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esqueletosgays · 9 months

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RAVENOUS (1999)

Director: Antonia Bird Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond

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halloweenmoviewatchlist · 7 months

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Rubber (2010)

#2000s #camp #quentin dupieux #stephen spinella #roxane mesquida #jack plotnick #wings hauser

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ad-j · 11 months

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WATCHLIST 2022: Milk

#movie watchlist #milk #harvey milk #sean penn #josh brolin #diego luna #dustin lance black #gus van sant #allison pill #victor garber #joseph cross #denis o'hare #boyd holbrook #stephen spinella

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erstwhile-punk-guerito · 1 year

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#ravenous #guy pearce #robert carlyle #jeremy davies #jeffrey jones #david arquette #john spencer #neal mcdonough #stephen spinella #antonia bird #1999

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dreamcastingbroadway · 2 years

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Dreamcasting Broadway: THE INHERITANCE, PARTS 1 & 2

“What do I do now, Walter? Tell me what to do.”

“You do what they could not. You live.”

Dreamcasting Broadway: The Inheritance, Parts 1 & 2

Brandon Uranowitz as Eric Glass/Young Man 9

James Cusati-Moyer as Toby Darling/Young Man 10

Isaac Cole Powell as Adam/Leo/Young Man 1

Ato Blankson-Wood as Jason 1/Toby’s Doorman/Other Agent/Young Man 2

Chris Perfetti as Jasper/Paul Wilcox/Young Man 7

Gil Torres as Jason 2/Clinic Worker/Young Man 8

Michael Benjamin Washington as Tristan/Young Man 6

Nicholas L. Ashe as Toby’s Agent/Charles Wilcox/Young Man 5

Patrick Foley as Young Henry/Young Man 3

Taylor Trensch as Young Walter/Tucker/Young Man 4

Ben Daniels as Walter Poole/Morgan

Stephen Spinella as Henry Wilcox

Phylicia Rashad as Margaret

Anthony Chatmon II as Standby (Tristan/Young Man 6, Jason 1/Doorman/Agent/Young Man 2, Jason 2/Clinic Worker/Young Man 8, Toby’s Agent/Charles/Young Man 5)

Benja Kay Thomas as Standby (Margaret)

Jacob Dickey as Standby (Toby/Young Man 10, Adam/Leo/Young Man 1, Toby’s Agent/Charles/Young Man 5, Jason 1/Doorman/Agent/Young Man 2)

Joe Chisholm as Standby (Eric/Young Man 9, Jasper/Paul/Young Man 7, Young Walter/Tucker/Young Man 4, Jason 2/Clinic Worker/Young Man 8)

Matt McGrath as Standby (Walter/Morgan, Henry)

Noah Bridgestock as Standby (Eric/Young Man 9, Toby/Young Man 10, Jasper/Paul/Young Man 7, Young Henry/Young Man 3)

Rob Morean as Standby (Adam/Leo/Young Man 1, Young Henry/Young Man 3, Young Walter/Tucker/Young Man 4)

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moviemosaics · 2 years

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Rubber

directed by Quentin Dupieux, 2010

#Rubber #Quentin Dupieux #movie mosaics #Robert the Tire #Stephen Spinella #Wings Hauser #Jack Plotnick #Roxane Mesquida

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randomrichards · 6 months

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RAVENOUS:

A disgraced captain

Face cannibals at outpost

Eat to gain power

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therealmrpositive · 2 years

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Rubber (2010)

In today's review, I tire of the standard heroes and seek a new change. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2010 film Rubber #StephenSpinella #JackPlotnick #RoxaneMesquida #WingsHauser #EthanCohn #CharleyKoontz #HaleyRamm #DanielQuinn #DavidBowe

We all like an underdog, one who can end up surmounting all the odds and obstacles to achieve their goals… even if they have to kill to get what they want… Even if they aren’t animate at all. In 2010, a film with a peculiar premise, won both hearts and minds, as it told the story of the love and rampage of a killer tire in Rubber. Rubber produces some gorgeous shots of the Californian…

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arqueete · 22 days

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Spring Awakening Broadway: Where Are They Now? (Part 1)

It's been 18 years since Spring Awakening first opened on Broadway and 15 years since the original production closed. I decided to do some digging on what everyone who performed in that production is doing these days.

