Today, March 14, in 2077, drone repair technician Jack Harper wakes up near the end of his five-year mission on Earth. He is one of the few humans on the planet, which was ravaged by nuclear war and natural disaster after the moon was destroyed 60 years earlier (Oblivion, 2013)
Today, March 14, in 1964, Dallas, Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and sentenced to death for shooting and killing President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (Ruby, 1992)
My ★★★★½ review of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/97AFpN
Today in Labor History March 14, 1954: Salt of the Earth premiered. The film depicted the 1951 strike of Mexican-American workers at the Empire Zinc mine, in New Mexico. The film was one of the first to portray a feminist political point of view, particularly through Actress Rosaura Revueltas’s role as Esperanza Quintero. When the Company uses the new Taft-Hartley Act (which also bans General Strikes) to impose an injunction preventing the men from picketing, their wives go walk the picket line in their places. LGBTQ and labor activist Will Geer also played in the film. Writer Michael Wilson, director Herbert Biberman and producer Paul Jarrico had all been blacklisted for their alleged communist ties. Only 13 of the 13,000 theaters in the U.S. showed the film.
Stolen music, anyone? Here: 
Original (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCfRrTaqkGI
Copy (2000): https://youtu.be/qfl6uRZJ0XM?t=52 / https://youtu.be/qfl6uRZJ0XM?t=158 / https://youtu.be/qfl6uRZJ0XM?t=477 etc.
This 2000 Bollywood "film" had more copied music! See https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/112303787747459501
For more stolen-by-Bollywood songs, visit https://open.spotify.com/user/31qyqsm67tu2jjkdv2qf5gjtxreq?si=4ae6313f63e8476a
@ueeu in Germany, there's also filmfriend, which you can login using your public library number. In Berlin, we pay 10 euros per year to have access to the public libraries. We quit Netflix this week and yesterday I was exploring filmfriend. Their selection of films and series is great!
Added some new reviews to my Letterboxd page, including two recent gems, Flow (2024) and Good One (2024)
https://letterboxd.com/stancarey/films/reviews/
Heute vor 50 Jahren starb die #Schauspielerin #SusanHayward in #Hollywood. 1959 hatte sie den #Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin für ihre Rolle in »Laßt mich leben« gewonnen. Mehr zum #Film:
Ulrike Weckel, Mit Mitteln des Spielfilms gegen die #Todesstrafe. I Want to Live! (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/
Desire: The Carl Craig Story – Watch the trailer for the new documentary here https://bit.ly/3DH2iRw
ProfDJ's killer cuts for your streaming shuffle, No.72
Jimmy Smith. Mission Impossible
On hearing this version, Lalo Schifrin (its composer) apparently immediately admitted it was much better than his original, recorded for the TV series. Jimmy Smith's version cranks up the rhythm, keeps the original horn & strings arrangement, and adds a blistering organ solo on the middle. Its a blast & remains a favourite spin on Prof DJ's jazz nights.
Bong Joon-ho's latest dystopian film, which feels like its reaching theaters about four years too late — or early, depending on your point of view, offers a brutal metaphor for societal inequality. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/03/14/film/mickey-17/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #mickey17 #bongjoonho
‘Ravens’ brings into focus the turbulent life of Masahisa Fukase, known for his photos of the party scene of 1960s Shinjuku, portraits of his wife and images of ravens. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/03/14/film/ravens-mark-gill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #markgill #tadanobuasano #masahisafukase #kumitakiuchi #yokowanibe #photography #japanesefilm
https://www.somervilletheatre.com/production/ciclismo-classico-bike-travel-film-festival/
15th Annual Ciclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Festival
Adventure is for everyone – you don’t have to be a cyclist to enjoy these inspiring journeys, whether through the USA or abroad! Join us for an evening of short films and great company that will entertain and motivate you. Since our inaugural Festival in 2010, we’ve sparked the curiosity of thousands, encouraging them to explore the world on two wheels. Whether traveling across the globe or just a few towns over, there’s nothing like the transformative power of bicycle travel. The Festival features independent films that celebrate the adventure, humor, and personal growth found on cycling journeys. Our films this year highlight a wide variety of experiences – biking in North America, Central America, and South America, plus on location in the Balkans and Yemen. You are in for an international treat! We are proud to be the ONLY film festival in the USA dedicated exclusively to bicycle travel.
DETAILS
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
6:00 PM Social Hour | 7:00 PM Films begin
$24 in advance, plus theatre fees | $29 at the door, plus theatre fees
Each ticket includes one free entry into a prize drawing!
A portion of festival proceeds go to the nonprofit Adventure Cycling Association.
For more about the show and additional screening locations, please visit https://ciclismoclassico.com/community/events/film-festival/
We're All Going to the World's Fair is basically a one woman quiet, weird, contemplative tour de force that's not at all what I was expecting.
A lot of interesting shots, including a slick long take, done with a handheld camera that fits perfectly with the story.
Melancholic and hopeful, it's billed as horror, but it's not. Unless you consider Donnie Darko to be horror.
What it is, I don't know, other than unique and quite good.
Night and the City (1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_the_City
There's no drama or conflict on show here but the expressions on their faces tell a story anyway. The older woman is presumably giving advice to the younger? Doesn't mean the younger one is going to take it.
Now beginning Heartbeat (1946), directed by Sam Wood, starring Ginger Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Adolphe Menjou.
Currently watching Autumn in New York (2000), directed by Joan Chen, starring Winona Ryder and Richard Gere, with a vast supporting cast of stars. It's about impossible, inappropriate, and tragic love. And it seems to have made money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_in_New_York_(film)
After this, I'm going to watch Enemies of the State (2020), directed by Sonia Kennebeck. It's billed as a documentary, but the reviews make me doubt its veracity. Can a doc be a potboiler?
