Festivids 2025
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selenakOf which I am a delighted consumer, not a creator. Here are some I especially liked this year:
Babylon 5: Ordinary Day: the every day craziness of life on Babylon 5, delightfully captured in this vid.
Derry Girls: you told the drunks I knew karate: Speaking of every day craziness...
Holiday: Maps for the Getaway: it's an unresolved debate whether Katherine Hepburn's best on screen partner was Spencer Tracy or Cary Grant; I think the movies she did with Grant were more anarchic in spirit, and Holiday is a case in point. (It was also shot before Cary Grant's movie persona solidified; you can see traces of his British vaudeville background here still.) This vid is a lovely tribute to their partnership.
Peter Pan: Atlantis Princess: the 2003 Peter Pan is for my money still the best, the one and only really good on screen rendition of Barrie's story, capturing the joy and the darkness instead of favouring one, and definitely has the best Peter (not to mention the only one actually in costume as imagined by Barrie instead of flaunting the Disney look) and Wendy. This vid focuses on the joy side, which I don't mean as a criticism - it's a vid, not a movie - and does so beautifully.
Star Trek: Prodigy: The Sky Is Calling: in a few decades, someone is going to write their thesis about how two gigantic franchises some across as exhausted in several of their "adult" endeavours but simultanously created magic in their show aimed at kids. ST: Prodigy is one of the cases in point, and this vid captures so much of it.
Some like it Hot: Girls just wanna have fun: reading Daphne in Billy Wilder's "Some like it hot" as trans is a very popular interpretation, but in the current climate, with some much hate exploding all around us, it feels like a luxuriant balm to watch this vid gently and joyfully celebrating the character and the movie's queer themes.
Babylon 5: Ordinary Day: the every day craziness of life on Babylon 5, delightfully captured in this vid.
Derry Girls: you told the drunks I knew karate: Speaking of every day craziness...
Holiday: Maps for the Getaway: it's an unresolved debate whether Katherine Hepburn's best on screen partner was Spencer Tracy or Cary Grant; I think the movies she did with Grant were more anarchic in spirit, and Holiday is a case in point. (It was also shot before Cary Grant's movie persona solidified; you can see traces of his British vaudeville background here still.) This vid is a lovely tribute to their partnership.
Peter Pan: Atlantis Princess: the 2003 Peter Pan is for my money still the best, the one and only really good on screen rendition of Barrie's story, capturing the joy and the darkness instead of favouring one, and definitely has the best Peter (not to mention the only one actually in costume as imagined by Barrie instead of flaunting the Disney look) and Wendy. This vid focuses on the joy side, which I don't mean as a criticism - it's a vid, not a movie - and does so beautifully.
Star Trek: Prodigy: The Sky Is Calling: in a few decades, someone is going to write their thesis about how two gigantic franchises some across as exhausted in several of their "adult" endeavours but simultanously created magic in their show aimed at kids. ST: Prodigy is one of the cases in point, and this vid captures so much of it.
Some like it Hot: Girls just wanna have fun: reading Daphne in Billy Wilder's "Some like it hot" as trans is a very popular interpretation, but in the current climate, with some much hate exploding all around us, it feels like a luxuriant balm to watch this vid gently and joyfully celebrating the character and the movie's queer themes.
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