#Hal Film Maker

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#princess tutu #the tatami galaxy #junichi sato #hal film maker #yojouhan shinwa taikei #madhouse #masaaki yuasa #round one #anime elitism superbowl

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#Kemeko Deluxe! #Hal Film Maker #Dril #DrilAnime

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Kiruminzuu DVD 1-10

#kiruminzuu #kiruminzoo #kiruminzu #AnimalDetectiveKiruminzoo #AnyamaruTanteiKiruminzuu #satelight #JMAnimation #HalFilmMaker #Shouji Kawamori #JM animation #Hal Film Maker #Animal Detective Kiruminzoo #Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu #Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzū #anime #shoujo #あにゃまる探偵 キルミンずぅ #shojo

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Production Artwork from Ōban Star-Racers

#Ōban Star-Racers #oban star racers #osr #molly #eva wei #prince aikka #jordan c. wilde #don wei #satis #alwas #Ōban #production artwork #i just love the mood in these... the light keying is so good #Sav! The World Productions #Savin Yeatman-Eiffel #Pumpkin 3D #Thomas Romain #Hal Film Maker Inc. #my edits

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Screencap redraw: Princess Tutu 🐤💖

Gouache practise for fun~

_________________ Princess Tutu © Ikuko Itoh / Hal Film Maker

#princess tutu #screencap redraw #fanart #my art #traditional art #it's not really good but it was really relaxing to do

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Riverdale, Ep.7x16

With only five episodes left, what fresh hell have they brought this week? Well, there's about four stories going on. One that was stupid, two that were...there but (reading some of the synopsis for some of the episodes) probably are going somewhere, and the last story...actually wasn't completely horrible.

So, the episode starts with Jason Blossom getting a stag film. Long story short, Veronica is going to host the film at her theater and invites Betty along so she isn't the only female there. However, as the film starts, Betty realizes the woman in the film is Polly and she ends up stopping the film.

And from there I'm going to break down the rest of the stories individually. Reggie and Archie keep buying stag films from Jason, but the first one turns out to be two men and the second one breaks. Archie comes to the realization that Kevin *might be* gay (sigh).  Archie and Reggie end up having a threesome with Twila Twist. And I don't care if they are actually in their twenties or this is the 1950s, that is an adult woman having sex with two sixteen year old boys. Archie and Reggie contemplate the sun rising and tell each other that that love each other. And I would say that they probably mean that in a more bro way then sexual, except as everyone is getting with everyone...

Meanwhile, Jughead is fighting the Comics Code. The history of the Comics Code is very real, very scary, and something people should probably brush up on considering some of the proposals law makers are making RIGHT NOW. Except, in this universe, the Code is created by four people in Riverdale and all of America just decided, fuck it, I guess. Anyway, Jughead looses his battle against the Fearsome Four. However, as he's telling Veronica his plight (he had asked for her advice earlier in the episode) at her apartment, well, it seems like their romance (or teenage hormones) might be rekindling. Are we about to have a triangle with Betty and Jughead fighting for Veronica, or did the show forget the whole Betty/Veronica universe kiss? I'm guessing option two.

Cheryl and Toni decide to take pictures based on some they saw in an underground Lesbian magazine. Of course, they're risque. And, even though they've been trying to lay low for two episodes...well, we only have five episodes left so, of course, Cheryl would decide to take one of the photos and create a very detailed painting from it. and leave it in her bedroom. Where her mother can just see it. And, of course, Penelope sees it and destroys it. So Cheryl wants to put her family in their place once and for all. Toni, earlier in the episode, mentioned the magazine takes photos and Cheryl wants the negatives, so I can guess where this is going.

Finally, going back to Betty. Betty contacts Polly and finds out her sister is a Burlesque performer and, according to Veronica, it seems that she is one of the most popular ones out there. She's basically Gypsy Rose Lee. Alice and Hal know about Polly's career and have cut her off. But, guess what? Polly, not being in that toxic hellhole, is thriving! She's happy, she's getting married, she's living her best life. And she convinces Betty that Betty can do the same. And finally we have the moment I have been waiting seven years for. Betty finally tells Alice that Alice is the reason why the family is falling apart (which kind of is a call back to the first season where Betty feels the responsibility to keep her family from falling apart), that Alice is a miserable person, that Betty is no longer going to let Alice control her life, and once she graduates high school, Betty is getting the hell away from Alice. Please, please writers, do not walk this back. Do one right thing before this show ends.

