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niyastea · 2 years

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Alice

Janiya Tucker

June 17, 2022

Alice was released March 17, 2022. It is 1 hr and 40 mins long. Its genres are Drama/ Thriller. This film tells the story of an enslaved woman stuck and lied to. Its based on Alice in 1973 after the Emancipation Proclamation. It stars Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles, Madelon Curtis. It is written by and directed by Krystin Ver Linden. who the characters are

Alice is inspired by true events. It starts with an enslaved woman (Alice). Alice’s escape leads to her running right into a paved road where she is almost crushed by a truck driven by Frank. Frank reacts to Alice in disbelief seeing her covered in blood and dressed as a slave. This scene takes place in 1973 well after emancipation proclamation. While Alice is in disbelief being in a truck and seeing highways. This leads to an emergency room scene where Alice is sentenced to a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation before Frank helps her escape. Alice finds Frank’s memory box, revealing that he was a Black Panther. She also finds all these books on Black empowerment. Alice then finds magazines where she is inspired to give herself an afro. After a while alice returns to face Bennet.

I think this film was more focused on not hurting white peoples feelings than the actual “revenge” thing. There were many harsh scenes where something was being done to the slaves but when Alice shoved a piece of glass in her enslavers face before escaping the filmers get camera shy. So even as a film based on black revenge there is more black harm.

I do suggest watching this movie.

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mamapriest · 4 years

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The Academy Awards through the years: PT. 1

By Los Angeles Times Staff

Feb. 26th, 2017

The first ceremony made the Los Angeles Times’ front page under the headline “Film-Merit Trophies Awarded.” Coverage was all of one photograph and two paragraphs. Since then, the Academy Awards have become an event watched around the world. Scroll down for a year-by-year look at the Oscars.

May 16, 1929. The first Academy Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt's Blossom Room (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Before a large gathering of motion-picture celebrities and other notables, the first Academy Awards ceremony is held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Academy President Douglas Fairbanks handed out 15 statuettes for outstanding achievement in 1927 and 1928.

Best picture: “Wings”

Actor: Emil Jannings, “The Last Command” and “The Way of all Flesh”

Actress: Janet Gaynor, “Seventh Heaven,” “Street Angel” and “Sunrise”

Director: Frank Borzage, “Seventh Heaven”

April 3, 1930. "Broadway Melody" was released in 1929 and took top honors at the Academy Awards the next year. (MGM)

The Academy Awards are announced during a banquet attended by 300 academy members and their guests at the Ambassador Hotel. Academy President William C. deMille presents seven gold statuettes.

Best picture: “The Broadway Melody”

Actor: Warner Baxter, “In Old Arizona”

Actress: Mary Pickford, “Coquette”

Director: Frank Lloyd, “The Divine Lady”

Nov. 5, 1930. Norma Shearer with her statuette for "The Divorcee." (Associated Press)

Conrad Nagel, vice president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presents the statuettes at the third awards ceremony. The 600 attendees watch “Artistic and Otherwise,” a “sound recording film” by Thomas A. Edison on the industry’s progress in the last decade.

Best picture: “All Quiet on the Western Front”

Actor: George Arliss, “Disraeli”

Actress: Norma Shearer, “The Divorcee”

Director: Lewis Milestone, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

Nov. 10, 1931. Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore after their wins. (Associated Press)

The notables of Filmland gather at the Biltmore Hotel for the annual banquet. U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis tells the 2,000 gathered: “To my mind, the motion-picture industry is one of man’s greatest benefactors — it is great in size, in reputation and in worth.”

Best picture: “Cimarron”

Actor: Lionel Barrymore, “Free Soul”

Actress: Marie Dressler, “Min and Bill”

Director: Norman Taurog, “Skippy”

Nov. 18, 1932. Wallace Beery, left, and Jackie Cooper starred in "The Champ." (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Lionel Barrymore is the toastmaster at the annual awards banquet at the Ambassador Hotel. Walt Disney is given a special award for his series of Mickey Mouse cartoons. As the ballots are turned in they are dropped into a special machine and tabulated “in full view of the assembled guests.”

Best picture: “Grand Hotel”

Actor: Fredric March, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and Wallace Beery, “The Champ”

Actress: Helen Hayes, “The Sin of Madelon Claudet”

Director: Frank Borzage, “Bad Girl”

March 16, 1934. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with Katharine Hepburn in a scene from "Morning Glory" (Associated Press)

Katharine Hepburn, still a newcomer to Hollywood, wins her first Academy Award for her work in “Morning Glory.” “Little Women,” in which she also stars, finishes third in the race for best production behind “A Farewell to Arms” and the winner, a film adaptation of playwright Noel Coward’s “Calvacade.”

Best picture: “Cavalcade”

Actor: Charles Laughton, “The Private Life of Henry VIII”

Actress: Katharine Hepburn, “Morning Glory”

Director: Frank Lloyd, “Cavalcade”

Feb. 27, 1935. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in "It Happened One Night." (Columbia Pictures)

The humorist Irvin S. Cobb presents the gold statuettes at the Biltmore Hotel. In “a radical departure from all previous elections,” the balloting is done in the open and write-ins are allowed. Although she doesn’t win, Bette Davis receives the most write-in votes for her work in “Of Human Bondage.”

