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if you come across a passage you don’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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don’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 don’t have to help it out.
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@DisabledJess
‘if you’re non-binary I, Jordan Peterson, will have no choice but to talk to someone else’ is possibly not the dreadful quandary he thinks it is
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It is hard to fathom an act like Aaron Bushnell’s — but one thing that becomes clear from the response is the disciplinary power of the notion of ‘mental illness’ as a way to declare an act outside of the realm of politics and therefore beneath political engagement
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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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I mean one thing psychoanalysis has going for it is that it’s the only therapeutic method so far invented that doesn’t treat people like abject morons
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Cinephiles, remember: don’t be taken in by ‘sunshine’ and ‘clear skies’. ‘A beautiful day’? Yes, a beautiful day to stay inside with the curtains drawn. Those Allan Dwan deep cuts aren’t gonna watch themselves. Get to it.
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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
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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every year I think we’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 💚 when the system works 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
🍿
@IndieWire
’s 20 Best Movies of 2024 (So Far)—in alphabetical order.
View the list here:
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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 — and without even a word of justification. The spinelessness of the ‘film criticism community’ (with some notable exceptions like
@InRO
and
@ultradogme
) dispiriting.
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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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(I know the post is a ‘joke’ but as ever jokes and irony are more serious than seriousness and sincerity)
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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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Jonathan Glazer’s film doesn’t become better because idiots are mad at him, nor does the ‘all the victims’ 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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I know I just said I wanted to remove myself from the dunk economy but you can’t be saying things like this in a public forum
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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.
people who say shit like this are so transparently dumb, sorry. do you think that the film criticism you're reading is supposed to be written in the same way that whatever generic garbage you wrote for high school english class was? no, the context is *wildly* different
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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.
A new clip of ‘CHALLENGERS’ has been released.
Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist.
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Also, people defending psychoanalysis by saying ‘we’ve come a long way since Freud’ or partly conceding to ‘Freud has been discredited’ 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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Never not going to believe that the general impetus to stale jokiness about Adorno (‘JAZZ lol’ etc.) isn’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
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I didn’t know Gakuryū Ishii was originally going to direct the adaptation of “New Rose Hotel”. From the new interview in
@ultradogme
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I assume if you’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 ‘media literacy’
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Daney (who called Schrader a ‘specialist in fraudulent descents into hell’ and cited his cinema as an example of America’s ‘limitless capacity for emptying forms of all content’) preemptively responds to the replies and quote tweets
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@sapphicspielbrg
why did you show your movie at Berlinale then? There’s a cultural boycott of Germany for the same reason that nothing in this letter is surprising — it’s been the clear position of German cultural institutions for ages, only made clearer since October.
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Jean-Claude just emailed to let me know about these three new book-DVD combos from L’Œil covering his work over the last twenty years. Look absolutely brilliant.
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lmao did 2 english degrees and can’t get an interview for a part time library assistant job what’s the point fellas
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Didn’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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I think in the era of ‘we need to talk about men’s mental health’ this has become even more effective and insidious — banishment from the political community disguised as sympathy.
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In reality, of course, Aaron’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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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 academics…
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@CoreyRobin
few texts are more ‘part of the commons’ than Capital. The text plus hundreds if not thousands of commentaries are available for free online.
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what kind of sicko was responsible for this programme at Batalha Centro de Cinema in Porto
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Costa never beating the insanely handsome allegations
All yesterday's parties. Inês de Medeiros, Pedro Costa, João Pedro Rodrigues, João César Monteiro. No Frágil, Lisboa, entre 1989 e 1993.
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Schrader’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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We know Hong’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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This person has a still from _Celine and Julie Go Boating_ as her header. I hope she doesn’t find out what Rivette thought of Griffith!
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Sorry to beat a dead discourse but the responses calling this ‘idealist’ 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 — and under communism our affects would change.
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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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
some very normal people in my replies to my maxxxine reaction that (unfortunately) banged while i was asleep lmao
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do you guys ever lose interest in your own opinions? every so often I’ll be halfway through writing a sentence and I’ll think, ‘I don’t care what this guy has to say right now’. And that feeling can last for months.
