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Sherilyn Fenn / Zalman King’s Two Moon Junction (1988)
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Zalman King-Charlotte Rampling "The ski bum" 1971, de Bruce D. Clark.
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Galaxy of Terror (1981)
"Aren't you afraid?"
"Too scared to be."
#galaxy of terror#american cinema#sci fi film#1981#bruce d. clark#marc siegler#edward albert#erin moran#ray walston#bernard behrens#zalman king#robert englund#taaffe o'connell#sid haig#grace zabriskie#jack blessing#mary ellen o'neill#kenny myers#barry schrader#roger corman#perhaps most notable for the future big names who worked on this in various capacities; you've got a pre Freddie Rob Englund in the cast as#well as soon to be director Zalman‚ youve got James Cameron doing 2nd unit stuff and production design‚ Bill Paxton was the set dresser (!)#future oscar winner Bob Skotak doing visual fx and Wes Craven's future wife and film producer Iya Lubunka making prosthetics and possibly#(depending on who you believe) body doubling for one of the more graphic scenes of uh.. hm. well it's a.. you gotta see it ig‚ but it's#pretty tasteless and gratuitous. anyway. Corman himself was responsible for adding the more extreme sequences against the directors wishes#(a familiar story‚ see also Humanoids from the Deep) but all griping aside i was surprised by how into this i was. the first act in#particular does a brilliant job of quick‚ intense world building and setting up various intriguing mysteries for the viewer#the middle section fumbles it a little‚ but the design is deeply impressive and clearly something Cameron carried into Aliens#like im not even joking‚ this nonsense space slasher clearly had an unlikely impact on space horror cinema that came after#including Event Horizon and the Alien sequels‚ perhaps even a tiny but on Carpenter's The Thing. or maybe it's all coincidence. who knows!
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red shoe diaries (1992)
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A still from 'Gunsmoke' episode 'Embittered Mother,' which aired in August 1966. The cast included Robert Sorrells, Bette Davis, Bruce Dern, Zalman King, and Tom Skerrit. #DailyBette
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The Hebrew month of Elul is here! The last month before Rosh HaShanah, Elul is a time for introspection and repentance. We prepare for the great and awesome Day of Judgment by carefully examining our deeds and refining our character. We are especially close to God at this special time.
Chassidic master Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi - the first Chabad Rebbe - describes Elul with the analogy “the king is in the field.” Usually, the king resides in the palace, but during this month he leaves the royal grounds and “everyone who so desires is permitted to meet Him, and He receives them all with a cheerful countenance.”
It is a custom during Elul to hear a blast of the shofar (ram’s horn) every day as a call to repentance. When Moshiach (Messiah) arrives - may it be soon! - we’ll be notified with a shofar blast heard round the world.
Image: My Jewish Learning
Accidental Talmudist
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Movies I watched this Week # 149 (Year 3/Week 45):
Between 'Mean Streets' and 'Alice doesn't live here anymore', Martin Scorsese made the documentary ItalianAmerican, which is basically a home movie. It features his parents bicker and talk at their apartment, remembering the old days of their families.
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2 with teenager Scarlett Johansson:
🍿 Re-watch: Sofia Coppola's Lost in translation, while waiting for her latest 'Priscilla'. "Sleepless in Shinjuko". Sad and vulnerable 17-year-old Scarlett Johansson, a 'stranger in a strange land' is having a 'Brief Encounter' moment, with less-asshole-than-usual Bill Murray. (Photos Above).
Another melancholic exploration of a lonely young woman, who finds herself captured in a privileged gilded cage. An exceptional, subtle masterpiece. 10/10.
🍿 The horse whisperer starred 14-year-old Johansson as a horse-lover who becomes emotionally stunted after a riding accident that caused her to lose part of her leg (all in the first 10 minutes of the film). It's a sloooow, traditional 3-hour-long story about healing, told mostly in beautifully-cinematic Montana. But it worked for me, in spite of the well-shot sentimentality. 7/10.
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My first 2 by German auteur Christian Petzold, both with Paula Beer:
🍿 Afire - a tremendous, complex drama about a vain, immature writer on a working vacation. The little summer cottage close to the Baltic sea, is soon encroached by a forest fire, as does his self-centered world view of himself and his art. It starts at one emotional point, and skillfully moves to a completely different, tense level. 9/10.
