#mudbound 2017

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Quilts spotted in Mudbound (2017)

Send in any quilts you spot either with a screenshot to the submissions or as an ask if you don't have screencaps

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Screenplays (so far):

Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Shaft (1971)

Blacula (1972)

Cooley High (1975)

Car Wash (1976)

The Wiz (1978)

The Color Purple (1985)

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Disorderlies (1987)

Coming to America (1988)

School Daze (1988)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Harlem Nights (1989)

House Party (1990)

Mo' Better Blues (1990)

To Sleep With Anger (1990)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

The Five Heartbeats (1991)

House Party II (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)

New Jack City (1991)

Boomerang (1992)

Candyman (1992)

Malcolm X (1992)

Sister Act (1992)

Menace II Society (1993)

Poetic Justice (1993)

Posse (1993)

What's Love Got to Do With It (1993)

Blankman (1994)

CB4 (1994)

Crooklyn (1994)

Jason's Lyric (1994)

Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)

Bad Boys (1995)

Clockers (1995)

Dead Presidents (1995)

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Friday (1995)

Higher Learning (1995)

Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Get on the Bus (1996)

Girl 6 (1996)

Set It Off (1996)

The Nutty Professor (1996)

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996)

The Preacher's Wife (1996)

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

B.A.P.S. (1997)

Booty Call (1997)

Eve's Bayou (1997)

Love Jones (1997)

Miss Evers' Boys (1997)

Soul Food (1997)

Belly (1998)

Beloved (1998)

He Got Game (1998)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

Players' Club (1998)

Slam (1998)

Woo (1998)

The Best Man (1999)

Life (1999)

Love & Basketball (2000)

Baby Boy (2001)

Training Day (2001)

25th Hour (2002)

Barbershop (2002)

Brother to Brother (2004)

D.E.B.S. (2004)

Beauty Shop (2005)

Inside Man (2006)

I Think I Love My Wife (2007)

Notorious (2009)

Precious (2009)

The Book of Eli (2010)

For Colored Girls (2010)

Pariah (2011)

Middle of Nowhere (2012)

Sparkle (2012)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Belle (2013)

Dear White People (2014)

Fruitvale Station (2014)

Selma (2014)

Bessie (2015)

Creed (2015)

Dope (2015)

Miles Ahead (2015)

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

Birth of a Nation (2016)

Fences (2016)

Hidden Figures (2016)

Moonlight (2016)

Detroit (2017)

Get Out (2017)

Girls Trip (2017)

Mudbound (2017)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Black Panther (2018)

Creed II (2018)

The First Purge (2018)

The Hate U Give (2018)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Widows (2018)

Harriet (2019)

Queen & Slim (2019)

Us (2019)

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

His House (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

One Night In Miami (2020)

Small Axe: Mangrove (2020)

Sylvie's Love (2020)

Candyman (2021)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

The Harder They Fall (2021)

King Richard (2021)

Passing (2021)

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Zola (2021)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Master (2022)

Nanny (2022)

Nope (2022)

Till (2022)

The Woman King (2022)

American Fiction (2023)

The Color Purple (2023)

Creed III (2023)

Origin (2023)

Rustin (2023)

Rye Lane (2023)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

Nickel Boys (2024)

The Piano Lesson (2024)

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Wanted: Your movie suggestions

We aren't in the planning phase for the next rewatch yet (or at least not really) but I'm asking for movie suggestions for the final week of the rewatch. Included below is the list of recommendations from this past rewatch which will still be in the vote when planning kicks off. Omitted from the vote for our third rewatch will be Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk as we've watched them in the first two.

Send your suggestions either as an ask or leave as a reply to this post please and thank you

A League of Their Own (1992)

Greyhound (2020)

Mudbound (2017)

Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Monuments Men (2014)

Fury (2014)

Valkyrie (2008)

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Post 48: Directors

Dee Rees

Dee Rees is a screenwriter, and director! She is known for her films Pariah (if you haven't seen it, I implore you to watch it) and the Academy Award nominated Mudbound(2017). She is openly lesbian and married to Sarah M. Broom an accomplished writer in her own right.

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My ultimate film watchlist (2010s)

1930s-1940s | 1950s | 1960s-1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s

Welcome to the final part of my ultimate film watchlist! If you haven't familiarized yourself with the intro of the first part, please see it under the 1930s-1940s link above. Otherwise, we'll jump into the next list, of which I've seen many movies, and intend to watch even more. Enjoy, and as always, let me know if anything should be added to this list.

watched | loved | wouldn’t watch again | holiday

2010

Alice in Wonderland

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Black Swan

Clash of the Titans

Date Nights

Dear John

Despicable Me

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Easy A

Eat Pray Love

Grown Ups

How to Train Your Dragon

Inception

Insidious

Little Fockers

Megamind

Salt

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Secretariat

Shrek Forever After

Shutter Island

Tangled

The Book of Eli

The Expendables

The Karate Kid

The Last Song

The Other Guys

The Runaways (I have a special love in my heart for Joan Jett)