#riverdale #riverdale spoilers #betty cooper #alice cooper #polly cooper #jughead jones #veronica lodge #reggie mantle #archie andrews #cheryl blossom #toni topaz #kevin keller #clay walker

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Films Watched in January 2023

La Jetée | Chris Marker | 1962

Boro in the Box | Bertrand Mandico | 2011

Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life) | Werner Herzog | 1968

Trans-Europ-Express | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 1966

Henry Fool | Hal Hartley | 1997

Fay Grim | Hal Hartley | 2005

Ned Rifle | Hal Hartley | 2014

Les Enfants Terribles | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1950

La vie rêvée des anges (The Dreamlife of Angels) | Erick Zonca | 1998

Bob le Flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1956

The Working Class Goes to Heaven | Elio Petri | 1971

Big Time Gambling Boss | Kôsaku Yamashita | 1968

Dementia 13 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1963

One More Time | Maurice Hamblin | 1974

Love Rites | Walerian Borowczyk | 1987

Emmanuelle 5 | Walerian Borowczyk | 1987

Behind Convent Walls | Walerian Borowczyk | 1978

Men | Alex Garland | 2022

The Juniper Tree | Nietzchka Keene | 1990

M3GAN | Gerard Johnstone | 2022

La marge (The Margin) | Walerian Borowczyk | 1976

Flux Gourmet | Peter Strickland | 2022

Letter From Paris | Walerian Borowczyk | 1975

Peter Von Kant | François Ozon | 2022

Lady Oscar | Jacques Demy | 1979

Bold = Top Ten

Some notes: After watching the Borowczyk biopic (of sorts) Boro in the Box I decided to catch up on some of the later movies by the "dead Polish film maker" which I was more unfamiliar with, which turned out to be a very mixed bunch. Similarly I'd been promising myself to watch the Hal Hartley “Henry Fool trilogy” for ages but found Fay Grim a huge disappointment after Henry Fool. Ned Rifle was more of a return to form at least.

#Film Log

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Honestly, this could probably be an unpopular idea but what if in the next Green Lantern Movie (if DC makes one that is) we don't have Hal Jordan become a Green Lantern and instead we focus on Abin Sur and Thaal Sinestro?

I would honestly prefer to see a movie that explores Sinestro's back story especially if they plan to go into other events later on like the creation of Sinestro Corp or Darkest Night. Therefore, by the time they do have a film where Hal becomes a Green Lantern they won't have to spend as much time explaining everything. This could benefit in reviews as another Green Lantern film will be judged with the last movie in mind, especially if Hal Jordan is the main character. A main criticism of the past live action Green Lantern movie was that they focus a lot on verbally explaining everything rather than having the character interact with information from time to time. Long lines of dialogue can only be entertaining for a limited period of time.

I also feel like doing this could explain to a greater audience what the Green Lantern Corp is like. They can only do that so much with Hal Jordan because he also has a responsibility of protecting his city and the hero community through the Justice League. I also think starting out a Lantern Corp series like this will make it easier for people to adjust to have multiple Green Lanterns of Earth at a time. We will then be able to bring in people like John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, or Jessica Cruz just to name a few. But I'm not a film maker or anything of the short so what do I know?

