#heller documentary

[haverwood]

Nightbitch Marielle Heller USA, 2024 ★★★ So.. is Marielle Heller making documentaries now?

[brokehorrorfan]

Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe will be released on November 28 via Arrow Video. The five-disc Blu-ray box set collects 10 films from Brazilian horror icon José Mojica Marins, better known as Coffin Joe.

It includes: 1964's At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, 1967's This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse, 1968's The Strange World of Coffin Joe, 1970's Awakening of the Beast, 1971's The End of Man, 1972's When the Gods Fall Asleep, 1976's The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures, 1977's Hellish Flesh, 1978's Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind, and 2008's Embodiment of Evil.

Each disc has its own Blu-ray case with reversible artwork by Butcher Billy. They're housed together in a slipcase with a book featuring new writing by Tim Lucas, Carlos Primati, Jerome Reuter, Amy Voorhees Searles, Kyle Anderson, and Paula Sacramento, a double-sided poster, and 12 double-sided art cards.

All 10 movies have been newly stored in 4K from the best available elements with original lossless mono audio (except Embodiment of Evil, which has lossless 2.0 and 5.1 audio). Special features are listed below, where you can also see more of the packaging.

Disc 1: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Audio commentary by José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte, and film scholar Carlos Primati (Portuguese with English subtitles)

Video essay by Lindsay Hallam (new)

Damned: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins - 2001 documentary

Bloody Kingdom - Marins’ first short film with director’s commentary

Excerpts from early works by Marins

Trailer

Disc 2: This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse / The Strange World of Coffin Joe

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse audio commentary by José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte, and film scholar Carlos Primati (Portuguese with English subtitles)

The Strange World of Coffin Joe audio commentary by José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte, and film scholar Carlos Primati (Portuguese with English subtitles)

Interview with film historian Stephen Thrower (new)

Video essay by Miranda Corcoran looking Coffin Joe as horror host (new)

The Strange World of Coffin Joe alternate ending with commentary by Marins

Trailers

Disc 3: Awakening of the Beast / The End of Man

Awakening of the Beast audio commentary by José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte, and film scholar Carlos Primati (Portuguese with English subtitles)

The End of Man audio commentary by José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte, and film scholar Carlos Primati (Portuguese with English subtitles)

Interview with Guy Adams on Marins’ esoteric aspects (new)

Video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the gender politics of Marins’ films (new)

The Awakening of the Beast alternate opening titles

Trailers

When the Gods Fall Asleep / The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

Interview with Virginie Sélavy on surrealism in Marins’ work (new)

Interview with Jack Sargeant (new)

Interview with Embodiment of Evil co-writer Dennison Ramalho (new)

Footage of Marins at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival

A Blind Date for Coffin Joe short film

Trailer

Disc 5: Hellish Flesh / Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind commentary by José Mojica Marins, editor Nilcemar Leyart, Paulo Duarte, and Carlos Primati (Portuguese with English subtitles)

Interview with Andrew Leavold on Marins’ place in '60s & '70s Marginal Cinema (new)

Video essay by Kat Ellinger (new)

Trailers

Disc 6: Embodiment of Evil

Audio commentary by producer Paulo Sacramento and co-writer Dennison Ramalho (Portuguese with English subtitles)

Interview with Dennison Ramalho (new)

Interview in which Ramalho pays tribute to Marins

Footage of Marins at the film’s premiere

Making Of featurette

Experimental Making Of featurettes

Multiple featurettes with commentary by Marins

Trailer

Additional contents:

Collector’s book with new writing by Tim Lucas, Carlos Primati, Jerome Reuter, Amy Voorhees Searles, Kyle Anderson, and Paula Sacramento

Double-sided poster with artwork by Butcher Billy

12 double-sided art cards

Cultural icon, anti-establishment statement, sadistic lord of carnival horror! With his long fingernails, top hat and cape, Coffin Joe was the creation of Brazilian filmmaker José Mojica Marins, who wrote, directed and starred in a series of outrageous movies from 1964 to 2008.

Pre-order Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.

