#Danielle Witt

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URBAN LEGEND (1998)

Director: Jamie Blanks Cinematography: James Chressanthis

[tomorrowusa]

Psychologist Mary Trump talks about her uncle's past week in court and the testimony by Stormy Daniels.

She dismisses the contention that The Donald would enjoy going to jail for contempt of court.

Looking ahead, she considers Michael Cohen's court appearance to be "more triggering" for Toad than Stormy Daniels was.

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I love how Witt and Welsh from The Thin Red Line are almost like a kind of non-malevolent representation of Eli and Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood. A religious man with a calm voice, but somehow quite impulsive and a cynical man, averse to people and almost atheist. The only difference is that Witt is not a coward and Welsh is not a murderous psychopath lol

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THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)

Cuando vi esta película por primera vez en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, inmediatamente se me vinieron a la cabeza obras como 2001: A Space Odyssey o There Will Be Blood. ¿Qué motivos impulsaron a Jonathan Glazer a tomar decisiones formales tan arriesgadas? ¿Por qué ese arranque? ¿Por qué esa obertura? Quizá, de una forma paradójica y alegórica, se pretende enfatizar la idea de que las imágenes que otorgan entidad a la película intentan rebelarse contra sí mismas para no ser mostradas. Resulta entonces imposible ignorar la figura de Claude Lanzmann y su memorable digresión en torno a la ética, la moral y la exposición de la infamia.

Dado que la película se filma desde el punto de vista de lo inconcebible, adopta un carácter observacional, flemático y ascético que, en ocasiones, podría disociarnos de la atrocidad y acercarnos a un escenario costumbrista y rutinario. Ahora bien, si el medio es el mensaje —tal y como afirmaba Marshall McLuhan— o, si se prefiere, la forma crea el contenido —deducción archiconocida de Chabrol en referencia al cine de Hitchcock—, entonces lo verdaderamente revelante y relevante para entender esta película se localizaría en el formato utilizado, así como en su óptica y sonoridad. Elementos que aluden de forma constante al contraplano que jamás se muestra y que, por ello, trasciende aún con mayor contundencia y hondura. Al otro lado de esos muros de contención quizá podríamos descubrir al miembro de los Sonderkommandos Saul Ausländer de la película de László Nemes pero, en The Zone of Interest, la materialización fílmica de esa evocación se nos muestra en formato negativo, habitando un terreno aparentemente ilusorio cuya transmutación en realidad se consuma cuando la narración retorna a los quehaceres domésticos y mundanales que viabilizan la preservación del punto de vista heterodiegético.

Aquellos que hayan leído la novela en que se basa se habrán percatado de que Jonathan Glazer tan solo la utiliza como punto de partida, si bien es cierto que para con algunas de sus escenas funciona perfectamente como subtexto de acompañamiento. Martin Amis ficciona una trama y la sitúa en un momento histórico determinado. La película, sin embargo, se aleja de este enfoque, lo que permite que incida con mayor profundidad en su condición empírica y cáustica.

Los momentos en que la pantalla se satura por completo de colores elementales, incorporan fugaces instantes de reflexión ante unas imágenes que supeditan sus formas de arte y representación a la realidad misma que las fundamenta. Esta explicitación articula la parte emocional. La inverosímil y admirable composición musical de Mica Levi converge con el material filmado para convulsionar el relato y el ideario subyacente. Es aquí donde volvemos a la intersección de una disonancia inarmónica que se superpone a ciertos sonidos y situaciones sumidas en la más absoluta cotidianidad. Por otro lado, la ceremonia litúrgica que abre y cierra la película entre tinieblas, el blanco cegador despojado de su pureza o el rojo sangre como encarnación de lo abominable, serían ejemplos paradigmáticos de este aparataje sensitivo.

En su parte final, Rudolf Höss nos devuelve la mirada y desdibuja la línea temporal que se había mantenido hasta ese momento. Jonathan Glazer se transforma entonces en un pseudodocumentalista para mostrarnos imágenes recientes del Museo de Auschwitz y la película nos recuerda que ninguna situación pasada, presente ni futura debería permitirnos tomar distancia ante determinados sucesos que fueron, son y serán.

En el año 2019 Jonathan Glazer filmó un cortometraje basándose en la obra El sueño de la razón produce monstruos de Goya y, en él, anticipa buena parte de este planteamiento. Los personajes de esta pieza de cámara ocultan sus rostros y cuerpos bajo disfraces, de lo cual se puede inferir que cualquiera de nosotros podría ser uno de ellos. Llegados a este punto, quizá no resulte tan sencillo obviar la ignominia que nos rodea.

