#shane 1966

[wolfepirat3]

Okay i like... just realized that ive literally never expanded on my love for westerns besides the copious amounts of references in my fic and the one picture of all my westerns...

So heres a list of all the westerns in my collection (plus my favorites, ill mark them with a *)

Shows

Gunsmoke (seasons 1-5)

Laramie (seasons 1-4)*

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Lonesome Dove The Series

Magnificent Seven 1998 (season 1-2)*

Rawhide (season 1)

Shane 1966*

Lonesome Dove (miniseries)

Return to Lonesome Dove (miniseries)

Sugarfoot (season 1-4)

Movies

Streets of Laredo

Dead Man's Walk

The Magnificent Seven 1960*

The Magnificent Seven 2015

Tombstone*

Young Guns*

Young Guns II*

A Fistful of Dollars

For A Few Dollars More

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Pale Rider

Hang 'Em High

High Plains Drifter

The Outlaw Josey Wales

3:10 to Yuma 2007*

Shane 1952*

Once Upon A Time in The West*

Evil Roy Slade

Books

Appaloosa

Brimstone

Shane*

Blood, Guts, and Glory

Saddle by Starlight

The Gunslinger

Lonesome Dove*

Comanche Moon

Dead Man's Walk

Streets of Laredo

The Big Sky*

The Way West

Seven Ox Seven Part One, Escondido Bound

The Tall Stranger

Kilkenny

Hondo

Showdown at Yellow Butte

The Virginian*

Miscellaneous

Adventures of the Old West (docuseries)

Outlaws & Gunslingers (docuseries)

Legends of The Old West (docuseries)

The Classic TV Western Collection (40 misc. episodes)

TV Western Collection (27 misc. episodes)

Western Collection (8 misc. movies)

The Wild Wild West the Series (book)

The Hollywood Western (book)

A Pictorial History of Westerns (book)*

Please please please ask me about any of them if you like any please!!

Those are all of the physical westerns i have, but there are plenty more i love but havent gotten my hands on yet!

#westerns #western #cowboys #collection #western collection #the magnificent seven 1998 #magnificent seven #laramie #shane 1966 #lonesome dove #dollars trilogy #western movies #western media

[kisslovegoodbye]

Shuhada' Sadaqat (8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023)

Sinéad O'Connor is widely regarded as one of the most influential female performers of the 90s, not only for her sensational performances and raw vocal emotion but also for her outspoken confidence to express herself publicly.

Sinéad was born in Dublin in 1966, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer of U2 protégés In Tua Nua, while singing wedding covers in the city. After co-writing the first In Tua Nua single, she left school to focus on music, studying voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music. She relocated to London in 1985.

Her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra produced two alternative hits ‘Troy’ and ‘Mandinka’ and would go on to be one of 1987’s most critically acclaimed LPs. Follow up, 1990’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got confirmed her as a major artist with the Prince-written Nothing Compares 2 U reaching number 1 in the UK, the US and globally.

A series of public gestures have tended to interrupt the critical focus on O’Connor’s artistry including her infamous performance on SNL where she ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II. However, Sinéad’s ability to move through Pop, Rock, Folk, Reggae and incorporate multiple influences into her complex and powerful sound is in evidence all throughout her now three-decade long career.

Her death comes a year after the mother-of-four's son Shane, 17, took his own life in January 2022 after escaping hospital while on suicide watch. 

Farewell, beloved one...

#art #love #photography #kisslovegoodbye #rip #legend #icon #sinead o'connor #singer #nothing compares 2 u #lion #cobra #pop #rock #folk #rest in power #rest in peace

[afrotumble]

John Weatherspoon (January 27, 1942 – October 29, 2019), better known as John Witherspoon, was an American actor and comedian who performed in various television shows and films.

Witherspoon was born in Detroit, Michigan. He later changed his last name from Weatherspoon to Witherspoon. Witherspoon was one of 11 siblings. His older brother, William, became a songwriter for Motown, with whom he penned the lyrics of the 1966 hit single "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted". Another sibling, Cato, was a director of the PBS-TV Network/CH56 in Detroit. His sister, the late Dr. Gertrude Stacks, was a pastor at Shalom Fellowship International, a church in Detroit.

Witherspoon worked occasionally as a model. During the 1960s and 1970s, he began to take a liking towards comedy. During that time, he began his stand-up comedy career. As a result, he had many friends in the business, including Tim Reid (while he was working on WKRP in Cincinnati and The Richard Pryor Show), Robin Williams (also on The Richard Pryor Show), Jay Leno, and David Letterman.

Witherspoon married Angela Robinson in 1988. They have two sons, John David ("J.D.") and Alexander. David Letterman was Witherspoon's best friend and is the godfather to his two sons.

He is best remembered for his role as Willie Jones for the Friday series; Witherspoon also starred in films such as Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Boomerang (1992), The Five Heartbeats (1991), and Vampire in Brooklyn (1995).