[thelifeofchuckmovie]

Amy Adams, Tom Hiddleston and Elton John are among those who will be heading to Toronto this fall to premiere new films at the Toronto International Film Festival.

TIFF began to unveil the lineup for its 2024 fest on Tuesday, and premieres will include the Adams-fronted adaptation “Nightbitch,” the Elton John documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late,” DreamWorks Animation’s new film “The Wild Robot,” the coming-of-age film “Rez Ball” produced by LeBron James, the Korean drama “Harbin” and Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck” starring Hiddleston.

 “We know the TIFF audience has been eagerly anticipating what films will be coming to Toronto this September, and today’s announcement is a snapshot of what’s to come this year: a wonderfully wide range of titles that span genres and generations, with discoveries for everyone,” said Anita Lee, Chief Programming Officer, TIFF.

“Elton John: Never Too Late,” “Harbin” and “The Wild Robot” will screen as part of the Gala selection, while “Nightbitch,” “The Life of Chuck” and “Rez Ball” will all have their world premieres at the festival as part of the Special Presentation selection.

The dark comedy “Nightbitch” is based on the Rachel Yoder novel of the same name and stars Adams a stay-at-home-mom whose domestic life takes a surreal turn. Marielle Heller directs and Searchlight Pictures will release the film in December.

The Elton John doc comes from Disney+ and is directed by R.J. Cutler and John’s husband David Furnish.

The indie “The Life of Chuck” is seeking distribution and is based on the Stephen King 2020 short story of the same name, with Hiddleston starring in something of a dramatic change of pace for “Doctor Sleep” and “The Haunting of Hill House” horror filmmaker Flanagan.

“Harbin” stars Hyun Bin, Lee Dong-wook, Park Jeong-min, and Jeon Yeo-been, and “The Wild Robot” is coming off a rapturous debut of footage at the Annecy International Animation Festival. DreamWorks Animation and Universal will release the film in theaters on Sept. 27.

The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from Sept. 5-15.

[ceilidho]

What do you do during long flights?

this time I watched the new Alex honnold documentary!!! But I also like reading (in the middle of reading The Guide by Peter Heller) and listening to music or podcasts (love love love Stuff You Should Know, and, National Park After Dark). Big fan of staring into space and daydreaming.

[eretzyisrael]

by Mathilda Heller

Yariv Mozer, the director of We Will Dance Again, a documentary film about the Nova festival, said that he had to agree with the BBC to not describe Hamas as a terrorist organization if he wanted it to air, according to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday.

The film, which is set to broadcast on the BBC on Thursday, contains unseen footage of the Hamas massacre at the festival on October 7. It was commissioned by BBC Storyville.

Mozer told The Hollywood Reporter that this was a concession he had to make if he wanted the film to be seen by the British public.

"It was a price I was willing to pay so that the British public will be able to see these atrocities and decide if this is a terrorist organization or not," Mozer said.

Mozer added that he had offered the documentary to multiple streaming platforms in the US. However, they were reportedly unwilling to pick it up due to concerns about the political situation.

"The film isn’t political," Mozer stated. "It’s told from the eyes of the survivors and from the eyes of Hamas. There is one truth about what happened."

[mariacallous]

When New Yorkers book a wedding venue, a straightforward exchange of cash is typically preferred by both parties.

But when Nicolas Heller, the Jewish-Italian filmmaker and social media influencer who’s better known to his 1.4 million Instagram followers as New York Nico, wanted to tie the knot with his fiancée, Naomi Otsu, at Katz’s Delicatessen, the price was higher than they expected. 

So Heller made an unconventional arrangement with the famed New York establishment: He would create and direct the deli’s first-ever commercial, which was released last Friday, Nov. 22.

“Obviously, Katz’s doesn’t need a commercial, which is why they’ve never had one,” Heller said. “Everyone and their mother knows Katz’s.”

The Lower East Side institution, whose roots began in the neighborhood in 1888, is famed for many things, including their enormous pastrami sandwiches — which was one of 11 Jewish sandwiches on the New York Times’ roundup of sandwiches that define the city — and their World War II-era slogan, “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army.”