#dc comics #dc #green lantern #green lantern movie #green lantern corp #abin sur #thaal sinestro #sinestro #hal jordan #lantern corp series

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Doris Day, Rock Hudson, and Tony Randall in Lover Come Back

Tony Randall, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Clint Walker in Send Me No Flowers

Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann, 1961) Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Jack Kruschen, Ann B. Davis. Screenplay: Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning. Cinematography: Arthur E. Arling. Art direction: Robert Clatworthy, Alexander Golitzen. Film editing: Marjorie Fowler. Music: Frank De Vol.  Send Me No Flowers (Norman Jewison, 1964) Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Hal March, Edward Andrews, Clint Walker, Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, based on a play by Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore. Cinematography: Daniel L. Fapp. Art direction: Robert Clatworthy, Alexander Golitzen. Music: Frank De Vol. The gag "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin" has been attributed to various wags, including Groucho Marx and Oscar Levant, but in fact the canard that the Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies were about Day defending her virginity stems mainly from the second of the three films, Lover Come Back. In the first, Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon, 1959), Day's character seems perfectly willing to go off for a weekend with Hudson's, and in the third, Send Me No Flowers, they're already married. Still, these are sex comedies, and Day's characters are, if not virgins, at least naïve. Pillow Talk remains the best of the trio, if only because its initial teaming of the perky Day with the handsome Hudson feels inspired -- as if its makers had been watching the great screwball comedies of the past and had looked around for contemporary equivalents to Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, and Carole Lombard on the one hand, and Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and Joel McCrea on the other. If Day and Hudson don't seem quite as distinguished as that company, I think that's because the movie industry had changed so much in the interim, with stars no longer seen as members of a studio's repertory troupe. To my mind, Day and Hudson hold their own nicely. What had also changed was a certain coarsening of the treatment of sex as the Production Code began to crumble -- there's a sense that writers and directors in the heyday of screwball comedy were content to finesse the limitations of the Code while those of the early 1960s were thumbing their noses at it. Certainly there's nothing so crass in the great comedies of the 1930s and '40s as the scene in Lover Come Back in which Day's Carol Templeton orders a designer to remodel the container of a potential client's product, saying that whoever gets the contract will have "the most attractive can." Cut to a closeup of the bunny-tail-adorned bottom of Edie Adams as the nightclub dancer Rebel Davis. There's also a lot of humor in these movies that feels sadly dated, especially the play on symbols of the Confederacy when Hudson's Jerry is trying to woo a Southern client: Rebel exposes an array of Confederate battle flags across her chest as the band plays "Dixie." Send Me No Flowers feels a little less crass than either Pillow Talk or Lover Come Back, partly because we have moved from sex comedy to domestic comedy of the sort more familiar from TV sitcoms: Hudson's George is a hypochondriac who mistakenly thinks he's dying and wants to provide for Day's somewhat ditzy and impractical Judy. If the brawny Hudson seems like a misfit in this part, we have to accept it as a given -- just as we have to accept the goofiness of Cary Grant as a paleontologist in Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938). Perhaps one reason the producers cast the improbably large Clint Walker as Judy's old boyfriend was to make Hudson look comparatively normal in size.

#Lover Come Back #Send Me No Flowers #Delbert Mann #Norman Jewison #Rock Hudson #Doris Day #Tony Randall #Clint Walker

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Moon River

Catatan lama, seingatku, ini ada versi tulisan tangannya entah di mana, ditulis akhir 2014

Ke toko buku itu memang menyenangkan, di tambah lagi ikan arwana di dekat tangga itu selalu menggugahku untuk berlama-lama di sana. Tetapi, beberapa hari terakhir, ada satu toko CD yang sedang menuju kebangkrutan karena sepinya pembeli. Ketika ke sana ada satu film yang menggugahku, Breakfast at Tiffany.

Audrey Hepburn itu cantik ya, kamu harus menontonnya di kala senggangmu. Senyumnya memang tidak begitu merekah, tapi cukup manis untuk disimpan di kepala. Itu mencuri setidaknya 20 persen pikiranku hanya dalam hitungan detik.

Yah, Audrey Hepburn di film ini mengingatkanmu akan sosokmu. Tenang, tidak peduli sorotan dan hanya berjalan sesuai langkah kakimu saja. Dulu kuanggap itu hal egois, tapi ternyata itu caramu menyembunyikan pilu.

Ah iya, aku lupa membelikanmu kado di hari ulang tahunmu. Aku juga urung membantumu pindah kos beberapa waktu lalu. Kebodohanku rasanya tidak akan berhenti sampai di situ saja, ku rasa, seperti panjangnya presentasi Rancang Kota yang membosankan ini.