Part 1 covers the original cast, while part 2 will cover replacements.

Jonathan Groff Melchior

Went on to several prominent roles on TV shows like Glee, movies like Frozen, and musicals like Hamilton (pictured.) He is currently in Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway.

Lea Michele Wendla

Notably starred in the TV show Glee and has released several albums. She was recently seen in Funny Girl on Broadway (pictured.)

John Gallagher, Jr. Moritz

Went on to star in several other Broadway shows including American Idiot. He has released an album under the name Johnny Gallagher. Recently appeared in Swept Away (pictured), a musical based on the music of The Avett Brothers.

Lauren Pritchard Ilse

Has a music career under the name LOLO and was notably featured on the Panic! At the Disco song "Miss Jackson" in 2013.

Jonathan B Wright Hanschen

Had a few acting credits on TV shows like Gossip Girl (pictured), now seems to be pursuing voice over work.

Gideon Glick Ernst

Has appeared in several other Broadway shows and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in To Kill a Mockingbird in 2019 (pictured.) Some recent credits include the movie Maestro and a recurring role on the TV show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Skylar Astin Georg

Has had a variety of screen roles with musical elements, like the movie Pitch Perfect and the TV shows Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Zoey's Extraordinatory Playlist. He currently stars in the TV show So Help Me Todd (pictured.)

Brian Charles Johnson Otto (u/s Moritz)

Appeared on Broadway again in the ensemble of American Idiot (pictured.) Was recently on tour singing backup for Allen Stone.

Lilli Cooper Martha

Has been in several other Broadway shows including SpongeBob SquarePants and Tootsie (pictured) for which she and was nominated for a Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony in 2019. She most recently provided voice acting for the TV series Hazbin Hotel.

Remy Zaken Thea

Has appeared in several off-Broadway shows, most notably Freckleface Strawberry The Musical (pictured.) Now owns a professional tutoring company in New York called Andersen Education.

Phoebe Strole Anna (u/s Wendla, Ilse)

Has appeared in several off-Broadway shows, most recently Kung Fu (pictured.) She is doing a lot of audiobook narration.

Christine Estabrook Adult Women

Continues to do a lot of TV work, most recently on the show Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (pictured.)

Stephen Spinella Adult Men

Continues to work in theater, film, and TV including a return to Broadway in The Velocity of Autumn and currently in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (pictured.)

Frances Mercanti-Anthony (u/s Adult Women)

Went on to appear in Broadway plays including Jerusalem. Now doing theater education work for organizations like Paper Mill Playhouse, Rutgers University, and New England Music Camp.

Rob Devaney (u/s Adult Men)

Appears to have moved away from acting around 2009 and now has a career in UX design.

Krysta Rodriguez Ensemble (u/s Wendla, Ilse, Anna, Martha, Thea)

Has performed in several other Broadway shows including The Addams Family and the revival of Spring Awakening. She was most recently touring in Into the Woods (pictured) and will appear in the Kennedy Center production of Bye Bye Birdie this summer.

Jennifer Damiano Ensemble (u/s Ilse, Anna, Martha, Thea)

Has performed in several other Broadway shows including American Psycho (pictured) and Next to Normal, for which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Tony in 2009. Most recently appeared in Black No More off-Broadway.

Robert Hager Ensemble (u/s Melchior, Hanschen, Ernst, Otto, Georg)

Went on to join the 1st national tour of Spring Awakening as Hanschen. Has since appeared in several other Broadway shows and the national tour of Fun Home (pictured.) He is also writing his own musicals. Siluetas, for which he wrote music and lyrics, will be premiering at Power Street Theatre in Philadelphia this summer.

Gerard Canonico Moritz (replacement), Ensemble (u/s Moritz, Hanschen, Ernst, Otto, Georg)

Was in the show until it closed, by which time he was playing Moritz. Has appeared in many other Broadway and off-Broadway shows including Groundhog Day and Be More Chill (pictured), and is currently on Broadway in Almost Famous.

