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ALL ABOUT EVE 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Laurence Stephen Lowry, "Going to Work", 1943
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REALLY big fan of the tone shift in this old History Channel train documentary
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Brief Encounter 1945, dir. David Lean
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LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC 1928 — dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
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the swimmer (1968) is probably one of my top ten favorite films of all time. it’s genuinely one of the most innovative movies i’ve ever seen. you start off the movie with a group of people dotting over this one middle aged man swimming in a pool, telling him how good he looks, and how he hasn’t changed a bit since college. he takes to the praise but you know he’s used to getting it. then, as he gets out of that pool and goes next door to swim in their pool, you begin to realize something is amiss. you’re not exactly sure what, but the man has said he’s going to swim in everyone’s pool in the county until he gets back home and that’s a little odd. but everyone seems happy enough to greet him, so you shrug it off. they ask him how everyone is - the kids, the wife - and he responds warmly. you begin to get this idea that he’s all american, the sort who eats regularly at the country clubs and lives in a big house with nice cars. he doesn’t worry. he’s charming and life is good. he continues to go to these different houses and into these different pools, and each time you learn something new about him through the way he’s treated by the owners of these pools and the people he talks to on the way to them. people get less nice, less familiar. when he beams with joy, they worry or they’re mean. when he talks about his wife and kids, they look at him like he’s crazy. but no one outright says what’s wrong with man. you start the movie thinking this man is something of a god. he gets out of a pool dripping wet and looking magnificent in nothing but a pair navy blue swim trucks that fit his athletic frame beautifully. but gradually you realize he’s no god; he’s the most mortal man you can find and he’s losing his mind because he’s lost all that once made him great: his status, his money, his family. even the mistress he treated cruelly pities him now. it’s so so so so good
If you’re being questioned about a murder by one of those hobbyist detectives. it is an absolute rule that you have to be washing the dishes or pruning some plants while talking, so that when they finally get around to asking a pointed question about where you were at the time of the murder you can freeze for a second with a knife in your hand. It’s enrichment for them you gotta understand. They thrive off of red herrings, it’s their favorite treat, so even if you have a rock solid alibi and weren’t involved with the murder at all you have to give them some reason to be suspicious of you. It’s what friends are for.
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ok this is a long shot BUT
I had google docs open to work on a wip and was trying to make the annoying "document tab" floating button go away...hit something that said "delete tab"...and it. Deleted. The whole. DOCUMENT. 11K of third draft fic. I am distressed.
has anyone had this happen and is there a fix? Command-z does nothing, and there is nothing in the trash bin to restore. I have posted on the google drive forum for help but thought I'd try here too before i lay me down to weep.
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‘Richard, you do not think I betrayed the cardinal, do you?’ Riche blinks. ‘It never crossed my mind. You didn’t, did you?’ He thinks, Riche would not fault me, if I had betrayed him: what use is a fallen magnate? He says, ‘If not for me, the cardinal would have been killed in those days of his first disgrace, or if he had lived he would have lived a beggar. I put myself in hazard for him, my house and all I had. If I treated with Norfolk, it was only to speak for my master. I did not like Thomas Howard then and I do not now, and I was never his man and never will be, and if he came to me for a post as a pot boy I would not employ him.’
"He thinks, I tried by every means to save my master: I tried by exhortation, by prayer, and when that failed, I tried accountancy."
MARK RYLANCE and JONATHAN PRYCE as Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey Wolf Hall (2015) — Episodes one, two
saw a post that said devon not being home with her baby all the time was unrealistic, implying that ricken is doing 0% of the childcare ever, and respectfully i disagree because i think that makes some incorrect assumptions about the way ricken sucks. i do not think he would ever say or even act like childcare is A Woman's Job, but i do think he would say "of course i do an equal share of childcare because patriarchy deprives men of opportunities for us to connect emotionally with our children" and then after giving eleanor her bottle he leaves to go to a different room to write a really self-satisfied blog post about how it feels to break cycles.
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Mad Men: without context