#Imogen Sara Smith

[justbusterkeaton]

“Buster doesn’t wear his heart on his sleeve does not mean that he doesn’t have one. Acting both through and around his deadpan, he knew how to let the audience figure out what he was trying to hide.

In The Haunted House, when a woman comes into the bank where he works and exerts her wiles to seduce him into opening the time-lock safe early for her, his face remains as set as granite, but every time he shakes his head in refusal we know exactly how much his resolve has weakened. Here the stone face hilariously counterpoints a spine of jell-o.”

- Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy by Imogen Sara Smith

#buster keaton #the haunted house #imogen sara smith #Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy #comedy #silent movies #1920s #silent film #silent comedy #1920s cinema #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #slapstick #quotes

[filmnoirfoundation]

NOIR CITY 21

Celebrating its 21st year, NOIR CITY, the largest annual film noir festival in the world, returns to Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre, January 19-28, 2024. FNF president Eddie Muller will present a dozen double bills pairing an English language noir with a similarly themed foreign language film—24 films over 10 days. Whatever the country of origin, there are heists, prison breaks, missing persons, cultural alienation, love triangles, and lots of plain old-fashioned murder.

Muller says this edition "has been tailored to satisfy those folks who love noir filled with the colorful vernacular slang so essential to American and British noir—as well as adventurous viewers intrigued by seeing a familiar story—typically a crime committed for passion or profit—play out in cultures with different values, mores, and styles." Through his programming of NOIR CITY festivals around the nation and his hosting of the popular Noir Alley franchise on Turner Classic Movies, Muller aims to move audiences past the idea that film noir is a strictly American genre.

Joining him this year, as co-programmer and co-host, is acclaimed film scholar Imogen Sara Smith, a familiar commentator on The Criterion Channel streaming service. "Attending NOIR CITY in the Bay Area has been a highlight of my year for over a decade," says Smith, "and I'm thrilled to be joining Eddie as co-host this year. I'm especially excited that the program we've put together will introduce audiences to some rare international titles, alongside Hollywood classics. It's going to be a stellar festival."

Kicking off the collection of rarities is the FNF's most recent restoration — 1952's Argentine film Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) — based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction, Cornell Woolrich. The picture was preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and has now been completely restored by the FNF through UCLA Film & Television Archive, thanks in part to a grant from the Golden Globe Foundation (formerly HFPA). Fernando Martín Peña, Argentina's pre-eminent cinephile, will be on hand to introduce the film with Eddie Muller.

Included on the 2024 schedule are English-language rarities such as Black Tuesday (1954), Plunder Road (1957), Across the Bridge (1957), and Strongroom (1962). Little-seen international titles include The Human Beast (France, 1938), Aimless Bullet (South Korea, 1960), Bitter Rice (Italy, 1949), Four Against the World (Mexico, 1950), Zero Focus (Japan, 1961), and Smog (1962), a forgotten surrealist masterpiece by Italian director Franco Rossi freshly restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Explore the full line up, buy tickets for individual double features and Passports (All-Access Passes) at the festival website.

GO TO NOIR CITY

#noir city #film noir foundation #eddie muller #film restoration #noir city 21 #noir city oakland #grand lake theatre #imogen sara smith #Argentine film noir #35mm screening #film noir festival #never open that door #cornell woolrich #Martín Peña #tcm #noir alley #criterion channel #No abras nunca esa puerta

[silentlondon]

Open Pandora's Box on Eureka Blu-ray this year

Blulu-ray? Brooks set? No, I’ll start again. Very welcome news from Eureka Entertainment! The good people of Eureka, who have brought us so many beautiful silent film Blu-rays, in the past are releasing Pandora’s Box (GW Pabst, 1929) on Blu-ray on 30 October this year. This is the film’s debut on Blu-ray in the UK. Continue reading Untitled

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#Alexandra Heller Nicholas #David Cairns #Eureka #featured #Fiona Watson #GW Pabst #Imogen Sara Smith #Kat Ellinger #Louise Brooks #Masters of Cinema #Pandora&039;s Box #Peer Raben #Richard Combs #silent film #Tony Stella

[pierreism]

Now free on the Criterion Channel whether or not you're a subscriber: Watch Imogen Sara Smith introduce our British Noir collection! 🖤Explore the distinctive strain of noir that flourished in postwar Britain—marked by fatalistic wit & visual lyricism.

17 minutes. via @criterionchannl

#Imogen Sara Smith

[heartateasee]

“Cherry Bomb Playlist”

(Playlist for Cherry Bomb)

• You can find a link to this Spotify playlist over at on my Twitter account! 

