ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

wcftr, to fediverse

We're very excited to be joining the , so here's our post:

We are the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR), an archive preserving materials from the entertainment industries. We are home to over three hundred collections from playwrights, television and movie writers, producers, actors, designers, directors, and production companies.

Housed in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Library-Archives Division, the WCFTR is one of the world’s most accessible and is regularly visited by researchers from around the world. Research undertaken in its collections has revolutionized the scholarship of American , , and .

We provide in-person and remote access to our collections. Learn more here: https://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/access-materials/

We use social media to share news about new collections, upcoming events, interesting materials we've found, and projects that we're working on -- as well as learning about what you're working on!

Richard_Littler, to Cinema
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mhdl, to movies
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Hello, Fediverse! Here's our post:

The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) is a free online resource, featuring millions of pages from the histories of , , and . We provide access to industry trade papers, magazines, Hollywood pressbooks, technical journals, and more.

Lantern, the MHDL's full-text search platform, enables researchers to query specific words or phrases within scanned pages.

We hope the MHDL has had a transformative impact on the study of film & broadcasting history. The sources we have digitized for open access, and the large-scale queries that our platforms allow, have enabled ambitious research projects and the production of new knowledge.

We look forward to sharing interesting content from our collection and learning about projects that use the MHDL.

Learn more about our history and our work here: https://mediahist.org/about/history.php

paul_denton, to Cinema French
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"Le président devrait fermer sa gueule". L'actrice Anouk Grinberg explose Macron sur son soutien à Depardieu dans C à vous sur France 5. La séquence, initialement postée par le CM de l'émission sur le compte X de la chaîne, a été supprimée mais reste visible dans le replay de l'émission.

video/mp4

mostaurelius, to news
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Rest in peace, Richard Roundtree 😔

Richard Roundtree, an icon of Blaxploitation film who starred as detective John Shaft in Gordon Parks’ 1971 action thriller, died Tuesday afternoon after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81 years old.

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-1235767495/?fbclid=IwAR0K6SBY8N8H0CS7ZBbcz3cCjBjihwd2mePsznF6bkmYIwjc34SAsvqLw3k

rogward, to classic

Sadly resonant.

Still image from The Seventh Seal (1957)

#Joke #Classic #Cinema #SeventhSeal

kathimmel, to art
@kathimmel@mstdn.social avatar

'laughter is a strange response. i mean, what is it? it's a spasm of some kind! is that always joy? it's very often discomfort. it's some sort of explosive reaction. it's very complex.'

: &, like laughter, madeline kahn (born in 1942) was complex. born in boston to a bohemian mum, mad fell into opera singing on her way to broadway, where her acting career began in 1968. [a tribute thread, of sorts, follows.]

maria, to journalism
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An

I'm a , critic and activist; founding editor of https://popula.com and https://thebrick.house

I care about rights, , , , , , and

Some of my favorite writers are Tom , Etsu Sugimoto, Henry , Philip , Sei , Sybille Bedford, Klaus , Roberto , Agatha , Ernest Becker, P.G.

SteveThompson, to movies
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"Former senator says new film shows ‘how close’ we came to losing democracy on Jan. 6"

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4433751-former-senator-new-film-losing-democracy-jan-6/

"Former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D) said that the new film 'War Game' shows 'how close' the U.S. came to losing democracy on Jan. 6, 2021."

“And there are forces still out there that are making plans for the future doing the exact same thing or a variation of that,” Jones said.

FoucPerotin, to Cinema
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France TV diffusera le 30 janvier, en prime et en intégralité sur France 2, Shoah de Claude Lanzmann, à l’occasion du 79ᵉ anniversaire de la libération du camp d’Auschwitz.

J’ajoute un commentaire perso. Je trouve, moi, que ceux qui ne l’ont pas vu devraient voir ce film. Je ne suis pas tellement pour le discours sur le devoir de mémoire et blablabla, perso. C’est un fourre-tout et ça me gonfle souvent. Mais ce génocide, la destruction des Juifs d’Europe, pour reprendre le titre du livre de Raul Hilberg, occupe une place singulière et majeure dans l’histoire. C’est une entreprise que l’esprit a beaucoup de mal à concevoir, à comprendre, un point de bascule.

L’œuvre de Lanzmann est majeure, et c’est pleinement un film de cinéma, qui s’adresse au spectateur par les armes du cinéma, même s’il ne contient aucune fiction. Lanzmann y a consacré des années avec une énergie et une passion folles, une vraie rage aussi, et c’est admirable. Surtout, ça permet de comprendre un peu. Je dis un peu, parce qu’on ne peut que tourner autour de ce qui semble impossible à concevoir, à imaginer.