The Social Network

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Toy Story 3

TRON: Legacy

True Grit

2011

A Dangerous Method

Bad Teacher

Bridesmaids

Cars 2

Contagion

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Footloose

Friends with Benefits

Hugo

In Time

Kill the Irishman

Kiss Me

Megan is Missing

Melancholia

Midnight in Paris

No Strings Attached

Paul

Rango

Scream 4

Shame

Sleeping Beauty

Soul Surfer

Source Code

Super 8

Take Shelter

The Adjustment Bureau

The Artist

The Cabin in the Woods

The Descendants

The Help

The Muppets

The Skin I Live In

The Thing

The Tree of Life

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

We Bought a Zoo

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Winnie the Pooh

2012

Chernobyl Diaries

Excision

Frankenweenie

Hotel Transylvania

Iron Sky

Lincoln

Magic Mike

ParaNorman

Pitch Perfect

Prometheus

Rock of Ages

Ruby Sparks

Sinister

Ted

The Campaign

The Looper

The Lorax

The Master

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Raven

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

The Woman in Black

Wreck-It Ralph

2013

12 Years a Slave

About Time

Carrie

Don Jon

Frozen

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Insidious: Chapter 2

Lovelace

Monsters University

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Parkland

Safe Haven

The Bling Ring

The Book Thief

The Conjuring

The Great Gatsby

The Invisible Woman

The Last Days on Mars

The Purge

The Railway Man

Warm Bodies

We're the Millers

What Maisie Knew

2014

A Brilliant Young Mind

American Sniper

Big Eyes

Big Hero 6

Boyhood

Gone Girl

Interstellar

I Origins

Labor Day

Maleficient

Oculus

Serena

The Captive

The Fault in Our Stars

The Giver

The Lego Movie

The Signal

The Theory of Everything

Unbroken

2015

50 Shades of Grey

Amateur Teens

Blush

Chappie

Green Room

Into the Forest

Kept Woman

Krampus

Maggie

Pitch Perfect 2

Poltergeist

Room

Spy

Summertime

Ted 2

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

The Lure

The Martian

2016

10 Cloverfield Lane

A Wish for Christmas

Before I Wake

Blair Witch

Brain on Fire

Devil's Bride

Finding Dory

Friend Request

Grease Live!

Hounds of Love

Loving

Moana

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Passengers

The Birth of a Nation

The Boy

The Conjuring 2

The Receptionist

Train to Busan

Zootopia

2017

1945

50 Shades Darker

A Quiet Passion

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Dolores

Get Out

Frantz

It

Kedi

Lady Bird

Lady Macbeth

Land of Mine

Lucky

Mudbound

Prevenge

Raw

Step

The Florida Project

Their Finest

Thelma

The Lost City of Z

The Shape of Water

2018

50 Shades Freed

Annihilation

A Quiet Place

A Star Is Born

Bohemian Rhapsody

Book Club

Crazy Rich Asians

Halloween

Hereditary

Insidious: the Last Key

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

The Grinch

The Kissing Booth

The Meg

The Nun

The Post

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

2019

Ad Astra

Amazing Grace

Apollo 11

Booksmart

Child's Play

Doctor Sleep

Hail Satan?

High Life

It Chapter Two

Judy

Little Women

Midsommar

Nightmare Cinema

Parasite

Ready or Not

Rocketman

The Highwaymen

The Sisters Brother

Toy Story 4

Us

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Mudbound (2017) dir. Dee Rees

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Garrett Hedlund as Jamie McAllan in Mudbound (2017). Garrett's entry among my best 1001 is Burden (2018).

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Mudbound (2017, Dee Rees, USA)

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dee rees : director

full movie

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Mudbound (2017)

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Please read the movie descriptions below

Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. Dir. by Steven Spielberg

A League of Their Own (1992) - American sports comedy drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) during WWII. Dir. by Penny Marshall

Greyhound (2020) - The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd, and follows a US Navy commander on his first assignment commanding a multi-national escort destroyer group of four, defending an Allied convoy from U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. Dir. by Aaron Schneider

Mudbound (2017) - The film depicts two World War II veterans – one white, one black – who return to rural Mississippi each to address racism and PTSD in his own way. Dir. by Dee Rees

Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. Based on a novel by the same name. Dir. by Henry King

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - three United States servicemen re-adjusting to societal changes and civilian life after coming home from World War II. The three men come from different services with different ranks that do not correspond with their civilian social class backgrounds. It is one of the earliest films to address issues encountered by returning veterans in the post World War II era. Dir. by William Wyler 

The Monuments Men (2014) - An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners. Based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. Dir. by George Clooney

Dunkirk (2017) - Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated from Dunkirk. It is shown from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air. Dir. by Christopher Nolan

Fury (2014) - A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945. Dir. by David Ayer

Valkyrie (2008) - A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II. Dir. by Bryan Singer

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The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige’s anthems of resilience & empowerment have inspired a legion of loyal fans – particularly women – while influencing virtually every R&B artist of the last twenty years.

born Mary Jane Blige (/blaɪʒ/ BLYZHE; born January 11, 1971) she is an American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

Blige signed with Uptown Records in 1989, becoming the label’s youngest and first female artist. Her debut singlehandedly kick-started the hip-hop soul genre and produced Number One R&B hits “Real Love” and “You Remind Me.” Her image – oversized jerseys, backwards baseball hats, and combat boots – introduced a new look to R&B music, and her lyrics embraced an authenticity that resonated with fans – especially women. Her mid-1990s hits with the Notorious B.I.G., Method Man, and JAY-Z created the blueprint for R&B/hip-hop collaborations for decades to follow.