The popular deli, located at the busy corner of Houston and Ludlow Streets, has made multiple film and television appearances — including, of course, the classic “I’ll have what she’s having” scene from 1989’s “When Harry Met Sally.”

And now, Katz’s is making its digital ad debut. The spot, which runs just under a minute and a half, stars Dave Roffe, 72, a Rockaways-based retiree who’s a fixture of the lifestyle brand Old Jewish Men. Roffe plays an exaggerated version of himself and his fictitious twin brother, Dan. 

Katz’s deli wanted to highlight their nationwide shipping — and that was the only instruction they gave Heller.

Katz’s Deli did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

In the commercial, the twin brothers are speaking on the phone; Dan is suntanning on the beach in Florida (filmed, for those in the know, on Rockaway Beach), while Dave is in the line at the deli. “Listen Dave,” Dan tells his brother. “You know the only thing I miss about New York is the Katz’s pastrami on rye.” Dave, being a world-class mensch, readies to send Dan yet another sandwich in a soggy manila envelope — which is when we learn about Katz’s next-day shipping via a cameo by Heller himself. 

It’s perfectly Katz’s and perfectly New York, and the response to the digital spot, which Heller wrote with David Hurwitz, has been positive on social media. “It’s really good,” writes Instagram commenter Jeremy Kareken, a playwright. “As an ad and as a short film. It works.”

Director of photography Joe Bressler shared a behind-the-scenes clip, where he explained that the crew shot the commercial on location and the restaurant did not close down for the day. For now, the ad can be seen on Heller’s and Katz’s Instagram pages and on YouTube; it’s unclear if it will make it on the air anywhere. 

“When I do ads, people enjoy them, but they don’t have shareability,” said Heller, who has also made commercials for Nike and Shake Shack. “But this, I think, because it was Katz’s first-ever ad, and because it featured Dave, and because I had full creative control, I think it was just a perfect storm, and people loved it.”

Like Dan, Heller, too, always goes for the pastrami sandwich — lean — at Katz’s, and given the size of the sandwich, he said he usually shares it with a friend. A native New Yorker, he got his start in film during college making low-budget music videos. After a brief stint in Los Angeles, he came back to New York, where a 2014 video about local celebrity Te’Devan Kurzweil, known as “The 6’7” Jew Who Will Rap For You,” became his big break. The experience, he said, upped his confidence and guided him in the direction of short documentaries featuring New York’s most interesting characters — and eventually, the Instagram shorts he is known for.

Heller, whose father is Jewish and mother is Catholic, did not have a bar mitzvah, and neither of his parents are religious. But he loves the vibrant Jewish food scene of New York, and is easily able to list some of his favorite places to grab a classic Jewish bite: Zabar’s on the Upper West Side, Lee Lee’s Baked Goods in Harlem (his favorite place for rugelach), B&H Dairy in the East Village, Russ and Daughters on the Lower East Side, and, of course, Katz’s.

“But, you ask me what my background is, I usually say ‘pizza bagel,’ Jewish Italian,” he said. “I feel like Jews and New York Jews and New York Italians are very similar. So there’s that sort of Jewish-Italian handshake, as my friend [the writer] Jason Diamond likes to call it. But I’m, like, all over the place, meeting different types of people.” 

Just last month, he published his first book, “New York Nico’s Guide to NYC,” which features his 100 favorite businesses in the city, including many Jewish eateries, like Katz’s, where Heller has been going since he was a child. Diamond was a collaborator in Heller’s book.

“It’s become a tourist destination,” Heller said of the deli. “And in my opinion, there’s a lot of spots in New York that don’t really deserve to be tourist traps. But I feel like Katz’s kind of deserves to be a tourist trap. It’s that good, both in terms of the food and the ambience, and it’s sort of this place in New York history.” 

[boxcarwild]

They Made Me a Fugitive (also known as They Made Me a Criminal; U.S. title: I Became a Criminal) is a 1947 British film noir directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Sally Gray and Trevor Howard. It was written by Noel Langley, based on the 1941 Jackson Budd novel A Convict Has Escaped. Cinematography was by Otto Heller.

