#Storyville Films

[agirlnamedbone]

from E.J. Bellocq's Storyville Portraits series // 1912 // New Orleans, LA

"Bellocq’s pictures appear natural, and the women seem open and trusting. There’s a nonthreatening presence with an unprecedented degree of empathy permeating his work, rather than the usual sense of someone in a power position objectifying his or her subject. Bellocq’s photos do not show prostitution as a reductive identity." --Jonas Cuénin

#op #e.j. bellocq #storyville portraits #storyville #new orleans #louisiana #southern gothic #american gothic #Jonas Cuénin #photography #film photography

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Have you ever been reading Devil’s Minion and thinking to yourself, “damn, I just can’t nail down a face for Daniel”? Have you watched Interview with the Vampire and felt like neither Christian Slater nor River Phoenix hit the mark for you?

Allow me to introduce you to James fucking Spader.

Look at him! Is that not the face of Daniel, completely fed up with Armand feeding his cigarettes down the garbage disposal?

He’s got the naive and beautiful face but ALSO the defiant yet beseeching thing down! Also he was like 22 here, which is right around the age Daniel met Armand so he’s at peak Healthy, Pretty Molloy here. No wonder Louis decided to take him home!!

“Do you know what a zip code is, or a tax bracket? I’m the one who buys all the goddamned airline tickets. Millions. How are we going to get millions! Steal another Maserati and be done with it, for God’s sakes!”

Spader is the original 80′s pretty boy you’d assume starred as the leading man in some schmoopy romances or schlocky teen dramas and he did that for a minute. Like check him out in Pretty in Pink-

 Is this not peak Night Island Daniel, in his Miami Vice looking bespoke suit ready to head out with Armand for the night?

Look at him snuggled into his blanket in Tuff Turf, like Daniel hungover and forcibly woken up to honky tonk piano tunes!

But the deliciousness doesn’t end at his looks. Because in true Molloy fashion that man said ‘you know what? I wanna make movies for freaks and weirdos only’

In Sex, Lies and Videotape he plays the sweetest pervert who loves interviewing women about their sex lives, video taping it, and then watching them back naked but not actually getting off! He’s impotent, he’s a gentle and lovely weirdo, there’s vampire!Daniel fodder for days in this one.

Crash is a horny flick that defies all explanation and really you need to go in blind if you’re gonna watch this one, but let me just say this: If Spader and his Wife in this film aren’t the most Daniel and Armand coded couple in cinema history I will eat my shoes. Also there’s tons of beautiful footage of him driving around at night with his blond hair ruffling in the breeze.

Your prefer your Daniel with glasses? Oh, perfect, because in Bad Influence he plays a sweet guy who gets into a fucked up situation with a toxic friend and a sex tape!

In Storyville he lets himself be thrown on the floor and lays there submissively before getting involved in yet another sex tape scandal!

Don’t even get me started on Dream Lover, another smut filled romp (with some filthy deleted scenes if you google the uncut version) which has the most Devil’s Minion promo photos of all time-

Like! Get the fuck out!

I could just go all day about his body of work but some of it you’ve just gotta see for yourself. In pretty much every film you’re guaranteed smut with him being deliciously submissive, extremely gentle with his hands, and down for all kinds of kink. And in most of his movies he gets bloody at least once, like-

this is a shitty picture i took of my laptop but look at the blood at the corner of his mouth! Vampire activities!

In summary, let me hit you with a photo dump:

Daniel laying in a cheap motel room during the chase years!

Daniel with delightful 70s hair!

More glasses!Daniel!

Daniel with a half-buttoned 80′s shirt looking so beautiful it’s no wonder Armand couldn’t NOT turn him!

It’s dark, he’s wet, he looks exhausted!

He’s the ideal beautiful Molloy Weirdo and I will not be accepting any other arguments, goodbye!!