🍿 Petzold wanted to make a series of films about the 4 elements. Undine refers to the myth of 'water nymphs', so rivers, industrial diving, large aquariums, and drowning in a pool are all part of the story. It's a lovely, simple romance, which eventually turns into a dark fantasy. My 5th film with Franz Rogowski. 4/10.
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3 More of Claude Chabrol’s Hitchcockian thrillers:
🍿 “… You like meat?…”
Le Boucher, a low-key, atmospheric thriller about a single woman who befriends a village butcher, who's also a serial killer. Fantastic snapshot of the people at 'the country' (Dordogne) at this time. 9/10.
🍿 The ceremony (La Cérémonie) is a similar dark story, set in a solid bourgeoisie family. Isabelle Huppert & Sandrine Bonnaire becomes friends and eventually decide kill them all. Like 'Stanley & Iris' from last week, the protagonist is illiterate. 6/10.
🍿 The Unfaithful Wife, another terrific, low-key, civilized study of a French bourgeois household. A loving husband discovers that his loving wife is having an affair, and ends up killing her lover. I liked it so much, and thought it would be a very good candidate for a modern remake. Then I remembered Adrian Lyne's 'Unfaithful' with the luminous Diane Lane in the Stéphane Audran role. Maybe I should watch it again! 8/10.
I discovered Chabrol late, and have only seen about 10% of his 74 movies. Now I have to see them all!
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Milf, another film with Virginie Ledoyen, a soft-core sex comedy. Three older women looking to hook up with boys 20 years younger. A similar concept to the Naomi Watts film 'Adoration'. I only watched it because it is directed by a woman and had 13 on the Tomato score. Better than Zalman King.
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Wow! After 4 months of anticipation, the venerable bio-pic Oppenheimer finally hit my free streamers. I watched all 3 hours of it but left completely underwhelmed. This is the seventh of Christopher Nolen's praised big-budget epic films that I saw, and so far none of them had floated my boat. Okay, so I'm not a big blockbusters fan.
It's not very hip to rail against McCarthyism in 2023. Twenty-twenty revisionist vision, mambo-jumbo pseudoscience, overwrought endless, loud soundtrack, and basically the usual biography of a "Great man", which is always a boring subject for a movie. 4/10.
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3 by regular Fincher screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker:
🍿 On the other hand, David Fincher’s new thriller The killer was a thrill ride that was a joy to watch. A cold blooded professional assassin, laconic and super-human, flies around the world ruthlessly killing people. Mesmerizing (but predictable) suspense with an effective Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score. I could do without the inner monologue that replaced conversations in the story. Also, a great comic book knock-out fight after an hour and a half of deliberate, slow go. 7/10.
🍿 In 2001, BMW produced 8 short films by famous directors as "Branded Content", i.e. advertisements. Called 'The hire' they all featured Clive Owen driving Beamers around the world. AKW wrote two of them:
The Follow was directed by Wong Kar-wai, and was about an aborted diamond heist.
Ambush was directed by John Frankenheimer, and was about a woman being followed by her husband.
The other shorts were by John Woo, Tony Scott, Ang Lee, etc.
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5 more Danish films, 3 with Henning Moritzen (The patriarch from ‘Celebration’) and 2 with Mads Mikkelsen:
🍿 Tænk på et tal (Think of a number), a 1969 old-fashion, enjoyable Danish 'Krimi' with an enduring theme song. A meek bank teller finds a discarded note from a bank robber, and gets involved in a lethal game.
This story was later remade into the Elliott Gould caper 'The silent partner'. I love such slow and delightful dramas, and I love Bibi Andersson.
it’s funny how movies that used to be throwaway entertainment products 60 years ago, gain completely different meaning today. I should start exploring the many Danish Noir from the 40's and 50's. 7/10.
🍿 50 years later, In the Oscar-nominated short The pig, Moritzen is old and fat, and is being hospitalised for some tests. There he lays and finds comfort in a simple picture of a pig jumping over a fence. Delightful!
🍿 On the other hand, Now is another Danish short (from 2003) starring Mads Mikkelsen. But it's an artsy-fartsy, humor-less, word-less "Art film", shot in black & white, with a constant baby crying. Like 'An Andalusian Dog' but without the charm and the magic… 1/10.