“I loved They Made Me a Fugitive," says director Wes Anderson. "The grittiness and the style and the great, great dialogue. It’s very good, and very hard. The violence of the language is much more blunt than you’d ever expect. Trevor Howard is great".

"Another thing that intrigued me about They Made Me a Fugitive was that it always seemed like it was going to veer into pure expressionism," says Anderson. "That expressionist current of feeling combines with the location shooting and the type of story being told, the rawness of it all, to give the movie a documentary-ish flavor. It’s a strange combination. And the dialogue is so graphic and blunt. It’s not just hard-boiled, it’s kind of funny, and I think they meant it to be?”

[sea-changed]

hey hi how bout that directors cut commentary on the sources behind your liebgott fic. open ended q would love to hear literally anything abt your process. uhh eyes emoji

<3 <3 This is a completely delightful but also extremely dangerous message to receive; that fic occupied my whole mind for a while there and I have so (too!) many thoughts about it.

A lot of the research I did for this fic I did without knowing I was doing research for it; stuff that ended up in it came from a whole patchwork of sources. Books, fiction and non-! Documentaries! Museum exhibits! TV shows! Movies! My goal for the fic was for it to be as nearly structureless as possible, to capture something of the recursive, time-is-out-of-joint-ness of PTSD; this did not fully succeed but it did allow me to be almost modular in putting it together. I didn't structure it out at all until I was over halfway through the writing process; before that I was just writing section after section in a doc, and so I could incorporate ideas pretty much as I had them, without worrying about how a segment was going to fit into the overall structure. There was no structure! So if it fit the themes, it was allowed in.

The format itself was inspired by a few different things: in rough order of when they entered into the process, they were a) my memory of Slaughterhouse-Five (I didn't actually reread it until I was nearly finished writing, and it had been many years, so it was very much the memory rather than the thing itself.) (At first, semi-jokingly, the summary of the fic was going to be "Joe Liebgott has come unstuck in time." And I still might write that fic, tbh.) b) quigonejinn's Marvel fic, which I also have not reread in many years but had a huge impact on me and how I think about writing and structuring fiction (the dream segments throughout the fic are a complete homage) and c) reading Catch-22. The high of experiencing Heller's ability to control and corral the chaos of his timeline, while letting that chaos be integral and indeed inextricable to the story he's telling, is what launched me back into writing this fic when I had more or less fizzled out on it for a couple of months.

In terms of more concrete sources, of course you're well aware of the reverberating influence of Studs Terkel, both very directly and more nebulously. (I even followed him as a style guide! That's why "army" and "kraut" aren't capitalized.) The PBS documentary GI Jews I found fascinating and valuable in reinforcing some things I'd already been thinking about regarding Liebgott and introducing new facets to my thinking. The part about the USO workers handing out comic books and candybars to returning soldiers (and the soldiers' reactions to that) is something Michael C. C. Adams mentions in The Best War Ever; the section with Skinny's letter was inspired by Ambrose (loath as I am to give him credit for anything).

A lot of other stuff was, as I said above, pretty piecemeal. The scene where he punches the man at the drugstore is from The Best Years of Our Lives; the part about him reading comic books at the drugstore is from an oral history; I got part of my Kaddish transliteration from Angels in America; the part about transferring to a segregated train is from a story my grandma told me; I did a whole deep-dive figuring out where his family might live in San Francisco and discovered that in the early to mid-20th century the Jewish neighborhood and (one of) the Japanese neighborhood(s) were in fact right next to each other, which inspired a couple of lines. &c. &c.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

N Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel House Made of Dawn is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89. Momaday died on Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced. He had been in failing health.

“Scott was an extraordinary person and an extraordinary poet and writer. He was a singular voice in American literature, and it was an honor and a privilege to work with him,” Momaday’s editor, Jennifer Civiletto, said in a statement. “His Kiowa heritage was deeply meaningful to him and he devoted much of his life to celebrating and preserving Native American culture, especially the oral tradition.” House Made of Dawn, published in 1968, tells of a second world war soldier who returns home and struggles to fit back in, a story as old as war itself: in this case, home is a Native community in rural New Mexico. Much of the book was based on Momaday’s childhood in Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, and on his conflicts between the ways of his ancestors and the risks and possibilities of the outside world.

