#i really fucking love films

[bixels]

Now that Ghibli's new movie is coming out soon, I've been thinking about anime films and wanna talk about my favorite animated movie ever, Tokyo Godfathers.

TG is a 2003 tragicomedy by Satoshi Kon, following three unhoused people––an alcoholic, a runaway girl, an a trans woman––who find a baby in a dumpster and set off across Tokyo to reunite her with her parents.

If you like the sound of that, go watch it because the rest of this post is spoilers and I have FEELINGS about this movie.

URGHH, the fact that only two moments of true kindness, generosity, and care given to the three protagonists without any expectation of reciprocity are given by a Latin-American immigrant couple and a drag show club full of trans women. The fact that, despite her loud and dramatic personality, Hana is the glue that holds the team together and the heart of the whole movie. The fact that this movie pulls no punches at showing the violence and inhumanity committed by "civilized Japanese society" against the unhoused. The fact that Miyuki craves to be loved by her parents and ends up seeing Hana as her true mother. The fact that Miyuki starts off accidentally using transphobic language against Hana, but slowly begins calling her "Miss Hana" out of respect. The fact that, according to Kon, Hana's role in the story is as a mythological trickster god and "disturb the morality and order of society, but also play a role in revitalizing culture." The fact that Hana so desperately wants to be part of a true family, yet is willing to sacrifice her found family so they can be with their own, and is rewarded for her good deeds in the end by becoming a godmother. The fact that, throughout the movie, wind and light have been used to signify the presence of god's hand/influence (this movie's about nondenominational faith––faith in yourself, faith in others, faith in a higher power. Lots of religious are referenced, such as Buddhism/Hinduism, Christianity, and Shintoism), and in the climax of the film, as Hana jumps off a building to save a baby that isn't hers, a gust of wind and a shower of light save her from death. The fact that god saves a trans woman's life because she proved herself a mother, and that shit makes me CRY.

#ramblings #long post #not art #personal #it's the ultimate found family movie #not without its problems. i really dont like its depiction of mental health #for a movie that does an otherwise great job spotlighting the unhoused crisis in japan and its society's oppressive distain towards women #and queer people. it really drops the ball on depicting one of the biggest contributors to the crisis #but otherwise this movie is so fucking full of love and kindness and second chances and how fucking good queer folks and poc are #it blows my mind that this film came out in 2003 and the main protagonist is a trans woman who's just the fucking best #the recent gkids dub is REALLY good by the way! they got shakina nayfack; a trans va; to voice Hana! #the dub made great strides to undo a lot of the original misgendering and mistranslations #also its a christmas movie #also the ost was done by the band that did earthbound's ost

[muppetbyers]

doing wayyy too much for it to be unrequited

#like what the fuck was the cabin scene. what the shit was that. #why would they film every scene they have together so beautifully. whats going on. #surely the editors were like ‘hey mattross… this shot of will and mike looks uh… really queer’ #surely SOMEONE realised they were filming a gay romcom at some point? #like if they’re not meant to be in love w each other then i will question everything about their film choices. #like this is not how u do an unrequited romance. at least one that u dont want the audience to root for. #like even if this ends up being painfully unrequited i will rest easy knowing they share the prettiest scenes together #sorry for going insane over byler cinematography on a random wednesday afternoon #mine

[sillycathorrors]

every now and again i get depressed about the current state of the filmmaking industry and then i see a movie that makes me go ‘wow. im gonna create shit like this even if it kills me’ and i think thats an important sentiment to have in this age of ai and not paying actors/writers enough

#i have genuine passion for filmmaking its just seeing so many filmmakers/directors talk about how much they hate making movies #is really disheartening yk? #this post was brought to you by the boy and the heron btw #thats today’s ‘holy fuck im in love with movies’ film #filmmaking #cinemetography #film industry #the boy and the heron #studio ghibli #animation #my thoughts #sorrens rambles

[chrliekclly]

i just remembered i had this post in my drafts for when the season ended! have some bts :)