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if you can no longer even suggest that, for example, a portrayal of a serial killer as a high-voiced, glam rock obsessed force of evil that insidiously infiltrates the nuclear family and causes its downfall from within by sinister suggestion might be politically questionable…
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@andrewdoyle_com
@JamesBorisBye
It doesn’t really matter what you individually are interested in because the things we say and write publicly have effects which aren’t determined by us. Trying to discredit Judith Butler in the current climate *materially* reinforces the specious claims of TERFs and fascists.
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You’re not gonna believe how pathetic this programme is. Remember, this is the UK’s national cinematheque.
Most people are familiar with the ‘comfort movie’. But what about the films that make us feel bad?
Discomfort Movies, curated by
@Kimlovesfilms
, takes place at BFI Southbank this July!
Explore the programme on
@letterboxd
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@psych0grde
ah yeah the great trick of posting ragebait that is indistinguishable from some guy’s sincere opinion, love that use of this site, like you really got me there
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Why doesn’t he do it then
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how I’m feeling today
Ask me in five minutes and half of this list would be different
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btw I’ve since been informed that this X user’s trademark routine is to post confected bad opinions for jokes — and who can say mirth hasn’t been had by all tonight!
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Even “collected works” is doing ideological work here. The implication is of a kind of excessive profligacy of time, that the out-of-touch intellectual spends on study and naively expects others to spend on it too.
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3k words on _The Zone of Interest_, ft. Gallagher, Rivette, Daney, Adorno and Prynne. Put this on Medium because I can’t imagine anyone would want to publish it but if you do or know anyone who might lmk.
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you simply don’t have to come on here and say stupid things about Straub-Huillet films
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Is the guy with the film slate the Rivette? For some reason I’m mainly curious about the Rivette in this film that I can only imagine will be terrible
Richard Linklater has wrapped filming on 'Nouvelle Vague,' his feature about the birth of the French New Wave.
Learn more:
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got some stuff on the big guys, plus a book by a guy some of you have been chatting about on here recently. From Surface Noise in Louisville.
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continues to be the only person in the british public sphere on the side of the wonder of life
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given that tennis and movies are all the rage with the kids right now, who’s going to commission me to translate this?
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obviously this is just boring old racism but it’s especially funny because most of the people from the last hundred years who could be most sensibly and meaningfully compared to Bach are Black Americans — Bird, Coltrane, Monk, Ornette, Stevie Wonder
Maybe one of these African migrants will be the next Bach
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There’s really a history to be written in the largely neglected fact that all the big French theory people grew up absorbed in the greatest literary avant-garde in history (Baudelaire —> Nou. Roman) + trained within the most advanced humanities public education system in history
People defend academic language by claiming that everything specialized has its own jargon. But when it comes to dogshit writing in the humanities, jargon isn't the problem. It's syntax. Give me différance but spare me your non-finite verbs and ill-judged parenthetical clauses.
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guys who are gonna have a big 24/25 season:
- Raoul Walsh
- Alexandre Astruc
- Edward Ludwig
- Jean-Claude Biette
- Marie-Claude Treilhou
- Don Weis
- Richard Fleischer
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I read my article back and I actually still really like it so those people can go fuck themselves I'm gonna keep posting
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By my count there are ten angles in this short excerpt and none of them really gives us an indication of the relationship between the characters, so the editor is left just wildly cutting between them in the hope that something of the performance will get across
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@FilmsandLetters
Fred’s right. It gives you little glimpses of the prisoners, like a monster movie would. Unpleasant. And why, I wonder, is recreating the sounds of the camps permissible, but not the sights? The ideology of the visual: always too powerful, never powerful enough.
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everyone shut up and read _Mimesis_ let’s try to work out how to write criticism from the ground up again
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Another thought that occurs to me. Anyone who’s been there knows the immense solipsism, even narcissism, of suicidal ideation. Not a moralistic point, just true. But Aaron’s act arose from the furthest part of humanity from that. So the distinction is pretty clear to me.