“I grew up in both worlds and straddle those worlds even now,” Momaday said in a 2019 PBS documentary. “It has made for confusion and a richness in my life.” Like Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Momaday’s novel was a second world war story that resonated with a generation protesting the Vietnam war. In 1969, Momaday became the first Native American to win the fiction Pulitzer, and his novel helped launch a generation of authors, including Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Louise Erdrich. His other admirers would range from the poet Joy Harjo, the country’s first Native American to be named poet laureate, to the film stars Robert Redford and Jeff Bridges. “He was a kind of literary father for a lot of us,” Harjo told the Associated Press during a telephone interview on Monday. “He showed how potent and powerful language and words were in shaping our very existence.”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ilana Berger at MMFA:

Even after demonetizing the YouTube channel of climate-denial think tank The Heartland Institute in June, other large channels still contain climate-denial content that seemingly violates the platform's policies. 

[...]

Channels run by Tony Heller, PragerU, John Stossel, and Jordan Peterson are still being monetized while seemingly violating YouTube’s misinformation policies

Tony Heller

Like the Heartland Institute,Tony Heller regularly posts YouTube videos that attempt to delegitimize scientific consensus on climate change. In January 2024, the Center for Countering Digital Hate published a report that highlighted Tony Heller as one figure still promoting the false narrative that Arctic sea ice isn’t melting. Since CCDH published its report, which analyzed videos from January 1, 2018, to September 30, 2023, Heller has posted well over 100 videos, many of which promote the idea that the warming we are currently experiencing is not being driven primarily by burning greenhouse gases. For example, Heller posted the documentary Climate: The Movie, which promoted “more than 2 dozen long-debunked myths” according to Skeptical Science, a blog that was launched by academic and disinformation expert John Cook. One such myth is that climate change is caused by the sun; in fact, the sun’s energy has decreased while the Earth warms. Heller also relies on an outdated theory suggesting that a warming period that occurred around 6,000 years ago debunks the idea of man-made climate change. [Skeptical Science, 3/23/24; YouTube, 3/21/25, 6/5/24, accessed 7/25/24; Center for Countering Digital Hate, 1/16/24; NOAA, 10/21]  

[...]

PragerU

PragerU videos receive millions of views, and the channel has a history of posting videos that feature climate change denial. Media Matters recently identified six videos on PragerU’s website that dismiss the scientific consensus that the changes we are currently experiencing are primarily being driven by burning fossil fuels. These videos can also be found on PragerU’s YouTube channel, and they have over 14.7 million views combined. [Media Matters, 4/16/24; YouTube, 4/15/24, 10/25/21, 2/5/18, 4/18/16, 7/27/15, 7/27/15]

[...]

Jordan Peterson

While Peterson does not post videos about climate change denial as often as other influencers or organizations devoted entirely to the topic, his videos have a much larger reach than Heartland’s, amplifying their impact. After the Center for Countering Digital Hate released a report about YouTube climate deniers, Peterson uploaded an interview with climate denier Dr. Patrick Moore, who falsely claims to be a co-founder of Greenpeace. The April 11 video is titled Climate Lies, referring to Moore’s views on the scientific consensus on climate change. The video has over 253,000 views, far more than the 10 most recent videos from the Heartland Institute combined. [Greenpeace, 7/6/10; YouTube, 4/11/24, accessed 7/25/24]

[...]

John Stossel

Former Fox Business host John Stossel sued Meta after it said that two of his videos about climate change were missing context. In 2021, Stossel sued Meta (then Facebook), claiming the company defamed him by adding a fact-checking label to these videos. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed and the court found that Facebook’s labels were protected under California’s anti-Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP) statute. One of the videos included excerpts from an event Stossel moderated at the Heartland Institute. This video can also be found on YouTube. In it, one climate denier on the panel claimed that climate change is not causing sea level rise because “water has been rising for approximately 20,000 years and probably will continue.” He also claimed that hurricanes are not becoming more intense. [E&E News, 9/28/21; Courthouse News, 10/13/22; Climate Change Litigation Databases, 10/11/22; YouTube, 11/19/19]

Google demonetized climate change denier outlet The Heartland Institute.

