#saga Trainspotting

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La Hauss. Máster Online en Diseño Editorial 2022-23. Diseño de sobrecubiertas, cubiertas y guardas para saga Trainspotting, compuesta por las obras de Irvine Welsh siguientes:

Trainspotting.

Porno.

Skagboys.

Trabajo de Carla Pareja Martín.

[i-who-has-never-had-a-name]

Books I think the crows would enjoy:

Kaz: Frankenstein, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, The catcher in the Rye, The secret history, Crime and Punishment, No Longer Human, The silence of the lambs, Demon Copperhead, Eileen, Trainspotting, Hesse's and Cormac McCarthy's works, Antigone, Hamlet, The Stranger, Sherlock Holmes (when he was a child), Attack on Titan & Vinland Saga (manga)

Inej: The color purple, all of Toni Morrison's books, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Love in the Time of cholera, Mrs. Dalloway, The Bell Jar, a lot of Shakespeare's work, Antigone, Medea, White Nights, Wuthering Heights, Valley of the dolls, Play it as it lays, On earth we're briefly gorgeous, Sex and Rage

Wylan (he'd listen to audiobooks): Giovanni's Room, The picture of Dorian Gray, also the secret history, The great gatsby, The song of achilles, The Illiad, Shakespeare, Letters to a Young Poet, Demian, also Jane Austen's works and Wuthering Heights, Confession's of a Mask, Joan Didion's works

Jesper: That man doesn't read for shit nor does he have the patience to listen to most audiobooks but he'd like to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter, definitely a lot of fantasy partly ya, On the Road and also The Great Gatsby.

Nina: Let's be honest she would probably read a lot of trashy romance novels or fun, lighthearted stuff, not that there's anything wrong with it she has endured enough. Would enjoy tropes like enemies to lovers, smut and ya. I have a feeling that she'd like Sarah J. Maas' stuff. I think she would also like Daisy Jones and the six and the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Matthias: He doesn't care.

Feel free to leave suggestions.

[lilyinlosangeles]

On December 14th, 2023, the New Beverly Cinema in Los Ángeles, California released its calendar for January 2024. The slate included many classics such as Funny Girl, Trainspotting, and In the Mood for Love. However, one show stood out; a five-movie marathon of The Twilight Saga on 35mm. I saw this and immediately fell to my knees. My mind was racing, thinking about not only what would happen if I went -- but also the dangerous corollary that would occur if I didn't. So naturally I forced my dad to take out his wallet and phone in the middle of dinner and dropped $72 on [two] tickets for this event.

One might ask: why would you go to this with your dad? And to that I answer -- I just didn't want to pay for my own ticket. Originally, he agreed to go to the first couple of movies then leave to eat then come back to see the last film. This did not happen. By the end of New Moon, my father -- 42, a film school graduate, and a hater of most female-centered media -- was so absorbed by the remarkable world of Forks that not only did he stay the entire time but hung around after to discuss with our fellow Twi-Hards.

The actual experience of the show was like none other. For context, I have seen Twilight (2008) in show at the New Bev twice before and have watched the Saga back to back at home many times. So although I'm VERY familiar with the films, this would be a feat like no other. Watching 720 minutes of this beautiful/terrible/heartwrenching/tragic/corny love story with a sold-out audience reminded me of why I love Twilight so much.

The collective awws, oohs, yays, and boos transpired cemented my belief in why this movie is so culturally cardinal. This is cinema. Regardless of the actual quality of the picture, Twilight has formed such a nexus with so many people that almost 20 years later they would sit in uncomfortable polyethylene chairs and watch all 5 films back to back. The purpose of cinema isn't to win the most Oscars or to make the most money at the box office -- it is to grasp the opportunity to bridge humanity on film.

I realize this reads more like a diary entry than a film review, but I find it important to discuss other aspects of film than just the quality on this app. So thank you Summit, thank you RPattz and KStew, thank you Catherine Hardwicke, and a begrudging thank you to Stephanie Myers. Because without Twilight, I would not be the daughter, artist, friend, person, or consumer...I am today.

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday to Ewan McGregor!

[jerryb2]

“You were right about one thing, Master. The negotiations were short.”

- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

~~~~~~

Here we have the 89Sabers OWK1, featuring a removable chassis from Saber Bay, running a Proffieboard v2.2 with a removable battery & OLED screen. The saber also features an interchangeable pommel ring, so it can swap between the Episode I & II versions as you please.

In light of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show premiering in just a few weeks, I thought I would share some shots of a recent commission. I have a few more pics saved up, alongside some glam shots of a Roman’s MK1, so be on the lookout for that in the next couple of days.

I’ve touched on this before, so I’ll just briefly mention it here; I grew up with the Prequels and because of it, I have a soft spot for them in spite of all their many problems. Especially after the Sequels. *gagging noises*

Moving swiftly along: It’s hard to imagine it nowadays, but there was a time that many people doubted Ewan McGregor’s ability to bring new life to a character like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Because the character was played with such effortless grace by the likes of Sir Alec Guinness, the young Scottish actor doubtless had a lot to live up to. Unsurprisingly (at least for those of us who had seen Trainspotting), he was more than up to the task - in fact, McGregor’s portrayal of the magnanimous Jedi Apprentice turned Master would go on to be celebrated as one of the greatest strengths of the entire Prequel saga. 

All that is to say, Obi-Wan’s lightsaber is a reflection of his character in both The Phantom Menace & Attack of the Clones. It’s simple, straight-forward and practical. It’s a fairly well-known story, how Ewan and costar Liam Neeson chose their respective lightsabers. Given only ten minutes to choose, they were required to make the decision based almost solely on their instincts. Whether intentional on the part of the actors or not, each chose a weapon that suited their characters quite well. 

...real quick though, can we talk about how weird it is that Obi-Wan wound up with virtually the same lightsaber in Episode II??? I get that he made a second one based on his first, but...like...c’mon. That thing got yeeted down a power reactor. Why wouldn’t you just give him his ANH lightsaber in the next film? Or better yet, give him his ROTS lightsaber in AOTC, so you can thereby build an in-universe reason as to why Obi’s Master lightsaber looks so different from one movie to the next?? 

Why yes, I will take the “First Person to Bitch About that Award”, thank you. 

[pedro-pascal]

taking requests!

it turns out i love making requests, because my brain wants to do funny and original stuff so if you want to see something gif’ed from this list below, shoot an ask! don’t hesitate to be specific, i’ll try to do my best :)

(ex of completed requests: crazy rich asians wedding scene, finn is luke’s son, ahsoka tano’s lightsabers, sith!ahsoka tano)

General warning: i am a chickflick/romcom trash can so you’ll see a lot of of these movies in my list 😬 

SAGA

Anything and everything from Star Wars (except the comics, novels and clone wars 2003 and any special holidays specials)

All of the Harry Potter movies + FB n°1

The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy (the first 3 ones)

The Princess Diaries duo ❤️

The Twilight Saga 

The Bridget Jones trilogy

Any live action Spider-Man + Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

MOVIES

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Atonement (2007)

Becoming Jane (2007)

Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

Birds of Prey (2020)

Bull Durham (1988)

Bring It On (2000)

Chef (2014)

Chungking Express (1994)

Constantine (2005)

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Eastern Promises (2007)

Freaky Friday (2003)

Gattaca (1997)

Hairspray (2006)

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003)

Just Wright (2010)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Long Shot (2019)

Made of Honor (2008)

Magic Mike (2012)

Magic Mike XXL (2015)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018)

Minari (2020)

Minority Report (2008)

Miss Congeniality (2000)

Mother’s Day (2016)

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Music and Lyrics (2007)

Nerve (2016)

Peter Pan (2003)

Pitch Perfect (2012)

Point Break (1991)

Pretty Woman (1990)

Romeo and Juliet (1996)

Seventeen Again (2009)

She's the Man (2006)

Stand by Me (1986)

Tampopo (1985)

The Bodyguard (1992)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The Fall (2006)

The Handmaiden (2016)

The History Boys (2006)

The Hunger Games (2012)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

The Mummy (1999)

The Mummy Returns (2001)

The Proposal (2009)

Trainspotting (1996)

We’re the Millers (2013)

SERIES

Derry Girls

Fleabag

Love Death and Robots

My Mad Fat Diary

Never Have I Ever

Star Wars: Rebels

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Ted Lasso

The Get Down

The Mandalorian

Pitch

OTHER

I almost have the whole Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Pedro Pascal filmography

I will gif/edit anything from Lewis Tan, Manny Jacinto, Justin H. Min, Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya upon any demand

I also have the Baz Luhrmann collection 

Feel free to throw me your ideas anytime! Thank you and have a good day 🤗

[demoisverysexy]

For fun I decided to catalogue all of the books I own.

I own a lot of books.

More under the cut.

A caveat about this list:

Some of the books I own I find ideologically abhorrent. Specifically, I am referring to Atlas Shrugged, Ideal, and How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, written by Ayn Rand and Ben Shapiro, respectively. I own them so I can understand them, not because I enjoy them. The rest I find enjoyable, amusing, interesting, or else I am neutral towards them.

