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Check out something new and fantastic: This Week in FanFare, on the blue!

Oh hey, the Metafilter Card Club swap is still vibing ... continuously for nearly seven whole years now! Wow! Check the thread for how to participate in this ancient tradition. Thank you, Sparky Buttons!!! Also, CMcG is sharing their 2024 Fanfare EXTRAVAGANZA, a place where folks can share their recommended books, movies, tv, music, games, and podcasts from the past year. Nice!🥳

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.

"there's 2 ways I usually remove movement from dead characters ..." Member 5_13_23_42_69_666 answers DirtyOldTown's Ask Mefi question about techniques used for hiding the breathing of "dead" characters on TV and film.

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!

image via vanityfair.com

Mefites are discussing Vanity Fair's list of 31 feel-good movies to boost your mood.

"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.

IRL, mochapickle and danabanana have organized an online meet for "The Artist's Way" (Julia Cameron's classic creativity program to help with artistic work of all kinds) starting Sunday, May 7, so check in to learn more! And over in Fanfare, DirtyOldTown has posted Trailer Park: May 2023, a collection of fresh trailers for upcoming movies. (See April Trailer Park collection here)

RearWindow asks "What are some of your favourite and best 1930s films? ... I am open to comedy, drama, mystery, and all kinds as long as it is well done."

steampunk 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?

cozy by maisha.paradox (cc by-nc)

In Ask Metafilter: "I want to have a nice cosy new year's weekend - good food, crazy cats, and something nice to read/fun to watch. The first two are covered, but suggest me something for the rest?"

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.

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

screen cap from Moon Knight, ep 5

Currently trending in Fanfare at Metafilter: Moon Knight, Asylum; Better Call Saul: Rock and Hard Place; Russian Doll; Everything Everywhere All at Once; Spider-Man: No Way Home; The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.