#Films Around the World

[icollectimages]

The Ballad of Narayama (1958) (Narayama bushikô)

Country: Japan

Directed by: Keisuke Kinoshita

Cinematography by: Hiroshi Kusuda

#The Ballad of Narayama #Narayama bushikô #Japan #Keisuke Kinoshita #Hiroshi Kusuda #Drama #Period Drama #1950s #Shochiku #Films Around the World #The Criterion Collection

[annonir]

#goncharov #goncharov (1973) #look i'm not pitting two bad bitches against each other #even though the godfather was released first they were both developped around the same time #perhaps goncharov's notoriety was helped by the mafia film genre being popularised by coppola the year prior #but goncharov's exploration of the mafia world is simply just as gripping if not more #and its themes and motifs are EXTREMELY different from those in The Godfather #but yeah both are good even though I have more fondness for Goncharov of course #martin scorsese #francis ford coppola

[meep-meep-richie]

i've seen them like three times on screen together and this is the first time they actually play brothers

#and i'm loving it #but it was too short tho #owen being the scene stealer he always is #luke just shy and adorable #yes yes #around the world in 80 days #wright brothers #wilson brothers #wilbur wright #orville wright #owen wilson #luke wilson #filmgifs #moviegifs #films #movie #movies #my gifs #my gif edit #gifs #gif*

[rongzhi]

Ok I'm not gonna do this for Jan but I think going forward I will & feel free to judge my taste in movies, I know I do.

Favorite (new) movies watched this month: Death Proof, Gridlock'd, Calvary, Any Given Sunday, Fury

Least Favorite movies: Brick, See How They Run

Movies that were Fine™ but I wouldn't recommend: Days of Thunder

Movies I 100% forgot I watched: Corrina, Corrina

Movies that surpised me: Birdman (it's been on my radar since it came out, but I never actually knew what it was about), Hustlers (I think I got it confused in my mind with The Hustle, so I went in thinking it wouldn't be that good, but it was a blast)

Non-English movies: Character, Be My Family, Farha,

Always open for more recs, too. I think I watched a lot more recs from followers last month than I did this month, but I still got around to a couple of them!

#text #wawa watches #< blacklist this tag if you don't give a shit but i'll only be posting these at the end of the month! #I watch movies while I do my work in case you're wondering #but that's also why i haven't gotten around to a lot of foreign language film recs yet :S #'how are you only watching some of these for the first time in 2024' there are a lot of movies in the world ok

[bluestation]

november's assorted sketches & wips

#one piece #film red #film red spoilers #uta #franky #iceburg #usopp #only planning on finishing two of these tbh .... but anyhoo #today was the premiere of film red where i live (11/27. yes fr) #excellent experience ..... was tossed around by sound waves .... i adore uta ..... sweet closeted child . my poor bby . #morale of the story being do not ask celebrities to be ur savior or save the world #edit: i found some more i hadnt put up here so #might as well <- not the best motto #sketch log

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday David 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

April 18,1971

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

18 Aprile 1971

#david tennant #actor #world cinema #cinema #movies #film #tv shows #harrypotterthegobletoffire #barty crouch jr #the decoy bride #bad samaritan #mary queen of scots #doctor who #10th doctor #jessica jones #broadchurch #teenage mutant ninja turtles #good omens #around the world in 80 days #inside man #litvinenko #dragons #ducktales #final space #ahsoka series #celebrity #happy birthday

[poems-of-a-lover]

will never be over this honestly

#BC WHAT THE HELL. WHAT. #WHYYYY DID THEY. WHY!!!!! #they knew good and well...... #god. insane!! #'world class insomniac' yeah right #seriously tho the 'i cant fall asleep easily (falls asleep immediately around That Person)' trope GETS ME #its so important to me #feeling a level of safety and trust and comfort in someone to be able to fall asleep around them is so special #shoutout to My Guy who ive fallen asleep on call with multiple times JGHSKJK unmatched imo #the way that they both just look so incredibly comfortable. literally not a care in the world. #they forgot abt their status and the rest of the world and everyone else bc they were with each other!!!! do u get it!!!!!!! #goodness i need to go to bed its nearly 2 am #this film is going to be the death of me #rwrb #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox #henry george edward james hanover stuart fox