In 1977, he became a regular on the series The Richard Pryor Show, an NBC American comedy series. This then led to his appearance in WKRP In Cincinnati in 1982 in the fourth-season episode "Circumstantial Evidence" in which Witherspoon played Detective Davies.

He has also made appearances on television shows such as 227 (1987), Amen (1988), LA Law (1990), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1994), The Wayans Bros. (1995–99), The Tracy Morgan Show (2003), Barnaby Jones (1973), The Boondocks (2005–2014), and Black Jesus (2014–2019). Subsequent appearances were on Good Times, What's Happening!!, and The Incredible Hulk.

He wrote a film, From the Old School, in which he played an elderly working man who tries to prevent a neighborhood convenience store from being developed into a strip club.

In 2011, he starred in a Final Destination spoof with Shane Dawson on YouTube. In May 2013, he featured on "Saturday (skit)", from rapper Logic on his 2013 mixtape titled Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever.

#john witherspoon #rip #actor #comedian #african american

[filmparaden]

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)

Sympathy For The Devil (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968)

Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989)

Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)

Tale Of Tales (Yuriy Norshteyn, 1979)

Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, 1999)

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)

Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer; 1975)

One From The Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1981)

Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)

Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998)

Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)

Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003)

Le feu follet (Louis Malle, 1963)

The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968)

A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)

La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)

The Battle Of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)

Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer,1996)

The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky; 2011)

Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)

Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966)

Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966)

Thérèse (Alain Cavalier, 1986)

La jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

Le gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011)

Les 400 coups (François Truffaut, 1959)

The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)

Killer Of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

The Women (George Cukor, 1939)

Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)

Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)

Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin; 1953)

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)

The Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)

Man On The Moon (Milos Forman, 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Enter The Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009)

Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)

The New Land (Jan Troell, 1972) 

Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)

Border Radio (Allison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss; 1987)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)

Les triplettes de Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)

Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

Gare du Nord (Jean Rouch, 1965; segment of Paris vu par... )

Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)

Slap Shot (George Roy Hill, 1977)

Le sang d'un poète (Jean Cocteau, 1932)

Breathless (Jim McBride, 1983)

Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)

Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)

Gadjo dilo (Tony Gatlif, 1997)

Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)

A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1969)

The King Of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982)

The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)

In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, 1969)

Meshes Of The Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)

When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996)

Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984)

A Woman Under The Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

To The Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012)

Beavis And Butt-head Do America (Mike Judge, 1996)

Araya (Margot Benacerraf, 1959)

Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)

Skammen (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)

Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971)

The Bridges Of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)

Roma città aperta (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)

Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981)

Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)

La cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)

The Draughtman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)

Amour fou (Jessica Hausner, 2014)

Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)

Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)

Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, 2008)

The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo, 1997)

Låt den rätte komma in (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

[mybeingthere]

Christi Marlene Belcourt (born 1966) is a Métis visual artist and author living and working in Canada. She is best known for her acrylic paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art. Belcourt's work often focuses on questions around identity, culture, place and divisions within communities.

Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Christi Belcourt is the daughter of national Métis rights activist Tony Belcourt and Judith Pierce-Martin. Her family's roots are connected to Manitou Saskhigan (also known as Lac Ste. Anne), Alberta. 

Her brother Shane Belcourt is a writer, director, musician and cinematographer known for his feature film Tkaronto, which depicts the life of urban Métis and First Nations people. Her sister Suzanne Belcourt is a graphic designer and artist living and working in southern Ontario. In 1970, her father was elected as the founding President of the Native Council of Canada (now known as the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples) and the family relocated permanently to Ottawa, Ontario from Edmonton, Alberta.Belcourt is the project creator and lead coordinator of the Walking With Our Sisters, a crowd-sourced commemorative art installation for the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada and the United States. Started in 2012 this project has toured throughout communities in North America and continues to be driven by community volunteers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi_Belcourt

[videbi]

The Best Movies

These are the movies that appealed to a large audience and had wide social impact to 1) inform, 2) educate, and 3) entertain. More movies may be added or any movie may be taken out of the list at anytime.

Intolerance (1916, Griffith)

The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin)

The General (1926, Bruckman, Keaton)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau)

City Lights (1931, Chaplin)*

Duck Soup (1933, McCarey)

King Kong (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934, Capra)*

A Night at the Opera (1935, Wood, Goulding)

Top Hat (1935, Sandrich)*

Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)

Swing Time (1936, Stevens)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Cottrell, Hand, Jackson, Morey, Pearce, Sharpsteen)

Bringing Up Baby (1938, Hawks)

Gone With the Wind (1939, Fleming, Cukor, Wood)*

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, Capra)

Ninotchka (1939, Lubitsch)

The Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir)*

The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming)*

Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Ford)

The Great Dictator (1940, Chaplin)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)*

Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston)

Casablanca (1942, Curtiz)*

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Curtiz)

