#Dutch movies

[celluloidrainbow]

EEN VROUW ALS EVA (1979) dir. Nouchka van Brakel While on holiday in France, housewife Eve meets young feminist and commune-dweller Liliane while on vacation in the south of France. At first, she is simply entertained and fascinated by Liliane's free-wheeling, back-to-nature existence but soon discovers that there are both sexual and romantic components to her attraction. Once the decision is made to divorce her husband, Eve spends some time with Liliane before going back home to fight over custody of her two children. (link in title)

[schlock-luster-video]

On August 4, 1989, Amsterdamned debuted in Spain.

[geschiedenisish]

De Spooktrein 1939, mijn favoriete film

Lieve mensen, ik wil het ff over mijn favoriete film hebben. De Spooktrein uit 1939.

Zoals u kunt zien staat de film gewoon op Youtube. Hij duurt maar een uur in zijn huidige vorm en is echt de moeite waard.

Ik kan het plot niet echt verklappen omdat dit echt zo'n film is die je moet zien zonder het plot te weten. Ik zal alleen laten weten dat de film zich afspeelt op een treinstation en erg leuk is.

De karakters, het camerawerk, het verhaal, de opbouw, de acteurs. Alles aan dit verhaal is gewoon leuk. Het is echt geen meesterwerk deze film, dat was in 1939 ook niet de bedoeling. Maar het is een heerlijke "wegkijkfilm" en echt de moeite waard als je op een avond gewoon ff lekker wil lachen en de wereld om je heen wil vergeten!

[margowritesthings]

[abovesn4kes]

AU that takes place in 1999 in which Dutch and Hosea make shitty western movies as tax write offs

[katiekatdragon27]

Transcript:

A.Tesseract: *Thunk*

A.Sphere: What the- Who are you???

Sometimes I like to think of an alternate reality to "A Heightlander's Escape" where, like in Sphereland, A. Sphere survived the war but was super shunned by everyone as a result and more so after learning about the reality of the 4th dimension.

In this reality, A. Tesseract meeting A. Sphere was a complete accident. She just intended to pass though, but miscalculated the area she was phasing through, and as a result getting caught by A. Sphere.

Since she never shows him the "real" 4th dimension, she looks like a floating growing and shrinking cube more than a 4D being. A.Sphere got flash-banged by the explosion and damaged on his right side, so he has glasses and a brace. (The glasses are only for reading tho)

Below are some "spoilers" kinda sorta for Sphereland. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it, especially if you liked Flatland but thought the obsessive amount of misogyny was kinda wack (it's still sexist but it's like better-ish... Plz don't clip that-):

In the book, the Sphere visits Hexagon like 70 years after basically kidnapping and traumatizing his grandpa. So I guess taking people from their original plane of existence and spreading the gospel is only done every 1000 years because of ... principle?? Idk, it didn't make sense, but it makes me think.

Also the idea that the Sphere is so lonely and isolated that he decides to track down the grandkid of the dude he kidnapped jst so he had someone to vent to basically is both really funny and super-duper sweet. I love that for all of them honestly.

So that but A. Sphere and Hex's fam lol.

Mind you, Hex is a grandpa here and A. Sphere is like middle-aged (40s). Doen't halt hospitality tho, what a chad.

Also, these things are the greatest things ever. Everyone needs to like these things.

Have a good day chat and read Sphereland on the Internet Archive or smth.

[bugscience]

i looove spending precious hours of my day making stupid edits

[cinematic-literature]

Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos

Book title: Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata in Latin; 1677) by Baruch Spinoza

[talesfromthecrypts]

We realized why Deborah and I have such extraordinary telepathy and why people treat us and look at us the way they do. It is because we are mad. We are both stark raving mad!

Heavenly Creatures (1994) dir. Peter Jackson

[f1-stuff]

Dutch GP '23 // Red Flag

[angelshizuka]

In the Dutch dub Marinette says "Ik kijk er nu al naar uit." (I'm already looking forward to it.) here.

Like... damn girl, you thirsty.

[celluloidrainbow]

ANNE+ (2021) dir. Valerie Bisscheroux Pressured to finish writing her book and move from Amsterdam to Montreal with her girlfriend, Anne has to search for what she really wants in life. A continuation of the popular television series of the same name. (link in title)

[lactoseintolerentswag]

when they've got interpreting spiderman noir under a specific cultural lens at the function [picture of me going insane]

I cant help myself.. what can i say. And since you've mentioned some research going on behind the scenes.. do you have any fun interpretations? Or even anything fun about the 1800s!

OH HI

Hm. I don't have anything as fun as historical dancing, but I suppose this does give me the excuse (thabk u) to blab about Noir's childishness.

