#film tumblr

[blackfilmgaze]

Sankofa (1993) dir. Haile Gerima

#sankofa #film #filmmaker #filmgifs #haile gerima #black film #moviegifs #film tumblr #independent film #cinema #film edit #gif #movie #movies #90s #fyeahmovies

[a-filmophiles-dirary]

Howls moving castle (2005) -Diana Wynee Jones , Hayao Miyazaki

“A heart’s a heavy burden.”

#howls moving castle #cinema #cinemetography #film tumblr #film #howlsophie #studio ghibli #animation #howlscastle #anime #hayao miyazaki #miyazaki studioghibl

[envelopandkissme]

#a WIN for the loners today! THANK YOU! #😭😭😭😭 #i love marty so much #martin scorsese #movies #films #film tumblr #cinema

[screamsofthesilence]

Train to Busan (2016) Directed by Yeon Sang-ho

“Good riddance. Always giving to others instead of to yourself. Why did you live like that? What was the point? What a load of crap.”

#train to busan #favorite movies #gong yoo #jung yu-mi #kim su-an #yeon sang-ho #letterboxd #movie #films #movieedit #movies #film tumblr #Spotify

[saltburnupdates]

Saltburn reactions and reviews from it’s London Film Festival screening, Oct 4th⚜️

#saltburn #jacob elordi #barry keoghan #emerald fennell #saltburn 2023 #saltburn movie #ewan mitchell #alison oliver #archie madekwe #review #reviews #saltburn review #saltburn reviews #rosamund pike #richard e. grant #letterboxd #cinema #film tumblr

[katieroo28]

I’m not as smart as a lot of you so maybe this is a reach but I saw Asteroid City last night and am still processing it but my friends and I focused a lot on the line “I thought about leaving you temporarily.”

Augie says this to his children and my one friend thought he was contemplating ending his life due to grief. I thought he meant he couldn’t handle his grief and was going to throw himself into his work but Midge tells him how she feels like a terrible mother because her children will always be second to her career.

Now I’m wondering if the line is another meta nod to the events occurring outside of the play. Jones the actor is grief-stricken after losing his lover, Conrad Earp, the playwright. He’s thinking about leaving the play and letting an understudy take his place but what he couldn’t understand and process about Augie’s emotional state BEFORE he loses Conrad he now understands because he lost Conrad and he remains with the play because the greatest thing he could do for his dead lover is to stay on and use his grief to inject some truth and honesty into his performance and Conrad’s work and it enhances the play because of this.

#asteroid city #wes anderson #asteroid city spoilers #film tumblr

[flanaganfilm]

What are your top 5 favorite movies that came out this year?

Always a very tough question. I've LOVED other movies this year, but if I have to limit it to 5, at this moment I would say: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (possibly my favorite film of the last decade) DECISION TO LEAVE NOPE SOMETHING IN THE DIRT WATCHER (Curious to see how this goes... on Twitter, if you posted "Here are my 5 favorite" anythings, or even if you just say "I saw _____ and I really liked it," hundreds of weirdos would comment "WRONG" or "Guess you didn't see ____" or "You forgot_____". How does this stuff typically work on Tumblr?)

#film tumblr #do not yuck my yums #make your own list #everything everywhere all at once is a perfect film

[blusforjews]

A Quick Note on 'Jewface', Maestro and Oppenheimer

Given that my presence on this platform is filtered specifically through the lens of Jewishness in film, and that I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the Jewish identity of Leonard Bernstein – the subject of Bradley Cooper’s controversial upcoming film, Maestro – I thought I’d weigh in on the current discourse.

For those who are unaware, one of the biggest films due to premier as part of this year’s autumn film festival season is Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. The film is said to be a non-traditional biopic of 20th century American composer Leonard Bernstein, focusing largely on his complex relationship with his wife, Felicia Montealegre. Controversy has arisen around the Netflix production due to images from the trailer featuring Bradley Cooper as Bernstein wearing an enlarged prosthetic nose. Voices within and outside Jewish communities have loudly criticised Cooper for caricaturing Jewishness, using the term ‘Jewface’ which describes the act of a goyische (non-Jewish) actor using prosthetics to make themselves look more like a cartoonish, imagined Jew.