Sore itu hujan, jika bukan karena absenku sudah tiga kali, tentu aku tidak akan berangkat. Aku berpapasan denganmu andai kau sadar, dan seperti senyum Audrey Hepburn, se-sopan itu, masuk ke alam bawah sadarku.

Satu adegan yang tidak pernah lepas, tentu adalah ketika Audrey memetik gitar di bawah tangga dan menyanyikan lagu 'moon river'. Ah sial, lagu itupun selalu membuatku tersenyum sendiri betapa rindunya melihat wajah lugumu itu.

Di ujung hujan sore ini aku melihat pelangi di belakang gedung Industri yang mungil itu. Bersolek tenang selepas hujan, di bawah pakaian basahku, aku memikirkanmu dan ingin mengajakmu pulang bersamaku.

Sudahlah, nyaliku terlalu kecil, apalagi sejak ku mengutarakan rasaku pasca Naif membawakan lagu Buta Hati tahun lalu. Biarkan parasmu ku simpan sendiri, biarkan tawa kecilmu tetap ada di pikiranku, seperti tetesan hujan yang diresap tanah. Ku bernyanyi kecil seraya memujamu. Smurf.

Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end Waitin' 'round the bend My huckleberry friend Moon river and me

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Models and scenic props in films

Star Wars The one who made the props for the star war movies was Andrew Ainsworth. He's of shepperton design studios created the originals storm-trooper helmets and Armour for the first Star Wars movie. A new hope, all the years later,Andrew produces genuine, authentic replicas using the original moulds, as close as it is possible to get to original films props.

Independence Day John Zabrucky also constructed props for Rockey IV what was made in 1985. He created props for Robocop what was made in 1987. For which he built a mechanical recharging chair. He also made props for Back to future paet II what was made in 1989 and Batman Returns what was made in 1992. He made props for speed and independence day.

Pacific Rim Industrial light and magic was chosen to create the visual effects for pacific Rim. Del Toro hired Oscar winners John Knoll and hal T. Hickel, both known for their work on the star wars prequel trilogy and the pirates of the caribbean films.

Harry potter The prop maker Pierre Bohanna's amazing career has seen him play a vital creative role in the film series such as the James Bond, Star wars and harry potter. Chris Burn report. Pierre Bohanna has made props for the Harry Potter and the Fantastic Beast Films.

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Inovasi Seni yang Mempesona: Pameran Lukisan Teknologi AI Denny JA di International MLF

Pada bulan Juni lalu, Indonesia kembali menunjukkan kehebatannya dalam dunia seni dan teknologi. Pameran lukisan digital menggunakan teknologi Artificial Intelligence (AI) bertajuk "Denny JA AI Art" dipamerkan dalam rangkaian kegiatan Indonesia Pavilion di ajang International Media and Literature Festival (MLF) di Beijing, China.

Pameran lukisan digital ini merupakan salah satu bentuk inovasi seni yang mempesona. Lukisan-lukisan digital tersebut digambar menggunakan teknologi AI dengan bantuan sang seniman, Denny ja.

Melalui pameran ini, Denny ja ingin menunjukkan betapa hebatnya teknologi AI dalam seni rupa. Denny JA, merupakan seorang seniman yang dikenal produktif dalam berkarya dengan berbagai media, seperti lukisan tangan, digital art, hingga mural. Tidak hanya itu, ia juga seorang pengajar seni di Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain Universitas Kristen Maranatha.

Dalam pameran ini, terdapat berbagai jenis lukisan digital yang mengusung tema alam, teknologi, dan kebijakan publik. Teknik dan penampilannya pun sangat beragam, mulai dari gaya realisme hingga gaya abstrak yang khas.

Denny JA mengatakan, teknologi AI membantunya dalam berkarya lebih cepat dan efisien, namun tetap mempertahankan kualitas dan keunikan karyanya. Penggunaan teknologi AI dalam lukisan digital memungkinkan hal-hal yang sulit dilakukan dalam lukisan tangan, seperti perubahan warna secara dramatis, sketsa yang rapih, dan banyak lagi.

