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In some respects, you might say that the themes and ideas of a film like Coppola’s latest are ones that have been in her oeuvre for years. If detractors have sometimes found the director’s work distancing, more interested in aesthetics than interiority, Priscilla both does little to disprove them and also directly inverts that. Priscilla is a confection that knows its one from the opening beat, focusing as it does in a knowing and enjoyable montage of slipper-pink nail polish and cutesy knick-knacks and inky black cat-eye liner. The film knows it’s a confection because Priscilla Beaulieu Presley knows she is, too. If she doesn’t create this prettified, grown-up self for public consumption – and more directly, for her older lover’s consumption – she might crack open like a meringue and learn there’s nothing inside.
The film, which is bookended essentially by Priscilla’s entrance and finally her departure from Graceland, is in some respects Coppola’s most complete statement on the dissociative qualities of her female characters. These things are linked to their surroundings and physicality – the kind of femininity that we may both take delight in and which ultimately ties us in knots. If dissociative feminism is a topic of conversation these days – that is, the removal of oneself from the body in an attempt to avoid discomfort or pain – Priscilla feels embodied in it, both in performance and in Coppola’s free-floating, daydreamy visual style and patterning.
Christina Newland, In Priscilla, Sofia Coppola tells a story that is frighteningly familiar
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Thinking Aloud About Film: Cinema Rediscovered Round-up Day 1, 2022
Thinking Aloud About Film: Cinema Rediscovered Round-up Day 1, 2022
We continue our discussion of Cinema Rediscovered 2022 with a round-up of the first full day of programming and two of the events that kicked off the program yesterday: The Philip French Memorial Lecture with Samira Ahmed and the UK premiere of the restored version of Lost Highway. We touch on two key strands of the program. The first is Pre-Code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken, curated…
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Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken
Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken
It has been said by many a wise soul that every Hollywood silent is essentially Pre-code. That sentence itself is my entire justification for sharing this with you. The fabulous Christina Newland and I have collaborated on a Pre-code Hollywood project to make this hot summer sizzle with a little more steam. But yes, it’s all talkies.
We have curated five films from Park Circus and Warner Bros’s…
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In a recent interview with Spanish paper El País, Banderas recalled the pair’s first meeting in 1981.: ”'You have a very romantic face,’ Pedro told Antonio. ‘You should do movies. Goodbye.’”
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Back in February, when it looked like Blonde might premiere at Cannes, [the director Andrew] Dominik boasted that his film’s excessive intensity was “the audience’s fucking problem”—a preemptive strike against critics that doubled, possibly, as an acknowledgment of his own shameless prurience. “[The movie] is not running for public office,” he insisted. “It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe, it’s kind of what you want, right? I want to go and see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story.” More recently, in a fascinating and combative interview with Christina Newland in Sight and Sound, Dominik claimed, straight up, that he didn’t have much affection or respect for Monroe’s movies, a position borne out by Blonde’s almost total exclusion of her on-screen work.
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here's an outtake from the interview with the blonde (2022) director that the journalist (christina newland) shared on twitter lmfao...
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'The explosive first reactions to Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic “Oppenheimer” have lit the internet ablaze.
The film hosted its world premiere in Paris, shortly before the cast walked out of the U.K. premiere amid the SAG-AFTRA strike being announced July 14. “Oppenheimer” is set to debut in theaters July 20 and stars Cillian Murphy as the titular father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, and Robert Downey Jr. are among the star-studded ensemble cast.
Writer-director Nolan used real explosions in lieu of CGI to mimic the first detonation of the atomic bomb during the Trinity Test. The entire film was shot in IMAX. “Oppenheimer” is inspired by 2005 book “American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin and centers on Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) as he grapples with the moral repercussions of creating the bomb.
Murphy’s co-star Damon called his performance a “marathon” of sorts to balance the genius physicist’s academic and personal lives. And critics agree: Empire magazine editor Nick de Semlyen tweeted, “‘Oppenheimer’ is a roaring beast of a film, largely set in research labs but feeling like an odyssey into hell. Cillian Murphy is mesmerizing, and Nolan is at full power; it feels like the film itself becomes radiation-poisoned as it goes on. A bleak triumph.”
Criterion writer Christina Newland added, “Cillian Murphy is genuinely so incredible here. Just operating at such a level of fragility and haunted knowingness and arrogant bravado; a performance as complex as the subject deserves.”
New York Magazine critic Bilge Ebiri called the film “incredible” and cited its “fearsome” approach to the weighty subject matter. “A relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way,” Ebiri tweeted.