#it's Molloy Monday folks #strap in and get ready for this one #because this one is gonna change ur LIFE #i've been watching his films for like two months now #and they all have DM fodder in one way or another #i just can't believe he moves and touches and kisses exactly how i pictured daniel before i watched any of his stuff #also watching crash is a fucking religious experience #i highly recommend doing so without reading any spoilers #but yeah if you're reading my fic this is the man i am picturing as daniel as i write #ur welcome ♥ #vc headcanons #armand/daniel #daniel molloy #Spader Molloy Masterpost

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A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Works Directly Referenced

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

Kansas City Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton

Wolverine Blues by Jelly Roll Morton

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

Season 2 here

#Iwtv #Its entirely possible these were not in mind at all but given their fame and influence in general its not impossible #there's also a LOT of gothic novels written before Interview with the Vampire (1976) that share many qualities such as unreliable narrators #but I wanted to make sure I was choosing direct inspiration rather than cousins #Interview with the vampire #iwtv season 1 #Quote series

[signipotens]

Map of some important locations in AMC IWTV (no spoilers)

Orientation

Lakeside (towards Lake Pontchartrain) is towards the top of the map; riverside (towards the Mississippi River) is towards the bottom of the map. Upriver (“above”) is to the left; downriver (“below”) is to the right. North is in the top right.

Locations

Vieux Carré / French Quarter: Historic centre of New Orleans. Limits at Rampart, Canal, the river, Esplanade. Unmarked.

1132 Royal Street: The Gallier House, an eclectic 1857 townhouse (now a museum operated by Tulane University) that Lestat, Louis, and Claudia live in. Marked in red.

Jackson Square: The park by St Louis Cathedral where Louis and the gang like to sit on that one bench. Marked in lavender.

French Opera House: Foremost opera house in NO until it burned down in 1919. Uptown lakeside corner of Toulouse and Bourbon. Marked in magenta.

Fauborg Tremé: Prominent then-middle-class integrated neighbourhood lakeside of the Vieux Carré (French Quarter). From the 1840s on it was mostly populated by free, mixed-race Creoles. Limits at Canal, Rampart, and Esplanade; continues north above the map. Outlined in green.

St Augustine Church: The first Catholic church in the US built to serve a predominantly POC (though ultimately integrated) congregation, founded for the free Creole population of Tremé in 1842. (Fun fact: the fairly wealthy free mixed-race population got together and bought pews on either side of the aisles for Catholic slaves to sit in.) Uptown lakeside corner of St Claude (now Henriette Delille) and Hospital (now Governor Nicholls). Marked in orange.

De Pointe du Lac family home: Probably near the church, riverside of Marais. The house itself is the Derbès mansion, which is a fair bit further north, but Louis says they live about half a mile away from him and Lestat, which places them around the 3rd precinct of the 6th Ward. (Fun fact: this is also where Homer Plessy lived in the 1890s). Unmarked.

St Louis Cemetery: Where the de Pointe du Lac family tomb is. The family has been in the city long enough that they’re probably buried in the old cemetery on Basin and St Louis. (My headcanon is that the Louis of the books, born in the 1760s, is AMC Louis’ great-great-grandfather, probably by Yvette, in a different timeline where Lestat futzes about in Europe for 150 years longer.) Unmarked, but labelled.

Saenger Theatre: Popular cinema and stage theatre built in 1927 (it’s also where the opera scenes in episode 2 were filmed, though they were set at the French Opera House). Downtown lakeside corner of Rampart and Canal. Marked in cyan.

Storyville: NO’s red-light district from 1897 to 1917. Limits at Robertson, Customhouse (now Iberville), Basin, St Louis. Outlined in a yellow box.

Frontages on Liberty Street: Where most of Louis’s Storyville businesses are. Marked in blue.

Frontages on Basin Street: Where the most profitable Storyville businesses are. (The most profitable block is labelled 124 here. Thomas Anderson owned the saloon on the corner of Basin and Customhouse; Lulu White, a mixed-race madam who should have been in the show, owned the brothel on the corner of Basin and Bienville.) Marked in red.

Azalea Hall: 202 Villere Street (if I’m not mistaken). Approximate location marked in violet.

Black Storyville: Segregated Colored red-light district that would have been created by Ordinance 4118 in March 1917. Limits at Robertson, Cleveland, Liberty, Canal. Outlined in a red box.

Ward boundaries: They don’t come up in the show, but they’re a fairly important part of NO culturally and geographically, so I’ve included them.

3rd Ward: Predominantly Anglo and White. Now the central business district. Upriver of Canal Street.

4th Ward: Upper part of French Quarter. Limits at Canal and St Louis.

5th Ward: Central part of French Quarter. Limits at St Louis and St Philippe.

6th Ward: Lower part of French Quarter. Limits at St Philippe and Esplanade.

