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Happy New Year! For January’s Twin Cinema Movie Club, we’ll be going over (and over and over) a couple of high-concept low-budget time loop movies 📽️ Can we outrun ourselves, or has our future always already happened? TIMECRIMES is dark & Fincher-y, BEYOND is incredibly clever & fun. Both on Kanopy!
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Decided to go in chronological order. First rewatch in a long time for several of these. Merry Christmas from me to meeeee let the Wong Kar-Wai Criterion box set marathon commence 📽️
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It's a Christmas miracle, I finally had time to finish the 4th and final installment of my essay series on gentrification of cinema, concluding with temperance films, the Karen-ification of the nickelodeons, & the invention of narrative cinema 📽️#filmsky
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The Gentrification of Cinema, Part IV
Empathy, Narrativity, and the Temperance Movement
https://open.substack.com/pub/moviesbeforebreakfast/p/the-gentrification-of-cinema-part-db5?r=eyljf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Omg Santa got me EXACTLY what I wanted! (She is me, I am Santa) 📽️
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Chantal Akerman & Wong Kar-Wai Criterion box sets unwrapped this morning 🤓😁
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As I was about to make cookies, my kitchen sink decided to clog suddenly and without warning after years of seamless disposaling. After 20 minutes of sweaty plunging, the clog has moved to my shower drain. At 9pm on Christmas Eve eve. I’m having a Clark Griswold moment
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What about my favorite absurdist anti-authoritarian Christmas movie, Brazil?
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Lines from Die Hard that are a part of my movie quote vernacular year round: - Welcome to the party, pal - No fuckin shit lady, do I sound like I’m ordering a pizza? - [I’m feeling] pretty fuckin unappreciated, Al 📽️
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My two favorite Christmas movies are the Socialist one (It’s a Wonderful Life) and the Republican one (Die Hard) 🤷🏻♀️ it’s a complicated vibe 📽️
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That feeling when you’ve finally completed the bare minimum and you get to actually be on your holiday PTO
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The last few weeks I’ve been regulating my emotions by cramming episodes of LOST into every available second of the day. What a great scifi show & so many episodes to feast on. Also Michael Emerson’s line deliveries are 🤌
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Plate 6: Delisse w pomegranate, homemade cherry jam, chocolate sea salt caramels, & slightly-sweet whole wheat crackers
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Plate 5: Humboldt Fog w orange marmalade, dried apricots, duck prosciutto, & crostini
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Plate 4: Negroni Bleu w grapes, pomegranate, dried apricots, duck prosciutto, & sea salt crackers
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Plate 3: young Manchego w castelvetrano & Kalamata olives, jambon de Bayonne, honey roasted almonds, pepitas, fig&olive crackers, & membrillo (aka quince paste)
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Plate 2: Hornbacher w blackberries, onion confit, wild boar sausage, tarragon Dijon mustard, and water crackers
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Plate 1: Red Leicester w green apple, cornichons, homemade onion confit, wild boar sausage, & sourdough crackers
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I had no idea the kraken I was releasing. She threw us a cheese party w cheeses she ordered from Murray’s NYC & used their recommended pairings to make custom boards for each of 6 famous award-winning cheeses
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I told my foodie sis that what I wanted for Xmas was to try some cheeses w pairings so I can learn what I like & what it goes with. She said “say less”
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Backstory: some years ago I was having some health issues & my doc said to cut out a few foods to see if it helped, & it did. Which led me to many years w/o dairy. Recently I’ve been reintroducing cheese into my diet & it’s gone well. But I am ignorant about cheeses bc of the long break
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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7 days ago
This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
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oh hellllll yes been looking forward to this one. Riz Ahmed has RANGE and Art Malik is gonna be great in this
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"It's about a flock of sheep who love crime novels and they have to solve the murder of their shepherd and the villain is played by Emma Thompson"
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8 days ago
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Gifs you can hear
#randomchristmasgif
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9 days ago
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My coworkers figured out that I like tea 😍 my work gifts Xmas haul 🫖
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11 days ago
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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📽️ The Princess Bride might be the most broadly popular movie ever made. I know a lot of people feel like I do, like it’s part of their family lore. The last Thanksgiving with my dad, he wasn’t really there, but I put The Princess Bride on the TV and he just beamed and we watched it together.