(wow putting this under the cut bc it got longer than I thought it would LMAO)

I think what a lot of people (including Noir's contemporary writers and yes even the spiderverse interpretation) fall for when trying to read Noir's character is the imitation of his idea of what an adult is, that he hides behind. Like Noir's persona is incredibly exaggerated. He's playing pretend. Look here, he's practicing.

A lot of his persona as Noir is imitation! Imitation of his uncle, of Urich, of the violence he's been exposed to. He's running around in his uncle's old uniform. Fundamentally misunderstanding WHY his uncle had been ashamed of it and his role in the war.

And then he goes ahead and steals Urich's alias because it sounds Cool (which is such a teenage thing to do jesus christ).

But like that imitation of The Adult isn't something that's limited to that exaggerated persona that Noir encapsulates. Peter himself is trying So Hard to be grown up and tough and responsible that it loops back around to him being a brat who would try the three guys in a trench coat trick. He even gets beat up for it when trying to defend his aunt. And I mean I've posted about him being a brat.

About how he looks at Urich as a Prime Example of what a strong and knowledgeable adult is (which is part of why he reacts so volatile in response to Urich showing he's not exactly as morally righteous as himself, he's wounded and let down). Whiskey? Whiskey sounds like someone Mature and Cool would drink, I'll have it too. And then proceeds to throw his drink at Osborn and laugh about it. The illusion was broken for me then.

But well it's not broken for everyone. I mean like obviously I poked at the contemporary writers, but I'm more talking about the other characters in the narrative. Mainly Urich and Felicia.

Urich taking Peter under his wing isn't entirely under the motivation to nurture Peter. I think it Becomes that, but he's really envious of that kid. He wants to see him lose that hope that he once had (ruh roh the opposite thing happened, being around the kid made YOU more hopeful Ben. Guess you gotta be good. Hope you don't die now).

Urich really is exposing him to an extremely harsh reality, and taking him places where adults are typically only allowed. He's letting Peter get a glimpse into what it's like, which will eventually enable Noir's tool of violence. All these tests will accumulate into what Peter thinks someone powerful and strong can be and do.

Then his problematic relationship with Felicia (writers I'm malleting you for this). He's clinging to her adulthood and the safety she represents, and he's young but she sees some adult strength in him. I mean she trusts him with the blackmail Urich gave her, which she really. Shouldn't, even if that's what Urich wanted.

Anyway, strength is something she's been consistently drawn to her in her partners. Strength to feel as her own. Even if it's to hers and others' detriment. There's also a part of Peter that's drawn to Felicia because Urich was. He's still honing in the good parts of Urich he wants to be.

I think the one person in the narrative who doesn't fall for it? Is Aunt May. You could argue it's just her being naturally motherly, but for someone who was about to be eaten alive she's pretty frank with Noir. I think she can see that that violence and exaggerated grittiness comes from someone inexperienced and young. Even if she can't consciously recognize the similarities between Noir's persona and Peter's protectiveness of her. I don't think she wants to see that. I actually have a short comic script about that, but it probably will never see the light of day.

Ugh he's like a cat puffing up to scare away a predator. It's fake!!!!! It's all fake!!!!!! He gets intimidated by JJ, he never ties his shoes, gets powers and then immediately guns to beat the shit out of Osborn, sings about the sandman when he's getting his face bashed in, crawls to Felicia all pathetic and sad, and he made a costume to run over roofs at night in.

And it's funny how he's forcing himself to grow up, but also really sad because all the things he's being exposed to is already forcing him to grow up. He's witnessing things no kid should ever see or experience.

Then there's the time period to consider. The aftermath of WWI, being in the midst of the Great Depression, and WWII just around the corner. He's faced incredible hardship and is going to continue to face so much hardship, and he's going to mature faster than he ever should have. It should have made him crash and burn Hard when he became an adult, and to me he still does because I'm ignoring everyone after ewaof LMAO.

As for my research on the 1800s NY that's for my own spider iteration run I'm working on, so not too related to Noir until I reach the 30's :3

Hope that was satisfying!!

[russellius]

ZANDVOORT, NETHERLANDS - AUGUST 22: George Russell of Great Britain and Mercedes arrives in the paddock during previews ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Netherlands at Circuit Zandvoort on August 22, 2024 in Zandvoort, Netherlands. Photo by PanoramiC.

[hideousvampire]

guys pls remember NOT to karate your kids

this is if johnny lawrence was cursed to only be able to say things me and my brother have said but he also has no idea what hes about to say

he meant to say "good job larusso im in love with you!!!!" but thats ok everyone makes mistakes i guess

[cheesyakumas]

Art for the Stronger Together Multilingual cover I participated in :)) you can listen to it here