7th Ward: Predominantly Anglo and Black. Downriver of Esplanade.

If anyone is interested to know where anything else is (or might be) or has any corrections, please let me know!

If you need floor plans or anything for Louis and Lestat’s townhouse, the Gallier house is extensively documented. I’ve included the floor plans below (the approximate location of the incinerator is marked in red; toilets are on the other side of that gate in the privy), but much more can be found here.

#i speak #amc iwtv #iwtv #if you happen to be writing a fic where lestat goes into politics #like i may or may not be doing #1st precinct of 6th Ward is riverside of Bourbon #2nd precinct is riverside of Rampart #3rd precinct is riverside of Marais #4th precinct is riverside of Claiborne

[jenneferofjengaberg]

The last ep of interview with the vampire was so interesting. I love how they used the diaries to get Claudia's perspective and feelings to the audience, and I was struck by how much more of a developed and sympathetic character this made her than she was in the film from the 90s. Nothing against Kirsten Dunst in that role, she was amazing for someone so young, but I do feel the character in that movie was meant to be a sort of object of horror for the audience, like a porcelain doll that kills, with very little of her inner life available to the audience in order to humanize her.

I enjoyed this version a lot more, since it balanced out the shocking scenes of her kills with her slowly dawning realization that she'd been cursed to an eternal life in a child's body rather than "rescued" by wholly benevolent benefactors. All because Louis felt guilty about Storyville and so that both he and Lestat could play "happy family" to cover their failing relationship. I'm aware that this plot is different in the book, which I did read, albeit like 20 years ago, so I'm a bit fuzzy in the details. But thematically, I think it's quite similar to the book.

#interview with the vampire #iwtv spoilers #iwtv tv #iwtv #text #my words

[thenightling]

Interview with the vampire episode 3 review)

I just watched episode 3 of Interview with the vampire the TV series.   

Ugh...  I hate hate-watching.   I keep trying to convince myself it’s not so bad.   Having Louis talk Lestat into feeding on evil doers felt wrong to me.  I thought vampires (of most lore) were supposed to have a predatory instinct to hunt yet we have Louis paying rat catchers to bring him live prey.

The subject of racism is addressed very heavily in the show. That being said, I do not like the idea that Lestat actually wrote Wolverine Blues and not Jelly Roll Morton.  That’s not comfortable. That is the show, itself, being racist, crediting a white character for the invention of a black man, while at the same time the show tries to pretend to be aware of racial issues by talking about the racism of the era in New Orleans.

Also now Louis leaving a mangled corpse on a gate is what lead to the race riots and fall of Storyville!?   This ...this feels like a bit of an insult to the cruel history of what really happened there.   

Lestat used another power that does not exist in the Interview with the vampire (the novel).  Lestat psychically enthralled an entire building full of men to make them all leave. This OP (over powered) ability bothered me though I also found it fascinating.  At least it seemed to make Lestat quite tired and I think even his ears bled.

Also too much happens off camera.  Half of Lestat’s speech to entice Louis into becoming a vampire is talked-over with narration and here in episode 3 Louis mentions that they can feed on animals but we are never shown him learning this / Lestat teaching him this when Lestat is who taught him this in the novel.

Maven of the Eventide (vampire film, book, and show critic) pointed out a major contradiction. In the very first episode Lestat actually says “I bring death to those who deserve it.” But in this episode it’s Louis who tries to talk Lestat into feeding on evil doers.  This version of Lestat has no real interest in feeding on murderers- which is a big deviation from the books. Lestat exclusively hunted murderers who felt no remorse in the novels and it was not Louis’s idea and no, Lestat did not think it stupid.

 It’s weird that they removed Lestat’s preference for feeding on evil doers after already giving him the line “I bring death to those who deserve it.”   What the Hell does the line mean now?  He also would admit (in The Vampire Lestat novel) that this was a lie, he knew no one really deserves death- no matter how terrible they are.  But he didn’t want to kill the innocent. 