I hope you enjoy this list. If you have any questions about it, ask away.

Read a While Ago:

Elantris

Mistborn

The Well of Ascension

The Hero of Ages

Alloy of Law

Shadows of Self

The Bands of Mourning

Arcanum Unbounded

The Way of Kings

Words of Radiance

Oathbringer

Warbreaker

Respect for Acting

The Lord of the Rings

Good Omens

Equal Rites

Mort

The Truth

Hogfather

Eric

Men at Arms

Reaper Man

Interesting Times

Night Watch

The Fifth Elephant

The Last Continent

Steel Crow Saga

Lovely War

The Cherry Orchard

Farenheit 451

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt

Deep Work

The True Meaning of Smekday

The Art of Language Invention

The Girl with all the Gifts

The Immortal Hulk Vol 1

White Sand vol 1

Mother Panic vol 1

Lumberjanes vol 1

The Killing Joke

Pride and Prejudice

The Black Tides of Heaven

River of Teeth

Skyward

Promise of Blood

The Language Construction Kit

Conlanger’s Lexipedia

Advanced Language Construction

The Planet Construction Kit

The Three Body Problem

The Dark Forest

Death’s End

The Grapes of Wrath

Digital Minimalism

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

Mort(e)

D’Arc

Watership Down

Crime and Punishment

Hold me Closer, Necromancer

Space Opera

Mere Christianity

Steelheart

The Shadow of What was Lost

Starsight

The Name of the Wind

The Tolkien Reader

How to Win at College

Nothing New Under the Sun

Mormon: A Brief Theological Introduction

Future Mormon

Grace is Not God’s Backup Plan

Letters to a Young Mormon

Speculative Grace

An Early Resurrection: Life in Christ before You Die

Recently Finished:

Stormfront

Going Postal

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

The Poppy War

Lovecraft Country

Animal Farm

All Systems Red

To be Reread:

Coraline

The Communist Manifesto

The Stranger

The Jungle

1984

The Bible (KJV)

The Book of Mormon

To be Read:

The Silmarillion

The Dialogues of Plato

The Diary of a Young Girl

Slaughterhouse Five

A Game of Thrones

Guards! Guards!

Man’s Search for Meaning

The Red Threads of Fortune

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Fascism: A Warning

Wuthering Heights

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Black Sun

The Color of Law

Capital Vol I

A Darker Shade of Magic

The Greatest Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Phoenix Extravagant

Infinite Jest

An Ember in the Ashes

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Atlas Shrugged

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

Dracula

The Invention of World Religions

Ideal (Ayn Rand)

How to be an Antiracist

The Worldly Philosophers

A Darker Shade of Magic

Dune

Authoritarian Nightmare

How to Hide an Empire

The Common Good

Les Miserables

Gideon the Ninth

The Calculating Stars

A Little Hatred

Pet Sematary

Willpower Doesn’t Work

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Stephen King’s On Writing

Trainspotting

The Dark is Rising Sequence

The Water Dancer

The Qur’an

Who Fears Death

Gardens of the Moon

The Fifth Season

American Gods

The Parable of the Sower

The Last Wish

The Scarlet Letter

The Art of War

The War of the Worlds and other Sci Fi Classics (H.G. Wells)

Rhythm of War

World War Z

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

The White Buddhist

The Eye of the World

Tooth and Claw

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Prince

Paradise Lost

The Norton Anthology: Theory and Criticism

The Bible (NRSV)

[retrosimp]

MASTERLIST

Basic tags: S - smut; V - violence; DC- dubious consent/morality; F - Fluff ; A - Angst ; r - romance; N - no specific warnings

Tokyo Revengers (2017-2022)

coming soon...

Greek Mythology drabbles

Excessive Force 1993

Taking care of a cat with Terry McCain F

Relationship Hcs with Terry McCain F/R

Meeting Terry for the first time F/V/R

More Relationship Hcs and short storys (proposal) from Terry R/F

The first time with Terry HCs S

John Carpenters Vampires 1997

Jan Valek - Queen of Night S/DC/A

Cobra Kai🐍

Mr Silvers collection:

Terry Silver Hcs as a dad N Masquerade V/DM

TKK (Karate Kid 1994) V/S/DC/F/R/A

- Currently on hiatus -

Just One of The Guys 1985

Greg Tolan Hcs S/F/R

A dance with Greg I. / II. / III. F/A/R/S

Also interested in...

Castlevania Junji Ito Type O Negative The Walking Dead Vinland Saga That 70s show My so Called life 1994 Léon 1994 - Pulp fiction - NBk 1994 Star Wars (mostly 1977-2005) HP Trainspotting

...and more!

Mostly immersed in manga and grungy 80-00s movies

* Requests *

Basically there aren't any restrictions besides

1. I need to know the fandom/characters u want involving your story so just shoot me a message to find out...

2. I don't write about special kinks such as knife play,heavy bondage, feet/hand fetishes in sexual act, torture kink as well as rape/pedophile fantasies.

Just ask right ahead and if I see I can make it work I'll gladly write you a story! ✨🥴

[like-romeoandjuliet-love]

7 Comfort Films

Post 7 comfort films, tag seven people.

1. Amelie

I will forever love this film with all of my heart. No question.

2. Star Wars, the original Saga

May the force be with you. No need for explaining.

3. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Just...I love everything about, I also have an attachment to it for personal reasons outside of the movie so it reminds me of a specific time in my life but the movie is so fucking good!!

4. Trainspotting

Lust for life in the beginning makes me just flip. And I watch it all the time. You know what friends? Choose life!

5. Harry Potter films

How many times have I watched the whole series? Too many times probably. Every year, come Christmas time, i rewatch.