Se trata de una mera coincidencia, pero tras asistir a la proyección de la película estuve leyendo la novela Stella Maris de Cormac McCarthy. De su pluma y de la mente esquizofrénica del personaje de Alicia Western surgió de repente un pasaje que rápidamente identifiqué como una derivación de lo que había visto en pantalla.  Es este:

"Coges una serie de imágenes fijas y las pasas en tándem a una determinada velocidad ¿y qué es eso que parece la vida misma? Nada más que una ilusión. ¡Anda! ¿Y qué es eso? Bah, qué importa si así haces que vuelvan los muertos. Lógicamente ellos no tienen gran cosa que decir. ¿Qué quieres? Llame antes de excavar. Habrá quien piense que el truco está en encontrar la pista de alguna realidad colateral. Por si no pillas la falacia implícita. La pertinente malicia. Puedes aportar vectores nuevos, aunque eso no es señal de que vayan a funcionar. ¿Te parece una buena idea? ¿Y si la gente quiere volver? La gente no puede volver. Así me gusta. La gracia está en que nunca vas a tener una pantalla en blanco. Y por supuesto lo que cuenta no es lo que se ve sino quién lo puso allí. Si en un momento dado miras y no hay nada en la pantalla ya lo pondrás tú misma, por qué no"

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Mustache Monday: The gang (and dog)! From behind the scenes of The Exorcist's Season Two (2017).

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Longlegs (2024) Review

FBI Agent Lee Harker is very gifted and a new recruit who is about to be assigned to an unsolved and ongoing case of a serial killer, named Longlegs. Can she explore the past before its too late? ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Longlegs (2024) Review

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Urban Legend (1998)

In today's review, I find that tall tales may have deadly repercussions. As I attempt a #positive review of the 1998 slasher film, Urban Legend #JaredLeto #AliciaWitt #RebeccaGayheart #TaraReid #MichaelRosenbaum #LorettaDevine #JoshuaJackson

Superstitions, scary tales we tell ourselves, and other people, passed on and revamped since time immemorial. No matter how long ago their origins or how sensational their content, there’s always a new generation just ready to believe, that they just might be true. In 1998, as slashers were re-inventing kills for the Gen-X generation, a film gave the genre an almost fableistic twist, in Urban…

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The Zone of Interest

2023. Historical Drama

By Jonathan Glazer

Starring: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Ralph Herforth, Daniel Holzberg, Sascha Maaz, Freya Kreutzkam, Imogen Kogge, Johann Karthaus, Lilli Falk, Nele Ahrensmeier, Luis Noah Witte, Kalman Wilson, Anastazja Drobniak, Cecylia Pekala...

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Poland

Language: German, Polish, Yiddish

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THE ZONE OF INTEREST 2023

The heartfelt time we spent in the Höss house will always be among our most beautiful holiday memories. In the East lies tomorrow. Thanks for your National Socialist hospitality.

[purgetrooper77]

Spectre review

I have seen Spectre (2015 film) for the first time today. It’s a really decent movie. The music, the humor, the dramatic scenes, all of them were really great. There were some parts of the movie where it does get boring but after the boring scenes there were epic scenes. My favorite part was when the cat landed on James Bond’s lap before the second torture happens. 

Sam Smith’s song for the intro of the movie is so awesome! I love it so much. I consider the song “Writing’s on the Wall” my favorite song from Sam Smith. I don’t think I have ever heard a song like that song before. That song is *chef’s kiss* beautiful. Also some of the settings the people in the movie used were beautiful. Now I want to go to Austria, Rome, and London all in one year. Sadly I don’t have enough money at the moment but I will go there one day. Also the plot twist when C turns out to be a bad guy in the movie caught me off guard. I thought it was M that was going to be the bad guy but I was wrong. Very wrong. 

I rate this movie a 7/10 for a happy ending and good acting from all the actors. I recommend you all to watch it. 

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What do Caroline Mincks, Sean Lenhart, Leslie Gideon, Sena Bryer, Steven Goldman, and Daisy Guevara all have in common?

They're all reprising their roles for season two!

