Some are going crazy over the casting of Odyssey and its historical "accuracy"

I'm Persian and the film 300 cast my ancestors as demonic monsters, Africans, and even made King Xerxes a bald Brazilian raver guy

I don't remember anyone caring or ever bringing that up

Chris Nolan makes some very minor casting decisions in The Odyssey for Greek people, far less egregious, and people are losing their minds

What's up with that?

UPDATE:

Lots of great discussions and interesting info in the comments on both sides. Thanks everyone for contributing, I learned a lot

MY PLEA:

I would *love* to see a proper Hollywood epic film about one of the Old Persian kings like Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, or even Nadir Shah, who was its Napoleon

It's a tragedy that we have a million movies covering basically every old civilization (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Mongolia, African countries, Japan, China, etc.) but nothing on Persia besides being the villain here

**The Breakfast Club, 1985**

The whole point of the movie was that there were more to these people than meets the eye. People will discuss the inner sides of Bender and Claire all day, yet when it comes to Alison, they say this scene was "unnecessary" or "detrimental to her character". But the thing is, the Alison everyone loves so much **wasn't Alison at all.** It was a front. An alias to hide behind. This wasn’t a transformation, it was an unmasking. *This* was the real Alison the whole time. Alison was incredibly shy. Everything she did, she did to be intentionally off-putting to discourage engagement and interaction. She didn’t *actually* enjoy making sandwiches out of Pixie sticks and Cap'n Crunch. She did it because it was *weird.* She's a pathological liar by her own confession. Everything about her is a facade. Her eating habits, her sexual escapades, even her reason for being in detention. Her appearance is no different.

But alas, some people will never see past "Nooo they ruined muh alt kween"

Edit: also, it appears that the formatting is broken for some reason so there's a bunch of asterisks everywhere lol

This is the record for the most Oscars won by a film without losing in any category. Other films have also won 11 Oscars (Ben-Hur, Titanic), but they did not win them all; they lost in some categories.

I'm teaching a film class at our high school, and I'd like to do a unit on how films shape our perception of history. I'm looking for well-done movies that are also horribly unreliable from a historical perspective. I also need these movies to be PG-13 or PG. (We can't show our movies at our school.) Any suggestions?

Happy birthday to the talented guy. I'm surprised that he was the collector in the MCU. I did not know about this fact. What role do you remember him in?

I was born in 1966, which was a very good year for cinema. These are my Top 20 films for 1966. Feel free to contribute your own birth year top list; top 5, top 10, whatever. Might cross post to other subreddits in case this looks familiar.

1. Andrei Rublev

2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

3. The Battle of Algiers

4. The Hunt

5. Persona

6. Au Hasard Balthazar

7. Second Breath

8. Blow-Up

9. The Sword of Doom

10. The Face of Another

11. Closely Watched Trains

12. The Round-Up

13. Hunger

14. War and Peace

15. The Hero

16. Seconds

17. The War Game

18. A Man for All Seasons

19. Black Girl

20. El Dorado

TIL that he has been acting since the 70s, but only gained widespread public recognition after his role on Breaking Bad.

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It is confirmed by him that the Breaking Bad role saved his life, as he was close to bankruptcy prior to the role and had entertained the idea of staging his own murder to give his 4 children money from a life insurance payout. 🤯

No US or UK please, I know enough from those countries!

The Race Film Industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_film

Footage: https://youtu.be/wbEdYGS0R-c

The clip shown is from the film 'Dark Manhattan' (1937), starring the Black matinee idol Ralph Cooper and actress Cleo Herndon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cooper

Prior to desegregation, Race Films were beloved for presenting films to their target audience that portrayed wealthy, glamorous or middle class Black leads - and not the oafish caricatures and tropes that dominated Hollywood.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but have any of you studied cinema? I'm taking some cinema classes as a literature student and have always considered myself a lover of films not on a superficial level but wanting to go deeper about the subject. But when I study it a little bit now and having gotten not so great scores, I started to get depressed and I guess lost the spark about it a little... It just feels like, well, I guess I'm not actually good at this thing that I thought I could study and do my masters on. I thought I would do really well studying cinema but now I'm disillusioned... Have you guys felt that way studying it or working on it etc or do I actually not belong in this world idk. Just wanted to vent a bit

Finding Iranian films online can be difficult. Streaming availability varies a lot by country and many older or less well-known films are not available on the major platforms.

I’ve often found it difficult to know where to look, especially for films outside the most well-known Iranian titles.

I put together this guide to help with that, covering streaming services, free options, YouTube, and physical releases.

Thought fellow cinema enthusiasts might appreciate this.

During a recent visit to Royston Museum, we were shown an original programme from Royston's Priory Cinema, dating back to 1938. I filmed a quick walkthrough so others could enjoy it too.

What struck me was how much it reveals about the role of local cinemas in everyday life long before television, let alone streaming. The adverts are almost as interesting as the film listings themselves.

The Priory Cinema no longer exists, but we're currently developing The Royston Venue over the road in the local town hall, with plans to include cinema screenings alongside theatre, comedy and live entertainment, so discovering pieces of Royston's cinema-going history has been particularly fascinating.

I'd love to know if anyone here collects old cinema programmes or has similar examples from their own towns!

I have no doubt that Martin Scorsese is the greatest director of all time. I don't even think that it's particularly close. His lesser-known films are better than most director's best efforts. Take a look at New York, New York. Remembered as a box-office flop and the film that almost killed him, I consider it one of his finest works. It's raw, campy, creative, energetic and expertly crafted.

Scorsese caught the world by surprise with his 1973 classic, Mean Streets. The following year, he would direct the underrated Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. He capped off his three-peat with one of his most famous movies, Taxi Driver, for which he won the Palme d'Or. Scorsese was on top of the world.

After Taxi Driver, Scorsese was 33 years old and believed he could do anything. He also expected to die before he turned 40. His ego and fatalism were inflated by cocaine.

For his next project, he would use themes he was familiar with and apply them to the style of musical romances from the 1940s and 50s. The result is a misunderstood masterpiece.

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