What's the prize? What's the prize?
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handful_ofdust tonight and this afternoon. For the last couple of days I've slept straight through the morning into the early afternoon, which is not really healthy for me in terms of schedule, but frankly at this point I feel I should take whatever sleep I can get. I've had dreams I remember, at least. Last night's was about nonexistent, eccentric, mildly supernatural British royalty. I'm pretty sure it was meant for fleurdelis28.
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yhlee linked me to a vid for the original 1973 Wicker Man: "Slippery Slope." It's a great compression/breakdown of the movie. Both ways open jaws, waiting for me to drop off . . . Left half, right half—no one's in charge here. I was reminded of how much I love Edward Woodward.
To be honest, Exodus: Gods and Kings pretty much lost me at the point where I heard it was casting Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses, prominent Mizrahi Jewish and Egyptian actors that they are. (Seriously, Ridley Scott, you couldn't even have asked Siddig El Fadil if he was busy?)* News like this, however, just isn't helping. Why are Biblical epics making a comeback, anyway?
Tonight I am going to see Fritz Lang's You and Me (1938) at the HFA. I've wanted to see this film ever since I knew it existed; it's a partly musical collaboration with Kurt Weill and TCM never aired it once. I almost don't care whether it's good or not, although I suspect it will be: when am I going to get another chance to see it on the big screen? I am so looking forward.
* I am aware that Sudan and Egypt are not the same country. They're at least contiguous, currently as well as historically, and I like Siddig El Fadil, okay? He's currently playing Saladin at the Globe Theatre recently and I was curious about that, even if I would have been really curious about a "quasi-Shakespearean history play."
handful_ofdust tonight and this afternoon. For the last couple of days I've slept straight through the morning into the early afternoon, which is not really healthy for me in terms of schedule, but frankly at this point I feel I should take whatever sleep I can get. I've had dreams I remember, at least. Last night's was about nonexistent, eccentric, mildly supernatural British royalty. I'm pretty sure it was meant for fleurdelis28.yhlee linked me to a vid for the original 1973 Wicker Man: "Slippery Slope." It's a great compression/breakdown of the movie. Both ways open jaws, waiting for me to drop off . . . Left half, right half—no one's in charge here. I was reminded of how much I love Edward Woodward.To be honest, Exodus: Gods and Kings pretty much lost me at the point where I heard it was casting Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses, prominent Mizrahi Jewish and Egyptian actors that they are. (Seriously, Ridley Scott, you couldn't even have asked Siddig El Fadil if he was busy?)* News like this, however, just isn't helping. Why are Biblical epics making a comeback, anyway?
Tonight I am going to see Fritz Lang's You and Me (1938) at the HFA. I've wanted to see this film ever since I knew it existed; it's a partly musical collaboration with Kurt Weill and TCM never aired it once. I almost don't care whether it's good or not, although I suspect it will be: when am I going to get another chance to see it on the big screen? I am so looking forward.
* I am aware that Sudan and Egypt are not the same country. They're at least contiguous, currently as well as historically, and I like Siddig El Fadil, okay? He's currently playing Saladin at the Globe Theatre recently and I was curious about that, even if I would have been really curious about a "quasi-Shakespearean history play."
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I'm also really glad that you are getting some sleep, even if it is on an inconvenient schedule.
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Something I love about Siddig el Fadil's career trajectory is that he started out in a place where he was literally told to Westernize his name or he'd never work again, and over the years, that bullshit has been simply worn away: he is who he is, can call himself what he wants, full stop. And while I love Christian Bale, I too see no earthly good reason for his casting in Exodus (let alone Edgerton's--he's a great actor, but Egyptian he's just fucking not). The juxtaposition of these two facts really says something about the way Hollywood still consistently refuses to engage honestly with race as an issue, mostly to its own detriment.
five years ain't so long
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"Stick with the mob!"
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It says it right above the embedded video: summerisle.
Is it current events?
I really hope not.
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I love it so much! It's a complex horror film and a functional myth!