The answer is just that they provide a more unique experience than just seeing a digital file on a larger screen. The print flaws just gives you more of a feeling that you're watching a film artifact (even if it's actually a newish print).

If this fucking guy can't turn his own son away from this Nazi shit why should we trust him to turn the country away from it?

If the previous generations wanted credit for discovering the concept they should have come up for a more fun term for it like Gen Z did.

Do journalism schools filter out anyone who understands object permanence or something

Lol, how many hours before he goes on Truth Social to rant about the "radical left communist Democrat Party" in this spirit of bipartisanship.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

Weird how many people are throwing around the phrase "separate the art from the artist" about the movie Michael... Like, y'all, it's a biopic, it's definitionally an exercise in NOT separating the art from the artist. It's ABOUT the artist.

Is there some sort of conspiracy among editorial sections to make "leftists defend shoplifting" a "thing" apropos of nothing in order to make them sound stupid? Stop taking the bait.

This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

Lee Cronin's The Mummy wasn't great but it did get this song stuck in my head, so that's something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ31...

So, who's playing Rykard?

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Exactly one year ago today:

You know, when the report came in yesterday I was really hoping it was a hoax or something, but holy shit, these fucking people really mistook Tarantino dialogue for the word of God.

bluesky: we are pivoting to AI [site catches on fire] bluesky: this was not the fault of AI

I admire the decision to call it a "pied-à-terre tax," because no one who's not rich thinks they own a pied-à-terre so won't feel personally threatened by a tax on them.

Okay, this is the second trailer for a questionable video game adaptation to be randomly set to "What's Up" by Four Non Blondes.... what's going on with that? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6U...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

There was a rock band from the early 70s called "Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds." They have some catchy music but my god, what an awful band name.

Happy Wednesday

Hegseth quoting a fake Bible verse to sound tough while invoking scripture taken from a movie where a viscious killer does the same only to then at the end that doing so was wrong and evil.

It's almost like those awful woke scolders were anticipating something like this might happen when they were criticizing him...

The "What's Poppin" guy likes Rohmer?

SECULAR LIBERALS: ".....and so you see, under the definition of blasphemy as put forward in the Bishop of Rome's 1687 encyclical 'De Viis Malis' and the Chalcedonian formulation of the Nicene Creed, Trump is, in fact, a heretic!!!" AMERICAN CHRISTIANS: "God says its OK for me to drive drunk."

I forgot how stupid Euphoria was...

Scary and instructive thread.

The earliest "food movie" I can think of is Tampopo. Is there anything that predates that?

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

Y'all... Tubi was never cool. They're a tech company that indiscriminately streams any and every piece of IP they can hoover up in order to sell ad revenue. If they ever "programed" real cinema it was luck of the draw.

No mater how you feel about the pod people, they're multiplying steadily and it's important that educators welcome the pod people into their classrooms. Hear from three educators who have been letting pod people possess their students in this article we promise wasn't written by pod people.

Kanye was already given a second chance... a long time ago... and then another one... and then yet another one... and then several hundred other ones... there comes a point where it takes a little more than one publicist written statement before you give out a ten thousandth "second chance."

A Reddit user has meticulously kept a diary of Trump’s daily victory claims. It should form part of every historical archive on the planet. Brace yourself, here goes 🧵👇

Marvel fans getting mad at Scorsese prepared me for AI boosters. When guys repeatedly make social media proclamations about an art form they have little to no understanding for because they want standards lowered and garbage legitimized, they show you what they're all about.

Spielberg saying this about WEAPONS is like Zach Cregger winning an Oscar. It might even be better. Imagine the guy who made JAWS being so thoroughly affected by your filmmaking that you reverse inspired him into NOT making a horror movie.

It has come to my attention that the year 1984 was something of a black hole for world cinema. I've hardly seen a single live action non-English language movie from that year, nor have I heard of most of the ones that did come out that year.

You absolutely don't "got to hand it" to homophobic/misogynistic AI slop creators... but Iran does have a knack for tempting you to do so....

The Drama is an interesting provocation, one that's pricklier than its trailer suggests (and has a potentially controversial theme the ads don't reveal). Basically a dark comedy one with some heavy intentional cringe factor. Not a coincidence it has a Nordic director, big Östlund/Vinterberg vibes.

I don't need to "accept" jack shit. To quote the richest long term critic of AI:

Oh, there's something going here that's "like no one's ever seen before" alright...

If he was saying this shit about Jewish people it would be round the clock news. If he said it about African Americans it would at least make some headlines. But he apparently gets to be an undeniable and indefensible gutter racist about Somalis and people barely blink.

“Classist” in this context almost always betrays a notion that lower class people are inherently stupid or incurious. It’s “classist” to discuss literature which can be found for free at the library, but not shows on a streaming service which costs $20 a month.

This latest price hike might be the final straw, I'm thinking I'm going to put a pause on my Netflix membership for the first time since, like, 2006. $25 a month is just too crazy and I've been watching way more HBO and Hulu recently.

Bro...

This would be like if the pompous guy in the theater line just doubled down on his bad Marshall McLuhan take even after Alvy materialized the guy himself to call him an idiot.

Gross. Not so sure how interested I am in this movie now.

First order earned me my $50 gift code, immediately spent it on another order. @criterion.bsky.social!

"To walk the road of peace, sometimes you need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict." [/s]