What do Ishani Kanetkar, Madi Opincaru, Sami Chen, Khalila Roney, Danielle Bryn, Tim Winters, Holly Brierley, Riley CJ Kenway, Rikki Poynter, Bella Meyer, Johnny Ryals, Mystic Waterz, Alice Kyra, David Woo, Diana Bolivar, Emma Laslett, Kirsty Woolven, Kris Allison, Nikko Goldstein, Rae Witte, Tomas Villamizar, Kevin Paculan, Vanessa Benoit, and John Doyle all have in common?

They're all playing BRAND NEW CHARACTERS!

When I said "this cast is stacked", I meant it, y'all! We have an amazing group of folks lending their voices this season. We'll be sharing more details as our fundraising gets underway, so keep an eye out for those announcements and be ready to support our IGG starting TOMORROW, FEBRUARY 4!!

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Fudge - ABC (S1) / CBS (S2) - January 14, 1995 - December 16, 1997

Sitcom (24 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Jake Richardson as Peter Warren Hatcher (storyteller)

Luke Tarsitano as Farley Drexel "Fudge" Hatcher

Nassira Nicola as Sheila Tubman

Alex Burrall as Jimmy Fargo

Nick Humphrey as Elliot

Brenda Song as Jennie

Teddy Dale as Sam

Jared Moen as Daniel Manheim

Eve Plumb as Anne Hatcher ("Mom")

Forrest Witt as Warren Hatcher ("Dad")

Rob Monroe as Henry

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supernatural s4e19 jump the shark (w. andrew dabb, daniel loflin)

episode should be titled 10 more reasons to hate john winchester

seinfeld s5e22 the opposite - dedee pfeiffer as victoria

another tiny role on seinfeld that i know well because i saw them all enough and at a time when my brain was better at recording things.

okay but also? i think i know her from cybill?? which i probably haven't thought of since the 90s. and sometimes i wonder how i originally knew actors like say, alicia witt and christine baranaski and something like this drags it up from the depths

cybill (1995-1998) dedee pfeiffer as rachel blanders

okay but back to dean getting shat on. dear old dad wanted to give one of his kids a normal life and take him to baseball games and go camping that didn't involve killing monsters. aw, that's nice. except for all the gross child neglect of his kids he was supposed to be fulltime sole caregiver of. granted he didn't get involved in this kid's life until sam was away at college so it's not like the nice things happened simultaneously to the neglect. still hate you, man. and the recap made sure to remind us of how john treated sam's going to college.

that look sam gave adam after dean loses paper scissors rock was cute. was feeling the sibling vibes.

also got me considering the logistics of man sized ventilation inside this random house.

sam giving this kid the dad and dean no friends no life routine is something. remember this little exchange at the gas pump:

s1e6 skin:

SAM: So, what am I supposed to do, just cut everybody out of my life? (DEAN shrugs.) You’re serious?

DEAN: Look, it sucks, but in a job like this, you can’t get close to people, period.

SAM: You’re kind of anti-social, you know that?

but also harkens back to when dean was just trying to keep everyone alive while the other two were hellbent on self destructive revenge. which dean has been selling sam is just like dad and that's why they don't get along since then, but i'm not quite sure i buy that.

from s1e22 devil's trap:

Sam: We want to kill this demon. You used to want that, too. Hell, I mean, you’re the one who came and got me at school! (Dean scoffs) You’re the one who dragged me back into this, Dean. I’m just trying to finish it!

Dean: Well, you and Dad are a lot more alike than I thought, you know that? You both can’t wait to sacrifice yourself for this thing. But you know what? I’m gonna be the one to bury you. You’re selfish, you know that? You don’t care about anything but revenge.

that line about being the one to bury you lives rent free in my head.

i mean, i get what he's putting down in regards to his revenge quests, but i don't think there's a lot of similarities outside that. maybe because i like sam and john was a child neglecting piece of garbage. that is definitely a big blinder for me 🥴

i'm sure people enjoyed all that uh, excessive wound fingering and such with sam.

but my issue is those very significant cuts through his forearms and he's all fine and dandy in the next scene. he'd have some wicked number of stitches. and i guess nothing major was cut. just fleshy bits that dean can sew back up? i know, medical accuracy is way way WAY down on the list. but when they focus on the volume of blood he's losing so rapidly, i can't help but start to think of the logistics! anyway, made me think about hannibal's big ass scars in a similar place from matthew brown.

okay but also the kid has a point, of the ghouls were only eating dead people, was it really that important to be killing them?

that turned out a lot more therapeutic than i expected. and somehow i didn't know that fate of adam so i was actually surprised. i always am glad for dean to be working through some of his dad issues. sam is full of questionable choices these days. i'll give it to him, the writers, whatever. he really does sell that he's earnestly truly trying to do the right thing. but everything is a flaming pile of shit anyway.

