New at the Gutter, a wonderful piece on the arthouse/hardcore film, Through The Looking Glass (1976), by friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner! https://culturalgutter.com/2025/04/24/through-the-looking-glass-1976-an-exploration-of-the-cycle-of-trauma/ #movies #filmhistory

Heute wäre die Schauspielerin #SilvanaMangano 95 Jahre alt geworden. In "Riso Amaro" erlebte sie 1949 ihren Durchbruch. Den Klassiker des ital. #Neorealismus hat sich Enrica Capussotti für uns angesehen:
Weiblichkeit, ländliche Gemeinschaft und italienischer Nationalcharakter. Der Kampf gegen amerikanische Modernität in Riso amaro, #WerkstattGeschichte 44/2007, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/sport

@histodons @historikerinnen

If you have not been to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures lately, the new exhibits are spectacular! Clapperboard from “Parasite” - iconic film writer-director, Bong Joon Ho #filmmaking #filmhistory #cinema

Happy Passover! This week is the perfect time to share with students the powerfully moving story of the Passover dinner held on set during the making of Schindler's List. Get our free Schindler's List teaching guide to learn all about it:

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/schindlers-list/

#Passover #Pesach #SchindlersList #Education #FilmStudies #ReligiousStudies #SocialStudies #FilmHistory #Histodons @education @edutooters @histodons @film

Hey, the Gutter's own Carol has some thoughts on Chain Reactions (USA, 2024) the documentary on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973) playing The Overlook Film Festival! https://monstrousindustry.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/overlook-film-festival-2025-chain-reactions-usa-2024/ #movies #TexasChainsawMassacre #ChainReactions #FilmHistory #OverlookFilmFestival

Hey, it's a timely and wonderful new piece from the Gutter's own @flashymcflash l on filmmaker Matthew Rankin and his "contorted Canadiana!" https://culturalgutter.com/2025/04/03/the-twentieth-century-universal-language-and-matthew-rankins-contorted-canadiana/ #movies #Canada #FilmHistory #MatthewRankin #TwentiethCentury

"Podcast on Fire: 3 Films with Michelle Yeoh!" https://culturalgutter.com/2025/03/30/podcast-on-fire-3-films-with-michelle-yeoh/ #FilmHistory #movies #MichelleYeoh #HongKong #PodcastOnFire #podcasts

5 Japanese Directors to Explore beyond the Classics.

https://vibesmagazine.blog/beyond-kurosawa-five-underrated-japanese-directors-with-an-excellent-legacy/

#antiwarcinema, #Arthousecinema, #bodyhorror, #Cinema, #cyberpunk, #experimentalfilm, #feministcinema, #filmhistory, #HiroshiTeshigahara, #Japanesecinema, #KanetoShindo, #MikioNaruse, #NobuhikoObayashi, #ShinyaTsukamoto, #surrealism, #underrateddirectors, #vibes_mgzn

Heute vor 50 Jahren starb die #Schauspielerin #SusanHayward in #Hollywood. 1959 hatte sie den #Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin für ihre Rolle in »Laßt mich leben« gewonnen. Mehr zum #Film:

Ulrike Weckel, Mit Mitteln des Spielfilms gegen die #Todesstrafe. I Want to Live! (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/

@histodons @historikerinnen

Hitchcock mastered suspense, shaping cinema’s future. What’s your top Hitchcock moment? #AlfredHitchcock #FilmHistory #Cinema

Heute vor 5 Jahren starb der Autor #MartCrowley in New York. Sein #Theaterstück "The Boys in the Band" (1968) rückte erstmals schwules Leben explizit in den Mittelpunkt der Handlung. Für die 1. #Verfilmung schrieb er das #Drehbuch. Wir erinnern an ihn mit Hinweis auf die #Filmkritik:
Maxi Braun, Vom Tabubrecher zum Tabu: Comeback für The Boys in the Band (1970), #WerkstattGeschichte 86/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/papierkram

@histodons @historikerinnen

Heute vor 60 Jahren starb der britische #Komiker #StanLaurel im kalifornischen Santa Monica. Aus diesem Anlass erinnern wir an den letzten #Film, in dem er gemeinsam mit seinem Kollegen #OliverHardy auftrat: Atoll K (F/I, 1951):

Miriam Rürup, #Staatenlosigkeit als Utopie? Laurel und Hardy auf dem Atoll, #WerkstattGeschichte 52/2010, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/archive-vergessen/

@histodons @historikerinnen @filmeundserien

Heute vor 25 Jahren feierte "Die Stille nach dem Schuss" im Wettbewerb der Internationalen #Filmfestspiele von #Berlin Premiere. Den #Film über eine #RAF-Aussteigerin im #DDR-Exil (Regie: Volker Schlöndorff) hat sich damals Christina White für uns angesehen:
Die Stille nach dem Schuss – Melodram oder Komödie?, #WerkstattGeschichte 27/2000, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/fraeulein/

@histodons @historikerinnen @filmeundserien

"The Heart of Lincoln" is one of 7,000 silent films listed by the Library of Congress as being lost forever. Now, the 1915 movie about Abraham Lincoln and Civil War life, has been found. NBC explains how film student Dan Martin found the 16-millimeter film while going through boxes during his summer internship at Lauro's Historic Films Archive in Greenport, New York. The film has now been cleaned and digitized so it will be preserved forever.

https://flip.it/fYzidI

#Movies #Film #Cinema #FilmHistory #History @histodon

"What matters now, and what has mattered since the 1950s, is how moviemakers interpret the concept of Life Out There." https://culturalgutter.com/2025/01/30/uaps-nhis-and-the-essential-need-for-cosmic-mystery/ #aliens #movies #FilmHistory

Unreleased photos of the empty film sets of Joseph Mankiewicz's 𝗖𝗟𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗥𝗔 in Cinecita, 1962.

#TIL that you can still visit the location of the iconic final dual between Mortimer & El Indio in Leone's "For A Few Dollars More" - the scene was shot in the village of Los Albaricoques in Almeira, Spain & the stone circle still exists. The town seems to be getting a lot of mileage out of its place in movie history, as there's also a Lee van Cleef Street & Clint Eastwood Street. Apparently part of "Aqua Caliente" from the film also still stands.

The Gutter's own Carol Borden discusses how Tamiya Iemon is one of the absolute worst villains ever. Just the worst. God, that guy is such a dick. https://culturalgutter.com/2025/01/16/tamiya-iemon-is-the-absolute-worst-ghost-stories-of-yotsuya/ #movies #horror #ghosts #FilmHistory

When I was an undergrad in the mid 1980s studying film history, I was amazed by the cinema of the world (I had only know American films). I loved Japanese and African films and the various "new wave" films, etc. And Godard struck me particularly hard. But there was one film that totally transformed me more than the rest: Jean Renoir's 1939 masterpiece, THE RULES OF THE GAME.

#cinema #film #movies #JeanRenoir #France #FilmHistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f7Y7Nikx_8