[seenthisepisode]

early 2021 spn destiel tumblr simulator

canondestiel reblogged castielscock follow

i did NOT have a "destiel goes explicitly romantically both sided canon BUT in spanish and THEN misha collins tries to set things straight while in a middle of a divorce on a thanksgiving day" on my bingo list but here we are i guess?!

#the cw sniper's aim was right between his eyes probably

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slickdean reblogged blowjobdean

WHY LA VERDAD????? NO DESPAIR???? #TheySilencedThem #CoWards

#tinfoil hat and clown shoes stay on honk honk

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endgamehandprint reblogged willowdestiel follow

know your herstory ;)

#he was always on our side!!!!!!

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hellerjensenackles

not jensen ackles talking about blue green flannel 😭 go off heller king 😞✊

deanswinchestres-deactivated091

come onn this was on accident and i love the guy but he is at best indifferent to the concept to destile

britneycastiel

he was literally asked for permission to film the confession scene. and he gave his blessing so shut up

castieltops

#destile 😭

#while i think he was maybe not into destiel at the beginning he was an enjoyer of it in the later seasons #because the concept of kissing misha or whatever wasn't scary anymore it was but an everyday routine for him <3 #cockles

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after years of hatecriming and queerbaiting i am done. i am so officially done. i will never watch another cw show. we shouldn't be giving them any money or recognition. in these few easy steps i will explain how it's best to boycott w*lker and what hashtags to use on twitter on the special time at the special date:

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dickstiel

"the original ending was something that i feel would be much better explored in fan fiction anyway" MISHA WHAT DID YOU FUCKING MEAN BY THAT

omegiansensibilities

he also talked about rainbow wings ;_; OH MY GOD what if they are iridescent?!?!?

swiftieenatural follow

IRIDESCENT CAS WINGS ARE NOW CANON TO ME CAN SOMEONE DRAW THIS OMG

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so first they say the bloody handprint was sp8's idea, then they say it was just something that came to them on the spot and then jensen admits it was his idea only to later contradict it and say it was misha's idea???? what is the fucking truth can someone write a tell-all memoir that turns into an hbo documentary already i NEED to know EVERYTHING

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help me and @cockkless were trying to figure it out and we listened to the scene 4647 times and analyzed it frame by fram WHAT DID HE SAY are we hearing things

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YOU'RE TELLING ME JENSEN HAS WHAT on his phone???????

#he filmed the scene. he filmed it. he fucking did that. the insane motherfucker did that because he knew. #right? #he had to know that this scene will get buthcered in the end. that the most important stuff won't be in teh final cut #apart from castiel's i love you of course but i guess he might have thought this might be cut too??? #what the absolute hell was going on that set that day

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there is another online con this weekend and i will be livestreaming it here <333

#but also if they mention the plane accident again i will kms and stop streaming <3 ask destiel questions or else 🔪🔪🔪

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do we think that the rogue translator and cw sniper ever explored each oth- [I AM BEING FORCIBLY DRAGGED OUTSIDE] [GUNSHOTS ARE HEARD]

twistanddshouut

no but i bet the no homo intern and the cw twitter intern did tho <3

#if you remember the no homo intern you might be entitled to financial compensation . few people know that :)

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[kittykissbliss]

Daniel Radcliffe executive producer of David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived

 Marion | 24 October 2023 | 15:38

This news is just out: Daniel is executive producer of a new documentary called David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived about the extraordinary story of his stunt double, David Holmes who worked with him on Harry Potter. Produced by HBO Documentary Film in association with Sky, a Lightbox / Ripple Production.

It's coming to on demand on HBO on 15th November, and will be available to stream on Max, (US) and on Sky Documentaries and streaming service NOW on 18th November (UK).

The world premiere takes place at DOC:NYC Festival on 13th November. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and special guests.