[steveyockey]

There’s this ridiculous thing that I think is a big part of a lot of pre-egg-crack trans journeys and certainly was for me: “Just because I hate being a man and wish I could be a woman, or a totally different person, doesn’t make me trans, because I’m not already transitioned.” Which is absurd, but you invent ways to protect yourself from what will be a trauma. You’ve learned through subliminal and not-so-subliminal codes that your family or your friends or your culture are telling you, “Don’t blow up your life like that.” Repression, in this really sad way, is a survival mechanism. I don’t know that I would be alive if I had my egg crack in 1998 in my childhood bedroom. That would have been too dangerous a thing to realize about myself then.

[Making] the film was a very raw and scary journey toward becoming comfortable with myself as an artist. I always thought of myself as a “professional fan”: someone who could get really excited about other people’s art, but, for whatever reason, the idea of making my own art always felt shameful. The process of working on the film and saying to myself, “Yes, I’m trans, and I need to transition to have the life I need to live,” are all one thing. It happened while I was writing the script, and that is the shame I’m unpacking in this movie. When Casey first talks to JLB, she says, “For a lot of people, I know the change that you go through when you take the World’s Fair Challenge is a really big change, like you turn into a clown or an evil vampire”—these simple genre metaphors that we see in body horror movies. But Casey says about herself, “It’s not like that for me. It’s making me different. It’s making me bad.” And the word “bad” is a really important key to the film, because it’s not as simple as Casey role-playing the person she wishes she could be. She is expressing a part of herself that has a level of catharsis and autonomy denied to her in her IRL life, but she’s not at a stage yet where she can explore that outside of fiction and detangle that from feelings of disgust at herself.

Jane Schoenbrun speaking to Sam Bodrojan for Filmmaker, “Portal to Portal: Jane Schoenbrun on We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” April 14, 2022.

#I NEED to stop reading jane schoenbrun interviews and crying. but I don’t want to… #the ‘professional fan’ thing has been slingshotting around my mind for the past two days #we’re all going to the world’s fair #jane schoenbrun #sam is also trans and the number of trans interviewers jane has gotten to talk to for this film is really lovely and I think lets the #conversation move in ways it wouldn’t otherwise #anyway. i can’t recommend this movie because there’s a good chance you’ll find it boring BUT. It’s got a very limited release going right #now and well. if you have nothing better to do

[sneez]

some posters for conrad veidt films with my cat mole edited in in mspaint

#i have been watching. A Lot of conrad veidt films recently #the man who laughs is now one of my favourite ever films ive watched it three times in the past few weeks and i cry violently every time #i love all of them though hes so much fun to watch and so lovely i wish i could have met him #also hes like the best actor who has ever existed and im a homosexual so can you blame me #anyway ive been having fun putting mole on the posters. shes a star :) #i havent talked about her much here but my life basically revolves around mole she is my world 4 ever #i wish you all could meet her she is very small and old and i adore her with every part of my being #i hope you are all doing well friends i am very almost on holiday (yippee) so will hopefully be around more often #yippee 2 #ghost post #id in alt text by the way i thought it made more sense for a post like this

[undeniablycandycane]

Okay so,

I was inspired to spell out some comparisons/similarities me and a few other Jedtavius fandom-goers made years ago back when the fandom was much more dead. At the time I had called it the "Jedtavius Circle" but I feel like there's a better name for it out there somewhere

So, I made a venn diagram to show all the weird similarities these films have with each other, and how I feel they are personally connected in a way that is so unique.

Since the image and the writing may be hard for some to access and not all the details I'd like to add will fit in the image, I will also do my best to explain these comparisons in text:

There are three films/franchises being compared here with their respective mlm ships:

1. Night at the Museum (Jedtavius)

2. Around the World in 80 Days (2004) (Phileas Fogg x Passepartout)

3. Shanghai Series (Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights) (Roy O' Bannon x Chon Wang)

What Night at the Museum and Around the World in 80 Days share is that they both have characters played by Steve Coogan that have implied or coded romantic connection or ships with another main character, that other character played by one of the other two actors listed.

