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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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every clip that has been posted from this movie is that ladyโ€™s ass
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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if you come across a passage you donโ€™t understand in a philosophy book the key is to underline it. that way, the next person who owns the book will think you not only understood it but thought it was important. that way you can pass on the anxiety.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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donโ€™t understand people who voluntarily conceive of their twenties as an ever-narrowing window for all lightness and frivolity in life. The world is gonna do enough of a number on you by itself, you donโ€™t have to help it out.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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make no mistake, these takes about _Salรณ_ are homophobic and pre-fascist
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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@DisabledJess โ€˜if youโ€™re non-binary I, Jordan Peterson, will have no choice but to talk to someone elseโ€™ is possibly not the dreadful quandary he thinks it is
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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open the schools
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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It is hard to fathom an act like Aaron Bushnellโ€™s โ€” but one thing that becomes clear from the response is the disciplinary power of the notion of โ€˜mental illnessโ€™ as a way to declare an act outside of the realm of politics and therefore beneath political engagement
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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if anyone has a spare 750 dollars Posteritati have just put up an original of the greatest film poster of all time
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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However naive the hope of continuous social progress may be, itโ€™s wounding to the soul to see a text like the below โ€” ardent in its compassion for the people on whose behalf it advocates โ€” reduced, all of fifty years later, to a cheap, mean-spirited joke
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my own worst emily
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Many of you could benefit from this
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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A lot of people (none of them in good faith) asked me what a use of the 'security camera aesthetic' that would reckon with its own implications looks like. I'm forever thinking of Yang's use of it in _Terrorizers_
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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would it have been better if Iโ€™d written โ€˜every clip that has been posted from this movie is that ladyโ€™s ass (complimentary)โ€™
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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I mean one thing psychoanalysis has going for it is that itโ€™s the only therapeutic method so far invented that doesnโ€™t treat people like abject morons
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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not generally for the hinge screenshot genre but in this case OP is right, the reply is moronic in about five different ways and hits exactly that register of subtle condescension that doesnโ€™t deserve any charitable reading
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Cinephiles, remember: donโ€™t be taken in by โ€˜sunshineโ€™ and โ€˜clear skiesโ€™. โ€˜A beautiful dayโ€™? Yes, a beautiful day to stay inside with the curtains drawn. Those Allan Dwan deep cuts arenโ€™t gonna watch themselves. Get to it.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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we should stop calling these people โ€˜puriteensโ€™ and start calling them what they are: regressive morons
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Rivette was a natural Murnau who wanted to be a bit more Lang; Ford was a natural Lang who wanted to be a bit more Murnau
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Itโ€™s amazing that Letterboxd fixed its search function only taking exact terms but overcorrected so that if you put in the names of more obscure directors it just assumes itโ€™s a typo and gives you completely unrelated stuff
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The combination of anti-intellectualism and unwillingness to consider how our moral concepts around work and reproduction are inseparable from the prevailing mode of production is a pretty neat marker of distinction between a communist and a social democratic response
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TWEET: i think its annoying when my roommates dont do the dishes QUOTE TWEET: perhaps one should do homework about it.. may i suggest the collected works of Spinoza and perhaps Etienne Balibar
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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every year I think weโ€™re so lucky that so many of the the best independent films are simply the ones with the biggest marketing budgets and most expensive distribution deals ๐Ÿ’š when the system works ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป
@letterboxd
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๐Ÿฟ @IndieWire โ€™s 20 Best Movies of 2024 (So Far)โ€”in alphabetical order. View the list here:
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@Drewpowell123 Ford claimed that Earp told him the story of My Darling Clementine directly, when he was a prop boy at Universal
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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I have to thank every person who posts Lanthimos hate here for making me feel less insane and alone
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Really disappointed by people I know and respect breaking @strikegermany to cover Berlinale โ€” and without even a word of justification. The spinelessness of the โ€˜film criticism communityโ€™ (with some notable exceptions like @InRO and @ultradogme ) dispiriting.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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the third most impressive shot in Robert Eggersโ€™s filmography is apparently this underlit colourless centre-framed medium close-up:
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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can someone explain how this effect is created (the blown out light and haze through the branches)? Is it just an exposure thing? (This is from Brisseau's _Celine_)
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Nor is this any help btw. Thereโ€™s no such thing as โ€œnormal peopleโ€, never was, never will be.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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wow todd field you are one interesting chica
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"however, this will not be a reasonable film." ๐Ÿ
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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how can you be a style over substance guy and the style is this
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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cropped out the name because it doesnโ€™t matter aside from the fact that he is a brilliant philosopher โ€” strikes me that the taste and understanding of cinema among academics elsewhere in the humanities is worse than for any of the other major art forms.