🍿 I was surprised to realize just now that my favorite Danish screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen directed only 5 features and 3 shorts. (but he wrote 59 scripts!). Wolfgang is an early short of his, and not his best. Now I've seen all the movies that he directed.
I can't wait for his upcoming 'Monster of Florence' with Antonio Banderas and 'Back to reality'. Yeah!
🍿 So I took in one more viewing of his sentimental After the wedding, maybe for the 10th time. So full of emotional twists, old-fashioned melodrama, Sigur Rós score and peak Sidse Babett Knudsen.
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Budapest Noir, a Hungarian murder mystery, set up in anti-semitic 1936. A hard boiled crime reporter investigates a murder of a beautiful prostitute, like a Jake Gittes named Zsigmond. Very strong 'Chinatown' vibes, including a smokey jazz score that tries to recreate its haunting atmosphere, and even the final line of dialogue "This is Budapest". 5/10.
[This is the 115th woman-directed film I've seen so far this year!].
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Dumb money, the first enjoyable Reddit movie, about the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Compelling Class War rhetoric with Seth Rogen as the billionaire 'heavy'. Up-to-the-minute updated drama of the 1% Vs. the unwashed masses. I think it will endure as another worthy addition to the sub-genre of 'highly entertaining explanation to boring real-life financial story', just like 'The big short' and 'Margin call'.
However, it used an Artificial Intelligent editing model that color-corrected the whole movie into a weird, fake, washed up look. 8/10.
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First watch: Kurosawa's bleak Drunken Angel, an early post-war Yakuza film, and the first of the 16 collaborations between him and Toshiro Mifume. An alcoholic doctor befriends a young hoodlum suffering from tuberculosis. Located around an open sewer in a seedy neighborhood, still suffering under the American occupation.
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Ikarie XB 1 (Or 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' as it was called in American), an influential and ambitious 1963 Czechoslovakian science-fiction saga, based on a Stanisław Lem novel. "Futuristic" space decor and story, very much in the Star Trek style. Cultish 1960's popcorn philosophy, but nonsensical and not a serious world building. Not for me - 1/10.
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Thank Dog that the third season of Tim Robinson’s 'I think you should leave' was so short. The first season was outrageously different. The second season was a 'repeat on a theme'. This one was just cringey irrelevant. Absurd, awkward, confusing situations, exploding rage at small mistakes. No!
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My first (and last) stand-up by comedian Nate Bergatze, The greatest average American. Average stories of 'relatable' everyday nitty gritty were hardly worth a chuckle.
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(My complete movie list is here)
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Sherilyn Fenn / Zalman King's Two Moon Junction (1988)
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My media this week (19-25 Feb 2023)
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
🥰 Or Be Nice (charlottemadison) - 151K, Good Omens human AU, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers/boyfrenemies; love the characterizations and the dialogue/banter is A+++
🥰👂 The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) (J.R.R. Tolkien, author; Andy Serkis, narrator)
🥰👂 Lavender House (Lev AC Rosen, author; Vikas Adam, narrator) - '50s set historical mystery with noir vibes but hella queer. I quite enjoyed this; I liked the characters and the melodramatic noir-ness, and would happily read another of Evander Mills' adventures if any are forthcoming.
😊 Cinderfella (GoldenTruth813) - 43K, Sheith AU, Keith has a crush on YT'er Shiro, then there's a chance meeting, attraction, angst and finally getting together
💖💖 +195K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
The Ghost of You (min_T) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 15K - solidly good ghost/monsterfucking fic
(After)life (AidaRonan) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 4K - reread; my fave ghostfucking fic!
