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the-cat-at-the-theatre-door · 2 years

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Happy 28th Birthday to me 🎂

In honour of me feeling generally old but also exactly the same as I felt yesterday, I’ve decided to post a couple of gifts for you all in the form of some of my favourite audios and videos! Perhaps you will be able to guess why they’re some of my favourites, perhaps not. Either way, here they are.

Remember that tumblr breaks outside leading links - be sure to remove the extra characters at the beginning of the URL. These links will remain open and valid until January 20th @ 11:59PM EST!

Enjoy!

AUDIOS

CATS - 1994, October - Broadway

Laurie Beechman (Grizabella), Marlene Danielle (Bombalurina), David Hibbard (Rum Tum Tugger). Rest of cast unknown.

CATS - 1995, 8th November - London, UK

Richard Armitage (Admetus/Macavity), Nunzio Lombardo ( Alonzo), Daniel Crossley ( Bill Bailey), Vanessa Leagh-Hicks ( Bombalurina), Tony Timberlake ( Bustopher/Gus/Growltiger), Sandy Rass ( Carbucketty), Deborah Shrimpton (Cassandra), David Olton (Coricopat), Michele Hooper (Demeter), Nicola Lee-Owens (Electra), Charlotte Peck (Etcetera), Steven Wayne (George/Rumpus), Clare Burt (Grizabella), Carrie Ellis (Jellylorum), Kimberly Partridge (Jemima), Beth Robson (u/s) (Jennyanydots), Thomas Paton (Mistoffelees), Ian Meeson (Mungojerrie), Andrew Halliday (Munkustrap), Graeme Lauren (s/b) ( Old Deuteronomy), Vikki Coote (Rumpleteazer), John Partridge (Rum Tum Tugger), Tommi Sliiden (u/s) ( Skimbleshanks), Tee Soo-Chan (Tantomile), John Stacey ( Victor), Sandra Kater (Victoria)

CATS - 2000, 10th September - Broadway (Closing Night)

Linda Balgord (Grizabella), Jeffery Denman (Munkustrap), Jimmy Lockett (Old Deuteronmy), Julius Sermonia (Mr. Mistoffelees), Roger Kachel (Mungojerrie), Maria Jo Ralabatte (Rumpleteazer), Gayle Holsman (Demeter), Keith Edward Wilson (Macavity), Stephen Beinske (Rum Tum Tugger), Sharon Wheatley (Jennyanydots), John Dewar (Gus/Growlitger/Bustopher Jones), Marlene Danielle (Bombalurnia), Jean Arbieter (Jellyorum), Lenny Daniel (Alonzo), Marissa Rae Mahon (Cassandra), Billy Johnstone (Coriocopat), Jon-Erik Goldberg (Pouncival), Jessica Dillan (Sillabub), James Hadley (Skimbleshanks), Amy Hamel (Tantomile), Patrick Mullaney (Tumblebrutus), Melissa Hathaway (Victoria)

CATS - 2002, 11th May (Last Matinee) - London, UK

Chrissie Hammond (Grizabella), Adrian Edmeades (Mungojerrie), Jack Rebaldi (Munkustrap), John Partridge (Rum Tum Tugger), Sandy Rass (Skimbleshanks)

CATS - 2002 - Berlin Germany - SOUNDBOARD

Jack Rebaldi (Munkustrap), Sabine Hettlich (Bombalurina), Lada Kummer (Demeter), Cornelia Drese (Grizabella), John Partridge (Rum Tum Tugger), Benjamin Tyrrell (Mr. Mistoffelees), Leah Delos Santos (Sillabub), Markus Giess (Mungojerrie), Roimata Templeton (Rumpleteazer), Jeff Shankley (Asparagus/Bustopher Jones/Growltiger), Uli Scherbel (Skimbleshanks), Nadja Solovieva (Jenny Fleckenreich), Tersia Potgieter (Jellylorum), Anton Rattinger (Alt Deuteronimus), Zoltan Ádok (Alonzo/Rumpum), Costanze Möricke (Cassandra), Sanny Roumimper (Coricopat), Tiziana Doneda (Elektra), Gido Schimanski (Plato/Macavity), Karin Sang (Tantomile), Scott Owen (Tumblebrutus), Bridie Rack (Victoria)

CATS - 2010, 20th November - US Tour 5 (Columbus, OH)

Zach Hess (Munkustrap), Matthew Taylor (Rum Tum Tugger), Kathryn Holtkamp (Grizabella), Nathan Morgan* (U/S Bustopher Jones, Gus/Growltiger), Jeremy Brauner (Old Deuteronomy), Chaz Wolcott (Mistofelees), Erica Leigh Hansen (Jennyanydots), Will Porter (Mungojerrie, Genghis), Kristen Quartarone (Rumpleteazer), Heidi Giberson (Sillabub), Jordan Dunlap (Victoria), Laura Cable (Jellyorum/Griddlebone), Louie Napoleon (Skimbleshanks), Ashley Chasteen (Bombalurina), Madison Mitchell (Demeter), J. Morgan White (Macavity, Plato), Jason Wise (Tumblebrutus), Edward Lawrence (Alonzo), Laura Elizabeth Henning (Cassandra), Nick Hendricks (Pouncival), Matthew Glover, Melissa Grohowski, Allison Little, Larry A. Lozier Jr., Trevor Sones, Ashley Travis, Tory Trowbridge, Kevin Zak (Chorus Cats)

CATS - 2014, 26th July (Matinee) - Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburg, PA

Elizabeth Stanley (Grizabella), Ken T. Prymus (Old Deuteronomy), Michael Brian Dunn (Bustopher Jones / Asparagus / Growltiger), Ashley Chasteen (Bombalurina), Lucas Fedele (Coricopat), Tory Trowbridge (Cassandra), Jenna Nicole Schoen (Demeter), Lily Emilia Smith (Jellylorum / Griddlebone), Amanda Pulcini (Jennyanydots), Andrew Wilson (Mr. Mistoffelees), Will Porter (Mungojerrie / Genghis), Daniel J. Self (Munkustrap), Jeff Kuhr (Plato / Macavity), Mara Newbery (Rumpleteazer), Kevin Loreque (Rum Tum Tugger), Paige Silvester (Sillabub), Jesse Carrey (Skimbleshanks), Kathryn Terza (Tantomile), Ethan Saviet (Tumblebrutus), Sarah Blodgett (Victoria), Sal Bucci, Tsilala Graham-Haynes, Stephanie Maloney, Connor McRory, Zach Miller, Liz Schmitz.

CATS - 2015, 14th February (Matinee) - London, UK (West End Revival)

Nicholas Pound (Old Deuteronomy), Callum Train (Munkustrap), Joseph Poulton (Mister Mistofelees), Adam Salter (Bill Bailey), Claire Rickard (Jellylorum/Griddlebone), Antoine Murray (Rum Tum Tugger), Benjamin Mundy (Coricopat), Katheryn Barnes (Tantomile), Kerry Ellis (Grizabella), Cassie Claire (Cassandra), Dawn Williams (Rumpleteazer), Benjamin Yates (Mungojerrie), Zizi Strallen (Demeter), Paul F Monaghan (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Adam Lake (Alonzo), Steve Hutchinson (Pouncival), Ross Finnie (Skimbleshanks)

CATS - 2017, 7th June - Broadway Revival

Mamie Parris (Grizabella), Callan Bergmann (u/s Alonzo), Harris Milgrim (u/s Admetus/Macavity), Andrew Wilson (Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus), Christine Cornish Smith (Bombalurina), Christopher Gurr (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Jonalyn Saxer (u/s Cassandra), Jakob Karr (Carbucketty), Tanner Ray Wilson (u/s Coricopat), Kim Faure (Demeter), Maria Briggs (u/s Electra), Sarah Jane Shanks (Jellylorum), Eloise Kropp (Jennyanydots), Ricky Ubeda (Mr. Mistoffelees), Zachary Daniel Jones (Mungojerrie), Andy Huntington Jones (Munkustrap), Nathan Patrick Morgan (u/s Old Deuteronomy), Shonica Gooden (Rumpleteazer), Ahmad Simmons (u/s Rum Tum Tugger), Jeremy Davis (Skimbleshanks), Claire Camp (u/s Tantomile), Claire Rathbun (Victoria), Sharrod Williams (Pouncival), Francesca Granell (u/s Sillabub)