This show has a LOT of contradictions.  Like having Lestat able to project his thoughts to Louis after making him a vampire even though they still say their minds are blocked to each other.  Also there is that annoying (and stolen from Twilight) idea that Lestat thinks all mortals think about is Home, Food, and Sex.   Really, Lestat?  You’ve never encountered a non-hungry aesexual (or child) who wasn’t thinking about home?  Since when do Anne Rice’s vampires think mortals are that shallow and petty? Also thought reading and thought projection were interconnected powers in the book, both aspects of telepathy so it’s weird that the show creators decided to tamper with the rules when some very dramatic scenes in the books were the result of a vampire not being able to psychically call out to his maker or fledglings for help.   

Louis also apparently has “The fire gift” (Anne Rice’s later novels obnoxious name for pyrokinesis).  

Lestat was already repeatedly confirmed as bi / Pan and polyamorous but the show felt the need to go further in “explaining” (read: Idiot proofing) Lestat’s preferences by changing the gender of the musician Lestat turned in Interview with the vampire (novel).  Antione is now Antionette.

Also apparently Louis now has a previous male lover.  This rubbed me the wrong way. I thought Lestat was meant to be Louis’s bi / gay awakening.

I sort of accepted the show’s bi-erasure in making Louis totally gay (like how many Xena: Warrior Princess fans ignore her having male love interests in the original show) but something about changing the gender about the Nicolas-like lover Lestat takes bothers me for reasons I don’t entirely know.

Another weird thing is Louis seems able to control his own hunger by biting himself and drinking his own blood.  Vampiric masturbation?  That should not resolve the hunger because when a vampire loses blood it increases the hunger. This should leave him even less satisfied / more hungry than he started, at the very least from the self-injury.

I’m starting to think that Rashied (Louis’s modern day henchman who seems to think Louis is a God) is actually Armand... 

They at least acknowledge that Lestat has a serious fear of being alone.  He wanted to give Louis the chance to truly be himself as a vampire and he wanted the assurance that he had someone who would always be there for him.  Lestat has serious abandonment issues- one of the few traits the show left him from the books.  But having Lestat believe that there is no true goodness in humanity, worth protecting, bothers me. One thing I will admit to loving about episode 3 of Interview with the vampire.  I really love Louis's new red vintage sunglasses.  They look much better than the pair he wore previously.

#Interview with the vampire #Lestat #Anne Rice

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[mylesinthenorth]

Rank amateurs 🍿

Some years ago now I helped organise an anual film festival in Warrington. We called it ‘Long Shot’ with the aim being to showcase local film-making talent (the website is still online if you want to see some of the films we presented).

I was reminded of Long Shot watching ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’; a BBC Storyville documentary about the Bradford Film Club. Once a thriving community, at the start of the story the club has dwindled to only a select few members and is in danger of disappearing completely.

Full of pathos and Yorkshire humour, as the documentary unfolds you learn more about some of the Bradford Film Club members and their shared love of movie-making. Going to the movies is often a way to escape daily life for a short time, and the club is clearly an escape for many members; a chance to indulge their passion whilst putting the stresses of life to one side.

What comes through strongly is the bond formed between the members. When one is too infirm to make the weekly meet-up, the club comes to their house instead. When one member loses their partner, the club rallies round and, tellingly, they receive a big hug from another club member whom they spend most of the documentary bickering with.

The backdrop to this camaraderie is the club’s dwindling finances and inability to attract new membership. The venue is crumbling around them and is a target for graffiti and fly-tipping. An attempt to host a film night for the wider Bradford public doesn’t go well. And then Covid arrives and threatens to finish the club off for good.

At times sad, and other times uplifting, A Bunch of Amateurs shows what the movies, and being part of a social group, can mean to people. I won’t reveal the ending, but I will say the intervention of Covid gives the story a twist I wasn’t expecting.

[qudachuk]

The actor’s meditative voiceover guides viewers through a hugely moving look at a 1938 video clip of a Polish village – before it was decimated by the HolocaustThe Storyville film Three Minutes: A Lengthening (BBC Four) is a combination...

