It's no accident that we're discussing Jafar Panahi's "It Was Just An Accident" with @thomasflight.nebula.tv This astounding act of political defiance both in front of and behind the camera has just been nominated for Best International Feature, so do whatever you got to do to see it now!

On the new Writers on Film episode I am joined by @thomasflight.nebula.tv To talk THE DEATH OF CINEMA open.spotify.com/episode/3lw4...

A few more pictures from my time at the Cannes Film Festival, had an especially great time hanging out with fellow Nebula creators @thomasflight.nebula.tv and @patrickhwillems.bsky.social

You don't make countercultural art only in hopes of changing politics (though that's a fine aim), you make countercultural art so that there's a vibrant, appealing and beautiful alternative culture for people to participate in and find meaning within.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=IonP... The Top 10 Films of 2024 by @thomasflight.nebula.tv

This 100% except it's nothing new. Production has been increasingly divorced from actual needs of consumers since the 1920s thanks to Edward Bernays. I think it's just harder to notice the "needs that are constructed by advertising" that around at our birth vs. the ones created in our lifespan.

Due to recent events, this week's laserdisc rip is the Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack. A Japan-exclusive disc from 1992 featuring Angelo Badalamenti's score set against a bunch of B-roll that a Japanese film crew captured of various places in Snoqualmie, Washington

The deep irony of course being that X was one of the most most significant tools of propaganda last year. Not enough people talking about "The Art of The Surge" as highly produced, pure, unadulterated propagandistic TV that co-opts documentary aesthetics to create the appearance of objectivity.

Who will we choose to be?

Okay it turned out this wasn't "the next one"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB8X... David Lynch Really Was One of The Greats by @thomasflight.nebula.tv

What hypothetical dream films would you greenlight if you could? I'd love a gnostic gospel adaptation by Eggers (starring Dafoe) so much, don't get my hopes up like this Robert.

David Lynch changed how I think about art. Very sad to hear of his passing today. I wrote a bit about what his work has meant to me over here: open.substack.com/pub/thomasfl...

I'm having fun with this next one.

My favorite little character trope in tv and film is when they pour a ridiculous amount of sugar in their coffee. You're like "Oh... this guy's got personality... He's just a little bit *unhinged*"

Every day there are people who wake up and their aspiration in life is to make the world of Blade Runner a reality.

Maybe the clearest feature of AI writing is just how mind-numbingly boring it is (especially stylistically). Which has this weird side-effect where now I just assume everything boring was written by an AI.

NYC Cinema > Hollywood

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