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Del Winters @absolutereality.blog · 2h

It’s so intriguing how people will assume a filmmaker despises a subject they portray as a hapless loser or tragic figure or deeply flawed individual. Or even sillier, assume they despise every real person who shares a marginalized identity with the character.

Twitter X post by Joyce Carol Oates quoting someone saying that Werner Herzog narrated footage of a person he despised in Grizzly Man

Oates tweet: When Werner Herzog presented "Grizzly Man" at Princeton & took questions about it he did not indicate that he "despised" the hapless subject. Do great artists ever
"despise" any subject? That seems very naive. Would guess that Shakespeare loved lago & Milton loved Lucifer; Cervantes loved foolish Don Quixote; & in his heart Melville identified with Ahab.

Quoted post by @RobertDeGiorno1, which is itself a quote of a video featuring Herzog’s narration in The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
A double feature with this and grizzly man would go crazy. Both feature Werner Herzog narrating footage of people who died in pursuit of achieving greatness, but one is about someone Herzog despises and the other is about two people he deeply admires.

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 5h

you can tell the monster is actually really smart, because he doesn’t say “these people I’m comprised of,” he says “these people of which I’m comprised”

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 6h

watching Branagh’s Frankenstein and thinking it would actually make a good double bill with Flesh For Frankenstein, because they’re both extremely funny (the former unintentionally, I think)

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 7h

lol thank you!

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 7h

Incredible find!

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 7h

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely tore through every episode of this show that we could find when we were researching the book. An astonishing resource and time capsule of gay New York before AIDS, its existence seems impossible today. Highly recommended. Gem after gem in terms of interview subjects.

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 7h

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

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TIMtheTOON @timtoon.com · 9h

The movie has one trick it deploys endlessly: the reversal. The problem is each reversal makes as much sense as the one before or after it, which means none of them carry any narrative weight

Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 1d

We honor the spooky season by getting into a knock-down drag-out nerd slapfight with @bitterkarella.bsky.social over the 2007-ish Halloween anthology TRICK 'R TREAT! Get it at our Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/141063...

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 18d

I saw John Waters introduce a screening of BOOM! and he said he got to meet Liz Taylor but she got angry at him after only a few minutes because all he wanted to discuss with her was this movie

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 26d

We invited @papapishu.bsky.social to hold forth about an almost universally despised Tennessee Williams/Joseph Losey joint, BOOM, which just might be worth another look (also it is queer as hell 👍). Get it for free at our Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/137829...

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TIMtheTOON @timtoon.com · 1d

an entire episode done in the dEbAtE mE voice 🥴

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13h

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We've archived 1 trillion pages. Now we need your help! Share the top 5 web pages or sites you want to preserve for future generations.

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 13h

Every film ever made

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 13h

Name a FIlm that needed an Editor.

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 1d

We honor the spooky season by getting into a knock-down drag-out nerd slapfight with @bitterkarella.bsky.social over the 2007-ish Halloween anthology TRICK 'R TREAT! Get it at our Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/141063...

257 - Trick 'r Treat | Have You Seen This?

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

I love reading movie reviews from dumb guys on the internet, they love saying the word "whilst" and calling things too "film school."

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

A mostly lost silent serial about a clairvoyant named Myra whose life is threatened by a Satanic cult called the Black Order.

The cult was inspired by the Golden Dawn, the secret society of practitioners of the occult led by Aleister Crowley - BOTD in 1875

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Nov 19

Wildest shit that ever happened to me on here was when I was watching CAN’T HARDLY WAIT and posted the below skeet as a joke, only to be informed that the picture actor (Charlie Korsmo) did, indeed, go on to become a Federalist Society-affiliated right-wing legal scholar

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jun 6

This kid now works for the Heritage Foundation

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 1d

I stand by Trick r Treat

Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 1d

We honor the spooky season by getting into a knock-down drag-out nerd slapfight with @bitterkarella.bsky.social over the 2007-ish Halloween anthology TRICK 'R TREAT! Get it at our Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/141063...

257 - Trick 'r Treat | Have You Seen This?

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 1d

I love Karella but I hated this movie lol

Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 1d

We honor the spooky season by getting into a knock-down drag-out nerd slapfight with @bitterkarella.bsky.social over the 2007-ish Halloween anthology TRICK 'R TREAT! Get it at our Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/141063...

257 - Trick 'r Treat | Have You Seen This?

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 1d

Now unlocked! Get it at our Patreon or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!

Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 14d

Now up for patrons: Jen welcomes @chimericalgirl.bsky.social to evangelize a wonderful and underseen coming-of-age film, FOXES www.patreon.com/posts/140066...

256 - Foxes | Have You Seen This?

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 1d

We honor the spooky season by getting into a knock-down drag-out nerd slapfight with @bitterkarella.bsky.social over the 2007-ish Halloween anthology TRICK 'R TREAT! Get it at our Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/141063...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 3d

The American Genre Film Archive has launched a Kickstarter to restore Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Blood Trilogy www.kickstarter.com/projects/agf...

BLOOD FEAST and the Films of H.G. Lewis

Help AGFA restore the films of H.G. Lewis in 4K.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 3d

Silent Light (2007)

Staggering, Tarkovsky-esque art film about a farmer in a conservative Mexican Mennonite colony who can't resist his compulsion to carry on an adulterous affair, not even with his wife being aware of what is going on

Written and directed by Carlos Reygadas - BOTD in 1971

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 11d

Do you have the same emotional intelligence and horniness level as a 13-year-old boy? Do you refer to sex crimes as "pranks"? Then you'll love PORKY'S! Listen to our episode about it FREE at our Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/139433...

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Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.us · 14d

Now up for patrons: Jen welcomes @chimericalgirl.bsky.social to evangelize a wonderful and underseen coming-of-age film, FOXES www.patreon.com/posts/140066...

256 - Foxes | Have You Seen This?

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