DEAN I mean, I worshipped the guy, you know? I dressed like him, I acted like him, I listen to the same music. But you were more like him than I will ever be. And I see that now.

SAM I'll take that as a compliment.

DEAN You take it any way you want.

i mean.

anyway. okay i liked this episode even though i'm nervously looking at the time with how close the end of the season is and here we are off killing some monsters like it's any other week. this felt like an earlier to mid season episode. quality dean and sam time, daddy issues on blast.

and forever grateful shoutout to supernaturalwiki.com, the documentation is immaculate, found the episode with the bury you line in it in under 5 minutes.

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Hey since your requests are open could you do one where Child Reader gets kidnapped by a cult from the orphanage and they somehow managed to bring Lucifer to where they summon him in order to give the child as a sacrifice for immortality. Unfortunately, Lucifer and Chloe were working on the kidnapping case, and Lucifer sees the Reader's drawings of a family and just a fluffy end with the Reader saying that Lucifer's nice when Daniel tries to get her to go witt the ambulance.

Hiya I’m just not really comfortable writing this, I’m really sorry!

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2023 World Baseball Classic U.S.A. Roster

Pitchers

#0 Adam Ottavino (New York Mets/Brooklyn, New York)

#21 Kyle Freeland (Colorado Rockies/Denver, Colorado)

#29 Kenneth Kelly (Arizona Diamondbacks/Scottsdale, Arizona)

#33 Michael Lynn (Chicago White Sox/Brownsburg, Indiana)

#38 Devin Williams (Milwaukee Brewers/Florissant, Missouri)

#39 Miles Mikolas (St. Louis Cardinals/Jupiter, Florida)

#43 Brooks Raley (New York Mets/Uvalde, Texas)

#47 Jason Adam (Tampa Bay Rays/Overland Park, Kansas)

#49 Kendall Graveman (Chicago White Sox/Alexander City, Alabama)

#50 Adam Wainwright (St. Louis Cardinals/St. Simons, Georgia)

#51 Brady Singer (Kansas City Royals/Tavares, Florida)

#52 Daniel Bard (Colorado Rockies/Greenville, South Carolina)

#53 David Bednar (Pittsburgh Pirates/Mars, Pennsylvania)

#55 Thomas Pressly (Houston Astros/Irving, Texas)

Catchers

#10 J.T. Realmuto (Philadelphia Phillies/Del City, Oklahoma)

#16 Will Smith (Los Angeles Dodgers/Louisville, Kentucky)

#66 Kyle Higashioka (New York Yankees/Huntington Beach, California)

Infielders

#1 Jeff McNeil (New York Mets/San Luis Obispo County, California)

#7 Tim Anderson; Jr. (Chicago White Sox/Tuscaloosa, Alabama)

#8 Trea Turner (Philadelphia Phillies/Lake Worth Beach, Florida)

#15 Bobby Witt; Jr. (Kansas City Royals/Colleyville, Texas)

#20 Pete Alonso; Jr. (New York Mets/Tampa, Florida)

#28 Nolan Arenado (St. Louis Cardinals/Lake Forest, California)

#46 Paul Goldschmidt (St. Louis Cardinals/Wilmington, Delaware)

Outfielders

#3 Markus Betts (Los Angeles Dodgers/Oak Hill, Tennessee)

#12 Kyle Schwarber (Philadelphia Phillies/Middletown, Ohio)

#27 Mike Trout (Los Angeles Angels/Millville, New Jersey)

#30 Kyle Tucker (Houston Astros/Tampa, Florida)

#31 Boyce Mullins II (Baltimore Orioles/Snellville, Georgia)

Coaches

Manager Mark DeRosa (U.S.A. Baseball/Carlstadt, New Jersey)

Bench coach Jerry Manuel (Jessup University Warriors/Rancho Cordova, CA)

Assistant bench coach Brian McCann (U.S.A. Baseball/Duluth, Georgia)

Pitching coach Andy Pettitte (U.S.A. Baseball/Houston, Texas)

Bullpen coach Dave Righetti (San Francisco Giants/San José, California)

Hitting coach George Griffey; Jr. (U.S.A. Baseball/Winter Garden, Florida)

1st base coach Lou Collier (Kansas City Royals/Chicago, Illinois)

3rd base coach Dino Ebel (Los Angeles Dodgers/Barstow, California)

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Notable American Women: BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna Hahn (July 31, 1831 - May 8, 1891)

“... Educated by governesses who indulged her taste for supernatural folktales, and deeply impressed by the haunting liturgy of the Russian Orthodox service, Helena grew up a wild and imaginative girl. Her mother died when she was twelve, whereupon she was sent to live with her grandfather Fadeev, the governor of Saratov on the Volga. Later his household moved to Tiflis, where, on July 7, 1848, sixteen-year-old Helena Hahn was married to Gen. Nikifor Vasilievich Blavatsky, the forty-year-old vice-governor of a neighboring province. 