"Cherry Bomb" - The Runaways

"Crush" - Ethel Cain

"If It Means A Lot to You" - A Day to Remember

"Black Sheep - Brie Larson Vocal Version / Bonus Track" - Metric, Brie Larson

"I Caught Myself" - Paramore

"Wish Me Luck" - Wallows

"Lights Up" - Harry Styles

"There's a Honey" - Pale Waves

"Clairvoyant" - The Story So Far

"Let's Talk About Your Hair" - Have Mercy

"Skin to Skin" - Movements

"Heaven" - Julia Michaels

"Fade Into You" - Mazzy Star

"I Saw Water" - Tigers Jaw

"Everything We Had" - The Academy Is...

"Ignorance" - Paramore

"Stay" - Post Malone

"fineshrine" - Purity Ring

"Fall In Love" - Phantogram

"No Shame" - 5 Seconds of Summer

"Stargazing" - The Neighbourhood

"Stop Draggin' my Heart Around (with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)" - Stevie Nicks

"Frayed In Doubt" - The Early November

"Figure You Out" - DJO

"Wet Dream" - Wet Leg

"The Kids from Yesterday" - My Chemical Romance

"Swords and Pens" - The Story So Far

"Slither" - DJO

"Touch Tank" - quinnie

"High" - Stephen Sanchez

"Desert Song" - My Chemical Romance

"I Don't Do Drugs" - Doja Cat

"Barracuda" - Heart

"Smile Like You Mean It" - The Killers

"Walking with a Ghost" - Tegan and Sara

"Emergency Contact" - Pierce The Veil

"Sunshine Baby" - The Japanese House

"Peaches" - In the Valley Below

"Empty Space" - The Story So Far

"The Killing Moon" - Echo & the Bunnymen

"Michelle Pfeiffer (feat. lil aaron)" - Ethel Cain

"Teeth" - 5 Seconds of Summer

"Don't Speak" - No Doubt

"Ever So Sweet" - The Early November

"Vindicated" - Dashboard Confessional

"The Best of Me" - The Starting Line

"My Paper Heart" - All American Rejects

"Vicious Love (feat. Hayley Williams)" - New Found Glory

"Take This To Heart - Acoustic" - Mayday Parade

"Black Butterflies and Deja Vu" - The Maine

"Upside Down" - The Story So Far

"How Soon Is Now?" - The Smiths

"Misery" - The Maine

"Black Out Days" - Phantogram

"Fine Line" - Harry Styles

"Eyes Without A Face" - Billy Idol

"Casings" - Ethel Cain

"Closing In" - Imogen Heap

"Lonely Is The Night" - Billy Squier

"Not Strong Enough" - boygenius

"The Steps" - HAIM

"Earthquake" - The Used

"Everytime - Spotify Singles" - Ethel Cain

"C'est Comme Ça" - Paramore

"Always" - Babygirl

"Cherry Thrill" - Movements

#harry styles #harry styles au #harry styles fanfiction #harry styles fic #harry styles smut #harry styles writing #harry edward styles #harry styles smutty fanfic #harry styles ff

[busterlvr]

Buster Keaton photographed by George Hurrell, 1930

“He was never more glamorous than in stills taken around 1930, when he was unhappily under contract at MGM. Even while the studio miscast Buster in films as a pathetic, nerdy shrimp, their portrait photographers immortalized his sculptured handsomeness and sex appeal weighted by hypnotic stillness. In photographs by George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull and Ruth Harriet Louise, Buster broods in tailored suits or natty, deco sport clothes, crisp shirts as perfect as Gatsby’s, even white sweaters and plus-fours. His innate physical elegance makes him incapable of an unbecoming posture. His profile is classically noble, his cheekbones high and chiseled. His huge, dark, heavy-lidded, long-lashed eyes burn with oblique intensity. Like Valentino, Garbo and Marilyn Monroe, Buster could lower his eyelids halfway and gaze out from under them, but his look is not so much come-hither as beyond reach” - Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy by Imogen Sara Smith

#buster keaton #old hollywood #hollywood #silent film #1920s #1930s #film #cinema #viral #art #quotes #quote

[theseventhveil1945]