The Playlist journalist Gregory Ellwood especially cited Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.’s respective performances, saying Downey especially gave a career-best. AP film writer Lindsey Bahr wrote that she was “lucky” to have seen “Oppenheimer” in 70mm IMAX, which was a “once in a lifetime experience.”...'
#Oppenheimer#Cillian Murphy#Christopher Nolan#Matt Damon#Emily Blunt#Florence Pugh#Robert Downey Jr.#IMAX#American Prometheus#Kai Bird#Martin J. Sherwin#Criterion#Variety#New York Magazine#The Playlist#Associated Press#Empire Magazine
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from Christina Newland's interview with Andrew Dominick on Blonde
AD: [...]And she killed herself. Now, to me, that’s the most important thing.
OK so in the novel. that the movie is purportedly based on. she does NOT kill herself. she is murdered. she is explicitly portrayed as being full of hope and plans for the future when she goes to sleep and an assassin (the Sharpshooter, who is somewhat developed as a character throughout the book and heavily implied to be a CIA operative) enters her house and kills her in her sleep and stages an apparent suicide. now you can argue about whether that's realistic or whether it's ok and respectful to write a novel like Blonde at all (I read it young and I loved it, maybe because it depicted Marilyn as asexual and neurodivergent in ways I deeply related to, but still) but if elsewhere in the interview you're going to defend changing stuff or leaving stuff out because "that's not how it is in the book" then. fucken. bro did you even finish the fucking book
#books#movies#goddammit i really wanted to like this movie. i love ana de armas#and now i don't know if i even want to see it
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"As of late, it’s been a habit of more casual Scorsese fans to associate him only with his crime movies. In truth, he’s a wide-ranging artist as interested in genteel literary adaptations and in rediscovering classics of world cinema as he is in gang violence. But because of the flashiness and popularity of Goodfellas and Casino – and the ability to track those interests back to his earliest films, like Mean Streets – it’s been easy to characterise Scorsese as a mere chronicler of wise guys. In its own subtle way, The Irishman offers a rebuke to the critique that has plagued Scorsese for years – that he sympathises with or fails to condemn his amoral characters." - Christina Newland. A must-read!
#the irishman#martin scorsese#al pacino#robert de niro#goodfellas#casino#the godfather#90s#90s movies#mob movies#BBC#christina newland
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Articles no. 11
How Priscilla's production designer brought Graceland back to life by Jocelyn Silver Vogue November 2023
This pared-back aesthetic is the ultimate fashion power play by Tamara Abraham Telegraph August 2023
When the O. C. killed Marissa: What have we done? Vanity Fair November 2023
In Priscilla, Sofia Coppola tells a story that is frighteningly familiar by Christina Newland Dazed November 2023
Good Girls by Lauren Elkin London Review of Books February 2019
Tracey Emin review - brutal portraits of female pain by Hettie Judah The Guardian February 2019
How Are Pakistani Artists Grappling with the Climate Crisis? by Negeen Shaikh Hyperallergic December 2023
Secrets and Lies by Edward Klein Vanity Fair August 2003
Review of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, When Freestyle Thinking Goes Too Far by Rachel Cooke The Guardian July 2023
For Women 'Art Monsters', Both Beauty and Brutality Are Key by Jennifer Szalai The New York Times November 2023
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Criterion Collection's La Strada
Criterion Collection’s La Strada
Restored by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna. Restoration funding was provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Federico Fellini’s La Strada views like a modern-day fairytale. True fairytales always end in cruelty. The movie’s backdrop is a poverty ravished war-torn Italy in the 50s. Way before Clint Eastwood tried his hand…
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FNF Donation Drive Giveaway!
For a chance to win a copy of the Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray release of "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), donate $20 or more to the FNF between now and September 18. Your name will be entered in a random drawing.
And, for a donation of $50 or more, a winner in a random drawing will receive Flicker Alley’s Blu-ray/DVD release of the FNF’s restoration of "The Man Who Cheated Himself", a 1950 cop-gone-bad thriller with stunning San Francisco location photography, starring Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, and John Dall.
Everyone who donates $20 or more and signs up on our e-mail list, will automatically receive NOIR CITY e-magazine for a year! Our current issue's cover story offers a fascinating and fresh perspective: an exploration of Grahame's onscreen legacy by actress Dana Delany, who candidly admits Gloria has been her lifelong muse. It's a unique opportunity to venture inside the craft, "actor to actor."
Already a NOIR CITY subscriber? We have drawings for you too!
For $20 donations, winners in two random drawings will receive either a Blu-ray or DVD of The Criterion Collection’s release of "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950).
