#forgotten films

[mstornadox]

Was trying to remember a weird Aussie comedy from the early 2000s about a rock band. Pretty standard movie about an indie band with clueless boys and smart girls. Two things stand out in my memory. It does have a surprisingly dark subplot, and the end credits are fan-fucking-tactic.

Found it: Garage Days (2002) directed by Alex Proyas.

Yes, the same Alex Proyas who directed The Crow and Dark City. He followed up these goth cinema classics with a modern-day comedy.

Oh wait, that does explain that weird subplot where one of the band members hallucinates a goth girlfriend and has sex in a graveyard.

It still does not explain the end credit sequence, which has the cast singing and dance to a Tom Jones song.

#garage days #alex proyas #forgotten films #why isn’t this a cult classic #movie used to play on cable a lot #I got sucked in every time

[blllllllllllllllllllue]

Day 6 of posting forgotten movies

Ant bully

2006

#animated #animated movie #movie #kids movie #forgotten films

[skz-films]

the director and the cameraman.

#stray kids #hyunsung #hyunjin #han #createskz #bystay #hjsnet #hyunjinnet #hyunsung moments #skzfilms gifs #skzflix #usersemily #userlau #usersa #usersun #sorry i've been gone for too long i've forgotten how to tag let alone how to gif sjdhjkshkfjdjgfjdj #pls accept my meager contribution to the hyunsung nation <3 #i'm so upset over this short film cause it was indeed short and i cried so much and now i have 3257872 other questions #but i'm so excited for the cb i rlly rlly can't wait to hear everything bc leave and cover me sounded so lovely:((( #no megaverse and leave spoilers in this household though lmao

[digestive]

#spiderverse #into the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #beyond the spiderverse #meme #spiderman #mile morles #gwen stacy #peter b parker #hobie brown #spider punk #spider gwen #pravitr prabhakar #spider woman #jess drews #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #did i schedule this from after the last film came out? #yes i did #I may have forgotten to switch off schedule send😅

[0046incognito]

don't you feel blissful here?

#my art #original character #character design #oc #robot oc #art #artists on tumblr #original art #animation #original animation #indie animation #cartoon #fake screencap #vhs #y2k #cmy2k #hibiki himura #oh i had forgotten tumblr autosaves post drafs #i had been in the midst of almost posting this before certain things in my personal life happened #but i think posting this just to get it out of the way will be good for me #good way to ease into wanting to work on this film again y’know

[mystery-star]

Not Tolkien straight up calling Bilbo queer and wanting to come out:

#the hobbit #jrr tolkien #you gotta love the man #bilbo baggins #the hobbit book #I had forgotten how funny the book his #gandalf is way more sassy than in the films #if possible #middle earth #tolkien #there we go posting about hobbit anyways #hehe

[ink-the-artist]

Have you examined the soviet animation style? Because mostly of your artworks (especially wild cats, like lions or tigers) are very similar to those from soviet traditionaly hand-drawn cartoons. Also you actually drew a character named black Cat from “Blue puppy”, so…

What I want to say, if it is - that is very cool. It feels warm, when you realise, that the legacy of your country art is not forgotten.

my art style is heavily influenced by soviet animations yea! they are some of the earliest media i was shown and most of my childhood films were soviet/russian. they have such unique brainfeel to me thats hard to describe

#russia has a pretty big art legacy in general not just for animation #like film and music #i dont think itll be forgotten anytime soon lol #there are some legitimately very cool things about russia. its a shame about everything else

[certainwoman]

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964), dir. Sergei Parajanov

#Tini zabutykh predkiv #shadows of forgotten ancestors #film #cinema #sergei parajanov

[irn-bru]

superman after getting pissed off with captain marvel for stealing his boy scout gig

#justice league unlimited #superman #shazam #billy batson #i have no idea how old billy is supposed to be in this show but he's just a wee baby #like yeah sure supes didnt know that he was fighting an actual bairn but then he transforms into a kid right in front of him #and he just doesnt give a fuck. you know he was MADDD #respect to billy for telling them to get to fuck and leaving. got them where it hurts #anyways im about to rewatch shazam i had forgotten id even watched that film but it was years ago #dcau #beth.txt