VIDEOS

CATS - 1990 - Wien, Vienna (Last show of the season) - VOB Files

Darryl Robinson (Munkustrap), Andreas Bieber (Tumblebrutus), Dean Welterlen (Rum-Tum-Tugger), Amy DeMayo (Jellylorum), Valentin Baraian (Mister Mistoffelees), Gordon Bovinet (Alt Deuteronimus)

CATS - 2004 - Madrid, Spain - Camshot - VOB Files

Helen de Quiroga (Grizabella), Pedro Ruy-Blas (Old Deuteronomy), Jack Rebaldi (Munkustrap), Edu (Rum Tum Tugger), Enrique Segura (Bustopher Jones/Asparagus/Growltiger), Gorane Markinez (Jellylorum/Griddlebone), Marta Malone (Jenny), Victor Ullate Jr Roche (Mistoffelees), Hugo Riveros Delporte (Mungojerrie), Raquel Grijalba (Rumpleteazer), Pepe Munoz (Plato/Macavity), Alberto Sanchez (Skimbleshanks)

CATS - 2005, June - Fifth National Tour (Troika) - Boise Idaho - VOB Files

Adam Perry (Alonzo), Christine LaDuca (Bombalurina), Demeter (Amy Phillips), Mungojerrie (Gregory Haney), Rumpleteazer (Lisa Schale), Old Deuteronomy (Jason Simon), Natalie Attino (Grizabella), Steven Rich (Gus/Bustohpher/Growltiger), Kym Chambers (Jellylorum/Griddlebone), Justin Wingenroth (Mr. Mistoffelees)

#it's *my* birthday which means i get control of the aux cord #that berlin and london cast allow me to live my alternate universe 1998 video dreams if only for a second #if you have any issues with the links DM me and we'll get it sorted out #extemporize back chat #also don't save the links - once they're deleted they'll be dead - download the files!

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regardezmoica · 3 years

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GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL - from home - launches today !

We would have loved to go to Scotland for the first time and enjoy the Glasgow Film festival but this year is different and it will be a home online festival. From the 24th of February to the 7th of March, Glasgow is coming into our home with a vibrant and amazing line-up.

The GFF will host 7 World premieres, 2 European premieres, 50 UK premieres online. World premieres include Anthony Baxter’s Eye of the Storm and an exploration of the life of punk rock’s least conventional front person Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché. World premiere of Creation Stories written by Irvine Welsh and starring Ewen Bremner leads a programme filled with strong Scottish stories.

The festival will open on Wednesday 24 February with Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical drama following a Korean-American family Minari, starring The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun, and close on Sunday 7 March with Suzanne Lindon’s debut feature Spring Blossom, a coming-of-age tale set against a dreamy Parisian backdrop.

Scottish highlights include:

Eye of the Storm - Scottish filmmaker Anthony Baxter (Flint, GFF 2020), which follows one of Scotland’s most gifted painters, James Morrison, through the last two years of his life.

Creation Stories - Written by Irvine Welsh and starring GFF favourite Ewen Bremner, Creation Stories charts the rise of the infamous founder of Creation Records, Alan McGee. Directed by Nick Moran, the incredible cast includes Jason Isaacs, Suki Waterhouse and Rebecca Root. Creation Stories will be available on Sky Cinema from March 20.

Limbo - critically adored British debut feature from Scottish director Ben Sharrock and the first feature film to ever shoot in Uist – a deadpan comedy-drama following a Syrian refugee (Amir El-Masry) who finds himself in a refugee centre on a remote Scottish island

World and European Premieres including:

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché brings to screen the life of ‘one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history’: Poly Styrene, founder of acclaimed punk band X-Ray Spex, co-directed by her daughter, Celeste Bell, and Paul Sng.

Handsome - Luke White’s documentary, Nicholas Bourne and his brother Alex set off on a journey to meet other siblings with Down’s Syndrome, as Nicholas prepares to become Alex’s full-time, dedicated carer.

Sweetheart - Marley Morrison’s knockout debut feature charts the relationship between two young women during a summer holiday;

A Brixton Tale - Darragh Carey and Bertrand Desrochers debut is a star-crossed romance confronting class, race and love in modern Britain

49 UK premieres including those titles:

The Mauritanian, directed by Kevin Macdonald and based on the best-selling memoir by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, which tells the story of Slahi (played by Tahar Rahim), who was held for years in Guantanamo Bay. Jodie Foster takes on Benedict Cumberbatch in this true-life courtroom drama.

The Toll, welsh thriller starring Michael Smiley as a contented toll booth operator whose past shows up to haunt him. The cast also includes Annes Elwy and Iwan Rheon.

Surge - Set over 24 hours in London, Aneil Karia’s stripped-back thriller sees Ben Wishaw give a standout performance that won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at Sundance Film Festival.

Black Bear - Lawrence Michael Levine’s psychosexual drama, a darkly comic tale starring Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon and Christopher Abbott.

Riders of Justice - from Anders Thomas Jensen starring Mads Mikkelsen as a military vet set on a path of revenge.

Gagarine is a beguiling debut from directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh set in a Parisian housing estate earmarked for demolition.

Rosa’s Wedding - from Icíar Bollaín, is the feel-good comedy about becoming the most important person in your own life, even if that means marrying yourself.

Apples is the haunting debut feature from Greek director Christos Nikou, set during a mysterious pandemic which causes sudden amnesia.

Cowboys - Anna Kerrigan’s debut feature which won Best Screenplay and Best Actor in US Narrative Feature at Tribeca Film Festival, stars Steve Zahn as a father on a camping trip with his transgender son Joe (Sasha Knight).

This year, The GFF turn their popular Country Focus to South Korea, with five incredible UK premieres, including:

Our Midnight, debut feature from director Jung-eun Lim.

Voices of Silence - from Eui-jeong Hong’s is a bittersweet crime caper about good people who do bad things, with an award-winning performance from Burning’s Yoo Ah-In.

The Swordsman, from director Jae-Hoon Choi, blends epic fight scenes and heartfelt drama in a tale of skilled swordsman brought out of a life of hiding and seclusion for one last battle.

Da Capo - from Chan-yang Shim - a struggling musician returns to his hometown and rediscovers his passion for music while helping a former bandmate coach a rock band made up by her music school pupils.

The Man Standing Next from director Min-ho Woo - South Korea’s 2021 Oscar candidate - a tense conspiracy thriller set in the final days of President Park Chung-hee’s (Sung-min Lee) rule in 1979. Korean intelligence chief Kim Gyu-pyeong (Byung-hun Lee) has sworn to serve, but his loyalty is tested to the limit in a key moment for South Korea’s history.

There are still tickets available for all these titles. Feel free to have a look at the whole programme on their website and enjoy Scotland in your home. Next year, we’ll definitely go to Glasgow !

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lievmultimuses1 · 3 years

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Fandoms I Write!

This is my main blog which focus on superheroes type of muses but i do have four other sideblogs that have other type of muses! i do ask you for patience because i also run a gif blog and i am always making gifs

this is open to non mutuals so feel free to check my open starters tags!

TOTAL OF MUSES: 3.421

Can't pick a muse to interact? Don't worry i know i have a lot of them so why not try your luck? send me random starter and i will use a random number generator to pick a muse from all my blogs and make you a starter, if you are a multi muse i will try to make it as open as possible for any of your muse or you can add who you want the starter.

discord: crystalclear#4625

guidelines! muses! open starters! edit icons!