#spring awakening

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sansthespectrumdeux · 1 year

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“I have this wonderful memory of his wife, Joanne Woodward, whispering something in his ear and him laughing and laughing. He then leaned over and whispered something in her ear, and she started laughing and laughing. This went on for two or three minutes. They just had so much fun with each other.” — Stephen Spinella, 2014

#paul newman #joanne woodward

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donnerpartyofone · 7 months

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The calls are coming from inside the house! Say hello to my little friend! You talkin' to me? Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse! Go ahead, make my day!

I literally want you to say what you expect to get out of this though. I'm not even passing judgment, I'm not surprised by this, I just literally want a sober description that's like "I thought that if I anonymously sent this random person a series of popular movie quotes, then _______ would happen." Like what was the hoped for result? I probably don't have to guess that it's just "I would get attention". So there, you got the attention, I'll stop responding to these things now.

Separately, a while ago on Twitter somebody made this prompt about lines from movies that you quote all the time, that are not at all obvious choices. I got stymied because I feel like I must have so many! But the main two that come to mind now are:

1. In THE EXORCIST when Ellen Burstyn is freaking out about finding a crucifix under her daughter's pillow, she asks her like european servants if they put it there, and the woman goes "I didn't put it!" And I'm always saying that.

2. In RAVENOUS Stephen Spinella sees Robert Carlyle slaving over a simmering cauldron and its pretty clear that his line is supposed to be "What are you cooking?" because what he is exactly cooking is the whole subject of the scene and the movie, but instead it comes out, "What're ya, COOKING?" as if he just isn't sure what Robert Carlyle is doing at all. I love bad line readings like that, although this might not count because the character is supposed to be chronically drunk.

3. Oh I just thought of another one but I can't remember the movie, it's some generic Bourne Identity type of thing where the main guy is running around the world because his government double crossed him or I don't know what the fuck, but there's a crazy line reading in it where the like head of the intelligence community or whoever is hunting the hero says to his staff, "Let's get his ASS!" rather than "Let's GET his ass!", and it's just so awkward, my husband and I say it to each other all the time even though neither of us remembers the movie anymore.

Anyway please add your own not-famous lines of dialog that you randomly repeat, if you like.

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byneddiedingo · 4 months

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Guy Pearce in Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)

Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Jeremy Davies, John Spencer, Stephen Spinella, Neal McDonough, Joseph Runningfox, Sheila Tousey, Bill Brochtrup. Screenplay: Ted Griffin. Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond. Production design: Bryce Perrin. Film editing: Neil Farrell. Music: Michael Nyman, Damon Albarn.

When the only thing critics can agree on is that your movie has a distinguished music score, you kind of have to admit that the film's a botch. Ravenous is an interesting botch, however: a horror Western about cannibalism, a topic that tantalizes anyone who has ever heard the story of the Donner Party. It has a strong cast, filled with actors who are gifted at playing baddies and weirdos, like Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, and Neal McDonough. The cannibalism in the film is based on the Algonquian legend of the wendigo, an evil spirit that possesses humans and turns them into killers with a desire for human flesh. Yet the movie comes off scattered and sometimes clunky, with the grisly violence arriving without the buildup of suspense. The central character, Capt. Boyd (Guy Pearce), is given a confusing backstory. During the Mexican-American war, he tasted flesh, sort of, when he was wounded, heaped in a pile of corpses, and, unable to move, swallowed the blood of one of the men stacked above him. It gave him a brief surge of strength, during which he struggled out of the pile and performed the act of heroism for which he was honored. But when the commanding officer realizes Boyd is really a coward, he punishes him with a post in an isolated fort located in the Sierra Nevada. The fort is staffed with misfits, and soon falls prey to a mysterious stranger named Colqhoun (Carlyle), who claims to be the survivor of a wagon train that got lost in the mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Colqhoun is not what he seems, of course, and the rest of the business is bloody. Some of the movie's disjointedness stems from the disagreement between the original director, Milcho Manchevski, and the producers and a subsequent conflict between his replacement, Raja Gosnell, and the cast. Finally, Antonia Bird was hired to complete the film, but even she had problems with the producers and was critical of the cut that was released. Critics generally disliked the movie, but everyone seems to have been pleased with the innovative score by Michael Nyman and Damon Alborn, which relies on instruments from the historic period in which the action takes place and echoes of hymns and patriotic anthems.

