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I basically only want two things left with the MCU: A Disco Dazzler Musical and Young Avengers. This news is literally water in a desert. 🥰

Ant-Man to me is the sleeper of the MCU. Scott is actually the best character. Y’all can fight me, but Scott is where it’s at.

https://deadline.com/2020/09/jonathan-majors-ant-man-3-marvel-universe-1203028234/

I will protect that boy with my life, but do you know how NICE it was to log onto Twitter and find out there's 260k tweets and a WW Trend NOT because he's passed away and NOT because he is actually a vulgar MAGA bigot, but because he's a complete doofus who can't work a camera.

😂😂😂

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5423825182?pwd=T1VuUmJ5OVB1ZjRNQmNHRVpDQ3lkUT09 The room is alive. I’m gonna update this post with pretty video essays after. Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Women A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes. (IMDb) Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes -->> ALSO. Cheryl Dunye just directed the latest episode of Lovecraft County, so you should ABSOLUTELY go watch that if you have HBO/HBO Max. <<---

We don’t want to release the numbers, because we think you’re going to write that it’s a flop. By not releasing the numbers, people are writing that it’s probably a flop. That is some circular bullshit and Classic Hollywood accounting.

So, I was alerted that football is still happening this year? TIL! Which means that Thursday is Thursday night football. I think we should be good for Saturday, because they’re not doing college football. Or at least most places aren’t. So I’m going to leave Saturdays. But I am going to put up a poll about moving Thursday to another weekday. Check all that apply to you, please. And I’ll try to schedule from there.

This honestly looks like the best thing I’ve seen in ages. This looks silly, and stupid, and delightful.

Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance! When a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet (IMDb). Run Time: 1hr 30minutes --> The Room Is Live @ 10:00 PM EST <-- (aka 9 minutes from when I posted this) Room ID: 542 382 5182 PASSWORD: BOT

A vast sci-fi world devoid of color and half shot at night? I look forward to seeing this December 2021

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/oscars-inclusion-standards-best-picture-diversity-1234762727/

We did. I made a mistake

TOUCH OF EVIL "A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town." (IMDb) CW: Sexual Assault, Violence, Brownface Run Time: 1 hr 35 mins --> The Room Is Live @ 2:45 PM EST <-- (aka 1 hour from when I posted this) Room ID: 542 382 5182 PASSWORD: BOT TCM Intro: A.O. Scott's Thoughts: Orson In his Own Words (And Heston's Complete Savage Takedown at the 6:30 mark) An Essay on the Controversial Cut: (Contains HEAVY Spoilers)

ON THE WATERFRONT "An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses." (IMDb) --> The Room Is Live @ 9:45 PM EST <-- (aka 15 minutes from when I posted this) Room ID: 542 382 5182 PASSWORD: BOT Here's a brief intro to the film by Robert Osborne: And some fanboying by Marty and Spike: Rod Steiger Talking about Brando and The "I Should've Been A Contender" Scene: A Brief Essay On The Film: A Quick Overview of The Hollywood Blacklist: Some Background on How the project came to be: Elia Kazan Receives His Honorary Oscar:

Starting in the month of September, TCM will be showing the ten-part documentary "Women Make Film" on the history of women in film over the past one hundred and thirty years. In conjunction with that, from September to mid November all films shown on Tuesday are directed by women, and that's where a majority of our September programing hails from. Before embark on a lot of lesbianism, we have two great hold overs from August: On Thursday, September 3, 2020, we have Elia Kazan's On The Waterfront. It stars Marlon Brando in an Academy Award winning performance, and features Eva Marie Saint's on-screen debut. A gripping, ultra neo realistic film for the 1954, it's about "an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman [who] struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses" (IMDb); and is most probably famous for the "I Coulda Been A Contender" speech. (Fun Fact: They TRIED to shoot this movie on location in Red Hook, but the mob said they'd kill Marlon and Kazan if they did. So they packed everything up and went to Jersey!) On Saturday, September 5, 2020, we have one both @baumer and @Jake Gittes are sure to enjoy: Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. This is a dark, difficult, crime film where in the iconic opening shot a bomb is placed in the trunk of a car in Mexico and explodes across the border in the U.S. Two police officers attempt to solve the crimes, by any means necessary. One's played by Orson Welles at the peak of his disgusting villainy, and the other's played by Charlton Heston in A LOT of brownface. This is OG #ACAB. The film's really notable for its use of camera and cinematography, and that in the editing process, the Studio shut Welles out, hacked up his film and dumped it as a B-Movie. The movie we have now is reconstructed off a fifty-eight page memo Welles wrote the studio in despair. On Thursday, September 10, 2020, we have Dance, Girl, Dance from 1940 by Dorothy Arzner. Dorothy Arzner was the only female directing working in the 1930s and 1940s Hollywood. She was bad ass lesbian (might have had an affair with Katharine Hepburn) and managed to have a career that spanned decides as an editor, director, director Pepsi commercials (thanks Joan Crawford), and as a film professor at USC to the likes of Francis Ford Coppola. In one of her last films, Lucille Ball (yes, that Lucy) and Maureen O'Hara play two struggling chorus girls trying to woo a rich suitor as they navigate the misogyny of vaudeville. Robert Wise -- who would direct Sound of Music and West Side Story, and edited Citizen Kane -- is the film's editor. [Note: We were SUPPOSED to watch Merrily We Go To Hell. It's not on TCM but is available for Free on YouTube, so we CAN watch it if you're hearts set on some drunks having an affair.] On Saturday, September 12, 2020, we have Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman. Now, I can hear you, "Wait, isn't that from 1996?" Yes, but it's about "A young Black lesbian filmmaker [who] probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s Black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes" (IMDb). So it's definitely adjacent to older films. And it's the first American film directed by a Black lesbian director. Duyne's gone on to direct more films like The Owls and Mommy Is Coming; she currently just directed an episode of Lovecraft Country. On Thursday, September 17, 2020, we have Jacqueline Audry's 1951 French Film Olivia. "Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia" (IMDB). AKA, Harold, They're Lesbians! It's based on the 1950 autobiographical novel by Dorothy Bussy. It is one of the first French films to depict an explicit lesbian relationship. On Saturday, September 19, 2020: Two years before Steamboat Willie, and almost a decade before Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Lotte Reiniger directed and animated 1926's The Adventure of Prince Achmed. It is the oldest, surviving, feature film in exists, and the animated was all done by shadow animation. It's based off the One Thousand and One Nights by Hanna Divab. On Thursday, September 24, 2020, is Salaam Bombay!, from 1988, an Indian crime drama directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. This is her first full-length feature after making primarily documentaries. The story centers on a group of street children -- most not professional actors -- and the events of their daily lives in Bombay (now Mumbai). It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Film and won Camera d'Or and Audience Award at Cannes Film Festival in 1988. On Saturday, September 26, 2020, we finish a film not directed by a woman, but it's one of my personal favorites: 1942's Woman Of The Year. "Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle" (IMDb). The first of nine pictures that Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did together. I would honestly be a completely different person if this didn't exist, because I'm literally named after them. I'm really excited for these films! When I put up the link to the Live Room on the Day Of, I will also link some interviews and reviewers of the movies for more back ground info. I won't lie, I went down an Orson Welles rabbit hole for Touch of Evil. Speaking of Evil, in October, just teaser here, be ready for all the horror (the horror).

Can't fucking wait for Chloe Zhao to Save Cinema in 2021.

100M am I doing this right?