Wandering around Paul’s mansion one day while he is out, Mifanwy enters a long hallway lined with mirrored doors; opening one, she confronts a white, eyeless dummy dressed in a sumptuous period gown. There is a mannequin behind each door, their faces vaguely suggesting mummified corpses; the allusion to Bluebeard’s wives is inescapable. But Mifanwy quickly recovers from her shock and wallows in the fabulous clothes and jewels, which Paul has collected in anticipation of finding the right woman to wear them. (The film’s opulent costumes, which appeal to the ten-year-old girl within every female viewer, were designed by Owen Hyde-Clark and constructed by Maggy Rouff.) Mifanwy happily succumbs to the joys of playing dress-up. This Galatea is motivated not by love but by vanity; she is intoxicated by herself, infatuated with her own image, more than with Paul. It is also clear that their romance is never consummated—and this is by his choice, not hers. They are, in a way, more like children sharing a private world of make-believe than like adult lovers. Corridor of Mirrors: The Eternal Return by Imogen Sara Smith

#corridor of mirrors #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmblr #terrence young #edana romney #eric portman

[firstprince-ao3feed]

The Super Six and Paris Squad’s Pride Month

by Fan_of_many_things

What if Heartstopper, Young Royals and Red White & Royal Blue was in the same universe?

How would Alex Claremont-Diaz, Henry Fox-Mountchrusten, Simon Eriksson, Crown Prince Wilhelm, Charles “Charlie” Spring and Nicholas “Nick” Nelson interact?

Well how about you read to find out

Words: 1446, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV), Young Royals (TV 2021), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Tao Xu, Elle Argent, Tara Jones, Darcy Olsson, Issac Henderson (Heartstopper), Sahar Zahid, Imogen Heaney, Sai Verma, Christian McBride (Heartstopper), Otis Smith | Omar, Simon Eriksson, Wilhelm (Young Royals), Henry (Young Royals), Walter (Young Royals), Felice Ehrencrona, Sara Eriksson, Fredrika (Young Royals), Stella (Young Royals), Rosh (Young Royals), Yasmina (Young Royals), Ayub (Young Royals), Madison McCoy, Alex Claremont-Diaz, June Claremont-Diaz, Nora Holleran, Percy "Pez" Okonjo, Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, The Super Six (Red White & Royal Blue), The Paris Squad (Heartstopper)

Relationships: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring, Tara Jones/Darcy Olsson, Elle Argent/Tao Xu, Sai Verma/Sahar Zahid, Imogen Heaney/Christian McBride, Fredrika/Stella (Young Royals), Henry/Walter (Young Royals), Felice Ehrencrona/Sara Eriksson, Rosh/Yasmina (Young Royals), Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper) & Wilhelm (Young Royals), Simon Eriksson/Wilhelm, Ayub (Young Royals) & Original Female Character(s), Madison McCoy/Original Male Character(s), Alex Claremont-Diaz & Wilhelm (Young Royals), Alex Claremont-Diaz & Simon Eriksson, Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, June Claremont-Diaz/Nora Holleran, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor & Wilhelm (Young Royals), Simon Eriksson & Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Additional Tags: Canon Gay Character, Canon Bisexual Character, Canon Trans Character, Canon Lesbian Character, canon aromantic asexual character, Canon Gay Relationship, Canon Lesbian Relationship, Trans Female Character, He/Him and They/Them Pronouns for Percy "Pez" Okonjo, Post-Canon, Established Relationship

from AO3 works tagged 'Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor' https://ift.tt/BnJp24Y

#ifttt #ao3feed #fanfic #rwrb #firstprince #red white and royal blue

[readingbythestreetlights]

got tagged by @crimsonicarus to make a playlist with the letters from my username (ty bestie <3333)

p.s. omg it’s harder than you think to find songs that start with “r” or “e” !! this took a lot out of me— i should’ve chosen a shorter name

R - rich man vampire weekend

E - emma blowgun’s last stand by beulah

A - astral weeks by van morrison

D - dreamland by glass animals

I - interstellar love by the avalanches

N - never going back again by fleetwood mac

G - genesis by grimes

B - breezeblocks by alt-j

Y - you wouldn’t like me by tegan and sara

T - that’s our lamp by mitski

H - heaven knows i’m miserable now by the smiths

E - end of the day by one direction

S - sweet by lana del rey

T - the whip by locksley

R - ribs by lorde

E - entropy by grimes

E - earth by imogen heap

T - the only thing by sufjan stevens

L - like real people do by hozier

I - if you need to, keep time on me by fleet foxes

G - going to california by led zeppelin

H - here’s where the story ends by the sundays

T - the start of something by voxtrot

S - spanway hits by flake music

tagging: @abovecalamity if you’d like to do this <33

#about me #music #life #random #fun

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

On November 21th, the @criterioncollection is releasing Mean Street on 4K UHD blu-ray!

