"I found two dead people in theaters too. That was kind of crazy." Pat Caldwell to Chris Stanton for Vulture/New York Magazine
https://www.vulture.com/article/thank-this-projectionist-for-the-odysseys-70-mm-imax-run.html?src=longreads #film #movies #theodyssey #imax #longreads

"The #Holocaust takes up a lot of space within #Jewish #film and #television, #historical or otherwise, for good reason. It was an immense tragedy on a global scale, one of the darkest hours of human #history. The stories of those who survived are undeniably compelling. And, in adapting some of these stories for the screen, they are important tools for Holocaust education and fighting #antisemitism (provided that they are done thoughtfully).

And yet, if you’re Jewish, it can be exhausting to constantly engage with this specific trauma. Sometimes you might want to learn more about different periods of history through media which reflect lesser told Jewish stories, even if some of those are traumatic, too.

If that’s you, you’re in the right place. Read on for eight #TV shows, both based on true stories and fictionalized, that center #Jews throughout various periods of history other than the Holocaust."

https://www.kveller.com/8-jewish-period-tv-shows-that-arent-about-the-holocaust/

Gamera (1995) is a pretty good giant monster film but amidst the spectacle was this impeccable piece of cinema.

#gamera #film #scifi

In the 4 years I've been on Mastodon, I haven't seen many other filmmakers here. (I think I'm already following the maybe 3 that are actually here.) But if this post happens to reach any other filmmakers or screenwriters, I'd love to try and forge a film community on this platform. (I don't think there is an existing one? Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Film reviewers and movie fans are great too! 🎬

#filmmaker #screenwriter #film #filmmaking #screenwriting #movies #womeninfilm #filmcommunity

Kiwi indie feature Pop to receive nationwide release in October

https://lucire.com/insider/20260807/kiwi-indie-feature-pop-to-receive-nationwide-release-in-october/ #film #NZ #Aotearoa #IndependentFilm #living #Wellington #Wellywood #teWhanganuiaTara #PopTheFilm

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Still from the movie Pop, dir. Tim Hamilton.

David Ellison Should Never Own a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, because of course he shouldn't.

No one person, family or company should own so much news, media and entertainment.

But that didn't stop David Ellison from trying to convince us he should (and oddly making it clear he should not).

https://stuff.davidaugust.com/david-ellison-convinced-me-he-should-never-own-nor-control-a-combined-paramount-warner-bros-discovery/

#paramount #WarnerBrosDiscovery #wbd #psky #merger #monopoly #news #media #entertainment #movies #tv #film #television

I doubt this would ever happen, but imagine if the Roman Catholic pope would do this, then he might actually be doing God's work....

But no pope has ever done it!

Anthony Quinn as pope in "Shoes of the Fisherman" (1968)

#movie #film #AnthonyQuinn #Catholic #pope

I can and will watch a million Nicolas Winding-Refn films and never be bored and is deeply funny to me how so many people hate what he's doing (casting women as leads, giving them untold powers, letting them win).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzUqj1dJJs

#film

In honor of Mel Brooks’s 100th birthday, here is Dr. Dan McClellan, scholar of the Bible and Religion, translating the Hebrew on the third tablet that Moses dropped in History of the World Part I; it actually had real words, and Brooks committed to the bit:

https://youtube.com/shorts/RAycIBNgXcg

#film #MelBrooks

My tummy hurts and I'm a little pissy. I am requesting movie recommendations. Here's what I like:

-Queer
-Soft
-Cerebral
-Psychological
-Indie/off-beat/beatnik

...but i am open to pretty much anything, in any language.

#FilmRecs #Film #MovieRecs

"As #StevenPressman makes clear in his new #documentary #film, Dust Bowls and #Jewish Souls: Another Side of #WoodyGuthrie, there was another side to #Guthrie and his #songs. As his son, #ArloGuthrie, explains in the film: “My father studied #Judaism and he knew something about it. He never exchanged his faith for something else; he added to his faith. And that something else he added … was a Jewish identity. He understood what that meant traditionally, historically, culturally. And he knew more about Judaism than my zeyde. And so, my bubbe was thrilled.”

It just so happens that Arlo’s bubbe — his grandmother — was acclaimed #Yiddish #poet and #lyricist #AlizaGreenblatt. When Guthrie married Aliza’s daughter, #MarjorieMazia (née #Greenblatt), the two chose to raise their children in #ConeyIsland..."

https://forward.com/culture/841190/our-greatest-folksinger-wrote-about-america-dust-bowl-refugees-and-jewish-identity/

Fun fact: Salvador Dalí designed a tarot deck for the film Live and Let Die.

https://lithub.com/salvador-dali-made-a-tarot-deck-for-the-james-bond-film-live-and-let-die/

#art #film

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A picture of a young Salvador Dalí taken in 1925. He has short dark hair, wide eyes, and a thin mustache. He looks directly forward, wearing a dark collared jacket over a light shirt. One hand rests on a woven wicker basket in front of him, with part of a curved life preserver showing visible lettering below his hand.

i was so surprised and delighted to see BBSes, FidoNet, and MUDs/MUCKs get mentions in the anthropomorphic (furry) culture history documentary The Fandom (2020).

i always knew there was significant overlap between furry culture and networked computing, but i had never fully made the connection. it's so nice to see a real, non-corporate, grassroots culture grown through informal othernetworks. no wonder masto is so furry-rich!

