Speed was released in movie theaters 31 years ago today.
Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves make this a darn fun popcorn movie.
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Rocketman was released in movie theaters 6 years ago today.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and Taron Egerton's performance was top notch. I'm going to have the song Rocketman in my head all day.
youtu.be/kyfMjDlcisQ?si=qgvegS…
#Movies #Cinemastodon #Cinema #Filmastodon
Rocketman (2019) - Rocket Man Scene (7/10) | Movieclips
Rocketman - Rocket Man: Elton (Taron Egerton) goes from overdose to performing "Rocket Man" at Dodgers Stadium.BUY THE MOVIE: https://www.fandangonow.com/det...YouTube
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"Dear friends,
In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free.
In this post, I share with you links to films you can view and share to get the message out to the world:
• "Keeper of Memory" documentary:
youtu.be/eywuYeflWzg
• "Empty Seat" documentary:
youtu.be/an4hRFWOSQQ
• "Resistance Pilot" documentary:
youtu.be/wqSmdZy-Xcg
• "Jenin" documentary:
vimeo.com/499672067
• "The Olive Tree" documentary:
vimeo.com/432062498
• "Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza" documentary 1973:
youtu.be/1JlIwmnYnlE
• Documentary "Gaza Fights For Freedom":
youtu.be/HnZSaKYmP2s
• Documentary "Arna's Children":
youtu.be/cQZiHgbBBcI
• Short Film "Strawberry":
vimeo.com/209189656/e5510a6064
• Short Film "The Place":
youtu.be/fgcIVhNvsII
• Documentary "The Mayor":
youtu.be/aDvOnhssTcc
• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar":
youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI
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#Palestine #Gaza #films #movies #documentaries
"Strawberry" (2017)
Samir, 43, is the owner of a shoe shop in Ramallah who has never seen the sea. He decides to sneak past Israeli borders with other Palestinian construction workers…Vimeo
TONIGHT 20:00 at c-base: Screening of "Hacking at Leaves", Johannes Grenzfurthner's latest movie
more info: logbuch.c-base.org/archives/52…
#hackermovies #hackers #hackerspace #movies #berlin
Last weekend the Open Film Database (ofdb.cc) received another update, which included the migration from #WordPress (Blog) and #DokuWiki (Wiki) to #Drupal, front-end improvements for TV shows, improved cast editing, and more!
The #OFDb is a database for movies and TV shows with its data published under an open license (Open Database License). Everyone can participate and add more titles. The more the merrier!
#film #TV #movies #cinema #OpenData #database
Hello there! [Open Film Database]
The Open Film Database (OFDb) is a free and open database for movies and TV shows. She is maintained by the community and published under an open license.OFDb
So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.
1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years
This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".
Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.
The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.
#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT
One of my favorite actors has died.
Donald Sutherland, may he rest in peace.
variety.com/2024/film/news/don…
Donald Sutherland Dead: Star of 'MASH,' 'Hunger Games' Was 88
Donald Sutherland, who starred in 'MASH,' 'Klute' and 'The Hunger Games' franchise, has died. He was 88.Rick Schultz (Variety)
The Next Popular Characters To Enter The Public Domain, Visualized,
In just over 10 years, you'll be free to create your own Batman-themed video game without any legal repercussions. #publicdomain #infographic #comics #characters #movies
Many people think that Le Ying is a loser. She’s very overweight, still living with her parents, doesn’t have a proper job, and is a doormat in almost every relationship in her life. One day, she gets into a huge fight with her sister, and leaves home to seek an independent life.
After a series of disappointments, she decides to train to become a boxer – even when everyone is laughing at her for even trying.
My thoughts
Some of the criticisms levelled at Yolo is that it’s not very funny.
Well, if you expect it to be a laugh-out-loud comedy, you’ll be sorely disappointed.
This movie is a character study of a woman who has spent most of her life pleasing or giving in to others and denying her true feelings and desires, in the faint hope that they would finally love her in return.
Somehow, subconsciously, she knew that this approach to life was the wrong one, but do not know how to live life another way. So, she mentally gives up on life … she overeats to comfort herself and doesn’t even bother to try better herself because all her efforts had been in vain before, so why bother?
When she endures a betrayal, she decides to change her life. However, because she did not change the way she approached life, she ended up in a worse place that she had been.
And this was the last straw. For the first time, she wanted to fight and not give up. Now the last three words is very crucial – it’s not about winning, it’s about not giving up on herself.
This movie beautifully shows you how she moves on from being a person who didn’t think she was important enough to fight for, to someone who who fights tooth and nail for herself – to do something that everyone said she could not.
That final battle in the ring was very important because she wanted not to just prove to herself that she could last till the end, but not give up on herself.
So, Yolo may not be the exciting comedic romp that some people want, nor does it follow the “ugly duckling becomes swan” trope, but it has an important message. If you live your life by cutting up pieces of yourself to please others in the tiny hope they will love you or appreciate you eventually, that’s the wrong approach.
Instead, always believe in yourself even if people say it’s impossible; never give up on yourself. In the end, you should not snuff out your desires or dreams so that others can live their dreams – it’s important for you to pursue yours too.