Dalam pameran ini, Denny JA juga menunjukkan proses pembuatan lukisan digital dengan teknologi AI. Teknologi AI memungkinkan Denny JA untuk menjalankan sketsa awal dengan lebih cepat dan efisien. Setelah itu, teknologi akan menentukan area mana yang diisi dengan warna-warna tertentu. Kemudian, Denny JA akan melakukan perubahan pada hasil yang dihasilkan teknologi AI sesuai dengan keinginan dan kreativitasnya.

Pameran Denny JA ini adalah bagian dari "Indonesia Pavilion" yang diselenggarakan oleh Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Indonesia di International Media and Literature Festival (MLF) di Beijing, China. Indonesia Pavilion sendiri merupakan bagian dari rangkaian kegiatan dalam acara Culture and Tourism Week, dalam rangka memperingati 70 tahun hubungan diplomatik Indonesia-Tiongkok.

Dalam ajang ini, Indonesia mengirimkan enam seniman dan pelaku industri kreatif, di antaranya adalah Denny JA (seniman), Fikri Satari (desainer grafis), Cindy Claudia (film maker), Frederick M. Sitepu (penulis), Muhammad Umar Riza (penulis), dan Arief Rachman Hakim (pengamat media)

Dalam acara ini, mereka membawa karya-karya berbagai jenis media, seperti instalasi seni, foto, lukisan, dan miniatur. Karya-karya tersebut menunjukkan keberagaman dan kekayaan akan budaya Indonesia.

Berkarya di era digital dan teknologi yang semakin maju, karya seni ternyata tidak kalah menarik dan mempesona. Sebagai mediator antara teknologi dan seni, Denny JA berharap dapat menjadi pelopor dan membuka jalan bagi banyak seniman untuk menciptakan karya seni yang inovatif dan unik, yang dilandasi kualitas dan kreativitas.

Cek Selengkapnya: Inovasi Seni yang Mempesona: Pameran Lukisan Teknologi AI Denny JA di International MLF

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Kunst en Architectuur: Ontrafelen van het creatieve erfgoed van BOL Nederland

Als we aan Nederland denken, denken we vaak aan pittoreske windmolens en tulpenvelden. Dit levendige land heeft echter een rijk cultureel erfgoed dat verder reikt dan zijn natuurlijke schoonheid. De kunst en architectuur van Nederland hebben een grote invloed gehad op de wereldwijde creatieve scene. In dit artikel gaan we dieper in op het artistieke en architectonische erfgoed van Nederland en ontrafelen we de creatieve erfenis die BOL en de natie als geheel heeft beïnvloed.

Artistieke schittering:

Nederland is door de geschiedenis heen een centrum van artistieke schittering geweest. De Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw, verspreid over de 17e eeuw, staat bekend om zijn uitzonderlijke schilders, waaronder Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer en Frans Hals. Deze meesters van het penseel legden het dagelijks leven, landschappen en portretten vast met opmerkelijke vaardigheid en aandacht voor detail. Hun werken blijven kunstliefhebbers over de hele wereld inspireren en boeien.

De Nederlandse kunstscène reikt verder dan de Gouden Eeuw. Het land is ook de thuisbasis geweest van invloedrijke moderne en hedendaagse kunstenaars. Figuren als Piet Mondriaan en Vincent van Gogh hebben een onuitwisbare stempel gedrukt op de kunstwereld door grenzen te verleggen en nieuwe artistieke uitingen te verkennen. Nederland beschikt over musea van wereldklasse, zoals het Van Gogh Museum en het Rijksmuseum, waar u zich kunt onderdompelen in het artistieke erfgoed van het land.

Architectonische wonderen:

De architectuur van Nederland is net zo divers als de artistieke nalatenschap. Van middeleeuwse bouwwerken tot hedendaagse ontwerpen, het land toont een scala aan bouwstijlen.

Historisch gezien staat Nederland bekend om zijn unieke grachtenpanden. Deze hoge, smalle gebouwen met sierlijke gevels omzomen de pittoreske grachten van steden als Amsterdam en Utrecht. Deze huizen, gebouwd tijdens de Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw, worden gekenmerkt door hun kenmerkende architectonische kenmerken en dienen als een bewijs van de rijke geschiedenis van het land.