Je trouve que voir ce film est indispensable pour toutes et tous. Je donnerai seulement un conseil : c’est mieux de ne pas le voir seul chez soi. C’est un sentiment intime que j’ai, mais je le sens comme ça. Le voir avec des inconnus dans une salle de ciné, c’est impec, on est alors en compagnie d’autres humains. Avec des proches à la maison aussi, bien sûr. Enfin moi, puisqu’il s’agit des frontières de l’humanité, j’ai besoin de la présence d’autres humains à mes côtés. Il y a trois ou quatre ans, je suis allé le revoir au Goethe Institut de Bordeaux, où il était projeté pendant une journée entière. Nous n’étions pas nombreux, mais je n’étais pas seul.

popcornreel, to movies
@popcornreel@mas.to avatar

RIP Norman Jewison. What a good, decent person and director he was. He passed away at 97. Directed such films as IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

Rest in power. 🙏🏿

harriorrihar, to ai Spanish
@harriorrihar@mas.to avatar

Imagine a movie from the future, scripted by an AI, with VFX made by AI, with replicas of AI actors, on a paid streaming channel with advertising:

1 - Tell me a reason why I want to see it.

2 - If you convince me to watch it, tell me a reason why I shouldn't pirate it.

paul_denton, to Cinema French
@paul_denton@mastodon.social avatar

Il a osé le dire: « Ce qui le sauve Omar Sy, c’est qu’il ne sait probablement pas qui est Renoir », affirme Juan Branco sur Twitter X après la décision de Trappes de renommer son cinéma en l’honneur de l’acteur césarisé qui est né dans la ville. La grande bourgeoisie raciste sous couvert de défense culturelle et sociale…

fxthuaud, to Cinema French

Pour Notre corps, Claire Simon a passé deux mois à l'hôpital Tenon. Elle explore le lieu (du) commun à travers un passionnant réservoir de trajectoires singulières.

En salle le 4 octobre, présenté en avant-première au (formidable) festival de Gindou

https://www.lebleudumiroir.fr/critique-notre-corps/

nadinmai, to writing

Post from Manila! My book review of "Sine ni Lav Diaz: A Long Take on the Filipino Auteur", edited by Parichay Patra and Michael Kho Lim, has been published and I'm super chuffed to see that my writing has made it to the Philippines as well 🙂

The journal issue can be accessed here: https://philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/issue/current/showToc

#writing #publishing #academia #review #bookreview #lavdiaz #slowcinema #cinema #philippines #manila

matiu_bidule, to Cinema French
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For Your Viewing Pleasure: The Sundance Indigenous Program’s Must Watch List (www.sundance.org)

Over the course of Native American Heritage Month, we have highlighted some of the Sundance Institute–supported Indigenous artists, including conversations with Jana Schmieding and Alex Lazarowich. For our final post in this year’s series, we wanted to highlight the legacy of Indigenous artists at Sundance, as well as...

nhoizey, to Cinema French
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> I believe that some companies get blinded by new tech, get high on their own supply, and that can result in work that is destructive instead of restorative. — <https://aftermath.site/true-lies-4k-uhd-blu-ray-james-cameron-peter-jackson-park-road-post>

Is that a metaphor for the overuse of JavaScript frameworks/libraries where plain old HTML/CSS/JS would be much better?

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/notes/2023/12/21/1/

portcitystudios, to LosAngeles
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50th anniversary screening of “Citizen Kane” at the Nuart Theater, West Los Angeles, 1991.

paul_denton, to Cinema French
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Judith Godrèche aux Césars : "Je parle mais je ne vous entends pas. Où êtes-vous ? Que dites-vous ? (...) La vérité ne fait pas mal. C’est tellement rien comparé à 45 prises, avec deux mains dégueulasses sur mes seins de 15 ans". Silence de mort dans la salle... "Mon passé, c’est aussi le présent des 2 000 personnes qui m’ont envoyé leur témoignage en quatre jours…". Le metoo de la "grande famille" du cinéma ne fait que commencer...

CultureDesk, (edited ) to movies
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Oh boy! @IndieWire has ranked the best sci-fi movies of the 21st century. We're pleased to see personal favorites like "The Vast of Night" and "Coherence" represented. Here's the full list. We want to know, which of these four do you think they put in the No. 1 spot? After voting, check out the story and tell us in the comments if there are any great movies they missed.

https://flip.it/ruDPgV

#Movies #SciFi #SciFiMovies #Entertainment #Cinema #Film

For more stories like this, follow IndieWire's Film Magazine, @film.

EdwardPhilips, to Birds
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Morning all. A blockbuster coming soon to a local park / wood / sea cliff near you. xx

classicmoviebuff, to movies

In this list we aim to write women back into film history by championing 100 female-directed hidden gems that have been forgotten or unfairly overlooked.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/female-gaze-100-overlooked-films-directed-by-women

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