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Mel Killingsworth
@mehlsbells.bsky.social
lover of cinema, sport, siphon coffee, sundries 🌈 I make and write about TV and movies 🌈 linktr.ee/mehlsbells
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People already asking about my Christmas plans, so guess it's time for one of the most hopeful, jaded, noirs of them all:

Coffee and Noir: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Coffee and Noir: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

every instance of coffee in noir: 035

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What makes a compelling teaser? ShotZero jumps back in time and space to see how the first #DoctorWhoopen.substack.com/pub/shotzero...

What a Tease: DOCTOR WHO
What a Tease: DOCTOR WHO

editing promos which convey a show's themes, genre, and content

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The next installment in my persistent search to definitively answer the question “why do films made or set in the 80s, where queer women fight and/or make up in classic vehicles, use such strong, stunning colours?” is #DesertHeartsshotzero.substack.com/p/colour-the...

Colour Theory: DESERT HEARTS
Colour Theory: DESERT HEARTS

Recently we talked about colour theory in Blue Jean and Love Lies Bleeding — so guess a good opening question is “why do films made or set in the 80s, where queer women fight and/or make up in classic...

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"Ultimately, in exploring these three power films through this lens [of talking directly to audience], we discover that these tools give filmmakers more control in conveying their theme. Quelle surprise." draft-zero.com/2024/dz-113/

DZ-113: Tools for filmmakers to talk to the audience
DZ-113: Tools for filmmakers to talk to the audience

What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood? In our final (ha!) episode looking at Talking Directly to the Audience, we turn away from character-and-text based craft tools t...

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oh no I now have an overwhelming need to watch a movie which is About Something Else Specific but really Gets To The Heart Of American History and Violence but which must have starkly Red poster

my Letterboxd 'most recent four' left to right: 25th Hour, Love Lies Bleeding, Force of Evil, Gravity

where the leftmost three films have very red posters
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more movies and TV should aspire to this level of genre-mashing

a screencap of the movie description for Wynonna Earp: Vengeance which reads 

Horror - Comedy - Drama - LGBT - SciFi - Western
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Mel Killingsworth
@mehlsbells.bsky.social
lover of cinema, sport, siphon coffee, sundries 🌈 I make and write about TV and movies 🌈 linktr.ee/mehlsbells
55 followers69 following266 posts