that Iran vs New Zealand game kicked ass

Goddamn, THE FURIOUS fucks. Gorgeously brutal. Obsessed.

omg Ludwig’s coming back!

Disclosure Day!

Disclosure Day round 2. most of my misgivings evaporated.

somebody just tried to tell me Schindler's List sanitized the Holocaust, and i swear to god Godard, Gilliam, Haneke and all those miserable assholes poisoned the well so badly you'd think the movie was a fucking happy-go-lucky fairy tale.

So beautiful they projected chris pontius' penis onto the bfi imax screen

people keep saying Disclosure Day is silly for having the breaking news come from local television, but like 80% of the news that goes viral online is literally from television

obligated to share this, my favourite thing i've ever written

And he clearly wanted to fuck a motorcycle. (With an assist from Ken Russell on the video) youtu.be/EPx1dF9E2cM?...

Matthew Rhys's accent is just so good

worst feeling in the world when i realize i somehow talked my way into a pitch without a strong enough point and then have to give up

Criterion really delivering

sick cover art, wow

haha yes YES

just watched Coleman Hughes talking to Peter Beinart about Israel and my biggest conclusion is that Coleman Hughes is deeply stupid

the real solution to the salary cap debate is to [redacted] all the owners and make the teams worker-owned

throwing on The Post, just to see if i'd misjudged it

saw John Sayles and Maggie Renzi present City of Hope tonight, which was even better than i remembered, and also holy cow Robert Richardson shot the hell out of that thing

there’s this shot in Disclosure Day where Colin Firth is in that chair biting down on his mouth guard and he’s a dead ringer for Tim Robbins

Disclosure Day: I’m not even sure how I feel about it yet but this might be the most fascinating movie of Spielberg’s career. The script doesn’t always support it but visually and thematically it’s like a grab-bag across his filmography, reworked in new and provocative ways.

anyway, while nowhere near as good, i found the ending of Disclosure Day moving in kind of the same way The Last Temptation of Christ moves me

related to the thread i just posted: i'd like to see some writing on Disclosure Day about how Spielberg redoes the ending of Close Encounters in the style of the process-heavy opening scenes of Close Encounters

Spielberg's great miscalculation with Disclosure Day is making a film about faith predicated on a shared belief that empathy is real and good, but in the year 2026, that is not remotely a shared belief

Disclosure Day (Spielberg, 2026)

what other New York miracles can Zohran pull?

Spike Lee looking shellshocked, like he still can’t quite believe it happened, amazing

Was there (at home in front of a radio) in 1973; the wait, and the drama, and maybe understanding better the magnitude of the achievement, make this even sweeter.

Dolan holding that trophy does kinda suck

HISTORY.

♥️NY

Has a team ever won a title by winning the same exact same game four times?

wow

haha what

interesting that they're not putting this one online

Matewan is the kind of movie that makes you go “they don’t make em like this anymore,” except then you remember they never made them like that at all. one of one. nothing else like it.

Matewan time

caught John Sayles after the screening and he laid out the entire process of clearing the music for Baby It’s You for me

now for Baby, It’s You and Matewan, with John Sayles

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

my worst opinion is New York bagels suck

nobody on Twitter clicks links, nobody on Bluesky reads the links they click, but on Reddit, they’ll copy and paste your full piece in the comments so at the very least *some* people will read it

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Olivia Rodrigo killin’ it once again

this is a wonderful interview

bluesky’s got big losers, in other words energy tonight

just walked by a bar with a country singer performing Jason Isbell’s Cover Me Up, which is feels like nice coincidence after hearing it in Carolina Caroline

occurs to me that, philosophically, if AI is assumed to have consciousness because it can expertly mimic human behaviour based on the accumulated data human beings have produced and recorded online, it’s really a statement of arrogance as to the data humanity has produced and recorded online!

world's richest man, and world's richest nazi? same guy