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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) dir. Roger Corman
#the st valentine's day massacre#al capone#roger corman#crime movie#crime film#60s film#exploitation film#jason robards#ralph meeker#movie screencaps#film screencaps#my screencaps#my screenshots#history film#history movie#true crime#gangster film#gangster movie#gangsters#bugs moran
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Дара из Јасеновца / Dara of Jasenovac (2021)
Follows the story of a young girl named Dara who is sent to a concentration camp in Croatia during World War 2
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A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.
Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.
The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.
The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.
Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.
The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.
We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.
The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.
At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.
#film ideas#plotbunny#murder mystery#detective stories#period dramas#middle ages#history#archaeology
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Fields of Endless Day (1978)
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Archive: National Film Board of Canada
Director: Terence Macartney-Filgate
Cinematographers: Dennis Mills, Ron Watts
Performers: Lili Clark, Winston Sutton, Ricardo Keens-Douglas, Mireille Métellus, Jodi Drake, Luther Hansraj, Tracy Connell
Languages: English
Music: Sound film
Runtime: 58 min.
#NFB#nfb/onf#1970s#1978#sound film#Canada#english#30-60#Terence Macartney-Filgate#independent film#cinema#film#history#history film
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Hbomberguy did a pretty good job pointing out how Somerton has tried to take up the air of modern queer creators, stealing the works they made to little or no money or exposure, and using them to bolster his own fame. It's a truly reprehensible act.
But I feel like it's also important to briefly touch on what he stole from the past.
The Celluloid Closet is a backbone text on queerness and cinema. Like, if you're at all interested in the subject, please read the book, and watch the doc. Yes, the language will be outdated. It was written in 1981 and the doc published in 1995. Language evolves. I was fortunate enough to both read the book and see the documentary in the early 2000s, when I attended university.
It was written by Vito Russo, who held a Masters in film and a desire to fight for queer rights after witnessing the Stonewell riots. The Celluloid Closet was first a live lecture presentation, then a book. He would try to get the book made into a documentary in the early years, and after he died, others picked up that torch to carry on his work and to pay respect to the man.
Vito Russo was also one of the co-founders of GLAAD. He was a co-founder of ACT UP. You may have, if you've watched documentaries or seen news stories about the AIDS crisis, seen parts of his speech, Why We Fight. He protested, advocated, and educated even as people he knew and loved died, and he himself was dying.
As Hbomberguy notes in his doc, he would go on to pass in 1990. This was a man who fought his ass off, even while dying, for a better tomorrow and better representation.
The fact that Somerton stole his work is beyond insulting to the queer history, and queer film history, that he purports to give a shit about.
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Analogues I took at Versailles last Summer
#photography#places#Versailles#original photography#35mm#france#classical art#art history#marie antoinette#rococo#original photographers#my photography#olga's diary#film photography#analogue#analog photography#light academia#princesscore#royalcore#gardens#architecture#travel#photographers on tumblr#cottagecore
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Does adding a blade make your bow an effective melee weapon?
It definitely makes it an iconic one!
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its so crazy that for the last 5 years a small but annoyingly vocal online group has been acting like mob movies of all things are pretentious and inaccessible cinema. yeah the godfather is kinda slow but these are movies about criminals who shoot people
#that family guy bit is right it does insist upon itself but it has a valid point to insist etc etc#crow.txt#side note if you do wanna watch a good mob flick and the godfather was a bit too slow for you please watch goodfellas#its one of my favorite films of all time i love it so much#while i do like the godfather and i recognize how important it was for film history i like goodfellas a bit more
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“…but there’s a misconception that digital files are safe forever. In fact, files end up corrupted, data is improperly transferred, hard drives fail, formats change, work simply vanishes.”
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The Holdovers (2023)
#the holdovers#alexander payne#paul giamatti#dominic sessa#movies#film#quotes#long post#history#2023
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Try to have some respect the queen just DIED. It's not like she was evil or anything
And why should I do that for the head of a family that oversaw the British Empire's legendarily brutal concentration camps in colonialist Kenya during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau rebellion, has personally and repeatedly shielded credibly accused rapist Prince Andrew and tried to get the scandal to go away, personally paid Andrew's financial settlement while the family treated Meghan Markle terribly and gave her none of the same protection, exerted a huge amount of control over UK public finances without any transparency or disclosure (while also receiving huge amounts of that money), got to personally edit laws according to her likes and dislikes, enjoyed sweeping legal immunities that are described as a "threat to UK democracy," is the most visible figurehead of British colonialism even as her descendants put on a horribly tone-deaf Caribbean tour (twice in one year!) that was basically about unreconstructed imperial imagery of the kind that is poisoning Britain, while the entire country buys into the fantasy that she is an impartial, uninvolved, kindly and benevolent grandmotherly figure....?
Nah.
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Saul Bass: 10 iconic movie posters.
#saul bass#vintage#posters#art#retro#art history#graphic design#1960s#movies#1950s#cinema#film#alfred hitchcock#hollywood#minimalism#the shining#design#history#aesthetic#typography#culture#style#🎨
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i'm actually very okay with "there was no other way this could end" endings. if they gotta die, let them die. if they gotta break up or go the wrong way or lose something important, let'em. so long as it completes the story. only thing i dislike more than a forced happy ending is a forced bad ending
#writing#storytelling#film#dnly rants#og#goncharov#gonchposting#writing tips#vaguing marvel on main#history
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Puttin on the riiiiiiiitz 🧟♂️
#young frankenstein#gene wilder#art#fan art#illustration#marty feldman#mel brookes#teri garr#horror#camp#70s#comedy#film history#slapstick#frankenstein
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Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in "Blazing Saddles" (released 50 years ago today in 1974)
#blazing saddles#movies#70s#mel brooks#gene wilder#cleavon little#comedy#western#this day in history#film
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