#always sunny #iasip #sunny sweet 16 #sunny spoilers #bts #s16 #i have more but theyv got cast in them and idk if thats allowed #again. i am scared #every season im on i get slightly braver taking pictures lmfao #s15 i literally took NO PICTURES i was like 'if they see me taking pics of set they will detonate me on sight' #like i took a few of mySELF on the bar set cuz how could i not #but this time i took pics of cast and stuff and :) #yo also those fucking 'animatronics' scared the FUCK OUT OF ME when i first walked on stage #i would keep seeing them out of th corner of my eye while we were filming and like JUMP ajksdng #the gritty pic i love so much lol hes helping :) #that episode was really. bad. but it was more fun to film than the others #and still obsessd w macs fit

[turtletoria]

#turtlearts #frankenstein #young frankenstein #gene wilder #i fucking loved frankenstein when i first read it in highschool #i remember watching young frankenstein in class bc the teacher showed it to us one day. and i thought that gene wilder was so handsome - #as frederick. and you know what? young me was right i still think hes so ham some.......... who said that #also the film's actually so goofy and funny. its a good time (i didnt like some of the bits though... #some stuff aged really well while others didnt. but overall good movie!)

[jamnsketch]

Strange, Surreal, and Nightmarish

#love you Julia #not gonna lie I’m really proud of this one #except no one look at how fucked up that one foot is #and just pretend I drew a rly good chair #my art #hellraiser #hellraiser 2022 #hellbound #cenobite #cenobites #pinhead #Julia cotton #movie #film #fanart #sketch #drawing #art #portfolio #illustration #digital art #horror art #horror movies #Halloween #October #clive barker

[rainbowinbeigeboots]

do you ever just cry while thinking about how tender creature is with lisa or are you normal?

#something about that peach ring proposal scene just gets me and the way he just looks at her with so much love #granted it could be because i’m really depressed rn but damn does that scene in particular get me #i’m so mad the site i usually use isn’t working for me for some reason rn #and i could go to my local theatre since they’re still showing it but god i’d have to get out #but also god i REALLY need to watch this film rn bdcause it unfortunately is my current comfort film/hyperfixation #and i can’t justify paying the digital price for it while i already preordered the physical copy #save me lisa frankenstein save me #somehow gotta make it to fucking sunday when i’m going to see it again #until then i’m just gonna stare at gifs and cry about how sweet they are #lisa frankenstein #meaghan rambles

[weaponizedmoth]

"Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a vampire in love with a human. Better integration than I could possibly have dreamed."

(just some Sundown The Vampire in Retreat fanart. More details and B&W vers. under the cut, etc).

:)

#I thought this movie was really cute and charming in a lot of ways #also I love Bruce Campbell's look in this one so much I had to draw him #I wanted to make him really warm to contrast her vampiric appearance which is more or less what they do in the movie #although he's pretty gray #I also like the costume designer's attention to detail like everyone is dressed more or less like they would be at the time they died #and a vampire western is just one of those ideas you pull from a hat that sound insane and are #but anyway charming film! I watched it twice this year! Then what! It's full on youtube so it's easier #I feel like she looked more like the actress in the sketch ALSO her actress played Muffy in April Fools Day????! #I fucking love that movie so much and Muffy is my girl she's like such an insane genius I love her to death #that movie is like a very long Are You Afraid of the Dark episode and this movie is a fairy tale with vampires. Iconic choices honestly #sundown the vampire in retreat #bruce campbell #I usually don't tag actors or actresses but I deserve this one #fanart #artists on tumblr #art #digital art #illustration #my art #digital drawing

[i-hear-a-sound]

leftism leaving peoples bodies the moment people with severe facial/bodily differences exist

#social justice #disability #ableism #leftism #leftist #sorry for posting this randomlt but I really don’t care this shit makes me unbelievably mad. #y’all will go “i love fat ppl i love neurodivergent ppl i love (the widely portrayed positively in media) disabled ppl” #and the moment you see someone your mind already has deemed “ugly” in any way you act up. fuck off you ableist cunt. #i can maybe count with 2 fingers the amount of times people with facial or bodily differences have been portrayed #positively in any media. one was in a kids book that got a movie a few years ago. #and the other was that one pretty poignant David lynch film I THINK. #anything else. it’s fucking garbage and it shows on so many fuckers on this website