A beautiful movie, but you need to look deeper beyond the surface of “fat girl finally becomes pretty”.
dramatea88.wordpress.com/2024/…
#China #ChineseDrama #Movie #Movies
Yolo (movie review)
Yolo was a big hit in China. An overweight girl transforms herself into a professional boxer. However, it’s more than an ugly duckling story. It’s a character study of a woman who decid…Drama Tea
Today, March 18, in 1982, Seattle high schooler David Lightman teaches his friend Jennifer Mack about war dialing, hacking, phreaking, and the importance of infosec (WarGames, 1983)
#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #WarGames #TheOnlyWinningMoveIsNotToPlay
Today, February 12, is loyal beagle Gromit's birthday. Happy birthday, Gromit! (The Wrong Trousers, 1993)
#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #Gromit #TheWrongTrousers #WallaceAndGromit #StopMotion #Claymation #Aardman #Animation
This movie came up in a meeting today; Sound of Metal. Highly recommended. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of… (I think it's on Amazon Prime) #movies #deaf #a11y #music
Today, October 21, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and Jennifer Parker arrive in 2015 from the year 1985 (Back to the Future: Part II, 1989)
#BacktotheFutureDay #Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #BTTF #BackToTheFuture ##BackToTheFutureII #BackToTheFuture2
Ian Failes of before and afters has an utterly fascinating article about the tests to add motion blur to Phil Tippett's stop motion dinos for Jurassic Park. While I knew of those attempts, I don't recall ever hearing that they used MORF (used in Willow) to try to make the dinos more realistic. Eventually the CG tests paved the way for a #VFX revolution
#movies #JurassicPark #StevenSpielberg #PhilTippett #morfing #StopMotion #dinosaurs #CG
beforesandafters.com/2023/06/1…
How ILM’s MORF tool nearly became the way the stop-motion dinos were motion blurred on ‘Jurassic Park’
On the film’s 30th anniversary, learn how the VFX studio was going to motion blur Tippett’s stop-motion puppets, before things went CG.Ian Failes (befores & afters)
The incredibly rare original ADR-take of the entire Wilhelm Scream recording session has been found! blog.freesound.org/?p=1515
Here’s some history about the Wilhelm Scream: allthatsinteresting.com/wilhel…
#SoundEffects #SoundRecording #WilhelmScream #History #Movies #Audio
The Wilhelm Scream, The Most Famous Sound Effect In Hollywood History
Recorded for the 1951 movie "Distant Drums," the Wilhelm Scream has since been used in films and TV shows including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the Simpsons, and hundreds more.William DeLong (All That's Interesting)
I love actors! #Introduction
If you’re an actor (or agent, casting director, &c), reply with something like “I’m an actor!” and tag me and I’ll add you to my list of actors.
Let your actor-followers know by boosting this post.
Here’s my current list of actors: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
#Actor #Actriz #ActorsOfMastodon #Acting #ActorsLife #Theatre #Film #Movies #TV #VoiceActor #BlackActor #BipocActor #AsianActor #SagAftra #bafta #sag #equity #meaa
Actors on Mastodon/The Fediverse
Sheet1 Actors on Mastodon/The Fediverse from @iloveactors@masto.actor,I accept tips! @Username@Host,URL,Username,Host,Time added @morgfair@newsie.Google Docs
As the app that is the star of today's window has updated on my phone today, let me introduce you to Greta, the German app for audiodescription, closed captions and other forms of accessibility in movies.
It works by first downloading an encrypted, I believe, copy of the movie's audio and then when we want to watch it described or subtitled, we just start the app, let it listen to the sound around us and it will tune in at the right spot in time with the accessibility accommodations we need. Should you forget your headphones to hear the audiodescription in, you can still listen to it over the earpiece. The system is not context-aware so it can tune into the movie at a cinema or at home when watching on the Internet or on TV which gives universal access to all the accommodations. The only wish I would have is more independent cinema productions and the ability to combine multiple adjustments so that I could watch that movie with a lot of Austrian dialect in it with both audiodescription and subtitles.
Today's update brings sound amplification. If I understand correctly, you can also have the actual audio track of the movie played through your phone in sync with the original.
I believe the concept was replicated in other countries already so you might know it under another name.
gretaundstarks.de
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Germany #Culture #Movies #Audiodescription #Cinema #TV #Subtitling
It works by first downloading an encrypted, I believe, copy of the movie's audio and then when we want to watch it described or subtitled, we just start the app, let it listen to the sound around us and it will tune in at the right spot in time with the accessibility accommodations we need. Should you forget your headphones to hear the audiodescription in, you can still listen to it over the earpiece. The system is not context-aware so it can tune into the movie at a cinema or at home when watching on the Internet or on TV which gives universal access to all the accommodations. The only wish I would have is more independent cinema productions and the ability to combine multiple adjustments so that I could watch that movie with a lot of Austrian dialect in it with both audiodescription and subtitles.
Today's update brings sound amplification. If I understand correctly, you can also have the actual audio track of the movie played through your phone in sync with the original.
I believe the concept was replicated in other countries already so you might know it under another name.
gretaundstarks.de
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Germany #Culture #Movies #Audiodescription #Cinema #TV #Subtitling
Kino einfach gemeinsam erleben mit GRETA und STARKS
Barrierefreies Kino für Alle! Audiodeskriptionen und Untertitel überall und einfach auf dem eigenen Smartphone mit den Apps GRETA und STARKS.GRETA und STARKS | Audiodeskription und Untertitel
[time for a #reintroduction! #introductions #introduction]
I'm Flo (he/him), a #queer #author of #lgbtqia #fiction.
Primarily I write #sliceoflife, #comedy, heartwarming & lighthearted, #gay #romance in a variety of settings, such as #hopepunk, #scifi, #fantasy, #steampunk, #horror, #gothic, annnnd the list goes on~ 😅
Some more things about me:
— I'm currently pumped for #NaNoWriMo!
— I like #writing, #reading, #drawing, #art, #gaming, #movies, #books etc.
— I dabble in #learning #mandarin and #tokipona (which i don't tend to talk about here).
— I am #agender, #asexual, #aromantic, (thus #AroAce) #disabled, #ActuallyAutistic, and a #demiguy
— i have a wishlist (mostly full of very, *very* gay books): throne.me/u/drowsy/wishlist
— alt accounts at @ghost@weirder.earth & @floghost
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