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF9DQQsUcs0

watch here (free):
https://archive.org/details/the-fandom-a-furry-documentary-full-movie

#bbs #fidonet #documentary #film #furry #othernetworks #mud #mush

"Set against the backdrop of modern #dating through the lens of the #Jewish community, the #film follows a young Jewish man’s search for love, identity, and connection during the holiday season at a time when finding the right person has never felt more complicated.

The #romanticcomedy is the feature #directorial debut of #EvanScolnick, who previously took credits on short film Background Action, about a production assistant wrangling extras for a superhero movie and taking inspiration from a stint at Marvel Studios where he worked on films such as Hawkeye.

“I never imagined my debut feature would be a #romantic #comedy..."

Work is work buddy.

https://deadline.com/2026/07/rom-com-mazel-tough-jewish-dating-cast-1237004252/

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📜🧑‍🌾 An animated short #film dispels common #myths about women in the #MiddleAges. Beyond working fields and running shops, #medieval women managed large estates and governed land as nuns while contributing to #science, #politics, and trades.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/illuminated-lives-a-brief-history-of-womens-work-in-the-middle-ages

#animation #art #arthistory #culture #europe #farming #food #history #illustration #medicine #nationalfilmboardofcanada #religion #textiles #weaving #womeninstem #tksst #video

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Three medieval-style manuscript illustrations set side by side in arched frames against a dark background. On the left, a woman uses a pickaxe to mine colorful ore from a rock wall. In the center, a woman wearing an apron works at an anvil with tongs and a hammer. On the right, a woman in a red gown holds a falcon on her gloved hand.

TIL Kate Winslet held her breath for 7 minutes 14 seconds while recording an underwater stunt in Avatar 2. She broke Tom Cruise's record of six minutes from one of the Mission Impossible movies.

https://screenrant.com/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-8-underwater-breath-record-kate-winslet/

#movies #film #katewinslet #movietrivia #trivia #BADASS

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Kate Winslet as a blue alien and as herself

PopcornGap is a brand new website that shows the true audience scores of movies instead of the modified Rotten Tomatoes’ scores.

As you may or may not know, RT has a storied history of making terrible movies seem good and vise-versa. Check it out for yourself:

https://popcorngap.com/

#Movies #RottenTomatoes #Film #Cinema

"My father, Rabbi #ShlomoCarlebach, profoundly shaped #Jewish life through his #music, teachings, and ability to touch people’s souls. He also caused profound harm. The new #documentary The Darkest Light portrays both of these truths with care and precision. It celebrates the transformative impact he had on Jewish life and music while giving voice to the painful testimony of three women who were victims of his harmful actions.

#Director #SimonMendes and his team spent years making this #film, and I was honored to be one of the subjects. They approached an extraordinarily difficult story with compassion, courage and nuance. To tell only one side of my father’s story would have been untrue.

After much reflection, I have decided not to attend the premiere.

This was not an easy decision. I believe in this film. I believe it deserves to be seen, and I intend to continue supporting it as it travels through the world. But today should not be about me nor about my grief..."

https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-film-about-my-father-is-premiering-today-i-wont-be-there/

"A new #documentary premiering on #TishaBAv examines a series of #antisemitic attacks and missile strikes that, according to the #Aish organization, targeted or affected #Jewish communities during major holidays.

The #film, “While We Were Celebrating,” is set to premiere July 22, coinciding with the Jewish day of mourning. It is the third annual Tisha B’Av documentary produced by Aish and was #directed and #produced by #JamieGeller, the organization’s global spokesperson, together with #AishStudios.

The documentary looks at attacks across three continents and focuses on survivors, relatives of victims and eyewitnesses coping with trauma while trying to preserve a sense of resilience and hope, according to Aish."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hjyyhm9egx#google_vignette

“#JamesGray is the last great #novelist of #American #cinema,” said #GionaANazzaro, #Locarno’s artistic director. “His #films form a rich body of work that echoes the #Jewish #diaspora, #filmnoir, and #Russian as well as #NorthAmerican #literature. A #filmmaker with a humanist sensibility and profound #cinephile knowledge, he has experimented with genres such as #sciencefiction and adventure while retaining his own #artistic identity and voice. Celebrating James #Gray at the Locarno #Film Festival means paying tribute to a unique and unmistakable #artist, a filmmaker who speaks the language of #cinema and knows how to pass it on to future generations.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-gray-2026-locarno-award-career-leopard-paper-tiger-1236651656/

"[A] holy soul and a monster, a pioneering #feminist and an #abuser of girls, a person overflowing with love even for people he met on the street and yet so devoid of empathy that he was able to cause profound harm to dozens of young #women and #girls.

