TimeOut on the 50 Greatest Italian Movies

I think the TimeOut list is excellent. I’ve seen 22 of them. They have Amarcord at 30. It’s my favorite Fellini film and I would put it near the top. I am glad they included Giallo and horror films such as Deep Red and The Beyond. Of the recent films, I strongly recommend The Great Beauty.

Was thrilled to be asked to contribute some blurbs for this big ole @TimeOutLondon round-up of the best Italian films ever made. I wrote about the likes of Antonioni, Bertolucci, and Rossellini, as well as Alice Rohrwacher + Lina Wertmuller. https://t.co/woMdrhX2eM
— Christina Newland (@christinalefou) February 13, 2024

Best Italian films ever:
1. Germany Year Zero
2. Contempt
3. Zabriskie Point
4. Two Weeks in Another Town
5. Certified Copy https://t.co/D0A4v8r8T0
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) February 14, 2024

Tweet on Francois Truffaut

Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim” is one of the best films I know. I also admire “The 400 Blows”, “Shoot the Piano Player”, and “The Wild Child”. ”The Bride Wore Black” is very underrated. I am not a fan of “Mississippi Mermaid” and “Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me” though maybe I would like them better than I did in the 1970s.

BOTD François Truffaut! "I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement."
Our bio: https://t.co/XjqGA2KbHI
Our top 10: https://t.co/GKxxCgbMZe
Interview 1960: https://t.co/dzq9WAmFQA pic.twitter.com/1MBbtf5X5s
— NewWaveFilm (@New_Wave_Film) February 6, 2024

Tweets on the great film director Yasujiro Ozu

American audiences were not aware of him until Tokyo Story (1953) was released here in 1972. It’s the best of his films that I have seen and is regarded by critics as his finest too but there are many other good films he directed.

Tokyo Story and other Ozu films are available on discs from the Criterion Collection.

🎭 #BeginnersGuide Read our beginner’s guide highlighting the career of film director Yasujiro Ozu, a must-see for cinema fans due to his quintessentially Japanese images. https://t.co/LfkHmY8WpJ
— Film Inquiry (@FilmInquiry) January 18, 2024

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4/30/57: Yasujiro Ozu masterpiece Tokyo Twilight, w/Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû
A harder edge for Ozu – essential viewing
More:
–@SensesofCinema: https://t.co/xxejiBKRKR
–@Jeremyrcarr/@FilmInt: https://t.co/pNMawCxqRL
–@dzwitkin/@reverse_shot: https://t.co/4CS6hvrkbU pic.twitter.com/XWaXVhyS3M
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) April 30, 2023

10/29/61: Yasujirô Ozu's The End of Summer – relatively obscure, Top shelf Ozu for us
More:
-Eugène Green [On his T10!]: https://t.co/tkC06PZTOu
-Manny Farber via @artforum: https://t.co/ynqOsP9jLs
–@LaurasMiscMovie: https://t.co/ujqKLBDHRU
–@angriest: https://t.co/odJzkndkrt
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) October 29, 2024

More tweets on physical media

"Collect!" Oliver Stone exhorted an audience way back in 2011, during a directors panel at CES in support of Blu-ray, as he saw the coming dearth of support for physical media. Discs would be “a very valuable collection in 2050,” he predicted.https://t.co/jzlSehmm4V pic.twitter.com/cEQtJEiObe
— Ultra HD Blu-ray 💿 (@UltraHDBluray) January 15, 2024

The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray collectors market Is the future of physical media, studios and directors agree: https://t.co/sHl9MQVgh0 by @adamchitwood and @DrewTailored for @thewra
— Ultra HD Blu-ray 💿 (@UltraHDBluray) January 13, 2024

"Why 2024 is the year to start a physical media collection, from DVDs to vinyl" [for those that hadn't yet]https://t.co/HyZYxRkGrh via @TheNationalNews
— Ultra HD Blu-ray 💿 (@UltraHDBluray) January 11, 2024

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Physical media is almost a Fahrenheit 451 (where people memorized entire books and thus became the book they loved) level of responsibility. If you own a great 4K HD, Blu-ray, DVD etc etc of a film or films you love… you are the custodian of those films for generations to… https://t.co/ETGUNhKNoL
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) November 20, 2023

Why No Blu-ray? @ANDREW_J_KLYDE, executive producer of BONANZA and GUNSMOKE on DVD, explains why many classic films and television shows will never get a Blu-ray release. #physicalmedia https://t.co/IoOOzDeTp8
— Cereal At Midnight (@CerealMidnight) December 7, 2023

James Cameron On 4K Restorations And The Importance Of Physical Mediahttps://t.co/VumfDxOF3f
— Physical Media President (@PhysicalMedia_) December 6, 2023

Christopher Nolan Says Buy 'Oppenheimer' on Blu-ray 'So No Evil Streaming Service Can Come Steal It From You': 'We Put a Lot of Care' Into Home Release https://t.co/4QVZHPZVrz
— Variety (@Variety) November 14, 2023

Steamboat Willie is now in the public domain

Steamboat Willie (1928) is an animated short directed by Walt Disney. It features Mickey and Minnie Mouse. It became part of the public domain on January 1, 2004.

