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The Funeral (1984)
Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai
Audrey Hepburn Was Considered To Be Highly Sensitive, Talented, and a Dedicated Humanitarian
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Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Seven Year Itch.
Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, 1943
In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.
SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig
more of those evil fellas
One of the many classics I grew up watching back in the 70s and 80s on TV.
My Mean-spirited Anti-parody
Had an idea today that I don't think I'll ever make it might be a fun occasion series.You know that youtube channel 'How it Should of Ended'? Web animated parodies that about exactly what it says on the tin? My idea is sort of the opposite of that. Movie parodies that deliberately respond to often critiqued or parodied movie scenes, plot points, or plot holes, showing how the story would be actually worse if they did exactly what we said they should have done.
For example, Glynda just tells Dorothy that the shoes can take her home the moment she gets them. She never actually learns that "there's no place like home" and then lives the rest of her life regretting coming back, wanting to return this fantastic world she didn't get to see, and ends up in a psychward after attempting to run into the next tornado to hit her farm.
Indiana Jones doesn't actually have to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant because it kills the Nazis after they try to use it? Alright, let's see the movie where he just sits around waiting for that to happen, then it does, and he brings it back to America without any issue. Marion's dead because they killed her for the medallion, but who cares? I got the magic god box.That sounds like a way better movie, right?
The fellowship takes the eagles to mordor. Not even a third of the way there, the ring corrupts the eagles, and they successfully destroy all the kingdoms. Because they're gods that we all mistook for a taxi service.
Give me enough time, I bet I could come up with a reason why fixing the ending of Grease would be actually way worse.
So on my Instagram explore page there's this account called oldhollywoodconfessions, and since I had never really looked at it much, I decided to take a quick dive and see what it was about.
From the name I was expecting the basic appreciation/criticism towards old actors and actresses, which is seen in these images here:
But most of these confessions on the page are more along the lines of this:
There's a lot of James Dean-related ones.
And then, lo and behold, I discovered the more... Sexually-charged confessions.
And that's how I found this absolute gem of an image:
Simple. Straight to the point. Flawless. This is how you deliver a confession folks.