Top Five: 80s

1. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF - THE *ORIGINAL* PIXEL PEOPLE - PDF CROSS-STITCH PATTERN - INSTANT DOWNLOAD

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/68426869/ferris-buellers-day-off-the-original?ref=sr_gallery_27&ga_search_query=john+hughes&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all&ga_facet=john+hughes

2. PRETTY IN PINK - MOVIE POSTER - 80S - GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION A4 - ART PRINT

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/577002549/pretty-in-pink-movie-poster-80s-graphic?ga_search_query=PRETTY&ref=shop_items_search_5

3. LET'S GET PHYSICAL: GET FIT AND FABULOUS THE `80S WAY (HARDBACK)

https://www.iwantoneofthose.com/books/let-s-get-physical/11686935.html

4. E.T. FAN ART HOMESICK PATCH BY LA BARBUDA

http://labarbudashop.com/product/e-t-iron-on-patch-br-br-font-color-bdbdbd-parche-de-e-t-font

5. THE BREAKFAST CLUB MOVIE T SHIRT (T-SHIRT // CULT MOVIE // JOHN HUGHES // FERRIS BUELLER // MOLLY RINGWOOD // PRETTY IN PINK // 80S MOVIES)

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/563214840/the-breakfast-club-movie-t-shirt-t-shirt?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=80S&ref=sr_gallery-1-16

FILM 1702: TICKLED

TRIVIA: During a screening at the True/False Film Festival the film had to be stopped for nearly ten minutes while local police escorted two people from the cinema. The two were allegedly private investigators who had been spotted trying to record the film with a device hidden in a coffee cup.

The executive producer, the producer, the two directors, and one of the actors... all five were sued in US Federal District Court in an effort to stop the film from being shown. Source: Courthouse News ("Tickled Film")

http://www.refinery29.uk/2016/12/129960/christmas-presents-in-films-movie-gifts#slide

http://www.stuartpatience.co.uk

http://www.whudat.de/famous-sweaters-big-lebowski-ferris-bueller-bill-cosby-ned-flanders-and-more/

1. The Tenenbaums (and Co.) in Print

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2406-the-tenenbaums-and-co-in-print

2. Wes Anderson Festival

http://www.booooooom.com/2009/05/20/wes-anderson-festival/

3. Wes Anderson 's The Royal Tenenbaums minimalist film poster

http://www.etsy.com/listing/69742989/movie-poster-the-royal-tenenbaums-16x12

4. Team Zissou Junior Member Ring

http://www.etsy.com/listing/103165809/team-zissou-junior-member-ring

5. Royal Tenenbaums Pencils

http://www.etsy.com/listing/64315684/royal-tenenbaums-pencils-set-of-6

http://society6.com/NiegeBorges/Bill-Wearing-Socks_Print

Film 800: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Trivia: A special-effects sequence that took place at the beginning of the film was cut shortly before the movie hit the theaters. In this sequence, the carnival materializes from the smoke of the train - the smoke from the engine "becomes ropes and canvas tents. Tree limbs grow together to form a ferris wheel and a spider web mutates into a wheel of fortune." This sequence was the first time that computer animation was used to animate organic material, and it was combined with traditional animation. The scene was deemed not convincing enough and was cut from the film at the very last minute (according to an issue of "Twilight Zone Magazine" that was released the same month as the film, the scene was going to be in the final print). 

Steven Spielberg was considered to direct this movie. 

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" is from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, Scene IV, Act i, spoken by the second witch. 

Stephen King wrote a rejected adaptation. 

Sam Peckinpah briefly flirted with the idea of filming Ray Bradbury's story but was unable to raise the necessary finance. 

Ray Bradbury first wrote 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' as a screenplay in 1952, after watching Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain, which Bradbury thought the greatest musical ever made. Bradbury showed Kelly the screenplay, and Kelly was so impressed that he wanted to make it his next picture. When Kelly shopped the story around to potential backers, however, he was unable to raise any money for the project. It was only after this failure that Bradbury rewrote the story as a novel, which was published in 1962. Bradbury dedicated the novel to Kelly. 

Film 798: Divine Trash

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine's mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland's last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters's pictures.

It does seem like this year has been a Grey Garden’ year for me. 

I watched the documentary again and read the book by Lois Wright about her stay there. 

The documentary ‘Grey Gardens’ opens up to us the East Hampton home of Mrs. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Miss. Edith Bouvier Beale.

Today I watched the film based on the documentary starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.  It was interesting to see beyond the house, which you don’t see in the documentary (except when Little Edie goes to the beach – which from the accounts of Lois Wright she did infrequently because her mother couldn’t be left alone.)  To see a young Big and Little Edie was something that one had imagined before but never truly known or seen.

I feel sorry for the Edies. Their lives could have been so different, less isolated, and more sociable.  Maybe if they had not been so alike, so ‘staunch’ (as Edie says), they could have taken help or advice from those around them.  A little compromise would have gone a long way.

I see hints of my family in them, the untidiness and the ignorance of it in my sister.  The agoraphobic nature of them both in my boyfriend’s nature.  The hoarding of Big Edie reminds me of my love for collecting the detritus of life, the things that most would throw away.  Little Edie’s talk of travel is like my own, I do go places though, just not as often as I’d like.  Oh I can hear her saying that sentence as I write it.

More than anything and maybe just because it is the first thing that you notice in the documentary I am drawn to the say the Beales speak.  They have such a fascinating enunciation of words that a girl from London has never heard before.  It is both poetic and otherworldly and I would have loved to have gone round for tea (or pate and ice cream) and conversed for hours.

Unfortunately Mrs. ‘Big’ Edie Beale and Miss ‘Little’ Edie Beale are no longer with us.

Most famous previously for being the aunt and cousin of Jackie O, I am thankful that their eccentric and interesting characters were captured on film to live on endlessly in the hearts and imagination of everyone who knew or wishes they knew them.

Film 796: The Time Traveller's Wife

Trivia: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt made headlines when they bought the film rights toAudrey Niffenegger's novel before it was released to the public. 

Steven Spielberg, Gus Van Sant and David Fincher were all considered for directing, but negotiations fell through. 

Adrien Brody was the author's first choice for Henry. 

Film 795: Persepolis

Trivia: France's official submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at The 80th Annual Academy Awards. 

Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni lent their voices to the movie's English- and French-language versions, playing the same roles. 

The title, "Persepolis," means "Persian City" in Greek. The word is the Greek transliteration of the Old Persian word "Parsa" ("City of Persians"). Parsa, or Persepolis, was an actual ancient city that existed in Persia c. 550-330 BC. Its ruins still stand in southern Iran today.