Best picture: “It Happened One Night”

Actor: Clark Gable, “It Happened One Night”

Actress: Claudette Colbert, “It Happened One Night”

Director: Frank Capra, “It Happened One Night”

*Courtesy of Los Angeles Times.

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badgaymovies · 7 years

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What's The Matter With Helen?

What’s The Matter With Helen?

BBB.5 (out of 5) Delightfully campy indulgence in horror stars Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters as two complete opposites united by their sons; it’s the 1930s and at the beginning of this film both men have been sent to prison for murdering a woman. Threats start to come by phone and mail to their mothers until the ladies, one a glamorous wannabe starlet and the other a dowdy religious marm,…

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sistercelluloid · 6 years

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Welcome to another edition of Streaming Saturdays, where we embed free, fun movies for you to watch right here!

“We’ll always have Paris.”

In this case, the Paris of powdered wigs and guillotines. The Black Book (also called Reign of Terror) may be the only film noir set during the French Revolution—and if that sounds odd, it’s no more peculiar than the film’s origins.

“In 1949, David O. Selznick had just made Joan of Arc with Ingrid Bergman, which was not very successful,” explained co-star Norman Lloyd (then a mere slip of a boy at 100) when he introduced the film at the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival. “But the lavish sets for the picture remained. He kept staring at those expensive sets, grumbling, and proposed to art director William Cameron Menzies that they make use of them.

“He said, ‘Here is all this pricey wood and canvas—let’s make some money on it! Let’s find a script!’ So this may have been the first set-driven movie,” Lloyd laughed. “So if any of you have ideas about crashing into motion pictures, build a good set! And if they ask me my inspiration working on the film, I’d say, ‘They used the most beautiful wood I’ve ever seen!

“Then ironically, after all that, Selznick dropped out in the middle of the picture and Walter Wanger took over,” he continued. “But by then we already had Menzies, a spectacular cinematographer in John Alton, and Anthony Mann directing, so we were good.”

Alton’s stark interplay of shadow and light and canted camera angles would easily suit the dark, rain-slicked streets of 1940s Los Angeles, but somehow work just as well in 18th-century France, where the villainous Robespierre (Richard Basehart) seeks to retrieve his “black book,” a long list of political enemies he hopes to send to the chopping block. Enter Charles D’Aubigny (Robert Cummings), a French spy who, with the help of his former lover Madelon (Arlene Dahl in lusty-wench-wear), goes undercover to seize the book and bring the bloody reign of terror to an end.

Alton, Menzies (who also co-produced) and Mann are pretty much a Murderer’s Row of moodiness, and their gifts are on full display here.

“They didn’t have all the money in the world that Metro had for sets and so on,” Dahl told author James Curtis in his superb book, William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come. “But they had Menzies, who could take two walls and make it look like a great ballroom by hanging a chandelier just right, and John by getting the camera angle just right, they could make twelve people look like millions of people. And also because of the design of the sets, they could make it look lavish because of the camera angles and the way the set had been designed. I mean, it really looked like a much bigger picture than it was.”

Add to that Mann’s legendary visual sense, and you have a nifty little film worth watching.

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honorrebelmention · 7 years

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#HonorRebelMention: Madelon J. Curtis

This week's #HonorRebelMention goes to Ms. Madelon J. Curtis. She is a longtime resident of the Hill and has contributed to this community tremendously. She graduated from Twinsburg High School in 1948 and went on to attain multiple degrees in higher education. She received her Bachelors of Science from Case Western Reserve and was one of the first nurses from this community. She had a hand in starting church nursing at Mt. Olive Baptist Church. She later attained her Masters in Education from Kent State University. She is an active member of the Twinsburg Heights community and continues to give back. She is eager to share the history of Twinsburg Heights with younger generations and stresses the importance preserving our history. She is a role model, a teacher, a mentor, a friend. We salute you Madelon Curtis! Thank you for all that you do. #HonorRebelMention #VoicesoftheHill #ShePersisted -- What is an #HonorRebelMention you ask? It’s a way to recognize, acknowledge, celebrate and give an honorable mention a.k.a. #HonorRebelMention a.k.a. shoutout to individuals in our communities that are continually making a difference, giving back, and doing things that improve the lives of many. We often celebrate #blackexcellence in regards to high achieving scholars, doctors, lawyers, athletes, celebrities, etc,…but what about the hardworking, dedicated individuals that exemplify the phrase “it takes a village” and make it possible for those around them to succeed. The ones that take care of and give back to their communities, not for the recognition-but because they understand the necessity and importance of giving back. They work hard not just to provide for their households, but to make sure their neighbors and their families are taken of as well. They are my heroes. The ones that often go un-celebrated. So through #HonorRebelMentions, I hope to HONOR those REBELsouls.

#Vimeo #honorrebelmention #voicesofthehill #shepersisted #blackexcellence #focusedarts #Regulators

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