[offtay]

this cast >>>>>>>>>>> all the others

#not me #2021 #not me cast #offgun #off jumpol #mond tanutchai #first kanaphan #gun atthaphan #papang phromphiriya #nuchie anucha #gmmtv #thai actors #byofftay #gawin lookjun film & filmshy are not there but also 10000000% included ofc #I had either never seen or forgotten this pic bruh I love it so much 😭😭😭

[thesinglesock]

hiccup and astrid only works for me if they're written as foils. Hiccup is a soft hearted pacifist who has to learn to make tough calls. Astrid is a hard core warrior who has to learn compassion. they both admire the other for their strengths, and by some combination of striving to be more like each other, and hitting the breaks when one of them goes too far in one direction, they manage to meet in the middle and work really well together

#astrid makes sure Hiccup doesn't let people get away with misusing his trust #and Hiccup makes sure Astrid doesn't burn every bridge ever over issues that could be solved #httyd #vitpost #hiccstrid #im watching the show again and I straight up can't get over how much better it handles their dynamic compared to the movies #could it be that I spent more time with the show versions of them in between waiting for the movies #and so got attached to that characterization which led me to misinterpret the original depiction of their relationship? maybe. #but also not rly because the dynamic im talking about is very much present in the first film and then further supported #by the Gift of the Night Fury short #so really it just feels like the second film didn't rly know what to do with Astrid and kind of sidelined her #and then by the third movie they'd forgotten her personality too #They're Cute in the movies though I'll give them that. but that does not satisfy the aroace viewer :) #I need them to Make Sense too

[navramanan]

hellos film enthusiasts, until the 31st of this month you can watch 15 kurdish films here, online with english subs, for free! have fun <3

a personal recommendation of mine, that i had watched a while ago during another kurdish film festival: love in the face of genocide

#and shoutout to loml mizgin for reminding me 🥰 #i had seen the zagros film festival on instagram bc i follow a number of kurdish pages and kurdish film festival accounts #but i had fully forgotten especially since i had been abstaining from insta for ramadan #but yeaaaaaahhhh you got 10/11 days left!!!! use it #nesi rants #kurdish #i have also seen azad which is available. a short lovely heartbreaking movie. cant speak on the rest

[strawberrybyers]

it’s crazy to me that the hawkins family photos insta account hasn’t been clocked by netflix or the duffers when that account has thousands of followers posting high def pics where you obviously have to be near or on the set to capture them, but when we wanted the official scripts from that guy that would post scripts for MULTIPLE SHOWS FOR YEARS, he was taken care of with a swiftness 😭😭

i’m not saying hawkins family photos needs to be taken down. i’m just saying that it’s interesting they didn’t want us to see those scripts from episodes we’ve already seen, but high def pics where like obviously ppl who work on set would potentially see the person taking pics of season 5 is just going about their day???? nahhh something was in those scripts that was legit. something was in there they didn’t want us to see i swear. they told us those scripts were fake but idk something’s fishy 🤨🧐

#once again thinking about scriptgate #LIKE WILL RECOGNIZING DR BRENNER?? YEAH DUFFERS THATS RIGHT I HAVENT FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT!! #i have no idea if hawkins family photos is the one taking the pics or if someone who works on set sends it to them #regardless #you’d think an account with that many followers would be taken care of or something like for all this time of filming they haven’t been #caught??? #like a show like stranger things is obviously going to have PAs and security so ppl cant just hang around #like if they can create a large distance between ppl and the set then they will #so idk just interesting #i’m thinking that hawkins family photos is created by someone on set and it’s part of marketing #and that the scripts were actually legit that’s why it was taken care of #that’s why nothings happening to HFP bc it’s controlled spoilers #scriptgate #byler #stranger things

[nicojoe]

I wrote my own fanscript of THE OLD GUARD 2

The screenshots above are samples...