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Vaguely been trying to think of something to say all day but I suppose it will have to wait another year. Forever JLG, today and tomorrow.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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I donโ€™t think anyone is going to agree with this
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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This person is 32.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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(I know the post is a โ€˜jokeโ€™ but as ever jokes and irony are more serious than seriousness and sincerity)
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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w h a t โ€™ s t h e p r e c e d e n t
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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an element of film twitter believes Rivette is the first woman to direct a Joan of Arc film
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@RasberryRazz @jonathanmb32 Has a woman actually directed a Joan of Arc film? Thereโ€™s the Dreyer, the Bresson, the Besson, now this. Surely thereโ€™s gotta be one.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Moullet on Godard: โ€˜We often have a rather austere image of Godard, who comes across as very egotistical. But the truth is quite different. [โ€ฆ] Heโ€™s a man of insane generosity, lending money to everyone, even if it means going broke.โ€™
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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JPM has transcribed and translated this wonderful conservation between Pedro Costa and Victor Erice, moderated by Paulo Branco:
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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@peligrietzer Litcult and the internet never seemed to mix for some reason. Whereas thereโ€™s been really good film discussion groups online since the usenet days (the predecessors to the Mubi forum, which basically migrated onto Letterboxd to form most of the core โ€˜cinephileโ€™ culture there).
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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from its very first paragraphs, Adornoโ€™s original late style essay is an argument against the way film people on here use the term
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Glad to see these announced so I donโ€™t have to keep quiet about them anymore. I could have wept with joy when Dan told me. 2010-present Hong retro and complete Rivette retro. Dan and Nico are making the ICA the envy of the world.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Jonathan Glazerโ€™s film doesnโ€™t become better because idiots are mad at him, nor does the โ€˜all the victimsโ€™ equivocation in his speech disappear. We can appreciate the value of what he said in that context and also its limitations. Please be serious.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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In 1981, Cahiers du cinรฉma asked Paul Vecchiali, โ€˜What does American cinema represent for you today?โ€™. His answer: โ€˜A parody. Except for Monte Hellman.โ€™
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Iโ€™m convinced people are saying this because itโ€™s an attractive woman. This looks like many clothes and perfume ads I have seen.
@Chris_Osborn
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like this shit is just insane, SPW incorporating these textures into huge pop videos is so exciting, finally some good fucking food
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Notice how this is also contre-jour but Bรฉlanger has used fill lights to pick the subject out and Eastwood has framed him slightly off centre and composed the background asymmetrically? Notice how good this looks, even on your phone?
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I know I just said I wanted to remove myself from the dunk economy but you canโ€™t be saying things like this in a public forum
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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This fuck is trying to include LA GRANDE ILLUSION in his โ€˜Right leaning corpus of French worksโ€™. LA GRANDE ILLUSION!
@AvetisMuradyan
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2/ La Grande Illusion (1937) With Jean Gabin who co-starred with Alain Delon in many post-war films. Describes the destruction of the European aristocracy in the First World War and the end of their genteel world.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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It breaks my heart to see this tweet and to think of the future Sol Gordon might have imagined and hoped for fifty years ago, when he wrote his _Sexual Rights for the People Who Happen to be Handicapped_ โ€” a world where those people were no longer casually & callously ridiculed
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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David Bordwell did not understand the distinction between dรฉcoupage and montage and the entire field of film studies has suffered enormously as a result
@PopulismUpdates
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Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Many many people whose first language is Portuguese, Spanish or French had no trouble at all understanding what I wrote. Anglophone film culture predisposes people to see and talk about film a certain way, while believing that way to be neutral and universal.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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what happened for films to be put together like this? I doubt any of these actors are good, but if they were, there would hardly be any way of telling. Completely abandoned by the direction and editing.
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
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A new clip of โ€˜CHALLENGERSโ€™ has been released. Starring Zendaya, Josh Oโ€™Connor, and Mike Faist.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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this is how Rivette and his co-scenaristes usually worked, so there must be something to be said for it
@middlemanchette
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Hong says he writes the day before the shoot now, not in the early morning day of, because heโ€™s โ€œgetting old.โ€
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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@Silent_Mandible The Daney review
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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British television drama stopped being great when it stopped being plain looking people having long conversations in ugly rooms. Iโ€™m not joking.
