What's that you say? The Prisoner??

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Interestingly, this master shot, which is one of the first images you can find on a Google image search, is not in HEAT. It's a well-used production still, but the film goes straight into a series of ever closer framed over the shoulder shot/reverse shots.

Have you noticed, everything seems pretty bad

Interestingly, this master shot, which is one of the first images you can find on a Google image search, is not in HEAT. It's a well-used production still, but the film goes straight into a series of ever closer framed over the shoulder shot/reverse shots.

The ethical use of AI…. is to not use AI

Da 5 Bloods

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Can't wait to vote against this worthless political hack in the shell of a human being.

What's left to say? NO to more war. I'm so tired of living in a nation ruled by a cabal of corrupt, cruel, racist, and evil men, who rape, pillage, and destroy, and do so blasphemously with the name of Christ on their lips.

Remember when the government was AGAINST Paramount's monopolistic practices? Pepperidge Farm remembers... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_....

Student, describing the plot of Idiocracy: "So it's about a future where everyone just uses computers to do all their thinking, and so everyone has become really dumb" Me: "Ah, like being in a high school"

Catch you a little sleep for a minute or two... RIP Robert Duvall www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YzB...

y'all ever hear of this movie called citizen kane. I don't know why this isn't in the conversation more for like the best movie ever boxd.it/d78Rhn

RIP the truly singular Bud Cort. Not many people could parlay the screen persona of "weird little dude" into such a varied and LONG Film career.

Share a TV show you love that has 3 seasons or less. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (I said what I said)

Thread: So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...

Thanks, @mattkindt.bsky.social

Been reading the John Williams biography, and the range of his collaborators has to be unparalleled. Directors from John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, John Frankenheimer, Robert Altman, Mertin Ritt, Alan Pakula, William Wyler, Clint Eastwood, Brian De Palma, and even Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra!...

Tell me your pet’s name with a gif.

This is true, which leads me to conclude that they know their justifications are the twin pillars of whiteness and the insulating power of (illicit) wealth

A film company logo that tells you you're about to see highly entertaining greatness

I'm the opposite of a Leto fan, but I have to admit this is the best he's looked in years

I have even less training than that. Zero days, in fact. And yet somehow I already know how to get out of the way of slow moving cars and that shooting unarmed people who aren't a threat is murder.

On the bright side, at least the Iraq War inspired some great art, like Revenge of the Sith

Looking forward to much chin-stroking and navel-gazing from our incredibly strong Congress.

How to redeem an otherwise dodgy year

I did alright #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

First completed book of 2026. (Began reading in 2025)

Pope Leo in Dilexi Te: “Thus, in a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people."

My son's Christmas Music project: www.instagram.com/reel/DSt1XZi...

First day of 2025 vs last day of 2025

Personal Gripe of the Year: The Mastermind, Sirāt, BLKNWS, and The Secret Agent all played commercially in Houston, but the theaters and distribs did their best to keep you from knowing. With the MFAH and the River Oaks, there is NO REASON for films like these to be buried in Humble or the AMC 30.

Excellent writing about this list, excellent rankings.

I’ve been hard at work on this all month: an epic history of the theme of Jesus’ birth and the Gospel infancy narratives in “Peanuts.” I couldn’t get it done by Christmas Day, but hey, it’s still the Christmas season! I hope you enjoy it. This is, I think my comics writing magnum opus so far.

My discoveries of 2025. Films I watched for the first time this year and rated 4 stars or better. boxd.it/R9pSe

RIP

boy i hope I watched ten whole movies this year

Today it got up to 82 degrees and tomorrow night it is supposed to be down to 39 degrees.

With SECRETS & LIES, I just finished my 2025 Criterion challenge watch list. 52 films I had never seen before. A great list overall! boxd.it/BhWJw

My students using "AI" to complete their assignments

How I'm walking out of 2025

The new stills I'm seeing aren't giving me any me any more FOMO feels

Well, what have we here?

I did one of those meme-y Criterion Challenges this year (Watch 52 movies, each of which meet some specific criterion on a list) and I only have 2 left to finish, but they're Cassavetes's FACES and Leigh's SECRETS AND LIES and I don't think they'll be full of holiday cheer. My list: boxd.it/BhWJw

As a teacher, as a citizen, and as a human: I co-sign every point Greg Pak makes in this thread. Ban LLM generative "AI". Now.

I love the part where the Hobbits get to Fangorn forest and meet the Ents

Every day I think about this. You'll never guess why.

In the past week I watched two films for the first time which both deal with serious themes about personal vs. Social judgment, but only one of the two handled the characters without putting their thumb on the scales of moral balance. I'm almost tempted to write about them to work out my thoughts.