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don't let the 🍊🤡 hijack the moment. not everything is about him 📽️
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📽️ these career retrospective posts are grim. These people were stabbed to death. I feel sick, I need to process it first. I am not ready for the heartwarming “I grew up loving his movies, RIP” posts, it’s jarring. No one can wait half a day before using this news to self-promote? Ugh this is gross
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Happy New Year! For January’s Twin Cinema Movie Club, we’ll be going over (and over and over) a couple of high-concept low-budget time loop movies 📽️ Can we outrun ourselves, or has our future always already happened? TIMECRIMES is dark & Fincher-y, BEYOND is incredibly clever & fun. Both on Kanopy!
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if you enjoyed AFTER YANG, I encourage you to check out Kogonada's first feature, COLUMBUS. It's a 10 out of 10 movie. I can't say enough good things about it 📽️
www.kanopy.com/en/cuyahogal...
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Another great movie club meeting! We got off topic on the films and into AI writ large, which was partially by design since I wanted to talk about AI with our brilliant members and pick their brains for hot takes 📽️
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Twin Cinema Movie Club this morning! We’re discussing two recent films about robot companions. If you’ve never actually read the essay that birthed the term “uncanny valley” I highly recommend it. Short & eye-opening 📽️ linked here
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The Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori
“The Uncanny Valley” by Masahiro Mori is an influential essay in robotics. This is the first English translation authorized by Mori.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-uncanny-valley
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Parker Molloy
14 days ago
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I’ve been plowing through a lot of the classic noirs on Kanopy - some great movies!
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Another terrific book club book and meeting, thanks poobah. It’s like if I could take my favorite class over and over forever and everybody always gets an A 🤓
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📽️Twin Cinema Movie Club special feature: this short film called I'm Not a Robot is a terrific, funny, suspenseful, and insightful look at the robot companion idea from another angle. It's available free on Kanopy!
www.kanopy.com/en/cuyahogal...
14 days ago
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You will be visited by 3 spirits. 💙💚Severance edition
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18 days ago
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie. This picture of my cat Scully snoozing on a niche early film history book and some fresh post-its is basically me. I could be even nerdier if I wasn’t always so sleepy 📽️👽😸
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📽️ here are some of my favorite movies that are clearly train movies but also support my ‘train movie’ thesis: Unstoppable Strangers on a Train (& Throw Momma from the Train) Snowpiercer 3:10 to Yuma The Darjeeling Ltd Brief Encounter North by Northwest Murder on the Orient Express
19 days ago
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📽️ here are some movies you may not think of as train movies but I say they are: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Stalker Stand by Me Past Lives Pather Panchali
19 days ago
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📽️ what makes a train movie? Glad you asked. A significant sequence has to take place on a train or train tracks, and ideally that scene is part of the film’s central theme of inevitability / fate. Some movies have little actual train but are very train-y (Train Dreams is a perfect example)
19 days ago
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📽️ my IMDb train movies list has 68 movies on it. Time to migrate it to Letterboxd so everyone else can benefit from my weird hyperfixation
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📽️ just finished Train Dreams, another excellent train movie. I’ve been cooking an essay series on train movies for years. TLDR: there’s a weird amount of trains in movies because trains are movies and movies are trains. I promise after 5,000 words it would make more sense
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Before Netflix absorbs everything into its shadowless algorithm content blob, I encourage you to use Kanopy. It’s free through the library & I use it constantly. The more you use it, the more the library can justify asking for continued funding for it. Their merch money goes to the library too.
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20 days ago
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But I’m seeing doom & gloom in a year with new well-reviewed films by Ryan Coogler, PTA, GDT, Chloe Zhao, Kelly Reichardt, Ari Aster, Jia Zhangke, Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Edgar Wright, JAFAR PANAHI, and a whole bunch of newcomers with fresh interesting voices. My 2025 watchlist is PACKED
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The media industry is enshittifying & Netflix wants to own your eyeballs. It’s harder than ever to get your money into the hands of the artist. Monoculture is dead so no matter how good a movie is almost no one you know will have seen it. I’m not saying things are great
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In the last two months I’ve watched films from Hollywood but also South Korea, Sweden, China, Iran, Germany, England, Spain. I watched a movie that grossed $15,000 worldwide. It ruled. Having worked tiny film festivals, there’s so much cool stuff no one would ever get to see if it weren’t online.
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