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BBC Names Storyville Boss

BBC Storyville has appointed Emma Hindley as its Lead Commissioning Editor. The world-renowned doc strand has been looked after temporarily by Hindley since September, when previous incumbent Philippa Kowarsky departed. Hindley will report to BBC Unscripted Director Kate Phillips. Storyville, which has recently aired docs including One Day in Ukraine, Afghan film And Still I Sing and A Bunch of…

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BBC Storyville Names Lead Commissioning Editor – Deadline

BBC Storyville has appointed Emma Hindley as its Lead Commissioning Editor. The world-renowned doc strand has been looked after temporarily by Hindley since September, when previous incumbent Philippa Kowarsky departed. Hindley will report to BBC Unscripted Director Kate Phillips. Storyville, which has recently aired docs including One Day in Ukraine, Afghan film And Still I Sing and A Bunch of…

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Eva Yates Appointed New Director Following Rose Garnett Exit – Deadline

Eva Yates Appointed New Director Following Rose Garnett Exit – Deadline

Eva Yates has been appointed Director of BBC Film. The assumed front-runner for the job, Yates will be responsible for the development and production of films backed by the broadcaster. Yates, who replaces Rose Garnett who is leaving to join A24, will also oversee Storyville, the BBC’s documentary films strand led by Philippa Kowarsky. Yates is currently Acting Director of BBC Film and joined the…

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A New Original Series Starring the Ladies of Star Trek

Hi everyone! I haven’t seen much tumblr activity around this topic, so I thought I’d do some plugging. 

Tello Films is hoping to produce a new show called Storyville, all about the so-called red-light district in early 1900s New Orleans . Here is their official overview for the series (emphasis mine):

Help us bring to life the story of the women of Storyville, the red light district in New Orleans during the early 20th century, as they banded together against all odds to fight the U.S. government. This concept pilot brings together some of the amazingly talented women from the Star Trek universe: Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax), Nana Visitor (Major Kira) and Kitty Swink (Luaran) along with an incredible supporting cast from TV and theater.

You can see them talking a bit about the series in this YT video! They’re also currently announcing new actors, many of which have a theater background.

Tello Films has produced many series in the past, all of which put queer women’s stories at the forefront. There aren’t many details about which characters may or may not be queer in this series, but Tello claims:

We make exclusive, original series for queer, lesbian, and bisexual women.

So many of us are assuming there WILL be wlw and/or trans women in this new show! 

As the writer mentions in the video, her wife was very excited about producing this series before she suddenly passed away from cancer, so this is very important to her to fulfill her wife’s hopes for the series.

ANYWAY, now we get to the hard part:

The project is largely CROWDFUNDED

Since it’s a period piece, the budget is a bit higher than your average web series. 

Currently (Sept 17, 2019), THEY ARE ONLY 24% OF THE WAY TO THEIR GOAL!

YOU CAN HELP THEM BY DONATING TO THEIR  ******INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN******

They're offering a bunch of cool perks for people who donate, like cast signatures, individual thank-yous from the cast, set memorabilia, and some star trek merch as well!

Here are some more related links: Twitter, Tello Official Site, Facebook, Instagram

It would be really cool if we could get this series made, so as a wise man once said, “LET’S GO LESBIANS!!!!”

#signal boost #star trek #storyville #tello films #terry farrell #nana visitor #marina sirtis #kitty swink #star trek voyager #voyager #st: voy #star trek discovery #discovery #dsc #st:ds9 #ds9 #deep space nine #star trek: tng #tng #jadzia dax #kira nerys #deanna troi #Luaran #my posts #donations #apparently terry gets to use a knife in the opening scenes !!! A KNIFE you guys....come on gays #i AM gonna be annoyingly reflagging this for the next while just fyi

[tellofilms]

check out tello’s newest upcoming project, Storyville, now crowdfunding on IndieGogo!

#storyville #tellofilms #tello films

[agxntkeen]

James Spader as Cray Fowler in Storyville

#James Spader #Storyville #Cray Fowler #mines #films #the movie is not that great #but damn he was too hot #*

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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson by #AlexGibney "Gibney is, as always, an expert at compiling a narrative that gives you the whole story without feeling like a bland biography" ALEX GIBNEY Bil's rating (out of 5): BBB.5.  USA, 2008.  BBC Storyville, Diverse Productions…

#Alex Gibney #Alex Ziwak #Alison Ellwood #Angela Berliner #BBC Storyville #Brian Kimmet #David Carlo #David Schwartz #Diverse Productions #Eugenia Care #Eva Orner #Gilleon Smith #Graydon Carter #HDNet Films #Hunter S. Thompson #Jason Kliot #Jigsaw Productions #Joana Vicente #Joe Cairo #Johnny Depp #Lisa Cohen #Maryse Alberti #Melissa Otero #Phantom Films #Pierre Adeli #Victor Ortiz