I am speaking, of course, of #Rabbi #ShlomoCarlebach.

This weekend marked the #premiere of The Darkest Light, an aptly titled new #film about #Carlebach’s life, and about the ways his family, followers and community have wrestled with his profoundly contradictory legacy. The moral center of the film is one of Carlebach’s two daughters, #Neshama, who was his #musical and #spiritual heir. It is heartbreaking to watch the many scenes of the two of them together, prior to his death (sudden, of a heart attack, on a plane set to leave LaGuardia Airport in 1994). She is so obviously in love with him, and he with her. If we didn’t know what was coming next, the videos would be achingly sacred and beautiful."

https://forward.com/culture/838970/darkest-light-documentary-shlomo-carlebach-simon-mendes/

-= Today’s Movie =-

🎞️ Obsession
🎬 Curry Barker
🗓️ 2026

#Movies #Moviestodon #Cinema #Cinemastodon #Film #Filmastodon #FirstWatch #NowWatching

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A young man sitting in a car at night, engrossed in his phone, with the word "OBSESSION" glowing above him.

Only a fool would deny that... I'm getting tired of all this anti-AI bullshit. It's just a very efficient automation tool with specific affordances that can be well used or badly used. OK, there are still some hiccups in terms of efficiency but this is mostly an engineering problem together with an illiteracy problem from the part of some users.

"The Star Wars director, George Lucas, has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking.

Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.”

Resistance to the technology, he said, was “very much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’”

Adoption of such tools, continued Lucas, was an inevitability. “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”

Lucas is not the only director of a Star Wars film to have come out in favour of AI. The British film-maker Gareth Edwards, who made Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and most recently Jurassic World Rebirth said generative AI “is a fucking genius at helping you”."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts

#AI #GenerativeAI #Luddites #NeoLuddites #AntiAI #Film #Movies #Cinema

I know I posted this before, but I'm still amazed that wifey made this for a work-related function slash contest. Mostly out of paper!
I mean, who is this talented?
Respect.

#Art
#70s #film
#chocolate

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A model replica of the boat from the nineteen seventy one film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, made of paper, and floating on a chocolate river surrounded by a gum drop, candy landscape

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A finely detailed model replica of the boat from the nineteen seventy one film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, made of paper

@elsua54 Having a picture or not is not the same feeling for many online who have never seen each other but understand and contributed to great things together.

You're not talking to a machine.

I feel like #AaronSwartz even if I'd like people to work different to you!

Maybe watch this #documentary #film to understand:

The Internets Own Boy - The Story Of Aaron Swartz:

https://archive.org/download/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy

Is Jurassic Park scary?

#film #movies

Back in the silent film era, theaters used hand-colored lantern slides to advertise their Coming Attractions.

I'd gladly pay the full nickel to see these four!

- Saved By Wireless (1915)
- The Craving: A Dramatic Wonder-Play with Startling Photographic Effects (1918)
- Beans! A Play of Youth, Beauty, and Adventure (1919)
- A Tokio Siren (1920)

#1920s #Film #movies #silentfilm #1910s #MoviePosters #beans #wireless #hollywood

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Saved By Wireless, with a man hanging from a propeller airplane in flight

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The Craving, with the visual special effect of five bathing beauties apparently swimming in a cocktail glass

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Edith Roberts and Dew Cody, in Beans!

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Carl Laemelle offers Tsuru Aoki in "A Tokio Siren"

"Bridging the heartfelt and heartbreak with soaring celebration, traditional and contemporary #Yiddish #music will fill the air this July as the #Yidstock festival returns to the #YiddishBookCenter in #Amherst. The four-day cultural celebration, running from Thursday, July 9, through Sunday, July 12, features an array of #concerts, talks, workshops and #film screenings."

https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/07/07/preserving-a-language-through-song-yidstock-brings-vibrant-yiddish-culture-and-klezmer-to-the-valley/

We're overdue for another restored final edit of Metropolis with a new soundtrack. No film has ever really hit the same level of restored_final_final_edit6 versioning.

#metropolis #film

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A scene from Metropolis showing hundreds of faces

Taiwan is racing to restore decades-old reels of rare Taiwanese-language films to preserve a chapter of its culture, with film preservers having salvaged fewer than a sixth of the estimated 1,200 films produced. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/06/asia-pacific/society/taiwan-film-hunters-reels/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #taiwan #cinema #movies #film

Otherworldly visitors meet radical homegrown visions in a July line-up spanning sci-fi classics, Free Cinema landmarks and early Peter Weir gems.

https://letterboxd.com/roddie/list/bfi-players-july-2026-line-up/detail/

#film #filmMastodon #BFIPlayer

I just got finished watching Project Hail Mary. It’s a very entertaining sci-fi movie that stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film.

This movie has it all: intriguing plot, humor, action, drama, and surprises.

It’s not super scientifically accurate but I’ll give that a pass since the movie is so good otherwise. I’d rate it a solid 9 out of 10. Highly recommended!

#Movies #Film #NowWatching