it's usually bad form to say a filmmaker has no idea what they're doing but i am constantly tempted to do this with sirat (with reserved love of course)

it's now and never

got a ticket to a screening this weekend and this guy called jia zhangke is gonna show up? don't know if you've heard of him but

bosses be monologuing

as expected the sinners soundtrack is engaging in the same kind of genre-fuckery the movie does and it's peam

these names are like top notch world building

this "sinners movie" guy is gonna go far

oliver laxe has to be one of the more annoying filmmakers to have walked this earth but for the time being it's chill

ve are horst vessel ve carry ze flame

i don't think i've truly deprogrammed myself from the notion that video games are a "lesser" artform since even its great auteurs and luminaries speak unabashedly the language the ips and franchises not to mention what they do at the biggest awards

i only speak 3ish languages but i know how names sound in many more thanks to being immersed in international football from a young age. it's gonna pay huge dividends when i say the names of people who run major polish film festivals semi-accurately to their face

what's guy getting randomly hit by a car if not the most old school in-your-face moral judgment out there lol

currently watching a november 1944 universal newsreel. it's as if these major wartime events are coming to life before your very eyes. one can really feel the weight of history

not to defend fallon but he probably didn’t have that much of a role in booking these people, though it is an indictment of his character and the image he's cultivated that these people were booked for him

edward penishands

mahler's second symphony is just so glorious that scene in maestro makes total sense even though dramatically it really shouldn't

when people say "bad people can make great art" they're often treating the concepts of bad people and great art in pure abstract and they're also fucking lying

>russian nationalistic music >look inside >persia

getting this unfortunate vibe that internet movie people don't quite understand that the long-awaited death of Big Movies isn't necessarily heralding a golden age for Small Movies. good shot it just means even less money is going to smaller productions which is sorta happening in china already

irony poisoned mfs are gonna have to start unironically saying "drumpf" when netflix fires john oliver in order to get the merger approved btw

smfh

my dumbass bought polyester bedding in the dry beijing winter and there's so much static now my whole body lights up when i try to sleep

china might be one of the most phonebrained and gamerbrained countries out there wdym the ikea app, the food delivery app and the arthouse theater app all have a daily login streak system and you can just pay up in case you miss a day

ok i'll bite. ouch my teef

there's accidentally becoming important at your job and there's your boss expecting that the business trip you a newish employee is about to take will practically save the company

nothing i want to see at beijing's one rep theater next month which means i will be able to spend more on food than movies again! (this is a comment on the ridiculous ticket prices here not on how much i'm not eating)

they really need to let me upload my own gifs soon because that's supposed to make up 50% of my interminable and tedious posting on here

i believe i am of at least average intelligence (figured out i could mix different presets in the cyberpunk character creator by tweaking some stuff in blender)

at least 3 of my mutuals

yeah welcome to zohran's new york motherfuckers the cuomintang don't run this place anymore

when the barbarian says something so banknote-phobic you gotta hit em with the kaifeng stare

when bi gan hits it big and white people start calling him "gan"

flower

happy long day's journey into the night 59-minute oner day

ok sounds good

uh welcome back molotov and ribbentrop or something i’m very confused

for once i’m glad there aren’t enough leftists on here so that i’m not subjected to the worst china discourse that’s consumed the other place

bluesky poster @ravennotexactly.bsky.social sustained a low-grade left posting finger strain and will miss 1 to 2 weeks, sources tell me

technically the cloudflare people could just hold the rest of us hostage like paul atreides at the end of the last dune movie

it has come to my attention that ken burns is using some sort of video game-y graphics for his new american revolution doc and i say it is our civil duty to shout "judas" at our screens if not the man himself for betraying his pan-and-zoom roots

CLAIR OBSWEEP

more like washedkira fraudsawa

i actually question if this actually happened (or if it's still relevant) since over the past year or two state mouthpieces have been repeatedly assuring everyone that we're in fact not in a deflationary spiral

there's this chinese saying "drawing a big cake" referring to the all too common practice of companies promising dividends from future successes while skimping on current employee benefits. mine isn't even doing that, they're just talking about how big a cake they once had lol

vhere is ze money lebowski ve vants ze money lebowski

several reasons why our company could use a good lawyer one being how our flimsily written contracts/authorization letters always end with "IT IS HEREBY DECLARED" as if they become firmer and more binding through the cry of the emperor's courier/footstool

you just created 1 million hua guofengs

going into work knowing there's no way i'm getting paid on time this month, if at all

. @notthedarkweb.bsky.social yo have you seen kaili blues i rewatched it yesterday and it was even better than i remembered it