#Ravenous #Antonia Bird #Guy Pearce

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philhoffman · 2 years

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Phil with The Seagull director Mike Nichols and other cast members, including Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Christopher Walken, John Goodman, Kevin Kline, Marcia Gay Harden, Debra Monk, Larry Pine, and Stephen Spinella.

Nichols’ production of Anton Chekhov’s 1895 tragicomic play ran in August 2001 at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park, NYC. The tickets were free (as part of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park series) and people camped overnight for the chance to see this show, which had phenomenal reviews. There was talk of taking the show to Broadway (they added a week of shows due to demand), but conflicting schedules prevented that production (Phil himself directed off-Broadway that fall).

PSH played the abstract playwright Konstantin Treplev. From John Lahr’s review in The New Yorker:

The most complex [character] is Konstantin (the prodigiously talented Philip Seymour Hoffman)... Although the character is a mere twenty-five, Hoffman plays him as a furtive, exhausted man-child—a combustible combination of panic and petulance... Konstantin's wayward infantile feelings—his bitter and idealized love for his self-centered mother; his Oedipal rage at Trigorin (his mother's lover); his intoxicated infatuation with Nina, who performs in his play; his fierce self-hatred, alternating with omnipotent arrogance—are eloquently parsed by Hoffman.

#reading the play today I was like yeah. he is Definitely a PSH character. that's a loser and I love him.#the fact that the final scene usually takes place off-stage but nichols deided to show it entirely... psh fans we keep suffering!#the seagull #philip seymour hoffman #psh #*#every time I read one of the plays he did. I lose my mind a bit more over the idea that we'll never get to see it #I've seen just one clip of this one so perhaps a recording is out there but. inaccessible to me #also obligatory he's so hot here comment #meryl streep #natalie portman

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twittercomfrnklin2001-blog · 1 year

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Ravenous

The first half of Antonia Bird’s RAVENOUS (1999, Criterion Channel through midnight) is so likably quirky it’s almost a crime yet somehow inevitable that the second half can’t quite live up to it. Disgraced soldier Guy Pearce is sent to a broken-down fort in the Sierra Nevadas during the Mexican-American War. The commanding officer (Jeffery Jones) is a bookish non-entity, his second (Stephen Spinella) drinks his posting away, one private (Neal McDonough) is a military fanatic, another (Jeremy Davies) a religious crank and a third (David Arquette) a druggie. One night a mysterious man (Robert Carlyle) stumbles in with a story of having escaped a stranded wagon train that had turned to cannibalism. Jones leads a ragtag troop to see if there are any survivors, and it’s all delicious fun. This isn’t the mythic West of John Ford; it’s more a hip improv on American history. When the rescue party gets there, things go a bit off the rails. The mission ends in violence, and it doesn’t have the comic zing of the earlier scenes. The second half also features philosophical discussions that go on a bit too long, as do some of the fight scenes. The suggestion that Manifest Destiny is a form of cannibalism is intriguing and there’s a great little detail in that the first person on the wagon train to succumb to malnutrition is a black servant, a bit of systemic racism that matches with the main theme. The cast is solid, and listening to John Spencer, as a narrow-minded general, deliver period dialog is a particular joy (it was his last theatrical feature). Michael Nyman and David Albern supplied the eclectic score with echoes of American folk music and Native American chants. Slovakia and Mexico do a great job playing California.

#horror comedy #snow western #antonia bird #guy pearce #robert carlyle #cannibalism

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amatesura · 2 years

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RAVENOUS (1999) | dir. Antonia Bird

#ravenous #horroredit #perioddramaedit #filmedit #filmgifs #just really liked his pose here #robert carlyle #stephen spinella #antonia bird #blood #horror #*

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springawakeninglove · 2 years

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Spring Awakening 15 Year Reunion Concert - November 15, 2021

Photo credits to Jenny Anderson

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