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marypickfords · 4 months

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The Stalls of Barchester (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1971) A Warning to the Curious (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1972) Lost Hearts (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1973) The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1974) The Ash Tree (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1975)

“For all five of these adaptations, Gordon Clark worked with cinematographer John McGlashan and sound recordist Dick Manton, who he credits with establishing the gloomy look that would be the hallmark of the series (as well as editor Roger Waugh who edited all the original series’ James adaptations save 1973’s ‘Lost Hearts’). Central to that aesthetic were the authentic East Anglian locations that have been the inspiration for many a terror tale, even aside from those of M.R. James.

‘James lived in East Anglia—the region that encompasses Norfolk and Suffolk—for most of his life,’ explains Helen Wheatley, citing this as one reason James set many of his stories there. ‘However, there is also a broader sense of the region as being rather out on a limb, a relative hinterland, which lends itself to ghost story telling,’ she continues. ‘In James’ stories, and their television adaptations, the geography and landscape of the region—expanses of flat land, the whispering grasses of the East Anglian coast line, sparsely populated agricultural land—has a particularly haunting quality.’

This landscape is key to the series’ hauntological appeal. Scholar Derek Johnston has an extensive catalogue of writing that examines nostalgia in relation to the Christmas ghost story—and the A Ghost Story for Christmas series in particular—and notes that the Victorian middle class idealization of rural life was subverted by James’ stories, which presented the country as peaceful on the surface but a place of dark, tumultuous secrets. He also points out that East Anglia is a land of invaders and colonizers, writing in his essay ‘Season, Landscape and Identity in the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas’ that ‘The connection to the local soil and landscape runs generations deep, but it has also been built upon the remains of earlier populations, with earlier connections to that landscape, overrun by the incomers...the landscape may encourage identification with the nation, but it also emphasises how the landscape is interpreted through the history of human action upon it.’” — Kier-La Janisse, from Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017).

#lawrence gordon clark #kier la janisse #yuletide terror: christmas horror on film and television #w*#caps #mr james christmas

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chernobog13 · 5 months

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Sweaters too ugly...eyes bleeding...!

#Star Trek #Star Trek: The Original Series #Lt. Commander Montgomery “Scotty” Scott #Ensign Pavel Chekhove #Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy #Nurse Christine Chapel #Captain James T. Kirk #Lieutenant Nyota Uhura #Mr. Spock #Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu #ugly Xmas sweaters #Happy Holidays #Merry Christmas #Season's Greetings

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mariocki · 3 months

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Lalla Ward makes a brief appearance as Lady Augusta, intended bride to an ill-fated aristocrat, in A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree (BBC, 1975)

#fave spotting #lalla ward #doctor who #a ghost story for christmas #the ash tree #1975 #romana #romana ii #spoilers for the ash tree ig????#i mean it's pretty obvious from the outset that Ed Petherbridge's aristo is not in for a good time #i mean he's a Jamesian protagonist for one thing....#lalla had been acting since the beginning of the decade‚ with a fair number of one off appearances on tv and the odd film to her name #(most notably Hammer's Vampire Circus). she was still a few years off DW and genre immortality at this point #it isn't the most rewarding role; James (who i don't think many would argue that he wasn't a bit of a chauvinist) rarely featured #significant women characters in his work (a large number of them being academical in setting didn't help). actually the ash tree #is something of an outlier in that regard‚ as it does feature a significant female character in Mrs. Mothersole‚ but we can hardly consider #her a positive feminine presence... actually one of Lawrence Gordon Clark's regrets about this particular entry in the Ghost Story for #Christmas canon is the failure of him and writer David Rudkin to make a true villain of Mothersile; Clark felt that their shared sympathies #for the historical victims of witchhunting prevented them from capturing the 'evil' of the character (tho it's debatable how much James #himself intended her to be truly evil; this is just Clark's opinion after all‚ and fwiw i think Rudkin's greater complexity of the #character is more interesting‚ more believable and more appropriate)#i rambled. anyway yes‚ not a meaty role perhaps‚ but Lalla sinks her teeth in all the same and in just a few brief scenes successfully #creates a vivid and fully realised character‚ a charming and flirtatious fiancée with something of a rebellious streak #no ash tree post bc i made one the last time i watched it a couple of years ago

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cult-princess · 4 months

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all i want for christmas is one night with JPM in room 64 at the hotel cortez

#james patrick march #james march #mr march #JPM #ahs hotel #american horror story hotel #american horror story #evan peters #evan peters edit #hotel cortez #room 64 #christmas

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1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt · 1 year

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Could not resist. These were 50% off at the card shop.