Double Indemnity (1944, Wilder)*

Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Capra)*

Notorious (1946, Hitchcock)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*

The Big Sleep (1946, Hawks)

Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur)

Red River (1948, Hawks, Rosson)

Rope (1948, Hitchcock)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Huston)

All About Eve (1950, Mankiewicz)*

Sunset Boulevard (1950, Wilder)*

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Kazan)*

Strangers on a Train (1951, Hitchcock)*

The African Queen (1951, Huston)*

High Noon (1952, Finnemann)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Donen, Kelly)*

The Quiet Man (1952, Ford)

Roman Holiday (1953, Wyler)

Shane (1953, Stevens)

Stalag 17 (1953, Wilder)

Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu)

Dial M for Murder (1954, Hitchcock)

On The Waterfront (1954, Kazan)*

Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)

The Night of the Hunter (1955, Laughton)

The Searchers (1956, Ford)*

12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet)

Funny Face (1957, Donen)*

Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Mackendrick)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Lean)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Wilder)

Touch of Evil (1958, Welles, Keller)

Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)*

Ben-Hur (1959, Wyler)

North by Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)*

Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)*

La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)*

Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)*

Spartacus (1960, Kubrick)

The Apartment (1960, Wilder)

West Side Story (1961, Robbins, Wise)

Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut)*

Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean)*

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Mulligan)*

8 1/2 (1963, Fellini)*

Hud (1963, Ritt)

The Great Escape (1963, Sturges)

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964, Kubrick)*

For a Few Dollars More (1965, Leone)

The Sound of Music (1965, Wise)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Leone)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Nichols)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Penn)*

In The Heat of the Night (1967, Jewison)

The Graduate (1967, Nichols)*

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)*

Oliver! (1968, Reed)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Leone)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, Hill)

Easy Rider (1969, Hopper)

Midnight Cowboy (1969, Schlesinger)

The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah)

MASH (1970, Altman)

The Conformist (1970, Bertolucci)*

A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)

The French Connection (1971, Friedkin)

The Last Picture Show (1971, Bogdanovich)

Cabaret (1972, Fosse)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972, Pollack)

The Godfather (1972, Coppola)*

American Graffiti (1973, Lucas)

The Sting (1973, Hill)

Chinatown (1974, Polanski)*

The Godfather Part II (1974, Coppola)*

Jaws (1975, Spielberg)

Nashville (1975, Altman)*

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Forman)

All The President’s Men (1976, Pakula)

Network (1976, Lumet)

Rocky (1976, Avildsen)

Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)*

Annie Hall (1977, Allen)*

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977, Lucas)

The Deer Hunter (1978, Cimino)*

Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)*

Manhattan (1979, Allen)

Ordinary People (1980, Redford)

Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)*

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg)

Blade Runner (1982, Scott)*

Diner (1982, Levinson)*

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Spielberg)

Sophie’s Choice (1982, Pakula)

Tootsie (1982, Pollack)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Leone)

Platoon (1986, Stone)

Full Metal Jacket (1987, Kubrick)

Do The Right Thing (1989, Lee)

Glory (1989, Zwick)

Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese)*

Beauty and the Beast (1991, Trousdale, Wise)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Demme)

A River Runs Through It (1992, Redford)

Unforgiven (1992, Eastwood)

Farewell My Concubine (1993, Chen)

Schindler’s List (1993, Spielberg)*

Forrest Gump (1994, Zemeckis)

Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino)

The Lion King (1994, Allers, Minkoff)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Darabont)

Heat (1995, Mann)

Toy Story (1995, Lasseter)

Life Is Beautiful (1997, Benigni)

L.A. Confidential (1997, Hanson)

Titanic (1997, Cameron)

Saving Private Ryan (1998, Howard)*

The Sixth Sense (1999, Shyamalan)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Lee)

Gladiator (2000, Scott)

A Beautiful Mind (2001, Howard)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Jackson)

City of God (2002, Meirelles

The Pianist (2002, Polanski)

Finding Nemo (2003, Stanton, Unkrich)

Mystic River (2003, Eastwood)

The Incredibles (2004, Bird)

Million Dollar Baby (2004, Eastwood)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2005, del Torro)*

The Lives of Others (2006, Donnersmarck)*

No Country For Old Men (2007, Coen, Coen)

Gran Torino (2008, Eastwood)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Boyle, Tandan)

The Hurt Locker (2008, Bigelow)

The King’s Speech (2010, Hooper)

The Artist (2011, Hazanavicius)

* Disclaimer: Strong sexual and/or violent content not recommended below age 16. Personal discretion or parental guidance advised.+

#films #movies #favorite #list #videbi.tumblr.com #lists #favorites #movies list #films list #best movies

[365days365movies]

Action January: Omnibus

As I prepare for the future of this blog (and there is a future, if anybody's wondering), I find myself looking back at the good times, when I had the time to watch a movie a day and write a blog about it, which...yeah, wasn't even sustainable for me in 2021, so make of that what you will. ANYWAY, I decided that I would bring all of these posts together in an omnibus of sorts, so anybody that wanted to read these posts could find them all easily in one place. This, alongside other archives, are going to be pinned to the top of my page, and will serve as a long index of the films in the appropriate genres. The goal? To extend these archives as I go along, and have this running index for my blog. And again...there will be additions...