Steamboat Willie in 4k, digitized from 16mm film: https://t.co/Jhmo6YqD2H pic.twitter.com/elTxWpOFx7
— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) January 14, 2024

Adult Swim trolls Disney with Steamboat Willie 😂 pic.twitter.com/5LpNDGFh7c
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) January 9, 2024

Each January 1st, a new class of creative works enters the public domain, which means they are no longer protected by copyright. This year's class includes "Steamboat Willie," the first film with sound to feature the characters Mickey and Minnie Mouse. pic.twitter.com/cDsRb3BAeG
— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) January 12, 2024

Registered with the @CopyrightOffice (which is part of the Library of Congress) in 1928, "Steamboat Willie" launched Walt Disney's hugely successful career.

Read more about copyright and the works that just entered the public domain: https://t.co/xcPjJP5nUk pic.twitter.com/KrkGHbTbS4
— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) January 12, 2024

Fascinating story about how Walt Disney’s 1928 film “Steamboat Willie,” which just entered public domain, saved him from ruin. He planned to call the mouse “Mortimer” until his wife convinced him otherwise.https://t.co/5JTzoUUEvj
— _DavidMorrell (@_DavidMorrell) January 11, 2024

Locations for two Buster Keaton films

Take the #BusterKeaton #SanFranciscoTour – many scenes from Day Dreams-1922 and The Navigator-1924 across #SanFrancisco look remarkably unchanged today https://t.co/tJcwu0gh1U @YouTube
— John Bengtson (@silentechoes57) December 30, 2023

I saw Fritz the Cat the first time I took LSD

I was in college at the time.

I saw it the first time I took LSD
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 21, 2023

It was amazing. The colors were very intense. This was around 1973 or 1974.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 21, 2023

Real skeletons were used in Poltergeist

gross

Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist. The reason that real skeletons were used in the movie is because it was actually cheaper and more cost-effective than creating and using plastic fake ones.

JoBeth Williams, the actress who falls in the pool with the… pic.twitter.com/eB43pXFTTR
— Morbid Knowledge (@Morbidful) December 22, 2023

I have been watching Spanish horror films

I have been watching some Spanish horror films. Here are some articles followed by trailers of films I liked.

An Introduction to Spanish Horror: 15 Movies You Need to See

Best Spanish Horror Movies, From ‘ Pan’s Labyrinth’ to Piggy’

The Best Spanish Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked

I recommend watching films by Jean-Pierre Melville

The Criterion Collection has released some on discs. I also recommend Bob Le Flambeur.

10/25/67: Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Samouraï w/Alain Delon
Stunning film w H/Ts to noir gems Gun for Hire, Asphalt Jungle
More:
-Us: https://t.co/lLmXSqRpbT
-David Thomson: https://t.co/im2PS6qEp5
–@JulesArk: https://t.co/YnnPl7yfLG
–@jpraup: https://t.co/MgEfZ4lp4x pic.twitter.com/ez8LAQ41Lu
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) October 24, 2023

"My story takes place at night because that is the time for writing love letters. Any story set in a big city should start at about 6 in the evening and end with the dawn." 🖤 French master Jean-Pierre Melville (#BOTD)—a renegade artist who made movies according to his own rules. pic.twitter.com/oWUZoRI5ce
— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) October 20, 2023

10/25/72: Jean-Pierre Melville's last, Un Flic, w/Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna
Opening sequence remains unsurpassed
More:
–@aka_Reynolds/@SpectrumCulture: https://t.co/DEiOe0lJkx
–@simonsaybrams: https://t.co/xTdOaoj5ca
–@FilmInt: https://t.co/RLKV7A6Dmn pic.twitter.com/Y3lTdew0aT
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) October 24, 2023

"Jean-Pierre Melville, a close student of American moviemaking, made a series of genuinely great, extremely elegant, intricate, & lovingly crafted gangster pictures, in which criminals & cops stick to a code of honor like knights in the age of chivalry."

— Martin Scorsese pic.twitter.com/zbdZtPBOY9
— DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) October 20, 2023

"White gloves are a tradition with me; all my killers wear them. They are editor’s gloves." -Jean-Pierre Melville pic.twitter.com/E6amRw4DKv
— Janus Films (@janusfilms) January 24, 2024

10/25/67 Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece Le Samouraï w/Alain Delon
Stunning film w H/Ts to noir gems Gun for Hire, Asphalt Jungle
More
-Us: https://t.co/lLmXSqQRml
–@jpraup: https://t.co/MgEfZ4kReZ
–@AskDebruge: https://t.co/1KusquQRMw
–@BeverlyTheater: https://t.co/GYYBboHIzU
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) October 25, 2024