(Seriously though, no Boanz up in the shop? TF?)

Icons.

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twiptoe · 8 months

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if i ever become a million/billionaire i will use my money to fund stopmotion animation. thank you and good night.

#laika films #laika #tim burton #coraline #the corpse bride #paranorman #9 #the boxtrolls #the nightmare before xmas #the nightmare before christmas #fantastic mr fox #james and the giant peach #frankenweenie #kubo and the two strings

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scarareg · 6 months

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#Wallace & Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit #The Nightmare Before Christmas #Coraline #Corpse Bride #ParaNorman #Kubo and the Two Strings #Laika Studios #The Boxtrolls #Missing Link #Fantastic Mr. Fox #Wallace & Gromit #James and the Giant Peach #Frankenweenie #animation

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monocordum · 1 year

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Better than Legos for visual representation re: slash scenes?

#star trek spirk #playmobil #for your last minute christmas presents #star trek #james t. kirk #mr. spock #kirk #spock #spirk #star trek original series

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frary-us · 8 days

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lemongrablothbrok · 3 months

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James, James, James...my boy...

Your beloved Earl just offered to take you on a romantic holiday trip and here you are fretting about the cost...you really are a little scrooge...

#i still love you baby #but. like. romantic getaway. for christmas. with your bae. you can eat cake anywhere.#mr. james #dorian red gloria #from eroica with love #seriously though the romantic implications of “whisk you away”. james. james. you nerd. how could you turn that down.#you guys could have spent christmas shacked up in a honeymoon suite just the two of you #and there still could have been cake #but there also could have been chocolate body paint and strawberry scented lube and naughty santa themed lingerie #my foolish son #you could have gotten laid. excessively. for christmas.

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marypickfords · 5 months

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Whistle and I'll Come to You (Jonathan Miller, 1968)

#whistle and i'll come to you #jonathan miller #caps #mr james christmas

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mary-white2000 · 4 months

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🎵We wish you a Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!🎵

"Three elves and a little reindeer quietly hung mistletoe so Santa and Mrs. Claus could kiss!"-The Greenwoods.

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy moments with your family and friends!🎄🎅🎁🎉🎊🧨🎆🎇✨🍾🥂 May Christmas bring you many fun and interesting events this year!(And today is Lily's birthday.)

💙Greenwood family and its characters belong to: me, Mary White

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ballumville · 1 year

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When I watched 'Man in an Orange Shirt' in 2017 for the first time, I immediately thought of making a video of Michael and Thomas' sad love story using the soundtrack of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Laurence' by Sylvian & Sakamoto called 'Forbidden Colours' . So I did it but I never expected it to be so popular. It's posted on my old YT channel - The Rainbow Romance 🌈

#man in an orange shirt #oliver jackson cohen #james mcardle #ryuichi sakamoto #merry christmas mr laurence #lgbtq #gay movies #Youtube

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coolcucumber37 · 1 year

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Love from Kirk and Spock

#toonme #star trek #mr spock #s'chn t'gai spock #james t kirk #spirk #christmas day #merry chrismas 2022 #love from outer space #kirk and spock #cute boys #jim kirk #kirk x spock

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raiizukis-blog · 1 year

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Christmas Advent Day 2 - Ice skating ⛸

I love how miss spider said “oi, don’t touch me” as centipede’s reaction and this is what I get 😂 the ice skating in NYC is very legacy tho

#art #digital art #drawing #artists on tumblr #james and the giant peach #jatgp #mr. centipede #miss spider #ice skating #my favorite ship #miss spiders hair is too dark so I’ll draw her another day 💀#winter #christmas

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otisbeerdraws · 4 months

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Watched Prep & Landing, saw Mr Thistleton, then drew this dumb thing only the alt text could explain 🎄

(Chris Parnell voices Mr Thistleton from Prep & Landing: Naughty vs Nice, the same VA as Jerry from Rick and Morty. The character drives a segway which made me think of Paul Blart Mall Cop and that's how this came to be).

#otisbeerdraws #prep and landing #mr thistleton #elf #christmas #paul blart #paul blart mall cop #rick and morty #chris parnell #kevin james #disney

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