Blige emerged as a songwriter with hits “Be Happy” and “My Life” from her sophomore effort My Life, while her song “Not Gon’ Cry” showcased the emotional ache of Blige’s affecting vocals. The 2000s ushered in more success with Number One hits “Family Affair” and Grammy-winning “Be Without You.” Blige continues to craft hits, including her ode to unapologetic happiness “Just Fine,” critically acclaimed London Sessions, and collaborations with Inductees Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, and Missy Elliott. In 2018, she received two Oscar nominations for the film Mudbound and became the first person nominated for acting and original song in the same year. In 2022, Blige co-headlined the Super Bowl halftime show alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem – earning her an Emmy.

Blige’s music echoes our experiences with love and life. She helps us move on, move out, and move up. She’s the much-needed soundtrack to our heartache, vulnerability, and courage to refuse to accept anything less than we deserve. Long Live Queen Mary J!

Selected Discography

“Real Love,” What’s the 411? (1992)

• “I’m Goin’ Down,” “My Life,” My Life (1994)

• “Not Gon’ Cry” (1996)

• Share My World (1997)

• “Your Child,” Mary (1999)

• “Family Affair,” No More Drama (2001)

• “Be Without You,” The Breakthrough (2005)

• Strength of a Woman (2017)

• “Mighty River,” Mudbound soundtrack (2017)

Favorite song/album from her discography

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Mary J. Blige: A Journey of Resilience and Triumph

Mary J. Blige's life story is a poignant narrative of overcoming trauma and emerging as a symbol of resilience and empowerment. In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Grammy-winning singer and actress revealed a dark chapter from her past – being sexually abused as a child by a family friend at the tender age of five.

The impact of this abuse was profound, leading Blige to grapple with feelings of worthlessness and guilt throughout her formative years. She candidly expressed her confusion, stating, "I didn't know how to deal with it. I didn't understand why it happened to me. I thought I did something wrong. I thought I was dirty and ugly."

Blige's teenage years were marked by turmoil, self-destruction, and a search for solace in alcohol, drugs, and unhealthy relationships. However, her life took a transformative turn when she discovered her passion for music. Joining a local church choir and impressing record label executives with her powerful voice and raw emotion, she secured a contract and released her debut album, "What's the 411?" in 1992, marking the beginning of her remarkable career.

Music became Blige's sanctuary as she poured her heart and soul into her songs, using them as a means of catharsis and emotional expression. Simultaneously, she sought professional help and engaged in a 12-step program to overcome addiction, learning to forgive herself and heal from her past.

Today, Mary J. Blige stands as a beacon of success, having sold over 80 million records worldwide, earned nine Grammy Awards, and received two Oscar nominations for her acting in "Mudbound" (2017). Widely hailed as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," she is not just an influential figure in the music industry but also an icon of empowerment and resilience.

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Friends, if you're not already following @overlookedwwiimedia, you definitely should be. They do a great job deep diving through what is a huge body of work and finding some real gems. I'm going to add a couple of my own favorites to what is already a great list.

🌟Memphis Belle (1945) - William Wyler's contemporary documentary on the 8th Air Force.

Combat America (1945) - Clark Gable's recruiting film for the 8th.

A Yank in the RAF (1941) - Tyrone Power picture about the Eagle Squadron, American pilots who joined the RAF

Flying Tigers (1942) - John Wayne picture about the American Volunteer group, American pilots who flew with the Chinese.

First Light (2010) - follows the story of Geoffrey "Boy" Wellum, one of the youngest men to fly for the RAF.

Brylcreem Boys (1998) - life in a POW camp in neutral Ireland

🌟Red Tails (2012) - I thoroughly enjoyed this movie the last time I was on a 'planes go zoom' kick.

🌟Dunkirk (2017) - The three tracks of Land, Sea, and Air mean that this movie isn't entirely about planes but it's still one of my favorites.

🌟Mudbound (2017) - two soldiers come home to the post-war south. Everyone should watch this.

Hey friend! Any chance you could put together a list of World War Two movies/shows involving planes? In advance of Masters of the Air, of course.

Hello hello!

Thank you for the ask and absolutely! I've pulled together and linked reviews to different series and movies I've reviewed over the years here, they're just in the order I reviewed them with ⭐ next to the ones that were personal favorites!

⭐Catch-22 (2019)

Midway (2019)

Piece of Cake (1988)

⭐One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)

The First of the Few (1942)

⭐Canopy (2013)

Tuskegee Airmen (1995)

Command Decision (1948)

⭐Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

I fully expect Masters of the Air to make this list of movies/shows focused on planes when it premieres in January!