@lievmultimuses1: Agent Carter, Agents of SHIELD, Ant Man, Aquaman, Archer, Arrow, Avengers, Batman, Batwoman, Black Lightning, Black Panther, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Cloak & Dagger, Constantine, Danny Phanton, Daredevil, Deadpool, Defenders, Doctor Strange, Doctor Who, Fantastic Four, Flash, Futurama, Game of Thornes, Gifted, Good Omens, Gotham, Green Lantern, Guardians of the Galaxy, H2O: Just Add Water, Hancock, Harley Quinn, Harry Potter, Hawkeye, Hulk, Inhumans, Iron Fist, Iron Man, IronHeart, iZombie, Jackie Chan Adventures, Jessica Jones, Jurassic Park/World, Justice League, Kim Possible, Kingsman, Lara Croft, Legends of Tomorrow, Librarians, Lucifer, Luke Cage, Man from UNCLE, Man of Steel, Mandalorian, Marvel, Matrix, Men in Black, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Neon Genesis Evengelion, Once Upon a Time/Wonderland, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pokemon, PowerPuff Girls, Preacher, Punisher, Sailor Moon, Sarah Jane Adventures, Scooby-Doo, Shazam!, Smallville, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Star Trek/Discovery/Pickard, Star Wars, Stranger Things, Suicide Squad, Supergirl, Swamp Thing, Teen Titans, Thor, Torchwood, Totally Spies, Venom, Wonder Woman, Xena: Warrior Princess, X-Men, Young Justice

@lievmultimuses2: 6 Underground, 007, 9-1-1, 21 Jump Street, 24/Legacy, 1600 Penn, Ace Ventura, Ally McBeal, Almost Human, Anger Management, A-Team, Bad Boys, Barney Miller, Barry, Baywatch, Blue Bloods, Bones, Bounty Hunter, Broadchurch, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Burn Notice, Castle, Chance, Charlie's Angels, Chicago Fire/Justice/Med/PD, Chicago Hope, Chuck, Covert Affairs, Criminal Minds/Beyond Border/Suspect Behavior, Death in Paradise, Designated Survivor, Detroit: Become Human, Dexter, Die Hard, Dollhouse, Drop Dead Diva, Elementary, Empire, E.R, Fast and the Furious, Finder, Franklin & Bash, Frasier, Fringe, Get Smart, Go On, Gone Girl, Good Doctor, Grey's Anatomy, Guardian, Hannibal, Hart of Dixie, Hawaii Five-0, Homeland, House, House of Cards, How to Get Away with Murder, In Time, Jason Bourne, John Doe, John Wick, Jonathan Creek, KC Undercover, Killing Eve, Las Vegas, Last Enemy, Law & Order/SVU/UK, Legally Blonde, Lethal Weapon, Leverage, Lewis, Limitless, Luther, Man of a Ledge, Masters of Sex, Matrix, Mentalist, Miss Congeniality, Mission Impossible, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. Robot, National Treasure, NCIS/Los Angeles/New Orleans, Nerve, Newsroom, Night Manager, Night Shift, Nikita, Nip/Tuck, Ocean's Eleven, Pan Am, Peaky Blinders, Person of Interest, Prey, Prison Break, Private Practice, Psych, Quantico, Recovery Road, Red, Revenge, Ringer, Rules of Engagement, Rush, Rush Hour, S.W.A.T., Saving Hope, Scandal, Scrubs, Sherlock, Sif Feet Under, Spy, Station 19, Suits, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Thick of It, Third Watch, Veep, Veronica Mars, West Wing, White Chicks, White Collar

@lievmultimuses3: Shit my Dad Says, 2 Broke Girls, 7th Heaven, 8 Mile, 8 Simple Rules, 10 Things I Hate About You, 18 to Life, 27 Dresses, 30 Rock, 50 First Dates, 50 Shades of Grey, 90210, A Cinderella Story, A Dona do Pedaço, A Força do Querer, A Turma da Mônica, A Walk to Remember, According to Jim, Arrested Development, Austin & Ally, Baby Daddy, Bad Education, Beverly Hills, 90210, Big Bang Theory, Big Daddy, Big Love, Big Time Rush, Black-ish, Boy Meets Girl, Boy Meets World, Bride Wars, Brothers & Sisters, Californication, Camp Rock, Carmichael Show, Carrie Diaries, Casual, Client List, Community, Cougar Town, Desperate Housewives, Devil Wears Prada, Drake & Josh, Easy A, Everybody Hates Chris, Everybody Loves Raymond, First Daughter, For Better or Worse, Fortysomething, Freaks and Geeks, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friday Night Lights, Friends, Friends with Better Lives, Full House, Fuller House, Get Down, Gilmore Girls, Girl Meets World, Girls Trip, Glee, Golden Girls, Good Luck Charlie, Gossip Girl, Grandfathered, Great Gatsby, Great Indoors, Greek, Grown Ups, Hangover, Hannah Montana, Heartland, Hey Arnold!, Holiday, Hot in Cleveland, House Bunny, House of Payne, How I Met Your Mother, How to be Single, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, iCarly, Insatiable, Insecure, Instant Star, Jessie, Joey, Just Friends, Kenan & Kel, King of Queens, Last Man Standing, Life as We Know It, Lipstick Jungle, Liv and Maddie, Love Thy Neighbor, Lying Game, Mad About You, Mad Men, Mamma Mia!, Marlon, Married with Children, Mean Girls, Middle, Mike & Molly, Modern Family, Mom, Mr. Deeds, Music and Lyrics, My Wife and Kids, Nanny, Nashville, Neighborhood, Neds Declassified School Survival Guide, New Girl, New Normal, Not Going Out, Notebook, O.C, Odd Couple, Office, One Big Happy, One Tree Hill, Overboard, Paren Trap, Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Woman, Princess Protection Program, Raise Your Voice, Riverdale, Royals, Samantha Who?, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Secret Life of the American Teenager, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, Shake it Up!, Shallows, Shameless, She's Out of My League, Significant Mother, Simpsons, Skins, Some Kind of Beautiful, Sonny with a Chance, SpongeBob SquarePants, Starstruck, Suburgatory, Superior Donuts, Switched at Birth, That '70s Show, This is Us, True Jackson, Two and a Half Men, Ugly Betty, Ugly Truth, Victorious, Weeds, We're the Millers, What a Girl Wants, What I Like About You, Will & Grace, Young Sheldon, Zoe Ever After, Zoey 101, Zoe Ever After

@lievmultimuses4: 3rd Rock from the Sun, 13 Going 30, 16 Wishes, 17 Again, A series of Unfortunate Events, Addams Family, Alice in Wonderland, American Horror Story, Angel, Beauty and the Beast, Being Human UK/US, Bewitched, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Change-Up, Charmed, Click, Danny Phantom, Descendants, Dracula, Early Edition, Fairly OddParents, Fear the Walking Dead, Freaky Friday, Game of Thrones, Ghost Whisperer, Gifted, Good Place, Grimm, Harry Potter, Hemlock Grove, Heroes, Hobbit, Hot Chick, I Dream of Jeannie, Invisible Sister, IT, Legacies, Legend of the Seeker, Life on Mars, Lord of the Rings, Merlin, Munsters, Originals, Outcast, Pushing Daisies, Raven's Home, Resident Evil, Returned, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sailor Moon, Secret Circle, Sense8, Shadowhunters, Shaun of the Dead, Silent Hill, Sleepy Hollow, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, That's so Raven, Tru Calling, True Blood, Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Walking Dead, Westworld, Wizards of Waverly Place, World's End, X-Files

@lievmultimuses5: Bolt, Cars, Frozen, Lion King, Princess Diaries, Princess and the Frog, Toy Story

#ooc // Liev speaks

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mentallyloveless23 · 5 years

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Yesterday i was lucky enough to see Ace in London..🇬🇧 it was the best day of my life..and the best concert i ve ever been..it would mean a lot if you helped to bring them back and support them..♡♡ Just vote on the link :)

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themandadlorianbod · 4 years

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Chris Evans a damn liar lol he said he was alone and single ONE DAY after his pics with Lily James came out and then those pictures of them in the park with Gemma Chan et al. Pedro is def single, I don’t think he lied, he def saw Ismael Cordova, Ana, Jaime that one time, who else? Ash lol

hahaha I remember that but now we know he and Lily were just PR or something nah?? was he in the UK for filming at least??

yeah from what we saw just those you mentioned and Jason?? the way he talked it sounded like he saw them quite a bit but in a responsible distanced way (chilling outside their windows etc 😛)

#ask me anything 💜

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thesustainableswap · 4 years

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BLM Master Post / Resources

No blog post this week. I felt like this was much more important. Here is a master post of everything I’ve found regarding the BLM movement, from petitions, to where you should donate, to reading, to accounts, to business... hopefully most of what you’re looking for can be found below. If I’ve missed anything vital please let me know and I will add it.