While it is true that Bernstein did own a decent sized schnoz, the prosthetic utilised by Cooper is significantly bigger, and more defined than the nose was in reality. From a personal standpoint, I do find the use of this prosthetic to be pretty discomforting, but I think it speaks more to Cooper’s insecurity about the size of his own nose, which is a lot bigger than perhaps he would like to admit (and not too dissimilar to Bernstein’s actual nose!), than it does about his perception of Jews. That being said whether it was his intention to cartoonify Jewishness or not, Cooper has ruffled feathers in a way that is crass rather than substantive. Bernstein’s living relatives have come out in support of Cooper and his decision to use the prosthetic, saying that Bernstein would not have minded, but I think their statement rather misses the point. The nose is not about Bernstein himself, but about highly visible representations of a tiny minority that are stereotypical and incredibly reductive.

Funnily enough, however, Cooper’s use of ‘Jewface’ is the element of Maestro that bothers me the least. I have been fairly vocal since the film’s announcement about how I believe the production as a whole to be a pretty catastrophically bad idea. Leonard Bernstein is my number one creative hero – as a composer, public intellectual and educator, I don’t think there has been a single Jewish figure in American history who has had more of a positive impact on culture.

As I mentioned, I have written extensively about Bernstein in an academic context, and in researching him, it became clear to me just how vitally important his Jewish identity was to him throughout his life. It informed his music (even West Side Story, which was initially conceived as a story about Jews and Catholics on the Lower East Side of Manhattan), and his role as an educator (he often described his pedagogy as rabbinic in nature), and he was deeply, foundationally affected upon learning about the realities of the Holocaust which caused what he described as ‘aporia’, a state of being where he was too overwhelmed to write a single word for years. Bernstein’s complicated relationship to sexuality was also hugely significant in his life. There is still debate to this day about whether, given an open, accepting environment, he would have identified as a gay man or as bisexual. He had significant, passionate relationships with both men and women, and was an early major advocate for HIV/AIDS research.

My problem with Maestro is that I don’t have faith in Bradley Cooper as a writer/director, to sensitively depict these two massive aspects of Bernstein’s identity. Focusing on his most significant straight-passing relationship as the centre of a film called Maestro does not inspire confidence that the film won’t totally whitewash Bernstein’s Jewishness, or reduce his sexuality to the pain it caused his wife (in a similar way to other reductive music biopics like Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman). Cooper’s own identity is significant in that he is starting from a place of remove from the identity of his subject, which isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker, but when there are other filmmakers out there who are far better suited to a project like this, both from an identity perspective and a thematic one, it’s hard to justify why this project exists at all in its current form.

Some have pointed to the involvement of Steven Spielberg as a producer on the project as hope for better representation, but given that Cooper and Martin Scorsese – a filmmaker who I have criticised in the past for the didactic, Christian morality of his movies – are also credited producers, I don’t think it’ll make much difference. I’m more comforted by the involvement of Josh Singer (Spotlight, The Post) and his contribution to the screenplay, given his Jewishness and his work on thematically sensitive historical films.

I’m not writing off the film entirely just yet. I had similar worries about Oppenheimer, given the significance of the scientist’s Jewishness in his decision to start work on the bomb in the first place. Nolan and Cillian Murphy, thankfully, proved me wrong in the director’s decision to focus on the differing Jewish identities of Oppenheimer, Lewis Strauss, and I.I. Rabi, and the nuanced ways in which their characters were informed by Jewishness, as well as Murphy’s attention to detail in his performance. It’s certainly possible for non-Jewish filmmakers to consider Jewishness in a valuable way (see Todd Field’s Tar or Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza for a couple of recent examples), but the set-up of this project makes it hard for me to believe that Cooper is one such filmmaker.

