BABE WAKE UP NEW BE KIND REWIND JUST DROPPED

@Nosjjddjjd

Жыл бұрын

AND A ANNA MAGNANI VID AT THAT!!

@kabokaisara5293

Жыл бұрын

BABE LET ME CHECK ON THE KIDS FIRST THEN WE CAN WATCH BKR

@Mondomeyer

Жыл бұрын

What?

@katherinealvarez9216

Жыл бұрын

🎉

@elliottv.6844

Жыл бұрын

me

We Italians may have the Vatican sitting inside our borders, but the USA has always beaten us in terms of religious prudery and fanaticism.

@micol7490

Жыл бұрын

Bhè, dipende... Sicuramente l'atteggiamento puritano è molto più palese. Sul fanatismo direi che la partita è, ahimè, aperta 😅

@Wired4Life2

Жыл бұрын

More a Protestant problem than a Catholic one. That’s what happens when deeply-flawed theology teaches you’re either saved or you’re not, and that works don’t matter.

@kkay3784

Жыл бұрын

As an American, I find that fascinating.

@ignatiusjackson235

Жыл бұрын

​@@Wired4Life2EXACTLY!!!

@DavidN369

Жыл бұрын

And then, there's that.

That CATHOLIC jumpscare genuinely got me

@yomofo62

Жыл бұрын

😂🤣

Just saying that The Legion of Decency gave Miracle on 34th Street a “B, or morally objectionable in part” simply because the main character is divorced.

As usual, simply not seeing the film never seems to occur. No, preventing other people from seeing it is the point.

@davidbowman2001

Жыл бұрын

The book Movie-made America covers film all the way from the beginning and the constant censorship efforts that almost immediately started, it’s very interesting. Makes the whole “cancel culture” thing extra funny because upper class busybodies were up everyone’s ass about everything back then.

@naftalibendavid

Жыл бұрын

Ugh! You are so right.

@jamesmcinnis208

Жыл бұрын

@@davidbowman2001 And, funny coincidence - that's just about the time when the enchanting expression "up everyone's ass" originated.

@MissSimone02

Жыл бұрын

Because you can't force people to not watch the movie.....oh wait.

@ignatiusjackson235

Жыл бұрын

​@@davidbowman2001"Cancel culture" is literally just more of the same. I hope you're smart enough to realize that.

The Miracle walked so Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf could crash through the window full bore.

One of my most vivid childhood memories is my mother's (a committed Catholic) refusal to stand for the Legion of Decency pledge. Great job on the video essay.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

ALL CathoLICKs should be 'COMMITTED'! Christianity is a SATANIC religion, BASED on human SACRIFICE. Did jou drink yer BLOOD of the Christ today???

It’s actually infuriating how relevant this video is. Why do conservatives believe that they get to dictate what everyone else watches?

@aksez2u

Жыл бұрын

Or what they wear, or who they love....

@perryjones7771

Жыл бұрын

@@aksez2u when the Bible literally says DON’T JUDGE

@aksez2u

Жыл бұрын

@@perryjones7771 The bible is not their handbook. At all. "christianity" is a cover for their authoritarian fascism.

@AznRUs

Жыл бұрын

Their argument often uses the phrase, "But what about the children!" while the kids are like, "Now, why are we in this?"

@jerrylee8261

Жыл бұрын

@@aksez2u Was gonna post that.

Some people just continually need to be reminded that they are not the boss

Seriously, your videos belong on Criterion Collection blu ray special features. I get so much from these videos it’s insane, thank you!

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

Yup! INSANE is the accurate adjective here! (see 99% of the Herd)

I love these videos because as a film lover the give great engaging film history and while still being so modern and a little messy. Like, I don't if it's just me but every time she pulls out receipts or gives me background on something salacious that happened almost 100 years ago, I'm like oohhh TEA! The dead actors are fighting!!!

@KarenJMoore1

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha! Same. It satiates my inner gossip. 😂

@cindymora6714

Жыл бұрын

Same same gossip of the past! yassss

@DavidN369

Жыл бұрын

Word.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

Like....ValleyBoy! Like...WTF R U TALKING ABOUT??? Like....ANY IDEA WHATSOEVER...like???? like... lol...like BTW, 'like' this please! like Give it a GAZILLION likes because I like likes! I also like the actual word like! Did jou like notice??? like!

Anna Magnani, is a staggeringly gifted actress. I've loved her ever since I first experienced her brilliance in "The Rose Tattoo". ❤😊

@eamonndeane587

Жыл бұрын

The Rose Tatoo really deserves a Proper 1080p Blu Ray release someday.