Petitions:

Justice for George Floyd (White House) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (color of Change)

RAISE THE DEGREE - Remove bail for Derek Chauvin, murderer of George Floyd (White House) | Arrest The Other Three (White House) | Raise The Degree (change.org) | The Minneapolis Police Officers to be charged for murder (change.org)

#JusticeforBre (MoveOn.org) | #JusticeforBre (color of Change)

Justice For Ahmaud Arbery (change.org) | Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill (change.org) | Disbarment of George E. Barnhill (change.org)

Trayvon Martin Law (change.org)

Hands Up Act (change.org)

Justice for Belly Mujinga (change.org)

Justice for Tony McDade (change.org)

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez (change.org)

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Julius Jones is innocent (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Kyjuanzi Harris (change.org)

Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery (change.org)

Defund The Police Minneapolis (Every Action / Reclaim The Block) | Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality (change.org) | National Action Against Police Brutality (change.org) | Against Police Brutality in France (change.org)

Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus (BLM) | Coronavirus: Demand More from the Government (BLM)

Get Schools to Speak Up (change.org)

Stand with BLM (organizefor.org)

Organisations to Donate to

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

Campaign Zero

Black Lives Matter

UKBLM

National Bailout Fund

Black Earth Farms

Communities United Against Police Brutality

Unicorn Riot

Louisville Community Bail Fund

Rebuilding the Community (We Love Lake Street)

United Families and Friends Campaign

COVID-19: Supporting BAME Communities

House of GG

Trans Justice Funding Project

The Okra Project

Youth Breakout

SNaPCo

Black AIDS Insitute

Trans Cultural District

LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund

For If You Have Little Money to Spare:

Check out these YouTube videos and play them while you go about your day (or actively watch! Up to you.) The ad revenue will be donated to organisations supporting black lives - but make sure you turn off your adblocker first.

By Zoe Amira

By Francesca Grace

By Cindy Marshall

By Danni and Emmyn

Instagram Accounts (source)

Nova Reid

Layla Saad

Rachel Cargle

Check Your Privilege

Rachel Ricketts

The Great Unlearn

Reni Eddo Lodge

Ibram X. Kendi

Galdem

The Irin Journal

Women Who

For Working Ladies

Thyself

Black Girl Fest

UK isn’t Innocent

Readbyrachelaa

Mikaela Loach

Podcasts

About Race with Remi Eddo-Lodge

Conversations with Nova Reid

iWeigh with Jameela Jamil

The YIKES podcast

Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

The World Wide Tribe

Zero Hour Talks

1619 by the New York Times

TV / Film (source)

13th

When They See Us

Selma

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975

I Am Not Your Negro

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Hate U Give

American Son

Trial by Media

Books: (Source)

How To Be Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Me and White Supremacy by Robin Diangelo and Layla Saad

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Remi Eddo-Lodge

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

America’s Original Sin By Jim Wallis and Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem by Moustafa Bayoumi

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, et al.

An African American and Latin History of The United States by Paul Ortiz

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Mindful of Race by Ruth King

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson

Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Coloraturas of Law by Richard Rothstein

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum

Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

This Book Is Anti Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand

Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch

Children’s Books: (Source)

Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard

My Hair Is A Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh

Young Water Protectors by Aslan Tudor

My Family Divided by Diana Guerrero

We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell

I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer

Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren

When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Happy In Our Skin by Fran Manushkin

Chocolate Milk, Por Favor by Maria Dismondy

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford

When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson & Julie Flett

Shining Star The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo & Lin Wang

Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History by Vashti Harrison

Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

Sulwe by Vashti Harrison

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The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Announces 2020 Lineup at Museum of the Moving Image

Festival Introduces Film Premieres, Virtual Reality Series, Sci-Fi and Supernatural Screenplay Competition.

The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival spotlights the literary genius of novelist Philip K. Dick. The festival has unveiled the full lineup for its eighth annual season. Events include film screenings and premieres, panel discussions, virtual reality demonstrations, and the launch of a new screenplay competition aimed at enhancing the filmmaking experience for audiences. As a platform for critical thinkers who explore the benefits and obstacles of science and technology, the festival showcases a variety of themes associated with independent storytelling. Held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY, the festival runs from March 4-8, 2020.

The festival maintains its annual presence in New York, this time screened exclusively in the borough of Queens. “There is a strong cultural scene and appreciation for science fiction here,” said Daniel Abella, the founder and director of the event. “Everyone has been impacted by the advantages and disadvantages of this new world we live in and that knowledge strengthens the overall experience of the festival.” Festivities begin on Wednesday, March 4th with U.S. Premiere of the feature film Imperial Blue directed by Dan Moss and produced by David Cecil and Semulema Daniel Katenda. The film, which follows a drug smuggler on the quest to locate a sacred African herb that gives the power of prophecy, will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers. A short film block runs on Thursday, March 5th with the presentation of A Poem in Bamboo directed by Xufei Wu and Chan Yao Chang, an atmospheric study of a beautiful mansion plagued by strange noises. The program continues with titles such as Jesca Prudencio’s American Quartet, a revealing look at a small town bitterly divided when a young Muslim-American woman puts herself at risk when she shares her private, digitized memories with strangers in an attempt to triumph over hate, and Tim Hall’s Memory Unit about the mysterious hospitalization of an Alzheimer’s patient. On Friday, March 6th, science fiction and horror shorts take center stage with Izzy Ezagui’s Good Head about a man immobilized in a strange room, and Jason Rogan’s Stalag III-C about a U.S. paratrooper in WWII who leads a daring escape from a Nazi POW camp and encounters even more evil beyond prison walls. Then, Chris Levitus greets viewers with a man bleeding from a hole in his chest in The Wound and Warren DiFranco Hsu brings forth a dystopian world in Obsolete Model, where the past must be changed to save the future.

A dynamic lineup on Saturday, March 7th features director Gisella Bustios, renowned scientist Dr. Ronald Mallet, and lecturer Wanda Gregory on hand for the screening of A Brief History of Time Travel. The documentary takes viewers on a journey through the origins of time travel and its influence on the science fiction genre with commentary from distinguished members of the science community. The day continues with a block of shorts influenced by the work Philip K. Dick including Hekla Egilsdottir’s Beyond the Door about the influence of a peculiar cuckoo clock and the U.S. Premiere of After Ray directed by Natasha Halevi about a modified human struggling with memory loss. Also screening is the poignant Wide Awake in Bridgewater directed by Erik Lee and produced by Mark Lynch about a man who rediscovers the love of his life fifty years after her disappearance.

International sci-fi shorts starts the final day of the festival on Sunday, March 8th with the NYC Premiere of Eva - A Crispr Story directed by Puneet Bharill about a group of researchers confronting the unknown upon the implementation of a new technology. Further shorts include Christopher Armstrong’s Memory Man about a future society where psychic abilities are outlawed and Charles De Lauzirika’s Love Bite that shows the ramifications of a couple’s deadly bet during a zombie apocalypse. The night continues with two feature film presentations beginning with Anya directed by Jacob Akira Okada and Carylanna Taylor about a newlywed couple’s journey to parenthood that catapults them into a genetics mystery that threatens the future of humanity. Erin Berry’s Majic, which follows the discovery of a secret U.S. spy agency founded after the 1947 UFO incident in Roswell, is the festival’s closing night film. Filmmakers and guests of both features will be available for panels.

Expanding its outlook to incorporate the many stages of the filmmaking process into festival events, a screenplay competition has been introduced. “The screenplay is the beating heart of a film,” said Abella, who developed the category to help audiences value films beyond their visual aspects onscreen. “Our plan is to emphasize the importance and necessity of good storytelling.” The category semifinalists for Best Sci-Fi, Best Sci-Fi Prototyping, and Best Supernatural screenplays were chosen based on story, characterization, originality, readability, and attention to detail. “For sci-fi prototyping, the emphasis is on the design and architecting of an entire future world from scratch. Attention to detail and the impact of its surroundings is paramount,” said Abella. “For the sci-fi and supernatural categories, our focus is more on the characters themselves and how their inner world is affected by science, technology, nature, and politics.” Winners will be announced on Sunday, March 8th. The festival will also continue its popular virtual reality demonstrations on Saturday, March 7th and Sunday, March 8th. “Virtual reality enables us to explore our world in a more immersive way,” said Abella. “Through this simulation, we can better understand other environments and the challenges in people’s lives.” Guests will experience Davey Jose’s Living with Spinal Cord Injury from the perspective of future patients restored to health by “the cure.” The Inner World of Miss Q directed by David Wesemann will help users locate the whereabouts of a woman’s missing ghost and body.