thats what i want series 1-3 (BelmotteTower) - Ted Lasso: Roy/Keeley/Jamie, 44K - fantastic TLot3 series
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
Interview with Sarah Gailey (discussing American Hippo) [Romancing The Gothic]
Queering Heyer (My Poor Devil Panel with Rose Lerner, Olivia Waite, Cat Sebastian & KJ Charles) [Romancing The Gothic]
Queering Jane Eyre: Author Visit with Rose Lerner [Romancing The Gothic]
Hot Ones - Anna Kendrick
Hot Ones - Bryan Cranston
Hot Ones - Lenny Kravitz
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
⭐ Vibe Check - Welcome to the Deep End
⭐ ICYMI Plus - Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale Fandom
Ologies with Alie Ward - Environmental Toxicology (POISONS + TRAIN DERAILMENT) with Kimberly K. Garrett
Switched on Pop - Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"
99% Invisible #526 - Orange Alternative
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Gankutsu Hotel
Shedunnit - The Death Of The Country House
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Jadeite Cabbage
Lost Women of Science - Of Chestnuts, Cherry Trees, and Mushroom Catsup: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores
⭐ Into It - The Wave Returns to the Ocean (Plus: What Are Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos Into?)
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Thomas Merton's Hermitage
Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Golden
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Newtown Creek Nature Walk
You Must Remember This - 1986: 9 ½ Weeks, Mickey Rourke & Zalman King (Erotic 80s Part 9)
Endless Thread - Aftershocks Online
Hit Parade Plus - The Bridge: Losing Hootie’s Religion
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
'80s Rock Ballads
Tapestry: '70s Queens
Yacht Rock Classics
#sunday reading recap#bookgeekgrrl's reading habits#bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks#lotr#the two towers#lavender house#fanfic ftw#here for all the monsterfucking#romancing the gothic#hot ones remains one of my fave interview shows#vibe check podcast#seriously vibe check will transform your wednesday mornings!#hit parade podcast#atlas obscura podcast#99% invisible podcast#switched on pop podcast#ologies podcast#shedunnit podcast#into it podcast#20k hz podcast#icymi podcast#lost women of science podcast#you must remember this podcast#endless thread podcast#'80s ballads#'70s queens#yacht rock
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9½ Weeks
is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. Basinger portrays a New York City art gallery employee who has a brief yet intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker, played by Rourke. The screenplay by Sarah Kernochan, Zalman King and Patricia Louisianna Knop is adapted from the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day, under the pseudonym "Elizabeth McNeill".
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I watched the original 1992 Red Shoe Diaries TV movie, after listening to the You Must Remember This Erotic Nineties episode about Zalman King’s pivot to cable, and I have several thoughts:
- the themes of control are heavy handed as hell but certainly there; the inadvertent themes around gender, however… you could write a fucking thesis on this shit
- what was happening with the set dresser for this film???? Jake’s loft is fucking nuts even for someone with the quintessential 90s erotic thriller job of architect
- the heroine is a real early 90s fashion icon but the directing and acting choices made around her various MTV-ready breakdowns… bad
- the domineering violent rough-trade construction worker-cum-shoe salesman is BILLY WIRTH FROM THE LOST BOYS
- everyone in this is god damn beautiful… David Duchovny shirtless sweaty basketball sequence…
- however the shoes? Ugly.
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Robert Sorrells, Bette Davis, Bruce Dern, Zalman King, and Tom Skerrit in ''Embittered Mother'' episode of Gunsmoke, 1966
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THE RAPTURE (1991)
"Very cold and TV-movie basic Christian/Red Shoe Diaries drama!? But also insane? SciTi Mimi in Gap threads lives a sinful life until she discovers JC. She tames Longshot-haired Davey Duch and dons floral dresses. And then!? SPOILER the fucking Rapture happens! And it's like...pretty chill? Just trumpets and some horses and then wander in the desert. Gotta say, G-O-D? Pretty forgiving. General Bethlehem spends the whole movie being not too sure about God and then when the rapture happens he's like 'I'm in.' Boom. Heaven. Like...yeah ok if you present me with hard evidence of God's existence taking place, I'll probably be like 'Hell yeah I dig God!' Low bar cleared."
-Tommy Gazelle
"The Red Shoe Testament. King of Kings Zalman. What else can I add? I like now Mimi. She is now a top bird for Sonny. Even when she's sinning by way of empty group sess with strangers she just seems kind of ... nice? And like, smart? Not swag, not mottled with the sort of unsavory trauma that leads to such a life. Wearing regular jeans with Zandalee hair and Elaine Benes dresses. Yassified Cindy Walsh. And her apartment was simple but chill, I even dug the carpeting. I Can a telephone operator afford a decent place like that in LA today? I see why Thomas Mapother was drawn to her and her SciTi."
-Sonny Gazelle
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