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

Excerpted conversation between Scorsese and filmmaker Richard Linklater from a 2011 Directors Guild of America event

Selected-scene audio commentary featuring Scorsese and actor Amy Robinson

New video essay by author Imogen Sara Smith about the film’s physicality and portrayal of brotherhood

Interview with director of photography Kent Wakeford

Excerpt from the documentary Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood (2008) featuring Mean Streets cowriter Mardik Martin as well as Scorsese, journalist Peter Biskind, and filmmaker Amy Heckerling

Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973), a promotional video featuring Scorsese on the streets of New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by critic Lucy Sante

New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde Design

#Mean Streets #Martin Scorsese #The Criterion Collection #4K UHD #4K HDR #film classics

[justbusterkeaton]

“He was never more glamorous than in stills taken around 1930, when he was unhappily under contract at MGM. Even while the studio miscast Buster in films as a pathetic, nerdy shrimp, their portrait photographers immortalized his sculptured handsomeness and sex appeal weighted by hypnotic stillness. In photographs by George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull and Ruth Harriet Louise, Buster broods in tailored suits or natty, deco sport clothes, crisp shirts as perfect as Gatsby’s, even white sweaters and plus-fours. His innate physical elegance makes him incapable of an unbecoming posture. His profile is classically noble, his cheekbones high and chiseled. His huge, dark, heavy-lidded, long-lashed eyes burn with oblique intensity. Like Valentino, Garbo and Marilyn Monroe, Buster could lower his eyelids halfway and gaze out from under them, but his look is not so much come-hither as beyond reach”

Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy by Imogen Sara Smith

#buster keaton #Imogen Sara Smith #The Persistence of Comedy #comedy #1930s #portrait #photography #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #MGM #black and white #portraiture #great gatsby #filmmakers

[filmnoirfoundation]

G. Allen Johnson's preview of #NoirCity21 (Jan 19 - 28) for the San Francisco Chronicle​! We hope to see you next week at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre. Schedule, tickets & Passports (All-Access Passes) are available at www.NoirCity.com The event will be hosted by Eddie Muller​ and this year's Ms. NOIR CITY, Imogen Sara Smith, both of whom were interviewed for the article.

#film festival #film noir festival #film noir #eddie muller #imogen sara smith #film restoration #noircity #noir city #noircity21

[nitrateglow]

Last weekend, I tried recording my Wait Until Dark audio commentary track. My initial plan was to record in sections... unfortunately, I spent hours trying to get the first five minutes down and ended up with nothing.

I learned three things:

1) I hate my voice. Oh my God, how are people able to stand listening to me in real life? I sound like the biggest nerd... okay, so I AM a nerd, but still.

Of course, I get everyone is uncomfortable listening to their own voice. You hear comments like that all the time when watching home videos with family members. Everyone else in real life thinks I sound fine, so it’s just me. I just need to get over it.

2) I need to chill. I wanted this commentary track to sound like the ones done by Imogen Sara Smith or Bruce Eder for the Criterion Collection-- very polished and professional. I got hung up on every “um” and “uh.” I spoke too slow. Then I’d speak too fast. I used a script that I would modify to sound as natural as possible, but it was so stressful trying to make it perfect.

Yesterday, I had a friend over and we were marathoning horror movies. Well, I say marathon-- we usually talk a lot over the films, either about the production or just general comments. I noticed towards the end at how naturally I could talk on and on about a movie when I was relaxed and not trying to sound impressive or polshed. There was a few “ums” and “uhs,” of course (as there always is in natural speech), but it wasn’t horrible.

And then I listened to some fan commentaries I tend to revisit on YouTube and noticed they weren’t “perfect” either, but they were still fun, informative, and enjoyable.

So I realized I need to stop trying to sound perfect. I have a lot of notes, but I’m just going to use those rather than a fancy script. It sounds better in the end.

3) Not related to audio recording, but having to watch the first five minutes repeatedly, I just realized the old man sewing up the doll has stuffed birds decorating his apartment (you can see one in the lobby card pictured above)-- and then it hit me he probably works as a taxidermist when he isn’t helping criminals smuggle drugs out of the country.

I’ve watched this movie God knows how many times and I just noticed that. I love noticing those details that make the movie seem more lived-in.

Anyway, here’s hoping I can get this thing recorded before summer ends. I have always wanted to make an audio commentary for a movie and I decided to just bite the bullet and give it my best shot this year.