[bumblebeebats]

Wow, Guillermo del Toro really said You know what my animated kid's musical needs? Catholicism. War. Death. Alcoholism. Fascism. Frankensteinian undertones. A haunting meditation on mortality and grief. Cate Blanchett making monkey noises. And he was so fucking right

#i really shouldn't be surprised after Pan's Labyrinth and like basically every one of his other films but #Pinnochio was extremely good y'all #and the making-of was incredible too - just the LOVE and CARE that was poured into the overall look and design is just??? #im frothing at the mouth. i love stop-motion so much #pinnochio netflix #guillermo del toro #ANIMATION IS A MEDIUM NOT A GENRE AND THE STORIES IT CAN TELL ARE SO FUCKING COOL

[mangle-my-mind]

Todd Haynes on Mandy Slade

OM: How did you come to cast Toni Collette as Mandy? She doesn't strike me as an obvious choice for the role as it is written; her most famous part was in Muriel's Wedding where she played the podgy, Abba-obsessed ultra-hetero outcast.

TH: Mandy was the hardest part to cast in the film. It's a particularly demanding role due to the range Mandy has to display as she changes from the seventies to the eighties. This type of camp female character has basically vanished from our cultural landscape, as far as I can tell. The closest equivalent today is probably a Parker Posey-type character, but she's still quite different from the Liza Minnelli of Cabaret or the Angela Bowie of the glam era. Mandy has a theatrical, campy party girl persona that can be turned on and off at will, and owes a great deal to the gay male sensibility of the time. I think women around the world were liberated from all kinds of highly codified notions of femininity when people like Patti Smith entered the pop cultural arena. It had such a profound effect on women but girls today have no memory of that kind of camp femininity.

I saw so many strong actresses for Mandy, both in the US and the UK, and it was really tough to find the right one. We came close a few times, but it wasn't until I met Toni that it all clicked. I had no doubt about her acting ability, but the question was how to transform Toni Collette psychically, both for the camera and in her own self-regard into this very different, very confident, overly sexual creature. She really had to go off the cliff; I'm sure it was terrifying. And what you see in the film is such a transformation, such a complete commitment to the role that she almost becomes unrecognizable as Muriel in Muriel's Wedding. After a certain point, nothing was too scary for Toni. What you get with the character is what you get with the actress playing her - this range of changes and the effects of various cultures and various experiences on one extraordinary woman.

OM: Although the script informs you of Mandy being an American bisexual who reinvented herself, you get the sense of invention fully in the scene where she presents Brian with the divorce papers. She breaks down and you see the façade in a seventies context. It's a very moving moment and it's contrasted with Brian's coked-up emptiness. What did you discover in your research about the 'back-stage' women of the glam era?

TH: I guess Mandy's basic expression of real needs is made more vivid by that scene, but the beaten-down, hard-boiled Mandy of the eighties gives you the framework for that. She was definitely one of those people who was feeling and hurting and acting out at the same time. Often the casualties were the women of the male rock world. I really feel the film builds and develops complex sympathies for Mandy that you won't necessarily feel going in. The character is loosely inspired by aspects of Angela Bowie, and it's very easy to make fun of that kind of pop creature after the fact. But in all the books I read there was no argument on how fundamentally essential Angela Bowie was to the invention of Ziggy Stardust and to glam rock in general. She inspired risk-taking and flamboyance to a degree no one else can claim credit for. It wouldn't have happened without her.

Source - "Superstardust: Talking Glam with Todd Haynes", Oren Moverman.