6. Spirited Away

Whenever I feel like shit, I just watch it. And it brings me true joy. It’s so fucking beautiful. I love it with everything I have!

7. Wall-e

There is truly no more joy than seeing wall-e find the lil plant. Also him listening hello dolly. Also him being in love in Eve. Also everything. It’s so pretty.

LOOK AT HIS LIL FACE

Honorable mentions:

Once in a while I’ll rewatch the whole marvel universe. And it’s everything to me, the reasons a film isn’t on the list is because I cannot choose one. The end.

Also blade runner. Thought not necessarily a comfort film, I just love it. Also, hot Harrison Ford. Points to blade runner 2049, I actually loved it.

Also, fuck I can’t believe I forgot this. Wings of desire. It’s very peaceful to me somehow.

Thanks for the tag @lurker-no-more

I tag @thatiranianphantom @riverdalenerdlol @sabs1d @jandjsalmon @colesprousesbandana @literatiruinedme @feisty-aquarius4

[miele-e-farfalle]

["Trainspotting" - Irvine Welsh] --- Ultima citazione, ultimo incipit dalla saga dei Cuccioli, questa volta appartenente all'ultimo scritto "Lithuanian Cub". "Trainspotting", il romanzo di Irvine Welsh da cui è tratta la citazione, deve la gran parte della sua popolarità grazie alla famosissima trasposizione cinematografica. Non è un libro super-facile da affrontare. La trama non è sempre lineare, i punti di vista sono molteplici e non sempre semplici da sgarbugliare l'uno dall'altro. O forse sono solo io a essere troppo scema da non riuscire a stargli dietro. 😆 Per certi versi, a livello di linguaggio, di ambientazioni e di tematiche, mi ha ricordato il romanzo di "Arancia Meccanica". Nonostante questa premessa, "Trainspotting" è uno di quei volumi che tengo sempre in bella vista sulla mia scrivania, a portata di mano (o a portata "d'ispirazione"), e che ho riempito di sottolineature, cerchiature, e - ahimé - anche qualche orecchia. Il passaggio che ho estratto, tramite il linguaggio crudo e schietto, senza peli sulla lingua, ritrae alla perfezione la crudele condizione di dipendenza indotta da certi tipi di sostanza. E rappresenta al meglio uno dei concetti che ho cercato di trasmettere tramite la stesura dell'intera saga dei "London Cubs". È possibile fermare la spirale di devasto? È possibile uscire dal tunnel? Cosa serve per riuscirci? Spero che il mio lavoro, invece che fornirvi delle risposte certe, sappia guidarvi verso le domande giuste. 😊 --- Leggi "Lithuanian Cub" ai seguenti link: 🍃 Documento PDF 🍃 Documento ePub ---

[gaussmultimedia]

La Hauss. Máster Online en Diseño Editorial 2021-22. Diseño de cubiertas y packaging contenedor para saga Trainspotting, compuesta por las obras de Irvine Welsh siguientes:

Skagboys.

Trainspotting.

Porno.

Trabajo de Laura Martos Gris.

[i-who-has-never-had-a-name]

Films the Crows would like:

Kaz: Trainspotting, Kill Bill, The Killing of a Sacred Deer (even though I think it's bad), Gone Girl, Parasite, Snowpiercer, A clockwork orange, Citizen Kane, Sin City, The Dark Knight, Tarantino films, the Godfather, Come and See, V for Vendetta, Prisoners, Silence of tbe Lambs, No country for old men, City of God, Shawshank Redemption, Kubrick's and Hitchcock's work (except lolita bc that's gross), Hunger Games Trilogy, All of Aronofsky's work (Black Swan, Requiem for a dream etc.), Memories of Murder, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Taxi Driver, Oldboy, Blade Runner 2049,

As for series he would like Breaking Bad, Death Note, Aot and Vinland Saga, Berserk maybe, Prison Break but like only the first two seasons and The Walking Dead.

Inej: Ladybird, Little Women, Anna Karenina, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation, Girl, Interrupted, Everything Everywhere all at once, Nomadland, The Florida Project, Alice in Wonderland (the Tim burton one), Hard Candy, In the Corner of this World, portrait of a lady on fire and Princess Mononoke. I can't really think of other ones to be honest.

I'm not really sure what series she would like. Maybe Ai Yazawa's animes? I'm not sure.

Jesper: Star Wars (the original trilogy and the prequels), Indiana Jones, Life of Brian, Ferris Bueller's Day off, American Pie, MIB, Terminator, Ghostbusters, Scream, Back to the future etc. He definitely likes fun adventure movies. Also a lot of animated movies like The Lego Movie and Lego Batman (masterpieces) and Pixar and Dreamwork's Movies (his favorites being Toy story and Shrek). Also Disney classics like treasure planet and Atlantis. Probably also western movies and he'd idolize Clint Eastwood.

Favorite Series are The Office, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo etc.

Wylan: Perks of being a wallflower, Ladybird, Howl's moving castle, Billy Elliot, Your Name, Dead Poet's society, Stardust, Narnia, La La Land, Lotr trilogy (his comfort movies), Call me by your name and all of Wes Anderson's movies. I think he'd be secretly a huge filmnerd who also loves A24 movies, David Fincher, arthouse movies etc. But I think he would be a bit embarrassed by it.

His favorite series are Doctor Who (David Tennant Version because that's the best one), Fargo and Good Omens.

Nina: A sucker for romance and chick flicks, especially romantic comedies. The Notebook, Mamma Mia!, When Harry met Sally, Mean Girls, She's the Man, badly written Netflix romantic comedies,

She likes reality TV and desperate housewives, sex and the city, friends and modern family.

Matthias: 1917, Saving Private Ryan, All quiet on the western front, Hacksaw Ridge, The Notebook, Dunkirk, John Wick movies and other action movies. My taste is completely different so it's very difficult for me to think of other movies he would like.

