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to-watch (ita)

Neorealismo e posteriori:

Luchino Visconti

Ossessione (1943)

La terra trema (1948)

Bellissima (1951)

Senso (1954)

Le notti bianche (1957)

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)

Il Gattopardo (1963)

La caduta degli dei (1969)

Morte a Venezia (1971)

Ludwig (1973)

Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (1974)

Roberto Rossellini

Roma città aperta (1945)

Paisà (1946)

Germania anno zero (1948)

Europa ‘51 (1952)

Viaggio in Italia (1953)

Vittorio de Sica

I bambini ci guardano (1943)

Sciuscià (1946)

Ladri di biciclette (1948)

Miracolo a Milano (1951)

Umberto D. (1952)

L'oro di Napoli (1954)

La ciociara (1960)

Ieri, oggi, domani (1963)

Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970)

Giuseppe de Santis

Riso amaro (1949)

Commedia all’italiana:

Luigi Comencini

Pane, amore e fantasia (1953)

Pane, amore e gelosia (1954)

Tutti a casa (1960)

Incompreso (1966)

Lo scopone scientifico (1972)

L'ingorgo (1978)

Dino Risi

Pane amore e… (1955)

Poveri ma belli (1957)

Belle ma povere (1957)

Il sorpasso (1962)

I mostri (1963)

Profumo di donna (1974)

Ettore Scola

Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? (1968)

Dramma della gelosia - Tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970)

C'eravamo tanto amati (1974)

Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976)

Una giornata particolare (1977)

La terrazza (1980)

Ballando ballando (1983)

Maccheroni (1985)

La famiglia (1987)

Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"

Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective

Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities

Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona

we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name

MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Envy

The Commodification of Black Athletes

The Lies Of The Lighthouse

The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity

Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Time Loop Nihilism

How Bisexuality Changed Video Games

The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

The True Horror Of Midsommar

a few more -

You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)

Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History

It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY

Adaptation.

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕

Rabbit-Holes in Film Pt. 2 (1970′s - 2010′s)     she found herself falling down a very deep well

Versailles + Monsieur Philippe d'Orléans [ep1]

IMAGE: Khayal Gatha, The Saga of Khayal (Kumar Shahani | 1989)

TEXT: Ruth Vanita – “MARRIED AMONG THEIR COMPANIONS: Female Homoerotic Relations in Nineteenth-Century Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India” in Journal of Women’s History, Vol 16, no. 1 (2004): 

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The new move that Rekhti makes in Indian poetry is to sexualize explicitly the Sakhi (woman’s intimate woman friend). Rekhti inherits this important poetic figure not from the Perso-Urdu ghazal but from Sanskrit and Sanskritic literatures. 

[…] Female-female sexual relations are mentioned in the Kamasutra as well as in Arabic erotic texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, but they do not seem to be explicitly represented in Riti poetry. However, a suggestive female homoeroticism does appear in Riti poetry. In part, it arises from the ambiguity of the speaker’s gender. Commentators and translators ascribe gender to the speakers, and often do so on the heterosexist presumption that a speaker who praises the heroine’s beauty may be male or female, but when the praise is more eroticized, the speaker must be male. Thus, Krishna P. Bahadur, the modern English translator of Bihari, invents titles for every verse, which gender the speaker: “What he said to her companion,” or “What her companion told him.” 

The verses in the manuscripts have no titles—while the speaker is sometimes gendered, in many others she or he is not, and this allows for a playful ambivalence. Even the verses that commentators do attribute to female speakers often express an ardent admiration that has an erotic tinge. In one example, the narrator comments: “Heavens! / How much beauty has god given her! / Even I am bewitched by it, dear lad, / how much more / you!” The translator here has inserted the words “how much more, you.” The original says simply: “Looking at that unique girl, I am entranced. How much sweetness god has given to her beautiful form.”

Dita Von Teese in episode 2 of Le Carrosse Noir (The Black Carriage), 2010. A mini series by Christian Louboutin.

In the film “Ever After” the character of the “Grand Dame”  at the beginning is said to be Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchesse d’Angouleme, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

She says that:

“ My great-great-grandmother’s portrait hung in the university up until the Revolution.”

While I am WELL AWARE the movie is obviously a work of fiction, I felt like pointing out that Prince Henry is supposed to be Henry II, who married Catherine de Medici, who was not one of her great, great grandmothers.

(Catherine was still related to her though, since she and Henry’s daughter, Claude, was Marie Therese’s great X5 grandmother. Twice over. Royalty had a shallow gene-pool guys. Therese was also descended from Catherine/Henry’s eldest daughter, Elisabeth too, who was her great X7 grandmother. It’s highly likely there are other lines of descent too *see my previous comment about shallow gene-pools*, but these were the most direct.)

Here are portraits of the women who were actually the Duchesse d’Angouleme’s Great, Great Grandmothers:

Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Dauphine of France

Catherine Opalińska, Queen of Poland

Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Queen of Poland

Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empress

Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland

Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchesse d’Orleans

Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress

Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen,  Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Belmont

What would you recommend to someone who is just starting to watch horror movies?

Oh hell, yeah!! I love giving recs and I LOVE when people start getting interested in horror. I’ll give you recs in a few different categories so that you don’t watch anything you wouldn’t enjoy:

Early Horror Movies (Most Are Black and White, 1900′s-1950′s):

Nosferatu (1922) (silent film)

Cat People (1942)

Freaks (1932)

White Zombie (1932)

The Man who Laughs (1928)

M (1931)

Rear Window (1954)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (silent film)

Metropolis (1927) (silent film)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Wolf Man (1941)

Dracula (1931)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Dead of Night (1945)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Personal Favorites From the 1960′s (Suspenseful):

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Psycho (1960)

The Birds (1963)

Must-Sees of the 70′s (The Beginning of the Golden Era):

Carrie (1976)

The Exorcist (1973)

Suspiria (1977)

Jaws (1975)

The Omen (1976)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Alien (1979)

Halloween (1978)

1980′s Cult Classics (The decade of good special-effects make up):

Re-Animator (1985)

The Shining (1980)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

The Evil Dead (1981)

The Thing (1982)

Hellraiser (1987)

Children of the Corn (1984)

Friday the 13th (1980)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Silver Bullet (1985)

Poltergeist (1982)

Horror-Comedies:

What We do in the Shadows (2014)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Deathgasm (2015)

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

Zombieland (2009)

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

The Killer Condom (1996)

Dead Alive (1992)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Idle Hands (1999)

Dead Snow (2009)

Eight-Legged Freaks (2002)

American Psycho (2000)

The Faculty (1998)

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Slither (2006)

Best of 2000′s-now:

The Loved Ones (2009)

Battle Royale (2000)

Trick R Treat (2007)

American Mary (2012)

The Babadook (2014)

Let the Right One in (2008)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Martyrs (2008) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

The Hole (2001)

The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Funny Games (2007)

The Descent (2005)

Excision (2012)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

Inside (2007) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

High Tension (2003) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

Other Favorites (AKA 90′s horror):

La Ceremonie (1995)

Scream (1996)

Nightbreed (1990)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Audition (1999)