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@idiots-delight.bsky.social

These posts are lines of dialogue and stage direction that, when properly reordered, will form a complete trilogy of screenplays. music / movies / writing https://letterboxd.com/idiots_delight/

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brian@trappedinazorb.bsky.social · 2d ago

the internet is awesome because you can find someone stupid enough that they didnt know that pepper comes from peppercorns but also it sucks because you have to interact with people stupid enough that they didnt know that p

Hakita@hakita.bsky.social · last mo.

Lately I've been obsessed with (at least what I call) Process Films. They're movies that focus on the detailed portrayal of a process or action, with extreme examples (marked with ★ in the alt text) often prioritizing the process itself over story and characters. Am I missing any notable examples?

Rififi (1955) -- ? A Man Escaped (1956) -- ★ Le Trou (1960) -- ★ High and Low (1963) Fail-Safe (1964) Le Samouraï (1967) -- ★ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Targets (1968) Army of Shadows (1969) Le Cercle Rouge (1970) The Andromeda Strain (1971) -- ★ The Day of the Jackal (1973) -- ★ The Sting (1973) The Conversation (1974) The Parallax View (1974) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) -- ★ Dog Day Afternoon (1975) All the President's Men (1976) Sorcerer (1977) Blow Out (1981) -- ? Angst (1983) -- ★ A Short Film About Killing (1988) -- ★ The Seventh Continent (1989) -- ★ The Taste of Cherry (1997) Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) No Country for Old Men (2007) Contagion (2011) -- ? Moneyball (2011) -- ? Spotlight (2015) -- ? The Martian (2015) -- ? Memoria (2021) The Zone of Interest (2023)
Rory Blank@roryblank.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't remember if I said it here, but I definitely said it elsewhere, I was surprised by how much the vibe of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reminded me of After Hours as a touchpoint for the tone of it. Body horror After Hours.

sean b.@idiots-delight.bsky.social · 2w ago

I watched A FEW GOOD MEN last night and I can't stop thinking about the fact that we absolutely do not have the equivalent of early-90s Xander Berkley, Kiefer Sutherland, JT Walsh, et al.