#Eve's Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

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The category is: movies that are really good but are so so soooooo hard for me to watch

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Eve's Bayou (1997), dir. Kasi Lemmons

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Lynn Whitfield as Roz Batiste in EVE’S BAYOU (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

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Eve’s Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

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Film & TV I Think About A Lot » Eve's Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

"When I was your age, before I ever did the counseling, I could look at people, complete strangers, and see their whole lives so clear. But when I looked at each of my husbands, I never saw a thing. That's how it always is. Blind to my own life."

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Eve's Bayou (1997, dir. Kasi Lemmons)

[talesfromthecrypts]

Could you recommend 10 films? Maybe 5 favourites and 5 you think are essential?

No limits this is a dangerous game but here we go 10 recs:

5 favorites:

Frailty (2001) dir. Bill Paxton

The Legend of Hell House (1973) dir. John Hough

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) dir. Kim Jee-woon

I am Dragon (2015) dir. Indar Dzhendubaev

Annette (2021) dir. Leos Carax (baby Annette is a baby after all)

5 essentials:

The Devils (1971) dir. Ken Russell

Eve's Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

Shallow Grave (1994) dir. Danny Boyle

Donkey Skin (1970) dir. Jacques Demy

Opera (1987) dir. Dario Argento

[ljones41]

Gothic Melodramas III

​Below is my final list of Gothic melodramas in movies and television (in chronological order:

GOTHIC MELODRAMAS III

“Eve’s Bayou” (1997); dir. Kasi Lemmons

“Beloved” (1998); dir. Jonathan Demme

“Curse of the Golden Flower” (2006); dir. Zhang Yimou

“Crimson Peak” (2015); dir. Guillermo del Toro 

“Lady Macbeth” (2016); dir. William Oldroyd

“My Cousin Rachel” (2017); dir. Roger Michell

“The Alienist” (2018-2020)

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New Film Submissions

Def by Temptation (1990) dir. James Bond the Third Joel (James Bond III), a quiet divinity student from North Carolina, starts to question his faith. So he heads to New York to visit his friend K (Kadeem Hardison), a struggling actor, who takes him out bar-hopping. They meet a gorgeous seductress (Cynthia Bond) who turns out to be a succubus, a demon spirit luring black lotharios to their deaths. When she sets her eyes on Joel, K turns to the help of Dougie (Bill Nunn), a drunken cop who specializes in supernatural investigations.

Bones (2001) dir. Ernest Dickerson Jimmy Bones (Snoop "Doggy" Dogg) is a legendary protector and patron of his thriving neighborhood. Cool, handsome, and respected - Bones is the benevolent caretaker of his people until he is betrayed by those closest to him. Flash forward 20 years. Crime and drugs have crumbled the neighborhood and Jimmy Bones has become a charismatic emblem of better times. But his spirit is about to make a comeback.

The Blackening (2023) dir. Tim Story Seven friends go away for the weekend, only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. They must pit their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies against the murderer to stay alive.

Ganja & Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn Germs from the stab of an ancient dagger turn two lovers (Duane Jones and Marlene Clark) into immortal vampires.

Eve's Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10-year-old black girl, Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett), discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade. The philandering of her suave doctor father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson), creates a rift, throwing Eve's mother, Roz (Lynn Whitfield), and teenage sister, Cisely (Meagan Good), into emotional turmoil. Eve, though, manages to find some solace with her quirky psychic aunt, Mozelle (Debbi Morgan).

Nanny (2022) dir. Nikyatu Jusu An African woman hopes her new job as a nanny will help bring her young son to the United States. However, when a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and reality, it threatens to destroy everything she's fought for.

His House (2020) dir. Remi Weekes A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface. Black Box (2020) dir. Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour

After losing his wife and memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an agonizing experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

[gohanglobus]

Happy International Women's Day! Procreate sketches of some good movies by women directors:

SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME (2015, Dir. Chloé Zhao, DP Joshua James Richards) Closely observed, humane and unforced character study of people going through it. Irene Bedard SO GOOD.

4 Procreate speedpaintings of WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2022, Dir. Jane Schoenbrun, Cinematography: Daniel Patrick Carbone). Eerie, elegant, personal supernatural thriller

4 Procreate paintings of NEPTUNE FROST (2022, dirs. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, Cinematography: Anisia Uzeyman). Revolutionary musical dreamy scifi epic!

Procreate painting of The Woman King (2022, dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood, cinematography Polly Morgan) with Fresco brush. Stoked to see Viola Davis in another action role after Widows.

Procreate painting of Sambizanga (1972, dir. Sarah Maldoror, cinematography Claude Agostini) using Cotton brush. 

Details of daily life show it's not just the suffering people face, but social bonds between them that power a resistance movement. Title describes a Neighborhood, not one character.

Procreate sketch of Stories We Tell (2012, dir. Sarah Polley, cinematography Iris Ng) Reflective, intimate, focused, convincing found-footage reenactments. My kind of documentary!

Procreate sketch of Eve's Bayou (1997, dir. Kasi Lemmons, cinematography Amy Vincent) Vivid performances and sense of place, I like the ambiguity.

Procreate painting of Selma (2014, dir. Ava DuVernay, cinematography Bradford Young) using Plimsoll brush. Tense, powerful tone.

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“Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others imprinted indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father I was 10 years old. My brother Poe was 9, and my sister Cisely had just turned 14.” Eve’s Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

[fictionz]

New Horror 2022 - Day 25

"Unseen—Unfeared" by Francis Stevens (1919) "Again I struggled within me, bit at my lip till I tasted blood, and presently the blind paroxysm passed."

Yesterday’s reimagining of Lovecraft’s background (”Turn Out the Light”) just reminded me that the paranoia that H.P. Lovecraft brought to his stories came from his racist anxieties and fear of strange foreigners. This story also hearkens back to those sentiments, showing how the racism of the day is always bubbling just beneath the surface and ready to boil over with any provocation.

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"The Speed of Pain" by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart, Steve Wands, Will Dennis (2018) "I spent the week cursing God."

Whoa nelly, this first issue is a great setup. It’s got that urban decay vibe of grungy industrial hellscape movies of the 90s like The Crow, Seven, and Dark City. I’ll definitely be coming back to finish this series.

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Eve's Bayou dir. Kasi Lemmons (1997) "That's how it always is. Blind to my own life."

This movie has rich Gothic tension with underlying hints of supernatural strangeness while the real world drama leaves its traumatic scars. I’m filing this in the same drawer as Pan’s Labyrinth, Celia, and other dark coming-of-age stories where kids have to deal with shit far above their pay grade because innocence is finite.

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Bride of Frankenstein dev. Paul Smith, Steve Howard, Timedata Ltd. (1987) "Frankenstein lives!”

I haven’t watched the movie yet, but if it’s anything like this game, it’ll be about the titular Bride murdering prisoners and robbing graves to recover the body parts she needs to revive her beloved. The navigation gameplay is so obtuse that I would’ve had to take copious notes and map out the space on paper in order to complete it without the aid of a walkthrough. The constant thumping of a heart to represent stamina/health is a great touch.

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Eve's Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

[misandriste]

“Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others imprinted indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father I was 10 years old. My brother Poe was 9, and my sister Cisely had just turned 14.”

Eve’s Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

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Eve’s Bayou (1997), dir. Kasi Lemmons.

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Eve’s Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons