today’s nyt crossword theme requires you to assume that ordering matters within sets, who do I sue

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scandalous waste of eggs in Mikio Naruse's Yearning (1964)

4pak of miscellaneous reaction images, enjoy thinking of what kinds of posts you could reply to them with

a sortof thesis statement for Ozu's many movies about the postwar generation gap, from Equinox Flower (1958)

friend’s dad painted the dog. highly recommend having friends with dads

Yuen Woo-ping is in his 80s but he hasn't stopped innovating—in his brand new movie Blades of the Guardians he invents a whole new schoolyard bully maneuver, UltraPantsing

red-blooded soviet men expressing excitement through the medium of dance in Boris Barnet's By the Bluest of Seas (1936)

read a cool article www.latimes.com/lifestyle/im...

grabbed three characteristic Ozu shots basically at random from Late Autumn (1960). camera placed close to the ground; emphasis on the geometry of the space

onscreen handwriting in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Blissfully Yours (2002)

I am at one of the tables in front of the coffee shop trying to meet with a dissertating student while this happens, in case you want to know what it's like to live in LA www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCa...

figures and landscapes in Imamura's My Second Brother (1959)

further adventures in I can't remember why I took these screenshots

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rhetorically peaking with the sentence "It is important not to throw the conditional out with the biconditional bath water"

went to a party where people competed to slice various items precisely in half, and I wasn’t the only person to do a song off of Melvins - Houdini at the karaoke afterparty. this world is full of wonders

today's edition of why did I take these screenshots

bizarre, inscrutable (koanic?) story from the filming of Mary McCarthy adaptation The Group, from Cinematic Immunity, an oral history of New York filmmaking from the perspective of below-the-line crewmembers

person on top of the pile here, just chiming in with a defense of the moral legitimacy of the pile

“create a new style of wife who has a job”

just fyi in this song aesop rock rhymes "Tekkonkinkreet on the telly" with "fill the mug with Martinelli's" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUN8...

jackie chan proving he’s Still Young www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydse...

received at 12:01 am

🎶 I’m crying with my face three feet from an eel 🎶

*to the tune of walking in memphis* I’m crying in H Mart

hell speaking of painted backdrops, here's some from Kobayashi's Kwaidan, a 1964 feast of conspicuously artificial soundstage sets

fun little matte backdrop in the archers' life and death of colonel blimp (1943)

i deleted all the games and apps off my phone, put my phone in a trash can, and now just carry my game boy around in my pocket instead. so if you want to reach me you will have to release a new game boy game.

beautifully layered reflections shot on unbelievably badlooking DV in 28 Days Later. in 2002—an unimaginably long time ago—you could walk into a theater to watch whatever the biggest movie that week was and see these images the size of a wall, with every DV pixel the size of your hand

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's A USEFUL GHOST (2025)

taking a phone call among the textiles in Wang Bing's Youth (Homecoming)

cillian murphy x floris roelofsen

the devil born from a winespill in 1933

from a crank email gesturing toward an occult racial theory. appreciate the chutzpah, consider me arrogant

hey wait a minute is that a contrabass balalaika?

four screengrabs I can't remember why I took

flipped off by a departing lee kang-sheng, the greatest humiliation in all cinema

luis buñuel's los olvidados (1950). egg on your face.

font fans, treat yourself to this '71 vintage Canadian Minimalism

Frederick Wiseman - rare case where a 96-year-old filmmaker’s death feels tragic because they had so much more left to do. Uninterrupted streak of curiosity, empathy, wisdom, and quiet anger, ended only by the reality of living in a human body.

Frederick Wiseman was the greatest American artist to have ever lived. RIP