To end with a little self-gratifying what-if, I thought I’d lay out what would be my ideal Bernstein biopic: a film centred around the relationship between Bernstein and his fellow queer, Jewish composer and mentor, Aaron Copland, the letters they wrote to one another, and the fallout of their brushes with McCarthyism which had vastly different outcomes. I would keep Cooper as Bernstein (without the prosthetics!) because he can convincingly play the man’s charm, I’d cast Michael Stuhlbarg as Copland, and get Todd Haynes to write and direct. Haynes is Jewish, gay, and has a great deal of experience directing sweeping, romantic, dark, and political films. He knows how to portray music on screen and has several masterful period-pieces under his belt, with Carol in particular as a shining example of complex, historical queer romance in America. Honestly, this would be my dream film project.

#blu ray #blu ray collector #blusforjews #cinema #cinephile #film #film tumblr #jewishness #jewishness in film #maestro #leonard bernstein #bradley cooper #jewface #antisemitism #oppenheimer #christopher nolan #todd haynes #michael stuhlbarg #aaron copland #biopic #music biopic #queerness #queer history #gay #bisexuality #lgbt representation

[niallsdaya]

Saltburn teaser trailer this Wednesday🎬

Written and directed by Academy Award Winner Emerald Fennell, the film stars Academy Award Nominee Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi and Rosamund Pike.

In theaters November 24, 2023.

#HE LOOKS SO GOOD #HE’S LITERALLY TAKING OFF HIS PANTS HERE HELP #barry keoghan #jacob elordi #saltburn #saltburn 2023 #saltburn movie #emerald fennell #rosamund pike #film tumblr #cinema #mlm

[skull-pun]

Twitter film bros calling the new Furiosa trailer over saturated and ugly are so MCU pilled it's insane.

#mad max #furiosa #mad max furiosa #twitter #marvel #mcu #film tumblr #cinema #chris hemsworth #anya taylor joy

[o-nik]

I gave this one scene from Kontroll (2003) English subtitles so more people can enjoy it

This. This is peak humor (for me at least😭)!!!

@zokimaga I'm tagging you if you don't mind<3

#kontroll 2003 #hungarian film #hungarian films #kontroll #hungarian movie #i see the word hungarian and i want to vomit #but THIS...this film is do dear to me #onikspeaks #films #films to watch #film recommendations #film tumblr #film tag #film scenes #film lovers #film community #film movie #favourite movies #movies #movie scenes #movie recommendation #movie tag #movie film #movie clip #movie video #funny movie scenes #live action #live action film #live action movies #antal nimród

[blackfilmgaze]

Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty

Little Simz - Point and Kill (2021) dir. Ebeneza Blanche

#touki bouki #little simz #ebeneza blanche #djibril diop mambéty #film #music video #music #film tumblr #black film tumblr #black film #director #cinema #influence #culture

[waldorflover]

✧˚ · . welcome to my account

read my card for more info.

he // him .. minor

gossip girl and rihanna lover.

vanessa abrams and jenny humphrey apologist.

#gossip girl #gossipgirl #rihanna #navy #rihannanavy #new mutuals #new to tumblr #rihanna navy #film #film tumblr #newtumblr #fan account #tv tumblr #blair waldorf #blair #serena #serena van der woodsen #beyonce #music #pop music #new #introduction

[dagoonking]

Olivia Cooke as Lea (Naked Singularity) 2021

#olivia cooke edit #olivia cooke #naked singularity #gif edit #gif #film tumblr

[roseatearchives]

sofia coppola’s home office by bruce weber in march 2000

#sofia coppola #filmmaking #film stills #creative inspiration #creativewriters #movies #film tumblr #girlhood #hollywood #y2k

[saltburnupdates]

When Oliver met Felix. See Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan in a brand new clip for Saltburn, in select theaters November 17 and everywhere Thanksgiving.

#saltburn #barry keoghan #jacob elordi #emerald fennell #saltburn 2023 #saltburn movie #ewan mitchell #alison oliver #archie madekwe #richard e. grant #rosamund pike #mlm #mlm films #cinema #film tumblr #released scene #saltburn teaser #saltburn trailer