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Corto Maltese is a series of adventure comics named after the character Corto Maltese, an adventurous sailor. It was created by the Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt in 1967.

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With Caveat, Damian McCarthy layered mystery upon mystery to create a haunting thriller about isolation. The Irish filmmaker’s latest, Oddity, follows a similarly twist-laden blueprint. The plot exudes a pulpy sense of escalation, defined by a collision of convoluted story threads that might, in lesser hands, have devolved into unintentional comedy.

After all, the central image of Oddity verges on the ludicrous: a horrible wooden mannequin planted at the head of a dinner table, mouth frozen in a silent scream.

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It isn’t tough to figure out where Oddity is going, but McCarthy unveils each detail at a satisfyingly unhurried pace, with some tense interludes involving photos captured by a motion-activated digital camera and the contents of holes drilled into the mannequin’s skull. The storytelling hook here isn’t shock value so much as the clockwork of a complex machine, and the way so many of its pieces work toward a singular purpose is never less than atmospheric.

That approach again serves McCarthy well in crafting a twisted and creepy little potboiler. But it’s also hard not to be skeptical of how long the filmmaker can continue to function in such a mode. Oddity is looser and less disciplined in the end than Caveat, which itself wasn’t immune to stretches of needless explanation. Thanks to its expert staging, the film doesn’t lose much in the way of immediacy, but there’s a sense that if McCarthy isn’t careful, he’s going to spend so long setting up his dominos that no one will stick around to watch him knock them down.

I like the premise of this community and I believe it is a good remedy to US defaultism.

It bugs me in the Internet whenever someone is not from the US has to introduce "a thing" in their culture with a thin veil of shame. We never see Americans having to "explain" what Halloween or Thanksgiving is, even when they are knowingly facing a global audience.

So, very well done for starting this, and I would like to just contribute some brainstormed ideas.

A community like this could host long form 'specials' such as (an example) "Introduce others to a niche topic of your culture."

Now what could that be:

• That could be a band/genre
• Some TV show with a cult following
• An influential pop culture figure that keeps off the spotlight
• A type of slang unique to your culture
• A set of weird or memorable customs

Additionally, people could contribute things like subtitles or translations, so others can discover media from each other's countries that would never be available through mainstream streaming.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/14697456

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/14199944

Wonderland is an artificial intelligence that allows people to communicate with their departed loved ones through simulated video calls. Jeong-in, a flight attendant, asks to meet her comatose boyfriend Tae-joo, while Bai Li joins the service to be able to talk to her daughter even after being dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_(2024_film)

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Kneecap is set in West Belfast in 2019. Fate brings together disillusioned music teacher JJ with self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, changing the sound of Irish music forever," the description continues. "Under the name Kneecap, their band begins moulding the language to fit their tough, anarchic, hedonistic lives. A language encumbered with forty words for stone now has one for stoned. But to get their voices heard the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians as the future of the Irish language erupts into the public arena - with them at the centre. Yet their worst enemies are often themselves, as family and relationship pressures threaten their dreams, and their illegal exploits draw condemnation from all sides.

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The first Irish-language film to premiere at Sundance.

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On social media videos, audiences throw packs of tissues around the cinema halls. Tearful TikToks from across Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore show friends leaving the cinema weeping. Thailand’s latest hit film, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, has reduced audiences across south-east Asia to tears – and broken box office records.

The film, about a university dropout who offers to care for his terminally ill grandma, hoping to inherit her house, has reportedly earned 334m Thai baht ($9.1m) at the Thai box office and become the most successful Thai film ever in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

It is the latest success story for films made in Thailand and south-east Asia, which, while Hollywood has grappled with strikes and production delays, have captured audiences across the region and boosted the cinema industry.

“Covid, and industry issues that impacted Hollywood product flow, have ushered [in] a period of growth for local and regional films, in some cases with record-breaking results,” said Rance Pow, of Artisan Gateway, a film consultancy.