@archivetvmus71
archivetvmusings
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The first episode of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was originally broadcast on this day in 1979. This BBC2 screening was swiftly followed by a two part omnibus repeat on BBC1 during Christmas 1979.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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learning Portuguese for cinephilia
@leeartr
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Learning French for cinema
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Also, people defending psychoanalysis by saying โ€˜weโ€™ve come a long way since Freudโ€™ or partly conceding to โ€˜Freud has been discreditedโ€™ nonsense are going about things the wrong way. Nobody has surpassed the really great Freud texts, in psychoanalysis or anywhere else.
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Vecchiali
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Never not going to believe that the general impetus to stale jokiness about Adorno (โ€˜JAZZ lolโ€™ etc.) isnโ€™t just a way of deflecting from the fact that he was remarkably correct about what life under capitalism is
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damn the guy knows ball
@CriterionDaily
The Daily
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For @LaCinetek , Ryusuke Hamaguchi lists 50 favorites @letterboxd โ€”
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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I didnโ€™t know Gakuryลซ Ishii was originally going to direct the adaptation of โ€œNew Rose Hotelโ€. From the new interview in @ultradogme .
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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I assume if youโ€™re reading this you exclusively follow people who are reasonable and correct, but in this thread you can dip your toe in the alternative universe inhabited by people who are very proud of their โ€˜media literacyโ€™
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Reproducing peopleโ€™s fear of the other simply by reproducing the other as an object of fear is in fact reactionary. There are obviously ways of mobilising a reactionary idea like โ€˜the uncanny feminineโ€™ critically within a horror context, but thatโ€™s a different thing.
@zonexkiller
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@ZeroSuitCamus I think it comes down to not being able to understand that using elements of peoples fear of the other to evoke that formally in a movie doesnt equate to a statement of "this is my opinion about being afraid of the uncanny feminine." Like... do you think wes craven hates sleep?
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Daney (who called Schrader a โ€˜specialist in fraudulent descents into hellโ€™ and cited his cinema as an example of Americaโ€™s โ€˜limitless capacity for emptying forms of all contentโ€™) preemptively responds to the replies and quote tweets
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@SorayaSpaghetti
Soraya Sebghati
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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just no proper historical or aesthetic coordinates, and yet I get the sense that professional academics feel they have roughly the same ambient grasp of film as they do of literature or painting. โ€˜A misunderstood artโ€™ indeed.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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posted the text I wrote about _Cerrar los ojos_ last year, the first sketch of an argument for the film not as a doe-eyed, nostalgic love letter to cinema, but as a key work of 21st century cinematic realism:
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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it didnโ€™t lose its concern with metre, but the rhythmic possibilities in poetry, and other possibilities for organising lines (spatial, graphic, etc.) expanded quite quickly from the end of the 19th century โ€” in parallel with equivalent developments in art music, painting, etc.
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@sapphicspielbrg why did you show your movie at Berlinale then? Thereโ€™s a cultural boycott of Germany for the same reason that nothing in this letter is surprising โ€” itโ€™s been the clear position of German cultural institutions for ages, only made clearer since October.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Jean-Claude just emailed to let me know about these three new book-DVD combos from Lโ€™ล’il covering his work over the last twenty years. Look absolutely brilliant.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Make no mistake, not only are these going to be incredible programmes and huge successes, but the ICA are establishing a culture of proper full retrospectives in London โ€” something we have lacked, outside of some big names every few years.