As the festival remains committed to presenting innovative and thought-provoking independent films, Abella hopes audiences recognize the relevance of Philip K. Dick’s work. “PKD had his finger on the pulse of today’s society and our future,” he said. “His work resonates so well because he explored themes of artificial intelligence, the surveillance state, and the genetic modification of humans. He established himself as an icon of science fiction, which is truly the science of tomorrow.”

WEDNESDAY, March 4, 2020:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Feature Presentation Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Imperial Blue (2019) — U.S. PREMIERE Director: Dan Moss Producer/Writer: David Cecil Producer: Semulema Daniel Katenda Editor: Callum Male Run Time/Country: 93 min, UK/Uganda

Synopsis: Hugo Winter, a roguish American drug smuggler is on a quest for a mysterious African drug called Bulu which gives the user the powers of prophecy. In Uganda, he meets two sisters who can help him find the source of Bulu, but they have competing agendas. Kisakye, a devout Christian, wants to sell the drug to save her village, whereas Angela, a criminal hustler, is only interested in getting rich quick. As Hugo follows them deeper into the jungle, he begins to doubt whether his prophetic visions are leading him to death or glory.

Post-Film Q&A:

Producers David Cecil and Semulema Daniel Katenda, editor Callum Male, and cinematographer Ezequiel Romero will be present for a discussion after the screening.

THURSDAY, March 5, 2020:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Sci-Fi Shorts Program

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

A Poem in Bamboo (2019) Director: Xufei Wu, Chun-Yao Chang Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA

Synopsis: In 1920s, Southern China, a young bridegroom is visiting his aunt who lives alone in the distant mountains. Bamboo grows everywhere like an ocean. The mansion is beautiful and his aunt seems kind but there is a locked room in the attic with strange noises.

American Quartet (2019)

Director: Jesca Prudencio Producer: Adam Grannick Run Time/Country: 9 min, USA

Synopsis: In a 2030s small town bitterly divided over who belongs, a young Muslim-American woman puts herself at risk when she shares her private, digitized memories with strangers, challenging the status quo in the hope that empathy will triumph over hate.

Eli (2019)

Director: Nathaniel Milton Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA Synopsis: A 15-year-old musician believes he has an extraterrestrial implant in his ear. This is a true story based on the filmmaker’s experiences within the realms of High Strangeness, Magical Thinking and Manic Delusion.

Hello, World (2019)

Director: Nathan Hong Fisher Producer: Kristy Richman Run Time/Country: 12 min, USA Synopsis: In a near future love story about a couple’s journey to hold onto one another through life and death, they make the decision to continue their existence through technology.

Memory Unit (2019)

Director: Tim Hall Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA Synopsis: Unusual events surround the hospitalization of a father with Alzheimer’s disease.

Solstice (2019)

Director/Producer: Lisandro Perez-Rey Producer: Cynthia Barrera, Laura Sweeney Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA Synopsis: During a brutal winter storm, a bartender befriends a homeless man and brings him home for a warm meal and an ancient ritual.

Vivir (2019)

Director: Lewis Rapkin Run Time/Country: 3 min, USA Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, Earth has become infertile and the struggle to grow food off-planet takes an unsuspecting turn when a scientist makes a peculiar discovery.

Insight (2019)

Director: John K. Jones Run Time/Country: 12 min, USA Synopsis: Suspecting infidelity, an anxious wife uses simulation technology to practice safely confronting her husband in real life.

Unified Field Theiry (2019)

Director: Christina Hibner Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA Synopsis: An experimental animation that follows two cosmic entities where the main character tries her best to learn about the nature of the universe from her teacher who is a master of the universe. Experiencing moments of enlightenment that transform the way she sees the world, the student opens her eyes to things she could not imagine. Post-Film Q&A: Filmmakers will be present for a discussion after the screening.

FRIDAY, March 6, 2020:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Sci-Fi, Horror and Supernatural Shorts Program

Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Good Head (2019)

Director: Izzy Ezagui Run Time/Country: 8 min, USA Synopsis: A man awakens in a strange room to discover he’s immobilized. His fellow prisoner teases him mercilessly until he panics and short-circuits the collar keeping him conscious. The alarm sounds, drawing the wrath of their true tormentor.

Stalag III-C (2019)

Director: Jason Rogan Run Time/Country: 12 min, Belarus Synopsis: In the final days of World War II, a US paratrooper Joe Boyd leads a daring escape from a Nazi POW camp, only to face a more horrifying evil beyond the prison walls.

Tomorrow Might Be The Day (2018)

Director: Joséfa Celestin Run Time/Country: 20 min, Scotland Synopsis: A fanatic subjects his niece, whose faith wavers, to a baptism in order to restore her faith and ultimately save her from an impending doomsday flood.

The Wound (2018)

Director: Chris Levitus Run Time/Country: 7 min, USA Synopsis: A man wakes up bleeding from a hole in his chest.

Interminable - Trailer (2019)

Director: Aaron Huisenfeldt Run Time/Country: 1 min, USA Synopsis: The conglomerate Iridian is hacking minds using an optical implant device used to channel the internet straight to the brain. A rebellion, led by the daughter of Iridian's CEO, must stop the worldwide mind hack by their program called IRIS.

The Last Well (2018)

Director: Filip Filković Run Time/Country: 20 min, Croatia Synopsis: The year is 2037 and Europe is in shambles. The owner of the last well with natural clean water lives in Croatia. After one of his sales of clean drinking water ends in bloodbath, he becomes a substitute father and a husband. But when the well dries out, he makes one last "trade.”

Concession (2019)

Director: Paul Odgren Run Time/Country: 6 min, USA Synopsis: Steph's had enough, it's a school night after all, until Michael touches her forehead and conjures a series of images that are impossible to explain. He forces her to confront the question: should she trust him and believe this outrageous claim that he can see other people's thoughts? Or should she listen to her gut, call him crazy and never look back?

Obsolete Model (2019)

Director: Warren DiFranco Hsu Run Time/Country: 12 min, USA Synopsis: A sentient artificial intelligence awakens to a world in dystopian ruin and charges two androids, INJUN and ISEE to seek a model-borg named SARA.H, who can save it by altering her past.

Incandescent (2019)

Director: Alfred Thomas Catalfo Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA Synopsis: When a nomadic alien race blots out the sun, an anguished young teacher tries to hold on to her humanity in a withering world. Post-Film Q&A: Filmmakers will be present for a discussion after the screening.

SATURDAY, March 7, 2020:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Block 1: Feature Documentary Presentation

Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

A Brief History of Time Travel (2018)

Director: Gisella Bustillos Run Time/Country: 68 min, USA Synopsis: There's one thing that Star Trek and Doctor Who fandoms have in common: time travel. This documentary takes you on a journey through the evolution of time travel from its origins and influence in science fiction to the exciting possibilities technology could yet uncover. Featuring Dr. Ronald Mallet (How To Build a Time Machine), Bill Nye (Bill Nye the Science Guy), Ted Chiang (writer of Story of Your Life), and Wanda Gregory (Director of Digital Technology and Culture at the University of Washington).

Post-Film Q&A: Director Gisella Bustillos, scientist Dr. Ronald Mallet, and lecturer Wanda Gregory will be present for a discussion after the screening.

Block 2: Best of Philip K. Dick Shorts Program

Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Ryoko's Qubit Summer (2018)

Director: Yuichi Kondo Run Time/Country: 17 min, Japan Synopsis: KANUMA, an experimental world is created inside a quantum computer. Then one day, a few of its AI residents began to communicate with words undecipherable to man.

Beyond the Door (2018)

Director: Hekla Egilsdottir Run Time/Country: 13 min, Iceland Synopsis: A stagnant young couple named Noi and Irma are dealing with Irma’s depression. Noi buys Irma a cuckoo clock, reminiscent of the one her mother used to have when she was a child, in an attempt to cheer her. Irma’s monotonous, stay-at-home life takes a sudden turn with the introduction of her newfound friend, the cuckoo. Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.

