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the9jafresh · 2 years

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jadenvargen · 2 months

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free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty.

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

#james baldwin #motivated by i think people here think it's harder to find resources and read than it actually is. so much stuff online!#motivation nr 2 wtf

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gael-garcia · 6 months

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The Palestinian (1977), dir. Roy Battersby

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The documentary Vanessa Redgrave participated in and funded- and as a result the Zionist Jewish Defense League put a bounty on her head and she was blacklisted by Hollywood Zionists after her Oscar speech. Later, the theater where the film was due to screen in LA was bombed by a member of the JDL (June 15, 1978).

VR: Why do the fascists, why do the zionists, why do the imperialists want to defeat the Palestinian revolution?

When Palestine was occupied, the people were not strong, but later they carried arms. Their revolution began. It influenced the world. The Zionists told American imperialism that defeat means imperialism loses its place in Palestine. Other people have joined the revolution. Imperialism, the Zionists, and the Rightists here try to crush the Palestinian revolution and its allies But the Lebanese National Movement is united with it In that struggle together, a man is human, not an animal. It spreads everywhere, people support it In Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman The bourgeoisie are afraid. It paves the way. They want to destroy the Palestinian revolution

#text under the cut!#the palestinian #roy battersby #vanessa redgrave #palestine #documentary #screencaps #post

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slopmaster9000 · 2 years

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I'm a 16 year old fucking trans communist whatever you know how it is and im also taking ap lang and it's so fucking funny reading your posts it's like woahhh a tumblr blogger is like she's just like me fr and not a 30 year old stoner or whatever but also some of your opinions suck so hard like i watched american psycho for the first time with some friends a few weeks ago and GOD that film sucked so hard like it just hammered it's point home into your fucking head throughout the whole runtime. The only one of us who thought it was good was the theater kid stoner who like to give a better picture of this guy a few days ago he told me he wanted to buy one of those French artist caps and wear it all of the time instead of a beanie. Also like while your music taste isn't bad per say you're just pretentious about it like the post where you said you were walking with your boyfriend and a random guy driving by said something about whatever classic rock band shirt you were wearing and you "just started walking faster" like that is down with cis bus level of story it's so fucking funny. Sorry I'm not trying to be rude it's just like it's funny to see a popularblogger being like a human being like just some kid like me. . Also don't give me shit about it being spelled per se I'm not a fucking ball sniffing French accepter. Oh also im the anon who told you to kill yourself over mushroom opinions. I'm trying to see a school social worker to get medicated I'm sorry

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