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Once you do see a Studio Ghibli film, you never forget and want more

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🎟️🎥🍿 What anime would you recommend for someone who just got into the medium via Studio Ghibli? 'Cause lizard2590 is looking for suggestions, so come check out what’s been recommended or add your own!

"Sounds Like Somebody's Got A Case Of The Mondays!"

Screenshot from the movie Office Space

Just ignore that PC Load Letter problem, leave those TPS reports for later, and come celebrate 25 years of the movie Office Space! NotMyselfRightNow created a post about the iconic movie that parodying working in an office and others are chiming in with their memories, so if you could just go ahead and click on the link that would be greeaaaat

Wikid Good

close-up of a wild-looking wide open human eye peering through a camera lensScreenshot from the 1929 Soviet silent documentary film

Kattullus posted WikiFlix and WikiVibes, nifty tools for searching films and music uploaded to Wikimedia, and we're WikiGlad!

01/28/24
by taz

Let's stay in and watch our favorites!

photo by “Amy Gallatin / Montclair Film”, via Flickr

It's cold in much of the world and who wants to go out when its like that? Wowenthusiast certainly doesn't and is asking for your most favoritest documentaries to watch while avoiding winter weather.

Throwback Thursday: Hanukkah edition

7th Night of Hanukkah7th Night of Hanukkah by aaronparecki (cc by)

Hey, it’s Throwback Thursday to 2019, when ‘jb’ posted about the Hanukkah Holiday movie pitch challenge, which featured some great suggestions!

Frankly, my dear, I do give a damn about good movies!

Movies - Films - HollywoodMovies - Films - Hollywood by fxorturr26 (cc by)

Break out the popcorn and snacks, because 'oulipian' has created a post highlighting the greatest films you (probably) haven't seen. Even better, there's 101 of them, from a poll on Sight and Sound!

A fantastical tale of a great hunter

Screenshot from the animation, Screenshot from the animation, Atreides has a wonderful post about the Missour French Creole folk tale of 'Chasse Galerite', which has been beautifully animated by Brian Hawkings.

The Different Messages in the Movie Barbie

"I think the movie has a few different messages, all of which overlap with one another, which is another very campy thing: when you're parodying dumb, incoherent things by embracing them, you wind up a little incoherent yourself."

Over in Fanfare, community member 'Tom Hanks Can't Be Trusted' dives deep on the overlapping messages in the Barbie (2023) film.

Cinema Time

steampunk timemachinesteampunk timemachine by damian.eastwood (cc by)

"I want to make a list of films that evoke a strong sense of time (and possibly place). Through dialogue, sets, etc. they transport you to the era in which they're set." In Ask Metafilter, jdroth asks, What movies act as time capsules?

02/18/23
by taz

Mystery Church

The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site. A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden cart. Then a full cart is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam-powered crane. These carts are similar in design to those shown dumping rubble at the end of the film New York City Dumping Wharf. Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the exposed wall of the building in the background.Excavating for a New York foundation, 1903

I feel like the lead character on a Hollywood Forensics show, able to produce amazing results from the other characters by saying "...Enhance." In Ask Metafilter theatro asks "Manhattan history detectives: what church is (was?) this?" and gets a great investigative analysis.

11/28/22
by taz

Bloody Iconic

gauzy screen-cap of Bowie head and shoulders elegant smoking a cigarette and looking hungry

Got to thinking about how Bowie was in The Hunger and Tom Waits was in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Are there other vampire movies with iconic musicians? mermaidcafe in Ask Metafilter

10/14/22
by taz

'Tis a silly place

The Holy GrailThe Holy Grail by Tobyotter (cc by)

Fun reminiscences by Marky and others in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail thread in FanFare.

08/27/22
by taz

More for "Analogue Wednesday"

brightly colored photo of flower with abstract backgroundPhoto by Wendy Laurel at Lomography Magazine

Film soup is an experimental analog photography technique where you soak a roll of film in different liquids to add fun, crazy colors and effects: oulipian's post Recipes for Rainbows from last month.

05/11/22
by taz

Watercooler

"for educational purposes only"

still of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark in black and white

Mefites are discussing Steven Soderbergh's black-and-white cut of Raiders of the Lost Ark with music by Trent Reznor and no dialog. Are there other films that are better in black and white? Molesome knows some.
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Meanwhile, over in Metatalk, Last day to submit to Mefi Music Swap, MeFi Mag revisited, MetatalkMimosas: Your Music Muse!, Updated Community Guidelines, and Site Update #1.

08/01/20
by taz

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