Now that I’ve seen MATERIALISTS, all the talk about Song’s influences is quite funny, because no one wanted to say out loud that it’s plainly closer to Woody Allen than anything else.
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Philosophy professor. Film, philosophy of art, fly fishing. tinyurl.com/Hard-to-Watch - tinyurl.com/lovebadmovies - strohltopia.com
- While people are focusing on Warner and how horrible Zaslav is, it’s a good time to revisit this. True enemy of cinema shit right here.
- Hitchcock’s derogatory term for the verisimilitude police, “the plausibles,” has officially been replaced by PLOTHOGS.
- I feel like the names that are usually mentioned as early adopters of digital for aesthetic reasons are Lynch, Godard, and Mann, but Hal Hartley did The Book of Life in 1998 and should be considered a trailblazer.
Lynch 🤝 Mann - Really funny that the clickbait mill of prodding directors for inflammatory comments on superhero movies has now made it to directors who at most .05% of people who like superhero movies have ever heard of.Pedro Costa: "Superhero movies are fascist. They do not let you think. You just follow and react." We talked to the emblematic Portuguese filmmaker about the fear of beginning new projects, financing mechanisms, Hollywood superhero films, and more. Read: tinyurl.com/2d3p3me3
- The number of QTs complaining that he left out City of God is very funny.🇧🇷 10 Great Brazilian Films, curated by @filipefurtado for @BFI, as an introduction to the best of Brazilian cinema.
- One thing that’s being ignored in Juror #2 discourse is the way Hoult’s moral crisis relates to his recovery program. It’s an understated aspect of the movie but will stand out to viewers who have experience with recovery. I wrote about it in a pair of Letterboxd reviews (below).
- After my first year on Twitter, my review: Cons: pit of virulent narcissism, rewards shallowness and hostility, corrupts even the best souls. Pros: reliably easy to find at least one person who agrees with me, risk of ruining my life with one tweet is exciting.
- Aside from established classics Mann and Tsai, this is the most based list I’ve seen.
- To save you the click, which doesn’t even clearly tell you which tragedy: it’s Euripides’ Hippolytus, in which Phaedra (presumably Argento) tries to seduce her stepson and then frames him for raping her. Now we’re cooking with gas.Abel Ferrara Sets Ancient Tragedy-Inspired Modern Gangster Story 'American Nails,' Starring Asia Argento and Willem Dafoe (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2024/film/glob…
- The rise of “elevated horror” was driven in part by the terrible reputation of the Saw movies (“good horror movies not torture porn like Saw and Hostel” was the opening critical salvo). Amazing that we’ve made it back to Saw and everyone’s like “oh thank god it’s not elevated.”
- The most ruinous shift in higher education during my lifetime is that instead of hiring administrators from the faculty, there is a professional administrator class with little or no teaching experience, and their primary goal is to get an even more lucrative administration job.Replying to @zenahitzUniversity administrators are obsessed with revenue generation. Why? Because they're spending too much outside of their core mission and what is necessary to support it. (18/x)
- Replying to @realJackEasonThis movie is *two hours and twenty minutes* long.
