One thing that was easier to find on the #web 20 to 25 years ago through search engines is diverse #torrent collections.

I miss those sites were people offered their personal book collections or fan video and image collections of whatever. The type of #site you'd go to to find Richard Linklater's first film or some short film that was shown on some Polish #film festival once but never officially released on any medium instead of what's hot from Hollywood. Sites where people would upload new punk rock albums and skateboard videos every day. Places were you would find TV recordings of all sorts of stuff from people who just couldn't accept that this stuff wasn't archived publicly.

Knowing about the deep web I'm sure communities like this are still around. But I don't even know how to find what's been shown in #Cannes this year.

The katana-wielding heroes are back in cinemas across Japan, with dates for international premieres of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” on the horizon. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/25/film/demon-slayer-infinity-castle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #demonslayer #anime #japanesefilm

https://www.europesays.com/2274184/ Hollywood is struggling. So why does anyone want to buy a movie studio now? #alcon #america #BusinessModel #company #deal #Entertainment #EntertainmentIndustry #film #health #Hollywood #lionsgate #MovieStudio #ParamountGlobal #partner #sports #Streaming #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #value #VillageRoadshow #year

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Die österreichische #Filmkomödie »Eva« kam heute vor 90 Jahren ins #Kino. Warum sie den stilistisch widersprüchlichen #Operettenfilm (Musik: #FranzLehár) als »Durchschnittsware mit Widerhaken« kennzeichnet, erläutert:

Monika Bernold, Tonfilm in Weiß – Modernisierung, Krise und #Geschlechterpolitik in dem #Film Eva (#Österreich, 1935), #WerkstattGeschichte 55/2011, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/feindschaft

@histodons @historikerinnen

Watched this scene from GOODFELLAS at 8:04pm Pacific tonight and look at the time on the clock in the film. You can’t script this!

Secret Venture (1955)

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

There's a lot going on here isn't there? She has her gun, he's wrestling it away from her so she can't … do something, and the guy behind him wants to hit him. This has everything a film noir poster needs in one tidy package.

A quick copied-music post, today!

Original (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s40pvh94Cvc&t=29s
Copy (1996): https://youtu.be/l-MJfDdjdwU?t=39 / https://youtu.be/l-MJfDdjdwU?t=154 / https://youtu.be/l-MJfDdjdwU?t=274 etc.

More copied-by-Bollywood tunes: https://open.spotify.com/user/31qyqsm67tu2jjkdv2qf5gjtxreq?si=4ae6313f63e8476a

There are no good guys in Dune.

There are no bad guys in My Cousin Vinny.

Discuss.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street | September 12
What comes after 11? We're about to find out.

https://youtu.be/1ryx-eRSwSs

MOVIE REVIEW: "OH, HI!" - IN THEATERS
Rom-coms aren’t supposed to go this off the rails — but that’s exactly what makes 'Oh, Hi!' so fun.

https://hotchka.com/oh-hi-review

"The Night of the Hunter" turns 70 this week! Find out what other movies are celebrating milestone anniversaries in Hotchka's Movies by the Decade!

https://hotchka.com/movies-by-the-decade-261

I interested myself in 360-degree films. And did a couple of them.

360 forces you to think differently about the set and the direction of shot (everything is on display, there is no “behind the camera”) and that necessarily creates original perspectives and raises interesting questions around the “gaze" and directing or not the gaze.

And finally, 360 has it's own artifacts and effects (undesirable for most) that I find aesthetically interesting (geometric and chromatic distortion, etc.). It reminds me a little of the flickering of Super 8, or the speed jumps of hand-cranked cameras. I like it. I like to feel and be aware of the machine that was there in the making of the film.

And if someone chooses to show them with a helmet, they are immersive experiences.

I stopped doing 360 because there are few festivals and they all charge (a lot).

Some of films and trailers in my Vimeo and YouTube. Ask me.

Chacun cherche son chat est un film français réalisé par Cédric Klapisch et sorti en 1996. La bande son a été créée par Erik Rug, né à Vittel, est un DJ et producteur français de house music, également connu sous d'autres noms comme WaxWorx. (wikipedia)

Field Song at Flyover Fest

https://youtu.be/A5L93g6dzfg?si=4j9K8v0ps8xK3PMS

Field Song, a docu-poem short film featuring the poetry of Hannah Drake with the (Un)Known Project will be screened Saturday as part of the 2025 Flyover Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. I composed the score to the film along with vocalist Jamilah Cooper. A great group of collaborators led thi

https://hollandhopson.com/field-song-at-flyover-fest/

Sykkeldokumentaren The Engine Inside kan for øvrig ses her:

https://www.redbull.com/us-en/films/the-engine-inside

#sykkel
#sykling
#film

Watching Point Break, the not so good one. #film