... I got tired of waiting for Netflix, so:

I tried to incorporate the following:

TOG 2 casting (Uma and Henry) plus some locations where the movie was shot last year (as seen in set photos, etc)

my own personal "wish list" of details, but hopefully in a way that makes sense within the larger story (tried to avoid making it just a self-indulgent, shoe-horned laundry list lol) and in a way that it could conceivably be greenlit by the industry -- ie: I'd have loved to write 2 whole hours of them just hanging out playing board games and reminiscing, but that would never be made into a movie.

a few ideas inspired by some of my favorite meta posts/fan art/etc (some of y'all are SO much more creative than the people actually making these movies, istg) -- try to spot them all!

favorite "action" scenes from the Force Multiplied comic, despite this script not being a true adaptation (it just borrows the broader strokes)

the decision not to make Quynh a villain; she's arguably got a hero arc in this, tbh (the top 1% and their use of institutional/systemic oppression to exploit and control the masses is the real villain, actually!)

no new immortals or explanation of immortality, tyvm; I tried to focus on the Family of Six and their shared history as much as possible.

PDF FILE OF SCRIPT

#the old guard #the old guard 2 #fan screenplay #fan script #kaysanova #andromaquynh #fan fic #(kind of) #i just remember some of our most beloved fandom moments revolving around the release of the original film's script #and i know that I'm not a professional writer but I wanted to try and capture just a fraction of that enthusiasm for us again #we deserve it so much you guys we've been given less than scraps for so long... it's hard to maintain passion when you feel forgotten #i don't know what the actual movie's going to be like... but i don't trust netflix at ALL not to mangle the elements i love #(ie: prioritizing character development - found family dynamics - flashbacks - queer rep - meaningful/character-focused action scenes - etc #(this doesn't have a beta reader so if i fucked anything up please let me know so i can change it xoxo)

[fibula-rasa]

Lost, but Not Forgotten: The Dancer of the Nile (1923)

Alternate Titles: Tut-ankh-amen, Tutankhamen of Luxor

Direction: William P.S. Earle

Scenario: William P.S. Earle

Original Story: Blanche Taylor Earle

Production Manager: Dick L’Estrange

Camera: Jules Cronjager & Joe Goodrich (assistant)

Scenic Artist: Xavier Mochado

Set Designer: Paul Dodge

Technical Advisor: Capt. Dudley S. Corlette

Studio: William P.S. Earle Pictures Corporation (Production) & Film Booking Offices of America (F.B.O.) (Distribution)

Performers: Carmel Myers, Bertram Thomas Grassby, Malcolm McGregor, Anthony Merlo, Sam de Grasse, Iris Ashton, June Elvidge, Paul Weigel, Howard Gaye, Mother/Nellie Anderson, Beatrice Marsh, & Earle Marsh

Premiere: 12 October 1923, Loew’s New York, New York, NY

Status: presumed entirely lost

Length: 6 reels,  5,787 feet

Synopsis (synthesized from magazine summaries of the plot):

Princess Ankhnespaton [sic] (June Elvidge), daughter of King Akhnaton [sic] (Howard Gaye), has a run in with a band of thieves while traveling. Prince Karmit (Malcolm McGregor) of Syria arrives, disguised as a merchant, and saves the princess. The princess becomes enamored with Karmit and invites him back to the royal residence in Thebes. 

While visiting the royal gardens, Karmit encounters a dancer, Arvia (Carmel Myers). He is instantly smitten. The princess is furious that Karmit has rebuffed her for a mere dancer.

Meanwhile, tension between those loyal to the king and those loyal to the old gods erupt when the seasonal flooding of the Nile river doesn’t occur. The princess finds in this situation an opportunity to get her revenge on Arvia. 

The princess decrees that Arvia will be offered as a human sacrifice to the god Sobek, in order that the Nile will rise as expected. Arvia is adorned with a poisoned amulet to knock her out while she is fed to the crocodiles.

In an unexpected turn of events, the high priest Pasheri (Sam De Grasse) discovers that the intended sacrifice is his own daughter. Pasheri sneaks into the chamber where Arvia is to be sacrificed and saves her at the last moment. 

With Pasheri’s aid, Karmit whisks Arvia away. As the Nile rises, the new couple sail away to Karmit’s kingdom to live happily ever after.

The princess goes on to marry Prince Tutankhamen (Bertram Grassby). And, after the death of her father Prince Tut will become King Tut.

Additional sequence(s) featured in the film (but I’m not sure where they fit in the continuity):

The Temple of Amun-Re is also depicted in the film.