What Night at the Museum and the Shanghai Series have in common is the exact same, except instead of Steve Coogan being shared by these films we have Owen Wilson.

And, much the same, for Around the World in 80 Days & Shanghai Noon/Knights we have the same comparison as for the other two (implied romantic connection and/or is commonly shipped with a character played by another one of these actors mentioned) this time with Jackie Chan.

But get this: something all these films share is that they are queer-coded or implied silly little historical comedies from the 2000s, which on top of everything else, links these films to one another in a way that I haven't seen in any other media before.

(Another fun fact mentioned in the diagram: Owen has a cameo in Around the World, technically meaning he was in all three films. This cameo is also believed to be where Owen & Steve first met.)

This is something that is still so cool to me and I never hear it talked about. Please feel free to share your thoughts or questions!

#lmk if I need to correct anything. im trying to make the text easy to read because its a lot and my autistic brain jumbles up walls of text #hyperfixating rn #jedtavius #natm #around the world in 80 days #shanghai noon #shanghai knights #night at the museum #owen wilson #steve coogan #jackie chan #rubbing my hands together evilly. these blorbos from different universes have connections. #i often think of the other two films when watching one of them

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)

Michael Todd’s adventure comedy film ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ was released in 1956. The film starred David Niven as Phileas Fogg. It also starred Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (known as Cantinflas) as Passepartout, Robert Newton as Detective Fix, and Shirley MacLaine as Princess Aouda.

The rare picture of David Niven as Phileas Fogg in the Reform Club’s Card Room was part of a set just for publicity purposes and is held in the Reform Club archives. When it came to actually filming the scenes in the Reform Club they shot in the studios with a life-like set. The Reform Club refused to let any filming done on its premises for fear it might disturb its members.

As a current female member looking back, I might have voted otherwise just to let some daylight in to this once stuffy place.

Times have changed and a few private members clubs are quite partial for a big budget film to shoot some scenes in their iconic premises. This includes the Reform Club which has appeared in many popular films such as the James Bond films ‘Die Another Day’ and 'Quantum of Solace', 'The Avengers', 'Sherlock Holmes', 'Tenet', and others. I know there are now grumblings from current members that things have swung too far and the Reform Club is not a film set but a private haven for its members. So perhaps the Reform Club should close its doors on the principle less is more.

Anyone want to take me up on a wager that it will?

#verne #jules verne #quote #literature #film #cinema #movie #around the world in 80 days #philieas fogg #david niven #reform club #clubland #pall mall #london #gentlemens club #private members club #hollywood #film set #film location

[boogieboba]

If sw visions ends up getting a season three, they should continue the trend of getting new studios each time and (hear me out) commission student filmmakers and animators to do the next season

#imagine how cool that would be #yeah it’d be amateurish but what a fucking opportunity????? #animation students from around the world getting to create a star war?? #imagine graduating and you already have a film credit for goddamn star wars. do you know how much of a leg up that would give some people #star wars visions

[mo-ok]

Absolutely obsessed with how these mecha move tbh

Land Lion - Choujuu Sentai Liveman

God Logan - Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

Won Tiger - Gosei Sentai Dairanger

#liveman #kakuranger #dairanger #world's biggest sucker for articulated legs please send help #when it comes to the mecha physical props/miniatures are SO important to me #seeing the way they move - watching tangible props combine into the giant robo #dont get me wrong cg mechs are FINE and dated cg has its charm but MAN do i love a good physical miniature #something that i found very amusing about gaoranger was how they didnt have full physical props for any of the individual mecha #so instead you only ever see shots of like... gaolions head but its very obviously just gaoking's chest filmed from a funky angle #BACK ON TOPIC #the second i saw land lion i literally fell in love #it is the quintessential lion mecha in my mind i dont think any robot will ever compare to the beauty that is land lion #the way god logan spins through the air absolutely SENDS ME every time i see him do it #picturing saizou rattling around in there like a marble #and won tiger is so DAMN cute #black/white + red accents is a truly beautiful colour combination i will never not love a good red orb #gif post tag