@Mondomeyer

Жыл бұрын

Mama Roma was the first one I saw her in. Brilliance!

@billpiechocki

Жыл бұрын

@@eamonndeane587 PREACH!

@billpiechocki

Жыл бұрын

@@Mondomeyer Brilliance indeed! She lights up the firmament with her talent/gift.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

staggeringly ??? Is she like....DRUNK??? like

It feels a bit like deja vu learning about this, especially when looking at book bans and everything happening in the USA right now

Nobody expects the Legion of Decency!

@ignatiusjackson235

Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there 😂 And as a Catholic, I find it hilarious

You always find pockets of film history that I've never heard discussed on other channels! Thank you for educating us

I watched Rome Open City in a film studies class in 1982. It blew me away. Similar to Schindler's list but showed the randomness of the horror of the war that they had just lived through. No swelling music scores no close ups at the pivotal moments in the film. Those were for the after math the characters went through.

Anna Magnani is to me one of the most naturally gifted actresses and most magnetic and versatile people ever put on screen, only Bette and Judy, and maybe Ingrid Bergman can even come close to her imo

Dear BKR, Thank you once again for another informative, and enjoyable piece. In the current socio-political environment, where a portion of America is attempting to Make America Great Again, it is interesting to see how politically, socially, and culturally conservative "That" America was. There are as many years between us now, and the America of The Legion Of Decency, as there was from that time, to the end of Slavery, and the American Civil War. At its heart this is an issue about change, both then, and now.

@familycorvette

Жыл бұрын

Oh, shut up, you self-admiring git.

@barbarastrayhorn4667

Жыл бұрын

True. Knee jerk reaction.

@JohnInTheShelter

Жыл бұрын

Nothing frightens leftists more than people daring to hold different beliefs. It's so interesting to watch how conservative the party that USED to hate the FBI/CIA, and USED to believe the duty of the press is to question the powerful and the government, whichever party was in power. Go watch MSNBC and continue literally trembling over them scary MAGA people (they're not the ones who burned billions and killed dozens to get the packaging on boxes of pancake mix).

@miapdx503

Жыл бұрын

That portion attempting to "make America great again" is a cancerous cult, that's already done the nation so much harm. It was disgusting that they would imply America is not great. And it was horrible to have a "president" who saw the majority of American citizens as his enemy. And it was embarrassing to have an unregistered sex offender with a porn star wife *in the Whitehouse!* 😞 I pray for the day when we are all Americans together. That would be great. God bless you, dear reader. We'll get through this...together. United we stand, divided we fall. 🌹

My soul yearned for a BKR video today, thank you so much for putting so much effort into your work!

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

Maybe jou need more comfortable shoes??? (;

Probably the greatest opening line of any video essay ever.

BKR- I'm sure she's heard it multiple times, but, one of the best essayists on YT!!! I always come away with great film info and I feel incredibly enlightened with every video. Watched some Rossellini films w/ my partner for their Cityscapes film class and I was very touched by Italian cinema. Thank you BKR for the great content and thorough research! ❤

@DavidN369

Жыл бұрын

What Bodie Russell said.

@OuterGalaxyLounge

Жыл бұрын

She's insanely talented. She keeps making masterpiece after masterpiece.

Using the dramatic Lacrimosa music while reading the Catholic Church, quotes is perfect. Also, LOL at your first communion picture. If you know you know. Also, if anything, this movie sounds like it promotes faith and is criticizing the people for mocking her. I thought this censorship was going to be about something actually scandalous!

@freshname

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't go as far as saying that the Miracle promotes faith. Everyone in that movie ( us, the viewers included) knows, what has happened. The only exception being the main heroine. But more than that... This film condemns cruelty. Yes, she was pure soul lost in her mind, but it doesn't give us (and everybody in her village) to be cruel to her just because she was raped and her psyche choose to protect her from that in this way. Care and help is the right reaction, not mockery and physical cruelty.

@melissasaint3283

Жыл бұрын

The movie IS in fact religious. The story arc involves multiple actual miracles, and the main premise is that the novice ruins multiple lives by abandoning her vocation to holy orders! But the first part of the film makes it seem very sacrilegious, and the timing of what was released before and during the same time creating a kind of "simultaneous contrast" that did make it seem anti Catholic.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

@@freshname the Miracle promoters faith.??? Just Juan word...WTF??? (Is that 3 words?)

I loved the Anna Magnani video so it’s nice to see her making a comeback of sorts.