In Indonesia, the horror film KKN di Desa Penari (KKN in Dancer’s Village) sold more than 10m tickets in 2022, according to local media, becoming the country’s highest-grossing locally made film. The Vietnamese romance Mai, released in February, has become the highest-grossing Vietnam-produced film of all time at home and in North America and Europe, according to Deadline.

While screens are being closed down in the US, Indonesia’s biggest chain, Cinema XXI, listed on the Indonesian stock exchange last year, while in Thailand new cinemas are being opened.

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During a train trip to New Delhi, a pair of commandos face an army of invading bandits.

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#nojeans makes life more interesting, you've got to explore more options instead of the bland lazy one

Here are some options in order of formality –

Thai fisherman pants

Workman's trousers like Snickers and stuff

Heavy woollen trousers (as opposed to woollen slacks, which are suit-level formal)

Linen trousers

Slacks

I feel the comm has started to develop its own little feeling, though it is small.

The message here is clearly something other people are thinking about.

Every time you post, you let people know they're not alone in wanting to preserve the individuality and survival of the world's cultures.

It's a Telugu-language science-fiction epic that's getting a lot of hype. I might go to it this weekend.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12735488/

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IMDB page with trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28118211/

I've watched three episodes so far. I'm getting into it and I'm not really a TV guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joko%20Anwar%27s%20Nightmares%20and%20Daydreams

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21962590/

Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams is a science fiction mystery anthology television series created by Joko Anwar. It features seven interconnected science fiction stories set in Jakarta.

Some people in my country of the Netherlands seem to think that all Dutch media is bad and most Dutch people consume mostly American media. I want them to give Dutch media a chance and to give global media a chance.

I have a special interest in languages and cultures and I wouldn't have had it if I didn't start looking for music outside of the global core. I enjoy watching Bollywood, and wouldn't have done that if I didn't look past Hollywood. Consuming non-American media opens your eyes for a so much good media that you wouldn't have consumed otherwise. It gives you a different perspective on humanity as well and shows you humanity is more than just the global core. For some liberals it could lead to less prejudice and racism.

There's also so much imperialist and capitalist propaganda in American media and consuming global media lets you escape that. Global media can also show you more anti-imperialist and socialist sentiment, especially if you consume media from socialist countries. This is also why I want liberals to consume global media, so they don't fall for propaganda.

Here's a list of some of my favorite Musicians, Movies and TV-shows outside of USA:

First music:

Koza Mostra: Greek Ska Folk

Doe Maar: Dutch Ska

De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig: Dutch Hiphop

Stromae: Belgian French pop

Kadim al-Sahir: Iraqi Arabic poetic singer

Fairouz: Lebanese ballad singer

Otava Yo: Russian folk band

Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble: North Korean pop

Movies:

Er Ist Wieder Da: great German movie about how fascism can return illustrated by Hitler returning.

De Marathon: Dutch comedy

Lagaan: Indian cricket movie set in British Raj with an anti-colonialist theme

Festen: Danish drama movie about family affairs

Dil Se: Indian movie through the eyes of a stalker

Cidade de Deus: Brazilian crime thriller about the Cidade de Deus favela. The actors are locals from the actual favela.

TV Shows:

Trailer Park Boys: Canadian mockumentary comedy. I count this because this show is distincly Canadian and not wannabe American. There needs to be more focus on Anglosphere media outside the USA anyway.

Farouk Omar: Great Arab drama show based on the life of Omar Ibn al-Khattab. This show is so detailed that it taught me a lot about early Islamic history.

https://archive.org/details/DecolonisingTheMind

It’s a short essay about using your pre-colonial language and stories.

We would pick a book by suggesting & voting in the comments section. Then we read about 10 pages a day and discuss what we read.

Some guardrails:

• Literature or mythology, no politics or philosophy (that's better suited for other groups; this is a cultural group)

• Under 200,000 words.

• Follows the main rule of this comm

• Short stories are ok 👌

• Available on the web so we can all access it

• Has to be a classic, which I will leave undefined cause shure you know yourself