Candle Wasters unite!

♪Hello again, friend of a friend, I knew you when Our common goal was waiting for the world to end♪

By: thejennire

As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices.

Children of Men (2006)

I’m a minimalist. I like minimalism in other people’s work, in score. If they take up all that space to yell and scream, there’s not that much space for us to have our emotions, they’ve done it all for us. We’re allowed to come closer, lean in. If someone onscreen is reacting huge all the time we don’t have any space.

“I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent.”

And they said “Look lady these girls are just trying to earn a living”

But Lady Eboshi didn’t take that shit.  She said “Well I’ll buy them and if they want they can come with me.”

“Lady you are hysterical you can’t afford…”

“Fuck you.  I’m paying for all of it.  And you know how?  These ladies are going to work for me.  I’m going to pay them to make iron for weapons and you are going to buy those weapons.”

LATER

“Your town is so big and succesful the Emperor wants it.  You better sell out now because all of those natural resources are protected by the Gods so you might as well…”

LEPERS.

“For young black horror filmmakers, if you have a script, reach out and I’ll try to help it get made. Monkeypaw Productions is my production company.” - Jordan Peele

Black screenwriters send in your scripts!!!!

Jordan Peele’s Twitter: @JordanPeele 

MOVIE CLUB l MAR 2017

In honor of women’s history month, I wanted to highlight some wonderful films directed by women. :)

Middle of Nowhere - dir. Ava DuVernay

Wadjda - dir. Haifaa al Mansour

Belle - dir. Amma Asante (her newest film, A United Kingdom, is currently in theaters as well!)

Songs My Brothers Taught Me - dir. Chloe Zhao

The Queen of Katwe - dir. Mira Nair

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

Bend It Like Beckham - dir. Gurinder Chadha

Advantageous - dir. Jennifer Phang

Season 1 of the webseries, Féminin/Féminin, is finally on the interweb ya’ll.

I stayed up so late last night watching all 8 episodes and geeking out over how good it is. It starts off a bit slow, but episode 4 and onwards are flawless.

Y'all are so on Netflix’s dick about the original shows, but I’ve barely seen The Get Down acknowledged at all. The show as a whole is incredible and honestly every character is such a gift. Given the critiques I see most often I would think that tumblr would pick this show up and obsess over it the way it has with others in the past.

People love to talk the talk about representation and how so many movements stemmed from poc and queer culture, but when we get a show that focuses beautifully on exactly that I see nothing.

Why am I not drowning in fanart of Dizzee/Thor?

Why can I scroll through my dash without having to sift through novel length meta about Zeke?

Why is no one obsessing over Mylene?

This show is explicitly about the influence of black, latinx, and queer culture on music and art. It’s about what tumblr is constantly discussing and wishing for acknowledgement and representation of, so why is there so little love for it?