STOPPED EVERYTHING I WAS DOING NEW BKR VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm 15 minutes into the video (great job as always, this is so captivating!) and I just want to say something that I find extremely ironic in all of this. I'm italian, and as an italian studying cinema I have of course been exposed multiple times to Neorealismo and movies such as Rome open city. I distinctly remember, during one of our lessons, that a teacher of ours asked us how we thought Open city, which is, for anyone that hasn't seen it, a war movie set in Nazi-occupied Rome about the hardships and heroic deeds of the Resistance, had been promoted abroad (in the USA specifically, if I'm not wrong). Well, none of us guessed what the answer was. Apparently, the initial promotion of the movie abroad relied very heavily on presenting it as a scandalous picture, harping on the fact that it included many 'osé' topics (i.e. female characters strolling around in lingerie -in their own changing rooms and bedrooms, how scandalous!-, a number of queer coded characters, Magnani's character being pregnant out of wedlock...). All of these elements were indeed in the movie but they were just part of the realism and crudness of the post war situation Rossellini (and subsequent neorealist pictures) were describing, but once the movie was brought to a foreign public which clearly hadn't that in its own pictures, they were sensationalized and turned into a spectacle to fill seats. The hypocrisy of this whole ordeal.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

"Alla U w0ps get offa da lawn!!!" L0L Cheech and Chong 1969

This was an excellent video essay! I’m fascinated by early radio, television, and motion pictures because you can see the progression of the media in relation to changing attitudes of society. We have been enriched by movies that push boundaries and offer alternative perspectives.

That octopus would make a great tattoo.

Once again, an exemplary entry. And (as always) deeply researched and informative. I knew about the problems with films about "race" in terms of the South (so many films were "banned", especially during the late 1940s, when Hollywood would try to make films addressing the nation's racial problems, such as PINKY, LOST BOUNDARIES, HOME OF THE BRAVE, and INTRUDER IN THE DUST, but had no idea that some of these cases went to trial, and that the appellate courts at the time upheld the bans because racial segregation was accepted as legal). Joseph L. Mankewicz had talked about this situation, because in 1950, his film NO WAY OUT was subjected to the same problems, and its restricted showings in the South and its ban in many urban centers in the North (such as Chicago), set the film up for failure. Mankiewicz was always proud of his film (he was proud of the fact that he went to NYC and went to places like the Negro Ensemble Company, to seek out black talent, finding people like Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, and to bring them to Hollywood), and he felt it was as important as his other 1950 film (which was the megahit ALL ABOUT EVE). So you make a compelling point about the attempt of the Catholic Legion of Decency to assert authority, and in a predominantly Protestant country, that went over like a lead balloon.

6:24 What do they have against maggots lol

@bl3343

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps the depiction of maggots in beef might turn someone in the audience towards vegetarianism, and as we all know, vegetarianism is communism!😂

As an American who was raised in a strict Catholic household I'm not surprised at all by this. The Church has always issued orders to the faithful not to see this film or that, as well as books. I remember seeing the 'Last Temptation of Christ' & being greeted by a very large crowd of protestors. The Church had ordered the faithful to boycott & protest the film.

@alexiacaceda1421

4 ай бұрын

It’s very interesting because I live in a very catholic country but it’s not that uptight. The majority of people watch whatever they want now and in the past

All BKR's video essays are highly entertaining, informative, and insightful; this latest entry demonstrates why this series is truly important, necessary, and invaluable. More, please, thank you.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

David N, You get 10 pts for knowing Grade 5 English spelling, and grammar! Too bad the vast majority haven't mastered that skill!

As soon as I see u upload a video I gotta tune in a watch; your videos are amazing and I love everything that you do. You’ve inspired me to do so much!! Thank you❤️❤️❤️

You're such an amazing storyteller, thankyou so much for your work. X

my mom grew up very Catholic, but she always saw those "condemned by the Legion of Decency" labels as a seal of quality. Like if they are saying it's corrupting, it's probably a good movie

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

What does it mean to be very Catholic? As in very INDOCTRINATED?

@erinrising2799

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.blackhawk142 I meant as in she went to Catholic school, taught catechism (specifically 1st communion), went on a retreat at a convent every year, made rosaries as a hobby...that kind of very Catholic. She was not indoctrinated enough to stay with the church when some of the parishioners said I was going to hell.

You have inspired me to take a film course! I’m exited. Love your videos.