SO! With that, feel free to check out these films in the action genre, which remains one of my favorites! Any films you'd like to see in this list? Comment, reblog, message me, whatever! I'm always open to suggestions to add to my ever-building master list. And check out the other indices to come!

Introduction to Action (2021)

Top Gun (1986; dir. Tony Scott) (Part I | Part II | Review) Mission Impossible (1996; dir. Brian De Palma) (Part I | Part II | Review) Cliffhanger (1993; dir. Renny Harlin) (Recap | Review) First Blood (1982; dir. Ted Kotcheff) (Part I | Part II | Review) The Running Man (1987; dir. Paul Michael Glaser) (Part I | Part II | Review) Last Action Hero (1993; dir. John McTiernan) (Part I | Part II | Review) The Nice Guys (2016; dir. Shane Black) (Part I | Part II | Review) R.E.D. (2010; dir. Robert Schwentke) (Recap | Review) Kung Fu Hustle (2004; dir. Stephen Chow) (Part I | Part II | Review) Enter the Dragon (1973; dir. Robert Clouse) (Recap | Review)

Come Drink with Me (1966; dir. King Hu) (Recap | Review) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000; dir. Ang Lee) (Part I | Part II | Review) House of Flying Daggers (2004; dir. Zhang Yimou) (Recap | Review) GoldenEye (1995; dir. Martin Campbell) (Part I | Part II | Review) Casino Royale (2006; dir. Martin Campbell) (Part I | Part II | Review) Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014; dir. Matthew Vaughn) (Recap | Review) Atomic Blonde (2017; dir. David Leitch) (Part I | Part II | Review) The Mask of Zorro (1998; dir. Johnston McCulley) (Recap | Review) Léon: The Professional (1994; dir. Luc Besson) (Part I | Part II | Review) Taken (2006; dir. Luc Besson) (Recap | Review)

The Wages of Fear (1953; dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Recap | Review) Drive (2011; dir. Nicholas Winding Refn) (Recap | Review) The Fast and the Furious (2001; dir. Rob Cohen) (Recap | Review) Speed Racer (2008; dir. The Wachowskis) (Part I | Part II | Review) The Poseidon Adventure (1972; dir. Ronald Neame) (Recap | Review) The Expendables (2010; dir. Sylvester Stallone) (Recap | Review) The Raid: Redemption (2011; dir. Gareth Evans) (Recap | Review) The Fugitive (1993; dir. Andrew Davis) (Part I | Part II | Review)

Mad Max (1979; dir. George Miller) (Recap) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981; dir. George Miller) (Recap) Mad Mad Beyond the Thunderdome (1985; dir. George Miller and George Ogilvie) (Recap) The Mad Max Franchise (Reviews)

Action January: Summary (2021)

#user365 #365 days 365 novies #365days365movies #365 movie challenge #action january #action films #action movies #action genre #action #movie review #movie recap #post archive #top gun #mad max #crouching tiger hidden dragon #drive #the fast and the furious #wuxia

[aunti-christ-ine]

Sineád O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer and activist who scored a global smash with Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” in 1990 and was banned from Saturday Night Live for tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance two years later, has died at 56, according to a statement from her family provided to Irish TV and radio broadcaster RTÉ. No details on the cause, date or place of her death were given.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad,” the statement reads. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”

O’Connor was hospitalized in January 2022 after posting a series of disturbing, soon-deleted tweets in the wake of the suicide of her teenage son, Shane, that month. Her tweets hinted at suicidal thoughts. Shane O’Connor, 17, was found dead two days after he went missing from a treatment facility in Dublin.

She posted this tweet on July 17:

Sineád O’Connor, who changed her name to Shuhada’ Sadaqat after converting to Islam in 2018 and was known for her closely cropped hair, was one of Ireland’s rising stars by age 20. She shot to fame with her haunting cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” which Prince wrote and recorded for his side project The Family. Her single hit No. 1 more than 20 countries — becoming the No. 1 single worldwide that year — and spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200 in 1990. The song’s was nominated for three Grammys including Record of the Year, and its stark video won three MTV VMAs including Video of the Year.

“Nothing Compares 2 U” was culled from her second album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, which was No. 1 in the U.S. for six weeks and has gone double platinum. It won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.

Despite the commercial juggernauts that were the single and album, O’Connor struggled to follow their success. She had only one minor hit in the U.S. after “Nothing Compares 2 U” and only a spotty chart history around the world despite releasing eight more studio albums. Her 1992 follow-up, Am I Not Your Girl?, reached the U.S. Top 10, and 1994’s Universal Mother hit No. 19, but neither would spawn a hit single. Her most recent was I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss in 2014.

