oh no, not rudeness. Conservatives absolutely hate rudeness...when it's directed at them. they of course have free reign to be as cruel and petty to anyone they like, but the second you turn anywhere near that same vitriol on them, they become crusaders for decency and respectability. fuckin losers.

What do Euphoria and Hunger Games have in common?

if your ideas can be expressed in generic text, then I have some bad news about your ideas

the eleven living prominent 1920s-born film-directors c1923: Madeline Anderson 1925: Lee Grant 1926: Mel Brooks, HANEDA Sumiko 1927: Pere Portabella, Jerry Schatzberg 1928: Lana Gogoberidze 👇, HANI Susumu, James Ivory, Harold Becker 1929: Alejandro Jodorowsky

It’s Faulkner on civil rights all over again. “Go slow.”

There is some great art that has conservative leanings but I doubt today’s MAGA wackos would recognize it as such. Too slow! Too ambiguous! Too sympathetic to libtards! Etc. Walter Benjamin explained all this. Fascist art is always kitsch. ALWAYS.

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

I don’t have a religious bone in my body. But wow, the Texas senate race is pretty much between Jesus and Satan and the “Christians” are all GO SATAN GO, STOMP THE LOW-T JESUS.

To put it another way: anyone willing to give a pass to a guy with a Nazi tattoo but saying we have to nix the lefty billionaire is just not a serious person.

JB Pritzker is a billionaire. So is Tom Steyer. Yes, in a perfect world this would be disqualifying. But even Marx allowed that a certain segment of the ruling classes would need to participate in the disarticulation of class-based society.

Feed: "Current | The Criterion Collection" By: Michael Sicinski on Wednesday, May 27, 2026

“Ugly fuck” has to be one of the nicer things Stephen Miller has been called. Motherfucker looks like he lost a fight with a bag of lugnuts.

Happy PRESSURE Day! youtu.be/Y8i1Ddj1Sw8?...

BEATING HEARTS is not a film as much as it's an ordeal. It just goes on and on and fucking on.

I wonder if BACKROOMS has produced a new group of viewers who are finally ready for WAVELENGTH. Might be time for a Snow series on Criterion Channel. Make it so!

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

WARNING: self-referential AI slop that approaches actual art. youtu.be/lGdgJvNeUm4?...

Conservatives are terrified of Dems finally understanding that the people yearn to tell Republicans to shut the fuck up

I’m from Houston and would rather gouge my eyes out than attend the Livestock Show & Rodeo.

It's vaguely shocking when a microwave oven dies. 15+ year old warhorse just stops one day, and it's time to huck it in the bin. I'm humming "Taps."

All these losers trying and failing to pew pew the president when any halfway decent shot could've taken out Ken Paxton's good eye several times over.

Cornyn sucks but the fact Texas went 2 to 1 for Paxton tells you everything you need to know about this wretched state. Texas should be quarantined.

Getting kicked out of socialist groupchat for saying "I had fun today"

Why isn't Tony Blair dead yet.

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

I'd somehow never gotten around to Mrinal Sen's films until tonight. KHARJI (THE CASE IS CLOSED) gets off to a rocky start but quickly becomes a surgical dissection of class privilege. Sen could be the midpoint between Satyajit Ray's Ibsen-like domestic drama and Ritwik Ghatak's Naxalite fury.

I just saw a commercial that had Keegan-Michael Key actually touting a Continental breakfast.

I hope Pope Leo cited Miyazaki in the encyclical.

Remember that “wanting better for them than you had for yourself” includes gender freedom. This is fundamental.

It’s so illogical to me that there are grown adults with proper jobs who quite happily square their belief that charities and human rights experts and so on can be right about everything apart from trans rights and that fascists and dictators can be wrong about everything apart from trans rights

The Cannes jury were NOT dead. They were simply pining for the FJORDs.

Not since Cinderella’s stepsisters has anyone been so obsessed with a ballroom.

I'm beginning to think that NEON might be up to some shady shit.

Say what you want about FJORD but that baby’s gonna generate clicks!

Hm. The Palme d'Or goes to a film about how secular liberal busybodies oppress conservative Christians. Culture war think-pieces deploy in five...four....three...two....

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You learn Japanese, you win Best Actress. Totally fair.

So Cannes is up to its old tricks, screening the best film and the worst film on the final day. Oh Thierry, tu me tues.

some day soon, god willing, we will finally be free of "subway takes"

Is this anything?

Shouldn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia qualify for a cut of the $1.8 billion 'weaponization fund'??

Do the Dems even HAVE a whip? Sick and tired of fascists and loons in the "big tent."

[P] quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

Can’t afford groceries? Disheartened by the high cost of DoorDash? Do what millions do everyday. PHOTOSYNTHESIZE!

Remember when there was an elephant that did abstract paintings and someone put them in front of Willem de Kooning and he praised them? Less AI, more elephant art.

If politics is going to be completely driven by the attention economy then we need to state loudly and often that when the left takes power it’s meathook time. Let’s be outlandish and get those clicks!

There’s having no game, and then there’s Schrader.

A joke for maybe five people. What does the lizard in THE STATION eat? Yemeni crickets.

NARRATOR: In fact, no one called her Zoongie.

Barney Frank torched his legacy when he called into CNN from his deathbed to throw trans people under the bus in his last public appearance. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...