Technically, the Festival de Cannes has another six days to run, but the business side of the Marche du Film is already over. I have spent the past week talking with people, walking the Marché, dropping in on panels, and listening. My overall impression was that more is shifting under the surface than the official press releases reveal. While Cannes 2026 felt a little calmer than last year, it wasn’t for reasons worth celebrating. Film professionals felt more focused, resigned to some changes,…
Shein? Nah, Sheout
Also on 24 in 24: Last Chef Standing season 3 episode 4, I heard the best answer ever to the standard reality TV question: "How will this prize change you and the course of human history?"
🍿 Finished watching: Remarkably Bright Creatures. Fantastic movie. I don’t think I’ve seen a Sally Field movie since Mrs.Doubtfire, but she really nailed her character and lifts the movie.
Edward G arranges for a desperate nazi to escape prison so he’ll lead them to the big man. Eddie (just after Scarlet Street) gets knocked out and loses the trail of his guy (K Shayne of a Boetticher noir), so he doesn’t see Orson Welles strangle Shayne in the woods, decides to hang around this Connecticut town until more leads turn up. When your old nazi friend drops in on your wedding day: Orson is so confident in his new wife Loretta Young (oscar winner the following year) that he admits to…
The title and premise sound exciting, but the movie is a sweaty bewigged newscaster (Roman Wilhelmi of Zulawski’s Chopin biopic The Blue Note, with Robert Picardo vibes) being tormented by everyone, including martians, who look like silver-spraypainted oompa loompas in puffy coats. Decaloguists Krystyna Janda and Jerzy Stuhr get a big scene each. The most believable detail is that the biggest music act in the country is called The Instant Glue. Gotta watch the blu extras and learn more about…
Filming for David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me took place between September to November, 1991. The crew began with location filming in Washington state and concluded with scenes shot on sets and on location in Southern California. Scenes from the Palmer and Hayward homes were captured in Everett, Washington between September 23-29, 1991.... The post Behind the Scenes of Filming in Everett, Washington for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
Political satire in which the colorful, hatchet-wielding Temperance crusader Carrie Nation attacks a bar and smashes its mirror before being driven off by cinema’s favorite comedy weapon, seltzer. Home Media Availability: Released on out-of-print DVD Hatchet Woman On May 31, 1900, Carrie Nation, a devout Temperance activist, went from preaching to violence when she used […]
Filmszene aus „The Drama“ mit Robert Pattinson und Zendaya, Foto: A24 „The Drama“ sieht aus wie eine RomCom, benimmt sich aber wie ein Nervenzusammenbruch. Das macht den Film mit Robert Pattinson und Zendaya für mich zu einem der besten des Jahres. Denn aus romantischer Nervosität wird schnell etwas sehr viel Schrägeres und Unangenehmeres. Eine Kritik über einen Film, der seine eigenen RomCom-Elemente konsequent vergiftet. Mit Vorwissen, aber ohne Spoiler Vor dem Kinobesuch hatte ich schon…
vera ellen - thaw calling my pop hit of the summer
by Elisa Giudici Pawel Pawlikowski has always been a filmmaker of absence. Empty space, withheld emotion, silence so heavy it seems architectural: his cinema has long depended less on what characters say than on what lingers unresolved between them. Fatherland may be the purest expression of that sensibility, a film reduced to such an essential form that it almost appears to vanish while unfolding, only to return afterward with quiet, devastating force. At first, it can seem unexpectedly modest…
by Nathaniel R John McRae & Mihir Kumar starred in "Prince Faggot". Photo © Marc J Franklin As many readers know a few members of Team Experience belong to GALECA the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics though most of us vote on the film and television side. I have the privilege of also being a voter in the society's Dorian Theater Awards, which celebrate both Broadway & Off Broadway productions. The nominations were announced this past week for the 2025-2026 theater season which wrapped up…
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. Glitch Productions has made a number of well-loved bits of Youtube culture, most notably so far: the concluded Murder Drones, the nearly-done Amazing Digital Circus, and the forthcoming Knights of Guenevere. Their newest pilot is heavily game-themed, so you can probably expect to see it return to Sunday Sunday eventually. Called “The Gameoververse,” it follows a team of hero-types…
This 20 minute video, I found today, illustrates impressively why AI and above all Generative AI is nothing more than worthless. The original (and best version) is in German, but the translation in English (YT AI?) does the job… Für Euch reicht’s from Fynn Kröger: Es ist die Haltung von Influencern, Fernsehsendern, Filmproduktionen und Marken da draußen, das es für das eigentliche Publikum schon reichen würde, ihnen nur Schatten an die Wand zu werfen, statt ihnen die echten Objekte vor dem…
Robert De Niro in Mean Streets (1973) Vitals Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy Civello, irresponsible mob associate New York, Fall 1972 Film: Mean Streets Release Date: October 14, 1973 Director: Martin Scorsese Wardrobe Credit: Norman Salling WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background “You’ve blogged about this movie, right?” my wife asked me during her first-ever viewing of Mean Streets this weekend. When I responded that of course I have, she nodded and pointed to Robert De Niro swinging a broken pool…
I didn't watch Star Wars when it was released. I wasn't even born. By the time we popped the cassette tape in the VCR, it was at least 15 years old. But I liked the movie all the same. It was not my favorite film by any means, but it was memorable. The first time you see Darth Vader appear on screen, you know this villain is not going to be easy to defeat. "Villain" because no one needs to tell you who the good guys and bad guys are in this movie. The visuals, the voices, the music, everything…
i only got to see the animation portion of the 7th edition of the istanbul experimental film festival, and although it wouldn’t be fair to judge it based on just one screening, it didn’t feel as intriguing as last year’s. Previous