Nederland omarmt ook vernieuwende en duurzame architectuur. Met name Rotterdam staat bekend om zijn moderne architectonische landschap. De stad heeft iconische bouwwerken zoals de Kubuswoningen, de Erasmusbrug en de Markthal, die toonaangevend ontwerp en techniek laten zien. Deze architectonische wonderen trekken bezoekers van over de hele wereld en dragen bij aan het levendige stedelijke weefsel van Nederland.

BOL en het Creatief Erfgoed:

BOL, de populaire online retailer gevestigd in Nederland, is diep geworteld in het creatieve erfgoed van het land. Het bedrijf viert de artistieke en architectonische erfenis van Nederland door een breed scala aan culturele producten aan te bieden, waaronder boeken, muziek, films en kunstwerken. BOL erkent het belang van het bevorderen van creativiteit en het ondersteunen van kunstenaars en makers, waardoor hun werk toegankelijk wordt voor een breed publiek.

Om verder in contact te komen met BOL en het creatieve erfgoed van Nederland te ontdekken, kunt u contact opnemen met de klantenservice van BOL in Nederland door Bellen nummer BOL te bellen. BOL Klantenservice Nederland helpt klanten met al hun vragen of zorgen.

Kortom, de kunst en architectuur van Nederland weerspiegelen een rijk cultureel erfgoed dat blijft inspireren en boeien. Van de meesterwerken van beroemde schilders tot de iconische bouwwerken die het Nederlandse landschap sieren, de creatieve erfenis van Nederland is een bewijs van zijn artistieke genialiteit. BOL omarmt dit erfgoed en nodigt je uit om je onder te dompelen in de bruisende wereld van kunst en cultuur. Dus of u nu de schilderijen van de Hollandse Meesters verkent of de architectonische wonderen bewondert, neem even de tijd om het creatieve erfgoed te waarderen dat BOL en Nederland als geheel heeft gevormd.

#Contact bol Nummer

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#Kiruminzuu #Kiruminzoo #Kiruminzu #kiruminzū #Animal Detective Kiruminzoo #Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu #Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzu #AnimalDetectiveKiruminzoo #AnyamaruTanteiKiruminzuu #satelight #JM animation #Hal Film Maker #Shouji Kawamori #anime #shoujo #あにゃまる探偵 キルミンずぅ #shojo

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Birthdays 5.30

Beer Birthdays

Peter Schemm (1824)

Adolph G. Bechaud (1840)

John Gilroy (1898)

Candy Lightner (1946)

Adam Avery (1966)

Ben Love (1978)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Mikhail Bakunin; political philosopher (1814)

Mel Blanc; voice actor (1908)

Benny Goodman; jazz clarinetist (1909)

Shauna Grant; porn actor, a.k.a. Colleen Applegate (1963)

Howard Hawks; film director (1896)

Famous Birthdays

Alexander Archipenkpo; sculptor (1887)

King Arthur; legendary British leader (c. late 5th century)

Julius Axelrod; biochemist (1912)

Hal Clement; writer (1922)

Countee Cullen; poet (1903)

Arthur Vining Davis; businessman, philanthropist (1867)

Keir Dullea; actor (1936)

Kevin Eastman; comic book artist (1962)

Jennifer Ellison; model, actor (1983)

Pee Wee Erwin; jass trumpeter (1913)

Bob Evans; sausage-maker, restaurateur (1918)

Peter Carl Faberge; jeweler, goldsmith, egg-maker (1846)

Stepin Fetchit; actor (1902)

Hugh Griffith; actor (1912)

Topper Headon; rock drummer (1955)

Wynonna Judd; country singer (1964)

Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd; archeologist (1902)

Meredith MacRae; actor (1944)

Ted McGinley; actor (1958)

Tom Morello; rock guitarist, singer (1964)

Alexander Nevski; Russian leader (122)

Peter the Great; Russian tsar (1672)

Michael J. Pollard; actor (1939)

Robert Ryman; artist (1930)

Gale Sayers; Chicago Bears RB (1943)

Cornelia Otis Skinner; actor, writer (1901)

Joseph Stein; playwright (1912)

Harry Clement Stubbs; writer (1922)

Irving Thalberg; film director (1899)

Stephen Tobolowsky; actor (1951)

Frankie Trumbauer; jazz saxophonist (1901)

Louis Varney; composer (1844)

Clint Walker; actor (1927)

#Birthdays

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Noir Watch: The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)

Watched:  05/15/2023

Format:  TCM

Viewing:  First

Director:  Robert Siodmak

What's not to like?  A Hal B. Wallis production, directed by Robert Siodmak, shot by George Barnes and starring Stanwyck.  No notes.  Well done.

