This mask always makes me laugh. i don't like to look at the other one..

this track absolutely fucking goes btw

me: Aaron please ... finish this movie so we can talk about it @notoriouslightning.bsky.social: youtu.be/i7UHEFmW6EU

Great question! and gives me the chance to plug Chritsopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE. A film of bracing intimacy that feels gargantuan, poetic, devastating...will age better than 95% of all movies set during COVID.

should probably post about movies on here again at some point

looked a *little* rough, but we got 5x315lb

3x315lb achievement unlocked

hit 305lb today. ten pounds away from previous 5x squat pr.

with the caveat that there are (by my last count) at least two dozen more features that i would have liked to see before finalizing this list, here are my 25 favorite films of 2024:

with the caveat that there are (by my last count) at least two dozen more features that i would have liked to see before finalizing this list, here are my 25 favorite films of 2024:

hadn't heard much on lisandro alonso's EUREKA, so imagine my surprise to discover a favorite film of 2024 in its waning days. traverses genre and form to reveal the disquieting resonances of capitalist/colonial violence perpetually shaping indigenous realities. mesmerizing.

gonna keep posting these here where i have a smaller audience than the other place. working back up to 405lb pr. made it to 5x365lb today.

NEW HIT FACTORY // Writer @robrubsam.bsky.social joins to discuss the career of the brilliant Terence Davies and his 1992 masterwork THE LONG DAY CLOSES - an impressionistic, elliptical journey through childhood memory both warmly nostalgic and mournfully ruminative. Links below.

Went on @hitfactorypod.bsky.social to talk with @notoriouslightning.bsky.social about everything I find poignant and profound in the life and work of Terence Davies, crystallized so perfectly in the Long Day Closes. Listen here and everywhere else: open.spotify.com/episode/6kzI...

THE ORDER: as bad as they should reasonably allow any movie to be, which is to say...not all that bad, but puddle deep & often very dumb. kurzel shows off in the more contained moments, which makes the perfunctory execution of its would-be showstoppers all the more frustrating.

that’s the beauty of cinema, it’s never political!

hasn't been done, im afraid

nearly back up to previous pr. one more week then onward, upward, etc.

finally caught up w/ GOOD ONE. hinges on a moment so abrupt, yet finely executed that it left me breathless. patiently charts the topography of middle-aged discontent before shifting to account for its wreckage, all captured within the wonderful lily collias' attuned performance. a major work!

any chance anyone wants to do my job for me for the next week so i can marathon the 20 movies i still want to try to get to before i finalize my year-end list?

carlee got me the new criterion 4K of HAPPINESS, which has yet to be delivered...she drew this by hand and wrapped it at approx. 2am last night and thinks it's not very good despite being perfect. i would have recognized it even without the text.

Best release news ever

apparently alan rudolph's CHOOSE ME is coming to criterion 4k in 2025. incredible news. youtu.be/SaOQbpBJ6t0?...

Bringing Out the Dead (1999); happy birthday to Marty, impossible to pick just one fave but have always had a soft spot for this one. Some of Cage’s finest work, and the god Robert Richardson shots the hell out of it. Glad that its reputation seems to have grown over the years.

On Red Rooms and our moral stasis

ICYMI - we talked to Pascal Plante, director of RED ROOMS and its thematic ties to Spanish thriller THESIS. its a great conversation about art, mediated experiences, and the joy of watching a film that treats you as an intelligent participant.

Like Plante's latest RED ROOMS, Amenábar's THESIS (1996) has much to say about emerging technologies as empathy killers that derealize our corporeal experiences, diminish our discernment, and produce a flattened equivalency of violent images across screens. real & unreal merge into one.

Like Plante's latest RED ROOMS, Amenábar's THESIS (1996) has much to say about emerging technologies as empathy killers that derealize our corporeal experiences, diminish our discernment, and produce a flattened equivalency of violent images across screens. real & unreal merge into one.

1. Listen to this podcast because they're great. 2. Thesis fucking rules. If it weren't for The Others then it'd be my favourite Amenábar.

got to talk to the director of one of the year's best films about his work, the responsibility of artists, and the excellent Spanish thriller THESIS. you should check it out.

got to talk to the director of one of the year's best films about his work, the responsibility of artists, and the excellent Spanish thriller THESIS. you should check it out.

avoiding an episode edit. why not...

when I die I want the Austin Powers impersonator guy to crash my funeral

just recorded 2½ hours on Red Rooms lol

rewatching one of the coens' very best.

how we doing today, bluesky?

Jean Rollin (with scenes from his film "Fascination") - BOTD

can't believe how good Songs of a Lost World is. can't believe robert smith still sounds like that.

watching romero's DAY OF THE DEAD for the first time this evening. might be the best one, huh?

watching

GHOSTWATCH (1992) is one of the scariest fucking things i've ever seen. that it stays so restrained - almost dull - and actively rewards your disregard/skepticism for so long only adds to its immense power to terrify. had a tough time turning the lights off after this one.

the other place is feeling more miserable than usual. might hang out over here for a bit.

HACKERS is a film I didn't quite vibe w/ on the whole, but found a way in via its consideration of the internet as frontier...evoking themes & motifs common in one of my favorite genres - the Golden Age American western. Had a great chat w/ @guslanzetta.bsky.social and @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social.

HACKERS is a film I didn't quite vibe w/ on the whole, but found a way in via its consideration of the internet as frontier...evoking themes & motifs common in one of my favorite genres - the Golden Age American western. Had a great chat w/ @guslanzetta.bsky.social and @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social.

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // @guslanzetta.bsky.social returns to discuss the sexy, stylish HACKERS- an ode to a burgeoning subculture & an influence on how the internet & its denizens were portrayed on film for the rest of the 90s and beyond. Subscribe & LIsten: www.patreon.com/posts/hacker...