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Glad to see these announced so I donโ€™t have to keep quiet about them anymore. I could have wept with joy when Dan told me. 2010-present Hong retro and complete Rivette retro. Dan and Nico are making the ICA the envy of the world.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
3 months
what a strange, unpleasant and unnecessary thing to say
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
4 months
lmao did 2 english degrees and canโ€™t get an interview for a part time library assistant job whatโ€™s the point fellas
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
7 months
Didnโ€™t realise this long interview with Rivette from 1999, included in _Textes critiques_, is translated online. Among other things it shows how even into his seventies he was still trying to come up with new ways of understanding film.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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In reality, of course, Aaronโ€™s act took a clarity of mind and purpose so total that it is much easier to cast it as sub- or superhuman than reckon with the fact that it was a human who did it.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
8 months
I think in the era of โ€˜we need to talk about menโ€™s mental healthโ€™ this has become even more effective and insidious โ€” banishment from the political community disguised as sympathy.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
3 months
If you want to defend a non-reactionary reading of Nietzsche (which I happen to think is a worthwhile thing to do), surely you would want to avoid things like public fantasies of physical violence against other academicsโ€ฆ
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
3 months
_Celine and Julie_ runs the risk of being totally flattened out into a feel-good fantasy โ€” at this point it needs to be defended against its devotees (who are less and less interested in the rest of Rivette)
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Matthew Housiaux
3 months
Really appreciate this section of the interview, too: L'AMOUR FOU is more fun than you think it is, CELINE AND JULIE is more creepy than you think it is
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
2 months
can we even have cinephile Twitter without Brazilians???? ๐Ÿ˜ฃ
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
2 months
you lot when a hot woman is in her underwear in front of a wind machine but itโ€™s in black and white with 8fps sequences and crash zooms
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
1 month
Moullet points out that Godard organised the funding (by Georges de Beauregard) of the first films by Rozier and Demy and the first studio-financed films by Varda, Rivette and Melville.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
7 months
@CoreyRobin few texts are more โ€˜part of the commonsโ€™ than Capital. The text plus hundreds if not thousands of commentaries are available for free online.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
4 months
what kind of sicko was responsible for this programme at Batalha Centro de Cinema in Porto
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
27 days
Israel will fall, but until that day its existence will remain an intolerable stain on all of us who live in the โ€˜democraciesโ€™ that are providing it means and licence for what it is doing. Itโ€™s impossible not to feel sick and pathetic every day.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
2 months
the routine of hackneyed, uninformed take framed as a question + โ€˜actually I donโ€™t care about this youโ€™re the real losersโ€™ was played out well before this website even existed
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
3 months
really fucked thing to tweet
@ScreenSlate
Screen Slate
3 months
The fact that David Lynch is 78 and merely has emphysema despite being a lifelong lights-each-cigarette-off-the-last-one smoker is yet more proof of his superhuman genetics
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
3 months
guess my age based on my top four movies
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
8 months
This person has a still from _Celine and Julie Go Boating_ as her header. I hope she doesnโ€™t find out what Rivette thought of Griffith!
@silviaofangels
silvia
8 months
what the fuck is wrong with you people genuinely
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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@BODY_W0_WHORGAN Slow down, slow down. There are a few things to address here. 1. The hat in question is from AFL-CIO Local 109. 2. My flat is in Clapton, not Bermondsey. I am obviously too posh for Bermondsey. 3. Have they changed the meaning of the word 'sket' since I was a teenager?
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
6 months
Schraderโ€™s real punishment is his fans regarding him chiefly as an eccentric codger from the internet and only secondarily as a filmmaker
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
3 months
@AvalynWu the feeling of wanting an oppressive, amorphous malaise to resolve into a harsh and final payoffโ€ฆ would be good if someone had looked into thatโ€ฆ a film director, maybeโ€ฆ
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
5 months
Costa never beating the insanely handsome allegations
@lmsaturnino
Beatriz Viterbo
6 years
All yesterday's parties. Inรชs de Medeiros, Pedro Costa, Joรฃo Pedro Rodrigues, Joรฃo Cรฉsar Monteiro. No Frรกgil, Lisboa, entre 1989 e 1993.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
4 months
We know Hongโ€™s films cost $50-100k. Does anyone have an idea, or a guess, how a budget like that would break down?
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
4 months
Remember, friends
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
1 year
Sorry to beat a dead discourse but the responses calling this โ€˜idealistโ€™ are getting the wrong end of the stick. The point is that we are not insulated from material conditions, even down to the level of affect โ€” and under communism our affects would change.
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Sophie Lewis
1 year
My $.02 to that "my most rightwing opinion is: lazy people disgust me" conversation is that disgust really is a fascistic affect, and while I viscerally understand being hurt by people's nonparticipation in household chores, laziness (broadly good) is not the right word for that.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
5 months
do you guys ever lose interest in your own opinions? every so often Iโ€™ll be halfway through writing a sentence and Iโ€™ll think, โ€˜I donโ€™t care what this guy has to say right nowโ€™. And that feeling can last for months.
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
4 months
we are living through a golden age of cocksure halfwits telling off anyone who writes a sentence of more than twenty words or uses a word outside the A2 English vocabulary in a film review
@pakejanek
pakejanek ๐ŸŽƒ
4 months
some very normal people in my replies to my maxxxine reaction that (unfortunately) banged while i was asleep lmao
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
2 months
@goatmonty the combination of dismissing your interest and completely misrepresenting it in the process is intolerable (even if โ€˜humanistic psychologyโ€™ wasnโ€™t bullshit, which it is)
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
3 years
Honestly donโ€™t see what the fuss is about
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Sam WM ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง
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