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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 3, 2020 1:45:21 GMT
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 1906 – 9 April 1945) and his life would make a great heroic bio - Malick could do this story I bet........ Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp.
After being accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was quickly tried, along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office), and then hanged on 9 April 1945 as the Nazi regime was collapsing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 25, 2020 0:03:41 GMT
In the last week I've watched 2 films with Barbara Payton including Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye- the tragic 50s star. Would make a great bio-pic role........and it gets darker when her career ends too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_PaytonIn 1950, Payton met actor Franchot Tone. While engaged to Tone, Payton began an affair with B-movie actor Tom Neal. She soon went back and forth publicly between Neal and Tone. On September 14, 1951, Neal, a former college boxer, physically attacked Tone at Payton's apartment, leaving Tone in an 18-hour coma with a smashed cheekbone, broken nose and concussion. The incident garnered huge publicity and Payton decided to honor her engagement to Tone. Payton and Tone, who was recovering from his injuries, were married on September 28, 1951 in Payton's hometown of Cloquet, Minnesota. After being married, Tone discovered that Payton had continued her relationship with Neal and Tone was granted a divorce in May 1952.
The Payton-Neal relationship essentially ended their Hollywood film careers.
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Oct 26, 2020 1:08:21 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 30, 2020 0:50:26 GMT
After seeing Buscemi log The War Room, I'm honestly shocked that the Carville/Matalin romance hasn't been dramatized yet.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 30, 2020 1:46:18 GMT
a miniseries about James Ivory's relationship with Ismail Merchant.
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Post by dadsburgers on Nov 2, 2020 0:31:00 GMT
Kim Jong-Il's Kidnapping of a Famous South Korean Filmmaking Ex-CoupleA famous South Korean director and his ex-wife, a famous actress, were separately kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il in 1978 because he was a major fan of theirs. The exes had to settle their differences and work together, as they were the only allies they had. Kim Jong-Il brought the former couple together to make him excellent films for North Korea, and after a few years gave them incredible freedom to do so. He even let them fly to Europe to shoot on location, and in doing so ended up showing the North Korean general audiences images of the outside world for the first time. The director sort of enjoyed the experience of creative freedom to make his films, continually delaying their escape plan, but the actress was eager to get out. Eventually in 1986 they snuck out to a foreign embassy when out filming and were able to get back to South Korea safely.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2020 15:23:21 GMT
a miniseries about James Ivory's relationship with Ismali Merchant. I've shared this elsewhere on the forum - hopefully you will enjoy it (especially today - a soothing balm) - a tour of the home they shared in New York's Hudson Valley:
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Post by MsMovieStar on Nov 3, 2020 15:45:01 GMT
Oh honey, on July 12, 1922 in Chicago, two women were arrested for defying a Chicago edict banning "abbreviated bathing suits" on beaches. I hate to think when the Battle of the Bikini was and what that looked like...
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Post by dadsburgers on Nov 6, 2020 1:41:04 GMT
The Great Stork DerbyAn eccentric, lonely, wealthy old lawyer named Charles Vance Miller passes away in 1926, amidst the Great Depression, and in his will, leaves his entire estate to the winner of a most unusual contest: after ten years, the Toronto woman who has given birth to the most babies wins. Once the public hears about this contest, a number of mostly working-class women emerge as frontrunners, and the newspapers follow them like a horse race. Among others, Grace Spagnato was a multilingual Italian immigrant and hardworking Catholic mom just doing her thing; Pauline Mae Clark was a rather scandalous young woman with tragic relationships with multiple men; and Mrs. Kenny was a spiritual French-Canadian who deeply believed it was her calling to win this, ready to sabotage her competitors. A host of women ended up in court where the judges had to determine which children counted and which did not, ultimately favoring upper-class women who could birth their children in hospitals, officially register them, and have them all survive past infancy. Ultimately it turned into a race of privilege, exposing scandals and tragedies, and highlighting what many women in poverty during the Depression went through. The race wedged a divide in the city, between haves and have nots, locals and immigrants, and even brought forth a call for eugenics. (Covered on This American Life)
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 6, 2020 3:10:17 GMT
The 2020 election
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Nov 6, 2020 6:26:21 GMT
Honestly, there won't be a good film about the Trump era for at least another 20 years. It needs to be a distant memory and needs proper hindsight. I feel like this current political landscape is so surreal that any dramatic portrayal would be uncanny and off, like that Showtime mini-series.
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Post by jimmalone on Nov 6, 2020 12:07:39 GMT
Came just here to say this exactly.
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Post by stephen on Nov 6, 2020 16:50:12 GMT
We need a Secret Honor-type film about the last three days.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 6, 2020 17:02:04 GMT
We need a Secret Honor-type film about the last three days. I was thinking Downfall
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 6, 2020 17:05:18 GMT
Honestly, there won't be a good film about the Trump era for at least another 20 years. It needs to be a distant memory and needs proper hindsight. I feel like this current political landscape is so surreal that any dramatic portrayal would be uncanny and off, like that Showtime mini-series. the trick will be not to focus on the key players. Trump and Biden would need to be in the background, if not totally invisible. Focus on the behind the scenes campaign drama and the news response. You could even have a scene of Nate Silver having a panic attack in his apartment.
