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Love to be on a website where I can join such hit 2022 fandoms as "century old public domain novel being read very slowly" and "half-century old mafia film that does not actually exist."

I could watch a whole spin off show of a young Baltasar Frías arguing with book authors about the horrible endings to books. 😂😂 The opener for this latest episode was too entertaining for me. His mom had to ruin it.

Gillian Anderson as Detective Inspector Stella Gibson The Fall (2013 -2016) @pscentral event 12: take two (women + favourite characters/performers)

Today or this noon

She dwelt so close,

I almost touched her;

Tonight she lies

Past neighbourhood—

And bough and steeple—

Now past surmise.

- By Emily Dickinson

he's a 10 but he's the last man in the world i could ever be prevailed upon to marry

not to Goncharov Post but I did go poking around about the real original movie and honestly it's p cool!

it's originally made in a mix of both Italian and Neapolitan, which is a separate language from Italian with a variety of dialects spread across Italy (though yes, centrally in Naples)

the movie came out in 2008 (not at ALL 1973) & did decently at film festivals! there's also a (apparently just as good, 58 episode) tv show also based on the same book

quite a few actual "Mafia" (Camorra) members acted in the movie (and TV show) and were later convicted of Hella Crimes. (Wikipedia has a section titled "Cast members arrested".) It's also alleged that the director (Matteo Garrone, not Scorcese, though their films have other similarities) had to pay 20,000 euros basically as "please don't burn us down" protection money

the movie & tv show are based on a nonfiction book published in 2006 (that you can read! for free! here!) about the actual organized crime in Naples, primarily the Casalesi clan of the Camorra, by a guy who went undercover to infiltrate them (in his late 20s!!)

Unlike the Japanese Yakuza (who reviewed Yakuza 3) with the similar book Tokyo Vice (by Jake Adelstein, who's 10 years older, published in 2009), the book author Roberto Saviano very much got death threats from the Casalesi and had to be under police protection with ten bodyguards at least from 2006-2014 (& possibly still is? I don't want to read Italian to find out)

the Italian govt gave the author police protection after not just the death threats but also an appeal started by six Nobel Peace Prize winners, including (again, all of this is true) Mikhail Gorbachev.

anyways here are your Peer-Reviewed Actually True Facts about Goncharov (1973, dir. Martin Scorcese) Gomorrah (2008, prod. Domenico Procacci).

I keep thinking about that moment where Lanfear and Ishamael recognize that the other is going to betray their goals and they just.. sit together for a minute. Ishy puts his head on Lanfear's shoulder, because even though shit is going to hit the fan soon, they love and respect each other too much to try to stop them, and just because they have different ideas doesn't mean they can't get comfort from each other. It goddamn near brings me to tears every time

cancel your plans we’re thinking about the pale blue dot voyager pic tonight

I haven’t seen any mutuals talking about The Resort but I want to make it clear that this is a Baltasar Frías stan blog. I love that funky little man and his colorful fashion

What each Mike Flanagan horror series represents: The Haunting of Hill House (2018) The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) Midnight Mass (2021) The Midnight Club (2022) The Fall of The House of Usher (2023)