#thoughts

[lastchancevillagegreen]

The Cat and The Canary (1928) d. Paul Leni (poster from US)

I found this to be miserable, so I'm looking forward to reading the essay by Imogen Sara Smith in the booklet later tonight to help me understand why I'm wrong about this.

[bubbleteycosplay]

All actresses/actors we have already considered for the role of Sigyn in the Marvel films/series:

Jessica Alba

Meryl Streep

Lily James

Emilia Clarke

Angel Coulby

Holliday Grainger

Rebecca Ferguson

Imogen Poots

Katie McGrath

Zawe Ashton

Amy James Kelly

Jennifer Connelly

Olivia Cooke

Natalie Dormer

Evan Rachel Wood

Ellie Bamber

Alana Boden

Phillipa Soo

Anne Hathaway

Ritu Arya

Sandra James Young

Niamh Walsh

Emily Carey

Romola Garai

Perdita Weeks

Britt Lower

Georgie Henley

Sophia Lillis

Sofia Wylie

Naomi Ackie

Alia Shawkat

Karen Fukuhara

Gratiela Brancusi

Gina Stiebitz

Joanna Douglas

Moses Ingram

Dilraba Dilmurat

Zoe Boyle

Freida Pinto

Charlotte Riley

Penelope Wilton

Jing Tian

Annabelle Wallis

Sophie Rundle

Alicia Vikander

Gemma Arterton

David Lindstrom

Isla Fisher

Gabriella Wilde

Hannah Dodd

Deepika Padukone

Marion Cotillard

Ksenia Solo

Denée Benton

Mia Wasikowska

Julia Lester

Ginnifer Goodwin

Malina Weissman

Naomi Scott

Ashley Johnson

Àstrid Berges-Frisbey

Millie Bobby Brown

Tamla Kari

Dianne Doan

Aisling Loftus

Pedro Pascal

Jessie Buckley

Felicity Jones

Lucy Martin

Sadie Sink

Lana Parrilla

Katheryn Winnick

Golshifteh Farahani

Vanessa Kirby

Kaley Cuoco

Alicia von Rittberg

Rachel Shenton

Meryem Uzerli

Jeanne Goursaud

Sophie Skelton

Léa Seydoux

Claire Holt

Sophie Turner

Nicola Coughlan

Sophia Myles

Regé Jean Page

Sara Gadon

Kelly Marie Tran

Hugh Dancy

Lydia West

Amanda Seyfried

Oona Chaplin

Billie Piper

Charithra Chandran

Keira Knightley

Elizabeth Debicki

Bella Heathcote

Savannah Steyn

Jodie Comer

Eleanor Tomlinson

Clémence Poésy

Jodie Turner-Smith

Charlotte Hope

Madeleine Mantock

Simone Ashley

Georgia Tennant

Jessica Williams

Daisy Head

Ana de Armas

Jessica Brown Findlay

Mimî M Khayisa

Lolly Adefope

Amy Adams

Jessica Chastain

Bryce Dallas Howard

Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Susan Wokoma

Aiysha Hart

Sophie Okonedo

Imelda Staunton

Anna Shaffer

Emilie de Ravin

Elle Fanning

Ruth Wilson

Anna Popplewell

Nathalie Emmanuel

Freema Agyeman

Rose Leslie

Halle Bailey

America Ferrera

Jeanne Goursaud

Drew Barrymore

Sogol Faghani

#sigyn #marvel #justiceforsigyn #lokiswife #marvel comics #marvel movies #marvel studios #marvel series #marvel fancast #mcu #multiverse #mcu fancast #sigyn fancast

[theseventhveil1945]

Paul finally unveils for Mifanwy a fifteenth-century painting he discovered in Italy during World War I, depicting a woman named Venetia who is her spitting image. He goes on to recount his gradual realization that he was this woman’s lover in a previous life, and that in Mifanwy he has found her again. Appalled by this lunacy, she flees into marriage with a dependable, unromantic childhood friend whose idea of an endearment is to call her “imbecile woman.” Her choice is eminently sane—confirmed when Paul later tells her how in that earlier life he strangled the faithless Venetia with her own hair. But in her rejection of Paul, Mifanwy reveals a cruel streak; she seems to take pleasure in crushing and mocking his fevered dreams. That this heroine is spoiled and selfish, and often not very likable, gives the film a stimulating ambiguity: Mifanwy is at once a woman in peril and a femme fatale who destroys with her hard, derisive laughter. Corridor of Mirrors: The Eternal Return by Imogen Sara Smith

#corridor of mirrors #corridor of mirrors 1948 #terrence young #classicfilmedit #edana romney #eric portman