Photo source

Emphases my own :)

#mandy slade #velvet goldmine #25yearsofvelvetgoldmine #velvetgoldmine25th #many things to think about from this. #first - Toni Collette's ever-changing accent through the film is a stroke of fucking genius #i will never understand people who criticize how all-over-the-place it is. that's the entire POINT #next - camp femininity!!! #Mandy really does more drag than the rest of the characters. I LOVE how performative she is with her gender #(also this interview is from when the movie came out and I think since then we've had plenty of displays of exaggerated femininity in pop) #then - often the casualties were the women of the male rock world!!!! #yes EXACTLY

[sotangledupinit]

i’m obsessed your honor

#ready or not #grace #daniel le domas #the superior le domas brother #LISTEN #I agree with the discussions that Daniel wasn’t in love with Grace and that his brotherly love of Alex drove a lot for him in the film #it’s true and accurate!! #and I think Daniel wanted to be good and never really felt like he has a purpose to be good once his brother got out #but he’s really the only one to FIGHT against his family and actually try #because he recognizes his family is fucked up and he won’t let someone innocent get dragged into it #and for that he’s an icon #but also grace and Daniel are the prettier couple with better chemistry so of course I want to surround myself with AUs #thank you samara weaving and Adam Brody for being pretty together #i love them your honor #pls don’t judge my hastily-made gif while I was doing other things on my phone #queue you like me now

[adamnsey]

#one thing about me is that if I've seen a piece of media then I have ALSO seen the bloopers multiple times #@ succession hbo release the bloopers or I swear to GOD #anyways. my fav bloopers are the office bloopers!! they are so funny and all on youtube and I've seen them all like 20 times #followed by community bloopers are super funny #bloopers are especially great when they are for shows that are not at first glance funny #like hannibal bloopers r funny #THE BREAKING BAD BLOOPERS ARE SO GOOD go watch them omg..... brian cranston is so cool it sucks that he plays the worst guy ever #and aaron paul and his relationship is just really sweet #i fucking love bloopers so much and every show/movie should be required by Law to release their bloopers #tell me ur fav bloopers in tags if you've read this far lol :) #succession #the office #community #tv #film #memes #doctor who #mine #spongebob memes #spongebob meme #spongebob squarepants #humour #humor

[hella1975]

idk how to feel about the atla live action show but I just saw that the guy who’s playing zuko mentioned zukka in an interview and I’m kinda foaming at the mouth, going feral at the moment

ENOUGHHHH. T-MINUS ONE DAY

#NOT MY ZUKKA ❌ #can you believe i was one of the naive optimists being like 'maybe this live action will be good' #and then they started making announcements.... #i have ZERO hope for it anonstie. i dont want them to even touch zukka #not that im delusional enough to think they will but even this kind of shit of saying it in interviews like. i just feel #like they're fucking w us. like that's the issue w these big corporate shows made only for extra profit and not for love of the source #is that they treat the audience like something to be mocked. like we're all part of one big moneymaking trick #and if we fall for it by getting excited about certain things ('the actors JOKINGLY mentioned my fav ship!') then we're stupid #and i just really hate that. i need to get into more freak shit made by some students and a dodgy camera #bc the corporations have truly taken all love from film-making and the concept of a producer-consumer relationship is lost #OR SOMETHING. ANYWAY. WHAT WAS THAT #ask #atla

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

and today on The Bird App -

What a genuinely hilarious first thing to like on Twitter since 2020. I love both of these women so much 💗

#like it’s almost definitely just Alba showing support for her co-star but also #it does feel vaguely like Alba is fucking with us #like ‘y’know what would make the fans absolutely crazy?’ #not just being back online not just interacting with a post about KTY but interacting with THIS post #also KTY in the video laughing about Meena standing in the corner like 👁 #‘poor Meena’ #meanwhile Meena in interviews is like ‘I’m SO glad they weren’t filming me I was crying it was so beautiful’ 😭 #(but seriously the set up of that shot IS so beautiful I don’t blame her) #ANYWAY people don’t have to be normal about this but also I really hope they aren’t weird about it either #it would be lovely if Alba felt comfortable to come back to online spaces if that’s what she wants #no being weirdos and scaring her away with weird comments about her and her costars #Alba Baptista #Kristina Tonteri-Young #Warrior Nun #Avatrice #Twitter

[trinitywc]

yes i just saw oppenheimer yes it was brilliant

#watch it!!!! fuck me!!!!! #cillian murphy was SO good and the way the story weaved together was insane #i loved dunkirk tho so #just a really good film about mans hubris and the Assumption you always win #i like this era of history tho so