Points of Interest:

While many contemporary reviewers of The Dancer of the Nile (DotN) didn’t mark it as an especially good film, props were given for the artistic effects achieved by Director Earle. Earle and his brother, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, were both pioneers of the era in special effects. 

Ferdinand was a painter who contributed matte paintings and art titles to many films of the 1910s and 1920s. While William was primarily a director, both brothers ambitiously created films that were on the cutting edge in regard to techniques of incorporating matte paintings with live actors/studio-shot footage. 

For William, it was DotN, and for Ferdinand it was A Lover’s Oath (1920/1925, presumed lost save for a few fragments), which was an adaptation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. (ATM, I’m planning on doing the next installment of this series on this film!)

(Explanatory note: One technique at use here involves double exposure. Part of the frame is obscured while filming, leaving the obscured part of the film unexposed. The film is then rewound, with the exposed part of the film obscured, to film another element. The final result is, hopefully, a cohesive sequence. 

Another technique is shooting through painted glass, which, if painted and lit correctly, results in the painting and the scene occurring behind it appearing as a singular space. 

For example, a fully painted environment with live actors moving across the scene. In DotN, there is at least one scene where a live actress ascends a set of stairs, which is a painting. These techniques require an amazing amount of precision, but when done right they can be really dazzling. The double-exposure matting technique has persisted through most of film history, albeit rarely at the scale the Earle brothers were using it! 

Below is an illustration of how a moving version of matte photography works from a 1926 issue of Photoplay, followed by some stills from DotN that used the multiple-exposure technique.

I have a few posts coming up that go into more detail on how special effects were executed in films of the 1920s!)

William P.S. Earle’s focus on the artistic elements without much regard for story or characterization may have left many critics cold, but DotN did prove to be a lasting attraction, running in theatres around the world for years following its release.  DotN was produced hot on the heels of the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922 in Luxor, which launched a new wave of Egyptomania. On one hand, Earle was cashing in on a trend, but on the other, he took the opportunity offered by assured profitability to experiment. In addition to the special effects discussed above, Earle attempted to capture as much period accuracy as possible in the painted settings, props, and costumes. Balancing historical accuracy with perceived “authenticity” in period art is exceedingly difficult—Earle seemingly had mixed success. However, one contemporary review in the magazine Art and Archaeology by Dudley S. Corlett (also the film’s technical advisor) is highly complementary of DotN’s attention to historical and artistic detail. [You can find the review in the transcription section!]

After Earle had more or less finished DotN, F.B.O. bought “Tut-ankh-amen” for distribution. F.B.O. financed reshoots that shifted the narrative away from Tut and towards Arvia, the dancer—hence the title change. I guess F.B.O. believed that cashing in on the trend of movies about dancers would be more lucrative than cashing in on Tut-mania!

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Transcribed Sources & Annotations over on the WMM Blog!

#1920s #1923 #lost film #Lost but not forgotten #Dancer of the Nile #tutankhamun #classic film #classic movies #film #silent film #american film #silent movies #silent cinema #silent era #egyptomania #film history #history #William P.S. Earle #movies #Blanche Taylor Earle #Carmel Myers

[filmnoirfoundation]

We are proud to be co-presenting Victor Schertzinger’s "Forgotten Faces" (1928) at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s Day of Silents, Saturday, December 2 at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. FNF prez Eddie Muller will be introducing the film.

Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) and Froggy (William Powell) are partners in crime—genteel armed robbery—at least until the cuckolded Harry commits an even bigger offense. Before Harry goes to prison, he leaves his baby girl on the doorstep of a wealthy couple to keep her out of the clutches of his no-good wife Lilly (Olga Baclanova) and tasks Froggy with keeping close tabs. But Froggy is no match for Lill. Live musical accompaniment will be performed by the Sascha Jacobsen Ensemble. Tickets are available at the SFSFF’s website https://silentfilm.org/ados-2023-schedule/

Please use promocode NOIR to receive $2 off the cost of your ticket. While you’re there be sure to check out the other five screenings on the schedule.

#eddie muller #silent noir #sfsff #forgotten faces #clive brook #silent film #olga baclanova #william powell