Manoel de Oliveira made this 64-minute gem when he was 100 years old, bringing those years of wisdom to an impeccably shot story of a young man who thinks he understands a woman simply because her beauty enchants him.

Remaking Kids by MGMT to Learn Why It’s So Good www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsiH...

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who didn’t know his birthday because he was born into slavery so he chose February 14 as his birthday.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Do the Russos think of themselves as creative visionaries, though? I almost posted an embittered "must be nice" joke about how they get to play on a $300M creative playground for a job, but I'm not sure that's what the work is to them. More than anything, they come across like hedge fund managers.

Never fails to amaze me that these two jabronis get to make movies at an almost incomprehensible scale, even though they evidently have little interest in actually making A Movie

"If you’ve never had the tiresome experience of listening at length to a friend whose consumption of psychoactive substances has filled their mind with dreams of absolute reality, Patricia Lockwood’s newest novel, Will There Ever Be Another You, will serve as a decent proxy."

My big one is that I watched each of the three chapters of Don Hertzfeldt's IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY as individual short films during their respective touring releases in the late '00s and early '10s

Must be emphasized that if Marimar Martinez hadn't (1) survived her five gunshot wounds, (2) beaten the bogus charges against her, and (3) had the courage to get back into the ring and demand justice for herself, these disgusting messages would likely have remained permanently hidden from the public

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I hear Stephen Colbert's schedule is going to have plenty of openings later this year

Stratton is the only major candidate in this race who has promised to support replacing Schumer as party leader, if that tells you anything about the kinds of Democrats her opponents are. (She's also endorsed by Elizabeth Warren, fwiw.)

Have never blocked anyone faster than the rando I just saw sneering at Christopher Tolkien as a "nepo baby"

the earliest depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is among the ruins of a Roman palace turned messenger boy’s school - a student mocking one of his Christian classmates with a doodle of a boy praying to a donkey-headed figure on a cross captioned “Alexamenos worshipping his God”

Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

Today I learned that the paleontologist who recorded the educational dino audio programs that my son sometimes listens to at bedtime ... is in the Epstein files. So that's fun.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

On the latest Sam Raimi joint:

Gonna do my usual MUNICH-fan thing and sing Hinds's praises in that film. He plays a cold, analytical type recognizable from any number of movies about assassins, but his performance makes you wonder whether the coldness is a facade: the character's way of coping with being a professional killer.

Today I've (unfortunately) been learning a lot about the inner life of a very specific species of Business Guy, and the second-most unnerving discovery is that they will fat-finger a zillion typos into an email and then just hit "send" without either fixing them or experiencing total mental collapse

cs lewis: in my book I invented a hideous speaking severed head intended to guide scientifically-minded elites seeking to control society as a cautionary tale tech company: at long last we have created the Head of the Institute to help guide society from classic sci-fi novel "that hideous strength"

Unsexy parenting detail: ninety percent of my personal growth these days comes from ignoring my stung ego when my sick kid gets snippy with me

Homan's "wearing spectacles on the tip of my nose while disclaiming any responsibility for my integral role in escalating state violence" is quintessential Pontius Pilate bullshit

Catholic philosopher* Eleonore Stump has a few words about ICE. *I realize this is like calling Prince “a guitarist”

when your wife is the one handling the preschooler's bedtime and she suddenly transforms into the antagonist in a YA fantasy novel

But we’re not done making you pay

We broke you, ya fuckin nazi hobbit

Things are bad, they're really bad, but the past six months have really highlighted how the Christian understanding of evil as a fundamentally perverted, inward-focused, unimaginative phenomenon—a darkness that not only shrinks away from light but also can't even understand it—remains undefeated.

part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them. they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret

On one of the best movies of last year:

Re: the latter group of priests in this headline, current events are really exposing how many American Christians - of all political and theological stripes - think of their faith primarily in terms of aesthetic & lifestyle preferences rather than as a set of serious moral and spiritual commitments

It's funny, in a gallows-humor sense, to read the social media of conservatives trying to defend this regime. Their defenses are weak, halfhearted, reliant entirely on innuendo and insinuation.

Logging off now. Read the final sentence of this post and literally felt my gorge rise. Sickening evil.

Last week "abolish ice" was the moderate position I'd say the moderate position today is probably Nuremberg

"Hah, nice try, but I'm not taking the bait," I chuckle as a snarling masked man Maces my two-year-old in the face

To paraphrase Pope Francis, love demands that we stop the oppressor and abuser from committing oppression and abuse. We cannot forget what’s happening, because to forget is to hand them the tools to hurt other people again. None of these men should be granted power over another, ever again.

I have tried three times to articulate my feelings about this, and each time I have had to delete what I wrote because saying such things out loud would land me in prison

We're about two weeks from Amy Klobuchar tweeting out "MORE 👏 WOMEN 👏 ICE AGENTS 👏 " and the New York Times publishing a news story that's like "Klobuchar bolsters gender equity among the secret police, but will it be enough to flip the Senate?"

We are now firmly in the stage of this regime where people are dying in concentration camps. Anyone who is still calling for "civility" or "reform" or "bipartisanship" in the face of this news should be regarded as a collaborator and an obstacle to what must be done to bring these horrors to an end.

I was a college freshman coming back from Christmas vacation for the first time, so I didn't have a strong grasp of how public transit from the airport to my suburban college worked. Got lost in the South Loop with my suitcases from home. (This was before smartphones and GPS.) (1/3)

hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov hope you're taking notes

This movie whips, go see it. I’ve been thinking about it since TIFF, and was fortunate enough to interview Mona Fastvold about it during the Chicago International Film Festival

*George Bailey voice* That's what I get for not praying

Not exaggerating even a little: my post-college decision to stay in Chicagoland instead of moving back to New Mexico was influenced significantly - if not primarily - by the fact that I wanted to live in a place with lots of nearby movie theaters

Last year's 28 YEARS LATER pleasantly surprised me as an excellent horror threequel. @dodgyboffin.com is here to report that the follow-up, THE BONE TEMPLE, is also very much worth your time:

Kalgon-ass mf-er #MST3K