Nectar (2019)

Director: Anthony Zwartouw Run Time/Country: 20 min, Canada Synopsis: A man lives out his days in a drug-induced state, prisoner to a parasitical guard on a disturbing desert island of his own making, when he is awoken by the deep traumas of his past that he can no longer suppress.

After Ray (2019) — U.S. PREMIERE

Director: Natasha Halevi Producer: Sean Gunn Run Time/Country: 12 min, USA Synopsis: In the aftermath of the singularity, Cole, the first “modified” human, struggles with memory loss, indicating an unstable future for humans and potential end to humanity.

Wide Awake in Bridgewater (2018)

Director/Producer: Erik Lee Producer: Mark Lynch Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA Synopsis: In 1968, 18-year-old Michael Gates and Monica Dupré are enjoying an afternoon in the countryside when she disappears. Fifty-one years later, elderly Michael starts receiving phone messages from her, and he discovers what happened on that fateful day.

QTR (2019)

Director: Pat Bird Run Time/Country: 1 min, USA Synopsis: A classic mental exercise from Robert Anton Wilson's "Prometheus Rising".

Circadia (2019)

Director: Jacob Murray Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA Synopsis: Your attention is no longer yours. For the next four minutes, it belongs to her. She calls for liberation. She calls for you to snap out of the spell. Can you hear her? Will you demand silence?

Hashtag (2019)

Director: Ben Alpi Writer: Kevin Rubio Producer: Jyotika Virmani Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA Synopsis: In a looming future where social media celebrities dominate our culture, X is the world’s supreme online icon — but how far will she go to hold on to her popularity?

Post-Film Q&A: Filmmakers, including Sean Gunn (After Ray) and Jacob Murray (Circadia), will be present for a discussion after the screening.

SUNDAY, March 8, 2020:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Block 1: International Sci-Fi Shorts Program

Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Outer West - Trailer (2019)

Director: Jake Leister Run Time/Country: 2 min, USA Synopsis: West Coast pace prompts a travel nurse to accept a job in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Looking for the capital city's postcard artistry and ease, he is instead greeted by another, entirely unexpected world...Outer West.

SIL and the Devil Seeds of Arodor (2019)

Director: Keith Barnfather Writer: Philip Martin Run Time/Country: 15 min, UK Synopsis: A web series based on concepts from the BBC series Doctor Who. SIL is worried, very worried, which doesn’t keep his reptilian skin in the best condition. Confined in a cold detention cell on the moon, awaiting a deportation hearing for trial on drugs offences on Earth, he faces a death sentence if the application is successful and he is found guilty.

Eva - A Crispr Story (2018) — NYC PREMIERE

Director: Puneet Bharill Run Time/Country: 22 min, Germany Synopsis: Researchers have achieved a clinical milestone using CRISPR technology to transplant a genetically modified pig liver into a human embryo but face unforeseen consequences.

Those Beautiful Moments (2019)

Director: Vasily Chuprina Run Time/Country: 14 min, Russia Synopsis: The story of a scientist on the search for eternal beauty and life.

Nameless (2019)

Director: Luca Nistler Run Time/Country: 2 min, Italy Synopsis: A child-robot talks about her dream to her mother.

Memory Man (2019)

Director: Christopher Armstrong Run Time/Country: 12 min, UK Synopsis: In a future where psychic abilities are outlawed, the Memory Man makes a living dealing with uncomfortable memories for other people. Upon the arrival of a hostile new client, he is forced to confront unfinished business of his own.

Jump (2018)

Director: Josh Mawer Run Time/Country: 12 min, Australia Synopsis: George is all elbows when it comes to talking to Amy. But his time-traveling dating coach knows that persistence makes perfect...probably.

Love Bite (2019)

Director: Charles de Lauzirika Run Time/Country: 15 min, USA Synopsis: Taking refuge in an abandoned cargo truck during the Zombie Apocalypse, a dysfunctional couple and their dog find their lives on the line when they make a deadly bet over how the undead virus spreads. Is a simple love bite now a death sentence? And how far will someone go to be proven right? Directed by the producer of Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007).

Heliocentric (2019)

Director: Mike McGraw Run Time/Country: 4 min, USA Synopsis: Boxer, Verve, Campbell and Herman teach Naomi Money that the Sun revolves around the Earth, foiling her quasi-evil plan, and schooling her about Ptolemy, Galileo and Copernicus in the process.

Post-Film Q&A: Filmmakers, including Keith Barnfather (SIL and the Devil Seeds of Arodor) and Puneet Bharill (Eva - A Crispr Story), will be present for a discussion after the screening.

Block 2: Feature Presentation

Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Anya (2019)

Director: Jacob Akira Okada, Carylanna Taylor Run Time/Country: 80 min, USA Synopsis: A contemporary sci-fi love story about newlyweds whose seemingly simple decision to have a baby catapults them to the center of an explosive genetics mystery with far-reaching consequences for their child and the future of humanity. Post-Film Q&A: Directors Jacob Akira Okada and Carylanna Taylor will be present to introduce the film and for a discussion after the screening alongside NYU developmental biologist Yelena Bernadskaya.

Block 3: Feature Presentation

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Majic (2019)

Director/Writer: Erin Berry Writer: David Pluscauskas Run Time/Country: 82 min, USA Synopsis: In Washington, DC on the eve of the 2008 presidential election, Bernwood, an anti-conspiracy video blogger meets with an old man claiming to have worked for the legendary Majestic-12 (aka “Majic”), a secret U.S. spy agency created after the UFO incident at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. So begins her trip down the rabbit hole looking for answers as reality as she knows it, or knew it, begins to unravel. Starring Paula Brancati (Slasher), Richard Fitzpatrick (Good Will Hunting), Michael Seater (Life With Derek) and Paulino Nunes (The Expanse). Post-Film Q&A: Director Erin Berry, co-writer David Pluscauskas and actor Richard Fitzpatrick will be present for a discussion after the screening.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 and SUNDAY, March 8, 2020:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Virtual Reality Series

Time: All Day

Living with Spinal Cord Injury (2019)

Director: Davey Jose Run Time/Country: 2 min, UK Synopsis: A science fiction inspired VR 360 short-film based around an 18 oil canvas series. Curated from the perspective of the future where spinal injuries can be fixed by “the cure.” The artwork shows a future audience what it felt like to live with a disruptive injury.

The Inner World of Miss Q (2019)

Director: David Wesemann Writer: Tobias Bieseke Run Time/Country: 8 min, Germany Synopsis: In this virtual reality there are two worlds, the inner world of the protagonist and a trial where a judge and a lawyer try to find out who is the owner of Miss Q’s ghost and body. Adapted from a story by Stanislaw Lem.

SUNDAY, March 8, 2020:

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106)

Screenplay Competition

Time: 8:00pm (Winners announced during Awards Ceremony)

After Hebden

Writer: David Kirkham Category: Best Sci-Fi Screenplay/Best Sci-Fi Prototyping Screenplay Synopsis: In the 21st century, humankind was had to choose between Paradise or Oblivion. We chose the latter. Only a teenage girl named Hebden can save us now.

Rain

Writer: Andronica Marquis Category: Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Synopsis: A young Earth City girl, Rain, a Red by birth, marked, starving and desperate, seizes an opportunity to escape to Meccanda, a planet rumored to hold a cure, that she might save her young brother, Walker, the last of her family, who struggles against the symptoms of The Touched. The price of starship passage? Her virginity to the shipʼs captain.

Egghead

Writer: Andrew Pelosi Category: Best Sci-Fi Prototyping Screenplay Synopsis: A desperate halfwit attempts to cheat on an exam in a future where IQ testing determines who lives and who gets turned into chalk.

Dawn

Writer: Alexandra Ruggieri Category: Best Supernatural Screenplay Synopsis: Dawn is pregnant but something magical happens one night when she witnesses an abduction.

House in Haunted Woods

Writer: Drew Henriksen Category: Best Supernatural Screenplay Synopsis: A young couple buys an abandoned house as an investment with plans to live by their agoraphobic uncle. After the purchase, the house seems to improve on its own. As people begin to disappear in the woods surrounding it, the ghosts make their presence known.

Awards Ceremony

Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Official selection filmmakers, screenwriters, and special guests will be in attendance when awards are presented to the category winners of The 2020 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival.

Festival Passes

Passes to screenings can be purchased at https://www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com.

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Found Jason Lee's post on Twitter When They are at UK.

