from the Red Library: Creaks
Pink Fuzzy Bunny posted the rather wonderful USC Optical Sound Effects Library – "Classic movie sound effects on optical and magnetic tape from the 30's to the 80's, all carefully restored, catalogued and posted on the Internet Archive."
Community member wubbie absolutely loves posters, especially movie posters! So they built a cloud based service that allows anyone to stream over 3,500 movie posters to their device for the most epic and love and movie art ever!
A screenshot from the adaptation
Citizenk took the time to remind us of an old, yet incredibly ambitious project, Blade Runner: the Aquarel Edition. It's a shot by shot recreation of the movie, but done in watercolors and it is stunning to see.
Photo by Lisa Zins, courtesy of Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisazins/)
Sure, you've already started pregaming for Halloween and things are going frightfully well. But let's expand your dimly lit horizons and check out DirtyOldTown's massive guide to horror movies that are streaming, broken down to the various services!
Not to alarm you, but it is less than 100 days until Halloween. Have you finalized your overambitious horror film watchlist yet? Wobbuffet is here to help.
The Skin Illustrator Dirt Palette professional makeup product
OrangeDisk asks why TV and film characters don't seem to wipe blood, dirt, etc., from their faces any longer, and gets some helpful answers, including this one from nouvelle-personne about the differences between old and new screen dirt. Interesting!
Scene from Apollo 13
Smart people working together to solve problems? I bet a collection of Mefites could assemble to hammer out a proper list for TimHare's Ask Metafilter question about recommendations for more movies featuring collective "competency porn."
Photo by Bill Smith, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/byzantiumbooks/)
Take a look at Rhaomi’s post about Criterion's Closet Picks! It’s a guide for some of the most interesting films in the overall Collection, narrated by various stars and artists as they discuss their favorite elements. Eye opening and fascinating for anyone into film!
Screenshot from video!
Ok, say you want to make a film about a clown, complete with colorful hair and attire, on the red sands of Mars. That would be incredibly complicated to do with modern green screen techniques. But what if this technology has been developed decades ago and then lost? Well, AlonzoMosleyFBI made a post about the Creative Corridor's journey to recreate this "lost" process so they could do a screen test of, you guessed it, a clown, complete with colorful hair and attire, on the red sands of Mars!
Studio Ghibli logo
🎟️🎥🍿 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!
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
Screenshot 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!
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.
7th 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!
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