For $55 donations – a winner in a random drawing will receive The French Collection - two Jacques Tardi works from Fantagraphics Books -- "Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell and Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge", plus a Kino-Lorber Blu-ray of Jean-Pierre Melville’s "Le Doulos" from Eddie Muller’s collection in honor of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
For $70 donations, in recognition of Christina Newland’s NOIR CITY article “Suburban Strife: The Domestic Drama of The Reckless Moment,” a winner in a random drawing will receive an original 1949 magazine ad of film from the FNF’s historical collection, plus now out-of-print, region-free Blu-ray of "The Reckless Moment".
For $125+ donations, a winner in a random drawing will receive The Criterion Collection’s new release of "Nightmare Alley" (1947), plus two international noir films – "Pale Flower" (Japan 1964) and a special-edition DVD of "The Murderers Are among Us" (Germany 1946). And for more entertainment – two Jacques Tardi works from Fantagraphics Books -- "Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell and Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge".
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(Am I crazy doing this? Yes I am. Definitely)
So I will make a comparision on how the character sounds like from their voice claim and how he would sound like if I used their face claim as voice claim.
Archer Hawke / Female Archer - Nicholas Boulton - Christina Rosato / Colin O’Donoghue - Katie McGrath
Cyrion Hawke - Thor Edgell / Jason Momoa
Dreag Hawke - James A. Woods / Tom Riley
Lia Tabris - Susannah Fielding / Katherine McNamara
Than Mahariel - Mark Bazeley / James McAvoy
Sethius Amladaris - David Sterne / Robert Carlisle
Elgan Lavellan - Alix Wilton Regan / Eleanor Tomlinson
Diran Lavellan - Michael Yurchak / Nicole Beharie
Hjarrandr O Bearhold - Jamieson Price / Timothy Onmundson
Lucius Veridio - Stephen Beckett / Tom Ellis
Etienne DeLechanger - Nolan North / Aidan Gillen
Nicolas Belmond - Michael Antonakos / Pedro Pascal
Malcolm Hawke - Nicholas Boulton / Oded Fehr
Tomey Surana - Laura Bailey / Isabel Lucas
Lyon Amell - Robin Atkin Downes / Michiel Huisman
Solona Amell - Kate Kennedy / Jessica De Gouw
Talar Adaar - John Curry / Howard Charles
Jarida Adaar - Sumalee Monato / Gugu Mbatha Raw
Jerker - Andrew Greenough / Michael Fassbender
Kieran - Dan Jeanotte / Bob Morley
Eric Vanhallen - Paul Amos / Henry Cavill
Ishal Cyprias - Dan Donohue / Sam Claflin
Lorenzo Calcagnini - Keith Silverstein / Ken Watanabe
Armadiel Mahariel - Michael Gough / Luke Pasqualino
Fergus Cousland - Shaun Dingwall / Liam Garrigan
Irius Sparatus - Alastair Duncan / Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Karnesh - Rory McCann / Hugh Laurie
Clavius Tarxis - Sean Browning / Benedict Cumberbatch
Renius Sparatus - Charles Dance / Oscar Isaac
Torana Sparatus - Claudia Black / Aja Naomi King
Jurdon Madadh - Steven Hartley / Travis Fimmel
Ganar Drealav - Anthony Skordi / Rory McCann
Raik Cagar - Denise Gough / Lupita Nyong’o
Haral Nyras - Antohny Howell / Andrew Lincoln
Oswin Shepard - Jennifer Hale / Chyler Leigh
Noah Shepard - Mark Meer / Karl Urban
Maron Hinom - Antonia Bernath / Iwan Rheon
Shaela’Riel Vas Tonbay - Eve Myles / Ksenia Solo
Lorik Qui’in - Peter Jessop / David Giuntoli
Marius Nyras - Craig Sechler / JR Bourne
Andrew Ryder - Tom Taylorson / Dominic Sherwood
Tayus Draxas - Michael Maloney / Jude Law
Tachyus Nyras - Paul Thornley / Torrance Coombs
Macen Barro - Daniel Riordan / Richard Armitage
Yaora V’Loar - Moira Quirk / Astrid Berges Frisbey
SAM - Alexia Traverse-Hailey / Will Tudor
Yandra Nyras - Elle Newlands / Alexandra Daddario
Quentius Zuris - Steve Pirot / Hugh Dancy