#ジェイソン・リー #李杰森 #ホーホールン #何顥麟 #pete dunne #hoholun #jason lee #chris brookes #this photo was 2013 in UK #lee chan he was 20 years old he was so young baby ;_;#in 2013 i was in high school way back ago now i am 21 years old XD #europe #uk #イギリス

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Asian and Pacific Islander (and diaspora) singers of Western classical music: a list that may actually be slightly more complete than its predecessors

The reason I say that — and why most of these artists are still with us — is that this is a fairly recent phenomenon. Still, I’m bound to have missed some. This list includes East, South, and North Asia; the region sometimes known as Central Asia will get its own list.

My disclaimer from earlier posts in this series applies here as well.

Josef Jeongmeen Ahn, baritone, S Korea

Julius Ahn, tenor, S Korea

Brian Asawa (1966-2016), counter-tenor, USA

Seok Jong Baek, tenor, S Korea

Zheng Cao (1966-2013), mezzo-soprano, China

Jeongcheol Cha, bass-baritone, S Korea

Wei En Chan, counter-tenor, Singapore

Mario Chang, tenor, Guatemala

Sejong Chang, Bass, S Korea

Peixin Chen, bass, China

Sungjun Cho, bass, S Korea

Tiffany Choe, soprano, USA

Insik Choi, baritone, S Korea

Jerilyn Chou, soprano, USA

Siman Chung, counter-tenor, S Korea

Paul Corona, bass, USA

Chao Deng, bass, China

Danielle de Niese, soprano, Australia

Adam Diegel, tenor, S Korea

Amartuvshin Enkhbat, baritone, Mongolia

Arthur Espiritu, tenor, Philipines

Hinako Fujihara, soprano, Japan

Ying Fang, soprano, China

Andrew Gangestad, bass, S Korea

Sen Guo, soprano, China

Hui He, soprano, China

Candy Grace Ho, contralto, Hong Kong

Karen Chia-ling Ho, soprano, Taiwan

Haeran Hong, soprano, S Korea

Hei-Kyung Hong, soprano, S Korea

Elenora Hu, soprano, Netherlands

Ya Chung Huang, tenor, Taiwan

Sumi Hwang, soprano, S Korea

Sunhae Im, soprano, S Korea

Shiki Inoue, soprano, Japan

Yeonjoo Katharina Jang, soprano, S Korea

Sol Jin, baritone, S Korea

Sumi Jo, soprano, S Korea

David Minseok Kang, bass, S Korea

Joo Won Kang, baritone, S Korea

Pilgoo Kang, bass-baritone, S Korea

Quinn Kelsey, baritone, USA

Maya Kherani, soprano, USA

Antonia Ahyoung Kim, soprano, S Korea

David Junghoon Kim, tenor, S Korea

Gihoon Kim, baritone, S Korea

Hyoyoung Kim, soprano, S Korea

Jason Kim, tenor, S Korea

Jihee Kim, soprano, S Korea

Kangmin Justin Kim, counter-tenor, S Korea

Kathleen Kim, soprano, S Korea

Konu Kim, tenor, S Korea

Kyungho Kim, tenor, S Korea

Young Woo Kim, tenor, S Korea

Hellen Kwon, soprano, S Korea

Adam Lau, bass, USA

Haegee Lee, soprano, S Korea

Hye Jung Lee, soprano, S Korea

Seungweon Lee, bass, S Korea

Yonghoon Lee, tenor, S Korea

Yunah Lee, soprano, S Korea

Mingjie Lei, tenor, China

Jonathan Lemalu, bass-baritone, New Zealand

Meili Li, counter-tenor, China

Simon Lim, bass, S Korea

Chuanyuan Liu, counter-tenor, China

Long Long, tenor, China

Yitian Luan, soprano, China

Aki Matsui, soprano, Japan

Francesca Mehrotra, soprano, USA

Bejun Mehta, counter-tenor, USA

Misaki Morino, soprano, Japan

Eri Nakamura, soprano, Japan

Nina Yoshida Nelsen, mezzo-soprano, USA

Sean Panikkar, tenor, USA

Sherezade Panthaki, soprano, India

Hera Hyesang Park, soprano, S Korea

Jongmin Park, bass, S Korea

So Young Park, soprano, S Korea

Young Doo Park, bass, S Korea

Amitai Pati, tenor, New Zealand

Pene Pati, tenor, Samoa

Nicholas Phan, tenor, USA

Sun-Ly Pierce, mezzo-soprano, USA

Ta’u Pupu’a, tenor, Tonga

Ross Ramgobin, baritone, UK

Teddy Tahu Rhodes, baritone, New Zealand

Rodell Rosel, tenor, Philippines

Yasko Sato, soprano, Japan

Shenyang, bass-baritone, China

Yijie Shi, tenor, China

Mika Shigematsu (d. 2019), mezzo-soprano, Japan

Kihwan Sim, bass-baritone, S Korea

Narea Son, soprano, S Korea

Juyeon Song, soprano, S Korea

Andrew Stenson, tenor, S Korea

William Guanbo Su, bass, China

Yeree Suh, soprano, China

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano, New Zealand

Asitha Tennekoon, tenor, Sri Lanka

Pete Thanapat, bass-baritone, Thailand

Brian Vu, tenor, USA

Karen Vuong, soprano, USA

Kang Wang, tenor, China

Yunpeng Wang, baritone, China

Boya Wei, soprano, China

David Won, baritone, S Korea

Hongni Wu, mezzo-soprano, China

Wei Wu, bass, China

Lei Xu, soprano, China

Angela Yam, soprano, USA

Guang Yang, mezzo-soprano, China

Seungwoo Simon Yang, tenor, S Korea

Wooyoung Yoon, tenor, S Korea

Junho You, tenor, S Korea

Kwangchul Youn, bass, S Korea

Guanqun Yu, soprano, China

Lu Yuan, tenor, China

Hyung Yun, baritone, S Korea

Liping Zhang, soprano, China

Meigui Zhang, soprano, China

Wenwei Zhang, bass, China

Yajie Zhang, mezzo-soprano, China

Huiling Zhu, mezzo-soprano, China

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This is a list of my favourite films of the year. That sounds like a simple statement, but in some quarters the long-running arguments about what is and isn’t a film got very heated in 2017. Even the year bit of that can get very messy.

But for at least this one last time, I’m keeping things simple: these are the films I enjoyed most out of the ones that were released in UK cinemas in 2017.*

There were plenty of films I didn’t see: some I wanted to but didn’t get round to – Colossal is the one that stands out. Others I just wasn’t drawn to – Detroit, Dunkirk (give money to Christopher Nolan and he’ll only keep making movies) and the critically adored Call Me By Your Name (the super-annoying title probably didn’t help).

There were lots of movies I did see and like, though, and that’s what we’re here to talk about…

*This decision was made simpler because I didn’t love any of the films that Netflix streamed without even giving a token cinema release, which included Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) and Sundance favourite I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore. The best of the bunch was The Incredible Jessica James.

1. Manchester By The Sea

Back in October 2016, I wrote: ‘If a better film is released in the UK in 2017, I’ll be very impressed.’ Well, I have been impressed by the excellent movies below on this list, but none of them beat Manchester By The Sea as far as I’m concerned. In outline, it sounds like nothing special: a story of some grim stuff happening to a fairly ordinary family, in particular a bloke who likes to pick fights in bars and his teenage nephew. But writer-director Kenneth Lonergan turns the ingredients for a predictable drama into something very special, not least by lacing this grief-laden story with lots of (appropriately) funny moments.

Full review here

2. The Handmaiden

A lot of the films on this list are fairly light on plot, so if you want a movie with scheming, counter-scheming and deception, not to mention pretty costumes, sex, cherry blossoms, perviness (its 18 certificate is richly earned) plus differing Korean views of their Japanese occupiers, this is the one. It’s directed by Park Chan-wook, best known for Old Boy, and loosely based on Sarah Waters’ Victorian-set melodrama Fingersmith, which turns out to be perfectly suited to Korea in the 1930s.

Full review here

3. Certain Women

Resolutely low-key collection of three slightly overlapping short stories set in wintery Montana. It’s a character piece, with Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and (the excellent, previously little-known) Lily Gladstone leading each segment. Director Kelly Reichardt knows exactly who these women are, and how the place they live shapes them. It seems modest at first, but it stuck in my mind long after flashier films had faded away.