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Post by jimmalone on Nov 7, 2020 19:39:32 GMT
Honestly, there won't be a good film about the Trump era for at least another 20 years. It needs to be a distant memory and needs proper hindsight. I feel like this current political landscape is so surreal that any dramatic portrayal would be uncanny and off, like that Showtime mini-series. the trick will be not to focus on the key players. Trump and Biden would need to be in the background, if not totally invisible. Focus on the behind the scenes campaign drama and the news response. You could even have a scene of Nate Silver having a panic attack in his apartment. I actually imagine a film through the eyes of some "minor" people. Somebody who counts the votes at the convention centre in Philly, somebody who finds himself in some protests, maybe some black people, maybe campaign workers, simple somebody who is waiting for the result, maybe a journalist, etc.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 17, 2020 5:59:43 GMT
honestly all this legal and misinformation drama has me even more convinced that a miniseries about the 2020 election could be fucking amazing and I'm trying to manifest it into existence by sheer force of will.
Episode 1: Monday, last-minute campaigning, pre-election administrative efforts Episode 2: Tuesday, election Episodes 3-4: Wednesday, slow counting, red mirage/blue shift drama, Pennsylvania count flips blue, first rumblings of misinformation (Trump's tweets!) Episode 5: Deluge of fraud rumors, litigation starts Episode 6: More litigation, senate response, transition stonewall, pro-Trump events Episode 7: Presumably (??) litigation keeps failing, states being to certify results, conservative tears flood the streets Episode 8: Georgia runoffs, series would end with the inauguration
This is key: Don't include Biden and Trump as characters, or maybe keep them out of frame almost entirely and hire some unknowns for voicework (but preferably not even that, just show real footage of their speeches). Focus exclusively on campaign people, election officials, poll watchers, maaaaybe some media folks, lawyers. NO high-profile personalities. Include Democrats' failures with the down-ballot races somewhere, and maybe throw in the progressive vs. moderate infighting. And possibly find a way to squeeze in the insane post-election COVID numbers. Combine narrative filmmaking with real media footage. Straight docudrama. If they make it, the Emmys will come.
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Nov 20, 2020 15:10:50 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 1, 2020 22:13:33 GMT
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Post by CookiesNCream on Dec 2, 2020 3:57:08 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 6, 2021 20:29:57 GMT
and I thought the 2020 election couldn't get any more cinematic... guns are drawn in the Capitol and protesters are in the chamber
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Post by dadsburgers on Jan 6, 2021 20:43:44 GMT
and I thought the 2020 election couldn't get any more cinematic... guns are drawn in the Capitol and protesters are in the chamber I was gonna say, reading the title of the thread today I just thought...*gestures vaguely*
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 9, 2021 1:03:19 GMT
A story following fictional characters in this group could be fascinating. We could have a movie exploring "traitors" and their mindset in joining an evil regime to fight the evil regime that threatens their home.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 9, 2021 2:47:39 GMT
A story following fictional characters in this group could be fascinating. We could have a movie exploring "traitors" and their mindset in joining an evil regime to fight the evil regime that threatens their home. That's an interesting video, thx for posting, it got me wiki'ing looking further into it. Apparently a study proved that most of the Soviet generals that defected to the Nazis had experienced personal tragedies during the Great Purge, so it becomes a really tricky and tragic oscillating of dismayed loyalty, survival, and of course villainy. I'm almost halfway thru the miniseries Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) - that Youtube vid is the exact context discussed in the episode I'm up to - you might find it interesting though it's 14 goddamn hours. (I'm the looking-for-a-65min-noir-guy btw). It's set during the tail of WW2 following an esteemed SS officer who's actually a Soviet spy tasked with finding which of Hitler's generals is secretly starting peace negotiations with the West. It's great so far... Le Carré like, with lots of historical footage too.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 9, 2021 2:52:37 GMT
A story following fictional characters in this group could be fascinating. We could have a movie exploring "traitors" and their mindset in joining an evil regime to fight the evil regime that threatens their home. That's an interesting video, thx for posting, it got me wiki'ing looking further into it. Apparently a study proved that most of the Soviet generals that defected to the Nazis had experienced personal tragedies during the Great Purge, so it becomes a really tricky and tragic oscillating of dismayed loyalty, survival, and of course villainy. I'm almost halfway thru the miniseries Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) - that Youtube vid is the exact context discussed in the episode I'm up to - you might find it interesting though it's 14 goddamn hours. (I'm the looking-for-a-65min-noir-guy btw). It's set during the tail of WW2 following an esteemed SS officer who's actually a Soviet spy tasked with finding which of Hitler's generals is secretly starting peace negotiations with the West. It's great so far... Le Carré like, with lots of historical footage too. I am putting it on my watchlist. Looks like a fascinating show.
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