@franciscawrites@bookstodon El Sur/ The South by Adelaida Garcia Morales was made into a film of the same name by her then husband, Victor Erice. OK, technically it’s a novella, but at 50 pages I’ve read longer short stories. I actually started reading the novella last night, because I love the film, but finances were pulled from the movie production before the final third could be made, and I’ve always longed to find out what happened.
"According to Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register, the film will cover the events leading up to the Resurrection, but will also follow the intrigues that took place in Herod's palace and conclude with the events that took place in Jerusalem on Easter Sunday."
I finally finished Poor Things and, wouldn't you know, it grew on me. Or maybe it was just Emma Stone's amazing acting that finally reached me. There were some funny moments, some great cinematography (particularly when she and Max were walking down the lane and it showed each with the background leaves and tree kaleidoscope blurry), and even some touching moments.
While its good to see that books still hold their own (in revenue generating terms) with films & music (they outperform both), the big news is that video games generated more revenue globally than books & music combined.
As someone who has never played a video game, but reads a lot of books, I'm not sure how I feel about this... but it tells us something about where the globe's creative & receptive energies seem to be spent.
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Book 15, 2024: My Lucky Stars, A Hollywood Memoir - Shirley MacLaine. Enjoyable late-90s memoir about showbiz. Chapters on her experiences with Sinatra and Dean Martin are illuminating, and she writes about her romances with Robert Mitchum and Yves Montand. #films#reading#books@bookstodon
Book 14, 2024: Granta - Film. I picked this up in a charity shop last year, mainly because there is a Tessa Hadley story in it, and just got round to reading it. It’s from 2004. There’s a great essay by Thomas Keneally about how he stumbled upon the story of Oskar Schindler, John Fowles writes about the filing of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and Shampa Banerjee writes about having been a child actor in Satyajit Rai’s Panther Panchali. #books#reading#films#movies@bookstodon
Pour vous qui avez galéré à retrouver des ressources libres à visionner.Vous allez trouver que c'est une super bonne idée que celle là !
Une plateforme de films libres existe.
c'est sur https://horscine.org/
Help me find media that features #Speech whose emotional effect is the equivalent of a quiet mechanical keyboard!
I adore the French TV series "Astrid et Raphaelle" for many reasons, one of them being the quiet precision and crisp #Diction with which the actors speak. Astrid is of course the best example, but many of the other actors speak the same way.
Where can I find other TV shows, #Podcasts, or #Films where people speak that way? Is it a French thing?
Some requirements:
No explicit sex or preoccupation with violence
Can't be bleak or depressing
If in a language other than English, subtitles will need to be available
Hard to believe, but despite the efforts of both Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza, and the directorial abilities of Guy Ritchie, I could not make it thru Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. Too forced and too much computer mumbo jumbo. Maybe I was just too tired and sick for it, but it sucked. 1.5 out of 5 stars. #movies#films@movies
When we posted about "Jaws" yesterday, it prompted a discussion in the comments about movie adaptations that were superior to the books — Stephen King's "The Shawshank Redemption" and Robert Nathan's "The Bishop's Wife" came up, with @PeteZ describing the latter as "a slog that I DNF." TV Guide has compiled this list of book-to-screen adaptations for 2024, including "Dune Part Two" and "Wicked." Tell us in the comments if you're looking forward to any of these — or if there's a movie you think was remarkably better than the book.
@IndieWire has declared 1999 the greatest year for teen comedies — movies like "Never Been Kissed," "Election," "She's All That" and "American Pie" all hit cinemas. Here's their list of 17 films (we would argue "American Beauty" doesn't really belong on it).
Listen to the most recent #bonus episode of “Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss: #TBT Bonus: Spaceballs with Jessica Kwazz & ThePoeticCritic
ThePoeticCritic discusses the making of #melbrooks last perfect #movie
Book 5, 2024: Every Man for Himself and God Against All - Werner Herzog. Enjoyable autobiography from the filmmaker and artist. Obviously you read it in his wonderful voice. Full f terrific lines. Takes in his childhood, just-do-it attitude to his work, and travels. @bookstodon#autobiography#memoir#Reading#books#films#movies
Book 3, 2024: Archive by Sofia Coppola. A collection of annotated photos and memorabilia of the creation of the director’s feature films. I’ve been rewatching her output lately, and this has been a welcome extension to that viewing. #films#movies#books#reading@bookstodon
"Past Lives" and "The Holdovers" are such brilliant #films - so quiet, wise, playful, and modest, with incisive acting and luminous cinematography - I'd love it if they launched a trend toward more humane cinema, in this era when public discourse is dominated by vapid shrieking.
Book 58, 2023: Brian by Jeremy Cooper. A novel about a solitary man whose life is given meaning by films, specifically those watched at the BFI in London. What could have been sad is instead imbued with warmth. This is also a love letter to film. Recommended. #movies#films@bookstadon