I don't think he would watch a lot of series because it takes up a lot of time. Not the guy to concern himself with entertainment and media really but does enjoy a good story.

Feel free to criticize me or suggest other media. Maybe I should also make a list about the music they'd like?

[letterboxd]

2020 Needle Drops.

The Letterboxd crew celebrates the best bangers in 2020 films, from Birds of Prey to David Byrne’s American Utopia.

Every year is a good year for music in movies but, for some reason, 2020’s music cues have stuck with us a bit harder than usual. Gemma Gracewood, Ella Kemp, Jack Moulton and Aaron Yap interrupt their holidays to compile a Letterboxd Spotify playlist of their favorite needle drops of the past year. The conversation below contains mild spoilers.

GG: First off, how do we define a ‘needle drop’? Do we need to define a needle drop? Isn’t it obvious?

EK: I feel like it’s a definition that we can spin so many different ways.

GG: There are iconic soundtracks, and then there are specific music moments in movies, where the film itself isn’t necessarily filled with wall-to-wall bangers à la Pulp Fiction or Trainspotting. Needle drops can happen in both. Ella, I enjoyed your description in your 50 favorite music cues piece for The Quietus: “There are fewer pleasures greater, at the movies, than the moment a perfect track starts at a perfect moment, and the marriage of music and film creates an entirely new beast, a work of art in that new connection alone.” It reminds me of Ekwa Msangi’s view, in her recent Letterboxd interview, that music is “the third language” in film.

EK: Perhaps the most vivid 2020 example would be in the masterpiece that is Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, bursting at the seams with songs and needle drops. ‘Ja Ja Ding Dong’ is one of many original songs that do the job very well, but ‘Song-A-Long’ is the only real needle drop: a record-scratch moment where something you thought you knew appears in a new context, and the marriage is perfect.

GG: With Eurovision in mind, then, what are the rules here? How many bangers is a film allowed to have in our playlist? How will we choose between ‘Silly Games’ and ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ for Lovers Rock?!

EK: In a normal year I would say one banger per film, but considering that 1) so many films were snatched from our clutches this year 2) the films that were released were unusually generous in terms of just how many bangers we were given, I would say that anything goes.

JM: I’m highly in favor of Lovers Rock getting the one exception here.

EK: Well, yes, but, then… Palm Springs will fight about it.

AY: A vote in favor of throwing rules out of the window—we’ve had enough rules this year.

GG: With those very loose parameters agreed on, let’s launch into it. Who wants to start at the beginning, all the way back when cinema’s main problem was the original title of Birds of Prey?

EK: Remember seeing movies on the big screen? I saw—draws breath—Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) in the cinema and was so wonderfully entertained and charmed by all of it. Yes, it’s flashy and violent and energetic and all those good things but it’s also loud, and is very clever with its volume. A personal standout moment is Jurnee Smollett-Bell fully arriving as Black Canary as she sings ‘It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World’. Obviously the meanings couldn’t be more on the nose, but the fact that Smollett-Bell’s voice is so elegant and powerful, perfect for a character whose greatest weapon is her voice, just elevates this way beyond any easy wink to camera about how the women are in charge now. There’s just no denying the beauty and power in this musical moment.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary in ‘Birds of Prey’.

GG: If we’re talking on-the-nose lyrics that work spectacularly well, I still haven’t recovered from the two music cues performed by Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always. There’s the ‘He’s Got the Power’ opening song, which sees Flanigan’s Autumn alone on her high-school stage, acoustic guitar, glitter, pearls, a Pink Ladies-inspired jacket, performing an edgy cover, near the top of her vocal range, of a usually upbeat doo-wop tune about a guy who makes her do things she doesn’t wanna do, but she adores him anyway. (Watching on is Sharon Van Etten as Autumn’s mother, adding extra grit if you’re a fan, which I am.)

Later, much later, after the much-written-about “never, rarely, sometimes, always” scene, Autumn and her cousin Skylar hit a Midtown karaoke bar while killing time before their bus home from New York City. In a much more comfortable register, Autumn confidently nails another 1960s hit, Gerry and the Pacemakers’ ‘Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying’, while Skylar works on earning their bus fare home. There’s so much going on in a scene that really consists of just two or three shots. The lyrics are superlatively spot-on, and I truly do hope that 2021 will bring joy for every girl and boy.

Sidney Flanigan as Autumn in ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’.

JM: Since we’re talking about needle drops that are performed by movie characters, can I talk about the build-up to the big needle drop in the finale of One Night in Miami? Leslie Odom Jr.’s Sam Cooke is treated as entertainer first, artist second, with Kingsley Ben-Adir’s Malcolm X spending much of their shared screen time encouraging Cooke to use his platform—one popular among whites—for the greater good. When Cooke finally delivers ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ on The Tonight Show, thus defining his career from that point forward, the impact is tenfold and the film finds its magic in the nick of time.