Cocoon really is something quite special – you can tell from the very beginning it is a labor of love by director Daixuan Yuan, who created this animated short for their third year film at CalArts. It draws together a number of elements from different writers and artists to become something of a synthesis – a complete piece of art in and of itself that is beautiful to look at and intriguing to watch. Visually, it is exquisite, The plot is inspired by Edogawa Ranpo’s novel, A Brute’s Love. It…
Fantastic Film Festival Australia, 23 April to 15 May.Film festival mode is now complete having been to Lido to see another 30 movies since Hokum. I keep the film reviews and reflections to my Letterboxd account so I won't be repeating all that here. Instead, a few summed thoughts.Going to see an entire film festival program* means letting someone else completely curate your experience. It's not the same as picking out five or 10 films that look appealing because doing that means missing out on…
Aziraphale, now Supreme Archangel, seeks Crowley’s help as plans for the Second Coming take a surprising yet dangerous turn. I loved the idea of this TV series, but the finale turned sour pretty quick. Production value has decreased, and not even the combined powers and skills of David Tennant and Michael Sheen couldn’t drag this out of the mud. The story is all over the place and it’s not really worth the time. Bad ending, two popcorns. To see all 9 photos, visit the article page. This article…
Yes, it happens every spring - baseball fever. And it hits us sports fans hard. For Professor Vernon Simpson, he becomes a different person altogether when baseball season starts. As the dean of the college where he works says, "Every spring he seems to undergo a peculiar change, he becomes absent minded to a degree. It's like spring fever - only it lasts all summer."20th-Century-Fox released a number of comedies in the late 1940s-early 1950s, many of which featured plots involving some kind of…
The first recording today starts with the end of The Twisted Whiskers Show. There’s a trail for Relic: Guardians of the Museum. Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – Who’s the Mummy? Shaun finds some hen’s eggs hatching. Who then imprint on him. As a result they won’t leave him alone. Their mother discovers her loss and is very upset. Shaun tries to hide, putting them in Bitzer’s lunchbox. It doesn’t help. The mother hen is looking for her children. Shaun can’t cope and tries to hide the chicks in a milk…
As part of Park Square Theatre's 50th Anniversary season, they're bringing us the quintessential musical about musicals, A Chorus Line, which is also celebrating its 50th Anniversary. I had the privilege and the pleasure of attending a rehearsal with my fellow Twin Cities Theater Bloggers less than one week before opening night, where Park Square's Artistic Director Stephen DiMenna told us that he chose this show not just for the serendipity of 50 years, but also to fit in the "behind the…
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......I was away the past two weekends, first at the TCM Classic Film Festival and then at the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. I'll be posting overviews of both festivals as soon as possible, but in the meantime, here is a gigantic news roundup!...The Warner Archive Collection has announced its June Blu-ray releases. Titles include ROSE-MARIE (1936), STRANGE CARGO (1940), COME LIVE WITH ME (1941), THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO…
As the gang here in beautiful upstate New York (the Hudson Valley) wishes we could take a Star Trek teleportation device - used or new - directly to Niles, CA to enjoy the excellent annual Charlie Chaplin Days event presented by our pals at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum we doff our Max Linder top hat to yet another lesser known but marvelous silent movie comedian Poodles Hanneford (1891-1967). We'll start with the following presentation.Poodles, king of the bareback riders, was a circus…
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me had its world premiere on May 16, 1992 at the Cannes Film Festival. Fellow long-time fan Dugpa and I have wrote extensively about the premiere and dispelled the long-standing rumor about the film being booed at the prestigious festival. There were two screenings held that day – one... The post David Lynch, Michael J. Anderson and Bob Engels at Cannes Film Festival Party on May 16, 1992 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
arco A beautiful, tender film about love! I love Miyazaki & Moebius. Aesthetically: extremely for me. It’s a children’s movie, but one that respects and admires children both in its characterization and writing for them. At the edges of the story, one can start to wonder about the mechanics of the world we’re shown, but most of the time I was too enchanted to mind.
Here is part one of the June 1971 Galactoscope featuring stories of Atlantis, fantasies and a creature who may be the devil… by Fiona Moore King Kobold, by Christopher Stasheff Cover of King Kobold This is a direct sequel to Stasheff's first novel, The Warlock In Spite of Himself, which I read when it came … Continue reading [May 16, 1971] Silly Fantasies, Atlantis and the Devil (May Galactoscope #1) → The post [May 16, 1971] Silly Fantasies, Atlantis and the Devil (May Galactoscope #1)…
Summary and observations for my research and learnings. PrefaceAs someone who mostly watches animal documentaries, I asked some trusted sources for a list of their favorite documentaries about people. In these posts, I will write about my key findings and analyses about the filmmaking rather than my opinion on the subject/topic itself. SummaryGrizzly Man (2005), directed and narrated by Werner Herzog, is a documentary that focuses on the lifework of Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell was an animal…
This is credited as the debut film/animation by director Rene Laloux. Although we see Tick-Tock (Tic-Tac) (1957), and Les Achalunés (1958) dated earlier. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Laloux).He later went to produce the films, Fantastic Planet (1973), Time Master (1982) and Gandahar (1987). Many sources mention Felix Guatari as having a hand in the writing of the script, or a connection with the hospital. This all seems a little too ‘neat” for me. It’d be nice to be wrong, though. The…
