Good morning! I wrote about old movies, traveling around the world to watch them, Abel Gance’s Napoleon, and necrophilia. I think it’s some of my best writing, so I hope you will give it a read.

@secretflix @jotaeskinki Also seems relevant to say that she was at the Paris premiere of La Region Centrale and it was extraordinarily important to her.

@jotaeskinki @secretflix I got this on the record, actually.

@FerideMercury This whole discourse is positively Sisyphean. Every time I think it’s over, I check the timeline and somehow we’re back to where we started.

Another IFFR in the books. 8 days, 31 screenings, and about as many glasses of white wine and hours of sleep. Best film I saw was this avant-garde masterpiece

@marshlands @DanielGorman20 @swen_ryan @bvertov Resnais rules. None of these guys besides Godard hold a candle to him.

@misterminsoo The problem here is twofold. One, you’re looking for a model that is dying; two, you’re trying to do it for films that have very little built-in audience and are thus unlikely to get much interest from editors (at least for individual reviews; a dispatch is more likely).

@eshynes Oh wow. End of an era, but the start of one too! Congratulations!

@alexcfields Agreed, but that one works and is good

@filipefurtado Sometimes I think all of us diehards are just chasing a high we got all the time between the ages of 16 and 22, but now we’re lucky to get it once or twice a year.

RT @cappropaganda: If you ask a straight guy anything political he won’t reply like “homophobia is bad” instead he’ll say “homophobia in th…

@_sillyilly Who’s “us,” may I ask?

RT @FCardamenis: Ball don't lie

Ball don't lie

@CarmanTse The thing about piracy is it's actually a relatively complex subject that *I alone* have the correct take on. Others sometimes get close, but nobody else has the right stance in every isolated case, plus the general principles, the same way I do. Makes the discourse maddening.

@alexcfields Myself included!

@alexcfields Of course; I agree with everything you say here. Again, externalities had me a little bit irascible. I would also add that I think Godard really exemplifies how silly the entire prospect of quantifying or ranking art is (but the personal values you explain are still valid).

@alexcfields Yeah, probably I was just a bit irascible because it was after 1AM, the CMS had just eaten 45 minutes of work I will never get back, and it's obvious that Passion is Godard's greatest film :)

@alexcfields To clarify, my objection is that if the films can take multiple watches to more fully reveal themselves (something I agree with), it seems hasty to me to call it easily his best if all the others haven't been given similar treatment, especially given how rich his oeuvre is.