Your videos are incredible. So diligently researched, written in away that keeps you listening, and a voice that relaxes you while doing so! Also excellent incorporation of visual editing

Finally, been waiting since I saw the IG story

I have seen and read other descriptions about how important this film was in the overturn of Mutual, but your video is the best organized and clear picture of everything that was going on, and the conditions that existed for the decision. Bravo, well done!

Thank you for this great video. You really make a terrific work.

it’s pretty infuriating that some of the strongest voices opposing letting this film be shown did not even watch it 😑

you are a wonderful essayist. not only will i watch this video a few more times, but i'll make sure others watch it too. very nicely done.

Love the song choice when speaking about the Catholic church

Wow, I didn't know any of this before! Just fascinating. Great video as always!

Nice work. Did NOT know all this material. Interesting perspectives, too.

GREAT, great work!!!!

super interesting episode. Thanks!

@Be Kind Rewind - when you posted the recent vid about Marylin I commented that you had the skills to write and produce an essay about the triumphs of Norma in opposition to the "tragedy narrative" that is so prevalent for 61 years. One of your subscribers thought that I was attacking you with a sarcastic fake suggestion! I assured him that I was being sincere as you clearly have the thinking, writing and narration skills to undertake such a good idea. I still think it's a good idea.

A timely and important, yet fun and engaging video. Your batting average on this channel is incredible!

Excellent video. Honestly, U.S. film culture can be so repressed regarding themes and doesn't even watch the films it allegedly says are bad to watch. All the more reason to watch them. Also, as a former Catholic, the repression of free artistic expression and its connection to the Hays Code, censorship boards, etc is too finely linked. It's hard not to see a film made during the Hays Code where corners weren't cut finely just to get a notion across, and why there was such a sexual explosion in the late 60s into the 70s and 80s. So much was repressed. Also, I think it's fascinating that the theme of The Miracle was more contentious than the lead actress in the film. When Anna Magnani won her Oscar for doing a Hollywood film, one had to think if that was a peer-driven way for Hollywood to recognize her previous films for shaking the barley for their own freedom of speech through artistic expression.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

insideouter, (see what I did there?) Society has GRADUALLY been SATANIZED! I've seen it happen in my lifetime!

Thank you for a great presentation.

I love your videos! Film history (like regular ol history) reminds us that things haven't changed much except for the end of the Production Code. A few years ago, we almost had Congressional hearings over another European movie on Netflix. Incidentally, Netflix plays a bunch of their movies at the Paris Theater now.

very good and informative thanks ! 🙂

Amazingly well researched video.

Ms BKR, you are fabulosity itself! Another awesome presentation. Thank you! 🙏😘❤️

My understanding of history has been broadened, and there are so very many lessons to be taken from this - Thank you! Also, love your sense of humor :)

You have been popping off recently, these videos have been coming out so quickly

This is very enlightening. Thank you.

Thank you for this excellent video, I learned a lot about movie history that I thought I already knew.

Great, stimulating content ... forms part of my renaissance of the appreciation of cinema ...

Not sure if this is the first BKR essay I've ever seen, but regardless... Well done !!! I will be checking out more~~~ It felt informative, entertaining, and well-researched. You made "history" interesting and engrossing for someone who loves movies but doesn't love "history."

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

WHO not sure???

I find the subject of censorship in movies quite fascinating as there are parallels of movie censorship in the past and that of book banning happening in the present. In both cases, it seems in both cases, the root cause is because both the older and the younger generations were politically at odds with each other on what they considered as “morally acceptable”.

@TheVinci19

Жыл бұрын

exposing kids to pornography in schools shouldn't even be debated. IN 50's there was a fight between liberty and obscurity, these days the fight is between normal decency and totally disgusting depravation, if you broaden your point of view, and look at what other countries did and thought those day, and what do and think know, you understand that the similiarities are just apparent

@davy209

Жыл бұрын

The problem is that extreme right wing zealots automatically label everything that is LGBTQ content as “pornography” regardless is the content is tame. They banned a kids book because it has two gay penguins, that’s just ridiculous!

@davy209

Жыл бұрын

Also if you don’t want your kids to read those books, then don’t allow them to. You don’t need to make that decision for other parents regarding their children, just saying!

@TheVinci19

Жыл бұрын

@@davy209 it's the contrary: if you want your kids read those books, let them doing. But talking about sex and 'gender' to 6-8, and even 10 yo kids, is wrong on any level, and schools shouldn't let kids of that age reading those stuff

@davy209

Жыл бұрын

Yeah because kids that sometimes other kids have either two moms or two dads is so traumatizing to them…

amazing video, I now want to marathon all the movies you mentioned

Thanks for the vid

Drop everything you are doing. The new BKR video is heeeeeeerrrrreeeeeee!