Synopsis:

The film is a coming-of-age story of stuntman David Holmes, a prodigious teenage gymnast from Essex, England, who is selected to play Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double in the first Harry Potter film, when Daniel is just eleven. Over the next ten years, the two form an inextricable bond, but on the penultimate film a tragic accident on set leaves David paralysed with a debilitating spinal injury, turning his world upside down. As Daniel and his closest stunt colleagues rally to support David and his family in their moment of need, it is David’s extraordinary spirit of resilience that becomes their greatest source of strength and inspiration.

Featuring candid personal footage shot over the last decade, behind-the-scenes material from Holmes’ stunt work, scenes of his current life and intimate interviews with David, Daniel Radcliffe, friends, family, and former crew, the film also reflects universal themes of living with adversity, growing up, forging identities in an uncertain world, and the bonds that bind us together and lift us up.

Director: Dan Hartley Executive Producer: Daniel Radcliffe, David Holmes, Dan Hartley, Sue Latimer, Sarah Spahovic, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen, Poppy Dixon Producer: Vanessa Davies, Amy Stares, Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn Cinematographer: Kris Vankay, Tim Cragg, Chris Openshaw, Peter Emery

[brokehorrorfan]

The Woman and Offspring will be released together on 4K Ultra HD on August 27 via Arrow Video. Vanessa McKee designed the new cover art; the original poster is in the reverse side.

2011's The Woman is directed by Lucky McKee (May), who co-wrote the script with Jack Ketchum, based on their 2010 novel of the same name. Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, and Lauren Ashley Carter star.

Offspring is its 2009 precursor, directed by Andrew van den Houten and written by Ketchum, based on his 1991 novel of the same name. Pollyanna McIntosh, Art Hindle, Amy Hargreaves, and Ahna Tessler star.

Both films have been restored in 4K, supervised by their respective directors. The limited edition set also comes with a booklet. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - The Woman

Audio commentary with director Lucky McKee, editor Zach Passero, sound designer Andrew Smetek, and composer Sean Spillane

Audio commentary with actress Pollyanna McIntosh

Audio commentary with film critic Scott Weinberg

Audio commentary with director Lucky McKee

Dad on the Wall - Behind-the-scenes documentary filmed by director Lucky McKe’s father, Mike McKee

Interview with Lauren Ashley Carter

Malam Domesticam featurette

Meet The Makers featurette

Deleted scenes

2011 Frightfest panel with indie horror filmmakers Lucky McKee, Andrew van den Houten, Larry Fessenden, Adam Green, Joe Lynch, and Ti West

Mi Burro - 2011 animated short directed by The Woman editor Zach Passero

“Distracted” music video by Sean Spillane

Theatrical trailers

Image galleries

Disc 2 - Offspring:

Audio commentary by director Andrew van den Houten and digital colorist Matt McClain

Audio commentary by writer Jack Ketchum, director Andrew van den Houten, and cinematographer William M. Miller

Interview with director Andrew van den Houten and actress Pollyanna McIntosh

Fly on the Wall - Making-of featurette

Interview with writer Jack Ketchum

Progeny: The Birth of Offspring featurette

First Stolen’s Bailout featurette

Restoration comparison

Audition comparison

Webisodes, short featurettes used to promote the film online

Archive Easter Eggs

Theatrical trailer

Image gallery

Also included:

Booklet featuring writing by Michael Blyth, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and Kevin Kovelant

The Woman (Pollyanna McIntosh) is the last surviving member of a deadly clan of feral cannibals that has roamed the American wilderness for decades. When successful country lawyer Chris Cleek (Sean Bridgers) stumbles upon her whilst hunting in the woods, he decides to capture and civilize her with the help of his seemingly perfect all-American family, including his wife Belle (Angela Bettis,) and daughter Peggy (Lauren Ashley Carter). The Cleeks will soon learn, however, that hell hath no fury like The Woman scorned…

Pre-order The Woman / Offspring.