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We have always needed more people to be bringing this energy in regard to film festivals but obviously now more than ever
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If you think there’s some core level of spontaneous emotional response that is simply ‘given’ and not riven by living the wrong life in the wrong world, I am sorry my friend but it is you who are being idealist.
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Straub and Huillet subtitling their films:
wanting to understand all the words is FASCIST (this is a joke, please don't be mean to me)
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Did any actor work with more great directors than Robert Ryan? Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Tourneur, Mann, Fuller, Lupino, Ray, Losey, Ophüls, Wise, De Toth, Flynn…
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rarely have I felt as alienated from my fellow man as when reading and hearing appraisals of the work of Yorgos Lanthimos
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English men are only allowed to make films if they’re total morons
“If the left wants to combat right-wing extremism, it needs to be in the business of winning elections.” explains Alex Garland, writer and director of ‘Civil War’.
New pod:
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hey gonna be off this site for a bit. My email is warsam11 at gmail dot com if you need me (please nobody who thinks I’m a drooling moron send me an email telling me, you can keep it here for when I come back).
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Admittedly I haven’t met many Italian Americans, but what Glenn appears to be describing here is a two year old.
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One thing I appreciate about Hong is his willingness to put what are usually climactic or crisis moments early in his films. It forces a different sort of relationship from the viewer, and I’m surprised more filmmakers aren’t willing to do it.
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if such a tame, mildly hermeneutic reading as this is now located somewhere beyond the pale for many people who take themselves to be informed viewers, even in a genre as consistently allegorical as horror, then we must be going through an era of real critical reaction
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‘But what never ceases to amaze us is America’s hallucinatory capacity to appropriate everything. Including and especially those things that America ignored. A decidedly limitless capacity to empty out forms of all content.’
The “Hegelian egirls” are throwing a launch party in NYC Saturday August 3rd celebrating the announcement of a series of collaborative initiatives both online & in person 🥰 you’re all invited & we hope to see you there! RSVP on Partiful for the address ❤️
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Posting this again. Anyone interested in being involved in this new small film print journal (cinephilia, neo-Macmahonism, translation, etc.) DM me. Writing, editing, design, printing, logistics — all welcome!
Thinking more seriously about the print journal thing. It would have to be small, at least at first, no big full-colour gloss — but part of the point of this is finding an economy that is actually sustainable for us, minimising waste.
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@DanielGorman20
of course and that’s why I’d never criticise a regular joe’s list on those grounds, but this is Indiewire and also covers their festival reviewing. I feel like David Ehrlich has the chance to see more films than pretty much anyone!
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It's effective because Yang actually puts it in tension with something, instead of just setting it up as a freestanding closed apparatus. Just a few minutes before, we've had this devastating monologue by Yufen, filmed as a single Ozu shot with the actor looking into the camera.
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According to Pedro Costa, Dreyer looks pretty good on a phone
In honor of Ted Sarandos defending his son watching LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on his phone:
What’s the best movie experience you had watching a movie on your phone?
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The first option. Hope that helps.
"Does this mean that participation in the Berlinale is best refused? Or is it worth attempting to carve out a space of contestation from within, however compromised, as some of this year’s filmmakers did."
Erika Balsom contemplates this year's
#Berlinale
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This is just the most stark of the various axes Yang is working along, but it's a good example of how a serious filmmaker thinks about camera and decoupage. Experiencing this transition is jarring, it raises all sorts of problems with the viewer about their own forms of looking,
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my dad died of cancer less than a week ago and I’m here to tell you he would want you to make jokes about the king
the royal family won’t see your cancer jokes but your friends who have people in their family who suffer/have suffered with cancer will
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this one is more obvious because it’s more overtly negative, but JRo’s line that Rivette basically stalled after about 1976 (with the exception of _La Belle Noiseuse_) is more egregious overall, especially given that he positioned himself as the American Rivette Understander
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Steve was unfailingly kind and supportive to me from our first interactions when I was 14 years old. His way of operating, in everything he did, influenced me like few other people have. I’m devastated.
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This is the engaged dialectical work that I believe is the task of the filmmaker, especially the filmmaker who has ambitions to treat large historical and social subject matter. This is how immanent thinking is actually produced by cinematic form.
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