#old joy

[cinematicjourney]

Old Joy (2006) | dir. Kelly Reichardt

#old joy #kelly reichardt #will oldham #daniel london #films #movies #cinematography #scenery #screencap

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

You know when you watch a movie about two men that could only have been written by a lesbian

#old joy

[filmsthesia]

"Old Joy" (2006) - Kelly Reichardt

#old joy #kelly reichardt #film #frames #film stills

[heavenlyflowergrocery]

#old joy #kelly reichardt

[rose-gold-gild]

some recent professional work! editorial illustrations for the Shenandoah Film Collaborative. 

#illustration #editorial illustration #digital art #digital painting #professional work #old joy #jana gana mana #the parallax view #procreate

[joanthelovely]

Christmas:Soon

Something that I have watched every year since I was a toddler, is a cartoon called Christmas Comes But Once A Year. This is a Fleischer cartoon that does NOT star Betty Boop (I know...the travesty), though Mae Questel does provide some voices. It came out in 1936 and if it had been released at any other time, I would consider it poverty porn. It depicts Christmas time at an orphanage during the Great Depression and it makes me so sad every time I watch it. Everything turns out great in the end, but still…

One of the first things you see after opening Credits is a shot of the Orphanage archway and front door. This shot has always amazed me because it pans in just like a camera would and creates an interesting 3d effect. This is actually a technique the Fleischer came up with that uses a setback camera to create a tracking 3d shot. He used it at least twice in this cartoon alone. The man, the myth, the legend...not just known for rotoscoping.

Once you get into the house, you see the sad state of things. The little Charlie Brown Christmas tree…the little darned socks hung by the fire. All of the orphans in one room with threadbare beds and walls. The home is awful, and while I get that its an orphanage it is just soooo depressing. Where are the damn adults?!

Like every other group of kids, they are excited for Christmas day, so they jump out of bed and race to their stockings to see what they got while singing a sweet song. The toys aren't the best quality but all of the kids are so happy with what they received…until everything starts to break.

I think the worst one is the teddy bear that starts to spill out all of its sawdust as the child hugs it. It just tugs on your heart strings. With everything else that's going on in their life, how dare this happen, too.

All the children are wailing...they're wailing so loud that Professor Grampy, who is driving by the house can hear them. He comes up to the door and takes a peek inside, only to see every child crying and slowly slipping back to bed to cry in their room. Why are there no adult caretakers here? What kind of Orphanage is this?

Well Grampy is going to fix it. Grampy the inventor. He sneaks into the kitchen window like a burglar and starts to pilfer all the dishes and things in the kitchen. Everything ends up in a pile by the table. Hope they don't need those dishes.

Grampy is the 5 minute crafts of toy making. He puts together 3 unrelated items, spits out some nails, and bang…there's a toy. It's magic. He makes his way through the whole pile, enough toys for every child and then some. He even makes his own outfit while he's there...

He then dresses up like Santa Claus and calls to the children to come out with a Merry Christmas. They struggle to look up through their tears…but then…SANTA CLAUS!! They rush out to the main room and look at all the toys!

My absolute favorite toy that he made involved a percolator and a tea set as a train. I was always fascinated by it rolling down the track with its little spinning plate wheels.

While the children are playing with their new toys he starts to get everything decorated. He uses a bar of soap and a grater over the stairs to create a snowy slope that they can ski down. He shoves a bunch of umbrellas together and creates a Christmas Tree they can all sing around. It is magical and glorious.

I love the movement and joy of old cartoons. I love the soundtracks and the techniques that were just being created to convey motion. The story can be nonsensical if it's fun. It also managed to not be racist, deliberately or accidentally, which can't be said for a lot of cartoons of that time period.

#Christmas 2022 #Christmas Comes but once a year #Fleischer #old joy #Grampy is my hero #watch that percolator go

[lyssahumana]

#Old Joy #cinema #movies watched

[ubourgeois]

Old Joy (2006) dir. Kelly Reichardt

#Old Joy #Kelly Reichardt #What a kind gentle pleasant film #I think I'll always value her somewhat more narrative heavy stuff more but love that this film exists

[hisprophetsagain]

we're 11 movies into 2014 and already i have two on my favorites list. it's gonna be a good year, folks!

#bluray collecting #abbas kiarostami #taste of cherry #kelly reichardt #old joy #movies #letterboxd

[dare-g]

Old Joy (2006)

#old joy #kelly reichardt #will oldham #daniel london #talks

[randomrichards]

OLD JOY:

Estranged friends meet up

Overnight trip to hot springs

How the years changed them

#old joy #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #Daniel London #will oldham #kelly reichardt #Jonathan Raymond #Youtube

[the-geeky-fangirl]

yes i know heartstopper is "cringe" and yes I know you think it's not that deep but you've endured years of cringe oversexualized shows about high schoolers where the gays are delegated to sub plots I'm sure a few hours of queer people being safe and happy and loved won't kill you so please shut the fuck up

#im so fucking TIRED of people acting like heartstopper is a new brand of cringe #they're literal 15/16 year olds what the fuck do you wqnt from them #imagine letting the vampire diaries and teen wolf run for as long as they did and then complaining about this #just say you hate queer joy and leave #heartstopper #heartstopper season 2 #nick and charlie #tao xu #elle argent #tara jones #darcy olsson #tara and darcy #tao and elle #isaac henderson #alice oseman #kit connor #joe locke #for those aaking yea i did come across a bunch of people calling it cringe and i took it personally

[liefst]

Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me? A quote from Little Weirds by Jenny Slate engraved in a wooden spoon, 2022. (ig @jannekemakes)

#oh the joys of getting a ton of old cutlery and kitchen utensils at the thrift shop and then going home and writing on them 🍴🥄 #jenny slate #little weirds #who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me #art #my art #spoon #cutlery #engraving #engraving art #handengraving #woodengraving #love is stored in the kitchen #kitchen art

[rookie-critic]

Old Joy (2006, dir. Kelly Reichardt) - review by Rookie-Critic

Old Joy may seem like it's an aimless movie about two old friends spending a night camping together, but over it's very short 73-minute runtime, Reichardt and lead actors Daniel London and Will Oldham manage to weave a very melancholic and charming tale that has a very strong impact that strikes at a near subatomic level and firmly plants itself there to linger with you for days to come. Here I am a week later still thinking about it and trying to process what it was exactly that hit that good-movie chord in me so strongly. For a movie that seems to have a lot of the ingredients of something that shouldn't work (minimal dialogue, super minimal plot, not shot in the greatest quality), it has really stuck with me, and I suspect it will for a long time yet.

Score: 9/10

Available on DVD & Blu-ray through the Criterion Collection

#Old Joy #Kelly Reichardt #Will Oldham #Daniel London #film review #movie review #2006 films