If Odom Jr. is a future Best Supporting Actor winner, this scene will go down as his showcase (and ultimately free of the goodwill from Hamilton’s afterglow). Yes, a civil change did come in the years after the song’s 1964 debut, but we obviously still have a long way to go. And yet, there’s something reflective in the way this moment is about the responsibility of powerful Black voices, and how this idea is executed by director Regina King is profound. It definitely hints without much subtlety that One Night in Miami is but a whisper of what’s to come from her in terms of using her own platform to encourage others to further spread the message. It’s possibly the year’s most important and historic needle drop.

GG: Obviously we need to talk about Steve McQueen’s Small Axe collection, specifically Lovers Rock—a film that’s all about literal needle drops.

JM: ‘Kung Fu Fighting’, I think, is the most essential needle drop in the film because the song, even if nostalgic, has become such a novelty tune, but within seconds McQueen brings back the fresh and exciting communal atmosphere that song creates and is famous for. And it is a subversive moment, because we anticipate Lovers Rock to be comprised primarily of the deep cuts that were coming fresh from Jamaica at the time—but then they drop this one-hit-wonder disco banger that we used to listen to all the time as kids, so it has this sardonic playful tone that’s just pure, non-judgmental joy. It cuts through the tension bubbling outside the house with immediate mock fighting, everyone free to show off their best moves without a sincere threat. You’re already in the door, but the moment the song starts is the film’s true invitation to party down and let loose.

On the ‘Lovers Rock’ dance-floor.

GG: And then there’s the a-cappella singalong to Janet Kay’s ‘Silly Games’—

JM: —which is foreshadowed with the women singing it while they cook during the party prep.

GG: When that sublime scene happens, it’s a glorious feeling as a viewer—not only because house parties are currently dangerous to our health, but also because we’re witnessing a film’s cast and crew give everything over to this improvised moment, and they’re able to do so because they have created the perfect conditions to let it happen. I adore watching a crew that’s in the zone. What is the opposite of a ‘drop’? Is there a term for the euphoric romanticism that these slower dance-floor moments create? Peaking, I guess? In this scene, I also recognized a thread that runs all the way back to Cassandra’s ‘Thank You For the Many Things You Have Done’ in the 1980 film Babylon, another music-soaked movie about West-Indian Londoners. And, in a way, the ‘Too Late to Turn Back Now’ dance-floor magic in BlacKkKlansman. (Which reminds me to shout out Spike Lee, the OG needle-drop king, who represented this year with a pair of Marvin Gaye tunes in Da 5 Bloods.)

AY: Sadly I have yet to experience that Lovers Rock euphoria, but would consider the two big drops in Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round closest to the feeling than any other movie I’ve seen this year. Danish pop outfit Scarlet Pleasure’s ‘What A Life’ sends the film off perfectly to an explosively cathartic and hopeful finish—aided in no small part by Mads’ glorious dancing. But I almost prefer the slinky way The Meters’ ‘Cissy Strut’ (literally a needle drop) shifts the film to its next level, ushering Mads and his teacher pals into one hot boozy mess of a night to (mis)remember. Bob my head I did.

GG: I want to shout out the folk whose job it is to craft a soundtrack that elevates a film. Music supervision is some kind of insane superpower. Supervisors need to know everything about music—not just what’s been, but what’s coming. They get clearance for the best songs, often on tiny budgets (weirdly, there’s no industry standard for the price of music in films, and the budget rides on some mysterious “favored nations” math), and it’s more often than not about relationships. They also make suggestions about who should cover a song, if they’re not using the original, and in doing so, they have the power to launch new artists with a perfect needle drop. They revive careers, and make stars of unknowns. In the upcoming documentary about the Dawn Raid music label, there’s an amazing story about the use of the song ‘Swing’ by Samoan-New Zealand hip-hop/EDM star Savage in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, which changed everything for Savage. It literally changed his life. Basically, somehow, music supervisors exist in the swirl of the zeitgeist, even though a film may be a year or two from release.

EK: Music supervisors have really pulled out all the stops this year. One of my favorite romantic scenes was seeing ‘Honey’ by Robyn pop up in Levan Akin’s gorgeous And Then We Danced—to which he credited music supervisor Jen Malone when we chatted about the film last year. What I loved was that the song really hadn’t come out that long ago, so it always feels particularly visceral and alive to me to recognize a song that, first of all, is incredible, but also so fresh in my mind that it feels like we very much exist in the same reality as these characters. Especially considering the boys in Akin’s film are exploring their sexuality and Robyn’s music has helped so many people come to terms with theirs, and the lyrics of her song are also felt in the golden light that colors the scene in the film. It’s such a special moment that you can tell comes from the very simple fact that everyone holds Robyn so close in their hearts, and you just know when it’s the right fit. I’m so glad it paid off.

AY: Also, a quick shout-out to Babyteeth for dropping Vashti Bunyan’s wistful ’70s folk gem ‘Diamond Day’—a song that seems like it should be overused in twee indie coming-of-age flicks, but as far as I’m aware, hasn’t quite got there yet.