Full review here

4. Moonlight

So much of what I read about Moonlight made it sound so much less interesting than it is. Around awards time, you could have easily formed the impression it was a heart-tugging issue movie, not helped by the campaign to get Naomi Harris an Oscar (‘Look! Pretty woman getting grubby to play junkie skank!’)**

What makes it a remarkable film – and it is a remarkable film – are the extraordinary cinematography and the telling of the story via often fragmentary scenes, and how little is explained, at least until the much more conventional, even theatrical (and thus slightly disappointing) final segment. Great moviemaking is about the how, not the what.

Full review here

**The classic awards-season tendency to grade performances by perceived difficulty points led to people talking about Harris rather than the way better Janelle Monae.

5. The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki

Lovely, bittersweet based-on-real-life tale of Mäki, a small man who was Finnish boxing’s big hope in the early 1960s. It’s not really a boxing film, more a story about two decent young people trying to work out what they want. Which probably doesn’t sound like the most gripping core of a film, but it works. My favourite Finnish film of the year, narrowly shading…

Full review here

6. The Other Side Of Hope

Why should social realism be the only way of looking at problems like the refugee crisis? Aki Kaurismäki brings his taste for dramatic lighting, deadpan acting and vintage rock’n’roll to this story of a young Syrian braving bureaucracy and street racism in Helsinki. Less funny than most Kaurismäki films, but I found it very moving.

Full review here

7. Spider-Man: Homecoming

I’ve had enough of super heroes on screen – Marvel’s The Defenders on Netflix was the last straw. I’m voting for a moratorium on them*** and gangsters. So it took a lot to persuade me to see yet another Spider-Man reboot. ‘Don’t think of it as an action movie, think of it as a high-school comedy,’ said my friend Jess, and she was right. It’s nimble and funny and doesn’t take itself too seriously – the best surprise of the year.

Full review here

***I’m totally prepared to believe that Thor: Ragnarok is enjoyable in a bonkers, proggy kind of way, but I’m not risking it. Too many people insisted Captain America: Civil War was good.

8. The Death Of Stalin

After dealing with the (by comparison small) monsters of the Blair era in The Thick Of It, Armando Iannucci turns to the worst – by at least one measure – men in history: Beria, Molotov and Uncle Joe himself.

I don’t think by portraying the farcical nature of the days after Stalin’s death the film is disrespectful to all those who died. I think humour has always been part of how we confront the horror.

The Death Of Stalin has the best ensemble cast of the year – Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov, Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, Jason Isaacs giving the performance of his career as Marshal Zhukov, and – best of all – Simon Russell Beale as Beria. And, crucially, it’s definitely a film, not a bit of TV that has snuck on to the big screen.

9. Daphne

Essentially, a classic US indie movie transplanted from Brooklyn to Walworth. The title character is a pretentious and self-centred 30-year-old failing to get her life together – she’s just like women I used to meet at parties in south London 10 or 15 years ago. That could make for a dull film, of course, but the writing, the feel for the place and Emily Beecham as Daphne make it funny and involving.

Full review here

10. After The Storm

Once promising writer with a gambling problem becomes low-rent PI and uses his new skills to keep tabs on his ex. If you think you can imagine how this film goes from that description, you’re probably miles from Hirokazu Kore-eda’s typically patient, generous-spirited and occasionally funny family drama.

Full review here

11. A Ghost Story

Or that one with the white-sheet-with-eye-holes phantom. A Ghost Story is definitely a film you either buy into or you don’t, an austere tale about grief and loss. I did, and found it sad and moving and pleasingly different.

Full review here

12. Neruda

It’s a playful movie about a playful title character – the Chilean poet and dilettante politician during his dramatic time on the run from the authorities – but Neruda has a melancholy underlying mood that rises to the surface as the film goes on. It’s a smart, complex and entertaining film.

Full review here

13. The Florida Project

A group of small kids living in a low-rent long-stay motel have adventures and misbehave a bit. And that’s mostly it, with a few dips into the struggles of the mother of one of the kids, plus a sense of the endless patience and generosity of spirit of the motel manager (Willem Dafoe, the sole big name in the cast). What’s impressive is the way Sean Baker maintains a tone that manages to dodge both ‘look at what grindingly terrible lives poor folk lead’ and being a whimsical adorable-kids-running-wild picture. It does drag a little about three quarters of the way in, but the ending pulls it back.

14. La La Land

First it was an instant masterpiece that was going to change the game, then it was a deflating bubble as the haters managed to shout louder than the lovers. So which take on this nostalgia-soaked showbiz musical do I agree with? Well, there are problems with the film – mostly to do with director Damien Chazelle’s continuing attempts to foist his rotten ideology of music on the rest of us via his movies – but I think the people who were swooning were closer to the truth than the raspberry blowers.

Full review here

15. Lady Macbeth

Bracingly bleak and at times hard to watch, this is very much in the anti-heritage industry counter-tradition of British period dramas. It’s about the rebellion of a young woman against a grim arranged marriage in Victorian Yorkshire, a struggle that makes strange and grim turns. Unpleasant, but an impressive and memorable piece of filmmaking.

Full review here

16. Blade Of The Immortal

‘Blood-drenched’ would be an understatement when it comes to this gleefully violent supernatural samurai tale in which an almost unkillable ronin is hired by a young girl to revenge her father’s death. If it doesn’t match up to veteran director Takashi Miike’s kinetic 2010 masterpiece 13 Assassins, Blade Of The Immortal is still full of staggering set pieces. Not for the squeamish.

Full review here

17. I Am Not Your Negro

In a variant on the title of this blog, I’d describe this documentary as kind of unsatisfactory yet powerful. It’s got a curious premise: it’s an ‘adaptation’ of a book that was only vaguely started: James Baldwin’s look at the meaning of the lives and deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

The result is a slightly rambling wander through what Baldwin wrote and said about black lives in America. The clips of Baldwin on TV and at the Oxford Union are electrifying. The chunks of his writing are beautifully read by Samuel L Jackson in a warm, wise deep oak-aged voice than sounds precisely nothing like either Samuel L Jackson or James Baldwin.

Dropped in around the place are news stills from the last couple of years by way of saying, ‘Yes, Obama made it to the presidency, but otherwise things are still fucked.’ That’s a bit clumsy and crude. What makes the film is Baldwin himself – a great writer (I’m still annoyed that someone nicked my copy of The Fire Next Time in 1991) but also a figure who confounds our condescension of past times: here was a black gay man who was an international public intellectual in the 1960s.

Best old films I saw on the big screen

Scarface

Not every rapper’s favourite movie – this is the terrific 1932 original, a ripped-from-the-headlines account of the rise of a ruthless Chicago gangster that’s as electrifyingly urgent as current organised-crime dramas are weary.

Full review here

Un Flic

Jean-Pierre Melville, whose career stretched from the 1940s to ’70s, made some of my favourite films ever – Bob Le Flambeur, Le Samurai, Army Of The Shadows – and the BFI showed all of them in a splendid full retrospective this autumn. Of the ones I’d never seen before, my favourite was Un Flic, his last film, a bleak, minimalist film in which a laconic, sadistic cop (Alain Delon) slowly gets on the trail of a heist crew. Moody, stylised and very cool.

Full review here

The Cobweb

Over the top, and unashamedly so, Vincente Minnelli’s undervalued mid-’50s melodrama is set in a psychiatric clinic, has a great cast and a plot in which the choice of a set of curtains causes all manner of scheming, bitching and betrayal.

Full review here

La Vérité

An uncharacteristically meaty role for Brigitte Bardot is at the centre of this courtroom drama from Henri-Georges Clouzot. BB plays a beatnik girl on trial for murder, but what made her do it and can a patriarchal justice system treat her fairly? I suspect this felt dated when it appeared in nouvelle vague-era Paris, but it seems pretty relevant now.

Full review here

Salesman

Extraordinary documentary about a group of travelling salesman doing their damnedest to flog absurdly overpriced Bibles to low income Catholics in a late 1960s US where the Age of Aquarius most definitely isn’t in effect.

Full review here

And DYB’s films of:

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

#films of 2017 #Films of the year #movies of 2017 #2017 #manchester by the sea

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