[communistkenobi]

people fawning over the environmentalist themes in tolkien’s work has always made me deeply uneasy but I could never articulate why, and reading orientalism is clarifying a lot of that for me lol

#Said lays it out very clearly like #‘negative’ representations of the orient. as in representing them as deficient or lacking in some way #rests on ‘positive’ representations of the occident. as in the west is always ‘doing’ is always the thing driving human momentum #so idyllic representations of a pastoral post-labour society surrounded by fields and old world forests #populated by guys who have ample free time and fuck around all day #(& who are all white. at least in the films) #that’s not an uncomplicatedly good way to present the world #and is a perspective that is deeply informed by being beneficiaries of continued colonial extraction domination and exploitation #i meam the fictional world is literally called the centre of the earth lol #anyway not ‘cancelling’ tolkien or whatever I’m just glad to be able to understand why exactly #I think it’s bad to just uncritically praise his love of the environment as this like pure ideal #that is somehow uncorrupted by the historical and political context he came from #*post-scarcity I should say not necessarily post-labour #but like the labour processes that make that life idyllic in the first place are invisible

[nimona-week]

Nimona Week AO3 Collection is Open!

You can now post Nimona Week fics here. Feel free to add bookmarks with links to art to the collection too — AO3 is an archive for all kinds of fanworks!

If you share and tag your Nimona Week fanwork on Tumblr, we'll be sure to reblog. :)

#it's still March 30th in my time zone but wanted to be sure to accommodate Nimona fans all around the world :) #nimona #nimona week #nimona week 2024 #nimona movie #nimona graphic novel #nimona comic #nimona fandom #nimona fanfic #nimona film #nimona fanart

[wraithsoutlaws]

you know i had a fun little vp idea i wanted to do for the cyberpunk anniversary but i haven't had the energy to even touch it recently so i'll just settle with saying that this game impacted me in ways i never thought it would when i first picked it up 3 years ago. i knew i would enjoy it, i had been looking forward to it for a long time, and despite a ~controversial~ launch, i had a fucking blast from day 1 (on ps4 no less). regardless of bugs and memes and public dunking, the story grabbed me like nothing else could at the time, and it reignited so much of my passion and motivation for art that i had lost in the clutches of mental illness and i'll always be grateful for that. it introduced me to so many wonderful people (some whom i carry very close to my heart), and maybe most personally surprising, it gave me an outlet to understand parts of myself that i had been too afraid to acknowledge for a long time, the courage to accept and embrace myself as non-binary, and allow myself to just BE without trying to convince myself i'm crazy. that's not what i expected from the get-go but it's been a really fun journey to be on ngl

#yeah this fandom been a little rocky in places but i would be lying if i said this community here wasn't special to me #so much love and passion and creativity to be around and be inspired by #so many people who have been impacted by this silly little heartwrenching game #devs who have poured their heart into it to deliver something genuinely incredible #its one of those strange things that really did fully change the trajectory of this little leg of my life #to think that until 3 years ago i hadn't even touched art in a decade #now there are lovely people who want to spend money on my work #3 years ago i bought my first (and only) refurbished ps4 to play this game and now im sitting on a fancy gaming laptop #ive said it before but vp has been such an important creative outlet too #its allowed me to live my dreams of being a film director. a cinematographer. a writer. #the whole game has let me be so damn self-indulgent sometimes i feel like a kid again just unashamedly playing barbie #finding the JOY of just. creating. #i learned so much about myself through an OC because of this game #it went from 'huh what is this feeling? gender envy?' to being like full blown 'oh yea. i get it now.' so much of my life makes sense kfslf #and i met people who mean the world to me on top of it all #woof anyways #i know i say it a lot but genuinely thank u to yall who have encouraged me and supported me and who enjoy the things that i make #youve made such a difference in my life without knowing it!