We hit it out of the ballpark this weekend!
https://twitter.com/qantarot/status/1667931713681408007?s=46&t=FlkpaqKLGAY_LD1217_V3g
All the info about the MRathon Highlights after-party in one thread.
Join us today (Thursday) at the Don on Danforth, we'll be up late:)
Спремни сме за живели со нашите поддржувачи во Торонто. Јунска С(ц)иеста во Don on Danforth, масонски храм претворен во ноќен клуб. #ISMRM23
VIP делот отвара во 19:30 на 8 јуни, контактирајте нѐ за билети
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Important because it evokes the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam, both literally (it appears in it) and metaphorically as a dystopian reality born out of utopian visions
https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1665062046310838273?s=46&t=FlkpaqKLGAY_LD1217_V3g
'Remember, as you read, that this story does not take place in the literal, historical Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but only in some nearby kingdom; as near to it as wishes are to reality, and also as far away.'
The Brechtian side of Kubrick
https://twitter.com/nessuno2001/status/1663917603662835714?s=20
And finally, the legendary Steve Martin number, the Dentist Song
What do you want? Say please!
And the gifted students in Malcolm in the Middle are called Krelboyns in honour of the movie’s main character, Seymour Krelborn (Krelboined in the Corman movie)
https://www.reddit.com/r/malcolminthemiddle/comments/qans64/the_use_of_krelboyne/
The Jack Nicholson scene in Corman’s movie served as an inspiration for the legendary scene between Steve Martin and Bill Murray in the 1986 musical
‘This is not only a musical and a comedy, as we expected, but also a revue of sorts: Comic actors such as Bill Murray, John Candy and James Belushi have walk-ons, and Steve Martin almost steals the show as a sadistic, motorcycle-riding dentist. Yet at the heart of the movie is a basic sweetness, an innocence that extends even to the centerpiece of the story, which is a man-eating plant named Audrey II.’
BTW, the movie is a remake of a Roger Corman classic featuring Jack Nicholson. And the music was written by Alan Menken, who later became the most celebrated Disney composer. Surprisingly, Ebert doesn’t mention any of this in his 1986 review.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/little-shop-of-horrors-1986
And the gifted students in Malcolm in the Middle are called Krelboyns in honour of the movie’s main character, Seymour Krelborn (Krelboined in the Corman movie)
https://www.reddit.com/r/malcolminthemiddle/comments/qans64/the_use_of_krelboyne/
‘This is not only a musical and a comedy, as we expected, but also a revue of sorts: Comic actors such as Bill Murray, John Candy and James Belushi have walk-ons, and Steve Martin almost steals the show as a sadistic, motorcycle-riding dentist. Yet at the heart of the movie is a basic sweetness, an innocence that extends even to the centerpiece of the story, which is a man-eating plant named Audrey II.’
BTW, the movie is a remake of a Roger Corman classic featuring Jack Nicholson. And the music was written by Alan Menken, who later became the most celebrated Disney composer. Surprisingly, Ebert doesn’t mention any of this in his 1986 review.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/little-shop-of-horrors-1986
Finally found it, the most elusive coke 
'It is certainly in every frame a Kubrick film: technically awesome, emotionally distant, remorseless in its doubt of human goodness.'
Ebert explains why Barry Lindon is possibly the most Kubrickian movie ever
‘My name's John Ford. I make Westerns. I don't think there's anyone in this room who knows more about what the American public wants than Cecil B. DeMille—and he certainly knows how to give it to them ... [looking at DeMille] But I don't like you, C. B. I don't like what you stand for and I don't like what you've been saying here tonight.
John Ford spoke up when very few people did. What filmmaker do you think would do the same today?
“If the horizon’s at the bottom, it’s interesting. If the horizon’s at the top, it’s interesting. If the horizon’s in the middle, it’s boring as shit. Now, good luck to you. And get the fuck out of my office.”
This is what director John Ford tells the young Spielberg in The Fabelmans. Ford is played by David Lynch in one of the most memorable cameos in film history. Reading more about this scene is the best way to appreciate Spielberg’s genius. Movies create myths, and in myths you cannot have a balanced perspective.
https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/the-fabelmans-ending-and-david-lynch-cameo-explained.html
‘ "The Big Sleep" is a lust story with a plot about a lot of other things.’
Roger Ebert praises the obtuseness and brilliance of Faulkner’s script
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-big-sleep-1946
'The movie's implications are alarming. Is it possible that we are all just clever versions of Chance the gardener? That we are trained from an early age to respond automatically to given words and concepts? That we never really think out much of anything for ourselves, but are content to repeat what works for others in the same situation?'
'What are we to assume? That Chance is a Christ figure? That the wisdom of great leaders only has the appearance of meaning? That we find in politics and religion whatever we seek? That like the Road Runner (who also defies gravity) he will not sink until he understands his dilemma?'
'"Being There,'' directed by Hal Ashby, is a rare and subtle bird that finds its tone and stays with it. It has the appeal of an ingenious intellectual game, in which the hero survives a series of challenges he doesn't understand, using words that are both universal and meaningless.'