Doubting any horror story from one of these places is like being a gravity truther

At Murnau's "The Last Laugh" and can't believe the smaller of Metrograph's two screening rooms is barely half full. Even the art house crowd seems to have an aversion to the greatest silent films ever made.

Some very fun banter in Middlemarch about slang and dialects

Charli xcx can do the funniest thing right now. come on, make this White Girl Kendrick vs Drake

www.abc10.com/article/news... Not just a political issue of hypocrisy, but directly ties into the aesthetic issue of why a subject such as a revolutionary uprising is portrayed in such a septic, small-scale, micromanaged way on screen. No sense of expansive lived reality.

We're partying it up at home

#OtD 12 Aug 1887 pioneering Colombian socialist and women's rights advocate María Cano aka "flor del trabajo" ("flower of labour") was born. She gave fiery speeches to crowds of mining, oil and banana workers, and was repeatedly arrested stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8368...

Not enough ppl talk about how #Letterboxd 's "logging"-based UI is perfectly structured to give young budding cinephiles an inferiority complex about their own tastes. You open the app to find new recs, only to be met with a wall-feed of everyone who's watched more (and obscurer) films than you.

I'm noticing a trend (see Oppenheimer, Last Duel, and now, Weapons) where directors keep trying to use multiple POVs for the sake of a Rashomon-like effect... except they completely forget that the point of the device is to have the POVs exist in any sort of meaningful tension with each other!

between this and Celine Song saying Materialists is structurally a noir (?) and naming Zootopia her favorite, I'm starting to think the new crop of darling directors are simply very stupid

the connection to capitalism is even simpler: no matter what propaganda is circulating, you and your neighbors - even the ones you think are most different from you - definitely share problems.

"Blood-and-soil" style mystical race science in Past Lives... incel rhetoric in Materialists... casting Dasha Nekrasova... at Q&A making out-of-touch joke, while desperately stealing street-cred with fake-poverty anecdotes... Celine Song's just a dimes-square style fascist, right? Right?

I need to watch more post-2000s movies... (Also the movie I added was Nathan Fielder's "Finding Frances", idk why it's not showing up after I hit submit LMAO)

Sad to report that China Labor Bulletin is no more. Ostensibly due to "financial problems", six members have been detained. CLB had promoted workers' rights and news in China since 1994. Our recent podcast would have been impossible without their work: patreon.com/posts/e106-r...

So whenever the majority of ppl liking my letterboxd reviews haven't logged the film, it makes me wonder -- is that a good sign that people like my writing style outside of context, or is it a bad sign that those who *have* watched the movie think I don't know what I'm talking about? 😂

I don't know why Celine Song's work makes me so mad, but something about the ideology just pushes all the wrong buttons in me. Possibly because of how obviously the ideology sits on the surface -- obviously, but also obliviously. letterboxd.com/xenonoxide/f...

Sound of the Mountain (Naruse, 1954)

The Elphaba reveal probably the worst 360 camera move I've ever seen

Me when Ingmar Bergman puts a face sideways and a face frontways next to each other

propaganda i’m not falling for: - “tofu is soggy and nasty” you just can’t cook

Happy Birthday to 🇺🇸American actress, singer, and martial artist #PamGrier #filmsky #moviesky

The final shot of "Blue Sun Palace" with the deliberate Lee Kang-Shengness of it all and the direct reference to Tsai MingLiang's "Days'" opening shot, except done in such a way as to reassure the audience's attention span, has got me irrationally mad for a mostly aesthetically harmless indie film

I knew I hung on to this screenshot for a reason…

I owe you an apology, Cronenberg. I was not familiar with your prophetic game

Jia Zhangke is so fucking good that it feels like a violation of the laws of the universe. The mastery of both pulpy and cerebral styles of cinema. One gets the sense he could actually direct any kind of film if he wanted (it's usually hyperbole when ppl say that, but not for him)

I’m not telling you to stop reading Cormac McCarthy— I read Mishima! But don’t do the baby thing where you pretend art and books don’t have an implicit politics and historical/social/bodily context, or pretend that aesthetic choices can be totally divested of these things. Own it.

A lil tip for the folks with shoe polish on their lips today :)

Oh so that's her secret....

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

that the house GOP is covering up evidence of sexual predation by a former member and nominee to higher office while simultaneously smearing a trans woman as a potential predator without any evidence beyond base bigotry are two sides of the same coin

WT ever-loving F? Did you all decide that sleeping with teenage girls was hot again? Did your editors decide that the writer was cool? Is there a grownup on staff? Good to see you’re right in line with the new administration.

Something so tragic about what seems like a very important story being covered by a journalist who 1) tries to make pedophilia sound like not that big a deal 2) has the literacy level of Dogberry

(walking up to don quixote) hi i’m a huge fan don quixote: *eyes narrowing* you’re a What?

RIP Mike Davis you would've loved Bluesky

"Winds may howl, but I will not be swept away" is a funny thing to say from someone who sweeps homeless encampments (with his own hands, for PR, like a good wannabe fascist demagogue)

I did a film review. "The Zone of Interest", 2.5/5 boxd.it/5Vyfgf

In the first of a multi-part series, Rob Ashlar surveys the history of Iraqi Insurgency from 1990 to 2004.