Born on December 8, 1966, in Dublin, O’Connor courted controversy throughout her career. As the musical guest on Saturday Night Live in 1992, she sang a cover of Bob Marley’s “War” that shifted its lyrical focus to child abuse by the Catholic Church. When the song ended, O’Connor produced a photo of the popular Pope John Paul II and ripped it in half.

Reaction was swift in the pre-social media world, and the singer was banned from SNL permanently.

O’Connor is the subject of Nothing Compares, a feature documentary that had its world premiere at Sundance in 2022 and later aired on Showtime. Here is the logline of director Kathryn Ferguson’s film: The story of O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and subsequent exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987-93, the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer through a contemporary feminist lens.

In an interview in the documentary, O’Connor revealed the abusive upbringing that left her feeling betrayed by both church and community and ultimately led her to find the therapeutic power of music.

She received the inaugural award for Classic Irish Album for I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got at the RTÉ Choice Music Awards in March.

O’Connor’s autobiography, Rememberings, was published in 2021 by Dey Street Books.

— Source

#deaths #sinéad o'connor

[hapalopus]

Danish puppetry

Ingrid og Lillebror (1966) Kender du Decembervej? (1967) Sørøver Sally (1969) Kaj og Andrea (1971) Vinterbyøster (1973) Jullerup Færgeby (1974) Kikkebakkeboligby (1977) Anna og Lotte (1979) Stine, Anders og Jeanette (1983) Sigurds Bjørnetime (1998) Kaninlandet (1999) Strings (2004) Shanes Verden (2007) Gepetto News (2007) Det Kongelige Spektakel (2008) Carsten og Gittes Vennevilla (2009) Ramajetterne (2014) Sprinter Galore (2016)

#puppets #puppetry #lmk if i forgot any!! i haven't really kept up with puppet shows after 2010 and i wasn't alive before 1998 #also a bit of a stretch to include shanes verden but... it was about building toys and he always played with them at the end #also shout out to strings (2004) for being the only adult-oriented puppetry here

[wolfepirat3]

Gay people will literally find the most irrelevant piece of media on this planet and make it their entire personality.

(its me im gay people)

#the warriors #the warriors 1979 #due south #laramie #shane 1966 #the magnificent seven 1998 #this is literally just a callout to all my favorite shows/movies that no one i know knows

[chernobog13]

The editor of American Comics Group, Richard E. Hughes, really disliked the superhero genre, although he wrote a number of superhero yarns in the 1940s.  He apparently preferred stories/comic books without recurring characters.

However, by the mid-1960s everyone was jumping on the superhero bandwagon, and ACG was bo exception. ACG’s sales had never been blockbuster, especially with DC and Marvel owning the lion’s share of the market.  Therefore, Hughes introduced two bona fide superheroes, Nemesis and Magician.  These two became the lead feature in two of ACG’s long-running titles: Forbidden Worlds (Magician) and Adventures into the Unknown (Nemesis).

Nemesis debuted in Adventures into the Unknown #154, February 1965, in a story written by Shane O’Shea (one of numerous pseudonym’s for editor Hughes, who had written almost every ACG story since 1957), and drawn by Pete Costanza, an industry veteran who had worked at Fawcett Comics and on various Superman family stories at DC.  The cover (first image above) is very definitely by Kurt Schaffenberger’s work, even though it’s signed by Costanza.  That was probably so Schaffenberger wouldn’t getting trouble with DC editor Mort Weissenger, who did not approve of his artists moonlighting.

Nemesis was a ghost who became a superhero, a tired retread of DC’s the Spectre, although not quite as powerful.  Nemesis was super-strong, could fly, turn invisible, time travel, change size, and was invulnerable to bullets.  Despite all that, and being a ghost and all, he could still be burned, could be affected by gases and poisons, and bright light could rob him of his powers.

Like the Spectre, Nemesis was originally a lawman who was killed while pursuing a crook.  Open reaching the pearly gates (or in ACG’s case, gates with the sign “Unknown” over them) he is given a chance to return to Earth as a crimefighter.

He is also given “...a costume -- something symbolic of your mission that will strike fear into their hearts!”  I dunno about you, but the only fear I would have of that costume is a wedgie

Nemesis was the cover feature in Adventures into the Unknown until issue #167 (October 1966), with his last story appearing in issue #170 (February 1967).  That issue also marked the end superheroes at ACG, which presaged the end of the 1960s superhero boom, with characters and companies disappearing left and right.

ACG itself lasted only a few months more before the company, which had been in operation since 1939, shut down for good in 1967.

