Criterion Collection has announced they will be launching a channel on TikTok to reach a new audience with their preservation of classic films. Launching today, Criterion has posted My Dinner with André (1981) as it’s first upload.
Haunting the narrative means that the character’s absence heavily impacts the plot. They’re not present or active in the story when their influence is most strongly felt, whether they’re alive or dead!
365 Movies Challenge #226; Joint Security Area (2000) dir. Park Chan-Wook: “You haven’t learned much about Panmunjom yet. Here, the peace is preserved by hiding the truth. What they both really want is that this investigation proves nothing after all.“
Steve Dain (1940 – 2007) was an FTM who transitioned in the late 70’s and lost his teaching job, he was a gym teacher in Union City. Although the court would eventually decide in his favor, and allow him to go back to teaching, he was not able to find a school that would hire him.
“Later, I would meet Steve Dain. Steve had been Lou Sullivan’s hero. In those days, most trans men in the Bay Area went off on a pilgrimage to meet him as we entered medical transition. Lou had met with Steve years before when he began his transition, and Jamison Green would meet him a short time before I did. It was nearly a ritual, a rite of passage to meet with Steve. There were no trans men that we knew of who had come before him. Steve was nearby and our most visible example, and someone who each one of us hoped would confer wisdom, and a kind of blessing or validation. I think we all were a bit awestruck. And, Steve didn’t let us down. I know he didn’t let me down. I still remember meeting him in Union City, he picked me up and I was taken with his easy and total masculinity. He was hirsute, and handsome, confident and kind. He was sensitive to each question I asked and his answers would influence me for the entirety of my transition.” -Max Wolf Valerio (quote from his blog) (photos by Mariette Pathy Allen 1980s)
This requires a more in-depth analysis but Liz Taylor’s 8 marriages can be broken down into the perfect relationship cycle. The violent entitled asshole -> boring nice guy -> love of your life #1 -> love of your life #1’s best friend -> love of your life #2 -> love of your life #2 again -> U.S. senator -> construction worker you met in rehab pipeline is integral to the foundation of this country. Society was built on this cycle.
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