Every time I watch something by “BKR”, it inspires me to do something new in film. God, I love this channel.

Sorry... Gerald McBoing-Boing??

@daalimbe

Жыл бұрын

I choked on my tea 😂

I just wanna tell you your videos are BOMB! 🔥 Girl I’ve been watching you for a year now and these videos are so sickening! ✨ Top notch in every way!

Very interesting - thanks!

Izzy! I love these film history videos aside from your actresses videos! Keep making these!

Love this channel

So interesting. I am so thankful for how far we have come.

Informing and Entertaining. Love the vídeo.

Amazing as always

Such an interesting account. And sadly still relevant battles within our society. Great video, thanks

This video heals my soul ❤❤

12 years of Catholic school…I only went for 4 years for high school and those were the worst years of my life. Man that sucks. Great video, I’ve never heard about this film or the controversy surrounding it!

I loved this episode so much. I usually know a bit about whatever you are profiling, but this was ALL new to me - and utterly fascinating. Wow.

WTH...I'm subscribed and notifications on and yet KZread doesn't alert me to your videos dropping. If I don't check in on your channel myself every once in awhile I'd never know new vids are out. Huge fan of your channel❤

Great content

Similar groups succeeded in banning "Joyland" in Pakistan last year 😑

It’s, of course, insane that it took until 1952 for the US Supreme Court to hold that motion pictures fall within the purview of the First Amendment. (I’m not sure if it’s better to have a First Amendment to protect against some reactionary, repressive minority pressuring the government to act or to not have that reactionary, repressive minority in the first place.)

Lookee there…I too at tended Catholic school for twelve years as well. 🎭

@TheJillers

Жыл бұрын

Oh hello fellow former-catholic. (I presume, I don't think anyone I went to Catholic school with stayed Catholic)

@Swimdeep

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJillers Just Catholic on the books. The he Catholic Church is a hot mess.

@betsymcc61

Жыл бұрын

I'm a rare bird: a liberal practicing Catholic. The Church is a hot mess but some of us are staying within and fighting for change. Completely understand leaving though.

I had the same E.N.T. doctor that Cardinal Spellman had. 50 years ago, they still used legal amounts of cocaine for certain conditions. I didn't get high but I could breath properly for the first time in my life.

BKR's narrating and editing video are improve significantly! Keep up the good work then. As a fellow cinephile, I always enjoy and support your channel. Ps: cute picture of younger you in catholic school there

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

Ps:??? 1st door to yer left!

Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman was always quick to use his power on people and walked around as if he was the moral compass of the nation, he was a defender of McCarthy & McCarthyism. A little fact about Spellman is that he was a gay man, one of his "lovers" included Roy Cohn.

Thank you!❤

Wow. Thank you for this history lesson. ❤

I didn't expect to be that interested in this story but then it got into the real legal challenges and the politics of the Supreme Court and I was invested again.

The Minions of Moscow should be a band's name.

Really interesting!

Thank you mubi.

I just watched the documentary on Judy Blume, that & your video uncomfortably reminded me of the attempts of censorship today, in 2023. It never stops & we must never stop fighting it.

So far, this is the best video I've seen on all of KZread in 2023.

Very interesting!

"Degradation" is pronounced "deh-grah-DAY-shun". I always thought that the film was about a pilgrimage to that place where that thing happened where the two little girls saw the Virgin Mother but I was going off the title with zero info and now...

Thank you for this. I got all the way through film grad school without hearing about this case.

(32:13-32:25) '...mere weeks after the "Miracle" decision.' Actually even closer than that -- just one week (Monday June 2, 1952, being just one week after Monday May 26, 1952).

it will never cease to amaze how some people feel entitled to rob other people of their own experience, interpretive thoughts and ideas...and how so many people think they need to be told 'right' from 'wrong' or in this case 'holy' or 'un'.

@mr.blackhawk142

Жыл бұрын

Yup! At least we are 'FREE' to PAY for THREE houses to buy one! Gotta love DEMONcracy!!!

I'm watching this and thinking... "Hmm, Disney, Florida." 🤔🏰 OUTSTANDING video, thank you for such consistently great work!

This is a good indicator of how, because more stories could be represented after the codes were lifted from this case, that more could be done to gain the rights of all because of this case. Keeps me hopeful for the future what with the current social climate :)