#Nemesis #Adventures into the Unknown #Silver Age comics #Kurt Schaffenberger #Jay Kafka #Pete Costanza #Lou Wahl #Satan #Satania #Grim Reaper #ACG #American Comics Group

[jbird5x5]

Very Sad to hear of the passing of Singer/Musician Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023)

Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s but was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music has died.

She was 56 years old.

Recognizable by her shaved head and elfin features, O’Connor began her career singing on the streets of Dublin and soon rose to international fame. She was a star from her 1987 debut album “The Lion and the Cobra” and became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,”

“Nothing Compares 2 U” received three Grammy nominations and was the featured track off her acclaimed album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” which helped lead Rolling Stone to name her Artist of the Year in 1991.

O’Connor made headlines in October 1992 when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II while appearing live on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and denounced the church as the enemy.

In 1999, O’Connor caused uproar in Ireland when she became a priestess of the breakaway Latin Tridentine Church.

O’Connor was born on Dec. 8, 1966. As a teenager she spent time in a church-sponsored institution for girls, where a nun gave O’Connor her first guitar, and soon she sang and performed on the streets of Dublin.

Her performance with a local band caught the eye of a small record label, and, in 1987, O’Connor released “The Lion and the Cobra,” which sold hundreds of thousands of copies and featured the hit “Mandinka,” O’Connor, 20 years old and pregnant while making “Lion and the Cobra,” co-produced the album.

O’Connor’s other musical credits included the albums “Universal Mother” and “Faith and Courage,” a cover of Cole Porter’s “You Do Something to Me” from the AIDS fundraising album “Red Hot + Blue” and backing vocals on Peter Gabriel’s “Blood of Eden.” She received eight Grammy nominations overall and in 1991 won for best alternative musical performance.

O’Connor announced she was retiring from music in 2003, but she continued to record new material. Her most recent album was “ I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss,” released in 2014.

The singer married four times; and had four children: Jake, with her first husband John Reynolds; Roisin, with John Waters; Shane, with Donal Lunny; and Yeshua Bonadio, with Frank Bonadio.

My Condolences to her Family and Friends.

#R.I.P. 😔🙏🥀🎙🎼

[thedabara]

BEAUTY EVOLUTION OF JEAN ARTHUR

(1900-1991)

1920s with dark hair and classic 20s hairstyle

1929 looking incredible with light hair

1930 a face so perfect you need two of them

1935 she looks so cool in the 1930s

1936 jean was such a beautiful woman 

1940 she is already 40 here! love the hair

1942 she looks great with dark long hair

1953 she finally aged a bit in the film Shane

1966 always smiling and looking so young

1988 she is 88 here and looks happy 

#jean arthur #1920s #1929 #1930 #1935 #1936 #1940 #1942 #1953 #1966 #1988 #thedabara

[derekfoxwit]

The Best Picture Oscar My Way (1951-1979)

Here is Part 3 of my “Best Picture My Way” series. The last two are found here. My stipulations can be found in Part 1.

For convenience sake, I’ll relay this message. For Best Picture, I’m only gonna list the nominated producer for newly added films (here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest). I will mostly go with the ones credited as “produced by” or “p.g.a.” (if the latter is shown) on IMDB as the nominees. Limit is five.

Also, if you’re wondering why there are more years listed here than the other two, that’ll be answered in the next part.

1951

Rashomon - Minoru Jingo

Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder

A Place in the Sun

Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock

A Street Called Desire

1952

High Noon

Forbidden Games - Robert Dorfmann

Singing in the Rain - Arthur Freed

Moulin Rogue

The Quiet Man

1953

Roman Holiday

From Here to Eternity

Shane

The Big Heat - Robert Arthur

The Stalag 17 - Billy Wilder

1954

On the Waterfront (still)

Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

The Caine Mutiny

Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock

Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray

1955

Marty (still)

The Night of the Hunter - Paul Gregory

Rebel Without a Cause - David Weisbart

The Long Grey Line - Robert Arthur

Mister Roberts

1956

Tea and Sympathy - Pandro S. Berman

The Ten Commandments

Giant

The Killing - James B. Harris

The Searchers - Patrick Ford

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai (still)

12 Angry Men

Nights of Cabiria - Dino De Laurentiis

Witness for the Persecution

The Seventh Seal - Allan Ekelund

1958

Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock

Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati

Touch of Evil - Albert Zugsmith

Auntie Mame

The Defiant Ones

1959

Ben-Hur (still)

Anatomy of a Murder

North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock

Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder

The Diary of Anne Frank

1960

The Apartment (still)

Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock

Elmer Gantry

The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges

The Alamo

1961

West Side Story (still)

Through a Glass Darkly - Allan Ekelund

The Hustler

Judgment at Nuremberg

Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Martin; Jurow; Richard Shepherd

1962

Lawrence of Arabia (still)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Willis Goldbeck

The Longest Day

1963

8 1/2 - Angelo Rizzoli

The Great Escape - John Sturges

Lillies of the Field

America, America

Cleopatra

1964

Mary Poppins

Dr. Strangelove

My Fair Lady

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Mag Bodard

Woman in the Dunes - Kiichi Ichikawa; Tadashi Ono

1965

The Sound of Music (still)

Doctor Zhivago

A Patch of Blue - Pandro S. Berman; Guy Green

Darling

Ship of Fools

1966

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woof?

