JOE i am :blushing:

i feel culturally removed enough from a lot of the responses not to want to engage but this one jumped out at me and made me laugh. father truly went away on business

In this week’s guide: my favorite narrative film of the year, docs about ethnic cleansing and abuses in the Alabama prison system, NewFest 37 and Refocus Film Festival, must-see repertory screenings, Kira Muratova and Ulrike Ottinger, and a short doc about Palestinian Arabian horse breeders.

ok ok i guess i'll finally watch NOSFERATU if you need to twist my arm this hard about it

so psyched i got the fucker on the first go. i bet this is how michael crichton got the idea for jurassic park

Early in this conversation, Marty asked Jafar about the genesis of his interest in cinema, to which Jafar spoke about his search for God. He then said, “I didn’t find God in the skies, I found God in images” which is the most resonant, beautiful, description of cinephilia I’ve ever heard.

it is an extraordinarily beautiful autumn day and i have spent 99% of it indoors

realising it's christmas sweets and italian week at lidl just put a spring in my step which is ironic because i'm about to gain at least 3kg in one sitting

I wrote about MAY for my horror column. This movie was a favorite of mine when I was a teenager, and I wrote about why and how it spoke to me then, and how my relationship to the film has evolved in the time since. www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

My second book, Colours of Wes Anderson, is out today. I am sick in bed with a cold. My favourite part of writing a book is the Acknowledgements because I get to tell everyone about people I love

i made english subtitles for a televised theatrical adaptation of one of the stories featured in this collection called STRIBOR'S FOREST. the adaptation itself is a curiosity conceived by berislav brajković, a pioneer of yugoslav puppetry and an eager experimenter with form and technique

some choice quotes include "antifa is real" and "...hr departments celebrating the death and murder of charlie kirk". he made a pause when he said "thank you for holding... this roundtable" and i swear he was going to say "space"

ddr era janitor chic

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

this image does not exist in washi tape form

i have a raging stomach ache and leftover coke zero. what i don't have is the luxury of choice

this is real

Pencil and final animation: Tokyo Godfathers (2003), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse Animation by Shinji Otsuka

“Goodall lived her life with a purpose, not just rooted in her work with chimpanzees, but also in her mission to conserve our natural world before it’s too late." I wrote about the life and legacy of Jane Goodall for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

all accounts that post well go in the Good Book

i actually want to see geographically and culturally specific cringe. i just need it to not be anglo

Etymology bears witness to this: within every catastrophe is an "overturning." The word "catastrophe"—or "katastrofa" in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian (BCMS)—is rooted in the Ancient Greek "κᾰτᾰστροφή," whose first definition is listed as a process of "overturning."

31 days of horror: #4 CAST A DEADLY SPELL, 1994. "los angeles, 1948 everybody used magic."

hyper focused so hard i burst capillaries in both my eyes

Posting for the other movie people out there, just because this cinematographer's choice of three directors to work with is the most, um, eclectic, choice imaginable:

Last week I got to cross one of my dream interviewees off of my list as I got to talk to Daniel Bernhardt about his new film DEATHSTALKER. Out in the US on Friday & screening at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social later this month: thehollywoodnews.com/2025/10/06/d...

i have a very specific kink where someone could do anything to me if they can make it through the entire runtime of NIGHTBREED listening to me say "it's just so imperfectly perfect" every 5 minutes without rolling their eyes

Hiroshi Masumura

what if i become a fountain pen weirdo

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Which genocidal racist is set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year?

once again sharing this essay about why Constantine rules because I love it when I read one of my older pieces and don't want to throw the whole thing in the trash

i've gotten a cut on a different finger every day for the past week. keeping the few i have left crossed that today is the day i can take a shower without gloves on

Just learned the Arte.tv website existed & I've already found a short on women Romani rappers, a documentary on post-communist but pre-reunification East Germany, dance performances, a Finnish opera, & an MC Solaar concert.

just went over and saw grok posts in serbian now

They didn't intend to build a social media company, they wanted to build a protocol to satisfy their technolibertarian ideals and accidentally ended up with a social media network they're now trying to manage with the core goal clearly being "don't get dragged in front of congress"

the people who run and the people who occupy this place are largely american. the others are presumably other americans. the moderating issues that have been most discussed are relating to american politics. this isn't a "twitter alternative" or a "decentralized network", this is a hegemony

For @letterboxd.social's list of underseen horror films I wrote about Christina Hornisher's singular art house meets grindhouse gem HOLLYWOOD 90028

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would be nice if there were a place not run by idiots

this is a mormon psyop

wearing visibly under armour branded clothing in public like some militia bitch boy

ISLAND OF HELL! Foggy small town Shōwa eeriness! Beautiful kimonos! Kabuki! Pitā! No I absolutely didn’t follow the central mystery at all but what a time!

gatito :•3

feeling extra ugly lately. the resting and active ottoman peasant face have finally consolidated their amorphous forms and are slowly hardening into a third secret thing. and it's cool in a way but inevitability sucks the fun out of it

Never underestimate the power of having just one person believe in you, or being that person for someone else.

what a lovely bouquet

who's a good time boy