JM: And to The Nest, for giving us the gift of Carrie Coon in a club letting it all go to Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’.

Promising young woman and man dance in a pharmacy.

EK: I feel like the best and most satisfying needle drop moments happen when you have no idea they’re coming—I had seen everyone talking about a Paris Hilton moment in Promising Young Woman but this scene still totally caught me off guard and I miss it whenever I’m not watching it. I can’t say I knew ‘Stars Are Blind’ off by heart beforehand, but I do now. Is it a banger in its own right? I honestly couldn’t say, as whenever I close my eyes I now see Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham dancing around a pharmacy in shades of baby pink and blue while the most adorable romantic montage I’ve ever seen in my life plays through the honeymoon stage of their relationship. It’s so cheesy and everyone knows it, but it hits such a rare sweet-spot in being uncool, self-aware, glassy-eyed and rosy-cheeked without a dash of cynicism. It’s romantic and silly and so perfect—and for a film with so much bite, it feels like gold dust, a stroke of genius.

JM: There was one needle drop in 2020 that was 32 years in the making. It’s much less about how good the song is (it’s not very), but rather what this moment meant to a beloved franchise and its iconic characters. I’m talking about ‘Face the Music’ from Bill & Ted Face the Music. When Bill & Ted 3 was teased ten years ago, it became clear that their destiny had not been fulfilled in Bogus Journey’s coda. And so, in 2020, Bill and Ted are still hunting down the song that will save the Universe. Switching the mission from themselves to their daughters is a good way for original authors Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon to write around Bill and Ted’s goofy incompetence, and by adding contributions from the world’s greatest composers (Mozart, Kid Cudi, et al), they more than compensate for the imagination required to live up to the song’s grandiose promise. The climactic song (performed on my local freeway of all places!) is deliberately a mixed bag. It has to be—it’s the best-case scenario for too many cooks. But it’s the final ingredient, when Bill and Ted don their guitars at the last second—with a nod of approval from Jimi Hendrix—that delivers rock ’n’ roll’s promise to save the universe, ’80s style.

‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’.

GG: There are many more songs on our playlist that we could talk about, but since we’re supposed to be on holiday and this is a no-rules competition, can I finish by nominating David Byrne’s American Utopia as the overall 2020 winner for most best needle drops?

JM: You probably need to choose at least one song from that Broadway sensation to talk about.

GG: Fine, then it can only be the cover of Janelle Monáe’s ‘Hell You Talmabout’. Say their names.

The Best Needle Drops of 2020

Where the movie version is unavailable, we have included the original. Enjoy the full playlist on Spotify.

Charlie XCX—‘Boys’ (Promising Young Woman)

Paris Hilton—‘Stars Are Blind’ (Promising Young Woman)

The Weather Girls—‘It’s Raining Men’ (Promising Young Woman)

Bee Gees—‘Stayin Alive’ (Undine)

Janet Kay—‘Silly Games’ (Lovers Rock)

Carl Douglas—‘Kung Fu Fighting’ (Lovers Rock)

Toots & The Maytals—‘Pressure Drop’ (Mangrove)

Bronski Beat—‘Smalltown Boy’ (The Nest)

Gerry & The Pacemakers—‘Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying’ (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)

Patrick Cowley—‘Megatron Man’ (Palm Springs)

Kate Bush—‘Cloudbusting’ (Palm Springs)

Sam Cooke—‘A Change is Gonna Come’ (One Night in Miami)

Marvin Gaye—‘Got to Give It Up’ (Da 5 Bloods)

Marvin Gaye—‘What’s Going On’ (Da 5 Bloods)

Doja Cat—‘Boss Bitch’ (Birds of Prey)

Jurnee Smollett-Bell—‘It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World’ (Birds of Prey)

The The—‘This Is the Day’ (Love and Monsters)

Wyld Stallyns—‘Face The Music’ (Bill & Ted Face the Music)

Angel Olsen—‘Mr. Lonely’ (Kajillionaire)

Tears for Fears—‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ (Tesla)

Travis Scott—‘The Plan’ (Tenet)

Cast—‘Song-A-Long’ (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)

Dido—‘White Flag’ (Bad Education)

Aurora—‘Running with the Wolves’ (Wolfwalkers)

Bonga—‘Mona Ki Ngi Xica’ (Farewell Amor)

Moby—‘In This World’ (Bad Education)

Robyn—‘Honey’ (And Then We Danced)

Pet Shop Boys—‘Always on My Mind’ (Matthias et Maxime)

Kid Cudi—‘Pursuit of Happiness’ (The King of Staten Island)

The Meters—‘Cissy Strut’ (Another Round)

Scarlet Pleasure—‘What a Life’ (Another Round)

Vashti Bunyan—‘Just Another Diamond Day’ (Babyteeth)

Janelle Monáe—“Hell You Talmabout” (David Byrne’s American Utopia)

Aretha Franklin—‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’ (I’m Your Woman)

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Cure For Quarantine Boredom List!

Hey dear! I’m doing well, healthy and safe, thank you for asking! I hope you are doing okay wherever you are! This is such a good idea, thank you for the ask! I’ll place this under a cut because it will be long and I’ll try to throw out tons of diff categories. 

Documentaries 

Darkon 

Grey Gardens

Confessions of a Superhero 

Marwencol 

Dark Days 

The Wolfpack 

I Think We’re Alone Now

The Invention of Dr. Nakamats 

Jiro Dreams of Sushi 

Murderball

Voyeur

My Brothers Keeper

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

The Thin Blue Line

Evil Genius

One of Us

A Married Couple

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters  

The Queen of Versailles 

Jesus Camp 

Restrepo 

Don't F**K With Cats 

The Keepers