Urdnot Wreav - Jim Cummings / Joe Manganiello
Adrien Victus - Daniel Riordan / Hugh Jackman
Sidoria Arterius - Bianna White / Saoirse Ronan
Steven Hackett - Lance Henriksen / Donald Sutherland
Septimus Oraka - Fred Tatasciore / Chiwetel Eijofor
Iorveth - Mark Frost / Bryan Dechart
Moony / Reaper Form - Claudia Ann Christian / Paul Nakauchi / Erza Scarlet
Danny Fernandez - Roger Craig Smith / Keanu Reeves
Belle Instance - Myanna Buring / Famke Janssen
Pamina Siemens - Courtney Hope / Kaya Scodelario
Fenrir Greyback - Christopher Judge / Tom Hardy
Amelia Fernandez - Britt Baron / Jennifer Connelly
Sharleen Siemens - Eiry Hughes / Olivia Wilde
Eleasar Cohen - Peter Egan / William Fichtner
Connor Montgomery / French Connor - Jim Pirri / Arnaud Leonard / Julian McMahon
Ben Chaplin - Brent Skagford / Dylan O’Brien
Vortula Portocalos - Melissanthi Mahut / Eva Green
Lesley Woodstock - Erica Lindbeck / Vanessa Hudgens
Carlisle Eastwood - Anthony Byrne / Aaron Johnson
Lewis Watson - Noah Watts / Martin Freeman
Deidre Mikealson - Zora Bishop / Lucy Griffiths
Daniel Speedman - Oliver Milburn / Daniel Craig
Richard Holmes - Steven Piovesan / Robert Downey Jr
Carolus - Ryan Alosio / Toby Stephens
Yarntar Loreian - Jon Root / Lee Pace
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quotes by author
these are quotes sorted by author! pretty self-explanatory. not all authors are on here, as i'm in a continuous process of reading and acquiring quotes! will be updated regularly. sorted a-z by last name.
Daniel Alarcón
Sarah Adams
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Elena Armas
Lauren Asher
Atticus
Mitch Albom
Benjamin Alire-Sáenz
Tessa Bailey
David Baldacci
Leigh Bardugo
Holly Black
Olivie Blake
Sabrina Benaim
Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Alexandra Bracken
Jericho Brown
Sól Casique
Yvonne Cassidy
Stephen Chbosky
Zen Cho
Agatha Christie
Sandra Cisneros
Susanna Clarke
Paulo Coelho
Tillie Cole
Sonali Dev
Charles Dickens
Anthony Doerr
Tony Fadell
Hafsah Faizal
Thomas C. Foster
Shana Galen
Stephanie Garber
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bill Glose
Chloe Gong
Sophie Gonzalez
Amanda Gorman
Hafez
Matt Haig
Jenny Han
Tim Harford
Ali Hazelwood
Emily Henry
Frank Herbert
Féi Hernandez
Talia Hibbert
Helen Hoang
Charlie M. Holmberg
Homer
Cathy Park Hong
Colleen Hoover
Robert Jordan
Julie Kagawa
Brigid Kemmerer
Jahan Khatun
T. J. Klune
R. F. Kuang
Kevin Kwan
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lois-Soto Lane
Christina Lauren
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lang Leav
Erika Lee
Christy Lefteri
Trisha Levenseller
Marc Levy
Grace D. Li
Ann Liang
lostcap
Carmen Machado
Shelby Mahurin
Yamen Manai
Kerri Maniscalco
Raquel Marie
Daphne du Maurier
Casey McQuiston
Chanel Miller
Madeline Miller
Rebecca Mix
Erin Morgenstern
Vera Nazarian
Micah Nemerever
Courttia Newland
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Trevor Noah
Naomi Novik
Chibundu Onuzo
Helen Oyeyemi
Mary E. Pearson
Sylvia Plath
Plato
Clare Pooley
Claudia Rankine
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Jason Reynolds
Natalie D. Richards
M. L. Rio
Sally Rooney
Jennifer Rosner
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Brandon Sanderson
Jack Schaefer
V.E. Schwab
Linda See
Rebecca Serle
William Shakespeare
Samantha Shannon
Adam Silvera
Anthony Veasna So
Barbara Andrea Sostaita
John Steinbeck
Erin Sterling
Maggie Stiefvater
Amy Tan
Jennif(f)er Tamayo
Karin Tanabe
Donna Tartt
Stuart Turton
Kirstin Valdez Quade
Jésus I. Valles
Kurt Vonnegut
Ocean Vuong
Jeff Wheeler
Elie Wiesel
Will Wight
Isabel Wilkerson
Hanya Yanagihara
E. Lily Yu
Obayd-e Zakani
Michelle Zauner
C. Pam Zhang
Xiran Jay Zhao
Markus Zusak
hope this helps! <3
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