A Man for All Seasons

The Professionals - Richard Brooks

The Sand Pebbles

A Man and A Woman - Claude Lelouch

1967

Persona - Ingmar Bergman

The Graduate

The Jungle Book - Walt Disney

In The Heat of the Night

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

Oliver!

Funny Girl

The Lion in Winter

Rosemary’s Baby - William Castle

1969

Midnight Cowboy (still)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Z

The Wild Bunch - Phil Feldman

Easy Rider - Peter Fonda

1970

Patton (still)

M*A*S*H

Five Easy Pieces

Love Story

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Marina Cicogna; Daniele Senatore

1971

The French Connection (still)

The Last Picture Show

McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Mitchell Brower; David Foster

A Clockwork Orange

Fiddler on the Roof

1972

The Godfather (still)

The Emigrants

Cabaret

The Heartbreak Kid - Edgar J. Scherick

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Serge Silberman

1973

Cries and Whispers

The Sting

The Exorcist

American Graffiti

Paper Moon - Peter Bogdanovich

1974

The Godfather Part II (still)

A Woman Under the Influence - Sam Shaw

Chinatown

The Conversation

Blazing Saddles - Michael Hertzberg

1975 (kept the same)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (still)

Barry Lyndon

Dog Dag Afternoon

Jaws

Nashville

1976

Rocky (still)

Taxi Driver

Network

Mikey and Nicky - Michael Hausman

All the President’s Men

1977

Annie Hall (still)

Star Wars

The Goodbye Girl

Eraserhead - David Lynch

3 Women - Robert Altman

1978

The Deer Hunter (still)

Heaven Can Wait

Midnight Express

Days of Heaven - Bart Schneider; Harold Schneider

Dawn of the Dead - Richard P. Rubinstein

1979

Apocalypse Now

All That Jazz

Manhattan - Charles H. Joffe

Alien - Gordon Carroll; David Giler; Walter Hill

Kramer vs. Kramer

#cinema #movies #film #academy award #oscars #alfred hitchcock #francis ford coppola #ingmar bergman #alternative #david lean #stanley kubrick #mary poppins #the godfather #2001: a space odyssey #billy wilder

[mogwai-movie-house]

The 25 Best Westerns of All Time

The greatest cowboy movies ever made, ranked and rated high-to-low:

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) ★★★★★★★★★★ 2. The Searchers (1956) ★★★★★★★★★★ 3. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) ★★★★★★★★★★ 4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) ★★★★★★★★★½ 5. El Dorado (1966) ★★★★★★★★★½ 6. Unforgiven (1992) ★★★★★★★★★½ 7. For a Few Dollars More (1965) ★★★★★★★★★½ 8. Calamity Jane (1953) ★★★★★★★★★½ 9. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) ★★★★★★★★★✰ 10. True Grit (1969) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 11. The Magnificent Seven (1960) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 12. My Darling Clementine (1946) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 13. Stagecoach (1939) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 14. Rio Bravo (1959) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 15. Little Big Man (1970) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 16. High Plains Drifter (1973) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ 17. The Shootist (1976) ★★★★★★★¾✰✰ 18. Tombstone (1993) ★★★★★★★¾✰✰ 19. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) ★★★★★★★¾✰✰ 20. The War Wagon (1967) ★★★★★★★½✰✰ 21. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) ★★★★★★★½✰✰ 22. Gunfight at The O.K Corral (1957) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 23. One-Eyed Jacks (1961) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 24. Seraphim Falls (2006) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰ 25. Shane (1953) ★★★★★★★✰✰✰

#film recommendations #classic movies #westerns

[introvertguide]

Well, after almost 4 years of watching films, the group and I finally made it through all 100 films. Besides just watching the films, this project also included one hundred reviews that ranged between 1000 and 3000 words each, one hundred short introductions for each film, and 138 movie related side posts. In total, it accounts for a little over 300,000 words and over 400 double-spaced pages describing all the movies on the list. It has been quite the journey and helped me keep my sanity during a rather rough time for world. I still would like to review movies and learn about filmmaking, but I think I am done with this AFI list for a while. Below are all the movies in the order that I saw them, along with the year they were released, the AFI ranking from the 10th anniversary list, and the day that I watched the film. It has really been a pleasure.