The movie was written by a pair of women, one on story (Marty Holland) and one on script (Ketti Frings), who understand the assignment and put together characters in trouble before the action even starts.  

Wendell Corey plays an Assistant DA, an up-and-comer, whose wife has slotted him as caretaker and figurehead but who has made him a stranger in his own home by refusing to hear him on anything, but in the sweetest and dimmest way, all wrapped up with good intentions.   Meanwhile, Stanwyck - at the end of her rope - has moved in with her elderly aunt as a companion.  The two meet under boozy circumstances, and soon strike up an affair.

SPOILERS

In 1950 if two characters struck up an affair, there's a 90% chance they'll be dead or in jail or both by the end of the film.  This is Breen Office-time, and by policy, sins in movies needed to be punished.  

As a rule, I don't try to outguess movies anymore.  I take them at face value and try to understand not what I think the movie is, but what I think the movie-makers are trying to do - and *then* I'll loop back to what I think on top of it, because, and I know the internet will hate this: what I think about a movie is secondary.  Probably tertiary.

But.  Knowing the movie was made when it was and under what rules, it does limit possible avenues for the narrative.  

Corey discovers Stanwyck was married already, but the two are so in love, they plan to run off, seek divorces and marry.  But the night in question, Stanwyck's aunt gets spooked by noises in the house and then is killed by a burglar - in what is an amazing sequence film students would do well to review.  It's just wonderfully shot, leaving a trail of clues for the unpacking while aesthetically top notch.

Stanwyck calls Corey to come now, and - afraid her ex has stolen the jewels and she'll be implicated, makes a mess of the crime scene, and Corey just stands there, amazed at how she's basically set herself up to wind up in jail despite her innocence.

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And here's the rub.  This is fundamentally a good movie, but you also know immediately - because of the movie punishment gods - that Stanwyck did kill her aunt and this is all a cover up.  If she's willing to cheat on her nowhere-in-sight abusive husband, she's also clearly capable of murder.  Thanks, Hayes Code!  

In the noiriest of noir moves, she gets Corey to prosecute her in court.  Corey is never suspected of any involvement despite evidence *someone* was there.

It's Stanwyck, so it's all utterly buyable and believable - from her seemingly innocent ensnarement of Corey to the slow unravelling of the plan.

Look, I genuinely liked the movie.  Everyone in it does a great job, including Corey's boss, the upright lawman.  If you aren't clocking what *has* to happen to satisfy the needs of censorship, this could have gone a lot of ways.  Stanwyck is appealing and terrific as ever, Corey shows why he was a thing until he wasn't, and Siodmak manages to put together a terrific film.  

Once you get over that, the unveiling and dealing with the consequences is solid stuff and Stanwyck gets some scenes that make for quality melodrama.  She's just a woman caught up in circumstances in some ways, but she also *did* shoot her aunt, so... a bit of a heel!  It's a great role and one that let's a female character be (a) a sort of femme fatale and (b) very, very smart except when she isn't.  

I admit that I also liked that they really did set up Corey to be a bit sympathetic in his dissatisfaction.  A perfectly lovely, sweet wife who can't begin to empathize with her husband and dismisses his expressed feelings as irrelevant.  Of course Corey is being a bit selfish, and of course he pays for his indiscretions, but you can also see how someone could start hating their homelife even when the one at home isn't a monster, just vapid.  Excellent nuance there.

Anyway, all around, I liked it.  I wish I'd watched it with Jamie instead of by myself.  I think she would have liked it, but I'll just watch it again some time.

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