[thesaintelectric]

tag game (tagged by @galahadiant) wahoo:

last song i listened to: cupid - fifty fifty (one of the ten billion versions they all slap)

currently reading: catch-22 - joseph heller, im reading 'classics' or more generally famous books atm and so far they've all actually been really good? who knew popular things could be good marvel has broken my brain

currently watching: i was watching the young tory wildlife documentary apprentice as i wrote this but more generally i'm on another dr who kick, currently on 10's first season

currently obsessed with: tears of the kingdom! i played it obsessively after finishing my dissertation (it came out at like 11pm local time the day before the final deadline) but then got really sick and never finished, restated going at a more chill pace and man it is just so good

tags (no pressure ofc): @eenochian @captain-hollis @marmadrugada @rawstfish

[katy-griffin-saye]

Today, I have been watching the 2025 movie "The Amateur" by 20th Century Studios. I saw it in the theater & bought it on DVD (I will do anything for 20th Century Studios, whose name has been spoken less because they are just going to call a modern 20th movie a Disney movie). I needed this movie & I could relate to the protagonist, Charlie Heller.

The main star is Rami Malek (Charlie Heller) (who also produced it). What is relevant about Blue Sky is he could have starred in a movie of theirs, which could be Anubis or Oh My Gods (both of them were cancelled & related to Egypt) since he is part Egyptian & he starred in quite a few movies from 20th (the Night At the Mueseum trilogy & Bohemian Rhaspody), like I said in my documentary.

I rank the movie NICE (7/10), like I said in my review.

[supersunsetnova]

ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD

Limited Edition is out this Monday (28th July) and the standard edition is due 6th October…See below for links.

THEY WILL RISE TO SUCK THE BLOOD OF THE LIVING!

From the sleazy video nasty vaults comes a movie so stained with controversy and moral indignation that the very mention of its name sends shudders down the spines of the weak-stomached and censorious - Zombie Flesh Eaters. A gut-munching, shark-wrestling, eye-gouging orgy of mud-caked undead terror and Italian splatter from the dark imagination of horror genius Lucio Fulci (The House by the Cemetery, City of the Living Dead).

An abandoned boat in New York Harbour unleashes a dead flesh-crazed Zombie cargo... A young American woman and a journalist investigate a tropical island where a deadly disease is making the dead walk... Soon, thoughts of getting to the bottom of the murderous curse will be forgotten, as Fulci's walking corpses overwhelm the living and reports come in that the Big Apple is swarming with the living dead...

After over 45 years, Zombie Flesh Eaters still has the power to shock and offend the unwilling. Check out this classic 'sadist video' and revel in a wonderfully tasteless movie that once helped usher in a moral panic!

Link 1 4KUHD (Limited Edition 4K, Collector’s Booklet, Double Sided Poster, 6 Double Sided Postcards, Extras, Release Date 28th July)

Link 2 4KUHD (Standard 4K, Extras, Release Date 6th October)

ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative

4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)

Original English and Italian front and end titles

Restored original lossless English and Italian mono audio

Optional remixed lossless English Dolby Atmos audio

Optional remixed lossless Italian DTS-HD MA 7.1 audio

Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack

Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack

Brand new audio commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson

Audio commentary by screenwriter Elisa Briganti, moderated by Calum Waddell

Audio commentary by Fulci biographer Stephen Thrower and horror expert Alan Jones

Sound and Fury: Listening to Zombie Flesh Eaters, a brand new visual essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Repellent: Memories of Zombie Flesh Eaters, a brand new visual essay by author and critic Chris Alexander

Archival introduction by actor Ian McCulloch

From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Film, a 2012 documentary featuring screenwriters Dardano Sacchetti and Antonio Tentori, critic Kim Newman and filmmakers Luigi Cozzi, Ruggero Deodato and Russ Streiner

Aliens, Cannibals and Zombies: A Trilogy of Italian Terror, an archival interview with McCulloch

The Meat-Munching Movies of Gino de Rossi, an archival interview with the celebrated special effects artist

Zombie Flesh Eaters: From Script to Screen, an archival featurette featuring Dardano Sacchetti showing key pages from his original "Island of the Living Dead" screenplay

Music for a Flesh-Feast, a 2012 Q&A with composer Fabio Frizzi at the Glasgow Film Theatre

Original English language "Nightmare Island" screenplay

Theatrical trailers and TV spots

Easter eggs

Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch

Perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Willow Maclay, Jack Sargeant, Heather Wixson and Matt Rogerson

Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch

Six double-sided collector's postcards