Soon regretting her rashness, she ran away after three months to Constantinople, where (according to the memoirs of her cousin, the Russian statesman Count Sergei Y. Witte) she became an equestrienne in a circus. In 1850 she visited Egypt and explored Cairo with Albert L. Rawson, a young American student of Islam. Returning to Constantinople, she became the mistress of a minor Hungarian opera singer, Agardi Metrovich, whom she thereafter accompanied on European tours. During a stay in Paris she worked for a time with Daniel Dunglas Home, a celebrated spiritualist of the day.

…By 1870 they were living in Odessa, where Madame Blavatsky struggled to support them both by giving singing lessons and working in various shops and factories. In 1871 they embarked on the S.S. Eumonia for Cairo, where Metrovich hoped to revive his faltering career. On June 21, however, the vessel exploded at sea and Metrovich lost his life. Madame Blavatsky, one of seventeen survivors, continued on to Egypt.

Now taking up spiritualism in earnest, she tried to organize a Société Spirite, but her seances were characterized by various petty deceptions and soon collapsed. She drifted back to Odessa, then to Paris, and on July 7, 1873, arrived, via steerage, in New York City. Here she lived in a Home for Working Women, doing catchpenny spiritualism and various odd jobs. …The turning point in her life came that October when she read in the New York Daily Graphic of the seances being conducted by the Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vt. 

She hastened to Vermont, displayed her own psychic aptitude, and ingratiated herself with Col. Henry Steel Olcott, the lawyer and spiritualist who had written the Graphic articles. Olcott was deeply impressed by this exotic Russian, and the following March, when he received a mysterious message from “Tuitit Bey” of ”The Brotherhood of Luxor” instructing him to become her neophyte, he readily yielded. 

…Here on Sept. 7, 1875, was born the Theosophical Society, named by an English member, Charles Sotheran, who had discovered the word, meaning “divine wisdom,” in the dictionary. Olcott was chosen chairman, and later president; William Quan Judge, a young Irish clerk in Olcott’s law office, was made secretary-treasurer (later, as head of the American section, he led a schism from the parent group); and Madame Blavatsky, who preferred to remain in the background since she was not a good speaker, became corresponding secretary. 

The organization’s declared object was “to collect and diffuse a knowledge of the laws which govern the universe.” By 1880 three basic goals had emerged: to promote the “Universal Brotherhood of Humanity”; to investigate the “unexplained laws of Nature and the psychical powers latent in man”; and to study comparative religion, philosophy, and science.

…When the Theosophical Society failed to thrive in America, Madame Blavatsky, (or “H.P.B.,” as she now called herself) and Olcott decided to move to India, a land known for its occult lore and one where Olcott had recently established a promising contact with the Arya Samaj, a strong new organization advocating a return to the ancient principles of Hinduism. Before setting out for India, Helena Blavatsky took out American naturalization papers, correctly anticipating that she might be regarded by the British authorities as a Russian spy.

…In 1882, with the aid of wealthy Indians, Madame Blavatsky and her followers purchased the grounds for a beautiful international headquarters at Adyar, on the outskirts of Madras. Here, with the help of her young Hindu “chelas,” or assistants, she amazed visitors with various psychic marvels, including “precipitated” or materialized written communications from the Mahatmas, most notably one Koot Hoomi. Her reputation grew despite occasional embarrassing setbacks, as in 1883 when a “Koot Hoomi” letter was proved to have been plagiarized from a recent address by an American Theosophist.

At this apogee of her career, Helena Blavatsky was a person of curious contradictions. Far from spiritual in appearance, she was extremely obese, with protruding eyes and short crinkly hair. She loved to play solitaire, smoked incessantly, and frequently gave way to towering rages and profane outbursts drawn from the forty languages she was said to have at her command. While taking great relish in attracting new converts, she always retained a wry self-awareness that was one of her more appealing traits.”

- Notable American Woman, Volume I: A-F, 1971