Tell Me Who I Am  

The Imposter 

Married to the Eiffel Tower

Nanook of the North

Salesman

Mommy Dead and Dearest

Finders Keepers

Crumb 

Steal A Pencil For Me 

The Most Dangerous Animal of All 

The Menendez Murders 

The Staircase 

The Jinx

The Confession Tapes 

Movies

Seven Samurai 

Rushmore

Panic in Needle Park 

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Darjeeling Limited 

Gone With the Wind 

2001: A Space Odyssey

Citizen Kane 

Pulp Fiction 

Closer 

Lawrence of Arabia 

Nightcrawler 

Hook 

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape 

Miss Hokusai 

Eraserhead 

A Silent Voice 

The Big Sick 

The Hours 

White Oleander 

Donnie Darko 

Reservoir Dogs 

Pi 

SLC Punk 

Trainspotting 

Moon 

Angela’s Ashes 

My Cousin Vinny 

Planes, Trains and Automobiles 

The Meyerowitz Stories 

The Grand Budapest Hotel 

Lost in Translation 

Blue Velvet 

The Graduate 

Sideways 

The Skeleton Twins 

Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

500 Days of Summer 

The Goonies 

Lars and the Real Girl 

Animatrix 

A Clockwork Orange 

Saved! 

OfficeSpace 

Memoirs of a Geisha 

Hard Candy 

Capote 

Center Stage 

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 

Moving 

Harlem Nights 

See No Evil, Hear No Evil 

Tommy Boy 

Uncle Buck 

Spaceballs 

Nothing but Trouble 

The Great Outdoors 

Captain Ron 

Evil Dead 

National Lampoons Vacation 

The Goonies 

Airplane 

The Royal Tenenbaums 

Labyrinth 

Black Sheep 

Beverly Hills Ninja 

K-9

Cleopatra 

Schindler’s List 

The Pianist 

Parasite 

Spirited Away 

Memento 

Perfect Blue 

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything

Binge Shows

Battlestar Galactica (04) 

Letterkenny

The Office 

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Game of Thrones 

Terrace House 

Chefs Table 

The F Word 

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 

Scrubs 

House Hunters International 

Masterchef 

Masterchef Junior 

90 Day Fiance 

Nathan For You 

Lost 

Eastbound and Down 

Seinfeld

Kdrama

Reply1994

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

Cheese in the Trap 

Anime/Manga

Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū 

Ranma 1/2

Monster

Samurai Champloo 

Steins;Gate

Shin Chan 

Paranoia Agent 

Silver Spoons

Inuyashiki 

Parasyte: The Maxim

91 Days

Erased

Orange

Noragami

Tenjho Tenge 

Vinland Saga

Lupin III

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 

xXxHolic

Given 

Mushi-shi

Durarara

Gintama

Case Closed 

Bungou Stray Dogs 

Bakumatsu 

Games

Animal Crossing

Fire Emblem Three Houses 

Skyrim 

Dark Souls III

Diablo III 

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Beyond: Two Souls

Grand Theft Auto series 

Assassins Creed series 

Ace Attorney 

Pokemon Sword/Shield

Amnesia:Memories 

Hakuoki 

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Películas favoritas.

Con tendencia a ser cambiadas: 

Mamm Mía: Here we go again.

Mamma Mía.

I origins

Clueless

Forrest Gump

Titanic

Alpha

The greatest showman

La chica danesa

La vida es bella

El pianista

El niño de la pijama de rayas

Life of Pi

El naufrago 

Bob Esponja: La película

Intensamente

Monsters Inc. 

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Joker

Guerra mundial Z

Predestination

Trainspotting 

Submarine

Nowhere boy

Parasites

21 Blackjack

La naranja mecánica

Ouija

El legado del diablo

La monja

Nosotros (Us)

Huye

El Conjuro

La bruja

La noche del demonio

La maldición

Cuando las luces se apagan

Halloween

El orfanato

La cabaña del terror

Historias de miedo para contar en la oscuridad

Actividad paranormal

La huérfana

Las ventajas de ser invisible

Requiém por un sueño

12 años de esclavitud

Quisiera ser millonario

Belleza inesperada

En busca de la felicidad

La forma del agua 

Amigos

Código Da Vinci

Inferno

Angeles y demonios

Llámame por tu nombre

Love, Simon.

The mountain betwwen us.

Lemonade Mouth 

HSM 1, 2 y 3.

Camp Rock 1 y 2 

Mulan

Moana

Aladdin

Shrek

Stuart Little

Toy Story

Wall-e

Frozen

Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Alicia a través del espejo

Hotel Transylvania 1, 2 y 3

El diario de la princesa

Matilda

Charlie y la fábrica de chocolates 

El extraño mundo de Jack

El cadáver de la novia 

El joven manos de tijera

Sombras tenebrosas

Dumbo

Up! una aventura de altura

El viaje de chihiro

La princesa Mononoke

Jumanji

La Cenicienta

A cinderella story

Lizzie Superstar

Raise your voice

Hanna Montana: La película

Startruck: mi novio es una super estrella

Annie

La última canción

Confesiones de una típica adolescente

Un viernes de locos

Qué pasó ayer

La propuesta

Loco y estúpido amor.

Cuentos que no son cuentos

Juego de gemelas

En dónde están las rubias

El diablo viste a la moda

Una esposa de mentiras

El caballero de la Navidad 

Un camino a casa

El laberinto del fauno

Pasante de Moda

Si tuviera 30

Scary Movie

Norbit

The hot chick

Destino final

Chicas pesadas

Cartas a Julieta

Siempre a tu lado: Hachiko

El estudiante

Baile caliente

Estación zombie

Harry Potter - La Saga

Animales fantásticos

Crepúsculo - La saga

El perfecto asesino

Hombres de honor

La sobra del amor

Un milagro para Helen Keller

Un sueño posible

Bailamos

Yo antes de ti

500 días con ella.

Diario de una pasión

Fragmentado

Fractura

El origen

Avenida Cloverfield 10 

Bird Box: a ciegas

La teoría del todo 

El espacio entre nosotros

El hoyo

Lo más sencillo es complicarlo todo

Triunfos robados

Deadpool 1 y 2

Nosotros los nobles

No manches Frida

No se aceptan devoluciones

Amarte duele

Precious

Bastardos sin gloria

Her

Interestellar

Stuck in Love

La llegada

Yentl

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