1 Blade Runner 1982 #97 8/15/18 2 Raging Bull 1980 #4 8/24/18 3 Jaws 1975 #56 8/26/18 4 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 #25 9/1/18 5 The Searchers 1956 #12 9/10/18 6 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 #82 9/15/18 7 Unforgiven 1992 #68 9/21/18 8 Double Indemnity 1944 #29 9/24/18 9 The Godfather 1972 #2 9/30/18 10 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 #66 10/4/18 11 Annie Hall 1977 #35 10/8/18 12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 #32 10/13/18 13 12 Angry Men 1957 #87 10/18/18 14 Psycho 1960 #14 10/25/18 15 Cabaret 1972 #63 11/10/18 16 Last Picture Show 1971 #95 11/22/18 17 Godfather 2 1974 #32 11/30/18 18 Ben-Hur 1959 #100 12/10/18 19 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 #20 12/27/18 20 Snow White 1937 #34 1/7/19 21 In the Heat of the Night 1967 #75 1/12/19 22 Sophie's Choice 1982 #91 2/2/19 23 The Philadelphia Story 1940 #44 2/11/19 24 The Sixth Sense 1999 #89 2/19/19 25 West Side Story 1961 #51 2/22/19 26 ET 1982 #24 3/22/19 27 A Night at the Opera 1935 #85 4/18/19 28 Apocalypse Now 1979 #30 6/24/19 29 Swing Time 1936 #90 7/5/19 30 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 #98 7/21/19 31 Rear Window 1954 #54 7/28/19 32 All About Eve 1950 #28 8/29/19 33 The General 1926 #18 9/13/19 34 Tootsie 1982 #69 10/1/19 35 Rocky 1976 #57 10/12/19 36 Shane 1953 #45 10/30/19 37 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966 #67 11/14/19 38 Sunset Boulevard 1950 #16 11/28/19 39 Vertigo 1958 #9 12/15/19 40 Singin in the Rain 1953 #5 1/15/20 41 Nashville 1975 #59 1/25/20 42 Bringing Up Baby 1938 #88 2/2/20 43 Midnight Cowboy 1969 #43 2/6/20 44 Spartacus 1960 #81 3/7/20 45 Network 1976 #64 3/11/20 46 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 #73 3/23/20 47 Sullivan's Travels 1941 #61 4/11/20 48 On the Waterfront 1953 #19 4/25/20 49 Lord of the Rings 2001 #50 5/8/20 50 All the President's Men 1976 #77 5/12/20 51 Casablanca 1942 #3 5/17/20 52 North by Northwest 1959 #55 5/25/20 53 The Gold Rush 1925 #58 6/4/20 54 Toy Story 1995 #99 6/20/20 55 The French Connection 1971 #93 7/11/20 56 City Lights 1931 #11 7/25/20 57 Some Like it Hot 1959 #22 8/8/20 58 Gone with the Wind 1939 #6 8/30/20 59 Goodfellas 1990 #92 9/19/20 60 High Noon 1952 #27 9/30/20 61 King Kong 1933 #41 10/12/20 62 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 #74 10/25/20 63 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 #36 10/30/20 64 The Graduate 1967 #17 11/18/20 65 Wizard of Oz 1939 #10 12/22/20 66 The Apartment 1960 #80 12/26/20 67 Intolerance 1916 #49 1/3/21 68 MASH 1970 #54 1/20/21 69 Dr Strangelove 1964 #39 1/25/21 70 Saving Private Ryan 1998 #71 2/11/21 71 Do the Right Thing 1989 #96 2/24/21 72 Pulp Fiction 1994 #94 3/7/21 73 A Clockwork Orange 1971 #70 3/19/21 74 Chinatown 1974 #21 3/25/21 75 The Sound of Music 1965 #40 4/10/21 76 Duck Soup 1933 #60 4/15/21 77 Easy Rider 1969 #84 4/23/21 78 Star Wars 1977 #13 5/4/21 79 The Maltese Falcon 1941 #31 5/10/21 80 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 #38 5/19/21 81 African Queen 1951 #65 5/26/21 82 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 #7 6/1/21 83 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 #42 6/6/21 84 Schindler's List 1993 #8 6/26/21 85 Modern Times 1936 #78 7/19/21 86 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 #37 8/8/21 87 Taxi Driver 1976 #52 10/13/21 88 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 #26 10/29/21 89 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 #72 11/13/21 90 American Graffiti 1973 #62 12/8/21 91 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 #47 12/13/21 92 The Wild Bunch 1969 #79 12/26/21 93 Titanic 1997 #83 2/1/22 94 It Happened One Night 1934 #46 2/15/22 95 The Deer Hunter 1978 #53 3/25/22 96 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 #15 4/22/22 97 Forrest Gump 1994 #76 5/1/22 98 Platoon 1986 #86 5/11/22 99 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 #23 6/1/22 100 Citizen Kane 1941 #1 6/26/22

If you look at the archive for this blog, you can find reviews of every one of these films along with side essays about the characters and the production surrounding the films. Feel free to ask questions, because I know the whole list quite well at this point.

#introvert #introverts #movie project #great movies #top 100 list #films #psychology #film review